As early as when D lifted the power hammer, Lucy had covered her ears very skillfully, squatted down and ———followed D for so long, and the moment the other party picked up the hammer, Lucy knew what D wanted to do.

"Toot-toot-toot——!"

The alarm sounded urgently, and soon I saw Arasaka security guards wearing body armor and holding various weapons in their hands rushing over——— of course, although they are nominally security guards, but the equipment on their bodies is not much different from that of the army.

"Damn, who are you?"

"Catch her!"

For a moment, the guns were fired, and the automatic battery was raised, pouring merciless artillery fire on the enemy in front of them. All sorts of defensive weapons were activated, and countless bullets rained forward, enough to beat any enemy into a bloody pulp.

Unfortunately, however, they encountered enemies that they could not have imagined.

"Boom!!"

The hammer flew out of the smoke and smashed the automatic turret in front of it. The next moment, D galloped up and rushed towards the Arasaka soldiers in front of him like a cheetah. Facing D, who was rushing towards them, Arasaka's soldiers raised their guns and pulled the trigger. However, the next moment they were horrified to find that the bullets fired from the muzzle of their guns had completely missed, and they were bounced away in mid-air before they could hit their targets. At the same time, D was already in shape, came to the front of the soldier, and a black tiger pierced the opponent's chest directly, and then saw D use a slight force with both hands, and in this way, the Arasaka soldier was directly torn in half from the middle. Then she grabbed the body of the Arasaka soldier who was torn in half, and smashed it down at the enemy behind her like waving two wooden sticks!

"Wow, ah!!h

Where had the soldiers of Arasaka ever seen such a savage, bloody and brutal way of fighting, and they were all stupid when they saw their own people being smashed head-on by their torn corpses. Even if these Arasaka soldiers were equipped with quite powerful prosthetic bodies, at this moment, the great fear had completely controlled the instincts of the Arasaka soldiers, so that they had no time to make any movements, and could only watch the broken stump mixed with implant parts fall head-on, smashing their heads into meat sauce.

"Bang!!"

The headless corpse flew backwards as D reached out his right hand, and the next moment the hammer returned to hers.

"Quick, hurry up and burn her system!"

Looking at the corpses that were brutally killed by D, even the Arasaka soldiers couldn't help but be frightened, and soon, a person who seemed to be in charge loudly gave an order to the hackers in his team.

However.........

"Goal......... There is no prosthetic body on the target! There are no plugins either! Can't hack! ”

“………………………”

The hacker's frightened answer reached everyone's ears through the Internet, but this answer made everyone feel a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts. Their eyes widened and they stared in horror at the robed figure in front of them, holding a blood-stained war hammer, and their minds went blank for a moment.

Until then, the Arasaka soldiers could still fight each other, and although D's performance was outrageous, it was acceptable if all of this was done by implants or prosthetics.

But what about now?

What the hell is this?

Not only was she not afraid of guns, but she was even able to smash through an iron door that required explosives to blow through with her bare hands, and forcibly tore a soldier with implants all over her body in half.

And now, you're telling me she doesn't have implants on her body? Just an ordinary person?

If the former is still within the scope of the soldiers' common sense, now their common sense has been completely overturned.

Without a prosthesis, without an implant, how did the other party do all this?

Is this really human?

"Death, Death......... It's the Grim Reaper..............."

Soon, some soldiers began to tremble and retreated.

"Hey, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

"I've heard that there is a Grim Reaper in Night City, she is dressed in a white robe, and on the surface she looks like a beautiful maiden, but once she appears in front of you, then it represents death. She has no prosthetics or plug-ins all over her body......... No matter how you scan it, it's just as ......... as a normal person"

“…………………”

Hearing this, the other soldiers also looked at each other in some horror, although this is a cyberpunk world, superstition still exists. Even in the Internet era, there are many "cyber monsters" like ghosts and demons, and there are even some rumors about cyber maniacs that demons possess humans.

Of course, in general, people will just laugh at such rumors when they hear them.

But when an incomprehensible state of affairs arises before their eyes, it's a different story.

Why, this intruder has no prosthetics or plug-ins, but is not afraid of automatic turrets and guns? She didn't even dodge, she just stood there, even if she and the others aimed at her head and body, the bullets fired were directly bounced away, as if they didn't look like human bodies at all.

"Shut up!"

Seeing that morale began to collapse, the security captain led by him also roared angrily, and then raised the revolver in his hand to aim at the enemy in front of him.

"That's all, look at my .........!"

However, before the security captain could finish his words, D had already appeared in front of him like a ghost, and then she stretched out her right hand, pressed the security captain's head, and slammed it against the wall, with a "poof", the security captain's head turned into a blur of flesh and blood like a smashed watermelon, and his headless corpse twitched for a moment, and then slid to the ground.

"Death, Death!!"

This scene became the last straw that broke the Arasaka soldiers, who gave up the fight completely, screaming and turning to flee.

And for D, this was the beginning of a massacre.

"That's it, come in, there's something good for you to see."

I don't know how long it took for Lucy, who was covering her ears and squatting in the corner of the wall with her head in her hands, to receive D's communication, she stood up, carefully walked through the smashed gate——— and saw the passage almost red with blood and stumps. Following D's instructions, Lucy walked down the hallway and then to the room inside. Then she saw that D was standing in front of the console.

On the opposite side of the console's glass wall, a person is suspended in a dormant pod filled with nutrient solution.

It was none other than the same cybermaniac who had attacked them earlier.

"What the hell is this ..............."

"Won't you read it?"

"I ..............."

Lucy was stunned for a moment when she heard D's words, and then she looked at the socket with the Arasaka logo.

"No, I ......... I don't dare......... Arasaka's encryption system is terrifying, once discovered......... What about the researchers here? ”

"Killed."

In response to Lucy's inquiry, D replied lightly, and then turned to look at Lucy.

"Are you sure you don't do it?"

“…………………”

Lucy didn't speak, just nodded silently.

"Alright then, I'll do it myself."

As he spoke, D turned on the old-fashioned terminal on his wrist and took out a data cable and plugged it into the console.

"Are you sure this will work? The data processing power of the external terminal is not at all Arasaka's ............"

"Just try it."

As she spoke, Lucy saw D casually press a few times on the keyboard.

But then, something happened that she couldn't believe it.

I saw that the information that was originally blocked on the screen "dropped", and then it was directly unlocked, and soon, countless precious data emerged from it.

"How is this possible?!"

Seeing this scene, Lucy was stupid. You must know that even if you are yourself, it will be very troublesome to invade Arasaka's ICE, and you may fail. After all, how terrible Arasaka's data encryption is, Lucy, as a hacker, knows it all too well, however, this layer of encryption to the point that it is almost impossible to unlock the system was actually broken up by D in three or two clicks?

Is Arasaka's ICE a papier-mâché? Broken with a single stab?

However, before Lucy could calm down from the shock that Arasaka's encryption was so easily unlocked, the information on the screen in front of her made her even more dumbfounded.

"This, this, how can this be .........!?"

"Yo? Looks like we've really found something useful. ”

Looking at the data and the plan in front of him, D's eyes narrowed, the reason is simple, this is a crazy plan——— according to this plan, Arasaka seems to have been studying how to artificially create cyber psychosis, and completely control it in his own hands, and let them become his own puppet plan!

[——— studies have shown that cyberpsychosis is a kind of self-defense instinctive response of human instinctive physiology to the invasion of foreign body transplantation, and too much implantation of prosthetic body will lead to the deviation of human cognition of one's own body, resulting in gradual collapse. Since the prosthesis does not have a self-intelligence system, when the prosthetic body erodes the spirit to a certain stage, the victim's reason will collapse, and only rely on biological instinct to act, and if the prosthesis can be adjusted so that it can guide and brainwash the user's spirit during implantation, it can theoretically make it follow the signals sent to the command to act, from this point of view, Subject 27 ...............]

"How dare they really do such a thing?"

Looking at the record in front of her, Lucy was dumbfounded, unable to believe her eyes.

What exactly does Arasaka want to do?

"What don't you dare, after all, it's not about wanting to rule the world......... Hey, old ambition, it's boring........."

As he spoke, D took out the chip and plugged it into the console to start downloading data——— to be honest, this kind of boring and old-fashioned ambition player has seen it so many times that they are mentally numb. I really want to complain about whether these bosses are idle and have nothing to do, so I only know this.

To be honest, in the eyes of players, the idea that this kind of boss in the technological era wants to rule the world is too earthy.

You said that in ancient times or in the era of mythology and magic, the level of civilization was low, and you ruled the world or something, which can be regarded as a relatively high spiritual pursuit.

But in the age of technology, does it make sense for you to pursue this? You don't even go out of your own galaxy, and you want to rule a planet? How low, with this effort, you can improve science and technology, develop space colonization or something, isn't it more interesting than fighting for dominance on the home planet?

In the eyes of the player, the behind-the-scenes boss who still wants to rule the world in modern society is as speechless as the emperor's golden flat shoulder that farmers fantasize about when they farm.

You know, Arasaka is still a technology company, and it's not a warlord or anything, so you just have such a little vision?

It's really a fish.

"Okay, Regina must be interested in this news, by the way, I've closed that guy's program, let's pack it up and take it away."

"Take it away?"

"That's right."

"Arasaka will definitely go crazy!"

Lucy glared at D, she wasn't sure if D knew how serious the consequences of this incident were, and it was conceivable that once Arasaka found out that they were trying to turn other people into cyberpsychotics and tried to control the cyberpsychotic research leaking out, they would absolutely stop at nothing to eliminate anyone who knew the news! At that time, whether it is D or himself, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape death!

However............

"What? It's just Arasaka, I haven't paid attention to it yet. ”

D didn't even think about it, and gave the answer directly. Just kidding, a judge can still be manipulated by a capitalist?

The judge thinks that whoever wants to die, then who will die, what is just Arasaka?

“…………………”

Although Lucy wanted to turn around and run for her life, she also knew that she was on a thief ship and couldn't get off. So he had to follow D's request and take the modified cyber maniac out of the laboratory, and then the group took the elevator back to the gas station above. As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw the grizzled Panan running over angrily.

"How dare you leave me!"

"How did you come along?"

"This is my car, I have a tracking device on it, how can I not know?"

"Honestly, you shouldn't have come."

"What did you say?"

Hearing D's words, Panam glared at her angrily, and Lucy nodded silently——— she really shouldn't have come.

"What's going on with this guy?"

After venting his anger, Panam looked at the cybermaniac who was lifted in D's hand like a dead dog again, and D shrugged his shoulders.

"It's a long story......... Oh, here it is. ”

"Coming? What's coming? ”

Seeing D look up behind him, Panam and Lucy also looked over there, and then they saw ——— on the road far away from the Gobi horizon, dozens of armored vehicles were rushing towards them, including floating vehicles and tanks!

"It's Arasaka's private armed forces!"

Seeing this scene, Lucy's face turned pale, when she saw the document before, she knew that Arasaka would definitely make a big move, and now it seems that the other party is really in a hurry!

"What, what's going on? Aren't you catching cyber maniacs? How did you get involved with Arasaka? ”

And there's another unlucky guy here who has been kept in the dark and doesn't know what's going on.

"You go first."

D waved his hand and put the cyber maniac in the trunk, then said to Panam and Lucy.

"Take a detour back to the city, Lucy, and get in touch with Regina."

"What about you?"

"Me?"

Hearing Lucy's inquiry, D raised an eyebrow.

"Of course I'm here to clean up Arasaka's army."

"You're alone?"

"Of course, don't worry, leave it to me, there will be no problem. By the way, you can also tell Panam what we found on the way, she can't get off the thief ship anyway. ”

"Wait, what the hell is going on? What do you mean I can't get off the thief ship? ”

Hearing D's words, Panan was also panicked, although she didn't know what was going on, but seeing that Arasaka's private armed forces had appeared, she knew that this matter was absolutely big today!

"I'll tell you when I'm on the road."

At this moment, Lucy looked at Panan, and a hint of schadenfreude appeared in her eyes.

Sure enough, seeing others unlucky with me made me feel much more comfortable.

(End of chapter)