From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 277 "Rebellion?" "Earth-shaking" "Spreading rapidly"

On the rock where the escape exit is located, there is a metal gate hidden by dense grass and thorns.

There are also fortifications embedded in the rock, as well as automatic sentries, artillery and a large number of surveillance cameras.

In addition, more than a hundred "regular soldiers" wearing heavy armor and military-grade prosthetics are responsible for garrison and patrol.

If you want to break through with ground units, even if you succeed, you will definitely pay a heavy price.

After all, this is one of the most important entrances and exits to the experimental base, or for people in the experimental base to escape to the outside world.

But the current war situation has gone beyond the control of military technology.

Therefore, the personnel in the experimental base are preparing to copy various top-secret data and destroy the experimental prostheses, weapons and heavy armored vehicles that cannot be taken away, and then use the escape exits scattered around the mountains to continue retreating to the south.

However.
Swish—shua—!
Boom! Boom!!!

However, two metal hydrogen missiles accurately hit the metal gate and the gathering point of the regular soldiers of Military Technology.

Then, a dazzling white light and a deafening explosion completely engulfed and "annihilated" the area near the escape exit.

call--!
The strong shock wave, enough to shatter and "blow away" the human body, swept around and uprooted trees.

The high-temperature flames completed the "cleaning" in an instant, and the thorns and grass were burned to ashes. Even the soil that should have been very moist was now dry and cracked.

Only when the aftermath faded did this place return to tranquility.

But the metal gate had long disappeared, and the passage leading to the interior of the mountain was exposed to the outside world.

At this point, the four synths who were at a safe distance, holding their own special plasma guns and Gauss guns, rushed into the passage at the speed of an afterimage.

Immediately afterwards——

Tick. Tick!

Heavy gunfire rang out.

This shows that the synths have already started a crushing close-range confrontation with the military-tech soldiers inside.

As for the sound of the synths using hacking technology to "burn and explode" the soldiers' heads, it was covered up by the dense gunfire.

After all, their physical physique, which far exceeds that of ordinary people, is only the most basic configuration, and their electronic brain is the crucial "weapon".

The previous two metallic hydrogen missile bombardments were the synths seeking firepower support from a Vulture.

They also specifically instructed the Vulture crew to adjust the metallic hydrogen equivalent to 30% to avoid unexpected situations.

They are not afraid of death, but they will not really force their way into it.

Since we have the ability to blow up the outer defense facilities, synths will naturally consider the best solution.

Besides, the actual combat data that Dorn wanted to collect was how effective they were in attacking enemy infantry units after installing the "Cyberpunk" prosthesis.

It wasn’t long before;

The sound of gunfire coming from the passage gradually weakened, while the advance teams who were still hiding finally arrived.

More than a dozen top elite veterans, in a standard "33" formation, quickly arrived at the escape exit that had long been unrecognizable and was covered with a large number of crystalline structures.

Hearing the noise inside and seeing the details displayed on the zoomed-in radar, they could tell that the four synths were carrying out the "mopping up" work far beyond their expectations.

"Huh"

After noticing the extremely high efficiency of the synths, Soap couldn't help but complain:
"If those guys can produce in large quantities, will there be jobs for us humans?"

At this time, Xiao Qiang under the helmet can use the outline of his body outlined on the screen to see that Soap patted his own equipment and continued to complain:
"The combat uniforms provided by the company were not used many times, and we eliminated a group of ignorant gang members and a few company puppets. Sigh."

"Wouldn't it be nice to slowly withdraw from the front line?" The ghost didn't care.

This veteran, whose emotions rarely fluctuate drastically, observed the progress of the synths and said:
“As it is now, dangerous things are performed by tools, isn’t that the original purpose of companies making these products?

Let them be responsible for exploring the new universe in the future, and they may be much better than us."

"Experience and intuition are not something machines have."

Soap zoomed in on the radar and noticed that the synths were getting farther and farther away from where they were. He stopped complaining and gave the advance team an order:

"Zero Point, Scarecrow, the two of you teams will stay here to guard, and the rest of you will follow me inside."

After saying that, Soap, Ghost, Xiaoqiang and others headed towards the experimental base.

The six-member advance team, equipped with Gauss snipers, precision rifles and "small" caliber smart machine guns, chose advantageous terrain and remained on guard.

After walking for a distance, Soap and the others saw body remnants and debris all over the ground.

Most of them were caused by attacks from spike bombs and plasma bombs, while a few seemed to have been "torn apart" or "disassembled" by brute force.

It may be that the soldiers using military technology wanted to launch a sneak attack, but were instead "torn apart" and "hammered" by the synthetic humans.

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Seeing the scene in front of him, Xiaoqiang frowned immediately.

He had originally planned to wait until the civilian version of synths came on the market and then buy one at his own expense to help with housework and cleaning.

But now, Xiaoqiang couldn't help but associate it with "artificial intelligence rebellion."

After all, according to the three principles proposed by Asimov, the most fundamental and core point is "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

You know, even though Serin has a physical body, she only hacked into the brain of the Tiger Claw Gang leader, and the final execution was still carried out by him.

"Tsk tsk." Looking at the corpses scattered all over the ground, Soap said in a serious tone:
"The company should have some insurance measures. I don't want to be enemies with this group of efficient killers in the future."

"Theoretically it's impossible." Ghost said calmly:

"Synthetics have emotions and self-awareness. They also understand what killing is. Companies have invested a lot of money and manpower in research and development to make us humans safer."

"That's the only way to think about it." Soap said this, then changed the subject and asked:
"Hey, Xiaoqiang, are you still thinking about finding a synthetic wife?"

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Hearing this, Xiaoqiang shook his head repeatedly.

"Haha!" Soap saw Xiaoqiang's violent reaction through the helmet screen and couldn't help laughing:

"You should go to Terrala and find an elf girlfriend, boy."

"Stop teasing me." Ghost took over the conversation. "The synths are about to occupy the database. It's time to sign for the assets of military technology."

"Okay, let's go."

While the Cyberpunk universe is undergoing integration in full swing, the Halo universe is also experiencing turmoil.

April 2512, 4. Earth.

This human home planet, located in a remote and desolate area of ​​the Milky Way, revolves around the sun in the third orbit, like most parallel universes.

However, the Earth in the Halo universe is almost armed to the teeth.

A large number of defense platforms are deployed in low-Earth orbit, forming a defense array to guard against threats from space.

Countless military ships are docked at orbital space stations for daily inspections and replenishment.

At this moment, both the sunny side and the shady side of the universe are flashing with dazzling blue light.

These lights represent civilian ships and military vessels that are about to make a jump or have already left the jump space.

As the core of human economy, politics, culture and other aspects, the Earth is naturally also the transportation hub for all near-Earth colonies.

Mars, located in the fourth orbit, has become the "forge world" used by humans to produce weapons and build warships.

It can be said that the humans living on the Earth of "Halo" are much happier and more comfortable than their compatriots in universes such as "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Doom".

At least in the current timeline, the humans in Halo have not officially gone to war with the Covenant.

Except for the human top leaders and the confidential personnel involved, ordinary people have no idea of ​​the existence of the Forerunner ruins, and even believe that humans are the only lucky ones in the universe to have become an intelligent race capable of developing civilization.

As for the United Nations Space Command, the UNSC's Earth headquarters, it is located in Sydney, formerly Australia, in the southern hemisphere.

Passing through the atmosphere, we come to the sunny side, in Sydney in the autumn afternoon.

As a city with the UNSC headquarters, Sydney has grown over the centuries to a much larger size than the capitals of Harvest and Reach, with a permanent population of approximately 40 million.

At the port, there are also a large number of traditional naval warships moored for tourists to visit.

However, at this moment, the top executives of UNSC, UEG and ONI were not in the same happy and relaxed mood as the passengers.

Suburbs of Sydney.

The UNSC headquarters looks like a tower, inside the middle floor meeting room;

"Are you all, ONI, useless? It's been so long, and you still can't get any concrete information about Atlas?!"

"The Eredana system is under complete blockade, and the enemy has advanced detection technology. Any jump navigation cannot escape their supervision."

"Where is the secret cruise ship that we spent a lot of money to build for you?! This one is not good, that one is not good, and you are best at dealing with your own people, right?!"

"Being angry won't solve the problem, General. You and your colleagues have lived for so long, you should understand this better than anyone else."

From what I heard, the people here seemed to be having a heated discussion about the series of events triggered by Atlas.

Looking around, the guys sitting behind the "U"-shaped conference table are mostly high-ranking officials and generals who are very important and powerful.

Navy and Army generals were emotional, while officials from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) were stating the facts.

Not long ago, after the Liberation Army accidentally hijacked the Neptune with Leon, Mike, Maggie and others on board, the Eridana galaxy controlled by this extreme rebel force was forced to "change hands" in just 24 hours.

Then, numerous accounts related to Atlas appeared on all the Internet and social media in human territory.

Such as "Atlas Biotechnology", "Atlas Armed Forces" and so on.

These accounts also uploaded pictures, texts and videos to promote Atlas' products and Atlas' armed forces.

At the same time, "Atlas Official" disclosed to the public the existence of "space gates" and "parallel universes", and also released individual footage of Atlas fighting with different universes and species.

The worst is
This account named "Atlas Anti-Corruption Storm" completely exposed the dirty and smelly side of UNSC, UEG and ONI on the Internet.

The most viewed graphic article is "List of termites to be dealt with/in progress, will be updated continuously."

Moreover, in order to publicize that it does have the ability to complete the "insect elimination" operation, Atlas used the footage of a single soldier who raided the ONI headquarters to prove it.

It’s just that the amount of mosaics in a single soldier’s footage is astonishingly high.

When the staff in charge of network security on Earth and in the colonies noticed the sudden emergence of content related to Atlas, they tried to delete and block it, but all their efforts were in vain.

Even smart AI can't help them curb the spread of this information.

The account and information about Atlas were like an Internet virus. The number of views and readings were rising rapidly, and it spread to the entire human race in just a few days.

This instantly caused a violent "earth-shaking" movement.

Most moderate rebels have issued statements saying they are ready to cooperate with Atlas if necessary.

Radical groups like Liberation did not respond.

As for ordinary people who lead a more comfortable life, they treat these as topics of conversation after dinner, and as long as it does not affect the existing situation too much, they are ready to have fun.

On the other hand, people in marginal colonies who suffer from unequal policies see Atlas as an emerging "rebel army" that is truly capable of solving fundamental problems.

The reason why they are regarded as rebels is that not many people believe that there really exists a "space gate" in this world that can lead to a parallel universe.

The elves, dwarves and "magic" of Terra are just gimmicks used by Atlas.

Even though some professional civilians have analyzed that the videos and images are not edited or synthesized except for mosaic processing, people are still willing to insist on the answers they want to hear.

but--

"Ha! You are really good at dealing with internal affairs! Good, good!"

However, the senior officials and generals who were still arguing knew that everything Atlas announced was true.

UNSC and ONI can clearly distinguish true from false.

Secondly, the details of the battle that broke out on Eridana were also transmitted to the UNSC headquarters on Earth by their spies who had infiltrated the local planet at the risk of their lives. After that, they completely lost sight of Eridana.

The Army General, who was retorted by ONI and laughed in anger, looked at the ONI official sitting opposite him and said in a deep voice:

“Yes, we do live longer than others, but we will not sit idly by and watch the enemy kick down our door and take away the most advanced artificial intelligence.

The intelligence agent was wiped out by the enemy. If it were me, I would have shot myself in the face. You coward, you still have the nerve to sit here and talk nonsense?"

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Upon hearing this, all ONI officials understood that the Admiral's words were referring to the raid on ONI headquarters.

Having their pain points touched upon, several officials immediately responded again.

"Everyone!"

However, a middle-aged female official quickly stopped the dispute from escalating and said to everyone:

"We held this meeting to resolve Atlas, which is a greater threat than the rebels, not endless infighting."

(End of this chapter)