Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Collection interior.

The square is neat, the marble tile floor is covered with a dark red carpet, which contrasts with the white walls and ceiling, and the overall style is simple and clear.

Under the warm lighting, what reflects the "attractive" edge are the magic weapons placed in the showcases.

There are blood-red Cassius guns with double-edged blades, like the sisters of the Spear of Terror, and there are also hanging on the wall, originally the sun bow of Apollo, the **** of light, etc., and close to one-third of the "collectibles" , once belonged to a group of fallen Olympians.

As for making Artemis restrain his playful mentality and keep her eyes fixed, the Thunder, whose main body is like a "Z" crystal, is placed in the central showcase.

She walked slowly with Sui Bian to the showcase.

Sui Bian, who sensed Artemis' emotions, did not explain anything to her immediately, but completed the biological unlocking, opened the cabinet door, stretched out his right hand to take out the thunder, and handed it to Artemis.

Say, "I think it's time for you to thank you for your service to humanity over the years."

"This..." Artemis was a little stunned, but instinctively took over the thunder, feeling its moderate weight and cold touch.

She couldn't believe that Sui Bian would easily give her the "supreme" and "infinitely powerful" thunderbolt.

"I know what you're thinking." Sui Bian didn't care. He put his hands behind his back and walked to the display cabinets in the row on the right to look at it, and explained to Artemis:

"Whether there is thunder, it doesn't matter to me, infinite plus one is equal to infinite, but for you, it is a qualitative change, besides..."

Having said that, Sui Bian stopped, turned slightly, looked at Artemis who had come not far behind him, and continued: "That is your father's relic, it's time to give it to you."

Sui Bian did this, just as he had just described. While expressing his gratitude, it could also "strengthen" Artemis' strength again.

The current thunder contained the pure spiritual energy he had instilled in it. If Artemis had released all the spiritual energy at the beginning of the battle, then "one-shot starburst" would be a basic operation.

In this way, Artemis, with the Moonlight Scimitar, Full Moon Bow and Thunder, is far less powerful than any Primarch, but at least he can easily expel and destroy high-level demons, "Great Demons", or It is to kill the green-skinned boss.

Even if he didn't say anything about the plunder of psionic energy, Artemis would have known it for a long time, and Artemis had proved his worth and won his trust and recognition.

However, twenty-four years ago, Sui Bian had "returned" his psychic energy, so that Artemis was no longer the "white board" he had just joined Umbrella, and could not use any psychic energy, let alone any "magic". .

As for how much Sui Bian lost after "returning" his psychic energy... This is difficult to describe. According to his own feelings, he can compare his psychic energy to the water of the Dead Sea. If a 2-liter bucket is used, The part that is filled into the Dead Sea is the psionic power of Artemis at its peak.

Therefore, if it is not paid back, it will not have much impact on Sui Bian at this stage, but human beings can have a hunting goddess who has returned to the peak state and has three sharp weapons.

After hearing what Sui Bian said and adding the word "relic", Artemis no longer struggled and accepted the thunder with ease. , smiled and said: "Since you are so generous, boss, then I will accept it. As a thank you, why don't we..."

"Leon's side needs your attention." Sui Bian interrupted the other party's words, turned around completely, looked directly at Artemis, and said a reminder: "The total population of the temple star area is less than 40 billion, and the area is vast. The people are sparse, and the Supervision Department has recently uploaded a lot of reports of demonic incidents, where the assistance of you and the Grey Knight is needed."

Hearing this, Artemis had to restrain his joking mentality, Zheng Zheng picked up his face, and nodded solemnly: "I will."

"Okay, let's go."

"Ok."

After the two of them finished speaking, Artemis took the thunder and left the collection room, while Sui Bian came to the showcase where the Cassius gun was placed, and asked the red and white queen who had never existed, " Regarding the investigation after the gods...how is it going?"

"I have conducted a second screening, and I haven't found any abnormalities for the time being." Bai Hou's prosthetic body showed a hint of helplessness: "Director, according to the description of the hunting **** Artemis, the **** queen Hera is the best at using it." One of the main gods of "spell" and "illusion", if it wants to hide in the world, especially in today's vast territory, it is almost impossible to accurately lock unless "her" large-scale psionic fluctuations are detected."

"The progress of the supervision department and the intelligence department is also slow." The red queen also said.

"okay, I get it."

Sui Bian, who heard the news, no longer asked anything.

Hera, in fact, after Sui Bian "forcibly awakened" Artemis and rescued Hephaestus, he tried to find the queen, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus.

It's a pity that at that time, his psychic power was far inferior to now, and when he touched the ranks of "planetary" psionicists, human beings had already entered the interstellar era and carried out colonization activities inside and outside the solar system. Hera must have already left the earth.

Although this goddess has never appeared and is at peace with humans, this does not mean that Hera, like Artemis, can be subtly "assimilated" by Sui Bian and perfectly integrated into human society.

What's more, after the storm in the different space more than 20 years ago, Sui Bian put the search for Hera on the agenda, "by the way" to investigate the gods who entered the different space with Zeus, but were completely silent, such as the famous Greek. The "Old Good God", Hades, Hades.

Be silent.

Sui Bian stopped thinking in the act of appreciating the collection, and left the collection room, and told his two secretaries, "Notify the heads of the intelligence department and the supervision department, and continue the investigation and search for a while."

"Yes (good)." The red and white queens responded in unison.

Next.

The collection room that lost Sui Biansan's "people" automatically turned off the lights, but the various collections placed in the display cabinet still radiated and flickered with their respective lights.

outdoor,

outside,

Outside the Earth's inner world, and in the space domain full of rubble and fragments, you can intuitively see the Shield of Terra, which is located in the Kuiper Belt and revolves around the sun.

As a shield world with a diameter of 7,000 kilometers and a mass far exceeding that of the earth, it is completely impossible to approach the earth, otherwise it will bring destruction to the earth, so it has to be parked in the Kuiper belt at the edge of the solar system.

At this moment, the surface of the Shield of Terra is full of "natural" geographical features such as plains, forests, and oceans, and there are many military bases and star ports used to station soldiers and park various warships and ships on the surface.

Fourteen years ago, when Robert pulled this man-made planet back into the solar system, it aroused widespread concern and heated debate in the society.

After the war, the official explanation was that when the Primarchs such as Robert and Leon led the expedition to solve the Greenskin Empire, they also seized planetary vehicles built by "ancient races".

The public naturally has no objection to this interpretation, which is almost equivalent to "speaking the truth", and to some extent, it has become "accustomed to it".

You must know that in the first expedition, humans "pulled" back a dwarf planet-level city of fraternity. In this second expedition, wouldn't it be normal to "request" to return to the Shield of Terra?

What about the third time?

People even began to look forward to it. After all, this is also the best proof that people have absolute confidence in the Legion and the fleet.

As for the position of Speaker, even though there is no clear legal provision, in theory and tacit "rules", a politician can serve no more than two consecutive terms.

On the other hand, Sui Bian, who has been the speaker for 26 years, is not a simple politician. He is more like a "symbol" to the people, a kind of…

As long as Sui Bian is still "willingly" on the bright side, human beings will be sheltered for a long time, and the younger generation will not have the courage to invade or provoke them.

It can be said that when the society learned that Sui Bian was the father of the Primarch and various deeds, people unknowingly regarded Sui Bian as the "guardian" and the "god" of the human race.

This also ushered in a lot of "distress".

For example, regarding him as "God" can cause many chain reactions, such as "Lord of Humanity", "Light of Humanity" and other churches and believers.

In this regard, Sui Bian no longer directly dispatched ghost agents, or the emergency team of the Intelligence Department, as he did in the past, but this time he "does the opposite". , wrote Human Truth.

In the content of truth, it is mainly emphasized that there are no bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods in the universe. Everything can be interpreted through scientific and psionic means. Human beings will overcome everything with reason, faith and firm belief. Nothing should be worshiped. In a rational universe, The backward concept of "religion" needs to be completely eliminated.

When "Human Truth" was publicized by Bai Hou and Sui Bian delivered a speech, Umbrella did not need to suppress it deliberately, and those religions and believers were spontaneously boycotted.

Moreover, the more people believe in "The Truth of Humanity" and the words of Sui Bian, the "Guardian", the total amount of psychic energy of Sui Bian will continue to grow.

Therefore, when Sui Bian participated in the 2120 election, he was successfully re-elected with a 96% approval rate, becoming the first "human being" to be re-elected as the speaker for three consecutive terms.

This result is inevitable. Even if Sui Bian does not carry out any secret operations, the approval rate is stable at 95.33%.

Whether it is military force or "political achievements", Sui Bian is the only one among all human beings, and no one can match it. Therefore, he logically continues to serve as the speaker and sits in the solar system to deter the Milky Way.

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Inside a warehouse in a star port.

"Hey! You guys, send the goods to the third district, it is the third district, don't make a mistake!"

"Careful, man, this is all oversight stuff."

Umbrella workers can be seen everywhere, driving engineering mechas and exoskeletons, carrying black containers or sealed boxes of different sizes, to and from the gravity elevator numbered "3" installed on the far west side of the warehouse. .

At this time, a team of workers carried the goods belonging to the engineering department to the square lifting platform No. 3. After waiting for about five seconds, a light blue light appeared around the platform, and then the platform carried them through the open top. The gates leave the warehouse.

Float to the outside world.

Sitting in the engineering mecha, the workers who were wearing caps were taking a break from their busy schedules, overlooking the entire Star Harbor through the afternoon sun.

I saw that the star port where they were located was also parked with dozens of giant freighters belonging to Umbrella or other companies. There were also busy workers who took the elevator to shuttle between the freighter and the ground warehouse.

Looking further afield, there is a landscape similar to the African grasslands on the periphery of Xinggang, as well as the urban area under construction. It seems that this area, or even this planet, is a newly developed colony.

Looking up, it is the "destination" of the workers, a three-kilometer-long, dark-painted Phoenix III-class aircraft carrier, Eudora, which has been specially modified.

The lifting platform passes through the air valve gate on the belly of the hull of the Eudora, and then docks with the cargo deck of the hull with one end on the left side, which is convenient for workers to transport and unload the goods.

Not far from the air valve gate, there is a group of agents who seem to be "supervising". Looking closely, the two leaders are the blond hair split in a white shirt and black trousers, Leon S. Kennedy, and a black cheongsam. Ada King in red light leather coat.

Moreover, the "bodyguards" team of agents such as Leon and Ada are also somewhat special, because they are all expressionless tyrants equipped with windbreaker restraints. Died, but surviving to the present day tracker.

The well-funded Umbrella supervisory department has implemented various levels of upgrade, stabilization and transformation operations on both the tyrant and the tracker.

Although the height of "they" is maintained at 2.5 or 6 meters, the face and skin of "they" are closer to ordinary people's appearance, but... The tracker's mouth with exposed gums and the iconic one-eyed eye were criticized for "stability" forced to keep.

Silence, light in his eyes, and even a slight expression on his face, means that the tyrants and the stalkers already possess a considerable degree of IQ.

"hui~" Seeing that the workers took the lift platform to leave the cargo hold again, Leon couldn't help whistling, then turned on the headset to communicate, and reminded: "Everyone on the Eudora, pay attention, the next trip should be the last batch of goods, do it well. Sail away from the star port and prepare for the jump voyage."

Done.

Leon glanced at Ada's expression from the corner of his eye and seemed to be a little serious, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's wrong?"

"..." Ada stared at the largest black container, silent for a few seconds, and said, "I don't know, but what Crawford and the others dug up from the ruins of an unknown civilization always gave me a feeling that this mission might Accident happened."

"Accident?" Leon was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said with relief: "Miss Wang, how many years have you and I been partners? Are there still few accidents like this? Are they commonplace? Haha~"

Ada: "…"