How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

119. night

Shopping was usually exciting.

Even if you don’t have credit to pay for, shopping is enjoyable just by looking at it, as the saying goes, ‘window shopping’.

“This is window shopping no matter where you look!”

Leonard’s gang inspected their weapons and went to find a place with more weapons. The old 12th Street underground gunsmith welcomes an unexpected guest and throws the bottle away! got angry

“Because it is traumatic. credit.”

It was something that Cyborg the puppy passing by would laugh at the trauma at the smuggling shop. Not because of that, but it actually made several people laugh.

“Vector.45? Isn’t this a blender that shoots 20 rounds per second?”

“Look at this. There are three boxes of 577T-Rex.”

A bunch of old and old-old firearms that couldn’t be found at regular gunsmiths came out. The fixers, who are interested in guns due to their profession, burst into exclamations of admiration. Leonard proudly said with both hands full of 12.7mm cartridges.

“Isn’t this worth trying?”

“But can you calculate this?”

Catching a tank is a tank, catching a fighter is a fighter, so I proposed hiring a monster cyborg to catch a monster cyborg, but it was rejected due to cost issues. When Ryan Bourne was brought in from the 44,000 credit commission, there was nothing to share. Of course, guns aren’t cheap, and Max was rarely concerned about the budget.

“it’s okay. are you okay. I’ll write it clean and refund it.”

“What?!”

Leonard said it was a joke, but it wasn’t like a joke. It looked like he could beat the old smuggler with high blood pressure before he could beat Adam Knox. Noah Lucas cocked two 45-caliber submachine guns, loaded them, and grinned.

“I can’t pay for you, but I will pay for what you spend. And they advertise that there is such a good place.”

An inspiration who’s spent half his life in an underground warehouse in Junktown, but he knew who Noah Lucas was. The veins on his forehead subsided a little.

“What are you going to do with promoting smugglers? Do you want me to die?”

Still, he smirked as if it wasn’t bad to spread rumors among trustworthy people in the industry. In the meantime, Leonard, Max, Bennington Holly, and others took a gun and an armful of bullets and moved them to Blue Bee. The corporate public security looked at it, and it looked like a sheep that would turn on the siren and come after it.

“If I had known there was such a good place, I would have used it more often.”

“Hmm… will this be enough?”

Bennington Holly broke the barrel of the grenade launcher ‘Thumper’, inspected the barrel and closed it with recoil. There is also a 3-shot pump action launcher and a 6-shot rotating cylinder launcher, but the taste was firmly retro.

“If you can’t catch it with this, you can’t catch it even if you call FAP.”

Leonard passed the 12.7mm cartridge to Max and placed another box on top of it. Whatever it was, it was quite heavy. Noah Lucas opened the box with the blade of his toe and laughed out loud.

“This should be enough.”

Now everything is fully prepared.

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Noah’s favorite tavern, Doris’ Tavern on 23rd Street, was good for planning in many ways.

High-speed Internet was installed along with new and old ports. I was able to quickly gather information by deep diving without Sigma’s help.

“There are no public security facilities on 29th Street, so information will be limited, right?”

“It’s not just the streets that have cameras.”

“Then what? Hack even satellites?”

“If you don’t keep an eye on it 24 hours a day from geostationary orbit, that’s useless.”

“Then what are you going to do?”

Leonard busily manipulated the virtual interface with a jack plugged into the port on the back of his neck. It could be seen as an ugly gesture of using a VR device and groping in the air, but like Junk Town’s best expert, it was overcome with force.

“I robbed the cloud server.”

In fact, the experts were right. Max and Bennington Holly, who do not know this field, ‘What are you robbing?’, ‘Cloud? How do you break the clouds?” he said stupidly, but Noah Lucas, who still knew something, freaked out.

“You hacked the company’s secure server?”

“It’s a corporate server, but it’s not that important information. At best, it is an automatically saved call log.”

Finally, what Max knew came out. After recalling Jake’s paranoia, he was taken aback.

“Is that real? That if you talk for more than 1 minute, it will be sent to corporate data?”

“It does not eavesdrop on anyone, only tracks calls from unregistered devices without citizenship.”

“Wow… that’s an invasion of privacy!”

“You can’t even join the criminal axis in Junk Town, right?”

Leonard categorizes the entire server data he had picked up into a few pieces and reviewed them again.

“A troubleshooter with a good name gets citizenship for convenience, but…”

The wasteland solver with no citizenship made an uncomfortable expression. But it wasn’t necessarily his fault. The New Human Federation was, as the name suggests, a ‘federation’. Politics and institutions in each city were run separately like old-time states. Citizenship also had to be issued separately.

“Did the fixer from the federal capital have A-044 citizenship?”

It didn’t seem like he had to go through cumbersome procedures just because of one request. No, even if the company provided convenience, it was good that this request was a scavenger job. If something related to the company is known, a small annoying thing is added.

Leonard culled a time and place and pulled out a list of 29th Street scavenger calls. It was also possible to track in real time by simply finding the device. Leonard smiles as he searches for Adam Knox, David Kim, and DM.

“I couldn’t have imagined that you would find out the location like this.”

It was very satisfying to be able to show who was one step ahead.

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Two centuries have passed since human civilization pushed the darkness away, but the primordial night from time immemorial is still deep and cold.

Leonard took a lollipop from the driver’s seat of Blue Bee. Neither the lighting nor the heating was turned on to avoid heat detection. If it wasn’t for the convenient implant body, considerable fatigue would have accumulated.

– It’s outside the city, so the wind is cold.

Bored, pathetic, threw meaningless words to relieve tension. Then, as if they had been waiting, small talk poured out.

– This is nothing. The winter night in the wasteland is so fierce that it cannot be defined as ‘cold’. Some bandits even voluntarily enter the bubbling taint to escape the cold…

– Eight! Don’t talk dirty while eating!

-…Is the rice over? No, are you eating alone more shamefully than that?

-Because I was growing up, I had to consume 10,000 calories a day!

– Please dissect that friend. Must be a mutant.

It seems Leonard isn’t the only one nervous. Leonard smiled and checked the plan again. It was the sixth check, so there was nothing wrong with it.

– We have arrived.

said Bennington, who has eyes as good as Leonard’s. It was a high-performance implant that even Hexagon could not follow through surveillance and reconnaissance.

-How many?

-Two.

-Adam Knox? Adam Knox is the most important!

Bennington was silent for a moment. It was nine blocks away, so it took a little while.

– There can’t be two of them that big. Adam is right.

An unknown sigh came from beyond the communication. Leonard spat the lollipop out the window and grabbed the car key.

“Then let’s begin.”

The score so far is 1-1. In terms of power exchange rate, it was 1 to 3, but since there was a monster that could feed three people, it was meaningless to argue for superiority. This will be the last fight.

Leonard turned on the lights as soon as he started the engine. The deserted alley of 29th Street, without a single streetlight, lit up.

“Adam-!”

Noah Lucas’ high-pitched voice broke the turbulent night. Leonard stepped on the accelerator without looking further.

It felt like running through a dark tunnel. The distance decreased, and at some point, a giant cyborg appeared as if peeking out.

‘Looking at it in real life, it’s bigger!’

Leonard broke the steering wheel. Given its size and armor, it didn’t seem like it could be done with a midsize SUV.

“It’s Revenge!”

Noah Lucas replaced his vaunted titanium blade with a .45 caliber submachine gun. Swept away by the curve, he pulled the trigger at the slanted, bear-like cyborg.

Do-do-do-do-do-doo-!

20 rounds per second, 40 rounds per second when shooting with both hands. At the moment the second hand ticked, 40 lead bullets flew away. Quite a few cyborgs had such firepower that they could not breathe and would be torn apart.

But Adam Knox wasn’t quite. He covered his face with his arms and raised the muzzle with his shoulders. I didn’t have to ask how that was possible. Ordinary cyborgs didn’t even carry recoilless guns behind their shoulders.

“Step on it! Leonard, step on it!”

Noah hit the driver’s roof with the handle of his submachine gun. Even without prompting, I was stepping on it.

Leonard twisted the steering wheel left and right, and the rocket warhead glided past the car body and sent a bright light somewhere in front of the building.

“You didn’t tell me there was such a thing!”

“That’s the first I’ve ever seen… Keep running!”

It seems that he is very angry at Noah’s revenge. Adam Knox lowered his stance and began to gallop with furious momentum.

Who said that being tall is dull? The cyborg, made of steel except for his face, ran at insane speed. Maybe because he jumped in a straight line, he was faster than Jack. Leonard was frightened and stepped on the accelerator even more.

“Stay still and shoot!”

Noah swapped the magazine for his submachine gun and fired again. It felt like a river of light was flowing just from the tracer bullets that flew at a rate of one every three. But War Machine-level Adam Knox didn’t budge. It would have been able to withstand bullets much larger than that, so it was greedy to want to kill it with two submachine guns.

However, Leonard and Noah were not greedy personalities. Keeping your distance was enough.

-Now!

Even without Leonard shouting, the quick-witted wasteland solver got the timing right. Flashes of light burst from the piles of scrap materials and trash.

The sound disappeared for a moment as the air was pushed out, so it was only after the tail of the blue bee lifted upwards that it seemed to tip over that it was an ‘explosion’.

Kwa-gwa-gwa-!

Lights, shocks, then explosions came. Leonard rigged everything he could to keep the car from rolling over. The bomb planted was stronger than I thought. Noah Lucas chuckled as he clung to the machine gun mount.

“C4? Awesome!”

Leonard managed to get Blue Bee’s four wheels to the ground. Adam Knox, pursuing like an angry beast, was hidden from view by flames, smoke and debris.

“…Have you done it?”

I said the lines I shouldn’t have because I didn’t look like a movie buff. Dark shadows wriggled through the clouds of dust.

“Damn it!”

Leonard and Noah Lucas were at gunpoint. At this point, I was wondering how much the implant cost. However, war was efficient and cost-effective.

Pong-!

A piece of iron flew and hit the black shadow. It was weaker than the C4 bundle that destroyed the street, but it exploded enough to tear a person to pieces.

“It’s not a boy’s cartoon, is it? Let’s not wait for transformation, merging, or resurrection.”

Bennington Holly snapped the barrel of the thumper and inserted a new grenade. That line made a great impression on young Max. I closed the cover of the Gold Brownie heavy machine gun and turned the muzzle.

Gunshots and explosions continued for a long time late into the night.