2077: V really knows how awesome he is

As soon as Vincent finished speaking, he was violently slammed into a figure and sent flying, crashing into the ruins of a nearby building with a loud bang.

"What happened? Weren't you having an absolute advantage just now? Getting wiped out so quickly is ridiculous!" Vera helped V up.

“It’s the Black Wall,” V said breathlessly. “He used the Black Wall gateway to cut off my connection with the nanonet.”

"My internet has been cut off, what should I do?"

"Give me some time. I need to unblock the black wall gateway and regain control of the network."

"how long?"

"Three minutes."

"Okay, I'll help you carry it for three minutes."

"you sure?"

"You'd better hurry up and start talking, ten seconds have already passed."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you."

Now was not the time for sentimentality. V immediately took a few steps back, his eyes flashing blue as he began to crack the black wall gateway.

Vera glanced at Vincent, and Vincent glanced at Vera in return.

"Don't rush, we have plenty of time," Vera said with a smile.

Vincent remained silent, simply restoring his legs. About 30 seconds later, he stood up again, even changing his pants and putting on new shoes.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's okay, the longer the better. Why don't you take another shower and take a longer one, preferably for several tens of minutes?" Vera couldn't wait to buy herself more time.

Unfortunately, Vincent had no intention of doing so. After witnessing V's complete AI transformation, he knew he was no match for him no matter what. Now that he had finally managed to sever V's connection with the nanonet using the Black Wall Gateway, he certainly wouldn't let V regain control of the network.

Vincent ignored Vera's trash talk and charged straight at her. Vera cursed under her breath, yelled, and turned red-eyed, entering a cyberbullying state.

The two exchanged another punch, and Vera was unsurprisingly at a disadvantage, being sent flying. Vincent, however, did not pursue her but instead rushed towards V's direction.

But Vera activated Sianwistan and caught up, knocking him away again. Vincent realized that he couldn't get close to V without dealing with Vera, so he simply turned his attention to Vera and launched a fierce attack.

The two fought from the ground to the air and back again. Vera was beaten badly. Vincent had completely mastered her skills, and she was no match for him in strength. No matter how you looked at it, she had no chance of winning. All she could do was get knocked down again and again, and then get up again and again.

With two loud "thuds," Vincent punched Vera hard in the stomach, then grabbed her arm and twisted it so hard that he broke the joint. Vera screamed in agony, and Vincent kicked her away. Just as he was about to deal with V, Vera roared and leaped out of the ruins, activating Sianwistan again to catch up with him. With her still-intact arm, she swung her iron fist at the Demon King!

"Snapped!"

Vincent clenched his fist precisely.

"Knowing you're no match, why don't you give up?"

Vera chuckled: "V will never surrender, you said it!"

With that, she tilted her head back and slammed her forehead into Vincent's nose, causing him to bleed profusely and groan.

"You stupid idiot, how come you didn't learn that Vera headbutt move?"

Vera laughed heartily, but Vincent's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. Without saying a word, he also headbutted Vera, causing Vera to spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Who says I haven't learned it!"

Vincent uttered three words and slammed his head into Vera's face three times, leaving her face covered in blood. V tried to help, but Vera shouted at him, "You're just a sitting duck here. Do what you're supposed to do!"

V stopped, but Vincent didn't.

He pinned Vera to the ground and beat her mercilessly, punching her repeatedly. Vera initially tried to raise her arms to block, but she was quickly exhausted and could only let the opponent's fists rain down on her.

This time, I'm probably really going to die.

Vera thought so.

V is really amazing. He was able to overpower a monster like Vincent just now. Compared to him, I'm still too weak.

Well, I'm already lucky to have grown up on the streets, relying on the kindness of others; I'm lucky to have survived with the Relic chip still attached; I've witnessed future technology, fought in space, and even cut open a spaceship with my own hands while wearing the most advanced individual combat armor—I've made even more of a fortune. Even if I die now, I won't lose anything.

Anyway, I'm all alone, with nothing to my name, so no one will be sad or upset if I die. It doesn't matter.

Vera was jolted awake, and in a daze, Vincent lifted her up.

"Die."

Vera gave a strained smile and slowly raised her middle finger: "Come on, you stupid idiot!"

Vincent punched Vera in the stomach, sending her flying like a cannonball into the half-built Arasaka Tower with a thunderous crash, raising a cloud of smoke.

"Severe internal organ damage. Initiating emergency procedures. Ineffective. Restarting! Still ineffective. Restarting again!" Claptrap cried out anxiously, "Private First Class Vera, Vera, hang in there! Stay conscious!"

"I can't take it anymore, just let me die, it hurts too much."

Vera thought to herself that she had truly given it her all, pushing her body to its limits. Her intelligence was only 3, and even with the nanotech prosthetics, she would only be able to use the S.A.W.S.S. plug-in. She wasn't a biological AI like V, nor did she have Vincent's extraordinary learning ability. She was just an ordinary person, and the fact that she could fight against a genius for so long was already quite remarkable.

Vincent jumped in through the broken part of the building because he found Vera still clinging to life. Finishing her off was a virtue, so he came up to carry it out himself.

The room's AI sensed the arrival of its owner and automatically turned on the lights, casting a cool white light that allowed Vera to see everything in the room.

Vincent flicked his mantis knife from his arm, ready to finish off Vera, but Vera miraculously stood up. Vincent was surprised by her strength and thought she was about to attack, but Vera simply walked past him.

???

Vincent looked at Vera, who was staring intently at a piece of furniture in the room.

It was a set of huge glass jars, and the largest one contained a person who had long since died—Selene Martínez of this world.

Her eyes were lifeless as her body was cut open from behind, and her brain and spine were removed and placed in another jar.

Vera reached for the jar, recoiled at its coldness, and desperately tried to grab the girl's hand, but unfortunately, what separated them was not only glass, but also life and death.

"How could this happen?" Vera asked in anguish.

“She was the commander-in-chief of the resistance after Xu Ling, and she caused me a lot of trouble. After defeating her, I made her into a specimen because the strategic and tactical knowledge in her mind has very high research value.” Vincent said bluntly, “You know her? Don’t worry, I will also make you into a specimen and put you next to her.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the mantis knife pierced through her hand, but despite the splatter of blood, Vera did not die. She allowed the mantis knife to pierce her palm, tightly gripping Vincent's arm.

A snap.

Vincent's arm was snapped off cleanly.

"Huh?" Vincent asked in bewilderment, seemingly wondering why his nanotech prosthetics had become so ineffective.

But the next second, a fist loomed larger and larger in front of him.

With a deafening roar, the half-built Aragaka Tower trembled violently, raising a cloud of dust. V and Adam Hammer looked up and saw Vincent being knocked down from above like trash, sliding across the ground, bouncing up and falling, before crashing into the park square three hundred meters away with a thud.

"what happened?"

V and Adam Hammer were both taken aback.

Vera, covered in blood, appeared at the edge of the breach, her eyes bloodshot.

She thought back to that Christmas before, the night Selene told her, "Let's get married."

But now, that girl is dead, her death is horribly tragic, and even her body has been desecrated.

She knew this Selene was not her Selene, and she knew that the dead could not be brought back to life, and that anger was useless.

Even knowing this, the sadness still welled up uncontrollably. She finally understood why V had chosen to fight desperately when he saw Michiko soaking in the jar—because she felt the same way.

Reason, righteousness, saving the world—all of that was thrown to the back of Vera's mind this time. She only remembered one thing: to kill Vincent, to beat him to death!

Sorrow fueled anger.

The most enduring energy source in Night City is not alcohol 2, but hatred!

"Aa ...

Vera roared. Though her wounds ached, they were nothing compared to the pain in her heart. Her body had reached its limit, so she would put her spirit above her body! She would abandon her emotions, transform herself into a beast, say goodbye to humanity, and let her animalistic nature rule everything.

"Aa ...

Vera roared again, and the entire company square began to shake.

V exclaimed in surprise, “Nanoids in the air and on the ground are converging on Vera, and they… are so sad!”

Machines cannot feel sadness, not even the most advanced robots. Even if they make a sad expression, it is merely a simulation of the emotion module.

However, due to the close integration of the nanoprosthetics with the nervous system, Vera's emotions were precisely captured, and the cold machine truly experienced sadness for the first time.

"Aa ...

Vera roared for the third time, and the nanobots in the air converged on her, helping to heal her wounds. This was not a program set by Vincent or a request from V, but rather an action initiated by the AIs themselves. The grief was so painful that they sought to heal the wounds to end the emotion.

But the body can heal, but the heart cannot. The only thing that can heal the wounds of the heart is blood for blood.

With a whoosh, Vera's body erupted with a violent electric current, a sign of her nanotech overload. She stomped on the ground, breaking the sound barrier, and charged towards Vincent in the park square like a cannonball, throwing a powerful punch.

The momentum was too strong, and Vincent dared not take it head-on. He did a backflip and jumped back to dodge, causing Vera's punch to miss and hit the ground hard.

But the next second, a violent explosion created a shockwave, and Vincent, who was directly hit, was blown away like an insect. V and Adam Hammer also quickly grabbed onto something fixed nearby.

As the violent air currents dissipated, V and Adam Hammer shook off the debris and dust from their bodies and looked up. Vincent also stood up from the ruins. They looked towards the park square and immediately gaped in astonishment.

Because the original company square had disappeared, replaced by a giant pit with a diameter of 100 meters, Vera, whose body was wrapped in electricity, was staggering as he walked up from the bottom of the pit.

"Super, super cyber psychotic! She did it! Lady Vera's prediction was right!" Adam Hammer shouted excitedly, his words tumbling out incoherently.

Vincent's Adam's apple bobbed as he initiated a scan on Vera. The hyper-cyber psychopath wasn't entirely AI-driven; once he had the specific numerical data, he could certainly develop a targeted strategy. The scan completed, and he obtained another set of unbelievable data:

Physical prowess 999, reaction time 999, technique 999, composure 1, intelligence 3.

Vincent: ...

Are there really that many cheaters in the world?

Chapter 187 Heterogeneous Type IX

Vincent never imagined he would end up in such a predicament.

But he did not intend to sit idly by and wait for his death.

Just like he said, V will never surrender.

He won't, and neither will the other side.

She raised her arm, the missile launch system popped up, and the plasma missile shot towards Vera with a whoosh, but Vera grabbed it. The next second, the missile exploded with a bang, Vera's right hand was blown apart, the tendons were broken and the skin was peeled off, but she grinned and let out a wicked "hehehe" laugh.

The nanobots were repairing all her damage at full power, and Vincent saw Vera's right hand begin to heal rapidly; and with her mind above her body, Vera felt no pain.

Just like the cyber psychopaths of yesteryear, they felt no pain, their prosthetic bodies were overclocked, and their combat power greatly increased. However, in Vincent's eyes, ordinary cyber psychopaths were nothing more than ants, no different from ordinary people. But Vera's current super cyber psychopathism reminded him once again of the fear of being dominated by a cyber madman.

His attack was ineffective—well, not entirely ineffective—at least it caught Vera's attention.

She turned her head and disappeared instantly. When she reappeared, she was already in front of Vincent, and she threw a plain straight punch.

Vincent was naturally not going to be hit by such an ordinary attack. He nimbly dodged, and Vera's punch missed. Just as Vincent was about to counterattack, he saw the building behind him explode with a loud bang, as if it had been smashed through by an invisible behemoth, leaving a huge hole.

Vincent: "!!!"

V: "!!!"

Adam Hammer: "!!!"

"How could this be? She clearly missed." The cyborg couldn't help but ask.

“It’s air,” V replied after a moment’s thought. “Her physical strength is unparalleled; she can compress air into cannonballs with just a casual attack.”

Adam Hammer was incredibly surprised. He knew that the super-cyber psychopath would be powerful, but he never imagined it would be this powerful. Being able to unleash air cannons with the slightest movement—was this really not cheating?

This is clearly cheating.

But only a cheater can defeat a cheater. Vincent is a cheater, but now he has encountered an even bigger cheater.

He was even more surprised than Adam Hammer, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.

Vera's oppressive aura was far stronger than V's earlier. V was devoid of joy or sorrow, having abandoned all emotions, while Vera maximized her emotions, her desire to tear herself to pieces clearly written on her face.

However, extreme emotionality also caused Vera to lose her composure, as evidenced by her calm demeanor.

Although Vincent was puzzled as to why Vera's intelligence was still 3, this was not the time to delve into it. While fighting like a wild beast could enhance combat power, reckless attacks would only leave one vulnerable. Like that straight punch just now, it lacked any finesse. If this could be exploited, he wasn't without a chance of victory.

Vincent had already made up his mind after considering this matter. The process seemed long, but it only took a second. He was just about to use his skills to deal with Vera when Vera's grinning face suddenly appeared in front of him.

So fast!

Vincent was horrified.

Vera threw a punch, faster than before.