From ship girl to machine god

Jack may not have noticed anything, but V was very keenly aware that Alpha and the others were able to come to the rescue in such a timely manner, which only meant that they had been staying nearby.

V was not surprised by this, and she was even surprised that the other party was not lying nearby.

The fighting power displayed by Alpha also proved to V that they were strong enough to save her life in front of Arasaka.

These were enough to make V switch to her side in the game between Aotori and Arasaka.

"Is there anything else we can do next?" V asked Alpha proactively.

Now that she has decided to side with Blue Bird, V naturally does not want to be just a sheltered character, but plans to use her abilities more to make Blue Bird pay more attention to her existence.

Years of working experience in Arasaka have taught V that when two behemoths that you can't afford to offend are fighting, it's best not to play the role of a bystander or a passive observer.

If you decide to support one side, you must support it unswervingly until the winner is determined, unless the side you support has gone too far or has no chance of winning.

And in this battle between the two forces, the more marginal the characters, the easier it is to be abandoned.

If you want to be in it without being treated as cannon fodder, you have to first prove that you are not cannon fodder.

Although such an idea is very utilitarian, realistic and cruel, for a corporate dog who was still focused on climbing the ladder before, this is V’s truest idea.

Alpha can understand V's current mentality. After all, she was similar to V not long ago and was a dog raised by the company.

However, understanding is understanding, and Alpha did not make any claims. He just replied to V: "About this, you can ask the boss in person after meeting her. Night City will probably be very lively tonight, so you don't have to worry about finding anything." Do."

Alpha still revealed some information. While making V's eyes light up, Alpha also did not forget to add: "Of course, the premise is that you have enough strength to participate."

"If you are used as a reference, I guess I won't be able to do it. I can't beat characters as powerful as Goro Takemura or Adam Hammer." V said half jokingly and half tentatively.

Arasaka's number one bodyguard, Takemura Goro, and Arasaka Saburo's personal bodyguard V are acquainted, and opponents of this level are indeed not something she can face.

"Don't worry, I think the boss has already made arrangements for you." Alpha didn't say much, just took V and Jack to escort David's mother to the Blue Bird's residence.

The group of people entered Jade Bird's home. The unfolded medical module occupied a corner of the room, while the engineering module on the other side occupied the remaining space of the room, making the room look completely filled.

Jack, who was a bit nervous, looked around and said with a bit of excitement: "This house is great! I have always wanted to get a house like this in Heywood and move out of the garage at home!" It’s a pity that I haven’t saved enough money yet.”

For Jack, who likes playing with machines and boxing, he has always wanted to have a house like this so that he can move out of the garage where he has been living.

"Jack!" V hurriedly pulled Jack to stop him from saying a few words. At the same time, he also looked at Jade Bird and thanked her: "Miss Jade Bird, thank you very much for sending someone to rescue. I don't know what else I can do." Working for you?"

Qingniao glanced at V, thought for a while, then turned his attention to Alpha, and said to her: "Alfa, put David's mother into the medical cabin over there and you can go to Mann to help."

"Yes, boss." Alpha listened to the blue bird's words. After putting the person in the medical cabin in the house, he took Lucy and Rebecca away with him.

Although their team has been following Blue Bird, when Blue Bird sends them out to work, they are usually led by Alpha. This experienced former military technology elite agent is becoming more and more like a squad leader.

Qingniao didn't care about this. After adjusting the medical module to place David's mother, he looked at V and asked her: "Tonight, a legend from the past in Night City will die, and there will also be a legend from the past. The legend has returned to the world, are you interested in witnessing this scene with me?"

"With pleasure." V was not very interested in the so-called legend of Night City, but the invitation from Blue Bird made her respond seriously.

Chapter 134 Under the Arasaka Tower

Arasaka Tower, as the symbol of the Arasaka Group, is more than just a tower.

This sentence can be understood from different angles. For example, it is a symbol of the rule of the Arasaka Group, or it brings together many departments of the Arasaka Group.

But a simpler and more direct understanding is that there is not only one Arasaka Tower, but many.

Arasaka Group is a huge multinational company. As the world's top giant, Arasaka's business is spread all over the world.

Whenever the Arasaka Group establishes a branch in an area and expands its business, it will build an Arasaka Tower to serve as the headquarters of the local Arasaka Company branch.

This is not only a practical need, but also a symbol of the Arasaka Group's ability to demonstrate its strength, authority and dominance.

After all, when an Arasaka Tower can be built in an area, it also symbolizes that the Arasaka Group controls the area.

The Arasaka Tower itself is an exact replica of the Arasaka Group's real headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, and even Saburo Arasaka's office is restored one to one.

Of course, only the appearance of each Arasaka Tower is the same as Saburo Arasaka's office, and other parts vary according to each branch.

For example, the biggest difference between the Night City Arasaka Tower and other Arasaka Towers is that there is a facility called Mikoshi underground. It is a data fortress that exists both in reality and on the Internet. It contains It is the digital imprint created by the Arasaka Group through the Soul Killer.

After years of research, this technology has been able to extract fragmented imprints from dead people's brains to obtain intelligence, but there are still some technologies before it can realize its true function, which is to re-upload digital imprints into the human brain. The problem is not solved.

According to the information Aotori obtained from Arasaka's internal network, Relic 2.0, the chip that V and the others stole in the game, has been produced and used in clinical trials.

However, this is limited to clinical trials and has not yet been put into practical use.

In fact, although Relic2.0 can be successfully activated on test subjects that have completely stopped neural activity, it will also terminate the user's physiological functions during the activation process, and the termination of physiological functions will also damage Relic2.0 , the startup never completes successfully.

Blue Bird knew something about these, and because the Relic in V's brain in the game was the only Relic chip that successfully activated and uploaded Johnny Silverhand's consciousness, that's why Hanako Arasaka was interested in V at that time. He values ​​her so much and is willing to promise to help her for this reason.

Recalling the scene in the game plot where V finally killed Arasaka Tower, as well as David's decisive battle with Adam Hammer here, Qingniao couldn't help but look at V who was standing next to him at the moment, and asked her: "V, you Have you ever thought about how you would enter this tower one day if you wanted to burn this city to ashes and blow Arasaka Tower into the sky?"

"It's possible to blow up Arasaka Tower into the sky. It's been blown up twice anyway, but let's forget about burning Night City to ashes. I can't do such a thing." V thought for a moment and then decided. Waving his hands, he said that he could not do such an extreme thing: "How can I ask this properly? But if you really want to blow up Arasaka Tower, you can count me in."

Having said this, V deliberately looked the blue bird up and down, and then asked jokingly: "Did you bring a bomb?"

"Of course I don't have a five-hundred-ton nuclear bomb with me, and I don't plan to blow up Arasaka Tower today." Aotori didn't hide the fact that she had a nuclear bomb from V, but she didn't plan to do anything to Arasaka Tower today. : "Today I'm just here to witness the comeback of a former legend and to settle a debt. Other than that, I don't plan to do anything else. You don't have to worry about me blowing up Arasaka Tower right now."

"Oh, that sounds really reassuring." V didn't doubt that Bluebird could get a nuclear bomb, but she didn't believe that Bluebird would directly blow up Arasaka Tower with a nuclear bomb.

In today's era, it is not difficult to obtain small-yield nuclear weapons. At least several major companies have them in stock. It just depends on whether they are willing to use them.

The key question has never been how to obtain a nuclear bomb, but whether it can afford to use it.

In V's opinion, the consequences of using a nuclear bomb are far more serious than blowing up an Arasaka Tower. Therefore, even if Bluebird wants to blow up Arasaka Tower, in V's opinion, he will not use a nuclear bomb to blow it up.

While the two were chatting, Jack on the side suddenly asked Qingniao curiously: "Qingniao, you said that one legend will come back tonight and another one will fall. Who are these two legends you are talking about?" Huh? Aren’t all the legends of Night City supposed to be buried in the cemetery?”

Although everyone in Night City admires the legends from the Fourth Corporate War, everyone knows that only the dead can be called legends, and those who are alive can never become legends.

So when Blue Bird said that legends would come back and legends would fall, Jack didn't believe it at all.

But out of admiration and curiosity for the legend of the past, Jack still wanted to know who the blue bird was talking about.

"Don't listen to Stan's nonsense. There is more than one legend of Night City still alive and kicking." Blue Bird shook his head. Although the legends of Night City are indeed in the cemetery in a sense, they are really dead. But not many: "Back then, the legendary hackers Ott Cunningham and Spider Murphy uploaded themselves to the Internet. If you are lucky, you can meet them outside the black wall. As for the consequences...

Rogge is considered to be in the same group as them. As the legendary middleman, she is living well now.

Wayland Old Snake should be really dead. In the case of Johnny Silverhand... He is really dead, but there may not be a chance of resurrection.

As for Morgan Blackhand, he just disappeared back then, and he might pop up and scare you at some point.

Adam Hammer was recruited by Arasaka and is now a monster with a transformation level of more than 93%. I have a score to settle with him, so he is the legend who will fall tonight. "

After counting the legends of Night City, Blue Bird also revealed his purpose tonight.

"Ahem, I'm not looking down on you, but how can you kill an old-school legendary mercenary whose whole body is more than 90% prosthetic and equipped with Arasaka's most advanced prosthetic body? The small pistol in your hand is not enough to kill him. The paint on the body." V ​​couldn't help but choked a little when he heard Qingniao's words, wondering if he had made the wrong bet.

After all, no matter how you look at Blue Bird, she is just an ordinary human being without any prosthetic transformation. She really doesn't look like she can kill Adam Hammer.

However, Qingniao just smiled, glanced at the increasingly noisy streets in the distance, and then said: "When he comes, you will know how I killed him."

Chapter 135 Adam Hammer

When Adam Hammer chased to the foot of Arasaka Tower, what he saw was Bluebird and others who had been waiting for a long time.

The transport truck carrying the prosthetic King Kong stopped behind Qingniao and the others, while Qingniao himself was sitting on the roof of the carriage, bored with his little white feet raised, chewing bubble gum in his mouth, looking like he was impatiently waiting. look.

The rest of the Cyberpunk team stood or leaned in a row beside the transport truck. Everyone looked like they had been waiting for a long time.

And their weapons were all at hand. Although everyone seemed to be relaxed, Adam Hammer could feel that they were actually in a state where they could pick up weapons and fight at any time.

The so-called relaxation is just a posture that keeps oneself in the best condition so that one can fully devote himself to the battle at any time.

This comes from his beast-like intuition, as well as the experience and vision of a legendary mercenary who has been famous for 50 years.

Although there is no flesh left in Adam Hammer's body now, and only his brain and half of his skull are still his original products, or even the skull has been replaced, this intuition and There is no discount on experience.

Losing his original body senses cannot weaken Adam Hammer's reaction and perception. The advanced prosthetic body installed by Arasaka ensures that he can obtain the sensory information he needs while eliminating unnecessary information.

Compared with normal humans, although today's Adam Hammer does not have most of the body's senses, everything depends on implants on his body... no, it should be said that it is a loaded prosthetic body to provide perception, but this also allows him to abandon In the past, when I was a human, I had too many unnecessary emotions, so I could focus more on fighting...

And killing.

Adam Hammer likes to kill, which has been shown since he was an ordinary mercenary.

In fact, Adam Hammer was known for his unscrupulous and cruel style, which brought him enough errands to earn enough money to allow him to wander around in guns, equipment, drugs and Being promiscuous.

Until he was blown up into a pile of rotten flesh by several rockets, and then his whole body was replaced by metal under the operation of the company, turning into a cyborg, and at the same time he became more ferocious and cruel.

From then on, Adam Hammer had a rule of his own: he would take any job, but he must be allowed to destroy and kill at will.

There is no doubt that Adam Hammer was not crazy after losing those normal human feelings, or that he was indeed crazy, but he maintained his sanity amidst the madness.

As for how he does it, maybe killing is his way of unleashing his inner madness.

From that time on, Adam Hammer and Morgan Blackhand took over. Adam Hammer provoked Morgan Blackhand several times to no avail. The former Morgan Blackhand didn't even bother to look at him. This also made Adam ·The heavy hammer fell into an extremely angry mood.

It's just that this emotion has been buried in his heart for half a century and he has never been able to vent it.

Maybe tonight will be a good opportunity to vent this anger, because Adam Hammer is not the only legend who will reappear in Night City tonight.

"You damn bugs, have you finally stopped running away?" Adam Hammer walked directly in front of everyone without paying attention to the Cyberpunk team in front of him. He didn't even care about the opponent's large number of advantages.

Seeing Adam Hammer finally arrive, the blue bird blew a big pink bubble and made a soft sound.

Mann and others seemed to have received instructions. After this soft sound, they all showed their weapons and attacked the Arasaka troops who came with Adam Hammer.

The Blue Bird had given them instructions before, and Adam Hammer didn't need them to deal with it.

So Mann and others simply ignored the existence of Adam Hammer and went directly to the Arasaka troops who came up behind him.

When Adam Hammer saw this scene, he immediately prepared to intercept. Although he didn't care about the life and death of these Arasaka soldiers, not caring was still different from watching them be slaughtered.

Just when Adam Hammer was about to activate his combat prosthetic body to intercept Mann and others, a small white hand suddenly appeared in front of him and "gently" held him down.

"Don't worry, your opponent is not them. There is an old friend who wants to say hello to you!" Qingniao's expression remained calm, but her words made Adam Hammer suddenly change his face: "He has black arms. The one who is."

The black arm instantly pricked the scar that had always been in Adam Hammer's heart, and immediately put him into a state of rage: "Morgan Blackhand?! Hahaha! I have been looking for him for 50 years, Has this coward been hiding in Night City? Where is he? I'm going to crush his head!"

For a guy like Adam Hammer who has no bottom line and no humanity, although he accepted employment from the Arasaka Group and is indeed working for Arasaka, it is obvious that he has no loyalty to Arasaka.

When there are no other things affecting him, he really doesn't mind listening to Arasaka's orders and working for Arasaka to satisfy his own addiction.

But when Morgan Blackhand, the knot that had "entangled" him for more than 50 years, finally appeared in front of him, for Adam Hammer, nothing could influence his desire to kill Morgan Blackhand. .

"Crush his head? I think your head will be blown first." Jade Bird was just stating the facts, not speaking harshly.

As for Qingniao, as long as she is willing, she can instantly dismantle the Adam Hammer in front of her into a pile of scrap metal or directly crush it into a discus, but this is too cheap for this metal beast.

Therefore, Blue Bird did not release all his fighting power, and was probably only fighting him with a power slightly stronger than Adam Hammer...?Or maybe he was playing with Adam Hammer.