[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-257":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1151748,1495,"Chapter 257 - 238 Massacred Prey","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-257",257,"\u003Cp>The three dragged the wooden-man into the adjacent room...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside were some women dressed in suits and expensive clothes. Seeing the three, and the wooden-man they were dragging...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their expressions changed drastically!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V and Jack simultaneously raised their guns, completing a round of shooting, shattering their hands—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people didn’t even have time to draw their guns!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille asked, \"I’m not going to ask you to introduce yourselves; who is in charge here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as he asked, Lille quickly locked onto a woman dressed in leopard print with heavy makeup—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current person in charge of Cloud Peak should be Maiko Maeda. The wooden-man was a tier lower than her in management.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman Lille was staring at nervously shrank back a bit: this was Mako.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m giving you a chance, where is Jotaro Justus?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can take you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mako was cooperative, \"As long as you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bullet grazed Mako’s cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lead the way, no nonsense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mako swallowed hard and led the three into the elevator. The elevator began to descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like this was Cloud Peak’s machine room and storage level, the gloominess carrying a hint of chill—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then again, this skyscraper was usually vacant and quite cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They walked into a recording studio—an overwhelming stench hit them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It appeared to be a Super Dream recording studio: a large purple sofa in the center, dim lighting over the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the bed was covered in fresh bloodstains, with some dark red liquid smeared on the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various tools were scattered messily by the bed. These tools looked and functioned terrifyingly, with body remnants like teeth and fingers on the floor...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Electric wires sparked overhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opposite the bed was a makeshift emergency bed, seemingly for those who couldn’t withstand the torture during filming to receive blood transfusions to complete the shoot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they died...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille looked up and saw a partially covered compartment with a real prosthetics removal surgery table, the stench emanating from there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A victim’s corpse had yet to be moved, a girl with an open abdominal cavity and gouged-out eyes, her blood drained and dried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille’s trio frowned deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh...\" Mako vomited but quickly regained control, \"These are all Jotaro’s hobbies! He makes a lot of money, so the Tiger Claw Gang turns a blind eye to his hobbies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called us over just now, left hurriedly, we don’t know what he’s up to!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Continue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille walked further in—soon arriving at the machine room door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jotaro must be here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, Jotaro had just stepped out of the machine room, his face changed suddenly upon seeing Lille’s trio!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack shot him in the thigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!!\" Jotaro grimaced in pain, a hint of hidden fear in his eyes, \"You lunatics, freaks!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V, irritated, shot him again, making Jotaro scream even more—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You call us freaks?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What else if not freaks! Do we have a grudge? Business conflicts? None!\" Jotaro panted heavily, \"Or do you really intend to act under some guise of justice...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille also fired, mangling Jotaro’s leg, a bloody mix of muscle and prosthetics, causing slight twitching from weak electric currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... ah! Damn you, can you let me finish?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jotaro writhed like a dying dog on the floor, \"Damn it, you can’t kill me... can’t kill me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m the one keeping Cloud Peak, maintaining Tiger Claw Gang’s business! Keeping stability in this city and giving these damn sex dolls a place to work!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you kill me, they’ll starve! If you kill me, will you pay them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another shot hit Jotaro’s crotch, the sound resembling a large cannonshot, the bullet echoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhhh, you... you! Killing me will ruin Cloud Peak, Tiger Claw Gang will be finished, only brutes will be left!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You think those sex dolls will thank you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another shot hit his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jotaro’s vitality was strong, his prosthetics seemingly life-sustaining types.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jotaro really could talk, first testing if Lille had any business grievances with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding none, he started the classic: I’m just a small systemic villain; I’m providing jobs, etc., to test Lille.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, Lille wasn’t some hot-blooded hero—he had industries too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t debating whether to kill Jotaro, just venting by shooting a few rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille shook his head indifferently, \"Yeah, I can provide them jobs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jotaro, pained and bewildered, \"They can’t do anything but be playthings...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His argument was losing steam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does that have to do with you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another shot hit Jotaro’s throat—Lille had scanned earlier; this guy also had an auxiliary breathing system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shooting angle was tricky, allowing air to enter his lungs barely, but the mixed fluid still filled his lungs, making him feel like drowning, his brain suffocating but temporarily alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he couldn’t speak anymore, only writhing and crawling on the floor, those high-grade life-prolonging prosthetics making him hard to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V watched this scene with great satisfaction, \"What should we do with him? Won’t he call for trauma team?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve already taken care of that, as for dealing with him...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Communicator: Regina]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Jotaro is in my hands, and so are Cloud Peak’s people. Do you have any buyers for his life?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Regina: There are, plus Cloud Peak’s data, however much you’ll sell!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Then he’s dead now.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ve got a sponsor; if you want to kill him, go ahead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can we make his death more miserable?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shoot at this spot,\" the mechanical arm pointed to the other side of Jotaro’s neck, \"He’ll go through the longest three minutes of his life and then die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensations of foreign objects might be tolerated briefly, but the pain from the body’s survival operations constantly renewed, always contradicting his instincts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Harr...\" Jotaro cast a fearful gaze, blood gurgling in his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dealing with Jotaro, it was time to reap rewards and expand their victories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Blais: The NCPD will breach soon, hurry up.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trio dragged Jotaro, the wooden-man, and brought Mako into the machine room—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next was accessing the database for extraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille took magnetic electrodes from the toolbox, pushed aside the brain-dead hacker on the chair, and prepared for deep diving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Connection prompt: Jing Yuan-Brage Algorithm loaded]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cloud Peak’s database transformed into perceivable data, replacing Lille’s sensory reality—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ICE here was strong, akin to intricately linked shields in cyberspace, protecting the data walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strong, but not as formidable as the data walls Blais possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Blais: Bro, start retrieving data on the three, having them on hand helps a lot.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Blais’s instructions and his own instincts, Lille simultaneously captured data from Jotaro, the wooden-man, and Cloud Peak’s servers, finding the route through the ICE.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was surprisingly smooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Near the database, executing the scan, Little Octopus reached out, eager to join the data extraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Little Octopus engrossed in the data...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille suddenly remembered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille:... 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