Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 65 Escape ([-])

"What do you mean by your actions? You know what you are doing? How can you kill everyone?" The blue holographic image of Saburo Arasaka roared loudly, with his mouth wide open as if he wanted to eat all the people present.

[Ellie, what did he say? 】 Tommy didn't know why, and quietly watched the old man "performing" behind the window.

[Just some nonsense. ] Ellie paused, [He is seizing control of the elevator, quickly pull out the chip. 】The navigation point points to the dark red light spot in the center of the console.

Tommy reached out and tapped it lightly, shattering its bulletproof glass shell, and then pulled out the red chip inside.The blue image behind the observation window suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"Where did that old guy go?" Rebecca was startled when she saw the old man suddenly disappeared, and then asked.

"I don't know, maybe he is in this chip?" Tommy looked carefully at the dark red chip, which had the symbols of short lines, circles and triangles on it - just like the two crystals.

"David!" Lucy suddenly screamed from the side.Everyone looked around and saw that David had woken up at some point, with blood pouring out of his mouth and sprinkling on the ground to form a scarlet mark.His eyeballs were shaking, and cyberpsychosis had almost completely taken over him.

【Hold on. ] Ellie restarted David's system again, and his head drooped.

"Tommy, if this continues, David will die!" Lucy shouted to Tommy with tears in her eyes.

"We're leaving now." Tommy stepped forward, put David on his shoulders, and led several people back to the elevator.

Looking at the constantly beating floor numbers, Tommy couldn't help but feel that the situation was serious: originally, he could use the mobile invisibility cloak to obtain the last crystal while concealing his identity, but a sudden change exposed him, and in this way, Night City would be in trouble. He can't stay any longer - in order to prevent the United Earth Government from regaining control of Anshan, the company will pursue him endlessly.

"You are leaving Night City next, right?" Rebecca patted him and asked.

".Hmm." Tommy nodded towards him.This is a difficult choice. It is not easy to leave an environment that is already familiar to you.

"I'll go with you." Rebecca showed a big smile to Tommy, two rows of neat and lovely teeth shining in the elevator light.

Tommy also smiled, took her hand, and said to the others: "I will leave Night City on a high note and ensure that the company will not cause you any trouble.

"Thank you for your hard work, Tommy." Falco lowered his head slightly and looked at Rebecca, "Little sister, see you later."

"Falco, see you later!"

"Ding dong~" The elevator door opened, revealing the empty top of Arasaka Tower, where a floating car with the Arasaka logo was parked.

Several people rushed to the floating car, and Ellie was responsible for driving it.

The propeller at the rear of the aerostat tilted backwards, and then the blue tail flame exploded and it quickly flew away into the distance.

"Ellie, are we safe?" Tommy leaned on the edge of the hatch and looked down. The area near Arasaka Tower was surrounded by densely packed armored vehicles and heavily armored soldiers, and various company logos complemented each other.

"I don't think so yet. Unlike the sign of the signal source that locked us from inside Arasaka Tower at the beginning, they sent a drone." Ellie's voice sounded from the speaker in the corner of the aerospace vehicle.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of dense fan blades breaking through the air sounded, and the drone swarm followed like disturbed bees. They were getting closer and closer to the aerial vehicle.The black muzzle popped out from the lower end of the drone, and then red and yellow flames bloomed, and dense bullets hit the rear end of the aerial vehicle, making a "dinging" sound.

"Damn it!" Falco took out his pistol and was about to lean out to fight back, but Tommy held him back and pushed him back to his seat.

"The caliber of your firearm is too small to penetrate the armor of these military drones." Tommy made a gesture to stop Lucy from getting up, and motioned for her to sit down.

"Then me." Rebecca grabbed the MA37 rifle and was about to support, but Tommy stopped her.

"Their firepower is too strong," Tommy pointed at the downpour of tracer barrages, "Just leave it to me."

The Spartan warrior took the MA37 rifle, removed the car door with his bare hands to serve as a shield to buffer bullets, activated the magnetic strips on the bottom of the boots, climbed to the top of the float vehicle and fought back against the drone swarm.The rapid-fire armor-piercing projectiles accurately hit the drone group, explosions sounded from time to time, and dazzling firelight flickered over the Night City.

Tommy emptied a magazine, leaned over and hid behind the car door to reload, and the sound of the energy shield replenishing rang in his ears.

"Sit tight!" Ellie's urgent voice was accompanied by the harsh locked alarm sound.

The aerostat's rear thruster quickly deflected to the side, and Tommy felt a strong push. If it weren't for the magnetic strips, he would have been thrown out of the vehicle.

Several rockets flew away almost grazing the edge of the float vehicle, leaving behind a trail of gray smoke.The missile vehicles on the ground moved after them, and surface-to-air rockets were fired round after round.

Ellie drove the floating car and performed two roller maneuvers, and dodged a salvo of rockets.The recoil on Tommy's shoulders continued, and he felt the contents of his stomach churning under the violent changes in acceleration.The drone swarm suddenly came closer to the aerial vehicle, and the blue light behind the propeller became dim—it lost power.

"Ellie, what's going on?" He turned on the communicator built into the helmet and asked, hearing the whistling of bullets in his ears.

"The signal from inside Arasaka Tower used their unique key to bypass my firewall and locked the engine of the aerial vehicle." The aerial vehicle made another sharp turn, bypassing a tall building, and the rocket The bullet hit the building wall with a deafening explosion, and large and small pieces of the outer wall fell off and smashed into the street.

Tommy rolled back into the car and used his free hand to pick up the M6D pistol attached to his leg. "What's the next step? Is there a suitable place for an emergency landing?"

The "altitude too low" alarm kept ringing inside the float vehicle, and red lights flashed across the small space.

"I'm driving to a mansion with an outdoor swimming pool. You'll land there."

"Copy that." Tommy looked at everyone, "You have all heard it. If you think it's time to jump down, I will use fire suppression for you."

Seeing a few people nodding, Tommy looked outside the car and saw the azure swimming pool getting closer and closer. The water in the pool reflected sparkling waves under the moonlight.There is a cubic-shaped raised bedroom next to the open-air swimming pool. Through the wide floor-to-ceiling glass, two figures inside can be vaguely seen.

"Now!" Tommy leaned out suddenly, the two guns in his hands roared suddenly, and the barrage around the floating car suddenly became extremely sparse.

Falco dragged David out of the floating car, Lucy glanced at Tommy and followed closely, leaving Rebecca unwilling to go first.

"Uncle, let's go too!" Rebecca patted Tommy on the back, but was picked up by him.

"Idiot, I will definitely leave." Tommy reached out to the driver's seat of the aerostat and pulled out Ellie's chip, then jumped out with his back to the drone group, letting the aerostat lose power and fall. toward the ground.

The bullet hit the energy shield and made a "sizzling" sound of electricity. The smell of gunpowder smoke in the air penetrated into his nasal cavity. The three people in front fell into the water one after another, causing splashes of water. The blue and white tile floor in his eyes continued to enlarge - -Tommy jumped out too late. Due to the effect of inertia, his landing point was not in the water.

He smashed into the ground like a cannonball and slid forward, plowing a gray path. Blue and white tiles were knocked into the sky, and the energy shield kept flashing white light.

"Who are you talking about?!" The middle-aged man, wearing only a pair of underwear, rushed out of the bedroom, ran to the swimming pool and yelled at Tommy who was lying on the ground.

A series of bullets roared from the sky, leaving a bullet hole on the floor in front of the man, making him jump in fright.Tommy raised his rifle and fired back into the sky, and several drones staggered down with black smoke.

"My God, you can stay here as long as you want. I won't disturb you." The middle-aged man quickly ran back to the room, picked up a naked woman and ran downstairs.

"You hide in first! I'll see if there's a chance to break out!" Tommy shouted to the three people who were all wet, and then pushed Rebecca towards them.

The buzzing sound of the drone in the sky disappeared at some point. Just when Tommy was feeling strange, a floating gunboat emerged from behind the biotechnology building, blocking a quarter of the full moon in the sky.The missile launch bay on its side slowly opened, revealing rows of frightening rocket warheads, and gray-white smoke emerged from the tail.

Falco and Rebecca stared at the floating gunboat with pale faces. If this round of rockets hit them, they would probably not even be left alive.

"Ugh!" David woke up again at some unknown time. The blood spit out from his mouth was much less than before, and his lips were bloodless - there was not much blood that could be spit out from his body.

what to do?Lucy's whole body was in chaos, David's breath was getting weaker and weaker, and there was a gunboat in the sky. No matter how you looked at it, this was a dead end.

Tommy planned to take down the gunship with unrivaled firepower, then seize an armored vehicle and escape.So he took off the Spartan Laser from his back and carried it on his shoulder. The energy bar on the right side of the helmet's HUD only had 20% left, which meant that he only had one shot left.

A red line of light was aimed at the gunship, and the shield on the laser diode popped up.

One second. Two seconds
A fan-shaped brilliant flame suddenly lit up from the back of the gunboat, burning through the entire night sky.An explosion resounded through the sky, and the rocket in the launch chamber exploded. The long and narrow floating gunboat was broken into two parts in the middle, dragging orange flames and hitting nearby high-rise buildings and ground roads, splashing a cloud of dust.

Tommy couldn't help but let go of his finger on the trigger and looked at the sky in confusion - the Spartan laser did not fire, and even if it did, it shouldn't happen.Such characteristic continuous fires and explosions are more like fighter bombings.

At this time, two broad manta ray-shaped interceptors, dragging multiple blue streams of light, quickly approached the top of the building where he was from high altitude, and the air screamed towards him.With his amazing vision and reaction speed, Tommy saw the pilot inside the interceptor giving him a thumbs up, and the eagle logo on the fuselage caught his eye.

The wind pressure suddenly increased, and the water in the swimming pool flapped uneasily from side to side, making a "swishing" sound.The bright full moon was blocked by the metal object that covered the sky and the sun, and its shadow spread over the entire night city.

The communicator in Tommy's helmet emitted static noise, and the E-band of the communication, which had not sounded since arriving here, fluctuated.

"Call Spartan-027, this is the UNSC Navy, No. 16 Fleet Chinese Battle Group frigate Yuanzhu, I am Captain Di Qing - why are you in this ghost place?"

(End of this chapter)