Chapter 269 Public Opinion War! UNSC High-level Officials Alarmed! Ai Qiuminshi

Chapter 269 Public opinion war! Alarmed UNSC high-level officials! The Eqiumin era!

"Alex, officer."

At this time, the voice of AI Loki came into the headset communication of Alex and Cage.

"We have successfully suppressed the fleet of the rebels on the front and have taken control of the situation in the near-Earth orbit of Secudus. The Nova-class nuclear bomb has also been intercepted by us."

"Now, we are about to send a commando to land in your area and completely control the city of Secudus below."

"In addition, your direct leader Morgan Blackhand wants to contact you. I am connecting you to his signal."

As soon as AI Loki finished speaking, Morgan Blackhand's voice sounded:

"Alex, Cage, and Rita, your three tasks will be transferred to assist the giant enterprise fleet and members of various departments to deal with the rebels in the Eridanus II galaxy and control the situation here."

"I have modified your mission instructions and uploaded them to the headquarters. Your points are still valid. That's it."

Morgan Blackhand was conveying Leon's highest instructions. After all, he happened to encounter this incident, so there was no need to perform the original mission.

And the tasks completed by Alex and Rita this time will also be accumulated as points and counted into their personal career achievement tables.

"Okay, sir."

After Alex responded, she couldn't help but ask about the situation on Li De's side.

After all, she was just a special agent of the Intelligence Department, and she belonged to two different systems from Li De. Alex had no information channels for Li De who was on an expedition.

"Ha! They are progressing very smoothly. They are now the top leader of the Star Alliance. Don't worry, the boss is in contact with them at any time, there will be no problem."

Morgan Blackhand didn't hide anything from Alex, because this couple is a famous model "couple" in the giant company.

"Okay, thank you."

After learning that everything was going well on Li De's side, Alex finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'll leave the matter of Eridanus to you. Be careful along the way."

After saying that, Morgan Blackhand took the initiative to hang up the communication.

And here, a brilliant meteor shower fell from the sky of Secudus City again. It was the airdrop warehouse dropped by the giant company, which was full of "tin cans"!

Boom--! !

When there were only a few hundred meters left to the ground, the airdrop chamber activated the buffer to slow down the speed, and then all fell near the military base.

Click!

The hatch popped open, and a group of Astartes warriors holding grenade launchers quickly rushed out to take over the base.

As for the rebels around, when they learned that their fleets had been cleaned up, they all chose to surrender.

Seeing that the friendly forces finally arrived at the scene, Rita also put down her weapons with a sense of relief. After being on guard for almost 24 hours, she could finally rest!

Under the full control of the Universal Corporation troops, the passengers and staff of the Neptune who were imprisoned in the prison were naturally free and could return to their homes.

But before going back, they still had to cooperate with the publicity department of the giant corporation to complete some filming and interviews. As for the content, of course, it was "good reviews" that were beneficial to the image of the giant corporation.

...

A week later.

While the Eridanus II galaxy was being completely cleared by the fleet of the Universal Corporation, the situation far away in the solar system was also in turmoil.

Solar system, Earth!

Under the transformation of the UNSC, Earth, the home planet of mankind in the Halo universe, can be called an impeccable military fortress.

In the near-Earth orbit alone, a large number of defense arrays are deployed to prepare for any threats from outer space.

Whether it is an ordinary meteorite or an unidentified thrown object, if it wants to fall on the surface of the earth, it must first pass through thousands of orbital close-in defense guns.

In addition, countless warships are also parked on the Earth's orbital space station.

The entire periphery of the Earth is surrounded by warships, space stations, and defense arrays, and dazzling jump lights flash from time to time.

The jump space in the solar system is particularly busy.

As the political, economic, and cultural center of human civilization, the Earth naturally serves as the core hub within the three rings of the near-Earth colony.

Mars, located in the fourth orbit, is an important production area for producing weapons and building warships, and many military families live on Mars.

In short, the humans in the solar system are absolutely happy, comfortable, and happy. They enjoy the "blood and sweat" from various colonies.

Enjoying the happiness of great material abundance, the powerful armed forces can also give them a great sense of security.

At the current time, the humans in the Halo universe have not yet learned about the existence of the Star Alliance and the Forerunners.

Except for the top humans and the scientific researchers involved in the Forerunner relics, the rest of the humans even think that they are the only "players" in this universe.

When the vast universe became a stand-alone game, the humans living on Earth did not have any tension or worries about survival.

After all, the resources and planets of the entire universe are all theirs!

Here, the United Nations Space Command, the Earth headquarters of the UNSC, Sydney, Australia.

As the headquarters city of the UNSC, the city of Sydney has been developed for hundreds of years and is far more prosperous and huge than cities such as Reach and Arcadia.

The daily worry of the people living in this shining pearl-like city is to think about which star system to travel to tomorrow.

As for work, people from other colonies have already served them.

After all, the reason why some people can live a peaceful life is because others carry the burden for them.

At this moment, the high-level officials of UNSC, UEG and ONI, whose peaceful days were originally broken by the strange changes during this period of time!

The core area of ​​Sydney.

In the middle-level conference room of the tower of UNSC headquarters.

"It's been so long, and we haven't got any specific information about the Universal Corporation. Are all your ONI intelligence personnel useless!"

As an angry roar sounded, the people outside the conference room subconsciously slowed down their pace, trying to eavesdrop on the scolding inside.

"It's fine that we can't get any information about the Universal Corporation, but you still don't know anything about the disappearance of the Neptune in the Eridanus II system. The rebels took hostages in front of us. This is a provocation to us!"

"We, the UNSC, spend so much military funds every year to help your ONI department get intelligence, but in the end, there is no intelligence."

"All the public funds were taken away by your people to eat, drink and have fun, right? Speak up!"

The person cursing in the conference room was the supreme commander of the UNSC Navy, the chairman of the UNSC Security Council, Admiral Terrence Hood.

In this conference room, he is the most powerful person among the people present, holding the strongest military force of mankind, and can be called the top human in "Halo"!

"General Terrence, please calm down. You and the other generals present here have been through many battles. You shouldn't get angry and lose your mind over such a thing."

The female executive who retorted to Terrence, Vita Lopez, is a special inspector of ONI. She has the right to supervise and impeach executives of various departments of UNSC.

She belongs to the ONI department, so she will stand on the interests of ONI, defend her own people, and refute the powerful Admiral Terrence.

The people in this conference room are all the top dignitaries in the human camp of "Halo". They are either executives of various departments, or senior generals and commanders.

And the core point of their dispute today is actually only one, that is, the Universal Corporation!

The previous front rebels were at most annoying and a bit of a hindrance to the UNSC, but the emergence of the Universal Corporation has shaken the foundation of their rule.

At this moment, the executives are having a heated discussion around a series of events caused by the Universal Corporation, but if you listen carefully, you will find that they are all blaming each other and arguing.

There are only a handful of people who really explore solutions!

Not long ago, Alex and others mistakenly entered the city of Saigudus. After they drew lots and asked people to settle the base camp of the rebels on the front line, the entire rebel army began to surrender to the Universal Corporation on a large scale.

Although the hostages were released, the rebels had a new master, a powerful and powerful new master.

This made the UNSC executives present feel deeply uneasy.

Coincidentally, within a few days, a large number of media reports on the Universal Corporation appeared in the colonies of various places.

But the source of this information cannot be traced, as if it appeared out of thin air.

The information published by these media includes the introduction of the technological products of the Universal Corporation, such as hard light weapons, technical weapons, kinetic weapons, and various genetic weapons.

In addition, there are various legions and armed forces of the market development department.

At the same time, the media of the Universal Corporation has made public the existence of the world of the heavens, megastructures, and the Universal Trade Circle.

There are a lot of video footage as evidence, which made a bunch of viewers who didn't know the truth stunned.

Of course, these are not the most deadly.

The most terrifying thing is that the Universal Corporation actually sent a large number of agents to assassinate senior executives of UNSC, UEG and ONI departments.

First, various evidences and reports were listed, and then the whole process of killing was made public. This kind of refreshing and comfortable approach instantly won the support of a large number of grassroots people.

But for the senior executives of various departments of UNSC, this is like riding on their heads and shitting!

According to normal procedures, prisoners must be tried before they can be executed.

But the agents of the Universal Corporation first used the so-called evidence to prove the negligence of the criminals, and then took the initiative to kill them.

During the entire operation, the agents of the giant company completely bypassed the judicial procedures of the UNSC. Such intentions couldn't be more obvious.

The Universal Corporation wants to completely seize their power!

From trial to execution, all of them were done in the way of the giant corporations. They used their own justice, morality, and violent weapons to execute the top leaders of the UNSC in front of countless people.

This is simply killing people and destroying their hearts, and fundamentally undermining the credibility of the UNSC!

And the network security personnel on Earth and in various colonies are also actively controlling comments, trying to delete and intercept content that is unfavorable to the UNSC.

But they can't delete it all, and they can't control the rapid spread of information. Even the smart AI is helpless!

Now the information about the world giant corporation is like a rapidly dividing cell, quickly occupying every corner of the human network world of "Halo".

In just a few days, the public opinion led by the giant corporation has set off a tsunami.

Faced with the uncontrollable controversy, the senior officials within the UNSC were also divided into two factions. One faction wanted to succumb to the Universal Corporation, fearing that they would become the next target of killing.

After all, the senior officials who could get to their level had some unknown black materials in their hands. If they didn't kill a few people, they would not be able to get to the top.

Therefore, most of the doves expressed their willingness to cooperate with the Universal Corporation for a win-win situation.

The Universal Corporation is a human civilization from a parallel universe, which means that its strength must be far superior to theirs, and there will be no good results if they confront it head-on.

The remaining hawkish members strongly stated that they could not succumb to the other party so easily.

In their view, these public opinion wars are just simple tricks to deceive people.

As for the powerful and the petty bourgeoisie, they just regarded these news as after-dinner jokes and watched the show calmly.

No matter how the dynasty changes, it will not affect their good life. They should eat and drink as usual.

When the situation is clear, they will show up in time to stand on the side of the winner. This is how the human clan factions have basically come over for thousands of years.

Only those ordinary people in the colonies who have suffered oppression and belong to the marginal areas regard the Universal Corporation as a truly capable and powerful rebel organization.

They are not stupid. They know that this information is "made up" and is the same as the slogan "Great Chu will rise and Chen Sheng will be king".

It doesn't matter if they engage in false propaganda, as long as they can crush the UNSC's bunch of idiots!

So when they saw that the Universal Corporation's rebellion was more numerous and more novel than the front rebels, they all chose to stand on the side of the giant corporation and expressed their strong support.

However, the UNSC senior officials present knew that all this information was true and there was no sign of falsification.

Because as early as the outbreak of the battle in the Eridanus II galaxy, there were spies from the UNSC who passed the information there to the headquarters.

Unfortunately, after the Universal Corporation took over Secudus, the spies planted inside lost contact, and it is estimated that they were caught by the intelligence department of the Corporation.

Now, the UNSC has completely lost sight of the Corporation and has no idea about the enemy's next move!

Facing the retort of ONI Inspector Vita, Admiral Terrence laughed angrily. He stared at the ONI senior executives present and said in a deep voice:

"Yes, we old guys have lived for so long, and we have never encountered anyone who dares to rush into our own door and rob scientific research members and artificial intelligence devices."

"A department dedicated to intelligence work was attacked twice by the enemy on the same day, and in the end we couldn't even find out where the enemy was."

"Where is your sanity? Have you all been eaten by pigs and dogs? Why don't you use your brains to think about how the enemy did it!"

Terrence's words were completely pointing at people's noses and scolding them. From the perspective of dereliction of duty, he blamed the incompetence of the ONI department in all aspects.

Hearing this, the faces of the ONI executives suddenly turned black. They certainly knew what Terrence was referring to.

During the riot on Reach, Dr. Catherine Halsey and the intelligent AI Sifer were all abducted by the Universal Corporation, and there has been no news so far.

But this is not their ONI fault.

Their intelligence department is not engaged in combat. It is normal that they cannot defeat the enemy with such fierce firepower.

If the UNSC customs had not let these robbers in, how could such a thing happen on Reach.

So in the final analysis, it is still the fault of their UNSC customs!

Just when the senior executives of ONI wanted to continue to blame the UNSC, a shrewd and capable middle-aged female executive spoke up in time to stop this ridiculous dispute.

She said to everyone:

"Everyone, the purpose of this meeting is to solve the problem of Universal Corporation, not to blame each other."

"General Terrence, I fully understand your current mood, but for the sake of the overall situation, I still hope that you can be more tolerant of colleagues in various departments. After all, you still need ONI's intelligence department."

The person who spoke was the commander-in-chief of ONI's intelligence department, Colonel Margaret Parangoski. As the head of ONI, she has a considerable say in UNSC.

In some ways, her power is no less than that of Terrence.

Inspector Vita Lopez, who just challenged Terrence, is one of her henchmen.

After hearing Margaret's words, Terrence didn't say anything more, but just looked at her coldly. The ONI department is so incompetent, and Margaret, as the commander-in-chief, must be responsible for it.

"Colonel Parangoski is right. Now is not the time for us to bully others. We have to find a way to deal with this unknown giant company."

The person who agreed with Margaret was Andrew Del Rio, the highest-ranking commander of the UNSC Naval Operations Team and the captain of the Carthage-class aircraft carrier.

In theory, Andrew should be managed by Terrence and speak for his own admiral.

But Andrew himself has a more rational and peaceful personality and does not have a direct factional tendency. He is considered a practical person in the UNSC senior management who only does things honestly.

So even if Andrew spoke to Margaret, Terrence was not very surprised. He just stared at the ONI senior management without saying a word.

"Colonel Parangoski, since your ONI department had some friction with the agents of this force as early as last year, it has been so long now, I believe you should have some research results."

As expected, Andrew pointed the finger at Margaret in his next sentence, which startled the ONI executives present and they all looked at their commander-in-chief.

Faced with Andrew's questioning, Margaret did not rush to answer the other party, but manipulated the touch device in front of her to mobilize several holographic screens.

On the screen, the ONI headquarters in Reach and the ONI research institute in Arcadia appeared. These were the images recorded by the monitoring equipment.

At this time, Margaret continued to speak:

"This so-called world giant company actually attacked our research base as early as last year. This is the footage recorded before the monitoring device was blocked."

"It is obvious that this special agent team is very large, and it is not ruled out that they have undergone professional genetic modification."

"Of course, this information is not the point. The point is why they came to the research base and stole a lot of scientific research data."

After the voice fell, Margaret called up the footage and some data about the remains of the Forerunner civilization.

Then, she began to explain to everyone:

"Many years ago, we discovered many alien creatures in colonies everywhere. Most habitable planets have this kind of civilization."

"After decades of research and analysis, we have confirmed that the remains of this civilization exist in Arcadia, Reach and the habitable colonies of various tribes."

"Before the demise of this civilization, it was in its golden peak period called the 'Eqiumin' era. They had extremely high artistic and technological achievements."

"But for some unknown reason, this powerful civilization suddenly declined rapidly in a short period of time until it was completely annihilated."

"But the only thing we can be sure of is that all the relics and items surveyed by humans today are from the Eqiumin era of the previous civilization!"