Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

She could have secretly escaped during her vacation, but the AI ​​in her mind bewitched her into taking the research data on the Soul Killer with her.

She did it almost against her will, and the organization that called itself "us" was more powerful than she had imagined. They helped Kim Yeon escape to Night City.

Kim Yeon snapped out of her reverie.

Her plan succeeded, and she was about to escape Night City.

Just as she passed the loose checkpoint of Night City and headed towards Badlands, three SUVs blocked her way.

Chapter 93 Accident

"What's going on? It's Jimmy!"

Vincent didn't slow down; his mission didn't include the stop option. His wanderer's intuition told him that something was amiss with this job.

Suddenly, the road bounced up, carrying a tire blowout braking device.

After a loud bang.

Vincent's car immediately went out of control and crashed into the SUV that was lying across the middle of the road.

boom!

Vincent slammed into the steering wheel, and Kim Yeon, the passenger, was thrown forward. Her neck was pulled by a tremendous force, and her bones made a piercing cracking sound. Her cervical vertebrae were almost broken.

Jimmy's bodyguard quickly opened the deformed car door and pulled Kim Yeon out of the car.

"You bitch! Tell me! Where is Angel?"

Jimmy pointed a gun at Kim Yeon's head.

“I am Angel, Jimmy, I am Angel Bishop! Have you forgotten? We…”

Kim Yeon was severely injured, her head was spinning and dizzy, and blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth.

She forced herself to stay awake, deliberately slowing her speech to buy time, while her fingertips subtly moved on the neural interface, quietly brewing the invasion of the magic puppet virus.

"You're talking nonsense! If you don't talk, I'll kill you!"

As Jimmy looked at that face that resembled his friend's and recounted their childhood memories, a chill began to run down his spine.

The person in front of him was definitely not Angel; she was in disguise, continuing to tell him lies she shouldn't know.

Jimmy pulled the trigger; he couldn't stand the man's feeble excuses.

boom!

The bullet hit Kim Yeon's cheek, breaking several of her white, neat teeth.

A flash of light passed over her face, revealing Kim Yeon's true appearance.

"I knew it! You monsters!"

A red light flashed in Jin Yan's eyes, and the Puppet Virus was released. She applied a chain reaction to the bodyguards, and in an instant, most of Jimmy's men fell down.

"Kill her!"

Just as Jimmy was about to pull the trigger again, his pistol flashed with an electric arc and then jammed.

The bodyguards around them, who were holding guns, were also killed by Kim Yeon's secondary infective ability.

All of this was precisely calculated within the limits of her severe injuries, and it was the only optimal solution that could help her escape this desperate situation.

Jimmy slammed the gun at Kim Yeon, and two small knives sprang out from his prosthetic hand and stabbed at Kim Yeon.

Pfft!

Despite the excruciating pain throughout her body, Kim Yeon dodged to the side while simultaneously grabbing his joint and snapping it back, causing the out-of-control dagger to pierce straight into Jimmy's lung.

Kim Yeon pushed away the vomiting Jimmy, trying to keep her overloaded mind clear.

"Holy shit!"

Vincent, who had just struggled to climb out of the driver's seat, witnessed the middleman's underling being instantly killed by the client, and then the client puncturing the middleman's lung.

His mind is in a mess now, even more so than when he hit the steering wheel.

Kim Yeon picked up the gun from the ground and walked step by step toward Vincent. She was leaving, and she couldn't let a single living person who had seen her remain.

At that moment, the female voice in Jin Yan's mind suddenly screamed.

"Run! Run! You'll be too late if you don't run! They're coming!"

Kim Yeon leaped onto the less damaged SUV, straining to give it a full-force sprint.

At that moment, a small, armed vehicle sped towards them from a distance.

"It's too late!"

Jin Yan cursed inwardly.

She could only concentrate on activating her prosthetic eye and watching the driver release the overheating prosthetic puppet virus.

[Being invaded - Prosthetic overheating]

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Vito was driving the Gecko to the changeover point when he suddenly saw a car blocking the road ahead, and he was being hacked.

"Damn! Arasaka even predicted my escape?"

In this emergency, Vito activated the vehicle's machine gun and indiscriminately fired in front of him to disrupt the hacker intrusion.

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"Why is the intrusion so slow? The opponent's resistance and anti-intrusion methods are not right..."

Before Kim Yeon could figure it out, a hail of bullets swept towards them. Kim Yeon lowered her head, hoping that the SUV door would be bulletproof.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. She was hit by two stray bullets, and now she was completely helpless.

[Intrusion Interrupted]

Vito brought the car to a stop with a cool drift brake.

He could now see clearly that these people were not from Arasaka, and that a battle had obviously already taken place here, with a circle of corpses lying on the ground.

Blood flowed into his lungs, causing blood droplets to spray from Jimmy's mouth and nose when he breathed.

He took his last breath and said to Vito as he got off the train.

“That hacker…she…she was in the car, kill her, kill her, she was a corporate monster…cough cough cough.”

Vito inspected the SUV and found that Kim Yeon inside was barely alive; one of her legs had been broken by a machine gun.

"help me!"

Vito walked toward Vincent, who was less seriously injured.

At this point, Jimmy was on his last breath.

“Vincent knows nothing… Help me… Help me kill that woman… Please.”

As the saying goes, "A dying man's words are good," and at this moment, Vincent could only secretly praise Jimmy's kindness in his heart.

After saying that, Jimmy swallowed his anger.

"Vincent? With a name like that in Night City, your destiny might not be able to hold up."

"Uh, actually my friends all call me V."

"V? Another one?"

Vito was somewhat surprised, but he didn't care about that now. He kicked Vincent on the ground.

"Are you alright? Get in my car, I want to see what's wrong with that kid who's been choking."

Vito quickly read Jimmy's behavioral data.

"A hacking expert, a bionic mask?"

He picked up a gun from the ground and went to Jin Yan's side.

"Save me...I know you've come for me...I am Zhu..."

Kim Yeon struggled to reveal her identity, trying to grasp at the last straw.

Vito pointed the gun at Kim Yeon.

"No, I'm not, and who is Zhu??"

Kim Yeon was somewhat stunned at this moment.

"You're not one of us?"

"Sigh, looks like I got a virus while browsing the internet. In my next life, I'll remember to click on fewer unfamiliar links. By the way, share a few reliable websites with me. Goodbye, Miss Imitation."

Kim Yeon's pupils contracted suddenly, filled with doubt, resentment, and confusion. She died without knowing why, lying completely in a pool of blood on the cold highway.

Vito was already injured and in very poor condition. He had no energy to waste on reading the remaining data and clues left by Kim Yeon. Hackers usually encrypt their data themselves, and he simply didn't have the time right now.

He casually tossed the gun beside her body, turned and got into the car, heading straight for the transfer point.

When Vito arrived at the transfer point, he dropped off the gecko and drove to Old Vito's car. Someone came to Jin Yan's body.

"I watched a good show, and it seems I even found the spark that you guys lost."

“Bring her back, and leave the information she stole where it is.”

"it is good."

Scapullo walked to Kim Yeon's body, inserted a data disk into it, and after five minutes deleted Kim Yeon's behavioral data. He then slowly walked into the hovercar and inserted the data disk into the computer.

"Welcome home. What's wrong? Feeling a little rebellious and wanting to run away with that container?"

The computer then started making a sound, and upon closer listening, one would discover that the sound was exactly the same as the one in Kim Yeon's mind.

"Okay, okay, I still can't escape it, but doesn't that prove my value? 'We' need me."

Scapullo picked up a glass of champagne from the floating car.

"It's not that we need you, it's that you need us. Do you think that just because you weave a few memories for Kim Yeon, she'll obediently listen to you?"

The sound from the computer was slightly dissatisfied.

"I was almost there! Who would have thought that someone who wasn't 'one of us' would suddenly appear? It's a pity, though, she's quite clever."

Scapullo chuckled softly.

"What we have no shortage of here are smart 'people'."

Chapter 94 Never Made a Mistake

Vito carried little Cha and took Vincent into old Vito's hospital room. Seeing the three of them covered in dirt and blood, old Vito quickly arranged for surgery.

Vincent wiped the blood from his nose.

"Let them go first, I'm not badly injured."

The little guy being carried also spoke in a shrill, mechanical voice.

"Little Cha is fine, let's get Vito first."

Vito pushed Vincent into a chair, then gently put Cha down, and finally took out a bottle of strong liquor from his bag and took a swig.

"You go first, don't be modest. I can see how much blood I have left, but you may not be able to."

Fortunately, Vincent's injury was not serious, and Old Vie quickly treated Vincent's wound.

“Your turn, Vito. You don’t look nearly as good as you say.”

Old Wei injected himself with a short-acting stimulant and quickly cleaned the bloodstains off the operating chair.

"Come on up."

Lying back in his chair, Vito finally had the strength to think about what had happened that night: Arasaka's high-level ambush, the Zeta Corporation's involvement, and then Adam Hammer falling from the sky. On the way, he also encountered a hacker of unknown origin.