How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

58. purpose

According to the information of the client and the broker, it’s a chemical reaction, but boom! It wasn’t a bomb that exploded. The lethality wasn’t too high either. However, considering the purpose of terrorism, it was more effective than any explosive. At least in the above-ground cities.

“The purpose of terrorism? What is it?”

“Forcing Through Fear.”

Murder is a means, not an end. In that sense, terrorists have a useful weapon in their hands.

“This is how it connects. No, is that normal?”

“Do you have 20 questions now? Just tell me!”

Max pounded his chest and got angry. Leonard sighed.

“First of all, we need to check. Get ready.”

“What are you preparing? uh huh let’s go together!”

Leonard put on his overcoat and put on a shoulder holster hung from the back of the sofa. I took the car keys just in case, but I had no intention of going far. Max chased after him with a windshield on top of his chest rig. Leonard didn’t wait long. The destination was the house on the lower floor of the house.

Normally I would be at the cannery, but I was sure I would be at home today.

“Ninth floor Leonard. I have a story to tell.”

The chin didn’t answer. Leonard knocked on the door again and took a step back.

“If you don’t open it for three days, I’ll report it to the corporate police. Let’s not squeal while we all know each other.”

As soon as I mentioned public security, it worked. The gate burst open, and a large-yawning—but very awkward—jawed-jaw poked its head out.

“Aww! Aren’t you the 9th floor solver? What is this puppet dawn?”

Max watched the midday sun through the stale hallway windows. Normally, I would take it as a joke, but I didn’t.

“Don’t do that.”

“What, what do you mean?”

“Don’t do anything about it. Because it has already been discovered.”

The clumsy smoke disappeared from his face. The unique texture of the implant body was thickly laid out.

“They came all of a sudden and said strange things. I’m busy right now so let’s go. Let’s have a drink later.”

Leonard glanced at the room behind his shoulder. It was dark with the lights off and the blinds down. It’s definitely not like I woke up.

“It has already started.”

“…please go. please.”

The protruding jaw whispered softly. There was a desperation I hadn’t seen before. However, the juggernaut friends didn’t think so.

“Aww! die! Corporate dog!”

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Judging from how he made noise while ambush, he wasn’t a professional. Leonard lowered the brain chip on his chin. Didn’t even need 0.1 second. It was a hacking program that was planted years ago and updated periodically. A triumph of shady paranoia?

It was at the same time that the jaws collapsed and the sword holder jumped out. It would have been possible if he had used a gun, but being cautious was a failure. Leonard moved half a step to avoid the blade and landed a one-two punch as a counter.

Leonard Walker: Not many people know about him because he has a strong perception of him as an implant hacker, but he overcame bullying and voluntarily enlisted in the Old Human Alliance, where implant hacking does not work. Fists did not go anywhere. In fact, it was strange that not one or two people were beaten, but it was not rumored.

“Keep it off…”

The Liberation Front terrorist staggered back. The fact that he did not faint was thanks to a weighted implant made with safety first. That didn’t mean luck.

Leonard ducked aimlessly to avoid the churning knife and fed his short upper. When the swordsman sat down, unable to withstand the series of effective hits, he kicked his jaw.

‘Shiba… Hit me, hit me again…’

If it is a will, it will be in the best 3 not cool wills. Leonard kicked the cleaver away and went inside.

There could not have been two groups conspiring corporate terrorism. A third assailant emerged from the bathroom. The blue stun gun was better than the kitchen knife.

“No, you want to use a gun?”

When a commotion arises, it is the terrorists who are in trouble, not the solvers. After overpowering the swordsman, Leonard fired a stun gun in the knee with the revolver ‘Army’ he pulled out. bang-!

Modern culture was also the best. In one blow, his leg was smashed and he fell down. Just in case, I shot one shot in the shoulder and uploaded the hacking program. At the same time, he turned ‘Air Force’ in his left hand to the utility room. Because they were residents of the same villa, the structure of the house was clear. The terrorist who jumped out holding an iron pipe stood still. Even without eye contact, the muzzle demanded a lot.

“Isn’t it crazy to try to beat a company with sandals like this?”

“I don’t think so.”

Max, who dragged his chin down and managed to close the front door, found something. It was a snowball box, an electronic drug of unknown origin and driving people crazy.

“Is this an implant bomb?”

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Leonard gathered other terrorists in the living room and filled his revolver with bullets.

The arrest was not done separately. If it weren’t for the special steel handcuffs used by corporate public security – in fact, they don’t use it often either – it wouldn’t be easy to hold onto the implant body, and there was something better, so there was no need to tie it up.

“I’ve never been particularly hurt by your club activities, but please forgive me because it’s my job.”

At Leonard’s words, the 8 prosthetic eyes rushed around, paralyzing the function of the brain chip, so there was not much else that could be moved.

“Can’t we just pretend we didn’t see it?”

The protruding jaw appealed to loyalty. Five years have passed since I moved here to 11-1st Street, and in that time, I have developed something worthy of friendship.

“The four of them probably aren’t everything. If you have a gang, just call one. Then I won’t report them.”

“How can you believe that?”

It was really a sighing gang. Leonard explained step by step.

“I must have known in the evening that the protruding jaw belonged to the Liberation Front. I’m going to report it to the public security, and I reported it a long time ago. No, didn’t you call the police first before coming down here?”

“That sounds plausible, but…”

“This upstairs house is my house. I don’t like the business people coming and going.”

The words of the solver were persuasive. However, understanding and consent are different. The hot-tempered terrorist, who was holding a knife and setting it up, wrote an evil.

“Do you think we will sell our comrades! Kill me!”

He might change his mind if he really tried to kill him, but he didn’t bother to test it. Not because Leonard is a gentleman, but because there is an easy solution.

“If I were a terrorist, I would format the external memory first, but looking at it, I don’t think I’ll be that meticulous, and if I open it, it will come out.”

The knife holder pulled out a memory chip from under his ear. He screamed and resisted, but his limbs were paralyzed and there was nothing but noise. The stun gun suddenly screamed.

“Leonard Walker! You are an accomplice too!”

“I? why?”

“Who do you think made that bomb, that snowball? U.S? no!”

“I see. He must have seemed a bit stupid or incompetent…”

I wonder if he didn’t like the way he relaxed, or if he was going to get caught anyway, so he spewed out information on his own, even without interrogation.

“Jim Taylor! Do you remember Mr. Jim Taylor? The electronic chip developer you took out of the detention center! What he made is the Cyborg Hacking Module Snowball!”

“Oh, who is that person?”

When he offered 100,000 credits, he guessed that he was not an ordinary person. The puzzle came together little by little.

“The memory chip you were told to retrieve was the Snowball production code. It was also at that time that the number of psycho cyborg crimes skyrocketed. Because Jack Turner’s gambling house has been overturned. If that’s the case, you found the memory chip right after you asked me…”

When Leonard’s deduction was slightly off, the naive iron pipe terrorist corrected it.

“I couldn’t find the chip. Jim Taylor recreated it from scratch, but after a lot of trial and error, he distributed it as an electronic drug.”

Leonard thanked him for the confession and retrieved the memory chip. When I looked at it, I knew whether it was true or not.

“Don’t lie. The purpose of the credits must have been greater. When I asked where I had the money to put out 100,000 credits, it was the cost of scavenger blood.”

“Wow… they are really bad people.”

Leonard looked at the silent chin. Since they are implant cyborgs, the exact age is unknown, but judging from the body model and behavior, the protruding jaw must be the eldest. It was probably the highest position.

“Did you sacrifice Tom Weiser like that? As a snowball test subject?”

“That, that’s…”

“Your brotherly loyalty is great.”

The jock chin lowered his head. Max gave me a glance, asking if it was too much. Leonard didn’t even reproach him anymore.

I don’t know if the protruding chin personality is ‘real’, but it wouldn’t be an intentional incident even if only half of my usual behavior was true. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have taken the risk of getting his identity revealed to Leonard and not entrusted him with the request. I understood that I blamed myself for my fault that day.

“Where is B?”

“Why are you looking for him?”

“He is not their captain. What, the leader of the action? Anyway, I have to stop what I’m doing now.”

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Jaws knew Leonard as well as Leonard knew Jaws.

“Is it because of Sebastian Cor, the military and weapons adviser of the Old Human Union Government?”

“Could the inspiration be a government official? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I know you’ve been to your house, so there’s nothing to pretend you don’t know.”

“No, because I didn’t know you changed jobs… didn’t your last name fill up as an advisor to the board of directors?”

I had to guess when he said he had come as an envoy. Judging by the errands of ‘Chairman’, it’s not likely that he has established himself very independently, and it seems that Gunn’Gun’s influence has grown significantly in the past 7 years. When Leonard thought of something else, Jaws had hope.

“We guarantee his safety. I’ll give you three times as much commission fee. So just pretend you don’t know.”

Leonard chuckled. It was also a concept that was canned without credit. I couldn’t come to a compromise even if that was outrageous.

“Max, call your broker.”

“Hey, wait!”

Leonard put the stolen memory chip under his ear. I don’t like this kind of research, but I didn’t have the time, so I had no choice.

“Let’s see how we’re going to use those bombs?”

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In conclusion, the electronic drug ‘Snowball’ was not a finished bomb.

There is a function to turn the brain chip into a psycho cyborg, but it was not a bomb that could be detonated at the moment you wanted. So, you could say it was pure explosives.

“There is a separate detonator.”

It’s a difficult explanation, but the growing gun mania understood roughly.

“Is it like a switch? Runaway now! Kwakwang?”

Leonard nodded. I had a rough outline, but I didn’t know who, when, or how. It is unknown whether the three gang members, including Jugeotchin, are the lower end or the leader of the Liberation Front is meticulous. I’d prefer it to be the former, but…

“There is one thing I can do, though.”

Leonard replaced the memory chip. I narrowed down the list of purchasers of snowballs I had previously obtained through ‘Skinhead’ Kruger. Among them were entrepreneurs and public security agents. They were the bombs of this terror.