[{"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-376":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},1151867,1495,"Chapter 376 - 348 Self-Strengthening Shooting Competition","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-376",376,"\u003Cp>[\"United and prosperous, patriotic pioneers\" Saint Domingo community network reminds you,]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Worried about shootings and explosions? Struggling about tomorrow’s job?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Put aside those troubling thoughts, and come for a thrilling shooting competition!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Join the \"Persevere to Strength Shooting Contest\" on Woodhaven Street now, win prizes and exquisite weapons!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Free food (one serving per person) will be provided on-site, and company bosses will be recruiting with attractive benefits.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[To register, please contact the \"United and prosperous, patriotic pioneers\" community website, join us, and realize the American dream together.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David suddenly flipped up from his bed, quickly rummaging through his messy bed looking for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While searching, he shouted, \"Mom! Where’s the clothes I bought yesterday!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria, who was cleaning, stopped and put her hands on her hips indignantly, \"Every time you can’t find something, you just holler for mom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you’re the one who organizes the room every day!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s because you don’t organize it yourself—\" Gloria said as she walked in and took a look around, then magically pulled out that jacket from the wardrobe David had just rifled through, \"Isn’t it right here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David showed respect to his mom and continued searching for the next thing he needed to go out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked at him and thought about the message she just received:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, as a Saint Domingo resident, she also received that message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you going out? To join the shooting competition?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David scratched his head, \"Gotta find something to do, right? The notice said there are also company bosses recruiting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria sighed, placing her hands on his shoulders—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kid seemed to have grown taller again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you do some dangerous work outside and admire those people, but all those things are very dangerous. You’re doing quite well already.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David shyly scratched his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since dropping out, with various small and large gigs, his total earnings had already surpassed a hundred thousand bucks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But most of that money was used to upgrade his prosthetics and learn firearm modifications. The amount that reached his mom’s hands might have been just over ten thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Gloria, once her son dropped out of Arasaka Academy, those legendary corporate benefits became distant. Now she had to view her son by the average standard of Saint Domingo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten thousand bucks might be nothing for corporate folks, but for poor folks in Saint Domingo, it’s quite some money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s also this sum that allowed them to rent a two-room apartment back in the Skyscraper, much more spacious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But David knew that compared to the money he threw into various other things, it was indeed not much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, I won’t do anything dangerous, just checking if there’s any recruitment for technicians.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When saying this, David felt guilty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike his mom, who might have only contacted some shady doctors through her work in the corpse team, never even seeing a Scavenger,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people had only seen gang members who were idle punks on the streets, the lowest tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, David was different; he’s seen the true members of those gangs, real cold-blooded killers. Honestly, he now found these people more dangerous than many cyberpsychos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cyberpsycho might kill a dozen people before being taken down by the Terrorist Mobile Team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a full-scale internal war by the Vortex Gang almost blew up the Watson District.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria closed her eyes, thought for a moment, and then retracted her hands, putting them on her hips, saying sternly, \"Then I’ll go with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: David kid, round up your men, got a job for you, working with Six Street Gang.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: Bring your gear, a bit dangerous—but there’ll be food and drinks first.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David immediately changed his tone, speaking sternly to his mom, \"No, mom, Six Street Gang people are over there, you can’t go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How do you know...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t ask, mom, you can’t go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David said, then walked into the storage room, taking out his gun and gear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had neither the money nor the confidence to implant a lot of Subdermal Armor, so he could only add some external armor on the skin’s surface under his clothes in the old-fashioned way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While organizing his equipment, he anxiously reminded Gloria, \"For the next few days, don’t go out, don’t go to Woodhaven Street.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria stood still, watching her son organize these things, skillfully loading bullets...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t stupid; she knew David was working with that man who saved them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These days, the changes in her son were quite unexpected for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know what to say, silently agreeing, watching David leave the house, then standing by the window watching him leave the building, draped in that jacket, heading into Mackinaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind went blank; she didn’t know how to feel about her son’s changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All her thoughts naturally focused on the graffiti on the back of David’s new jacket:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hamburger with a bloodied mouth wide open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria sighed; she knew what it was: the latest urban myth trending in Night City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young people loved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a stupid piece of graffiti.\" V was blunt about his subordinate’s taste, \"Why does everyone paint stuff like this on their clothes and cars?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack in the back seat silently nodded, \"Come on, don’t you know why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\" V nodded in agreement, \"It’s all Lille’s fault, can’t even come up with a proper name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honestly...I think this graffiti has some style.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now they were sitting in the Mackinaw, with the car parked on Woodhaven Street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place was poor like a construction site; some houses where residents lived didn’t even have roofs, simply decorated by themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On either side of the street, randomly piled garbage burned fiercely, black smoke choking their noses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack frowned, fanning the air in front of his nose, \"Feels worse than the rat’s nests in Haywood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V sniffed, \"The rat’s nests in Haywood have no air circulation, it’s a toss-up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uneven flat-roofed houses, local residents used metal sheets to build \"sky bridges\" between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on these rooftops, it was where the Six Street Gang held most of their activities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though this place was poor and stinky, it was one of Six Street Gang’s favorite gathering spots, firstly because it was remote; beside the Scenic Area, you could occasionally see NCPD and Valentino, but here, it was completely ruled by gangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, this place had \"commercial facilities\"; besides a few bars, there was the Lama Armory and a low-end prosthetics doctor’s clinic, although their service and equipment were bad, it was cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a geographical perspective, although there were mainly one or two-story bungalows here, it was generally higher than other places, a high point in the surrounding area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone wanted to snipe from a high place here, it could only be done from the Peizhuo Petrochemical Dam. But there were hardly any hiding spots there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they sniped from up there, they would face the Adkaduo roaming around, and in the Evil Land, an excellent vehicle was more important than excellent prosthetics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they chose to attack from the lower terrain...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That would bring the confrontation to a direct clash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a transportation perspective, the entire road network would be controlled by Lille, with all vehicles monitored by ctOS’s intelligent threat detection algorithm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a signal perspective, three military-grade electronic eavesdropping devices were deployed in key areas to monitor any abnormal communications.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of visual identification, a total of 16 Iron Beetle Unmanned Aerial Vehicles would patrol possible shooting locations with the sergeant’s movements on that day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This information coordination system was already of military-grade arrangement unless they also had military-grade support—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were just a bunch of mercenaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feat of taking the enemy commander in the midst of ten thousand troops had always been praised as a heroic endeavor in any era, not something everyone could achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mackinaw parked by the street, watching Six Street Gang members setting up food and beer. V turned off the engine and got out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go, see how this event goes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1333,"2026-06-03T12:33:12.909Z","2026-06-03T12:33:19.803Z",1,"novelbin.me","eb5cf5d73107fb6e6a50115e015161d0cf49d97957d6ae5ce030b599496dd6e7","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-377","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-375",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]