Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 152 Prelude to Reach ([-])
Fred then threw himself on the ground and rolled to the side.Kelly's fighter jet roared past him at full speed, slamming into the hunter with full force.The Banshee fighter jet exploded immediately, and glittering metal fragments rained down on the area.

Fire spread across the hunter's armor as it whirled back and forth, sluggishly, blankly, around and around.Jun could see the hunter's blood splattered on the rocks, leaving bright orange spots.

Kelly jumped out before the fighter collided with the Hunter and stood next to Fred.She activated a captured plasma grenade and threw it at the second hunter's huge nuke.

The grenade landed on the barrel of the weapon and exploded. The burst of energy covered the hunter's body, and his gun exploded, sending out streams of blue smoke.

Jun opened the communication channel with them at this time and tried to say to them: "This is Spartan Jun, I am here to provide you with sniper cover, try to make these two bastards turn to their six o'clock direction. "

"Spartan Jun?" Fred in the video window was stunned for a moment, then nodded, his voice carrying noise reached Jun's ears, "You have to hurry up, the rest of the Covenant's ground The troops were chasing us from behind."

Jun turned his status light green, then narrowed his eyes slightly, slowed down his breathing, and prepared to give the two hunters a fatal blow.

Fred stood up, "Run!" he shouted to Kelly over the communication channel, and then circled around one of the hunters.

The hunter didn't realize that he had become a lamb to be slaughtered. His body began to rotate as the nuclear gun deflected, and the orange vitals on his back were about to be exposed.

He seized the opportunity, first there were two loud explosions, and then Jun moved the crosshair in the heads-up display and fired two more bullets. The huge recoil from the gun butt made his shoulders numb slightly.

After a few breaths, a piece of orange-yellow flesh exploded from the backs of the two hunters. The armor-piercing tail fin discarding shells made a huge pit in the flesh, scattering the dead worms, and they then died lifelessly. Thrown to the ground.

"Cool! Good fight!" Kelly's energetic voice sounded in the communication channel.

The two Spartans then jumped over the hunter's body and continued to move forward.

"Alfa, this is the Delta team. We will wait for you at the safe entrance of the castle base." Will said in the communication channel, "But about half of the entire Covenant attack force is at the front."

"Copy that, Delta." Fred's voice couldn't hide the relief in his heart. He must have been relieved that the Delta team had survived. "How far are the ground troops approximately?"

Will paused, "I can't see clearly from here, Jun, how's your view over there?"

"I can see clearly," Jun adjusted the magnification of the scope, and at the same time used the computer that came with the "Thor Hammer" armor to calculate the area occupied by the Covenant troops, "half a kilometer, you have to pass half a kilometer to come here. .”

"A whole half a kilometer," Kelly muttered, "that's killing me."

Fred took Kelly and ran quickly toward a small forest ahead. These might be the only trees left on Reach.

"Something is wrong," Fred said on the channel. "If the Covenant wants to destroy planets in orbit, why do they send troops to the ground?"

"I can't figure it out either," Will said lightly, "Maybe you can see what they are up to before coming here."

Kelly's status light flashed red.

"They're between us and the retreat point," Fred said to Kelly. "We have to go if we don't."

They ran into the woods, and the drone suddenly lost sight of it and had to hover above the clouds.

At this time, a "crackling" sound came from the communication channel. "...This is Team Gamma, Alpha. Answer." Fred replied, "Gamma, this is Alpha. Continue."

There was a lot of static. "Whitcomb...too much. By...did you see it?"

"Gamma!" Fred shouted, "The retreat point is dangerous, dangerous! Confirm!"

Just static noise.

"I wish they heard it," said Fred.

"Anton can take care of his team, don't worry." Will comforted him.

Jun controlled the drone and flew forward a little. From the wide field of view from high altitude, he could see the Covenant troop vehicles parked in an open space, arranged in three rows, with four vehicles in each row.

They are self-propelled mortars.This self-propelled mortar has two wide sides, equipped with anti-gravity modules under the wings.They are extremely stable and allow them to fire the Covenant's powerful ground weapon, the plasma mortar.

Jun has seen them take part in battles.They fire a plasma cannon that obliterates anything it encounters within a 20-meter radius. Titanium armor plating, cement, or flesh—all are evaporated without a trace.

There were a few Grunts milling around these self-propelled mortars, and dozens of floating Covenant engineers huddled above and below the mechanism.What interests Jun the most is that the hatches of the self-propelled mortars are all open.

Jun noticed that the wall-like blackberry bushes were slightly parted, and Fred and Kelly's helmets poked out slightly from the shadows.

"I can't think of any better disguise than the five-ton Covenant armor." Kelly whispered, and then the sound of her footsteps coming forward came from the channel.

"Good idea, let's take action." Fred whispered.

From the drone's perspective, Jun saw them crossing the clearing silently, moving so quickly that the Grunts didn't even see their shadows.Fred and Kelly arrived at the smooth-surfaced Revenant self-propelled mortar. He gave Kelly a "go" signal, and Kelly jumped into the nearest hatch.

After a while, Fred moved forward to the adjacent self-propelled mortar, carefully got in, and the hatch was closed smoothly.

How bold, Jun thought, that they actually wanted to fight an entire Covenant invasion force with just two self-propelled mortars - especially when they didn't know anything about how to operate such self-propelled mortars. situation.

Perhaps each of the Phase II seniors has this trait.

"Hong Yi," Kelly said on the communication channel, "let me know when you're ready."

Kelly's mortar started up with a "rumble", and then Fred's self-propelled mortar first made a "puff, puff, puff" sound, and then also made a huge "rumble" sound, jumping up. One meter above the ground.

"Get ready," he told Kelly, "let's get rid of this maneuvering yard."

"Yes," she said, a hint of concern in her voice that she was trying to hide.

(End of this chapter)