Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 48 Cyber ​​Mental Illness [2.9K Reads, Please Continue Reading]

The remains of the three people were scattered on the ground.

Lin Yue aimed at the transparent, blurry curtain and pulled the trigger for the second shot!
This shot was practically a blind shot. Lin Yue wasn't sure if it could temporarily shut down the server, but since his ICE hadn't recovered yet, he could only gamble and fire the shot.

A burst of sparks erupted from the server, and members of the nearby Voodoo Gang shouted to each other.

"Some bastard has sneaked in! Keep an eye on the server, screw the notification slider!"

Unfortunately, the shot had little effect; the cracking effect was still transmitted into Lin Yue's body and broke through ICE.

Suddenly, a series of electric arcs appeared on the gorilla's arm, sparks accompanied by a slight burning sensation, causing Lin Yue to feel a sharp, stinging pain in his nerves!

Depend on!
Lin Yue experienced the power of rapid cracking for the first time. The system ICE indicated that this was merely a rapid cracking method for prosthetic body failure.

If it were a synaptic melt, it could probably kill him on the spot!

No more delay!
Lin Yue moved his clumsy, sluggish gorilla arm, now hacked, and gripped the crack of the automatic door tightly. With a muffled thud, the prosthetic bearings and joints creaked as Lin Yue, enduring the searing pain, forced the door open!
The prosthetic body's parameters began to stabilize and gradually returned to normal as the self-ICE and biomonitoring systems began to function properly.

Lin Yue extinguished some of the fires, and the nerve pain immediately lessened by more than half.

Lin Yue pulled a deep-cutting grenade from his waist and threw it behind the curtain.

The grenade exploded slightly, and bursts of dense red light erupted!
The Voodoo Gang members who were preparing to launch a sneak attack from behind the curtain let out painful roars and howls!
The high-energy laser emitted by the cutting grenade was enough to cut through brittle flesh and skin. Lin Yue tore off the curtain and kicked aside the broken prosthetic limbs at his feet.

A massive server, connected by various lines like an ancient tree, stood before me...

A tremendous roar accompanied the heatwave from the server's operation, and the density of rapid cracking began to surge.

Each of these voodoo gang members can be used as a relay station and host, and the rapid cracking will allow them to attack Lin Yue regardless of distance.

"This guy has ICE, but it's not military-grade. Hurry up and take him down!"

Before the member in charge of the Voodoo Gang's defenses could finish speaking, his head was ripped apart by a tremendous surge of energy.

Using the railings as cover, Lin Yue dealt with the rapid cracking attacks coming from these members, while the server also had some modules destroyed by the bombs he threw.

The Voodoo Gang gunmen hiding behind cover were in complete disarray, unaware that the hounds had broken in!
"Damn! Send some guys to get close, it's a sniper! The server's down, we're all doomed!"

Upon hearing the order, several members of the Voodoo Gang drew long knives and other weapons from their waists. With staircases at both ends of the circular corridor, they attempted to encircle Lin Yue from both sides.

The attack on the server was effective. As Lin Yue's firepower continued, the server's functions began to be damaged, with bursts of electric arcs appearing. Several rapid cracking attempts by the hackers from this puppet workshop were interrupted midway.

While observing the situation, Lin Yue kept an eye on the cooldown time of his own ICE.

Lin Yue sniped a Voodoo gang member on the left who hadn't had time to run up, and he immediately pulled out his pistol and chose to walk forward on the other side.

As Lin Yue was walking, a man wielding a machete suddenly jumped out from behind several stacked boxes. Lin Yue instinctively tried to defend himself, but the machete slashed hard into his arm!
Subcutaneous bulletproofing prevented the sharp knife from penetrating more than one centimeter into the skin before it became immobile.

Blood gushed from the wound Lin Yue had been slashed at. The pain editor worked to ease the pain, and he reached out and grabbed the guy by the neck, then flung him off the second floor!
He then pulled the long knife that was stuck in his arm and threw it on the ground, causing a clanging sound.

The Voodoo Gang members who were following behind to surround Lin Yue immediately wanted to retreat when they saw this killing god. Lin Yue did not want to be attacked from both sides, so he raised his gun and fired!
Kinetic energy pistols are deadly weapons in such narrow terrain!
The haphazardly fired bullets left no room to dodge. After eliminating one of the members surrounding the server, Lin Yue immediately began firing his sniper rifle at the server.

A grenade rolled to the feet of the Voodoo Gang member who had come up from the other side. A burst of fire and the disintegration of the prosthetic body accompanied the third quick decryption in Lin Yue's eyes, and the loading bar for the third quick decryption was about to be completed!
Damn!

Lin Yue watched the progress bar nervously. Fortunately, after a series of clicking sounds from the server, the progress bar stopped at 99%.

Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

If he is surrounded, Lin Yue will suffer a fatal blow if his prosthetic body malfunctions or his prosthetic eye restarts!

There are still at least a dozen Voodoo Gang members defending the area around the server, and Lin Yue simply can't be in two places at once—keeping an eye on the server while clearing out the remaining personnel.

However, his keen observation led him to discover that the power-consuming server was connected to a generator. So, while destroying the server, he also fired at the power cords connected to it.

In a corner that Lin Yue hadn't noticed, a camera slowly turned around.

In the red-glowing lens, a blind man in the network is staring at this unfamiliar young mercenary.

As the continuous gunfire began to subside, Lin Yue finally destroyed the server. With the sound of explosions and falling metal parts, some Voodoo Gang members who couldn't dodge in time were crushed underneath. However, what concerned Lin Yue was that the progress bar stuck in his prosthetic eye had not disappeared.

Thankfully, it's temporarily over.

Just when Lin Yue thought everything was in place, he became anxious and began searching for the place where the slider was hiding, as he remembered it.

however--

The progress bar that had been rapidly cracking suddenly dropped to 100%.

Oops!

Lin Yue's heart skipped a beat as his prosthetic eye suddenly went dark!

Everything around him had changed... It felt like something was missing from his head. Lin Yue, now fully awake, looked down at his hands, a wave of weakness washing over him.

There was no prosthetic body left, just a slightly thinner arm and a game walkthrough video on the computer screen in front of her, along with editing software.

Lin Yue's face and slightly messy hair were reflected on the phone screen, making him look like a stay-at-home guy who had been staying up all night.

"what happened?"

Lin Yue was completely baffled. The sunlight outside the window was warm and gentle, as if that world was as elusive as a dream.

Lin Yue stood up in disbelief. His steps were a little unsteady from staying up all night. He staggered to the balcony. Outside the window, the street below was bustling with traffic. It felt like he had returned to his old world.

Lin Yue looked at his hometown with a sense of loss—where was that complex and charming neon city, that technologically advanced night city, now gone?

It must have all been a dream.

He spread his arms and gave a beautiful yawn.

"I can't stay up so late again next time, this dream was way too long!"

Suddenly, the scene changed, and Mann, with a cigarette in his mouth, looked down at him.

Rebecca and Pila, standing beside him, crossed their arms and gave him hostile looks.

"You sold us out? You're a piece of trash who deserves to go to hell..."

Dorothy slowly moved closer to Lin Yue.

Lin Yue was startled. "What are you talking about?"

Suddenly, a gun appeared in Lin Yue's hand. In a panic, he quickly raised the gun, and everyone else raised their guns as well, causing the atmosphere to freeze instantly.

V stepped out from behind the group, arms crossed, waving her hand with a chilling murderous intent on her face.

The person next to Lin Yue, wearing a helmet and with a prosthetic eye glowing green, pressed a gun against Lin Yue's head.

"【Terrorist Mobile Unit】?"

Lin Yue found himself unable to move, and could only let the cold muzzle of the gun press against his temple.

"boom!"

Lin Yue felt his mind go blank, his eyes froze for a moment, the feeling of blood sliding down his cheeks was a little itchy, and the tip of his nose was filled with a strong smell of rust.

"why?"

Lin Yue stretched out his arm, and the gorilla arm was back.

Why did you kill me? Wasn't I good enough? I survived all the way from the hounds of the underworld and led everyone to make money, why did you betray me?
With a sudden burst of strength, Lin Yue's companions in front of him transformed into Arasaka agents. He exerted his power and punched one of the agents in front of him in the face.

His expression also began to contort, and he muttered something incoherently—

The agent Arasaka, who was attempting a sneak attack, was firmly gripped by Lin Yue's neck, and he punched the agent in the face.

"Lin Yue, why did you kill me, you bastard..."

Before her lay a woman's pale neck in her palm, and Rebecca's face slumped down, her eyes filled with despair as she looked at Lin Yue, a mixture of reproach and resentment.

Lin Yue was startled and quickly let go of Rebecca.

He stared in disbelief at the blood on his hands, knelt down, and looked at Rebecca, who was about to lose her breath, clutching his head with bloodshot eyes.

"No, no, no... It wasn't me, Rebecca, it wasn't me!"

Lin Yue looked up and saw that not far from Rebecca were people he recognized: V, Mann, Pila, Dorio...

Their skulls were all smashed by this arm!

A beastly roar echoed throughout the space, and also within the sliding [Temple].

……

【Synaptic Fuse】: The most lethal and rapid hacking method, which, when combined with related prosthetics, can achieve 'staring kill'.

【Terrorist SWAT Team】: They are responsible for cases related to cyberpsychosis. They are responsible for eliminating dangerous individuals who are highly lethal due to prosthetic syndrome—or rather, they are themselves cyberpsychotics.

【Temple】: Voodoo gangs believe that their puppet workshops are temples used in Voodoo to communicate with the gods, and the leaders of these workshops and cybercrime groups are generally called priests.

(The server where the slider is hidden is below~)

(End of this chapter)