Chapter 295 410 Days Open Integration Preparation

"I'll treat you to a meal~! And I'll buy you a few new jackets from the company, how about~?"

A young girl walking in front slowed down her pace and came to David's side, then raised her hand and patted David on the back, smiling:

"Thank you, Private Martinez~!"

And the skin of this young girl wearing shorts and a sleeveless vest is a little too white, even bluish.

In addition, the skin exposed outside her clothes also has metal gap-like lines, and the whites of her eyes and pupils are mainly pink and yellow, which are obviously no longer native body organs.

The girl who joked with David is also a member of the Atlas test force, Rebecca.

As for the other girl who walked in front and never turned her head or turned around from beginning to end, and talked to the two, she was more "normal" than Rebecca.

With short silver-white hair and a preference for tight-fitting tops and trousers, all these characteristics indicate that she is Lucy, the orphan hacker adopted and trained by Arasaka in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe.

The most important thing is that even though the appearance of these three people is a bit strange, the local citizens and foreign tourists around them did not cast strange eyes on them.

And

There are even many tall elves with pointed ears among the tourists walking on the commercial street.

And the elites with four-petal mouths, gray-brown skin, and wearing Sangheili ethnic costumes.

However, the local citizens will still be more or less surprised when they see the elites and elves.

Because almost all elves are handsome men and beautiful women, and they are highly friendly to everyone or everything, while the elites.

Because they are purely aliens.

Moreover, the appearance of the elites is too weird. The structure of the four-petal mouth alone can easily make most citizens feel a little scared.

Even if the female elites look a little better than the males, they cannot meet the aesthetics of most humans.

It is the majority of people. After all, there are always some humans with different aesthetics.

At this time, David, Rebecca, and Lucy just walked to the intersection of the skywalk.

Seeing the holographic indicator light on the sidewalk turn red, they joined the crowd and waited patiently.

The opposite side was also an aerial sidewalk, but it was blocked by a constant stream of public and civilian flying boats.

The holographic playback screen suspended on the main entrance of the mall on the right was also broadcasting the live broadcast of the "New Accra News Channel".

On the left side of the live broadcast screen was a female host with golden wavy hair and a "V" neck formal dress.

This female host seemed to be Robin Mead, who had switched from "Seattle Midday News" or transferred to "New Accra City News Channel".

As for the center of the screen, it seemed to be on a large square.

In the center of the square, there stood Sui Yang, wearing exclusive power armor and holding the Emperor's Sword in his right hand, as well as giant statues of thirteen Primarchs including Guilliman, Sanguinius, and Leon.

In addition, there was an even larger stone tablet in front of the statue.

If the camera zooms in, you can find that the names of many current or deceased people are engraved on the stone tablet, as if to remember their contributions to Atlas and all mankind.

The scene that can attract David and others, as well as the citizens and tourists on the scene, is naturally the magnificent palace standing at the back of the square.

But the large number of Hex robots inside and outside the palace, and even thousands of Forerunner sentinels and builders, indicate that the palace is still unfinished.

At this time, Robin Mead was also broadcasting a report: ".Dear viewers! We are fortunate to have the approval of Atlas to enter the unfinished Imperial Square!

Behind me is the legendary Imperial Palace!

You can see that this Imperial Palace located in the Comoe primeval forest covers a large area!

The head of the Atlas Engineering Department stated that it is expected to be officially put into use before April next year, that is, before April 14, 2004, when the human beings in our main universe officially established the empire.

By then, we will..."

"Beep-beep-"

Robin Mead's report was overwhelmed by the reminder of the traffic signal change.

Then, the sky bridge generated by hard light technology connected two skywalks, allowing people to walk freely above.

When the holographic signal light turned green, David carried various shopping bags and followed Lucy and Rebecca in front of him to step onto the seemingly translucent hard light bridge.

There were two-meter-high fences on both sides of the bridge to prevent pedestrians from falling to the ground 50 meters below.

Standing on the bridge, David could vaguely see the busy streets below through the translucent bridge surface.

And on their left and right, various flying boats were hovering.

When they left the bridge and arrived at the other side, the bridge generator confirmed that no people were stranded, and then raised the hard light fence to prevent the remaining pedestrians from stepping on the bridge surface.

After waiting for a few seconds, the hard light bridge completely dissipated, allowing various flying boats to return to different areas according to the established route.

Arrived at the opposite side.

The three of them walked into a restaurant called "The Best Handmade Dumpling Restaurant in Accra!"

After passing through the automatic sensor door, the three of them first smelled the tempting aroma of rice and the appropriate cold air from the air conditioner.

There were many diners in the dumpling restaurant, and more than half of them were elites from the "Halo" universe.

I saw an elite using chopsticks a little unfamiliarly, then picked up the vinegar-dipped dumplings, put them into his four-petal mouth, chewed them quickly, and then

"Ah? Ah~!"

He made an exclamation unique to their race.

As if to tell the companions around, this is worthy of being the best dumplings in Accra!

"Hello, are you three?"

At this time, a female elf waiter about 1.87-8.8 meters tall approached David and others to ask.

"Yes, three people."

Lucy nodded in response.

"Okay, please follow me."

The female elf waiter led David and others to the east corner, where there is an observation window, so that diners can better appreciate the scenery outside.

The three of them sat down.

Rebecca smiled at the waiter and said: "Four plates of pork and cabbage dumplings, two plates of fried leek dumplings, and two plates of mixed vegetables and Chinese kelp. As for drinks,

I want a cold beer, what about you two?"

After Rebecca finished speaking, she glanced at Lucy sitting next to her and David diagonally opposite.

After listening to Rebecca skillfully calling out the names of the dishes, it is not difficult to judge that she should be a regular here.

"I" David thought for a while and said: "Iced orange juice."

"Ice water." Lucy responded briefly.

"Okay, three of you. Please wait."

The female elf waitress smiled at the three people, then turned back to the front desk, notified the kitchen of the dishes that Rebecca reported, and then served the three people the drinks they wanted.

The holographic TV in the restaurant lobby was still playing the live broadcast of the "New Accra City News Channel" for the diners present.

The upper right corner of the TV screen showed the current time as "2003/04/22/17:35".

The end of April 2003 in the main universe

This shows that the ninth space gate leading to the "Cyberpunk 2077" universe has been opened for 410 days.

During these 410 days, the branches of Atlas in various universes continued to provide a lot of assistance for the integration of the "Halo" universe.

The progress of the integration of the "Cyberpunk 2077" universe was completed in August 2002 because Dorn personally led the main force of Terra in the 07th universe.

Local giants such as Arasaka and Military Technology were all physically eliminated by Dorn using simple commercial wars.

However, Cyberpunk 2077, as the Zero Nine Universe, still faces low- and medium-scale security wars.

Due to the long-term turmoil there, various gangs, mercenaries and terrorist organizations have proliferated in large numbers, so that after the integration is completed, it is necessary to continue to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to make the Zero Nine Earth completely stable.

It is precisely because of the long-term security war that Dorn will temporarily serve as the Governor of Zero Nine until another Primarch takes over.

As for the Halo universe, which has consumed too much energy and time of Atlas, its integration process has been completed by about 40%.

Although it is not yet halfway, this 40% refers to most of the colonies under the rule of UEG and UNSC, which are completely occupied and governed by companies.

This has caused the population of Atlas to increase by more than five times. So far, including the population of all universes, the total number is about 70 billion.

There are many benefits brought by the population explosion, such as productivity, recruitment sources, etc., but the disadvantages are also very obvious.

The pressure of management and "reform" faced by Atlas also increased dramatically.

Fortunately, the AI ​​Parliament formed by intelligent artificial intelligence chose to fully assist Atlas to ensure the smooth progress of the "reform" project.

Those intelligent AIs serving the UNSC or the rebels went on strike and "surrendered" at appropriate nodes, which seriously hindered the military operations of the UNSC or the rebels.

Moreover, once the assistance of intelligent AI is lacking, the UNSC and the rebels are equivalent to losing their eyes and ears, and cannot truly understand everything outside the planet.

In the end, under the circumstances of internal and external troubles, most of the last high-level UNSC and the rebels completely gave up resistance to Atlas, making the human beings in the "Halo" universe about to achieve the first peace since entering the interstellar colonization era.

On the other hand, the Star Alliance Empire of the Prophet Jiralhanae was also in a stage of retreat.

Faced with more and more Sojourner-class dreadnoughts joining the war, the Star Alliance Empire's fantasy of winning the naval battle by numbers was completely shattered.

Whether in terms of population or resources, the Star Alliance Empire is more than ten times that of the human beings in "Halo".

In the original timeline of Halo, humans were able to rely on backward technology to fight the Covenant for nearly 30 years before they were on the verge of extinction, which made the elites sigh and admire the courage and fighting spirit of humans.

In war, what matters is "resources".

However, when the weapons and technology are completely disproportionate, it becomes common to fight one against a hundred or even a thousand.

The main gun matrix composed of two or more Sojourner-class ships can instantly destroy a hundred CRS-class (about 500 meters) and CCS-class (2 kilometers) Covenant cruisers.

As for the 30-kilometer-long CSO-class aircraft carrier, it may be able to withstand one or two matrix attacks.

Moreover, the naval combat capability of the elites is much stronger than that of the Jiralhanae, so the Covenant Empire can hardly resist the joint offensive of humans and elites.

If the territory of the Covenant Empire did not occupy half of the galaxy, they would fall apart in these 410 days.

But it is precisely because of the occupation of half of the galaxy that the progress of the integration of the "Halo" universe is only 40%.

And Atlas cannot rush for success. Every time it occupies a colony planet or galaxy of the Star Alliance, it needs to deal with hidden dangers and allocate excess military forces to garrison.

Therefore, if you want to truly integrate the "Halo" universe, it cannot be estimated in "days".

The Star Alliance is still a Level 2 civilization empire, and its huge population base and vast resources can still pose a serious threat to the human elite.

A war of attrition is the situation that Atlas least wants to see.

Therefore, Atlas' current focus is to find the main fleet of the Star Alliance, and then encircle and annihilate it to speed up the disintegration of the Star Alliance from the inside out.

The remaining point is the Ark that Atlas "shipped" from outside the Milky Way to the Kuiper Belt of the solar system.

Although the Ark and the Ark Transmission Device have the same name, the technological content of the two is very different.

Like the lotus-shaped Ark, there are too many technologies and knowledge waiting for the Atlas Research Department to reverse decipher and then use them for their own use.

For example, the technology that can open a real portal and "instantly" transmit large objects to every corner of the Milky Way is worth Atlas's full energy to analyze.

Now, the core team of the scientific research department headed by Halsey, in cooperation with intelligent artificial intelligence such as Cortana, and the Tranquil Riverbank, is responsible for long-term research on the Ark.

Finally, there is the "Imperial Palace" and "Establishment of the Empire" mentioned by the "New Acra News Channel".

On May 15 last year, Atlas's public relations department and foreign affairs department announced pictures and videos on the main universe network about "the existence of the ruins base", "the space gate leading to other parallel universes", "the intelligent race called Sangheili is the first alien force we humans have made friends with".

Guilliman, who temporarily took over various affairs of the main universe, also held a press conference, indicating that Atlas has been exploring different parallel universes since the end of the 20th century.

It also stated that the reason why Atlas was able to open the space gate was directly related to his father Sui Yang.

And during the press conference, Robert played the video of the opening of the space gate.

People in the main universe were naturally very surprised by this.

But this was Atlas's press conference again, but it became "natural".

Facing the mothership of the Reaper civilization, didn't Atlas suddenly bring out the fact that "we actually have a space fleet"?

So after May 15, 2002, the dwarves, elves and other sub-human races from Terra, as well as the elites from "Halo", began to gradually visit the Earth in the main universe.

Of course, the dwarves, elves and elites who can obtain the right to travel across the universe are all employees or family members of Atlas.

Looking at everything, the most suitable universe to live in is the main universe, so employees and their families who have made contributions to the company and mankind enjoy the benefits of being the first to immigrate to the main universe.

For example, the female elf waitress who provided services to Lucy, Rebecca and David belonged to the first sub-human group to immigrate to New Akra.

And David and the other two came to the main universe to prepare for the space gate that was about to open.