Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 38 Danger is in front of you
Night falls.

The entire northern part of the Watson District was silent in large blocks of darkness.

There are only a few public old street lamps, which cast light on the ground every few meters.

Occasionally, there are street lamps making the sound of electric sparks, and the lights and shadows are on and off, and the back alleys on both sides of the street are completely plunged into darkness.

at this time.

Tang Yu and Jack were lurking in the core area of ​​the abandoned steel factory. Farther outside the workshop, they found a high ground where containers were piled up, and quietly observed the situation around the workshop.

The reason why they don't get too close is to prevent being detected by drones. After all, the purpose of this trip is more to be a bystander looking for a suitable time to end.

The two sat cross-legged on the container and waited quietly.

Tang Yu found that in the workshop in the middle, there were six members of the Whirlpool Gang, and two of them left in the evening. It seemed that there were other circumstances.

The remaining four people did not have any new moves, they were enjoying the heavy metal music in the workshop without worrying about the next deal with Mann and the others.

soon.

It's nine o'clock.

This is the trading time agreed by Mann and the others.

Tang Yu stared at it. Although he couldn't see it very clearly, he could tell that a group of people had entered the factory and were slowly approaching the workshop gate.

soon.

The members of the Whirlpool Gang in the workshop opened the automatic modification gate of the workshop.

The Whirlpool Gang has made small-scale renovations to the workshop base, which is not only used for gatherings and entertainment, but also has a considerable degree of defense function.

They usually only choose a certain part of the factory for centralized transformation, and basically ignore other areas.

But there is only one real lair of the Maelstrom Gang.

Whole Foods Processing Plant.

As the base of the Whirlpool Gang, the Whole Foods Processing Factory has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to invest in renovation and reconstruction. Not only is it fully accessible with water and electricity, but also has various armored forts in place, just like a military base.

The location of Mann's transaction this time belongs to one of the many strongholds of the Vortex Gang in Watson, and the scale is not large.

As the new group of people walked under the light of the workshop door, Tang Yu immediately recognized their appearance and identity.

It was Team Mann.

The leader is the big man Mann, holding a safe in his hand, which should contain trading items.

Following on both sides are the bearded Pyla, a long-armed technology madman, and Dorio, a fierce sister of King Kong.

Standing at the end was Qi Wei who was still tall and tall, looking at everything with a cold expression.

The only thing that Tang Yu paid special attention to was that a new member appeared in the team that he had never seen before.

She stood beside Pilar, chewing gum and blowing bubbles, looking impatient.

Light green over-the-shoulder long hair is pulled into double ponytails by black hair bands and draped behind the shoulders. A black stand-up collar punk sweater and tight shorts wrap the whole body. He holds two green-plated modified pistols in his hands, and his hands are crossed behind his head.

Check again.

Five members of Mann's team came, and the silver-haired girl Lucy was not among them.

Tang Yu speculates that she may act as an external support hacker, assisting the Mann team remotely, and Qiwei should be responsible for solving the invasion of the whirlpool gang.

But thinking of Lucy's performance in the train car at that time, maybe she didn't want to have a direct conflict with the Arasaka secret service personnel.

There should be some kind of secret between Lucy and Arasaka, and this secret is probably about persecution and escape.

Almost no one knows better than Tang Yu the dirty deeds of the Arasaka Company.

Human experiments like Cyber ​​Crazy James are just the tip of the iceberg of Arasaka's huge dark empire.

But now it seems that even if Lucy didn't go off the field directly, the configuration of Mann's team, the four Maelstrom Gang members are obviously not enough.

Even if the Arasaka special service team came, they might not be their opponents.

The Mann team that crawled out of the dead is a very strong existence, both in terms of personal strength and the level of concerted fighting and cooperation.

With the whirlpool gang's brainless and crazy temper, it is absolutely impossible to honestly pay for the goods on their own territory.

Almost all of these cyber lunatics suffer from varying degrees of cyber psychosis, and their behavior and logic often go their own way.

now.

After confirming the identities of Mann and the others, the gate slowly lifted upwards.

Two members of the Maelstrom Gang walked out of the gate. Their skins were all black and blue, which was a symptom of heavy metal poisoning.

The entire facial bone from the forehead to the eye sockets was removed and replaced with a metal electronic panel prosthesis. The panel is equipped with four to five red prosthetic eyes.

It is very similar to their bloody skeleton spider totem, and it looks like a cyber zombie. It is an integration of death, metal, machinery, and human body, and it is full of weird madness.

Mann saw the red electronic prosthetic eye flickering on the opponent's face, and at the same time, the swirl-like lens zoomed in and out, as if he was scanning and adjusting the focus.

The leading member of the Vortex Gang coughed a few times, and there was still a lingering smoke powder in the nasal cavity, like the smell of burnt plastic.

"It's pretty on time, did you bring anything?"

Mann picked up the safe in his hand and patted it hard, signaling to the other party to put the traded items inside.

The Whirlpool Gang looked up and down the big man Mann again, and warned viciously: "After you come in, you all be more honest to me!"

Mann snorted in response.

The five-member team followed the Maelstrom Gang into the gate one after another.

The girl with two ponytails walking next to Pila turned her head and spat out the soft red gum in her mouth on the ground, looked at the whirlpool gang with disdain, and followed the team into the workshop with big strides.

When Mann and others entered the workshop, Tang Yu turned on the thermal imaging scan of the Longquan glasses and continued to observe the situation inside the workshop.

Although the specific details cannot be seen, the thermal imaging of each person's different shapes can be used to roughly judge what happened on the scene.

After Mann and others entered the workshop, they immediately observed the internal layout and situation.

The whole workshop is filled with light red and gray fog lights, and the explosive heavy metal rock music bombards the ears, just like their red prosthetic eyes, making people immerse themselves in the red and black noisy hell world.

The interior space is not large, and two floors have been reconstructed. Simple iron stairs are set up on the left and right sides leading to the second floor. Two members of the Whirlpool Gang stand on the second floor and stare down. An automatic heavy machine gun is installed in the middle.

In the middle of the hall, a few tattered sofas were placed randomly, surrounding the steel plate cutting table, and an old-fashioned two-tube stereo was placed on the table, humming and deafening music.

On the floor of the workshop and on the table, there are scattered piles of used injection glass tubes, as well as half-burned silver tinfoil after smoking.

Mann was arranged to sit on the dilapidated sofa in the middle of the hall, Dorio sat on the right, Qiwei sat on the left with her long legs crossed, and the girl with twin ponytails occupied the entire sofa alone.

Only Pilar was immediately attracted by the gadgets on the cutting table and leaned over them.

The people from the Maelstrom Gang walked to the cutting table, randomly picked up the leftover tin foil, squatted in front of the table, and carefully pulled the scattered powder on the table that looked like yellow sawdust onto the paper.

A lot of iron filings and dust were also mixed in, rolled into the shape of a ball by him.

He smirked and lit the tinfoil ball, then stuffed it into the smoking jar.

As the tinfoil balls burn, the cans are quickly filled with yellow-white smoke.

He put the mouth of the can against his nose and slammed it in hard, then shook Upi's head and sucked hard.

It was not until every alveolus in the entire lung was filled with smoke that the jar was released and a long puff of white smoke was exhaled.

Comfortably issued: "Oh hoo."

Then there was a big shiver all over the body, and then he held up the jar and handed it to Mann's face, and shook it twice: "Give me a couple of sips, this taste will definitely make you ecstasy."

Mann kept silent and didn't pick it up. He knew that there was nothing interesting in the jar.

But the other party held something on his face, as if you don't smoke and I don't talk about business.

Dorio, who was sitting next to her, had a bad expression on her face, and bluntly dissuaded her, "We're here to discuss business, not to smoke anything with you here."

The Maelstrom Gang still just smiled, and turned the can to Dorio's face.

"You come!"

Everyone in Mann suddenly showed killing intent in their eyes, and slowly put their hands on the trigger of the gun body.

The members of the Maelstrom Gang also put away their wanton smiles, and the two upstairs even pointed their guns at them.

Mann didn't hesitate, just about to reach out his big hand to take the jar.

But it was directly snatched by a long mechanical prosthetic arm, and it picked up the small jar and sucked it like the opponent.

Taking a sip of Pila's smoke from the jar, his whole face instantly turned red, as if he was suppressing the choking power of the smoke.

In the end, like a buffalo snorting, two columns of smoke sprayed out from the nostrils.

"call"

Pila praised excitedly and excitedly: "This thing is really amazing, I can smoke like this all day!"

The members of the Maelstrom Gang looked at Pyla. They were a little surprised, but when they saw Pyla's satisfied face, they grinned and said.

"You are very good. Now we can be regarded as friends who can talk about serious business. You can call me Dum Dum."

Pila looked at Dumdum drunkenly, and hiccupped: "You can call me Pila Pila, haha!"

Dum Dum and the others laughed.

The originally tense atmosphere was easily resolved by Pila's ingenious actions.

Mann put the safe in his hand on the table: "This is what is being traded today, military-grade Swan Westin, from the slain cyber madman James, and the price is [-] euros."

Dum Dum picked up the safe and put it beside him: "What's the password, we need to check the goods first!"

"1003."

Dum Dum opened the safe according to the password given by Mann, and a blood-stained Sienweistein neural operating system kit lay completely in the safe.

Dum Dum turned on the prosthetic eye scan and began to detect the details of the prosthetic body. After confirming, he closed the safe again and said to Mann and the others.

"It's okay if the thing is genuine, but do you know who wants this prosthetic body?"

Mann also stared at Dumdum: "This is your business, I just take the money and leave."

The voice just fell.

The iron gate of the workshop was opened, and more than a dozen members of the Maelstrom gang rushed in from outside aggressively, each pointing their guns at Mann and the others.

Almost at the same time, Mann also raised his arm cannon and heavy machine gun to aim at the people who broke in suddenly, and Dorio and the others also picked up their weapons and aimed at the people of the Maelstrom Gang.

The little loli with two ponytails was even more furious, and the two pistols on the left and right pointed straight at the brains of the two members of the whirlpool gang.

The two sides confront each other.

However, the number of people and the venue of the Maelstrom Gang are obviously more dominant.

The leader of the Whirlpool Gang walked up to Mann with big strides, and threatened, "Are you negotiating business with me? Now I'm teaching you how to do business. If you leave something behind, you'll get out immediately!"

Mann was not afraid at all: "Asshole! Who are you?"

The other party seemed to be stimulated by Mann's question. He spread his hands and laughed wildly: "Hahaha, you don't even know me, and you dare to come here to make a deal. Today, I will tell you that I am Royce. I want a prosthetic body!"

Royce pressed the gun against Mann's forehead again: "Do you want to die here, or do you want to get out before I change my mind?!"

Mann had heard that Royce was the second in command of the Maelstrom Gang, a typical cyber rager, and he did things regardless of any consequences.

Mann speculated that it might be that Royce saw that there were only five people on his side, and wanted to monopolize the deal.

Qiwei covered her temple with one hand, her pink prosthetic eyes scanned and locked on the fourteen Whirlpool Gang with a red aperture.

In just a few seconds, they can remotely invade their prosthetic body and burn the electronic components, and now they are waiting for Mann's action.

But what Mann was concerned about was not the immediate situation, but when Arasaka Agent would appear on the stage.

Just now Dum Dum has taken out the military-grade Sian Weistein to confirm, and he believes that the Arasaka Secret Service should have discovered it.

hold on.

Seeing Mann, Royce still didn't let go, neither put down his gun, nor agreed to leave, his expression obviously became more ferocious.

Just when Royce was about to lose his patience and was about to shoot the brain of the strong black man in front of him.

Suddenly the red light in the workshop went out, and the whole workshop was plunged into darkness.

Several emergency lights came on, indicating safe passages that no longer existed.

Almost at the same time, the steel gate of the workshop was blasted open by a huge impact, and flew heavily towards the two members of the Whirlpool Gang at the door.

Boom!

The big steel board covered their bodies with a bang, their brains were like watermelons being flattened by a cart, flesh and blood flew all over the ground, and dark blood smeared the walls.

Dozens of red laser dots shone into the room, and as long as they fell on a person, countless fire dots would shoot through them.

Tap-tat-tat-tat-tat.
Four Whirlpool Gang members were shot open one after another, and the red prosthetic eyes on their faces were blasted into several black holes.

The sudden attack shocked everyone in the Maelstrom Gang, and hurriedly looked outside the gate.

Royce immediately reacted, and directly cursed loudly: "Fuck, they made a mess of it, kill them!"

Royce believed that the sudden explosion outside the door was arranged by Mann, and then wanted to open fire on Mann and others.

As for Mann, who had been prepared for a long time, the gorilla's arm had already fully charged. Taking advantage of the gap between Royce's turning back and shouting, he suddenly punched Royce's high-raised gun.

At the same time, Royce pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The bullet flew out across the air, and collided with the fist that was bombarded.

The bullet hit the huge fist with only a little dent, but the heavy fist hit Royce's face.

Bang!
Royce flew out like a headlong, and half of the face of the electronic prosthesis was directly smashed into the back of the head.

Seeing Mann make a move, the little girl with two ponytails no longer suppressed her temper. She had long been displeased with this group of cyber lunatics.

Qi Wei sat on the sofa, raised her leg high and flipped backwards lightly, hid behind the sofa, and was about to activate the prosthetic body invasion.

I saw two whirlpool gangs on the high platform on the second floor, holding heavy machine guns and shooting wildly at the workshop below.

At the same time, the automatic heavy machine gun installation was activated, and the terrifying firepower spewed out in an instant, overwhelming Mann and the others, who had no choice but to seek shelters one after another.

When the guns opened fire.

Dum Dum directly picked up the military-grade Sianweistein prosthetic body and ran away. He could no longer control the current situation, and only wanted to get the goods away as soon as possible.

The entire workshop was full of smoke and dust, and the lights were dark and it was difficult to distinguish clearly. Dum Dum successfully got the safe and fled to the secret passage opened privately.

There was an open weedy field over there, which had been abandoned for many years and no one had passed by, and no electronic equipment could detect signs of his escape.

The terrifying firepower made it difficult for Mann and others to fight back. Even the crazy girl with two ponytails who ran away was snatched away by Mann and squatted and hid under the cutting table. The table was hit by bullets and sparks were everywhere.

But the crazy girl with two ponytails didn't seem to have any fear at all. She raised her gun and wanted to fight back, but she was grabbed by the shoulder tightly.

At this time, the surprise team outside the door began to enter the workshop, and the firepower with precise coverage quickly cleared out the remaining members of the whirlpool gang in the workshop.

Two Maelstrom gangs on the second floor fired machine guns at the raiding team, but the bullets hit their bulletproof helmets and clothes and seemed to have no effect.

blah blah blah.
After the raiding team shot, the last two members of the Maelstrom Gang were also shot dead on the second floor and fell straight down.

Mann checked the situation along the corner of the cutting table, and said anxiously.

"It's the Arasaka Special Forces!"

In just a few seconds, Qiwei quickly completed the intrusion control of the automatic heavy machine gun installation, adjusted the muzzle of the gun to the Arasaka special service team who came in at the door and fired wildly.

The powerful armor-piercing projectiles hit the members of the Arasaka Special Service at high speed, directly exploding the helmets and revealing their brains.

Taking advantage of the confusion, Pila threw a series of explosive mines towards the workshop door.

burst!burst!burst!
Several airbursts occurred one after another in the air, and the huge impact force engulfed shrapnel and instantly cut many members of the Arasaka special service team into pieces.

The first batch of the Arasaka special service team to enter the field was beaten back again and again, giving Mann and others a little chance to breathe, and they quickly adjusted their positions to occupy relatively favorable terrain for defense.

And the Arasaka special service team launched a new wave of attack. High-explosive grenades were thrown into the workshop to clear the field one after another.

As the situation became more and more critical, Qiwei quickly contacted Lucy who was monitoring off-site.

"Has the military technology personnel arrived yet?"

At this time, Lucy was in the working car, Ning Mei carefully controlled the drone to investigate the situation in the workshop.

But when her drone hovered outside the workshop for a short time, it was shot down by an electromagnetic pulse, and the last picture captured was the side of the military technology floating vehicle.

"MILITECH"

Lucy replied in a deep voice: "The military technology armed floating vehicle has arrived, and my drone has just been shot down."

Qiwei quickly conveyed the news to Mann and the others, as long as the military technology personnel poke the back of the Arasaka special service team, they can take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

Mann found that the safe disappeared, and glanced around: "The prosthetic body is gone, it must have been taken away by the Maelstrom Gang, we can't get out now, let Lucy check the situation on the west side of the factory, there is A no man's land of weeds!"

After receiving the order, Lucy got out of the car quickly, plunged into the dark alley near the abandoned steel factory, and ran towards the west.

At this time, the military technology floated on the vehicle.

Meredith Stott was holding an optical and electronic telescope, looking down at the abandoned steel factory.

After confirming that the Arasaka special service team was fighting with the people in the workshop, he said coldly.

"Don't rush."

"Wait until they're almost done."

"Let's go finish it."

　Yan Zu has been waiting for a long time, three chapters in one chapter is enough!
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(End of this chapter)