Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 169 Battle of Critical Star ([-])
The video recording stopped abruptly here, the holographic projection disappeared, and the video unit gradually became dim.

"This is the latest message from the San'Shyuum. The bridge has detected that the Truth and Harmony is staying in a high orbit of the gas giant, and its engines are not running. The fleet is heading there." The Chief Blade Officer explained, "But I vaguely feel that something is wrong with him. You have been serving him for a long time. Tell me, what do these words mean?"

While the chief blade officer said these words, he subconsciously connected the human flying vehicle that dared to provoke them with the anomaly of the management prophet, but he could never draw a specific logical relationship between the two.

"What does it mean?" Felsami sneered. "This means that the wise management prophet has seen the danger of the Flood, taken the overall situation into consideration, and decided to temporarily put aside his prejudices and not care about you. Now the Truth and Harmony is suffering. Seriously injured, you should immediately welcome the Prophet on board, treat him with the most favorable terms, and pray that he can spare your life!"

Hearing Frsami's words, the chief blade officer was startled in disbelief, then roared angrily, raised his fist and hit the wall next to the confinement room with a "bang".He roared loudly at Vrsami: "Damn it Vrsami! Spare my life?! How dare you say that!"

He shouted loudly to the communication unit hanging on his shoulder: "Bridge, order two battleships to surround me with the Truth and Harmony, and then send a boarding spaceship to me to take down that stupid and arrogant Saint West." If the Mu people capture him, I want him to die!"

"As you command, my lord." The communications officer on the other side of the communications unit replied tremblingly.

After hearing this, the chief blade officer raised his jaw sarcastically.He stared at Frsami coldly, "You'd better pray that your prophet has the strength to compete with my subordinates, otherwise -"

A sudden sharp alarm sounded in the confinement room, interrupting the Chief Blade Officer's words. A blood-red triangle symbol flashed rapidly on the wall, and the communication unit also lit up at the same time.

The communications officer's tone became tense and slurred. "Sir, something is wrong, Truth and Harmony. Oh, God is above, God is above. Truth and Harmony is starting to speed up. What does it want to do? It's a jump. It's a gap in the jump fault! The gap will separate the Holy Glory and Eternity. The Redemption was torn in half!”

The Chief Blade Officer and Frsami did not react for a moment, and were stunned in place at the same time.

"Sir, this is a human spaceship, right next to the Truth and Harmony! They are rushing towards our launch module!"

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January 2552, 9 in the military calendar at 22 hours

The Longsword interceptor was on its way to raid the Covenant flagship.

The safety rope connected Tommy and the Marines to the bulkhead of the Longsword machine through metal buckles.A flash of light penetrated the cabin, and Tommy subconsciously looked out the observation window. He saw the Truth and Harmony igniting its engines and starting to accelerate, and its tail thrusters burst out with dazzling light.

Immediately afterwards, a dark green point appeared on the head of the battleship, and then expanded rapidly. The two Covenant cruisers surrounding the Truth and Harmony were hit by the expanding fault space and were instantly torn in half.The blue-purple flame briefly flashed from the crack in the cruiser, and then was sucked into the vacuum of the slip space along with the escaping air.

A few ten minutes ago, the interrogation of the management prophet went extremely smoothly. Before Tommy could use the interrogation methods, the management prophet spoke arrogantly while revealing his willingness to cooperate and surrender.

So they simply used the Management Prophet to send a distress message to the Covenant warships in the system, luring the Covenant warships to close the distance with them - this plan worked.

Polaski was currently driving a long sword machine, rushing towards the Covenant's flagship at the fastest speed.

Sergeant Avery Johnson, locked to Tommy's right hand, took a mission recorder from his pocket and inserted a chip.There was nothing on the screen but the rhythmic, high-pitched sound blasting from the tiny speaker.Tommy's ears were not clean, and he heard that this was not the colonial pop music that Avery had played during the previous raids on the Covenant facilities, but a kind of "bounce" music-its predecessor was the noisy music of centuries ago. "metal" music.However, it seemed particularly to the sergeant's taste.

"Just shoot me now, Sergeant," protested Cecilia, who was sitting across from Tommy, "or turn it off and stop tormenting me with that damn noise."

Avery snorted disdainfully, "Enjoy it, Corporal, this is a classic."

"It's better to die than listen to it."

Polaski continued to dodge the attack, and the Longsword rolled around, sometimes tilting to port and sometimes to starboard.She made the fighter roll twice in a row to avoid a plasma beam fired by the enemy cruiser.

"Showing off," Ellie muttered from the speakers in Tommy's helmet.

"Cortana has established a connection with the Covenant's combat communication network!" Ellie announced loudly in the team's communication channel, "I am entering their navigation system and preparing to fight!"

Tommy saw through the monitor that another Longsword interceptor where the Master Chief was on intercepted another plasma torpedo from the side and rear. The explosion ignited a raging fire and disappeared after a while, like a ball of sparkling ionized particles. Clouds of metal streak across the night sky.

The enemy flagship appeared on the display screen on the front of the fighter plane - very similar to the last time I tried to avoid it, but this time the purpose was to break into it.

Tommy felt a little uneasy because he was now in the cabin and could do nothing but watch Polaski desperately driving the Longsword.

At this time, Tommy noticed that Rebecca, who was holding him tightly, was swaying slightly to the rhythm of Avery's music.

Seeing Tommy looking at him, Rebecca opened the private communication channel with him with a "pop" and said: "This... is not bad! It sounds much better than the one he let go before!"

Tommy smiled helplessly.

The uneasy wait didn't last long when Polaski suddenly shouted on the channel: "Everyone, sit still!"

Amid Cecilia's exclamation, the sound of the long sword machine's engine suddenly disappeared, and the shaking sensation from the deck suddenly stopped.Tommy only felt the safety rope connected to his armor tighten suddenly, and the next moment everyone in the cabin rose into the air and was thrown towards the back of the cabin.

Rebecca struggled to stand up, but Tommy knew what was going to happen next, so he remained lying on the deck, holding tightly to one of Rebecca's legs.

(End of this chapter)