Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 156 Prelude to Reach ([-])

No echo.

Carter glanced at the position of the beacon on the head-up display. They were still a few hundred meters away in a straight line - they wanted to see people alive, but they wanted to see corpses. It was never the style of the noble team to give up easily.

"Are the bank elevators still functioning normally?" Carter asked No. [-] standing aside.

Number Six quickly checked the nearby circuit box, and then flashed his green status light.

So they took the elevator and continued deeper, and then blew open three locked protective doors. Everything went smoothly after that.

As the last protective door outside the vault collapsed, a long corridor appeared in front of them.Both sides of the corridor are filled with attractive long strips that exude golden and silver light, and their unique metallic smell permeates the corridor.

"I won the jackpot." Carter murmured, suddenly feeling a little dry in his mouth, and he subconsciously licked his lips.Just to his right, the golden gold bars were piled up to the height of his chest.

Every single room in the vault is filled with these extremely valuable gold bars. If Carter can take them away today, the noble team will be prosperous tomorrow.

The scene of them drinking in the bar after they became rich even lingered in Carter's mind for a few seconds. If the war was won, he would definitely have a drink for the sacrificed Phase III Spartan brothers and sisters.He shook his head, throwing away any desire he shouldn't have, then holding the shotgun, he bent his waist and walked slowly deeper into the place where the beacon was.

In the underground vault of the bank, No. [-] exploded the isolation door leading to the last single room. The impact of the explosion caused the lights in the room to flicker on and off, and the shadows cast by the lights also moved accordingly.

Finally, the lights stopped flickering and returned to normal brightness, but the shadows continued to move.Carter took a closer look and saw that the appearance of these shadows was exactly the same as that of humans, but their bodies seemed a bit petite for some reason.

Their failure to identify themselves immediately confused him. Carter aimed his gun, put his finger on the trigger guard and shouted: "Marine, identify yourself immediately, and then come out with your wounded!"

At this time, a small hand stretched out from behind the gold bar and grabbed Carter's arm tightly. "Are you here to save us?" Accompanied by a childish voice, a little boy with big blue eyes and bright eyes appeared in front of Carter.

Carter's eyes suddenly widened and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

A man with gray hair on his temples came out of the shadows nearby and said, "Thank God for sending you to save our lives." He bowed gratefully.

Carter suddenly felt the shotgun sinking. He looked to the side, and it turned out that No. [-] had reached out and pressed down the muzzle of his gun, shaking his head to warn him to be careful about firing.

Carter clicked the shotgun to the magnetic hanging point on his back and asked the man: "What's going on here? Where are the Marines who sent out the distress signal?"

The man shook his head and led Carter deeper into the single room.He kept walking and glanced around, only to see a large number of children huddled in the corner of the vault, with unpacked food packages scattered around them.Carter roughly counted more than 20 children hiding here.

The man led him to the body of a hell paratrooper stained with mottled blood, and explained to him: "I am Brian Julian, a teacher at Xiaofeng Port Edison Elementary School. Most adults are armed to resist When the Covenant attacked, we were elected to take care of these young children." "Later, when the town was evacuating residents, the transport plane was full, so they asked us to wait for the next transport plane before leaving." Julian Tan He spread his hands and said, "As you can see, the next transport plane never came."

“I have seen the appearance of planets that have been subjected to orbital bombardment,” Julian continued. “We have no choice but to hide as deep underground as possible, hoping to escape the orbital bombardment of aliens. Most of the children escaped here on transport ships, so there were not very many children trapped in the vault when the Covenant launched their attack."

He pointed to the body of the hell paratrooper, "We met this respectable soldier on the way to the vault, but he was already seriously injured. We were protected by him all the way to here, he told me If rescue doesn't come, activate the distress beacon on him." After saying this, several children beside him started sobbing, and Julian also became a little dejected, "We didn't bring first aid supplies, so we could only watch helplessly. he."

Carter felt the same and patted his shoulder wordlessly, then moved closer to the body and touched the long-dried blood stains on the ground with his index finger - God, they had been here for several days.

All the children are hiding in the innermost single room of the vault, relying on insufficient supplies to survive until now.

The vault was not deep enough, and there was no way the Covenant could have survived had they continued their decades-long orbital bombardment.

But Carter pursed his lips and said nothing, and looked aside.

No. [-] looked quite surprised and stood blankly in the corridor of the vault.

The communication channel suddenly opened with a bang, and Emil's voice came from inside. "Boss, how's the situation? Have you found them?"

Carter took a deep breath, and then told them everything about the situation in the vault.

George immediately said: "We can't abandon them and let these immature children wait to die in vain." He paused, "Don't forget, our pelican is enough to hold them all."

Catherine interrupted him. "Although the weight and size of the children are relatively small, there are still more than 20 people. This is a serious overload. The invisible pelican of the Military Intelligence Agency was not designed to do this."

She paused and her tone became stern, "This will increase the power consumption of the spacecraft, increase heat production, and greatly reduce the stealth capability. I cannot guarantee that I will not be discovered by the Covenant cruiser on the way to the base."

"Okay, so how do we explain all of this to these innocent children?" George asked, his voice rising a little higher.

"We don't need to explain to every child," Catherine's voice revealed a hint of annoyance, "We can take some of the children out of here with us before it gets overloaded."

"Some children?" George didn't give in. "Reach has always become meaningful because of its people. Do you have the heart to do such ruthless addition and subtraction calculations?"

(End of this chapter)