Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Finally, just as he was beginning to wonder whether to turn around, he came face to face with a distraught Marine in a room. The Marine's eyes were darting around, as if searching for something lurking in the shadows, and his mouth was twisted in a scary way.

The soldier's assault rifle was missing, but he still held a pistol and kept shooting at the shadows in the corner.

Get away! Get away! You can't turn me into that kind of devil! the soldier shouted.

The Master Chief raised a hand, palm outward, Put down your weapons, Marines... We are our own.

But the Marine didn't hear any of this. He retreated back, his back against the solid wall. Get away from me! Don't touch me, you freak! I'll die first!

The pistol fired. The Master Chief could feel the power of the 12.7mm bullet. He tightened his heels and stepped back. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Before the Marine could react, the Master Chief snatched the M6D pistol from his hand. This gun belongs to me! he yelled. The Marine tried to jump out, but the Chief kicked him and pinned the Marine to the floor, measured and firm.

Okay, he said, where are Captain Case and Colonel Price? Where are the rest of the team?

The soldier became irritable and restless, with a ferocious expression and spittle flying around him. Hide now! he shouted, these monsters are everywhere! God, I can still hear them! Leave me alone!

What monster? the Master Chief asked calmly, Is it a Covenant?

No! It's not the Covenant. It's them!

The Master Chief only knew this from the crazy Marine. That's the way back to the surface, the Chief said, pointing to the door. I suggest you reload this weapon, don't waste it, and go up. Once you're out, sit down and wait. Rescue. A spaceship will arrive soon. Do you understand me?

The soldier took the pistol, but he was still talking nonsense. After a while, he curled up into a fetal position, whimpering, and finally became silent. It was impossible for this person to escape on his own.

At least one thing was clear from the Marine's incoherent words. Even if Keyes and his troops were still alive, they were certainly in serious trouble.

The Chief has little choice. He must save as many lives as possible. The young soldier had clearly suffered a disaster - but the Master Chief had to complete his mission before he could turn around and rescue him.

He made his way up a circular walkway, then continued through a series of doors and mysteriously empty rooms, until he finally reached a large door. Holding the weapon tightly in his hand, he cautiously walked towards the metal door.

The door sensed his arrival and slid open automatically, leaving nothing in the room.

The Chief felt his heart beat faster. He tightened his grip on the MA5B assault rifle and waved it as hard as he could across the room in front of him, searching for a target. But nothing was found.

He took a step forward, then turned sharply and pointed the gun in the direction he had just come from.

Damn it, he felt like something was watching him. He retreated into the room and the door closed automatically.

The Master Chief took a few steps back. The back of his combat boots hit a bullet casing and rolled away. He realized then that there were thousands of shell casings - so many that they almost covered the ground.

He noticed a Marine's helmet and bent down to pick it up. The owner's name was stenciled on the side of the helmet: Jerkens.

There is a video camera built into the helmet. Select combat teams wore the equipment so that they could evaluate the mission when they returned to base and hand the data to the bastards in MI. He paused, then took Tommy off the bastard list. .

The Chief removed the camera's memory chip, inserted it into a slot in his own helmet, and watched the video playback through a window in his heads-up display.

The image is only of standard quality - which is to say pretty bad. Since the night vision function is activated, everything appears a bleak green color, and occasionally there is a white screen when the camera lens scans the light source.

The image jumps and distorts from time to time, and intermittent noise also ruins the picture quality. The video begins with the landing of the last crashed landing craft and continues until they arrive at the door of the building.

After a rather dull start, Master Chief fast-forwards forward and the footage starts to get disturbing. First the dead elites, then the squads opening the final door, and it becomes even more uncomfortable after walking in. The door was none other than the same door the Chief had passed through just minutes before.

He wanted to turn off the video right away, go back to where he was when he walked through the door, and be done with it. But he forced himself to keep looking, looking for something foreboding, as one of the Marines put it. A strong radio signal interference was inserted, a strange rustling noise was heard, a door opened, and hundreds of meat balls were rolling and jumping, trying to enter the room.

Tommy's Spartan skills haven't aged at all over the years - he's the first one on the team to fire, and those little balls of flesh pop.

Just when John thought the situation was developing in a good direction, a large number of small meat balls suddenly appeared from the ceiling and fell like rain.

At this time, Tommy decisively threw Case out, and then Jakens also flew up. The helmet must have detached from Jerkens' head. The Master Chief only saw the video picture spinning for a while, and then the video suddenly went black.

For the first time since arriving in Halo, he was separated from Cortana, and he left her in the control room. But at this moment he really wished that Cortana could be with him, not only because she might understand what the hell was going on here, but also because he was used to her company, and suddenly he felt very lonely when he was alone. .

Despite the Chief's search for mental comfort, his body involuntarily walked back to the door. He waited to hear the sound of the door opening as confirmation, but his heart soon sank - the door didn't open, and the Chief knew he was in big trouble.

He stood there, engulfed by a growing sense of fear. He caught a glimpse of a white flash out of the corner of his eye and turned quickly to face it. At this time, he found that the small meat balls were flooding towards him.

The Chief went on a killing spree, then took advantage of the door being broken open by a humanoid monster and fled. He rushed to the center of the hall in one breath. He arrived at his destination: a large elevator platform, the same one he had taken to this hell on earth.