Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 158 Prelude to Reach ([-])

Carter looked up and estimated the distance from the Covenant warship to here, and then fired at the enemy and said: "2 minutes, you only have 2 minutes." This was Carter's limit, and he even felt that 2 minutes was enough for the Covenant to defeat them. shredded.

No. [-] nodded and without hesitation pulled his military status tag from his neck and stuffed it into Carter's tactical pocket. Then he turned around and pounced on the elite team, his figure quickly disappearing in the dust mist.

Carter forced himself not to think about him and escorted the team to the extraction point.

There were only a few leaked pinprick bullets and plasma beams on the battlefield. The shadow of No. [-] shuttled through the dust and fog like a ghost, and the painful howls of elite soldiers could be heard from time to time.

Carter always paid attention to his motion detector and fired a series of bursts in the direction of the red dot, knocking down the Grunt who suddenly appeared.At this time, a burst of sound shot through the air toward the group of children. He wanted to stop it but it was too late.

"Be careful!" Julian threw the girl to the ground and grabbed the purple needle on his back with one hand. The needle pierced his lumbar spine and blood spurted out. "Leave some explosives for me." , you take the children and leave quickly!"

There was no time to be sad. Carter quickly helped Julian to sit down in front of a broken high wall, leaving two grenades for him, and then covered the children and continued to run forward.A few seconds later, there was a loud "bang" from behind, and several children couldn't help crying.

They were finally close to the evacuation point. The trees in the park were bare, and the Pelican troop carrier was parked between the two rockeries in the park. George held a minigun and kept firing at the Covenant troops coming from a distance. A path of death composed of corpses was formed in the space.

"Get up, get up quickly!" Carter urged the children to get on the boat while shooting.

At some point, Emil also joined the fight. He kicked the Elite warrior over and blasted its head cleanly with a shotgun. "Sir, the nuclear bomb has been planted." He looked around, "Where is No. [-]?"

Carter shook his head and glanced at the task clock: there were only 15 seconds left.

"Ha, you really know how to be a hero." Emil laughed twice, threw the last child into the crew cabin, and then got in after him, "I will commemorate him."

Carter took one last look in the direction he came from. There was nothing there, so he had to sigh and walk up the gangway.

The engine of the Pelican troop carrier began to make a low sound, and then it took off and flew straight forward along the main road of Akatsuki Port.

"Catherine, don't pull it up yet." Carter whispered, staring at the screen, looking for traces of No. [-] - except for a few Grunts firing at them and lifeless buildings, there was nothing. .

He looked away, feeling extremely lost.At this moment, he thought of the No. 293 Noble Squad member - Thom-A[-].His sacrifice was exactly the same, he broke into the Covenant cruiser alone with a nuclear bomb, and the explosion destroyed everything.

George suddenly stood up straight, pointed at the holographic display and shouted: "Look, he did it!"

Carter stiffened and looked up in disbelief, only to see No. [-] jumping off the roof of a nearby building and running away as soon as his feet touched the ground.There were faint shadows of several elite warriors behind him, and plasma beams continued to shoot past him. "I saw it." Catherine said as the Pelican troop carrier slowly descended and the hatch opened to No. [-].

Number Six ran quickly, catching up with long strides and leaping nimbly towards the pelican.Carter strode forward, grabbed his arm, and pulled him onto the boat.

"Welcome back to the Noble Squad." Carter was very happy and stuffed the military status card back into No. [-]'s hand. "Keep your things safe."

The cabin door closed with a "squeak", and Carter only heard Catherine say "Hold on tight!" through the communication channel. Then his hand holding the seat belt tightened suddenly, and the children in the passenger compartment yelled. They fell to the side, and George quickly went up to support them to prevent them from being stepped on by their companions.

A child screamed and pointed to the display screen on the bulkhead. Carter looked there and saw a pillar of fire shooting straight down from the track, breaking through the clouds, and hitting Xiaofeng Harbor. The radiation detector in his helmet clicked. "The ground kept ringing.

The emir next to him made a "three, two, one" gesture, and then clenched his fist.

The world suddenly became quiet, the sky glowed with white light, the Pelican's camera automatically adjusted the light to the darkest level, and a thunderous roar came from the distance.The picture on the display screen shook, and a mushroom-shaped flame shot straight into the sky, and then fell back to the small town like raindrops.The plasma bombardment from above the clouds came to an abrupt end, and the hull of the Covenant cruiser began to deconstruct. Blue-purple flames burst out from the cracked gaps, and the sound of "crackling" metal disintegrating resounded throughout the sky.

The battleship lost power and fell straight towards the shattered town.An invisible electromagnetic pulse swept through everything nearby, and several Banshee fighter jets chasing them suddenly lost power. The fuselage burst out with electric light and staggered to the ground.The huge shock wave caused by the nuclear explosion made Carter feel that the soles of his feet were constantly vibrating.

After a while, the Pelican troop carrier gradually stabilized, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.On the way to the Warhammer base, Emil sat in the corner with his arms crossed and his arms crossed; George had a heated fight with the children; Number Six stared at the children without moving, not knowing what he was thinking. .

The eldest girl was elected by the children. She came to Carter, held up a rabbit doll, and said, "Thank you."

Carter gently took the doll and carefully stroked the fluff on its surface.Carter could tell from the little girl's clear eyes that she must particularly like this doll.

He'd never been trained in this area, so he didn't know how to react at the moment - but it didn't matter, he didn't have to think about it because of the helmet's cover, but he felt great.

Everything is great.

The rest of the journey went surprisingly smoothly, without any Covenant pursuers.They climbed over the mountains, flew at low altitude over the devastated surface of Reach, and arrived at the predetermined coordinates of the Warhammer base.

The gangway was lowered, and Carter could hear slight crisp sounds when he stepped on the ground. These were glass fragments formed after the soil was bombarded by high temperatures.

He looked around and saw that the place was flat, and his field of vision extended along the plain until it stopped at the bulging mountains.He knew it had once been a power station, but after the plasma bombardment there were only scattered traces of re-condensed black steel on the ground.He took out the identification chip and walked around the area, but found nothing.

(End of this chapter)