Cyberpunk: 2075

Listening to the gunfire on the other side, Karl, who went around the alley and ran towards the back of the convenience store, was not surprised to hear the gunfire.

Because he knew clearly when he heard the first sound just now that it was the sound of the projectile launching system.

[Projectile Launching System]: A prosthetic body that is installed in the human arm and can be called a handheld projectile launcher.

Carl remembered that when the prosthetic body was used, it would pop out of the arm like a mantis knife or a monomolecular wire. It was like a cannon rising from the arm, and then as the user of the prosthetic body aimed, the projectile would be launched from the arm. A cannonball or missile.

Karl had looked at the prosthetic body for a long time before, but in the end he still didn't make up his mind to buy it because it was too expensive.

The price of the 'projectile launching system' itself is actually average for a modified arm prosthetic. What is really expensive is the ammunition. After all, a miniature cannonball or missile is not that easy to get, let alone one. It is only a one-time use, and you have to buy it again after you fight it once. How can a poor mercenary afford it?

Using artillery shells and missiles to bombard them, even if they were only miniature ones, these attackers were considered generous. They were really rich.

But Karl didn't understand. They had a blast with rocket launchers before, so why didn't they use rocket launchers now? Compared with the underpowered artillery shells and missiles fired by the prosthetics, the rockets were very powerful. After a few rounds like this, it would be like this. Are three-story shops no longer open to public?

....

If you think about it carefully, none of the previous rockets were accurately aimed at the car...

Want to capture them alive and intact?

No, considering the distance between the rocket and the vehicle, it may not be intact. Just make sure you can breathe?

His mind was spinning very fast, but Karl was not running fast.

This unhappiness refers to the fact that compared to the prosthetic body, his legs have not been modified, and now he only relies on two fleshy legs. He has to breathe while running, and he really can't run fast.

But when he came to the back door of the convenience store, he found that there was no one there.

'strangeness....'

Karl was a little surprised in his heart. Even if Arasaka's security personnel protected the target and came to this convenience store during an emergency evacuation, they are still professionals after all, and their responsibilities should not be ignored. Even if they don't leave with the target, there should be someone to guard them. What is going on? Aren't they afraid that the attackers and the Whirlpool Gang will react and take a detour to the back?

Such doubts were all answered after Karl entered the convenience store from the back.

Because the target is injured.

And he also suffered an injury that made him unable to leave for the time being.

Seeing Karl coming in from behind, the nervous Arasaka security guard originally wanted to shoot Karl subconsciously, but when Karl raised his hands, he recognized his identity.

"Are you a mercenary hired by us?"

They had all watched Karl's performance before, and were naturally impressed by him.

"Mercenary?"

Protected by Arasaka security personnel, the target wearing a cherry blossom-colored kimono appeared in front of Karl.

It seems that the target is a girl who is about the same age as Karl. She is a little thin and has silky black hair that hangs down to her back. She looks pretty, but compared with her eyes, she looks... Incomparably inferior.

They were a pair of eyes that looked like they could see the reflection of stars in their pupils, like the night sky.

‘What beautiful eyes. ’

I don’t know if it’s a prosthetic eye.

This was Karl's first thought after seeing the target, and he also noticed the wound on the girl's abdomen.

From the wound where she was pressing tightly, blood was constantly pouring out, dyeing the cherry blossom-colored kimono red, adding a blood-red background to the pink and white of the dress.

Was he hit by a gun while dodging?

"Why not treat it yet?"

Karl didn't understand why these Arasaka security personnel were just surrounding the target and working in a hurry, but no one thought of treating the target. Don't they know that if the blood continues like this, the target will die? Like America's first president, he had to be bled to death.

"us...."

An Arasaka security guard looked panicked. After forcibly controlling his expression, he said something that made Carl feel like he was crazy: "We can't touch Miss. If we touch Miss's body, something will happen to our family." ....”

Then he was so ashamed that he glanced at the young lady he was protecting: "And if I neglect my duty, I will be the only one who dies."

"Damn, what a remnant of feudalism? Aren't you a capitalist company? Can you please stop being so retreating?"

Karl finally understood what it meant to laugh or cry. He had heard stories about not touching a princess who fell into the water, or else her whole family would be killed if she was rescued. If she was not rescued, she would die to protect him. He didn't expect that he would actually encounter this.

"This is what great-grandfather meant. Don't blame them. They can't resist great-grandfather..."

Due to constant blood loss and injuries, the lady's face became paler, but when she faced Karl, she still maintained the dignity and elegance of a young lady: "I was unlucky, I didn't pay attention when I got off the car. The bullet failed to pass the test, and the injury was an accident, but the test my great-grandfather said must not be stopped. I was the one who caused them..."

She glanced at Karl: "And you."

"You are talking nonsense to a ghost who wants to die, right? So this is really some kind of test? I know that the internal struggle of the company family is fierce, but it is really enough that a test will cost lives and implicate others."

The lives of the lower-class people are not lives for you, no, even the security personnel died. It should be said that for you, the company's power holders, except for the lives of your own people, nothing else is life...

Hiss, it doesn't seem right. Isn't that the test of the great-grandfather also includes the life of this young lady now?

"I have half the blood of the country of sin...If I can't pass this test and become a member of the family, it must be destined."

The cherry blossoms born from chrysanthemums and roses...are the target.

Looking at his face gradually calming down, as if he accepted the goal of death, Carl felt an indescribable disgust in his heart.

What kind of test did your family play to kill so many people, and when you died, you accepted death so easily?

If you die, the people outside will die with you!

By then, Brown and the others will die, and Jack, Mann, and Oliver will also die!

Wealth and life may not be important to you, but there will always be someone who needs them.

And this is not something that people who should fail the test and give up their lives casually can bear.

"Get out of here."

Carl pushed the Arasaka security guards who were surrounding the target, and pushed them to the ground just like he pushed down the mercenaries before, and then he squatted down in the unbelievable eyes of the Arasaka security guards.

"The target, I took her away. Is there any problem? Is she a member of the trauma team?"

Watching Carl pick up the lady, the Arasaka security personnel did not dare to touch her. When he asked, she murmured as if she had woken up from a dream: "No... No..."

"Speak louder, I can't hear you."

"No, no! When the lady took the test to prove that half of her noble bloodline was worth flowing, her membership was cancelled."

"Is there one in the Blue Bi Building?"

"Yes, at the entrance of the Blue Bi Building, there is our special female treatment team to prevent accidents."

"Hehe, aren't you afraid of LGBT?"

"What is that?"

"It's useless to tell you, I'm too lazy to say it, you don't deserve to hear it, help the mercenaries block the attackers, I'll take your lady to treatment."

The Arasaka security personnel watched Carl holding their lady, turned around and walked to the back, but no one dared to stop him as if no one dared to touch him.

After a few seconds, they looked at each other, and then they seemed to regain their sanity and began to be on guard with guns.

This matter...

They didn't know what to do.

"You... want to save me?"

Being held in Carl's arms, the target raised his beautiful eyes and looked at Carl's face: "Is it because you want to complete the mission?"

"I want to save people."

Carl glanced at the target and walked quickly: "Save my friend and save you. Although you are not a good thing in my opinion, your eyes are very beautiful. Because of these eyes, I am going to add 1% of pity for you to the 99% of my saving my friend."

"Why..."

Listening to Carl's words, the target smiled and showed a very bright smile: "I heard you in the car, you scolded people in my company over there, why do you still have pity for me."

"I said, your eyes are beautiful, can't I appreciate them? Beautiful things always make people feel pity, probably so, and ah..."

Carl glanced at the blue and green building in the distance.

"Countless cherry blossom petals have fallen from the cherry tree, but this one just happened to fall into my arms..."

Karl sighed.

"It's just that I just happened to be here."