Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 157 Prelude to Reach ([-])

Catherine was choked by George and did not answer for a while.

Seeing Carter and Six taking no action, the children in the vault began to commotion. Although Julian tried to comfort them, these poor children could no longer hold on.

Carter entered the single room where the children and Julian were hiding. "Julian, your name is Julian, right? I am Lieutenant Colonel Carter. My team has more important tasks to perform first, whether it is food, Drinking water, we will try to meet all your needs, and then we will consider how to move you to a safe place as soon as possible."

"Thank you, thank you very much." Julian bent down to express his thanks, his old figure even more rickety.

The teacher's gray hair, his chapped lips due to dehydration, and the deep gratitude in his words were all like slicing a knife into Carter's heart.

When he returned to the corridor, the dispute in the channel continued. Emil suggested casually: "This is not the purpose of our coming here, is it? There is still work waiting for us to do, and we must be among the Covenant people." Come and get everything done before bombing this place. If you ask me, just don't bring any of them, these children will only hinder us from completing the mission, just leave them with enough food and water."

George was shocked. "Are we going to leave them here to die in vain? These are children!"

"They are already dead." Emil's tone was extremely cold. "They were already dead when they chose to escape into this vault. The difference is just when to die and how to die. In the countless planet defenses that I have participated in before, During the war, was there another time when we helped innocent civilians escape without landing?"

Six paced back and forth in the corridor, and Carter sensed uneasiness and annoyance from his irregular footsteps.

"If we can't save people's lives, how can we have the dignity to call ourselves a soldier who protects our homeland and our country?" George asked seriously.

The names of those colonial planets that he had fought for but were still in the enemy's hands came to Carter's mind one after another.He knew that as the leader of the team, he couldn't be indecisive and had to make a decision immediately, but this decision was really difficult.

George then changed the subject, "Catherine, I know you are not telling the truth. Tell me, what is the actual probability that we will be discovered?"

"Katherine, this matter is important. Stop hiding it. I am the one who gave the order." Carter added.

She sighed, "Somewhere between being discovered and not being discovered."

"Okay," Carter hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak out what was in his mind. "One last statement, the green light will be on if you choose to evacuate these children, and the red light will be on if you don't evacuate."

As expected, Catherine and Emile had a red light and George had a green light.

Carter exhaled heavily and looked at No. [-], "So what do you think?"

Number Six's hand tightened on the BR55 combat rifle, and then Carter saw Number Six's status light on the heads-up display turn green.

Well done, Number Six.Such thoughts suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart, and even Carter himself was shocked.He couldn't say where exactly, but something about Six infected him, which made Carter make his final decision.

"We are going to evacuate these children," Carter ordered.

Everyone's status lights turned green.He issued a series of orders methodically, and finally said: "George, join Catherine and protect the extraction point, Emil-"

"The Phantom troop carrier is coming!" Catherine interrupted him hastily on the channel, "It will arrive at your location within 10 minutes!"

"Damn it," Carter cursed under his breath.This place is no better than the Saber Base, and there are no ruins for the Covenant to use rat weapons.If it is discovered that there are still humans surviving here, they will definitely call the cruiser to come over for plasma bombing. "Catherine, find us a closer extraction point. Emil, send the furious nuclear bomb into the city. I want to make the Covenant look good."

"As ordered, sir." Emil's voice revealed unconcealable excitement.

Carter and No. [-] then entered the single room, and after briefly explaining the evacuation plan to Julian, they quickly organized the children and began preparing for evacuation.

When they rushed out of the bank gate and looked at the sky, a row of Python surface-to-air missiles were trailing white trails, whizzing and hitting the Phantom troop carrier hanging high in the sky.The latter's hull burst out with dazzling blue flames. The hull tilted and crashed directly into the short building next to it.

There was a loud "boom", and dust mist and gravel rushed towards his face. No. [-] stood up to protect the child at the front. The gravel hit his energy shield like a bullet, causing a ripple.

"Let's go!" Carter shouted to Julian.

Under Julian's organization, the two dozen children did not panic too much and began to move in the direction Carter pointed - too slow. If a Covenant force came to intercept them, these children would all be dead.

A navigation point popped up on Carter's head-up display, and the target was located in the central park 600 meters away.

"Sir, this is my limit, you have to walk the rest of the way." Catherine reported in the communication channel, "Emil has obtained the nuclear bomb, and he is returning to the roof of the tallest building in Xiaofeng Port."

"Copy that, on the way."

600 meters was only a distance of about 1 minute in normal times, but now to them it was like a chasm that separated life and death.

Number 37 on the side suddenly opened fire, and the bullets were fired at the place where the Phantom troop carrier had just crashed.Carter decisively picked up the MA[-] assault rifle and fired it at that, which effectively supplemented the firepower of No. [-].

In the ruins, several elite warriors struggled to crawl out against the hail of bullets, their energy shields flashing.They must be furious and vow to drive them all away.They may not be able to cause any damage to the Spartans, but they can certainly seriously slow down the team's retreat - and that's enough.

The low roar of the Covenant cruiser engines came from above the layers of clouds, warning them that they must evacuate as soon as possible, otherwise the devastating orbital bombardment would burn them to ashes.

Suddenly, Carter felt a tap on his shoulder.He looked at No. [-], who made a gesture to him, and then pointed at the few elite warriors who were looming in the ruins and kept approaching them. No. [-] also realized the seriousness of the situation, and he took the initiative to ask to stay. Come down and break the back.

This will be a point of no return.

(End of this chapter)