Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 465 Trap Turns Over [7.1K]

Lin Yue only glanced at them and noticed that the well-equipped mercenaries had all undergone technical modifications before doing this job.

"V?!"

The woman, understanding immediately, switched places with Lin Yue.

A faint, pleasant fragrance wafted through the air as Lin Yue settled into the passenger seat. He calmly retrieved his V-class sniper rifle from behind the seat.

"Crap crap crap!"

"I knew I'd die after coming out of there!"

Sandra was like an ant on a hot plate in the trunk, constantly muttering about how she was going to die a horrible death at the hands of those men.

"Can you do it?"

V turned her head and glanced at Lin Yue, thinking that she might be more efficient.

As they were talking, a sharp scraping sound suddenly came from behind Sandra, who was in a panic. Lin Yue subconsciously reached out and pulled her aside. She groaned in pain as her back slammed heavily against the carriage wall.

A beam of light pierced through a bullet hole, illuminating the dark carriage, but to Sandra it looked like someone was pointing a gun at her…

It's not her fault.

In a state of extreme mental breakdown, no one can help.

Lin Yue didn't mean to be harsh at all. Instead, he turned around and shielded Sandra in front of him, placing his hand on her cold lips.

"If you want to live, use me as cover, then do nothing, ask nothing, and don't shout. Of course, if you have the energy, you can shoot from the small window on the side, okay?"

"Just think of it as a nightmare or something..."

Lin Yue casually pulled out a pair of listening headphones from a pile of miscellaneous items in the carriage that seemed to be used for recording Mewtwo and put them on Sandra's head.

"You won't die."

As she spoke, she saw the man who called himself a rock kid kick open the precarious iron gate, and instantly several kinetic energy bullets that distorted the air and light slammed into Lin Yue.

"Don't abandon the vehicle. Sandra has too many wounds; my S.A.S ...

Excessive acceleration can be fatal to external wounds.

V nodded emphatically; his goal had changed to saving the car.

She found that whenever she wanted to take a vacation and go on a date, nothing ever went well. Honestly, she'd rather do nothing than drive around dodging a bunch of mercenaries.

Even the most boring date can be one where you eat popcorn and watch an old movie.

With a helpless sigh, V swerved the steering wheel, turning the car from the busy straight lane into the left-turn lane.

To avoid being blocked, the mercenaries chasing behind began firing into the air. The dense gunfire was accompanied by a series of car collisions. They all stared intently at the swaying cargo box door in front of them, twisting the accelerator harder.

hum!
The roar of the engine propelled them to within meters of the car, and they could even see figures inside.

Just as they aimed their guns at the tires, preparing to swarm them, the muzzle of a sniper rifle appeared.

They instinctively scattered, some of them even having the energy to fire while performing motorcycle maneuvers; their accuracy was extremely good thanks to the enhanced reflexes and prosthetics.

Crawling at the back of the carriage, using the not-so-strong man in front of her as cover, Sandra saw sparks fly in Lin Yue amidst her suffocating fear!

The recoil of the bullet caused Lin Yue's limbs to sway slightly, but the guy seemed to feel no pain and immediately adjusted his sniping posture before firing.

"Mercenaries, gangs, and outsiders."

"The Ye Clan... what are you doing?"

As he muttered to himself, Lin Yue's sniper rifle suddenly fired!
The first bullet pierced the motorcyclist's fuel tank and chest, and a violent burst of flames drew a line of fire along the motorcycle's trajectory, leaving surrounding vehicles, unable to get out of the way, covered in burning alcohol.

Lin Yue seemed not to hear the piercing shouts. He calmly and skillfully opened fire, using the simplest method to attack the pursuers.

The fact that Ye knew Sandra's location so quickly proves that some of the company's subnets definitely have their own hidden programs.

Lin Yue glanced at the city's traffic cameras out of the corner of his eye. He had an idea.

With high accuracy, the sniper rifle in Lin Yue's hands was like an intelligent connected assistant, automatically searching for enemies and hitting vital points with every shot. In particular, those mercenaries who wanted to attack the tires were all turned into a pile of mud on the ground due to the inertia of high-speed movement.

"Too many! Look to the left!"

Ahead in the V-shaped lane, the Tiger Claw gang of street racers are driving extremely dangerously against the flow of traffic.

Their exaggerated and bizarre prosthetic bodies, which fit the aesthetics of Japanese gangs, were even more ferocious than the stereotypical tiger claws. With their prosthetic eyes fixed on the car, V saw the extremely perverted expressions on those guys' faces.

With body proportions reminiscent of Pira, they carried samurai swords, the colorful ribbons on the hilts blending together with their brightly colored clothing and accessories...

Lin Yue had just finished changing his bullet when he let out a shrill scream.

The mantis blade and the double-jump prosthetic leg gave a mercenary the courage to abandon his motorcycle. Taking advantage of Lin Yue's reload, he crossed his twin blades in mid-air, and Sandra, who happened to be looking up, saw this.

Lin Yue also looked up and saw this guy—

"No!"

Sandra, her face ashen, stared at the mercenary's bloodshot eyes and K below, who was still reloading.

As the afterimage of S. A.S. A.S. quickly filled the entire carriage, Lin Yue slightly turned his body, and the black gorilla arm under the cover of light and shadow burst forth with almost destructive energy!
It was just a simple dodge, plus a firm press of his hand against the guy's cheek.

Even though his Sianwaystein was manufactured by Qiante Company, Lin Yue did not let it slip out of his grasp—

boom!
Sandra's buttocks were bounced up by the vibration!
The sheet metal on the side of the truck bulged rapidly, and after swelling to a critical point, it was torn apart like a bubble!

Lin Yue pressed his hand firmly against the guy's head, pushing it against the side of the metal plate. This domineering force temporarily rendered the guy's prosthetic body unusable.

"Damn it!"

V twisted the steering wheel hard in the opposite direction, and the car was stabilized after some swaying. She felt a sudden sense of relief.

Just when things seemed to be going well, the concrete median strip ahead was about to be completed. While V was still figuring out how to use the interchange at the overpass to shake off the group, a few fearless Tiger Claw gang members spotted a tow truck—

The V-shaped passage is bad!

Behind the trailer was a slope, and these desperados floored the accelerator, speeding up the slope!

Using the height difference, the motorcyclists quickly landed one after another near V, even though someone made a mistake and the motorcycle crashed down on the rough asphalt road!
Wow...

The shattered pieces of the prosthetic body and the sparks from mechanical friction mingled together, leaving a long trail of blood—while these madmen, who often used stimulants as a form of entertainment, just laughed and cursed the unjustly killed idiot.

"let's go!"

The cold gleam of the samurai sword and the noisy shouts of the Tiger Claw Gang were swept away by the wind on the side of the truck.

V, gripping the not-so-good-handling truck, drove with the ferocity of a "thug," forcefully changing lanes and squeezing the Tiger Claw gang members who were hacking at the side of the cargo bed into the oncoming lane—

"Hoohoo!"

A blade suddenly stabbed into the driver's side door. "Die! You piece of shit!"

V subconsciously raised her knee, her expression immediately turning as still as a pool of water, her anger rising rapidly.

Seeing the sharp blade inches from her skin, V floored the accelerator, accelerating the truck—which almost never used its emergency braking mode—even further. A driverless heavy truck at a Night City garbage dump in the distance nearly overlapped with V's cab, but the woman still gripped the steering wheel tightly.

rear.

In Sandra's dazed gaze, the mercenary was tossed aside in Lin Yue's hands like a boneless chick, just like those soft, discarded rubber scraps in a Japanese street trash can.

Lin Yue, who had just crushed the guy's spine and head, didn't say a word. Instead, he rushed forward, and a barrage of bullets rained down on him relentlessly. The genuine leather bulletproof vest on Lin Yue's back was fully activated, causing his signature facial expression to falter and his optical abilities to become somewhat unsustainable...

"Sandra, watch yourself!"

Lin Yue swung his baseball bat 180 degrees, slamming the second mercenary, who hadn't even gotten a foothold on the vehicle, down to his stomach. Watching the man tumble across the ground, his prosthetic body parts exploding, Sandra shuddered…

Hearing the gunshots behind him and watching the mercenaries dodging Sandra's poorly aimed bullets, he stood in front of the cargo container door like a gatekeeper.

The mercenaries raised their guns, and with gangs surrounding them, Lin Yue knew that something on the network was definitely chasing him... The sheer number of pursuers in such a short time, along with the substitutes scattered across various locations, made it hard for Lin Yue not to guess that the Ye family already knew Sandra's whereabouts.

"Hold on tight!"

Upon hearing V's shout, Lin Yue felt the truck suddenly accelerate. He ignored the large truck behind him that was becoming clearer and clearer in the windshield, having completely entrusted his back to Sandra and V.

"Are they planning to eliminate Sandra and everyone around her?"

The Night Clan is indeed greedy, but they are also meticulous in their calculations.

Lin Yue's appearance here at this moment, using online methods, is exactly what the Ye family wanted; they wanted to lure him out.

"Let's see if those bastards from Night City can touch me."

Lin Yue's gaze was deep, and he stood firm, waiting for V to make his move.

At this moment, the Tiger Claw Gang laughed heartily, completely disregarding the truck's front end that was about to smash him into a bloody pulp. Even though the oncoming intelligent driving system tried to evade, the other lane of the truck was blocked, so the control program, which had no human reaction ability whatsoever, could only honk its horn frantically.

The Tiger Claw gang didn't believe the woman could be so sure she wouldn't hit the truck, so they simply abandoned the motorcycle. Her face, resembling a bicycle seat and sporting a goatee, appeared outside the window—

Wow!

A prosthetic arm smashes a car window!
Sandra raised her gun, intending to solve V's problem—

A large amount of glass shards were splashed all over V. The moment her eyes met those of the Tiger Claw gang, the prosthetic arm that was trying to grab her hovered in front of V's face, twitching and emitting a puff of black smoke...

"kill you!"

The Tiger Claw Gang's minds are beyond the comprehension of normal people. Even so, he wanted to squeeze his whole body inside. V turned slightly away to avoid the fishy smell on that guy.

"Hey!"

"Look at the side."

Tiger Claw Gang instinctively turned around, and the V-shaped movement that narrowly missed the heavy truck caused the lower bodies of the Tiger Claw Gang members hanging on the window to be quickly crushed in the gap.

V used her elbow to knock away the severed limb hanging on the car window. Her eyes quickly turned red, and time paused briefly the moment the intrusion panel appeared. Her eyes looked at the unmanned truck. As the vehicle was taken over, V slapped the Tiger Claw Gang, who were biting her from behind, all the way to the side!

The unbalanced truck tilted to the side instantly, scattering bags of garbage across the road. The Tiger Claw gang's motorcyclists braked swiftly, some of their motorcycles flipping up and tumbling over, catching fire amidst the rolling sounds and turning into a new pile of Night City's trash...

Most of the time, the vehicles overturned, sending plumes of smoke rising from the ground. The overturned trucks made deafening crashes, and everything on the road was rapidly destroyed, like a bulldozer. The motorcycle gangs' cars bounced up and down before finally coming to a stop.

Many people simply abandoned their cars and used Sinwidman.
Another group of hired men filed past the Tiger Claw Gang, and the Tiger Claw Gang leader gave them a sinister look.

Not a single one of them started with a burnout, as if they wouldn't give up until they caught up with the truck...

The Tiger Claws looted a lot of things when Night City fell, and their business was extremely profitable. Their cybernetic bodies were all highly offensive, and they preferred sharp objects even more than the Vortex Gang.

The reason Tiger Claw is the most hired organization is because they love hunting down targets so much that they even call it hunting internally.

Only those whose hands are stained with this blood can be considered members of the Tiger Claw Gang.

Lin Yue was also caught in a stalemate. He swung his baseball bat at the mercenaries who dared to reach into the back of the truck and try to pry open the doors. Although the moving truck was covered in scratches and bruises, he and V were like two heavy gun emplacements of a fortress, forcing the heavy and powerless vehicle out of Santo Domingo.

The badlands are just ahead, and the urban area is about to end. Even without considering off-road capabilities, such a large target is a dead end.

It would be a complete loss for Lin Yue to force himself to use online methods in Night City, given that the Ye family had truly forced him to. He thought carefully and then considered whether he had clearly explained the situation in the phone call he made to someone a few minutes earlier.

“V! I need you to take a detour onto the elevated highway ramp.”

V was a little confused. Wouldn't it be easier to be surrounded and intercepted on the highway ramps?

But she never asked why; instead, she dashed towards the narrow fork in the road—oh right…

Since the goal is to ensure the truck leaves safely, that opening is naturally the most suitable.

However, after V drove up, he found that the ramp above was flooded with cars due to the battle that had just taken place on the overpass. Looking at the densely packed vehicles, V slammed on the brakes, leaving a trail nearly ten meters long in the ground...

What should we do, V?

"K!"

Lin Yue saw the situation ahead and jumped out of the car without hesitation, using the cars on both sides of the road as cover to set up his sniper rifle.

The internet was actually what Lin Yue relied on most—computing power, enhancements, and using the magic puppet as an auxiliary means in close combat. Unconsciously, Lin Yue felt that his 18-point physical strength was still somewhat insufficient; of course, such legendary-level power was already incredibly formidable…

Lin Yue really wanted to experience the intensity of a body at its peak.

Unsurprisingly, the NCPD didn't show up at this time, as if they were dead.

Lin Yue instructed V to take Sandra towards the traffic flow; stealing a car was the easiest way, no matter what.

V kicked open the deformed car door and pulled the bewildered Sander out of the car.

He didn't look back at all during the entire process...

Sandra took a few steps. "He'll die."

V turned her head as if watching someone tell a joke, offering no explanation, but instead dragged Sandra forward, while simultaneously pulling a pistol from her waist and firing several shots into the air.

As expected, the drivers stuck in traffic panicked and started their cars after hearing the Night City's daily "Jade Voice," causing collisions and screams of terror such as "The cyber madman is killing people!" and "Don't kill me!"

As Sandra turned around, the crisp sounds of sniper rifles mingled with distant impacts.

The guy acted as if he didn't see the increasing number of gang members at all, calmly dealing with the pursuers on the oncoming motorcycles...

After running out of bullets, Lin Yue made no move to move and waited quietly in place.

Seemingly realizing that Sandra's hired men were quite capable, most of them stopped and prepared to attack with weapons, while only the Tiger Claw gang continued to charge forward.

They were like savage nomadic cavalry, riding motorcycles towards Lin Yue's car with the front raised high, their samurai swords slashing downwards!

Lin Yue seized the opportunity and used his stick to slightly block the blade. The huge kinetic energy of the vehicle caused Lin Yue to retreat uncontrollably. At the same time, his hand grabbed the joint of the Tiger Claw Gang's specially made arm. However, the arm broke off quickly when his hands exerted force suddenly!
The moment the sword shattered, its sharp edge was turned towards Lin Yue.

If Lin Yue could infuse that knife with computing power and maintain his own fighting style, he would naturally use it without hesitation. This time, he simply kicked the blade away, and the Tiger Claw Gang member with a severed arm roared and attacked with the weapon in his other hand.

Lin Yue used a simple shoulder drop technique to dodge the attack, followed by a hook punch—

The shadows on the ground reflected the oddly styled heads of the Tiger Claw Gang members, which vanished instantly, leaving only a splatter of liquid on the ground.

Under the watchful eyes of the Tiger Claw Gang, who had surrounded him, they watched as the guy who had smashed his companion's head with a single punch slowly cleaned up the mess, kicking a baseball bat off the ground and pulling it into his own hands.

He spoke standard Japanese, which he had learned during his tenure at Arasaka's office.

"You useless trash, you look so ugly..."

The Tiger Claw Gang, who had originally intended to bypass Lin Yue, all turned to look at the formidable man in front of them upon hearing this provocation.

The only response he received was the sound of a blade being drawn.

Countless people on the overpass above were watching this scene. Tiger Claw Gang's operations were almost never unsuccessful, so news about powerful lone wolves was naturally the most talked-about topic in Night City.

V, who was about to leave with Sandra above the overpass, saw what appeared to be pursuers appearing at the end of the traffic.

Without saying a word, she turned around and pressed Sandra down, making her squat on the ground.

The two leaned against the side of the car. Even though the woman from the company already knew the answer in her heart, she just kept muttering apologies. In her opinion, it wasn't that the two mercenaries sent by Rogge weren't strong enough... but that the enemy was too well prepared.

She saw absolutely no hope.

"Can you shut your mouth?"

V looked coldly at the woman in front of her. Clearly, she thought it might be better to deal with Sandra, so her words were not very polite.

"V is going to die, don't worry about me."

Sandra seemed to have made up her mind at this moment, "According to what I told you, the dirty deeds of the Ye family must be exposed, please... I knew the company was full of a bunch of ruthless bastards!"

"Go that way!"

Sandra wanted to seize this moment of renewed courage to make a decision she wouldn't regret.

V reached out and grabbed Sandra first.

Her expression softened slightly. "Sandra, if I said K wouldn't let anyone up here, I wouldn't let anyone near... would you believe me?"

Sandra had tried to find jobs for the company that involved hiring Night City mercenaries for dirty work before, but was this something a human could actually do?
When the woman in front of him looked to the side, in the blink of an eye, the crimson color in her eyes appeared. With the wear and tear from the brain-computer interface overclocking and the full operation of the prosthetic body, the behavioral characteristics of her face faded away like optical camouflage after being there for too long and entered a cooling-off period.

Although the woman in front of her had some scratches on her face, her makeup was neat and sophisticated. Sandra's eyes widened as if she had seen something more terrifying than a ghost...

"Humph."

"So you knew you'd seen the Ye family's dirty deeds... that's why you know us?"

Sandra swallowed.

V ...

V…?
Is it Arasaka, the hacker who was at the height of his career, who at only 25 years old had already become the director of the Special Operations Department, and who was the only surviving hacker near the Black Wall during the cyber war?!

Furthermore, the Night Clan's intelligence naturally included information about the relationship between V and Rin. So, what's the next one—

The woman in front of him pressed her slender fingers to her lips.

"Shhh."

“He gave you a chance, but that doesn’t mean I’ll give you one, Sandra. Be patient, don’t make a sound, stay silent… okay?”

Sandra felt a chill run down her spine.

Her head and body couldn't help but want to look down from the overpass.

The woman, who knew many of Night City's secrets, trembled slightly. She had caused a network outage in Night City, and even destroyed the Night Clan's network almost effortlessly…

Sandra wanted to explain.

She wasn't afraid, but rather felt a sense of unreality at the fact that the mercenaries on her side were of such a high caliber.

The woman slightly rose and glanced at the mercenaries in the distance who were firing their guns indiscriminately to drive away residents and search for the two men.

Before Sandra could understand what was happening, the guy at the front paused for a moment, and the mercenaries who were closer to him were reduced to dust in a burst of flames before they could even comprehend what was going on.

V meticulously counted the progress bar of the anti-tracking process in his eyes.

Excellent ICE ensures that the tracking time is never too short; one minute is enough for V to do a lot of things.

Her gaze precisely located the mercenary acting as a hacker botnet among the mercenaries. That red line was like a target indicator for V. Sandra just leaned against the car, listening to the shrill screams and chaotic gunfire in the distance.

Cyberpsychosis caused several of them to point guns at their companions, and not only that, they also committed suicide with the guns after the attack.

The true power of this profession lies in the hackers who lurk in the shadows.

There were network devices available everywhere, and the mercenaries were suffering terribly. They even wanted to rush forward to find the enemy's whereabouts, but every time the hacker tried to track V, she would detect and eliminate the botnets first!

Within minutes, they had been completely slaughtered!

Just as the two men turned their backs to the hacker, the air to their side distorted, and twin blades appeared out of thin air as if from nowhere. The hired men's modifications were extremely similar to those of the Vortex Gang.

The first shadow on the ground that V saw was Sandra's, and V felt his body being pushed.

The two watched as the blade fell straight down.

But under the even stronger red light in V's eyes, her hand instinctively formed a claw shape, and the blade of the violent weapon suddenly stuck in mid-air.

"You motherfucking hacker!"

V shielded Sandra behind him and slowly stood up. As he stood up, the blade remained unmoved under the mercenary's extreme control, because he was now worried that the thing might cut off his head first!

In a single, brief encounter, the mercenary, with a look of resentment, used his knife to remove his own head.

The two took a deep breath...

At the same time, the entire viaduct and Santo Domingo’s city management network came to a standstill.

V looked up and Sandra looked down.

The situation below was far worse than that above. Sandra sensed something was wrong. According to Yoru's description, Rin should be a super hacker, the kind who could take on the company.

Doesn't he use network technology capabilities like V?

Sandra naturally couldn't think about anything too profound—

Looking at the arrogant man covered in blood that was either her own or that of his enemy, Sandra still felt a chill of terror; this guy's record was indeed impressive.

Anyone who has worked at Night City knows who this guy executed in the Azure Building.

"he…"

"Don't we need internet technology?"

V stared silently for a while before replying, "The public transportation system is paralyzed; it's most likely someone he hired. Let's wait patiently; someone will come to pick you up, most likely a homeless person."

"I have to help him here..."

"It's always so special... Even my face has to be exposed because of the prosthetic body, but look at him."

Sandra knew about the strange prosthetic body that altered V's behavior and features.

If Rin also had that…

Does that mean Rin's network access pod is useless, and Sianweistein is kept within reasonable limits?

Just as V was speaking, Lin Yue's S'anwestein once again squeezed out the activation permission by pushing his physical limits.

"Ten seconds each time, CD (cooldown) 30 seconds..."

"Computing power is such a great thing."

Lin Yue silently complained to himself.

The Tiger Claw Gang, terrified and huddled back to back, never expected that a stranger from Night City would slaughter them all!

Like a trapped beast, Lin Yue was waiting for an opportunity. Having spent so long investigating the public network in Night City, he naturally wanted to wipe out the last remaining spies of the Night Clan…

Lin Yue crushed the head of a struggling Tiger Claw Gang member in his hand...

Patiently wait for the moment when the prey catches the hunter.

……

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(End of this chapter)