The Witch of the Cyberpunk Era Chapter 16

In a secluded living room, Xu Yang sat cross-legged on a futon, with a blacked-out TV hanging on the wall.

Farosa stood in the shadows in the corner.

Katsuragi Asa was standing next to him, constantly playing with the TV and adjusting the signal, but he couldn't do anything. He was not familiar with buttons and screen display devices.

Xu Yang tried to remind her several times, or use her digital mind to secretly manipulate her, but she was worried about hurting her self-esteem. Her righteous brother is a cheeky little rascal, and she's obviously pretty strong.

After Katsuragi turned it on, the face of a middle-aged man appeared on the screen, with scars and wrinkles on his face, combing his back, wearing a suit, and looking stern and angry, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Hey!" A man's rough voice came from the loudspeaker, "Katsuragi! It's very slow! The screen has been on for so long!"

"I'm sorry!" Katsuragi walked to the screen and told the boss, "I tried my best! This is the one I mentioned to you, the one who is said to be capable of helping us defeat the Rijia group!"

"You," the middle-aged man stretched out his finger and poked at Xu Yang, as if he was about to pierce the screen, "I'm the boss of the Suzuki team, Shinji Suzuki, I heard that you promised to help us win, but what are you going to do? What skills do you have at hand?"

"I am a hacker. I can crack the keys of the public network, that is to say, I can gain control over the surrounding electronic equipment. If your target is protected by intelligent security facilities, I can solve it."

Saying these things is so smooth, as if I'm used to being a neuro-hacker.

This is probably the destination of digital mind technology, which was originally an exploratory technology, a by-product of the process of studying the uploading of consciousness to the network, which is used to connect people's consciousness to the common network.

Now that the consciousness uploading network has matured, executives retire after their wealth is free, and send their minds to servers on distant satellites. The personal control function of the network network is also replaced by the integrated AI, which can only be used to do some hacking work.

In the future, if companies disintegrate one by one, those neural network engineers who have the same fate as me will be doing the same job as me. When the times abandon your industry, you have no choice.

"They were huddled in a robotics hypermarket," Shinji Suzuki said. "The place was filled with sentry machine guns, laser traps, and cameras from the first floor to the top floor. The Lee family called it the New Era Tenshou Pavilion. What a joke! "

"It's not a problem, they can't stop my invasion."

"Well, good man... Do you want anything in return? I heard that you are asking a lot of money for your business."

"It would be nice if I could get the friendship of your society."

"Ha! You've got friendship. I'd love to make friends with a special talent like you!"

"...The 'New Era's Castle Tower'," Farosa suddenly said, "We want it."

"Who's talking? Who are you, what are you doing standing in such a dark place?" Suzuki Shinji approached the screen.

"It's mine..." Xu Yang didn't know how to explain his relationship with Farosa for a while.

"I'm his girlfriend." Farosa said, "My lord, since we can capture that city with our help, we hope to get the right to rule the place, and accordingly, we will provide more in the future. Reliable service."

Not going according to plan, Farosa still goes her own way. In her opinion, being a man might as well be bold.

Xu Yang was also surprised.

Let's not talk about the girlfriend. he thought to himself. Although Farosa's request was abrupt, it was beneficial to us, so I don't know how the other party responded.

"Aha, I want that hypermarket..." Suzuki Shinji smiled.

Xu Yang knew that the other party didn't want to hand over the hypermarket, but there should be room for manoeuvre.

It's better to fight for it. After all, I also really want to fight for a place where I can settle down.

"We never want to take the spoils for ourselves. In fact, we just want a place to live," Xu Yang said. "If it's a robot hypermarket, all the robots in it can be given to you, we don't need it."

"Of course there's no problem..." Suzuki Shinji nodded. "Without the goods, it's just a building, how can it be compared to friends with stunts like you? Destroying our old enemies is the top priority. Katsuragi! Protect them well, When the Li family group is taken down, he can do whatever he wants!"

"Yes!" Katsuragi nodded vigorously.

Suzuki Shinji waved at the screen, and the TV went dark.

Things are finally making some progress. Xu Yang let out a long sigh of relief.

"The team leader's opinion is my opinion," Katsuragi said. "Let's go now, no problem, right?"

"Yeah." Xu Yang nodded.

After Katsuragi left, Xu Yang hurriedly walked towards Farosa.

"What did you just say?" He wanted confirmation.

"Bring the victory back," Farosa kissed Xu Yang's face, "Don't think about anything else, let alone ask. My magic power isn't enough to help you, I'll stay here."

"...I'm leaving, but don't expect me to forget it, I'll keep this in my heart." Xu Yang knew that this was not the time to be entangled, so he suppressed his complicated feelings and left.

Dealing with different objects requires different methods.

The company is mercenary, the witch is moody, and the ordinary people are all kinds of strange, so it is impossible to generalize.

Setting out with Katsuragi, watching her do pre-war mobilization, Xu Yang had mixed feelings in his heart.

"We are warriors loyal to the Suzuki family, and now we are going to the battlefield! We should give up our lives!" Asa Katsuragi called to the large group of gang members in front of him.

"Oh oh!"

"The Suzuki group is the strongest!"

"Follow Boss Katsuragi!"

The responses among them were sparse, only the living could say different things, and the robots would just repeat the same speech.

"Fight! Fight!"

"Attack together!"

"Kill!" The gangster robot played the battle sound according to the established rhythm.

Xu Yang took a closer look and found that only about 50 of the gang members number 200 were alive, and the rest were robots.

The difference is that the robot gangsters all wear sunglasses to cover the eyes of the robot, and only the black uniform is unified.

"Loyalty, discipline, victory! Completely wipe out the Li family group!" Katsuragi announced.

"Fight!" The more than one hundred gang robots raised their arms and shouted neatly.

Katsuragi Asa led the way, and the yakuza members with Suzuki set off from the gate of Suzuki Spring.

They walked quickly into the distance, lining up on the street.

Almost all the gangs in Kyoto are like this, Xu Yang knows something. They make extensive use of robo-fighters as gang members, controlling areas not covered by corporate security services.

Residents who cannot afford to buy company security and intelligent defense systems have attached themselves to major gangs.

In places like Aizu Castle, big companies are unwilling to get involved, and various gangs emerge one after another.

In the Xia area, where Xu Yang used to belong, the gangs were unpopular, and he didn't know much about it.

However, in his opinion, the so-called company is just a gang that can legally join the company alliance, and the gang can be recognized by the company alliance when it develops to a certain scale.

In the areas under the jurisdiction of giant enterprises such as Lighthouse Core, Rainforest All Things, and Songhai Interconnection, most of the gangs are engaged in illegal trade and arms business.

"What implants do you have on your body?" Xu Yang saw Katsuragi walking on the road in silence. She was strong and bare-handed. Such a physique must have implants.

"No." Katsuragi said.

"What?" Xu Yang overturned his previous thoughts, "You...do you practice all by yourself?"

"I don't believe that the metal pierced into our body can do anything. Strong physique, tenacity, and unyielding belief are the foundation of living in this bizarre era."

"I do not know how to say it."

Without technology and tools, people are incompetent races.

"Look at the blackout, the rats are rampant, the corpses are all over the floor, this is the end of the over-reliance on technology! There is no energy supply, people are waiting to die in every house, and they don't even have the strength to escape. I grew up on the street, only muscles The weight of it makes me feel at ease." Katsuragi Asa pointed to the dark underground city.

Xu Yang saw two Rat Men dragging a corpse on the street, leaving long traces of blood. Seeing this large group of people approaching, the Rat Men quickened their movements and quickly dragged the corpse away.

"This…"

"People who are accustomed to being on the sofa and bed, being used to being in the game room, and being used to working in the company's workstation are extremely vulnerable and have no chance of surviving in the chaos."

"If they bought the most expensive company security annual membership service, they should have been rescued by the emergency rescue shuttle by now, no matter how fat they are or how they are abandoned."

"The premise is that you can earn that much money."

"…really."

"And relying on the 'company', is the 'company' so trustworthy? By those contracts and regulations? Someone will run away. I heard that it is very common for companies to torture employees."

"Really." This could not be refuted.

"It's our gang, our big family, just like relatives and family! Everyone trusts each other, fights together, and eats and drinks together. This kind of relationship cultivated day and night is an unbreakable bond. And these robots Comrade-in-arms, never betray you, never fear the danger ahead, charge forward, work hard without complaint, more worthy of trust than flesh and blood people."

Katsuragi's idea is quite novel.

Crossing the street, Xu Yang heard a shrill scream.

Several figures in front came out of a low apartment and stumbled to the distance. Two thin and manic rat people ran behind them, chasing after them.

"Come here!" Xu Yang called to them.

These people are dressed in ordinary clothes, and they seem to be ordinary residents of the Aizu Dungeon.

Several of them glanced back, not only did not go to Katsuragi's side, but ran to the other side where there was light.

Yes, Xu Yang looked back, there was a large group of thugs in black suits on our side, and a female man like an iron tower took the lead. It was impossible to be trusted.

"The front is the site of the Li family group." Katsuragi said, "The Li family group is ruthless, I'm afraid they won't end well. They probably don't know much about the local area."

In the blink of an eye, the Rat and the fugitives disappeared.

Xu Yang and Katsuragi continued to move forward, approaching a large building standing on the square.

It is about five stories high. It is a very eye-catching robot shopping mall. The signs of different companies are lit up on the top. The advertisements of small and medium-sized robot companies such as Shuhuo Machinery, Tianmu Intelligent, Celita Metal, and Wusheng Machinery are clearly visible.

The whole building has an old style, with cornices beside the windows. It really looks like a Tianshou Pavilion. Every window has a sentry gun tower facing outward. It is like a postmodern fortress protected by intelligent machine guns, large-caliber firepower and automation equipment. .

The terrain around the square is flat, and on the metal floor, countless corpses of suit robots, mice and civilians are lying in a row, blood is flowing, and they are distributed in a ring around the robot shop.

This situation is too bizarre, as if an invisible big hand pushed the piles of corpses outward, so that a clean vacuum area is formed, and it is like an invisible barrier that completely isolates the store from other people. Bleeding all over.

"Wow ah-"

"Help!" The fugitives were also taken aback when they saw the sight of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood in front of them, but when they looked back at the crazy rat people chasing after them, they decided to sprint forward.

They had to help them. Xu Yang took out his gun and planned to shoot the two mice.

Bang, bang!

From the window of the robot hypermarket, a large number of bullets burst out, instantly shooting the escapees, including the rat people behind them, on the spot, hitting their guts to pieces and blood flying.

Xu Yang's hands trembled, who is this person?

"They even killed those who came to take refuge?" Xu Yang was puzzled.

"A lot of people around have paid 'protection fees' and bought their services. Now, it's time to distinguish the difference between customers and ordinary people."

Fortunately, we met the Suzuki group first. If we accidentally ran to the site of the Lijia group, I would have been killed by now.

Xu Yang observed carefully.

He vaguely saw that the interior of the store was bright, and there were faces of panic behind the windows. Many refugees were hiding in it. During the power outage, they also chose the Lijia group they trusted and ran to their core site to seek shelter.

The gunmen and mechanics of the Lee family ran out from the roof and looked around to investigate the enemy. They also wore suits, but the color was bright red, not as dark as the Suzuki team.

Because of the power outage, Katsuragi and the others hid in the dark streets and were not found for the time being.

"For the sake of Suzuki's dominance! The Lee family must be annihilated!" Katsuragi turned back and announced to the gang, "Our previous raid was thwarted, but this time is different from the last time!"

"Fight!"

"Your previous raid...it seemed to be ineffective." Xu Yang saw some corpses in black suits.

"The resentment between the two families has lasted for generations, and this is the only chance to solve the old enemy." Asa Katsuragi pulled out the crowbar hidden in his suit, holding a pistol in the other hand, "I was a 10-year-old wandering in the streets, when I was 10 years old. We fought with their people. Before their power was restored, we rushed in and killed for a while, but when the power was restored, we were beaten to death."

"Ow!"

"The Suzuki group is strong!"

"The Li family group is weak!" The gang robots repeated the established voice, preparing to charge.

"As you said, there are civilians inside." Xu Yang said, "Take your time, I don't want to create a massacre."

"What are you waiting for?" Katsuragi asked, "You can't even do a massacre right now, you're just standing there."

"patience."

Just now, Xu Yang has been slowly cracking the network.

Using his digital mind, he tries to break through the shared network in the robot shop building to gain control of the security system.

This hypermarket uses the ODC key, which is the standard encryption program of the common network technology at the factory, and is equipped with an advanced security program, UU reading www. Once uukanshu.com is hacked, it will upload an alert, lock the operating platform, and block external channels.

Good or good, the problem is... it's too routine.

Almost all public networks have this set of security regulations, unchanged.

When Xu Yang was doing tests for Gaoge Kyushu, he had reversed attacked his own network for many times. He was very good at handling this most common and standardized thing.

It's a pity that when the implant is seriously damaged, it can only be treated with an attitude of slow work and meticulous work, and the speed is extremely slow.

"Come on, we have to..." Katsuragi was about to speak when gunshots rang out from the building.

This caught everyone's attention.

"Ah yeah!"

"Who shot inside?"

"What happened?" Several members of the Li family group on the top of the building quickly ran back downstairs to inquire about the situation.

"Huh?" Katsuragi was curious, "What did you do?"

"The crack was successful only a few seconds ago." Xu Yang pointed to the automatic machine guns in the window, and saw that they all turned around and started shooting inside, "This is my job, the job of neurohackers."

There were constant gunshots and screams from inside.

Katsuragi was almost stunned. He didn't need to break through, he didn't need close combat, and he didn't need to shoot. The indestructible fortress of the Li family began to be destroyed from the inside, and the intelligent security facilities began to slaughter his own people.

"Neurohacker...very strong!" she concluded, "now it's time to charge."

Just then, Katsuragi Asa's cell phone rang.

She took it out, glanced at the screen, and her expression immediately became serious.

Xu Yang sensed Katsuragi's unease.

"Who?"

"Team leader." Ge Chengqian pressed the answer button and walked away quickly, avoiding Xu Yang.

Chapter end