Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 151 Prelude to Reach ([-])
Worthy of being a Phase II Spartan.

He looked away and switched the video signal source to the invisible drone.The picture is a little blurry, but it doesn't affect use.He controlled the drone, took some time to find the Banshee fighter piloted by Fred and Kelly, and then followed them while maintaining a certain altitude and distance.

The Banshee fighter piloted by Fred flew over the treetops at top speed and flew down to the side of the mountain.Kelly followed closely behind.They lowered their altitude and hurtled into a canyon, then up a winding ridge where the Covenant invasion force had once been stationed.

Jun adjusted his radio communication and tried to contact Fred, but the loud static noise coming from it reminded him that the interference caused by the Covenant's plasma bombardment had not yet dissipated.He thought if Fred was closer to him, maybe the radio signal would be better.

Luck rarely favors the Spartans, and this was no exception.A dense burst of purple-white needle bullets drew arcs and hissed through the air. This firepower came from the forest below them.

Each pinball looked like it was fired from a Covenant needlegun—but much thicker.The needle bullet that passed through Fred's cockpit was as thick as Jun's forearm.

Kelly dodges a needle bomb, which explodes in mid-air.Pieces as thin as needle tips hit the fuselage and bounced away.

A smaller fragment penetrated Fred's Banshee and exploded.The horizontal elevator on the port side was blown out of shape, and the fighter began to shake.

The situation worsened so much that Kelly had to first drop to 12 meters below Fred, and then rush straight to a dry riverbed in the distance.Fred's fighter followed closely behind, trailing a plume of smoke.

In order to find the Covenant who ambushed them, Jun's eyes wandered back and forth between the miniature video window and the scope.The [-]-hectare forest was being devoured by walls of fire. Circles of hot air and thick black smoke were spiraling into the sky. Even Jun, who was far away on the top of the mountain, could smell the smell of burning trees.

The huge impact from the environment failed to disturb him, and Jun quickly locked onto the purple flash of light hidden deep in the forest - it was a Jackal sniper.

He held his breath and pulled the trigger when the gap between two heartbeats stopped. The sniper rifle suddenly made a deafening roar. Even the gravel on the ground nearby was shaken by the vibration and jumped slightly, along the ridge. Roll below.

A few seconds flew by, and a burst of bright purple blood mist erupted in the low jungle where the purple flash was. Jun seemed to be able to hear the dull sound of the jackal sniper's body being shattered, which made He couldn't help but smile.

"The show is about to begin," Jun whispered.

He turned his gaze back to the video window and saw Fred piloting the injured Banshee fighter jet over a road connected to the suddenly dry river bed.The road winds through the forest, with Mount Menacht right next to it.If they were lucky, they could ditch the Banshee fighter jet and take a shortcut to the MI center.

A flash of light in the distance attracted Jun's attention. An orange-red halo burst out in the north; silver flakes crackled across the sky; dark clouds were ignited by the raging flames below them and boiled.They quickly piled up into pieces of thunderstorm clouds, with flashes of lightning and bursts of thunder, which were shocking.

The large battleship that was overhead just now is accelerating back into the high-altitude atmosphere.Their engines roared loudly, leaving hot wakes in the swelling sky.

Jun ran through all the circumstances surrounding the Covenant plasma bombardment in his mind, just in case he missed anything.

He realized something was wrong.The Covenant forces' plasma bombardments always methodically surround the entire planet with a criss-crossing network of firepower, and will not stop until every square centimeter of the planet's surface is melted into glass and turned into ashes.But the spacecraft above didn't do that here.He risked his head and looked at the foot of the mountain. A wave of radiation hit him and Will's team. Although he couldn't see it, he felt it: it was as if a thousand ants had penetrated his armor and bitten him desperately. .Static blurred his heads-up display, then vanished again with a pop.His shield energy bar dropped to the bottom, then slowly began to recharge with a beeping sound.

Sparks appeared on the surface of the Warthog troop carrier at the foot of the mountain, and it crackled at the same time.

"Electromagnetic pulse!" Daisy exclaimed on the communication channel, "Their fighter planes can't fly!"

Jun shared the drone's video feed with them, so they could also see Fred and Kelly's movements.

The two Banshees descended straight down, gliding on the inertia and energy that the fighter jets had left.Fred raised the nose of the plane to keep it from hitting the steaming rocks in the dry river bed.The road he chose had rugged boulders on one side, jagged granite on the other, and a strip of gravel beach in front of him.

At this time, Jun suddenly noticed something: two of these rocks were darker than the others... they were moving.

Two living creatures stood up. They were tall, wearing heavy armor, walking slowly and with clear goals.Each of them holds a large shield-like metal plate - they are hunters.

It was too late to hide from the newly discovered threat, and the nearest hunter turned to face them, the anemone-like needles arrayed on its back suddenly glowing brightly.The hulking alien raised its primary weapon, a powerful nuclear gun mounted on its arm, and aimed it at Fred.The barrel flashes green when charging.

The hunter pulled the trigger.

Fred cut the engines and his Banshee dropped ten meters.The ball of devastating energy swooped down to where his fighter had been a second ago, erupting in a blinding flash.

The Banshee fighter landed and continued to slide forward on the fist-sized rocks.The battered fighter rolled over and over, throwing Fred out of the aircraft and colliding with the hunter.

The tall alien lifted its thick metal shields and shook off the remains of its fighter jets as if they were cardboard.The nuke flashed and started firing again.

Fred rolled to the side to avoid it, tightened his body, and stood up like a carp, regardless of the pain caused by falling to the ground.

The hunter lumbered toward him, then crouched and lunged forward with surprising speed.

There was a crackling sound of static noise on the communication channel, and then Jun heard a word: "Look down!"

Just as Junzheng was pleasantly surprised that the radio signal was connected, a black shadow of a Banshee fighter jet roared across the drone's field of vision.

(End of this chapter)