From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 314 Containment, Control, Protection

A cryogenic sleep box that was still in operation appeared in the Forerunner ruins. To be honest, Amber was stunned on the spot after hearing this voice broadcast.

Because if the cryogenic sleep chamber is in normal operation, it means that the thing sleeping inside is at least not a shriveled corpse.

With the technological level of the Forerunner civilization, a cryogenic dormant chamber would not be able to figure out whether the creature inside is dead, let alone waste energy by maintaining a low temperature for a dead creature.

But if this is the case, it means that there is very likely a living Forerunner sleeping in this cryogenic sleep chamber.

Sleeping for a million years in one breath? This seems even more outrageous.

Amber tried his best to recall it in his mind, because in his memory, no Forerunner relics had ever been 'unearthed' with a living Forerunner.

Judging from the events he has witnessed during his time traveling for more than a year, the 'plot' trend of this world is basically the same as that of the game, and the locations of various resource points, 'dungeons', and ruins are also consistent.

Therefore, Amber believes that as long as the world line is not changed due to his actions, many things can continue to be applied to the experience of the previous life.

For example, in the current Forerunner ruins, Amber feels that no matter how much she and Atlas do, it will not affect this place, so what is happening now should be consistent with the plot in the game.

If that's the case, that leaves only one possibility.

That is the Quest for Truth Foundation, which really dug up a living forerunner in this ruins.

But for unknown reasons, the Foundation eliminated all records of this operation, and the whereabouts of this Forerunner are also unknown.

"There's something fishy here"

Thinking of this, Amber immediately decided to follow up to see the situation.

A forerunner from millions of years ago who seems to be still alive? You must be lying if you say Amber isn't curious.

Ahead, under the command of the Puppet Master, the support troops of the Quest for Truth Foundation completed their formation with the survivors of the original team.

After confirming that all the Annihilators were completely 'annihilated', this large group of people began to walk towards the depths of the 0th floor of the base area.

After the HCP in charge of the rear and some Foundation soldiers also left, Amber emerged from the shadows furtively.

Although the style of sneaking wearing a set of more than 5 tons of power armor can be said to be quite strange.

But Amber didn't follow him directly - he didn't want to be exposed now, and wouldn't it be a good thing to have people from the Foundation 'opening the way' in front of this dangerous ruins?

After confirming that the other party would not find her, Amber came to the corpses of the Annihilators lying on the ground.

These hill-like corpses are more shocking than they look in the game.

Of course, the flavor is greater too.

If the game simply simulates the smell to give players the 'experience' of conquering these forerunner behemoths, then Amber is experiencing an immersive experience now.

He had just opened the helmet, but he was so smoked that he immediately closed it and turned on the internal circulation mode.

"Good guy, why does this mean so much? It's not the sophisticated style of the Forerunners."

What Amber is thinking in her heart is not just a complaint, because the creations of the Forerunner civilization have always appeared in front of the players in an exquisite, highly sophisticated, and 99-new style for their own use.

Even though the Annihilator in front of him had his head shot off, although there was no difference in appearance when Amber encountered it in other ruins, it was obviously better maintained than here.

Yes, it is maintenance. Or maintenance and preparation work.

One of the reasons why the Forerunner civilization is recognized as having strong technological capabilities is because their relics that have been lying quietly for millions of years and the internal facilities are so well maintained.

It even feels like the forerunners inside seem to have just left.

Even biological combat weapons like the 'Annihilator', which are modified from some ancient creatures, usually sleep in a dedicated closed cabin and undergo regular maintenance to ensure that they can attack the enemy at any time.

But the Annihilator in front of Amber obviously has nothing to do with 'proper maintenance'.

The external armor looks complete but is actually severely eroded internally, as well as the atrophied muscles and shriveled skin of the 'ancient giant salamander-like creature' as its main body.

In addition, many of the weapons added to the external armor, including the energy fighting claw blades on the forelimbs, are in a disabled state.

Amber finally understood why this thing was as brittle as a piece of paper when faced with the not-so-strong armed force of the Quest for Truth Foundation.

"There is no maintenance at all. Is there something wrong with the energy supply of this facility?"

Amber came up with this conjecture that seemed a bit outrageous to him. After all, it was 'Forerunner Technology'. In the eyes of many players, it had left the realm of science and entered the realm of magic.

But combined with the voice broadcast he just heard, he felt that there might be something wrong with the energy supply.

When the energy supply was insufficient to meet the normal operation of all areas in the facility, the control center of the facility focused all its efforts to protect the entire dormant area in order to ensure that the cryo-sleep cabin did not go wrong.

This also resulted in a lack of energy supply and routine maintenance in other areas, ultimately leading to the situation Amber sees now.

As for biological combat weapons, which are full of slots, they can be regarded as one of the characteristics of the Forerunner civilization. Players even wonder whether this civilization is collectively a "collector"?

A large number of ancient creatures that human civilization has never seen, or has only seen fossils, have become guards in the Forerunner ruins.

Even the symbol of the Planetary Dragon Empire, the ‘Starry Sky Dragon’, which has not appeared in the universe for a long time, has ‘served’ in several ruins.

One can imagine the wonderful expression on the faces of the Star Dragon Empire royal family when they heard the news.

National totems and spiritual symbols are the ‘watchdogs’ of another civilization.

This news soon became an absolutely forbidden topic within the empire.

The kind that asks who dies.

And now, after excavating many relics of the forerunners, the Quest for Truth Foundation doesn’t know if they were ‘infected’, but it has started to contain the combat weapons of these ancient creatures.

And they often combine humans with ancient creatures, or conduct genetic contamination in an attempt to create new creatures.

The foundation's external statement will naturally not say that these are inhumane and physically disgusting experiments, nor will it say that they try to control these biological combat weapons to fight for them.

According to the introduction on their official website, the Quest for Truth Foundation provides protection for these extremely precious ‘prehistoric creatures’ so that they can survive in this new era.

'Contain, control, protect.'

"Tsk, when you use external propaganda slogans like this, you are not afraid of others coming to accuse you of infringement."