Infinity, progress from Arasaka

Rumble!

It was said that it was late, but it was fast. The intruder was obviously very clear about the routine of dealing with the Nekomata sniper, that is, bombing! One after another, micro rockets were accurately fired into the defense point where the gunfire was heard a hundred meters away. The violent explosion immediately blew the guard room into shape.

A discontinuous figure with optical camouflage jumped out of the gap and retreated, but while still in the air, a series of hot and powerful bullets had already hit his chest hard, knocking him back from the air.

clang!clang!clang!

Sparks flew.

All of them are military-grade controlled firepower that is not for civilian use.

If the camera zooms in, you can see that the sniper's lightweight external armor was broken first, and the alloy-plated armor under the skin was dented and damaged due to the huge kinetic energy of the impact. The most serious wound was near the chest. Several consecutive shots hit the same position. These people shot very accurately and shot him right through.

"Fuck you, bastards, it's you, the grandson of military technology!"

It is said that the person who knows you best is always your enemy.

Military technology has been fighting with Arasaka for so many years. Although there has been peace in recent years, secret security forces and infiltration agents like them fight almost every day. They know you better than your mother. As soon as you stick your butt out, the other side knows what you are going to do. This familiarity in the fight made the Arasaka security forces guarding the Sun Stairs Flower swear all kinds of dirty words in a short while.

"You're talking bullshit! Arasaka idiots, it's because that bitch of yours named Russell made too many enemies! Someone paid us to ruin her good job! We operate with integrity! You Arasaka dogs are welcome to place orders with us next time."

Anyway, the infiltration agents using military technology will naturally refuse to admit it!

Before completing the mission and returning to Military Technology, their identities have been concealed. Even if they are really found out, they are in retired status. If asked, they will be said to have nothing to do with Military Technology, their contracts have been terminated, and it was voluntary action by the employees.

Da da da da da da——

Boom!

Both sides fired passionately.

"We are outnumbered. They came prepared and obviously chose the time when Director Russell was away... Where are the reinforcements?"

Blood and flesh splattered as another Arasaka heavy armored security guard had his upper body blown off by a rocket. Half-crouching behind a wall pillar of the back row of bunkers, the Arasaka security team leader looked at the door of the biological laboratory not far behind him - the laboratory of the Sun Staircase Flower was right there.

"We were attacked. There were more than one team. There was heavy anti-aircraft firepower. The armored hovercraft that the branch came to reinforce was shot down. The latest news is that the black warlord army has moved at the northern border checkpoint. A large number of mobile forces have been attracted to the border and cannot move."

"Damn it! Tell them to leave those black people alone. The lab, their target is the lab!" The Arasaka security team leader angrily hammered the floor tiles. Boom! The floor was completely shattered.

"The local branch can't be relied upon for the time being." He gritted his teeth and asked, "Where is Director Russell?"

“The Grand Hotel Johannesburg...”

"Contact Director Russell immediately. The Johannesburg Hotel is less than 15 minutes away from us. Tell the brothers to hold on for another 10 minutes. Reinforcements will arrive. As long as we hold on until Director Russell arrives, we'll be fine..."

Meanwhile, at the Grand Johannesburg Hotel.

Dormitory, "Zzzz..."

Boo!

Vera was awakened from her deep sleep, listening to the 'beep' sound of new emails and the sound outside the window.

"Why is the sky red?"

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PS: Take a break for a day, two updates tomorrow to wrap up the Johannesburg incident.

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Chapter 055 Do you know why Vera was recognized by Adam Hammer?

The brightest star in the night sky.

It was an exploding fire.

Vera, who was sleepy, suddenly woke up, stood up from the bed and looked out the French window——

Power outages occurred one after another, plunging parts of the city into darkness. The sky was dyed red by the flames. Armored hovercrafts were falling with sparks and lightning. Gunfire rang out in the industrial park. Guided rockets were launched from corners...

A complex pie-chart-like change of emotions flashed across her face.

Terrorist attack?!

This is so exciting... What a shame!

“Beep beep, beep beep… Please note that the red alert has been activated in the building. Johannesburg’s public service facilities have been hit by a large-scale terrorist attack. For your own safety, please stay in your room and do not move around. The hotel security staff will do their best to ensure your safety…”

The alarm of intelligent AI has sounded throughout the hotel building.

It happened sooner or later. Vera had an expression of uncontrollable surprise and anger on her face. Just as she came to the French window in her nightgown to observe, boom!

The advantage of the Johannesburg Hotel's commanding location and its excellent vision far beyond that of ordinary people allowed Vera to clearly see the place where the explosion occurred.

In the suburbs, between the city's main substation and the urban area, the transmission line towers connecting the high-voltage power grid, some key nodes lit up fireballs almost simultaneously. The towers twisted and collapsed, engulfed by the billowing smoke and impact generated by the explosion, and the city's power supply was interrupted!

The hotel building was not affected thanks to the maintenance of backup generators and ultra-large energy storage batteries.

"I'm Vera Adelheid. Come on, notify the Johannesburg Security Department, prepare the heavy weapons, and mobilize the riot control troops!"

It took Vera less than two seconds to adjust her mood. She gave the order and said "Ding Di". She opened the virtual screen grid built into the artificial eye plug-in. Before she had time to check the old emails, the notification sound of new emails rang again.

She glanced at them and saw some from the Johannesburg branch, some from the hotel, some from the industrial park, and even some red ones with urgent requests from the Intelligence Department. She quickly scanned them one by one. They were nothing more than reporting on the situation and requesting support and tactical guidance. Among them, she clicked on the data unit in the attachment of the Intelligence Department.

A dark and blurry video of a firefight inside an industrial park was transmitted.

Attached is a battle report, which shows that the attackers are from military technology. Even if they are not, military technology cannot be separated from the responsibility. They are not the secret security forces in the garrison sequence of the industrial park. They said that they can only hold out for less than 15 minutes at most. The enemy came prepared and brought various military-level heavy firepower. Their target is very clear, which is the Sun Staircase Flower and its experimental results.

[Received, please hold on for 10 minutes. 】

beep.

send.

Swish.

Vera kept moving at the same time, taking off her nightgown and changing clothes quickly while replying and issuing instructions.

"Get the hovercraft ready. It's the most heavily armored hovercraft your hotel has for security. The destination is Arasaka Industrial Park. Send them the route and have them set off immediately. They should meet up with me along the way when the opportunity arises!"

Hotel AI: "I have conveyed your notice. Is there anything else..."

"Plan a quick passage for me to get directly to the rooftop helipad."

After saying that, it took less than a minute from the time she got up to the time she went out, and Vera, who had already changed into the most suitable clothes for strenuous exercise, ran out of the suite.

Unfortunately, most of her expensive custom-made war-grade personal weapons are stored in Night City.

After all, she went to Tokyo to study these few months, not to work outside, so there was no need. It was impossible for her to predict everything that would happen later, and it would definitely not be appropriate to be fully armed.

She was responding to the attack 'passively', not actively engaging the enemy.

Vera had a premonition and was mentally prepared for this sudden attack.

Whoever attacked was it couldn't be Saburo Arasaka. And if it was really Arasaka Yorinobu who planned the whole thing, then he played a bigger trick than Vera expected... She would have to look up to Yorinobu.

Thumb thump——

There was chaos in the corridor.

It was not known whether it was the hotel security or the secret agents from other departments of Arasaka who followed them. Anyway, Vera did not have time to distinguish them. She entered the cleared direct elevator and soon led them to the helipad on the top floor.

An armored hovercraft belonging to the hotel security had been waiting for a long time.

Vera got on the car and spoke sparingly, "Let's go to the industrial park."

hum...bum...

The vector thrusters whirred, and the floating armored vehicle took off into the air, accelerated, and moved at full speed towards the Arasaka Industrial Park.

In the cabin, as soon as she sat down, Vera grabbed the advanced individual protective armor and weapons prepared by the hotel security. These combat equipment included thickened aramid combat uniforms, bulletproof vests with double-layer inserts for women that conform to the physiological structure of the human body, shoulder armor, knee pads, combat boots and high-tech helmets.

Hmm, it's a bit tight.

The standard ones are definitely not as fit as Vera's custom ones, but I'll have to make do with them tonight.

Vera glanced at the weapon for a few seconds and then turned her head away.

Alas, hotel security, don't make it difficult for them. They have a different role. They emphasize defense, and have defensive sentry turrets and mechas. These individual weapons are too lightweight and not very effective. It's better to wait for the security colleagues in the Johannesburg branch to send the right equipment.

“It’s the only thing that works.”

Vera picked out a large, rugged, affordable firepower-produced 'Killing' shotgun. At this moment, 'beep beep', the friendly force's communication came in, "Director Russell, we have arrived." On the cabin screen, three floating armored vehicles flew over from the Arasaka Building in Johannesburg.

"Very good, prepare for the handover."

The hotel's armored floating vehicle is obviously more inclined towards self-defense, and its appearance is more fancy and gorgeous. It is also smaller than the security department's tough armored floating vehicle with external machine guns, rocket launchers, and decoy bomb bays.

The two sides were hovering in parallel, with the hatch open. Just as Vera was about to jump from the air onto the combat-type armored hovercraft, beep, beep! The onboard AI sounded the alarm, "Damn it! Sir, we've been locked on!" An Arasaka soldier shouted in fear.

Her combat quality and practical experience are much lower than those of her subordinates in Night City.

Vera thought silently, and then she moved.

"caught you!"

There was a loud bang!

With her amazing leg strength and body coordination, Vera bent her knees and leaned forward to flip over from the edge of the hovercraft's opened hatch. The moment her body flipped 180 degrees toward the ground, she straightened her legs, strengthened her muscles, reinforced her ankles, accumulated strength in her legs, and pushed forward!

Along with the whistling sound that squeezed the air apart, even the armored hovercraft tilted for an instant, its light golden hair fluttered, and a beautiful black figure shot out like an arrow from a bow.

At this moment, whoosh!

From the dark and chaotic alleys in the corners of the city, a flame mouth flickered, and a guided rocket dragged a curved trajectory into the air, like a cruising snake biting towards a flying car in the sky, and just intersected with the figure falling from high above.

"It's that bitch from Night City!"

In an instant, the military science infiltration team, who were hiding in the corners of the city, waiting for an opportunity to stop the enemy and create chaos, discovered Vera falling.

"Quick, detonate immediately!"

Next to the individual anti-aircraft missile operator, his partner holding a rangefinder said in a deep voice, but, "Hey, you..." There was no response. He turned around and was shocked to find that a red data stream flashed at high speed in the operator's artificial eyes, and electric sparks splashed from the interface behind the ear and the crystal chip. The electronic countermeasure unit seemed to have been breached.

At this time, Vera in midair had already reached out and touched the missile body, gently flicking and pushing. The guidance program was disabled, and the terminal correction did not respond. The missile smashed into the surrounding buildings, boom! A fierce flame exploded.

All this happened in a flash. Just as he was about to raise his gun, Vera's terrifying figure, holding a large-caliber shotgun and stabbing like a javelin, was already within reach.

"Sometimes, high intelligence is easier to crack than mechanical countdown."

Vera's cold voice pierced through their psychological defenses like a bullet.

Physically, same.

Clang—Boom!

There was a clanging of metal and stone. The ground of the entire dark alley collapsed, and the old concrete outer wall of the building cracked. Dust flew everywhere, and even the metal trash can in the corner was shaken up. Blood mist mixed with smoke and dust debris rose high, blocking the view of the lurking people around.

"Ken?! You guys..."

The flying gravel fell down with a crash, and the lurking personnel on guard in the surrounding area suddenly widened their eyes. In the smoke and dust, a slender figure with black and gold colors slowly stood up.

With a cold face, Vera pulled her feet out of the slightly sticky feeling of landing on the ground.

slap.

She looked down and saw a person with a bent and broken missile tube, a mess of damaged cyber implants, a person whose lower body had disappeared and was connected to a pool of blood, and whose upper body was a bloody mess, with artificial muscles and subcutaneous armor torn apart, revealing a broken sternum and beating organs.

Buzz. Vera's eyes continued to flash orange-red.

Intrusion, rapid cracking, and target positioning.

boom!

Flesh and blood were torn apart, and the spider-web-like cracked ground had more than a dozen bullet holes filled with pungent gunpowder fumes. Vera looked away and said, "There are only eight left, a standard combat team. Ha, you found South Africa after looking for trouble in North America. I'm really flattered..."

Military Technology is an old rival. She made her fortune in Night City in North America. It can be said that half of her achievements were achieved by stepping on Military Technology.

"Asshole! Arasaka bitch..."

At the corner of the alley, a black man carrying a MA70HB light machine fired the first shot, and his artificial eye was invaded. It didn't need to be completely black, just a moment of trance, bang! He spun and hit the cracked wall hard, and blood splattered on the back of his head.

Withdrawing her hand, Vera loaded the gun with her other hand and pulled the trigger, firing the Killing at his upper body, bang! Another piece of minced meat.

“Ahhh…Pfft—!”