Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

Chapter 93 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 still hung 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 fleeting brilliance of 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 his self-destruction.

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

Call ~

Vito exhaled, and the light before his eyes vanished.

He looked up blankly at his surroundings: shell craters, smoke, shattered GG signs, and mutilated corpses all around him.

"This is?"

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

"wrong!"

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

"Damn it! That bastard's hammer blew my head off like a revolving lantern!"

Adam Hammer was not among the members of the Hiraharasaka Commando when he withdrew, nor did he care about the trash Sato Yoshitaka in his eyes. His micro missiles indiscriminately bombarded everyone present.

Vito endured his physical discomfort. He could feel his body breathing and regenerating blood to save itself, so he quickly took out his full strength medicine and inhaled a large breath.

"Ah, uh, uh!"

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

He had only mustered the courage to do this one wrong thing in the past twenty years, and 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 as punishment.

"Corporate dog, did you set up such a huge trap just to get rid of me?"

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

"Hey, you filthy fringe wanderer, you're Square Head? Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

Sato Yoshitaka laughed self-deprecatingly, and the words of his superior, Rintaro, suddenly popped into his mind.

"So, you believed everything that mercenary said?"

Sato Yoshitaka laughed, and blood flowed 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. Do it. It's just a pity that I will die at the hands of a street mercenary."

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

"Old-timers like you are a rare breed these days, samurai? How about a farewell poem? Something like 'Life is but fifty years, like a dream, an illusion' or something like that?"

Sato Yoshitaka's eyes were firm as he looked at Vito.

"A samurai is not someone a mercenary like you who only sells his life for money can understand. I'll be waiting for you in hell."

Vito pressed the muzzle of his gun against Yoshitaka Sato's head.

"Honestly, now I understand why villains talk so much. It's incredibly satisfying to see you corporate dogs kneeling in front of me like rotten meat, talking about samurai and honor."

Don't worry, if there's a hell out there, remember to always iron your suit so you can bow more respectably to your boss, you damn corporate dog!

click!

Vito's punishment was destroyed in the explosion just now.

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

Coincidentally, due to the prior shielding set up by hacker Arasaka, the trauma group didn't even receive the signal to collect the bodies of their members.

Vito ripped off his damaged face mask and threw it onto Yoshitaka Sato's corpse.

"I don't want people to say I took the money and left you nothing. Now it's your turn to be punished."

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

He pulled his getaway car out of the Crecker Street underground parking lot and went to the side of Little Cha, who had been trampled by Adam Hammer.

"Little Cha!"

"Little Cha!!"

"I'm here, sir!"

Cha's voice was filled with electromagnetic noise; he was severely damaged.

"Little Cha! The boss 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 crucial 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 sergeant said!"

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

"Good job, Cha! I'll fix you up as soon as I get back! I'll buy you your clothes too!"

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

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

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

Somewhere in Santo Domingo.

Kim Yeon finally 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 a prosthetic body installed at the checkpoints along the way will be invaded by her puppet. This AI device uses the power from the other side of the Black Wall, which was told to her by the thing in her head.

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 cyber war, 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 creation jointly created by all the wandering AIs that crossed the black wall.

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

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

She could have secretly escaped during her vacation, but the AI ​​in her mind tempted her to take 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 Night City checkpoint and headed toward Badlands, three SUVs blocked her way.

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