Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 602 16. Too Obvious
Oda did not take action immediately after he was ready, because his brain was working at high speed, analyzing the situation like a sophisticated machine.

He frowned, his eyes fixed on the young man who had just appeared. The young man exuded a chilling and dangerous aura, as if he was a ferocious beast lurking in the dark, ready to launch a fatal attack at any time.

Oda narrowed his eyes slightly, quickly replaying everything that had just happened in his mind. The young man clearly had the opportunity to chase him, but he seemed to be restrained by some invisible force and stayed where he was. He glanced at the bionic dog from time to time, as if to confirm its safety.

Oda was a little confused: Is a bionic dog really that important?
However, Oda did not dwell on this doubt. As an experienced guard, he knew very well that on the battlefield, he only needed to know what the other party cared about, no matter what the reason was.

Oda leaned forward slightly, as if ready to attack at any time. His breathing was even and deep, and his heartbeat was powerful in his chest, as if playing a prelude to the upcoming battle.

"Whatever his purpose is," Oda thought to himself, "since he cares so much about the dog, it will be a perfect opportunity for me to attack."

With a thought, Oda's figure suddenly shook, and his whole body merged into the light coming in from outside the building.

Facing a highly threatening enemy, Oda, as a ninja who has received ninja training, never fights head-on. For him, who has optical camouflage, it is smarter to hide himself in the environment and find the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Watching Oda's figure blending into the environment in front of him, Carl did not make any move. He just asked Johnny Silverhand in the channel: "Is everything okay? I don't think his brain was damaged, right?"

"I can fight this guy all day long."

"For some reason I feel like this sentence sounds a little familiar, but it's okay as long as it's not a big deal."

Carl's eyes kept scanning the surroundings. He did not have the ability to see through optical camouflage, but he could perceive all changes in the surrounding environment. As long as he found any trace, he could determine Oda's location.

Maybe it was just the rolling of gravel on the concrete floor, or maybe it was just a distortion of light that was too large. Carl suddenly looked up to the left, less than seven meters away. Over there, there was a pile of abandoned materials, and next to the pile of materials, Oda was there.

"found it."

Carl raised his hand and pulled out the Nightbreaker from his waist, and fired four shots directly at that place.

Gunshots rang out in the empty space, bullets cut through the air, and headed straight for the target with a sharp whistling sound. At the moment when the four bullets hit the target almost at the same time, a crisp metal collision sound that overlapped into one was heard in the air, as if hitting some kind of hard armor. However, Carl's expression changed slightly - the sound was wrong.

The sound is wrong.

There was no dull sound of bullets penetrating armor and hitting the human body.

Escape plan, a classic ninja trick, is indeed very useful. Even Carl didn't notice it at first.

What Oda Santao did was to use the optical camouflage armor as a cover. He removed his armor and used the armor that still maintained the optical camouflage to block in front of himself. He then hid his body behind the optical camouflage, using the optical camouflage to attract attention, and went behind the pile of materials.

He waited the moment the optical camouflage armor fell off, and as Carl's eyes and attention were attracted by the optical camouflage armor that remained in place and he fired a gun, Oda Santaiu activated S'An Westin again the moment the gunshot rang out.

When Carl realized that it was a cover-up, he focused his attention, catching every slight sound in the air. However, Oda's movements were faster than he expected. The sprint of Sian Westin combined with the lynx claw prosthesis installed on Oda's legs made his footsteps almost inaudible. Then, a blazing light suddenly flashed from Carl's flank.

Oda's figure appeared like a ghost next to Johnny Silverhand's bionic dog form, and the thermal mantis knife in his hand drew an orange-red arc in the air. The high temperature on the blade made the surrounding air distorted, as if even the space was cut open. His movements were clean and neat, without any unnecessary frills, and he went straight for Johnny's neck.

Oda knew very well that even if it was a surprise attack, if he attacked Carl, a master who made him feel pressured and in danger, the other party would immediately react at that moment because of his instinctive sense of crisis, so he planned to use this opportunity of attacking that he had gained by giving up the optical camouflage armor to test his previous guess. "His target is me!"

Johnny Silverhand had already sensed the danger. Perhaps because he had already walked the line between life and death, he reacted quickly enough to catch up with Swanwestan in an instant when his life was in danger.

There is a saying that people will feel that time slows down before they die, and as Johnny Silverhand watched the thermal mantis blade coming towards him, he already felt that sense of slowness.

But he felt it and couldn't avoid it.

His body couldn't move at all, his body couldn't keep up with his consciousness, so he could only watch the thermal mantis blade coming towards him.

However, the thermal mantis knife is very fast, and just because Johnny can't chase it doesn't mean Carl can't chase it.

"Escape, sigh, the ninja is using the same trick again."

I have to say that this set is really useful. Even though Carl had seen the battle between Chiyome and Kenichi Shiro before and had seen this technique before, he still didn't react at first when he really came into contact with it, because he couldn't tell whether it was the real person under the optical camouflage armor. However, not reacting at first didn't mean that Carl couldn't deal with Oda's surprise attack.

"If you were wearing optical camouflage, I might only be able to use the environment to judge your movements, but after you take off the optical camouflage armor, you..."

Carl moved, and his speed made Oda's pupils shrink sharply.

Obviously, Xiaotian had already activated the Sanwestin, but his speed was even slower than that of Carl who started later!

Compared to Carl, Oda, who started Sian Westin first, was actually slow!

Overclocking, or what Carl prefers to call 'absolute control', is a technique that Carl had only used once when dealing with Adam's hammer, and he used it again at this time.

Carl was the latecomer but the first to arrive. He completely took over the body and all the prostheses with his consciousness. He was able to control everything he had and make them work perfectly. The effect was so great that Oda, who only controlled the prostheses to drive his body, naturally could not keep up.

"You're too obvious right now."

Carl stretched out his hand under Oda's gaze. His movements were gentle, even a little tender, and in his hand, he held a small knife.

Carl gently stabbed the knife into Oda's chest, then used both arms to push himself forward.

"Bam—"

Just like being hit by a cannonball, Oda, who was raising his mantis knife to chop down, flew backwards under Carl's hands, smashing the wall directly and falling into a room on another floor.

The force exerted by the arm under absolute control seemed a little beyond Carl's expectations.

(End of this chapter)