Cyberpunk: XYZ

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Chapter 20: Deeper Into The Net II

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Therefore, he started his work, his first chosen gig being a website takedown with a bonus for stealing data from the said website.

The name of the website was AK47BDSM, a website hidden deep in the darkest corners of the net.

The gig has stood long, remaining incomplete despite many trying, simply because of the difficulty of bringing down the site.

The site is quite special, and popular with some high-level clients due to its peculiarity, clients with quite the twisted minds.

From reading the website's name, one could get a rough idea of what it's about, bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism, or BDSM for short... With a twist.

The twist is quite horrifying, the sadism is done by AKs.

The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK is an assault rifle, the most well-known weapon of its type.

It's a very old weapon, and it's exactly its age that made it a classic by the 2070s.

The price of some of the most authentic and old AKs reach tens of thousands of Eddies, few even touching the hundred thousand mark.

The majority of the wealthy simply collect old weapons for showcase... Someone had a different idea, a spark lit up in their mind, showing them the path to wealth in the most twisted of fashions.

Someone had the ingenious idea of filming videos and capturing braindances of people being tortured by AKs, using them as sex toys.

Obviously, some deemed it as art, paying an absurd amount of money to commission videos and braindances.

It could be as simple as the very expensive AKs being used as sex toys, driving them down whatever hole is available, male or female, depending on the client's preference.

However, it can go up to some twisted forms, such as shooting the AK while it's deep inside, or just shooting the victims' limbs, torturing them little by little.

Customers seem to love watching those lovely expensive AKs killing and torturing people... Well, not just people.

In fact, by far, the most expensive service of the website is using the AKs on animals... By the way, this is nowhere near the depths Night City reaches when it comes to sin and darkness.

The reason animal torture is so popular is because of their rarity, making them exquisite products for the rich.

Animal life is a rare sight in Night City, but this wasn't always the case. Once upon a time, one could hear the squawks of seagulls in the marina, swat at flies over food stalls, and step in dog shit in the park.

However, in the second half of the 21st century, all of that changed when the city was hit with waves of zoonotic epidemics.

The epidemic led to the death of many, tens of thousands of people, maybe more. The news is Night City isn't exactly known for being accurate, intentionally so.

The Night City Council, feeling pressure to take action, passed a resolution to exterminate all birds, rats, and other animals in the city.

That's why animal torture and abuse became so popular in Night City, especially sexual abuse.

Can the story become even more twisted? Well my dear, of course it does. Night City never ceases to disappoint.

Let's talk about Braindances, commonly abbreviated to BD, a technology that allows one to record and play back someone's experience, including their physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts.

Braindances were heavily used in psychological treatment when they were first developed and came to be used more commonly for entertainment.

The kind of BDs this specific website deals with is what's known as Illicit BD recordings, also called Extreme Braindances or XBDs for short.

XBDs feature gruesome and bizarre scenes, including violence, torture, and even rape and murder.

They are created by small teams who kidnap unwilling victims. Some XBDs are recorded from the perspective of the torturer.

Other XBDs are from the perspective of the torturee: the virtus of these are often taken from the corpses of the victims.

There is a market for both... There is also a market for animal BDs, for people who want to experience how animals feel as they are being tortured.

There are even competitions for making animals feel some... Some gruesome things to say the least.

The individuals who tread the animal BDs path are often psychotic, sometimes seeking death as the immaturity of implanting BDs in animals makes these specific XBDs very dangerous.

AGhhhh, Night City, right? Well, at least there are people like the ones who commissioned the gig, people who want the website taken down.

However, is it ever truly out of the good of their own heart? Or what's most likely, a similar site that seeks to take down the competition.

"Wow... What the actual fuck," X scrolled through the website, seeing some of the most unhinged shit he had ever seen.

It's not like he was a stranger to similar scenes as even whence he came from, the dark web existed, containing horrific things.

However, this... This was a new level of low, as if humanity is only degrading further when it comes to vileness.

X could see many teasers as he navigated through the website, one more vile than the other.

There is also a page where one can commission something to their liking and a page for making an account.

Otherwise, there is really nothing else, no leads whatsoever. There seems to be only one option which is to study the site for vulnerabilities.

However, the fact that no Netrunner before him managed to permanently take down the website spoke volumes about the difficulty.

The gig has been up for years, yet it still stands. The ICE protecting the site must be very advanced.

X believes that he can eventually take it down, but it would likely take a long time.

Moreover, X saw an opportunity available only to him. That's why he picked up so many gigs specifically about website takedown.

X surfed through many more similar websites, all having something to do with torture. It's mandatory.

Right, X noticed something very similar about the websites, the mechanism by which they work is almost the same.

You can buy their videos directly online, but braindances purchases must be done in person.

You meet one of them in a determined location, and provided you're 'clean', they lead you to where the real handout occurs.

They must have a way to verify your identity so as to not fall into a trap, and they likely just send a doll to meet you.

Therefore, you'll never really meet the ones behind the scenes. X, however, already ruled out this method.

What attracted his attention more was the way commissions are done... Commissions are the way to get them.

X made accounts on all of his target websites. These kinds of websites are pretty much all affiliated with some kind of gang.

If you look closely, you can see connections and traces that lead to which gang they are affiliated with.

X looked even deeper, making sure to rule out all the ones affiliated with the Tyger Claws and focus more on the ones with connections to the Maelstrom.

In a matter of seconds, a total of thirty extremely detailed commissions were written, the magic of directly linking to the machine, and being able to write directly with his mind.

The commissions all involved torture, torturing someone that looks similar to the picture X provided.

These kinds of commissions are the most common as people love to watch the 'people' they hate being tortured, even if it's really not them.

Just the fact that they look similar gives people ample satisfaction, and it's also the cheapest type of commission.

The picture X provided was a drawn picture of an individual who looks eerily similar to Johnson, and they were paid from M's account.

M's High Table account is under surveillance for any activity, and now, all of that money has become active, quickly attracting attention.

The money in M's account is not something X can touch because it would easily lead to him, so he threw it somewhere else, and that was just the start.