Infinity, progress from Arasaka

Looking at the bloodstained clothes and the bullet scratches on them, she narrowed her eyes slightly. In order to make it more realistic and abrupt, she deliberately did not wear the "Judge" outfit she wore when performing field missions in the past.

This level should be enough.

She specifically chose Juarez, a city once known as the most violent in the world.

Even though Night City is the most violent city with the highest crime rate in the world today, it does not affect its status in the underworld at all. Its status as the most poisonous has hardly changed. Here, flying leaves have become a part of life, and it is well-known for producing a large number of mentally paranoid and drug-stricken cyber mercenaries.

It is an old tradition of the Joint Intelligence Bureau to select cannon fodder from places where the people are simple-minded, get high on drugs, and are full of unruly people.

If there are too many conservative people who use their brains, it will be difficult for her to control them.

Snap, puff, puff…

At this time, the battle responsible for covering and guarding Vera's flank also ended. The crisp and continuous sound of flesh and blood tearing was heard. It was the cyber ninja of the Arasaka family compound who was responsible for protecting Vera.

The thermal mantis blade that popped out was covered with evaporating blood mist. The leading ninja said, "Director, you don't really have to..."

"Have you forgotten my job?"

With a slight smile, Vera asked back.

"Escape is not my style!"

Then, her eyes fixed, and in front of her subordinates in the rear, she leaned forward and stomped hard on the belt with her specially reinforced wear-resistant mid-heeled slippers, bang!

The brown sand suddenly cracked and soil splashed in all directions.

The play should end.

He kicked the high-suspension off-road vehicle that was rushing towards him, which was modified to the point that it was unrecognizable. With a dull bang, the door of the car twisted and deformed, and the off-road vehicle, which weighed at least ten tons, suddenly flipped over.

Bang! Bang!

The car body rolled over heavily onto the uneven sandy ground until it hit a protruding rock and stopped. Vera swung her spear at the black guy with a deformed arm and the barrel of the ejection launch system extending from the driver's seat of the car, and snap!

Like a hot knife cutting butter, the sharp blade of the gun scraped against the metal shell of the cab and the windshield of the car.

The bionic skin, artificial fiber muscles, blood vessels and titanium bones inside were cut open.

Like molten iron, the gun blade suddenly bent and stretched, forming a sharp arc, and with a sizzle, red and white blood splattered in the cab.

Seeing this, the five Cyber ​​Ninjas didn't say anything.

Moving at high speed almost at the same time as Vera's movements, [Sianwestan], start!

They attacked the flanks with clear division of labor.

There is only one purpose, to ensure Vera's safety.

boom!Boom!

In the high-speed battle, as if she had a third eye, Vera dodged several buzzing sniper shots by moving sideways like a flash. She raised her head and looked around. Her super sharp intuition instantly locked onto the coordinates of the peeping person in the distance.

【Send coordinates】

hum...bum...

The Arasaka Octant, which was hovering in the air at high speed and providing firepower and was not destroyed by the remaining guided rockets, received the first priority order on the scene. It immediately split into two, and with the blue flames of the vector engine shining brightly, it roared towards the end of the Gobi Desert illuminated by the fire at night.

There were bursts of "crackling" and "booming" sounds from machine guns and rockets plowing the ground.

Vera could feel that the sense of being watched from those directions had disappeared.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, there were several guided rockets rising from the ground, and heat-decoy bombs like fireworks were ejected from the bellies of the two Octants. In the heat waves and light, boom!

An octant was hit and lost its balance, with parts scattered and black smoke emitting as it landed hard on the sand. There was an explosion and a flash, just like a steel furnace that had exploded, blindingly hot.

Vera turned a deaf ear to this.

The opponent is an agent of the New American Federal Intelligence Agency.

Even with the constraints of the nature of covert operations and the influence of frontline personnel disobeying orders, they are unlikely to obtain more heavy weapons. However, the level of military technology in the deployment of weapons and equipment is something that Arasaka must take seriously.

Military-grade prosthesis is the most basic and needless to say.

It is highly likely that equipment such as multi-functional individual weapons, light armored vehicles, camouflaged missile vehicles, and other equipment that are on the verge of being repeatedly mentioned in the black and white text of the "Excessive Firepower Treaty" will also be equipped to the agents.

Because Arasaka is like this too.

Or maybe it’s the same with all the big companies in the world.

Da da da--

With the counterattack of the defending Arasaka Guard and the assembly of the mobile sentry turrets, the attacking 'terrorists' vehicles could not penetrate for a short time.

But in just a short while, two more Octants crashed.

Because the 'terrorists' rocket launchers had to be destroyed, they were kind of exchanging blows with each other.

Drones and armed robots were all consumables. A Manticore was also hit by a missile. The body of the car was smoking, and it sank and fell headfirst. It hit the ground, and the engine could not be repaired in a short time.

Estimating the extent, Vera checked the virtual screen grid map built into the artificial eye.

According to the route analysis, the support team responsible for the mid-way support will arrive in 10 minutes. Even the trauma team rescue team is on the way.

Sizzling…

【Warning: Invasion is underway. 】

"Huh?" Vera saw that her custom-made [Self-ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronic)] plug-in, which was directly connected to the Arasaka Network Security Department, was sounding the alarm.

【Countermeasures】

The scarlet data light in Vera's eyes flashed wildly.

Super personal computing power, an exaggerated neural load that has never been reached, and an unlisted laboratory-level network access warehouse that is almost equivalent to the highest anti-intrusion and anti-cracking technology of Arasaka and Network Surveillance. It is running at a high frequency, cracking, reverse deduction, and anti-tracking, the puppet virus-

[Intrusion Protocol Passed]

[Quickly cracking → Uploading]

[Target positioning], [Collateral infection], [Prosthetic overheating], [Synaptic meltdown]...

A set of intrusion countermeasures process.

Vera didn't know whether the hacker's brain hiding in the distance was roasted to a crispy outside and tender inside, but the opponent's invasion signal disappeared anyway.

"Director, the hovercraft system has been restarted!"

The surprised voice of the accompanying Arasaka network security expert sounded at the right moment.

"Yeah. Prepare to retreat. I'm not playing along with certain people on this matter." Vera answered herself.

Just as she was about to find an opportunity to evacuate the battlefield, she heard a familiar buzzing sound in her ears.

The next second, a high-explosive shell from the main battle floating armored vehicle hit the Octant that was hovering in front of Vera. The Octant fell sharply with a huge fireball exploding, and large pieces of debris flew everywhere.

"Hahaha... Do you like my gift?"

Those were three magnetic levitation armored vehicles.

It was a double air cushion, but the barrel was thicker and longer than the standard model. It was also equipped with anti-rocket grids and rocket launcher modules. Vera recognized it, a demon lizard.

A man's rough, neurotic, and hysterical voice came from far away through the speaker.

"Finally, I finally got this chance. Hoho, you little bitch from Arasaka, your octant and vehicle ammunition reserves have all been used up. My hacker's RAM has also been used up thanks to your care..."

Vera had an inexplicable expression.

What the hell, adding drama to the drama?

The encrypted order that I secretly passed on to my senior colleagues at the intelligence station in northern Mexico through the secret agent society, the legacy of Arasaka Kei left in North America, was to find a way to encourage military technology agents, or related personnel who had infiltrated the lower levels of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, to act alone and attack the Arasaka delegation returning home.

Where did this idiot who adds drama come from?

Vera glanced at the big lump of iron a few more times, and then gave up. She was too lazy to act. She was not Adam Hammer, and it would be too troublesome to dismantle the armored vehicle if she didn't bring all the equipment.

She raised her hand to stop the Cyber ​​Ninja and the security forces, and said calmly: "Cyborg Tyrant, move out."

[AI: Yes, 100% restarted, activating. ]

laugh--

It was a floating transport vehicle for explorers accompanying the convoy. With a sound like pressure relief, a huge figure covered in angular metal armor slowly stood up.

The sound of heavy heartbeats like thunder, thick upper limbs and narrow lower limbs, arms like pile drivers, an armored head on exaggeratedly broad shoulders, and scarlet goggles lit up.

"Authorization, execute annihilation operation. Deal with them..." Vera turned around.

Before he finished speaking, buzz——

Blue flames came out of the vector aircraft nozzles on the giant's back and legs. Hum! A hurricane roared, and the flying metal giant was carrying streams of fire. Then, with a clang and a burst of brilliant sparks, a demon lizard was blown away and smashed into a demon lizard behind it.

Without waiting for their turret to turn, the Cyborg Tyrant hovered in mid-air and projected an internal identification downwards, representing a red alert zone of gravity field of death.

Buzz buzz boom!!

With a roar and a tremor, and a teeth-grinding groan of metal, the three Demon Lizards suddenly lifted up their rear ends as they tamped the sinking ground. The bodies of the vehicles shook violently, and the next moment, the ammunition exploded from the inside out. Heat waves rolled in, burning the air into a twisted and scorching state.

It didn’t matter who this guy was. Maybe they had a grudge, but Vera had no interest in remembering it.

What she needed was already in her hands.

Vera, who was completely covered in blood and dust, raised her head, blew away the heat wave caused by the explosion, and looked towards the sky.

There, with sirens blaring and blue flames trailing behind, came a series of black dots whistling towards us.

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PS: Juarez. A city on the US-Mexico border. Interested readers can search it. Speechless, the sensitive word system is a bummer.

Chapter 111: New America Showaization?

The Cyborg Tyrant dragged out of the wreckage of the Demon Lizard Modified a pool of deformed flesh with blood, muddy bones and tendons and shattered prostheses.

All of them were stuck in the burnt and charred composite clothing and the severely twisted and damaged 'Centaur' half-body bipedal exoskeleton armor.

It's like the raw material for hand-beaten beef balls that is not completely crushed.

And it's filled with technology and hard work.

Bone residue, cartilage, additives, alloy materials, electronic components, carbon fiber, and ceramic polymers have all been thoroughly mixed into the minced meat.

"Interesting, very well prepared."

Vera put the "Black Abyss IV" into the black gold box. Not minding the dirt, she half squatted down and peeled off the iconic translucent red shield of one of the damaged "Centaur" exoskeletons.

From a pool of rotten flesh, a head that looked like a skull was found. Fragments of subcutaneous implant components in the mastoid bone behind the ear were still emitting sparks.

Self-ICE (Invasion Countermeasures Electronics), a pretty good model among military-grade ones, is it a special equipment for her combat hacking ability...

Judging from the information currently known, the enemy's attack tactics were not wrong.

First delay and then consume, continue fire suppression, use the magic lizard to attack at close range, and finally use the elite team equipped with the "Centaur" exoskeleton to use cluster thermal energy cannons to behead Vera, who is said to have the strength of Adam Hammer but is "equipped" and unprepared.

Not a bad idea.

Compared to Adam Hammer, she is indeed too good at attack and too poor at defense.

pity……

Looking at the cyborg tyrant standing by like a door god, and the cyborg tyrant roaring in the distance and slaughtering attackers at will under the power of the King Kong vector engine nozzle, Vera sneered and shook her head.

Exposing flaws doesn't mean I'm just gambling with my life.

Vera lowered her head and looked at the human figure inside the exoskeleton. It was a humanoid figure at best, and she could see it was a head.

A glance with the artificial eye.