Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 174 The Grim Reaper of the Past
Where are the variables?
Lin Yue heard the hissing sound of Hanz's throat being cut open, and his indifferent gaze moved away from the woman's fair back.

A heavy thud was heard as something fell to the ground, and the alarm, heavy with worry, went off instantly!
[Attack detected; enemy is on alert.]

Sasha uploaded the building map that Qiwei had prepared to the [Target Location] section.

All of a sudden.

All Lin Yue and the others could see in their prosthetic eyes were the outlines of enemies marked in red. They were either clutching weapons, looking bewildered, or shouting and running wildly. Some of them began to move towards Hanz's workshop...

The infamous "Hand" behind Taipingzhou died just like that?

Lin Yue couldn't think of any suitable word besides "child's play"...

Lin Yue held his chin with one hand, watching Hanz struggle and writhe on the ground. The amount of bleeding from his carotid artery was considerable, splattering and spreading from him, staining his burgundy suit with dark blood.

The middleman stared intently at Lin Yue, red ink oozing from between his fingers as if cursing the man and woman to fall into hell.

“Emma… you slut—”

"cough!"

The strength from his last burst of energy allowed Hanz to straighten up and try to grab the woman kneeling on the ground, who was like a plaything at the feet of that tall figure.

Is this really Hanz?
Lin Yue had this question in his mind.

Emma's frenzied expression gradually gave way to calm. She looked down at Hanz, who was lying lifeless on the ground. The pipeline operator's privileges on the sex doll chip were still active... which meant—

Is he still alive?
The woman subconsciously looked at the pillar that gave her the most sense of security, as if asking what to do.

Just as Lin Yue was about to speak, the eerie voice that had appeared before exploded in his mind again…

"The possibility of datafication has increased!"

How can that sound be described?

Like countless whispers, or perhaps wails, the synthesized electronic sound effects indicate that they do not originate from this world, but from the vast yet complex cyberspace.

Lin Yue placed his hand on the woman's shoulder and immediately pulled Emma to his side!

"Sniper?!"

The woman gasped, and a gust of wind swept past them. The window on the side, which was playing a series of animated scenes with a heavy heart, began to flicker. Finally, the black blocks of data began to spread, emitting a piercing electrical sound.

Sasha's prosthetic Ripper immediately popped out. It was a blade modified by the Adaptive Black Wall, as black as the night sky, with a lightness that only carbon fiber materials could provide.

Lin Yue stared in bewilderment at the smoking hole in the window—aside from technological weapons, there shouldn't be any other weapon capable of penetrating such thick cover.

At the same time, deep in thought, on the first basement level.

The subnet hackers are taking on a tight defense.

The computing power-assisted helmets on their heads extended densely packed lines, connecting to cylindrical servers with red flowing light sliding across them. Chairs were arranged in a fan shape, surrounding the servers behind them.

There are ten in total; this is an important auxiliary means for Hans to obtain intelligence on the Pacific Continent…

Whenever a skilled mercenary arrives here, he will know about it immediately; nothing in Taiping Continent can escape Hanz's eyes.

No one spoke, but chaos reigned in cyberspace.

A large amount of enemy information inside the building was transmitted by hackers to the combat systems of external teams, including snipers on the abandoned high-rise across the street—they could clearly see three figures deep in thought inside the building through their helmets.

This sniper's equipment is almost entirely different from that of the Ghost Hound.

It's even difficult to tell from the outside that this is a living person; its head has been adapted to work with the intelligent sniper rifle, making it indistinguishable from a robot.

Covered in a dense, black network of implants, mounted on an alloy stabilizing bracket, lies yet another high-end firearm of the [Tsunami Defense System].

【Asura】!
Snipers of this caliber are typically responsible for security within the Gemstone Green area.

This building, originally intended as a luxury hotel, has a central courtyard, and the sniper usually observes the entire Ghosthound floor from behind a shimmering artificial screen.

From this perspective, the Ghost Hound's support for Hanz is quite substantial...

Just as the sniper finished his report and prepared for his next sniping attempt—

The visual system linked to Asura immediately started reporting errors and malfunctions. Red lines began to tear at the screen, accompanied by noises like those of an old machine about to break down!

A blood-red cat face flashed on the screen, seemingly about to transform into a man-eating tiger!

A mechanical female voice came through; it was in Russian, and the targeted sniper instantly went offline!
He tried to press his trembling head down with both hands, and his body began to shake wildly—

Sparks flew from the steel brain, and the body lay silently on the ground amidst screams.

at the same time.

The hacker responsible for linking Dogtown's internal subnet to the sniper let out an almost inhuman scream!

As wisps of smoke rose, his hand slipped off the bench, hanging limply... Drops of steaming, bright red blood dripped onto the dark ground and slowly spread.

The server's energy consumption began to rise, the hackers' body temperature gradually increased along with their body trembling, and the amount of computation also increased exponentially.

Sasha pulled the cable from the main unit in Hanz's workshop.

Everything happened in just a few minutes.

"Boss, the emergency channel in Dogtown is sending reinforcements to Heartfelt Concern. I've disrupted the snipers outside and the internal coordination programs within the subnet—less than five minutes of redundancy. Get it done quickly."

As she spoke, Sasha, under her helmet, felt an itch inside her nostrils—the price she had to pay for using the Black Wall.

Emma's expression wasn't exactly pleasant at that moment.

Fear, confusion, excitement, and a hint of exhilaration shifted across his face from time to time.

She stared intently at the man lying in a pool of blood.

died…

He's dead?!

Emma looked down at her hands, which were stained with a few drops of blood. The small knife she had taken from Lin Yue's suit pocket fell to the ground with a clinking sound...

Her pale and tragically beautiful face was reflected in her blood, and her life was completely changed the moment the knife was used.

"Well!"

A cold, black prosthetic hand pressed against Emma's bare shoulder.

She trembled like a startled fawn.

"All right…"

Lin Yue gave him a reassuring look.

Emma looked like a little pet that had found a cuddly companion, tilting her head and rubbing against the man's prosthetic skin.

Lin Yue's hand slid down her smooth back, and a set of data used to block the sex chip blocked the administrator's privileges.

Soon after, her uncontrollable body found a new owner.

“I’ll take you out of here. The doctors in Night City will remove it. I promise… Give me your hand.”

Emma's smile was somewhat bitter and aggrieved.

She thought she was going to die!

The spot on my foot where I was pierced by glass yesterday is still aching and itchy, reminding me that this is not a dream...

Will it really come to its own end?
Lin Yue casually draped the light, flowing silk dress strap over her shoulder.

Just as Lin Yue was about to speak, a hint of doubt immediately rose in his eyes…

Sasha, who was on guard, also frowned for a moment.

She was the first to discover that a program was loading within the subnet after connecting to it.

Emma's eyes flashed with a distinctive purple light!
Lin Yue's heart sank; that extremely bad premonition was now overwhelming.

"Honey... I feel so awful—"

Drip!

As Emma spoke, an anomaly occurred in cyberspace.

Sasha's eyes lit up with a pale pink light—that was… the backdoor program she had left yesterday to prevent the ice-breaking program from working?!

At this moment, the loyal hacker thought this was Hanz's way of retaliating against Rin.

"Watch out for the boss!"

"The icebreaking process has been manually activated!"

Immediately afterwards, Sasha began to try his best to repair the software in the subnet that was about to break through obstacle avoidance, and forcibly disconnected the firmware.

Clearly, at this point, Sasha still thought it was a trick by a hacker within the subnet, trying to draw attention away from Rin and create an opening to attack her.

However, this is not the case.

Lin Yue watched Sasha engage in cyberattacks and defenses.

Just as Lin Yue was about to pull Emma up, the woman who was staring blankly at the corpse suddenly straightened her chest and her legs instantly straightened up!
Like a dancer about to take the stage.

Lin Yue, realizing what was happening instantly, quickly restrained Emma!

He then inserted the soft wire from her wrist into her brain-computer interface—

Lin Yue's expression grew increasingly grim as he saw the data. A jumble of alarming vital signs began to spread like a virus...

This bizarre program even wants to infect Lin Yue's system as well?!

His eyes met Sasha's.

Lin Yue forced out a heavy sentence: "The ice-breaking program is in Emma's head, damn it..."

Sasha understood instantly.

"Boss, quickly block the black wall. Once the ice-breaking program is loaded, this woman will only have death to look forward to! Do not stop the data injection."

Lin Yue cursed under his breath.

Then his left eye emitted a red glow.

The woman's eyes rolled back, and Lin Yue used his hands to control her out-of-control hands. The black wall of data rolled through his brain, and the stinging pain, accompanied by Relic's abnormal fever, made Lin Yue clench his teeth instantly!
bastard...

Lin Yue's eyes, filled with cold emotions, were swirling from the data displayed on the black wall.

He knew that Hans was definitely not dead—

as predicted.

Sasha's voice came through, "This key is bound to Hanz's biometric information... He's still in the subnet, and this guy did the authorization."

The red light within Lin Yue's prosthetic eye began to flicker. He attempted to use the black wall to suppress this irreversible process, but the next second—

Sparks instantly flew from the body of the lone wolf, who was almost invincible on the Black Wall!

Lin Yue felt as if he had been punched hard in the head, and his body swayed violently!
Seeing that something was wrong, Sasha quickly supported Lin Yue's back, which helped him stand up.

The icebreaker is so effective at controlling AI?!
No amount of pain could compare to Lin Yue's heart-pounding fear.

Keep in mind that this was only because Sasha had left a backup plan in the subnet beforehand. However, what Lin Yue found even more incomprehensible was why this thing was in Emma's brain.

Was it forcibly planted by Hanz...?

Sasha's soft voice came from behind him.

"It must have been this woman's good husband who inserted this thing into your brain-computer interface when you were having intimate conversations with her... She's lucky, this is just a key; if it were the main program—"

"Her brain could probably explode in a few microseconds."

Without saying a word, Lin Yue carried Emma in his arms and staggered towards the door while transmitting data from the Black Wall.

Sasha bit her lip and quickly followed.

……

The underground server location.

Brilliant fireworks exploded one after another, but the server's power consumption continued to rise rapidly.

There was a sound of footsteps.

A dark figure stood on the monitoring screen next to the server, a mocking smile playing on his lips.

“LIN…Lin Yue”

"Ah, my friend, I should have known it was yours."

The newcomer was not wearing a burgundy suit, but rather a light purple one. His expression was calm and composed, as if he were enjoying an interesting game.

He looked down at the computer screen; a chip on his neck emitted a faint green glow. The hacker had just sent him a message, reporting the results.

“Friend, he will come looking for us.”

The man in the black trench coat behind him, a cigarette dangling from his lips and a somewhat listless expression, asked in bewilderment, "Why didn't you just use the icebreaker program to kill that woman? It seems he used those weird data to kill a lot of your hackers."

The server's dark red light shone down at that moment.

The smiling man pulled the chip out of his neck and tossed it aside. "I'm a businessman, all I care about is profit. You see... all these years I've been running Dogtown is just paying for the mistakes I made when I was young due to my lack of experience."

"After that old woman from Petroleum died in near-Earth orbit, things went completely out of control... This is an opportunity, and of course I have to take care of your interests."

However, "Morgan Black Hand" stared at the chip in Hans's hand, seemingly wondering what it was.

"It's been a full eight years."

"Time flies... That guy up there probably thinks he's me—look, it's a tragedy; look... this tiny chip is proof that he's living in my place, my children, my wife, my life are all fake."

As he was talking, Hanz threw the chip on the ground and stomped on it until it was crushed.

Morgan Blackhand squinted and took a cigarette from his mouth. "It makes no sense."

Hanz smiled slightly and spread his arms out. "But I'm still here, aren't I? A pathetic fake is a fake... That woman, I was once moved by her, and even followed her wishes to raise a child artificially."

"In the end... this is all betrayal."

Morgan Blackhand sneered.

"You want someone to spread their legs and wait for Night City's corporate dogs to come and do what they want? You're treating living people like objects... but people have emotions, understand?"

Hanz shook his finger. "I just wanted to teach her a lesson: everything comes at a price."

Clearly, Morgan Blackhand, a guy who wasn't interested in anything outside of fighting, wasn't going to talk about women with this mentally unstable middleman. "So your women don't even know which one is you. No wonder you're not the one facing the reckoning with Petrolite."

Hanz paced slowly. “My partners have always been companies, whether it’s the internet police, [Su Petrochemical], or you—they are all reliable partners. I didn’t kill this woman because of my partners… I hate betrayal, so killing her is far less satisfying than watching my own hope be completely extinguished.”

Ok…

It seems like all office workers are like this.

Morgan Blackhand patted his cigarette, and he roughly understood what this man meant by maximizing profits.

Hans paused for a moment, then said, "Alright, friend. Once all these hackers are dead, that lone wolf from Arasaka will arrive here—"

"Believe me."

By prolonging the torment of the woman, they lured the guy to this data fortress, this middleman…

"By the way, you can give up on that woman named Meredith... The company is a place for smart people, not a playground where you can get a foothold by sleeping with your lover a few times."

Morgan nodded.

"The military science department's intentions are unclear. If she manages to escape those squads alive... I'll have to bring her back."

Hans bowed slightly, displaying the demeanor of a seasoned European gentleman.

"Go ahead, I'll be waiting to see your performance."

A lone wolf with one jet-black arm wiped the gun in his hand, quietly waiting for the sound of the elevator not far away.

……

Standing inside the elevator, enduring the pain in his head, Lin Yue only wanted to move Emma out first.

"Could we try cutting off the subnet?"

Sasha's hands never stopped on the personal computer screen. "No, the hackers are in charge of patching the program. If this continues, even if Emma leaves the subnet, those hackers will still burn her brains out."

Large beads of sweat rolled down Lin Yue's forehead.

The nerve pain is less when there is no humanity involved...

"Then... let's track them in reverse. The entire floor outside the elevator is full of enemies."

Sasha was taken aback.

"Grieved, Qiwei marked the possible locations of the data fortress, all underground. I'll analyze the path later—"

The sound of Sasha typing on the keyboard drifted into Lin Yue's ears.

He was pondering what was going on. After Hanz's death, everything descended into chaos as predicted... Yet Emma, ​​having finally managed to stabilize her body, was now strained again by reactivating the Black Wall. Was it all pre-planned?
Having fought countless battles, Lin Yue only sensed a conspiracy.

Could it be that Hansen has changed his mind?

No, if that's the case, given Hansen's personality, he's probably too preoccupied with his own thoughts to kill all the Ghost Hounds. Although the channel is noisy, the Ghost Hounds' entry speed is actually a bit slow—

Even at the slowest pace, surrounding the preoccupied man with a large number of ghost hounds within ten minutes wouldn't be a problem.

As for that sniper shot...

It's more like an experiment; if he guesses right, it only proves that Lin Yue isn't qualified to participate in the game.

Lin Yue: "Are you sure that network protocol is valid?"

Sasha's eyes darted around on the screen, and the holographic glasses under her helmet were full of data. "Hmm... I've compared them. With this, goods can easily enter and leave Dogtown."

damn it.

No normal person would ever imagine that someone could be so shrewd as to let someone else live his life.

The instant the elevator reached the first floor.

"Got it! The data traffic is concentrated directly below the dance floor. You need to find a place to get down—"

"careful!"

call out--

A bullet instantly entered the elevator.

With a sickening thud, Lin Yue's arm lay across Sasha's face, a bullet tearing a large hole in the sleeve of his suit, revealing skin stained with a smoky hue.

Almost the instant the bullet struck, Lin Yue transmitted the key to unlock Sasha's AI in her brain.

"That's right, Mr. Rin."

Sasha's eyes flickered, and her light pink pupils seemed to slowly be replaced by blood red. The deathly eyes shrouded in mist beneath her hacker helmet drew a graceful streak in the air!

The girl moved nimbly, stepping onto the wall. She crossed her arms, and the Ripper emitted a buzzing sound—the Ghost Hounds, who were on guard duty and preoccupied with their own thoughts, immediately opened fire. Their shooting skills were clearly superior to those of the gang members, and they steadily fired at the agile figure!
It must be said that, under such circumstances, aside from cursing, no one in the Ghost Hound retreated due to the opponent's unpredictable speed...

Sasha stomped on a load-bearing pillar and charged at one of them like a black panther.

puff!

Ten blades, each over twenty centimeters long, pierced the chest of the foremost Ghost Hound heavy gunner. The high-strength fiber bulletproof vest was torn apart instantly, as if it were made of paper.

The eyes beneath the mask of the haunted dog were wide open in a fierce stare…

The figure beneath the black helmet seemed to be smiling. She tilted her head slightly, the blade twisting its direction as it slashed out from her side.

The ghostly hound, its ribs swaying weakly, knelt on the ground with a thud. Sasha, tall yet with a touch of youthful innocence, stared intently at the beads of blood sliding down her palm. She licked her dry lips, then fixed her gaze on the soldiers who were stunned by the brutal disembowelment of their comrades.

"Fuck your mother! You cyber lunatic!"

With a terrified scream, bullets rained down on Sasha like a sudden downpour!

Sasha twisted his body, the bullets and their slightly white yet distorted trails of flame reflected on his helmet, one after another…

Upon landing, she uploaded the Black Wall protocol stack without hesitation.

One minute... she wants these people dead.

She couldn't let anything change in Rin's situation during those five minutes of free time—

Even if it might be for the woman in his arms, she would do her best as long as she was the boss.

She couldn't face the disadvantages that her lack of ability brought to Rin.

Dogville…Azure…These two places are constantly tormenting Sasha's nerves. Rin brought her out of the biotechnology and gave her hope for revenge…How can she slack off?!

Lin Yue leaned against the wall, and perhaps because of the darkness of the wall, he felt a sense of déjà vu as he gazed at Sasha's retreating figure.

For hackers, the black wall is more like a magic potion that enhances their abilities, but the side effect is their life.

He had always thought his speed was so fast because he could see the reaction panel and had ways to improve it... But looking at it this way, it seems that improving computing power would cause a dramatic increase in reaction speed and extremely strong physical coordination, which would put too much strain on the body without prosthetics...

Lin Yue, panting heavily as he continued to resist the ice-breaking process, thought:
Is full-body cybernetic implantation truly the only way out...?

The ground was covered with undulating shadows, and Sasha's Ripper, dripping blood, stood silently.

A mangled body, destroyed weapons, and a network access bay spewing heat from its back…

Sasha would be perfect for this.

She is almost a carbon copy of Lin Yue's fighting style, squeezing out every last drop of power within her limits to minimize variables.

"It's solved, boss."

Sasha's voice sounded like a blurred AI voice, somewhat muffled.

Lin Yue nodded. "I've found the way."

"Take down the server that's helping the hackers boost their computing power, then retreat. Tell the squad and the animal gang to hold them off."

The group quickly walked to the bar counter.

Lin Yue reached out and touched the wooden board next to the wine cabinet. The ID scanning device was swallowed by the red and black data and kept flashing... With a sound, the wine cabinet was slowly pushed open by Sasha, and in front of her was an old-fashioned hollow elevator door that was a bit rusty.

As the elevator slowly descended, the surroundings were plunged into darkness, and the temperature in the air seemed to rise subtly...

It felt like we were approaching a large heating plant.

The location is correct.

The server's overheating could not be concealed. At this moment, Lin Yue realized that although Hanz was dead, these hackers were still assisting the server in launching the icebreaking program again and again according to the specified commands.

It's sizzling!

When the old elevator reaches the bottom floor, it emits a piercing beeping alarm.

Sasha's ripper was always on, and his eyes were fixed on the interface that could be quickly cracked at any time.

Everything is very quiet.

Thick pipes are laid in a corridor that resembles an abandoned water plant, and these lines all seem to lead to the central area.

"Such a major renovation can't be accomplished in just one or two years..."

Lin Yue thought to himself.

Sasha pointed ahead, and Lin Yue gestured for her to scout ahead.

She leaned against the cobweb-covered concrete wall and slowly poked her head out...

Sasha's heart pounded wildly as she used the night vision of her prosthetic eye to spot the hackers in the distance, heads bobbing as they worked on calculations in their hacker chairs...

Lin Yue was practically bound by Emma's ice-breaking program at this moment.

The good news is that this thing won't harm him; the bad news is that he has to be distracted to help Emma with the data. He was the closest person to Emma at the time, and in that extremely short period of time, this was the best possible outcome…

However, the human-computer interaction cable cannot be pulled out now because the ice-breaking program is devouring the discrete data of the black wall very quickly. Once Lin Yue releases his grip on Emma's consciousness... what awaits her is a scorching flame in her brain.

Sasha gestured for Lin Yue to wait...

It's impossible for a child to imagine a place without security.

Seemingly unable to observe any other useful information, Sasha peeked out with one eye, staring intently at the hacker not far away.

Cyberpsychosis

Upload complete

The hacker, already engaged in a massive computational undertaking, suddenly went berserk, his body convulsing wildly, his hands gripping the network cable behind his neck tightly—

Wow!

Accompanied by the crackling of electricity and eerie laughter, the hacker, with black smoke billowing from half his neck, staggered to his feet. He attempted to use a quick crack to deal with his companion, but it seemed that the network access bay was damaged, preventing him from completing the attack. He then picked up the external device next to him and smashed it hard into his companion's face.

[WARNING: The enemy has entered combat mode]

Just as Sasha was about to target the other hackers immersed in the cyber world, a temporary darkness seemed to appear before his eyes!

puff-

Sianwistan's distinctive voice boomed, and Lin Yue's pupils suddenly contracted.

There's a lone wolf nearby!

The girl, who was blinking, swung the ripper to her side without hesitation, but a guy with a smooth, black arm grabbed her neck tightly. The blade struck the arm and sparks flew, and a strong smell of cigarette smoke filled her nostrils.

Without even glancing at the cyber-mad hacker who was trying to cause trouble, he fired his pistol, and the man was blown to the head!

Lin Yue, who was standing with Emma in his arms, stared intently at the guy with dark arms who was pinning Sasha against the wall by the neck.

Although his eyes were devoid of emotion, the moment that image appeared, it was as if a thunderclap exploded in his mind!

Morgan Blackhand?!
What the hell are you talking about...?

How could he still be alive?

Lin Yue was carefully considering whether he was hallucinating; this simply didn't make sense... Adam Hammer had almost no spare body parts left after that nuclear explosion, so how could Morgan Blackhand be so intact?

Damn, just how strong is this guy?
"I thought it would be that cyber lunatic whose brain is smaller than a sex doll's breasts coming to Dogtown... Arasaka, do you know me?"

The cigarette butt in Black Hand's hand glowed intermittently, awaiting Lin Yue's answer.

After a brief silence, Lin Yue let out a sneer, "The infamous Black Hand... coming here to guard someone's underground kennel, how damn interesting."

Black Hand paused, then grinned, revealing a set of neat teeth.

"Wow, you're really going to be a heavy sledgehammer, aren't you..."

Almost instantly, Lin Yue made his choice, completely releasing the combination of the Black Wall and the Tsunami military AI within Sasha's body.

Before the black hand could react, crimson lightning exploded on the prosthetic arm.

Sasha, having escaped from Lin Yue's grasp, instantly retreated to his side...

The muscular man, with the typical features of a white American, looked down at his uncontrollable black arm and frowned slightly. "Looks like you Arasaka guys are getting into this too..."

As he spoke, he shook his hand.

"I believe many of you will lose sleep over your losses as company assets—"

Does military technology, which is almost never considered a living lone wolf, have the means to resist the Black Wall? First it was sunrise, now it's the Black Hand. Just how far has military technology penetrated the Black Wall?

The Lark's cybernetic body... it seems that the Lone Wolf from the Military Science Department has some means to counter the Black Wall data.

What the hell is this...

Lin Yue's gaze was deep as he tried his best to maintain the balance between the black wall of data and the breaking of the ice.

He also had to carefully feed the data into Emma's brain-computer interface.

damn it.

Who on earth dug such a huge hole for him?!
However, just as Lin Yue was racking his brains for a way to break the deadlock, Sasha made the first move.

Her target was none other than the hackers who were lying in wait!
The clever girl immediately prepared to lure the villain into a fight!
"No S.A.S.A.-type operating system... hackers?"

Without further ado, the Black Hand activated Sinwiss instantly!
His figure shifted rapidly, becoming a fleeting shadow that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and he was now level with Sasha in an instant!
Lin Yue was calculating the speed of this thing...

70%?
The model number is unidentifiable; it may be a modification made by the "black hand" (a person who illegally modified the product).

However, in the eyes of the mastermind at this moment.

He almost instantly recognized the girl as an invaluable black gold asset, and therefore wanted her to lose her combat ability, which would be the best compensation for the military technology to make up for the intelligence leaks and repeated losses.

As for that Rin…

All I can take back is my brain; getting revenge is the key.

Lin Yue also noticed this anomaly. How could he easily waste the opportunity that Sasha had painstakingly created?
They started moving almost instantly—

Black Hand watched helplessly as the guy hurtled toward the server at a speed comparable to a high-end S.A.W.S. product, his expression one of astonishment.

I made a mistake...

Because of Meredith's intelligence, Black Hand never considered Lin Yue's speed from the beginning.

In the previous operation by Respectable Logistics, after being subjected to such a powerful baptism by the Black Wall, he did not believe that this guy would still have the ability to instantly get close to the hacker.

Almost a second.

Sasha's body was sent flying by a side kick from Black Hand, crashing heavily into the nearby equipment. This was followed by the rapid cracking of the stacked protocol of the Black Wall.

Amidst the exploding red and black data streams, Morgan's hand pressed firmly against the network access bay behind Sasha's neck.

He wanted to forcefully cut off Sasha's attack.

At this moment, while resisting the massive load of the black wall data and fighting against the ice-breaking program, Lin Yue also began to crack and invade the hackers around the server!

Just as the server started displaying an error message and sparks flew, a bullet whizzed out from the side. Lin Yue instinctively dodged, but still felt a warmth in his hand; Emma's pristine white nightgown began to slowly smudge with red...

He looked down at the gunshot wound on the woman's shoulder, his calm gaze sweeping over the man in the distance carrying a silver revolver.

"We meet again, my friend."

A unique, husky voice rang out.

Footsteps approached from behind. Lin Yue glanced back and saw Black Hand slowly walking towards him.

Looking further afield, Sasha lay quietly on the ground, the network access bay behind her neck occasionally emitting a hissing sound.

Lin Yue let out a deep breath.

"Hanz...you really are a good dog who hides his head and tail."

Hanz smiled slightly.

"You flatter me. I can't compare to you. It seems that Arasaka has someone very important protecting you. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to sit at the table in a card game in Dogtown."

Morgan, gun raised, asked calmly, "Where is the remaining part of the previously exposed list? Who did you hand it over to?"

Hanz looked at the silent Arasaka Rin, his strongest nemesis, this young man, and smiled as he opened his arms, "Doing business is about supply and demand. I don't see any benefit in your business, so no one will help you."

"I'm giving you Dogtown, because I also need to leave this filthy place and return to my own territory."

The company...

It seems that Mr. Hanz, who dresses in high fashion and is particular about everything, dreams about the company.

Lin Yue smiled mockingly, "I thought the famous Mr. Hanz was going to make his fortune in Dogtown... This rat hole must be hard to repair, right? I'm starting to doubt if you were even the person I met for the first time—"

Hanz nodded. "It is me, my dear lion."

"My gun was crucial; it taught a lesson to the woman who liked to betray, and it also stopped the server from being destroyed."

“Mr. Rin, the Morgan Black Hand, that old Grim Reaper, is also here... I think you should be able to see how real businessmen do things, right?”

His voice echoed here.

However, Sasha, who was lying on the ground not far away, twitched her fingers...

Lin Yue's prosthetic eye was filled with the color of the black wall, but he received a message from someone—a girl who could speak without his permission.

Just when the situation seemed to be settled, he was filled with heavy thoughts.

The man with bloodshot eyes let out a smile more cruel than death itself.

"The Grim Reaper of the past?"

"But dear Mr. Hans, why don't you ask Morgan Blackhand when your death is?"

Hanz's smiling face stiffened slightly.

Morgan Blackhand's cigarette butt slowly went out—

The instant the server crashed, crimson data pierced down from the sky!

Morgan Blackhand watched as the man with his back to him, Mr. Hanz, whose consciousness was being devoured by the black abyss and the Grim Reaper's scythe, let out a halting scream, his body slowly collapsing amidst a series of sparks...

The pale-faced girl, with her ripper prosthetic body, slashed through the pipes, short-circuiting them, and then swayed and collapsed.

The emotions of resentment and fear were magnified infinitely on the face of the middleman who was swallowed by cyberspace…

In the eyes of this former lone wolf, the man with bloodshot eyes turned around.

"Military technology..."

"Let's settle the score slowly."

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　[An old woman dies in near-Earth orbit]: The person in charge of Petroleum is a woman who presents herself as a beautiful woman in cyberspace, but is actually nearly 100 years old.
　　[Suzhou Petrochemical]: One of the few energy companies in the 2077 universe, a company owned by Goose.
　　[Morgan Blackhand's Self-Modification]: In the background setting, Morgan Blackhand is a technical expert who can upgrade or replace his own prosthetic body.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)