How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

59. terror

Leonard and Max left the chin-jaw gang and went straight down to the parking lot. It’s a minor end, so the middleman will take care of it. The fixer had other things to do.

-You want to connect a client?

The broker, Jake, sounded embarrassed. It was related to the reason for the existence of brokers.

-You know it’s impossible until you ask for it first. It’s a confidentiality clause.

“damn! Tell them not to pretend to be clean!”

Leonard chose his car key and pondered for a moment. In fact, the identity of the ‘bomb’ was revealed, so the request was a success.

The implant cyborg using the electronic drug ‘Snowball’ could be found by the company itself, and the event could be postponed or canceled if things didn’t work out. If it was the usual Leonard, he would have finished the request here. Unless it was old Sebastian Kor.

“I’m going to play with my grandchildren at home, so why come up to the ground and bring them…”

Leonard called the old man for his grandson to prank. It was fortunate that the contact information was the same as it was 8 years ago. It beeped twice and I answered immediately.

-Oh my God, Master Leo? Have you already made up your mind?

It seems that he is very happy that he is one octave higher than usual. I’m a little sorry for talking about work.

“Where are you now? Who are you with?”

-I have a luncheon meeting, so this is the high lane company building. You called me after a long time, but I couldn’t talk for a long time…

“Damn it! get out of there Right now.”

-What is that… Calm down. You don’t look like a young boy.

Old Sebastian was right. It was an unreasonable request to suddenly leave during a formal meeting. Leonard thought calmly.

It is not going to be done right away, and if the broker reports to the client, he will prepare for it as much as he knows the danger of the psycho cyborg.

– I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon. We will meet and discuss the detailed schedule… What kind of fuss is this?

The last question wasn’t for Leonard. Leonard blocked the noise canceling function built into the communicator by default. I could hear miscellaneous noises around me.

-Kyaaa!

– Public security! Where are the public security agents!

– Director! Avoid!

Crackling, breaking, crushing, screaming, and gunshots followed. I don’t know if it’s actually going to happen now, or if the plan was advanced after knowing that the gangsters had suffered, but it was clear that it was a psycho-cyborg terror.

-Boss, I’m very sorry, but I’ll call you in an hour. It won’t be a big deal, so don’t worry…

Even in this tense situation, politeness was typical of old Sebastian. Leonard didn’t believe it and tried to locate it. It took a little time.

“It’s a psycho cyborg! Defeat the implant cyborg, all the bodyguards attached by the Federation, and avoid it with only the bodyguards from GunnGuns! I say again! It’s a psycho cyborg! Trust no one!”

I was going to ask for a few more things, but the phone hung up. It was unknown whether the cell phone was lost in the turmoil or if the liberation front terrorists took control of the communication. One thing is clear: the situation is not good. Max asked nervously in the passenger seat.

“How have you been? What happened?”

“…let’s go.”

Leonard turned the key and applied the handbrake. I hit the accelerator very hard. Kiki-Ik-!

“Safe driving! Wow! Safe driving!”

Max was the flagship, but he ignored it. Driving safely in Junk Town was a boring joke.

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The pick-up truck’s sprint continued on 9th Avenue White Town after passing 10th Avenue. The weight of 2.5 tons was inconsequential, and it was naturally stopped by the corporate public security.

“Fucking car in front! Stop the car! Stop right now!”

It’s not a model, it’s not a model, and I’m angry at being called a shit car. However, after stopping, he did not politely protest. Gear up and speed up even more.

Looking at the aircraft performance alone, it is impossible for a medium-sized pickup truck to outrun a taxed public security vehicle. However, it was possible if the driver’s skills were different.

‘Two automatic turrets. 1 armed drone.’

Of course, that skill wasn’t driving skill. He hacked into the turret installed under the overpass and opened fire on the pursuing public security vehicle. Too-tata-tattang-!

Even a fixer who seemed to live only three days could not kill a public security officer in broad daylight, so it was a threatening shot. A barrage was formed in front, and the public security agent was frightened and braked suddenly. One car with slow braking bent the steering wheel and crashed into the guardrail. Kwakwang-! The sound is loud, but it won’t die because it’s an implant cyborg.

“Ouch! evil! evil! Are you crazy? Shooting the police in White Town!”

“do not worry! I’m not dead!”

“It doesn’t matter if they die! It looks like we’re going to die!”

It was indeed Max. Leonard glanced at his assistant, who had the qualities of a young man, and looked ahead again. My vision was so complicated that I had no time to care. Half of the field of view was a system alarm while hacking the tactical drone that followed. To make matters worse, there were more and more cars.

“I will open the way. hold tight.”

“What? how?”

We passed 9th Avenue and entered 7th Avenue. It was the center of White Town, so everywhere you looked, there were skyscrapers. There were no side roads, alleys, or strange roads that were not roads like Junk Town. The neighborhood was square like a checkerboard, so it was impossible to hide or avoid. It wasn’t that there was no way.

“I like this place better.”

Leonard was a hacker. There are white hackers that each company wants to put out, and there are various black hackers working under gangs, but even if they gather all of them, there is no hacker who can stand against Leonard.

The Hexagon hacking module that the Old Human Alliance made with great care, the ability to use the brain chip innately, and the programming speed refined in practice appeared as a class.

‘Get out of the way.’

Leonard’s pupils dilated into hexagons, then split into doubles. Hexagons within hexagons appeared. I didn’t have to explain what I hacked. Around the pick-up truck, seven blocks of vehicles veered in an arbitrary direction. Kki-Ik-! thud-! thump! It’s mom!

White Town’s downtown roads were open like wasteland roads. Max unknowingly burst into exclamations.

“wow! wow! Whoa-!”

It was extensive hacking that automatically copied and transferred hacked files. This was possible because it was a white town luxury vehicle equipped with an auto drive system as standard.

“uh? Leonard, are you bleeding?”

However, it was not a hack that anyone could do. Having to handle dozens or hundreds of RAMs with just one brain chip, the nerve-burning pain followed. Blood trickled from his nose and his lips were torn.

“I bit my tongue.”

“Is your tongue in your nostril?”

The nosebleed was overloaded, but the lips were a wound caused by biting to hold back the pain. I wiped it roughly with my coat sleeve and looked in the rearview mirror. Not all White Town rich people use Auto Drive, but there were cars that weren’t hacked. So it worked out rather well. Subtly interrupted the pursuit of public security vehicles.

Leonard took a few corners and entered Fifth Avenue.

“Almost there.”

“There are more than one or two High Lane buildings, right? Is this right?”

“Here it is.”

I couldn’t track the exact location, but based on hints of a corporate house and the range where the signal was caught, it must have been here. The evidence appeared right away.

“That madman! Where is this place, shooting!”

“Call the public! Call the public security!”

It was a three-story mansion built with marble-or something similar to marble-coated to prevent corrosion from the polluting rain.

Looking at the building alone, it reminds me of an ancient Greek temple, but the sharp Gothic-style iron fence and the splendid Victorian-style garden made me question the roots. If it embodies the ground at the end of the century when nationalism and nationalism collapsed, it was a pretty good building. It was not an ordinary idea to build a mansion this size in a forest of skyscrapers.

“Looks like this is right! Someone is coming!”

The lattice door was pushed back, and the gentleman in the tuxedo and the lady in the dress pushed out. It’s not a decent look because of the situation, but even if we met in a calm place, it wasn’t a very favorable impression. I didn’t really want to be friends with a gentleman with sideburns and a mustache, or a wife with span-long eyelashes. From the point of view of the underground city, that was also terrorism.

“If you only party, you will hear that it is not fundamental because you go like that.”

It’s nice that there are no guards because of the turmoil, but because of the crowds, we couldn’t get into the car.

Leonard parked the pickup truck under the railings and got out of the car. Surveillance cameras gawked and stared. Probably unattended shooting. There won’t be any security guards leisurely monitoring this situation.

“Are you really going in? Is it corporate land?”

“All of a sudden.”

Leonard entered the garden against the fleeing crowd. I heard a bit of a twinge, but it didn’t stop me. There were also people who watched the terror scene without fear, so it was not very noticeable.

Traversing a garden full of live flowers, rounding a cherub troupe fountain, past a perverted monument to the human brain, we came to an exterior Greek column that served as a Doric or Ionian roof. It was a real terror scene.

“People…! town!”

Leonard covered Max’s mouth and pulled him behind a pole. The walls and floors were covered in blood. Most of them were corporate public security officers and house guards, but there were also a few entrepreneurs who seemed to be customers.

Leonard peeked at the surveillance camera above the front door and hacked it right away. Looking around along the line, I was able to get a more accurate picture of the situation.

‘It’s not easy to subdue with a fire extinguisher like that.’

There were corpses with broken necks, corpses with holes in their stomachs, corpses with sunken faces, etc., and that was enough. One security guard’s head was missing, and a business man’s limbs were bent in odd ways, and his head was pulled out of his spine.

There were bullet marks and shell casings all over the place as if they had returned fire with a pistol, but the cyborg who was suppressed by the gun was nowhere to be seen. It was full of blood and grease.

When I moved to the second floor camera, a moving person appeared. No, Psycho appeared. Sticking your fingers into the crown of a corpse and dragging it around isn’t something a normal person would do.

“One at a time.”

“For now? First?”

“Even if the guards were pathetic, they wouldn’t have been annihilated by a single psycho cyborg.”

I hacked all the cameras on the second floor, but Sebastian was nowhere to be seen. Still, I wasn’t in a hurry. A fixer’s most powerful weapon was information. I don’t know the number of psycho cyborgs, but I couldn’t get into the room full of obstacles.

Found two more Psychos on the 3rd floor. This one was originally a public security agent, wearing a body armor under a suit. Even if the brain chip melted, his usual habit did not go anywhere, and he could shoot a gun. It was a more difficult reason than the old zombies in the movie.

“It seems that he became a psycho on the 3rd floor. Well, that’s why I was able to evacuate outside.”

If the psycho had appeared at the entrance of the mansion, the damage would have been much greater. The problem is that the third floor is the VIP room, so the old human envoy from the underground city couldn’t escape.

Indeed, there was old Sebastian hiding with two bodyguards in the farthest room on the third floor.