Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

Without wasting too much time and effort, Wang Yu and Ling Qi captured Chu Junhao, the leader of the Hai Chao Gang. However, Wang Yu didn't need the guy's body. He quickly removed the equipment he was wearing for self-defense and then touched the wrist of the arm on which the Star Ring Mercenary Device was worn with his left hand.

"Sizzle..."

Just like touching snow with a scorching iron rod, the gang leader's bones, muscles, and skin rapidly melted under Wang Yu's grasp. This was the power of the flesh and blood of hatred; creatures that came into direct contact with it were unimaginably vulnerable.

"Bang!"

Wang Yu left only the severed hand of the attacker, which was equipped with the Star Ring Mercenary Device, and threw the rest of the body and corpse onto the road, leaving it to the gang members who, despite being mostly broken bones and ligaments after the impact, still wanted to hunt down the attacker.

"I've disabled all the surrounding security cameras, so these gang members can't pinpoint our location."

Lingqi appeared beside Wang Yu, keeping pace with the motorcycle, and told him about the current situation.

The members of the Tide Gang did attempt to give chase for a while, but in the chaotic wasteland of the abandoned city, filled with illegal buildings, it was too difficult for a hovercar with a faster speed to catch up with a motorcycle with a route map provided by Zero Seven. After taking a few detours, the gang members disappeared from sight.

"His bounty is 50 universal currency, plus the 200 million universal currency transferred from that traitorous mercenary's account, and our savings, we now have 275 million universal currency, enough to buy all the items listed on the black market."

Before exchanging the severed arm with the bounty on it, along with the Star Ring Mercenary Device attached to it, for universal currency, Zero Seven tallied their finances: 275 million universal currency. This was a large sum of money, at least in the ruined city, it was considered a huge amount.

"Have they already located the Tide Gang headquarters from this guy's Star Ring account?"

Wang Yu temporarily ignored the huge sum of money. He randomly found a dead end with no surveillance cameras and a bunch of guys who had ruined themselves by playing with "e-cigarettes" and were lying there. He parked his motorcycle and started talking to Ling Qi through the auxiliary chip in his brain.

"Yes, the location of the Tide Gang headquarters isn't exactly a secret among the lower-level leaders. It's been confirmed through their personal terminals connected via their Star Ring mercenary devices."

A holographic map unfolded before Wang Yu's eyes, clearly showing the buildings and roads, displaying a complete and detailed section of the abandoned city. In the suburbs outside the city, a location was marked, where the facility that could be called the headquarters of the Tide Gang was located.

"it is good."

Nodding in agreement, Wang Yu took out a large mechanical spider. Following the perception from the auxiliary chip in his brain, he established a connection with the mechanical spider through the interface, mounted the gang leader's severed hand on his back, and crawled into the alley through a hole in the building above that seemed to be a ventilation duct.

Somewhat awkwardly maneuvering the mechanical spider, which had nothing to do with his own body structure, he delivered the severed hand to a facility under the Star Ring organization.

The Star Ring Organization's subordinate facilities are scattered throughout the ruined city, and their existence is quite random. Some may still be undiscovered. This Star Ring Organization subordinate facility, which only has a hole as its entrance, is one of them. Even someone like Zero Seven wouldn't know how to find this thing.

"The money has arrived."

"Let's go."

As soon as Zero Seven confirmed the bounty had been paid, Wang Yu didn't hesitate to remove the detachable outer shell of the motorcycle, then threw off his jacket and mask, visually transforming himself into a different person from the one who had attacked the gang leader. He then mounted the motorcycle and headed straight back to the kennel.

"275 million universal currency. I never dared to imagine how I would use so much money."

As his thoughts raced, a huge sum of money suddenly appeared in his account. It would probably be almost impossible for him to get such a large amount again. However, Wang Yu remained quite calm. He was simply thinking very calmly about how to use the money.

"If it weren't for the Tide Gang incident, 275 million universal currency would definitely be enough to live a peaceful life in the ruined city. In fact, with my own abilities and those of Zero Seven and Reina, I could probably go even further and higher. But if I use it for revenge, it would only lead to my burial with me. There's no need for that, at least not all of it."

After a little thought, Wang Yu had made his decision. He didn't plan to use the money entirely for revenge. He would leave one million universal currency for Ling Qi and Lena. In the end, they had no reason to get involved with Wang Yu. It wouldn't be a problem to use it as payment for Ling Qi.

"Lingqi, leave some of the money. I don't plan to spend all of it on buying equipment. It's better to use the remaining currency where it's more suitable."

"Okay, whatever you say."

Without objecting to his decision, the MK2, who was making something in the kennel, wore a faint smile. Ling Qi had thought things through more than Wang Yu had. From Wang Yu's decision and actions, she had already seen some of the changes she hoped for.

……

The location that could be called the headquarters of the Hai Chao Gang was not because it housed a large number of Hai Chao Gang members. In fact, neither the big bosses nor the small bosses in the gang were willing or allowed to stay here. Their own territory was much better than this place that had nothing and a lot of restrictions.

"It has been confirmed that No. 318 was fed to that anomalous area. Now that anomalous area can most likely be used as a base. As long as it is not close to the central area, people in the outer areas can settle there permanently."

The uncle put down the wriggling larval parasite in his hand and talked to the leader of the Tide Gang sitting opposite him about the situation in the wasteland.

"The mercenary completed the mission, and 200 million universal currency was transferred from the Star Ring Mercenary System to the recipient's account. To be honest, that's not a small amount of money. Will it be able to pinpoint the recipient's location in the ruined city?"

The gang leader glanced at the parasite that his uncle had put down and was now wriggling on the table, his expression slightly subtle, and casually asked a question.

"She only confirmed the completion of the mission two months later, so naturally she had already taken various transfer and insurance measures. There is a high probability that she will stay in the mobile city and not return. It is almost impossible to find this mercenary."

Shaking his head, the uncle naturally rejected the gang leader's idea.

"That's pretty much what I thought, but I thought someone like you from the new capital would have more ideas. But since you were able to handle things in the wasteland, I suppose that's what you wanted."

Not surprised, just slightly disappointed, the gang leader continued talking about the wasteland outpost.

"Even in New Capital, there isn't much understanding or way to deal with the Star Ring organization. It's too difficult to find a mercenary by bypassing the Star Ring system. Next, we can send people from the gang to the wasteland to check the situation. You can decide on the candidate yourself."

Uncle neither confirmed nor denied the gang leader's claim that the man was "from Xindu," and did not elaborate further.

"You should handle it. I'm too lazy to get involved in these things. Anyway, you've already taken over. My nominal leadership is just a symbol. As long as there are benefits, that's fine."

With a wave of his hand, the "leader" of the Tide Gang was not very concerned about selecting people to go to the wasteland. As far as he was concerned, it was enough to let his uncle, who came from some giant company in Xindu, take charge of everything. He didn't need to go against him. As for what the people of Xindu wanted to achieve with this gang, he was too lazy to care.

"Choosing you wasn't a bad decision. How about trying to implant a parasite? You'll have a very high status in it, probably second only to me. It will show you a whole new world."

The uncle, whose face remained impassive, revealed a rare smile as he picked up the parasite he had placed on the table and addressed the gang leader.

"Forget it. No matter what, it's still too bad to have anything living in my head."

With undisguised disdain, the gang leader rejected his uncle's "kindness."

"As you wish, but I think you'll change your mind once you see the changes the parasites bring."

Uncle did not force him, but simply made a prophecy.

"Then let's wait until then... um?"

He did not change his mind because of his uncle's words, but the gang leader was interrupted halfway through his sentence by a message transmitted to the auxiliary chip from his personal terminal.

"The gang has been attacked by an unknown entity. The outer defenses have been breached, and the internal alarm system has been activated. I need to check what's going on."

The conversation became hurried. The gang leader hadn't expected attackers to appear in this place. The attackers' goals and intentions were a mystery. The only thing that was certain was that their attack was extremely swift.

The breach of the outer defenses was not surprising. What puzzled the gang leader was why the internal alarm system was triggered so quickly. What about the self-defense system and the guards brought by his uncle?

Once connected to their personal terminals using their privileges, gang leaders can then verify the situation through surveillance equipment distributed throughout the gang headquarters.

"Stop!"

A strange feeling swept over the gang leader before he connected to the surveillance camera. His thoughts were scattered in an instant, and he immediately forgot what he was supposed to do. After a few seconds of stunned silence, he came to his senses, and his original thoughts resurfaced. He looked at his uncle opposite him with astonishment.

The prosthetic eye on his eye socket had fallen off, revealing dark tentacles that were constantly wriggling and emerging from his body. It was his uncle who had forcibly interrupted the gang leader's actions, and the reason he did so was...

"This is?!"

Cold sweat slowly trickled down his back. His gaze swept to his side and saw the small, closing crack. A slender, grayish-white arm, like a withered tree trunk, was retracting from the crack that had appeared out of nowhere. The sharp, menacing claws at the front of the arm easily left five claw marks of varying depths on the ground with just a drag.

"Parallelism. Someone has hacked into the entire surveillance system here. After you connected with the surveillance facilities, the things you observed probably exceeded the threshold and attracted the parallax monster. Now, there's no need to rely on those people responsible for monitoring the situation inside the facilities. They've all been killed by the parallax monster. That's why there was an alarm inside."

Uncle looked slightly solemn. Such an attack method actually had the ability to directly invade the internal system of the entire Tide Gang. Just who was the attacker? This level of hacking reminded Uncle of an old rival in Xindu.

"Is it because of parasites?"

Uncle muttered to himself that if they were truly from the same place in Xindu, then he had to be careful, and in a sense, his thinking was not wrong.

……

Two days ago, three days had passed since he confirmed that he possessed a huge sum of 275 million universal currency. During this time, items purchased from the black market were delivered to the location reserved by Ling Qi. Wang Yu brought these items back to the kennel's workshop little by little, and worked with Ling Qi to complete the equipment used to attack the Tide Gang's headquarters.

"Connecting this line to the core power furnace is still too expensive for the ion cutting blade. Without direct core power supply, it can't even start up."

Welding, cutting, electromagnetic connection... Wang Yu and Ling Qi were assembling a large number of materials purchased from the black market in the workshop, while Lena was reading medical books and occasionally looked up with a hint of curiosity at the tall humanoid machine that was gradually taking shape.

It was an ugly mecha hanging on the assembly rack. None of the parts were compatible; they were cobbled together by Wang Yu, a mechanic, using parts purchased from the black market according to functional requirements.

This resulted in the entire mecha looking like it had been covered in a lot of pudding of different colors and even had many irregular bumps on its tattered clothes, making it so ugly that it was unbearable to look at. For this reason, Wang Yu named this first mecha he made "Garbage Man".

His design philosophy for this mecha was singular: energy consumption, durability, comfort, appearance, cost-effectiveness... he disregarded all of those. Performance, performance, and more performance—extreme performance was what he wanted.

This was originally a disposable mecha, just like Wang Yu himself. After completing his revenge against the Tide Gang, its mission was accomplished. Therefore, there was no need for any messy concerns. He only needed to think about how to use the existing materials and his knowledge to build a performance monster.

Shockproof, heat insulation, kinetic energy absorption layers… none of that is needed. A normal person simply couldn't use this mecha, custom-made for Wang Yu and nicknamed "The Junk Collector." Just boarding and starting it up would be enough to kill him, given the inhumanly harsh environment inside. Only someone as incredibly resilient as him, who would endure until his death, could withstand it.

By discarding all "meaningless" designs, the "Garbage Collector" was ultimately created—an extremely extreme mech. Its performance was pushed to the limit of what Wang Yu could achieve, while other aspects, as its name suggests, could only be described as garbage. But that was enough; what Wang Yu wanted was a mech that could be considered the ultimate.