The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

But it wouldn't give James a chance to regroup. After the flash backstab failed, the mechanical warrior pointed his gun at the Spartan warrior.It moves quickly, without hesitation, without any superfluous movements or expressions of emotion.At close range, James could see clearly—the gun had a shape he had never seen before, with two barrels juxtaposed up and down, a glowing golden line running through the entire gun body, something like a holographic sight Floating above the body of the gun, it is now flashing a faint red light.

The distance is less than three meters, just one body, if you are shot by a shotgun here (although I don’t know the principle, but it is undoubtedly a shotgun), the whole person will be broken on the spot open.

But before this thing could shoot, a silver figure had already rushed over—Behind Ling had never been equipped with the heavy power armor common to Tartarus soldiers. Power armor, coupled with a basic plasma pistol, and dual swords as the main attack weapon are his characteristics.

But today is different. In addition to a long Saliser war blade and a short Nova knife (which still has a blade of more than [-] cm), the back spirit is equipped with heavy-looking weapons on the forearms of both hands. mechanical part.He rushed towards the mechanical warrior at an astonishing speed, and the purple long knife he raised glowed coquettishly in the air.

Of course, this kind of thing is more threatening than the Spartan warrior who showed a big flaw. The mechanical warrior turned around and shot Ling Ling in the back, but he lowered his body before shooting, like a piece of cake sliding on the floor Go fast.The light shot grazed the top of his head, taking away a few silver hairs, and at this time the Forerunner's mechanical warriors had already entered the attack range.

The blade swung down obliquely cut into the shield, and at the moment of impact, a tiny gap in the subspace opened up on the blade, and the energy in it turned into a cloud of radioactive steam and burst out inside the shield.This purple mist is like a swarm of hungry nano bugs, and under the control of the spirit behind it, it covers the shield generator behind the mechanical warrior's armor.

The surface armor of the machine peeled off, and traces of corrosion spread on the core. With a slight explosion, the shield protecting the mechanical warrior disappeared immediately.He took this opportunity to rush into the arms of the mechanical warrior, and cut off its right hand holding the gun with the long knife, and the plasma blade of the Nova Knife blocked the hard light blade.The two sides only touched once, and the spirit behind took advantage of the power of the mechanical warrior to bounce himself up——

In mid-air, the mechanical structure of his right wrist made a rattling sound like being loaded, and a sharp solid blade popped out backwards. The smooth blade reflected the sunlight, exuding a dangerous aura.

"Soul Reaper Mode! CODE—Kirin!!"

Turning the body over, the heavy elbow was nailed into the visor of the mechanical warrior, and the electromagnetic accelerator built into the Soul Reaper's wrist armor released a high-intensity energy release.Like a pile driver blasted from zero distance, the wrist blade shattered the visor, penetrated deeply into the skull, and then stayed there.Behind Ling kicked away the mechanical warrior who was stopped, and continued to rush to the next target, the wrist armor completed the reloading of the wrist blade halfway.

A few Inu Sakuya followed behind him, pulling out the Nekt Blade just now and carrying it behind his back, it looked like a floating cannon.

"Report the situation!"

Oregana kept firing the assault gun, and the bullet casings popped out of the gun.Beside her was a guard soldier with a pierced helmet. She was hit on the head by a shockingly powerful light bullet during the battle. Neither the shield nor the armor could save her life. kilometers away.Oregana directly raised her weapon, and blasted the robot carrying the sniper rifle and the nearby bunker into the sky with a series of explosive shells.

"Has the battleship been breached!"

[The transmission signal was detected, but the adjusted internal force field stabilization system blocked it from the outside. 】The pilot of the battle barge replied【They can't invade! 】

The teleportation system of the forerunner is indeed very strong, but with the help of multiple guides and the analysis of the teleportation system of the belt, the scythe of war has figured out the opponent's teleportation mode.Therefore, by modifying the internal force field stabilization system, combined with the gravitational system to interfere with the opponent's positioning of the internal space coordinates of the hull, it can greatly interfere with the opponent's transition and completely curb the enemy's 'lightning strike'.

Mechanical soldiers teleported overboard pose no threat, and their individual weapons are powerful, but that's pointless when the enemy is battleship armor and external point defense guns.

Accompanied by several red flashes, the laser point defense gun used to intercept anti-ship missiles fired.In front of this weapon, the pioneer soldiers who showed their flaws because of the failure of the teleportation seemed to be standing still.The body of the mechanical warrior who was hit melted like cream, slumped down and disappeared into the golden flash.

But on the other side, something went wrong with the put down gunboat.The mechanical warrior teleported into the engine room, and launched an attack just like the Flood attacked the landing ship back then.The driver had no choice but to rely on the bolt pistol to compete with this heavy mechanical unit. Facing the pioneer mechanical soldier who tore open the reinforced door of the cockpit with one blow, he was nailed to the operation panel by the hard light blade after only two shots. , can only choose to detonate the plasma grenade on the spot and blow up the opponent together.

Golden-orange light bullets continued to explode around. During the battle, Polavinia of the guard was hit on the shoulder by a beam of light from the enemy. The shattered metal and carbonized flesh together with the entire left arm Was blown out.Kelly-087 wanted to rescue her, but another mechanical warrior had already appeared in front of her, and the beam shotgun (harmony) in her hand burst into flames instantly. She was hit just as she took a step, and the shield tried its best Try to block the impact.

But it fails.

The four beams pierced through the extremely weakened shield and stabbed heavily on the armor.She felt that the side of her body was burning, and her field of vision spun violently. When she came back to consciousness, she was lying on the ground, and the blood and buffer mixed together flowed out from the hole in the armor and formed a puddle on the ground.Kelly tried to stand up, but found that her body was completely useless.She blinked hard, and saw from the broken mask that an orange-haired girl in a black tuxedo and red skirt jumped over a pile of wreckage, and shot a dazzling red beam from her chest, forcing the mechanical warrior to leave by flashing. In situ.

"Boss! He's going to your side! I'll hit it from here!!" Even though she missed the target, Z sauce didn't look back. After reporting the position, she aimed again at the four-legged combat machine that was rushing "I know very well The action mode of the artificial intelligence used in battle - the flames of the demon god!!"

Glowing red, the flashing 'flame' stretched away, swept across the grass-covered plain, hit the boulder protruding from the river beach in the distance, and shattered it.Fragments of the rock turned into hot shrapnel and shot around. In the steaming heat wave, both the mechanical soldiers and the four-legged combat machines were still rushing forward with all their strength. The flames burned behind them, and pairs of golden eyes were shining. There seemed to be an evil light in his own shadow.

"Eh?! Why didn't you hit any of them!"

"Are you really aiming! Medic! A Spartan is down!"

Oregana took a deep breath. Seeing Z's bewildered face, she really wanted to complain that the hit rate of an untrained super machine is really so ugly, but now is not the time to do this.Liu Lizi was performing escort duties next to Halsey and couldn't spare a shot. The heavy machine with an insect-like back armor would be difficult to destroy without anti-vehicle weapons (such as Volgo cannons or lightsabers).

I can only go up by myself.

She pulled out the chopping axe, and without looking back, she threw it at her shoulder, and the axe blade was handed to the hard light blade that was swinging down—the fighting style of these guys is similar to that of Hitsugani Dong in "○ God" ○Like Lang, the battle starts with Shunbu jumping behind the enemy, no matter how he releases the Zhan Po Dao and opens his hands later, it always has to start from this step.After knowing this attack mode, he can easily take over the surprise attack of Prometheus fighters.

Then fight back.

The hilt of the lightsaber slid out of the storage box under the armor. She grabbed it, turned her wrist, and pressed the switch on the Prometheus warrior's knee.The red light blade popped out, piercing the shield and piercing the robot's knee.At the moment it was out of balance, the roaring ax had already bit into the neck that was not protected by the back armor, and with the jumping sparks, the head that had a sense of presence fell to the ground.

When she was looking for the next target to approach, she saw that Z sauce was holding a chainsaw sword in her hand, and an electric arc was jumping on the wrist armor of her left hand. Judging from the energy reaction, this guy was from a power furnace. The energy is released directly.

"Devil God Machine Sword——" she just greeted the group of four-legged fighting machines that had already rushed forward.

It looks like psychic lightning, but in essence something closer to the red heresy cannon burst out from Z sauce's fingers, scattered and hit several nearby ones, which she called 'mechanical beasts' like lightning hitting a lightning rod The armor shattered, and the body was blown into fist-sized pieces.The two outside the range rushed forward, the first one was torn apart by the 'Devil God Machine Sword', while the second one avoided the oncoming slash, and returned a series of golden light bullets at the closest distance.

"!!"

Z sauce had nowhere to hide, a terrible wound was blasted on the flank, the buffer fluid spurted out like blood, and then his right arm was also blown out.She let out a scream, jumped back a few steps to get rid of the entanglement, turned around to avoid a heavy hard light blade, and at the same time hit back with the flame of the demon god at close range-this shot was a solid hit, but because of the body damage The resulting power drop prevents her from directly disabling the behemoth.

Seeing that the Prometheus warrior rushing out of the smoke was about to make her deflate, two Spartans charged up, covering each other, shooting as they advanced, the particle beam was stripped of hit after hit. The Prometheus warriors with the shields are the most threatening firearms first, then the melee weapons, and the last Spartan is approaching quickly, using the plasma rifle that has accumulated full heat to launch thermal bombardment at close range.

Accompanied by a muffled sound, blue light spewed out from the muzzle along a cone, like the breath of a giant dragon.The front of the heavily damaged armor of the Prometheus fighter was directly lifted off, and with a burst of golden light, the Prometheus fighter was scattered all over the place.The second Spartan continued to move forward, facing the oncoming 'mechanical beast' without hesitation, and unleashed the energy bombardment that had already been accumulated.

This fragile guy can't resist the power of 'thermal shotgun'.

But in the next moment, a few red shells hit not far away, and the explosion of the near-miss bomb sent the two Spartans flying out.The soldiers quickly discovered that it was another Prometheus warrior, and it was not holding the previous one, but a heavy weapon that looked about the same size as a Covenant fuel cannon.Immediately, the fire lines of the three-barreled machine gun and the Volgo cannon were concentrated on it.But the number of Prometheus knights carrying this weapon also began to increase.

"You can't go on like this!" Oregana shouted loudly, "Pral! Escort Dr. Halsey aboard!"

The guard soldier whose name was called immediately withdrew from the show. She was equipped with a jump backpack with excellent performance. Now that the gunship machine has been destroyed, this is the fastest way to get back to the ship.Prall quickly walked to Halsey, fixed the scientist who had begun to calm down with one hand, and said:

"Doctor, we have to go."

"Hmm." Halsey took one last look at John-117 who was still fighting. She knew that staying here would only add to the burden. "Please."

Prahl nodded, she activated the jumping backpack, took Dr. Halsey up from the ground, and rushed towards the battle barge hanging in mid-air with its anti-aircraft guns constantly flashing.

Explosions continued to occur in all directions, and the shock wave engulfed the scorching air one after another. Halsey wanted to see the surrounding things clearly, but the flashes of the constant explosions prevented her from seeing anything.When everything settled down, the armored plate of the battleship was close at hand. As soon as she turned her head, she saw a large turret under the hull slowly turning and aiming downward.

[Ready to bomb!repeat!Get ready to bomb!Everyone stay away from the attack coordinates! ! 】

Instinctively, she covered her ears and closed her mouth tightly, but the terrible loud noise still rushed into her ears through her palm, making people dizzy.

The bombardment guns aimed at the ground and fired.

The driver detected the spatial fluctuations, and aimed at that area before using two bombardment cannons to cover and shoot.The moment the azure blue light ball hit the ground, a group of mechanical soldiers suddenly appeared from the light, and were instantly submerged in the bursting blue light.The shock wave engulfed the ground with a heat wave, and the "mechanical dog" that got close was smashed to pieces like being hit by an invisible hammer. The forerunner heavy mechanical soldiers with strong protection capabilities, like chariots, encountered naval guns. When attacking, it is not much different from a piece of paper.

This attack seemed to frighten the opponent, or it caused the opponent a loss that could not be ignored, and the remaining enemies retreated—these mechanical soldiers entered and left very quickly, just like "Super Robot Wars In ", those enemy units that are obviously empty but because of the plot, they can escape and cannot be chased anyway.

The green pasture that was beautiful just now has become scorched black, burning embers are everywhere, the scorching air is filled with scorched stench, and even the soil is baked as dry and hard as a stone.The remains of the robot fell to the ground, and everyone who was still standing was disheveled.It's hard to say who has the upper hand in this brief conflict, but some behaviors of the other party make people have to pay attention...

Oregana kicked away the wreckage next to her, and handed the iron head that had just been chopped off to Inu Sakuya next to her.The way this little robot holds its head looks like a cat lying on a watermelon, which is kind of funny.

"Gather the troops! All ministries report battle damage!!"

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22 minutes after the battle, the battle barge medical bay.

Z sauce lay on the bed obediently, with burnt marks all over his body.The large abdominal wound has been repaired, but the damage to the internal components has reduced the performance of the entire body. The broken arm will not be able to be reattached for a while, and can only be handed over to her self-healing ability.

As a link component of the Hell Beast's cockpit, Z Sauce itself is a mechanical unit that is more biased towards living organisms. It has excellent self-repair ability. In addition, it also has a consciousness transmission system, which makes it difficult for her to be completely destroyed.Considering these, coupled with the weapon system it carries, this makes Oregana feel that she might be useful on the ground battlefield...

But the result...to be honest, it's completely unsatisfactory. Z sauce's output is indeed high, but she doesn't seem to be able to use these weapons proficiently.

She looked back pitifully at Oregana and Liu Lizi who didn't know what to say next to her, and said:

"Boss...cough! I'm in a battle-damaged form...cough..."

"Have a good rest." Oregana reached out and touched her forehead, scratching gently like a cat, "I made you do things you are not used to... Thank you for your hard work."

"I'll spend some time on this when I get back...sorry..."

The two expressed apologies and understanding to each other, and it does look similar to the scene that will appear after the bitter battle.But Liu Lizi next to him raised his eyebrows and showed a subtle expression.Previously, my boss yelled "Boom Thunder" during the test, and it shattered directly.Now Z sauce shot the thing he named Hong Tianlei, and it was directly put into a battle damage mode... Whoever co-authored it was whoever used it?Just calling out this name will overturn the car?

The leopard scratched its head... If the output of its fighting claws is increased, it can also be overloaded for a short time in a small area to produce a similar effect.I must try it next time, meow, I still don’t believe it, how could such a thing happen?

The encounter was chaotic and lasted less than 10 minutes from the initial attack to the retreat of the opponent.In this battle, a gunship was destroyed, four clone warriors were killed, Z sauce was seriously injured, five Spartans were slightly injured, and one was seriously injured. No one was life-threatening.That was all our losses in this encounter.The enemy losses that can be determined are 58 heavy combat robots, 150 five light combat robots, and at least [-] mechanical dogs, not to mention those destroyed by naval guns.

The opponent is not as strong as I guessed, this may be because the opponent lacks command, and the efficiency of the operation is too long to reduce the result.In the battle, although these mechanical soldiers acted decisively and quickly, they were very rigid. When the battle was in the middle of the battle, all our combatants discovered that the opponent had a fixed response program.

They will give priority to attacking the more threatening targets, that is to say, if a marine's shield is wiped out and he is finished with a few more shots, another marine is facing the target from the other side. Forerunner robot crazy output, then the attack target will be switched to that shooter.To be honest, it is very puzzling that this situation appears in a robot army-if it is a fighting force of the remnants, it will never show such flaws.

And the subsequent evacuation also seemed strange.

No matter from which point of view, the first troops to land on the ground failed to gain the upper hand.Even though everyone reacted immediately to counterattack and there were two big demons present at the same time, considering the enemy's deployment speed and the spare body that was more than golden treasures, the refueling ability was almost unlimited.It is definitely this side that can't hold on if you continue to fight... It is untenable to give up the attack for fear of being bombarded by naval guns, because these guys have the ability to teleport directly into the crowd. There was no way to continue the bombing.

It can neither be fear nor unbearable loss, so there must be another reason for their retreat.

Forerunner combat units appear to have no means of jumping inside the ship.But even so, the pilot didn't dare to be careless, he kept sailing, and at the same time switched the frequency and scale of the internal force field from time to time.The defense system inside the ship has also been operating efficiently. At least for now, the ship is safe.

With an OK bandage on his face, Dr. Halsey and several Spartan squad leaders held an intelligence exchange meeting with Tartarus commanders in the conference room.With the exception of Kelly-087, the other injured Spartans were able to recover within a few hours for the next battle.This made her feel a little scared as well as relieved.

If the Twilight had not been stopped by the fleet of the Consolidation Department before, and the Twilight had sailed directly to this end, probably everyone would have died there just now... After all, the Twilight has no ability to stop the teleportation jump gang - Tartaros just before Helped the Twilight to test this function, and confirmed that this function did not exist in the first place.Once these robots are organically deployed into the ship, it's really all over.

"The analysis of the message of the forerunner has come out." The technical boy Eugene Melvin pointed to the pile of strange characters on the screen and said, "The code name of these troops is 'Prometheus Knight'. The bulk of the shields are called 'knights', the smaller humanoids are 'soldiers', and the ones that run around are 'crawlers'."

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The combat weapons photographed during the battle appeared on the screen. The 'Knights' and 'Crawlers' are the main attackers attacking the defense line, attracting firepower and attention, while the 'Soldiers' mostly use long-distance light guns to snipe from a distance.The Tartarus marines' battle damage was basically caused by those 'soldiers', who apparently thought that Tartarus' soldiers were more threatening (or more conspicuous) than Spartans.In the environment just now, casualties among the marines who lacked cover were really unavoidable.

"The missionary army?" Halsey asked. "The technology of the Forerunners is terrible. They are too flexible and have great firepower..."

"Compared to this, their nature is more frightening." Behind Ling said, "We didn't even kill a single one in the battle just now."

"?!"

This made Halsey look puzzled.The words behind the inspiration are very strange, generally speaking, 'kill' would not be used to describe something like a battle robot.Only the living are killed...

"We analyzed the energy burst produced by the Prometheus knight when it was destroyed." He pointed to several charts on the screen, which were showing complex waveforms. "It's not a simple energy out of control, but a data upload Reaction."

"Data upload? Are they sending our intel up to the control server or something?" Spartan Kate-B320 asked, she shrugged "Then we have to be careful, now they know everything .”

Her concerns are not unfounded.The current location is the center of the enemy's base camp. If the enemy knows our configuration, number of people, combat efficiency and weapon performance, it will be easy to target.There is an old saying-know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle. Now you can know yourself and your enemy.

"No, it's not that simple. I mean, we didn't even kill one, do you know what that means?" Behind Ling shook his head, "The moment they were destroyed, the soldier's consciousness had already Uploaded. Even if we destroy their shells, there is no way to actually kill a Prometheus knight."

"what?"

This kind of thing is simply unheard of... If what he said is true, how can he fight against this kind of undead army that only appears in ghost stories?

This made Halsey feel a strong sense of frustration. The last time I experienced this kind of frustration was in the early days of the Human-Star Alliance War. I saw the Star Alliance's transition system for the first time and felt that the technological generations of both sides Poor, thus feeling hopeless about this war.But now, the forerunner's technology gave her a stronger sense of impact—the undead steel soldiers created by consciousness uploading, and the individual soldier transmission equipment made the entire war form undergone earth-shaking changes.Even the Star Alliance is already difficult to deal with, let alone a pioneer stronger than the Star Alliance?

It may be difficult to rely on Sparta alone, and now I only hope that the Ministry of Consolidation will have the means to deal with it.

"The thing inside that metal shell is not artificial intelligence, nor a simple combat program, but extracted from the consciousness of a living person." Behind Ling glanced at the doctor and the Spartans, he looked at their surprised and puzzled eyes, Emphasize that:

"I have obtained evidence and samples—of course, this material and data are not only able to prove something, they are also an important key for us to open the situation—this can help us find the location of the enemy's base. But before that ..."

"before that?"

"Before that, we need to know one thing—that is, who is the person controlling the Prometheus knight now. Is it a missionary? Or is it someone else?"

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