Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 16 16. Crazy
"Chubby!"

The demon stared at the black-haired young man who appeared at the corner, and raised the Crusher kinetic shotgun in his hand without hesitation.

"Pong!"

A huge roar accompanied by bullets hitting the steel passage made a harsh and sharp buzzing sound. The collision of metal against metal made the entire building of this place tremble.

Iron is one of the best materials for conducting sound. The vibration could be heard very far away, and every corner of the factory could hear it clearly, including Carl, who realized that the pistol was useless and turned around and ran away even though he was so close.

"Damn, was the gun in this guy's hand just now a shotgun? I should have aimed at that thing earlier."

After cursing, Carl felt the footsteps coming from the other side of the corner becoming clearer and clearer, and he only regretted that he did not run fast enough.

He originally just wanted to finish off the enemy, but something went wrong. In front of the narrow passage, he encountered a member of the Vortex Gang who was holding a shotgun and wearing subdermal armor. Carl even thought of his possible death.

Oliver had set up the trap before and used up all the grenades. If he had known earlier, he would have left one so that he would have had some ability to resist.

The place where Carl and the others stopped before was not far from the passage. After running a few steps, Carl saw Jack and Oliver who was supporting him. They obviously heard the metal collision sound transmitted all the way through the passage and realized that something might have happened.

"run!"

He braked the car, stuffed the Lexington into the gun bag, and slid to pick up the Copperhead that he had placed against the wall. He had originally thought it was too long and difficult to use in this narrow passage.

I take back what I said before about you. You are the one who is useful.

If placed in a corner, the assault rifle may not be able to move well due to the gun body, but if placed in a straight line, you only need to sweep straight back.

Hearing Carl's words, Jack and Oliver didn't hesitate at all. They turned around and ran, one supporting the other, while the assault rifle in Carl's hand had already opened fire, firing bullets wildly at the back.

The demon could ignore Lexington's bullets thanks to her subcutaneous armor, but she was not arrogant enough to that extent when facing the Copperhead.

She was about to chase to the distance where the shotgun was enough to cause damage, but was forced back to the corner by the oncoming bullet. The devil watched helplessly as the blonde who had killed her brother walked away supporting someone, while the guy who had killed her subordinates continued to shoot and suppress her. The feeling of humiliation made her grit her teeth.

"I don't believe you'll have all the bullets, kid. Just wait for death with that bastard Oliver!"

The devil looked back and picked up a scrapped and now discontinued Jade-ring pistol from the body of her little brother. She held the pistol in one hand and the Crusher in the other, ready to go out and tear the guy who blocked her into pieces as soon as the Copperhead's gunfire stopped.

"Oliver, why is the person on the other end calling your name? Does she know you?"

Jack listened to the angry and hateful shouts from behind and looked at Oliver in surprise. He didn't expect that they would meet his 'acquaintance' while on a mission.

"Who knows? It was my first time in Watson District yesterday. Who knows what happened?"

Oliver also looked innocent. This voice was unfamiliar to him and he didn't know how he had provoked it.

"Stop talking, you two. Run faster. I'm firing bursts of bullets and my time is almost up. Run!" After hearing Carl's voice, Oliver and Jack shut up and just ran back. Although they didn't know the details, they knew that the guy chasing them must be very powerful to make Carl so anxious.

"If I had known, I would not have started the war here."

Taking the first lesson learned from this mercenary mission to heart, Carl stopped shooting.

Run out of bullets?
This was the devil's first thought, and then he poked half of his body out from the corner.

The gunfire that had stopped suddenly rang out again, and that half of the body was hit directly by three bullets from top to bottom, tearing three large holes in it.

After watching the bullet tear that half body into four pieces, Carl's heart sank. Even if the Copperhead's bullet could penetrate the body with subcutaneous armor, it would not be possible to cause such a degree of tearing trauma. In other words, the reason why the bullet from the assault rifle in his hand could cause this effect was because this was not that guy's body!

'Second lesson.'

Muttering to himself, Carl threw the empty Copperhead to the side, pulled out the Lexington from his waist, and fired a few more shots behind him while running backwards.

"Has this guy's bullets not been used up yet?"

The demon, who had been watching the body of his younger brother, whom he had captured for testing, being torn into pieces and hearing the gunshots stop, was about to rush out of the corner, but he heard the gunshots rang out again, and his body suddenly paused and stopped moving.

"He even knew how to cheat twice. I was almost tricked out by this guy."

But in the next moment, the devil felt something was wrong.

It's not like she hasn't played with Copperhead before. Unless the gun has been specially modified, it must have reached its limit after such a long period of shooting just now. In other words, the bullets should have been used up anyway. And the gunshots she heard now were very wrong.

After listening for another second, a nameless rage suddenly surged in the devil's heart.

That sound, god damn, that sound!
This sound was so familiar. In the past, before she joined the Uzumaki Gang, when she and her brother were the real bottom-level devil and depended on each other for survival, all they relied on was a gun that could make such a sound. And just now, this gun made her head buzz.

"Damn it, Lexington, you actually used the sound of Lexington's gunfire to trick me!"

The demon rushed out of the corner with the Jade Ring and the Crusher, and all she could see was a figure disappearing at the bottom of the passage.

"Bastard!"

The demon who had been fooled twice could no longer control her anger. Her artificial eye had completely turned blood red under the red light, illuminating the dim passage.

Originally, she just wanted to avoid getting hurt more before finishing off Oliver, so she didn't dare to charge at Copperhead's shooting, but now, she wanted that black-haired bastard to die as well!
Now, even if Copperhead shot at her, she would just charge forward. At worst, she could rely on her subcutaneous armor to take two bullets!
'kill! ’

His heart was filled with murderous desire, and the operating system connecting the spine and the back of the brain emitted a subtle sound of electric current operating at its mechanical limit, and the demon's forward speed actually increased a bit.

(End of this chapter)