"What's this?"

Looking at the Charmander that jumped into his arms, the super soldier couldn't help but ask, while Fang Zheng touched the Charmander's head and waved to him.

"Oh, nothing, this is my little fellow. You naughty little fellow, how did you get up here?"

"Squeak! Squeak!"

The little fire dragon obviously didn't care about Fang Zheng's dissatisfaction, but stretched out its head to rub his cheek happily, making a happy cry. However, Fang Zheng still understood what the little fire dragon meant - the little guy wanted to play with Fang Zheng, so he sneaked onto the spaceship with Fang Zheng to play hide-and-seek. As a result, Fang Zheng was thinking about the new world at that time and didn't pay attention. Not to mention that the little fire dragon was not a threat, and there would be no danger, so he didn't activate his prediction ability, and it actually let it sneak in!

"You little troublemaker..."

Pinching Charmander's face, Fang Zheng didn't know what to say for a moment.

“How naughty!”

After rubbing the Charmander vigorously, Fang Zheng stopped and started discussing with the super soldier what to do next.

"It seems that we have to destroy the gravity well, otherwise the spaceship won't be able to fly out even if it is repaired... Or can we wait? Wait until our spaceship is repaired before destroying the gravity well?"

"Let's split up."

At this moment, the AI ​​made a suggestion.

"There are still many Covenant fleets outside. It will be very dangerous to waste too much time. The Master Chief and I will go to destroy the gravity well. You stay here to repair the spacecraft."

"Okay, that's fine."

Fang Zheng was not a fool. He could tell from the tone of the AI ​​that the other party seemed to be planning to keep a distance from him, so he shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more.

"Iona, send them down. By the way, keep in touch if you have any questions."

Soon, accompanied by the flash of the teleportation beam, the Master Chief disappeared on the deck. It was not until the Master Chief left that Fang Zheng looked at Iona.

"Iona, how long will it take to fully repair?"

"Because the armor's repair devices have been destroyed, it will probably take 48 hours or even longer for it to recover by itself... Of course, if I can get some nanomaterials to replenish it, it might speed up the repair process."

"Nanomaterials... Speaking of the civilization of this world... Are there similar things on alien and human spacecraft?"

"some."

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Iona nodded.

"Those alien civilizations' spacecraft have nano-matter aggregates that can be used."

"All right."

After getting Iona's confirmation, Fang Zheng waved his hand and summoned a pitch-black sword and held it on his shoulder.

"Let's go, rob... No, it's time to collect supplies!"

At the same time, the Master Chief and his AI left the spaceship and walked to the other side. On the way, the Master Chief couldn't help but ask.

"Cortana, why are we splitting up?"

"I'm sorry, Master Chief, but I always feel that... there's something wrong with those people."

"Any questions?"

"Yes……"

At this point, Cortana's voice turned serious.

"They claim to be ordinary civilians, but the technology they use is far beyond our imagination. In fact, before you woke up, I sensed that someone was trying to invade and take over the entire spacecraft system. I wanted to stop them, but they easily bypassed me and even completely locked my authority and scope of action..."

"Bypass you?"

Hearing what Cortana said, the Master Chief was a little surprised. Although he didn't know much about this aspect, he knew that Cortana was the highest-level AI in the UNSC. Even she was easily bypassed or even countered. What kind of technological level was this?

"Also...the spaceship they were on was very strange."

As she spoke, Cortana released an Eternal Destruction-level image.

"Since we have no way to access the other party's system, we can tell from visual observation that this spaceship is about 340 meters long, even larger than the Covenant's CRS-class, but it has only three crew members, and only one of them is responsible for controlling the entire spaceship. Even the Covenant cannot achieve this level of automation!"

"Isn't it a cargo ship?"

The Master Chief didn't care much about this, because the UNSC also had larger cargo ships that were also operated by AI and one or two people for long-distance transportation. If this was the case, it would not be surprising.

"The design of this spacecraft doesn't look like a cargo ship at all. I have never found a similar precedent in any civilian ship data. Not only that, there is no similar type even in warships. And... the technology they used... Sergeant, did you notice? When they activated the protection, they ordered the activation of the 'Klein field'. However, the use of the Klein field as a shield is only theoretical even within the UNSC. No one can do it! The Covenant doesn't have such technology either."

"So what do you want to say?"

Hearing this, the Master Chief's voice did not change at all. He stopped, took a look at the wreckage of the fallen Covenant battleship in front of him, and then strode towards it.

"What I mean is that these people have unknown origins and possess a technological level that exceeds that of the UNSC. They are definitely not just ordinary civilians passing by as they claim."

"Are they rebels?"

"Although I don't rule out this possibility, I think it's less likely. The data shows that the rebels don't have similar skills, but I suspect they may be related to the Forerunners."

"Oh? How do you mean?"

The Master Chief reached out and picked up a combat rifle from the rubble, then he quickly reloaded the bullets while looking around. At this moment, Cortana's voice also sounded in his ears.

"Because this planet, judging from this planet, clearly has the style of the Forerunners, and the Dawn had been drifting for four years before being captured by the gravity field of this planet. Instead, it had no reaction at all, but after they arrived, the planet suddenly became active. Not only that, judging from the data of the Covenant battleship I just intercepted, they have been wandering outside this planet for several years..."

"That is to say, they want to come in, but they can't..."

Just as the Master Chief was talking to Cortana, an alien who looked like a Jackal suddenly rushed out from the corner, screaming and waving his shield. The Master Chief went straight up and smashed the Jackal's shield with the butt of his gun. Soon, the Jackal's shield was shattered. The next moment, the Master Chief fired another shot, knocking the opponent to the ground.

"That's right, but when these people came, this planet was activated. I suspect that they came for this planet, and saving us was just a by-product... After all, there is no civilian transport route here. How did they get here? Not only that, Sergeant, I also discovered an astonishing fact..."

At this point, Cortana's voice became more serious.

"According to the battle record of this Covenant warship, they had fought with that spaceship before, and were instantly destroyed by the other side... This is simply not the firepower level that the UNSC currently has. Even the rebels can't do it!"

This time, Cortana's tone was quite firm, which was normal.

Although the UNSC was able to compete with the Covenant in ground combat with the help of super soldiers, in space battles, their warships were no match for the Covenant warships in terms of firepower, shields, and flexibility. Even in the initial encounter, the UNSC warships could not even break the Covenant's shields, and finally only caused some damage to them with their main guns.

On the other hand, since human warships basically rely on armor resistance, the Covenant can defeat them with one blow. If the UNSC and the Covenant can fight evenly on the ground, then in a space battle, it is probably only 30-70...

It is precisely because of this that Cortana concluded that the spaceship definitely did not belong to the UNSC...or even to humans!

"We have to get out of here no matter what."

As he spoke, the sergeant pulled the magazine hard, and opposite him, accompanied by a roar, a huge ghost-faced beast slowly walked towards him.

"We'll talk about the rest after this."