Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 47 Negotiations Collapse [2.5K Reads, Please Continue Reading]

Through the sniper scope, behind the spa's dilapidated iron gate was a newly installed automatic door, with a camera constantly scanning the surrounding environment.

Inside was a dimly lit corridor, with a faint red light emanating from the server behind a semi-transparent curtain.

Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief; the structure seemed to be similar to what he remembered.

Lin Yue has a habit of comparing his goals with his memories before doing anything... Exploring the environment is one of those comparisons.

As the sun set, and no other new gang members arrived at the puppet workshop guarded by the Voodoo Gang, Lin Yue felt relieved and prepared to go and negotiate the deal.

If it weren't for his own ICE, Lin Yue would never have taken the initiative to cause trouble for the slider.

But now Semir has blocked me, so the purchasing channels are cut off, and I can only go to her in person.

Lin Yue slung the sniper rifle over his back, checked the pistol's magazine capacity, and headed toward the Black Puppet Workshop with its sliders.

Before he even reached the door, members of the Voodoo Gang in the distance picked up their guns, their modified cybernetic eyes fixed on the stranger.

The Voodoo Clan is the most xenophobic group in the entire Night City.

“I’m looking for Semir.”

Lin Yue didn't rush in. Instead, he stood three meters away from them with his hands raised. As long as there was room for negotiation, Lin Yue didn't want to make too much of a fuss. Although the Netherworld Hounds rarely appeared on this mountain, it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn't come looking for trouble.

"There's no Semir here, get lost, stranger. ￥#￥%..."

The woman with the afro, whose eyes were made of optical prosthetics with a horizontal bar, spoke in a volatile tone and clearly had a black accent, which matched Lin Yue's stereotype of the Voodoo Gang, since it was full of Haitians.

The sentence even ended with a Haitian phrase, a language that Lin Yue's translator didn't have.

But he guessed it probably wasn't anything nice.

"Don't be like that, lady. I know Semill, and I heard she has a prosthetic body—not only that, I also know Slippery, and I want to seriously discuss a business deal with him."

"Who are you?" the woman asked, pointing a gun at Lin Yue.

Lin Yue tried to sound friendly. "I sent her a text message, but she blocked me. So I thought I'd come over and ask her—a prosthetic doctor said you sell prosthetics from New America. Can we chat?"

"Idiot, that's already a rejection. A client has already ordered it—"

"The prosthetic doctor just adjusted our endocrine hormone system parameters and now he thinks he's something special? He's even going to recommend business to an idiot like you?"

The woman's tone not only didn't soften, but became even more impolite, causing Lin Yue to frown.

It looks like this thing won't be easy to get.

When will the Voodoo Gang ever speak like human beings? They deserve to be beaten.

"The highest bidder wins, right? Haitians aren't exactly known for being so polite in business. I think we can talk some more." Lin Yue held back his temper; he still wanted to try and negotiate.

"Alright then, someone in Dogtown has offered 30 euros. If you can double that, we might actually agree."

Lin Yue's expression froze.

joke?

The woman sensed Lin Yue's predicament and laughed loudly with the gang members around her, "Then there's no need to talk. You probably can't afford this price anyway, you poor bastard."

"What about the slider? I want to talk to him." Lin Yue felt that this Haitian woman didn't want to talk at all. The item was related to the slider, so he had to get involved with the slider first.

"Can't you understand me? There are no sliders or prosthetics here, get out! If you don't get out, I'll let this bullet go down your crotch!" The woman swung her gun, and the surrounding members all raised their guns, occasionally pressing the barrels against Lin Yue's chest.

boom!
The soil around Lin Yue's feet exploded, and a man speaking Haitian dialect cursed incessantly, even firing a gun to drive Lin Yue away.

Lin Yue, his expression unchanged, took a deep breath.

Then... there's nothing to discuss?
Okay, okay.

Lin Yue's smiling expression suddenly vanished, and his hands, which had been raised high, were abruptly lowered. He then grabbed the woman's gun barrel!
In that instant, the woman's gasp and the progress bar in his eyes, which was being cracked, appeared simultaneously! Bang! The trigger was pulled.

The scorching heat from the muzzle stung Lin Yue's hand. At the same time, he spun around, and the gorilla-like arm suddenly exerted force, deforming the barrel like a piece of candy. The woman, in her panic, fired, and the rifle in her hand immediately exploded—

Lin Yue held the woman's neck tightly with one hand, still trying to maneuver.

Unexpectedly, the voodoo gang members on the other side had no regard for the consequences, and all their bullets flew towards Lin Yue and the woman in front of him.

The bullet, carrying with it deformed air and heat waves, flew off, grazing Lin Yue's cheek. The simulated skin-colored coating was wiped away, revealing a silver-white bulletproof layer.

All of their actions happened in just a few seconds!

Gunshots and curses rang out, filling the surrounding still air...

The woman in front of him was pierced by his comrade's bullet, her throat emitting a horrifying hoarse sound, muttering their language before she died.

Lin Yue kicked the woman's corpse, then charged forward!

After firing a few bullets at the ground with the pistol in his hand, he spun it around in his palm, and then the other gorilla arm, with a whooshing sound as it scraped against the air, landed squarely on the face of a male voodoo gang member!

In that instant, it was like a vase hitting the ground; the man's face and skull structure began to deform rapidly... The debris and bone fragments moved to the other side of his head and then clung together, the force sending him flying. He then slammed into the iron gate at the entrance of the spa, leaving a large, irregular dent!

The fragments and blood were like graffiti scribbled on the door, and several bullets that bounced off the ground completed their missions—burrowing into the heads and chests of the remaining members from various bizarre angles, exploding into delicate blood flowers.

Everything returns to calm.

Blood dripped from between Lin Yue's fingers as several corpses slowly fell to the ground beside him, making a series of muffled thuds.

A heart pounding like a hammer and a surge of adrenaline—

The process of using the gorilla arm is so wonderful that it can excite you to forget all fear and pain!

He reached up and wiped the blood from his face. Lin Yue's gleaming white teeth and smile resembled those of a demon from hell.

No one can stop him from pursuing his various goals in this world, not even the Puppet Workshop, which is home to many hackers.

If Li De and V could break in, why couldn't I?
This prosthetic face... I'm going to have it!
[Crack failed!]
The progress bar inside the prosthetic eye was erased, emitting a series of beeping sounds.

Lin Yue suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. The ICE self at the back of his head blocked the first [quick crack] from the hacker inside.

The original cooldown time of the ICE was fifty seconds. After Sami's adjustments, the downtime was reduced to thirty seconds, but Lin Yue still couldn't let his guard down during this period.

Lin Yue began tracing the source of the next rapid intrusion through his artificial eye. He discovered that the dense red lines used as markers all originated from the large server located in the center of the Voodoo Gang's Puppet Workshop.

Lin Yue picked up the sniper rifle, slid down to his knees, and charged towards the newest automatic door. His gorilla-like arm easily shattered the bulletproof glass, and the black muzzle of the rifle pointed towards the innermost passage. But that wasn't all. Lin Yue pulled out a pistol with one hand, fired a shot upwards without even looking, and the surveillance camera above his head shattered into pieces with sparks.

The second attempt to crack the code also failed!

Lin Yue didn't want the monitor behind him to become a springboard for the enemy to invade his system while he was clearing out the enemy.

However, the numerous cracking attempts continue. If the server issue isn't resolved, Lin Yue's prosthetic body could malfunction or his weapons could become ineffective at any time.

Lin Yue took a deep breath as his finger gently touched the cold trigger. The excellent night vision function of the Hungry Ghost Sniper Scope revealed that three members were crouching and approaching Lin Yue's vicinity.

Just as the three of them were almost in a straight line—

The cat in his hand trembled slightly, as if excitedly awaiting an energy sniper attack to annihilate the enemy!

"Go to hell, you bastards who dug up the black wall."

Lin Yue muttered to himself.

A meteor pierced the murky air inside the room, ghostly burrowing into the thin, soft skin of the Voodoo Gang's head. Flames and roars, mixed with the aura of death, suddenly exploded in the small passage, and a rain of blood slowly fell...

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