The Creators: From Night City

Almost instantly, gunshots rang out inside and outside the cell.

Jiang Bing, wearing the [Power] cape, stepped into the repair shop. He nimbly ducked to avoid the bullets fired from outside the cell door. The [Cold War] retractable small hand shield in his hand was fully extended, blocking several pistol bullets, and then he shot back in the direction of the bullets.

The shield crushed the arm that was stretched out with the gun, and swept the scavenger who was shooting against the wall. As soon as he landed, David, who was crouching behind him, shot his upper body with a shotgun.

“From dust we come, and to dust we return.”

Muttering verses from the Bible, Jiang Bing's size 46 big foot kicked a scavenger who was trying to escape in the back, kicking him through the cell door into the crowd outside.

With just one kick, the unlucky guy took in more air than he exhaled.

Under the scan of Qilusi's [Alert Type III] military-grade artificial eye, rows of red human silhouettes appeared across the wall in [Power]'s heads-up display.

“Sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death!”

The [Lumberjack] on the right hand spun wildly, and the surging barrage of bullets drowned everything.

Facing the huge recoil, Jiang Bing rushed out of the room.

The bullets fired by the scavengers hit the surface of [Power], making a clanging sound, but soon as Jiang Bing swung his right arm, the scavengers and bunkers were pierced and shattered by the bullets, and the sound was significantly weakened.

Several grenades were thrown, and judging from their appearance, they should be electromagnetic grenades.

It seems that this group of scavengers mistook [Power] for some kind of individual armor similar to [Centaur]. According to this idea, electromagnetics can indeed cause serious damage to it.

But not only was his idea completely wrong, the grenade had just been thrown not far when David, who was hiding behind Jiang Bing, suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared, he had moved to another shelter, and all the grenades in the air were blown up.

In the flash of electromagnetic waves, Jiang Bingyang used his shield to block the samurai sword that suddenly appeared in front of him. The machine gun in his right hand was used as a brass knuckles. In the incredulous eyes of the scavenger leader who had just exited the "time stop" state, he knocked him down with a punch, and six black gun barrels were pointed at his face, firing a burst of shots.

What kind of combat power can a group of scavengers who only dare to attack passers-by and spend their days cheating and defrauding people have? It is estimated that the scavenger who was just shot was their highest combat power, but in front of the [power] that targets the terrorist mobile team, they are like chickens and dogs and cannot withstand a single blow.

What's more, there is David who can "stop time" at any time, has a natural tactical awareness, and has already begun to understand the coordination between infantry and tanks.

Hiding aside and shooting from behind.

The morale of the scavengers collapsed, and some of them began to flee in all directions, and were then easily shot by Jiang Bing.

[42: Oh my god, guess what I found, a Centaur armor, they're activating it, be careful.]

Jiang Bing in [Power] had a normal expression on his face. The buckle on his right arm that connected to [Lumberjack] was opened, the ammunition supply chain automatically detached, and the miniature machine gun was thrown to the ground without hesitation.

His free right hand stretched behind him, and with a roar that echoed throughout the repair shop, Jiang Bing drew his sword and cut a scavenger hiding behind a metal box in half, along with the cover.

[Announcement] The giant chainsaw sword was held horizontally, the folding hand shield was retracted, and both hands grasped the main sword handle. As Jiang Bing took a big step forward, the two scavengers and the upper half of the wreckage of a car were cut in half by a standard two-handed horizontal blow.

David, who was watching the battle, was about to open fire when his prosthetic eye suddenly went blurry and his vision was filled with snowflakes. David immediately retreated into cover and shouted in the team channel: "There are hackers, I've been hacked."

[42: Got it, minor issue. Don't worry. Check around to see if there are any bridging devices like cameras. There's a good chance they're hacking through them.]

Jiang Binghui looked back and easily found a camera above David's head.

Slightly clenching the trigger in his left fist, the [Persuasion] revolver-type folding projectile launcher automatically folded from the back to the left shoulder. With the cooperation of Zeiss's intelligent optical sight, Jiang Bing easily placed the camera in the center of the crosshairs in the tactical eyepiece and pulled the trigger.

Due to size limitations, the projectile's explosion range is not large, even smaller than that of a high-explosive grenade. Its real advantage lies in its maneuverability and accuracy.

[42: Boy, after this operation, you should upgrade your firewall. Your civilian prosthetic body is too vulnerable in the hands of experienced hackers.]

David blinked, took a deep breath, and felt his vision return to clarity.

David: Thanks for the reminder. I'll upgrade when I get back.

[Jiang Bing: Where is the hacker? Have you found his location?]

[42: Of course, this guy is a half-baked guy, he's in an office on the second floor next door.]

Jiang Bing: I'll take care of him. Keep a close eye on him and don't let him get away.

[42: As soon as the bomb exploded, I locked all exits and the system. It would take at least several minutes to reboot.]

【42: Besides, aren't there those kids outside? They don't look like vegetarians to me.】

In this operation, "Slippery" also took part with four or five of his confidants, and was arranged by Jiang Bing to ambush at the entrance of the auto repair shop.

The dozen or so scavengers in the room were killed to pieces by Jiang Bing in just a few minutes.

Jiang Bing kicked the heavy shelf over, pinning the last scavenger who was fleeing in panic, and then stabbed down with the chainsaw sword without hesitation.

Jiang Bing: Keep moving forward.

When the two men rushed to the next room, the hacker had already climbed up from his network access chair and was about to escape.

When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. Jiang Binggang predicted it in advance and blocked a few scattered bullets with his sword. David activated the Swanwestin and rushed to the hacker like a gust of wind, sweeping through the two warring parties.

David shot every scavenger who passed by in the head. Except for one scavenger whose head was probably modified and was not penetrated by the uniform bullet, the rest of them were shot and fell to the ground almost at the same time.

Jiang Bing stepped forward and swung his sword to hit the scavenger who had escaped the disaster at both ends, clearing out the fish that had escaped the net for David.

The hacker didn't have a chance to speak at all. In fact, in order to prevent himself from being hacked, David didn't even exit the 'time stop'. He shot the hacker twice in the chest and once in the head as soon as he saw him, ensuring that the hacker died peacefully and with peace of mind.

The two continued to move forward and came to the scavenger's 'slaughter' workshop.

Several bodies were still splayed out on the metal table, their stomachs ripped open, and various surgical instruments were scattered on the floor.

There were also several large plastic barrels on the side, and the contents made David feel like vomiting.

David: It's so cruel. I never thought someone could do such a thing to their own kind.

【42: Seeing something unusual is often surprising.】

A large number of prosthetic arms, legs and feet are placed on the shelves near the wall. Although these prosthetics are very clean, they look very eerie when accompanied by the flesh and blood of the corpses.

[42: The rest of the people went to repair the hall, along with the Centaur armor, and it seems they are planning to ambush you there.]

【Jiang Bing: Trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm.】

[42: A brief and efficient description of the magical culture of the East. I've taken note.]

"I'll attack head-on, David. You'll act accordingly. Remember what I said? Find cover first."

David quickly responded: "Fight back."

A sloppy tactic was formulated in this way.

Then, under David's gaze, Jiang Bing started his run-up.

[Power] Driven by Jiang Bing's physical strength, he easily ran a record that broke the 100-meter race champion and rushed into the maintenance hall opposite like a gust of wind.

Although I don't know how this Centaur armor fell into the hands of these scavengers, the person who drove it must have quite high skills.

He abandoned the [Centaur Armor]'s most lethal melta gun and chose a lighter and easier to control heavy machine gun.

But this tactic was doomed to be futile. Besides being slightly slowed down by killing an unlucky guy on the way, the combat processor of the [Centaur Armor] had not had time to lock onto the target before [Power] had already rushed in front of him.

Take my jumping attack!

Chapter 19: Scraping the Ground Three Feet

The high-speed rotating chainsaw carried abundant potential energy. It was more like hitting the shield that the Centaur armored man raised in a hurry than chopping.

As sparks flashed, the thick layer of military-grade nano-three-proof coating on the shield was scraped off.

Before the driver could react, the Centaur armor had already begun to retreat rapidly under the adjustment of the combat system, dodging the sweep that followed.

The enormous pressure of death made the driver activate Sian Westin without hesitation. With his accelerated consciousness, he forcibly covered the strange individual armor in front of him in the barrage.

This set of individual armor that resembles ancient armor has a very powerful electromagnetic concealment function. The Centaur armor's telecommunications detection device swept over it, but there was no response at all. Therefore, the system's aiming and correction did not play any role at all.

Facing the incoming bullets, Jiang Bing dodged most of them, but the irregular distribution of the shooting meant that there were still a few bullets that he could not dodge.

In the eyes of the driver who activated the Sian Westin, the strange armor, which was originally moving so fast that he could not keep up, suddenly accelerated, dodged most of the bullets, and waved his left hand, allowing several bullets to hit the thick hand shield.

The driver could only desperately squeeze out his potential to make the armor beneath him keep up with his accelerated thoughts. He retreated desperately while adjusting the muzzle of the gun with difficulty.

But the bullet is always a few steps slower.

The armor, which was not as flexible as a machine, sprinted, stopped suddenly, changed direction, and finally swung the heavy sword in his hand to cut off a row of bullets.

In order to survive, the driver of the Centaur armor could only ignore the warning window in front of him and desperately keep the Sianwestin running, to prevent his reaction speed from slowing down slightly and being chopped to pieces by the monster in front of him.

But these efforts were ultimately in vain, just like those people they had abducted in the past, who struggled frantically and tried their best to survive, but still died in this dark auto repair shop.

Jiang Bingke had no idea that his opponent was having so many inner thoughts. His first sword jump attack failed, so he changed direction without hesitation and rushed to the front of the Centaur mecha that was retreating desperately, and continued to chop mercilessly with the sword in his hand.

The driver endured the suffocation as his heart was about to explode and used his shield to block the slash, but the next second the force feedback from the shield was very wrong.

Too light.

The automatic blocking controlled by the Centaur Armor Combat System is indeed easy to use. It is accurate, fast and efficient. After all, it is a fast-response component used to intercept projectiles.

But it can only bully ordinary people. Its dullness and inflexibility are fatal flaws that it can never get rid of.

Even boxers know how to trick and seduce each other, let alone Jiang Bing.

Who told you to go straight ahead so stupidly? The chainsaw sword just hit the shield lightly, without much force at all.

The next second, in front of the driver's bloodshot eyes, Jiang Bing's left fist accurately and gracefully passed through the gap in the shield, filling his field of vision, imprinting on his face, and without stopping, he punched him in the head.

Because the driver has become "brainless", without the restraint of the Centaur armor, [Power] can be said to have opened the cage and let the wolf enter the flock.

As the giant sword was swung, broken limbs and arms flew everywhere. As [power] passed by, corpses were scattered all over the ground and blood flowed everywhere.

Unlike bullets, the wounds caused by the giant chainsaw sword were particularly bloody. Every dead person was counted one by one, no one was left intact. If they could be cut in half, it would be considered a success. Most of them were bruised and purple, here and there.

Soon, a burst of bullets accurately blew the scavengers huddled in the corner into pieces. Jiang Bing swung his sword and cut off the head of the last unlucky guy who was wailing while holding his broken leg. All the scavengers were eliminated.

To be honest, it is a bit shameless for Jiang Bing to bully these ordinary people with his current physical fitness like a space warrior, but there is no such thing as fairness in this world.

[Jiang Bing: Did you notice that 'livelock' was there?]

[42: He's still the boss. He's the fastest to run away when something happens, leaving David alone to take down the guy.]

David: He deserves it. He bumped into me.

This can't be considered a 'live lock' of bad luck. The exit was locked by the hacker on the opposite side. The only way to escape was to run through the gap blown up by Jiang Bing. Who would have thought that as soon as he quietly touched the entrance of the room, he would meet David who was hiding in the bunker.

Then this bloody and murderous scavenger leader was shot by David.

[Jiang Bing: 42, have you finished killing them all? Check carefully, don't let any escape.]

[42: There was a clever sentry who climbed out the window and ran out, but was shot dead by the guys outside. The others are all here.]

Jiang Bing: Okay, unlock the exit and have them drive in. 42, you continue to monitor the camera while we start loading.

David: What about those people they captured? I think there are still a few alive in the cell.

【42: In fact, there is another person in the 'Livelock' office, and he is naked.】

Jiang Bing: David, take her to the cellblock with you and explain that we'll let them go when we leave.

[Also, don't take off your mask.]

David also wore a Guy Fawkes mask on his face.

Jiang Bing intends to turn the "Masked Devil" vest into an organization, a symbol specifically targeting the scavengers, a terrorist organization more terrifying than the scavengers, learning from a certain Batman and using fear as a weapon.

In fact, the image of the 'masked demon' among the scavenger group is already terrifying enough.

After all, he not only killed people, but also skinned and dismembered them, doing things even more ruthlessly than a scavenger.

When the scavengers kidnap people, they are very secretive and use tricks to deceive people.

The 'Masked Demon', on the other hand, kicked open the door while you were eating synthetic meat and drinking Rainbow Manticore, and without saying a word, he shot everyone to death, stripped off all the prosthetics, and took away everything he could, even the brain!

You know, even scavengers won’t want this stuff!

It can be called a scavenger who specializes in dealing with scavengers.

The question is, what is more terrifying for the scavengers than the 'masked demon'?

They are a group of "masked demons."

Several trucks were driven into the parking lot, carrying a strong smell of blood. Slippery looked unhappy, but pretended to be calm and talked to Jiang Bing.

"It's an ugly scene."

"We just couldn't reach a consensus."

Sly shrugged and told his men to get to work.

As an orphan who digs for food in the garbage dump all day, he may not have other abilities, but his scavenging skills are basically maxed out.

Several orphans followed David, who was reloading the gun, and scattered throughout the repair shop, searching everywhere. Soon, a large pile of objects gathered on the clean floor of the maintenance hall.

Scattered cash, valuable jewelry, microwave ovens, Mewtwo headbands, other usable small appliances, clothes, scattered bullets, and even edible food and drinks were all dug out from corners, under beds and sofas and gathered together.

These scraps are their spoils.