the terminator series - Why did T-1000 continue to pursue John Connor if his mission already had failed?

In Terminator 2, John Connor and the company

attack the Cyberdyne Systems research department, and destroy all the things that could lead to creation of Skynet.

After that we see T-1000 coming to the place and learning what they've done. Why does he keep pursuing John, if

the system that sent him is destroyed?

It's just not logical. The T-1000 has quite an advanced intelligence. Let's imagine that a killer got an order from a client to kill someone. But before the killer executed the order, he suddenly learnt that

his client is dead, perhaps shot or the victim of a heart attack.

What is the point of killing someone after that? Just keep the money you got and don't do anything — that seems pretty reasonable.

Answer

Simply put, Skynet wasn't destroyed it was only delayed (cue Rise of the Machines).

Additionally, as Anthony Grist commented, you're probably attributing too much human thought to the T-1000. It was an advanced machine, but still only a machine. It was programmed to kill John Connor, so that was what it worked towards.

It is also probable that the T-1000 didn't know the origins of Skynet. There wasn't any reason for Skynet to program it with that knowledge, as that information wouldn't have had any bearing on it's mission. So John and crew blowing up Cyberdyne would have been a curiosity to the T-1000, but hardly a concern.

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