How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

48. hacking

The efficiency battle between humans and machines, cyborgs and androids has been an unsolved conundrum for over half a century.

In terms of performance alone, the 3rd and 4th generation Androids were superior to the latest implants. His athletic ability, computational ability, and ability to execute orders were all impeccable, and there was no need for wage negotiations.

‘That’s why I don’t like Android.’

It wasn’t a matter of forgetting about human rights and universal ethics. Those things disappeared as the world burned. It was just a matter of trust.

An android without an ego is not as good as a human due to lack of self-judgment, and an android with an ego cannot be trusted because of its ego.

It can be said that the human ego is equally unbelievable, but human beings had desires. At least he could trust his own eyes. Because of fear of punishment and retaliation, they could not shake the corporate and social order. In this respect, I could rather trust humans.

A humanoid robot that takes the place of a human but cannot become a human. It was a 21st century irony. And it was also the luck of the fixer party.

“Request permission to shoot. Acknowledgment. target identification. Execute stage 1 suppression.”

If you’re a cyborg, it’s a rule, it’s a nabal, and it’s ‘Ah, sitpal! I’m going to go crazy!’, but because it’s an android, I went through all the procedures even while the head of my friend next to me was breaking. Enough time for Leonard to throw himself on the second floor escalator.

“Open fire.”

Too-ta-ta-ta-ta-!

A bullet storm flew. The tempered glass was broken, and the steel plate and plastic were crushed. The firepower was insufficient to fight with a single revolver. That’s one word.

bang-!

The entire second-generation Android head disappeared. It was something that could happen if a 1.8 cm diameter slug bullet was fired closely.

“Crazy! Crazy!”

Max rammed a second 12-gauge slug round into the face of a second android aiming his right arm, specifically a machine gun mounted on his right arm, and sprayed it with 9mm pistol rounds.

It’s only a few seconds that catch our attention, but it’s enough to start a new hack. The android that shoots Leonard and the android that shoots Max each cause an error and aim at each other. It was faster to fire a bullet than to correct a targeting error. Tatatatatatang-!

The first floor android was almost cleaned up. Even if their heads were smashed in half and their limbs fell off, they wouldn’t stop functioning, so there were people who made a squeak-squeak-scream, but Max put a pistol bullet into them one by one. Now it’s time to get paid.

But the enemy still remains. The android on the second floor switched arms and continued shooting. Leonard was half running and half crawling up the escalator.

Several bullets pierced his coat and grazed his waist and thigh. Even in the midst of this, he was faithful to the ‘suppression’ command and only aimed at the lower body. From Leonard’s point of view, it was Thank You Berry Much. He returned fire with a revolver and hacked the circuit. The situation was sorted out 47 seconds after the initial gunshot. A duo of fixers destroyed twenty-six armed androids.

Leonard opened the cylinder of his revolver, brushed out the cartridge case, and inserted a fresh bullet from the speedloader. Max reloaded his shotgun and came upstairs.

“If you see that they are ready to welcome guests, they will still be here.”

“I hope there are no other preparations now.”

“You’ll know when you go up.”

This was no junk town. Since the shooting was done in a place teeming with entrepreneurs, the corporate police will mobilize. And the hacker who stole the assets of the entrepreneur will not be able to escape safely.

Leonard and Max walked up without using the elevator. I wasn’t quick to hack the CCTV inside the building. Maybe they realized the existence of such a solver, and the obstacles came from the 4th floor.

“Hmm…”

“What’s wrong?”

“…The video has changed.”

I saw animations for children aged 3 and 4, not indoor information. Hackers intervened. I like the tricks and the animations, but I especially liked the mistakes.

“You must be quite surprised.”

“How do you know?”

“Because I confessed to being here.”

If I had thought a little deeper with a good head, I wouldn’t have made this mistake. But I could understand the hacker mind.

“Sending bio-humans and implant hackers… Foundation bastards, you knew everything!”

When dealing with hackers, hackers or biological humans that cannot be hacked were useful. But ‘accidentally’ Leonard and his party were like that. Hackers have no choice but to think that their identity, location, purpose, etc. have been exposed. This too was a clever man’s problem.

The hacker took a 10mm submachine gun and a bag containing artifacts. Since the building’s CCTV is inoperative, even the company’s bosses will not be able to find it right away. If the gang of fixers get out of the building while wandering in the wrong place…

‘…Where?’

Outside the building, two companies of corporate public security were stationed. The roof will be the same. Tactical drones were deployed at every window, leaving no openings to escape.

‘sewer. There is only sewage.’

There would be an agent there, but no military drones or war machines with terrifying firepower would chase them to the edge of hell, so there was a chance.

‘Damn, damn, damn, did I put too much faith in the saying that it’s dark under the lamp? If it was Junk Town, it wouldn’t have been surrounded so soon…’

Hacker brushed off his regrets. As long as he prepared a biohuman solver, he would have been attacked wherever he hid. My teeth trembled at the sophistication of the company. The misunderstanding deepened.

A-044 Not all city buildings are like this, but the ‘Jacob Android Office’ has its own sewage system, and the lowest basement floor is connected to the city sewer system. And the hacker was on the first basement floor.

‘Stupid fixers! Search upstairs to your heart’s content!’

There was a hacker over there, so I couldn’t use the elevator. If you go down the stairs to the 4th floor, there is a possibility of escape…

Ding-Dong-

Hacker’s shoulders trembled. I hear it dozens of times a day, but I couldn’t hear it now. The elevator came down to the basement. The flashing lights turned blue, and the iron door opened without a sound. My body reacted before my head. He turned the gun and pulled the trigger. Deed Dede Deuk-!

Bullets fired at 10 rounds per second scratched the walls and pounded the inside of the elevator. Lights were broken, steel plates were crushed, and sparks flew in all directions.

“hahahaha…”

All I had to do was grab the trigger, but I was out of breath. Tension that could not be controlled by the brain chip was stabbing at the heart. When I checked that the elevator was empty, I felt a slight pain.

“Damn it!”

This side was an ordinary (?) hacker, but the other side was an expert in catching hackers. I thought I was cheated, but how many times have I been cheated? The stair door burst open. The hacker turned the gun as if in a fit. Hard-!

I wasted too many bullets. Six or seven shots were fired and the chamber was opened. Even that was a waste. The stairs were also empty.

“come out! Come out!”

Now that I think about it, there were things Cyborg was worse than Android. Reason is consumed by fear.

“This is why amateurs…”

It was the lift again. The muzzle turned, but to no avail. Even when I pulled the trigger, it only made a tick-tick-sound.

“What if I fell for this rudimentary trick?”

A coat-clad fixer descended from the roof of the elevator. I trimmed my clothes without caring about the hacker’s resistance. Even in the White Town, the uninhabited places were dusty.

“Is that a gift from space?”

“Wow, back off! Don’t come any closer!”

“You said you were coming out earlier?”

A human fixer stuck out his head from the stairs. I was very careful, as if I was very wary. Even the shotgun in his hand would not be careful, so he was surrounded from front to back. The lift-side fixer, Leonard Walker, suggested it.

“There was no request to capture him alive, but there is nothing to kill, so surrender.”

“If you surrender, if you surrender, can you live? You stole something from the company?”

“If you’re lucky, you won’t end up in Orange Prison?”

It didn’t make me any happier than dying. The hacker, as if thinking so, attempted a last stand. Tried to interfere with Leonard’s brain chip.

“You want a hacking fight?”

An external program detection alert popped up in the middle of my vision. It was a failure from the warning. Leonard deleted the file and sent a reverse hacking program.

An unseen confrontation unfolded between hackers. Block bypass. Disable backdoor. Implant code change. There is something like this in that model, do you know? Gee, I knew it.

“…is it a snowball fight?”

From Max’s point of view, it was a boring fight. It wasn’t long enough to cause a yawn, though. Blood dripped from the hacker’s nose and ears. The brain chip is damaged.

“Uh, how… uh, uh, how…”

Decreased language ability would be a side effect of brain chip damage. Looking at it, it wasn’t just the language. I raised my arm and it creaked like a broken android. Leonard took the victor’s stride confidently.

“There are no personal feelings. Because this is my job.”

The bag was snatched from the hacker’s hand. It was a special bag with a cryostat attached. This is also a credit item, so I was curious about the contents. Max approached and his eyes twinkled.

“Can I open it?”

“I wasn’t asked not to open it, but…”

It was good manners not to open other people’s packages. But the fixer wasn’t a polite job.

“We need to make sure we retrieved it properly. So, it’s an extension of work. right?”

“Mr. Leonard, you know I have a lot of respect for you, right?”

When the corporate public security started searching the building, there was no chance. Leonard and Max squatted on the floor and laid their bags down. The electronic lock was filled, but it was useless in front of the best hackers. Simply unlock and open. The refrigerant melted and spewed out as white vapor. Relics returned after half a century have been revealed.

“…knife? No, is it a window?”

“It’s short for a spear, isn’t it?”

Disappointment flickered in the eyes of the fixer. I don’t know what it was, but it was two pieces of iron with broken handles.

“Eh, why are you making such a fuss about something you can’t even eat?”

“Looking at the artifacts in the exhibition hall, this must be at least 100,000 credits. So he must have put in the 20,000 credits request.”

I glanced at the hacker who had lost his mind. got a little greedy The building’s CCTV is dead, and the witnesses were criminals who didn’t mind killing them. If you lied about not finding it and stole it, you could get a share.

“…Let’s quit.”

Leonard closed the bag. One day it would become a moth, but now it was a pine needle. Eating anything else made me sick. pretended not to see anything

“Give it back and let’s go to a noodle shop.”

“It’s a big loss today, right?”

“Take your credit and buy it.”

“Where is my credit?”

“Oh right. Let your pocket money be 20 credits.”

“to?”

The rest of the work will be done by businessmen and corporate public security who are busy day and night. The solution was time to go to work.