Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 170 Battle of Critical Star ([-])
Polaski cut the engines and turned on the attitude adjustment thrusters.At this time, the Long Sword aircraft made a 180-degree turn, and its nose and tail fell off.Polaski flew out at full speed, the engine overloaded and roaring.The airframe was put under tremendous stress due to deceleration.

Tommy held onto the deck with one hand and held Rebecca's leg with the other to keep her from flying to the other side of the fighter like the other Marines.

Polaski switched the display to a dual-screen display—monitoring the nose and tail simultaneously.She adjusted the fighter's thrusters at any time, aiming at the flagship's launch bay entrance and slowly approaching.The small entrance on the screen grew larger and larger at an extremely fast rate. "Attention please!"

The engine was whining and the speed of the long sword machine was also slowing down, but this was not enough.

They enter the launch cabin at a speed of 300 meters per second.The long sword machine's engine sprayed out streams of flames, rushing away the Grunt technicians who were hurriedly trying to escape.Their methane tanks exploded like firecrackers.

Polaski cut off the power, and the fighter plane hit the deck with a "boom", followed by a heart-wrenching sound of metal friction that filled the entire launch bay.

Tommy, Rebecca, and Aurora flying from the opposite direction huddled together and fell into the pilot and operator seats.

The Grunt approaches the fighter with a plasma pistol.Their weapons are warming up and glowing green.Covenant engineers were busy putting out fires and repairing burst pipes.

"The shield above the launch module is being reactivated." Ellie reported, "The external air pressure has stabilized. Please feel free to stand up and walk around in the cabin."

Locklear got up on his hands and knees. "Yeah!" he yelled.The young hell paratrooper suddenly pulled the bolt of his MA5B assault rifle and inserted a bullet into the chamber. "Let's get started!"

"Well done, everyone," Tommy said as he stood up and glanced at the dozen hell paratroopers who had volunteered to follow him to lead the charge.He readied his assault rifle, "but the difficulty lies ahead."

The plasma beam hit the fuselage of the Long Sword machine, and the windshield shattered everywhere.Waves of luminous energy "chirped" through the cockpit, leaving dark marks on the glass after being ablated by them.

A large group of Grunts crouched behind the Seraph fighter jets and fuel tanks that were not taking off.Some were still rushing there to save their lives, while others jumped out with guns in hand and shot out streaks of pale green plasma beams to attack the long sword machine.

"I'll take care of them," Polaski said, flipping a switch.

The landing gear of the long sword machine started, rose to one meter above the ground and then stopped. "The cannon is ready." Polaski shouted, "Goodbye, dear guys!"

She picked up a graticule sight and glanced around the launch bay.The dense 120 mm caliber shells shattered the Grunt bunkers like hailstones.Fuel tanks and unshielded fighters exploded one after another, and metal fragments and Grunts flew away and fell on the deck.

The raging fire caused by the air explosion roared toward the ceiling, and then slowly extinguished.The launch bay was a mess, with pools of fuel still burning. The charred corpses of Grunts and Covenant engineers were scattered everywhere.

"Don't be nervous, the battleship's fire extinguishing system has automatically turned on." Ellie reminded.

As soon as she finished speaking, streams of gray mist fell from above. The fire suddenly burned more intensely, but soon gradually weakened and was finally extinguished completely. "Is there air in the launch bay?" Tommy asked.

"Scanning in progress," Ellie answered. "There's some ash, some pollution from the melted fuselage of the battleship, and a lot of smoke, but the air inside is breathable."

"Okay," he turned to the others, "Let's go in and clear the landing zone for the Master Chief's sword. I'll take the lead."

"You must take me with you," Ellie said. "Although I have obtained the navigation chart of this spacecraft, the control device has been artificially locked. I need to directly access the command data system of the spacecraft."

It shouldn't have been, but Tommy hesitated.On Halo and other ground battlefields, having Ellie is equivalent to having an invaluable tactical advantage.

However, she also used part of the neural interface of his armor for information processing, which meant that she occupied part of Tommy's brain; and since she came out of the Forerunner computer system on Blue Star in Central China, her behavior has always been weird and agitated. disturbed.Especially that "crazy" incident made him even more worried about her condition.

Thinking of the two artificial intelligences on Harvest Star, he hoped that he could have enough respect and care for her, but in this case, if Ellie became a burden, he would pull her out.

"You wait." He said, and then pressed a key on the Long Sword Machine's computer terminal to dump Ellie back to a data chip. After a while, a green pulse wave appeared on the terminal.

He removed the chip, looked at the cracks on it, and put it into the slot on the back of the helmet.A wave of dizziness hit him, and when Ellie connected with him, his head felt like it was filled with mercury and ice. This feeling was very familiar to him, and he had experienced it countless times in the Night City.

[Let me see, there is quite a lot of space here. Even two girls can’t satisfy you. ] Ellie said jokingly.

It's true which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted.
For a moment, Kamano Nana's name stirred up the longing hidden in his heart, which made him feel a little timid about the upcoming battle.

Although he didn't want to admit it, after walking through Night City, he felt that he was not as brave and unscrupulous as before - he had to consider more things before going to the battlefield.

He drove away the emotions he shouldn't have at this time, ignored Ellie's usual wisecracks, nodded to Avery and Rebecca on the side and said, "Let's go."

Avery gritted his teeth and pushed open the side door of the long sword machine with a bang with his shoulder.Rebecca took the opportunity to put her rifle over her shoulder and fired a burst of fire at the hatch.The two Grunts were struck and fell backwards to the deck.They had been crouching near the sword machine to protect themselves from being shot, but now they were lying face down in a pool of glistening blood.

Tommy took the lead, rushing ahead and jumping down from the gangway that had not been completely lowered.With his feet firmly on the deck, his motion detector detected three targets beside him. He suddenly turned around and saw three Covenant engineers.He put his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle—the engineer posed no threat to them.

(End of this chapter)