Chapter 15 13

The first shot missed by about a meter and missed Feldman.Kassad, cracking a boulder he was passing, and he moved before the debris hit him; rolled on the spot, taking cover, his camouflage polymer fully activated, tight armor taut, The rifle is loaded, and the night vision goggles are all set to measure the target.Kassad lay on the ground for a long time, feeling his own heart beating, searching the hills, valleys, and burials, looking for heat or movement.But nothing, and he started grinning behind the black mirrored night vision goggles. Whoever shot him had deliberately missed him, he was sure of that.They used standard pulse rounds, triggered by eighteen-centimeter bullets, and unless the shooter was ten kilometers away, it was impossible to miss.

Kassad got to his feet and ran to Tamakasa for cover when a second shot hit him in the chest, sending him staggering backwards. This time he snorted, rolled away, activated all the sensors, and hurried to the entrance of Yuzhong.The second shot was a rifle bullet.The guy playing him was using a Bajun multi-purpose assault weapon, similar to his own.He guessed the killer knew he was wearing armor and that rifle bullets were useless at any distance.But this multifunctional weapon has other settings.If the next phase of the game uses a death ray, Kassad will be dead.He let himself go directly to the entrance of the Tamaki.

But there was still no heat or movement on his sensors, just the red and yellow images of the footsteps of his pilgrim companions, cooling rapidly as they entered the Sphinx minutes before. Kassad adjusted the display with his implanted chip, and quickly checked the VHF and optical communication channels.nothing.He magnified the valley a hundred times, took the wind and sand into account, and activated the moving target display.Nothing bigger than a bug is moving.He sent radar, sonar, and love pulses to see if the sniper dared to show up.nothing.He called up the detailed information of the two shots, and the blue ballistics appeared.

The first shot came from the City of Poets, more than four kilometers to the southwest.Less than ten seconds later, the second shot came from the crystal monolith, a full kilometer in the northeast valley, logically speaking, there must have been two snipers.Kassad was sure there was only one person.He made the display more accurate. The second shot came from the upper part of the monolith, at least thirty meters above the vertical wall. Kassad stepped out, increased the magnification, and looked at the huge building through the night and the last vestiges of sandstorms and snowstorms. There was nothing.There were no windows, no gaps, no openings of any kind.

Only the billions of suspended particles left in the air by the storm made that laser light visible for a fraction of a second.Kassad didn't see until after the laser beam hit him in the chest.He rolled back into the entrance of the Jade Tomb, wondering if the green walls could stop the green spear.And the superconductors in his tight armor radiated heat in all directions, and the night vision goggles revealed what he already knew: the shot came from high up on the crystal monolith. Kassad felt a stabbing pain in his chest, and he looked down just in time to see a five-centimeter round piece of armor melted and dripping on the ground.Only the last layer saved his life.In fact, he was sweating profusely in his armor, and the walls of Tokka literally lit up in the heat from his armor.Physiological monitors sounded to call attention, but there was no serious information.The sensors on his armor showed some wiring damage, but not irreparable, and his weapon was still charged, loaded, and ready to use.

Kassad thought for a moment.All Time Tombs are archaeologically invaluable treasures, preserved through the centuries as gifts for future generations, even if they do go backwards in time.If Feldman.For Colonel Kassad to put his own life above the preservation of this priceless artifact, it would be a major crime in interstellar terms. Oh, fuck it, Kassad said under his breath, before rolling over to shoot. He fired laser light at the monolithic monolith until the crystals shattered all around. He fired a high-explosive pulse bomb at the monolith every ten meters. Starting from the top, thousands of things like shattered mirrors Flying into the night sky, and then rolling all the way to the bottom of the valley in slow motion, leaving ugly cracks like missing teeth on the surface of the stele.Kassad switched back to broadband, and the continuous light swept into the interior from the gap. When he saw something burst into flames on several layers, he grinned grinningly behind the night vision goggles, and Kassad fired high-energy electronic light again, striking After passing through the giant monument, a cylindrical tunnel with a width of 14 centimeters and a length of half a kilometer was created on the valley wall.He fired a grenade, and after penetrating the surface of the monolith, it exploded into tens of thousands of needle-shaped arrows.From time to time he shoots laser light curtains at will, blinding anyone or anything looking this way from the monolith.He fired body heat search darts into every crack in the devastated monolith.

Kassad rolled back into the entrance to the Jade Tomb, flipped up his night-vision goggles, and the flames from the burning tower were reflected in the thousands of crystal shards scattered up and down the valley.Smoke rose into the suddenly windless night, the fires lit the dunes vermilion, more crystals cracked and fell, some hanging from strips of melted glass, and the air suddenly filled with the sound of wind. Kassad removed the empty magazine, replaced it with fresh ammunition from his belt, and turned over on his back, breathing the cooler air blowing in through the hole. He had no illusions that he had killed that sniper.

Monita, Feldman.Kassad said quietly.He closed his eyes for a moment before continuing. Moneta first met Cassad on a late October morning in A.D. 1415 in Achanc, France.The battlefield was full of French and British corpses, and the forest was filled with the murderous intent of the only enemy, and that enemy might have been the winner. Fortunately, this woman with short hair helped him, and her eyes were his eyes forever. I can't forget it either.After they shared the victory, still stained with the blood of the warrior they felled, Kassad and the woman made love in the forest. The virtual experience of the Olympus Command Academy Historical Tactics Network is the closest to reality that anyone can experience, but the phantom lover named Moneta is not just a virtual character.For so many years, from the time when Kassad was a military cadet at the Overlord Olympus Command Academy, until later, after real hand-to-hand combat, there will inevitably be a dream that has a purifying effect caused by fatigue , she will come to him.

Feldman.Kassad and the phantom named Moneta are in the quiet corners of every battlefield from Antiidam ⑨ to Qom︱Riyadh, preventing other students participating in the virtual reality from discovering, whether it is a hot night standing Moneta would come to him when he was at the whistle, or when he was surrounded on the freezing Russian steppes.Whether it was the nights after the real victory on the island battlefields of the Maui-Covenant system, or during the agony of having to undergo physical reconstruction after his near death in South Brescia, they shared each other in Kassad's dreams. Confidence.Moneta had been his only love that overriding passion and the smell of blood and gunpowder and petrol gel and soft lips and iron flesh mingled.

⑨Antietam (Antietam): Located in Maryland, USA, during the American Civil War, Confederate commander Robert.The site where General Lee launched his first Northern Expedition on September 17, 1862. Then came Hyperion. Feldman.Colonel Kassad's hospital ship was attacked by the Ouster torch ship on the way back from the Brescia galaxy. Only Kassad survived, stole an Ouster's feeder ship, and made an emergency landing in Hyperion.On the Galloping Horse Continent, in the great desert beside the Horse Bride Mountain Range and the wasteland of that barren land.In the valley where Shizuka is.In the territory of the Jing Demon God.

Monita is waiting for him.They made love and waited for the armed forces of the Ousters to arrive to take back their prisoners. Kassad, Moneta, and the looming Bramble Demon God destroyed the Ousters' ships, routed their landing forces, and slaughtered the Ousters. all troop members.For a short time, Feldman, from the slums of Tarsis, the descendants of refugees, and in every way a citizen of Mars,Colonel Kassad, learned the sheer ecstasy of using time as a weapon, moving stealthily through enemy hordes, and becoming a god of destruction that human warriors never even dreamed of. But even making love right after the war kills, Moneta changes.Turned into a monster, or the Jing Demon God replaced her.Kassad couldn't remember those details, and unless he had to remember to survive, he preferred not to. But he knew that he came back to find Jing Demon God and kill it; to find Moneta and kill her at the same time.kill her?he does not know.Feldman.Colonel Kassad knew only the great passion of passionate life that brought him to this place and this moment, and if death awaits him here, admit it.If love and glory and victory can delay the collapse of Valhalla, so be it. ⑩Vaihalla Hall (Vaihalla): In Norse mythology, the main god and god of death Odin received the hall of the dead in battle. When the gods perished, the Valhalla Hall also collapsed. Kassad pulled the night vision goggles down, stood up, and rushed out of the jade mound, screaming all the way, and he shot smoke bombs and distracting metal pieces at the monolith, but these could not completely cover him. He had to run that distance.Someone was still alive, firing at him from the tower.He evaded and advanced from one dune to another, from one pile of fallen debris from a huge monument to another, with bullets and death rays chasing him all the way. Arrows hit his helmet and both legs.His night-vision goggles cracked, warning lights flashed.Kassad turned off everything else except night vision.High-velocity solid bullets hit his shoulders and knees, and Kassad fell, pulled down.His body armor tensed, then let go, and he got up and ran again, only to feel bad bruises starting to form.The chameleon-like polymer surface shifted desperately to reflect the uninhabited wasteland he traversed: night, fire, sand, molten crystal, and burning stone. When he was fifty meters away from the monolithic monolith, ribbons of light spears shot at his left and right, attacking him at a speed that nothing or anyone could dodge, and the sand turned into glass at a touch.The deadly laser light no longer played tricks on him, and shot directly between his helmet, heart and waist with high heat.His tight armor became as bright as a mirror, changing the frequency in the shortest time to match the color of the attack.A wave of ultra-hot air surrounded him, the microcircuits were overloaded, anxious to dissipate heat, and an ultra-thin force field was built to block it, so as not to injure muscles and bones. Kassad struggled the last twenty meters, using power assist to leap over the crystal slag.Explosions continued all around, knocking him down and lifting him up, his body armor completely stiff; he was a rag doll tossed back and forth in burning hands. The attack stopped.Kassad knelt, then straightened.He looked up at the face of the crystal monolith and saw nothing but flames and cracks, his night vision goggles cracked and useless.Kassad raised his mask, inhaled the smoke and rust-smelling air, and stepped into the Tomb. His implant showed that other pilgrims were calling him through all communication channels, and he turned off all channels.Kassad took off his helmet and stepped into the darkness. There was only one room there, big, square and dark, with a vertical pit in the center, and he looked up to see a broken silhouette nearly a hundred meters above.A figure was waiting on the tenth floor, sixty meters high, and the flames traced his outline. Kassad slung his weapon over his shoulder, tucked his helmet under his side, found the great spiral staircase in the center of the shaft, and began to climb.