Chapter 170 HALO
"They are strong and fearless, standing firm against the most powerful enemy in the universe, but they are not ordinary people. They are Spartans."
——Halo: Reach
Hive World of Schwerin, Mainhive City, somewhere in Lowerhive.
The Spartan gang occupied an area of the Lower Nest as their base, where various supplies were piled up.
Fu Qinghai and the black-armored warrior sat face to face on two metal boxes, surrounded by gang members who were busy moving around.
"So, man, did you just return from the last reincarnation world with a lot of stuff?"
The black-armored warrior took off his helmet, revealing a white face with deep eye sockets, narrow eyes, a broad chin, and a large, flat nose.
Fu Qinghai nodded as an answer to his question, and at the same time took off his helmet and put it on his knees.
The black-armored warrior was in his own territory, with a casual posture, one ankle resting on the other knee, his hand on his thigh, and said:
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Koshvito, as you can see, I come from the main world of the Halo Universe."
The black-armored warrior patted his breastplate, making a clanging sound, pointed at the string of numbers engraved on his helmet, and said:
"You can also call me Koshveto-151."
Fu Qinghai said:
"Qingshan, a space warrior, comes from the universe you are in now."
Koshvituo was amused by Fu Qinghai's words. He couldn't help but curl up a smile, but then he suppressed it and said,
"So, you can become a Space Marine. You must have been in the Warhammer 40K universe for a long time before, so you are familiar with this universe?"
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"Not bad."
The Spartan warrior stared at Fu Qinghai's oriental appearance, looked at him carefully, and asked tentatively:
"Chinese?"
Fu Qinghai said "hmm".
Koshvito smiled and said:
"You may not know this, but I am Mongolian, but I have Slavic ancestry."
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"I can see that he has the appearance of a Central Asian."
Having said that, he kept silent.
Seeing that Fu Qinghai seemed unwilling to say more, Koshvituo straightened his chest, spread his arms, and said to Fu Qinghai:
"I can see that you must have a lot of questions. It's okay, just ask me. I won't hide anything I can tell you."
At present, the reincarnation world has not released any new reincarnation and storyline missions, so there is no distinction between camps among the reincarnationists. This has reduced suspicion, and because of their common identity as reincarnationists, they feel more close to each other in the treacherous hive.
Fu Qinghai took a look at Koshveto's matte black power armor and asked:
"Did you paint it yourself?"
Koshvito raised his eyebrows,
"I'm Team Black. You don't think that all the Spartans in the Halo universe wear the Master Chief's green power armor, do you?"
Fu Qinghai's eyes were calm:
"As far as I know, no one in the black team survived."
Koshvito really laughed this time. He grinned, raised his hand and pointed at Fu Qinghai, saying,
"You know a lot about the Halo Universe. But, I'm a reincarnation, and I'm the variable factor."
Fu Qinghai nodded slightly.
This explanation is reasonable.
"Why did you drop the world anchor in the Warhammer 40K universe?"
This is Fu Qinghai's second question.
In Fu Qinghai's opinion, dropping the world anchor in the Halo universe as a Spartan warrior would be the most beneficial, just like the status Fu Qinghai could obtain in the human empire as a space warrior.
"ah..."
Koshveto lowered his head, patted his leg armor irritably, and said:
"It's hard to explain in a few words. I'll tell you when I have a chance. Just think of it as me reading a post on the Samsara forum about how to start a new land and being attracted to the newly opened main world."
Koshveto's appearance in the Warhammer 40K universe at this moment means that he had dropped the World Anchor here earlier, perhaps at the time of the Horus Heresy, or perhaps at the time when Fu Qinghai was in the Conjuring Universe.
"Okay." Fu Qinghai did not ask any more questions. It would be useless to ask any more questions since they were just strangers. "One last question. When you were in the Schwerin Hive, did you ever see a Chinese-looking female magician named Lucy?"
Lucy is the pseudonym used by Chen Xinlu when she travels in the Warhammer 40K universe.
"I've heard of it." Koshvituo nodded and said:
"I know what you want to ask. That woman is a reincarnation, right? I remember very clearly that they gathered a group of spellcasters in the Schwerin Hive and openly declared that they wanted to rebel against the planetary governor. They also won over the exiles wandering in the wasteland, and their momentum was quite strong for a time. The spellcasters were very difficult to deal with. I felt that I could not beat them, so I hid away for the time being."
Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes slightly:
"What do you mean?"
Koshvituo looked directly into Fu Qinghai's eyes and said:
"Yes, I was in the camp of the Emperor's plot line, which is the so-called loyalist camp, but I did nothing during that time because I knew I was no match for a group of spellcasters."
The technological-oriented Reincarnationists seem to be a little afraid of the magical-oriented Reincarnationists, especially when it is a one-on-many situation.
Koshveto put one hand on his knee and asked:
"You're a loyalist too, right?"
Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows:
"How do you know?"
Koshvito said,
"Intuition."
Humph, intuition... Fu Qinghai shrugged and said:
"Okay, I don't have any questions here, now it's your turn to ask me."
"Hmm..." Koshveto saw that Fu Qinghai was holding back. He stroked the short stubble on his broad chin, and his eyes suddenly showed a hint of provocation:
"I saw in the guide on the Samsara Forum that Space Marines are the protagonists of the Warhammer 40K universe. Coincidentally, Spartans are also the protagonists of the Halo universe... I see that people in the hive are terrified of Space Marines. They seem to be very afraid of you. Coincidentally, the alien bastards of the Covenant and the rebels in the colonies are also very afraid of us Spartans. They are equally scared."
Koshveto pursed his lips and concluded,
"So, I am quite curious about you Space Marines."
Fu Qinghai smiled:
"If you are curious about anything, just ask."
Koshvito said with a rather conceited tone,
"I am a product of the Spartan II Enhancement Project, also known as the Aster Project. I have undergone a total of five biochemical transformation surgeries and have successfully survived, namely: occipital capillary reversal, carbonized ceramic bone implantation, catalytic thyroid implantation, enhanced muscle injection, and neural dendrite superconducting fibrosis."
Koshvito raised his chin: "What about you?"
Fu Qinghai laughed and said,
"I have undergone a total of 19 reconstructive surgeries. I won't go into detail about the specific terms, as I'm afraid you won't be able to remember them all... The result of the surgeries is that I am still sitting in front of you in good health."
We are trying to see who can survive the cruel biochemical transformation, right?
Koshvito narrowed his eyes, patted his shoulder armor with his hand, and said slowly:
"This power armor I'm wearing is the Thor MK6 power armor. Its full name is 'Black Thor Assault Power Armor'. It has a titanium alloy outer armor layer, a titanium-based nanocomposite jumpsuit, a fluid gel layer, an active fluid metal layer, a magnetic weapon attachment point, a pressurized seal, an energy shield, an automatic hemostatic foam syringe... everything is included!"
Koshvito spewed out a lot of long professional terms, which sounded particularly high-sounding, as if he wanted to scare Fu Qinghai.
Fu Qinghai also patted his shoulder armor:
"MK4 Ultimate Power Armor. Tsk... well, I have everything you have."
The implication is: I have what you don't have.
Koshvito looked rather skeptical and unconvinced:
"Not bragging?"
"No bragging, I'm lying to you I'm a snotlite and a chaos spawn."
Fu Qinghai smiled.
Many functions of the MK4 extreme power armor are integrated. It does not divide the functional blocks into such fine blocks like the Thor series power armor, but overall, the former is more advanced. The old crooked-necked technology trees of the Human Empire and the Mechanicus have already piled all the black technology they can create on the power armor of the Space Marines.
For example, the magnetic weapon hanging point. The weapon buckle on the metal weapon belt around Fu Qinghai's waist is originally a magnetic hanging point. Fu Qinghai doesn't even bother to talk about this small function.
In terms of defense, pure titanium alloy armor is not as good as ceramic steel and plastic steel composite armor.
In terms of strength, in the original novels and comics, both Space Marines and Spartans have had scenes where they failed to control their own strength and accidentally killed ordinary people. Their own strength was secondary; the main reason was the multiplied power of the power armor.
Fu Qinghai had heard about the force feedback of the Thor's Hammer series of power armors. It came from the active fluid metal layer and could amplify the strength by up to twice...but the electronic muscle fiber bundles of the Space Marine power armor could amplify the strength by far more than twice.
As for the fluid gel layer, this thing can evenly disperse the impact force borne by the wearer and has good defense against explosion shock waves or blunt force blows. However, for Fu Qinghai, whose body has undergone nineteen biochemical transformations, it is of little significance.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The only feature that the Thor MK6 Power Armor has but the Blue Shell Power Armor does not is the energy shield.
The energy shield was replicated by the UNSC after reverse-engineering the Covenant's energy shield technology. However, the energy shield devices in the Warhammer 40K universe are extremely large and difficult to integrate into individual soldier armor.
However, there are deflection fields and the Iron Halo of Space Marines in the Warhammer 40K universe. Fu Qinghai's rank of captain is enough to qualify him to wear the Iron Halo, but the Poor-class frigate Gladius does not have this equipment.
Koshvituo saw that Fu Qinghai's confident expression did not seem fake. He frowned, raised his two wrists, and revealed the thin tube-shaped device and flat box device hidden under his wrists, and said:
"Don't worry, it's nothing to play with the mass-produced stuff issued by the army. My armor has been modified with a miniature flamethrower and a miniature homing missile launcher from the Star Wars universe. How about that?"
"cut."
Fu Qinghai just shook his head.
Iron Man's original armor already had many of these micro-weapon devices integrated into the armor, but Fu Qinghai disliked that these gadgets were too weak. Using them in the Warhammer 40K universe was like setting off fireworks, too flashy and impractical, so he removed them all.
"Let me tell you this, brother."
Fu Qinghai patted his breastplate and said earnestly:
"All the technologies from Iron Man Mark-1 Iron Monger to Mark-44 Hulkbuster Armor are in my armor..."
You want to play with modification, right? Who can modify it better than me?
"Awesome!"
Koshvito gave a thumbs up:
"You are the best at bragging. I can't compare to you."
"hey-hey."
Fu Qinghai smiled but said nothing.
To confuse others, you don't necessarily need to hide your strength. Exaggerating your strength is also a way. Fu Qinghai thought to himself, anyway, I'm telling the truth, believe it or not.
Koshvito thought about it and still seemed unconvinced. He stretched out his index finger and tapped the back of his head, saying,
"I have a neural interface here. I can control my power armor through a direct neural connection. It's like using an arm to control a finger. It's not an outdated force feedback connection."
You even want to compare this?
Fu Qinghai held his chin with his hand:
"I have a total of eight neural interfaces, which are also used to control my power armor."
"well!"
Koshvituo gave Fu Qinghai a thumbs up again, then shook his head helplessly and said,
"Since we are about to become comrades in the same camp, I am telling you my strength first so that you will have an idea. I am telling you the truth, but you are just bragging to me."
Fu Qinghai was puzzled when he heard this:
"What do you mean by the same camp?"
Koshvituo looked at Fu Qinghai strangely:
"Don't you know? In the main world of Samsara, if the faction of the last plot line still exists, the samsara that won the previous plot line will automatically continue to lock the last faction when the next plot line starts. Both of us are loyalists. Unless the emperor suddenly explodes and the emperor's faction disappears, we will both be loyalists in the future."
Is that how it is? Fu Qinghai thought: I really didn't know that before.
No wonder this guy Koshveto talks so much... Fu Qinghai thought he was having a talking addiction.
Fu Qinghai seemed to be thinking deeply, and said,
"What is the meaning of the arrangement of the reincarnation world?"
"Hmm." The Spartan warrior slapped his thigh and explained,
"Just think about it. Suppose, in your first plot line mission, you went through a lot of trouble to get to the top of the plot force of the righteous camp, or become a trusted character. Then the next plot line starts and you become the villain. You just turn around and kill the important plot characters of the righteous camp with a sword. Wouldn't you win on the spot? It's not that easy, right?"
This is obviously the reincarnations' own speculation, but it seems to make sense.
Koshvito casually took out a plastic-wrapped stick from a metal box cart with wheels nearby, handed it to Fu Qinghai, and said,
"Try it. It's a protein bar with hazelnut and honey flavor. It's specially supplied by the UNSC in the Halo Universe. You can't taste this kind of thing in the hive."
Fu Qinghai took the protein bar and stared at the square metal device with wheels next to Koshvito. His engineer's intuition told him that it was not a simple cart, so he asked,
"What is that?"
Koshvito patted its steel plate proudly and said,
"MK71 emergency food supply station, a UNSC device specifically responsible for battlefield logistics supply. I rely on this to win people's hearts in the lower nest. How about it, isn't it awesome?"
Fu Qinghai frowned, looking puzzled:
"You spent assimilation points to assimilate a food-making thing?"
In the eyes of the Space Marines who have maximized their survivability, food is something that can be eaten by just picking up anything on the ground. Why would anyone spend assimilation points to assimilate food?
Why not use them to assimilate weapons and equipment?
"Hey, you don't understand this."
Koshvito shook his finger and said,
"In many doomsday survival-themed reincarnation worlds, such as the Resident Evil doomsday world and the radiation wasteland world, food is much more important than weapons."
Well, this is indeed a reason. Let's just take it as the experience of an old reincarnationist.
Fu Qinghai nodded and tore open the protein bar bag in his hand.
Koshveto munched on a protein bar while asking,
"I heard Hulda tell me that you want to go to the upper levels of the hive?"
Fu Qinghai nodded:
"Yes, I will not only go to the upper nest, I will go to the top of the tower."
Koshvito did not ask for the reason, but asked directly:
"Have you thought about how to get there?"
"Not yet."
Fu Qinghai shook his head and asked,
"Do you have any connections?"
Koshveto chewed his protein bar and said:
"I don't have access to the Upper Nest, but I can give you a piece of information."
"What news?"
Fu Qinghai sat upright and asked seriously.
Koshveto gave a mysterious smile:
"It will soon be March, and the annual hunting event will begin."
Lord Hunter?
Fu Qinghai was stunned.
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(PS: The character in this chapter, Koshvituo, comes from the supporting role card of book friend 2020***3770. I think it is very interesting, so I upgraded it to a supporting role, but the character's personality was changed by me due to the plot. This is the first character created by a book friend in this book. Thank you for your contribution.)
Thanks to Terminatus, Lazy Maomao, and two book friends for their 10,000-point reward. The supporting role is being arranged. Thanks, all the names I thought of are taken, book friend 2021*9626, Yijian Xilai Yekucheng, and Lingmeng for the highest reward.
(End of this chapter)