Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 91 Jump ([-])

There was a gentle knock at the door, diluting the reluctant atmosphere here.

"Sir, the supplies to be prepared have been packed," Corporal Avora's voice sounded outside the door, "Do we need to wait for you?"

"No need, you can board the ship first, I will come later." Tommy took off his helmet and replied.

"As ordered, sir."

The sound of footsteps drifted away.

He looked down at the girl in front of him, with mixed feelings in his heart, and his fingers couldn't help but gently caressing the battle-damaged areas on the armor.

"I'm leaving, Nana." Tommy warned the girl softly, "If you have any questions you don't understand, you can ask Captain Di Qing. If any civilians make things difficult for you, remember to be tough and reveal your identity. Don't..."

For the first time, Tommy found that he could talk like Kurt.

Kamano Nana wanted to say that she could go with him, but she couldn't say the words that slipped out of her mouth - the weapon operating system of the Yushu also needed a skilled officer, and now she had a task that she had to fulfill. Responsibilities.

She pressed her slender fingers to Tommy's lips, which silenced him. "You must come back safely, okay?" The girl's eyes were red, tears flashed in her wine-red eyes, and her voice was no longer sweet, but full of bitterness.

"I promise you." Tommy hugged her gently and wiped away her tears, "Those alien bastards can't do anything to me."

Rebecca walked over and said, "Don't worry, Miss, I'm still here." She also patted the girl on the back, "If this guy dares to take risks, I will break his legs."

Kamano Nana blinked her watery eyes, smiled at her, and said "hmm" softly.

They hugged each other again, but couldn't say a word of farewell.

It wasn't until the two figures disappeared at the end of the corridor that Nana Kamano returned to the bridge feeling lost.

The bridge of the Yongzhu.

"Captain, the colonel and his team have boarded the Covenant cruiser. He signaled that we can set off." Lieutenant Lucius said while holding the earpiece.

Di Qing concealed her dissatisfaction with a cold expression - what if the colonel can't come back?She was also counting on someone to help her suppress the report of her wrong decision when she went back and made the jump in violation of regulations!
She looked at the display screen connected to the starboard camera. The Covenant cruiser had begun to accelerate, and the tail thruster was bursting with blue-purple flames, like a shark rushing forward.

"Lieutenant Hicks, report." Di Qing ordered.

"The energy supply level of the reactor has been restored to the ideal state, and the engine has been warmed up." The lieutenant looked at Di Qing eagerly, "It is ready to go at any time."

"Awesome." Di Qing couldn't help but smile, "Lieutenant Theodore, according to the Cole protocol, randomly generated a route, and then sent the relevant navigation data to the transport ship carrying civilians."

"Yes, sir." Lieutenant Theodore was still so meticulous. She tapped on the keyboard, and dazzling symbols and numbers began to dance on the navigation platform. "The calculation is completed. The flagship of the transport fleet has completed receiving route data. .”

Di Qing ordered to Lieutenant Hicks: "Prepare the jump fault generator, start the main thruster, move forward at maximum acceleration, and prepare to enter the jump fault space."

"As ordered, sir."

A huge pushing feeling came from behind, and the Zhonghaina Blue Star on the display quickly changed to only the size of a thumb cover.

Just when they thought they had successfully escaped, the alarm lights on the bridge suddenly came on, and the screams of the alarm made everyone present panic.

"Sir, the detection results of the space probe are back!" Lieutenant Lucius uploaded the data to Di Qing's handheld computer.

The scanning window popped up, full of spectrograms and radar signals, and even more meaningless noise.The space detector can extend into the transition fault space to observe the fault space.Each emits radar pulses, analyzes spectral patterns across the spectrum from microwaves to X-rays, and then returns to regular space to transmit the results back to the ship.

The problem is that there are no rules to follow in the physical rules of jump fault space.Position, time, velocity and even mass are difficult to determine precisely.The spacecraft has never been able to know where it is or which direction it is going.

Every two seconds, the space probe returns to regular space.It may return to its origin, it may travel several trillion light-years away...or it may not be able to come back at all.After releasing a space detector, it is always necessary to release a target to ensure that they can follow the target back to the origin and carry out side detection work smoothly.

She quickly activated the control panel and tracked the source of the encounter signal-the alpha space detector.

The space probe detected a large group of extremely high-mass objects. Under the influence of the gravity field of the Orion Omega galaxy, its orbit curved in an arc.

After releasing the target for the space probe, she quickly opened the UNSC database of known Covenant spacecraft, searched quickly, and finally found a three-dimensional pattern of a giant spacecraft.

A chill spread from head to toe. She gently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, then reduced the image by three-quarters, superimposed it with the outline of an unknown object, and then zoomed in a little bit - an aircraft carrier.

"Lieutenant Theodore?" Di Qing's voice was slightly trembling.

"Not fast enough to enter slip space!"

"Sir, if we discard the coolant and use the backup thrusters, I can increase the horsepower by 80.00% in half a minute." Lieutenant Hicks yelled, his face flushed with nervousness.

"Just do it!"

Di Qing felt that the Yongzhu seemed to pause for a moment, and then a loud "bang" sound spread throughout the ship, and the metal frame of the ship's hull made an overwhelmed sound of "creaking" under the extremely high acceleration.

"Slip space rift detected!" Di Qing looked up and looked out the observation window, only to see that the endless starry sky was torn open with a continuously enlarging and rotating hole. The Covenant's aircraft carrier had just revealed its carnivore-like appearance. The weird head filled up the entire field of vision. In front of it, the Taozuo seemed worse than an ant.

She set her sights on the cruiser where Tommy was. The cruiser had already completed its acceleration and then plunged into the slip space.

"Sir, the general of Zhonghaina Blue Star has issued an order!"

The general's ravaged and weathered face appeared on the screen. "Major, continue to jump, be sure to protect the civilians, and let me and my boys buy you some time." When he said this, there was no panic or fear, but only the calmness of rushing to death calmly and devoting himself to a great cause. of pride.

"Look! The general's transport ship and maintenance station!" Kamano Nana pointed at the monitor on the port side and shouted.

The transport ship at the end was at full power, the propeller at the bottom glowed brightly, and it rushed straight towards the ten-kilometer-long aircraft carrier that the Covenant had just revealed.The two were soon in close combat. The transport ship flew close to the hull of the aircraft carrier, and made several emergency advances to avoid the hurried plasma fire fired by the Covenant, which slightly delayed the pace of the Covenant.

The maintenance station with a length of one kilometer also dragged its bulky body and crashed into the Covenant frigate - but their duty was not to participate in the battle.

Kamano Nana thought of the young person in charge. Such a heroic person should not have died so easily. He could have enjoyed his long life instead of dying for others.

Di Qing glanced at the handheld computer and said, "The jump begins, Lieutenant Theodore!"

Before falling into the boundless darkness of the fault space, Nana Kamano saw the Covenant fleet surrounding the "tiny" space station and transport ship, like a group of ferocious turtles.Another salvo of plasma fire rained down on them, and before she could see the results, the rift in space closed.

A deathly silence lingered in the bridge, and everyone was frozen in their seats.

Kamano Nana lowered her head and said nothing.

There were so many heroes in this war.
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2552 hours on September 9, 4 in the military calendar (abnormal time flow rate)
Go to the slip space of the Seer system and board the captured Covenant force cruiser.

Cecilia looked away from the dark slip space and looked at the Covenant engineers.This alien creature is doing some very technical work in front of the power coupler on the bridge. It extends its pink tentacles to the coupler, and its hundreds of millions of cilia are moving crazily in the device, causing The blue-green light on the surface of the coupler flashes continuously.

"Hey! Which race are you from in the Covenant?" Cecilia patted its airbag, and it deflated visibly.Seeing that the engineer ignored him, he grabbed an idle tentacle and played with it, "Say something, I'm so bored."

The engineer didn't even want to look away from him. It took three seconds to assemble the completely disassembled power coupler, and then floated to the side to the panel that was hit by the plasma beam.The panel was burned, half melted away.The engineer blew on it a few times, then removed the casing and repaired the tangled optical cables inside.

Cecilia looked at it for a while, then walked up to it, pulled its turtle-like head, and slapped it twice.

The engineer chirped twice, waved his tentacles toward him a few times, and then continued to concentrate on the equipment in front of him.

Taote was walking in with Tommy and the others carrying the supplies shipped from the Yongshu, and he happened to see this scene. "Cecilia! If you break it, we'll all have to walk around without food."

"You're so nosy," Cecilia glanced at him, and then lightly slapped the engineer twice, "You're really being a locomotive like this."

The engineer was finally annoyed this time. Its tentacles danced wildly, and afterimages kept passing over Cecilia's armor.A few seconds later, with a "ping, bang, bang, bang" sound, the armor on his body was dismantled into pieces and fell to the ground, leaving him stagnant in place.

Seeing this, Rebecca couldn't help but giggle.

"Team leader, look at her laughing at me~" Cecilia coquettishly said to Tommy while putting the armor together.

Tommy was so disgusted by him that goosebumps crawled up his spine.

"Looking for death, you bastard!" Rebecca picked up the metal stick that fell next to her and rushed towards Cecilia.

He was beaten until he screamed, and the combat armor he was not wearing was swaying. "Team leader, please take care of her, she's going to smash my knees!"

"Cecilia, use your honorific when speaking to the colonel!" Taut yelled at Cecilia, who was lying on the ground and shaking. Then he looked at Tommy, "Sir, don't mind, that's what he is like. .”

Tommy smiled and shook his head, ignoring it. "He's very energetic, isn't he? It will be a lot easier for a team to have him."

The engineers are still busy, and they don't seem to stop for a moment.

After looking at the terminal with Ellie's chip inserted, Tommy walked up to the engineer. The engineer, who was irritated by the interruption, immediately started chirping and waving his tentacles as if in demonstration.

<No, get excited. >Tommy stretched out his hand and gestured to the engineer.

The engineer was obviously stunned, and it took a while for the tentacles to start moving again.It also stretched out its tentacles and gestured: "Can you use our language?" >
<Once, I was fortunate enough to study. >
Tommy's flying hands attracted everyone's attention, and they gathered around him.

"Team leader, do you know the language of these aliens?" Rebecca asked curiously.

Tommy kept moving his hands and explained to them roughly: "I came into contact with these engineers on Harvest more than 20 years ago. They love peace and are willing to communicate with us."

When they heard the word "Harvest Star", all three of them sighed in surprise.

Cecilia moved closer to the engineer and touched it again. "What a hell," he muttered. "If only every ugly creature in the Covenant loved peace as much as they do."

Tommy continued to communicate with the engineer in sign language. <I have a friend, I want you to fix it,> He softened the movements of his hands to show more of his kindness, <Please follow me. >
<With pleasure. >The engineer swayed his body excitedly, and the air bags above him inflated.

Tommy went to the holographic console and unplugged Ellie's chip, then led the engineer off the bridge.

(End of this chapter)