Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 142 Ending ([-])

The fence in front was suddenly kicked open with a "bang", and a Spartan warrior rushed out with several hell paratroopers. The shotgun in his hand opened fire repeatedly, beating the Flood to pieces as it rushed towards the warthog.

"I have a wounded man here!" the Master Chief shouted to him as he jumped out of the personnel carrier.

Tommy nodded, lifted Raven down and carried him on his back, then led John to turn around and run towards a raised platform.

A Longsword was right in front, the ramp was parked quietly, and the engine had been started, waiting for them to board the plane.The other two Long Swords were also boarded by the pilots who came from the Truth and Harmony. The engines roared and the interceptors slowly took off.

The plasma beam flew past the Master Chief's head, and the flying debris from the explosion was everywhere.He rushed in after Tommy, his combat boots slamming against the metal ground, and jumped onto the spaceship.

The gangway was being retracted, and a large group of Flood arrived.The Longsword interceptor vibrated, and another explosion resounded through the Pillar of Autumn. The Master Chief moved forward amidst the violent vibrations, and grabbed the handle in the middle of the cabin as the pilot shouted "Stand still!"

"Let's go!"

The pilot uses propellers in the belly of the ship to send the fighter into the air above the deck.He turned the engine's nose counterclockwise and pulled down on the control column.The huge thrust pushed him deeply into the seat, and the fighter jet broke away from the launch cabin, roaring straight into the sky.

The Chief heard a series of dull roars and turned around just in time to see a series of orange-red flowers blooming along the weathered hull of the Pillar of Autumn on the display screen.

The cruiser's fusion engine has reached criticality, and a flare-like light blooms on the surface of the ring.The high-heat sphere formed by the nuclear reaction exploded a five-kilometer crater in the ultra-high-density ring-shaped material.A huge explosion rippled through the entire structure, and giant fireballs swept and flattened the surface of the Halo's surface.In an instant, the bright yellow explosion point released extremely powerful energy, causing the surface of the halo to begin to collapse inwards.

The rotation of the halo continued, but it could no longer withstand the energy released at this explosion point, and the ring structure began to slowly disintegrate itself.Huge pieces of debris flew into space.Part of a five-hundred-kilometer-long ring world was broken and peeled off. The uncannily beautiful metal structures, land, and water bodies on it were all destroyed, and a series of explosions were emitted in the silent universe.

At this time, John saw a black spot in the distance at the tail of the interceptor - it was Captain Case's Pelican troop carrier. He had successfully escaped the hunt of the Banshee fighter and was returning with them.

The words "Engine temperature has reached critical point" flashed on the control panel, accompanied by a long-lasting "beep" sound."Turn them off. We don't need the information anymore," Cortana said.

The pilot stood up and pressed a certain switch, and the cabin suddenly became extremely silent.

The Master Chief came to the observation window and saw the last complete fragment of the halo being cut in half by a piece of flying metal. It looked like it was performing a silent and slow space ballet.In the distance, the carnivore-like wild hull of the Truth and Harmony slowly enlarged in his field of vision. It would be their new home.

As if remembering something, the Chief asked Tommy: "Did we miss anyone? Did anyone fail to escape from the halo?" "We didn't miss anyone," Tommy slowly took off his helmet. He smiled at John and said, "Not only that, I think we have not missed even the Flood. Thanks to Silva, those disgusting things are still dormant somewhere on the battleship."

It's good news, they can deal with the Flood issue later.The Master Chief exhaled, his stiff shoulders slowly relaxing.

Cortana's slender holographic image appeared on the holographic display table installed between the pilot's and system operator's seats.She crossed her arms on her chest, smiled, and stared at the Chief.

"Get some rest, we did what we had to do - for Earth. Halo, it's over."

"It's not over yet." The Master Chief sat behind the console of the Longsword interceptor, grabbing the edge of his helmet with both hands, and took off his helmet with a "squeak" sound, "The Covenant people are still rampant, and the earth is in a difficult situation. I think we just began."

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September 2552 in the military calendar (abnormal time flow rate)
Heading into the slip space of the solar system, the dormitory room of the UNSC frigate Yuanzhu

The computer on the Yushu's cryogenic cabin put Nana Kamano into a long cycle of sleep.Under the default program flow, the main control computer allowed her to enjoy a series of anabolic rests, and her sleep made the human roentgen equivalent in her body extremely inactive.

These are all accomplished by subtle adjustments and careful changes to the environment in the cryochamber. Intravenous injection of conditioning drugs can not only control the frequency and duration of Kamano Nana's dreams, but also affect the content of her dreams.

Not only that, a study published about half a century ago pointed out that intelligent artificial intelligence is likely to have the ability to control the dreams of hibernators. However, no artificial intelligence has been found to be interested in this yet, so this study is because It was halted due to insufficient samples and the outbreak of the Human-Covenant War.

But before Kamano Nana entered cryosleep, no matter what kind of drugs or medical methods she used, she always had the same dream over and over again - Tommy's most recent dream in his countless fierce confrontations with the Covenant. In a heroic moment, those burnt and yellowed "memory fragments" trapped Nana Kamano deeply in them and could not extricate herself.

She saw that Tommy had suffered extremely serious injuries: the armor on his body was pitted, with bloodstains and black burn marks everywhere; the armor on his right arm had long since disappeared, replaced by deep visible bone wounds; the helmet was damaged by a huge It was completely deformed by the pressure, and the panel was shattered to the ground; his right eyeball was cracked, the empty eye socket was black, and the squirming muscles at the bottom were vaguely visible.

What frightens Kamano Nana the most is that those recurring dreams seem to hint to her in some way - in a future mission, Tommy will be irreparably injured, and then pass away, leaving her forever.

The main control computer suddenly detected a high-intensity radio wave signal from Kamano Nana's brain - she was trying hard to wake up from cryosleep.The main control computer did not inject her with a larger dose of sleeping pills because the Yinchu was preparing to leave slip space.

After a burst of inexplicable heart palpitations, Kamano Nana sat up suddenly, gasping for air, and the freezing chamber was filled with her white breath.The main control computer quickly started the emergency laxative clearing program. Although Kamano Nana was injected with more sleep-inducing agents than usual, the last step of thawing and waking up unexpectedly ran into some trouble.

(End of this chapter)