[{"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-311":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},1151802,1495,"Chapter 311 - 290: Dance of Death!","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-311",311,"\u003Cp>Royce became a real-life human rocket!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an experimental self-developed Linear Frame, the Vortex Gang obviously noticed the impact of this equipment on reaction speed and flexibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, compared to mature technologies, the probability of this Linear Frame locking up was extremely high, so the developers simply set an \"emergency stop button.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once this emergency stop button was triggered, all personal links would disconnect, and the Linear Frame would instantly become an ejection device!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Linear Frame’s thighs snapped together quickly, the immense force squealing against Royce’s Titanium Skeleton and propelling him into the sky, a shell smashing into the equipment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked just like a rocket blasting off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Royce crashed against the already-twisted wall and fell down under the force of gravity, landing heavily on the ground, both of his enhanced legs trembling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eyes of Golden Flame\" Prosthetics flickered at this moment, and he didn’t pause, forcefully jumping to take cover in the ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahahaha!\" Brick peeked out from behind the blown-up car, clutching his gun and laughing wildly, \"You fat fuck! Stunned, aren’t ya! Hit the motherfucker!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Royce, hiding in the ruins, roared, \"Where the fuck is everyone! Come out, goddamnit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Royce’s cries and calls, the deformed and twisted warehouse once again exploded with the same dense ammunition, three more Linear Frames stepping out from the burning debris!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense bullets all struck the Centaur Mecha’s Big Shield, Brick’s extremely light-sensitive Eyes of Golden Flame immediately capturing the surge of energy on the shield’s surface!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shield was indeed badass, but every material has its limits!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately jumped into the car, calling his boys to control the armed vehicle’s heavy machine gunfire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene momentarily turned into an extravagant shootout of heavy firepower!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glow of gunflame illuminated the nearby ruined and abandoned factory, and if anyone looked down on this city from on high, they would see the battle here shining like the sun, so conspicuous in the rundown Watson North District!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The orange-yellow flashes easily outshone the factory’s cool-colored lighting, and the formidable glow was visible from several blocks away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brick’s Vortex Gang took control of the cars outside the warehouse, slowly getting in motion, and quickly suppressed the firepower from Royce’s group—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aboard the Centaur Mecha, Jostar’s newly installed \"Eyes of Golden Flame\" still flowed with blood, sharing his companions’ vision, allowing him to see the world through the huge, red-hot shield:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the madness on Brick’s face, the anger on Royce’s, the fear and excitement on the faces of the soldiers on both sides... It was like a silent play.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shield overheating significantly, at risk of bursting.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prescribed combat behavior changing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Plasma Gun charging, preparing for a desperate strike.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of bullets against the shield, the explosions, and the roar of machine guns drowned out everything else, forming the background music of this silent play—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly thought of the Vortex Gang’s legendary nightclub: Dance of Death, also the very place he was assaulting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Vortex Gang’s proud heavy metal music wildly blared, amplified through speakers and reaching several blocks away, causing even the hearts of passersby to pulsate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy metal music, complained about by nearby citizens, misinterpreted by the average person, considered brainless music by the mainstream, was seen by the Vortex Gang as true music!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had once been one of those ordinary citizens, but now, he was a Vortex Gang member!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, this was real music!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly understood why the Vortex Gang was obsessed with heavy metal music, and this was indeed the most hardcore of heavy metal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His reactions were somewhat slow, almost dragged along by the Centaur Mecha’s preset combat mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his nerves were excited!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, more sounds joined this symphony—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the high-pitched noise of the Plasma Gun’s rails charging to their limit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire barrel turned red-hot, the Plasma Gun’s rails continuously charging, the accumulating energy exceeding rated values, surpassing the limits of engineering firepower, the vibration frequency also getting out of control, covering an ever-widening frequency band—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Charging... calculating counterstrike window...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jostar’s cochlea began to bleed, the blood dripping down his cheeks, vaporized by the temperature emitted from the Plasma Gun in midair!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Firing window indicator light...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The firing window indicator light turned green, the HUD’s firing window completely changed to green!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of Jostar of the Vortex Gang’s nerves pulsed with electric currents, agony and euphoria coexisting, and in the last moment before total deafness, his body firmly memorized this last note of the Dance of Death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hum—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last note was the distorted sound of cannon fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Centaur Mecha flung the red-hot shield in its hand through the air, which then exploded mid-flight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cannon shell, far exceeding its rated power, blasted out, the nearly 100% plasmatic jet no longer maintaining the shape of a shell, resembling a giant Light Saber!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From above, this Light Saber swept out a near 40-degree arc!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cars, firearms, Linear Frames, and human bodies were wiped out—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explosions reached the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The factory completely collapsed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground lay scorched earth left by the trailing particles that failed to reach speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene quieted down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Plasma Gun of the Centaur Mecha, still spitting flames and sparks, detached under the protective mechanism, falling to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brick’s face showed shock before he was the first to jump out of the car!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaped in front of the somewhat diminished Centaur Mecha and wildly called out to Jostar, waving his arms:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck me, brother, that was fucking badass! Fucking badass, brother!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jostar’s mouth trembled involuntarily, trembling into a smile. The red glow in his Eyes of Golden Flame flickered on and off, just like a stereotypical Vortex Gang member.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gone was that brain-dead look, the duality of wanting to be in a gang while keeping the good boy image at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I’m gonna be... Haha, I’m gonna be the boss...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re already the fucking boss...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ellis Carter, Brick’s good brother, was the second to jump out of the car, his face flushed with excitement. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly caught sight of something leaping out of the ruins already engulfed in flames!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Si Anweisitan immediately activated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brick, you dumbass!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slowed down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carter saw something flying over indeed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a person!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person moved incredibly fast, so much so that even in his Third Level Si Anweisitan world, the figure was almost leaving afterimages!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He barely made out that it was a woman!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman’s body was almost entirely prosthetic, and fit seamlessly together—without a doubt, top-tier prosthetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the surface of the top-tier prosthetics was alive with chaotic electrical arcs signaling instability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, the air distorted slightly, the temperature extremely high, as if it was a kind of gas-ejecting acceleration prosthetic system...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lifted her bladed legs high, like an arrow aiming at...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aiming a kick at Jostar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brick had activated his Si Anweisitan just as the first syllable left Carter’s mouth. The two brothers began to move in the world of Time Stop, trying to block the woman—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brick stood on the Centaur Mecha, slowly adjusting the aim of his Sadara Shotgun, and pulled the trigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carter’s enhanced tendons slowly drew to their limit, cracks began forming on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These actions were quick, theoretically quick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But relative to this woman, to Zalia’s diving and reaction speed, they could only be considered slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her muscles contracting, her posture straightened out slowly in mid-air, her two bladed legs rotating to face the barrel with the blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sadara magnetic rail was fully charged, and the projectiles fired, striking the blades unevenly, propelling Zalia’s lower body with immense force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, using that force, she somersaulted in the air, just inverting herself over Carter’s hand, her head brushing against Carter’s—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body continued to flip forward, stretching her legs firmly, and as she passed over the Centaur Mecha, they finally returned beneath her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the blades rotated, turning into hooks, and forcefully punctured through the gap of the Centaur Mecha and into Jostar’s collarbone, cutting through bone and piercing the chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood surged forth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, both the Sadara and fists missed their mark, and Carter and Brick saw only blood splattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zalia’s bladed legs were still descending through Jostar’s body, sinking about 3cm before stopping upon hitting a part of the Centaur Mecha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood there, leveraging that point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was exactly at this moment that Royce, his hand feeling the dent in his head, supported himself on a concrete block to emerge from the ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile had just blossomed on his face when the battle situation changed again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Major damage, locking onto exoskeleton.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Centaur Mecha suddenly locked, trapping the blade, and both Brick and Carter counterattacked with a backhand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zalia, with one leg trapped, found her movements hindered, her Mantis Blade barely springing out was no match for the speed of the Vortex Gang’s two brothers—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A punch and a kick brutally hit Zalia’s body, sending her flying, and the mech was also severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brick and Carter immediately hopped back into the car, faces a mix of shock and rage, and roared loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drive! Royce, you’re dead meat! None of your people are getting out alive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Recipient: Mysterious Hero]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Brick: Bring on something tougher! Can we connect the Si Anweisitan to the mecha?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Brick: And the arms, whatever you can get, I want it all! Deliver to me or the people in these places, I’ll take it!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Recipient: Warehouse]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Brick: Bring over the remaining mechas!!!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car sped away, while Zalia wobbly stood up and leaped onto a building, chasing the disappearing convoy into the night sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Royce was still sorting out the prosthetic system issues, messages kept coming:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Vortex Gang underling: Boss! Someone attacked the pharmaceutical plant... Boom!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Vortex Gang underling: Fuck!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Vortex Gang underling: We can’t hold them off!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Royce was equally infuriated, his entire being still reeling from the close call of being blown up by that cannon shot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides were at their boiling points!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You think I’ll let you off?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Recipient: Anthony]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Royce: That old bastard used your motherfucking Centaur Mecha!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Royce: Fuck you!]\u003C\u002Fp>",1702,"2026-06-03T12:33:12.909Z","2026-06-03T12:33:19.803Z",1,"novelbin.me","3200bb488f285dca47be919040386fad47d3fd8bd273166bf8cb407a922b42fc","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-312","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-310",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]