"It's up to you how to deal with it, but it must be done as soon as possible. I still need a more detailed report from you."
Robert did not veto Nova's request.
He knew that this sister, who was also adopted by Sui Bian, had spiritual abilities second only to their original body.
In terms of proficiency in the use of psychic powers, he is even better than his elder brother. After all, Robert will not spend too much energy on studying psychic powers like Magnus.
Since Nova said that this colonist is useless, it means that she has learned the secret of the colonist race.
"rest assured."
Nova turned around, gradually put away her smile, and stared at the colonist sitting opposite, whose mind was tortured by psychic energy to the point of collapse.
In fact, she would never abuse her enemies under normal circumstances, but as the first person to arrive in Elizabeth City, she had personally experienced the despair and pain of 360,000 compatriots before they died.
When I think of this...
"I just want this guy to experience what it feels like to have his bones bitten by billions of ants at the same time." Nova said in a deep voice.
…
Corridor outside the interrogation room.
Unfolding his power armor helmet, John, who also liked to stand with his hands crossed in front of him, remained silent and waited.
Suddenly, his peripheral vision glanced to the left side.
There was no one on the left side of the passage, but within a few seconds, Byron walked around the corner and appeared in John's field of vision.
At this time, Byron had put on a brand new black combat uniform, and his scattered bangs seemed to be intended to cover the scars on his face.
She approached John, then raised her head, and stopped to salute in the same tone as a superior reporting a mission:
"Two hundred and sixty-three soldiers of the Third Defense Corps in West Africa have been repaired and are requesting to participate in the subsequent fortress liberation operation, sir."
Hear the words.
"Captain." John withdrew his peripheral vision, continued to look at the closed metal door of the interrogation room, and said to Byron:
"Your task now is to rest. If necessary, we will notify you."
"Yes, sir."
After receiving the answer, Byron put down his right hand, then turned and left
A few hours ago, Byron, who followed the transport aircraft formation to the frontline base, told the UNSC and Umbrella all the information she knew about the fortress.
But in the years since they went underground, fortresses around the world have fallen one after another. In addition, communications were completely paralyzed a year ago, so Byron has no way of knowing how many fortresses have survived.
Moreover, having lost their superior command, they naturally regarded Johnt, who came to the rescue, as their superior.
Even though they learned that their "boss" came from the Earth in another universe, they quickly accepted this fact.
Because they have been fighting wars with colonists from other universes for more than ten years.
"Uh-huh."
Shortly after Byron left, the automatic door quickly opened, allowing Robert to bend down and walk out of the interrogation room.
After looking at the colonists in the interrogation room who had lost all traces of life behind Robert, and then noticing that Nova had turned on the optical camouflage and left, John asked:
"Where is the head of the colonists?"
"New York," Robert replied.
At this time, four technicians in white uniforms arrived here, walked into the interrogation room, and prepared to dispose of the colonists' bodies.
The two brothers left together.
John, who was walking in the passage, briefly asked again: "It's me who is going to Sanguinius."
"Don't be anxious, brother." Robert raised his hand and patted John's shoulder armor: "The leader must be killed, but I need to apply for some permissions from my father first."
"Permissions?"
John was a little confused, but he nodded without asking any more questions.
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Saturn.
This giant gas planet with a dazzling star ring has dozens of satellites of various sizes within its gravitational range, orbiting it.
Among the many satellites, one is special.
The radius is only 900 kilometers smaller than Mars. It has a thick atmosphere, covers a large area of woods, and has a blue lake in the northern hemisphere.
This is Umbrella's exclusive colony, and it is also the base for training Gray Knights and Ghost agents, Titan, and Titan.
Various phenomena on the surface indicate that "her" terraforming is progressing faster than Mars.
After all, before Umbrella installed the planetary environment modification device, Titan's atmosphere was higher than the atmospheric pressure of the Earth, and it had Saturn's magnetic field as a shield, making Titan's surface modification much easier than that of Mars.
Only towns and training bases used for living still require artificial gravity.
In low-Earth orbit a hundred kilometers away from the lake, the Zeus-class aircraft carrier without optical camouflage was "parked" here, Umbrella's flagship Hymn of Courage.
In a cabin at the front of the ship.
Sui Bian, who took off his uniform jacket, sat behind a fixed desk and read the information sent by Robert about another earth and the colonizer race through the holographic screen on the desktop.
"Why…"
After reading it, Sui Bian shook his head and sighed with undisguised sadness, pitying the suffering of human beings in that world.
"..."
The two artificial intelligences standing on his left and right still tilted their heads slightly to express confusion as before. At the same time, they were still working hard to calculate and analyze, trying to understand what emotions were.
Sui Bian ignored them and lay on the back of the chair, looking at the metallic gray cabin roof and "converting".
According to the data given by the system, there are about 830 million existing humans in that world, and Tis Byron said that when they moved to the underground fortress in 2026, the population had shrunk to 5 billion.
It shows that in the four years from 2026 to 2030, another 4 billion people fell together with the underground fortress where they lived. Behind these numbers are living lives...
Sui Bian stopped thinking about it and closed his eyes slightly to adjust his mood.
As for the settler race.
The information obtained by Nova using psychic torture indicates that their total number is only 3 billion.
The purpose of invading the earth and even other civilizations by creating portals is "simple", that is, to satisfy their never-ending desire for aggression.
Collecting genes from different species, manufacturing and perfecting biological weapons such as monsters for invasion has nothing to do with efficiency.
The real reason is that the colonists like to watch the bloody scenes of their monsters ruthlessly slaughtering lives.
It will even edit "wonderful" scenes for viewing just like the TV series and movies of human civilization.
The colonists responsible for the invasion regarded the invasion of destroying civilization as a game, because no matter how many monsters died, they were really just numbers to them.
However, the colonizer race is also quite "bullying the weak and afraid of the strong".
Once the monster troops sent to test are easily eliminated, the colonists will close the portal without hesitation.
Nova discovered through the colonists she killed that they had tried to close the portal where the forward base was located, but to no avail.
After seeing Umbrella and the UNSC, especially the godly body of Sanguinius, the leader of the colonists in New York submitted an evacuation request to the colonists' home planet.
The mother planet has not yet responded.
"Sir." Queen Bai said at this time: "The original body Robert sent a communication request."
"Connected."
"OK."
Sui Bian opened his eyes, and the screen content on the desktop was switched by Bai Hou, showing him Robert and his second son John in his personal office.
"Father." Seeing that the communication was connected, Robert immediately said: "Please give me the authority to use three new-class nuclear bombs, and the authority to directly command the ghost agents. I want to give the colonists the home planet and their Send several "big gifts" to two important colonial planets."
"Permission." Sui Bian gave the eldest son authority without hesitation: "Red Queen, prepare three new stars to be transported to the frontline base as soon as possible."
"Yes, sir." The Red Queen nodded in agreement.
"Thank you father for your support." Robert said happily.
Sui Bian waved his left hand lightly and reminded: "Remember, all actions must be based on solving the leader in New York."
"Don't worry, father."
"Well, go ahead."
"yes."
End communication.
Dissipate screen.
Silence returned to the cabin.
Sui Bian stood up and left, walked around the desk, and walked to the virtual window on the left side of the cabin. He watched the virtual rainforest scenery and fell into deep thought.
I wonder if it was his imagination.
Ever since Robert sent two legions and reconnaissance troops to Morocco, Europe, the Middle East and other places, his spiritual power seemed to have increased extremely weakly.
If it were not an illusion, then the growth rate was as weak as a drop of water dropped into the vast sea, with almost no change in the total amount.
'Could it be...? Sui Bian said as if he thought of something:
"How the White Queen, the survivors housed in the forward base, reacted to the Earth, Astartes, Primarchs and God-bodies in different universes."
"The survivors have accepted the fact that there are different earths, but many survivors who have witnessed the body of the Primarch Sanguinius have begun to pray with key words such as angels and father God." Bai Hou replied.
'It's really a prayer...' Sui Bian said to himself after confirming his suspicion.
Primarch…
God the Father…
"Well..." Sui Bian groaned with the same expression, and continued: "Help me inform Artemis and ask her to come over."
"Okay." Queen Bai responded.
"Wow~ wow~!"
At this time, the rain forest outside the virtual window was drizzling, and slender water droplets dripped across the leaves.
Waited patiently for a moment.
"Shua~—."
"Boss, what do you want from me?"
As the automatic door opened, Sui Bian heard Artemis' laughter and asked.
Turning around, he saw Artemis, who was wearing a military uniform with long hair, walking into the cabin with a slight smile on her face, until she stopped in front of him.
Artemis had been working for Umbrella for more than ten years from the time she was discovered to her awakening.
She is responsible for selecting suitable Astartes recruits to join the Gray Knights, and is also responsible for the production of the Water of the Full Moon, so the company will also pay her salary on the first of every month.
Even a "god" needs money to better adapt to modern society.
"I have a question." Sui Bian asked: "Will the power of your Olympus gods change due to human prayers?"
"Pray?" Artemis was stunned for a moment, then carefully thought back to the beginning, and shook her head slightly:
"The impact is very small, almost none, but I can hear the prayers of some devout believers. If it is really life-threatening, I may help him tide over the difficulties, but most of them are guys who satisfy their own greed. .
Now... there will be no more devout believers in the God of Hunting. "At the end, Artemis shrugged indifferently.
"Really..." Sui Bian was thoughtful.
But in just a few seconds, he stopped worrying about "Father God" and "prayer". He believed that the future of mankind would never be as dark as another earth.
"Wow... Wow..."
The rain outside the virtual window gradually stopped, and the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves into the shade, illuminating the entire cabin.
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…
Earth from another universe.
New York.
It was once the most prosperous city in the United States, but now it has become a "weirder" existence than Paris.
Gray clouds blocked the midday sun, and the sea water was fishy and scarlet.
Although there is no "embryo" like Paris, famous urban areas such as Manhattan and Brooklyn have several "anthill" towers and a large number of flesh-colored giant mushroom-shaped buildings.
Intricate and slender passages connect tall towers and mushroom-shaped buildings, and the surface is covered with tentacle-shaped blue-light plants.
Looking closely at the passages between the buildings, I found that many of the things surging through them were not beasts, but four-handed and two-legged colonists. The ones flying over the city were also sarcoid-shaped aircraft with unknown power.
New York has been completely assimilated and turned into the colonial city they inhabit on the earth, and there seems to be no trace of human beings anymore.
The only remaining landmark building in New York, which was simply renovated by the colonists, is the Empire State Building.
Little did he know that the leader he was being targeted saw this nearly 400-meter-tall building as a trophy of its successful occupation of the earth.
The Statue of Liberty was replaced by a portal with a radius of a hundred meters.
The colonists used this large portal to fly sarcoid-shaped aircraft to and from their home planet and the Earth.
Now, the aircraft can only "return" but not "go".
The colonists fled their homes one after another, headed to the airport-like building built on the west side of the Empire State Building, and then took aircraft to return to their home planet through the portal.
Not long ago.
The mother planet finally responded to the leader's request for evacuation and ordered all colonists living on the earth to rush to the nearest portal to evacuate.
When the evacuation is completed, the colonists will close all portals except the Sahara to prevent the home planet and other colonies from being attacked by humans.
The source of the order from the home planet was Sanguinius, who was piloting the body of a god.
Whether their beasts could fly or not, they were all slain by the Primarch's arrow and burned to ashes.
This is no longer a "god" they can deal with. Escape is the best option.
And the Empire State Building at this moment.
A colonist stood on the edge of the roof, overlooking New York with two pairs of pupilless eyes, overlooking the portal, and his figure seemed to reveal a little "reluctance".
After all, "this" is the leader responsible for invading and assimilating the earth. It wants to stand here and take a last look at New York before leaving the earth.
Ri~————!
Suddenly, a dazzling blue light flashed from underneath the Empire State Building.
?
This made the leader couldn't help but look down, and then...
boom-----!
The last thing it sees is endless blue.
