Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 420 33. Strange attacker

The moment he saw the bloodstain twist, Carl had already discerned the trajectory of the bloodstain's fluctuations.

Judging from the traces, someone stepped on the blood and rushed towards him.

But I didn't see any figure.

This means.
Raising his hand, Carl grasped a mantis knife with his right hand, which was chopped down and displayed semi-transparently at his side.

"Optical camouflage, huh?"

Tilting his head slightly, Carl looked at the translucent figure slowly emerging from the transparent side of him with a calm expression. Then, he moved his left hand and the neurotoxin knife flew out.

Faced with the flying knife, the attacker, who used optical camouflage to maintain translucency, first reacted to retreat. However, when he wanted to do so, he found that his mantis knife was firmly grasped in Carl's hand, and the force prevented him from moving his wrist at all.

This is the disadvantage of the Mantis Blade compared to the Samurai Sword. The prosthesis of the connected arm has replaced part of the limb and can no longer be thrown away at will like the sword in the hand.

This is an advantage when encountering a sudden attack, but it becomes a fatal disadvantage when being caught by someone.

One arm was restrained.

'Should I use the other mantis blade to cut off my hand and escape, or continue to try to use my own strength to pull out the mantis blade held by Carl?'

Faced with the sudden attack, the three V members simply protected Arasakase Nobuyuki without even moving.

They are bodyguards, so naturally they have to put their employer’s safety first. Moreover, in a one-on-one fight, they don’t think that Karl will be in any danger.

To put it bluntly, even if Adam Heavy Hammer stood here, he wouldn't be able to send Carl away before they could come to support him in just a few moves.

Under the gaze of several people, this sudden attacker did something extremely difficult that no one had expected.

He actually ignored the knife that flew into his arms. Due to the angle, it was difficult to pick it up with the other mantis knife. He stepped on the ground and turned over along the mantis knife arm that Carl was holding.

This operation made Carl's expression fluctuate slightly, because Carl was sure that he held it very steadily, and the attacker's mantis knife did not move at all. In this situation, the opponent was able to keep his arm still while his whole body rotated with his arm as the fulcrum. Was he using his arm as the axle?
Carl did not see any blood, which meant that the attacker did not spun around and dislocated his arm, thus avoiding his flying knife at the cost of having his arm flesh torn apart. His entire rotation did not cause any damage to his body.

Were there any special modifications made to the shoulder joint?

When he realized this, Carl took half a step back, and it was this half step that allowed him to narrowly avoid the attacker's other mantis knife that was slashing at him as he spun around.

While dodging the chop, with the tip of the blade already pointing downward to the ground, Carl exerted force with his right hand, using his arm to pull the attacker toward him, and at the same time raised his right knee and pushed forward directly.

If nothing unexpected happens, the attacker who is dragged over by Carl and unable to resist will be hit directly in the stomach by Carl's knee, and Carl's attack will be enough to crush all the internal organs in his abdominal cavity.

But when Carl pulled, he felt a sense of emptiness.

The only feeling he got from pulling his right arm was a sense of emptiness and powerlessness. The weight he could feel between his arms was extremely light.

The only thing that Carl pulled over was the attacker's arm.

"So the previous rotation was to loosen the screw-like structure of the shoulder joint, and it was removed? "

The prosthetic body this guy is wearing is really weird.

Carl saw the figure who had voluntarily removed one arm and then retreated in a semi-transparent form, so he took a step forward to chase him, but just as he took a step, his right hand gave him a sense of temperature. Although Carl's arm was a prosthesis, the feeling of using it was exactly the same as before, even the feeling of temperature was the same. Now Carl felt that the mantis blade arm he was holding in his right hand was getting hot.

No matter what, if something is hot, it is definitely not a good thing, so Carl threw the arm towards the retreating attacker without hesitation, and at the same time his body moved back a little.

As expected, the arm produced a high heat reaction and began to explode less than half a second after it separated from Carl.

"boom--"

In the shock wave of the explosion, Carl's expression remained calm. He just greeted the shock wave and the dazzling light, while raising his hand in the firelight and pinching between his fingers a few pieces of the flying mantis knife fragments that were damaged.

Knowing that his face must be covered with soot, Carl started forward as soon as the brief shock wave and strong light disappeared. After the smoke raised by the explosion once again reflected the translucent figure that staggered because of the explosion, the mantis knife held between Carl's fingers flew out.

"Ding ding ding ding."

The fragments of the mantis knife pierced the translucent attacker neatly, but all that was heard was the clanging sound of metal colliding, which made everyone present open their eyes wide.

Because everyone knows how powerful it is to use optical camouflage while also equipping subcutaneous armor that can resist the fragments of Carl's flying knife.

Even Chiyome, who was considered qualified and surpassed by Kenichi Shiro as a student with excellent tolerance to prosthetics, was only equipped with optical camouflage.

"This guy's prosthetics have a pretty good endurance."

Carl praised in his heart and decided to be more serious.

I had originally planned to save my energy a bit and hold back to see if I could leave him alive for interrogation, but now, it seems I have to change my mind.

It takes some effort.

'Carl will have to work harder.'

When Carl and the others were thinking this, only a second later, the others saw the attacker suddenly fall to the ground and couldn't get up.

Ok?
Several people subconsciously looked at Carl.

Instant subdued?

So fast?

"what?"

Carl was also stunned.

The reason why he was stunned was not that he had not subdued the attacker in front of him. Although it only took him a second and Carl didn't even get close to him, he had indeed subdued the attacker.

However, Carl originally only wanted to transmit a block to the attacker to stop him, but when he broke into the attacker, he found that the attacker's program was a bit strange, so he changed it slightly, but he didn't expect that...
"This guy"

Carl looked at the attacker who was gradually revealing metallic color from the semi-transparent body, and understood why the opponent's prosthesis was so strange.

"It's a robot."

(End of this chapter)