Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

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In the abnormal slip space bubble, aboard the captured Covenant flagship Justice.

Tommy wakes up leisurely.

However, to say that he has regained consciousness is an overstatement of his current condition.His vision was blurry and took a long time to clear, but there wasn't much to see except the innards of his armor.The amber status light flickered on and off, and his motion detector went dark because it was down.

His hearing was gradually recovering, and he seemed to hear someone saying: "Wake up, he's awake! I won't argue with you!" followed by a series of footsteps.

Severe pain shot through his feet, right thigh, and arm.Well, he's alive.He knew from past experience that this was the end of shock, and the dizziness and numbness produced by that state were slowly fading away.

He felt the familiar weight and feedback circuitry of the Mjolnir armor that enveloped him.The patina-flavored self-healing foam covered his mouth, and he guessed that his injury had just been treated.

There is gravity here.The pressure on his back was a relief.Next time he's asked to participate in a zero-gravity operation, he'll—

"You finally woke up!" Rebecca's face suddenly appeared from the side of his field of vision. She made no secret of her joy, and Tommy was also happy. "I wanted to take off your helmet when you were unconscious. It fell off, but your armor was locked.”

"This is the armor's safety system activated," Tommy explained.The burns on his hands and feet protested, and the pain penetrated deep into his muscles and bones.He wanted to sit up, but a hand held his shoulder.

"Don't move." This time, the pretty face with silver hair appeared, "You are seriously injured, you should lie down for a while." Lijia said to him softly.

Tommy noticed a white bandage wrapped around her forehead. "You are also injured. The battle situation over there is not as easy as ours."

Lijia shook her head slightly, "I'm okay, Carter and Emil can't get up now, thanks to-"

"Hey!" Rebecca interrupted dissatisfied, "comrades are just comrades. At this time, family members should first pay condolences to the wounded. Do you understand the rules?"

When she heard the word "family", Lijia's body trembled obviously, but her face remained calm - except that the light scar at the corner of her eye began to turn slightly red, and her hands became clenched. Tight.

Lijia reached out and took off Tommy's helmet and put it aside. She looked at him deeply and moved her lips slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she said nothing.Then she walked quietly to the corner, facing the soot-stained bulkhead, and remained silent.

"Uh" Tommy tilted his head and looked at Li Jia's back, then turned to look at Rebecca and asked doubtfully: "What did you do to her?"

"Hmph, what can I do to her?" Rebecca pouted, "As soon as the noble team evacuated you, she drove away all the team members and placed you alone in this cabin. If I hadn't been watching her , maybe she was going to do something bad. She also took the initiative to ask about our relationship, so of course I told her everything."

"Have you told her anything?"

She spread her right hand and pointed the index finger of her left hand over the fingers of her right hand. "How did we meet? How did our relationship become better and better? These are not things that cannot be said. The result..." Li Beka pointed at the autistic Liga and said with some enthusiasm: "As soon as I finished speaking, she froze, just like David when he was penetrated by the prosthetic King Kong, standing there in a daze. She stood there for five minutes without any expression on her face. Damn it, I was shocked, she must have a mental problem."

Rebecca suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and came over mysteriously, whispering: "Doesn't she have cyberpsychosis?" Her eyes narrowed quickly, then widened, and the corners of her eyes changed. The traces were twisted together because of this, "No way, the transformation of the Spartan warriors will also cause cyberpsychosis?! Just like Mann and David after they installed a prosthetic body?!" She held her head with both hands, He looked like he was finished, and murmured: "You won't be like this, right? This is not okay, the cybernetic spirit - it hurts!"

Tommy withdrew her finger, which had gone crazy, and said, "The transformation of the Spartan warriors will not lead to cyberpsychosis, Becca, don't think nonsense." He looked at Lijia, who was still autistic, "What's wrong with her? What's going on? According to her temperament, she should bless us, right?"

Rebecca curled her lips and said, "Tch, it's not like she's a cyberpsychopath. Who knows what's wrong with her."

Tommy was confused. Girls were indeed much more difficult to deal with than the Covenant.He simply put the matter aside because there were more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.He asked Rebecca and Lijia to help him get some self-healing foam back, and then whispered into the helmet: "Ellie, are you there?"

"Of course, welcome back." Ellie's soft voice came from the speaker of his helmet, and a faint light lit up on the left side.

He's in the medical bay.The lights were dimmed, and he realized that what Rebecca said was true, because he was the only one lying on the hospital bed.Physiological monitors were lined up on one wall. The undulating ripples showed the signals of his vital organs. There were also MRI pictures on the instruments.

A hologram station stood beside his bed.Ellie gestured at him with a tiny finger flashing with mathematical logic code. Seeing that he didn't respond immediately, she folded her arms impatiently. "The MRI showed no concussion and no hematomas above or below the dura mater. Your skull is harder than I thought."

"Where am I?"

"The second deck of No. 30 of the UNSC frigate Gettysburg." Ellie told him, "But there is not much left here."

"What happened?"

Ellie sighed, "Are you referring to the result of the battle in the slip space? Or are you talking about what happened after that battle?"

"Let's talk about that battle first. I guess we won."

He tried to sit up again, but this movement caused him great pain, and all the strength in his body seemed to be drained.So, he had to lie back down slowly.

"You'd better lie down for a while." The light blue light on Ellie's body dimmed, and she stared at the deck. "The blue team successfully repaired the main transmission line."

"I remember," Tommy whispered. "At least it was partially repaired. There was an explosion."

"Plasma beam explosion," Ellie corrected.She sighed, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid Lee and Captain Polasky were killed, but everyone else survived."

He remembered Polaski's screams, remembered seeing Lee's back as hot, blinding flames swept across the ship. (End of chapter)