Chapter 244 Hard Light Weapon Test "Atlas's Precious Materials" (Two in One)

Halo Universe, March 15.

Shield World 0459, the surface of the sunny side.

More than half a year has passed since Vulcan and Riemann first arrived at the core world of 0459 and came into contact with the leader's Serenity River Bank, and then the Atlas fleet completely occupied the core world.

During this period, the two Primarchs led the company's elite to successfully locate the primitive Corpsebrain on the surface and physically destroy it using metallic hydrogen bombs.

Although the primitive corpse brain beast already understands strategic and tactical deployment, it ultimately does not have the support of more "fresh food", which prevents it from evolving into a mature form. Therefore, it has no means to resist an offensive equivalent to a tactical nuclear bomb.

Then, by verifying Sui Yang's identity and relying on the authority of humans as returnees, Tranquility Riverbank launched 0459's own "purification" program to completely eliminate the tiny Flood spores remaining in the surface atmosphere.

In other words, the current surface of 459 has returned to its original clear appearance.

Moreover, Atlas has also set up a large biological experiment center on the surface.

Close the distance and enter the atmosphere.

The test center, which covers an area of ​​at least twelve stadiums, is located in the desert area on the sunny side.

Except for the airtight buildings, there is only endless yellow sand around. During the day, the temperature is usually maintained at 37°C to 45°C, and at night it drops to about minus zero.

Because the surface has just completed the purification process, it still takes several years, or even ten years, for local organisms to flourish again.

Therefore, there are no animals or plants near the experimental center.

At the same time, hundreds of temple defenders are still suspended in the sky above the test center, acting as one of the outermost insurance measures.

At this moment, it is installed in the central area of ​​the test center, in a test site that is generally similar to a simulated town;

"D-level personnel please step forward."

As the emotionless female voice broadcast sounded, more than a hundred D and other personnel wearing orange-like power armor similar to Mike Pu passed through the gate and arrived at the eastern waiting area of ​​the test site.

"Please choose a weapon that suits you."

Hearing this, the D and other personnel who closed their helmets looked at each other and looked at the large equipment box placed not far from them.

Obviously, they knew that after picking up weapons and ammunition, they would face attacks from various new products developed by Atlas, especially biological weapons.

After all, there are always a few seniors who have successfully survived previous experiments by virtue of their strength and luck, and spread the words "Atlas is not a fucking human!" to all D-level personnel.

And the better the equipment Atlas provides, the more dangerous the experiment becomes.

The most important thing is that before putting on the power armor, the group of technicians in white protective suits injected them with some unknown medicine.

Therefore, more than a hundred D and other personnel were very resistant to the broadcast instructions and did not want to continue to move forward.

"Please choose the weapon that suits you. This is the last replay. If after ten seconds, you still choose to stay put, then we will randomly activate the self-destruct chip."

Hearing the female voice broadcasting again, D and other personnel understood that Atlas had issued a final ultimatum.

"Fuck, if I survive, I must find a chance to escape! In this universe, not only the earth can survive!"

A D-class personnel yelled and cursed, walking towards the equipment box marked "Hard Light Weapon".

Click~! Click~!

He flicked the unlocking button, then lifted the lid of the box with force to check the so-called "hard light weapon."

"Hey~! Not bad!"

He took out a rifle that was about one meter long and had a bright white appearance, and sighed:

"This thing looks much more advanced than the weapons used by armed security."

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Seeing someone taking the lead, and seeing that the firearms provided by Atlas were really good, the remaining D and other personnel also stepped forward and opened the remaining weapon boxes.

Then pick up the new weapon labeled "hard light rifle", "hard light shotgun" or "hard light machine gun" on the helmet display.

These firearms, which Atlas calls the "hard light" series, are similar in appearance. They are all white in appearance, have long gun bodies, and have bullpup structures.

The hard light machine gun is equipped with a disc-shaped drum and an attached mechanical arm, which can be attached to the user's mechanical skeleton or the waist of the power armor to assist in locking and calibration.

After a while.

More than a hundred D and other personnel selected their favorite firearms and obtained sufficient ammunition.

"Please all D and other personnel enter the simulated town to deal with the first wave of attacks." At this time, the female voice broadcast paused and added very "considerately":

"You have five minutes to prepare. If you want to survive, please work as a team as much as possible and don't go alone.

In addition, there are three waves of attacks in this experiment. If you can survive until the end, the company will prepare generous rewards for you.

For example, you can increase the duration of your break, upgrade to a single cell, choose electronic entertainment products produced by our company, or choose meals that suit your tastes, etc. "

"Damn it! I don't want these! What I want is ***! I haven't eaten meat for a long time!"

"Hey, just because you don't want it doesn't mean that others don't want it either. I just like playing games in a single room, okay?"

"You guy, Atlas, can't kill anyone without asking, don't force me to break up first!"

"Do you want to give it a try?"

After the female voice broadcast, the group of D and other personnel who had power armor and firearms, their self-confidence, ambition, and desire instantly expanded, and they began to fight among themselves.

And it split into two groups instantly.

From this point of view, even the prison in Atlas is inseparable from cliques among prisoners.

After all, the vast majority of humans are social species that rely on interaction, cooperation, and communication with other individuals.

"Remind everyone, you still have four and a half minutes left, 4 minutes and 27 seconds to be precise.

If the countdown reaches the three-minute stage, personnel such as D who fail to leave the waiting area will be deemed to have automatically given up and the self-destructive chip placed on the back of the head will be detonated. "

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After hearing the reminder from the female voice broadcast, a group of D and other personnel immediately ended their internal fighting and rushed to leave the waiting area.

And they realized that the guy responsible for issuing instructions to them was not a mindless program at all, but an artificial intelligence with a cold personality!

Therefore, all D and other personnel wisely kept their mouths shut, for fear that their words would be recorded by artificial intelligence, and even if they survived by chance, they would be treated "differently."

Entering the eastern part of the simulated town——

Looking at it, it is generally similar to the cities of Arcadia and Reach under the jurisdiction of the UNSC, but there are no huge structures exceeding a hundred meters or a thousand meters in height.

Then, the two groups of people who originally didn't deal with them just talked tough.

Faced with a life-and-death situation, more than 90% of them chose to act together, choosing small shopping malls that seemed easy to defend and difficult to attack as defensive fortifications.

Some D and other personnel were taking chances and went to the depths of the simulated town. They regarded the gathering of "colleagues" as bait and prepared to hide in the corner and wait for the end of the experiment.

Four minutes flew by.

Beep——!

A sound similar to the whistle of a cruise ship sounded, indicating that the experiment that was deeply feared by D and other personnel was officially launched.

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The faces and expressions of the people under the helmets were extremely solemn.

"Huhu."

Some of the guys who were specially "taken care of" by Atlas through kidnapping, murder, and rape had their heart rates rise rapidly and their breathing became rapid.

Even though the power armor has a temperature control system inside, the fear and nervousness still caused these guys to break out in a lot of cold sweat.

They don't have the psychological qualities of extreme thugs or perverts. They are more afraid of death than anyone else.

However, after waiting for a long time, the simulated town was still extremely quiet.

There was no imaginary "thump, thump" footsteps made by the tyrant as he searched and moved forward, nor was there the howling of the hellhound as he ran wildly.

Could it be the latest model of clone trooper?

Although people such as D do not have permission to browse the Internet, they still have their own ways to obtain some gossip.

In addition, when Atlas used the Ark to teleport them from the Harvest Star to the core world of 0459, he witnessed tens of thousands of neatly arranged clone armies heading to the cold storage warehouse of the core base to stand by.

Therefore, a group of D and other personnel have reason to believe that Atlas is preparing them to "accept" the combat power of the new clones.

In this case, then use all your strength to slap Atlas in the "face"!

With the judgment in mind and the hard-light firearms in their hands, D and other personnel naturally felt confident.

However.

The few who committed serial murders and played tricks on the police believed that they were the "products" of this experiment.

To be more precise, it should be the unknown medicine injected into them by the testing technicians, as well as the hard light firearms that they have never seen before.

"Gugu.!"

As soon as they analyzed who was the real test project, personnel such as D stationed in the mall used the hearing enhancement effect provided by the power armor to capture a strange muffled sound that sounded like having water in the mouth and insisting on talking.

At the same time, the pulse scan also captured a large number of moving objects, and the abbreviated radar in the upper left corner of the screen showed a dense "red ocean".

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Upon seeing this, a group of D and other personnel immediately raised their alerts and pointed their guns at the dim streets outside the windows and doors.

"Ah! What kind of insect is this? Help me! Someone help me!"

Suddenly, on their communication channel, a man who chose to leave the main force screamed.

Immediately afterwards, the clerk's communication was occupied by a harsh busy tone, and there was no movement.

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This made the already solemn atmosphere in the shopping mall even more serious, and fear quickly began to spread among everyone, taking over.

"Insects. Did that guy say insects?"

"Fuck, what kind of weird thing did Atlas develop again?"

"Look at the north side of the mall! Son of a bitch, it's so fucking disgusting!"

Personnel such as D at the north gate of the mall worked hard to share his helmet's vision.

Later, everyone also took advantage of this to see almost endless octopus-like "bugs", the infected form of the Flood.

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"Fire, fire!"

"Kill them out!"

Da da da--!

Suddenly, gunfire broke out.

The red beam shot out of the gun barrel, piercing the air at a speed far exceeding that of a Gaussian spike bullet, and hit the infected form in the front row.

Bang~bang!

Then, the infection appears like a balloon bursting.

And hard-light firearms labeled "shotgun" and "machine gun" can maximize the killing effect.

Although the combat literacy of D and other personnel is only slightly higher than that of ordinary people, the auxiliary calibration and vision locking of the power armor are enough for them to step into the ranks of "marksmen".

It's just that in the face of massive infected forms, without being too "super class" like the original body and the Thunder Warriors, D and other personnel simply cannot hold on for long.

Click-click!

Soon, D and other personnel, who had no awareness of alternating shooting and cover, emptied the first magazine.

Only the hard light machine guns equipped with drum magazines are still exporting to the outside world.

"Goo!"

But a few machine guns alone cannot stop the spread of the infection.

After D and other personnel replaced the new magazines according to the operation prompts on the screen, the flood wave was already close at hand.

Soon, the first one broke into the shopping mall hall, followed by the second and third ones.

Until it can no longer be accurately calculated.

"Ah! Get out! Get out!"

"Don't come near me!"

Seeing the disgusting, tentacle-growing, and trypophobic infected form approaching, the front deployed by D and other personnel immediately became chaotic.

The instinct of survival makes them pull the trigger on the disgusting bugs around them and tilt the ammunition desperately.

"Help me! Uh."

Especially after witnessing the infected form wrapping its tentacles around the legs, arms and neck, and then using metal-like needles to penetrate the airtight combat uniforms and penetrate into the bodies of their temporary comrades, they were even more frightened by the tragic ending.

At the same time, the lack of discipline and combat awareness are also highlighted at this moment.

No more concentrated fire and volleys, and individual battles.

"Roar!"

And those D and other personnel whose bodies were manipulated and twisted by the infected form and reduced to fighting forms also began to join the melee.

The most important thing is that the combat mode also uses hard-light firearms to attack. Even if the accuracy is not satisfactory, it still further reduces the survivors' space for movement.

In just a few minutes, the mall was completely destroyed.

but

"Come on! Fuck, I let you eat! Come on!"

"Die! Die! Die!"

However, six D-level personnel miraculously survived.

Back to back, they continued to fight against the infected and fighting form of the Flood.

Moreover, the infected form seemed to have suddenly lost the desire to be parasitic towards them, and only launched an attack on these six survivors in order to eliminate the enemy.

At this time;

Boom! Boom - the vibration caused by the "monster" when running.

boom! Boom - The north wall of the shopping mall hall was knocked down by brute force.

A Primarch wearing exclusive mithril power armor, nearly four meters tall, and holding a giant scythe rushed into the place.

The original body, whose power armor was mainly painted in white with brass and earthy green accents, swung his sickle to sweep away all the Flood demons in front of him, and then said to the six survivors in a slightly hoarse voice. :

"Everyone, from now on, you are the precious materials of Atlas and must not be lost. Please leave here with me."