Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 1 Rebecca?! [Reset Chapter]

"Song Zhaomei, are you really free? I, V, am just an ordinary passerby in Night City. Damn it... I've lost Johnny, Parnan, Judy..."

Yes! I've lost everything..."

……

"Lin! Wake up and keep drinking!"

What's wrong with my head?
The combination of staying up all night and the dizziness from a hangover made Lin Yue's stomach churn.

Wasn't I making a game walkthrough? This is... time travel?

Lin Yue spat out the sour beer, and after his vision cleared, he saw his drinking buddy sitting on the paint bucket opposite him.

Fluorescent paint was sprayed on the military trousers, and the prosthetic body was covered in fluorescent tattoos depicting ferocious barking dogs.

A ghost hound?!

At the same time, several lines of information appeared in Lin Yue's field of vision:

[Person: Zilf Sano]

[Affiliation: Dogtown]

[Affection level: 40 (What a liar! He said yesterday that we were best buddies, like brothers)]

[Cultivational Value: Feel free to indulge if you have strong tastes.]

[Stage Reward: Affection level reaches 50, Physical Enhancement +1, Original Scented Sweat-Retaining Military Gloves.]

This panel is so disgusting, Lin Yue's expression turned somewhat ugly.

The rough-looking man opposite him had his eye prosthetics fused into one piece, creating a concave shape. Two eerie red lights made Lin Yue's skin crawl.

It's so realistic; this guy's prosthetic body looks like it was found by a street cleaner.

As he felt a slight sway beneath his feet, Lin Yue realized he was on a moving truck. The enclosed cargo compartment was filled with all sorts of weapons and equipment, all legitimate company goods.

He and his "good buddy" were the security guards responsible for escorting the equipment back to Dogtown.

Lin Yue let out a long sigh of relief, sorted out his chaotic thoughts, and stared blankly at his neuro-controlled mechanical arm.

The steel hand gripped him, making a soft, whirring sound as he was utterly astonished by the intricate construction and realistic feel of the prosthetic body.

That's incredible! Is it really possible for humans to create something that looks exactly like their natural limbs?
There's something else important!

Lin Yueyi's eyes flashed with light, and his physical attributes emerged:

Name: Lin Yue
[Physical]: 5
【Reaction】：3
【Technical capability】: 1
[Intelligence]: 3
【Calmness】：4
Judging from this, I probably am not some legendary figure.

"Are you out of your mind from sleeping? Damn! Is it another case of incompatibility with the prosthetic body?"

Across from him, Sino looked suspicious, tilted his head back, and took a swig of beer, creating a somewhat silent atmosphere.

"No, I just can't drink anymore, I give up."

Lin Yue was greatly shocked and could only surrender with his hands raised. He needed to calm down.

"I told you you're a coward—"

Before Sino could finish speaking, a series of creaking and groaning noises came from inside the dimly lit cargo box.

"Hello? What's going on?"

Lin Yue subconsciously grabbed the rifle beside him. It seemed that the original owner had undergone long-term training, and muscle memory forced him to pull back the bolt, followed by a crisp click.

[Arasaka & Nowaki, Kinetic Assault Rifle], sufficient.

Lin Yue thought to himself.

Seno, gun in hand and crouching low, slowly walked toward the source of the noise.

Seemingly sensing something, Lin Yue immediately spoke up to stop him:

"Get out of the way!"

Chi!

A tremendous tearing sound of steel, accompanied by a fierce gust of wind from outside, rushed in. Lin Yue quickly reached out and grabbed the emergency handle inside the carriage.

At the same time, due to the unexpected event, the truck braked suddenly, and all the equipment in the cargo box slid to one side!
"Crap crap crap!"

Lin Yue held onto his rifle tightly. Before Sino could react, he was pinned down by a pile of boxes. At the same time, the whole world began to spin as if it were about to be turned upside down.

It's going to crash!

Lin Yue's prosthetic hand began to operate with a loud electrical hum, and he slammed his elbow into the smart lock of the cargo box behind him.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yue was violently thrown out of the carriage. The moment he was thrown out, he instinctively put his arms up to protect his head.

boom!
Lin Yue crashed hard into the scorching asphalt road, bringing with him a burnt smell from the friction of bionic skin against the ground.

The vital signs data inside the prosthetic eye were rapidly swirling, and information about multiple fractures and intense pain flooded Lin Yue's mind.

Damn it, I think I'm going to die...

Wake up!
A wonderful, enlightening feeling spread through my body.

That was the pain editor rapidly injecting new hormones into Lin Yue.

You can't lie down; in this world, people die like it's nothing.

Lin Yue dragged his numb body and quickly rolled behind a stone on the side of the road. He panted heavily as he inspected his weapons, then peeked out to look at the convoy of transport vehicles that had been scattered in the distance.

call out!
A bullet flew past Lin Yue's scalp almost grazing his head, and his prosthetic eye immediately located the gunman's position.

Lin Yue fired a round at the source of the bullets, then scrambled and crawled toward other rocks on either side of the road.

"Kill them all! Especially those few, don't let them escape—those bastards love to chase after people and bite them afterwards."

A burly, rugged man with short, Contra-style hair was spitting as he pressed a shotgun against the head of a ghostly hound soldier and pulled the trigger.

He also noticed the slippery kid. To be fair, the Netherhound's combat skills were quite up to par!
"Mann! Mann!"

The man with the rooster-like haircut was hunched over, his prosthetic hands and arms ridiculously large. He roared as he hurled a grenade, blasting away several remaining ghost hounds. "That kid's kinetic rifle bullets all bounced into my hands! You know, I'm most protective of these!"

Lin Yue, who was hiding behind the new bunker, was stunned.

Mann?

That name sounds so familiar—

The enemy's bullets were becoming increasingly accurate, and Lin Yue couldn't be sure if they had any advanced weaponry or anything like that. If one of them managed to shoot through the stone, he would be dead.

Crash.

With the sound of sand and gravel flying, a weapon vehicle covered in ghost hound graffiti suddenly swerved to Lin Yue's side, its automatic machine gun on the roof firing continuously, spewing out a constant stream of spent shell casings.

"They're a bunch of damn mercenaries, get them up here!"

Sino's face was half covered in blood, and one hand hung limply at his side. He kicked open the car door and shouted loudly at Lin Yue.

Lin Yue climbed into the passenger seat, which was blasting shrill rock music, and immediately rolled down the window.

He stretched out half his body, unleashing a barrage of fire from his kinetic rifle at several hijackers using a truck as cover in the distance. The bullets bouncing and flying around on the objects caused the men on the other side to bury their heads in fear.

"goods!"

"Huh? Oh, the goods?" Seno, who hadn't had time to turn off the music radio, didn't hear clearly for a while. "Screw the goods! I'm outta here, bro!"

If Colonel Hansen knew that this truckload of supplies had been destroyed, he'd probably treat them like dirt.

Lin Yue was somewhat uneasy.

But Sino is right: who cares about anything else if you're dead!
The car floored the accelerator, drifted a second time, and began speeding wildly across the sand in the opposite direction.

"They're running away!"

Mann pressed the communication button behind his ear. "Rebecca, those two idiots are yours."

"alright."

The girl sitting on the weathered rock ground flicked her ponytail, pouted, and stood up with a disdainful look, holding a large gun that was almost as tall as herself, ready to fire.

"These guys are trying to wipe us out, buddy." Seno saw people blocking their way in the distance, and while turning the steering wheel, he reached out to activate the missiles equipped on the Ghosthound vehicle.

"I'll blow you up! Damn it!" Seno's hand reached for the missile button.

Lin Yueyi's visual distance began to adjust automatically.

A short girl with pigtails stood on a rock in the distance, her hair swaying incessantly in the hot desert wind.

Information about the girl appeared before Lin Yue immediately.

[Character: Rebecca]

[Affiliation: Night City]

[Affection level: -10 (This girl would love to blast you right now)]

[Development Potential: Potential can be altered; she may become a legendary figure in the future. (Do you want to become stronger? Do you want to make this absurd world a little more normal? Try getting closer to her.)]

【award:? ? ? 】

His temples throbbed, and the crimson data on the panel in his prosthetic eye's view stimulated his nerves, bringing back memories of his past life—Rebecca should have been crushed by a heavy hammer beneath the Arasaka Tower, which resembled a black tombstone...

No!

Now is not the time to be soft-hearted!
Lin Yue gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger without hesitation, but a sudden, excruciating pain tore through his entire shoulder—

"It happened!"

When the car overturned just now, the pain editor temporarily pressed the pain of bone dislocation, and the high-intensity, high-speed shooting made the bone dislocation even worse!
What's worse is that the Pain Editor's validity period is about to expire...

"Ouch! Holy crap!"

Lin Yue endured the pain, and bullets rained down on the sand dunes of the barren land amidst the frenzied sound of electric guitars!

But after firing the first shot, my arm couldn't continue and I lost control of the accuracy. The bullets flew everywhere out of control!

"Oh shit!"

Sino jerked the steering wheel wildly to dodge stray bullets from his pursuers, the car swerving erratically across the gravel. "Does that crazy woman have an RPG?!"

Lin Yue gripped the door handle inside the car with his other hand, gritting his teeth and shouting, "I f***ing don't know!"

at the same time.

Rebecca quickly dodged the barrage of iron bullets.

The Ghost Hound just launched a missile?!
The girl was terrified; she almost got set on fire by the guy in the passenger seat!

She rolled and dodged the attacks in the dust, the barrel of the gun in her hand glowing red-hot. As she ran and fired, a slug whistled toward the driver's seat, but due to the ricochet of the kinetic weapon bullet, it accidentally hit the tire!
"Ugh—Holy crap!"

Sino slammed on the gas, and the two men's faces contorted as if they were on a roller coaster. Then the limping vehicle barely managed to stabilize itself and roared as it hurtled toward the horizon...

Lin Yue was nearly shot in the face, and in a fit of shock and rage, he burst into a tirade of curses!
"Fuck you, Rebecca..."

Those two ghostly hound soldiers still managed to escape.

and many more!

The guy who just leaned out the window seems to be... "interacting" with me?!

That bastard is provoking us?!

As the smoke cleared, Rebecca, her face dirty, sat on the ground, both angry and anxious, with a hint of doubt rising in her mind.

"Say..."

How did that guy know my name?

　Update patch:
　　The protagonist's tendency to hold back and miss shots has been weakened and replaced with objective factors. A foul-mouthed trope has been added to enhance the cyberpunk feel. Respectfully submitted, July 9, 2025.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)