I am reborn in Cyberpunk

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- Hmmm... you're a pleasure to work with. Got all the chips in, I don't even have to try to break in now. All the active accounts are already in my control. And there's an obscene amount of money....

I shrugged at Lucy's comment; I didn't really care at the moment. I needed to get to the lower level. And that meant going down the stairs...

- Back...

I hadn't even touched the door to the stairs when Lucy interrupted me.

- ...found an old file, the stairs were ordered to be booby-trapped. No-one ever goes up there. The only way in is through the lift.

I frowned.

- Bad...

I closed my eyes and thought for a few seconds.

- ...Is the door booby-trapped?

- Checking...

Judy's voice made it clear that she was going to take me from here again, Lucy handed her all the data and once more immersed herself in the data and attempts to steal money from the underground fight club.

- ...door's clear...

- Good.

I nodded and carefully opened the door, activating my kiroshi in several modes at once. And making sure I could see the mines, I took a step onto the landing with a sigh. So... let's see what I can do....

I activated the sandi and take the first step, a short push and my foot is already touching the wall, good thing these mines are lower than me, fixed on the wall and use a laser beam, the interruption of which should cause an explosion, so being on the wall, above the mine I pushed off again. The stairwell is short, so I pushed off from the wall where the stairwell was, and then pushed off again....

Three minutes in my personal time I finally reached the lower level, but there are a few mines exactly in front of the door so I adjust the push and grabbed the harpoon gun and drove its harpoon into the lower part of the platform of the floor above.

- Judy, can you make me a mine-disabling demon?

- Just a second.

- Fuck, man, how did you do that?

Becky's voice was delighted and amazed that I made it to the bottom floor.

- Sandi and strong legs... But I wouldn't have made it upstairs like that... and it would be hard to repeat such a stunt. I'll have to talk to Victor about installing synthetic muscles.

- Vic?

Becca's getting all teary eyed over what I said.

- That guy's gonna talk you out of it.

- Why would he?

I was really surprised by Becca's words. No, he's certainly the cautious type, and at first he was against installing my new chrome, but that's only because he cares about his clients and requires full rehab.

- Well, Mayne tried to work with him, but according to him, he kept talking him out of the new chrome...

- But you're working with him.

- Well, yeah.

Becky's voice was a little surprised, apparently she had never thought of such a twist in life.

- It's all about the approach...

- А?

- Vic's a serious man and he doesn't like to be rushed. When I first came to him, he corrected my sandi and the only thing he wasn't against was replacing optics, and that's only because everyone has them now and replacing one chrome with another doesn't affect the load of the organism.

- Done...

Judy's voice interrupted our conversation with Becca, and I opened her email and downloaded the demon, then quickly switched off all the mines that were on the site. I then placed my hand on the slab the harpoon was attached to and pushed off to unhook the cable from the harpoon itself.

- There's a guard post outside the door, but they're very relaxed.

- Can you distract them?

- I can disable the Coke machine and the TV.

- Do it.

Ten seconds, and we're all set. Judy informs me, so I open the door and activate the sandi and quickly walk past the empty guard station. And then quickly disappeared into one of the rooms, which turned out to be the fighters' locker room. Well at least that's the conclusion I draw from the sheer number of lockers.

- Where to next, where's the target?

- You're down the corridor. There's a fork, turn right, then the guard room.

- Got it, I'll get to another security room by the time I get there. I'm on my way.

Activating the sandi I left the room and made my way down the corridor to the fork, where I turned in the direction Judy had indicated. The door I came to was massive, even if it looked like it was, and I thought about getting a gorilla's hands on it. And the only thing that stops me is that I realise that these hands do not fit my style of work.

- Plugging into the door.

I connected the cable to the door and immediately felt the heat of the deck, through which one of the runners began to work. I have no idea who it is, and it doesn't matter.

- There are no cameras, we only know our target is there from conversations, so be careful.

Judy warned me that they don't know what's inside, so when the door hissed open, I activated the sandi.

It was probably the only thing that saved my life. The shot from behind the door came just as I slipped inside, and if I'd been wearing my usual, available sandi, I wouldn't have had time to react. Because the shot was fired by a man who was moving...

He was fucking moving, even though he was slower than me.

Which means he's got a sandi too, just not like me.

Partially out of the way of the attack, I only grimaced at the feeling of the shot ripping through my left arm, though honestly at that moment I wanted to fall to the floor and scream in pain. The only thing that stopped me was that I was used to working solo and realised that if I fell out of acceleration, I was dead.

I wouldn't be spared.

This guy has no reason to let me live. Only to keep me temporarily on the verge of life and death, in order to get the names of my accomplices, as well as the name of the customer.

Clearly, I'm not happy with this arrangement.

My right hand snatches the pistol from its holster, and I fire three shots at him. One shot hits the muzzle, tearing it apart. Shrapnel flew in all directions, so it was not only the owner of the shotgun, but also me.

My opponent froze, he was clearly out of acceleration, and I fired four more shots at his knee and elbow joints. Even if he has a good chrome standing, my gun is powerful enough to penetrate such obvious vulnerable points.

Switching off the sandi I saw my opponent fall to the floor.

- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckaaaaaaaah!

Staggering I barely stood on my own feet and back to the door I shut it tightly.

- Can you hear me?

- Are you all right?

Judy's voice was a little agitated.

- 'Yes... the target turned out to have a Sandy... and also...'

I took a look at his office.

- ...redundant surveillance system. Must have spotted me walking quietly through the ground floor.

- I'll kill you! I'll kill you! You think you're gonna get away with this?!

I cringed a little at the idiot's shouting, so I looked round and bent down and took the belt off his waist. From what he even a little confused, but I did not care about his condition, my left hand is seriously injured, I need to apply a tourniquet ...

So I did the tourniquet.

- How are you?

Panam was very worried, so when she heard about my opponent's sandhi, she jumped into the conversation.

- Looks like I'll have to visit Vic and change my arm... got some shrapnel from a shotgun blast, but overall.....

- The building's in an uproar, they realised you were inside.

- What are we doing?

- Nothing.

Lucy was obviously calm.

- You've put all three chips in, so I can easily misdirect them.

- That's good, I've got more of your slivers, hook up to my eyes, we'll look round the office together, tell me where to put them.

- Okay... just a minute...

I pulled an injector out of a special pouch and injected it into my shoulder. Of course, it's usually injected into the chest, near the heart to be exact, so all the drugs spread faster, but I didn't care much about the shrapnel now. I was much more concerned about the fact that my arm was hurting, and the injector, among other things, has analgesic properties.

- Okay...

I sighed and looked around the room I was in. And the first thing that caught my eye was the golden pistol that was lying on the desk of this type.

- Yeah... you obviously don't suffer from a little ego.....

As I approached the guy, I saw that he was passed out. I wonder why? Arms and legs?

I checked them out and my initial findings were correct, it's chrome, so his injuries aren't doing any damage.

- Tsk...

I noticed a wound from one of the shards on his chest, looks like something got damaged there... taking out another injector I injected it into the man, then took out my gun and put extra rounds into all the joints of his chrome.

- Okay, I pointed them all in the other direction. We've got about fifteen minutes before they realise I just activated the security system in there and let Becca play with it. So let's get to the office and get out of here.

- Mm-hmm.

I stood up and quickly walked around the office, showing Lucy all the equipment that was in there, as well as the safe, which was glowing in one of the modes of my peepholes.

- So...

Next I was told exactly where to insert the chips, and was also asked to connect to the port of the safe that Lucy had just opened at random....

- Um... kush?

I looked in surprise at the whole handful of money chips that were in the safe. There were also information chips and the best part was, all of this wouldn't take up much space in my bag!

- It seems like it would, but I wouldn't advise it.....

- Hmm?

- There might be tracking chips disguised as money chips and without any hardware, you can't remotely figure out which ones are for tracking and which ones are for storing funds.

I sighed and slammed the safe shut.

- Kha...

The guy came round, so I went over to him and felt his pulse.

- So, okay, I'm out?

- Yeah... Judy's gonna walk you out....

I grabbed the man's arm, but I stopped myself. If he shouted, he might draw unwanted attention to us. So I took another look round the office, but finding nothing, I went round him, squatted down and took off his shoes, pulled off his socks, which I stuffed into his mouth, and used the laces of his shoes as a stopper to keep him from spitting out the gag.

After a little thought, I looked at the remaining slivers from Lucy and inserted one of them into Houdini's socket.

- Lucy, make sure he can't call anyone.

- Okay.

- The way is clear.

That's what Judy told me.

I opened the door and stepped outside and walked down the corridor, dragging a man who was mooing to get our attention. Except all the guards were elsewhere now, so I made it to the lift in peace.

- It's too busy upstairs at the post. They're getting ready to greet anyone who comes up.

- Got it... slow me down for the floor....

The lift obediently stopped, and I jumped slightly knocked out the top hatch in the lift, then got out on its roof, where I attached the harpoon and descended back into the lift with the harpoon lifted up my target.

- What about the floors above?

- They're residential, but according to the data, all the lift doors are welded shut and there's a real armoured plate blocking the stairwell.

- Right, then get the lift up and open the doors....let them shoot at the empty cabin.....

As I said that's what happened and the guards just shot into the empty cabin, firing their ammunition.

- Now, they're frozen, they don't know what's going on.

- Two are walking towards you, three more are still there, and two are standing at the door, just like when you got in.

I sighed and activated the sandi, feeling a slight burning sensation in my back. So I'm already walking on the edge. A couple more minutes of personal time and I'll start burning my nerves, and my muscles are already sore, so they can't take this much use.

Sighing I jumped into the hatch and quickly discharged the gun just shooting everyone and then disconnecting the sandi.

I go back up to the roof of the stall, unhook the harpoon, lower the target into the stall and walk towards the exit.

- How's it going in there, girls?

- Us?

Panam grins.

- We're fine, you got a little attention, but they didn't realise we were in their system. They don't have any good runners, though.

- There are runners, I'm just better...

Lucy's voice was quiet and calm. And she refuted Panam's words, who grumbled slightly. Exiting the building I reactivated the sandhi and just shot both the bogeymen in the heads. I don't like to do that, but it's not very convenient to knock out such opponents with one hand. And so...

Grabbing the target by the leg I dragged it through the alleys and soon Tortik with the ladies on board came to me. I threw the target in the boot and got in the front seat.