[Zhongyingmei] The beating heart

"He's Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries."

"What's that? Yasi?"

"Don't know sir. It says so on the card he gave me."

"You mean he gave you a business card and you took it?!"

"..."

Major Kurt Ambrose braced his head.It hurts... My head hurts... Could it be a cold?The weather seems to be changing very quickly lately—no! ! !This is not the reason at all! !It's the closest campsite that's weird! !What the hell happened! !Why have so many strange things suddenly happened after so many years? ! !and……

"Yasi, what did you say his name was?"

"Tony Stark. Sir."

Tony Stark... Repeating the name in his heart, Major Ambrose looked down at the business card in his hand, which was very fashionable—even in 2552, it still had an inexplicably advanced sense——the business card, It read: Nathan Stark, Director of the Global Dynamics Agency...Are they brothers?Major Ambrose looked back at the man in a neat suit sitting in the interrogation room, and then said to Yasi on the other side of the communicator: "No matter what, Yasi, bring them back first."

Major Ambrose wondered if he had done a wise move, he just felt his head ache.Is it a neurasthenia... Ten minutes ago, the entire Kelexi camp was attacked by a magnetic pulse from nowhere. Almost all the electronic products in the camp were broken. Now there is a kind of chicken flying dog in the whole camp The feeling of jumping.Usually, I don't think those machines are useful, but when I really don't have them, I realize that I can't do without them.Not only the electronic equipment, even the artificial intelligence seems to be unresponsive...

"Major! No! The warehouse is on fire!"

"Major!! The armory door is stuck!!"

"Major! The robots on the lift are not moving! Someone is trapped on the scaffolding above!"

"Major!!!"

Major Ambrose wanted to hug his head and crouch in a corner.But obviously he can't do it now, because all the electronic equipment is offline, so these clerks don't know what to do. Sometimes he thinks, maybe the human beings are too dependent on these machines now. Not sure, without it, it seems like nothing can be done.I have no choice but to let that Mr. Stark stay in the interrogation room for a while longer.

This is actually 2552, and it is actually the world of "Halo"!Could it be that "Halo" is connected to the future of the Avengers world? !No, no matter how you think about it, it doesn't make sense... This must be the consequence of the fusion of the world that Captain Turing said.But they are indeed in the future now, because Eureka... really is Eureka's style.The soldiers around... Beer carefully observed the soldiers who were 'escorting' herself and Tony back to the camp. They were wearing heavy armor, half a head taller than Stark, but judging from the style of the armor, They should all be Spartan III fighters, that is to say, they are all teenagers who are younger than the little spider Peter Parker.Speaking of Spider-Man...is he all right?He didn't know where he was when the incident happened. He was probably with Dr. Pym or Dr. Banner, so it should be fine... Little spider... I'm a little worried.

"Hey Bea..."

"So worried about Peter, Tony... he'll be fine, right?"

"Please worry about your boyfriend a little bit?"

"Huh? What's the matter with that fellow Alex? Peter is the most worrying thing among you guys!" Bier looked back at Stark confidently, and said, "Ah...if Peter What should I do if something happened?"

"Well, nothing may happen to Alex. But are you at least a little worried about your situation?"

"It's okay Tony. They're Spartans. We're not going to get hurt. I still think Peter is more to worry about."

No, seeing how confident you are, I'm even more worried.Speaking of which, what exactly is this place?This kind of tropical rainforest...maybe it doesn't exist on earth, does it?And that kid Peter... is Spider-Man, right?Nothing to worry about, even though it's just a kid—

"Tony. Caring for little spiders is the common responsibility of the people of the entire galaxy."

"No, why do you know what I'm thinking?!"

Amidst the meaningless exchange of rants, it seemed that camp was almost upon us.This place should look like a military base, surrounded by barbed wire, which looks very tight, and there are all kinds of futuristic buildings and vehicles—but now the base seems to be a mess.That's right...it seems to be a mess, everyone is running around, in a hurry, and there are black smoke coming from many buildings.Was it attacked...?

"Yasi!"

Suddenly such a voice caught everyone's attention, the team stopped, Bi'er saw a strong and tall man in military uniform running over from one side, upon seeing him, the other little soldiers immediately stood at attention and saluted him, looking like this He should be some sort of commander, right?

"Sir! What's going on in the base? Are we under attack?!"

"Ah... this is not sure." The man called the officer looked tired and helpless and seemed to have had a headache for centuries—just like the boss Fury at some point—he sighed and said, "There are some troubles in the base now, but no enemies have been found so far... Are they the ones?"

"Yes, sir." Yasi nodded, and he stepped aside to show Bier and Tony behind him, "We found them near Area 35. They claim to be from 500 years ago. Sir."

Is that right... I said the same thing as that Nathan Stark.Major Ambrose looked at the two people in front of him. There was nothing special about the women, but the man was wearing a dazzling red-gold armor and had a strange shining thing on his chest.looks suspicious...

"I'm the commander of this Cressy Camp, Major Ambrose. You two, come over here with me first." Major Ambrose stood up slightly, although it was a headache, the suspicious person still couldn't let go , "Actually, not too long ago we found someone you might know."

Ambrose?Kurt Ambrose? !Is this Onix star? !Why does time travel also bring interstellar travel! !And this person is the Master Chief's teammate, Spartan II soldier S-051 Kurt? !Ah... a little more handsome than I imagined... Bi'er was still thinking about it like this - this person seemed not worried about his situation at all - suddenly his foot slipped!Rolled straight forward! !

"Bill?!"

"Wow!!!" What kind of plot of a brain-dead Mary Su girl comic is this! ! !Am I such a bumbling diva with a vase in the way? ! !A series of messy complaints erupted in her heart, but Beer couldn't resist the power of gravity and inertia of motion—in short, science—in any case, and she fell forward and fell directly into Major Ambrose's body. In her arms, at this moment, only one sentence flashed through her mind——

I touched Kurt's boobs! !

Ah no!Now is not the time to think about these things!I felt like I sprained my ankle just now, and I was walking around in the woods just now, and the stockings I was wearing were-

"Ugh!!! My cold bunny stockings!!!"

"..."

Take back what you just said.This woman is also very strange.Major Ambrose didn't know what expression to make. He looked at the human woman crouching on the ground hugging the holed 'cold rabbit stockings' and weeping silently. What he wanted to complain about was: instead of caring about socks, your There are also many wounds on the legs.

"Whooooooooooooooo Tony..."

"Okay, okay, it's just cold rabbit stockings, I'll go back and buy you new ones!"

"But this is a limited edition..."

"What about the limited edition? Buy, buy, buy!!"

"Major, are ordinary people like that?"

"No. It's not. Don't learn from them, Yasi."

For the first time in a long time, Sergeant Mendez felt that he was old and had a strong desire to retire.And it was also the first time that I felt that my IQ could not keep up with the thinking of young people.He turned his head and looked at Major Ambrose beside him. This young man was once an excellent soldier brought out by himself, and now he has become his own officer. Sergeant Mendez felt very proud, but at the same time he also felt a little bit Heartache and irony.The Spartan II program produced good soldiers like the Master Chief and Kurt, and now the Spartan III program is doing the same thing, but sometimes Sergeant Mendez feels that these programs they simply don't should exist.

Has humanity really despaired to this point?Have you really been forced to the point where you need to kidnap, hijack, brainwash your own children and send them to the battlefield?Kurt and the others were only six years old when they were sent to him. They didn't know what justice was, what protection was, and what sacrifice was.They were lied to, kidnapped, but until now the UNSC was afraid to tell them the truth, and now, Phase III is doing the same thing.Some more children were brought in, war orphans, who should be protected and cared for, not...not sent to war again.

No, Mendes, you will only kill them faster with such thoughts.Sergeant Major Mendez told himself that every time, but those children still died one by one, believing this big lie until their death.

"Sir, don't we stop them?" Don't think about other things, now there are a few strange guys in the base, Mendes looked at the two men who were arguing inside through the glass window of the interrogation room, and said, "How long have they been arguing?"

"Since I said they are brothers, they have been arguing until now. It's been about...an hour?" Obviously, no matter in terms of clothing, facial features, and speaking, they are very similar...Aren't they really brothers? ?Those two guys... Major Ambrose looked at the two Mr. Starks who were having a 'quarrel at the level of physical scientists' in the interrogation room, and decided to ignore them, "You know what, Sergeant Major, I decided to go Look at that Miss Dawn."

"Ah... is it?"

"Yeah, because she is very beautiful and seems to be hurt, I'm going to please her first."

"Sir, sir..."

"Gentlemen Stark to you Sergeant Major."

Don't embarrass the old man, I say you! ! !Restraining his desire to complain loudly, Sergeant Mendez had no choice but to accept the order. He looked back at the two Mr. Starks who were about to wrestle with each other in the interrogation room, and the idea of ​​retiring emerged again.

The author has something to say:

A little popular science about the Spartan warriors and related backgrounds in "Halo", if you don't want to read it or you already know it, you can skip it directly, it will basically not affect the reading of the main text~ ...

First of all, the story of "Halo" takes place in the future more than 500 years later. At that time, human beings have developed to the stage where they can drive spaceships in space. This is no different from most science fiction game movies.Among them, the earth at that time no longer emphasized a single country, and each country formed a "United Earth Government" to expand into the universe as a "earth person".At the same time, the department responsible for military affairs, interstellar exploration and other matters related to space, "United Nations Space Command", referred to as "UNSC", is a very important department with great power, although it is directly under the coalition government. Management, but actually has a lot of power, and is the actual manager and 'protector' of human beings.

However in the process of expanding into the universe something always happens and it is impossible for humanity to be fully united, so people (or just criminals) who are dissatisfied with the expansion or whatever form the 'Human Rebels' Army', their purpose is actually not difficult to understand, just like our terrorists now, they hate others, or are cynical, or are bewitched by some people who are greedy for profit and have evil intentions. In short, the power of these human rebels is getting stronger and stronger It is getting bigger and bigger, more and more headaches, and gradually began to have to take active countermeasures, and this is the opportunity for the "Spartan Project" to start.

The UNSC needs a group of fighters who will go on covert missions without anyone knowing about it.They sneak into the most dangerous enemy positions and perform the most dangerous tasks, but they can be 'abandoned' at any time.Exists as consumables.These fighters are the original intention of the 'Spartan warriors' being trained.

We can say that the starting point of the 'Spartan Project' is good, and there is nothing wrong with the purpose of countering terrorists.In the initial "Spartan Phase I Plan", the concept of the entire plan was greatly hindered by technology and personnel. In short, it was a fiasco, a lot of money was spent, and some people died, but nothing Got it, so the plan was shelved.Until the appearance of 'Dr. Katherine Halsey'.She and some other people restarted the Spartan plan, so the "Spartan II plan" was officially launched, and this has become a nightmare for more than 100 human families.

Dr. Halsey herself is a scientist with a high IQ. She summed up the failures of the Phase I plan and believed that if they want to cultivate fighters who can cause great damage to the human rebels, they must start from adults or those who are currently developing. It is not acceptable to choose among the soldiers who serve.She believes that the fighters needed by the Spartan plan must be cultivated from an early age.Of course, this theory does not seem to be a problem, but the author can only describe her method as 'makes people hairy'.Dr. Halsey has analyzed and selected more than 100 families from countless families in all existing human colonies. These families come from all levels and fields. The only thing in common is that their children have the best among human beings. gene.

Dr. Halsey needed these kids in order to raise them into invincible Spartans, but no parent would send a 6-year-old to barracks for intense training, let alone a 1-year-old. The purpose of these trainings is to make them 'war machines'.So, Dr. Halsey came up with an idea, she and the military personnel secretly found these children, and obtained their DNA to create their clones, and then they secretly abducted all these children (yes, It is to secretly kidnap other people's children) and replace them with clones. (The workmanship of these clones was very rough due to technical and economic reasons, and basically all of them died within 2 to [-] years.)

Due to economic reasons, Dr. Halsey had to reduce the original more than 100 families to 74, that is to say, UNSC kidnapped 74 children aged 5-7 years old, and their parents had no knowledge of this (there are clones) Humans replaced them, although the clones basically died in the end, but no one would doubt it), and the children were too young to penetrate this shocking lie.Thus, the executive staff of the Spartan II plan headed by Dr. Halsey began to brainwash these children. (This can be understood as the brainwashing of the [Harmony] marketing organization. In short, it is to tell these children that your parents sent you here, and you are now UNSC soldiers. You must accept training, abandon feelings and name, becoming a cold-blooded warrior is your highest honor or something. Anyway, children are young, and it is much easier than brainwashing adults.)

The hero of "Halo", the famous Master Chief, is one of these children.Since they were kidnapped, they abandoned their surnames and only kept their first names, but they were also numbered. Their names were hardly known in the years that followed, and maybe no one even remembered their numbers.Anyway, the Master Chief's number is S-117, and his name is John (this big common name).

The kids, Master Chief included, grew up in a lie, during which time they received intensive training and training in combat culture knowledge, and by the time they hit puberty, around the age of 16, all of them Received high-risk surgical intensification.Surgery will strengthen their reflexes, vision, etc. (like Captain’s super soldier serum, but it’s done with surgery), but the risks of these operations are extremely high. After the operation, only 74 of the original 33 people survived . (Others either died directly on the operating table, or were permanently disabled from side effects.) Those who died believed that they were full of honor from beginning to end.These children believe that being able to undergo surgery is a crowning honor.

So far, the preparatory phase of the Spartan II plan is basically over.Master Chief and his little friends put on the high-tech armor 'Thor's Hammer' (Brother Hammer: What?) and began to perform tasks.During the mission, they showed unparalleled combat power, which almost frightened the human rebels. At this time, what humans were really worried about happened, that is, the alien invasion that they like to hear.

This group of aliens is collectively referred to as the 'Covenant', but they are not actually the same race. They are an alien alliance composed of multiple races, so they are also called the 'Stars'. Union'.The reason for their invasion can be understood as our Crusades, that is, those in power used religious ties to deceive a large group of passionate young people to carry out aggression and expansion for themselves.I won’t say much here. Those who are interested can search it by themselves. The religious system of the Covenant people is very complicated. On the one hand, they invaded because they were uncomfortable seeing humans, and on the other hand, because their rulers wanted to To activate 'Halo', which is one of the reasons the game is called Halo.It is very troublesome to explain alone, and I will slowly infiltrate it later in the text.

The covenant people's technology is not a little bit higher than that of human beings, so human beings are retreating steadily.As the best soldiers of mankind, the Spartan II soldiers naturally became the 'ace'.The Spartan II soldiers played a decisive and key role in the Star Alliance War, and later became the best excuse for Dr. Catherine Halsey to justify her crimes. (By the way, although the author likes gentle scientists very much, Halsey really can't like her. If someone likes her, I'm sorry, the author is a pure Halsey black.)

Because the soldiers of Spartan II, led by Master Chief, were active in the Star Alliance War, the initial plan to make them the "Death Squad" failed.Because they are too strong, and they cannot avoid being known by the public, if they die, it will deal a huge blow to human morale. (The main reason here is that the UNSC is really too weak. It’s been 2552 and it’s still using physical bullets. The space jump is actually inaccurate. It’s completely useless to fight with the Covenant. There may be a little chance of winning the land battle. It’s a pity that the Covenant directly Open spaceships in space and burn your colonies. Space battles, that is, space battleships, have basically never been won once. Winning is also a difficult victory with human sea tactics. There are so many scientists, they don’t know what they are doing, they may be busy with kidnapping teenagers.)

Anyway, the UNSC now has to keep the Spartan IIs under wraps and make sure they don't die so quickly that others lose faith, but that conflicts with the purpose of their existence, which they're supposed to be This kind of 'throwing' warrior is allowed to be sacrificed.Thus, the Spartan III program was launched.But at this time, because the child abduction incident of the Spartan II plan had been exposed (some people who participated in the original were accused, but the life of the soldiers in the second phase was completely over anyway), and there was no money, Therefore, the Phase III plan is not as refined as the Phase II plan.This time UNSC did not resort to child abduction, but 'recruited' war orphans.

These war orphans are children whose parents died in the Covenant war.Yes, still kids, their average age is still around 6 years old.So it's still not recruitment, it's still kidnapping.It can be said that no one remembers these children, no one cares about them, they have no relatives, no guardians, and the UNSC, which should be their guardians, plans to train them into 'consumables'.And precisely because no one cared about these kids, they wouldn't cause any problems if they died.What a perfect plan! ! A flower blossomed in the head of the UNSC.

So these 6-year-old children embarked on almost the same path as the Spartan II soldiers.Training, followed by high-risk surgery.However, because they had no money (UNSC seems to be very poor) and not enough time, they couldn’t wait for the little soldiers in Phase III to grow up naturally, so they fed these children hormones, and then performed surgery to force their bodies The body grows up, so these children seem to be about 16 or 7 years old, but in fact most of them are only 12 years old. The UNSC also kidnapped a Spartan II (yes, they love kidnapping) to train the kids.

These Phase III fighters are carrying out various high-risk missions behind the scenes, basically missions like going to die.So they died in large numbers.However, there is never a shortage of war orphans in war.No one remembers, no one knows.This incident also caused a huge psychological burden on the Phase II soldier who trained them, but he basically had nothing to do, he himself was just a 'consumable'.

This is the Phase III plan of Sparta, but later the training base of the Phase III plan, that is, the Kelexi camp on the planet Onix, was destroyed by an incident.Almost all the trainers and the remaining Phase III fighters died, and the person in charge of the plan also died in the war, so the plan ended like this.

Of course, the UNSC will not give up!But they finally learned how to behave, and the current Spartan IV plan is finally on the right track.The method of recruiting adults to screen personnel has finally become normal.But also because of this, the quality is not very good, at least compared with the Spartan II of the year.But in fact, the author believes that the Spartan Phase II (including Phase III) program does not cultivate the so-called human super soldiers and ace fighters, but just countless tragedies. (Master Chief is a living example. It is a tragedy. He is still stupid. Sometimes the author can't stand it anymore and wants to wake him up.)

This is almost the whole picture of the Spartan plan. These things are hidden in the history of "Halo". The children they came to protect guarded.So far as the progress of the game is concerned, there are only about five or six surviving soldiers of Spartan II, including the Master Chief. Almost all of them died in Spartan III, and the number of Spartan IV is relatively large. After all, they appeared It's late, and it's not a consumable item...

PS There is also a story here, after the children of Spartan II were kidnapped, some parents found out that their children had been swapped, one of them was Spartan S-010 Naomi He didn’t know about his daughter’s kidnapping, but the replaced clone died. He was very sad when his daughter died, but his daughter-in-law committed suicide because she couldn’t bear the blow, so Senz The whole person is Sparta, he noticed the strangeness of his daughter's sudden death, and then gradually learned the whole picture of the Sparta II plan, so alone, he embarked on the road of human rebels, in the Star Alliance War After the end, Sentzko has become the leader of the rebel army, and established another human government in the fringe galaxy to protest the evil that the UNSC has done to his daughter and countless other people's children.It is conceivable that other parents may have joined the rebels because of this, but what they did not know was that their children had been trained to kill them.

At the same time, the Spartan II soldiers did not know that the 'human rebels' they killed, the so-called 'criminals', might be their biological parents. [Emma is so tragic that I can't even continue...

This is almost the end, those who can see here first accept the author's thanks.The author thinks this is a very charming story, but Microsoft is not a manufacturer that is very good at telling stories in games. The invincible Master Chief galloping in the game is actually a huge mobile game. Tragedy may not be experienced just by playing games.These backgrounds basically come from the official novels published by Microsoft later.If you are interested, you can go and have a look, the writing is pretty good.And the Master Chief in it is more 'lively' than the one in the game.But if you want to watch it, be prepared, because it's all a tragedy, and it may be heartbreaking. [The author was so heartbroken when he read it back then.

In fact, in summary, UNSC is simply too good!weak!up!So the old saying in China is true, "Born in sorrow, die in peace", because there were no enemies in the early days, so they didn't think about making progress. The weak ones didn't realize how fragile they were until the Star Alliance came to fight.And those people headed by Halsey completely forgot the reason why people fight, only to create the most perfect fighters, but they forgot why they need these perfect fighters. When the Spartan plan first started, their The enemy is not that powerful, but they still use that inhumane way to achieve their goals. This matter can actually be compared. In "Mass Effect", the entire galaxy is facing powerful invaders. When the entire galaxy was at stake, the Federation never thought of kidnapping their own children. (Seriously, how shameless would it have to be to figure out that method of kidnapping a child.)

Emma has written so much without knowing it!The author still likes "Halo", although the Master Chief is very stupid...Then let's continue the story of the Avengers cheating people—no, saving the world! [By the way, save the tragic Master Chief and others [Quickly throw yourself into Captain's embrace, Master Chief]