[{"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-409":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},1151550,1495,"Chapter 409 - 381: The Iron Wall of Reality","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-409",409,"\u003Cp>The Trauma Team’s hover car was an Atlas Hovercar produced by Zeta Technology, a typical performance hover car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In North America, the Trauma Team had a total of over 1,500 such hover cars, whose armor was merely adequate compared to the military-designed Scorpion-tailed Lions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bullets eroded the body armor like locusts, and to Kaneke’s ears they sounded like a heavy downpour, the metal droplets striking the car and sparking off rounds of exaggerated sparks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hover car, like a meteor, hurtled toward the enemy in his eyes at a speed of 70 meters per second, unstoppable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground, Emperor Ragnar had stiffened: he had just poked his head out and saw a hover car coming crashing down on him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was too slow, his driver, however, was not—the driver slammed the gas pedal, the tires screeched against the ground, and the car darted away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wooly, who had just called out the immunosuppressant, was equally pale: he didn’t think the car was headed for him, but he wasn’t about to gamble on that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One second!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on the height of the hover car, they all had only one second!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car and the mercenaries shot off in opposite directions, but only covered a few meters...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death was getting closer, but they were in luck: this was Huangshan Seaside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arasaka’s firepower was no joke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several missiles struck the surface of the car, a huge fireball creating a mushroom cloud in the sky, and the high-speed hover car completely lost momentum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaneke’s eyes were about to split—he saw the world slowing down around him as his consciousness burnt out, and in the midst of the impact, he saw the hover car veering off course!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t notice that the vector engine of the hover car had restarted, making an extreme adjustment amidst its high speed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the only thing Lille could help him with!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The engines blew apart, and the bullet and missile-damaged hover car shattered into pieces!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shockwave hit Kaneke with no reserve, and he was like a bird released from its shackles—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Veering off track, the now uncontrollable and decelerated hover car had no hope of hitting Wooly, and the explosion occurring at that moment freed him from the doomed vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last shockwave was his wings!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if by divine grace!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although gripping his submachine gun tightly, Kaneke did not choose to pull the trigger but instead clutched it firmly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he had failed once before because he couldn’t pull the trigger, this time he decided not to pull it at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wooly took steps two at a time, almost jumping onto his own car, when suddenly a strong wind and shockwave hit him from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His world suddenly slowed, and Si Anweisitan’s immense reflexes afforded him the chance to look back...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind howled, and Wooly felt the world spinning around him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An arm gripping a submachine gun slammed into his head with such force that it broke Kaneke’s hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vengeful Evil Ghost paid the price of an arm to smash the ammunition-depleted weapon into his enemy’s head, and not even the integrated skull could withstand the impact, and caved in brutally!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hover car’s wreckage scattered on the ground; the two cyborgs caught in the kinetic tumult lost control and tumbled down the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Ragnar, who had just started, didn’t even get to run past Wooly, who was knocked away by that punch, and the car jerked to a stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hot, inside the car, watched this scene through the electronic rearview mirror, sweating bullets:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a politician, he had seen a lot of blusterous weapons, invincible corporate armies, but he had never seen such a desperate style of fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of person would gamble with their life like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Arasaka troops merely watched from a distance the hover car that had fallen to the ground and the two motionless figures—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spot was dangerous, but they had to hold their position, as no one knew whether this was some sort of ploy to draw the tiger away from the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corporation would soon send officials to deal with these people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaneke hit the ground, his vision of the world warping and shifting, the wind slowing down, and the sounds growing deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colors were distorted, everything in sight both familiar and strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he kill Woolie?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he did not pull the trigger again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arm was already broken off, but even so, it did not let go of the submachine gun in its grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The submachine gun shattered under the impact, its broken part smashing open Woolie’s head; it was half-embedded in his skull, with half a forearm still gripping the handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of their bodies were twisted, both were unable to move, but Kaneke was still moving—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know why he was so persistent, clearly being someone who had nothing left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew he had to make sure to finish off this bastard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woolie’s body suddenly shook, his twisted frame distorting under the action of motors and artificial muscles, his bones and internal structures pushing against his skin as they moved, shifting into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a manner completely violating human biomechanics, he stood up like a lump of mud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under such circumstances, Woolie’s head slowly twisted around, looking at Kaneke on the ground with a crooked gaze...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahhhh...so fucking painful, so fucking painful...so fucking painful!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human body is an organic system, with functional organs connected by blood vessels, playing their roles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human body is also a flawed system, no person could live through such an impact, let alone self-repair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a machine could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of Woolie’s organs, even his bones, were designed in one piece; organ displacement and circulatory system ruptures caused by severe impacts were no longer problems!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe a few synthetic pipes had issues, but machinery is more durable in such conditions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sophisticated self-diagnosis and repair systems drove each piece of implanted muscle, pulling bones and organs back into place, then powering them on, continuing operation—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This punch indeed smashed a huge dent in Woolie’s head, but it did not turn his brain to mush!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a cyborg monster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaneke had only one thought:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He too must stand up and then finish off this man!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body did not have powerful one-piece custom prosthetics, only broken bionic muscles and a multitude of biological organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each movement squeezed more blood from shattered organs and flesh, and synthetic liquid for maintaining prosthetic functions seeped from broken pipes into his body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both were cybernetic psychopaths, but the two kinds of cybernetic psychopathy were completely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One is driven by strong prosthetics to move his body, while anguish torments his mind; he only wants to project this physical pain onto the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other is a person with nothing, turning everything he still has into fuel, to do the last thing he can:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revenge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last sound signified Woolie’s return to normal function, Kaneke also dragged his tattered body to stand again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both charged at each other at the same time, but Kaneke only managed to limp forward a step, whereas Woolie left a footprint on the ground with his starting step!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disparity in speed was so vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes the gap between imagination and reality is just that big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eyes of ordinary people, all that was left of Woolie was an afterimage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Kaneke’s eyes, Woolie was very slow, so slow it was as if he was walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know why it was like this, but he himself was even slower—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His limbs felt like they were filled with lead, he couldn’t even feel them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man cannot simply burn everything and expect the world to yield; will hits the iron wall of reality, as if it can never be surmounted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaneke’s gaze gradually lost focus, ready to accept reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second, a Mackinaw appeared in his reality!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It smashed through the iron wall of reality!\u003C\u002Fp>",1338,"2026-06-03T12:33:12.910Z","2026-06-03T12:33:19.802Z",1,"novelbin.me","c16128849488c117b9f04bf7102e2ee64b94a75135e1d23bfe789b91e1b77279","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-410","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-408",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]