Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

"All reserve members are committed!"

Two Arasaka airships descended rapidly, carrying the fully armed Arasaka assault team.

"You're determined to kill me, aren't you! Cha, are you here yet? Suppress the fire!"

Vito called out to Cha in the communications, admitting that plans had changed and Arasaka's men had mobilized a large force to wipe out the cube-headed gang.

"Our company's people are fighting in the city! Is there no justice? Is there no law?"

Cha finally arrived. He knelt on the ground, and the prosthetic body popped out of its restraints. His entire robot transformed into a simple twin machine gun turret, which pressed down on the landing Arasaka agent.

One in every three bullets fired by Cha is a graphite bullet, which significantly impacts the Arasaka Commando's smart weapons.

"Well done!"

Vito exclaimed in admiration and quickly strode over to give Sato Yoshitaka, who was still issuing orders while lying on the ground, a heavy kick.

The kick landed directly on Yoshitaka Sato's head, which was exposed outside his individual armor, and the force nearly knocked him unconscious.

At this moment, two more Zeta Technologies Atlas hovercars descended from the sky. These hovercars are very popular in Night City; the Trauma Team's medical team and the News 54 crew both drive them. However, judging from the paint job on the hovercars, they are likely Zeta Technologies' own vehicles.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Several company soldiers wearing "Grasshopper" exoskeleton armor jumped off the hovercar and began clearing out the suppressed Arasaka assault team.

Vito was almost stunned. What was going on tonight? The entire Charter Hill was in complete chaos.

Unbeknownst to him, targeting Arasaka was also a method used by other companies to find Zhu, and the battle here had already attracted the company's attention.

Sato Yoshitaka had a headache and was confused. Wasn't Square Head from Kangtao? Why was Zeta Technology helping him?

Another fixed-wing tactical helicopter flew in from the sky.

"Cha, get out of the way!"

Vito glanced at him with his prosthetic eye and then shouted a warning to Cha.

With a whooshing sound, Adam Hammer, fully prosthetic, plummeted down in a heroic manner.

With a loud bang, Adam Hammer stomped directly on Cha's body, causing electricity to surge through Cha's body and destroying most of his prosthetic body.

"Adam of the Grooves - Heavy Hammer!"

Vito fired repeatedly at Adam Hammer, and Adam Hammer was hit by armor-piercing bullets one after another.

Vito now realizes he has seriously misjudged the situation; with all these damn corporate dogs showing up at once, Vito's firepower is severely insufficient.

Heavy Hammer was intrigued by this freak with a rifle; he sensed the same stench from this guy as Morgan Blackhand.

"Adam's Heavy Hammer has appeared! Adam's Heavy Hammer has appeared!"

Zeta's company soldiers immediately reported to their superiors.

"Adam is here, could Zhu Zhen really be here?"

"Adam Hammer has appeared on Crecker Street. Should the Dragon Squad action team be dispatched?"

The monitoring team of hackers from the Panlong Squad were also reporting the situation to their superiors.

"Action Team...wait! The Panlong Squad is heading towards the Taipingzhou Expressway! Zhu is moving through Taipingzhou and releasing the puppet!"

The Panlong Squad hackers immediately cut off the hacking into Crecker Street and instead hacked into various CCTV cameras in Pacific State to search for Zhu.

"This is Arasaka's smoke bomb. Squad, evacuate. Squad, evacuate."

The Zeta Technology taxi driver clung to the rappelling rope and was pulled directly onto the airship for evacuation, heading towards Zhu's location in Taiping Prefecture.

Adam Heavy Hammer also received a remote order from Saburo Arasaka. He was the one who was hunting down Zhu, and he just happened to be passing by. Now, Arasaka's orders were above all else.

At this moment, the company's elite soldiers demonstrated their qualities: no lingering in battle, no regard for losses, only obedience.

"You bastard, trying to run away?"

Vito threw away the Nine-Tails, which was now out of bullets. He drew his Punishment with his right hand and a punk knife with his left, and charged toward Adam Hammer.

Bang bang bang!

Three .55 bullets were aimed directly at Heavy Hammer's eyes. Heavy Hammer ducked and took the three shots with his head. He felt the damage to his prosthetic body, but he didn't care. When he looked up, he saw Vito had already rushed in front of him.

A punk knife was plunged deep into his steel neck, sparking a burst of electricity.

boom!

Hammer used a specially made shotgun to knock Vito away, then pulled on the fixed-wing's hanging rope and flew away. Before leaving, Hammer fired twelve small missiles in Vito's direction.

Chapter 92 I Can't Sleep Tonight

When the light exploded in Vito's eyes, it was as if he had returned to that year when he was on the riverbank watching the cruise ship set off fireworks.

Tiny humans always love to count down the days to celebrate.

As the fireworks faded and rain began to fall, Vito was pushed forward by the scattered crowd. His life so far seemed to be just like watching the fireworks: witnessing beauty, yet being pushed in another direction.

The crowd dispersed, leaving a mess on the ground. The moon remained high in the sky, but some people never liked to look up at the ordinary stars and moon, like Vito, who only loved to watch the dazzling fireworks.

Everyone else was moving forward, but he and his meager idealism were struggling to crawl back and forth in the filth.

His breath caught in his throat, and Vito felt suffocated by the agony of tearing himself apart.

It felt like being choked, or like gathering strength for the next breakout.

Call ~

Vito exhaled, and the light before his eyes vanished.

He looked up blankly at his surroundings: bullet craters, smoke, shattered billboards, and mutilated corpses all around.

"What is this?"

Vito got up, and at that moment, his whole body ached as if he had rolled down a mountain.

"No!"

Vito shook his head and picked up the revolver punishment from the ground.

"Damn it! That damn heavy hammer, it blew up my carousel!"

When Adam Hammer withdrew, he didn't care about the members of the Arasaka Assault Team, nor did he care about Sato Yoshitaka, whom he considered trash. His miniature missiles indiscriminately bombarded everyone present.

Vito endured the discomfort in his body. He could feel his body breathing and regenerating blood to save itself, so he quickly took out his medicine and took a big breath.

"Ah, uh, uh!"

Yoshitaka Sato is not dead. He is now leaning against the wall of the building, breathing with difficulty.

He had mustered the courage to do this one wrong thing in the past twenty years, but he never expected that this one time would cause everything he had to vanish on the side of Crecker Street.

Vito walked up to Yoshitaka Sato and pointed at him with the Punishment symbol.

"Office dog, you set up such a big trap just to get rid of me?"

Sato Yoshitaka saw Vito's face beneath the damaged disguise.

"Hey, you filthy fringe traveler, you're Square Head? Heh he ...

Sato Yoshitaka laughed self-deprecatingly, as his boss Rintaro's words suddenly came to mind.

"So, you believed everything that mercenary said?"

Sato Yoshitaka laughed, blood flowing from his mouth and nose with each laugh.

He laughed at his own arrogance, at how he had been fooled by a piece of trash, and at how all his efforts since joining the Arasaka Boys' Army at the age of twelve were about to be shattered.

However, he will not give up his pride. His pride has supported him to this day. He tries to sit up straight and raise his head.

"Now, I will die like a samurai. Go ahead and do it, but unfortunately I will die at the hands of a street mercenary."

Vito laughed in anger, wiping the blood from his face.

"Old varieties like you are rare these days, samurai? How about a farewell poem? Something like 'Life is but fifty years, like a dream, like an illusion'?"

Sato Yoshitaka's gaze was firm as he looked at Vito.

“A samurai is not someone a mercenary like you who sells his life for money can understand. I will be waiting for you in hell.”

Vito's gun was pressed against Yoshitaka Sato's head.

"Honestly, I now understand why villains talk so much. Watching you corporate dogs kneel in front of me like rotten meat, talking about samurai and honor, gives me an unbearable sense of satisfaction."

Don't worry, if there's hell around, remember to always have your suit ironed. That way, you'll bow more respectably to your boss, you damn corporate dog!

click!

Vito's punishment was destroyed in the explosion.

A mocking glint appeared in Yoshitaka Sato's eyes as he forced a smile.

"Haha, you..."

Boom!

A loud bang was heard.

Vito shoved the barrel of the punitive gun directly into Yoshitaka Sato's eye socket, the mockery in his eyes being pushed into his brain along with the barrel.

Coincidentally, due to the cover set up by the Arasaka hacker in advance, the trauma team did not even receive a signal to collect the bodies of their members.

Vito ripped off the damaged facial disguise and threw it on Yoshitaka Sato's body.

"I don't want people to say that I took the money and left you nothing. The punishment is yours now."

After deleting Sato Yoshitaka's activity record, Vito walked over to Cha, hoping that Cha's core was unharmed.

He pulled his escape vehicle out of the underground parking lot on Creek Street and went to the side of Little Cha, which had been crushed by Adam's hammer.

"Little Cha!"

"Little Cha!!"

"I'm here, sir!"

Cha's voice had a lot of electromagnetic noise; he was severely damaged.

"Little Cha! The boss has miscalculated!"

Vito dragged Cha's mangled body into the back seat of the car. Cha was now completely unable to move, but his head, the most critical part, was well protected, which was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

"It's alright, sir! Cha is alright! Cha protected his head, just like Dad and the sir told me!"

Vito pushed the 300-pound little Cha into the cramped back seat of the car.

"Well done! Little Cha, I'll fix you up as soon as I get back! I'll buy you your clothes too!"

"Thank you, Vito. And you look badly injured!"

Vito got into the car and drove it to the designated drop-off point on the eastern highway.

"I'm stronger than you, don't worry!"

……

Somewhere in Santo Domingo.

Kim Yeon met her driver, a wanderer racer named Vincent.

She heard the sounds of gunfire in the distance, but she knew it had nothing to do with her.

The driver she found at Wild Wolf was already heading south of the city with the puppet release device she had set up.

Anyone with prosthetic bodies installed at the checkpoints along the way will be invaded by her puppet. This AI device uses the power from behind the black wall; it was something in her brain that told her this.

Kim Yeon was a hacking genius from a young age. She was spotted by the higher-ups at Arasaka and directly recruited into the company. Unlike those who were to be sent to be cannon fodder in the internet industry, she always had the best resources.

Until one day, while she was participating in the Arasaka Soul Killer 2.0 project, a voice rang in her mind.

At first, she thought she had cyberpsychosis, but after examination, everything was normal.

The voice in her head told her that she was actually a wandering AI on the other side of the black wall, a perfect product created by all the wandering AIs who crossed the black wall.

The voice in her head was also a wandering voice, but she didn't have a new body to occupy it.

Then, an organization calling itself "We" approached her and devised a plan for her to go to Night City.