In Night City, I was picked up by a female V

"This...but according to the confidentiality regulations, I can only reveal this much."

Amanda opened her mouth to answer, but suddenly she remembered something and a troubled expression appeared on her face.

"Amanda!"

Bai Rui frowned and spoke in a more serious tone.

"The company needs to assess the damage to the base to decide whether to salvage it or completely destroy it. We need your full cooperation. The company's mission is now the top priority, and there is no longer any confidentiality regulations."

"This is."

After hesitating for a while, Amanda finally gave in.

"Tell me why those monsters can't be detected. Ordinary optical invisibility can't explain that."

Bai Rui asked the most curious question.

"That's because they are not creatures from the real world. Or not completely."

Amanda said, but the answer was completely beyond Bai Rui's expectations.

Utilize the properties of active metal solutions to develop controllable biological weapons.

This is the purpose of this R&D center.

Using active metal solutions, we develop biological weapons that can be used in combat.

There is more than one plan to utilize active metal solutions through biotechnology. In addition to Moritz, a research and development team led by Amanda has also accepted this task.

But Amanda and her team went a step further. They actually successfully extracted the active metals from the solution and used the active metals as the basis to conduct experiments on biological weapons.

The result was what Bai Rui and his team had seen before, a biological weapon called "Shadow Walker" by researchers.

The forced fusion of the human body and active metals produced some unexpected effects.

The body structure of these distorted "shadow walkers" is completely inconsistent with the laws of reality.

They are like projections of some higher-dimensional creatures in the real world. They cannot be detected by any detection equipment. Unless they are willing or injured, they will never be exposed to the world.

While listening to Amanda's story, Bai Rui recalled what Blue Eyes had said about the properties of active metals.

Active metal is the real-world manifestation of cyberspace data.

With this connection, Bai Rui came to an absurd guess.

Could it be that those "Shadow Walkers" have such strange characteristics because they have fused active metals and their bodies actually exist in both the real world and cyberspace at the same time?

Just like Bai Rui's "psychic power", it makes absolutely no sense.

Bai Rui thought about it and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.

It couldn't be the same as she guessed.

"So, how did you see those 'Shadow Walkers'? Otherwise, how do you know it's following us?"

"Do not."

Amanda shook her head.

"It wasn't me who saw it, it was 'Father' who saw it."

"'Father' is the auxiliary AI of this base. Only it can detect the existence of 'Shadow Walker' through special instruments."

Bai Rui nodded.

After hearing so much, she roughly figured out the truth of the matter.

For unknown reasons, the biotechnology 'Shadow Walkers' were forcibly activated, killing the base personnel through the base's extensive ventilation system. Only the unlucky Amanda escaped to the first floor, but was blocked in the security room by several wandering 'Shadow Walkers' and dared not go out.

In other words, the base under Bai Rui's feet has now become a place of death where dozens of "Shadow Walkers" are wandering around.

Their mission is to go underground to recover the remaining active metals.

But is there still a need to recycle active metals?

Thanks to the development of biotechnology, these active metals have all become walking monsters.

The worst has already happened.

Active metal leaked completely.

Of course, Bai Rui still has one last question.

"Why would a dormant biological weapon be forcibly awakened?"

Bai Rui smelled the usual human tricks in it - the smell of conspiracy.

What's even more strange is that biotechnology is really so amazing that it can force the fusion of humans and active metals?

How can biotechnology handle what she can’t?

This doesn't look like a simple accident at all.

Chapter 343 343, Sin Spark

By listening to Amanda patiently, Bai Rui learned all the secrets of the base.

In addition to what he had just learned, Bai Rui also knew that the base's self-destruction command must go to the center of the artificial intelligence "father" on the bottom layer, which is the 50th floor, and be manually operated.

Then it tells the story of Bai Rui and the others connecting to the "father's" network so that "father" can give them guidance.

"Is this okay?"

Amanda was a little dazed and hesitant. She actually told them something that was of the highest priority.

"Well, that's enough, Amanda, you did a good job."

Bai Rui nodded in approval, but then lowered his head and searched on his mecha under Amanda's puzzled gaze.

Finally, Bai Rui took out a Taser gun from behind to capture live bodies.

She was always so prepared.

Here it comes, just in time to be used.

"What...is this?"

Amanda looked at the pistol-like weapon in Bai Rui's hand in confusion.

"Nothing, just a nifty tool I'll need in a bit."

Bai Rui smiled and comforted the other person, while also turning off the fuse.

"what!"

There was a sound of electric current, and the electric needle shot into Amanda's body instantly made the female executive fall into a coma, and her screams stopped abruptly.

"V, tie her up, we're going down."

"Do we need to move the machine inside?"

"of course."

Bai Rui retracted the Taser and nodded.

"The things here cannot be leaked, whether it is those 'Shadow Walkers' or the technology that utilizes active metals."

"If any of them falls to the ground, Night City will be doomed. You know how ambitious people are eager to get things that can help them fight for power."

"......"

"Makes sense."

V tied Amanda to the chair with a rope and nodded after thinking about it.

It was fooled.

Bai Rui raised his eyebrows secretly.

Just kidding, this technology certainly cannot be revealed to others, because as an "ambitious person" she needs this thing.

How could I give it to someone else?

She was unable to break through the technical barrier of being able to directly combine the human body and active metals, and was stuck in biotechnology.

Can I give it to others for free?

......

"'Father', turn on the detection radar."

After Bai Rui tricked Amanda into giving him access to the base's artificial intelligence, he put it to use immediately.

Only this artificial intelligence "father" can detect the existence of "shadow walkers" around through special instruments, so Bai Rui simply loaded it into the radar interface.

This way, they can detect and avoid these ghosts in time.

There is no need to engage in meaningless battles. As long as we activate the base's self-destruct system, we can destroy these troublesome creatures. Why bother?

If the gun is fired and all the Shadow Walkers in the base come to cause trouble for them, it will be a bit tricky.

The circular door opened, and seeing the unresponsive radar, the two men came out carefully. As soon as they opened it, the door spun and closed, as if cutting off their escape route. "V, turn on the invisibility, maybe it can avoid those things."

The two people's bodies blurred and disappeared in the corridor.

Although he didn't know how the "Shadow Walker" detected living things, Bai Rui still planned to give it a try.

Just like that, the two of them walked along the cold and quiet corridor to the freight elevator located in the empty center of the first floor.

There, they will take the elevator to the 42nd floor to recover the remaining active metals, as much as they can, and then go to the bottom floor to manually activate the base's self-destruct system.

After turning several corners and stepping over bloodstains that were mostly from the battle between the base security personnel and the "Shadow Walkers", Bai Rui and his companions carefully moved towards the center of the circle on the first floor.

Looking at the hideous bloodstains and footprints in the darkness, one can imagine how panicked the people in the base were when facing these invisible monsters.

It was only now that Bai Rui noticed a fact.

That is, all the bodies disappeared, as if the "Shadow Walkers" had moved the bodies away.

What do they want the corpse for?

It’s not for eating.

Thinking of this very likely answer, Bai Rui got goosebumps.

But at this moment, the movement on the radar immediately caught Bai Rui's attention.

"and many more!"

Bai Rui whispered to V in the communication channel.

A white dot suddenly appeared on the radar, right in the aisle in front of them.

The refresh time of the artificial intelligence "father"'s search for the "Shadow Walker" instrument is three seconds, and the radar refreshes every three seconds. Now, although the aisle in front of them is extremely quiet, there is only the dim incandescent light spreading on the ground.

But the white dot that appeared on the radar indicated that there was a "Shadow Walker" there.

They both held their breath.

Although invisibility has been turned on, who knows how the "Shadow Walker" perceives the outside world? Maybe it is not through vision, but other means.

In an instant, there was no sound in the metal corridor. Bai Rui stared vigilantly at the empty front, holding her breath until she almost suffocated.

If the monster had other means of detecting living things, then they would be clearly visible to the monster since they were at this end.

Three seconds passed.

The radar refreshed, and the white dot stopped wandering and stopped right in front of them.

测！

Did it discover them?

Bai Rui's heart was in his throat, his hand touched the trigger, and he could hardly hold back and pull the trigger.

Although I don’t know what V’s condition is, the heavy breathing coming from the other end of the communication means that V is not in a good condition now.

Time passed bit by bit, and Bai Rui had never felt that three seconds would be so difficult to endure.

Did the monster discover them?

During the three seconds of waiting for the radar to refresh, she had no idea where the other party was. Maybe he was right in front of her, about to swing his claws.

Damn it!

This was more tormenting than when she had secretly explored herself on V while she slept so long ago.