Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 261 Let the City Bear Witness to Everything! (Part 1) [6.7K]

"You feel like you're at home here."

Pila wrapped her studded leather jacket tighter around herself, muttering as she waited, her elbows propped on the fence as she observed Lin Yue observing the Arasaka Industrial Park.

The rusty, yellowed scaffolding creaked beneath their feet, the wind whistling. Rebecca was busy organizing her weapons and equipment, while Qiwei reached out to zip up her oversized jacket.

"Hmm, it's a miracle your prosthetic body wasn't locked up."

She looked at the prosthetic pattern on the back of Lin Yue's neck. The different companies had all sorts of variations on how they set up the back door of the prosthetic body. Night City judged a prosthetic doctor not only by how accurately he placed the incision, but more by his understanding of the program and flashing.

Large, conservative companies typically allocate over 70% of their R&D budget to hiring engineers, let alone the fact that what Lin Yue has is a prototype…

Lin Yue touched his neck, memorizing the two routes.

Lin Yue actually knew perfectly well whether there was a backdoor before Dogville, otherwise he wouldn't have been tracked down by V in the Arasaka Tower during his first use of the Black Wall while in a dazed state. However, after this re-inspection, the backdoor that Lin Yue knew was indeed gone.

But it's strange.

He didn't think Lai Xuan could devise this plan out of thin air while sitting in the headquarters building... At least Lai Xuan must have mastered the necessary steps required for this event.

First, NID has entered the court stage.

Secondly, the interference from Watson District has been minimized. Lin Yue had no plan for the series of events, such as Heywood, the Tiger Claw Gang, etc. It was as if they all happened by chance, giving the feeling that he was being manipulated by fate. Yet, it also made people feel that it was an almost impossible random combination of events.

If Lai Xuan is that powerful, Lin Yue cannot imagine how deep Sanlang's control over this company is.

Finally, the current situation allows Lin Yue to leave the industrial park unscathed. Although the prosthetic body seems to have major flaws, it is actually capable of causing enough damage.

"You really went to great lengths to fool your old man."

Rebecca, whose eyes were different sizes, leaned closer to Lin Yue from behind and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Lin Yue paused for a moment, shook his head, and casually reached out to ruffle Rebecca's hair, which was flying everywhere on her head. It was soft, like cotton.

"My hair that I just tied up!"

Rebecca was quite dissatisfied.

[Caller: Jack Wells]

"Amigo, to make a long story short, I'm sitting on my motorcycle right now—damn, there are so many people, all heading to the company plaza. Uh… damn, the security team from Arasaka Real Estate over at Constitution Mountain is also coming. Arasaka Tower has been closed for about seven or eight minutes!"

Heywood, the kid on the other end, had never seen anything like this before. Although it was Lin Yue's last-minute request, Jack still used Heywood's connections to help Lin Yue immediately.

"Hey, I mean, if I could get over there right now, I could see if I could help out or something."

Jack scratched his head, looking at Arasaka's expression. It seemed that Lin Yue, who had helped him, was probably in big trouble. But Jack had one good point: he never asked questions about things his partners didn't tell him. He was tight-lipped, which explained why V liked to ask him to do things in Night City.

Lin Yue shook his head, "There's no time. You've already helped me a lot—"

Jack spread his hands in front of his chest and pressed them down, indicating that his brother didn't mean to say those things. "What I wanted to say was, I was still worrying about how to solve the Hector problem, and your buddies took care of it. Thank God—those fan site trolls should have done this a long time ago."

“Then I’ll pave the way at Haywood, so that if possible, the company’s reach won’t extend here… in my personal capacity, of course, Jack Wells.”

Are you openly standing against Arakawa?

Jack is so frank that sometimes he doesn't seem like someone who grew up in Night City.

"it is good."

Lin Yue smiled.

It was a genuine smile from the heart.

Jack greeted him with a "God bless you" in the style of Haywood, and then hung up.

Lin Yue glanced at the time calibration in the telescope. "About eight minutes. Let's move in. There's a location on the left side of the industrial park that's been attacked. The budget shortage has created a security gap there. Remember—don't make a big fuss. Infiltrate. Qiwei, keep an eye on Rebecca."

Upon hearing her name called, Rebecca's cheeks puffed up instantly.

Pila looked at the route map Lin Yue sent her, "Damn it... Zeta Tech's defense series combination, True Sight plus infrared thermal response scanning, Arasaka Armored Robot, [Red Armor Samurai]... I'm going to die, I should have checked Mewtwo tonight and gotten a tube of it."

Qiwei sighed. She never had anything to say about "inferior" teammates, and didn't even want to warn everyone to be careful.

Let's just have the machine guns riddle this bastard with bullets!
Rebecca's brow furrowed slightly with anxiety. "And what about you?"

"The security system in Arasaka would require a dozen hackers crouching at the entrance with their butts sticking out, and a few technical experts working together to fix it. It would only take half a day to get in! Don't tell me you're planning to force your way in."

Lin Yue waved his hand, seemingly not wanting to waste time, and immediately flipped over the railing.

"I have my own way of doing it."

Rebecca reached out to pull the guy up, but he stepped directly from the four or five-meter-high scaffold to the next level.

Pila crossed her arms and clicked her tongue for a long time—

"You ungrateful wretch, if you're still worried, then go and die with that kid. You just love doing that kind of thing anyway."

Rebecca yelled, "What's it to you? Shut up, you jerk!"

Qiwei watched Lin Yue swagger towards the entrance of the Aragaka Industrial Park. "Rebecca, you need to change your approach. Make sure that guy knows what you're thinking? I've already figured out that woman from the company; things between them might not be so simple."

Rebecca shrank her face further under her collar. "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

Qiwei patted Rebecca on the shoulder encouragingly, "Alright, let's see how Lin Yue sneaks in first. If he succeeds... we'll proceed as planned."

Pila clearly sensed her sister's displeasure and didn't continue the topic, only staring intently at Lin Yue.

"What's that kid up to? Trying to embarrass you by showing your face in Arasaka's backyard?"

Qiwei frowned deeply. She felt that Lin Yue might use a kill-and-infiltration method, but the sentries over there had already noticed Lin Yue heading towards the door. From a distance, everyone could see the guards from Arasaka blocking Lin Yue's way...

"Phew... Put your gear away. There's a problem with Lin Yue. We'll abandon the plan and go with him along the first route."

Qi Wei's voice was calm.

Rebecca asked in a puzzled tone, "He didn't tell us to..."

Qiwei stared intently at every slight movement over there. "My goal is simple: I can't let the hope I've finally achieved be dashed here. My priority is to keep that guy alive—as for any temporary plans or company infighting, I have no interest in the company's legal status."

Pila clicked his tongue.

Pointing to the security camera at the door, he said, "The goods from the Crossroads Division have virtually no response time, large-scale model calculations... If Lin Yue shows any tendency to attack, within 0.001 seconds—"

"I am!"

Pila felt as if someone had grabbed her by the neck, and without hesitation, she tried to turn around and walk down.

At that moment, the sentry blocking Lin Yue's way at the door had already raised his gun, while Lin Yue nonchalantly raised his hands, and the door behind him slowly opened a crack, just wide enough for one person to pass through...

"Move over there!"

Rebecca turned her head and said, "Wait a minute!"

Qiwei's hands gripped her arm tightly...

With the communication system down, could Lin Yue really slip in? They were all staring intently at the machine gun above Lin Yue's head, a weapon combining tracking delay and the probe of the Crossroads Division. Could he, with his compromised prosthetic body, possibly evade two points of crossfire? The entrance was, after all, a completely open area…

"The machine gun has started!"

Pila urged.

Rebecca watched nervously. "Don't rush... If we act rashly, Arasaka will only try to stop us, and we won't get anything in return—I trust him."

Depend on!
Pila spread her hands out and slapped them on her thighs as if she were about to give up.

The sentries filed out and formed a semi-circle around Lin Yue. One of the sentries stepped forward and approached Lin Yue—

Lin Yue did something that made all three of them jump out of their skin. He suddenly reached out and grabbed the sentry in front of him by the collar, staring at him face to face. The surrounding soldiers looked at each other and hesitated for a moment before raising their guns. Then Lin Yue reached out and pulled the pistol from the sentry's waist.

The first guy who tried to stop Lin Yue raised his hands, attempting to explain something to the captain, but was shot dead.

Qiwei and the others felt like their brains couldn't keep up.

However, the security chief, who had been stunned and spread his hands, stood there for a while before quickly putting the gun behind his back and bending over repeatedly with both hands in front of him.

Lin Yue thus entered the courtyard of Ara-saka...

A gust of wind blew by.

All three of them felt a chill on the back of their necks.

Because they find it hard to connect the smiling guy with the man who casually shoots down a sentry who hasn't even realized what's happening yet.

……

"Stop right there, this is not a place for you."

With his hands clasped in front of him, Arasaka, wearing a gray military cap and a bulletproof vest, stood blocking the guy who wanted to walk in through the main gate.

Lin Yue stood still.

He tried to enter the building using the "V" method, following his memory, and he uttered all the threatening words.

If the other party doesn't dare gamble on Lin Yue's true identity...

Then he would definitely back down.

The soldier was genuinely taken aback when he heard Arthur Jenkins' name mentioned.

Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to ask the troublesome guy to move aside when—

He suddenly reached out and pressed down on the headset.

"There are suspicious people at the front gate."

"Now, you bastard of unknown origin, put your hands up where I can see you, and then obediently wait for inspection!"

Even though Lin Yue had excellent adaptability, he was still somewhat bewildered.

Which step went wrong?
Admittedly, the soldier panicked when the young man immediately asked for his name.

However, reality didn't seem to be as he remembered. The sentry suddenly became wary after hearing Lin Yue's long speech.

"Ad hoc inspection of sensitive and confidential information related to leak prevention?"

The soldier pointed his gun at the young man. "Don't make me laugh, okay? When did Jenkins ever investigate this stuff? After he climbed up, we brothers were all under the supervision of the counterintelligence department—you're obviously an outsider. Don't you know that Jenkins has no real power?"

Lin Yue felt like he had dug his own grave.

Jenkins hasn't taken any radical measures so far, but the problem is... how come he's been sidelined like this?
However, Lin Yue's first thought was V.

Will Jenkins take advantage of this opportunity...?

He dared not think.

We can only grit our teeth and wait and see.

"Your clothes and appearance, even without driving, make you look like one of those idiots on the street. And that tattoo on your neck, is it imitating a prosthetic body? It looks just like it, like my mom's tattoo."

Lin Yue suddenly looked up.

"Your mom's pretty well-rounded..."

The sentry's face changed. "You fucking—"

Lin Yue said coldly, "Why don't you dare to fire? Don't you dare to gamble? You've already done something so brave... are you afraid of this?"

He looked up at the machine guns locked on him from above; the network access bay was already operational.

The door made a starting sound, and Lin Yue locked onto the gap large enough for him to squeeze through.

However, the sentries who came out were clearly very professional. The last one inside stood in front of them, and the leading soldier, without saying a word, just walked up to Lin Yue—

The moment Lin Yue saw the sentry's face, he grabbed the sentry's collar! Before the sentry leader could react, there were gunshots all around him. Lin Yue stared at the guy in front of him, while the guy opposite him looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Rin, Minister Rin?"

Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the guy in charge of security on the Arasaka floor.

"So you've stopped me here just to make the problems inside disappear as quickly as possible?"

Lin Yue, who was trying to use the same trick again, almost lost his nerve.

Fortunately, the soldiers were intimidated.

it works.

The most distinctive feature of Arasaka is the lack of communication between superiors and subordinates. Perhaps it's to maintain the absolute control of superiors, so the lower levels are unaware of company layoffs, job changes, and other major events. But if the news of Lin Yue's defection gets out to the company, things could get very different.

The soldiers were dumbfounded when they heard that the guy in front of them, dressed like he'd been picked out of a street market, was the Minister of Security.

Seeing Lin Yue's expression growing increasingly hostile—

The soldier began apologizing profusely, while the soldier who had initially intervened stood to the side, his face ashen, and the surrounding soldiers looked at him with pity.

Perhaps it was the fear of impending layoffs and retaliation, or the despair of having no future prospects—

The sentry suddenly shouted, "This is against the rules! There's no identity verification! It doesn't comply with security procedures!"

The soldier next to him tried to cover the man's mouth, but because of the shouting, the surveillance cameras pointing elsewhere started to shift towards him...

These words only caused the security chief to hesitate for a moment, but Lin Yue drew his gun without hesitation.

The instant he saw the gun barrel, Lin Yue saw the despair on the sentry's face and the expression of resistance—

"Damn it! It was the Minister of Security who gave the order! What are you all doing?! Holy crap!"

"Regarding identity verification, Minister Rin, you—"

Lin Yue's brain seemed to go blank!
In the dead of night at Arasaka Tower, the directional regulations he had personally reviewed were clearly displayed before his eyes. His memory was so good that even the slightest smudging of ink on the letters on the document was clearly visible…

The surrounding sentries dared not look directly at the man holding the pistol, but some soldiers seemed to be swayed by those words.

The absurd thought that “he did nothing wrong” first crossed his mind—for a lone wolf who had fought many enemies for his life, it was merely a fleeting emotion.

The security chief mustered his courage and was about to intervene when a shot rang out…

He just stared blankly as his subordinate fell into a pool of blood. The expressionless young man turned around and put the gun back into the sentry's holster.

Lin Yue suddenly felt a sense of disgust.

The guy who thought he could carve out his own territory in the treacherous situation of Ara-saka and fulfill his dream from the beginning of his life in this world examined the corpses at his feet.

Enemy, battle.

Lin Yue has always viewed it this way.

"Make way now."

The sentry chief glanced helplessly at the corpse on the ground, waved his hand, and watched the man's figure disappear behind the door.

After dismissing the excess men, the sentry chief squatted on the ground, quietly observing the man's expression.

He suddenly reached out and slapped the guy on the head.

"Just let that guy in who's spouting inside instructions. Why don't you learn to be a little smarter? You damn bastard... you still haven't paid back the money you owe me for playing cards."

The sentry waiting to carry the body scratched his head. "Boss, I think he's right... It's weird that the security minister came here..."

The sentry chief stood up. "We didn't make the rules. Take him away and consider it compensation."

Another sentry asked, "Are you going back?"

The sentry chief lit a cigarette and pulled back the bolt of his rifle.

Squinting, he seemed to be choked by the smoke. "I also think this idiot has a point. Internal inspectors don't go to sensitive areas; that's the rule. I want to see what he's up to."

After their leader left, the two soldiers sighed.

The soldiers carried the body through the door. They looked at the blood on their feet, wiped it with their boots, and then stood helplessly on the crimson graffiti.

It feels utterly absurd.

……

"Is Arasaka's idiot really that afraid of his boss?"

Pila and his group gradually blended into the Arasaka Industrial Park, and the whole process was thrilling but without any real danger.

Lin Yue was very familiar with the idea of ​​slitting someone's throat from behind, and so were the team members.

Lin Yue didn't intend to answer Pira's question; he just kept urging them to reach the designated location, completely unaware that the surveillance cameras behind them were locked on him, the guy who should have been exempted from inspection by Arasaka.

call--

Lin Yue darted out from around the corner of the passage and arrived near the network server that internal reviewers did not have access to.

This place is the most heavily guarded area in the Arasaka Industrial Park.

It's full of Red Warriors.

These heavily armored soldiers were roughly equivalent to low-level ACPAs, so Lin Yue had no choice but to resort to a sneak attack.

Perhaps not expecting a strange face to suddenly appear in this place, the soldier turned his head and saw nothing. The blood-red data stream in front of him destroyed his implant. Then, the man with his hands hanging down slowly drew his knife and plunged the blade into his abdomen with his back to him.

He'd do anything to keep V out of trouble and give him enough leverage to fight the city.

The gun went off at that very moment!

With the corpse impaled on the blade of his sword, Lin Yue used his back to shield it, and the soldiers firing their guns into the passage began to retreat frantically!

The bullets bounced wildly off the mottled red heavy armor, some even slipping through the gaps in the armor and hitting Lin Yue in the back.

The sentries in the Arasaka area are equipped with top-notch weaponry—well-maintained versions with 20-30% more power than commercially available models. To use the adjectives I remember—

Immortality is a more appropriate word.

"Buzz!"

A piercing alarm sounded.

Seeing the corpse retreat to a distance of three or four meters, one of the two heavily armored sentries retreated to reload, without uttering a single word, only intimidating the enemy in Japanese.

Wow!
The samurai, sliding out on his knees to provide additional fire and cover his teammates as they reloaded, unleashed a deafening roar of bullets from his heavy machine gun!
Bullets as thick as a thumb blasted through armor that was harder and more flexible than bulletproof fibers, turning it into crumpled leather. Fragments flew up and were gnawed and devoured from beneath the armor!
"Huh? You son of a bitch! Where is he?"

The soldier's prosthetic eye began to search rapidly—

On the ceiling, a creature whose hand movements were not particularly agile, but whose feet seemed to be attached to a magnet, swooped down!

"Oh shit!"

The voice from under the soldier's helmet was muffled.

The "Acrobatic Flying Man" skill granted Lin Yue unparalleled aerial endurance. Accompanied by the perfect posture of "Oneness with Heaven and Man," bullets that were powerful enough to tear Lin Yue's body apart barely grazed his scalp!

"What the hell is this?!"

When the soldiers tried to activate the S.A.S ...

In just a moment, those cold eyes appeared beside him—

Oops!
Lin Yue's dark prosthetic hand gripped the soldier's neck from behind. The two enemies facing each other looked at their restrained teammate and hadn't even reacted when the core component of their partner's spine, S.A.W.S., was instantly crushed!
"Kill this madman!"

Lin Yue tossed the corpse aside—

The perfect combination of [Quick Charge] and [Aerial Assault], with his unpredictable movement trajectory, he twisted his posture in mid-air, using the hard prosthetics on his gorilla arms and shoulders to transform into a powerful beast, instantly slamming into one of them!

boom!
It's hard to believe this was the result of a physical collision!
The spiderweb-like cracks on the front looked magnified to the eyes of the other guy who was almost scared out of his wits!
"V, hang in there!"

Lin Yue didn't want to waste a single second.

Yoriyuki's schemes, Arakawa's power, a comfortable life, escaping this collapsing world—

None of it matters.

He needs to secure enough initiative for V on the battlefield that cannot be seen.

Wow!
There was a section of flesh behind Lin Yue's shoulder; due to the continuous use of his special skill, the bullet still managed to find its way through...

However, due to the 14 points of physical strength, Lin Yue only felt a dull pain, and there were only a few bloodstains on the bullet-damaged flesh.

Even though Lin Yue acted quickly, he still saw the map in the upper right corner of his prosthetic eye filled with rapidly moving blood-red dots, which indicated the enemy's location.

Perhaps due to strong signal interference in the vicinity, Rebecca and the others' call bars kept flashing.

Lin Yue could only charge forward, and wherever he passed, he crushed enemies with speed and brutality!
……

"Ooh!"

"Exploded!"

The team members' hair was whipped up by the blast wave, and Rebecca excitedly called out to Lin Yue.

"Three minutes countdown, hurry up! Hey?!"

Realizing there was a problem with the signal, she immediately looked to Qiwei for help.

Qiwei pursed her lips. "Stand still and wait for Lin Yue's signal. The subnet is guiding the soldiers—running won't help. Lin Yue has to paralyze the entire security system!"

Without a word, Rebecca gritted her teeth and ripped the drooping automatic heavy machine gun, which was crackling with electricity, off the ground.

Pila leaned against the wall, her slender fingers gripping several hand grenades—

"Hurry up, buddy?!"

Seeing the map filled with enemies, Rebecca suddenly opened fire with her heavy machine gun!
The three-person team used the terrain of the park to immediately stop the tide of enemies. This was thanks to Rebecca's excellent command of heavy firepower and Pila's prosthetic body's proficiency in throwing grenades. They did not expect that the enemy's professional Arasaka security force would be unable to advance for a while.

While Qiwei bent down to reload, Rebecca was still laughing and firing, the muzzle flashing incessantly in her wide-open prosthetic eye.

Don't be greedy!

Noticing that Rebecca had been in that spot for too long, Qiwei was just about to tell her to move aside—

Suddenly, a dark shadow descended!
Rebecca was so shocked that she jumped up!
hum-

The terrifying sound of mechanical transmission echoed in my ears!

Rebecca stared blankly at the large-caliber machine gun in front of her; the red eyes of the Arasaka mecha had already locked onto this seemingly weak girl…

"I am!"

Have you eaten?
In Qiwei's eyes, a blood-red arc of electricity suddenly flashed on the muzzle of the mecha gun, and a strange, ear-piercing sound instantly exploded throughout the entire park!

Pila's strange scream came from behind!
"It's done!"

The moment the mecha collapsed, Qiwei finally saw what the chaos Lin Yue had mentioned truly meant…

How to describe it?

The world seemed to be rendered in black and red data, and those soldiers and those mechs all met their end in the collapsing data!

It's all over!
……

(End of this chapter)