The Cadet (LitRPG. Squadcom-13. Book:1) by D. Rus

Author:D. Rus [Rus, D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

I cursed, having read the messages. Those bastards threw us in here, making us struggle like blind kittens in a lake, and still they dare wave a timer at us and accuse us of being disorganized?

A worn-down sanitary cordon droid stood in the new hall’s doorway, the serial number on its side half-erased. It kept repeating, “… risk of contagion by nanoterminator. Enter only in spacesuits with defense class 5 and up. Do not approach! Permission received to utilize passive and non-lethal deterrents. Attention! Risk of contagion by…”

“Shut up!” Muromets growled at the droid.

I looked at the Corporal. My interface highlighted him with the pink aura of a team’s killer, as it did me.

We broke the droid’s force field within ten hours; its ancient reactor had been in need of cell replacement for a while, and the reserve accumulators weren’t eternal either. The boys even entertained themselves by jumping on the force field and getting softly thrown back.

Soon, the force field started to blink, then finally shut off. The group cheerfully raced inside to get to the loot obscured by the darkness of the room. However, the droid still had some fight in it left. Pushing out the socket of its broadband paralyzer, it made the entire crowd fall down on the deck within seconds. For some, this turned out to be lethal as they fell face down into the warm water and drowned.

As far as I could tell, this daunted the droid and even made it mutter something like “Oops.” But it didn’t become any more humane and kept firing at the lone warriors that Muromets sent, knocking them out.

We would drag our paralyzed aside, giving them time to recover and also timing their paralysis: 20, 15, 9, 3 minutes… At last, the droid weakened. One soldier rose on his own, gnashed his teeth when the droid shot him a second time, stepped forward, and dealt the droid a hearty blow on its bottom left vision sensor.

It was pointless. The soldier merely broke his fist. But getting the personal bonus “Persistence will be rewarded” felt relieving and pleasant.

Despite Muromets’s order telling them to freeze, they rushed into the room again. It was dry with relatively fresh air and a few bodies almost reduced to dust along the walls. The rich gear on them enticed our group.

But the group didn’t get far. The mechanics were the first to collapse; the combat nanites in the room almost instantly took control of their semi-military implants.

The heavy infantrymen, on the contrary, had time to realize what was going on. The firewalls of their systems held up long enough to inform them of the attack, assess the threat level, and come to a sad conclusion. The implants then burned the weapon control circuitry and erased the databases.

Reeling, our group ran back, saving themselves from this plague. The droid squealed, trying to block their way and spreading its broken arms wide apart: “Sterile zone in danger of being infiltrated by nanoterminator carriers! Take preventative measures. Highest-grade threat.

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