Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 54 32. Battle
Before every ACPA armored driver gets on the armor and feels the superhuman power, they will be reminded of one thing: don't get too obsessed with this superhuman power and ignore some tiny but deadly threats. In that teaching, the most emphasized thing is to face grenades and rockets.

The armor of ACPA is almost comparable to that of a main battle tank, but even a tank can be easily paralyzed and destroyed when facing multiple rockets. If it is unlucky and encounters a targeted rocket, it may be destroyed in one shot.

The power of a grenade is not as strong as that of a rocket launcher, but necessary vigilance is still required. Therefore, the driver in the ACPA took evasive action as soon as the grenade rolled over. However, after he dodged to the side, he saw that the grenade did not explode, but instead stopped on the side of the road, staying alone on the ground.

'A dud?'

This was the first thought that came to the mecha driver's mind, and then he saw Carl throwing another grenade towards his position without even looking at him.

The weight of the machine gun was so great that even a pilot in a mecha could feel it, so he did not use the machine gun to attack the grenade in the air as he did with the sniper rifle. Instead, he chose to dodge again.

The mecha cooperated with the perfect evasive action that had been almost engraved into its DNA during the training of Mewtwo, and completed it again, but the grenade that hit the ground next to him was still.
"Dumb."

This time, the ACPA pilot reacted.

The other party is deceiving me.

An indescribable feeling of humiliation instantly surged into his heart. As an elite personnel, he had experienced this feeling before when his marksmanship was suppressed by a street mercenary. Unexpectedly, not long after, he experienced the same feeling from the same person again.

"He's just a mercenary, a nobody, yet he dares to challenge me again and again!"

Who does he think he is? He has gone through layers of selection to become an elite qualified to drive this ACPA car. He has surpassed all his peers to get this honor!

For this mission, the people above had violated the Night City ban and secretly helped me transport ACPA into Night City. How could I let the company down?

The ACPA driver, feeling humiliated, only wanted to wash away his humiliation, but he had forgotten what his superiors asked him to do and what would truly not disappoint them.

The ACPA driver abandoned Haruko, who in his opinion was seriously injured and waiting to die, and chased after Carl, who had rushed into a building on the street using two duds to buy time.

"You want to block my vision with the stone? My armor cannot be blocked by stone!"

The combat auxiliary armor driven by the ACPA driver was developed by his company not long ago. It is specially used for precision strikes on the battlefield. In the ACPA classification, this armor should be classified as medium ACPA armor. Although it is not as convenient as light ACPA in speed and movement, it is much better than heavy ACPA armor.

The ACPA driver drove the ACPA armor forward. Every step he took left a deep indented footprint on the ground. The sense of security brought by the heavy power gradually calmed the ACPA driver's heart.

Then he analyzed his mistake.

His armor shouldn't have avoided the grenade. Even if it was only medium-sized and not specialized for close combat, it should have been able to help him withstand the explosion. He should have faced the explosion and used the machine gun in his hand to tear apart the fleeing coward.
The ACPA driver recalled the mistakes he made in his response, but he did not reflect on his cat-and-mouse mentality at all, even though he could have gotten rid of Carl as soon as he started.

The more each ACPA driver drives ACPA, the more he or she will be immersed in the power. In their hearts, they feel so otherworldly when driving ACPA, as wonderful as a dream. Even the people who train them rarely choose to break such a dream, because when the curtain of illusion is peeled off, it often brings madness.

Once you have experienced the beauty of being different, it will be difficult to return to being an ordinary person.

ACPA was so fast that it arrived just as Carl hid in the building.

Facing the building in front of them, the ACPA driver chose a simple way to move forward: 'Bump'.

For ACPA, stones are not much harder than tofu. In fact, in the eyes of ACPA drivers who do more work of removing stones than cutting tofu, stones may be the more fragile ones.

"Sir, you need to register."

When the voice that should have been spoken to Carl on the other side of the wall reached the ACPA driver's ears, he also heard another voice.

It was the wonderful sound of a wall breaking.

"Wow!"

"what!!!"

Amidst the screams of fear, the ACPA driver saw clearly what he saw after breaking through the wall. He entered a lobby on the first floor of the building, which covered an area of ​​about 800 square meters. Inside, seven people in reception attire were startled by the ACPA driver's sudden intrusion.

Ignoring these small bugs that could be crushed to death at any time, the ACPA driver quickly searched for Carl's trace, and then saw his back on the escalator about 20 meters long that connected the first floor to the second floor of the building.

Second floor
Without any hesitation, the ACPA driver raised the machine gun in his hand and pulled the trigger towards Carl's back.

The machine gun bullets, which could fire at a rate of up to 2000 rounds per minute, formed a copper wire in the air. The dense rain of bullets instantly tore the escalator apart. However, the ACPA pilot did not find any traces of blood or flesh among the fallen and shattered iron structures and stone fragments.

Were you lucky enough to hide there at the last moment?

But you can't run away.

The ACPA driver rushed to the escalator, stood still with his feet to gather strength, and then jumped up directly, relying on his pair of mecha legs to leap directly to the second floor, which was five meters high.

When he jumped to the second floor, he saw Karl's figure, but the figure was no longer facing away from him.

As if waiting for him to jump up, Carl threw a grenade towards his position in advance, and this grenade.

It will explode.

In the burst of fire, the ACPA pilot, whose upward trend was abruptly interrupted, only had time to hastily aim the machine gun at Carl and then pull the trigger.

The ACPA driver fell without witnessing the result of pulling the trigger, and fell heavily to the ground.

　ps: I have one hundred monthly tickets. I'll update more after thinking about it. I'll have a midnight snack first. There will be more later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)