"Ha..."
Gravemind in the holographic window exhaled a disgusting breath, opened its mouth like the petals of a piranha, and said in a thick nasal voice:
"Humans... let us have a good talk and don't veto everything. Maybe... we can still cooperate."
"Huh?" William, who had already walked to Central Control Console, after hearing Gravemind's words, couldn't help but raised his left eyebrow and asked:
"Cooperation? What kind of cooperation can we have? You are a species that can devour all intelligent life. We humans do not dare to cooperate with you."
"Haha..." Gravemind let out a deep laugh and continued:
"We can indeed devour everything, but... until now we have not engulfed you humans, or your allies Sangheili people.
On the contrary, it was the species created by you humans that killed many of my compatriots.
Since we have not harmed you or your allies, I think we still have a chance to negotiate."
"Hey, there's a fart." William replied in Chinese, and then continued:
"I can connect to your communication, even if it means giving face to you, a flood demon with millions of brains, to talk about cooperation? No need."
As he spoke, William looked at Carmen sitting in the captain's seat with his peripheral vision, and raised his voice and said:
"Captain Ibanez, please help me throw four Quantum Bomb at Shield World to annihilate Mr. Gravemind who wants to live."
"No problem, boss." Carmen responded with a smile, and then said loudly to the crew on the first floor of the bridge:
"Prepare to launch Tactical missile and destroy the target according to the boss's order."
"Missile bays four, five, six and seven have been opened."
"Launch permission has been obtained. Tactical missile has been launched. It is expected to hit the target in four minutes."
Since the bridge is above and behind the Star Killer's hull, you can clearly overlook the entire battleship's hull.
And as the crew reported, everyone could also see four Tactical missiles emitting white tail flames taking off through the giant porthole at the front of the bridge.
Immediately afterwards, the four Tactical missile made a ninety-degree turn and instantly accelerated towards Shield World.
Gravemind in the holographic window also heard and saw the launch of Tactical missile, and then his tone became a little anxious and anxious as he said:
"Listen up, human! I know the existence of 'Eternal One', and I know its location!
If you want to know its message, cancel the missile launch!"
"Haha! I didn't expect that Gravemind, who has gathered millions of wisdom, would also have a moment of anger, tsk tsk."
William first laughed and mocked, then stopped his smile, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and said to Halsey beside him:
"Eternal One... Well, where have you heard this name before... Catherine, it seems you mentioned it to me."
"Yeah." Halsey, who was standing on the left side of William, nodded lightly without denying it, and then said:
"Eternal One is Gravemind that was born from a pioneer who volunteered to become a 'material'. It is also the first Gravemind in the Göbeklitepe Stone Array record.
The forerunners called it 'Primordial Foundation', and we Ancient Humans call it Eternal One."
Hearing this, William raised his left hand and pinched his chin, looked at Gravemind in the holographic window, and groaned:
"Primordial Foundation...? hum... For us now, this is indeed a valuable message."
"So..." Gravemind saw that William seemed very interested, and continued as if he was pursuing victory:
"Human beings, we do not pose any threat to you now. There is no aircraft on this Forerunner fortress planet that can allow us to leave here.
So how about you please cancel the missile launch and let us continue to live peacefully in this galaxy?"
"Peace?" William raised his left eyebrow slightly, then clapped his hands again and said with a smile:
"Yes, we humans are the most 'peaceful' race, but...
You are the complete opposite.
Anyway, I believe you will never keep your promise, and you will never tell the location of Primordial Foundation. After all, whether Primordial Foundation exists or not is still a question.
As for you Flood demons who still want to live together peacefully, the devil will believe your words, so... accept the baptism of 'Nuclear Peace'."
"No! You can't... How can you humans not be able to communicate?! This is impossible!!"
After hearing William's words, Gravemind, which was composed of Jiralhanae, could no longer maintain its previous calmness and opened its petal-like giant mouth and roared:
"Without Eternal One's recognition, you humans are destined to be unable to obtain the mantle of pioneer!! You..."
"Boom~------!"
A loud noise interrupted Gravemind's roar.
Just look at Gravemind on the holographic window, which was engulfed by the white light when Quantum Bomb exploded. Immediately afterwards, the window displayed 'no signal'.
Seeing this, William turned around and looked towards the giant porthole.
The detonation of four Quantum Bomb successfully destroyed the Shield World built by the Forerunners. The four dazzling white lights completely engulfed all Space Sector near Shield World, producing a stream of Spatial distortion visible to the naked eye.
A few minutes later.
The white light gradually dissipated, and the space returned to normal again.
Except for the pitch-black Space Sector, the previous planet-like Shield World could no longer be seen, not even a grain of dust remained.
Seeing this scene, Halsey also crossed his arms in front of his chest and said to William in a low voice:
"William, I think after the detonation of four Quantum Bomb, not to mention Flood Spore, even the Flood cells have disappeared completely."
"Well..."
Looking at the completely clean Space Sector outside the porthole, William just nodded his head perfunctorily.
Because he was trying to recall what Gravemind said before, 'Primordial Foundation'.
Nearly thirty years ago, when he had not traveled through time and was still in high school, William would often read novels in his dormitory using his mobile phone bill.
Among them, he forgot which "Halo" novel it was, but it once mentioned Primordial Foundation.
'It seems that it was through Primordial Foundation that Ancient Humans understood the knowledge and essence of the Flood...'
William whispered in his heart, then turned his head to look at Halsey on his left hand side, and asked:
"Is the location of Primordial Foundation recorded in Catherine, Göbeklitepe? Or is there more information about Primordial Foundation?"
"Huh?" After hearing William's question, Halsey no longer looked out the window, but thought about it for a moment and replied:
"Very few. The stone formation only records that Ancient Humans obtained the way to fight against the Flood from Eternal One or Primordial Foundation.
Why, do you regret killing that Gravemind?"
"That's not true." William immediately shook his head and said:
"Anyway, I will never talk about cooperation with a creature like Gravemind, otherwise I will definitely be tricked by it and even lose my pants.
Eh? By the way..." William said as if he suddenly remembered something:
"Catherine, after we return to Earth, you can organize the company's scientific expedition team to conduct a large-scale archaeological operation on Africa, especially Kenya."