Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 409 Martial Attendant (Part 1) [6.2K]

When Morgan Blackhand's prosthetic eye locked onto the person emerging from the smoke, his expression changed slightly.

His surprise was so obvious that he immediately lowered his voice and said sinisterly to Oda, who was hiding not far away, "Trying to trick me, is that it?"

"Sanlang's dog is just as two-faced as the rumors say..."

Oda never expected that, despite his men confirming just ten minutes ago that Arasaka's counterintelligence chief was progressing slowly and was even several floors away, they would suddenly use explosives to break into the transaction site...

clatter…

The woman's slightly dusty patent leather high heels rubbed gently against the building's stones, her eyebrows raised high, her eyes filled with disdain.

"Hua Zi's people..."

Are you all idiots?

Oda Santao wanted to say something defiant about the current situation.

Upon hearing V's impolite and sharp words, his pampered nature in Tokyo caused him to instantly let out a cold laugh.

"When did the Night City branch start helping Lai Xuan with this kind of shady business? A bunch of power-hungry parasites... utterly devoid of any sense of honor!"

Arakasaka Yorinobu, the wicked eagle.

After Oda said that, the soldiers who had been slightly flustered began to feel more confident.

They immediately and uniformly aimed their weapons at the soldiers behind V, and the atmosphere instantly became extremely tense!

If anyone fires a single shot, this small room will turn into a meat grinder…

however--

The biggest lesson V learned from Arasaka was to leverage power and influence. Subordinates' power comes from their superiors, and if you want more, you should kick your boss out.

Unfortunately, V's boss is now Lai Xuan... so V's power is undoubtedly the most legally backed.

A brief silence…

V's voice, though not loud, was clear and gradually carried through the rain, "Addressing Executive Director Arasaka by his first name instead of his official title..."

As he walked, the soldiers surrounded him, letting V move around but daring not to approach.

"Unauthorized contact with personnel from other companies after the Arasaka Hayato Agreement was activated, disregarding confidentiality regulations by handing over important Arasaka technology products to companies that may be hostile forces... Of course, you also received bribes."

Xiao Tian's face instantly darkened.

"What nonsense!"

"Are you courting death, you wretched woman! I'm buying back important assets belonging to Arasaka!"

The surrounding soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment...

V's words revealed an important piece of information: Arasaka Yorinobu is now the CEO of Arasaka Corporation, and he has largely consolidated his power.

From a national perspective, V has firmly pinned the label of treason on this group of people.

"Think about the consequences of going against me!"

Oda may be loyal, but these doves' lackeys might not be so...

V then looked down and smelled herself. "Hmm, what a pity, I thought I smelled pretty good."

Oda clenched his fists, hesitating about how to choose between Morgan and the uncertainties beside him.

The timing of this series of events is too coincidental... I just finished the deal with Morgan, and then V came along?
The key point is... Relic was firmly held in Morgan Blackhand's hand at this moment, and that big box looked so conspicuous—which made Oda furious.

"Oh oh oh!"

Morgan Blackhand's voice, almost like that of a sunny American uncle, rang out.

Even though the cigar in his mouth was wet from the rain and couldn't smoke, he didn't spit it out. Instead, he habitually shook his hand in a self-deprecating manner to indicate that he had something to say.

"I'm not in the mood to listen to your stupid company rules. Who Arasaka's boss is has nothing to do with me—what do you mean now? I have to deliver the goods to this sweet lady...?"

V looked at Morgan with a cold expression.

Morgan was somewhat taken aback. "Oh, okay, Chili."

Oda Santau immediately glared and said, "Please keep your promise..."

In fact, V's gaze swept over the unconscious girl nestled to Oda's side several times.

The reason she clenched her arms tightly across her chest wasn't because she was angry about her behavior at the scene of the so-called "labeling."

Instead, she is very worried about Sasha.

damn it…

Morgan Blackhand paused for a moment, then V's voice, chillingly cold, rang out.

"Morgan Blackhand, have you figured out how to deal with Arasaka? Or... have you figured out how to deal with President Arasaka Yorinobu?"

The dark hand stroked his chin.

Well…

This is really difficult; they're all mad dogs.

He thought he had finally met that guy.

Morgan didn't actually leave because he was prepared to repay that guy for sparing his life last time.

But... I didn't expect that not only would my text message go unanswered, but I would also be greeted by the head of Arasaka's intelligence department.

Relic's mastermind definitely won't hand it over; he's just here to muddy the waters and give it to the rightful owner. Besides, Arasaka will only be wary if he has it.

As for this woman and Oda... Morgan was caught in a dilemma.

Oda then turned slightly to the side and said, "Could you please give me the box?"

Before Morgan could react—

V's hand swung down suddenly!

The raindrops squeezing in through the window suddenly turned violent, and two Octave drones emitted a chilling screech!

"Kuso!"

"You want to take action against headquarters?"

Oda Santayu's mantis knife suddenly shot out!

V was enveloped in a halo of light from the drone's searchlight, and she raised her long, slender middle finger, "Fuck you!"

She also continued to warn the soldiers.

"Anyone who dares to fire now... well, they'll be waiting for Arasaka's true headquarters to be wiped out! You all know very well where Oda's headquarters is—it's not a doghouse for a bunch of stray dogs, is it?"

V is adept at demoralizing troops; counterintelligence departments often employ this method of attempting to break down the psychological defenses of the enemy or their colleagues.

Lai Hsuan's control of power is now a fait accompli...

Some of Oda's men began to waver completely.

However, most of them were loyal henchmen of Hua Zi, who were already prepared to fight to the death with any enemy.

This is the significance of a suicide squad.

Their lives were given to them by someone like Hanako Arakawa, and they could no longer betray her.

V's prosthetic eye and Octagon shared a portion of the screen. She couldn't guess Oda's ultimate goal in blackmailing Sasha, but she had to find a way to get Oda to let go first, and her identity destined her to only be able to observe from the sidelines.

"Crazy cousin!"

Oda's adjutant was a rude Japanese man who immediately started swearing in a crude Kansai dialect, spitting as he spoke.

These assassins, kept by Hua Zi, had begun to gather, and everyone's hands were rubbing against the triggers—

"That…"

Amidst the noise of drones.

The clone of Night City's legendary Lone Wolf didn't get to see the person he was waiting for. Morgan, carrying a box and a kinetic submachine gun, smiled nonchalantly and prepared to run away.

"Stop him!"

V gave them no chance at all; the drone opened fire without hesitation!
However, the drone operator received an instruction from V: he suspected that the girl being held captive by Oda was a traitor who had committed the crime of betrayal by Arasaka, and that she should be taken alive.

Therefore, the fire control system intentionally avoided some of them.

The instant the bullets rained down!

Blood splattered rapidly across V's delicate cheek. She jerked her face away, and then a blade grazed her cheek just short of her skin...

Before the samurai in a lunge position could even pull away, Octagon's machine gun instantly crushed his skull!

Even in the last second, this guy maintained his roaring posture!
Morgan didn't care about anything else and suddenly lunged forward, trying to jump out of the broken window!

The Octave drone suddenly rose high!

The reason they didn't fire on Morgan was because of the relic he had—

"Ok?"

The moment Morgan Blackhand turned his head, he felt a chill run down his spine. V's eyes were gleaming, and he had already uploaded a quick crack.

How did ICE break so quickly?!
At this moment, the room looked like a metal bucket filled with a string of firecrackers.

The counterintelligence agents and Oda's men fired at each other almost face to face, and the soldiers who had lost their will to fight could only cover their heads and try to crawl on the ground.

There was no way around it; the prerequisite of Yorihiro taking control of Arasaka was too terrifying.

Nobody was prepared for Arasaka to become their mortal enemy...

At least if they surrendered, they could have a chance of survival according to Arasaka's usual practice. There were actually many soldiers with such a stigma who surrendered in Arasaka's power struggles, and they couldn't all be executed.

"I go!"

Morgan Blackhand cursed Arasaka, saying that everyone there was a pervert.

First, there was Rin, the former head of security at Arasaka, who almost ruined herself by having a bunch of prosthetics implanted in her body.

This is yet another woman from a counterintelligence agency, and the key is that her hacking skills and the density of her cybernetics are rather frightening…

What company's management would implant so many combat prosthetics?

Almost the instant the Black Hand was affected by V's invasion, the woman lunged forward and grabbed Morgan's shoulder—

[Cracked]

Morgan knew he had been tricked. He thought it was some kind of synaptic melting that was highly damaging to the brain-computer interface, or a small, quick hack that affected the operation of the prosthetic body. After all, breaking into his ICE would not only require a lot of RAM, but also some hacking skills.

However, the instant Morgan's black hand arm prosthetic went out of control, he knew what kind of quick fix this woman had given him...

Under the man's astonished gaze—

This is fucking suicide!!!
Morgan Blackhand felt as if a thousand pounds were weighing down his legs.

The Relic box slipped from V's grasp. With one hand, he restrained Black Hand's shoulder, and with the other, he swiftly reached out and scooped up the box!
This box cannot be bumped or knocked, because the box itself is part of the chip, and any impact could easily cause a decrease in the chip's integrity...

The Black Hand's ICE is certainly not just for show.

He used all his strength to push V away with a knee strike, his hand gripping the kinetic submachine gun tightly to prevent it from being moved next to his head.

Despite having extremely dense bulletproof skin, firing a burst of kinetic submachine gun bullets at close range through the temple would still cause even a layer of skin to peel off, even with a layer of fiber steel covering the mech armor...

"That little chili pepper really goes all out..."

You're going to be in big trouble.

Morgan didn't waste any words; the false signal that ICE had fired at him after the adjustment was quickly eliminated.

A burst of Saragato bullets forced V to raise his arms to shield himself, his body assuming a position to withstand the impact, as he was repeatedly struck by bullets ricocheting from all around the house.

hum!
A string of sparks suddenly flashed from the box!
V felt a surge of tension and hurriedly glanced at the LCD screen above, which displayed the chip's integrity status...

Fortunately, it only brushed past the box.

"You son of a bitch—"

V's gaze grew increasingly cold; her patience with this clone of military technology, which Rin had once let go of, had reached its limit.

For a corporate girl like Valerie, the so-called Night City Legends are nothing more than mercenaries in her eyes.

She felt no fear of the so-called legend; on the contrary, she was enraged and even wondered how this guy could just disappear right there.

While V was fighting Morgan's Black Hand, counterintelligence soldiers, and Oda's men, the entire room's structure was quickly dismantled by Octagon's artillery fire, leaving behind scattered limbs and severed prosthetic wires everywhere...

The collapsing concrete slabs and thick marble walls struck many people, and one could almost hear painful groans—a scene straight out of hell.

Even so, Oda still issued a frantic suicide attack order to V, who had her back to him. The fearless soldier instantly turned his gun around, and V, caught off guard, stumbled, her delicate high ponytail hair tie grazed by the bullet, her hair instantly falling apart…

When unexpected situations arise, the mastermind is not idle either.

He stepped forward, his hand forming a slashing motion, attempting to strike the area where V might have the prosthetic control module, thus easily taking the box.

"You want to die?!"

A red light flashed in V's eyes.

The world seemed to freeze. With the brain-computer interface overclocking, two small cubes appeared next to Morgan Black Hand's head, representing the malfunction of the prosthetic body and the melting of the synapse!

This time, the goal is still to kill and take lives.

The limits of RAM under V-computer overclocking can only be reached here.

Morgan Blackhand felt a sudden dizziness.

This RAM recovery speed... Morgan admits he's seen very few people with it!
Most of them are hackers of the same caliber as Spider-Murphy.

Even if this woman leaves the company, she won't do badly; in fact, she'd probably be one of those people who rises to prominence in Night City's underground scene within months.

Having seen too many so-called legends, Morgan was convinced that this woman was an absolute freak.

But clearly, apart from her appearance, she wasn't particularly outstanding.

The Arasaka-standard network access module, tendon reinforcement, and other conventional prosthetics unique to the company's top thugs, are incredibly powerful on this woman!
Morgan simply didn't have any concept of the five dimensions, so he naturally didn't know that V was a genius in the hacking field.

Intelligence type V.

Of course, V's cold-bloodedness and composure also make him adept at close combat.

Morgan thought that women with gold-patterned prosthetic arms weren't good at this; it was just a fancy decoration that was more for show than practical use.

However, the neurological pain caused by the prosthetic body malfunctioning and misaligning reminded him... this was a true high-level lone wolf in the company.

V's disheveled hair was like silk, and the wind that blew it up made it messy in an instant, leaving only her captivating eyes.

Again? !
Morgan was startled and quickly stepped back, shouting, "You little Japanese devil, are you going to be crippled by this woman?!"

As soon as the words fell——

Oda's mantis knife, seemingly equipped with a thermal cutting function, arrived in an instant!

This bodyguard of Hua Zi uses a special optical camouflage during combat. This camouflage consumes very little energy, allowing him to approach his opponent silently, like a venomous snake.

Moreover, his most distinctive ninja protective gear, the Hannya mask, has the ability to predict movement trajectories.

The blade that was subtly being drawn from behind was none other than Lin Yue's weapon... Jinzhongmaru!

The steel used in this knife is a new material developed in Honshu, with the help of a graphene structure. The blade is slightly heavy, unremarkable but never makes a mistake, thus earning its name of loyalty.

stable.

This has always been Hua Zi's standard for selecting people.

V couldn't pull her hand back; if she carried the box, all she would get was for Oda's mantis knife to cut off her arm.

Even at this point, V's brain was still analyzing the situation.

This woman's greatest talent is improvising.

Then, with a hateful sneer on her lips, she hurled the box violently into the gap in the glass!
Xiaotian was almost stunned.

"madman!"

Oda's blade traced a warm arc, causing the water droplets to instantly rise into wisps of mist.

Since things have come to this point, we can only deal with relic for now.

He turned to grab the box, only to find the woman staring at him like a demon—

"Give me fucking cover!"

Xiaotian's voice sounded somewhat strange as he moved quickly, a continuous buzzing in my ears.

Those loyal soldiers who had lost several comrades due to distraction by counterintelligence soldiers were still thinking of turning their guns and knives on V!

The V-shaped chin gently turned towards the seam of the suit jacket on the shoulder.

The slender heel, like a blade, suddenly caught the knife's edge, and the body leaped up!

Under the gazing gaze of the many soldiers below, he brazenly passed the last vestige of his brain-computer interface overclocking technology to Oda!
At the same time, the pedaling motion has been completed—

Using the momentum, V and Oda rushed towards the box at the same time.

The Octant's firepower is even stronger now!
However, she was still too slow…

V's arm was slashed again by Oda as he turned around!

The suit was instantly torn, revealing two neat rips that were seeping blood.

After she dissipated the force of the blade on the ground, she turned around without hesitation and headed towards Sasha, who was lying quietly on the ground surrounded by soldiers!

"You wicked slut!"

Soldiers were cursing loudly in his ears, but V didn't waste any words.

Her long, slender hands suddenly grabbed the heads of the two soldiers and slammed them together violently—

The two fainted instantly.

Xiao Tian felt a surge of anger rising within him!
How come this woman always seems to be striking a snake at its vital point, making herself lose sight of everything else and constantly looking ahead and behind?

Either he's after Relic, or he's after Sasha, his target for revenge—

"Shh!"

V's hand had just grabbed the girl's shoulder!

Unexpectedly, Oda was still able to exert his strength.

After all, his kung fu skills were genuine…

After being humiliated by Lin Yue at the entrance to the underground shrine in Night City, he installed a number of new gadgets, including enhanced arm muscles that could accelerate the blade to the initial velocity of an arrow.

Caught off guard, V didn't expect that by tearing an opening, he would leave Oda vulnerable from both sides. In this situation, Oda still managed to free up a hand to attack him!

"Well!"

The blade is upon us!
V watched as the sharp blade emerged from his shoulder, a hot and stinging sensation spreading across the side of his collarbone, his temples throbbing...

"Morgan!"

Oda's exasperated voice rang out!

Just as Lord Arasaka said, these Western barbarians have no credibility whatsoever.

After adjusting his arm, Morgan easily activated the S.A.W. Steiner…

Without V's watchful eye, Black Hand unleashed a barrage of bullets!

His rapid-fire shooting resulted in Oda being shot multiple times!
Even though bulletproof leather and ninja-style protective gear can absorb some of the force, the gun in Morgan's hands, wielded by a technical expert, is no ordinary weapon—

Blood immediately gushed from Oda's abdomen, and the optical camouflage on his body began to fade...

How does this guy know his exact location?
Morgan Black Hand didn't have time to explain his thinking to his opponents.

All he knew was that he was going to take back the damned reincarnation technology that could plunge the world into chaos in the future.

Those dogs from Arakasa don't deserve it. He doesn't trust anyone except that person.

"Feel sorry."

"That's how fast the Western Gunners are, Hammer should know that well."

Morgan held the box, a relaxed and content smile on his face.

The rapid decryption, which actually consumed a lot of the prosthetic body's power, made him quite miserable...

This counterintelligence minister proved with her performance that she is fully capable of being placed in the same category as a lone wolf like Hammer.

The soldiers surged forward, their blades flashing and forcing V back!

She could only watch helplessly as Sasha began to drift further and further away from her...

Oda landed, but although V couldn't see his expression behind the mask, he felt a strange sense of unease.

"Do you really think Miss Hua is a pushover?"

Oda almost gritted his teeth and growled!
Got it!

V instantly remembered this woman who could mobilize soul killers across regions without being detected by cyber surveillance…

Does this mean—

Immediately afterwards…

A series of chaotic sounds came from the Octave drone outside the window!

"Everyone spread out!"

V reacted quickly, turning around and hiding behind a concrete pillar.

Those soldiers who didn't have time to dodge, regardless of which side they were on, were like a harvested wheat field under the invading Octagon's frenzied fire!
Morgan was also attacked.

Oda seized the opportunity without hesitation.

He used optical camouflage to run in a perfect arc on the ground, and then, carrying the Loyalty Pill, he instantly pressed himself against Morgan!
It's too difficult for Morgan to dodge drones while also keeping Relic at bay.

The fact that Oda Santao's mad master gave the order to open fire indiscriminately was a complete gamble.

The frenzied gunfire ended as Night City's Lai Xuan's hackers launched a counter-intrusion attack.

V, who had looked up, looked extremely pale...

Oops!

Oda, carrying the unconscious girl, removed his mask.

Even with protective gear, he looked quite disheveled at that moment, white prosthetic fluid gushing from the hole in his thigh…

However, he looked quite smug.

His tiny, ghostly pupils stared at V... and right at his feet was an open Relic box!

"Hold!"

V's face instantly contorted into a grimace.

Morgan frowned, puzzled as to why Xiaotian would go to such lengths to insert such an expensive item into a girl he didn't know...

and many more!

Are they dreamers?
Morgan remembered.

Morgan had met this girl during the battle to defend the biotech apartment; she was a hacker!
Xiao Tian stared at the chip in his hand, which glowed with a red and black light and emitted a chilling aura; the box clearly showed 100% integrity...

The girl's head drooped, and Xiaotian shook his head, revealing the brain-computer interface hole on the back of her smooth skin.

Only insertion is needed.

This means that relic will quickly take over the personality... and be reborn in a new body.

It will also provide data to the remaining followers of Saburo Arasaka, whose whereabouts are unknown...

The code name for this chip is—Wu Shi (武侍).

[Warning, enemy threat]

Xiao Tian’s brain-computer interface started beeping, and without hesitation, he pinched the chip and began to push it toward the brain-computer interface!

At this moment, another unexpected event occurs!
Boom!
The elevator doors were blown open as if by a plastic bomb!

Oda suppressed the urge to instinctively turn his head to look and quickly pushed Relic away.

But everyone around saw that two wildly trembling eyes behind him were staring at Xiaotian's back...

For young Rebecca, it was all an illusion.

"Adam Hammer...you fucking let go of Rin!"

Her ferocious roar echoed throughout the azure sky!
……

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(End of this chapter)