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"George, how did you end up here! Master Chief, who had just walked out of the hibernation chamber and was still adjusting his breathing and heartbeat, asked in his characteristic low voice when he saw George coming out of the hibernation chamber next to him. People who have just finished hibernation will experience symptoms of irregular heartbeat, poor breathing, and need to make correct psychological and physiological adjustments to quickly recover from the fighting state.

At this time, the Master Chief still thought that his original mission had not changed, and he had to infiltrate the core of the Covenant alone with Cortana to capture a prophet. He didn't know anything about the failure of the Battle of Reach and why George, who was also a Spartan soldier, appeared.

Seeing George, who was also a Spartan warrior in Phase II, suddenly appear here, his first thought was whether George would be a mission helper sent by ONI. However, with battle sirens sounding on the ship's broadcasts, George did not have time to explain their situation in detail. In fact, he himself was at a loss as to what was going on.

"Let's catch up later, John. It looks like the Covenant bastards are attacking us. George was also pleased to see Master Chief, but the sound of firefighting could already be heard in the cabin in the distance, and it was clear that the Covenant's boarding force had attacked.

It may be because the previous space battle of Zhiyuan Star suffered too many losses, which made the Star Alliance want to capture some prisoners. It may also be because of curiosity about why this Kingfisher-class cruiser is so resilient and does not give up the fight in the face of the siege of the Covenant's pursuing fleet. In short, it was even more rare for the Star Alliance to stop the artillery fire and send its own landing force to try to jump the ship against the Autumn Wind Tun. The fastest of them was already not far from their hibernation chamber.

"Give." Take this, this thing is very useful against the elite! George saw several familiar weapons boxes near the hibernation chamber, and quickly opened them, and sure enough, he found the same weapon as the previous expedition had given them in these boxes. Without even thinking about it, he took out a Gauss rifle and handed it to the Master Chief.

"What kind of gun is this?" Master Chief took the gun George handed over and looked at it. Although it looks like some kind of high-tech firearm, the structure is not complicated, and the traditional rifle has the safety, fast and slow machine, trigger, sight, etc. However, the gun did not have any inscriptions or model identifications on the surface, except for a relief logo on the bottom of the butt with a relief of the Temporal Council that he did not recognize.

"Don't ask, the "thing" is too complicated to explain for a while. You just need to know that this thing is very good for killing elites......" George did not explain the origin of these weapons, after all, the whole story is too complicated and bizarre, and he himself has not figured out all the reasons.

Although I don't like to use equipment that I am not familiar with. But out of trust in George, Master Chief took the unfamiliar weapon. After a little study of how to use the weapon, the Master Chief rushed to the bridge with George and the Emile with the skull helmet.

On the way, they encountered the Covenant's landing force without any suspense, but with the help of new weapons, they encountered little resistance. Whether it was the boar beast or the elite who stood in the way, they were quickly wiped out.

The Autumn Wind is a small warship, with a total length of just over 300 meters and a compact cabin. So although they helped the Marines eliminate many Covenant troops along the way, they lifted the possibility of the Covenant occupying the entire ship. But it didn't take much time.

"This weapon is really very useful, when was it equipped with the troops?" The Master Chief asked when he saw that some nearby Marines and ODST soldiers were also using the same or similar weapons. In his opinion, being able to give such a powerful weapon to the Marine Corps means that this weapon is already a mass-produced product, which can't help but make him wonder how long he has been hibernating. He even wondered if he had been hibernating for a year or two.

"It's not mass-produced, we're just "very lucky"! George mended his gun to an elite who was still dead on the floor. He replied.

After eliminating most of the enemies on board, George and the others eventually separated from the Master Chief to find his captain, who was still in the medical quarters, while the Master Chief himself rushed to the bridge as fast as he could, to meet Captain Keith and prepare to receive his latest orders.

ONI's last transfer of him handed over command to Keith. Although the dedicated master chief does not know how long it has been now, obeying orders and obeying orders has long been part of his instinct. On the bridge, he meets Captain Keith and Cortana, who has been working with him for some time.

"I'm glad to see you're okay, Master Chief. Although the situation outside looks very unfavorable now. Captain Keith greeted the Master Chief and shook his hand with the Covenant as soon as it was not firing at them.

His greeting was sincere, as he had just received a report that the Spartan warriors on the ship, led by the Master Chief, had just taken out almost all of the Covenant troops that had landed, pulling them back from the brink of the occupied crisis.

But in his experience, the good situation didn't last long. In a few minutes, the Covenant, unable to contact the landing force, will understand that its landing force is completely annihilated, and they will still be under fire from the pursuing fleet.

Judging by the current state of the Autumn Wind Tun, it is unlikely that they will survive the next round of fire. This gave him a hint of frustration in his greeting tone. As an exemplary soldier of the UNSC, Captain Case had only been the captain of the Autumnwind for a few months, and he had just developed a relationship with the ship and its crew before facing the ship's destruction and death, which had to make him a little sad.

"More than a dozen Covenant capital ships besieged a Kingfisher-class cruiser, and under such a contrarian trend, I achieved 3, etc., it is already a miracle that 4 battleship targets were killed......" Cortana sensed Captain Keys' frustration, and quickly said this to encourage the other party. It wasn't until she saw Captain Case that her hologram turned to greet her "partner" Master Chief.

"Did you sleep well?" Cortana asked the Master Chief who was standing stupidly waiting for orders in a very ambiguous tone, like a woman in love greeting her lover, not caring about the feelings of others nearby.

"Okay, thankfully you weren't driving the whole time. The Master Chief replied in a slightly embarrassed tone, that after nearly a month of run-in training, including multiple direct consciousness connections with the nerve chip, he had already known that Cortana's affection for him was beyond the "normal range".

Cortana would always take a chance to "tease" him. However, the non-commissioned officer, who has been trained as a fighter since he was a child and lacks emotional experience, still does not know how to deal with this unique "passion" of Cortana for him many times.

"So, you do miss me! Hearing the Master Chief's slightly embarrassed response, Cortana's hologram smirked like a treacherous little girl. She enjoyed the process of "teasing" the Master Chief, and she could almost imagine the embarrassed face of the Master Chief under his helmet through the awkward tone of the Master Chief.

As an artificial intelligence that cannot be materialized and has a limited lifespan, Cortana can only "own" the Master Chief for a short time in this way to satisfy her psychological needs for the "love" of the Master Chief. At a time when the war is getting worse every day, even she, an artificial intelligence, is practicing the popular "timely and happy" outlook on life in human society, and no one will do anything to her because of her innocuous provocative behavior towards the Master Chief.

Theoretically, Cortana's emotions are not fundamentally different from any human being with a physical body. Using some restored ancient technology, UNSC was able to digitize the brain information of scientists like Halsey and many others into computer hardware and integrate it into AI. Cortana uses Dr. Halsey's brain, and in a way, she is a younger AI version of Dr. Halsey.

This is one of the highest achievements in neurobiology at UNSC. Because UNSC scientists usually use dead human brains as materials to make zuòAI, there are very few successful cases of using the active brains of living people to make zuòAI, and Cortana is one of the few successful cases.

Her fascination with Master Chief is also largely inherited from the consciousness of her consciousness archetype, Dr. Halsey, who has been the most "favored" Master Chief throughout her participation in Sparta II.

Just as they had just relieved their nerves and enjoyed a brief period of safety, the hull of the Autumn Wind shook violently, as if it were a blow of artillery fire. However, after a quick examination of all the sensors, Cortana eventually discovered that it was the second group of Covenant boarding forces that had blown a new gap in the hull with a small antimatter bomb. Undoubtedly, that was a precursor to more Covenant forces landing and trying to capture ships.

"The main gun system is offline, Captain, this gun is our last line of defense against the Covenant ships. Cortana, who had noticed that the main cannon had been affected by the explosion just now, quickly reported.

"Well, I'm referring to the second clause of the Cole Agreement, we're going to abandon the Autumnwind Dun!" Captain Case ordered with a sigh. The Cole Protocol was a self-protection measure established early in the UNSC and the Covenant War.

As early as after the initial war with the Star Alliance, the then Supreme Commander of the UNSC Navy, Admiral Cole, established this system. The core of the Cole Agreement is to protect the coordinates of the Earth and a series of core colonies of the UNSC, ensuring that the powerful Star Covenant will not find the navigation number and directly hit the human homeland. (The novel "Time Traveler's Expedition" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)

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