Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 87 The Battle of Zhonghaina Blue Star ([-])

Noisy frogs croaked from all directions, the lake was as calm as a mirror, and a thin layer of mist floated above the "mirror" like a veil.The breeze blew, and a small boat floated in the lake.

Ellie, who was standing on the boat, stretched out her hand and lightly touched the thin, pale golden translucent wall in front of her that spanned the sky and the earth and was filled with unknown symbols such as triangles and horizontal bars.

"Buzz--" The thin wall vibrated and buzzed, and the numbness and pain spread throughout Ellie's body, making her shiver.

Is this what it feels like?
Although it wasn't a comfortable experience, it was enough to keep her entertained for a while.This didn't make her feel any better, though, because she realized she couldn't go back.

Ellie stamped her feet irritably, and the boat below shook "squeaking".

Is Tommy nervous and worried because he can't contact her?She was looking forward to it, but she smiled bitterly and shook her head.Maybe not. He is just a weak artificial intelligence, not even comparable to the most ordinary intelligent AI.Even if he disappeared inexplicably, the Military Intelligence Bureau would probably give him a new one when he returned to Earth. Plus, with the comfort of his two little girlfriends, he would have completely forgotten about her in just half a day.

She squatted down gently, her pretty face reflected in the lake water.

But not necessarily, that bastard is simply a playboy among Spartan warriors. After coming to Night City, there are always women who want to jump on him, and he doesn't say no.

When she first woke up at Warhammer Base, she thought that every Spartan was like him, no different from ordinary people. But when she and Tommy met the Noble Squad, she found that she was so wrong.From their conversation, Ellie realized that Spartans like the Noble Squad were the norm, and that Tommy was acting a little too abnormally. She often wondered what kind of experience made him like this.

A golden light flashed across her eyes, and Ellie shook her head to drive away the messy thoughts in her logical core.

She noticed a ball of light in the distance slowly drifting across the lake towards her. When it was only a few meters away from her, an irresistible fragrance spread out - this was unparalleled, vast and majestic knowledge.
"This is your innate flaw, this is your insatiable addiction, this is the poison you crave so much." An evil whisper sounded in her ears, and she was confused.

Artificial intelligence can never resist the temptation of knowledge, which is a flaw that comes with their infinite wisdom.

Ellie couldn't help but touch the ball of light with her hand. A huge amount of knowledge poured into her memory chip like a flood, and some magnificent fragments suddenly flashed through her heart.

"Forerunners." She couldn't help but murmured as she was shocked by their advanced technology.

The symbols engraved on the surface of the two Night City crystals that had been stored in her memory chip suddenly became meaningful. They seemed to be coordinates, and they seemed to be a vague outline suspended near the gas giant. Huge celestial body.

The blurry picture suddenly disappeared, and Ellie's desire to absorb knowledge became stronger and more unstoppable.

She looked into the distance, and more balls of light formed a line - something was attracting her.

Ellie drove the boat, the lake water rippled, and the boat slowly sailed along the path of the light ball.She collected these light balls along the way, and the red stream of light flashed through her eyes. She saw some humans with oil paint on their faces. Their battleships were very advanced and huge. Ellie was sure that the UNSC in her database There is absolutely no such battleship.

When she touched the last ball of light, she had some enlightenment in her heart - the specific location of the coordinates gradually became clear, and her intuition told her that the Covenant people gave up orbital bombing and landed on the ground of Zhonghaina Blue Star, for It's this coordinate.

The noise of frogs croaking suddenly disappeared, dark clouds suddenly came over, and shadows fell on her face. A "human" figure slowly appeared in the distance and brought her back to "reality".

"You are finally here, Returner." His voice was disembodied, as if he had never appeared before. "Who are you?" The lake surface suddenly became rough, and Ellie felt endless malice from him.She touched her waist with her left hand, and a sword sheath with dark gold and complicated patterns appeared, "What is the Returner?"

"Tens of thousands of years of waiting is too long, Returner." He seemed not to have heard Ellie's words, and the figure became increasingly blurry.He pointed to the closed membrane, with endless ridicule hidden in his voice, "It's so boring to fulfill your responsibilities, I want to play a game of cat and mouse."

"I play the cat, and you" black arrows appeared out of thin air beside him, "play the mouse."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ellie saw that the membrane opened a terminal leading to the outside world, and the black light in his hand whizzed towards Ellie, with such power that it distorted the space.

She touched the hilt of the sword, and the silver light flashed past and collided with the black arrow.There was a slight creaking sound, and she glanced at the sword blade with her peripheral vision. The point of contact between it and the black arrow was slowly turning into fly ash, and purple powder was floating in the air.

Damn it, it’s a logic virus!She cursed inwardly.

The difference in strength between the two was too great. She drove the boat and was about to leave here, but found that the surrounding environment had changed.

The earth "rumbling" turned over from both sides, the lake water was squeezed and converged into a rapid river, rugged rocks rushed out of the water, and green trees that covered the sky and sun grew from the earth on both sides. Here It turned into a canyon leading to the thin wall.

He smiled weirdly and shot black arrows at Ellie one after another.

The stream of light flickered, the sword sounded softly, and the cold light danced and bounced the black arrow away. The sword was soon filled with dense gaps.

The swift river current lapped the boat as it flowed down the river. The white waves thrown up splashed onto Ellie's frowning brows. The cold feeling made her emotional arithmetic array tremble.

"The road to the Special Administrative Region is open to you!" he shouted, raising his arms and shouting, "Go down the river and embark on the way home!"

This guy must be crazy!Ellie held up the boat pole, and the boat suddenly turned several times to avoid the strange upturned rocks, and then the black arrows that missed the shot smashed these strange rocks into pieces.

The strong wind blew her blond hair like an elf, and Ellie swung her sword to fly away the black arrow while steering the direction of the boat - once it hit the protruding rocks, the boat would definitely be destroyed and everyone would be killed.

"After the device is activated, everything will enter the next cycle!" He looked like a madman, waved his hand, and rained down arrows on Ellie who was rushing towards the thin wall.

Seeing that she was about to reach the terminal, Ellie jumped back, and the cold light of the sword split the black arrows, but there were too many of them, and one black arrow broke through the blockade and pierced into her heart.

The damage self-checking program sounded the alarm over and over again in her ears. Ellie groaned in pain, felt a heartbreaking pain, and then fell into the flashing terminal.

<\Logical core damage detected.

(End of this chapter)