Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 383 145. War

"Sheriff Andy, we have arrived at the address given by Mr. Carl and are now in the process of sealing it off."

Listening to the report from the police officer next to him, Andy, who was wearing an NCPD police uniform, nodded:
"Handle carefully. Carl is dealing with a cyberpsycho this time. Although I have great confidence in Carl's ability, when it comes to cyberpsychopaths, no matter how cautious you are, you can never be too cautious. Stand guard in groups of four. If you encounter anyone suspected of being a cyberpsychopath, retreat and seek help from the nearest person. Let the members equipped with the Krenchkov block them."

The team led by Andy was specially dispatched by Deputy Chief Johnson. All members are young people, and they are much stronger than ordinary NCPD personnel in terms of mobility, order, and prosthetics. Even when facing legitimate gang members, such as the Tiger Claws, they can fight against many at once. However, it is still a bit difficult for such elite police officers to face cyberpsychopaths.

Only a crazy person who is strong enough can be called a cyberpsychopath, and Andy is sure that the message he saw from Carl in the information used the word cyberpsychopath. Even Carl agreed with it. The cyberpsychopath who is facing Carl must be very capable. Under reasonable circumstances, Andy chose to be cautious.

After giving orders to his subordinates on the police channel, Andy pulled his gloves, picked up the Ajax kinetic rifle by himself, and headed into the blockade area that he had asked the police to set up.

The police officer next to him who saw his actions wanted to go forward and follow Andy in, but was stopped by Andy waving his hand.

Just like the reason why Andy made such an arrangement, in the entire NCPD elite police team, Andy is the only one who can confront the cyberpsycho head-on. Although other personnel can win by relying on the advantage in numbers, the casualties are not acceptable to Andy. Faced with the risky situation, Andy chooses to go in alone.

This is not to say that we do not want our peers who grew up together to fulfill their responsibilities, but when it is not necessary, any extra people entering are a burden and unnecessary sacrifice.

"In this blockade area, I and Carl are enough to handle it."

Andy's eyes were steady. After the people were evacuated, he went against the flow of people and walked into the residential area that had been blocked off within a radius of 100 meters.

The streets in this Watson district are filled with various built houses and squeezed alleys. It’s okay when people are blocking the spacious streets outside, but once you walk in, you will find that this place is a bit narrow.

'I don't know how Carl met a cyberpsychopath in a place like this. Could it be that he had nothing to do and walked into this place to take a look, and then happened to meet him? This kind of place looks like a place where you need to deliberately walk into it.'

Suddenly, Andy heard a faint sound in his ears.

Place, here.

Andy walked into an alley, and in front of him, the alley forked into an intersection that seemed to lead in all directions.

Andy opened the safety of the Ajax rifle, removed the magazine and put it into the pocket of his police uniform. Then, he placed the disassembled Ajax rifle at the entrance of the alley. Then, he took out the kinetic pistol and held it in his hand.

This narrow alley was obviously not suitable for using a rifle. His Ajax rifle was useless here, and carrying it with him would easily hinder his movements. In order to prevent possible people from picking it up and using it, he decided to disassemble the magazine and place it aside.

"call"

Taking a deep breath, Andy held his kinetic pistol tightly with both hands, and then took a standing posture, in which the body was slightly leaning forward, with the left and right hands locked tightly at the shoulders and elbows, stretched out flat, so that the arms and chest formed a stable triangle.

This stance is called the 'isosceles triangle' and it is a standard police tactical stance.

In this posture, the feet can maintain extremely high flexibility and can respond quickly even in the face of sudden attacks. Andy, who grew up in the NCPD environment, is naturally familiar with this posture.

He maintained this posture, moving forward cautiously, and then as he got closer to a corner in the alley, Andy changed his posture. He tucked his arms close to his body, holding the gun sideways and close to his chest with both hands.

This posture is called the CAR gun holding method. Compared with the previous standing posture, it lacks flexibility, but it has unique advantages when facing short-range combat. It not only allows the user's turning speed to remain unaffected, but also gives the arms more room to move. While being close to the body to reduce the bullet surface, it allows the arms to form multiple stable triangles, thereby reducing recoil as much as possible and improving shooting stability and control.

This posture, which is suitable for fighting in narrow spaces, is what Andy learned during his career as a mercenary.

Andy was very skilled in switching between the two postures, and he did it almost naturally. This behavior, which was almost engraved in his bones, was exactly Andy's ability.

As a mercenary who once single-handedly killed his way through the entire Cloudtop, Andy was originally a top-ranked mercenary in Night City. After becoming a police officer, there were not many people in the entire NCPD who could compare with him except for the Terrorist Squad.

Therefore, when Andy walked to the corner and felt the sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air from the side, he reacted extremely quickly.

Andy had already fired the gun without even seeing anyone.

Amid the crisp sound of gun firing pins and the flames of gunpowder, Andy could clearly see the people rushing towards him from the corner.

She was a woman with a mantis blade already protruding from her hand and a pair of blue prosthetic eyes with red light flashing in the whites.

The bullet hit the woman, but was easily deflected by the subcutaneous armor installed on her body. As the bullet shattered, a mantis knife appeared in front of Andy.

There was no way to avoid it. Andy's left hand, which had been tightly grasping his freedom, loosened. Under the blessing of Krenzikov, which was activated when he felt the life crisis, the time Andy perceived slowed down.

So he held out his hand.

"Clang!"

The mantis knife's slashing impact landed on Andy's palm, producing a sound of metal colliding. The NCPD police gloves Andy was wearing were directly cut in half, revealing a metal palm that was almost cut in half by the mantis knife.

Andy's palm was completely destroyed when he was rescued by Carl. Now he has installed a smart alloy palm.

The woman found that her mantis knife was blocked and realized that her surprise attack had failed. When she was about to turn her strength to swing the mantis knife in her other hand to chop down, Andy loosened his grip on his right hand.

The structure of the mantis knife dictates that its force needs to be adjusted, and it is more suitable for stabbing than chopping. It is difficult to launch a second attack in an instant after a missed strike. How could Andy, who has dealt with too many Tiger Claw Gangs, not know this?

Alloy clenched his right hand into a fist and swung it out, hitting the woman who attacked him hard in the face. Andy made her face slightly concave and sent her body flying.

"The hardness feedback is strong. It seems that the cheeks are also equipped with subcutaneous armor. Is this the Uzumaki Gang?"

Andy waved his hands, and then saw Carl walking slowly in the distance.

(End of this chapter)