Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 384 146. Falling
"Karl, did you watch the whole thing?"

Without paying attention to the woman who was getting up from the ground after being hit on the cheek by him, Andy looked at Carl who was walking slowly: "Is this the cyber psychopath?"

"Indeed, she almost got away. You blocked her just in time, Andy."

When Carl saw the NCPD officers suddenly appear in front of Melissa Rory, he was about to rescue her. However, after discovering that the person was Andy, he kept a blocking posture and walked over slowly, because he had full confidence in Andy's ability to handle the matter. As a result, things did not go as he expected.

"The Higurashi Mantis Blade. This is a mantis blade that has been discontinued for a long time. No wonder."

Andy's gaze shifted to the woman who had already stood up and was now being sandwiched between him and Carl. He pulled out a telescopic baton from his pocket, swung it to stretch it, and lightly pressed the button on it. Crackling sounds of electricity began to sound.

"Well, let's subdue her first."

"To subdue rather than kill? Your law enforcement is much gentler than Mr. Johnson's."

Carl moved his arm slightly to the side and took out the neurotoxin knife: "Then it seems that I have to control the release dosage a little bit."

"hiss--"

Melissa Rory, who was trapped by Carl and Andy, had bloodshot eyes at this moment. After using Swanstein and Krenzikov continuously in a short period of time, the neural connection problem of the Dusk Mantis Blade itself had increasingly affected her sanity. She was now more terrifying than before, but facing the double-team of Carl and Andy, she did not take the initiative to attack, but just turned sideways and tilted her head left and right, as if she was weighing how to respond.

If the scene of Carl and Andy intercepting Melissa Rory was filmed by someone, it might be able to be made into a good and best-selling Mewtwo movie with a title like 'Two Men and One Woman, One of Who Is Carl' or 'The Story That Must Be Told About the NCPD Chief, Carl, and Mantis Blade Girl'. Fortunately, there are only three of them here, which saves Carl the trouble of looking for the Mewtwo producer later.

"So, what is your choice, ma'am?"

Carl was holding a knife, with the blade slightly tilted in front of him, the tip of the blade pointed at Melissa Rory, but Melissa Rory did not respond to Carl's question at all, she just lowered her body slightly, like a cat ready to attack.

But Karl had already seen through her plan.

"Still want to run?"

As soon as Carl finished speaking, Melissa Rory jumped up. Obviously, she wanted to use her electric charge jumping trick to escape again.

But how could Karl, who had already let her escape once due to his carelessness, give her a second chance?

Trying to run away twice in front of him would be too embarrassing for him.

The moment Melissa Rory jumped up, the knife in Carl's hand had already been used, and the direction in which it swung in the air was exactly towards the jumping Melissa Rory.

It only takes one time to remember the trajectory. The second time, just throw the knife along the path and wait for her to hit you.

The timing will be perfect.

The knife thrown by Carl was very accurate, but Melissa Rory, who had already jumped up, felt it.

After the body completely loses its rationality and gives in to instinct, people will always react faster to danger, and this reaction can reach the limit with the help of prosthetics. After realizing that her upper body would definitely be hit by the knife, Melissa Rory in mid-air did not bother to adjust her posture when she jumped up, and directly ejected the mantis knife, trying to shoot down the knife, but it was not so easy to move her arms in mid-air and rashly eject the mantis knife.

The change in posture caused by raising both arms caused Melissa Rory, who had originally planned to jump up and reach the highest point before ejecting the mantis blade and climbing with the mantis blade again, to change her trajectory in advance. The speed and the slowness of not reaching the highest point made Andy see the flaw.

Andy's right little finger gently touched the bottom of the electric baton in his hand. After slight friction and pressure, a crack appeared on the top of the electric baton, and a tiny object popped out.

The tiny object began to glow the moment it popped out from the top of the electric baton, and as it rose, the light became brighter and brighter.

Flashbang.

Andy's prosthetic eye had already activated the anti-flash program before the flash bomb was launched. When it rose to the highest point and burst into dazzling light, he was still able to look directly at the leaping Melissa Rory without being affected. However, Melissa Rory could not avoid the sudden strong light. In the dazzling light, her prosthetic eye could only capture a vast expanse of white light.

With her vision disturbed, her movements would naturally be affected as well. Melissa Rory, who had originally planned to use her mantis blade to block the knife, was unable to tell where the flying knife came from in the white light.

"Ah-"

The sharp blade cut through Melissa Lori's subcutaneous armor. This knife made by Arasaka showed obvious advantages over ordinary subcutaneous armor. In front of this sharp blade, Melissa Lori's subcutaneous armor couldn't even provide the most basic barrier.

The moment the adjusted neurotoxin was injected into Melissa Rory's body, Andy had already jumped up, and the electric baton in his right hand swung down.

The NCPD's stun baton is rarely used in Night City, but Andy used a specially equipped device of his own. Under the amplified electric current specifically designed to deal with prosthetic personnel, Melissa Rory's body twitched.

However, it was just a twitch. Melissa Rory installed a grounding plating at the same time as the subcutaneous armor. This epidermal system happened to be the prosthesis that was most capable of dealing with electric shocks. Perhaps a higher volt current could break through its intelligent relay system, but the electric baton in Andy's hand could not do it.

"With a prosthetic body like this, plus a Higurashi sword that is already prone to triggering, how can he not become a cyber-psychopath?"

Carl watched Andy's stick fall but was unable to stop Melissa Rory's actions. When he was about to hack into her operating system and shut down her prosthesis, he sensed something approaching.

The thing wasn't coming for him or Andy, but it was falling vertically from above and hitting the area where Melissa Rory was.

"boom!"

With a heavy roar, Melissa Rory, who was hit by a knife and a stick while leaping, fell heavily to the ground, her life or death unknown. On the back of her bloody body, a person wearing iconic armor slowly stood up.

Both Carl and Andy recognized the man immediately.

There is no other reason.

That iconic outfit is so recognizable.

'Terrorist Mobile Team.'

(End of this chapter)