Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

Inside the Star Destroyer hangar.

"Hui~." Myron, who was wearing the Primarch's power armor, couldn't help whistling as he watched the aliens log into the airdrop pod in a quiet and orderly manner.

Then he looked at Elizabeth Green, who was standing not far away, wearing a special black tights, and said to John standing beside him:

"Brother, without Green, we would have to face the Flood head-on.

Thinking back to Greene twenty years ago...

She was the culprit who caused the death of 600,000 people in Manhattan, tsk tsk, what a twist of fate... Oh, no, it was luck that messed with the containment. "

"Ok."

John, who was also wearing the Primarch's Power Armor, still nodded his head spasmodically, and didn't say much.

I saw a large number of heavily armed Custodians and Ravens gathered in the deck area where John and Myron were located.

Of course, Karl and Corax as Primarchs are also here.

Then there's Prussia's Ghosts, and the non-superhuman Sharktooth, ODST, and Marines.

And in the Marine Corps, you can also see Rui Ge and Tizzy who have been promoted to captain and second lieutenant respectively.

The angel Kaisha, who restrained her wings and wore gorgeous power armor, was also here to watch the alien army enter the airdrop warehouse.

There are even a large number of elites in silver helmets and red helmets, headed by Soum, gathered in this deck area.

These ground troops are the first batch of troops preparing to land on the surface of the shield world after the aliens emptied the flood demons that had landed.

At the edge of this deck area...

"Hurry up, Mr. Russell has issued an order to prepare the airdrop within ten minutes, and I want you to be ready in six minutes.

If timed out...

Then every second, I will randomly select one of you to serve as my experimental subject for vaccine development.

Understand? "

Just look at the 049, who is wearing a white coat and has no change in appearance, is using a special voice to direct the researchers of the Pluto Research Institute.

"It's...doctor."

The researchers, who were also wearing white coats and masks, answered with a little fear.

After all, their boss is really special.

Afterwards, Elizabeth Green speeded up to assist these researchers, and finally got all the aliens into the airdrop pod within six minutes.

It also includes clones that are exactly the same in dress, appearance, and body shape as Green.

After confirming that everything was ready, 049 looked at the ground crew supervisor wearing a red vest, and said softly:

"Sir, it's time to release these cute little guys."

"Uh... good."

The ground crew supervisor wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and nodded his head in response.

Out of the instinctive fear of 049, and those aliens that look terrifying at first glance, they are called "cute little guys" by 049, which made this experienced executive break out in cold sweat.

Take it easy.

The supervisor began to command the ground crew, manipulated various mechanical arms in the hangar, picked up the disposable airdrop pods filled with various shapes, and moved them to the center of the bottom deck.

Immediately afterwards, as the emerald green plasma spread, the super-giant air valve gate also slowly opened.

When the gate is completely opened, everyone in the hangar can directly see the universe and the shield world with a turbid atmosphere through the plasma.

Immediately, under the control of the ground crew, the mechanical arm released the clamped disposable airdrop pod.

Thousands of airdrop pods first fell freely through the emerald-green plasma, and after arriving in space, they began to smash towards the surface of the shield world due to the gravitational force of the shield world.

Within minutes.

Thousands of airdrop pods began to enter the atmosphere of the shield world, and were turned into sparks by friction.

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Shortly after.

The surface of the shield world.

Due to the light of the red dwarf, it looks like the evening glow of the earth.

The surface here is also similar to the desolate Gobi on Earth, but the difference is that there are a lot of lakes and swamps nearby.

But the water source in the lake was extremely turbid, and even exuded a smell of corruption.

If you look more closely, you can find many yellow rhizomes similar to plants all over the ground, and these rhizomes are wriggling like life.

The rhizomes will gather together in the area of ​​small hills, forming mushroom-shaped aggregates, and the aggregates will emit turbid gas with fine particles from time to time.

It seems that the reason why the atmosphere of the shield world is so turbid, and the lakes and swamps emit a rotten atmosphere, is precisely because of these aggregates of creeping roots.

In addition to some wriggling rhizomes and aggregates, there are also a large number of 'ghost-faced beasts', 'grunts' and 'wolves'.

It's just that the figures of these ghost-faced beasts are 'twisted', many wriggling tentacles protrude from the exposed skin of the armor, and many tiny tentacles grow out of the head and neck.

The left or right arms of some ghost-faced beasts turned into huge whips, which looked extremely uncoordinated and awkward.

Their facial expressions also showed a distorted look of extreme pain, which looked quite creepy.

As for the grunts and jackals, they became air-sac-shaped creatures with short legs, wriggling tentacles growing on both arms, and a rather huge head.

They became like this all because they were infected and assimilated by the Flood, and they were twisted into being part of the Flood.

Tall, strong intelligent creatures like the ghost-faced beast, after being infected by the Flood, will become a combat unit of the Flood, a 'combat form' or a 'combat body'.

The combat body is extremely menacing in close quarters combat, with arms twisted into whips that can instantly drain half the energy shield of Covenant armor.

The more important thing is that the combat body can also use the weapons of various races in life, and can also drive corresponding vehicles.

Although due to the distortion of the body, their accuracy is quite poor, and their driving skills are quite embarrassing.

However, the vitality of the fighting body is enough to support them to rush into the enemy's line when they are attacked by dense barrage, thus forcing the enemy to fight them at close range.

In the case of possessing Gravemind, the combat body will evolve into more forms, such as a behemoth-like 'tank'.

As for weak races such as Grunts and Gnolls, the Flood will automatically judge that they are not suitable for combat, so they will be distorted into a 'mother form'.

After the mother body is attacked, the huge airbags on their heads will self-explode, and the impact produced by the self-explosion is no less than several fragments and plasma grenades.

The most important thing is that when the airbag self-explodes, it will also eject a large number of 'infected forms/infected bodies' around.

That is to say, it is filled around the combat body and the mother body, and looks like a small octopus-like creature that can walk on land.

These infected bodies are like large spores, they are numerous, and they are also the most basic unit and the most critical component of the Flood.

As the name suggests, they can quickly infect intelligent creatures and transform them genetically and even spiritually.