Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 147 Prelude to Reach ([-])
The rapidly sweeping electromagnetic radiation briefly affected the drone, but it quickly disappeared. The stealth drone of the Military Intelligence Agency has a very reliable quality assurance.The two Banshees accelerated towards the ground and dived into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

The drone followed them at a distance, just a few meters above the ground.The picture sometimes avoids the trees blocking the way, and sometimes rushes through the dense branches and leaves, causing a "rustling" sound.

Finally, the drone flew to the end of the forest and reappeared above the snow-capped mountain tops.Jun saw the banshees stopped on a granite hilltop, and two Spartans jumped out of the fighter plane.

The female Spartan leaned against her Banshee, blood seeping from her armored left shoulder blade.She reached for the sealing cap of her helmet and pulled it off.

Now Jun could see her face.The female Spartan gasped and said something to the male Spartan beside her, blood foaming from the corner of her mouth.

"She is Kelly-087," Halsey's hoarse voice suddenly came from his ears, and Jun was startled, "They should be performing other tasks, why are they here?"

"Task?"

Dr. Halsey opened his mouth and hesitated for a moment, then said: "When you parted, the 'package' escorted by Captain Noble and others is the most critical part of this mission."

Jun thought of the "package", the artificial intelligence fragment that selected No. [-].

Halsey's brows furrowed and she stared at the display with a worried expression.Jun doesn't like being disliked, but he feels like there's something he needs to report to her.

"Doctor, before they succeeded in blowing up the cruiser, a fellow Banshee fighter was destroyed."

Halsey's frown deepened. She seemed to be much older all of a sudden. The keen marksman caught this.

In the picture, it seemed that Kelly also heard what Jun said. She fell down and bumped into the fighter plane.The male Spartan next to him silently took off his helmet, revealing a resolute face.

Jun looked towards Halsey, hoping to get an introduction from her.

"Frederick-104," Halsey introduced expressionlessly. Jun guessed that she must have mixed feelings in her heart, including the joy of being able to see her Spartans again, and the sadness caused by their death. "We usually call him Fred, he is usually the second in command to the Master Chief."

Jun nodded.Everyone knows the Master Chief, and almost every Phase III Spartan follows him as a role model. Discussions about the Master Chief are heard from time to time in the military camp on Onyx.

He returned his attention to the drone that was hovering in the sky, and controlled it to fly parallel to the mountain top to a higher altitude, then flew a little further forward and looked into the canyon.

It has become a sea of ​​fire.Hundreds of fires scattered across the devastated, lifeless ground.The ribbon-like Bighorn River is now a steaming furrow.There was no trace of the Covenant troops and cruisers that had filled the canyon just a few minutes ago, leaving only deformed skeletons and smoking metal.On the edge of the battlefield stood some blackened wooden piles - remnants of the forest - leaning away from the center of the explosion.

The death of [-] Covenant troops is not as good as the loss of any Spartan warrior. Just imagining the scene of the death of his comrades in the noble squad made Jun feel heartbroken.

Just as he was musing, the base's communication channel was opened with a "pop". "Call the extraction point castle base! This is Spartan Red Team, Delta Detachment, we are heading to your location, and we need your support if possible!"

Jun was stunned for a moment and was about to reply, but Halsey stopped him.

"Not now," she said, "the base must remain silent." Jun frowned and switched the signal source of the display to one of the cameras surrounding the castle base.In the picture, two Warthog troop carriers loaded with Spartan warriors are being chased by undead mortars and ghost hovercrafts from behind. The situation is precarious.

"us--"

"I don't mean that you have to sit back and watch," Halsey said with a hint of anxiety in her tone, pointing to the sniper rifle placed aside, "On the contrary, I want you to go out and bring them back."

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Epsilon Eridani galaxy, Reach star, coordinate grid (133, 214), on the way to the castle base.

They are not far from death.

The two Warthog personnel carriers of the Spartan Delta team were speeding on the gravel road. Countless plasma beams roared from the ghost hovercraft behind. Several blue plasma cannonballs flashed overhead from time to time. They smashed When I was on the ground, a scorching heat wave hit my face.

Phase II Spartan Will holds the M41 Vulcan rotating machine gun and pulls the trigger to the end, hoping to kill all the enemies chasing behind him.He felt sharp pains coming from his chest and abdomen from time to time, which suggested that his liver was probably bleeding or that one of his ribs was broken.

Although the two troop carriers were fully loaded with Spartan soldiers, they were seriously wounded who had trouble even walking. The Spartan Red Team was blocked when they landed on the Pelican troop carrier, and the Pelican disintegrated in the air. More than 20 Spartans had to jump from an altitude of 8000 meters, which directly led to the death of four Spartans.

The six of them were the most seriously injured among the red team, and were sent by Fred to the castle base to guard the extraction point.Now they were speeding along the ridge, hoping the troop carrier would take them out of here and into the canyon where the path wound.

"Speed ​​up and drive forward," Will shouted to Daisy-023, who was holding the steering wheel. "This road will take us to the extraction point."

Two shadows fell on the road, and Will looked up to see the stubby wings of a pair of Banshees swooping down toward them.

"Quick!" he shouted towards Daisy.

"I know, stop shouting at me! Damn Will!" Daisy stepped on the accelerator, gravel flew under the car, and they quickly drove onto a grassy field.

Will was very annoyed by Daisy's scolding, and she always spoke like a hedgehog.

The plasma beam hit the nearby rocks, exploding flying rocks all over the sky and hitting the Warthog's armor with a "crackling" sound. Will could even feel the vibrations coming from under his feet.

"Malcolm! Hit them with missiles!" he shouted as he fired.

But he didn't hear Malcolm-059's reply for a long time after he finished speaking. After Will shot through the ghost air cushion that was approaching him, he took the time to look at the co-pilot and saw Malcolm's head wearing a helmet. The ground dropped and the car swayed.

He was startled and subconsciously looked at the physiological monitors of the team members on the heads-up display. Malcolm's physiological indicators had turned red - he had been sacrificed.

(End of this chapter)