"I'll go, what the hell is this!"

Looking at the face in front of him, Panan was also startled, and hurriedly raised his gun and tried to shoot. However, before she could pull the trigger, she screamed when she saw the strange face outside, and then a mantis knife suddenly popped out of his arm, directly breaking the glass and stabbing towards Panan!

"Whew!"

In the face of this sudden attack, Panan gritted his teeth and hurriedly rolled away in embarrassment, and the sharp mantis knife almost shaved along Panan's hair, swept over, and even cut off a few hairs!

"Wow, ah, ah, ah!!"

The man who swung the blow into the air let out a beastly scream, and the mantis knife in his left hand also popped out, stabbing at Panam again. This time, Panam had no way to avoid it, and could only watch as the knife stabbed him in the chest!

At this moment, time became so slow in Panan's eyes, she never seemed to feel that time had become so slow, she watched the other party's mantis knife stab at her, but her body was completely immobile, as if she was pressed by a thousand pounds of boulders.

Is this what death feels like?

However, just as Panan was waiting to die, suddenly, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and grabbed the mantis knife that was stabbing at Panan.

"Huh?"

Seeing this scene, Panan's eyes widened in surprise, and she turned her head to look at it at this time, only to see that D had stood by her side at some point, and her left hand reached forward and grabbed the blade of the mantis knife directly. And in D's hand, the mantis knife was as if it was caught in iron tongs, and he couldn't even move it.

"Uh......... Yes............!! ”

The man tried desperately to break free, but to no avail, so he raised his right hand again——— but this time D didn't give him a chance at all, but came directly behind him, twisted the man's arm directly, and then directly pressed him to the ground.

"Lucy, do it!"

When it comes to killing, D will not hesitate, but it is beyond D's ability to knock people unconscious and capture them alive. With her current attributes, one punch can directly tear the opponent apart. What's more, Cyber Psycho has no reason at all, and there is no way to knock the other party unconscious. At this time, the only one who can rely on is the hacker. After all, only they can overload each other's electronic neural networks and make them unconscious, so these few times when D caught cyber maniacs, Lucy has always been in charge of helping. Basically, she controls the other party, and then Lucy invades the other party's electronic neural network to make an electromagnetic short circuit, and then she can make the other party unconscious, and then she can let Regina receive the goods.

It's the same this time.

"Understood."

Lucy has also cooperated with D for so long, and they are familiar with each other, and at this time she is also staring at the man who was pressed under D and struggling, her eyes flickered, and she began to invade——— as for directly connecting to the Internet, Lucy would not dare to kill her. Just kidding, the other party is cyber psychotic, and if he uses physical connection directly, then he can't figure out that the next cyber maniac will be himself!

"Kapaca Kapa!!"

I saw that under Lucy's gaze, the man's head also emitted arcs of electricity, but even so, he still did not faint to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Lucy couldn't help but be stunned.

"It's .................."

"You bastard!!"

Before Lucy could react, Panam had already gotten up from the ground, and she picked up the gun that had fallen next to her and aimed it directly at the man's head.

"I want to avenge my dead family!!"

"Bang!!"

As he spoke, Panan fired directly, and at this time, D also hurriedly turned around, grabbed the struggling man and dodged Panan's shooting. The bullet hit the wall and bounced directly, and Lucy screamed in fright and hurriedly retreated. And at this moment, I saw that the man's legs suddenly burst, emitting a dazzling light, and then his arm clicked and twisted, and he broke free from D's hand, and everyone only heard a "boom", and when the bright light in front of them dissipated, there was nothing left except a messy room and a large hole in the ceiling.

"What the hell do you want to do?!"

Lucy glared at Panam angrily and roared loudly.

"Regina said she was going to be captured alive!"

"But this bastard killed my family, and I must take revenge!"

"Damn, Regina didn't tell us!"

Lucy stomped her foot angrily and looked at Panan indignantly.

"We were commissioned to bring people back alive, not a corpse!"

"Alright, stop arguing."

Compared to Lucy's anger, D seems very calm, as he said to Lumiel before, betrayal is everywhere in Night City, and clients, middlemen, and even companions, anyone is always trying to dig a hole for you. Besides, getting angry here doesn't change anything.

"Lucy, can you see anything?"

As he spoke, D handed Lucy the arm that the man had broken free.

“……… Wait a minute. ”

Hearing D's inquiry, Lucy also glared at Panam angrily, then took D's arm and examined it carefully.

"Sure enough, there is a problem."

"Questions? What's the problem? ”

"This mantis knife is the latest product to hit the market."

Lucy also knew that D would never care about these prostheses and implants, so she gave the answer directly.

"They won't be on the market for more than five days, but they're on this cyber maniac! It's simply not possible! ”

"Besides, you said that there was a problem, what's going on?"

"When I hacked into that cybermaniac's ICE just now, I found that his ICE was very sturdy and difficult to hack. According to Regina, if this cyber maniac has been running rampant in the wasteland for ten years, then his system and firmware are already old and pre-owned, and should be vulnerable! It's impossible to resist my invasion! ”

"To be honest, it's strange that cyber maniacs can live for ten years without dying."

D commented, then looked at Lucy again.

"Can you lock his position?"

"It's okay......... The tracking chip has been installed, and the other party is currently moving away from us............"

"Catch up."

D gave the order directly, and then glanced at Panan.

"I'm going to drive this time."

Hearing this, Panan was stunned for a moment.

"Hey, wait, that's my car ...............!"

However, before Panan's words were finished, I saw a bright light flashing in Lucy's eyes staring at her, and the next moment Panan didn't say a word and passed out directly to the ground.

You do the first year of junior high school and I do the fifteenth, and no one owes anyone.

"Let's go."

D didn't even look at Panan, who had fainted on the ground, and left the house with Lucy directly, and then rushed into the car. Then he stepped on the accelerator, and the next moment the speeding off-road vehicle disappeared into the yellow sand wind.

It's not easy to track a target in this weather, but fortunately, for the sake of insurance, at the first time the man in uniform was subdued, D conveniently stuffed him with a tracking chip. This is also to prevent these cyber psychosis from escaping again after waking up, after all, Regina wants to catch them alive......... If you run away, it's too late to look for it in the vast sea of people, right?

Of course, the flying yellow sand makes it extremely difficult to track, and even the headlights cannot illuminate the area ahead. In addition, although this is the desert Gobi, there are also a lot of gravel trees, often driving and suddenly a stone appeared in front of the car, if it wasn't for D's reaction fast enough, the car would have been knocked apart long ago.

"It's just ahead......... He stopped, and the signal was gone! ”

"Squeak—————!!"

The off-road vehicle turned around and stopped steadily, and in the sandstorm in front of him, a building could be faintly seen, like an abandoned gas station.

"This is it?"

"That's right, that's where the signal went missing."

"Go, go in and look for it, he can't run away!"

At this time, D's curiosity also came up, in general, cyber maniacs are insane psychoses, and it can even be said that they are like demons corrupted by chaos, full of madness and killing. They don't hide or run away at all, they only stubbornly tear apart every prey that dares to stand in their way.

So, of course, they don't update their implants and firmware either.

So why does this guy have the latest implant weapon and an upgraded ICE firewall?

It can't be a guy who just bought a mantis knife and became a madman.

Then this matter is interesting.

The dilapidated gas station in front of me seems to have been empty for a long time, and everywhere is in a dilapidated and messy place.

However, this is only the appearance.

At the moment when D pushed open the door and walked into the gas station, suddenly, I saw four cylindrical turrets sticking out of the ground of the gas station, aiming directly at D—————!

"Drip —————!"

At the same time, Lucy also hurriedly made a move, only to see two of the batteries stop suddenly, and then close and retract. Before the other two turrets could show their power, they were smashed to pieces by the power hammer thrown by D.

“……… Military-grade turrets. ”

Lucy examined it closely, then reported to D.

"The electricity here is still going on, and I can scan for signs of a lot of electricity usage."

"What else?"

"There seems to be a secret passage here......... It seems to be over here. ”

As she spoke, Lucy went to the cupboard behind the cash register at the gas station, and she reached out and pressed it, and the cupboard immediately slid open, revealing the hidden door inside.

"Can it be opened?"

"It's a little difficult, I'll try it, this encryption is not easy to deal with........."

Lucy said as she stared at the control panel in front of her, and in front of her, blocks full of characters appeared and disappeared, and it was only after a moment that Lucy breathed a sigh of relief.

"Unraveled!"

"Ding—————!

As Lucy spoke, the closed door in front of her opened, revealing the snow-white elevator space inside.

"Let's go in and have a look."

D walked in as she spoke, and Lucy hesitated before following. She's not stupid, things have come to this point, it's obvious that this is no longer as simple as an ordinary cyber maniac, and from the current situation, it can be seen that this cyber maniac is likely to have some secret behind him, and this secret is related to the company nine times out of ten.

Well? Why, you ask?

It's very simple, except for the company, other forces don't have the spare money to engage in a secret research base under the abandoned gas station, right?

"Do you think it could be that this cyber maniac built a research base down there?"

D leaned against the wall and looked at Lucy, who shook his head.

"No way, this kind of behavior must be a company......... I said, D, are we really going to go on? It's not a good thing to get involved with the company........."

"I don't care."

D shook his head.

"It's all here, let's see what the hell is going on here."

“……………”

Hearing D's answer, Lucy sighed helplessly.

She had no other way.

"Ding——————

Just then, the elevator stopped, and then, a pitch-black gate blocked the way for the two. The door itself is unremarkable, but what is interesting is the pattern and text drawn on the door.

"Arasaka ..............."

Looking at the sign in front of her, Lucy's face suddenly turned pale, and she couldn't help but take a step back, while D glanced at Lucy.

"Are you scared?"

"Just kidding, how many people in Night City aren't afraid of Arasaka?"

"Well, I'm not afraid."

“………………… Are we really going to go in? ”

"Of course, it's all here."

Faced with Lucy's unrelenting questioning, D snorted lightly and stepped forward. At the same time, the scanner at the door also began to prepare for scanning to confirm the identity of the other party.

However, before the scan was finished, D picked up the power hammer and slammed it into the heavy door of the Arasaka company.

"Inquisition, open the door!"

(End of chapter)