Fang Zheng happily took his own ship girl to dig up the tomb of the Forerunner, completely unaware that at this moment his appearance inside the UNSC had caused an uproar.
After getting the reassembler, Fang Zheng just left, but the poor Master Chief didn't have his ability and could only stay in the space station waiting for support. Just like the plots of all movies and games, the UNSC fleet waited until everything was over before arriving, and when they arrived, both the Forerunner and Fang Zheng had run away.
But this is not the point. The point is that the space station captured the entire scene of Fang Zheng's Sea Mist Fleet fighting the Forerunners and the Covenant. After watching these images, the UNSC officer leading the team was also shocked. He immediately reported the matter to the UNSC headquarters, and then took the Master Chief and the person in charge of the space station back to the headquarters facility for questioning and investigation.
There is a reason why the UNSC is so nervous. Not to mention that the existence of the Forerunners is very sensitive, and the Founder's Sea Fog Fleet is even more shocking to the UNSC. You have to know that the UNSC and the Covenant have been fighting for so many years, and they can barely tie on the ground, but they can't compete with them in space wars. If it weren't for the problems in the Covenant because of the "Great Journey" organized by the Prophet of Truth, and the sudden attack of the Jiralhanae on the elites, causing the Covenant to split and fight a civil war, I'm afraid the UNSC wouldn't have to fight this battle.
Even the Infinity, the latest creation of the UNSC, is just a verification ship. Although it uses the Forerunner technology discovered by the UNSC, its actual combat effectiveness... well, it is still unknown at this point.
But what the UNSC didn't expect was that when they were having a headache dealing with the Covenant warships, there was actually a force that had the power to defeat the Covenant and even compete with the Forerunners!
More importantly, this force had actually had contact with them!
All sorts of thoughts immediately came up among the top UNSC officials. Although they were currently cooperating with the Covenant, strictly speaking, the two sides had fought to the death before. Even though they had the Flood as a common enemy, it did not mean that the two sides would immediately put aside their grudges and fight together.
It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the UNSC and the Covenant are sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different goals, but the actual situation is actually not much different. After all, there is still a gap between the UNSC's technological level and the Covenant. As the saying goes, whoever has the bigger fist has the greater say, so even if they form a common front, the UNSC's words in front of the Covenant are somewhat weak.
But now, with the emergence of a new third-party force that even the Covenant cannot match, the UNSC's mind suddenly became active.
"What do you think?"
After watching the video recording, a senior UNSC official looked up and looked at his colleagues sitting next to him. Then, a white-haired old man shook his head.
"Looking at their appearance and equipment, they don't look like rebels."
"How could the rebels possibly have such good equipment?"
The other blond man couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"If the rebels had such a fleet, they would be sitting here now!"
Although this statement was a bit disrespectful, no one in the room refuted it. The rebels under UNSC rule were more like terrorists than rebels. They might be able to blow up a space station, kidnap a hostage, and release poison gas, but you said scientific research... Are you kidding? People who are capable of scientific research would do this?
"What does the technical department think?"
The white-haired old man didn't say much about it, but looked at a man wearing glasses on the other side, and the man hurriedly stood up and spoke.
"We accessed and checked the Chief's communication records and the artificial intelligence Cortana, and found that the other party used a very advanced quantum communication technology that cannot be reversed. However, based on the information we have obtained so far, the other party's... technology does have some overlap with ours."
"Then the question is, where do these people come from? They are definitely not in our territory, and they certainly cannot be in the territory of the Star Alliance. Look at the warships of this force. To build such a fleet, it requires a very strong industrial capacity. Even if they are really rebels, it is impossible for them to have a manufacturing plant that can produce such warships in our UNSC territory! Unless we in the UNSC are blind!"
"I even doubt whether they are human beings."
Another senior UNSC official also spoke up immediately.
"You've also seen that from the images provided by Cortana, they actually have the ability to transform into giant monsters! This doesn't look like a biological mutation at all, but more like magic... But no matter what, even the Covenant, I'm afraid even the Forerunners can't do this! Maybe they changed into human appearances because it's easier to contact us! And their true appearance is those monsters that look like dragons!"
We have to admit that these senior officials may have been holding back for too long and have very wild imaginations, and now that someone has taken the lead, others have also begun to let themselves go.
"I suspect they might be a magical civilization... That's right! Magic! How can you be sure that there is no magic in this world? According to the records on Earth, haven't we seen many records about magic and dragons?"
"But those are fairy tales, stories."
"That's not necessarily all stories. You know, there are no creatures like dragons on Earth. Now we have also seen the Star Alliance. You see, if it is a fictional thing, then no matter how similar it is, there will always be differences. However, look at this image, look at the dragon in it, its appearance, its fighting method, it is exactly the same as what our ancestors said, what does this mean?!"
Another UNSC senior official also had a red glow on his face due to excitement - it seemed that he must be a fantasy novel fan in private.
"This means that it is very likely that these 'dragons' once lived on Earth many years ago, but then they left Earth and went to other planets! Didn't historians once say that there was an ancient civilization on Earth? And many records of ancient civilizations also describe a group of highly developed ancient people leaving this planet..."
"So what you're saying is..."
“That’s right!”
The senior official slammed the table.
"I suspect that these mysterious people who suddenly appeared are the ancient humans mentioned by the historians on Earth! Otherwise, why would they help us? If they were just a third force with ulterior motives, they could have taken the Reassembler while we were fighting the Forerunners, right? But they summoned the fleet and repelled the Forerunner and Covenant fleets, not to mention that they saved the Master Chief before. This is enough to explain the problem!"
"Speaking of the reassembler..."
As soon as this word was mentioned, everyone who had been somewhat interested suddenly calmed down.
"What do you think... they took away the Recombiner for what purpose? I suspect that they did not just want to protect us from being destroyed by the Recombiner. If that were the case, why didn't they just destroy it? Instead, they took it away and left that... that..."
"Banner."
"Yes, the banner. By the way, have you analyzed the text on it?"
"After analysis, we found out that the text above is from an ancient civilization on our Earth several centuries ago. It says..."
"What is it?"
“…Send love and receive sunshine…”
“……???”
"And what about the...currency?"
"They have not circulated in any corner of the world and should be the currency used by the other party."
You have to know that Fang Zheng usually doesn't carry money with him. The money he sent to the space station was the 500... yen he got while shopping when he was dating Yoshino in the elf world.
Well, it was indeed five hundred yuan.
As a paladin, you must keep your word and do what you say. If you say five hundred dollars, it means five hundred dollars. You can't cheat people, right?
As for the purchasing power of these 500 yuan...that's an economic issue.
Although they were very confused about the other party's actions, the UNSC executives reached a consensus after their brainstorming. No matter what, they should contact the other party first. Only when the two parties have established contact can they proceed to the next step!
Considering that only the Master Chief had the other party's contact information, the Master Chief was quickly brought over. Then, under the watchful eyes of the UNSC senior officials, the Master Chief silently started the communication.
Soon, a voice sounded.
"…Sorry, the user you called is out of service area. Please try again later…"