Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 461 Haywood's Choice (Part 1) [7.3K]

Perhaps it was the woman's statement that was too shocking.

Would anyone talk like that except a madman?

Those present were all strong and capable men recruited by Camilla from other gangs or Night City fugitives.

Putting aside how many people these people have slit, the cybernetic equipment of these gangs is far more luxurious than the scattered cybernetic bodies of unknown models on these guys.

Behavioral feature facial recognition can bypass NCPD database comparisons, so as long as prosthetics are not actively used, they generally will not reveal much information.

Unfortunately, the Valentino gang doesn't really like hiring hackers, so they immediately gave these two oddly equipped guys, who were carrying expensive sniper rifles and riding nice motorcycles, a disdainful smile.

A loud noise.

"now what?"

Standing on the rooftop, V noticed that the Valentino Gang had appeared on the surrounding buildings, aiming large-caliber rifles at the two of them…

It's impossible for Night City not to be in chaos.

These heavily armed guys, if we go back four or five years, would really be comparable to the gang soldiers of the Ghost Hounds or legitimate corporate security personnel.

That's the downside of unleashing the limitations of prosthetics.

The entertainment of killing weapons, which has even spawned numerous media programs, is invariably driven by the companies' original intention to make huge profits and promote financial products.

Lin Yue and V remained silent.

They were actually working out a detailed plan on how to handle these people while ensuring Jack's safety.

Lin Yue does not intend to use the network access warehouse.

Lin Yue remained silent amidst the laughter and curses around him.

"You're not one of the big shots (mercenaries) and their dogs (team members) in the Night City clubs—without a company here, you'd be asking for death!"

Camilla's hatred reached its peak due to the pain.

This woman doesn't seem to be completely brainless. She probably had some of the people Valentino was keeping watch on report to the other members...

Just as she was sneer and preparing to fight these corporate dogs to the death, her underlings reported that the corporate dogs were nearby but had not appeared.

For a moment, apart from the constant stream of Whole Foods commercials in Spanish, the thugs in Valentino felt they had probably encountered two lunatics.

The gun in the woman's hand was definitely a high-quality item.

Aside from a gorilla arm of unclear model, the man doesn't seem to have many prosthetics, given that the prompt only shows the simple letter "K".

The Valentino gang likes to listen to fast-paced Spanish pop songs, but as for rock and roll, they're just noisy and pointless.

Why waste your breath on him?

There was this guy who, after a quick scan, had at least five or six charges against him, including "second-degree murder of a company representative," "extortion," and "unauthorized access to company data," and he just wouldn't believe it.

His cybernetic body is a genuine, high-quality product from the black market. Forget about mercenaries of the next life level, he could even put up a fight against the terrorist mobile unit.

Lin Yue tapped the baseball bat on his shoulder.

But he wasn't the kind of guy who would just kill people in a fit of rage.

"Okay, let's go."

"Anyway, I really want to teach you beasts who won't let people live a good life a lesson."

Confidence is something that a person cannot hide.

Lin Yue showed no signs of stage fright, which made Camilla feel uneasy.

When he was Rin, he could disregard these things, but now he represented a stranger, a mercenary.

Although people who listen to rock music in Santo Domingo might recognize this face...

Camille stretched out his hand to stop the gang member next to him who was about to punch the guy into mincemeat.

"Friend, who exactly are you from?"

Lin Yue's eyebrows twitched.

This woman really impressed him. Jack's ex-girlfriend seemed to be a smart person, but they were incompatible. He had to help Jack settle things.

"Which side are you from? It doesn't matter. What matters is that you shot and killed Heywood's men here. We can't stand by and watch you bunch of idiots who sell drugs and people bully ordinary people. Is that not allowed?"

Camilla asked grimly, "You know Jack?"

Lin Yue nodded. "Which one is Jack?"

"Want to come out and practice?"

“That girl and I are from Santo Domingo. The Sixth Street Gang is no different from you bastards. If you see them, just treat it as beating a dog... I don’t have much time, hurry up.”

Under Camilla's watchful gaze, Lin Yue assumed a fighting stance, holding the stick in both hands.

This…

Lin Yue glanced down at the panel.

Lin Yue

[Physical]: 16
【Reaction】：16
【Technical capability】: 10
[Intelligence]: 21
【Calmness】：11
Using his physical body, Sianwistan's physical talents are currently the best way to conceal his identity, with his extremely high reflexes combined with Sianwistan's almost inexhaustible abilities...

V frowned slightly; she could see that the guy was itching to get his hands on it.

Ugh…

Camilla knew that if she continued to be so timid, the underlings around her would really look down on her, but she relied heavily on her intuition and always felt...

Something is going to happen.

Hearing the simultaneous sound of gunfire erupting around him, Lin Yue subtly gestured to V to snipe the two mercenaries next to Jack.

"Like to show off? I'll make sure your own mother wouldn't recognize you today!"

The afterimage quickly circled around Lin Yue and disappeared.

The villain, who had been unable to contain himself any longer, cursed Rin under his breath while mentally slapping Camilla, "Indecisive bitch, flirting all the time, good-for-nothing."

Lin Yue had no idea what this guy was thinking, but in his eyes, this was Heywood, and he had to give Jack some face. However, when he scanned the guy earlier, he discovered that he belonged to the former Sixth Street gang—

Ah, it seems there are outsiders involved in Heywood's scheme...

Heywood was a neighbor, and he originally intended to hold back.

Boom boom boom!
Let's make an example of them, then?

However, Lin Yue's nonchalant attitude was undoubtedly seen as a provocation by the other party.

"I'll order you, you son of a bitch!"

The guy merely dodged three times, while the guy holding the baseball bat in place seemed to make no move at all, and at the same time—

V also realized that the gunmen around her were firing at her!

This is the worst thing a sniper can do, but these guys had no idea that V was there to draw the attention of the high-ground shooters...

With a sinister grin, he rushed up to Rin and swung a machete powerful enough to cut through most high-strength steel prosthetics at Rin's body, encountering almost no resistance!
"Is this all you can do?"

The villain's interest vanished instantly. Just as he was about to stop watching how gruesome the arrogant madman's death would be, his expression suddenly changed.

Because the guy in front of him who was being slashed by the blade suddenly seemed to be torn into countless shadows by countless parallel spaces.

"Oh shit!"

This guy actually has this kind of prosthetic body?

Why didn't I see it in the scan just now...?

In that instant, he saw the vague structure of the guy's body, obscured by light and shadow, and a chill ran down his spine.

Military-grade equipment from the company! And not the top-tier stuff that circulates in Night City!
Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar erupted all around!

The metal baseball bat flashed countless cold streaks in the sunlight as Lin Yue, expressionless, felt the surging power of his own flesh and the gorilla's arm—

It's almost interesting.

The villain wanted to retreat, but it was too late.

However, Lin Yue was not in a hurry.

He gradually activated the unleashed gorilla arm, and his power increased to another level!
Because blunt weapons are not very efficient for Night City's special skeletal modifications, Lin Yue wanted to test the limits of his physical body.

Clearly, this sudden burst of speed left the thug, who relied on Sianwistan, with no chance to defend himself. Only then did he remember to fire a few bullets at the guy.

He wanted to shout that this guy definitely had close ties to the company.

It's just that the opportunity is gone.

The speed of sound is not the fastest in the current battle.

"boom!"

The dull thud of skull shattering, accompanied by crimson and various lumps, suddenly exploded out amidst the ear-piercing scream of S.A.W.S.!

The patterns on the baseball bat were instantly stained red, and the direction from which the force was thrown was a spray of blood, like a high-pressure water gun, directly splashing into the encirclement of Valentino's villains.

A strong, fishy stench exploded instantly!

"what?!"

Camilla's eyes blurred for a moment before she saw a large patch of blood-red stuff rushing towards her. She quickly crouched down, and then felt a warm sensation on her body and exposed skin.

From above, the corpse with its head blown off was now swaying precariously in front of Rin, whose afterimages were slowly dissipating and visually merging back into one.

"Pfft."

The corpse, now deprived of its head, immediately knelt on the ground, maintaining a bizarre posture.

At the same time, V's figure flashed backward like a ghost.

The dilapidated street where Camilla and her group were gathered resembled a sunken bucket, from which gunshots suddenly rang out...

The gunmen were locked on V, and behind them, there was a flurry of bullets and sparks.

Her dark red, bright eyes suddenly turned to the left, and the gunmen who were focused on shooting immediately saw the words "Uploading" appear in their eyes.

No one expected that this tall woman dressed as a street kid was actually a hacker.

The infection, coupled with the cracking of several of the most powerful killing moves among urban hackers, spread like a plague until V's RAM was running out of power due to brain-computer interface overclocking, at which point she stopped uploading.

call out--

A bullet struck V's arm, and she used the momentum to fall from the side of the building, landing right below piles of garbage wrapped in black plastic.

The gunmen hurriedly checked the puppet's upload progress.

One of the guys' eyes turned extremely panicked...

[Self-destruction].

His hand, which had been firing, suddenly stopped. His teammate, who was reloading his gun, saw that the guy wasn't going to follow up with more fire and cursed loudly, "Are you asking for a beating again?! Fuck you! Get to work!"

However, the man's expression was like a shadow suddenly appearing under the midday sun, his entire face muscles seemed to be churning together.

In an instant, the gang member who had been cursing this guy also changed his expression. He was dumbfounded, having thought he could use ICE to withstand this invasion.

"Hey Hey hey!"

His gaze locked onto the man's hand, and at the same time, the weapon in the other man's hand, which was also watching the man, made a clanging sound...

His weapon malfunctioned, causing him to hastily drop the gun. He watched helplessly as his gang accomplice, with a strange expression, pulled a pistol from his waistband and, amidst sobs, raised it to his temple…

"Damn it... I... I don't want to die!"

He made a pleading sound in his throat, and as the muzzle flashed, half of his head on his temple deformed like a collapsed balloon.

Those who witnessed this suicide could even clearly see the electronic prosthetic eye, equipped with sophisticated components, squeezing out of its socket...

The large-caliber revolver, Valentino's favorite weapon, now delivered their most direct and brutal death.

"Ah! Holy crap... Holy crap..."

The guy whose face was splashed with warm liquid was also a man who had committed many evil deeds. He just never expected that a hacker capable of such advanced and rapid cracking would appear in this area.

As he screech as he backed away, his buttocks scraping against the asphalt of the roof, a line of words slowly appeared in his eyes.

Those guys who were still focused on firing noticed their comrades retreating like idiots at their feet. They discovered a corpse with a headshot in the distance, and their comrades shouting in some language and almost wetting their pants at their feet.

"what happened?"

Not a single ICE soldier survived the intrusion; their firing even paused for a moment…

Aside from the sparks of their malfunctioning prosthetics, they endured the pain as they tackled the cowardly man on the ground who was screaming incessantly because his companion's head had been pierced.

"Get out of the way! It's a hacker!"

Suddenly, the guy who was being lifted up shoved his companion away, yelling, "Run! My grenade..."

He shakily pulled out a highly lethal explosive from his side; the electronic control module on top, with its safety pin still attached, was flashing with the light of an impending explosion.

Detonate the grenade

Another powerful tool for hackers in offline cracking—

V, sheltered from the gunfire, counted the minutes. A violent explosion followed by screams and the sound of walls collapsing...

She immediately dodged forward, extending one hand to serve as a support for her sniper rifle, and began her sweeping action while standing.

"I go?"

Lin Yue still remembered V's reminder to him.

"Didn't you say to kill fewer people?"

It was unexpected that this woman was acting with the intention of minimizing Lin Yue's troubles by handling more of her affairs. Clearly, V's side had also realized that these people weren't the typical Mexican-Americans found in the Valentino gang.

"Amigo, watch out!"

Jack struggled for a moment, then heard an explosion and screams behind him. Apart from the guy who shot himself, the gang members on the high ground were almost completely incapacitated.

"Damn it... two people dare to act tough?!" Camilla spat out a mouthful of blood!
Suddenly, she pulled a modified smart pistol from her back waist. "Take care of those scumbags on the rooftop. Whoever's slower gets their head shoved!"

As she was speaking, Camilla was about to press Jack down and make him lie face down.

Camilla's other gold earring shattered instantly!

The shards of gold sliced ​​through her cheek, leaving the first fine, bloody gashes. This millimeter-precise threat froze all the gunmen in place for a fleeting moment—

"Depend on!"

Camilla sensed something was wrong, and then an electromagnetically accelerated bullet arrived in an instant!

Even though Camilla dodged, she was still sent flying backward!
A sense of relief washed over Jack.

Immediately afterwards, two figures pressed down on his back.

It was two corpses!

Only then did they realize that V had actually used a single shot to impale both the gunman controlling him and Camilla on a skewer!

"Great gun, girl!"

Haywood rolled over and picked up the golden-haired woman who had been kicked away, ready to be the first to support the mercenary who had recklessly rushed into the encirclement and used a blunt weapon.

Jack ultimately failed to turn around and shoot Camilla, who was lying on the ground. Instead, he slipped into cover like an eel and hid from a sniper shot from behind.

Jack was almost intercepted several times, thanks to the snipers above who were very good at clearing obstacles.

“Heywood’s little brats, Jack Wells is here!”

He kicked away the Heywood gang member who was grabbing his cousin!

However, before he could reach the soldiers surrounding the blunt weapon user, the young man in riding clothes picked up a dead body and slammed it into the crowd.

Jack's pupils contracted.

cold? !

He hadn't had time to get a good look from a distance, but even without seeing the person's scan information clearly, Jack knew who was fighting.

Lin Yue was incredibly fast; the corpses he threw were like cannonballs, breaking countless bones.

He then instantly bent his knees and jumped up from the spot, leaping out of the air in a perfect arc, his fists outstretched as if he were about to slam into the ground.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

Jack, holding the golden shrew, took on as many as he could. He heard the cracking sounds of the prosthetic body and muscles working hard, and suddenly the ground trembled!
Rin's arms, slammed into a group of gang members who hadn't yet caught a trace of her, felt as heavy as a thousand pounds!
Spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the asphalt road!

"what!!!"

This shocking method, which was almost indistinguishable from humanoid cannonballs, caused a large group of people to drop their weapons and fly backward like weightless rag dolls!
With just a few simple attacks, half of Haywood's thugs were taken down by two mercenaries who appeared out of nowhere.

But these thugs, both shocked and enraged, were not so easily defeated.

Several people climbed into the vehicles, which were armed with miniature missiles and heavy machine guns. Lin Yue glanced back at the roaring engines behind him and dodged. The driver, who had opened fire hastily, swept his guns across a group of unconscious gang members who could still be saved.

Camilla's synthetic lung was shattered, her chest caved in, and her subordinates dragged her towards the fastest vehicle in the area, where the roar of engines echoed from the end of the street.

This is…

Jack and V's expressions froze simultaneously.

Camila's backup is coming.

V wasn't actually worried that Rin wouldn't be able to break through; he was just afraid that in this turbulent time, Rin's unique abilities would be exposed and cause unnecessary trouble.

"Get rid of this guy!"

Camilla was carried into the car, her heart filled with shock and rage. "Use Cuban stuff to kill this scum! Don't let him live!"

"None of you should fucking live anymore!"

"This is absolutely outrageous—damn it!"

Camilla can no longer speak…

Lin Yue saw the vehicles speeding away, and Jack shouted, "Don't let Camilla get away!"

If Camilla doesn't run away, Heywood's matter can still be handled. But if it really turns into a conflict between gangs and neighbors, and the company gets involved... if it's used by someone with ulterior motives, it could become another good show of the company slaughtering "local residents".

Jack finally managed to get Haywood to be less resistant to Rin's company, so that everyone could have stable food and accommodation at this time.

Is it just ruined like that?
Absolutely not!
Jack raised his gun and fired, aiming at the four tires under Camilla's car. V also tried to help by damaging the tires, but the remaining Valentino gang members who hadn't been dealt with retaliated again.

Lin Yue was surrounded by heavy machine guns that roared in from both sides, leaving a trail of cratered marks behind him.

The driver above was spitting and cursing.

Missiles rained down, heading straight for Lin Yue...

Just like luck is always a few points short, Lin Yue quickly moved to within three or four meters of the car.

Just the blink of an eye.

Amid the driver's curses such as "I'll run you over, you idiot," Lin Yuesi's Avenist power surged, barely avoiding the impact. The passenger-side window shattered with a crash. As the driver slammed into the debris beside him, a steaming grenade rolled into his arms amidst the violent shaking.

WTF—

The entire vehicle instantly turned into a raging fireball.

The influx of Valentino gang reinforcements into the street ahead forced Jack to grit his teeth and abandon the idea…

The question now is how Jack and V can break out of the encirclement.

Lin Yue glanced at a possible direction to break through, then stepped onto his motorcycle to draw enemy fire.

Before I could make a move, I heard a series of gunshots behind me.

Is he a dreamer?!

Lin Yue frowned. He had clearly told Suzuki not to let the company get involved, but now Night City was full of enemies trying to make a scene with Dreamers…

"Heywood's bastards, get these usurpers out of here! And some of them are betraying the neighborhood, even turning on their own people... What are we supposed to do?!"

An old woman's voice cried out.

Jack, still holding his gun and firing from behind cover, was stunned when he heard this sound.

"Mom?!"

The residents, who thought they had been intimidated by Camilla's ruthless tactics, had returned. This time, they brought the defensive weapons they kept in their homes, and a large group of them stood in a stalemate with the Valentino gang members who rushed towards them.

Lin Yue, Jack, and V, who jumped down from the roof, were surrounded by Valentino's men, while the residents of Haywood were in front of them.

The cursing and friction did not escalate into a fight, all because some of the Heywood men and their families were involved in this gang.

Lin Yue watched quietly.

Emma and Suzuki deserve a lot of credit for making this possible.

At least for now, the Haywoods are willing to accept the Dreamers' help.

And Mrs. Wells seems to be on Jack's side too...

"Release her! Hand over Camilla!"

"That's my cousin! When Camilla was wearing diapers, my mom even fed her formula! What an ingrate!"

"Murderer!"

The Valentino gang was not to be outdone.

"You're in cahoots with the company dogs? You dare call yourselves Haywood people? What do you mean by that, uncle?"

"My aunt's hand disability was caused by a prosthetic body sold by the company dog, and now you're groveling before them?"

"Make these two outsiders kneel on the ground and take the bullets!"

"I fucking agree!"

Lin Yue turned his gaze to the outside of the indignant crowd. Mrs. Wells hadn't arrived yet, and it seemed that these people weren't there to rescue them at all, but rather because of the "troublemaker" who had been shot dead by Camilla earlier.

"You want to mess with Mrs. Wells' son? Which family in Heywood hasn't received Mrs. Wells' help? Do you even have any humanity?"

Jack instinctively stepped in front of Lin Yue and V to block them, saying, "Bear with it, Rin."

The burly man's face was full of a troubled expression.

He'd rather be in that dangerous situation, risking his life inside the Arasaka Tower, than be caught in this predicament...

"Quiet down!!!"

Someone shouted...

The crowd parted, and Mrs. Wells's attire seemed unchanged, the only difference being that today she was wearing a medal on her chest that Lin Yue did not recognize.

Many of the Valentino gang members who had just been cursing immediately fell silent.

Judging from their appearances, they should all be Haywood's men.

"Cristiano...it's been a long time. How is your mother?"

An ordinary old lady, she remained completely calm in this situation, after all, in the original storyline, she was able to snatch Jack's body back from Arasaka.

“Uh, Mrs. Wells.”

The man's wrist tattoo indicated he was a high-ranking official in Valentino. His gold watch and various pieces of jewelry were quite valuable, and although his clothes and pointed shoes were flashy, they were all genuinely expensive.

So, were those dangerous gang leaders with orange and yellow skulls that I experienced in the game world?

Lin Yue thought to himself.

"Thanks to you, and God bless her, she is in good health."

The man looked somewhat reluctant.

But when he looked down and saw the corpses lying haphazardly, his eyes, which had been evasive, began to turn cold.

"Excuse my bluntness, Mrs. Wells."

"I may be speaking harshly, please don't mind... It's Haywood's family matter. Are you trying to protect these two mercenaries from out of town?"

Mrs. Wells' gaze shifted to the two people blocking Jack's view.

look unfamiliar.

But the woman's demeanor was familiar... she must be a girl that Mrs. Wells didn't particularly like.

She's never had a good impression of people in the company, not even her son's childhood friend, V...

"Get out of the way, Jack."

Jack gritted his teeth, "Mom—"

The wife simply looked at Jack and asked, "Jack, did I not explain myself clearly, or are you trying to make things more complicated?"

Jack hesitated for a long time before saying, "Trust my mom."

After Jack left, Mrs. Wells glanced at Lin Yue a few times. "Thank you all for saving my son. You're welcome to come to Wild Wolf Bar anytime, it's on the house, just a small token of my appreciation..."

"Besides, someone who's still willing to help Jack in this situation must be one of his friends... or something like that?"

"In short, thank you very much. We will pay according to the agreed amount and will never let either of you suffer a loss."

Jack sensed that his words might offend Rin and V, so he quickly winked at them.

"But your skills are truly extraordinary. How did you two manage to deal with so many people like Valentino?"

Lin Yue frowned slightly.

Before he could speak, Jack interrupted, "Those aren't from Valentino's gang, they're scum Camilla picked up from who-knows-where, some of them are even scavengers!"

Mrs. Wells' eyes suddenly turned to the foreman. "Is there something you need, Cristiano?"

The official spread his hands.

"No offense intended, but this is gang policy, and you can't control that, can you?"

His words were laced with barbs, and the implication was clear: "What right does an old lady like you have to interfere? I'm only being polite to you..."

However, Mrs. Wells didn't dwell on that, and almost immediately retorted, "So Camilla shot Yazir?"

"this…"

The manager's face darkened. "Yazir, and even Jack Wells, are all involved with the company. Isn't that betrayal?"

He snorted coldly.

“Mrs. Wells, this matter cannot be left like this. Outsiders are killing our brothers like this. Unless you admit that the company has given you benefits, there is no way to explain why you are happily working for the company and not letting us in to do business.”

This statement is practically tantamount to tearing off all pretense of civility.

A series of gunshots rang out immediately, one of them pointed directly at Mrs. Wells.

Lin Yue's hand clenched unconsciously.

The atmosphere froze, as solid as ice...

……

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(End of this chapter)