The Creators: From Night City

Chapter 136 Magic Technology, boy!

Mann, who was sitting in the driver's seat, pushed the door and got out. After being stuck in the badlands for so long, he felt his blood boiling for the first time in a long time.

Without further ado, Mann raised his left arm and instantly emptied the projectiles in his prosthetic arm, blowing the Sixth Street Gang members to the ground.

Dolio turned the gun of [Annihilation] in her hand around, suppressing the opponent so that he couldn't raise his head.

Rebecca pushed open the passenger door and dragged the slightly bulky [Law] out of the car.

A Sixth Street Gang member just passed the front battlefield when he encountered Rebecca with a gun.

He raised the Copperhead in his hand and tried to open fire on the other party, but the next moment, the whole person and the gun in his hand were directly blown into a fine blood mist by the bullets fired from the muzzle of the [Law] gun in Rebecca's arms.

High-explosive grenades are excessively powerful when used to hit people.

The little Loli lowered her head and let the recoil carry her backwards, avoiding the blood mist that hit her face. Her two prosthetic arms were fully powered and fired continuously.

Armor-fragmenting bullets are more effective at hitting vehicles than electromagnetically accelerated sniper rifles. The latter can make a hole with one shot, while the former can destroy half of the vehicle body with one shot.

According to the standards of a street fight, the firepower of the weapons of the [Anti-Entropy] personnel is indeed a bit beyond the standard.

A large group of people from the Sixth Street Gang were blown into pieces on the ground in just a few seconds.

On the overpass in the distance, Flavio dos Santos used the telescopic vision function of his prosthetic eye to take in everyone's performance.

Although there were heavy casualties, it was not him who died, so it was not enough to move him.

Looking at the [Anti-Entropy] people killing people in the distance, a vicious and evil smile suddenly appeared on his face which was originally malicious.

"It's time to take action."

The voice just fell.

The air at the eaves above Old Logan's head suddenly twisted, and a dark green poisoned dagger suddenly emerged from the air and pierced Old Logan's head.

"There are assassins!"

The younger brother next to Old Logan reacted immediately and tried to push him away, but it was too late.

His collision only changed the landing point of the dagger from the head to the back, avoiding the fate of Old Locke being shot in the head, but it still could not prevent the dagger from piercing deeply into the old cowboy's body.

Dolio roared and turned the muzzle of the [Annihilation] gun, intending to drown the assassin who had not yet appeared with a torrent of metal. However, as the light twisted, a female assassin wearing a black tight fiber combat uniform suddenly emerged from the air, and then her figure blurred in an instant. When she reappeared, she had already rushed close to the pickup truck.

Sian Westin!

The sharp single-molecule short samurai sword was held in the opponent's hand and slashed from bottom to top towards Dolio and the [Annihilation] in her hand.

When the blade was halfway there, the opponent's expression suddenly jumped in shock. He lowered his body at a speed barely visible to the naked eye, dodging an armor-piercing bullet from the Law.

The wide and long multi-angle prosthetic eye flashed wildly. The opponent changed his combat target in an instant, and his slender body rushed towards Rebecca, blocking the blind spot of [Annihilation]'s close-range firepower.

The katana was thrown out while spinning with the shaking of his wrist. The assassin didn't even look at the result. He shook his arms, and two mantis knives popped out from his forearms. He stretched his waist and launched a fatal attack from the air.

Faced with the suffocating attack, the little Loli threw aside the [Law] that was difficult to wield close to her body, clenched her fists and suddenly stopped, and after a flash of light, she punched forward with both fists.

Apart from the manufacturer, only Rebecca herself knows what kind of technology and skills are integrated into these two prosthetic arms named "Friends".

The samurai dagger was blocked without any suspense, and the mantis knife that followed did not pierce into the little loli's body as the opponent expected, but was blocked by a yellow circular shield that suddenly appeared in the air.

The Demon Hunter's Quen Sign!

When talking about the Demon Hunter's Sigil, one cannot avoid mentioning its speed and stability that all warlocks envy. It does not require chanting or tedious preparations in advance, nor does it require learning any magical knowledge. Only a specific gesture is needed to quickly release the corresponding sigil, which is extremely suitable for the ever-changing battlefield environment.

The reason why the Demon Hunter's Seal has such characteristics is due to the extremely high mortality rate of the Green Grass Trial.

The first and second chapters of "The Original Theory of Demon Hunter" describe the relevant principles in detail.

The reason why the Green Grass Trial has such a high mortality rate is that during this process, the flesh of the subject will be dissolved, just like the complete metamorphosis of an insect. First, the flesh, blood, and bones will all turn into liquid soup, and then from this soup that condenses all the life information of the subject, the demon hunter's body will be reshaped.

During the growth of the new body, energy circuits corresponding to the preset seals will be formed in the body. These circuits are like sealed puppets. Once formed, the user does not need to understand the operating principles. As long as the activation signal (gesture) is given and energy is supplied (the demon hunter's physical strength and the weak chaos magic generated autonomously), the corresponding spell can be released.

This is also the reason why some demon hunters do not gain the ability to cast all five sigils after completing the mutation of the Trial of Grass.

In fact, according to the original plan of Arzu and Cosimo Malaspina, the creators of the demon hunter species, at least one or two experienced warlocks must be present to monitor and intervene during the Trial of Grass ceremony.

One is to ensure the smooth progress of the predetermined mutation process and to sort out the normal evolution of chaos magic and those potions containing chaos magic in the recipient's body.

The second is to ensure that the energy circuit corresponding to the seal is successfully formed in the recipient's body. If there is any deviation, real-time intervention and fine-tuning can be made.

However, with the collapse of the Witcher Cult, the Golden Age of Witchers was gone forever. The impoverished Witcher schools could not afford to hire any warlocks, and there were no reliable warlocks to employ.

Not to mention that as the witcher group was divided into several schools such as wolf, bear, cat, griffin, viper, and manticore, a large amount of research data was dispersed and taken away by personnel from each faction. In addition, several ambitious people in history carried out armed plundering operations specifically targeting the witcher's mutation knowledge, causing a large amount of knowledge about the principles of the Green Grass Trial to be destroyed or lost.

Without this knowledge, even if a qualified warlock is found, it will be difficult to achieve the mutation effect planned by the two great wizards.

After all, it’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

After the various schools split up, they made changes to the Green Grass Trials they inherited over a long period of time.

Depending on the mutagen used and the ritual process, as well as the differences between individuals (the sensitivity of the receptors to chaos magic), the characteristics displayed by demon hunters of each school and the types and powers of the sigils they can use are quite different.

Chapter 137 True 'Friends'

The Cat School focuses on strengthening endurance and nerve reflexes, and for this reason selectively ignores the transformation of the sigil circuit. The imperfect grass experiment process has led to the fact that the Cat School's demon hunters are generally mentally sensitive and irritable.

The Griffin School focuses on strengthening the adaptability of the recipient to the sigils and the integrity of the sigil's energy circuit. At the same time, a large number of inducers with affinity for chaos magic are added during mutation to increase the power of the demon hunter's sigils. The entire school's ethos is inclined towards the development and strengthening of the means of using sigils.

In short, the mutation process and secret recipes of each school have evolved over a long period of time and have deviated from the original appearance of the witcher planned by Alzu and Cosimo Malaspina. These changes and evolutions, either active or passive due to realistic conditions, have gradually made the various schools of witchers clearly differentiated.

But the characteristics of the members of the same faction are only roughly similar. Geralt's Igni Sign can easily burn his fingers. As the source of magic, the strength of his signs is far beyond that of ordinary witchers. However, a wolf-faction witcher of the same period as him was too poorly adapted to the Trial of Grass. Although he barely survived the mutation, he could hardly cast any signs.

Fortunately, all this knowledge is recorded in "The Demon Hunter Principles", which undoubtedly saved Jiang Bing a lot of detours on this road.

The Quinn Seal energy circuit in the "friend" prosthesis is the result of the painstaking effort of Jiang Bing, the "craftsman", combining relevant knowledge.

Without the relevant magical materials used to form the energy circuit of the seal in the Green Grass Trial, Jiang Bing luxuriously used the higher-level [Mithril] as a skeleton substitute. His blood rich in chaos magic was added with a small amount of ether catalyst to blend into a relay fluid mixed between the prosthesis and the flesh, chaos magic and bioenergy, thus creating these two extraordinary prosthetic arms.

Jiang Bing has already made plans for his next purchase from the "Wizard" world, and he vows not to return until the "warehouse" is filled with magical materials.

Although the blood of the "craftsman" is so versatile that anyone who uses it will praise it, it is so useful that no one will complain about it after using it.

But bleeding yourself all day long is not the same thing. It is the 21st century now, and if you still cling to the blood-refining methods of your ancestors, it is likely a step backward in history.

Fortunately, the finished product lived up to expectations.

The assassin's mantis blade attack was offset by the broken Quen Seal. The attack missed, and the initiative of the battle immediately returned to the little loli. The hammer blows of the two prosthetic arms were still in the air, and the assassin, unable to dodge, could only try to withstand it.

Try and die.

Two arms that looked like Hercules slammed into the opponent's mantis knife, directly knocking the opponent away with the knife.

The assassin rolled and crawled on the road for more than ten times before he could barely keep his balance.

With the severe pain, the two mantis knives on the arms have been severely deformed.

The little girl was stimulated by the power displayed by the arms and became more and more crazy. She did not choose to chase forward, but took a few steps back in the assassin's astonished expression, and placed her right hand on the metal lamppost that was hit by the roadside. As the palm of her "friend" lit up with blue light, the four-meter-long metal lamppost was enveloped by the dynamic energy field derived from the grand unified field theory.

The weight of the lamppost was offset, and Rebecca lifted the lamppost weighing hundreds of kilograms with one hand.

The little girl waved the lamppost a few times, performing it as if she was dancing with a toothpick with ease.

The thick metal lampposts emitted a piercing scream that tore at everyone's eardrums.

What is a powerful force?

That's powerful power.

Rebecca held the lamppost and completed the entire set of top-down smashing movements in the blink of an eye.

boom!

As the ground shook, the ends of the lampposts directly knocked a large number of cracks into the concrete floor, which spread in all directions like a spider web.

Thanks to the length of the metal lamppost, Rebecca's attack radius was extended to five meters, so her short legs didn't have to move around frequently to chase.

The assassin gasped violently, and activating Sian Westin again put a huge pressure on her body, but the crisis of death still oppressed her, forcing her to concentrate highly at all times.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The little Lolita relied on the protection of Quinn's seal and acted more and more crazy and unrestrained.

She alone was able to prevent the assassins from advancing, and Dolio and Mann took this opportunity to fire wildly at the remaining forces of the Sixth Street Gang.

Rebecca threw the deformed lamppost like a javelin, but unlike the vertical throwing of the javelin, the lamppost flew out in a rotation, like a death winch, blocking a large space for the assassin to dodge.

Fortunately, although the attack was powerful, it was not difficult for the assassin equipped with Krenchikov to dodge. She just leaned back gracefully and easily let the heavy lamppost fly over her.

Flavio dos Santos, who was far away on the overpass, couldn't help but swear.

“CCC, what the hell is this!?”

"Get out!"

The Hayabusa MZ1 is the standard model of Hayabusa Mizutani and is considered the most common sports car in Night City.

This civilian sports car produced by Mizutani Company has 320 horsepower and a net weight of 1419.74 kilograms.

But at this moment, the wreckage of a burning Falcon MZ1 car was being held above the head by a little girl who was less than 1.6 meters tall and laughing wildly. With the force unloading module of her "friend" fully opened, it was thrown out violently.

In fact, after being covered by the dynamic energy field, the weight of the car has been reduced to negligible, so although Rebecca's behavior looks terrifying, it is actually largely opportunistic.

But everyone in Anti-Entropy knew about this, but the assassin and Flavio dos Santos did not.

The assassin endured the sharp explosions from both his prosthetic body and his body, and activated Swanstein again to avoid the impact of the car wreckage and the tiny debris splashed by the collision of the wreckage with the ground.

As a tiny electric current flashed through the assassin's body, the laboratory-grade camouflage surface was opened, and the opponent disappeared into the void and escaped.

There was no other way. Those useless guys from the Sixth Street Gang were basically beaten to death in such a short while. If she stayed any longer, she would have to face the combined attack of the extremely powerful and violent little loli and the metal torrent that was everywhere.

It is true that she is an assassin, but she is not a death warrior.

What's more, she had witnessed with her own eyes that the poisoned dagger successfully hit the target before the battle. The mission had been completed, so killing a few more or a few less people would not have much impact.

The assassin disappeared, but Dolio and Rebecca still did not dare to relax and waited with weapons in hand.

Mann immediately went forward to check on Old Logan's injuries.

Most of the dagger thrown by the assassin was embedded in the old cowboy's back, but it did not touch the vital internal organs. This kind of injury is not even considered a serious injury in Night City. With the medical level of the black clinic, the patient can be discharged on the same day.

However, old Logan was abnormally unconscious at this time. His face was as pale as paper and he was barely breathing, as if he was going to die on the spot at any moment.

Chapter 138 Killing to Destroy the Heart

No matter how good the camouflage surface is, it will not last long when the person is moving. After confirming that the assassin had escaped, Rebecca walked up and asked about the situation.

"What's wrong, Mann?"

Mann held the small dagger between his larger-than-normal metal fingers and held it in his palm for everyone to see.

Although it is called a dagger, it actually belongs to the category of throwing knives. The streamlined blade is more suitable for throwing than stabbing.

The central part of the blade is a special replaceable syringe that allows the user to fill it with various liquids (usually neurotoxins), and the tip of the flying knife head has an injection port connected to it.

Once the flying knife hits the enemy, the built-in liquid will be injected into the victim's body in a short time and take effect quickly.

This weapon is considered an uncommon cold weapon and is more popular among special forces and professional killer organizations. Of course, some lone wolves may also choose it.

Depending on the mission requirements, the syringe can be filled not only with neurotoxins, but also with highly effective anesthetics to capture the target alive.

Sometimes special forces use it as an ordinary syringe in extreme environments.

However, considering Old Logan's behavior at this time, it was obvious that the empty syringe did not contain anything harmless.

Mann frowned and quickly called Gloria to report the situation.

In less than 5 minutes, the trauma team's hovercraft descended from the sky.

The patient's injuries were so severe that the leader of the trauma team had no time to exchange pleasantries (perhaps because the customer who placed the order was not present). They hurriedly carried the dying old Logan into the car, and the red and white hovercraft soared into the sky.

Leaving everyone's face filled with worry.

The next time Jiang Bing saw his outstanding employees was on the 32nd floor of the trauma team's medical center building.

Outside the intensive care unit.

Jiang Bing held the culprit in his hand and tossed it up and down. The syringe in the middle had been taken away in advance by the trauma team staff because it needed to be tested for toxicology.

Aurora stood by and accompanied him.

Looking at the old Logan in the transparent glass, whose body was full of life-support devices, Jiang Bing's face was as calm as water, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

"What do you mean by incurable?" After a long silence, Jiang Bing suddenly asked.