Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 403 The Emperor (Part 6) [6.5K]

If there's something wrong with the prosthetics on the sex dolls in Westbrook and Watson District, Finger Guy is the perfect replacement for these girls and guys.

It's not just that Finger Bro has a unique aesthetic sense that sets him apart from other prosthetic doctors, but also his unique insights into the brain-neural coupling system—all the girls and handsome guys who have had prosthetics installed by Finger Bro receive unanimous praise in their workplaces.

Without exception, the guests all gave rave reviews such as "It was so awesome!" and "I almost died!"

In particular, the popularization of the Hyperdream technology in recent years has led to the rise of pink-themed clubs in Night City, thanks to the combination of brain-computer interface technology and sensory virtualization. This is why Genting has always been considered the number one sex doll club in Night City.

This is all thanks to prosthetic doctors like Finger Guy…

Of course, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Putting aside Finger Bro's unique fetish for partners, every sex doll (regardless of gender) who booked surgery with Finger Bro has been groped by this effeminate doctor to some extent. Of course, these are minor matters...

The main issue is that the prosthetic body for the guy in the picture isn't cheap. Most sex dolls who have just started working and have no income can only obtain basic prosthetic bodies through loans and installment plans. These prosthetic bodies require interest rates three times higher than the principal to repay later.

Of course, living on debt in Night City isn't a big problem, but generally speaking, there are times when sex dolls can't earn enough money. And that's when the perverted Finger Guy isn't going to collect debts from these handsome men and beautiful women...

The gang behind Finger Bro and the thugs who have been stationed at the door for years will make these defenseless sex dolls understand the true harm of being in debt.

Of course, if the sex partner no longer has any use...

So, Finger Bro knows how to retrieve the recyclable parts from these sex dolls. Of course, if Finger Bro is in a good mood, he might be able to survive by sacrificing his dignity. If nothing unexpected happens, sex dolls that have lost their usefulness might end up in places like the Cleaner's factory, the Tiger Claw Gang's human trafficking sites, and so on...

The rain is getting heavier.

Today was probably the worst day for Finger Bro's business. Perhaps it was because the weather outside was too bad, and Finger Bro also saw on the news that Arasaka had blocked off the entire seaside road.

You should know that there are many sex clubs on Haibin Road. Finger Bro didn't think that Arasaka's matter was a big deal. He just kept cursing these corporate dogs. His effeminate voice, along with the strange music he was playing, made the three sleazy security thugs at the door shiver.

“Evelyn…”

Finger Bro stared at the empty operating table, the still-wet blood indicating someone had nearly died there. He examined the storage module he'd removed from the back of Evelyn's neck...

This is the customer record that Evelyn usually keeps. In today's world where personal information is sold at will, this is the last bit of money that Finger Bro plans to make.

As for Evelyn herself…

It'll probably be time for Cleaner to finish filming his last Blackie Dream shoot before he's completely dead.

Finger, who had repeatedly refused to answer the phone after seeing the boss of the Mox gang ringing incessantly, clicked his tongue in annoyance…

Finger, far from Watson District, wasn't afraid of Susan's call. Evelyn had already been taken away, and he had no intention of answering her call... It was just a puppet, after all. Several puppets died in Night City every day, and he would just give a few perfunctory words afterward and move on.

However, having heard that Evelyn's prices are now very high, Finger Bro became even more interested in the customer information he had.

Little did he know that Finger Brother's naive approach would cost him his life.

Generally speaking, sex dolls like Evelyn, which can link to the consciousness rendering module of the Cloudtop Sex Doll Club, will unconsciously read guests' information. However, the sex dolls themselves do not have this storage location or reading permission, which leaves many hackers helpless.

However, this gray industry is part of Brother Finger's business, so of course he knows how to get this information.

Don't underestimate the power of this information. The loss of personal privacy means being vulnerable to phishing attacks, blackmail, and, for company employees, the potential loss of important trade secrets...

Finger and the gang behind him have made a fortune from this. Of course, the profits were much greater in the past, especially when Cloudtop was still under the control of Woodman. Every month, the prostitutes would gather at Finger's place and have their information read under the guise of a prosthetic examination.

However, now that Maeda Maiko is the new leader of Teamfight Tactics, he is extremely frustrated as he has lost a significant portion of his income.

Finger Bro packaged up information that wasn't particularly valuable, information that required phishing emails or Puppet virus attacks to be effective, and most importantly, information obtained through face-to-face access...

He stared at the dazzling array of information for a long time, hoping to get something from Evelyn.

The final yawn represented Finger Guy's opinion of what was on Evelyn's body.

"Ok?"

"Arasaka?"

The familiar logo made Finger Guy stare at it intently. A dim light flickered in the cluttered, chaotic operating room for prosthetics, and Finger Guy's face in front of the computer screen seemed to slowly deflate like a shriveled balloon…

"Fuck me!"

Finger almost popped his eyes out of the ground, and with the sound of a bunch of things falling off the table, Finger let out a ghostly scream.

The data, displayed silently in bright red on the screen, was all classified as the company's highest level of secrecy.

A technical prototype blueprint that even Finger Bro couldn't understand was scrolling on the screen. It looked like some kind of biofilm-coated chip. Finger Bro only saw that this thing needed to be stored at a specific temperature in the technical parameters...

Finger Guy got up from the ground, his fingertips clinging to the edge of the table, and suddenly froze...

The word "relic" that I glimpsed by chance struck Finger Bro's retina like a silent thunderbolt, and the neon lights mixed with raindrops outside made Finger Bro's face look somewhat ferocious.

The name Arasaka Equipment Industry stung Finger Bro's eyes, his Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily, and cold sweat trickled down his neck, seeping into his oddly shaped collar.

“Evelyn…yes! Evelyn!”

Finger Bro panicked and quickly turned around, but with a clap of thunder, he froze in place as he tried to grab the phone to call the Cleaners.

The vibrant colors and the sound of rain outside crashed into the house. A demonic figure stood at the doorway, its hands disproportionately long, its body withered yet towering, carrying the corpse of the thug who had been responsible for security for Brother Finger outside…

boom!
The thunderclap brought light again, and the shadow stared straight at him, its eyes bloodshot.

Who the hell are you?!

Finger Guy scrambled and stumbled, his ankle getting tangled in the wires of a bunch of instruments next to the operating table. He tried to break free, but his backward movement only tightened the tangled wires further.

What the hell does this smell like?

The hoarse voice sounded like a butcher rubbing his blade.

Pila wiped the rain and blood from his face, then suddenly lifted the pale-faced Finger Brother off the ground.

Finger Bro's crotch was soaked. He really wished someone would shoot him in the head, but the more terrified he was, the more lucid he became... He could only feel himself being dragged closer and closer to that guy's face, suffocating.

Where is Evelyn?

Pila stared fiercely at the cyborg doctor whose face was painted with bizarre makeup, making him look like a pervert.

Finger Guy struggled, "What... Evelyn, she's not here..."

Pila decided to stop wasting time and slammed Finger Guy against the wall like a dead dog. "Answer again."

Finger Bro felt numbness in his lower body due to his spinal misalignment, and his head was buzzing. He wanted to crawl over and turn off the computer.

He was now almost certain that the strange-looking man with the combat prosthetic body in front of him was sent by Arasaka.

However, Pira's interrogation did not stop. He knew that Finger Bro wouldn't be that stubborn. After the poisonous hand brought pain to Finger Bro's skin time and time again, Finger Bro finally became much more obedient.

Pira was then able to learn that Evelyn had been taken away by the Cleaners.

Trouble...

This was Pila's first reaction.

The voice of my teammates could be heard through my headset.

After learning that Lin Yue and his group were being held up by Arasaka, the island opened up access to the system. Even this calm scientist knew that Lin Yue needed help.

The entire Azure Building was in complete chaos. Everyone was searching for Relic's whereabouts, from Qiwei with her buzz cut to Sasha, who was fighting desperately against Suzuki... they hadn't found any trace of it yet.

"Dude... I've said everything I can fucking say!"

"You promised you'd let me go!"

"If all else fails... I managed to snag a prototype from military technology, the S.A.S.S. series, it's yours!"

Pira nodded thoughtfully.

According to Finger Guy, Pira unearthed a brand new prototype of S.A.W.S.A.

"Wow, this is some good stuff!"

Although the model of this S.A.S. is unknown, just by looking at the parts, you can tell that it is a genuine product from a reputable company.

"Dude... this is too difficult."

Pira stared at Sianwistan and chuckled—

Just as Finger Bro was about to speak and beg for mercy, a black pistol suddenly appeared from behind Pila, who had his back to him, accompanied by a slightly lewd smile from Pila.

"Bye-bye!"

boom--

"Pyrrha!"

"I found Jack! Where's Evelyn?"

News also came from Rebecca's side.

Pila's expression was rather grim. "Evelyn was sold out by this guy. She's probably in the hands of the Cleaners. They didn't get anything out of her."

Rebecca in the holographic image was taken aback. "A cleaner?"

Once someone falls into the hands of the cleaners, it takes quite a while to find them. The situation at the Azure Mansion has already reached a critical stage, and it's impossible to give them enough time...

The situation now seems to have reached a stalemate.

Pila copied everything Finger Bro had copied, then turned and headed outside to meet up with Rebecca and the others. She planned to gather whatever information Finger Bro had uttered before he died, figuring out how much she could get her hands on...

However, before he could go out, he heard the roar of an engine.

Pila pulled out two kinetic submachine guns from under his leather jacket—

The Tiger Claw Gang, with their brightly colored hair, slammed on the brakes on the modified motorcycle ahead of them. Before Pila could even fire a few bullets at the bastard, a woman's voice rang out...

"Oi!"

"Please don't shoot, okay?"

Under the black umbrella, the Tiger Claw Gang surrounded a woman with slightly prominent cheekbones and a high ponytail.

Pila swore he didn't know the woman in front of him. He felt that first the Cleaners messed things up, and then the Tiger Claw Gang came out to block his way, which made his anger rise.

Maiko Maeda's features look sharper than before, and she exudes a sinister aura.

Before Pila could react, she simply waved her hand, and a scavenger, looking like a dead dog, was grabbed and thrown to the ground by the Tiger Claw Gang's thugs.

"Ask Wakako if you have any questions. They were detained before they even left our territory..."

"As for Evelyn, whom you're looking for, she's in the car right now."

Maeda pointed to the van behind him.

After saying this, the Tiger Claw gang members stepped back in unison and got on their motorcycles. Although some of them had extremely strange expressions, no one did anything wrong.

"Wakako?"

A ringtone sounded in Pila's head; it was Mrs. Westbrook, whom she hadn't contacted in a long time.

"Hey, you old hag."

Pira answered the phone. Although she didn't know what was going on, it was enough that Wakako seemed to be helping them.

Wakako scoffed, "You rude brat, who's to blame for you and your dim-witted sister surviving in Night City...?"

Pila chuckled.

“Of course, we have to call you Mom.” Wakako said expressionlessly, “Old Man Sunrise left Night City with two big problems, and one big problem is mixed up with an even bigger problem…”

"Rin made a lot of news today... I just found out he's still alive."

"As long as a person is alive, the debts of gratitude can never be erased. Pila—don't you and your sister understand these things?"

Pila scratched his head.

"I understand the logic, but where did that woman come from?"

Wakako smiled slightly, "Perhaps your boss has a bad memory. Maeda was able to climb to this position thanks to someone. We've taken care of the cleaner and the people for you... as we agreed before."

"After all... Rin and I have always been partners."

After the old hag finished speaking, she smiled slightly and hung up the phone.

However, when he saw Evelyn, Pila's face still twitched involuntarily. If it weren't for the fact that the woman covered in blood was still breathing, he would have almost mistaken her for a corpse.

Pila quickly took out the company's medicine and injected it into Evelyn's chest one injection at a time.

As Evelyn's body trembled several times, the life-saving drug the company had given them, the half-dead woman, successfully brought her back to consciousness...

However, Wakako and Maeda are somewhat humane; at least the artificial blood injected into Evelyn has never stopped.

A flash of light appeared outside the car window, followed by a screech of brakes. Evelyn, slowly waking up, immediately saw Pila's face, and her terrified scream instantly echoed around them...

……

“The attacks by thugs are the fuel for Arakawa Susumu.”

In the footage, Yoriyuki Arasaka stands at the podium in the news studio, his voice strong and clear.

“At this very moment, what is happening in Night City is a desecration of Arasaka’s vision of changing the world. I will work with my colleagues to stop this thuggish behavior. At the same time, Arasaka issues a serious warning to all the corporations and companies in Night City.”

"Anyone involved in this incident will be considered an act of aggression by Arasaka."

Behind his brown-tinted glasses, Arasaka Yorinobu's eyes held a fierce glint.

"Once again, I regret to announce that Saburo Arasaka, the first president of Arasaka Group and an outstanding and great progressive, has passed away..."

"Mierda!"

Jack slapped the steering wheel.

Enraged, he cursed in Spanish.

"After such a huge incident, how come—nobody treats us like family?"

Everyone inside the car fell silent.

Jack waved one hand. "Seora, you need to tell us what's going on. You're in big trouble. Saburo Arasaka is fucking dead!"

Clearly, he could only use a loud voice to mask his inner unease.

However, Rebecca, sitting helplessly in the back seat, could only sigh. Evelyn, wrapped in a blanket and curled up beside her, refused to say anything.

"Do you know what this means? Arasaka Emperor Saburo, whose farts can cause nuclear explosions, isn't some nobody on the street—we need to resolve this before the company catches us!"

Seeing that Evelyn remained silent, Jack could only give up and wave his hand.

Rebecca tried to keep her voice down. "Evelyn, it's important where Relic is... Listen, if we lose that thing, we're all doomed."

After remaining silent for a long time, Pila managed to suppress the urge to turn around, grab Evelyn by the neck, and curse her. Instead, she just kept looking at the rain outside the window.

“Evelyn, none of us can escape this vortex. You, the people you care about, your friends—do you know how worried Liz’s sisters are about you? Judy cried her eyes out…”

Pila suddenly interrupted, "Never mind, Rebecca."

Just as Rebecca raised her head to curse her crazy brother, Pila's prosthetic arm's human-machine switching cable accurately pierced Rebecca's neck.

[Prosthetic body self-check program initiated...//]

[The combat prosthetic protocol permits...]

"The area outside the Konpaku Building is full of Arasaka people, and there might be people from other companies there too..."

Pila pulled a few syringes of immunosuppressants from her pocket and tossed them to Rebecca. "Use them as needed. Don't die a pathetic death."

Rebecca's bewildered expression gradually turned into a warlike smile.

"You should have told me earlier!"

Jack shouted at this moment—

"Hey guys, you're here!"

The flashing red and blue lights ahead were the temporary roadblocks and sentry posts set up by the Arasaka Police Department...

It looks like Jack is planning to just charge in.

As they drew closer, the explosions atop the Azure Sky Building grew clearer, and Evelyn trembled involuntarily upon hearing them.

Just as Rebecca was groping for the iron bladder under her feet, preparing to stick her head out of the skylight, Evelyn suddenly spoke.

"Arasaka, it's Arasaka!"

Jack instinctively slowed down—

Evelyn, as if she had lost her mind, suddenly threw off the blanket and grabbed Rebecca's arm.

"That thing will eventually be taken by Arasaka, and Arasaka hired me... I want my money back!"

Rebecca looked at Evelyn's pale knuckles and horribly distorted face, and instinctively looked to Jack and Pila for help.

Now that things have come to this point, things are starting to become clear.

Evelyn, hired by Dexter DeShawn, clearly did not choose to faithfully carry out the mission, as was the original storyline of this world. Instead, she attempted to resell the relic to a seller who could afford to pay a higher price.

In other words, Evelyn never intended for this item to be sold smoothly from the beginning.

Dexter was making plans for himself, and so was Evelyn…

However, the sex doll's methods were quite limited, but she did something fatal: she uploaded a tracking program to Relic's sealed box...

"Hold!"

Pira sensed something was wrong; things were starting to spiral out of control…

Although Lin Yue's plan went perfectly, the key issue was that a seemingly insignificant person like Evelyn, a sex doll, almost caused a huge complication!

Just as Rebecca was about to press Evelyn for more information, Jack had already rushed to the foot of the Azure Tower, and the gunfire, more intense than raindrops, instantly ripped through Evelyn's nerves!
Rebecca gritted her teeth and could only put Evelyn's matter aside for the time being. Right now, they had rushed to the perimeter of the cordon, where they were met with a barrage of fire from the company soldiers...

The van's windows were instantly ripped apart by the bullet.

Jack and Pila, sitting in the front row, suddenly looked down. "Rebecca!"

Rebecca instinctively threw herself over Evelyn, bullets striking her back and sending sparks flying. The van, its windows shattered, was filled with flying, sharp shards of metal.

The chitinous shell designed to withstand bullet attacks came into play, and Rebecca even used S.A.S.A.S.S. when she lunged forward.

"I'm going to your mother!"

Rebecca growled.

Keep in mind that those bullets hitting his back were all large-caliber bullets from the mech's cannons—

Wow!

Once the prosthetic was activated, Rebecca's eyes began to tremble involuntarily. Her fingers deftly pulled out a syringe and plunged it into her chest, splashing pale green liquid onto Evelyn's face...

Evelyn looked up, staring blankly—

The next second, the surrounding area instantly ignited with high temperature, and everyone seemed to lose gravity. Afterimages began to rapidly fill the space behind Rebecca, and the gorilla's arm suddenly tore the roof of the car apart!
Evelyn was held tightly in Rebecca's arms, who was smaller than her, like a toy...

Swish! ! !
A series of blurry figures raced across the wet asphalt road.

The frozen image then returned to normal, showing the van that had been launched high into the air rolling several times on the ground, with the Arasaka guards standing guard in front of it.

Saburo's death prevented Arasaka Yorinobu from using any connections, and being under everyone's scrutiny only made Konjaku a tightly sealed can.

The car door was kicked open.

Pila swiftly tossed out the bio-grenades in her hand; perhaps due to her long fingers, she threw over twenty at once, and deadly green smoke quickly rose from the crowd—

Jack, whose face was covered in scrapes, coughed several times.

"Damn it, this piece of junk!"

The golden, fierce woman in his hand was incredibly powerful; the two soldiers were slammed against the roadblock as if they had been punched down.

"cough--"

The world in Rebecca's eyes was slightly blurry, but fortunately her prosthetic body disorder was not incurable and she could still manage.

Because of this factor, Rebecca's eyes always had a vicious look about her.

While protecting Evelyn, she growled, "Damn it, tell me where it is?!"

Evelyn's already shattered nerves were completely broken by the sharp gunshot. "I don't know, please—yes, it was all those Frenchmen, those Frenchmen were Arasaka's!!"

"Military technology wants to kill me, please, let me go!"

Rebecca's black hand gently chopped at Evelyn's neck, and she immediately fainted.

Military technology?

Rebecca had no more time to think about it. She thought of a place and immediately took action.

"Hey!"

Jack was still dodging and shooting when he suddenly saw a series of shadows rush straight into the crowd, and his eyelids twitched several times.

Boom!
A deafening roar erupted, nearly deafening Jack.

Jack stared in disbelief as the petite figure atop the mech stuffed a solid bomb into the shattered core of the machine, flames flashing from the muzzle of the Ironclad Gun—

"What's going on?!"

Pila, meanwhile, was hiding behind the cover that Jack was using to his side, fiddling with the next throwable with a somewhat strange smile.

"That's because I adjusted that thing to the same parameters as some idiot."

"Little sister, don't let your big brother down."

Jack's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. What does it mean that the parameters are the same?
Is it the stats of the set Rin is wearing?

It seems this girl has reached a critical point with the prosthetic body, especially since Pila gave her several injections of immunosuppressants in the car—

Is this something a biological brother would do?!

……

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(End of this chapter)