Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 88 The Battle of Zhonghaina Blue Star ([-])

Combat deployment time: +14 hours, 23 minutes and 35 seconds (Colonel Price’s mission clock)
Unknown ruins near Bibo Town.

Tommy groped around on the holographic panel, hoping to hit something that would awaken the white creation.

Perhaps his thoughts worked, the holographic panel lit up again, and Ellie's chip popped out of the terminal.

Picking up the chip and about to put her back into the armor, Tommy's brows knitted together deeply and his hands paused in the air - the center of the chip was covered with fine cracks. He clearly remembered Ellie. It is intact before being connected to the terminal.

【You are hurt? 】The familiar cold feeling flooded into his brain, Tommy asked eagerly.

[The "ancient sages" worshiped by the Covenant are the forerunners.] Ellie's weak voice made Tommy feel extremely worried, [There is also a crystal from the City of Night on board the Yuanzhu, take me back to the ship.]

[No, tell me first how you——]

A blue dot meaning "unknown" on the motion detector suddenly flashed from behind him, and Tommy was startled.He drew his gun and turned around with lightning speed, his sharp eyes scanning forward - there was nothing but boulders shattered by the plasma cutter.

A strong wind carrying the smell of rain and earth blew in from outside the passage, and the majestic sound of rain came in and echoed off the walls.

The movement of the rain would cause the motion detectors to malfunction, so Tommy relaxed.

"Zizi" static noise sounded from his helmet communicator, "Colonel, have you got the crystal?" Di Qing asked on the communication channel.

"Not yet," Tommy looked at the fluctuating radiation meter, and then at the room Rebecca and the others entered, "It should be soon."

"Sir, most of the residents of Zhonghai Nalan Star have boarded the transport ship. The Yinchu's reactor and engine are about to be repaired. We don't have much time."

Tommy understood what she meant. Judging from the Military Intelligence Bureau's analysis of the past support speed of the Covenant, they should evacuate within fifteen hours after the exchange of fire with the Covenant, otherwise the incoming fleet would annihilate them. Surround.

They had spent too much time trying to find this place.

"Okay Major, we will return before the warning time."

He planned to ask about Ellie when he returned to the Yaoshu. The top priority now was to find the Grunt.

"Becca, how's the situation?" Tommy asked in the team channel, "Did you find the Grunt?"

"Not yet, team leader, but I can smell their stench-" Tommy heard the roar of the elite warriors from her side, "Tooth, get out of the way!"

Fire suddenly flashed from the room Rebecca and the others entered, and gunshots echoed in the hall. Tommy immediately picked up the MA5B rifle and rushed into the room.

"Team leader! We are entangled, stop it!" Rebecca shouted in the team channel.

The one-eyed Grunt suddenly burst out of the room. Tommy raised his gun and took aim, only to find that it was holding a crystal high. He had to pull out a shorter tactical dagger and pounce on it.

The Grunt, who was so frightened that he burst into tears, huddled behind the white Forerunner creation and watched Tommy rush toward it, screaming in terror.It used the Forerunner creation to circle around the pursuing Tommy, and the Spartan couldn't catch it in a few breaths.

Tommy changed tactics and feinted, causing the Grunt to spin and crash into his leg.He kicked it over, but the cunning Grunt actually raised the crystal to cover more of himself.

Tommy had no choice but to reach out to grab the Grunt, but a young human woman suddenly jumped out and stopped him - the only female survivor.

"You cold-blooded animal!" She spread her arms to block the Grunt. "Didn't you see it trembling? It's so pitiful, why did you kill him?!"

"What are you doing?! It's our enemy!" An unknown fire burned in Tommy's heart. He could still tell the difference between one person and hundreds of millions of people. Everyone in the Military Intelligence Agency was familiar with the process. to make such moral choices.But at this time, even if the bullet penetrated her body, it would probably break the crystal.

So he picked up the collar of the human woman and pulled her aside. But in such a short time, the agile Grunt had already slipped to the door of another room.

"Go to hell, you stupid human being!" It actually spoke English, and while running into the room, it raised the plasma rifle in its hand and fired a large green plasma beam at the human woman.

Tommy tried to pull the human woman behind him, but she ungratefully threw herself aside, hitting her head on a piece of gravel and passed out.

Having no time to pay attention to her, Tommy strode towards the Grunt.

A door fell with a bang, and Tommy, who was blocked in front of the door, could only watch helplessly as the Grunt made faces at him behind the door, then turned around and disappeared into the depths of the ruins.

The fist that could break boulders hit the door, but it didn't leave even a mark - the painful fingers told him that this building material was actually better than the A-grade titanium alloy commonly used by humans to build warships. Countless times harder.

"Team leader!" Rebecca led the team and ran out of the room. Her body was covered with purple blood. "Where is that little bastard?" Tommy looked at the human who was still breathing and lying on the ground with blood coming from the back of his head. The woman opened her mouth to accuse her, but realized that this was in vain.

"What's wrong?" Rebecca followed Tommy's gaze and asked in confusion, "Who is she? Where did she come from?"

"Thanks to her, the Grunt ran away." Tommy waved his hand towards Aurora, gesturing for her to stop the bleeding of the human woman.

Rebecca immediately understood what had happened, picked up the rifle and replaced it with a new magazine to shoot her.

"No, Beca!" Tommy raised the muzzle of Rebecca's gun, the gunshot rang out, and the bullet flew past the human woman's hair, "Your identity is different now!"

"Bang!" Rebecca snorted angrily at her, turned and walked away.

Tommy looked at the mission clock on the heads-up display. There was not enough time left for them to deploy the heavy drill, and the Covenant support fleet would arrive at any time.

"The mission failed, we are returning to the Yuanzhu now." Tommy said to the four of them.

"What should I do with this woman with such an ugly hairstyle?" Cecilia wiped the blood stains on the helmet panel and asked Tommy.

Tommy pondered for a moment and decided that leaving her here was not an option. The nearest orbital elevator was too far away.

"Let's take her back to the ship."
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Yongzhu shooter missile launch module.

The elevator door slid open, and Nana Kamano walked into the launch bay holding her handheld computer.

The launch bay is like a honeycomb, with busy scenes everywhere: maintenance station personnel are running in and out of the aisles with handheld computers and multi-functional site scanners; robots are carrying huge shooter-type missiles, spider-like Anti-Japanese missiles, etc. Long mines, as well as several small boxes of liquid deuterium prepared for the Yuanzhu auxiliary reactor; the containers containing ammunition landed on the deck with a "bang bang", and the titanium plates that were transported were welded to the appropriate positions of the spacecraft.

"Sir, please take a look at the ammunition replenishment data." The young man from the repair space station next to him came up to him. He was the person in charge of the space station.

This was the first time that Kamano Nana was called that. She felt that she should look like a superior, but her previous habits could not be changed so easily. People next to her could easily see her awkwardness.

"Well, no problem, thank you." Nana Kamano suddenly realized that she should be more dignified.She pursed her lips and her tone became deeper, "You did a good job, keep going."

The person in charge didn't answer, he just looked at her blankly, as if he was frozen by ice and snow.

"Ahem!" Kamano Nana had to remind him that this was very impolite behavior.

"Ah!" The person in charge suddenly woke up, "I'm sorry, sir, you are so beautiful." He hesitated and swallowed before he dared to continue, "You are so beautiful. I have never seen someone like you—" —”

"Okay, okay," Kamano Nana interrupted him quickly. There are a lot of fans like him in Night City. The eldest lady knew that if he continued like this, he could talk endlessly, "Go on, another missile The launch bay hasn’t started yet.”

"Yes, sir!" The person in charge continued to squirm, as if he felt that he was too out of place. He straightened his waist suddenly, gave a standard military salute to Kamano Nana, and then turned around to face the people in the distance. Colleagues who saw his joke ran away.

Kamano Nana sighed softly, shook her head helplessly, walked to the observation window and looked at Nakahaina Blue Star.

Thousands of civilian transport ships were connected to the space station, and the densely packed cargo bays quickly moved up along the seven swaying orbital elevators, which were filled with civilians from Zhonghaina Blue Star.After arriving at the space station through the orbital elevator, they will be arranged in an orderly manner to the transport ship, and then the transport ship will enter the slip space and return to the solar system after several aimless jumps.

Kamano Nana averted her eyes and scratched her black hair in distress.When will he come back?Will fighting on the ground be dangerous?Will he be injured?A series of worries made her feel like her little head was about to burn out.

At this moment, the shadow of the repair station passed through the observation window.Essentially, it's a giant metal platform that houses an engine.In fact, huge is just an understatement. It covers an area of ​​more than one square kilometer, and its shadow is enough to cover three destroyers.

This space station can renovate six destroyers at the same time, three on the upper deck and three on the lower deck. The time spent is only a few hours. Now that the space station concentrates its resources to only serve the Yuanzhu, this time can be shorter.

There are many hanging arms and tripods installed on its surface to facilitate repair work.Supply pipelines, conveyor belts, and container trucks continuously deliver materials to the Yaoshu.

The aliens did not leave any fatal injuries on the Yongzhu, and because the performance of the Charon-class light frigate was better than that of the destroyer Iroquois on which Captain Jacob Keyes was stationed at the time, it had almost no problems.

Nana Kamano checked here for a while, and after confirming that everything was correct, she headed to another missile launch bay.

"Warrant Officer, the colonel has brought back a refugee and wants you to go to the infirmary to talk to her." Di Qing's voice came from the communicator.

"As ordered, sir."

Although Kamano Nana was happy that Tommy had returned safely, she still had some doubts - why should she go to see a refugee?
(End of this chapter)