The battle here in the ‘Horay’ colony was in full swing. The confrontation between Shepard and others and the collectors began to fight to the death as soon as they contacted them.

Whoosh!!

Dada dada...

Whoosh swosh swosh!!!

The low, whizzing sound when penetrating the air is mainly the collectors' posing as energy weapons, while the crisp and metal-filled explosion sounds are the main standard weapons of the Normandy No. 2 side. After all, most of them are Star League's "Avengers" assault rifle series or upgraded and modified gun tribe members. The gunshots are generally similar when the main components have not changed.

"Quick! Miranda!"

"There are too many enemies, and we will be surrounded. We must retreat first!!"

He pulled the trigger directly, and the heat dissipation magazine turned red. Finally, he successfully smashed the three corpse puppets that rushed to him and fell into pieces into a pile of rags. Shepard did not have time to breathe a sigh of relief or change the magazine. He directly knocked several collector soldiers and soldiers on the other side away from a distance with a fierce supernatural shock wave. Then he patted Miranda, who was shooting the enemy, on the shoulder, signaling the other party and himself to evacuate the dangerous place now.

In just a few minutes, the number of enemies around us has increased...

Although the little Anne and Gellas in the distance have been sniping the enemy efficiently, the two of them are a little overwhelmed now. Shepard just saw dozens of collector monsters scattered to attack the sniper position in the distance. If it weren't for the accurate marksmanship of a little guy and the fact that he would always have a strange attack, maybe both Gellas, herself and Miranda had already been torn apart by those crazy collectors!

She was still a little careless in this battle.

She didn't expect that there would be so many terrifying monsters in the collector's troops here... They not only have blue corpse puppets who are good at melee combat, charge very fast and fearless, but also the troublesome self-destructing corpse puppets in red, as well as those ugly supernatural monsters with poison sacs on their bodies, and the collector infantry who can skip and fly for a short distance with pulse energy rifles. Finally, the red lightning flashed on their bodies just appeared, and the supernatural shield on their bodies was extremely strong and could not be beaten no matter how hard they were!

Just now, it was because she and Miranda had wasted too many bullets and superpowers on the strange weird collector monster that a large number of ordinary collector soldiers around them had the opportunity to take advantage of it and rushed up, but they were almost successfully rushed up by dozens of corpse puppets...

Well... Actually, the corpse puppets just now have successfully rushed up. If it weren't for the little Anne and Gailas in the distance who helped them accurately snipe and eliminate most of them, they would probably have been finished now!

What made her even more thankful was that the armor module that interferes with the bee swarm developed by Dr. Modin is still very useful. Even if the occasionally mutated poisonous bees are uninterrupted and want to attack them, they are instantly heated by the mass effect of passive defense, and their wings, hands, feet and parts of their bodies are burned, so that when they fight with the collectors, they will not be distracted and be careful to pay attention to the poisonous bees that fly all over the sky, but just need to pay attention to the energy situation of the shield.

"No! Our back is also surrounded!"

"If we don't kill those collectors, we may not be able to retreat!"

First, he grabbed a pulse arc bomb viciously and threw it far away towards the back of the colonial cabin in the distance, causing waves of arcs and pulses to explode there. Seeing that many corpse puppets and collector soldiers were blown out, Miranda viciously extended a gun from the box to fill in a few shots, and shot the enemies who had been overloaded by the pulse bombs and were blown out of balance to death. Only then did she quickly replace the thermal magazines and answer calmly towards Shepard.

"If you want to retreat, you have to hurry up. We don't have much ammunition now!"

"If you wait here, you will be dead!"

The battle has only lasted less than ten minutes now, but in this high-intensity battle, the ammunition they carry is consumed very seriously, and what's even more fatal: even if they carry a lot of thermal magazines, their weapons inevitably get a little heat and overloaded, and they have to find an opportunity to change the weapon or trim it a little!

“…”

"Call Normandy!"

"EDI! How are those planetary defense turrets cracking now? When can I expect to control them?"

Finally found a gap to replace the thermal magazine for his weapon and let the overheated and high-temperature barrel gradually start to cool down, Shepard finally couldn't help but urge the artificial intelligence above Normandy No. 2 again.

The four large planetary defense towers built by Star Alliance around this largest colony of the "horizon" have actually been controlled by the technical team, and now they are also guarding the turrets, but their military facilities are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and their weapons and ammunition are all available, which is much more comfortable than her and Miranda!

However, those damn Star Leagues...

All right……

Shepard himself was originally a member of the Star Alliance, and it seems a bit bad to have such an idea? Anyway, some of the bastards who build planet defense turrets here have actually added a lot of security rights to the turrets, and they are also vaguely targeting and guarding against Cerberus?

So, Shepard and others who came here to support this colony have been cheated by some guys! Even though they successfully removed the interference of the turret and opened the energy supply battery pack, they had to let the artificial intelligence edi on Normandy 2 slowly crack the complex authority of the Star Alliance Navy. Otherwise, they would have just changed from a few broken iron to electric broken iron, and it would never be possible to provide any help to their spacecraft that attacked collectors and collectors!

‘Hello, Commander Shepard!’

‘Zi…Star League’s security and defense authority is very complete, Zi… cannot be cracked quickly…’

‘Zi… According to my calculations and the current cracking progress, Zi… is still ten minutes and thirty-two seconds away from Zi… thirty-one seconds…’

Almost instantly, the emotionally unsensical electronic synthesizer of the artificial intelligence Edi came from the communication.

The other party's communication is not as clear and smooth as the short-range communication channels of the ground troops of Shepard and their ground forces. Obviously, Normandy II, which is hidden on the track, must have been continuously disturbed by the collector warship! Perhaps, that is the real reason why even with the technical team assisting in the turret, Itti also needs to take so long to crack the security authority?

Therefore, Shepard was just lucky and wanted to continue defending on the spot, and delayed the idea of ​​fatal bombing by the collectors surrounding the surrounding area after the turret was restored. It would definitely not be possible.

“!!”

"Oh! Not good, be careful!!"

Shepard and Miranda, who heard the cover behind him make some kind of invasive sound, looked at each other tacitly, and then took advantage of the mass effect shield on his body that was still full, and rushed towards more material boxes on the other side. Before his shield was lowered to the threshold, he hid again after the new cover with the shooting of the collector soldiers.

"Uh!"

A monster screamed, and the collector who was cutting Shepard and the others in the distance with the continuous irradiation of energy pulses, who had just hiding the thick alloy boxes melted into several petals. Suddenly, he wailed and staggered to the ground... The beam of high-energy laser particles still illuminating in the other party's hands was cut into several petals before extinguishing them.

"Huh! It's so dangerous!"

After Miranda replaced another thermal magazine for her weapon, she took a heavy breath.

They have known that terrible collector laser particle beam is accurate and deadly! Such high-energy particle beam weapons are very effective for mass effect shields, superpower barriers and armor. When launched, they can generate a devastating ray energy, which is orders of magnitude higher than the energy of high-speed projectiles emitted through ordinary mass effect fields!

Once irradiated, you can directly overload anyone's individual armor and mass effect shield!

This kind of thing can be quickly cut from the alloy box that they used to avoid to block the pulse attacks of ordinary collector soldiers and the arc bombardment of the poisonous sac collector monsters. It can be seen that their power is so great!

If they were to them, after being irradiated, there would be less than one second of reaction time... Once they could not avoid it in time, they would be cut into half like those collector soldiers who had been cut in half, and there would never be a better ending.

"Anne! We need to retreat immediately now and ask for support!"

"We are going to retreat to the independent colonial cabin at six o'clock. Can you cover us?"

There was no way, and after looking around, she soon decided to retreat and defend towards the solid colonial cabin not far away, she had to speak out to a little guy with good shooting skills in the channel for help.

‘It’s the direction at six o’clock…”

‘But…where is the direction of six o’clock? It seems that it’s not yet six o’clock…’

?(*–-)???

A little guy's doubtful voice came from the channel...

Obviously, six o'clock in the morning has passed, and six o'clock in the evening must have not arrived. Little Annie remembers the time of supper every day very clearly and will never remember it wrong!

So, she was a little unfamiliar with the strange words that the other party suddenly said... She had only a slight understanding of the tactical terms... Because, she always fought alone, even in the Kepru Star Zone, she was alone in fighting those bugs or holographic simulations, and she was really unable to react to the strange words that the eldest sister Shepard suddenly said.

At six o'clock or something... it is clearly a unit of time, where can I indicate the direction?

"Okay! Shepard!"

"Anne! We are going to retreat to the larger colonial warehouse behind, the one with a blue antenna on the roof!"

Before Shepard could continue to explain, Miranda, who was on the side, shouted loudly on the channel with a little impatiently.

The enemy has slowly come to touch it, and their position is very hidden, so that the two snipers in the distance can't easily hit them! Although they can attack those guys now, neither Miranda nor Shepard dared to come out and shoot at each other casually with so many enemies!

After all, that would be a huge challenge for their shields. She didn't believe that the collector soldiers would be like the ones in the holographic movies, and they would never be able to hit the protagonists no matter how they were! People who also had that kind of idea had long been lying in an unknown corner or a small pit in a cemetery.

‘Oh! You said it was spicy!?’

‘I saw it! You can rush in now. Who dares to look up and cause trouble for you? I promise they won’t survive for a second!’

After Miranda's effective commentary, another affirmative reply from a little guy came from the channel.

“…”

"Get to act!!"

When the cute voice of Anne came from the combat channel, Shepard and Miranda looked at each other, stopped talking, and began to find the right opportunity to take advantage of their mass effect shield to be fully restored to full value. They suddenly used force with their legs, half-short their bodies, and rushed towards the colony cabin less than fifty meters away, which had been smashed by some bullet!

"Well!!"

"ah!!!"

puff!

puff!

Seeing that the enemy who was about to be surrounded actually wanted to run away, the collector soldiers suddenly emerged from their respective hiding places and began to shoot at the two humans running wildly in the distance!

However……

Some of them only emitted one or two bullets; some, before they even had time to aim, they were quickly blown off by some hateful sniper in the distance...

When other collectors found that the friendly forces suffered heavy casualties and had to hide again and prepare to continue shooting the two human women in the distance, they only saw two backs jumping up, directly from the broken window, and entered the colonial cabin that could even be used as a lifesaving cabin in an emergency.

They lost the opportunity to kill the enemy, and the opponent narrowly hid in the solid steel house that was as easy to defend and difficult to attack as a bunker before the mass effect shield was attacked and overloaded and offline.

"Okay, Miranda!"

"At most, there are a few minutes left, our turret should be running successfully. Let's stick here now!"

I looked at the holographic display of the universal tool in my hand, and the mass effect shield sirens displayed on it flashed wildly. The shield had reached the lowest line. Shepard, who was sitting on the ground next to the bulkhead, was so self-deprecating. He said to Miranda, who was silently waiting for the shield to recover, just like himself on the other side of the window, was silently waiting for the shield to recover.

Just now, with their full speed acceleration, they rushed in in less than five seconds in just a short distance of 50 meters... Fortunately, that little guy Annie is quite powerful, so they did not get too many attacks.

"Hmph! There is only one window in this broken place, and the view is not very good!!"

With a cold snorting, Miranda didn't think it would be a good idea to stick to such an iron coffin-like colonial cabin!

Because, we can only see the front here. Once the enemy uses powerful weapons to bombard or make small moves from the left and right and behind, they will be blind. Especially now that the number of enemies far exceeds them, that kind of thing will definitely happen!

But if you think about it carefully, it is only a few minutes before the turret is restored, and there are two snipers in the distance to support the protection, so it wouldn't be too bad to stick here for a little while?

"Hey! Miranda...you see that!"

After slapping a sensor device on the wall, completely closing the automatic hatch door as wide as one or two punches, Shepard accidentally discovered that in the bathroom of the colonial cabin with the door open, a young and beautiful woman was lying on the ground in a strange position without any trace, stretching her hands in vain, but her eyes could turn, staring at them tightly, and then moving from time to time, as if she wanted to ask for help from them?

this……
To be continued...