Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 233 92. Killing

What does it feel like to stand in an elevator with Adam Hammer?

Carl didn't know about others, but for him, this kind of "honorable" treatment, which was rare in Night City and even in the whole world, brought him the only feeling.

It's very crowded.

Mr. Adam Heavy Hammer's mechanical body was so huge that the two of them were crowded in a rapidly descending elevator.

Looking down at the floor, Carl communicated with Kenichi Shiro on the comms.

Carl: Mr. Kenichi Shiro, why don't you remotely shut down those people's cyborgs? They should all be employees of Arasaka. Don't you have the authority?
Kenichi Shiro: Matsudaira was not unprepared. His only surprise was that he did not expect Miss Haruko to come today and take action here. His subordinates had already taken away his authority using his identity as vice president. When Mrs. Michiko was not around, he was one of the highest managers of Night City. These people could not be blocked after their authority disappeared.

Carl: I see.

Carl stopped asking and looked up at Adam Hammer, who was much taller than him. Then he had the second experience of squeezing into an elevator with Adam Hammer.

That's this guy's mouth, it really stinks.

"You're just a stinky boy who hasn't even grown all his hair yet. I won't have time to help you clean up your wet pants later."

Adam took a heavy look at Karl’s arm and said, “And your hand, don’t let it be broken again today.”

"That's not a very pleasant thing to say, Mr. Adam Hammer."

Carl kept smiling. For someone who had saved his life, Carl could still tolerate the simple foul language. However, this did not mean that he would not swear back:

"I thought Mr. Adam Heavy Hammer, who is a robot and can't even pee his pants, was saying this because he envied me because the rest of my body is intact. Of course I have to be careful with my hands, otherwise I will end up like you, with your whole body broken and only your head left and a tough mouth."

"Bastard boy."

The pair of scarlet prosthetic eyes showed a glaring posture, but Carl did not sense much murderous intent from them.

Just like a simple physical topic doesn't make him angry or defensive.

After the two exchanged a few words, there was silence on the stairs going down for a few seconds, and then Adam Hammer spoke again, asking a question that Carl had never thought he would ask:

"You and Haruko, are you close?"

what?
Carl had to admit that he was stunned when he heard Adam Heavy Hammer's words, which did not sound cold but rather had a sense of ordinary inquiry.

This mechanical cold-blooded monster would even ask this?

And there's Haruko. Calling him by his name directly does that mean he has some kind of relationship with Haruko?
Carl found it hard to understand, but before he could answer, the sound of someone reaching the stairs was heard.

"Just work first. I'll ask you later. I hope your skills and guns are as good as your mouth."

After these words were spoken, gunshots were heard from outside before the door was opened.

Someone noticed the arrival of the elevator and launched an attack before the elevator door opened.

It looked like the traitors had taken control of this floor and were planning to cut off any possible enemy support.

The elevator door, which was originally only used by employees, naturally could not block bullets. However, the fact that the door was not opened did not mean that Carl and Adam Hammer could not get out.

In just a moment, Carl's sense of threat in front of him increased many times. Adam's heavy hammer in front of him had bloodshot eyes and his figure became blurred. At this moment, the violent type and Sian Westin started at the same time. The huge arms of the machine grabbed the elevator door and tore it open with overwhelming force. In the twisting of the elevator structure, a huge shadow rushed out of the elevator.

“Da da da da da—”

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-"

The dense bullets and the weak impact on the metal formed a sharp contrast. Amid the sparks created by the bullets, the heavy hammer rushed forward.

"boom!"

With just one charge, the four Arasaka uniformed personnel who launched the attack five meters outside the elevator door were turned into meat paste. Their bodies were shattered into pieces of bones accompanied by blood and scattered everywhere. Before the other Arasaka personnel could react in fear, Adam swung his heavy hammer arm, and his infinite wrist strength swept across the other Arasaka personnel on the right with his movement.

The fate of these Arasaka personnel was slightly better than that of the Arasaka personnel who were directly hit in terms of the appearance of their death. At least they were able to keep their heads intact.

During this slow time of perception, another figure rushed out of the elevator behind Adam's hammer and moved just as fast. His left wrist lit up with the light of a single-molecule line, which turned into an arc-shaped light blade at his side as he rushed forward. When it passed by the people on the left side of Adam's hammer who had not yet been cleaned up, the single-molecule line on it passed through the waists of those people, and in the blood that was cut in half and slowly sprayed out, the single-molecule line was still as bright and clean as new.

Time continues to flow normally in the sense.

All the Arasaka personnel who blocked the door and launched the attack have died.

"Slow down, kid."

"After all, it's still no match for a piece of iron covered in explosives."

"Wrong kid."

Adam Hammer suddenly raised his right hand, and a ninja who was in the shadows and was about to attack with a mantis knife was intercepted by the power of his right hand and was lifted into the sky in an uncontrolled posture.

“That’s what firing a cannon is.”

Adam Hammer said this, raised his right hand, and aimed it at the ninja who was falling down due to the reaction force after smashing the ceiling to create a spider web-like crack.

"boom!"

In the fire that burst out from Adam's sledgehammer arm, the ninja, who was already half dead from the heavy blow, completely turned into blood foam.

"I'd rather see you torn to pieces. The way you beat me like this, the air smells like blood. At least consider the people who don't have lung filters."

Carl complained, but he was not slow in his movements. He met another ninja who rushed out from his side and wanted to kill him. He met him with Zhongye in his right hand. When the ninja tried to swing the mantis knife from mid-air, the dagger below Zhongye had already pierced deeply into the ninja's throat as Carl rushed forward.

Lifting the dead body with one hand, Carl threw it to the side, allowing his End of Night dagger to escape from the ninja's throat, and then said: "This is what we call fighting."

"very good."

Adam stared at Carl with a heavy hammer: "Fighting, like war, has always been indispensable to me. If you have the ability to compete with me in killing, go ahead and try, kid."

"That's what I meant."

Carl shook off the blood on his face.

"After all, this is a chance to compare yourself with a legend."

(End of this chapter)