Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 321 83. Far from it

Time gradually returned to its original speed in the senses, and David witnessed the whole process in this no longer slow flow.

The Arasaka member ignored the impact on himself, just glanced at David, and then continued to swing the mantis blade along the original trajectory. At the critical moment when Mann's head was about to be chopped off, Mann gave up the projectile launch system that had not yet been fully transformed, raised the modified left hand and blocked it in front of him.

Mann sacrificed an arm in exchange for a precious moment of struggling. Although the subcutaneous armor and projectile launching system of his left hand were easily cut by the mantis knife as if the blade was sliding through butter, this sacrifice ultimately achieved his goal.

As Mann's arm broke, blood gushed out from the cross section, forming a bloody "fountain". The blood rain from the fountain fell on the face of the Arasaka personnel, shielding his eyes when his strength was temporarily exhausted after wielding the Mantis Blade.

The Arasaka personnel's vision was disturbed for a moment, but only for a moment.

If at this moment, the Arasaka personnel was facing Mann, who had not lost his gun, left hand and projectile launching system, then Mann would be able to take his life in this instant. However, after he lost the weapon in his right hand and left arm in succession in order to cover David and protect his own head, Mann could only tilt his head back at this moment, which should have been a perfect opportunity to attack.

His right hand tightly grasped the scrapped heavy machine gun, which was firmly suppressed by the Arasaka personnel's left arm mantis blade; his left hand was ruthlessly cut off by the opponent's right arm mantis blade. His feet on the ground provided the only support and force point for his body. In this life-and-death moment, the only weapons Mann could rely on were his wisdom and brain.

What is wisdom?
Wisdom is to use the head that was almost cut off a moment ago, lean back, and then
A moment passed, and when the Arasaka staff member blinked and his vision became clear again, what he saw was an extremely hard head crashing towards his face with the force of thunder.

The hardest part of the skull is the frontal bone, which is a pair of membranous bones in the upper front part of the skull. Mann installed subcutaneous armor on the outside of these bones, close to the scalp. When this extremely hard "sledgehammer" slammed into the unprotected face of the Arasaka personnel, the result was that the Arasaka personnel's body began to fall backwards involuntarily.

"It seems that you don't have subcutaneous armor on your face like those lunatics in the Uzumaki Gang!"

His face was extremely sore, his nose was crooked, and blood and tears were flowing out involuntarily due to the pain. In the mind of the Arasaka personnel who leaned back, there was only one thought at this moment.

"The guys from Military Technology, why do they all like to resort to physical attacks now? The younger one uses his elbows, the older one uses his head. Are they from the Animal Gang? Why do the people from Military Technology recruit anyone?"

When the Arasaka man couldn't help but lean back, David raised his pistol.

When facing the subcutaneous armor made of nanofiber material of Arasaka, the technical weapons need a period of time to store energy before the bullets have the power to break through the defense. However, after Mann verified with actual actions that the Arasaka personnel had no subcutaneous armor on his face, the direction of the gun in David's hand was only a point.

The bullet was fired without any stored energy and hit the Arasaka man's face accurately. With the "puff" sound of the bullet piercing through flesh and blood, the Arasaka man who leaned back froze in mid-air for a moment, and then as if he had lost all strength and support, he collapsed straight down.

His brain was pierced diagonally by the bullet that entered from the upper jaw. No matter how hard this Arasaka member's last remaining consciousness tried to struggle, he lost all possibility of struggling after his cerebral cortex was turned into mud by the impact of the bullet.

"thump."

"huhuhuhu"

Panting heavily, he dropped the heavy machine gun in his right hand and used his free right hand to tightly grasp the broken part of his left arm. At the same time, he tried to keep the remaining left arm close to his body to reduce blood flow. Mann couldn't help but breathe heavily, but as soon as he got rid of this Arasaka member by chance, he smiled and praised David:
"David, well done, you saved my life again." "Mann."

Watching the blood leaking out from Mann's clenched fingers and dripping onto the sand in the cave, forming balls of blood and sand, David's face was full of self-blame. He understood that if it weren't for his distraction, the Arasaka man would never have been able to cut off Mann's arm.

This was all due to his mistake of being too young and inexperienced. When he heard the voices of the Arasaka personnel, he did not immediately question why the sound was so loud that they could hear it, but subconsciously believed it. It was because of his stupidity that Mann not only almost died, but also lost an arm.

"do not worry about it."

Looking at David who was ashamed and annoyed, Mann was comforting David, "Compared to me who only lost an arm, this Arasaka bastard has already fallen to the ground. An arm in exchange for a life, I am not at a loss."

As he spoke, perhaps because of the loss of strength caused by the rapid loss of blood, Mann staggered back a few steps and sat down against the rubble. After that, he seemed to think of something, and smiled on his gradually pale face: "And I only lost a hand to save my life. In comparison, I am much luckier."

I only lost a hand and saved my life. I am so lucky.
David, who was originally a little worried about Mann's injury, couldn't help but twitch his face because of his words.

David knew who Mann was talking about. The mission they had carried out together was known to everyone in the team long ago through Mann's drunken boasting. The person Mann was comparing himself to was the one who lost both hands while saving his life. If you really counted it that way, Mann was indeed lucky.

"Stop talking Mann."

David glanced around the corner and saw no one coming in. It seemed that the Arasaka personnel outside had either really fought with the military technology personnel, or they had great faith in the ability of the dead Arasaka personnel. So he approached Mann, first took out the medical hemostatic agent and injected it into Mann's left shoulder, and then tried to help Mann up.

"Let's go in first, Mann. Once we're inside, I'll try to treat your wounds."

"It can only be the."

Mann was helped by David to stand up again and walked towards the rubble they had moved out of. When passing by the dead body, Mann took a look at the Arasaka member whose face was smashed and several pieces of his head were missing.

His eyes caught sight of the other person's badge, which read:
"So he is a captain of the Arasaka Security Department. No wonder he is so strong. Even if he is placed in the Arasaka Tower, he is enough to be responsible for the defense of an entire floor."

but
Mann looked at David who was supporting him, the smile on his face still there.

"But compared to them, we are still far behind in terms of strength."

(End of this chapter)