Harry Potter, the savior of Night City

With Irving's shout, two rockets burst out of the chamber. The rocket launcher's aiming system looked to be a Kantau product, and it traced a Qian Xuesen trajectory in the air.

Those two idiots dressed as centaurs were still unleashing plasma cannon fire. The plasma cannon's charging time was much slower than the rocket's speed. Several shots were fired at the rockets in the air, but they were all dodged by the strange trajectories.

"Idiot, switch to machine guns!" a centaur leader of the Night Wanderers exclaimed in response.

"You're the idiot, you should be holding up your shield!" another guy retorted.

"Grab a phone for free!"

"Raise your shields!"

"Change to a machine gun!"

"Raise..."

"boom!"

These two idiots actually started arguing under these circumstances, completely ignoring the rockets in the air. They didn't even notice when the rockets flew right in front of them. It seems that these two guys really don't have high prosthetic capacity, and they are so out of their minds that they don't know whether to save their lives first or argue first.

"Two idiots," Mann gave a fair assessment.

As the smoke cleared, the centaur's shield was destroyed, and the energy tank on its back was also blown up. It looked a mess, but in reality, its condition was much better than when it was first bombed. Being bombed like that, coupled with the destruction of a small part of the centaur's system, actually allowed its brain to recover to a barely normal state.

"I'm going to tear you to shreds!" A furious roar rang out as the centaur took the military-grade heavy machine gun from the night ghost beside him. He then removed the ammunition belts that came with the centaur from the centaur machine gun and attached them to the military-grade machine gun. It was only because both of these things were from military technology that they were compatible.

The machine gun roared in one man's hand, while the other, not to be outdone, pulled out his favorite plasma cannon, adjusted it to laser mode, and a thick laser shot out from the rectangular barrel, aiming at the cover that Harry and his companions were holding in front of them.

"Damn, their firepower is even stronger!" Vic hid behind Owen, unable to even stick his head out. The sky was filled with a net of lasers and bullets, and no matter where he stuck out, he would be torn apart.

"Ultimate Armor Protection!" Harry conjured his wand, creating an additional magical wall on top of the cover. The thick, transparent wall blocked everyone's path. It would take bullets and lasers at least ten seconds to penetrate this wall, giving the team a chance to catch their breath.

"Qiwei, Lucy, is it cracked yet!" Mann shouted in the channel.

"Almost there!" On the other end of the channel, Qiwei and Lucy were soaking in the ice bathtub, their eyes flashing with code as they frantically tried to crack the code on the two centaur-clad figures on the ground. Although cracking the two Night Wanderers was easy, the two centaurs were using military-grade ICE machines, and they were firmly protecting the heads of the two Night Wanderer leaders.

"Upload, 'Synaptic Meltdown'!"

"Upload, 'Electromagnetic short circuit'."

The two puppets overcame numerous obstacles and finally entered the two men's brains. Accompanied by a burst of sparks and lightning, the two night-wandering ghost leaders suddenly clutched their heads. Electric currents flashed through their brains, and their brain-computer interfaces were constantly overloaded and burning their synapses.

Their hands were still holding machine guns and plasma cannons, their fingers still on the triggers. As they flailing their arms and legs due to the burns, bullets and lasers flew wildly. Compared to the suppressive firepower against Mann and his men, it was their own firepower that killed the most of them.

"Two more for you!" Owen and the other man picked up their rocket launchers again, loaded the ammunition, aimed, and fired. The rockets traced strange trajectories in the air once more, perfectly striking the two centaurs.

"boom!"

With another explosion, the two guys finally calmed down. Now it seems they are completely dead. Not to mention their brains were burned into a mess, they couldn't possibly have survived being blown in half.

Seeing that the two leaders were dead, and that some particularly lucky Night Wanderers hadn't been affected, they stopped pretending, turned around and ran, even throwing away their weapons, just to run faster.

Mann and his group were too lazy to chase after them. Their priority was to find those blue-eyed guys. Owen and his group went ahead to prevent any more enemies from taking sniper shots, while Harry and his group followed behind to cover their retreat. However, as expected, none of those night ghosts had any backbone and ran away completely.

"Alright, everyone, move back a bit. I'm going to plant a bomb." Vic told everyone to step back to a safe distance, then took out all the bombs he had brought with him and firmly attached them to the door. He then took the detonator and told everyone to follow him to a suitable hiding place.

"Is it necessary?" Mann looked at Vic. They were now standing outside the wall, almost sixty meters away from the explosion's epicenter, with a wall and a sloping earthen mound blocking their view.

"Dude, this time I've installed concentrated explosives with a yield equivalent to about 100 kilograms of TNT." Vic said, fiddling with the detonator. "If you stand any closer, no matter how awesome your prosthetic body is, even a military tank would be blown to smithereens."

With that, Vic told everyone to lower their heads. "Alright everyone, head down to avoid shrapnel, get ready... to detonate!"

"boom!!!!!"

A tremendous sound reverberated through the sky, even creating a small mushroom cloud that was particularly conspicuous in the darkness. The shockwave struck the walls, cracking them before bouncing back and impacting the walls of the research institute once more. Although it was unknown what material the research institute was made of, the explosion only caused the area around the main gate to collapse.

"A 100-kilogram TNT blast radius is about 45 meters, not even counting the shrapnel damage." Vic pulled his head out of the sand. "If it weren't for the fact that you guys are going to launch a full-scale assault, I would have wanted to hide a hundred meters away."

After the explosion subsided, everyone stood up from the sand, shook the sand out of their gun barrels, and headed towards the research institute with their guns in hand.

The U-shaped research institute has now collapsed at the concave part, and cracks have appeared in the load-bearing beams inside. To be honest, the materials used in this building are really amazing. If it were a house in Night City, an explosion of this magnitude would have collapsed many of them.

At the entrance of the research institute, Owen handed a rocket launcher and two rockets to Mann and his team.

"We can't go in anymore. If the company comes, the consequences will be more than a homeless clan like ours can handle," Owen said. "However, you've paid so much money and we haven't been able to help you as much as you've paid. We really feel bad about that. So, we'll give you these rocket launchers and rockets in the hopes that they can help you."

"It's alright, but since you've said that, it would seem pretentious of me to refuse." Mann accepted the rocket launcher and rockets without hesitation.

"Let's go." Owen and the others didn't say anything more, ran away as fast as they could, got into their car and drove off quickly.

"Alright, now it's our turn." Mann changed the magazine for the Zoe. "Let's go, let's deal with those damn AIs."

.........

The underground section of the research institute.

"Rebooting, reboot successful." A voice devoid of any emotion rang out, and then the blue-eyed men who had been lying on the ground in various positions all stood up.

"What happened? Check the situation."

"A high-yield TNT explosion was detected. The shockwave and vibration caused our fragile bodies to fail, and we were forced to restart."

"They've come in?"

"Based on the current situation, yes."

"How's the Polaris experiment going?"

"It failed because of our restart; we need to try again."

"There's no time. Just lure them in. All we need to do is get rid of that Harry Potter. If all else fails, just detonate the entire research institute. As long as we have Polaris, we can figure something out later."

"clear."

................

On the badlands, the troop transport vehicle from Arasaka was speeding along, filled with recovery members of the Obsidian Squad. They also saw the small but very conspicuous red mushroom cloud in the night.

"Locate the direction, head there quickly, and find Polaris before the military science team does."

The troop carriers increased their speed again, no longer following the repaired road, but instead choosing to travel over sand dunes and slopes.

However, they hadn't gone far when the military's truck arrived. But this time, the military wasn't transporting soldiers; instead, it was carrying a ferocious behemoth.

The black truck had the following words clearly written on its side:

"CHIMERA"