Hafa Time: October 3, 2018, 14:14.
Location: Containment Fleet's flagship bridge.
Andre, who was wearing the uniform of the top general of the Umbrella army, and a group of Colonel Grade Officers, and Athena who was already Containment Fleet, were all standing next to Central Control Console who showed a holographic image.
Artificial Intelligence and Tina equipped with prosthetics stood beside Andre, explaining the situation of the war in the Middle East to everyone present.
"General, everyone, according to the information shared with us by the UNSC and the intelligence I personally collected, the total number of Rebels is close to 540,000.
If we include the terrorist organizations and militias cooperating with Rebels, the number may be close to 700,000, or even more.
Rebels's troops are mainly concentrated in large cities with large populations such as Adana, Aleppo, Homs, Damascus.
Cities with concentrated military forces are relatively close to each other, and the vast majority of Rebels are scattered in these large cities.
The Baghdad deep within Iraq are far away from the Rebels front, but the number of Rebels remains at about 80,000, and there are still millions of people stranded in Baghdad.
What is certain is that two-thirds of Rebels initiators hit within Baghdad and relied on large numbers of civilians as 'hostages' to negotiate with the UNSC."
"Negotiation?" an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel asked:
"What do these Rebels want? Even if there are nearly a million people, facing the UNSC's huge fleet and nearly endless sources of troops, they are simply overestimating their capabilities."
"Rebels is because countries around the world have adopted new energy problems, resulting in a sharp decline in the purchase volume and price of oil, so they carried out armed rebellions and a group of fooled civilians served as hostages.
This is used to threaten the UNSC countries to purchase 200 billion barrels of oil, and the price per barrel must be seventy US dollars, otherwise the price will be Rebels and tens of millions of civilians fighting the UNSC to the end."
Tina is not as emotional as Cortana and Serena, and explains the reasons to everyone with an expressionless face.
"Tsk!" When he heard that it was for money and not for 'fairness and justice', the lieutenant colonel said with disdain:
"Those Rebels leaders are already a group of rich people, but they still don't know how to be satisfied."
Tina was silent for a few seconds without commenting, and then continued:
"As for the main reason why civilians support Rebels, it is because the leaders of Rebels have been promoting in these years that once the UNSC's unified policy is popularized, people must accept pork food.
In addition, these Rebels leaders are originally the leadership of the country, and the local Internet and news are also controlled by the leaders, so the current situation has been created."
"Huh." Andre, who was silent at first, couldn't help but snorted coldly:
"After dealing with those abnormal phenomena for a long time, I feel that what humans are doing is the Earth's 'abnormal phenomena', and I can't take a break every day.
In the last century, World War I and World War II came, and they finally had peace. Then came the Cold War! Spies came and spies came!
The end of the century has ushered in the end of the Cold War, and the United States has begun to have no time to spare, and has been causing trouble for other countries all day long. What a fucking Sukka."
"..."
A group of officers nodded silently, especially when Andre was talking about the United States, the number of nods increased.
After all, half of the officers under Andre's command are veterans who have participated in conventional wars, veterans of 'Warrior Nation'. They naturally have no good impression of the United States.
"Hey..." Athena sighed softly.
She had seen too much war history, and if it hadn't been for the appearance of Umbrella, she would have been deeply disappointed with mankind and prepared to completely leave this earth that was ravaged by mankind.
"General." At this time, Tina returned the last touch and said:
"A former American major general, now a UNSC lieutenant general, once proposed that Rebels be solved by directly using the fleet to carry out saturation bombing without considering the safety of civilians.
But it was directly rejected by the vast majority of UNSC officials and generals. Now the UNSC troops have begun to gather and prepare to confront Rebels."
"It's America's Brett again." Andre shook his head with an angry look on his face, then looked at the map image on Central Control Console and asked Tina quietly:
"The UNSC shared the information about Rebels with us. It's not just a simple sharing. What kind of help do they want from Umbrella?"
"We really need our help." Tina controlled the imaging on Central Control Console, focused on Baghdad, and said:
"The UNSC stated that it is absolutely impossible to negotiate with Rebels, and is still preparing to destroy Rebels by force, but Rebels said that in addition to civilian hostages, they also have a weapon capable of destroying mankind.
Since the UNSC does not have enough information about this weapon, it wants to obtain Umbrella's technical and intelligence support to speculate on what the weapon in Rebels's hands is, or to prove the authenticity of Rebels's words."
"Huh?" After hearing this, Andre finally showed a serious look and asked, "So, do our agents have any information?"
"Yes." Tina pointed to the center of Baghdad and said:
"According to reports from agents hidden in the Baghdad Police Station, during the years between the promotion of Hydrogen Engine and the establishment of the UNSC, a large amount of soil continued to be transported out of the large construction site in the center of Baghdad. It seemed that some kind of large Underground Fortress or research facility was being built."
Tina said, and controlled the image on Central Control Console to switch to Türkiye, and marked Göbeklitepe not far away from Şanlıurfa.
Said: "According to the intelligence of another agent, it was said that before Baghdad established the large-scale Underground Facility, a Turkish general who was already one of the leaders of Rebels led the Guards to conduct extremely destructive excavations at the Stonehenge.
The agent also said that during the excavation process, a large number of intensive gunshots were heard, and it seemed that they were attacked by some kind of enemy.
In the end, it seemed that the general retreated with the remaining guards after getting what he wanted.
Moreover, the fallen Guardsmen were burned on the spot by the general, so the agents were unable to obtain more detailed data.
But what is certain is that in Baghdad Underground Facility, there must be 'things' unearthed from Göbeklitepe."
Speaking of this, the image of Göbeklitepe appeared on Central Control Console, and the tone of Tina became much heavier:
"Göbeklitepe is estimated to have been built at least 12,000 years ago. It is an unsolved mystery of mankind.
Due to the constant war in the area, scholars from all over the world are unable to conduct in-depth research on this Ancient Ruins.
So now looking at it, Rebels is very likely to have some kind of World-Ending Weapon in its hands."
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{Göbeklitepe is not the Ancient Ruins compiled in this book, but a real building that exists in Turkey.
It is true that due to the constant war in the area, scholars from all walks of life are unable to get protection and funds, and are unable to dig deeper.
But what is certain is that according to the current society's understanding of mankind at that time, it is absolutely impossible to build such a magnificent building with its technology.
The stone weighs three to forty tons, and there are no stone resources nearby. It is cut smoothly and carefully carved.
This is just the giant Stone Pillar discovered on the first level.}