Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 262 Let the City Witness Everything! (Part 2) [7.2K]

The piercing alarm clock jolted half of Watson’s residents out of sleep at midnight, a result of hangovers and exhaustion from work.

The pale light of dawn unveiled the blood-red world of the Arasaka area…

The swaying soldier pressed his head; all the devices connected to the network had been overwhelmed by a program that the subnet's ICE couldn't protect against…

The three members of the team stared blankly as the park seemed to transform instantly after the "data deluge" washed over it by the prosthetic eye—was this attack meant to attract Arasaka's attention? It would be more accurate to say it was a solid blow aimed at Arasaka's very foundation…

"Are you sure it's just that guy alone?"

Pila wiped his face, which was blackened by gunpowder smoke, before he could even throw the projectile he was holding. "Arasaka is probably going to go crazy."

Qiwei's expression suddenly turned ugly—

The destructive power far exceeded her expectations. It was supposed to be just a surprise attack, how did it turn into a formal cyberattack against the company?

"Rin! Rin? Can you hear me?!"

Rebecca immediately stopped staring blankly and rushed towards the area where there were flames and fallen soldiers everywhere!
At this point, nobody cared about an orderly evacuation; their instinct was that Lin Yue had definitely done something similar to what happened in Dogtown…

"Don't come any closer, I'm fine!"

Even though Lin Yue tried his best to hide the stinging pain in his head, his voice still trembled slightly, a side effect of excessive computing power.

Rebecca breathed a sigh of relief, and Qiwei's expression relaxed as well.

Pila shot a soldier who was trying to get up from the ground. "Get out of here, man!"

Lin Yue's tone remained normal on the other end of the line, "Okay, according to the planned route, you guys go to the Falco car and wait for me—I'll be here in about a minute."

Qiwei grabbed Rebecca's arm, stretched out her hand to pick up the money chip that had fallen from the Arasaka soldier's chest, and kept looking back as she went—

The land was ravaged, and soldiers whose implants had been destroyed by data were wailing. The overloaded equipment had become the heat source that scorched this inferno!

"Holy crap, Arasaka is definitely going to turn Night City upside down now!"

"Hehe, this is the first time I've ever shit on the company's head—holy crap! We'll be the ones living the most awesome lives in our next life!"

Qiwei looked at the time. She wasn't thinking about how powerful they would become in Night City like Pila was. Instead, she was thinking about the price of fame that Pila had mentioned. Arakasa would definitely retaliate without reservation after suffering such a humiliating series of attacks!
Rin... what exactly is he planning to do?
"Hurry up, everyone! Once the Arasaka security forces arrive, none of them will be able to escape!"

Qiwei looked at the Arasaka sign on the building behind her, which was distorted by the heat wave, and her face flashed with an indescribable fear.

However, just as they were breathing in the pungent morning mist and running towards their destination, the sky seemed to suddenly brighten.

Qiwei abruptly flung Rebecca away, then turned to look at the twin-tailed loli in the sky and discovered a hovercar with a blinding white light emanating from below, silently suspended in the air—

"Damn it! We've arrived at Arakawa!"

After throwing Rebecca away, Qiwei turned around and drew her gun. After a few sparks appeared on the floating vehicle, the machine gun immediately caught up with the running Qiwei.

Damn!

How did we arrive so quickly?!
Qiwei's hair flew wildly as Falco called out anxiously from the bend ahead. Qiwei stared wide-eyed at the imminent approach, gritted her teeth, and growled in a low voice at the astonished Rebecca, "Scatter!"

……

The instigator's side—

The whole process went smoothly.

Lin Yue didn't stay in the subnet for long. Under the tense defense of the Arasaka network experts, he entered the cyberspace and connected to the address near the Black Wall. It was the basic node that Otto left for him to contact—but Lin Yue made perfect use of it.

The walls, meticulously prepared to prevent infiltration, were unexpectedly flooded by the enemy.

Blackwall seems to have a very high tendency to attack Lin Yue since the last time in Dogtown. Perhaps in its eyes, Lin Yue is a very complex AI.

These hackers, who were carrying out the anti-intrusion process, were naturally regarded as Lin Yue's "helpers"; the immeasurable amount of data from the black wall overwhelmed the subnet of the Arasaka Industrial Park, destroying all the data of all the devices online!

This was just over two minutes after Lin Yue connected to the network—

To Lin Yue's surprise, the cybersecurity experts at Arasaka Tower reacted quickly, swiftly cutting off the swallowed and lost domain, thus thwarting Lin Yue's plan to temporarily throw Arasaka into chaos.

But that's enough.

However, there was only one thing that made Lin Yue uneasy: he discovered that someone had used the observation tower's equipment to send a message to Arasaka headquarters that Lin Yue had infiltrated the area beforehand. In other words, when Rebecca and the others ran away, Arasaka's security forces might have already arrived.

Lin Yue stood up and shook his still somewhat numb head.

It’s really…

If I'm not mistaken, the sentry at the gate must have noticed something amiss and sent a request to Arasaka Tower, which led to the premature exposure.

But at least I've accomplished what I needed to do—

He had to drag his body, which felt as if it had suddenly become several times heavier, slowly forward amidst the pungent smell of burning electronic components. Some soldiers with their prosthetic eyes burned were still shouting loudly. Lin Yue's rapid decryption was achieved almost without hesitation.

Life ended under the red-eyed gaze; Lin Yue's scheme temporarily caused the city's most dangerous facility to fall into enemy hands.

He pulled several vials of medicine from the soldier's body, carefully examined them, and inhaled the drugs—which rapidly enhanced vision and caused the heart to race—as he walked...

He casually grabbed a guided weapon intended for attacking aerial targets.

Things rarely go as planned, especially a hastily put together plan. But he now has to answer one question: can he ensure the safe retreat of those who follow him?

He smoked a cigarette while fiddling with the weapon in his hand.

As Lin Yue stepped out of the facility, he saw no fewer than seven or eight searchlights sweeping across the sky.

However, his attention was focused on the area where the hovercraft was sweeping downwards ahead…

The team is estimated to be trapped inside a building near the Arasaka Industrial Park. The powerful signal jamming has made the Arasaka Industrial Park almost completely black in the Night City area.

To avoid being detected by the enemy, Arasaka always adopted a strategy of trapping the enemy like a turtle in a jar.

It took him a while to figure out how to use this thing, and he even made a rare self-deprecating remark.

"call…"

Lin Yue squinted, locking onto the hovering vehicle at the front that was circling and firing downwards. The emerald green locking frame shook and made a beeping sound, which was the sound effect indicating that it was gradually locking on. However, such blatant shooting was naturally detected by the detection methods on the other side.

But Lin Yue had already achieved his goal.

The hovercars seemed to have lost their composure and began to use extremely reckless maneuvers, skimming close to the buildings as they swooped down toward Lin Yue!

With a burst of sparks erupting from his shoulder, Lin Yue quickly dropped the still-steaming launcher and sprinted through the buildings inside the Arasaka Industrial Park.

Even though the first hovercar's front end was instantly pierced by a warhead, the remaining hovercars did not panic. They simply chased after Lin Yue, whose whereabouts had already been discovered, amidst the fireworks-like explosions.

Lai Xuan! I'll f*** your mother!

While expressing his thoughts frankly, Lin Yue dodged machine gun bullets that could pierce through the thick cement wall reinforced with steel plates at any moment.

Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief, concluding that the team's troubles were over. Just then, an open area of ​​more than ten meters appeared in front of them.

Just as he was about to rush forward, two hovercars sped toward Lin Yue with lightning speed, completing an inverted flight in mid-air. The hovercars faced Lin Yue, and the powerful engines whipped the hair off his head. The pilot, connected to the fire control system of the flight vehicle, stared intently at the guy below who was still in an attack-forward posture.

His hand immediately went to the button to fire the machine gun.

Just as Lin Yue was glancing to the side out of the corner of his eye, trying to dodge at the risk of being hit, the machine gun's rotation rate decreased significantly.

The area above Lin Yue was incredibly lively...

The hovering vehicles, the dense red markings inside the prosthetic eyes indicating an impending invasion, and the soldiers preparing to land and encircle the enemy in an orderly fashion…

Meanwhile, the Arasaka soldiers and agents on the hovercar felt even more terrified.

The park below, which is usually heavily guarded, was destroyed by guys like this?
As they circled, they saw numerous signals from the wounded, cacophony of cries for help, flames burning everywhere, and paralyzed systems—

But is all of this just because of this one guy?

Someone swallowed hard, almost instinctively.

If it were a heavy hammer, could it have such destructive power?
To the Arasaka soldiers, the calm-looking guy below seemed capable of jumping onto the hovercars and dragging them down in an instant; some of the hovercars even floated slightly upwards!
A smile appeared on Lin Yue's lips as he quietly watched the hovercars squeezing each other into their flight maneuvering space.

No one dared to fire easily.

When an enemy becomes so powerful, it becomes a prize in itself.

It seems like there's no hope left?

Lin Yue sighed, though he didn't know why he was sighing.

Is it because Lai Hsuan had calculated all of his cards?
Did Lai Xuan accurately predict his own feelings and attitude towards people?

Under the watchful eye of the enemy.

Lin Yue lightly twirled the knife in his hand, then slowly retracted it to his waist—

Are you giving up?

As it turns out, such actions do indeed provoke anger in some people instantly.

"Damn it... I'll make sure this bitch is pierced through with my own blood!"

After receiving the order, the hovercar driver glared intently at the guy who was looking at him with an arrogant gaze.

"I am coming."

A soft laugh rang out in my ears after a long silence.

The flames that suddenly rose from the ground all around turned the Arasaka hovercars that had tried to surround and capture them into a frightened flock of sheep!
The flames that shot up from the ground were reflected in Lin Yue's eyes. Because they had lost the space to make maneuvers, some of the hovercraft instantly crashed into the cockpits of their teammates next to them!

Fragments of debris clung to the flames, emitting mournful cries and thick black smoke.

Amidst the bursts of flames that claimed their lives, behind Lin Yue—

Wow!
One of the hovercars quickly completed its turn, and its engine emitted a sharp, altered roar that Lin Yue immediately noticed.

"That's just in time. I thought it would be difficult for you to get into Night City."

The woman watched from afar as Lin Yue seemed to be glancing at her faintly in the firelight. The substitute gunners beside her stepped forward one after another, and the three wounded and unconscious figures lay quietly on the ground.

Hearing the other person's relieved tone.

"Rin-san, isn't Arakazak not even half as honest as I am?"

Even though her tone was gentle, the seriousness between her brows remained undiminished.

Because she, like Rin below, noticed the guy who had successfully dodged.

The hatch of an unarmed Arasaka troop transport glider was opened, and a blurry, mechanical-looking black figure stood next to the side armrest.

The difference between the company and Dogtown is really big.

At least in Dogtown, once the game is over, it's truly over; it's different for companies.

There are too many dogs that bite painfully.

The former security minister, who had just been imprisoned and was now finally freed, was now on his nerves at their absolute limit.

Adam Hammer watched as the prey he had let go a few hours earlier, driven by his "hunting" interest, came knocking on his door. Although only his head was original and had been preserved in preservatives, his intelligence was not low.

He turned his head to look at the woman behind him with an inscrutable expression, and let out a strange laugh that seemed to be a provocation.

"There are quite a few idiots looking to get themselves killed in this place."

Behind V were soldiers temporarily drawn from the counterintelligence department, each staring at Rin below like hungry wolves.

However, nobody wanted to cause trouble, because when Adam was playing, almost no soldier would be so foolish as to help him...

"Isn't the whole company about money and power? Minister V—keep a close eye on him, I'm getting more and more interested in him, look how many people have died here." "Tsk tsk."

Each time the hammer spoke, it was like the heavy friction of metal.

"You all stand still and watch. Don't worry about those stray dogs that run out."

Under V's watchful eye, the guy leaped off the ten-meter-high hovercar in an instant.

Whoosh—boom!

Lin Yue's feet trembled slightly. Faint red lights in the dust behind him seemed to be locking onto him. What was coming had finally arrived!
This was the first time Hammer had ever seen a guy like this. He seemed to have never seen fear in this guy from Arasaka before. Compared to enemies who were terrified and didn't interest him in attacking, this guy was a fresh and exciting change in Hammer's boring life.

"I really did get this opportunity."

Adam scrutinized him intently, seemingly unconcerned about being surrounded by other enemies. He casually pointed upwards, "You can fire now. That reluctant woman is up there—"

Adam's high level of functionality meant that almost no one could fathom his thoughts.

Perhaps in the eyes of this cyber madman, as long as it doesn't affect his enjoyment of the game, all company regulations and purges can go to hell.

Lin Yue unbuckled the knife from his waist and, under the watchful gaze of the most threatening lone wolf in Night City, dropped it. As the blade clattered to the ground, Adam slowly leaned forward to the side.

Adam didn't want to delve into the other person's motives at all; no matter how strange the other person was, he would only act according to his own will.

Lin Yue wasn't trying to provoke him, but rather because the time-stop prosthetic on the Dragon Knight's body was too powerful, and he didn't intend to use his reaction points to fight Adam's Hammer in close combat.

"Mr. Rin, we can buy you some time."

Emma's voice was chillingly cold. She was more curious about what the woman in that company was doing than Adam Hammer.
The de facto leader of this dogtown had absolute trust and confidence in Rin; with him standing there, he would naturally have a way to win.

However, after Lin Yue answered Emma's question, the woman, who was holding a cigarette, suddenly covered her mouth and laughed. Her legs unconsciously tightened and she even bent over laughing. Angie, who was administering the healing medicine to the team members behind her, looked up and her eyes showed a helpless expression that was already used to her.

"Okay, I believe you. Dogtown is indeed a bit empty—take care of yourself."

Emma said goodbye as if it were a simple, everyday farewell, turning and leaving in Angie's astonished gaze. Emma and her team then lifted the members of the squad and carried them down from the rooftop, leaving the Animal Gang members and Angie completely bewildered.

"He...left?"

However, no one explained anything to her. Angie was caught in a dilemma, unsure whether to follow or not. Gritting her teeth, she left with Emma.

Lin Yuesong moved his neck slightly.

He saw V's silky hair fluttering in the cabin above the hovercar. The soldiers behind her didn't seem to be there to deal with Lin Yue, but rather to guard him. Moreover, a thin figure leaning against the railing next to V was completely unfamiliar to Lin Yue.

"It's good that you're alright."

Adam's hammer-like prosthetic eye scrutinized every prosthetic device on Lin Yue's body, but he could tell that without exception, they were all malfunctioning and out of commission. The network access bay behind his neck was the only one that seemed acceptable.

This combat maniac had studied Lin Yue's fighting patterns at the Azure Building more than once. Those fragmented surveillance recordings filled Heavy Hammer with curiosity about his extraordinary reaction speed, and the source of this guy's speed was also very mysterious—

Heavy Hammer was fascinated by any method that could improve himself.

“I’ve tried on this outfit of yours.”

The hammer seemed to circle around Lin Yue slightly, "without speed, without feeling, without nerve pressure—utterly weak."

Lin Yue's prosthetic eye analyzed all the combat components on the Dragon Knight's prosthetic body.

On the hovercar, V's hand gripped the railing, his fingertips already white and deformed. Kenichi Saburo next to him stared at the counterintelligence minister who could turn against him at any moment. "We have to thank that soldier whose fate is unknown. If it weren't for him, we might not have been able to get to the Arasaka Park so quickly."

"A grand gift for Lord Arasaka."

V slowly turned her head, the hatred in her eyes well concealed.

“If you’re going to make a move, now’s the time. What chance do you think that guy has?” Kenichi Saburo said as if he were having a friendly conversation with a friend. “Heavy Hammer won’t show any mercy to guys who like to use network access pods to play dirty tricks.”

The old samurai's words beside him gradually faded from V's ears.

V stared at the guy who had thrown away his knife, not understanding why he was doing all this—

In the cage of Arakasa, her dreams are imprisoned. She strives tirelessly to realize her value within this place, but even now, she can only stand here and watch... If she were to take action, the consequences would be far worse than they are now.

Her rebellion meant that Lai Xuan's plans had all failed, and it no longer mattered where she would go; the vortex would devour her completely.

That feeling of being unable to control her own destiny, Lin's calm face, the text messages she sent herself—it made her heart feel like it was being rubbed back and forth on a rough stone slab.

Where do we stand to win?

Why wasn't luck on their side this time?
V wanted to ask a question.

As the footsteps of the heavy hammer stopped, she began to breathe rapidly, not knowing what the two were saying. Kenichi Saburo beside her had already pushed the sword open a crack with his thumb, and the soldiers behind V also looked extremely unnatural, because some of them were preparing to carry out the tasks ordered by V.

Feeling helpless and controlled by a powerful hand left V exhausted.

Once the decision to give up everything was made, it was impossible to shake off.

The highly skilled woman from the security department began to glance at the samurai beside her out of the corner of her eye; she was about to deliver a fatal blow.

"V?"

V's taut nerves snapped instantly, and the strange voice in his mind sounded like three people talking at the same time.

There was a woman's voice, a man's deep voice, and Lin Yue's soft question.

"Do nothing, trust me."

Below——

Almost without warning!
The solid, solid concrete ground of the Arasaka Industrial Park beneath the heavy hammer instantly cracked!
The speed of the S'anwestan on the Dragon Knight's prosthetic body even exceeded that of the apogee!

屮? !

The stark difference in combat strength between Lin Yue's memory and reality caused his head to buzz instantly!
call!
A mechanical figure suddenly appeared beside him, its silver-white, sharp fist exuding a chilling aura. The heavy hammer's blood-red eyes scrutinized the seemingly clueless individual—

Some of the heavy blows were rather dull and disappointing.

In reality, he was unaware that the guy, who was like a super server turned up to its maximum computing power, was just looking at the woman on the hovercar.

How embarrassing, V.

Why are you about to cry?

Lin Yue's lips curled into a smile, and his eyes, which shone with a flowing light, seemed to have been refreshed in an instant. His azure pupils seemed to be reconstructed, and in the instant he turned his head, light and shadow drew an incomparably beautiful trace.

"Does this guy look familiar? Ultraman."

Heavy Hammer seemed to hear someone speaking in his mind.

The long-lost tension and fear of Arasaka's top lone wolf instantly ignited his fierce fighting spirit!
what is this?
In that instant, he looked at Rin, whose eyes seemed to be completely ignited in the light. Although there was no emotion in his eyes, which were surrounded by stitched wounds and protruded, his heart was full of doubt.

"boom!"

A shallow hole instantly collapsed beside Lin Yue, and the shattered cement fragments rubbed against the hollowed-out structure on the gorilla's arm like blades, creating brilliant orange-yellow light spots.

Failed!
Hammer's keen combat awareness told him that he couldn't let this guy with such quick reflexes continue to create distance; Hammer knew the name Ultraman...

"You only have 5 seconds, what are you going to do?"

Ultraman's calm, almost monotone voice instantly boosted Lin Yue's confidence!

"I thought you were going to question me about something... or maybe you wouldn't help me? Five seconds is enough, thank you."

Ultraman: "No need to thank me, because I need your help, and that help requires risking my life."

Lin Yue said helplessly, "This explanation is too lame. You don't need to say it next time."

The high computing power makes the communication between two people as insignificant as the tiny grains of sand carried in the ocean, completing the conversation in milliseconds.

The image, frozen in time like a hammer blow, remained fixed in front of Lin Yue.

puff-

S.A.S.S.S. once again unleashed tremendous power.

Lin Yue felt as if his body was spinning like a top twisted to its limit!
He almost recklessly shielded the arm prosthetic that the eccentric scientist loved most from his front—

Bang!
The metal was struck to the point where it could break. As the hollow structure on the surface of Lin Yue's prosthetic arm shattered layer by layer, the enormous rebound force gave Lin Yue the momentum to step backward instantly!

This guy…

Adam was like a precise machine; he could make the choice that was most beneficial to himself almost without hesitation.

Seeing that the opponent was about to create distance, the automatic micro-missile launcher on Adam's shoulder spat out tongues of fire one after another. Lin Yue, who had created distance, instantly pushed the stack of Ultraman and Black Wall AI to its peak and quickly cracked it, continuously transmitting data towards Adam's ICE!

"really!"

Adam is right. Lin Yue's results were not only tested on the Dangerous Girls senior agent, but Adam's ICE also had a specific target!

Adam's hammer is laughing.

The beeping sound of the ICE shifting into gear was incredibly pleasant.

"It's so cool."

Five seconds have passed, and it's now down to the last second!
Lin Yue's severed left arm was empty, but his smile and gleaming white teeth made Adam feel inexplicably uneasy. His sense of danger made the various components of the Dragon Knight prosthetic body burst out with its strongest power like a precision engine!

[Unknown attacks x99!]

Adam watched as the rapidly deciphering data, denser than the prosthetic body's data, caught ICE completely off guard!

"Roar!"

Adam's hammer let out a roar like that of a wild beast!
Lin Yue dodged the barrage of bombs and iron rain, but shrapnel left his skin covered in bloody welts. Several of the micro-missiles were even deflected and changed their target, managing to burrow into his thick breastplate during the gaps between the roars of the heavy metal jaws!
what happened? !

Kenichi Saburo heard a series of chaotic and piercing noises superimposed on each other; it was the effect of the sound suddenly coming out after Sianwistan's time stop ended!
A cloud of smoke and dust erupted!
The hovercar driver lifted up instantly to avoid some out-of-control micro-missiles, and V, who had entered the network access bay and hacked the interface, saw part of it!

Kenichi Saburo also witnessed the final exchange of attacks!
Is this still a battle between humans?
V's knees buckled as if she had lost all her strength. Her subordinates reached out to support her, and fortunately, the hovercar wasn't particularly stable, so V didn't lose her composure.

How is Rin?!
Kenichi Saburo drew his sword almost without hesitation—

That damn madman failed to kill the opponent in one hit because of his perverted hobby!

Heavy Hammer looked down at the arcs of electricity erupting from his arm, and red and black data flooded into his Blood Red Eyes as he tried to see the enemy's condition in the smoke and dust.

He will definitely die!
Kenichi Saburo's blade instantly plunged into the smoke!

However, as the fierce wind from the blade dispersed the smoke and dust, on the ground littered with rubble, the wires along the edges of the two severed, black arms were still arcing with electricity, and there were still traces of blood...

Where is everyone?!
They...they ran away?
Kenichi Saburo's face was so dark it was almost dripping with water!
Just as he was trying to find that guy—

He heard a sound like a machine hitting the ground behind him, and his eyes widened in shock!

Heavy Hammer knelt on one knee, his body trembling, uttering broken, intermittent sounds…

"Damn, that feels so good!"

Sparks flew from the prosthetic body, and he kept laughing incoherently.

This time!

Within the cyberspace, the current status of Adam's Hammer and Arasaka Industrial Park is rapidly being uploaded to the network!
The city was thrown into chaos!

……

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(End of this chapter)