Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

As adrenaline levels dropped, Ellie felt his heart rate slowly drop to 140.

Tommy now moved forward with his rifle held level - his movements more careful and thoughtful. What he saw next raised his heart rate for a few seconds, and he fired at it before Frontal Lobe recognized it as an Elite.

Kill one, not just two, he said. Watch the back.

Lijia's status light flashed green.

More intense gunfire rang out from the nearby cabin. Ellie is ready to provide him with some kind of neurological aid, and then...she snaps her fingers into Tommy's nervous system.

Ugh! Tommy couldn't help but growl, bending his knees and straightening his shoulders, he crashed through the weak hatch with a bang and broke into a rain of needle bullets, but they were all bounced away by the energy shield. .

At this point, Ellie's only form of visual perception comes from Tommy's helmet camera and optic nerve. He saw the four-petaled mouth of the elite with fangs wide open, and then—that face was smashed to pieces by bullets.

Tommy turned involuntarily to look at another Elite, who was touching an orange bubble on the control panel.

Stop it! Ellie warned over the communication channel.

The elite warrior was quickly knocked to the ground by a hail of bullets from Lijia, and it took a shockingly long time for it to die.

No amount of biological research, data, reconnaissance footage, or secondary sources of any kind could adequately prepare Ellie for something like this. She can only choose to see everything Tommy sees or disconnect from her optic nerve. Compared to being in electronic form and having the freedom to dive into every circuit, system and carrier, the options are limited, but new and interesting. .

No matter how much she could augment his neural signals with her processing powers, all she felt was his experience of the world around him. She took this micro detail and made sense of it.

Empty them all! Tommy yelled, then gasped.

The whole world suddenly changed color, from almost black and white to full spectrum color. Someone turned on the lights on the bridge, and it suddenly became dazzlingly bright.

Ellie saw with her own eyes that Tommy's pupils were rapidly constricting to adapt to the brightening light. Tommy didn't need the night vision goggles carried by the helltroopers to see clearly in the lack of light. This was one of the details that Ellie knew well, but the personal experience really made her even more impressed.

Carter walked past the hatch. Safe, kill six elites, I think we have roughly captured the ship.

Liga nodded and made a yeah gesture to Tommy.

Tommy glanced at her, suppressed his smile, and walked over to the bridge console. Ellie could feel the last bits of adrenaline slowly being metabolized as he calmed down after the battle. One of the evidences is the imperceptible smile.

The display on the console told them that the destroyer was passing through black clouds with lightning and thunder - after the water on the surface of Reach was evaporated by plasma bombardment, the water vapor condensed above the planet, and it would soon rain here.

Tommy looked at another display screen, This ship is indeed rushing to the castle base. Ellie, is there a way to control this ship?

It took Ellie a third of a second to destroy all the counterintelligence programs on the ship. A purple light flashed on the control panel beside her, and she successfully hacked into the network system of the Covenant destroyer.

But it was too late.

The elite used physical means to lock the battleship's override control system before he died, Ellie explained. I'm trying to extend the countdown to self-destruction, but it can only send us to the castle base.

The other Spartans gathered around and looked at Tommy. He thought for a moment, and then said: Then let's make use of the waste. Captain Noble, you can take the Fury tactical nuclear bomb with you.

Carter nodded and turned around so he could see the nuclear bomb hanging from his back.

Okay, you install the nuclear bomb in the engine room. Tommy said, I want to give the Master Chief a grand return welcome ceremony.

****

Epsilon Eridani galaxy, the underground tunnel group of Reach.

Rebecca couldn't help but feel extremely nervous as she saw thousands of Covenant troops crowding the corridors, surrounding them. She glanced at the Master Chief, who did not dare to act rashly: the enemy's firepower was too strong, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to his team.

They can't win this battle.

At the four o'clock position in the third corridor above, a pair of hunters roared. They raised their nuclear cannons, took aim—and fired.

The bright green energy ball roared towards them.

Kelly acted first. She rushed in front of Dr. Halsey like a whirlwind. The Master Chief and Fred stood on the left and right sides of Kelly respectively, while Rebecca jumped up and grabbed Lieutenant General Whitcomb's back collar and pulled him. to the ground.

Blinding beams of white-hot plasma energy penetrated the Spartans' shields and splashed across their chests.

John's shields were completely drained. The excessive pressure forced him to step back, and the skin on his forearms burned into blisters. Rebecca and Whitcomb lay on the ground, escaping the attack.

Then the heat faded and she blinked clearing the dark spots that filled her vision. Kelly lay at the Master Chief's feet, her armor smoking, shock-absorbing gel boiling out from the emergency drain on the left side of the armor.

The sound of thousands of energy beams firing in unison sounded again in the corridor, and John instinctively squatted down to cover his fallen comrade. He had no way to dodge and could only accept the blow of high-temperature energy calmly. Plasma energy beams and needle bullets crisscrossed the corridor overhead, forming a spider web.

The direction of the fire was directed at the pair of hunters who first fired at Rebecca and her teammates.

The pair of hunters raised their shields and hid behind them - these quarter-meter-thick metal plates could withstand almost any individual weapon fire. But they were ineffective in the face of this merciless barrage.

The two most powerful Covenant soldiers burned, their armor and shields also caught fire, and Rebecca caught a glimpse of their outlines before being vaporized in the lightning.

The part of the corridor where they stood was blown to ashes and billowed with smoke; debris rained down on the floor and dozens of Grunts and Gnolls who were unlucky enough to be too close to them were also destroyed.

Rebecca felt her heart beat three times. Neither human nor Covenant forces dared move in this huge chamber.

What the hell is going on? Sergeant Johnson muttered. Are we dead now?

The physiological monitor column on Rebecca's head-up display showed that Kelly was in shock, and the armor's cooling device had failed due to overload. They had to move her to a safe place.