From ship girl to machine god

"I got it! Leave it to me!" Rebecca nodded and rushed into the already messy hospital without hesitation. Soon the hospital was filled with the sound of her wild laughter and machine gun fire.

Lucy and Alpha, who were staying at the door of the hospital, looked at each other. The two quickly exchanged glances and then turned around to do their own things.

Due to their understanding of the company, they all knew that Arasaka would not give up after compromising the security.

Chapter 131 Two sides start a war

Of course Arasaka will not give up, but this unwillingness to give up is somewhat different from what Alpha and Daisy thought.

"I didn't expect that there was more than one so-called master." Goro Takemura, who had been watching the operation through the monitor, couldn't help but make a comment when he looked at the Arasaka security guard who was being killed like melons and vegetables on the screen.

The faces of Abernathy and Tanaka on the side were not very good, because Jade Bird's move of splitting the Cyberpunk team into two separate operations caused problems on both sides of the plan they made.

The convoy escorting the Protagonist King Kong has been intercepted by Mann, and the self-driving transport vehicle that relied on the trump card was also captured by the other party without any suspense by cracking the driving program. Now the Protagonist King Kong has fallen into the hands of Mann and others.

Even with the support of the hacker Sasha, even the locator on the transport vehicle was removed. Now they have completely lost the whereabouts of the prosthetic King Kong.

This is undoubtedly a huge loss for the company. Although the Prosthetic King Kong is only one of the many prosthetic research projects of the Arasaka Group, this does not mean that the Prosthetic King Kong project is not taken seriously and its investment is not large. .

In fact, the self-driving transport vehicle used to transport the prosthetic King Kong alone is worth hundreds of thousands of euros, not to mention the prosthetic King Kong worth at least millions of euros.

It can be said that just this wave of losses is a major mistake and loss for the company no less than the Frankfurt incident.

Fortunately, as the special envoy sent by Saburo Arasaka, Goro Takemura was not surprised by what happened in front of him. Instead, he took the initiative and said: "Don't worry about the loss. If you want to catch a big fish, you must give up the bait. Now that the other party has bitten the hook, we have to do it." The only thing is to catch all these big fish that bite the hook.”

In Takemura Goro's view, the only thing worthy of his attention in this mission was the mysterious master who alarmed Master Saburo and the forces behind him.

If this mysterious master and the forces behind him could be fished out, then a project that had been abandoned by the company and some financial losses to the Night City branch would be acceptable.

That's why he spoke to comfort Abernathy and Tanaka, so that they wouldn't have to bear the unnecessary burden of losing the prosthetic King Kong.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the plan is executed smoothly, the so-called mysterious master is lured out and killed, and the conspiracy of the forces behind him to deal with Arasaka is successfully destroyed.

If he couldn't do this, Goro Takemura wouldn't mind cutting off Abernathy and Tanaka's heads with his own hands.

Although Takemura Goro is only Arasaka Saburo's bodyguard, in a sense he is more similar to the samurai raised by Arasaka Saburo.

Perhaps his character is not cruel, but in traditional Japanese Bushido, failure to commit seppuku is normal. This is a sign of loyalty to the master, and it is also a privilege that only samurai can enjoy.

Therefore, in Takemura Goro's view, allowing Abernathy and Tanaka to commit seppuku after the mission failed was a sign of extra tolerance after they had made so many contributions to the company.

Otherwise, all they can get from messing up this matter is the dishonor of committing suicide in fear of guilt.

"Stop talking nonsense, what should we do now? I can't wait to tear this rotten meat into pieces!" Adam Hammer, who was on the side, didn't care so much and just let out a low roar, as if he could no longer restrain his murderous intention. .

If Takemura Goro is just a stereotypical samurai, then Adam Hammer is a steel monster full of bloodlust.

He accepted Arasaka's transformation and joined the Arasaka Group for the sole purpose of satisfying his desire to kill.

And... being able to have a real showdown with Morgan Blackhand to determine who is the strongest mercenary in Night City.

However, Morgan Blackhand ignored him at all back then. Half a century later, Adam Hammer no longer paid attention to his former opponent. He was now just addicted to the desire to kill.

The Arasaka Group can satisfy this "little hobby" of his. After all, the Arasaka Group's power is spread all over the world. There are always people who resist Arasaka somewhere, and Adam Hammer's desire is well satisfied.

Use the flesh and blood and lives of those who dare to fight against Arasaka.

But Goro Takemura had never thought highly of this mad dog.

In his opinion, as the bodyguard of the master, he should fulfill his duties like a samurai, instead of being obsessed with killing and losing himself.

But this mad dog is still needed at the moment, so Goro Takemura didn't say much to Adam Hammer, but just ordered: "The troops are divided into two groups. You go to retrieve the prosthetic King Kong outside the city, and I will deal with the enemies in the hospital. , don’t kill him for the time being, and lure out the real master.”

"Hahaha, I can finally have a good killing!" Adam Hammer, who was laughing maniacally, left with satisfaction, riding the aerocar that had been prepared and headed towards the outskirts of Night City.

Goro Takemura immediately took off his suit, picked up his samurai sword, and said to Abernathy on the side: "I leave it to you here, don't let Master Saburo down."

After saying that, he led a group of fully armed Arasaka soldiers and rushed towards the hospital.

Although the one in the hospital was not the big fish he wanted to catch, from Goro Takemura's perspective, Alpha, who used a long knife, was undoubtedly a master.

"Her strength should be higher than Oda." Takemura Goro secretly evaluated Alpha's combat effectiveness. As a master who is proficient in Japanese kendo, Takemura Goro can naturally see that Alpha's strength is more than what is shown.

However, even the strength shown was superior to Arasaka Hanako's bodyguard Oda, who was taught by Goro Takemura. This made Goro Takemura feel a long-lost excitement.

While his fingers trembled unconsciously, Goro Takemura felt a sense of danger.

After all, just a woman who had jumped out had such strength. Takemura Goro naturally did not dare to have the slightest contempt for the mysterious master who had not yet appeared, and even felt pressure.

This made Takemura Goro, who had suppressed his competitiveness as a warrior because of his protection of Arasaka Saburo all year round, couldn't help but feel throbbing in his heart. Maybe this time he could meet an opponent truly worth fighting.

With this idea in mind, when the aerial vehicle carried him to the sky above the hospital, Goro Takemura jumped directly from the aerial vehicle with a knife in hand without waiting for the aerial vehicle to land.

The top-notch and most advanced prosthetics from the Arasaka Group cushioned the impact of the fall very well, allowing Goro Takemura to stand in front of Alpha just by bending his knees.

"Choke!" The moment their eyes met, the two long knives came out of their bodies and then collided together!

Chapter 132 An electric showdown

"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!..."

A series of clashes of swords, like iron, resounded in front of the disaster-stricken hospital. The corpses and vehicles left behind by the previous Arasaka security team were all scattered by the battle between Goro Takemura and Alpha. The sword light tore into pieces, forming a circle of open space full of knife marks around the two people.

If someone were watching at this time, without high-quality optical prosthetic eyes or good dynamic vision, all they could see would be two balls of sword light rolling around.

Because both Alpha and Goro Takemura, with the blessing of powerful prosthetics on their bodies, their sword swings and nerve reaction speeds far exceed the limit that ordinary people can see clearly.

Even if an optical prosthetic eye with good performance is inserted, it is useless if the brain cannot react.

But neither Goro Takemura nor Alpha is obviously the kind of person who can't control his body, so for the two people who are fighting, this is just a warm-up.

"You are a respectable opponent, and your sword skills are very good, but..." Goro Takemura stopped the attack, glanced at the torn shirt on his body, and said to Alpha in a very stiff Japanese English: " Now I have to get serious, if you die accidentally, remember that the person who killed you was Goro Takemura."

Regarding Takemura Goro's Japanese-English words that almost caused the translation program on her personal terminal to crash, Alpha just shook the long sword in her hand, sheathed the sword and assumed an Iai posture and said to Takemura Goro: "My name is Alpha, don’t blame me for not warning you, be careful of electric shock.”

After saying that, she turned on the battle mode of the prosthetic body that Blue Bird had tailor-made for her.

As soon as the prosthetic body was activated, blue lines lit up from Alpha's eyes and quickly spread to her whole body, and then converged on her hands, turning her hands into bright blue and also producing lines around Alpha's body. Arcs of electricity.

This is a strange scene that only occurs after the prosthetic body enters combat mode. The arc generated is the result of some of the excessive energy in Alpha's body escaping.

However, this is not a waste caused by insufficient energy utilization, but a deliberate creation of a combat environment.

The escaping energy will form a high-voltage electric field around Alpha's body, and you will get an electric shock if you are not careful during the battle with her.

Alpha itself is not affected by the special conductive treatment on its legs, and it can also use the dagger among the two equipped knives to guide this energy to strike the enemy with lightning, which can be said to be both cool and deadly.

Of course Takemura Goro was aware of Alpha's danger at this moment, but this did not scare him, but instead gave him a long-lost excitement.

Although Goro Takemura has always been the bodyguard of Saburo Arasaka, this cannot conceal the fact that he is the top expert within the Arasaka Group.

It's just that as a top master, he usually doesn't have any chance to fight against opponents of the same level. The most he can do is turn off all the prosthetics and compete with Saburo Arasaka in the way of swordsmanship.

However, even so, as Saburo Arasaka gets older and older, such opportunities have disappeared.

This also makes Goro Takemura have never fought to his heart's content. After all, as Saburo Arasaka's personal bodyguard, the only time he can fight to his heart's content, except for someone assassinating Saburo Arasaka, is the only special occasion like now.

This undoubtedly ignited Takemura Goro's blood as a warrior after a long absence, and made him even more grateful for this mission, which allowed him to have a wonderful duel with his favorite opponent like the ancient swordsman samurai.

Thinking of this, Goro Takemura suddenly had an idea and sent a message to Abernathy behind him through his personal terminal. Then he tightened the katana in his hand and attacked Alpha with a swing of the sword.

Takemura Goro is not a swordsman or a master trained by any kendo school. He is just a soldier trained by the batch assembly line in the training camp of the Arasaka Group.

After relying on his own efforts to become Saburo Arasaka's bodyguard, he received enough resources to grow into a top master.

This also makes Goro Takemura's swordsmanship have no moves or structure to speak of. It is more of a pure killing technique without any fancy elements.

It's not pretty, but it's very deadly.

But his opponent happened to not be a guy from an orthodox school. Instead, he was just like him, or even better, from a practical school.

However, compared to Takemura Goro who relies on his own experience and skills and the high-performance prosthetic body in combat, Alpha can not only do the same thing, but also has the blessing of the high-voltage electric field released by the prosthetic body. There is another advantage.

That is, the prosthetic body installed by Aotori has an implant specially used for combat analysis. With the micro-quantum computing unit, Alpha can calculate Goro Takemura's attack path and the flaws in his moves before he makes a move.

Under normal circumstances, Alpha would not activate this implant, which is no different from cheating, but now as she activates her own combat mode, these combat-assisted implants are also running at high speed, providing her with all-round capabilities. combat assistance.

Alpha, who does not pursue pure warrior duels, has no psychological burden on using these prosthetics to fight.

On the contrary, after receiving the assistance of these implants, Alpha instinctively used the move with the highest probability of winning based on the analysis of these implants.

The long sword drawn in the Iai style blocked Takemura Goro's attack, and then he activated the neural acceleration prosthetic body with the same properties as Sean Westan, and then jumped into the air with the help of the jet propulsion device in the leg prosthesis.

Holding the long sword with one hand, the other hand draws out the short sword that can guide lightning strikes, and injects most of the energy from the body into the short sword.

Finally, with the help of the potential energy of falling in the air, the short sword was directly struck on Takemura Goro's katana!

The energy filled in the dagger instantly connected with the high-voltage electric field, using Goro Takemura's body as a passage, and then released a powerful electric shock, penetrating him!

"Boom!" After a muffled sound like thunder, Alpha jumped back to the ground, holding knives in both hands and looked at Goro Takemura who was electric and smoking. After a pause, he did not kill the killer, but put away the knives. Turn around and leave.

On the other side, Lucy also solved the Arasaka soldiers who came with Goro Takemura, and Rebecca walked out of the hospital with V and Jack and David's mother.

After everyone gathered together, they quickly left the scene, leaving behind only a mess on the ground and the head of Arasaka's number one bodyguard, who was electrocuted to the point where his whole body prosthetic body was overloaded and rendered unconscious.

Chapter 133 Invitation to V

"Is the matter resolved?" Jade Bird's communication dialed Alpha's personal terminal, asking her about the situation.

"It has been solved. Except for the Arasaka samurai whom you asked to let go, the other Arasaka combatants have been solved." Alpha reported the battle situation just now to Qingniao, and also explained their current situation: "Considering that the hospital has been It was no longer safe, so we took David's mother out. Her vital signs are currently stable, and everything is normal except that her consciousness is still in a coma."

"Very good, let V and Jack send people to me, and you go pick up Mann."

"Since Goro Takemura is here, Adam Hammer must have arrived too. You met Goro Takemura, and Adam Hammer is most likely on Mann's side."

"After meeting Mann, you can deliberately reveal your whereabouts and lead people to Arasaka Tower. I will wait for you there."

Bluebird finished giving instructions to Alpha and then hung up the phone. Alpha looked at V beside him and said to her: "The boss asked you to send David's mother to her. There will be no battle in the future." What's wrong with you?"

"Okay, I understand." V nodded, indicating that he knew and said politely: "Thank you for what happened today. If you hadn't arrived in time, Jack and I would have had to explain."

V actually saw clearly what happened just now. He was most likely involved in the conflict with Arasaka.

But this did not affect V's judgment. She clearly understood that the people in Arasaka were not only coming for David's mother, they were also coming for her.

As a former member of Arasaka's counter-intelligence department, V didn't think that Arasaka would not know that he was in the hospital with his control over Night City.

Although she had previously found some connections that she had reserved as backup, hoping to solve the problem of being hunted by the company, but through contact and feedback from those connections, V already knew that she would not be able to escape easily.

This was also the reason why she chose to lean towards Arasaka. After all, she could not reach a reconciliation with Arasaka, so she could only rely on the forces that dared to go against Arasaka, at least to save her own life.

V had already seen this clearly during the battle that took place in the hospital just now.