Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

He knocked on the door, and the dull sound echoed in the corridor. Ellie, what's in here?

Ellie is a smart artificial intelligence who manages everything in the Warhammer base. It was she who verified the identity of the noble team and let them in. But what confuses Carter is that isn't Ellie's data chip stored in Colonel Price's armor? Why is she here?

Regarding this issue, Ellie just explained lightly before: We are the same individual, but we were divided into two parts for some reason. Sorry, noble captain, you have no right to know the reason.

This explanation only made him more confused. Aunt Dot - a stupid artificial intelligence - was the artificial intelligence he had the most contact with, and she had never been in this situation. Catherine couldn't figure out the specific situation, but she didn't seem to care about it - Carter thought it was a disguise that she didn't understand him.

A holographic projection about the same height as an ordinary human appeared flickering next to him. He couldn't help but glance at her, and then quickly turned his head away - why did an artificial intelligence make its appearance so beautiful?

Ellie was wearing a white coat with a gray pleated skirt underneath, which accentuated her exquisite figure. Her long golden hair was tied into a ball and gathered behind her head. The few strands of hair hanging down matched her long eyelashes and delicate nose, everything looked very cute.

At this time, she stared at Carter, with a formulaic smile on her face. I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel, but you have no right to know the contents.

He has no right to know, so no wonder he hates dealing with people from the Military Intelligence Agency so much. Carter's brows frowned, You know, we are short of supplies now, and there are more than twenty children waiting to be fed. If we don't do our best to collect resources, we will all be doomed.

This is 100% true. As soon as the noble team entered the base, they learned that all the employees of the three military intelligence bureaus here, like other bases on Reach, evacuated the place immediately after the winter emergency alarm was issued, without any delay.

They took away most of the center's available supplies, as if they had known the Covenant would discover Reach.

Carter didn't know how long the team would be trapped, but what was clear was that without food, these more than twenty children and they would eventually starve to death.

The smile on Ellie's face didn't even waver. The contents inside are of no use to you now. Please follow my instructions and complete the collection of supplies in the remaining areas.

Carter stared at her for a long time. There's something wrong with this Ellie - she's too polite. The Noble Team had briefly cooperated with Colonel Price during a mission in New Alexandria. At that time, Ellie was more lively and spoke more intelligently, rather than having a business-like attitude like now.

He finally left here as if giving up.

After completing the collection of supplies in the remaining areas, he stepped into the elevator back to the Alpha level. He raised his hand to press the up button and found that the plastic film covering the control panel had not yet been torn off. He looked around and saw that the elevator's surface was as clean as new, with almost no signs of use.

Is this a newly built base? he couldn't help but ask.

Almost, it hasn't been officially put into use yet. Ellie said, and a structural diagram of the base appeared on Carter's heads-up display. Judging from the simple lines on the structural diagram and the notes next to it, the base is divided into four floors. The first floor is on the surface, and the remaining three floors are hidden underground.

This seemed a bit strange, because they didn't see any buildings on the surface when they came.

As if anticipating his doubts, Ellie explained: The Warhammer Base is planned to be used to develop the fourth generation of artificial intelligence, that is to say, it is an artificial intelligence research center. When the Covenant people tried to break into this place, they only found The building was located on the surface, so only the first floor was destroyed by the explosion when the insurance measures were implemented, leaving the lower parts intact.”

Carter nodded. He was glad that such good luck had happened to them - without this base, it would be difficult for them to persevere.

With a light step, the elevator returned to the Alpha Zone. As soon as the elevator door opened, the noise of children's chirping flooded into his ears.

Carter really couldn't handle them. He was once a child, but that didn't mean he was good at taking care of them.

In order to appease the emotions of these little guys, the lights on the Alpha level were adjusted to a warm yellow-white color. The ceiling above the head was covered by a holographic projection of blue sky and white clouds. On the walls were endless plains and mountains shrouded in mist in the distance. There is also a faint incense released from somewhere. Damn it, why does the Military Intelligence Agency have all these weird things? All he could smell in the Army barracks every day was the smelly sweat of the soldiers.

The benefits of this are obvious - it reduces the claustrophobia caused by working underground for long periods of time, so the little ones don't cry and fuss to get out.

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, Catherine came up to him. She has been working hard on the base's system these days, hoping to find something they can use, or an underground track leading to the castle base.

Lieutenant Colonel, Catherine looked at the box in Carter's hand, Did you find anything?

There is no food, only a Fury and high-explosive bullet. Carter shook the box in his hand, and there was a dull metal collision sound inside, What's going on over there at the castle base? Find out about that explosion. Is there any reason?

Well, judging from the signals fed back when the incident occurred, it was an explosion set by an insurance program to prevent the Covenant from obtaining confidential data.

So Jun and that team of Spartans all died?

No. Catherine shook her head and tapped the tablet in her hand, and then a small sixth-note tune with a single rhythm sounded from its speaker.

Carter listened quietly, but didn't find anything special. He knew that Catherine's purpose of playing this for him was definitely not to let him enjoy beautiful music for a while.

What's the meaning?

Catherine showed him the tablet screen, which contained a partial map of Reach's surface. Among them, Mount Minazit and a narrow rift valley are marked by green dots.

George said that this minor tune is the code between Phase II Sparta, and the signal source is located in these two locations. Catherine clicked her index finger on Minazit Mountain and the Rift Valley respectively, So there are at least two The Spartans survived. To make them aware that we were here, I had the base's transmitter send a feedback signal, the same tune. It was weaker than the other signals, so the Covenant wouldn't find us by that.