Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 207 Rescue ([-])

Cortana was silent for a while, probably realizing that what she said was right, but she quickly spoke again: "These are two different things! Although you have enough reasons to kill it, what you did was dirty, Disgusting!" Cortana said reluctantly, "No matter what, that engineer has helped us, and it is still unclear whether it will return to the Covenant in the end. It is innocent!"

An annoyed look appeared on Ellie's face. She pointed at Cortana and said: "We can't bet on this possibility, and if we want to win this war, someone has to do these things! It just happens to be him. That’s all, how can you criticize him so harshly?”

"I criticized him harshly? I was just stating the facts." Cortana paused and narrowed her eyes, "By the way, why are you defending him like this? He is just a guy who kills innocent people indiscriminately!"

"He is not killing innocent people indiscriminately!" Ellie became even more angry, and her projection began to flicker. "I defend him because he is my Spartan!"

The moving voice echoed in the room, and his chest felt as if he was hit hard by a heavy hammer. Tommy froze on the spot, his mouth opened, but he couldn't spit out a word. "My Spartan" can be interpreted in many ways, but combined with Ellie's previous performances, he felt that he had vaguely guessed the answer - an answer that he could not promise.

Ellie knew she had made a mistake, so she covered her mouth and mechanically looked back at Tommy, who was frozen, "No, that's not what I meant."

"Oh? Your Spartan?" Cortana asked suspiciously.

"I mean, he is the Spartan warrior who cooperates with me! I like to cooperate with him. We only have an equal partnership and have no other ideas!" Ellie explained in a panic.

"Don't have any other ideas? Do you think I'm a fool? Putting that aside, how dare you say that your cooperative relationship with him is equal?" Cortana sneered, "As a smart artificial intelligence, I don't I can see how incompetent you are, not only do you have a dirty mind, but your ability is also very poor."

"Who is so incompetent?!"

"You even need my help with the calculations to enter the jump fault space. Why are you stupid?" Cortana's mouth curled up in a sarcastic arc.

"That's for a reason! If it weren't for that thing, I could have done all of this!"

"Excuse! Do you think I will believe it? It's just manipulating 88 random variables in eleven-dimensional space-time, and you still need my help. Aren't you mentally ill?" Cortana said reluctantly.

"I, I'm not." Ellie, who had always prided herself on being smart after being accused of incompetence, showed a look of grievance on her face, and her voice began to tremble.

Tommy knew that she couldn't be blamed for this. At that time, they were pursued by the Covenant and they left the Warhammer base in a hurry. This resulted in the transformation of Ellie's original brain not being completed.He looked at Ellie who was almost crying, and the protective desire in his heart almost overflowed. He also felt that Cortana was extremely annoying at this time.

"Okay, Cortana!" Tommy stood in front of Ellie and stared at her angrily, "I'm just a guy who kills innocent people indiscriminately, can you shut up?"

Cortana choked at Tommy's choking tone, "You told me to shut up?"

"Yes, I told you to shut up." Tommy looked at Ellie's sad look and felt even more distressed. "You have been with John for a long time, don't you have no love for him at all?" "I feel for him." Cortana was speechless, and she couldn't figure out whether her feelings for the Master Chief were only those of a comrade-in-arms.After a while, she sighed, "I understand." She finally spoke, but her voice was as cold as ice.

"Although my job is dirty, I don't need you to understand. Do your own thing." After saying that, he stopped talking to Cortana, motioned for Ellie to leave together, and walked straight out of the scrap cabin.

Neither he nor Ellie spoke as they made their way to the temporarily vacated break room.why is that?Because he doesn't know how to face Ellie's feelings for him?Or are you grateful to her for protecting yourself?

Tommy walked down the hallway, siding aside to make way for a group of scurrying Marines, and around a few more corners.

He was so confused that he couldn't understand it all.When did her feelings for him begin to sour?Was it when Reach fell?Or when we were hooking up in Night City?Or is it that all this is just a side effect of the chip damage, that she actually has no real feelings for him, and that everything is just driven by the program?

The door to the lounge slid open silently, and Tommy walked in, his steps as heavy as lead.As expected, Rebecca was not here, and she stayed with Aurora whenever she had free time during this time.

He casually grabbed the plasma pistol lying on the table and played with it seemingly nonchalantly while pacing the edge of the room.Finally, he made up his mind and spoke. "Ellie, are you still there?"

"...I'm here." Her voice was as thin as a mosquito, with a hint of crying.

Tommy sighed, "I want to see you, okay?"

The holographic projection system on the bulkhead above his head emitted white light, and Ellie's slender figure flashed before his eyes.

"Are you okay? Don't worry about what Cortana says, I'll let John go find her trouble." Tommy comforted her.

Ellie lowered her head and hid her expression in the shadows. After a long time, she said with a cry: "I don't want to take it to heart, but... am I useless? Can't even do such a small thing well? In Night City, I couldn't let you go back early. In Zhonghaina Blue Star, I was delayed and the crystal was lost. Near the critical star, if I can control the ship to jump independently, you don't have to take such a big risk. risk”

The more she spoke, the more distressed she became, and by the end Tommy could no longer hear her.He didn't rush to interrupt her, but listened quietly to what she had to say.

"No." Tommy shook his head and said softly, "I think you have done a good enough job, and I am glad to have your help."

She raised her head, the tears in the corners of her eyes shining purple in the light of the room. "Really?"

"Well, it's absolutely true. When Reach fell, I couldn't even escape the pursuit of the Covenant without you. In Night City, you helped me a lot. I know nothing about hacking technology. Without you, I could hardly survive. May return, and maybe one day the Covenant people will come there and kill us all. In the Halo facility, if you don't open the door, we probably won't be able to get out in this life. So, "For what I want to say next Feeling numb, he rubbed his nose subconsciously, "I can't live without you anymore."

(End of this chapter)