Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 534 The Attack! (Part Four) [End of Chapter]

"You want me dead? No way!"

The fists howled terrifyingly in the air, and the hollowed-out structure that activated layer by layer, spewing out hot air, was a survival instinct stronger than ever before.

Someone will definitely come to pick me up. I still need to get revenge on Miles and find out who made this chip... There are still many things I need to do personally.

The crisscrossing blades highlighted Rebecca's indomitable spirit. Her fists slammed into the samurai sword forged from special aerospace steel, producing a crisp sound. Like a black spinning top, Rebecca freed one hand and, without hesitation, gripped the second sword tightly—

call!
Rebecca had no way to defend herself against the blade at her side...

But Rebecca, who was no longer lacking in courage, or rather, completely unafraid of losing anything, had a more perfect solution. The Pain Editor activated, the values ​​skyrocketed, and Sianwistan's trajectory, carrying the two cybernetic ninjas, crashed straight into the guy who was about to ambush Rebecca!

The man seemed surprised that the girl wasn't taking a defensive stance. He immediately grinned maliciously. Because of the temperature difference between day and night, the fine water droplets on the surface of the helmet visor cast shadows in the wind, and the shadow inside the visor showed that Rebecca's body was rapidly enlarging!
puff!

The blade easily pierced Rebecca's bulletproof leather, but encountered unparalleled resistance inside her body. She could almost hear the sharp pain and the rattling sound of her metal ribs. As she twisted her body, the girl actually sacrificed a synthetic lung to firmly wed the blade into the gap between her ribs...

This desperate stance startled the other two ninjas who had drawn their swords. They then hurriedly tried to draw their blades and deliver a few more blows to Rebecca to reinforce their teammate's attack!
"Did I... let you leave?!"

Rebecca felt a piercing pain in her hand, but she still gripped it tightly. Even with ACPA operating at full power, she couldn't immediately pull the blade out of Rebecca's hand.

[WARNING: Unknown firmware error!]

Rebecca's eyes flashed with blood-red numbers, but she had no time to pay attention to them. Instead, she forcefully pulled the guy over. This sudden force was partly due to the fact that this gorilla arm, adapted to the Black Wall, was a super-military prosthetic body that exceeded the limits of human nerve endurance—

On the other hand, there is the limitless potential when it comes to survival!
Rebecca knew very well that without fighting, she would only die…

The price of removing the chip was too heavy. It wasn't just about her life; many innocent people had died because of it. It was the last key to the collapse of this rotten world—if these guys got their hands on it, the world would be plunged into a world where the rich would live forever.

Caught off guard by the sudden tug, Rebecca let go before the ACPA could fully adjust the ninja's center of gravity. The ninja was only focused on drawing his sword, and the attacking pressure on Rebecca's side suddenly decreased with the pull!

"Bastard!"

The one leading the attack appeared to be a minor leader, who roared in a low voice in Japanese, it was unclear whether he was cursing the two who were feigning an attack for being incompetent or cursing Rebecca for her sudden ferocity.

Rebecca's spine, which had been exposed, was completely activated by Sianwistan, and her nerves seemed to be rumbling like war drums in time with her heartbeat!
"Big gun, who cares if it hits or not!"

The brightly colored iron bullets suddenly spit out flames in the ninja's eyes. He instinctively raised his arm to shield his forehead. The bullets, which resembled shattered stars and were mixed with red-hot flames and chemical particles, rained down on the ninja's body like a storm!

The gushing liquid metal on his body surged up to the spot where the ninja was hit by the bullet, and then he was given a harsh lesson at close range by this large-caliber, crudely modified gun that disregarded safety!
Wow!

The liquid splashed out in the air briefly exposed its vulnerability, but Rebecca's control over the big guns (shotgun, machine gun) was more than enough to quickly pull down and finish off the enemy the moment the muzzle was raised into the air!

Immediately afterwards——

The guy, who had no metal protection, instantly burst into flames and was covered in green light. Those shotguns, some as big as soybeans and some as small as grains of sand, were like venomous snakes that had burrowed into his skin and were eager to devour his muscles and marrow!

"what--!!"

The ninja's groan spurred the attacker to close in. The ninja delivered a powerful upward slash to Rebecca's chest with a classic Japanese one-sword style, leaving a bloody gash that quickly smeared with blood...

As this special ACPA emitted a piercing roar, its immense force sent Rebecca flying, and the blade embedded in her ribs was accidentally pulled out...

"A bunch of useless trash...can't even get a girl."

The ninja watched the result of this slash with a grim face. The data collected by the chip was most complete when Rebecca was dying. He sheathed his blade and drew his dagger, preparing to cut the thing out from the healed spot on her neck.

Rebecca tumbled and rolled several times on the ground before collapsing onto the rough gravel. The pain from her torn wounds made her groan involuntarily. The few figures that flickered in her vision indicated that Rebecca's endurance was nearing its limit.

Rebecca, like a young wild animal defying its hunter, arched her back and tried to get up, but after a few attempts, she finally collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Wow!
The blade danced in the air, creating a sword flower. The attacker, whose sword was stuck in Rebecca's ribs, looked at his companion who was rolling on the ground and howling in pain. Without hesitation, he thrust the tip of his sword downwards!

Rebecca lay on the ground, watching this incredibly cruel scene, gritting her teeth and letting out a sob—

"Pfft."

The blade was slowly withdrawn from their bodies; for these two cold-blooded killers who had dealt with their burdens without hesitation…

There have been far too many humiliations today.

"Where are you?"

Rebecca mumbled something incoherently.

Johnny Silverhand, standing beside her, was also trying to wake Rebecca, watching helplessly as the ninja, whom he couldn't reach, walked step by step toward Rebecca.

"what?"

The ninja seemed to be asking a question.

The cyborg ninja, having eliminated his comrade, pulled out a canned object resembling a smoke bomb from his side. The special, flowing liquid that had been attached to the dead body slowly seeped into the can.

"Where..."

Rebecca knew that someone was definitely trying their best to get close to her.

If I could run a little faster, would I be able to reach the federal state closest to Night City, and Rin be able to pick me up then?

But now... it seems like it's all too late.

"The container is on its way; please pick up the chip."

The ninja was urging his superior.

Sure enough, the light from the hovercar pierced the darkness of the night from the horizon, and the ninja who slowly crouched down and pressed a dagger against Rebecca's neck whispered, "You're just as clueless as that guy."

A chilling, stinging sensation; more and more Relic error messages; the world in Rebecca's eyes turned blood red, everywhere filled with crimson and black data spewing from the void of the sky—

"what!"

"Rebecca?!"

Johnny's body began to blur, and there seemed to be an invisible wall in front of him. He kept touching it with his hands and yelling at Rebecca not to be a coward and to stand up quickly.

"Where..."

Rebecca's world was almost completely overwhelmed by the Relic data error message; she could only manage to utter this one word with all her might...

The ninja noticed the blade touching the chip and tried to pull it out.

The moment that cold mechanical hand touched her, the strange black walls, data, and white noise in Rebecca's ears, the wind on the wasteland, everything that could move and be perceived—all froze...

The data was still flowing slowly, but Rebecca couldn't utter a whimper.

"Holy crap... Rebecca, something's wrong—"

Johnny's voice revealed fear for the first time.

He felt his consciousness being invaded, as if someone was effortlessly perceiving everything about him, and the neural connection between Rebecca and himself was being laid bare to outsiders.

squeak-

A rift tore open in the world of the prosthetic eye, and a digitized holographic image began to materialize. The person Rebecca had asked herself a thousand times in her heart appeared…

Strangely, Rebecca was able to keep up with this train of thought, as if someone had taken her to a secret place that didn't belong to this world.

Because this is the fast communication of the Black Wall.

Anyone using the Blackwall protocol can quickly locate Relic as long as they are near the data signal. The downside is that the person cannot be too far away.

Johnny Silverhand felt a chill run down his spine as he watched a figure suddenly squeeze into his lonely world. This rock star, who had once dropped a nuclear bomb on Arasaka Tower, was filled with dread.

At the end of the data, which was a blinding crimson and a mesmerizing dark blue, a pair of eyes slowly opened.

With clear footsteps, stepping on data, he controlled everything here, including the most basic brain-computer interface between the two of them.

凛…

That was that guy's code name. "Fuck your mother..."

Johnny wanted to speak, but Rebecca's throat could make a sound again. The high-intensity data made Relic hot. Lin Yue, who was silently watching Rebecca, slowly raised his hand.

"Long time no see, Johnny."

Lin Yue was speaking to the memory he cherished...

"For your health, let's log off this guy for now."

He moved his hand slightly, and Johnny was forcibly shut down!

Fate.

Lin Yue used the lark's method to invade Rebecca's brain-computer interface. In the original timeline, V, unable to survive, was led all the way to the entrance of Dogtown, and the lark descended in the same way.

"Lin Yue..."

Rebecca's voice was intermittent, a consequence of her various physical injuries; she was about to be shut down...

Lin Yue crouched down, but he couldn't touch Rebecca; he just kept taking on more data on his own.

He also had so much to say to Rebecca, and he wanted to tell her all about the consequences of his self-righteous decisions—a heart full of remorse.

"The new America is no fun at all."

Rebecca transforms from someone who only vents her emotions to someone who can seriously consider her situation and independently infiltrate the new U.S. intelligence agency to bring Miles out of Dogtown…

What else could Lin Yue say about her?

"That's enough, Rebecca, that's enough..."

Rebecca knew that some people were destined to save her, and she knew that this thread of fate would always be taut between the two of them.

Speechless.

Lin Yue's anger was beyond words.

What he saw was not a holographic image of Rebecca; all he could read was Rebecca's poor physical condition and a ninja who rashly and violently removed Rebecca's chip.

“V’s subordinates are very close to you, Rebecca.”

"Put all your strength to stand up, and don't let the chip be pulled out, okay?"

Lin Yue's brows and eyes were full of heartache. Even though there was a piercing light in his eyes, his gentle tone, which suppressed his anger, made him feel more at ease than ever before.

“I’m waiting in the city closest to you to wipe out these maggots in one fell swoop. I need to borrow high-powered data transmission equipment, mainframes, and computing devices.”

"All you need to do is get up, fight back, and that one action is enough, okay?"

Everything seemed like an illusion.

Vanished instantly!

It was as if the voice that had just rang so clearly in my ears was a final burst of energy before death.

stand up.

The simple expectation is that when children are young, parents patiently teach them to crawl and stand upright, and when they suffer oppression and setbacks, friends and loved ones will be a second chance to help them stand up.

"I…"

"Fuck you!"

Rebecca arched her back with all her might, and the gorilla's arm grabbed the wrist of the person in front of her. She raised her head and glared at the guy.

What just happened?
The ninja only felt a brief error message appear on his brain, as if something had stopped working, but before he could forcefully press Rebecca to the ground, a small, black knife, moving with a speed more ferocious than a bullet, hurtled straight towards the dagger in the guy's hand.

Ding.

The dagger seemed to be desperately trying to burrow into the ninja's breastplate, but he ignored the traces of the dagger's movements and instead looked up at the blood-red eyes in the darkness ahead.

Red eyes?

Hackers...

The woman's special operations uniform accentuated her perfect curves, and what brought her here was not some means of transportation, but a floating vehicle above.

The device that carries Relic is a large box, which is an important container for maintaining the integrity of the chip's biological structure.

The woman who controlled the Arasaka intelligence network in Night City hitched a ride on this vehicle. It's unclear how, but a corpse that was beyond dead jumped to the ground with her.

"Your friend gave me a ride."

"That's not very polite."

The woman's voice was cold, yet it carried a slightly alluring nasal quality.

"enemy!"

The ninja's expression changed drastically, and he was about to speak.

The sudden attack ripped through the night sky with a whooshing sound, and the hovercar, which was quietly suspended in the air, was hit instantly!

V rushed forward and shielded Rebecca behind him.

"A New America!"

Rebecca knew who was attacking.

"I know."

While speaking in a low voice, V hacked into the ACPA's components using a brain-computer interface overclocking attack. This skillful hacker's attack caused the prosthetic ninja, who was skilled in close combat, to freeze slightly. With more and more rockets attacking, the raging fire illuminated the area as if it were daytime!
"go!"

Despite her slender figure, V grabbed Rebecca's arms with both hands and lifted her onto her back.

The heatwave made the two momentarily lose their balance, but the sounds of more and more car engines came from the outskirts of the town. A jet-black Emperor SUV crashed through dilapidated houses, its headlights, as reliable as a knight's, illuminating the space behind them amidst the crashing of shattered parts.

Wow!
Sand and gravel are flying everywhere!

The driver of the drifting SUV opened the door before the car had even come to a complete stop, revealing a dashing man with a samurai-style bun hairstyle, wearing a suit he hadn't had time to change into, a samurai sword drawn from his hand, and eyes as sharp as the sword itself.

Suzuki drew his sword without hesitation.

More and more Arasaka ninjas appeared on the vehicles beside them, charging forward.

"Miss V, it's up to you! Lead these insects all the way to Lord Rin!"

When Suzuki heard only the high-pitched roar of the engine and the sound of the car door closing behind him, a slight smile of relief appeared on his lips.

Suzuki, gripping the blade with both hands, pointed the tip of his sword at two bewildered ninjas amidst the artillery fire, and behind them, a new American military technology force, shrouded in yellow sand and dust, rising from the inky blackness of the horizon.

"you--"

"You've messed with the wrong person, you bastard."

There were others looking at the indistinct blackness on the horizon.

Amidst the sea of ​​neon lights atop the towering buildings, a person with their hands in their pockets stared in Rebecca's direction, their face obscured, a chilling sneer playing on their lips.

……

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(End of this chapter)