I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

After passing the biological farm, the surroundings gradually began to sparsely appear. To the north of the farm was the famous lawless area of ​​Taiping Island, and further north of Taiping Island was the official entry into Night City.

After all, in order to reduce the crime rate, the Night City authorities have already separated Pacifica.

The people who would be active in Taiping Island were basically criminals, wanted criminals, drug addicts who couldn't live in the city but didn't want to live a wild life in the wild. Or you could just call them idle guys.

As Sun Yang sped along the road on his hoverbike, he became acutely aware of the number of people watching him. These people were following him openly on their motorcycles, as if they were afraid he wouldn't notice them.

Why are people watching me wherever I go? Sun Yang called out the projection screen, told the agent and Pascal, and prepared to find a deserted corner to summon some iron-blooded humanoids.

Being watched everywhere was too much of a hassle. Sun Yang quickly found a corner and entered a dead end. He then pointed the spiral sword in his hand at the open space in front of him.

A group of Wasp MK2 and Jaeger MK2 Iron Blood puppets appeared from thin air. These were the most common humanoid puppet combat weapons of the Iron Blood. These combat units could be simply understood as standard humanoids and sniper-specialized humanoids.

Night City also has humanoid robots, but they are mainly responsible for security work and combat sparring.

The appearance of these robots was very similar to the square-headed humanoid style of the New Soviet Army. Sun Yang had never seen a pure machine that looked like a human.

Perhaps because there is no market for this, or perhaps because of the existence of the dark web and rogue AI, companies are reluctant to create machines that are similar to humans, or at least they are very cautious.

"Wasp A001 reports to you, Commander."

"Skua Z001 reports to you, Commander."

The prototypes of the Wasp and Jaeger puppets saluted Sun Yang. These Iron Blood puppets were equipped with plasma rifles, laser launchers, and rail rifles. At first glance, they looked formidable.

"Your communication modules should be offline, right?" Sun Yang asked carefully.

"Yes, all our signal reception is offline. Ms. Antonina said that our electronic warfare modules are overburdened," the puppets reported honestly. "In this state, the puppets are unable to upload combat intelligence in real time. Commander, please ensure that the data core is recovered."

"I understand. There are a few followers following me, get rid of them." Sun Yang pointed behind him.

"Destroy the target." The Wasp A001 and Jaeger Z001 immediately sprang into action. Their firepower was already more than enough to storm the alien fortress, so dealing with a few stooges wouldn't be a problem.

If I don't beat the people here and make them bleed, God knows how many minions will come and cause trouble for me.

After Sun Yang gave the order, the roar of motorcycles could be heard from outside the dead end, mixed with the chaotic roars of Haitians.

Sun Yang immediately led the group of Iron-Blooded Dolls out. The thugs, wearing fancy shirts, strange hairstyles, and messy prosthetics, were visibly stunned.

What were these extra people? And they were all women? One of the thugs scanned the group with his artificial eye and was immediately shocked.

"Boss! They're covered in prosthetics! They're the minimalist Whirlpool Gang!" The local Taiping Island thug immediately turned and ran. He was here to rob, not to die.

In Night City, the more prosthetics you have, the more impressive you are. And if you have prosthetics all over your body, everyone will probably walk around you.

The gangsters were still in a state of doubt when Sun Yang's humanoids opened fire.

In an instant, rail machine guns and rail sniper rifles of various calibers fired metal bullets. With their absolute penetrating power, these bullets easily tore into pieces the bodies of most of the Taiping Island thugs.

But there were still a few people who dodged the plasma jet with incredible movements, and then fired back while running back at a speed leaving afterimages.

The speed of dodging and moving was even faster than some humanoids. The human physiological structure simply could not support such high-speed movement, but these thugs used facts to tell Sun Yang - I can dodge!

Sian Westin or Krenchikov? Before Sun Yang could figure it out, the Jaeger Squadron pulled the trigger on those who escaped. The laser launcher was also aimed at them.

Railgun weapons fired metal projectiles, but no matter how fast humans were, they couldn't outrun them. The fleeing thugs stumbled and fell to the ground. Their legs were also severed by the lasers.

There were several holes in the thugs' bodies, and some of them with less advanced prosthetic modifications were losing a lot of blood. They would probably die in a few minutes.

Those who had undergone higher levels of modification struggled to get up, preparing to activate their prosthetic bodies and run away again.

But the Jaegers' weapons had a high ammunition capacity. After recalibrating their weapons, they launched another volley, knocking down all those who were still standing.

"Recover their bodies. I'll take this team with me on the next journey." Sun Yang rubbed his brows. He was afraid that he would have a feud with Taiping Island.

Although it was the Taiping Island thugs who provoked him first, Sun Yang had reason to believe that the Voodoo Gang members of Taiping Island, who were skilled in electronic warfare, would not give up. Perhaps one of their subordinates was among those he killed.

If there is one thing that gives Sun Yang the most headaches in Night City, it is probably the hacking technology that can be called supernatural.

Anyway, the hacking technology in this world is indeed advanced, but it still complies with the laws of physics. The main reason they can deal with enemies equipped with cybernetics is that all cybernetics have backdoors left by the company.

It is impossible for a company to not have a backdoor. If you can't pay the loan, abscond from the crime, or betray the company, the company only needs to enter a string of code to deactivate the prosthesis.

Hackers use these backdoors to find ways to invade prosthetics. Using a prosthetic arm to shoot itself or causing an eye implant to short-circuit are common operations.

People with prosthetic bodies can only prevent hacker intrusion by installing things like firewalls.

"But this is of no use to me," Sun Yang muttered to himself after checking the status of the Iron Blood puppets, "I don't have any backdoors."

The humanoids' bodies didn't have backdoors; after all, Sun Yang had no need to leave any. Even if there were a few crazy humanoids who wanted to cause trouble, Sun Yang could easily resolve the situation with a single shot of his lightning spear.

How can a hacker defeat an offline autonomous machine? It's like a factory without any electronic equipment and the power goes out. Your task is to find a way to restart the factory from ten kilometers away. What else can you do? Just go over and turn on the power.

But if Sun Yang planned to start his work later, these Voodoo Gang members would definitely come and cause trouble. It would be so disgusting to be targeted.

Depending on the situation, I can either pay tribute to the Voodoo Gang or send a large group of people to beat them to a pulp...

Sun Yang had previously encountered situations that were either not too complicated, or situations that were complicated but that he could handle. The level of this place was a bit too high.

It doesn't matter if I'm a low rank, there are higher rank humanoids among them. Sun Yang got on his motorcycle and led a group of people across Taiping Island and into the Night City area.

523 Cleaning the Room

Heywood.

This is the southern area of ​​the center of Night City, which semi-encloses the city center.

In the north near the city center and in the west along the coast, holographic projections are displayed on high-rise buildings day and night.

The magnificent neon dream that Sun Yang saw in the distance was made up of these things. All modern conveniences can be found here, but again... they come at a high price.

The further south you go, the worse the city becomes, with clusters of low-rise buildings and shabby shanties filling the entire block.

The gap between the rich and the poor in Night City is huge. Just a few kilometers apart, the city presents two completely different ways of living.

The smaller middle class huddles in the coastal East, where affordable apartments, movie theaters, gas stations, and chain coffee shops line the streets. It resembles a mid-level American city in the early 21st century.

The Heywood area also boasts several super skyscrapers, which are considered marvels of civil engineering, a man-made version of the Kowloon Walled City.

These super skyscrapers are dozens of stories high, and each floor has public activity areas and some shops.

Clinics, gun shops, movie theaters, restaurants, sporting goods stores, even a cyborg doctor's shop... Each floor has hundreds of residents, and each skyscraper is home to at least tens of thousands of people. It's like a miniature society, and it's said that some people have never left a super skyscraper in their entire lives.

After getting out of trouble, Sun Yang took the puppet back and stopped the car in front of a car shop in the Haywood area.

A large area of ​​Heywood near the south is actually controlled by the Valentino Gang.

This gang was born out of the local South American community. Gang members attach great importance to family and treat each other as family.

Compared to other chaotic gangs, the Valentino Gang is more or less humane. They value tradition, family, and community safety.

But this doesn't mean they are not bastards. They are capable of murder, smuggling, and robbery. It's just that the people in this gang will not go too far.

The car shop that Sun Yang found belonged to a shop under the Valentino Gang. The Valentino Gang had many strongholds used to cover up illegal smuggling or violent activities, and restaurants and auto repair shops were common places.

Considering his limited financial resources, Sun Yang simply sold his newly-used all-terrain motorcycle to raise some start-up capital. Night City was not short of hovercrafts, but they were only affordable to the wealthy and the nobility.

With this start-up capital, Sun Yang first bought a phone that only a homeless family would use, and then contacted the landlord of a nearby super skyscraper and rented a room on the 10th floor as a temporary base.

After struggling for a long time, Sun Yang finally found a place to stay and sat down to rest for a while.

***

"Here you are. This is your room. The rent is collected on the 10th of every month." The landlord was an indifferent middle-aged man. He did not register Sun Yang's information and did not care who he was.

The landlord simply confirmed that Sun Yang had no criminal warrants in Night City, then gave him a key and left without looking back. Sun Yang glanced at him, opened the door with his key card, and turned to close it.

The room was quite large, with a shower room, a sunken bed, an open kitchen, and a projector in the living room that played advertisements constantly.

A vending machine was embedded in the nearby wall. It displayed a wide variety of goods, including regular bullets, synthetic food, clothes, Mewtwo movies, and even a 30-minute door-to-door service.

Sun Yang produced a cylindrical device from the void and placed it on the coffee table. The projector flickered a few times before going silent, and the vending machine also stopped working.

[All nearby surveillance equipment has been blocked. You can summon us, Professor.] Antonina's voice reached Sun Yang's ears.

That cylindrical object is a small jammer developed by Oasis's research department. It has a limited range, only a 20-meter radius.

While jammers might be conspicuous, Night City is full of people doing the same. Residents who can afford to keep their privacy should do so. For those who don't, the company is very interested in their privacy and keeps records of everyone.

Sun Yang waved the spiral sword and summoned the first batch of humanoids from the main base.

The first group to arrive were the AR team and the Oasis IT-related figures: Antonina and Pascal.

Everyone came with a new device hanging around their neck, and Antonina was even more extraordinary. She came directly with a work box in her arms.

Antonina and Pascal frowned as soon as they landed, while M4 looked around the room, and even the dog looked out the window worriedly.

The other members of the AR team, RO, AR15 and 16, didn't react much. After confirming that there was no problem with their equipment, they sat down on the sofa and waited.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?" Sun Yang thought about it and asked Antonina.

"There are too many surveillance cameras. I can't handle it. Pascal, M4, lock the nearby information nodes." Antonina replied quickly, then pulled out a cable from the work box and connected it to her body.

"Okay. Yang, please wait a moment, we will be there soon. SOP2, come and help to increase the bandwidth." M4 smiled at Sun Yang, then pulled the dog who was in a daze by the window over and connected a wire to her neck.

"Is there anything else I can do?" Gou Zi said that she was just daydreaming and not working.

"Go help Pascal process the data," M4 patted the dog's head. "Once you're done, you can go out and play."

"Great! Pascal! Let's hurry." The dog immediately became excited when he heard that he could go explore the unknown world.

"I'm not Dr. Pascal. Theoretically, we are at the same level. Okay, Antonina, I have completed the reverse positioning." After a few seconds, Pascal passed the data he obtained to Antonina through the power cord.

"...Analysis complete. M4, the rest is up to you," Antonina said, handing another line to M4. "These coordinates are either real or fake. It's best if you burn them all."

"Leave it to me!" M4 said, then stood still, staring at the ground. "It seems a bit too much... Wait a minute..."

***

“Ahhhh——!!!”

Somewhere in Taiping Island, a series of screams were heard from a voodoo gang's stronghold.

"Cool down quickly! Get them out of cyberspace! Quick!" A burly black man issued a series of commands, and the people around him rushed forward to carry out emergency treatment.

The Voodoo Gang is a group of elite hackers who specialize in network attacks. Their methods are extremely cruel, and they usually treat outsiders like foot wraps.

Today, when their hackers were performing their normal monitoring tasks and wanted to see if there was any fun to be had, they were suddenly attacked by a terrifying force.

The firewalls and security measures they prepared were useless. The hackers were hacked in just a few seconds, and their consciousness quickly dissipated in the invasion.

The prostheses were trembling, and their bodies soon went into shock from the severe pain. After all, these hackers had too many prostheses installed in their bodies for network attack and defense.

If using computers for processing is safe, then the efficiency is a hundred times slower than it is now, and no one would choose to use computers for the sake of safety.

But if something really happens, the prosthesis will explode along with the head. This is the risk of putting things in the head randomly.

The Voodoo Gang's underlings ultimately failed to rescue the hackers. Their brains burned out so quickly, as if a new god had been born in cyberspace and was raining down divine punishment.

In just a few seconds, the men's brains were scorched, and the water in the bathtub they were lying in was no longer filled with ice, but had become slightly warm.

The same thing happened in various places in Night City. Some hackers who lived alone died at home, and hackers in companies also died suddenly at work.

Some people with excellent hiding skills disguised their signals as certain radars or signal base stations, but these radars or signal base stations stopped working within seconds, and all the delicate parts inside were burned.

After the initial chaos, the company, some middlemen, and some interested parties immediately began to investigate the matter. But strangely, no matter how hard they looked, they could not find the source of the hackers' attack, as if they had appeared out of thin air within the local area network.

***

"Finally finished, I'm exhausted. 12% of the people have fake addresses. We should be able to save a lot of them under the protection of the company," M4 said, pulling Sun Yang down and lying directly in his arms, "Yang! I'm applying for a day off!"

"So, can someone explain this?" Sun Yang always felt like an illiterate person. He gently combed M4's hair and asked the two Oasis figures busy in front of him.

"There are too many surveillance cameras here, so we have processed all the nearby surveillance channels. I really don't know how the humans here have adapted to it. I feel uncomfortable just staying here." Antonina said after finishing her work.

"And I took the opportunity to test the abilities I gained from Zion. I defeated hundreds of enemies through electronic warfare. Yang, you'd better praise me." M4 rubbed Sun Yang again.

Killing hundreds of hackers casually? No one would dare to come and cause trouble for the time being.

"That's amazing." Sun Yang rubbed M4's head. The room was finally clear in every sense of the word, and he could finally send out T-dolls on missions on a regular basis.

I hope this city can bring many surprises to Sun Yang.

524 Gathering Intelligence

After clearing out a group of prying hackers and setting the coverage of the signal shielding device to the entire room, Sun Yang summoned Team 404 and Team Disobedience, and later also brought over some tactical T-dolls who were capable of urban infiltration operations.

Although many humanoids from the oasis also wanted to go, considering their weak combat capabilities, Sun Yang put their proposal on hold and waited until the elite humanoids had a general understanding of the city's situation.

Griffin and the Oasis management figures had already drawn up a list of personnel. Sun Yang could simply recruit people from the list.

"So our mission is to collect offline information about the city? Does the commander have fire permission?" Sister 45 said in a businesslike manner as soon as she landed.

"Fire freely. If you're defeated, message me and I'll send reinforcements. However, you can only use rail-type weapons...or should we call them technical weapons in this place? The laser and plasma weapons we use are extremely rare here, and if seen by someone with ulterior motives, we might get into trouble."