Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 408 Enemy and Friend [5.8K]

"It's so noisy..."

"It's so noisy!!"

On the floor near the data hub, three unmanned mechs fired wildly at the petite figure moving nimbly in the center!
At this moment, Rebecca's pink prosthetic eye entered a high-frequency vibration mode...

The pupils constricted to the extreme, a sign that cyberpsychosis is rapidly infecting the personality.

The words he was saying had no logical connection whatsoever…

Jack, who was crouching behind cover, fired a few rounds, but a part that was half a person tall was suddenly flung out by violent force from the mech that was being dismantled like foam plastic!
Jack quickly shrank back!
The wall, used as cover, was suddenly struck by the edge of the steel, revealing the steel structure inside.

"Are you fucking insane? Heywood's!"

Pila quickly grabbed Jack!
"Fuck me!"

"Are you even human?"

Jack couldn't understand why there were brothers like this in the world. His sister was fighting amidst a bunch of machine guns that could turn people into dust, and he was just going to stand by and watch...

Pila's horse-like face was almost contorted with anger.

"That steel plate was lost by my sister!! Is your prosthetic eye of questionable quality?!"

Jack shrugged.

"Oh, okay, buddy."

The two grown men trembled several times as they listened to the intense machine gun fire and the terrifying sound of metal twisting inside the building…

The price of overusing S.A.S ...

For example, after Rebecca's gorilla arm tore through the mech's arm, the dark prosthetic structure clinging to her back suddenly spewed out hot air, and Sianwistan entered a forced cooldown period—

However, Rebecca's loose hair was suddenly lifted up!

The machine gun spun around just three inches from Rebecca, accompanied by a blast of hot air thick with the smell of gunpowder…

The eerie red light from the optical components beneath the mecha locked onto Rebecca like a ghost.

"what?"

Rebecca's trembling pupils suddenly stopped, and she stared silently at the machine gun.

"Fuck me!"

Jack leaped out of the cover, thinking how lucky the Haywoods were that they hadn't dealt with someone like Pila, only to discover that Pila was faster than him!
"Damn idiot, get out of the way!"

Pila's running posture was comical, but no one could laugh at that moment...

Snapped!
The moment the machine gun turned, Pila took a sudden step forward, and snot and tears streamed down his face.

"Hey! You motherfucker!"

The machine gun suddenly jammed—

Jack hurriedly raised his gun, and Pila instinctively stood still.

It turns out that Rebecca accidentally hit the machine gun's control circuitry during an attack...

The lag was only momentary; before anyone could react, the thing burst into flames!
Jack's twin guns struck the frame, creating only a ripple of sparks...

However, Sianwistan, who was dazed, seemed to still have some strength left behind behind his neck, and his body swayed and suddenly moved to the side.

This almost instinctive movement caused the attack to miss...

The machine gun, which had already lost control, continued to rise due to recoil, causing the entire mech to quickly tilt and fall backward onto the ground.

Rebecca's pupils trembled, and no one knew what she was thinking. She suddenly leaped onto the rack and began to roughly dismantle the thing blocking their way with her gorilla arms that were spewing out scalding hot air.

The top of the mech was torn apart by a powerful force, and the surrounding corpses and debris added to the eerie atmosphere.

"Enough, Rebecca..."

Pila wanted to try to get closer.

He wasn't sure if his sister's immunosuppression was enough...

It's important to know that under extremely uncontrolled conditions, the use of immunosuppressants in cyberpsychosis is extremely rare, so Pila decided to take matters into her own hands.

Rebecca, as if possessed, frantically dismantled the mecha, and soon the delicate membrane on her prosthetic hand began to be torn apart by the steel burrs…

It looked as if he had scraped his hand down to just the basic structure of a prosthetic body.

Pira's arm suddenly wrapped around Rebecca and pulled her down—

"Hey! Wake up!"

Pira reached into her sister's pocket with her other hand to find the syringe, but Rebecca's trembling pupils suddenly stopped.

"You came?!"

The surprised sound made Pila unsure whether her sister was conscious.

"Ok?"

Jack rushed over to help, but before he could even extend his hand, Rebecca smiled and called out a name Pila hadn't heard in years...

“Pilar (nickname)... Bro?!”

During her happy childhood, the melancholic Pira often heard her younger sister chasing after her, calling for her brother. However, as time went by, the disintegration of her family and life in Night City made Rebecca rough and prickly.

Pila always said, against her will, that she was a good-for-nothing.

I just don't want my sister to be unable to adapt to the dirty environment of Night City on her own if I suddenly leave while she's doing a Wakako mission.

Jack pointed to himself…

It wasn't until he saw Rebecca's still trembling pupils that he roughly knew the girl was still under the control of cyber psychosis.

"Did you see that, Rin?"

"I can control S.A.W.S.S.S. now!"

“I told you, I’m a natural at this… Look, even without your prosthetic body, my sister can still protect you.”

Pira's expression remained calm.

It's rare to see the happiness and joy that girls her age usually have on Rebecca's often grimacing face.

For Rebecca, this was probably just a beautiful dream.

In the girl's eyes, Lin Yue was now lying on her lap, covered in wounds, and she was recounting her heroic exploits under Rin's smiling gaze.

Given the choice between protecting others and needing to be protected, Rebecca would only choose the former.

A syringe was suddenly inserted into the side of his neck.

Surprisingly, the needle wasn't inserted by Pila...

Instead, Rebecca, while experiencing hallucinations, used her willpower to force herself to inject an immunosuppressant into her body…

"Pila?"

Rebecca appeared listless, her pupils somewhat unfocused, but her prosthetic body cooled down, emitting a death-stricken clicking sound.

Jack could no longer hold back.

"Damn it, you need to stop for a bit. We'll be there soon. Let's rest for a bit."

"Maybe if you take a nap, all this bad stuff will be resolved."

Rebecca smiled, a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth.

In such a chaotic situation, losing even one person means losing every chance of winning. That's probably why Pila gave himself this opportunity.
"Damn it, what are you still doing? Turn off her prosthetic body."

However, under Jack's surprised gaze, Pila shook her head.

"Only a company can do this. Do you think the defenses above will be easy now that there are mechs on this floor?"

Jack couldn't understand why the brother and sister were acting so erratically...

"Rin can do anything."

"Isn't that right, sis?"

Rebecca cursed an extremely vulgar curse, pushed away Pila's arm, jumped off the rack, and moved toward the elevator with her hands in her pockets.

Pila chuckled and followed closely behind.

"Are you expecting Rin to help your sister?"

Jack put away his gun and hurriedly followed to ask.

However, Pira didn't answer the question until she watched Rebecca in the distance lift up the body that had fallen in front of the elevator and violently throw it aside, while clearing the roadblocks...

Pila inexplicably said that Jack somewhat understood this series of decisions.

"It would be better to die than to dismantle that thing. I know what she's thinking."

"If you want a peaceful life, you won't stay in Night City..."

"Isn't this how everyone lives? Living...like a big shot or something."

Jack's face relaxed. "Then let's do this job seriously and try to finish this lady off. The people of Haywood are all very helpful... Of course, after this, we'll all be ruthless characters who become famous overnight!"

Pila shook her head.

Big shot…

The word "legend" in Night City is extremely rare.

As a child, Pila was just like Jack, who is currently rambling on and on, talking about famous legends like Old Snake and Morgan... thinking that these people lived very exciting lives.

However, Pira knew that the dreamer had already helped him achieve his dream: to be a tech expert living peacefully in his own world…

She's just my younger sister.

She's not some legendary candidate at all; she's just a foolish woman who lives for others, like my mother.

……
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"Hmm, let me look for it carefully!"

Sasha, who had infiltrated the core database of the Azure Building, finally found relevant clues on the third server and quickly identified the floor where Relic might be located and the so-called suspicious personnel.

According to Qiwei and Falco, the two guys disguised as company employees brought the Relic in and then chose to split it into two rooms.

During the transaction, the plan was to use the buzz cut to test the waters with the buyer, gain the upper hand in negotiations, and incidentally expose Jenkins as the mole within Arasaka's organization, so that they would fight like dogs.

However, during the execution of the plan, it was likely that personnel from the European Arasaka Company, possibly from Hua Zi's faction, suddenly squeezed in; according to Evelyn, they were all French…

Checking the system logs, Sasha quickly discovered that the interference signal from the storage box that Relic had allegedly provided still existed.

Suzuki and the others outside breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the news…

The relic is still there; the next step is to pinpoint its location.

Sasha squatted by the pool, data scrolling rapidly in her eyes. Soon, she found the identity of a European Arasaka employee with a code in the check-in information; the room happened to be on this floor…

"found it!"

Sasha exclaimed in surprise on the channel.

At this moment, Suzuki finally felt as if the clouds had parted and the light had appeared outside.

"Great."

Sasha muttered to herself as she intently studied the information. At the same time, Qiwei was also ready, quickly heading towards the target floor and room based on the data Sasha had found.

The crew cut moved through the entire process very smoothly, as if no one was there.

The wait for the results is too long…

Sasha held his hands tightly, not daring to urge them on, while Qiwei, who was controlling the crew-cut man, was covered in sweat. Finally, they found the room where the Frenchmen were...

As everyone held their breath in anticipation.

There was a moment of silence on Qiwei's end.

"No..." Upon hearing this, everyone's expression froze.

Pila and Jack, who had assumed Rebecca wouldn't need to continue the charge, were taken aback...

"how come?"

Falco, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, watched everything happening outside the door with a frown, as if something was being overlooked.

a long time.

Sasha's suggestion came through the channel:
"Find that mercenary. I suspect the French might have executed him and are now guarding Relic, waiting for an opportunity to escape from above!"

Sasha's idea was very clear.

Those who obeyed Saburo and Hua Zi were located in the middle of the Konpi Building, which meant that even if they obtained the relic, they could only leave from the ground or from above.

Very few people would attempt to jump from a building in mid-air…

Not everyone is like Rin or Heavy Hammer.

Then we can only wait until Rin on the upper floors can no longer hold on and then evacuate from the top floor with the chip, since there are still many of Saburo's personal guards up there.

Once things were sorted out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone praised it highly, and even Qi Wei, who is usually quite strict, showed a hint of appreciation with a slight smile.

Qiwei controlled the flat-topped man, using a neural link to the machine for extended periods. Her body was constantly under strain, which was a challenge for a hacker like Qiwei who wasn't particularly outstanding.

But at this point, she had to be extra careful and have the crew-cut man reach towards the mercenaries.

Just as the man with the buzz cut was about to enter through the network cable conduits in each room, Qiwei took a deep breath and hesitated for a moment…

For some reason, perhaps it was Arasaka's meticulous planning that dealt a significant blow to her confidence.

Soon, the robot covered in optical camouflage climbed into the guest room.

Qi Wei's pupils constricted sharply the moment she saw the scene. It seemed that an extremely fierce battle had taken place in the room. The burly mercenary was sitting on his back on the sofa, clearly having been executed.

The blood flowing from his head had begun to congeal, and the lumps around the bullet holes were blackened by gunpowder, looking grotesque and terrifying.

However, the damaged wall and the creature lying on the ground with its hands modified into mantis blades were likely Arasaka's cyber experiment subjects. Sasha had seen this kind of controllable cyber psychopath in Arasaka before.

A trail of blood snaked its way to the locked door; it was unclear whether the person who left the blood trail had escaped through the door…

The glass is broken…

Qiwei had a bad feeling and quickly called Sasha.

however--

Suzuki suddenly spoke up.

"Sasha cannot be contacted."

"Hold."

Just as Qi Wei turned her short hair around, intending to leave, a tall figure suddenly appeared, carrying a Relic bio-container.

The man's dark arm extended, and the crew-cut man himself did not possess particularly strong combat abilities.

The last thing Qiwei saw was the cigar in the man's mouth when the short-haired guy went missing; he looked somewhat unshaven…

Soon, higher privileges overwrote it.

……

Morgan Blackhand squatted on the ground, looking at the twitching crew-cut guy on the ground, and muttered, "How long are you going to keep killing Arasaka dogs up there?"

The relic in his hand was placed on the coffee table, and raindrops hanging in from the broken window caused the sofa to be covered with a layer of water mist.

Morgan, without any sign of disgust, plopped down on the sofa.

The burly man's corpse was right beside her...

Morgan seemed to remember something, turned his head and covered the man's face with a tablecloth that was placed under the teacup, then stretched out his body comfortably and tapped his fingers on the sofa as if waiting for something.

In the narrow passage, fully armed soldiers moved slowly forward.

The Arasaka ninja, carrying a figure in his hand, walked towards the room where Morgan Blackhand was.

Two armed soldiers walked to the door, and just as they were about to pull out plastic explosives to blow open the guest room door, Oda stopped his men from doing so.

"grown ups…"

"Isn't it too hasty to think that there are highly skilled lone wolves in military technology inside?"

It was clearly a junior adjutant under Oda who was giving a quiet reminder.

Oda picked up the girl beside him. "Do you know why I didn't do anything about Suzuki, who betrayed Arasaka and became someone else's loyal dog?"

The adjutant remained silent.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"How many times will it take you, you bastard, to understand this?"

"We can utilize military technology when necessary... We are only loyal to Miss Hua Zi, so don't let your loyalty waver."

Once inside.

The damp rain, weapons, and the strong smell of blood swept over the area.

The curly-haired man on the sofa, his hands in his coat pockets, turned his head, and Xiaotian's steps unconsciously faltered at his eyes and appearance.

"I never imagined... that a legendary figure like you would still be alive."

“You look exactly the same as you did decades ago, when I was just a child.”

Morgan Blackhand picked at his ear.

"Hmm, thank you for your greeting, but I'm not in the mood for catching up today. If you don't mind, please have a seat."

Xiao Tian shook his head.

Morgan Blackhand glanced at the girl being carried by the Arasaka Samurai; her hair hung down, and the network access module behind her neck was all too obvious.

However, when Xiao Tian came in, Morgan Black Hand's fingers were still tapping on the sofa.

"Fine, are you afraid I'll hide a few damn Japanese darts under the sofa?"

"So let's talk about a deal."

Oda's first words were a question.

"I want to know... why didn't you help military technology take this thing away?"

Morgan Blackhand showed no signs of being in a bad mood, instead laughing and saying, "As you can see, this place is full of free states. Your aircraft carriers coming here won't provoke our people in the slightest..."

"Your boss wants to level this place at the drop of a hat. If I take this, wouldn't I be asking for death?"

It seems that even the legendary righteous Mr. Black Hand isn't as ethical as people say.

Oda did not lower his guard because of these few words, but continued to ask, "What do you want?"

However, Morgan Blackhand didn't answer for a long time, only staring curiously at the girl he was holding... "Hmm, looks like you're going to insert that thing into this girl's brain?"

Oda said coldly, "This is none of your business."

Morgan Blackhand was running out of patience with this young, idiotic Japanese guy in front of him.

"Kid, I've always remembered something from when I was your age..." He stood up as he spoke, and the surrounding soldiers raised their rifles in unison. "That was..."

"Honest cooperation."

Morgan Black Hand tapped Oda's shoulder.

Oda turned his head and looked at his shoulder. "Sir, please feel free to name your conditions: money, an official position in Arasaka—"

"You're all finished, what about your official positions?"

Oda frowned.

The high-ranking lone wolf before him possessed far more intelligence than he had imagined…

Let's be a little more mundane.

"Suffice the price, take this chip, and I... can make a mistake and then explain it away, but you'll have to clean this place up."

Xiaotian nodded.

"Don't worry, our enemies will take care of all this for us."

"Let's reshuffle the cards and start a new game."

Morgan waved his hand, as if he didn't want to hear about these things.

Xiaotian's approach was simple: give Morgan the money he could get. Unexpectedly, the intervention of a third party saved him a lot of time and also coincided with Ms. Huazi's plan.

He was beginning to have some faith in Arasaka-sama's ability to control the situation.

Unfortunately... he has no opportunity to use his skills for the time being.

Morgan, a technical expert, was still capable of handling illicit funds, and soon, under Xiaotian's watchful eye, he received an extremely generous reward.

Looking at the Relic suitcase on the coffee table, Oda still didn't act rashly.

"Don't bother looking. As long as the box isn't damaged, it's still intact."

Morgan Blackhand suddenly picked up the box and handed it to Oda under Oda's surprised gaze. The unshaven man had a strange smile on his lips.

Oda simply thought it was... the excitement of making a fortune.

He had no ulterior motives, not even the idea of ​​snatching the meat back from Morgan's mouth; in his view, it was just a transaction with a "friend."

Oda gestured with his chin for his subordinate to take the box.

The soldier beside him held a gun in one hand, aiming it at Morgan, and tentatively reached out his hand...

All eyes were on the soldier's hands, and as they drew closer, the soldier's eyes darted back and forth between Morgan's face and the box.

The moment the soldier's fingers touched the box, he could already feel its icy chill.

"I think I suddenly remembered something—"

Xiaotian was a little taken aback.

What should Morgan do in this surrounded situation?
However, Morgan Blackhand didn't say he had forgotten anything; instead, a black gun barrel emerged from under his black trench coat.

"You're not quite there yet, you Arakasaka dog, trying to trick me."

Xiaotian's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly tried to explain!
The wall suddenly bulged!

Oda Santayu's ninja armor quickly raised his mask, leaving a blur as he retreated!
Soldiers who had no time to hide were quickly pierced through their bodies by shrapnel from the explosion.

Oda abruptly stopped on the ground.

"Sir, there's a misunderstanding!"

With a cigarette dangling from his lips, Black Hand uttered a single sentence: "Fuck you, you little Japanese!"

A tall, slender figure with a high ponytail appeared amidst the smoke and dust.

With bloodshot eyes, he stared at the scene where Arasaka was making a deal with someone who should have been his enemy…

"Oh shit!"

Oda's situation, which is almost like being caught in the act of adultery, is so dire that even jumping into the Night City River wouldn't clear his name...

He sensed something was wrong, but he had absolutely no clue what it was...

……

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(End of this chapter)