Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 309 71. Blue Eyes
"Boom, it exploded!"

Seeing the employee with blue light flashing on his body suddenly explode, and the people close to him were also affected by the explosion, the remaining Arasaka employees' eyes changed when they saw their colleagues who were also flashing blue light around them.

Those who can enter Arasaka and are qualified to attend the banquet on the first floor, even if their positions are not that high compared to the people in the banquet halls on the upper floors, are already considered outstanding compared to ordinary people. They are not stupid and can understand this kind of thing with a little connection.

People with blue light are the source of bombs. They will explode and implicate themselves!
"Don't come over here!"

The Arasaka employees who did not have blue light flashing on their bodies looked at their colleagues who had already started to flash blue light not far away with horror, fearing that they would walk towards them and affect them.

But their shouting did not seem to reach the ears of the Arasaka staff with blue light flashing on their bodies. Compared to their colleagues who were just terrified, the Arasaka staff with blue light flashing on their bodies were on the verge of mental collapse.

They looked down at their flashing chests, and under tremendous pressure, they approached others in fear and bewilderment, hoping to seek help: "Help, help me!"

"Stand where you are and don't move!"

Under Kenichi Shiro's instructions, the Arasaka Special Operations Team, who were originally responsible for handling the situation and isolating the employees, started to move. They were already near these Arasaka employees, and they immediately pointed the Masamune in their hands at the employees with blue light on their bodies:
"Stay over there and wait for the personnel to deal with you. The rest of the personnel are not allowed to move. Everyone on this floor is a suspect. Anyone who moves will be killed without mercy!"

The cold order was conveyed to every Arasaka employee along with the scolding of the captain of the First Special Team. Compared with V, who was the captain of the Second Team, V was actually more of a symbol and cover-up. The captain of the First Special Team was the one who was truly responsible for the security of the banquet hall.

This time he had made the mistake of letting dangerous people into the banquet hall. In order to avoid being fired and killed by the cleaning staff tomorrow, he was trying desperately to make up for it.

It doesn't matter even if all these colleagues who are not from the same department are fired, as long as the mistake can be made up!
When the guns were pointed at them, those Arasaka employees who were not glowing and were about to run around in panic were barely able to calm down. However, those employees who were glowing with blue light looked at the light flashing on their bodies, which was visible to the naked eye, and acted crazy.

If it weren't for the remaining shred of rationality that reminded them of Arasaka's code of conduct, and the realization that even if they lost control, they would ultimately be ruthlessly killed without any help, then everyone would have probably lost their minds by now. Even though they still had a little bit of rationality, the amplitude of their bodies' involuntary movements was getting larger and faster.

The more panicked a person is, the more they tend to lose control of their body's trembling and the involuntary movements of their hands and feet, and this is exactly the case with these Arasaka employees.

After seeing that the situation was basically under control, the captain of the First Special Operations Team also comforted them a little: "All of you stay calm, the medical rescue personnel are on the way, the hackers have taken over the control of this floor, and the power room has also sent people to deal with it. As long as you all stay calm and wait, this matter will be handled soon."

The captain still didn't want to kill anyone when there was no need to. Although in an emergency, he could clear out all these people in the name of emergency in order to keep his position, but that was only a stopgap measure. This group of Arasaka middle-level managers all had some family connections behind them, and even if they didn't, they should have had them after getting married. If he killed them all in one go, even if it was according to the regulations, he wouldn't be able to withstand the revenge of those family members.

Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he noticed that the blue light on the body of a person in front of him who had been temporarily stabilized suddenly stopped.

With his pupils shrinking slightly, the captain of the first team recalled the person who had been involved in the previous explosion. He immediately began to plan the distance between that person and the people around him, and then his heart calmed down a little.

It doesn't matter even if it explodes, there is no one within the blast range.

Just as he was thinking this, he noticed that the man whose blue light was no longer flashing, did not explode, but simply lowered his head amid the horrified gazes of the people around him.

Looking down, could it be that the hackers on this level have already completed the invasion, completed the control, and deactivated the explosion program in the body?
When the team leader was thinking this, he found that the person who had lowered his head suddenly raised his head, and there was a blue light flowing in his pair of confused prosthetic eyes.

'What's this?!'

Being watched, the team leader felt a chill in his spine and felt an unprecedented pressure. He subconsciously raised his gun, but the man had already started running. It only took a moment from the first step to the full sprint. Si'an Westin started.

Sensing the danger, the captain of the team activated the Sian Westin and combined it with the Krenchikov in his spine to push his reaction to the limit. While his senses were slowing down, he saw the man trying to approach him, so he backed away and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

In the yellow flames, the blue-eyed man who showed great explosive power and rushed out a few steps was easily torn into pieces by the genuine kinetic rifle in the hands of the team leader. However, at the moment he was about to fall, his flesh and blood tissue exposed to the air emitted a blue light.

An explosion ensued.

"Boom boom boom!"

The attack suffered by the captain of the first team was not an exception, but just a prelude. Almost at the moment when the first blue-eyed employee fell, the other employees who had flashed blue light around them stopped flashing at the first moment, and rushed towards the other Arasaka combat personnel around them in the darkness. Compared with the captain who had reacted quickly because of Swanwestan and Krenchkov, this group of combat team members were not so lucky.

Amid the blue flames blooming in the darkness, the floors that had just been brought under control fell into chaos again.

"No one should hold back. Suspects should be cleared out directly."

As Kenichi Shiro was muttering some regrets in his heart, the blue-eyed staff around him seemed to have recognized him and rushed straight towards him without paying any attention to anyone else.

But Kenichi Shiro is not the only one.

Jack, V, and Oliver, who had relaxed a little because the situation was under control, gripped their weapons again and aimed at the Arasaka employees who were rushing over.

"I've experienced Mewtwo playing as a hero fighting zombies."

Oliver blew up an employee's head with a gun and complained, "Those zombies have their brains controlled by the virus, and they're going crazy and want to pounce on people. I feel the same way now. This is too bad!"

“If it were just these employees, it would be fine.”

Jack fired his gun and said, "I don't have any special combat prosthesis on me, so I'm afraid."

Before Jack finished his words, V's face turned bitter.

"Jack, do you have some talent for making bad words?"

As V looked on in disbelief, the captain of the first team, who had escaped the attack and was cleaning up the employees, also had a flash of blue light of flowing data in his eyes. Then, he turned to look at them in confusion.

"Be careful, this is a data intrusion. Someone or something is using the invaded person as a medium to infect and invade the people around them at close range!"

Kenichi Shiro's face has become extremely serious. With such intrusion control capabilities, he can easily infect other people around him by relying on the intruder. Ordinary hackers can't do it. If he is not a hacker, then
Could it be AI?
　p.s. When I play hacker, I really like the contagion.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)