Chapter 311 Puppet Master

If Sartre Ethan were to describe the ruins left by the ‘Forerunner Civilization’ where he is now, he would say that this is a ‘guardian’ that has been waiting silently for millions of years.

Because it strictly implements the instructions left by the Forerunners and protects the things inside the ruins.

But at the same time, it is waiting for latecomers like the ‘Foundation for the Quest of Truth’ to reopen its door.

Because the items and technologies preserved in these Forerunner ruins were originally meant to be left to these ‘predestined people’.

This is the conclusion Sartre Ethan came to after participating in many explorations of Forerunner ruins as the ‘field executive deputy’ of the Foundation for the Quest of Truth.

In the ‘scientific expedition team’ dispatched by the Foundation for the Quest of Truth, the two people responsible for the front-line command are the ‘field executive officer’ and the ‘field executive deputy’.

The former is responsible for the command of the entire operation and commands the troops to fight when encountering danger, while the latter, which is the role Sartre Ethan plays, is responsible for the exploration, decryption and technology acquisition inside the Forerunner ruins.

Although the number of people in the "scientific research team" led by him is not large, each of them is a professional who has achieved certain results in the field of "forerunner civilization".

And this "hidden ruins" discovered by the Truth Seeking Foundation near Wang Liangsi this time is also the largest forerunner ruins that Sartre Ethan has seen in all his years of "working".

The appearance of the ruins is simply natural to Sartre Ethan. If it were not for the shape of a standard rectangular block, he would even find it difficult to believe that this is a "creation".

Originally, this forerunner ruins has been covered and protected by the "refractive field", and this thing has been open for millions of years.

If it had not been discovered by the Foundation by luck this time, it is very likely that this ruins would have been hidden all the time.

Based on the experience gained from opening other ruins before, the Foundation's scientific research fleet directly and violently blasted open this "refractive layer". According to Sartre Ethan's guess, it should be the firepower of the fleet that caused this layer of force field to enter an overloaded and chaotic state.

The ruins that lost the protection of the "refractive layer" soon revealed their true colors - there were "rune"-like patterns on its surface made of a large number of unknown materials.

These "runes" reflected strange light faintly under the starlight, and seemed to contain profound information, but no one could interpret them.

However, Sartre Ethan and his "expedition team members" believed that this "rune" was the unique energy management technology of the Forerunner civilization.

Because so far, all the Forerunner civilization ruins discovered have the same "rune", and those ruins with relatively complete "runes" are also in operation, so Sartre and others think that this thing is similar to the "circuit" in the human technology tree.

When the on-site executive officer, whose real name is unknown and only known as the "puppet master", confirmed that the interior of the ruins was safe, the Foundation's team also entered the ruins through the door opened inside the open platform.

Just as Amber had guessed before, the Truth Seeking Foundation has mastered the method of opening these ruins after exploring a large number of Forerunner ruins.

In the interior space, the light source comes from the light strips embedded in the wall. They are soft and not dazzling, illuminating the intricate passages and huge halls.

In this relic with a short axis length of 40 kilometers, the area of ​​each floor is about the same as that of a medium-sized or large city.

And each floor has its own "gravity control", which allows people to easily shuttle through it.

This is completely different from the technology that humans use centrifugal force to create a gravity environment in space, and the efficiency is even more different.

Therefore, this advanced "gravity control technology" is also what the Truth Seeking Foundation has always wanted to master.

Unfortunately, they have not yet obtained it in the Forerunner ruins.

According to Sartre Ethan's experience, this relic should be the same as the Forerunner ruins discovered before, and each floor has different functional divisions.

Life, research and development, production, experiment.

When these different functional divisions appeared in the same relic, Sartre Ethan's first thought was that these relics should also be some kind of "scientific research site" left by the Forerunner civilization?

After everyone entered the Forerunner civilization facility for a distance, the on-site executive "Puppet Master" confirmed through the terminal that the surrounding environment was suitable for human survival, and a foundation soldier beside him opened his tactical visor.

After a while, he made an "OK" gesture to others, and everyone opened their tactical visors or helmets.

At the same time, these soldiers of the Seeking Truth Foundation also showed a different side from the others in the team - everyone's eyes and the parts above have been transformed.

The original human eyes and forehead were replaced with a "straight" eyepiece emitting red light, and a "top of the head" with a certain metallic texture.

Although Sartre and the other members of the scientific expedition team looked at these soldiers uncontrollably, they quickly looked away.

Everyone knows that these foundation soldiers are different from ordinary people, but no one has ever stood up to say anything.

After joining the Seeking Truth Foundation, "do what you should do, don't ask or care about other things" has become an iron rule for survival.

Just then, Sartre saw the ‘puppet master’ who was walking in the front suddenly stopped. This action made the artificial nerve cord behind him swing like a whip, and the Foundation soldiers who were marching in tactical formations around him also stopped at the same time and looked around.

“What’s wrong?” Sartre walked forward and asked. As the adjutant of the field operation, he also needed to know the current situation in real time.

The ‘puppet master’ did not answer Sartre’s question. He slowly scanned the surroundings with a metal mask, and a fleeting blue light flashed on the artificial nerve cord behind him.

That was the light of psychic energy.

After a while, the ‘puppet master’ stopped scanning the surroundings, but did not pay attention to Sartre Eason. Instead, he said in a low voice while walking towards the depths of the ruins: “Keep going.”

Sartre Eason was not surprised by his attitude, especially after knowing that the other party was a psychic when they met for the first time.

Psychic stereotype +1

At a certain distance behind the team, Amber quietly breathed a sigh of relief in the power armor.

The field executive of the Seeking Truth Foundation was more alert than he thought, and the slightest movement would arouse the other party's vigilance.

He just followed a little closer, and the other party swept over with a psychic wave.

If Amber hadn't reacted quickly and completed the deconstruction of the psychic wave and started to cancel it at the moment of being swept, he might have been discovered by now.

"You are worthy of it. The quality of this psychic is almost catching up with the Royal Silencer of the Star Dragon Empire."

Amber continued to move forward carefully, while silently complaining.

The Seeking Truth Foundation is definitely not as strong as the Star Dragon Empire in terms of comprehensive strength, but because they have dug more ruins, they have also mastered some advanced technologies of the Forerunner civilization "seemingly".

Especially in the research of psychic energy, it has actually walked ahead of other forces. This is why when facing the Seeking Truth Foundation in the game, the density of psychics in their team is much higher than that of other human forces.

Just as Amber was recalling her memory of the foundation, the team in front also walked to a place similar to a control console.

The sharp-eyed Sartre immediately saw something like an "operation terminal" in the middle of the console.

Then, Amber saw this middle-aged man who was a little fat, muttering "Eh? What is this button for?" while walking to the console and operating it.

As a result, the next second, the originally soft light strip nearby suddenly turned into a dark red with a warning meaning.

A sound similar to an "alarm" was also heard around.

"Fuck! What Zhou Zhuo."