Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 149 Prelude to Reach ([-])
"Retreat." His voice came out from between his teeth, "Now! Damn it!"

Daisy cursed angrily from the side, and Isaac patted Will on the shoulder and pointed upward.

The clouds parted, like a curtain being pulled back, and a fireball hundreds of meters in diameter roared towards their position.He saw the vague outlines of dozens of Covenant warships in low-altitude orbit.

"Plasma bombing," Winn exclaimed in a low voice.

Will had seen this before.The Spartans have seen it all.When Covenant forces conquer a human world, their plasma cannons are used primarily to straf the planet - until the oceans are reduced to boiling water and nothing remains of the planet but a heap of broken glass.

"It's over," Isaac muttered. "We've lost. Reach is falling."

On the horizon, beams of plasma crisscrossed the sky, turning white and then black again—millions of tons of dust and ash blotting out the sun.

Will, who was filled with grief, looked at the motion detector and suddenly discovered that the blue dots marked Fred and Kelly were heading towards them.

Will cheered up, "Maybe," he looked around at the Spartans looking at him, "Maybe not. Let's go! There are still us!"

He also didn't forget the strange Spartan warrior beside him, "No offense, but what you mean is"

Jun didn't say anything, just picked up his sniper rifle.

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Epsilon Eridani star system, Reach star, the stealth Pelican troop carrier of the Military Intelligence Agency, on the way to the Warhammer base.

When Carter stepped onto the gangway of the stealth Pelican troop carrier, George-052 was holding an angular metal box that was taller than the others.Just from the dull sound the box made when it came into contact with the bulkhead, he could tell how heavy it must be.

He turned slightly to allow Emil and No. [-] to pass, then stepped forward and knocked on the cockpit door, "Katherine, can the troop transport ship -"

"I know, I'm not blind." Catherine-B320's faint voice came from the cockpit, and Carter was sure she must have rolled her eyes at him through the hatch.He felt that he was not a mentally fragile person, but every time Catherine spoke, it seemed as if she was taunting him.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt his calves sink. The Pelican troop carrier took off, and its faint engine sound was like a mosquito. It was indeed a customized troop carrier produced by the Military Intelligence Agency.He glanced at the display screen on the bulkhead. The stealth Pelican troop carrier was flying at a low altitude. Its hull surface was coated with a material that efficiently absorbs radio waves. If nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to go unnoticed. Arrive at Warhammer Base.

Before delivering the "package", Colonel Price left them an identification chip and said that after completing the mission, the Noble Squad would need to go to the Warhammer Base to perform another mission to protect important assets of the Military Intelligence Agency.

But having said that, all the team members knew that the colonel’s purpose was to let them hide and not make unnecessary sacrifices-or, in other words, this was actually an excuse to let No. [-] live. It's obviously not that important.

He had a vague feeling that the relationship between Number Six and the Colonel was unusual.Just then, the sound of George banging on the metal box attracted their attention.

"Look what good stuff Tommy left for us." George said as he entered the password and then pressed a switch on the box.The indicator light on the box changed from red to green, and then it opened with a "click". The contents inside made Carter's heart beat twice.

"Wow, that's a big deal." Emil sighed.

Inside the box lay neatly six Anaconda surface-to-air missiles and a "Fury" tactical nuclear bomb.The Fury Tactical Nuclear Bomb is the closest weapon to a nuclear grenade in the UNSC arsenal, being about the size and shape of an over-inflated football.It explodes with a yield of nearly 100 million tons and produces no radioactive contamination at all.

George grabbed the nuclear bomb and took a closer look. "The 'Supreme Command Omega Arsenal', the headquarters must have sent reinforcements at some point."He carefully put the nuclear bomb back and smashed it, "It's a good thing. Tommy should have taken it with him."

"It doesn't matter who we are taking advantage of." Emil said, looking at No. [-] sitting opposite - he was staring at the sky in the panoramic screen in a daze, as if he felt his sight. , No. [-] nodded slightly to Emil, and then returned his gaze to the display screen.

It is quite obvious that Six is ​​worried about the Colonel's safety, because he behaves like this on more than one occasion, especially when the Colonel is in dire straits.

Carter stepped forward and patted No. [-] on the shoulder to express comfort, then found a seat to sit down and exhaled a long breath.Number Six is ​​a taciturn guy, and Carter discovered from the first day that extra words of comfort will only be counterproductive.

For a moment, the crew cabin fell into silence, except for the sound of them taking out their equipment for maintenance.

Emil was the first to break the silence, "Our marksman is very comfortable. He doesn't need to fight to the death with Covenant bastards. It's enough to deal with an old woman."

"It's hard to say," Carter said as he pressed the bullet into the magazine. "He must be facing that mean doctor all the time when he stays in the castle base, and he must always be careful not to reveal secrets. He must be very exhausted now. .”

The guys in the Military Intelligence Agency have great hands and eyes, so it wouldn't be surprising if their secret bases were spread all over the planet Reach.

"Hey, it's so unfair for Dr. Halsey to say that." George defended Dr. Halsey. "Think about it, it's not her fault that she was born with a smart head. Parangoski was right Her discrimination and surveillance are unreasonable. If we were in this kind of environment every day, we would never be any better than her. And she knows nothing about the Spartan III program, so it is also inappropriate to treat Catherine with this attitude. excusable."

Carter didn't know much about Parangoski, except that she was the top leader of the Military Intelligence Agency. Anyone who came into contact with her would tremble uncontrollably when they heard her name.

Emil held the helmet in his hand and used a fighting dagger to add a new scar on the skull on the surface of the helmet panel.He turned and glanced at George, "Hey, big guy, you know how to protect her, lest we don't know that you use her as a wet nurse."

Although George has a good temper in front of civilians, this does not mean that he is patient with everyone.His shoulders shook, a sign that he was about to get angry.

(End of this chapter)