Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 159 Linda ([-])

The wind was howling, the place was desolate, and his heart was half cold - he couldn't even find the entrance to the Warhammer base.

"What should I do?" Catherine came to him quietly.

Carter shook his head, "Go to Jun, he -"

There was a slight tremor from the nearby ground. He subconsciously pulled out his pistol and took aim. The aiming position on the head-up display shook twice, and then a black columnar body broke out of the ground, bringing with it a piece of crystal glass shards.

The top of the column flashed continuously, and a burst of green light swept along the chip held in Carter's hand.

"Identity confirmed, welcome to Warhammer Base, Colonel Tommy Price from MI[-]." A clear and sweet voice sounded in his ears, and a slender and beautiful figure came into Carter's eyes, "I am Smart AI Ellie, do you want to enter the underground facilities of this base immediately?"

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January 2552, 9 in the military calendar at 22 hours

The Seer Galaxy, the Halo wreckage area, on the Long Sword interceptor.

The Master Chief sat in the Longsword interceptor's system operator's seat. The seat was so small that it was made to the standard dimensions of a Navy flight suit rather than the bulky Mjolnir armor.

He looked forward through the observation window and saw that the Truth and Harmony was still a small dot out of reach. It escaped a long distance when the halo exploded, even at the flying speed of the Long Sword interceptor. It takes a while to catch up.

So he scratched his scalp and took a deep breath.The air smelled strange—less of the metallic smell that had passed through the gas cleaners in the armor.

Tommy was chatting with the Helltroopers in the back of the cabin. The main content was about the rebellion that broke out on the Truth and Harmony. He asked Cecilia to hurry up and use the helmet's video recorder to make a semi-formal oral report in order to deal with it. Later questioning from Military Intelligence.

The Master Chief felt a little bored and tired. For the first time, he had to sit down quietly to think and remember.

He first recalled the excitement after successfully completing a space operation on Reach, but in the process Linda-058 was killed, the Covenant forces burned the entire planet to glass, and the situation went from bad to worse as well as the Red Team.Then he thought about the days spent in the cryopod of the Pillar of Autumn, the journey after leaving Reach, and the discovery of the Halo.

I also thought of the Flood.

He moved his eyes to the display screen, looking at a piece of Halo debris flying by casually, trying hard to suppress the nausea he felt when he recalled the outbreak of the Flood crisis.It didn't matter who built the Halo; the point was that it was used to house the kind of sentient, deadly alien monsters that nearly wiped out their entire army.

He wanted to put it all behind him, especially the Flood, but his whole body began to ache.

The galaxy's satellite, Pedestal, appears as a silvery-gray disk in the blackness of space, with the giant Thrust glowing softly in purple light behind it.Between them lies a vast expanse of gleaming remnants—metal, stone, ice, trees, and all the other halo remnants.

A sound of seat rotation coming from the left attracted his attention, and the Master Chief realized that there was a female pilot sitting next to him.

She was wearing a pilot's uniform, her dirty blond hair tucked into a hat.The female pilot gave a military salute to the sergeant major, "I am Captain Bolaschi, sergeant major, nice to meet you." "Me too." The sergeant major said, returning the military salute.

The pattern emblazoned on her uniform is a red bull's eye with a flaming fist.This is the insignia of the Navy's No. 20 Three Squadron.Although the Master Chief has never met Polaski before, it is revealed that she is from the same company as Captain Carol Lowrey, known as "The Nemesis."

If she is indeed a comrade of the Nemesis, she is certainly a skilled and fearless pilot - indeed, she proved this during her flight to escape the explosion of the Pillar of Autumn.

Polaski was also looking at the Master Chief. She smiled slightly, showing a few white teeth. "I haven't flown it for a while, but it's okay, Master Chief. I know exactly how to operate it."

John nodded and didn't answer any more.He didn't know what to say besides discussing military-related topics. If Tommy were sitting here, there might be more to talk about.

When Polaski saw that the Master Chief had no intention of continuing the conversation, he did not look disappointed. Instead, he touched his nose and continued to fiddle with the control panel of the interceptor.

This aimless waiting did not last long. The communication channel of the Long Sword interceptor suddenly opened with a "pop", and Jacob Keyes's voice came from the rightmost speaker on the control panel.

"Master Chief, I suddenly thought of something that will definitely interest you." Case paused, "Before the Pillar of Autumn was about to crash into the Halo, I discarded the mobile cryopod in accordance with the ship's standard operating procedures. , you know, Linda is in one of the cryo chambers."

Hearing the word "Linda," John's grip on the edge of the seat suddenly tightened.Just as Reach fell, she was fatally wounded during an attack on Gamma Space Station.The Chief dragged her severely burned, lifeless body back to the Pillar of Autumn, where the medical staff put her into deep cryogenic freezing moments before the jump.

"she--"

"Don't worry, Master Chief, I found that our current location is very close to the coordinates where the battleship abandoned the cryogenic cabin." Case said calmly, "Both the Longsword and the Pelican are equipped with scanning devices. If we are lucky, we Maybe we can find her cryo chamber.”

Linda may have died, but the Master Chief wanted to see her one last time no matter what.

A coordinate popped up on the interceptor's display, and Case continued: "I'll go to this wreckage area to have a look. You can search around here."

On the display screen, Case's Pelican troop carrier began to turn, and then the thrusters erupted with dazzling blue flames, and he disappeared into the halo wreckage area in the distance.

Tommy didn't know when he came to the seat of the Master Chief. The muscles on both sides of his cheeks tightened slightly, "Linda? Didn't she go with the red team to the surface of Reach to guard the power station?"

The Master Chief shook his head and reported to Tommy their actions to go to the Gamma Space Station to implement the "Cole Protocol". He felt deeply saddened by the sacrifices of James-005 and Linda, "It was my fault, I should have protected them." Their."

"No one could have done better under the circumstances." Tommy's cheeks tightened. He must have been no better off than himself.

(End of this chapter)