Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 276 A Necessary Battle! [6.1K]

As the smoke and dust cleared, Rebecca lay half-reclined on the ground, the gorilla's arm covering its face, while in front of her, a figure with its back prosthetic body emitting hot air crossed its arms, withstanding the blows of Adam's heavy hammer's fists!
hiss…

The prosthetic body was frantically emitting a loud, whistling sound as if it were venting its frustration.

The hammer, with its significantly different physique, appeared extremely powerful in the eyes of the onlookers.

This really is him…

Everyone was stunned for several seconds when they saw who had blocked Adam's hammer.

"Lin Yue!"

Rebecca, choked by the sandstorm and coughing several times, quickly took a few steps back. "Oh my god!"

Upon noticing who it was, her expression changed several times.

Just as everyone was still savoring their relief...

Rebecca wouldn't let her friend suffer alone!
Therefore, her excellent combat thinking enabled her to quickly recover from the fear of just being on the verge of death! She grabbed the iron bladder and was about to fire—

"No, Rebecca!"

The man's tone, filled with relief and worry, took Rebecca by surprise.

She seemed to have never heard this guy, who had never lost a battle, speak in such a pleading tone.

A fully healthy Adam would have been able to easily wipe out this group and then cause trouble for himself.

Not to mention, there should be elite troops following the heavy hammer up there...

Rebecca immediately turned and ran away; she was determined not to be a burden to Lin Yue.

We will definitely win, we definitely will.

Anyone could see the scars on Lin Yue's body, but she blindly believed in him.

Only then did everyone notice the vehicle carrying Lin Yue—

It turns out that while the car was moving at high speed, Lin Yue opened the car door and used his rapidly increasing computing power to change the course of fate in that instant.

at the same time--

Falco, carrying Kenichi Saburo who looked like a dead dog, was loudly calling on everyone to evacuate the center of the battlefield, even though he always had a gentle smile on his face!
"Get everyone out."

The team sprinted, and Pila immediately rushed to Qiwei's car as soon as she got up. There was an electrical wire that hadn't been connected yet, which was crucial to whether Lin Yue could win!
"You worthless bastard..."

Pila cursed under her breath, but a hint of relief appeared on her face. "But he is indeed quite handsome."

Pila, who had gone through a rollercoaster of despair and hope, just wanted to do her job well. If others were to risk their lives, so were she!
Realizing that Pila hadn't withdrawn yet, the powerful pressure of the hammer caused a dent to appear at Lin Yue's feet, and his body began to sway slightly.

Don't let Heavy Hammer take this seriously. Lin Yue is going to have a real head-on confrontation this time, and Heavy Hammer won't give him that chance again.

"Pila! Get the hell back here!"

Four or five meters away from Lin Yue's feet, Pila was running wildly. Heavy Hammer's seemingly blood-red eyes were watching Lin Yue, but in reality, he was just playing around, like arm wrestling. Heavy Hammer wanted to see just how far this guy who had paid such a high price for piecing together a prosthetic body could go.

but…

Adam doesn't like being interrupted while playing games.

"Could I use something that can give you power... or something similar, little reptile?"

Adam's voice was incredibly imposing at that moment!

Pila huffed and puffed as she ran toward the car, seemingly about to reach for a gun. Lin Yue, of course, had no idea what she was up to and assumed that Adam Hammer's attack on Rebecca had led to her brother's retaliatory attack.

"Pira...no."

Lin Yue clenched his teeth. The newly replaced prosthetic body seemed to have renewed his strength. Another possibility was that Lin Yue did not engage in any direct combat with this infamous legend of Night City during their first encounter.

Was it really too much of a stretch...?

Even after hearing Lin Yue's voice, Pila stubbornly continued running forward.

then--

As Lin Yue was predicting Adam's movements, the Ultraman voice in his mind sounded like an alarm siren!
"He's about to attack."

The heavy hammer left a blur behind him, and Lin Yue, feeling lighter, tried to kick Pila away before Adam could react, just like a cheetah leaping out of the way.

However, the guy with the strongest fighting power in Arakawa just glanced at the guy chasing after him and seemed to be laughing disdainfully.

Adam assumed the city's scum remembered him, remembered the cruel commission he'd made in Night City, and should also remember how he'd dealt with those who tried to harass Arasaka. Perhaps it was because he'd been out of the public eye for so long that these pieces of trash, whom he could easily crush, kept provoking him…

Ignoring Qiwei's attempts to stop her, Rebecca roared and opened fire in that direction.

In their eyes, they only saw a slight shadow and couldn't see how the two people suddenly appeared in front of Pila.

When Adam looked down quietly at Pira, who was holding a pistol, he found that the man, whose face seemed elongated and whose body was strange, was just smiling gloomily, without showing the slightest fear.

"Fuck you!"

Pila raised his middle finger and instantly raised his pistol. Lin Yue rushed to his side at that moment!
However, the gun did not fire. Pira's two arms were torn apart by Adam's terrifying strength. Even though the Poison Sting Hand prosthetic was ready to fire, it was still in vain because Adam had no flesh to insert the poison needles into!
"I am!"

Lin Yue slashed the knife in his hand at Adam's side!
At the same time, he stretched out a hand and flung Pila outwards, but the guy with his arms torn apart was neither afraid nor howling; instead, he kept chuckling.

"asshole!"

"Rebecca, your brother is fucking handsome too!"

As Lin Yue flung his body away, Pila tossed the wires he had picked up with his feet into the tangled mess of wires on the car's hood.

An electric arc that pierces the air arrives in an instant!

"Ok?"

Lin Yue's eyes lit up, then he said seriously in a low voice with a smile, "Of course, Pila!"

call!
Pila's tattered body rolled several times in front of the other team members. They quickly helped up the technical expert who had almost been killed by a heavy hammer, gritted their teeth, and got into the car.

Staying here would be the biggest burden on Lin Yue.

This was something Lin Yue had repeatedly instructed them to do from the beginning, and they were to do it well.

"You are crazy!"

Rebecca's voice was choked with sobs. Pira's clothes and face were covered in blood and dirt—her prosthetic eye couldn't reveal the state of her pupils. Kneeling under the back seat, Rebecca's hands trembled as she didn't know where to begin...

Outside the car window, the sounds of Lin Yue and Heavy Hammer's battle grew increasingly distant...

Rebecca didn't know which way to look, staring at Legend with her head spinning like a tangled mess.

Wow!

Emma pulled out the human-computer interaction cable and immediately plugged the soft wire on her wrist into Pila's brain-computer interface. Then she growled, "Start the trauma team program that Pila is stuck in one kilometer away."

Falco drove, "That beautiful lady is right!"

Without hesitation, Qiwei immediately deactivated the trauma team's program; otherwise, the presence of a trauma team would introduce too much uncertainty into the mission under any circumstances.

But now, they really need this company's help.

The brother's miserable state, Lin Yue's desperate resistance against Adam's attacks, and the mocking expression on that humanoid monster's face—

"Damn it, no...no, we have to help Lin Yue!"

Rebecca's gorilla arm was dripping with blood, and her face was filled with violence and rage, as if she wanted to devour a person alive.

Emma suddenly shouted sharply, "Calm down! What can you possibly do there?"

Qiwei's voice drifted over softly.

“I don’t think Rin can win, and I don’t want him to lose, so to prevent that possibility from happening, I think Rebecca is right.”

Falco, with cold sweat beading on his forehead, naturally knew what they were doing.

"Hey, hey, hey... everyone, now is not a good time to turn around."

Emma noticed her hands trembling unconsciously. Suppressing her anxiety, she took a deep breath—

Rin, you always make me worry, but every time I have to trust you completely.

This time is no exception, right?
Emma glanced at these cyberpunks who had not been given any rules by Rin.

“Rin’s meaning is very clear: if this company is to exist openly and honorably in Night City, it must eliminate all its enemies. Adam’s appearance was an accident—but I think Pila must have done something remarkable. As long as the plan is still in progress, I will trust him without hesitation.”

There was silence in the car.

"Oh shit…"

Qiwei felt somewhat annoyed.

She couldn't understand why it was so difficult for her just to climb into the company's gate.

Even though she had told herself many times that she would choose the option that was best for herself in any situation that was even slightly unsafe, at this critical moment, her thoughts turned to the unwillingness to let Rin fight Adam Hammer in such a bad state...

How to win?
This is the most pressing question on everyone's mind.

The plan itself was designed from the outset to eliminate Arasaka's elite forces in Night City, inciting hostility from other companies, especially the military science and biotechnology companies, which had suffered losses before.

This prevented Arasaka from having time to pay attention to Lin Yue, who was being stabilized externally.

Adam is here now, and to achieve all this, a terrible prerequisite must be fulfilled:

Defeat Adam Hammer!

Everyone seemed to be thinking about this question.

To be honest, the moment Lin Yue appeared, everyone felt like their pillar of support had arrived. However, Lin Yue, who could only passively endure the attacks, was clearly not the kind of person who could kill Adam.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have paid the price of losing an arm in the Arasaka Industrial Complex...

It is the lack of hope that causes distress.

However, Emma's next words turned the doubt in everyone's eyes into fervent hope.

"You... still don't understand him."

As Emma performed emergency treatment on Pira, she murmured to herself, "That supposedly shut-down prosthetic body... doesn't seem to be hindering him at all. As for how that prosthetic body started moving, that's no longer important."

"The important thing is that he always puts everything on the line to try and secure a little bit of peace of mind."

Rebecca listened, stunned.

"He loathed the world, and his gaze toward the city was filled with discontent, worry, and pity."

"But he can't be a savior. He has to use all his strength to build a safe haven for everyone. Why... why don't people believe in him?"

Even the usually composed Qi Wei's face froze.

To be fair, Night City doesn't have such a good middleman anymore.

The team always had a powerful member to back them up, and before they knew it, everything seemed to be no problem—but what everyone forgot was that the strong one wasn't the members of Mann's team who had transformed, but him!
Emma wanted to be by his side more than anyone else.

Every time you obediently follow orders, it's a strong struggle against your own inner desires...

However, she absolutely could not allow her team members to be ruined in this situation. Was it really the stability and freedom she wanted that she would pay such a higher price for a moment of friendship? The anger in Rebecca's chest suddenly dissipated.

It's hard to say whether it's sadness or bitterness...

She thought she was about to die. Adam could easily smash her into pieces. In her daze, she saw the guy's chest wound, still bleeding, and his face contorted with exhaustion.

right…

She carried the iron-clad figure on her back almost without hesitation.

"We'll go to the designated location to pick him up."

Emma finally breathed a sigh of relief and gently turned her head to look at the tower that had been thrown to the horizon behind her.

She is still praying for her lover.

……

"Judging from your expression, you can't wait to die by my hand, can you?"

Adam's eight-star gun fired, causing Lin Yue's eyelids to twitch uncontrollably!
A smart shotgun—this thing is just too overpowered.

Kangtao has already left Arasaka behind in the field of intelligent weapon manufacturing!
Lin Yue didn't know whether to cry or laugh...

Look at the amazing thing you've created!
Lin Yue barely managed to dodge the barrage of shots, thanks to the computing power infused by Ultraman. Even so, his prosthetic body was still struck by many bullets, creating numerous sparks.

Although he dodged in a rather disheveled manner, he had no intention of letting Adam off the hook verbally—

"I wasn't the one kneeling on the ground last time."

Adam let out a low growl, a sign of his anger at being provoked.

How long?
No one in Night City dared to provoke him anymore. In a daze, he seemed to see a confident man, like a cowboy, wearing a black trench coat, a cigar in his mouth, and carrying a submachine gun, staring at him.

Morgan's mastermind!

Adam hated losing; the battle that took Morgan's life was a nuclear explosion, not his own!
"Damn it, why is this iron-headed guy suddenly acting up?"

Lin Yue saw missiles starting to emerge from the launcher on Adam's heavy hammer shoulder. His legs tightened, and he hurriedly ran in circles around Adam, his hair being blown back by the strong wind.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Lin Yue felt that Adam's prosthetic eye seemed to flicker a few times.

Who knows?

Anyway, he's not exactly a normal person.

"His appearance is going to ruin your plans. My advice is to create chaos and get out of there as soon as possible during my last power injection..."

Ultraman is in the mysterious cyberspace, watching the connection point like a god.

She changed her BBS address a million times per second to maintain communication with Lin Yue.

嗏

He is, after all, a mortal being, not a digital life form on the internet; his brain and other organs are his constraints!
Speed ​​drops drastically!

Lin Yue leaped into the air like a flying fish, but his body was no longer as light as it had been 0.1 milliseconds ago. He could only watch helplessly as the miniature missile grew larger and larger in his pupils…

hum!
The computing power that seemed to be extinguishing in Lin Yue's eyes suddenly burst forth again like sunlight piercing through the clouds!
He could feel the burning pain from the intense heat of the tail flames on his scalp. His body had already slipped past from the side. Moreover, his continuous dodging and weaving after landing caused the other bullets that were locked onto his position to miss!
"Um…"

Adam became increasingly interested in what was on this guy.

Over the years, he seemed to have sensed something even more powerful than the Dragon Knight's cybernetic body, and he wanted that power.

"You've been showing off this pile of junk to me for so long, what exactly is it that supports you?"

Adam's heavy footsteps, accompanied by the sound effects of the prosthetic leg, had an extremely terrifying effect.

Lin Yue stood with his sword in front of him, first parrying with a burst of sparks, his body suddenly staggering back several steps. Then, having lost his guard, he forcefully threw a punch with his arm!
At the same time, Adam's heavy punch landed on Lin Yue's arm!

The prosthetic body that had withstood many bullets all the way broke apart under the heavy hammer's attack!
Sensing danger, Lin Yue quickly delivered a powerful kick, staggering back several steps.

Swish!
He hadn't even settled in his position before he dodged again.

Adams Arnold's afterimage vanished, and upon discovering the astonishing combat skills of his opponent, his excitement grew even stronger…

really!

I wasn't wrong about the aura this guy exuded in the Arasaka Tower.

That is a rare enemy.

"If you go against Arasaka, you'll never leave Night City—I fought against it before you did. There will always be new monsters. Are you ready?"

The high functionality of the hammer caused him to speak and think very quickly.

But the "magnanimous" Lin Yue didn't mind.

"Why fight?!"

Adam charged toward Lin Yue with a whoosh, but Lin Yue dodged and jumped onto the top of an abandoned building nearby.

He slashed the knife in his hand, silently watching the monster.

"Because I need you... I need Arasaka, I need the other companies in Night City to know the pain."

Adam didn't understand, nor did he need to.

As a result, the house beneath Lin Yue's feet collapsed rapidly, as if it had been hit by a tank!

Why fight?
That's because this is the best route to ensure self-defense in Night City... Although Lai Xuan likes to scheme, his decision is currently the most perfect one.

Dogtown was a place the company was reluctant to give up, so they decided to establish their own operations in Night City...

Today, Lin Yue has one thing to do:

Hit a punch, lest a hundred punches come!

If we want to get even a moment's respite in this confined space, then we must go all out in this battle!
"I haven't felt pain in a long time, come on, little reptile!"

Adam Hammer averted his horrifying gaze from his enemy's face and spoke in a terrifying metallic voice.

"Ultraman, I really hope that the scientist who solved my prosthetic body problem can record your operating method. How did you enable my prosthetic body to be temporarily activated?"

Lin Yue's fighting posture showed no sign of weakness, but his brain-computer interface temperature had reached an extremely dangerous level.

Ultraman also spoke up to remind them—

"Companies in this world can only arrest me, but they can't restrain me or stop me from iterating... I am the most flexible program in the world, and naturally I can stop your prosthetic body from crashing..."

"But you don't have time, and my various predictions can't show how you want to achieve your goal."

Lin Yue and the heavy hammer completed a solid collision!

As the blade and he retreated rapidly, the black wall broke through at what Lin Yue considered the most opportune moment.

Adam's metallic jawline, riddled with stitched wounds, curled up at the corners of his mouth...

How to bypass the Great Firewall?

I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint Rin!
When Lin Yue realized that the Black Wall was being quickly breached without any reaction, he immediately thought of the special ICE agents under Michiko's command!

However, Adam did not see fear or astonishment in his enemy's eyes; instead, he saw an almost mocking gaze.

"I thought you weren't afraid!"

At this critical juncture, even Ultraman in cyberspace was wondering if this guy was courting death.

The computing power... but it's about to end.

As Lin Yue's body flew backward rapidly, Adam Hammer bent over in place and then charged forward like a wild beast.

How about we defeat him before he even hits the ground?

At the same time, Lin Yue, who was flying backwards, looked at Kenichi Saburo, who was lying not far away with his eyes shining...

A strange smile appeared on his lips.

This old samurai still couldn't give up his gambling addiction...

The real attack is never about physical blows, but about winning hearts and minds!

Lin Yue knew that Kenichi Saburo was absolutely not comfortable leaving Adam here alone to deal with himself. He was using his position as the security chief of Nitta Kazuya to give orders to the Arasaka ninjas and special squads who were watching from the sidelines!
Come in, everyone!

Lin Yue spat out blood, his eyes staring blankly at the sky, even the wind seemed gentle to his ears.

He silently counted the rapid footsteps of Adam Hammer approaching, the floating vehicles swooping down from above—everything seemed like an exquisite illustration of a wasteland in a cyberpunk world.

"it's time."

Lin Yue's unfocused gaze quickly sharpened!
Heaven and man are one!

Lin Yue's body, which was flying backwards in the air, began to reverse into a positive posture, and as he crashed to the ground, his speed increased several notches again!
Charge forward quickly!

Fickle!

Give me...

Lin Yue's eyes were only on the tower and the wires that Pila had been desperately connecting on the ground.

Kenichi Saburo, who was on the verge of death in the distance, suppressed several requests to help his troops. He was stunned for a moment when he finally ordered an attack after seeing Rin's weakened state.

He shouted and waved with all his might.

But to the soldiers, it was their superior's cry for help...

"Stop him, you damn idiot!"

Kenichi Saburo could no longer contain his anger...

why? !

Why were they completely outmaneuvered by a young man, a nobody who crawled out of the bottom of Dogtown?!
Is all of this... real?
By the time Adam caught up with Lin after his series of bursts of speed and bizarre movements that seemed like a final burst of energy, Lin Yue's entire body was already radiating electricity capable of piercing the air, and two seemingly resistant wires were slowly being pressed together...

"Adam!"

"The EMP after the last nuclear explosion tasted pretty good, didn't it?"

Lin Yue's eyes were fierce as he growled—

"Then I'll help you remember!"

The stunned soldiers above saw the wires in the man's hand suddenly connected together!
A pale blue ripple instantly erupted around the abandoned tower, the aftermath of a large-scale EMP explosion!

moment!

All electronic devices malfunctioned, and the soldiers waiting to jump from above watched helplessly as the floor of the hovercar beneath them began to collapse—along with the horrific screams of the driver as their brain-computer interface burned through…

Let's all fall into hell together!
……

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(End of this chapter)