Chapter 320 - 296 Frankenstein

[Jack: Uppercut!]

[Jack: How badass is that!]

[Jack: Damn, why can’t you ride motorcycles in a boxing match? This is discrimination against motorcycles!]

[V: I feel a bit of pain in my bones... Should I get a prosthetics check-up?]

[Pan’an: Guys, that coordination was freaking awesome!]

Lille sat in the vehicle, examining the site map marked in the HUD.

After the Terrorist Mobile Team entered, the riots were quickly subdued.

As the Centaur Mecha destroyed Floating Cars and took out a few operators, these Floating Cars started to swiftly move toward Brick’s location.

Theoretically, the NCPD should have stepped in by now to clean up the battlefield, but this was not a typical situation—the main threat was still unresolved.

So now, Adkaduo’s Team became the only group capable of clearing the scene.

The Adkads, who had just been hiding in the alleyways, all drove out, heading straight to the factories and warehouses where the fires had been quelled.

Lille gathered countless confirmed kill reports and downloaded numerous factory production data that couldn’t be accessed on the external network, sketching out the real face of Watson North District.

This was the real treasure.

The secrets hidden behind companies like Jianli Pharmaceutical Group, Jianli-Zuli Military Industries, and Biodynamic... were uncovered as intelligence linked together.

The real logic behind the Vortex Gang’s foothold unfolded before Lille’s eyes—

Sometimes the truth is just that simple and direct.

"No wonder they’ve grown so large... It all makes sense."

As for that woman Zalia, when V severed her spine with a Mantis Blade, Lille attempted to hack in—

The result was that the data was completely unreadable; if it hadn’t been for Little Octopus grabbing the data, this hacking attempt would have come up empty.

This indirectly showed that Zalia’s cyber-spiritual illness was quite severe.

These issues could be dealt with later; the focus should now return to the present matters.

The HUD displayed the status of two Centaur Mechas, Jack, V, and various equipment and vehicles.

Brick and Carter were already pushed to their limits, not just running low on fuel, but their machine condition was also poor.

The essence of the Centaur Mecha lay in its heavy riot control equipment, particularly the Plasma Gun and shield.

The Linear Frame itself wasn’t powerful, but under the integration of Si Anweisitan, each activation peak was 4-5 times its rated power.

Being able to carry Si Anweisitan’s full-body prosthetics and Linear Frame was quite advanced; the durability and cost-effectiveness of the Centaur Mecha meant that this batch of products was meant for display and were fairly sturdy; otherwise, they would have already blown up.

In extreme conditions, all of Si Anweisitan’s operational states had been treated as AI training material fed to Little Octopus, and it had finally succeeded in activating the spine on V.

So far, the results seemed promising.

Just, simultaneously activating Krensky meant a great neural load, and it required slow optimization.

[Lille: Brick and Carter had already stormed into the Whole Foods factory, and the Terrorist Mobile Team was on their way.]

[Lille: Leave the motorcycle outside.]

[V: Can I drive inside?]

[Lille: ?]

[Lille: Just transfer your brain onto the motorcycle already, hurry in there and get Brick and Carter out.]

[V: Aren’t we supposed to just kill them?]

[Lille: Better alive, but dead works too.]

As an honest businessman, Lille could have simply shut off the Mecha, but NCPD and Terrorist Mobile Team aren’t idiots; being too obvious wasn’t beneficial.

So, the tasks that followed...

[Data deletion complete.]

[Signature overwrite finished.]

[Connection severed.]

All data was completely erased, and Lille, referencing characteristics found at various Vortex Gang strongholds during this time, had written their signatures into the Mecha.

Ensuring there wouldn’t be a trace left.

...

The motorcycle stopped in front of the derelict Whole Foods factory; V placed Zalia on the bike and the vehicle slowly drove off.

Pan’an’s vehicle wasn’t far off; she would be responsible for taking Zalia away.

The factory gate was blown open, and metallic droplets were even dripping from the breach.

Visible were clear impacts and tearing marks by the hole, with bodies strewn all around.

Without wasting time, they disembarked and immediately walked inside.

Upon entering through the hole, the walls and ceiling were full of remnants of the Vortex Gang.

Blood, synthetic fluid, various strange prosthetics and limbs, some areas had obviously taken heavy hits, with depressions containing remnants of smashed heavy machine guns.

Traces of land mine explosions, plasma gun scorches, heavy machine gun bullet holes...

Each told of the ferocity of the battle.

V suddenly mentioned, "Brick must have gone insane."

Jack nodded.

No matter what state they were in now, Brick always considered himself the boss of the Vortex Gang.

Seeing such an impressive boss return, even Royce’s stooges couldn’t help but soften.

Certainly, people were meant to die here, but this kind of indiscriminate slaughter was somewhat off.

Since entering, they hadn’t seen a single living person.

Bang!

A muffled sound came from deep within the factory.

V and Jack spotted a blown-open hole and grabbed the wall, vaulting up.

...

"Boss..."

Bang!

Carter had already discarded the deformed shield in his hand.

The Linear Frame exposed an arm, while the part that was supposed to grip the shield appeared to have lost its safety limit and exerted a fierce force, crushing both Carter’s hand and an underling’s head.

Meanwhile, Brick was sitting off to the side, with both the shield and plasma gun already dismounted.

The two had encountered significant resistance when they entered.

Machine gun turrets, land mines, hand grenades...

had wrecked their equipment and bodies.