Chapter 394 - 366: The Mysterious Super Gun

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[Blais: Trouble, their prosthetic data has been wiped clean, changes at the driver level.]

[Blais: Find a way to figure out who hired them.]

Si Anweisitan alone was equipped with an invisible "black box" that could be read by technicians and made into Super Dream, and the assistive prosthetics used by ACPA drivers and combat pilots were even more advanced.

Companies would continually iterate their war machines during the conflict, and the prosthetic data records of pilots were very important evidence.

However, because these systems were too complex, the people capable of decoding and using them for engineering improvements were basically not circulating in the "talent market".

As a network surveillance agent, Blais’s company naturally had the technical reserves to extract relevant information from within, but the problem lies precisely here.

All the drivers of these prosthetics had been rewritten, and the decoded data was all nonsense—someone had tampered with these devices.

Blais had no choice but to ask for Lille’s help: to get the message from deeper inside using some more direct methods.

When the name "Authentic" popped out of Lucas’s mouth, Lille replied:

[Lille: Is this name enough?]

[Blais: Professional, continue.]

"Not bad, it’s a good start," Lille said, placing the guns they had confiscated from them on the table, "So how did you bring these weapons here?

As far as I know, these are controlled weapons and basically impossible to get through security."

Most mercenaries’ identities would not stand up to scrutiny; getting on a plane might only need a little bit of effort, but bringing these big guns would be troublesome.

Take for example the Marlorian 3600 Super Submachine Gun, a prototype of the current remote weapon with hot knuckles.

This gun is a typical cyborg weapon, meaning if the user hasn’t undergone prosthetic modifications, they would definitely get injured during use.

Compared to other conventional weapons, it has tremendous power and comes at a high price, with the 14mm shellless bullet caliber being outrageous, and at close range, it even outperforms some entry level .50 BMG anti-materiel sniper rifles.

And this thing is a submachine gun, a unique submachine gun that uses a special non-automatic action.

If your arms can withstand the outrageous recoil produced by the shellless bullets, you could achieve a firing rate comparable to top-tier submachine guns.

If it reaches the firing rate the designers hoped for...

Its power would be comparable to that of a fixed machine gun.

Of course, it would also subject your prosthetics to an almost unbearable load.

Then there’s the heavy machine gun used by Anna that day, the Dofr GA-1112 automatic machine gun, which is also a heavy machine gun that only high-level cyborgs can use, with a 12mm shellless double-barrel setup.

Most transhumans wanting to use this type of weapon would need to use an intelligent sling, using their waist to counteract the recoil control.

The gun itself is equipped with a feeding motor; in an extreme state, it could blow up a vehicle in a second, but the motor needs to be activated beforehand.

The motor and structure of this machine gun are highly refined, making it slightly different from the original guns in the database.

Thanks to this outrageous thing, Anna destroyed a total of eight armed vehicles belonging to the Six Street Gang that day, earning her the nickname Street Death God.

The most monstrous would be that pressurized sniper rifle, which is also the most mysterious of the guns.

According to a database comparison by Blais, Lille believed it was a purely prototype weapon.

The pressurized rifle is a flagship product of the Tsunami Defense System, including multiple series such as "Thunder" and "Thor", with the Thunder series potentially being used by cyborgs.

But the Thor series is a super anti-materiel rifle prepared only for ACPA armor.

Structurally, this rifle more closely resembles the Thor series because it is 2.3 meters long and closer to the three-meter-one Thunder sniper rifle.

One can imagine the power of a 20mm pressurized bullet fired from a weapon of this length.

What’s more intriguing is that this rifle doesn’t require ACPA armor to assist, only a strong and powerful cyborg and a special power tripod.

The construction of the weapon is quite ingenious; the bullets even creatively overcome the pressurized rifle’s poor performance in rain by improving the fuel formula, reducing the range and power loss in the rain by a maximum of 5%~10%.

With such a level of self-research, instead of being treasured by companies, why blend into Night City?

Very strange.

Looking at these weapons, Lucas answered, "I don’t know, all these things were given to us by Authentic, each one is a masterpiece and part of our compensation."

Street weapons are categorized into two types. One specifically designed by corporations for civilian use, these guns are quite useful in typical street scenarios like road rage or arguments. All a citizen has to do is pull out their gun faster than the other guy, and they can blow the other’s head off.

Such weapons are generally of medium power, and their users typically possess average skills. Even if they hit an ordinary citizen, there is a high chance that the victim won’t be killed, which is often where street rookies start.

Once they start mixing with gangs, the weapons the gang provides are at least better than the lowest grade of civilian guns—you won’t see those disposable plastic pistols anymore.

Most of these weapons are also second-hand military arms, varying significantly in condition.

But if you plan to be a mercenary, especially a Lone Wolf, your weapon is like a teammate, and unreliability can be deadly.

The first weapon for Lone Wolves usually holds special significance to them, as they are the ones they painstakingly acquired and are the most versatile, often also the ones that help them make their big break.

Each gun here qualifies as such.

"So, this person is a very skilled technician, especially adept at designing and manufacturing weapons...

But this gun might have been simplified from an ACPA specialized sniper rifle. How come the sniper didn’t choose your girlfriend?"

"She..." Lucas glanced at his girlfriend, who was still unconscious, and after much struggle, he decided to tell the truth. "She missed a shot during a mission."

The confidence of a sniper is crucial, as one mistake can render them unable to pick up a weapon ever again, or even just being in a similar situation can make some break out in a cold sweat.

From this perspective, the sniper that day actually had decent mental strength, even if he missed several shots. Judging by where the bullets landed, his skills hadn’t fluctuated much.

Sniping over extreme distances involves a lot of luck, and he just happened to fail.

And Anna could no longer snipe again.

Hearing this, Lille turned to Blais, suddenly interested in the sniper he had killed. "What was the sniper’s background?"

Blais was just connecting his personal link to the dead sniper’s interface.

No big deal before he plugged it in, but once connected, it shocked him.

His brows furrowed, as if he was repeatedly double-checking this guy’s information...

"A sniper from Finland, he’s a rather famous deserter and also a quite notorious fugitive...

What’s going on, how could the European Union let someone like this get away..."

"What do you mean?"

"He killed two... very high-profile individuals."

"High-profile like Arasaka Saburo?"

Blais paused for a moment and gave Lille a meaningful look.

That look had a strong street vibe.

It was like two street kids walking down the street when suddenly they spot a corporate lackey, and then A signals to B:

Avoid the cameras, dodge the cops, and find a way to hit him hard.

Having thought it over, Lille activated the room’s frequency interferer, which could cause a slight delay in Blais’s network monitoring synchronization device.

He also used a sonic pulse to put Lucas into a deeper sleep.

This slight delay was enough for Lille to hack into Blais’s prosthetic system—

This hack was also facilitated by Blais, targeting the enforcement monitor of the network supervision and any other possible surveillance devices.

It was a coordinated hack from the inside out.

However, they still had to be cautious, as no one knew whether there might be any monitoring systems within these prosthetics that Blais was unaware of the activation conditions for.

Having done all this, Blais said, "In some ways, pretty similar, he killed a father and son..."

So, this was a kid-killer psycho?

Lille waited for Blais to finish his sentence, but he unconsciously started pacing back and forth.

After thinking for a moment, he hesitantly started, "We kinda know each other a bit now, so treat what I’m about to say as nonsense. This isn’t from the network supervision database.

Have you ever heard of the ’Son of Gold’?"

(Note 1: This seemingly unrelated item is not purely fabricated by me; it indeed exists in the Cyberpunk series’ European Resources Book.)