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Half-Life (Book) Chapter 8

Suddenly, a computer standing against the wall began to publish a quiet squeak, which became louder and louder. Phillips ran to him, checked several sensors and turned to Rosenberg with an amazed face with an amazed face.

-Boss, this is a satellite! He is in orbit! Someone launched it, may his heavens keep him! -The old man exclaimed. -Now I will connect it to the system, and you can start!

-Perfect! Come on, Kalhun. I need your help! -Rosenberg muttered excitedly, quickly walking to the teleporter. The scanner missed it without problems, and soon he was already standing behind a small control console, initiating systems.

The emitters at the corners of the teleport froze, from which it was pulled by some fog.

-I initiate teleportation procedure!

Bright yellow rays connected in the center hit the emitters.

-Kalhun, go upstairs and click the pumping lever of the teleporter!

It was done in a few seconds. The teleporter lit up even brighter, suddenly a bright flash flashed from the center, and a flickering ball formed at the place of weaving rays.

-Rather, Kalhun! He will not hold out for a long time!

Barney closed his eyes, took a deep breath and stepped into the teleporter ..

… locks on the doors in the Central Department Store, designed to prevent the gas station of missiles, opened, and Gordon slowly went to the starting table. It smelled very smoked, at the entrance to the Central Department Store, the charred corpse of a soldier was lying, who did not manage to run to the saving shelter. Having crossed through him, Freeman headed back to the railway, intending to try another way out of the denouement, leading back into the depths of the mountains.

He was open, apparently the soldier came from there. A narrow staircase leading down to the mines was visible next to the lifted lift for the wagons, and Gordon climbed along it. She led him to the base of the elevator, next to which stood a small pretty red car. Gordon climbed the driver’s place and started the engine that responded with a measured buzz. He pressed the control lever, and the trailer, gaining speed, rolled deep into the tunnel.

The tunnel was not illuminated, and the only fire in it was the light from the flashlight built into Gordon’s costume. In his light, of course, it was impossible to notice that the tunnel was unfinished, and the rails end, not reaching the station. The trailer that took a considerable speed, jumping and struggling on concrete, flew off the rut directly to the station, demolishing several soldiers along the way. A rusty rotten wall could not stand such a blow and scattered into pieces, and a trailer with Gordon, clinging into a lump on board, flew out onto a platform above the pit with stagnant water, demolished the railing and, for a second, depending on the air, collapsed into the water.

The pit was only 10 meters deep, and Gordon, getting out of a broken trailer, quickly swam to the surface and, erasing the fuel oil and dirt from the helmet glass, looked around. Previously, this room served to store all junk, but now the tanks broke through, and the water flooded everything.

There was no stairs back to the road, and Gordon had no choice but to dive. Below, next to the trailer, there was a passage, and Gordon swam there. There was enough air in his suit for about two minutes, and it was necessary to rush. Fortunately, the tunnel turned out to be small, and soon a staircase leading up was already visible ahead.

Switting to the surface and cleaning the helmet filters, Gordon went forward. Soon he went to the Great Hall, previously former generator – the inscriptions “Caution, electricity hung everywhere on the walls!". A scientist ran to him along the bridge, screaming:

-Wait where you are standing! Here is none … aaaa!

The bridge scattered to smithereens, and right under the scientist a huge mouth of a terrible creation, which jumped out of the water, revealed. He flew up from the blow into the air and fell right into the mouth, which immediately slammed, the creature roared with satisfaction and disappeared into the depths. Trying not to make noise, Gordon crept in a quiet mouse to a break, gently jumped over him and went to the aisle to the control room.

There was another scientist in a lump in a lump. Seeing Gordon, he muttered:

-Everything was fine, and suddenly … this … escaped from the tank … Previously, sharks were explored here, but now … there is a cage from sharks, it has a crossbow with poison ..

A narrow bridge that Gordon defeated not without difficulty led to the cage. Having deeded into the cage, he found at her bottom the most beautiful crossbow with an optical sight, completely new. He already wanted to get out back to the bridge, when suddenly the cage swayed, the old cables broke off, and the whole structure collapsed into the water ..

… Kalhun wiped his eyes and looked around. The teleportation took only a few seconds, and now he was in the most strange place that he had seen in his life. It seems to have been the most mysterious xen. Everything around was a strange brown color, something like giant amoebas swam around the green sky, constantly changing their shape. He himself was on a fairly large island, which he soared in zero gravity, like a ship in the ocean. There was something black, similar to the surface below. Kalkhun stood on a small bridge above the island, and it was time to jump down and look for this very lighthouse.

Jumping down and surprised how easily he landed, Kalhun suddenly heard a voice:

-Reception, Kalhun! You hear me? This is Dr. Rosenberg, I will direct you with the help of a microphone built into your helmet. This planet is quite low, so carefully calculate your jumps, otherwise you can fly down!

In the center of the island, a narrow dark cave went inside, and Kahun headed there. It was dark inside and smelled of some kind of muck, something between the decaying body and oppressive algae. Occasionally, something champed and crunched underfoot, loud uterine sounds came from the darkness now and then, not foreshadowing anything good.

Suddenly, the ceiling of the cave sharply went up, and Kalhun found himself in the grotto poorly lit by local luminous plants. At the opposite end, another cave was visible, and he went there when he suddenly stumbled about something soft. He looked at his feet, and he was twisted.

It turned out to be a human corpse in Energokostyum. The helmet glass was broken, several crab teeth sticking out of it. Instead of the head, the corpse had a continuous bloody mess. Nearby lay a revolver covered with dust and mucus, which Kalhun immediately grabbed. The weapon looked good, only slightly aged. Putting the acquired gun by the belt, Barney delved into the cave.

This time it turned out to be quite long, he had to squat for about five minutes. The light dawned ahead, and soon Kalhun got out of the close passage. A very unexpected landscape revealed before him. He stood on the shore of a huge lake, into which they fell, sparkling in the light of several suns, four waterfalls. The water in the lake shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow, throwing bizarre reflections onto the stone walls.

From the shore to the depths https://bigspinx.co.uk/ of the island was the road along which Kalhun went. Having wrapped a large rock, he faced a landscape, which was a sharp opposite to a beautiful lake.

A wide platform has been spread out before him, which previously served as a camp for the exreditation of earthlings. Now everything was destroyed here, the tents were crumpled and tilted, the equipment was broken. The corpses of expedition members lay everywhere, many with terrible injuries, without arms and legs. In the center of the site around the huge crystal flickering golden color, an emitter was built, transmitting energy to a giant “plate” installed on a hill. Approaching the control panel and looking at it, Barney spoke to the helmet microphone:

-Kalhun calls Rosenberg! Answer! I’m in place, answer!

Rosenberg’s voice sounded in the headphones of the helmet:

-Great, Kalhun! You got! Now you need to turn on the emitter to in control its energy on the antenna. Here we will accept your signal and be able to teleport you back. Control panel in order?

-Great. Click on the activation button of generators, red on the left.

-Made. -The emitter buzzed with increasing power.

-Now turn on the emitter. Lever next to the button for generators.

-Made. -Lightning broke out of the emitter, resting at the top of the crystal. The arrows of the devices crawled to the maximum marks.

-Now transfer the emitter energy to the antenna. Lever on the right, press until it stops!

-OK. -A tight blue ray hit the antenna, which, expanding, disappeared into the embroidery.

After a couple of minutes, Rosenberg shouted excitedly:

-The signal is accepted! Power is one hundred percent! Now we will open a teleporter to get you out of there!

And this was necessary – from the side of the lake, several dozen electric creatures fled to the camp, and their intentions clearly did not include establishing cultural ties with Kalhun. He yelled into the microphone:

-Rather, the dock, otherwise I will go to lunch to the natives!

-No problem … Minute … all! Run! – Near Kalhun opened a teleport, into which he immediately jumped. He closed behind him, leaving the creatures in bewilderment ..

… Sheppard has been crawling along a variety of ventilations, passages and caves for several hours, and there was no exit to the surface. He was already beginning to lose hope, when suddenly the noise of the helicopter screws was heard ahead. Having accelerated, Sheppard fell out of ventilation after a minute, all in dust and dirt, right in front of an unfamiliar colonel. He looked at him dumbfounded, the Sheppard rose, somehow shook off the dust and stretched out into the string:

-Corporal Adrian Sheppard, Marine Corps!

-Colonel Jones, KMP. Free, corporal. Rather in a helicopter, we are evacuated from the complex. To hell all this is shit! If they want, let these mountains end to hell or flood everything with napalm – only without me! Run!

Sheppard did not wait long and ran down the stairs, to the exit to the helicopter site. He ran out into a wide tunnel, at the end of which a saving helicopter was visible. Accelerating a step, he rushed to him.

Suddenly the door separating the tunnel from the site began to slowly close. Seeing this, Sheppard shouted:

-Hey, stand! I’m here! Stand!

He fled to the door like crazy, and she slowly sank, with each centimeter depriving Sheppard of an increasing particle of hope of getting out of the complex alive. He had already begun to stretch out, and before salvation it was still so far ..

Late! The door slammed right at the corporal in front of the nose. Screaming wildly, he began to thresh with his hands and legs, shoot – everything is in vain. Nothing helped. The soldiers standing at the helicopter saw him and wanted to run up, but suddenly they froze like one.

The same person with a suitcase who saved his life, releasing nuclear waste from a storage of nuclear waste, approached the door. He looked at him, grinned and shook his head. Then he turned to the soldiers and shouted something to them, those, dangling his heads, wandered into the helicopter. And the mysterious man, once again looking at Sheppard, shook his head negatively and went somewhere to the side, soon he disappeared from his field of view.

He, unable to believe that he was simply abandoned, began to pound with a double fury at the door. And the helicopter meanwhile heated the engines, preparing for the start. Sheppard ran back to the tunnel, Nadiau to run back to the control building and get to the car from there. But he was waiting for a terrifying surprise – the fire doors were blocked tightly.

And the helicopter, meanwhile, heated the engines and took off. Gaining speed, he flew away from this terrible place.

Sheppard leaned his back to the door of the tunnel, unable to believe in what happened. He was abandoned – for what? For just trying to save his life? And this man is with a suitcase – if he wanted to kill him from the very beginning, then why did he not do this even earlier, leaving Sheppard in the vault to destroy waste?

There was no way out of the tunnel, they were all blocked. Sheppard sat and thought that now there is no hope and would not be, he would die here, in this tunnel, from hunger and thirst. His hand itself reached for a holster hanging on a belt with a “desert needle”. If he is destined to die, then why not save himself from unnecessary suffering?

Taking a pistol in his hand, Adrian put him to his temple and put his finger on the trigger. The cold steel of the trunk was cold, his hands trembled. Having closed his eyes, Sheppard prepared to put pressure on the hook ..

… the cell plopped into the water and began to slowly dive, Gordon barely managed to stay on his feet. The creature, feeling the surge, was already there as it was and began to try to gnaw the rods of the cage, which cracked menacingly. Freeman aimed from the crossbow of the creature right into the jaws and fired. The arrow sewed the water column and dug straight into the throat of the creature, which roared wildly in pain. Gordon shot again and hit the eye, the creature burst out, jerked several times and turned upside down. Carefully sailing from the cage, he approached the creature. She was dead – two arrows with cyanide would be killed by anyone.

The rusted door was visible in the depths, which Gordon headed for. The door succumbed with difficulty, behind her a staircase was found upstairs. She brought Gordon to a platform with an elevator.

He brought Gordon to the entrance to the warehouse with a guard. Seeing Gordon, he said in a whisper:

A black shadow flickered among the boxes, a quiet cotton rang out, and a guard with a shot head collapsed to the floor. Gordon cighed into the shelter, holding a machine gun on ready. The quiet steps were approaching, and Freeman, sticking out the barrel between the boxes, released several queues in the warehouse. The knock of a fallen body confirmed that he managed to get rid of the killer. Carefully looking out from behind the boxes, he saw the body crushed on the floor.

Approaching closer, he saw that it was a thin frying woman dressed in a black Ninji costume. There were several grenades on the belt, in her hand she squeezed a gun with a silencer. Clamping the wound in her chest, she fought for a few more seconds for life, and then let her out.

Carefully passing through the warehouse, Gordon opened the door at the opposite end and saw in the depths of the corridor, in the room with the doorbing first aid kit opened. Looking around, he went to her. Bruises all over his body, and a suit, not provided for such severe trials, was already starting to rub the whole body. He had already entered the room ..

Suddenly someone hit him on the head. Gordon darkened in the eyes, and the last thing he felt was to fall on the floor ..

… catching his breath, Kalhun wiped his eyes and looked around. He was in the same laboratory from where it was transferred to Xen. Rosenberg and his comrades crowded around the teleporter, they prepared the device for a new launch. Rosenberg said excitedly:

-Great, Kalhun! You did it! Now you have to do only one thing: as soon as I order, you will have to press the pumping lever. First we go, then you. Ok, Phillips, you are the first! Kalhun, press!

Barney pressed the lever, a familiar ball was formed in the center of the teleporter. Phillips jumped into him and disappeared.

-Jackson, rather! Click, kalhun!

He was not long in coming. Now only Rosenberg and Barney remained in the laboratory. The doctor said:

-Now I will put the system for automatic initiation, you just have to press the lever to turn it on. Click!

Rosenberg jumped into the teleporter. Kalhun, waiting until the system is initiated again, pressed on the lever, creating another luminous ball. He began to go down to him, when suddenly voices came from behind the door leading to the laboratory:

-Jake, forward! We break the door! These eggs are there!

-Yes, sir! Attention, I explode the door!

Kalhun jumped to the teleport with jumps and seized into it. At the same moment, the door carried out an explosion, and several soldiers broke into the laboratory. They only considered strange equipment in surprise ..

… Kalhun wiped his eyes. He stood near the white jeep with the emblem of Mesya on the door, Rosenberg and his comrades sat inside. The doctor shouted to him:

-Rather in the car! We are getting it off!

Phillips, sitting at the wheel, pressed the gas pedal, and the jeep, throwing dust from under the wheels, rushed along the deserted road ..

… Lieutenant McNamara was angry with everything around. Him, the Extra-class pilot, a participant in the “storm in the desert”, was thrown into this hole-and why? There was an order – no one could release anyone, but there was no one already broken for three hours. He was already thinking of turning to the base, when suddenly Tommy Simpson, Strelka came from the front seat: arrow:

-Chiffphi, there is some kind of crap on radar! It seems that someone is trying to break out!

McNamara immediately perked up.

-Give the vector to the target!

-3-3-2, speed 90 miles per hour, range nine miles.

McNamara quickly found the offender in the sight. It turned out to be a white jeep racing at a frantic speed.

-So, Hellfire found a goal. Tom, on my command … Fire!..

… The Hellfire missile fell off the pylon under the “Apache” wing and darted to a frantically rushing machine. The flight took only a few seconds. The missile struck the target directly into the windshield and exploded in the cabin, among passengers. They did not have time to see or hear anything, they died instantly. From the explosion, the jeep scattered into pieces, doors and glasses scattered in all directions. Burning skeleton, sinking several times, froze on the road. Rolled, smoke with rubber, torn wheel. And under the bush, rolling back, the guard pierced by fragments of the guard rocket was smoked ..

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