November 27th.
Shield World surface.
At this time, the landing area where Xenos rode the disposable Drop Pod and touched down first had already been built as a surface base by Engineering Team of Fleet Zero.
It has a complete air-tight building complex, and also has an airport to park various transport aircraft, carrier-based aircraft or MS, and...
From the 21st until now, Kaisa has continuously used Divine Barrier to prevent Shield World's Flood from entering the barrier area.
After all, no matter how strong the Flood Demon's infection ability is, it still requires physical contact, so it is a physical attack, not a more fantasy psychic attack.
So the most effective isolation solution at present is Divine Barrier implemented by Kaisa.
Fortunately, Kaisa can also use her barrier while sleeping. She only needs to replenish the heat needed by the body in a timely manner.
Otherwise she wouldn't have been able to persist until now.
As for the Flood, which was blocked by the Kaisa barrier, after confirming that it could not enter the barrier, it canceled the unnecessary attack on the barrier and just wandered around the edge of the barrier to monitor.
It seems that facing Kaisa's barrier that can reject physical attacks, even Gravemind, which is composed of millions of Jiralhanae, Grunts, Gnoll and other races, cannot solve it in a short time.
It may also be that the IQs of these Covenant races are not high enough. Otherwise, why would the Flood in its wild stage be so interested in using humans to aggregate into the original Gravemind.
For example, Captain Kais in "Halo: CE", or the Flood in "Evolution: Mona Lisa" in the dynamic comics, drag the pilot who can fly the Pelican and throw it into the original Gravemind.
Of course, this is just a joke.
After all, according to the Chinese proverb, 'three bad generals are as good as Zhuge Liang', not to mention that this Gravemind is composed of millions of brains.
Faced with Divine Barrier that can defend against any physical attack, even the most original Gravemind and Primordial Foundation manufactured by Pioneer may not have a solution.
During this period.
Rebecca and Halsey, who have been staying on Star Killer-class, are also studying the technicians' reports on the clones.
Finally, we learned that Gravemind actually used their neurological expertise to deceive Elizabeth Green, who owned Hive Mind.
The clone's spinal cord was instantly hollowed out by the infected Flood, and then the infected body parasitized Flood's spores in the spinal cord, but Gravemind did not cause the clone to mutate, and also caused the infected Flood to collapse on its own.
In this way, Gravemind successfully deceived Elizabeth Green.
It can be seen that if there is no reminder from Halsey, once the seemingly healthy clone is recovered, the consequences will be disastrous.
But...
Flood Spore, which is parasitic in the clone's spinal cord, is still unable to escape the barrier purification of Kaisa.
However, judging from the incident of the clone being parasitized, William and other leaders clearly realized that they must not underestimate the mature Gravemind.
27th.
10:20 on the Atlantic Ocean.
The area of the surface base is exactly where Shield World has fallen into the sunset.
A sealed building located in the center of the base, on the second floor, there is a combat conference room with a holographic projection.
The various unit commanders sitting on folding chairs were wearing black combat short-sleeves and combat pants instead of ceremonial officer uniforms.
Sitting in the back are the four Primarch who are sitting on the horse, Saum who is also wearing black clothes, and many commanders of elite races.
In order to communicate smoothly, everyone wears an earphone in their right ear to translate human and Covenant languages.
At this time, standing on the podium at the front of the combat conference room were William and Serena.
Serena Vision just glanced at everyone, then stepped forward and waved his hand to control the holographic system in the combat conference room.
Immediately afterwards.
Holographic Imaging of Shield World is presented at the front end of the combat conference room and is amplified under the control of Serena.
Finally, located forty kilometers north of the surface base, a huge turbid lake appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Everyone." Serena waved his hand towards the giant lake and said softly to the officers of the two races:
"From the data stored in City of Brotherly Love, as well as the fleet's comprehensive scan, we can know that in the center of this giant lake, there is an entrance that can go to the bottom of the earth's surface."
Karl was a little confused and said, "Under the surface?"
"That's right."
Serena nodded lightly, and controlled the holographic system in the combat conference room to generate another Holographic Imaging picture.
This imaging picture is exactly the 3D version of Shield World.
The 3D imaging image first rotated, and then turned into a blue and white analytical image, allowing everyone present to understand that there is still a huge space underneath Shield World.
Serena took this opportunity to continue explaining, "According to Catherine·Dr. Russell's interpretation of the ruins, we learned that the center of Shield World is an artificial sun built by the Forerunners.
There is some kind of device similar to Dyson Sphere outside the artificial sun to provide energy for the entire Shield World.
Moreover, according to the data stored by City of Brotherly Love and the scanning results of the fleet, the Covenant and the Flood have not yet been able to invade the interior of Shield World.
This means that we can be the first to gain control of the Forerunner's Dreadnought Warship."
"Be the first?" Hearing this, Mylon suddenly asked with some doubts:
"Serena, all the Covenant Alliance in this galaxy have been destroyed by us, who else can compete with us for control?"
"Hong Mo." At this time, William walked forward slowly, glared at Mylon with some anger, and explained for Serena:
"In the detailed information released to you about the Flood before, it was clearly mentioned that the Flood will have four stages, which are wild, mutual aid, interstellar and super galaxy.
The Flood currently on Shield World has completely passed the wild stage and evolved into a highly intelligent Gravemind.
The Flood at this stage will not only infect living creatures, but also any form of buildings and vehicles. They can also be infected and manipulated, allowing them to enter the interstellar stage.
The Flood fleet that fought against the Star Alliance Invincible Fleet a month ago was the Flood fleet controlled by the original Gravemind.
Now, Gravemind has fully developed and is fully capable of invading the Forerunner Dreadnought Fleet.
So there are currently two solutions.
The first is to find the location of Gravemind, send elite troops to kill it, and let the Flood of Shield World return to the wild stage.
But after several days of comprehensive scanning, our Artificial Intelligence still couldn't lock its location, so we had to give up this plan.
The second one is to use our special identity as humans to enter Shield World through the entrance of this lake and gain control of Dreadnought Fleet.
Control Dreadnought Fleet to drive out of Shield World, then withdraw the troops from the surface and low-Earth orbit, and finally launch Quantum Bomb to completely destroy Shield World.
In this way, Gravemind will be directly annihilated in the 'white light' of Quantum Bomb."