Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 404 The Emperor (Part 7) [5.3K]

The top floor of the Azure Pavilion was now a sea of ​​blood.

Lin Yue's prosthetic body showed no signs of failing, but the soldiers besieging Arasaka had lost their most important asset: courage...

The soldier held captive in the man's black hand looked no different from a rag doll, except that his eerie, gleaming pupils kept scanning the soldiers who only dared to surround him but not to attack...

The channel contains close communication between the company's team members.

Lin Yue frowned slightly. He knew about Rebecca's situation, but he didn't expect that things would come to this point and they would still be short of manpower.

In fact, if Emma were in Taipingzhou, all of the Dreamers' corporate soldiers would probably launch a full-scale attack on Ganbi, but that would also mean an extremely high-risk gamble, leaving the Dreamers with only two choices: win the game or lose their entire base.

Keep in mind the colonel was watching...

Lin Yue didn't want to fight, but sometimes that's just how things are.

"Back off!"

The corpse in Lin Yue's hand swayed. A lone wolf had stood for two whole hours under the siege of Saburo Arasaka's guards... Clearly, the guy in front of him was a humanoid weapon, just like Adam's Hammer!

"cold!"

Sasha's urgent calls echoed throughout the channel.

“Arasaka has gone mad—we need to get out of here first. I’m almost at the data core with Suzuki… We’ll definitely, definitely find Relic’s whereabouts.”

A faint smile appeared on Lin Yue's lips.

"If Arakasaka relies on these people, it's far from enough."

Just then, a message appeared in Lin Yue's brain... It was from Lai Xuan, who had just completed the power transfer in Night City.

At this critical juncture, Lai Xuan is fully capable of contacting Lin Yue on his own. Previously, the conditions did not support this, but now he naturally has to choose between the voices within Arasaka and Lin Yue's safety.

"haven't seen you for a long time…"

Lin Yue's blade flashed and darted, and wherever the cold light swept, only the screams of the Arasaka soldiers could be heard.

"enough."

Lai Xuan looked at Lin Yue and said in a deep voice, "I will send people to search. We can't continue like this, Lin!"

This young master of Arasaka is not a bodyguard who cares about his father. He is worried that Arasaka's reaction to Saburo's death is not strong enough and will cause controversy within the company... Just like V at this moment, she is also searching for Relic's whereabouts under the instructions of Rai-nobu.

Lin Yue shook his head.

By the time the Arasaka soldiers found the clues, it was already too late. The Relic chip could be discarded, but the technology had to be made public, otherwise all the efforts made by Arasaka Yoriyuki and Lin Yue would have been in vain.

"Kuso!"

While meticulously arranging the power transition in Arasaka, Lai Xuan still dispatched his elite troops to investigate the ins and outs of these matters. Clearly, the middlemen and agents in Night City were not entirely honest…

Currently, it appears highly likely that three factions have expressed interest in Relic…

Evelyn wanted to sell this thing to Arasaka, while Dexter DeShawn wanted to have it both ways... which is why this thing is now likely in the hands of either faction.

Lai Xuan paced back and forth with his hands on his hips.

"I owe you a favor, Rin, a huge favor..."

"This is not a favor from Arakasaka."

Lin Yue's blade suddenly snapped. He threw away the broken blade and smiled slightly, saying, "This is an equal exchange. You should know what I mean, Lai Xuan... Since things have come to this, let's proceed according to plan."

"The internal issues within Arasaka haven't been resolved yet, have they?"

Lai Xuan looked helpless and anxious.

The guy in front of me is almost monstrous in his intelligence; nothing can escape his own judgment of the situation.

Saburo Arasaka's death brought to the surface many forces within Arasaka who were loyal to this old evil dragon. In other words, they simply couldn't believe that Saburo had died at the hands of an assassin...

If Lai Xuan doesn't bring the corpse to see Arasaka's group, they will forever believe that this is just a grand power grab.

Lai Xuan reminded them, "My father's men are still actively working. Konbi could infiltrate their ranks at any time. Kuroda Rei, Murata Tsuru... Arasaka Michiko, my men are still chasing them."

Lin Yue nodded.

This was all expected and not so surprising. However, Kuroda Rei was indeed a loyal follower of Saburo and wielded considerable power at the Arasaka headquarters.

"How about this, Rin?"

Lai Xuan, clearly displaying the decisiveness of a leader, declared, "You only have half an hour. If there's no progress... you must evacuate. Arasaka's attack weapons are already aimed at the Azure Tower at sea..."

"It's better to keep all this covered in dust than to let it be revealed."

When Lai Xuan said those words, Lin Yue subconsciously glanced at the young master, Arakawa.

"clever."

"So you're going to wipe out all of your father's men, including those who are still under suspicion?"

Arasaka Yorinobu nodded. "Won't you think I'm a madman who will stop at nothing for power?"

However, the words of the young man whose pupils burned with madness surprised Lai Xuan.

“If it were me, I would make that thing at sea mine first—everything here can be taken care of with just one shot.”

Lai Xuan bent over and burst into laughter.

"Rin, let's do it. We can make this happen."

Lin Yue revealed his white teeth.

Like a spear, it shot out, and Lai Xuan watched as the young man's perspective slowly receded.

"Have Arasaka participate in the global meeting, strip the headquarters of its powers, and if anyone takes action..."

The maid behind Lai Xuan bowed slightly as she listened.

"They will all be charged with defection!"

……

The centipede is dead but not stiff.

This phrase perfectly describes the remaining members of Saburo's group.

While scanning the soldiers who posed no threat to him, Lin Yue remained vigilant, keeping in mind that Saburo might have others under his command. Others might not know, but Lin Yue was well aware of how many legendary security guards Saburo had under his command at his mansion in Tokyo.

Kenichi Saburo died at the hands of Lin Yue.

But Kenichi Saburo isn't the only guy at the Arasaka mansion...

Although they appear insignificant in Arasaka's history, that was a result of Saburo's deliberate manipulation; Saburo wanted them to appear to pose no threat whatsoever.

Now that Saburo Arasaka is dead, these people are naturally not going to wait for Yorihiro's reckoning at his Tokyo mansion.

Looking down from above, the only difference between the top floor of the Azure Sky and the hell on earth is that hell doesn't have this many corpses.

What even the top lone wolves of Night City couldn't accomplish, Lin Yue, empowered by a prosthetic body beyond human limits, did... He single-handedly held off ten thousand... The title of Night City legend is well-deserved.

"Rin, upstairs."

Ultraman continuously reduced the cooling and provided computing power for Lin Yue's prosthetic body, while also keeping an eye out for any potential threats that might arrive at any time.

If Saburo's men are still in Tokyo, Yorihiro won't be able to stop them.

If I'm not mistaken...

Lin Yue looked up.

A dense hail of bullets rained down on Lin Yue, and the afterimages behind him began to slowly dissipate... Wisps of smoke exploded just before the bullets arrived...

The moment he bowed, Lin Yue finally exerted all his strength, trying to clear as many people as possible from the platform.

These guys who can provide security for Saburo are not easy to deal with. There are countless people on this planet who want to kill Saburo, and a large part of the reason why Saburo is alive and well is thanks to these elite security guards.

It is said that none of the assassins who infiltrated the Arasaka Tokyo mansion were able to get close to Saburo, and the sound of the corpse being cleaned up was not even heard.

"If it weren't for the terrain, we wouldn't have been able to hold out for this long, would we?"

All the factions in Night City used their reconnaissance methods, and naturally, the battle on the top floor of the Arasaka Azure Building became known to everyone in Night City…

There are even many drones that have bypassed the small air defense positions in Arasaka and are broadcasting the current scene live.

The deserted streets at dawn seemed lifeless, with only the sounds of advertisements and the patter of raindrops echoing incessantly.

However, on the large screen, the blurry figure under the night sky was illuminated by the drones hovering over Arasaka, flickering like a phantom in the seemingly useless smoke, instantly transforming into four or five figures...

Those people hiding in the buildings stared intently at the images on the large screens.

"What is this?!"

The only way the soldier from Arakasa could describe the enemy before him was this strangely prosthetic body and his endless tricks.

The holographic images of the shadow body cannot be deduced by instruments, so they can only fire wildly and indiscriminately. However, Lin Yue's true body appears out of thin air with each flash of light, thanks to the optical illusion created by the micro-robots!
The snipers in Arasaka are equipped with the most sophisticated aiming assistance systems on their heads and use advanced sniper rifles from Tsunami Military Industry. However, they can see every trace of the enemy through the pale blue field of vision of the sniper scope without any difference!

"KUSO!"

He could only rely on the intuition he had developed through years of fighting to aim at the nearest shadow...

Wow...

The sniper felt a blurry sensation to his side.

Although the raindrops left him completely soaked, a kind of smoke that shouldn't exist in heavy rain gently enveloped the sniper...

hum!
A slight flicker appeared. The sniper jerked his head around, and the high-tech imaging linked helmet had gradually pieced together the afterimage.

"Fuck!"

The pitch started to become very strange during the time-stopped state.

Lin Yue's right foot scraped a mark on the ground, a sign of charging up his power. The structure of the gorilla arm began to deform rapidly, and bursts of intense heat shot out from the dark and precise pores of the prosthetic body!
Swish!
The posture of a leopard bending low is roughly like this!
The dazzling neon lights made Lin Yue's shimmering pupils appear even more eerie, and the prosthetic markings on his face made him look like a monster created by data!
The instant the gorilla's arm shot out, the helmet, powerful enough to withstand a sniper bullet, suddenly deformed, the raindrops clinging to it bouncing off rapidly, and the neon-lit image began to shatter—

Wow!
The fist suddenly stopped!

Helmet fragments, along with a lot of debris, splashed out, quickly splattering the warm liquid onto the Arasaka ninja beside the sniper. As they turned their heads, their dazed pupils began to slowly dilate…

when? !

The headless corpse swayed, and the ninjas who were attacking the phantom were all dumbfounded...

What awaits them next is nothing more than another round of slaughter.

"Is this guy even human?"

Someone seemed to be asking in a low voice.

The Osprey transport planes swooped down, their machine guns indiscriminately aimed at the lone streak of light moving about among the Arasaka soldiers on the top floor—

Lin Yue suddenly clenched his fist!

The floor began to slowly crack at his feet, and neat, rounded cracks appeared around his feet.

He used the prosthetic body extremely skillfully; at this moment, he even attempted to use the gravitational field to collapse the floor and take himself to a lower level where the air raid could not accurately detect him.

This series of actions happened so fast!

The Osprey transport plane swooped down like a raptor!

The barely surviving Arasaka ninja, caught in Lin Yue's blade, had no time to dodge and was relentlessly bombarded and reduced to dust by the machine guns of the top-floor apartment building. Even the pilot, realizing the attack had gone awry, couldn't salvage the situation...

Because the order was given by the adults in the Arasaka mansion.

He just stared, his face deathly pale, at the bodies disintegrating in the flames, even though all he could hear was the roar of airplane engines... but the screams seemed to echo in his eardrums right now.

Behind the seats in the cabin, illuminated by the light gradually brought by the plane's ascent, were three or four men with fine wrinkles, who appeared to be in their fifties or sixties.

They wore Arasaka combat uniforms that were strikingly different from their faces.

The cockpit behind it began to open, and the Osprey circled once before entering a hovering state.

“Haruko Kanawa was a ninja too.”

With her hair tied up and eyes shaped like willow leaves, the old woman with a fierce look around her eyes is a top-tier lone wolf who has survived the Fourth War to the present day, and is the security guard for Arasaka Elite Seiji Okano.

However, her face is very square, and she looks extremely masculine.

Hearing his colleagues' comments about that guy…

Jinze simply stared intently at the scene of devastation.

There was no contempt in the eyes of these old men.

"It seems we haven't seen this world in far too long... What exactly has Arakawa created?"

"Will there be a second one of that guy named Adam?"

Jinze's voice, on the contrary, sounded very young, like the mature voice of a woman in her thirties.

"Ninjas are not such dishonorable monsters."

“This old body has followed Lord Sanlang his whole life… so such a rebellious person must pay a bloody price. I have never looked down on these machine-made monsters.”

His colleagues chuckled softly.

As the plane drew closer, they landed using the same light-footed ninja technique, as if they were weightless.

Swords flashed, and they all looked in unison at the empty space at their feet. Jinze kicked aside the mangled corpses at his feet; a sniper's helmet could be smashed with a single punch—what kind of monster was that…?

"It's coming!"

"Ok!"

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"Damn, can she even hold on?"

Jack and Pila watched as Rebecca pushed open the gap, leaving only half of the damaged mech still twitching mechanically with the release of electricity.

The petite figure in front of her was now a cannonball. With Rebecca using it without reservation, the Sinweistein unleashed its most ferocious side. Undoubtedly, if she had a Berserk series operating system, the scene would probably be even more bloody.

Pila pursed his lips; he didn't want to answer Jack's question.

But he knew what his sister's choice was...

"too fast…"

Jack realized he was falling behind Rebecca. If Rebecca got too far ahead of them, the two of them risked being surrounded by Arasaka's forces at any moment.

and so…

Running for their lives, all the two could do at that moment was to throw their arms around and sprint toward the entrance of the Gumpi Building, where corpses lay strewn about.

After Jack knocked down the soldiers who were trying to block him using cover, he turned around and saw soldiers emerging from an abandoned vehicle behind him. At this moment, he was surrounded by a large open space.

Just as Jack raised his gun, ready to play a game of extreme sports with the kid, Pila's strange hand grabbed the guy's neck, and the poisonous venom instantly entered the soldier's heart!
After discarding the body, Pila threw all the grenades from his pants pocket behind cover.

Several muffled explosions rang out, and several Arasaka soldiers were blasted out of their positions.

"That was a really awesome throw, man!"

"come!"

The golden-haired ruthless woman instantly caused the tops of the two Aragaka soldiers to disappear.

The two Night City lone wolves, who had never fought side-by-side before, were now cooperating remarkably well...

"Hehe, to be honest, you're the most awesome mercenary I've ever seen without cybernetic equipment. No wonder you can work with these idiots to solve cases."

With the help of his arm, Pila could aim the submachine gun at the enemy from many tricky angles, and in the blink of an eye, two bursts of fire sent the guards on the other side falling like wheat.

Although Jack doesn't have Pila's insane firepower, he excels in shooting accuracy.

"Ha, so this is one of Arasaka's people?!"

"Don't underestimate the Haywoods!"

Just as the two were about to finish off Rebecca and the remaining soldiers between them, Pira, who was fiddling with her magazine and preparing to take over Jack's firepower, subconsciously looked up...

Above, in the swirling air currents of the clouds, a drone the size of an adult hovered silently.

Octant...

The bright red searchlight quickly locked onto Pila, who was curled up below. Pila's expression changed instantly, and he opened his mouth wide to curse loudly.

"Fuck your grandpa Arasaka!"

The Octagon is arguably the most destructive of all drones, and Jack clearly hadn't expected it to fly here.

Without any hesitation, Jack recklessly spat bullets from his dual pistols, each one aimed at the Octant's engine and optical capture components... but with little effect. However, the powerful kinetic weapons still caused the Octant to sway slightly.

boom!
In that tiny patch of space, Pila lunged at Jack, followed by relentless machine gun fire.

Jack hurriedly dodged behind cover, and Pila was just one step away from rushing in when Jack suddenly grabbed his hand and threw Pila aside...

Those of them standing on the ground were helpless against this, so they could only rush into the interior of the Azure Building!

Pila pulls the pin on the last high-explosive grenade!

"Go away!"

The grenade, thrown high into the air, reached its highest point at a distance of less than one meter in front of the octant!

Ding--

boom!
The moment the two stormed into the hall, all the surrounding glass shattered by the drone. They fell to the ground and slid forward, the floor littered with thick shards of glass that could easily tear clothes...

hum…

Jack staggered to his feet, his ears ringing. Beside him, Pila, with her prosthetic arm leaving a gruesome mark on the ground, remained in a slightly bent-knee, guarded position.

As the azure gate, thick with smoke, rain, and howling wind, burst in, Lone Wolf Jack, still unable to breathe a sigh of relief, stiffened. The familiar sound of the Octave was still buzzing…

"Hey buddy..."

Jack wanted to remind Pila, who was standing next to him.

With her back to Jack, Pila simply looked at the mess at the front desk of the Azure Hotel.

The soldiers' corpses were piled up like mountains. The petite figure above, standing on the bodies of heavily armored soldiers, slowly turned her head. Her ferocious eyes trembled and stared intently at the two mercenaries forced in by Octave.

With a gentle kick, the soldier's deformed helmet clattered and rolled off...

Beneath her disheveled long hair, her eyes were filled with a chilling indifference and bloodlust.

Pila's voice drifted out softly...

"Damn it... there's a living father here."

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(End of this chapter)