Chapter 517 - 488 Electromagnetic Mania (1)

Westbrook, Japan Street, in some sense, it’s even more prosperous than the area around Company Square.

As a hub of the service industry, as long as you’re a person, you can do business here. This results in dense and towering buildings, with skywalks and aerial passages connecting between the buildings to make full use of the three-dimensional space, crisscrossing like a grid.

This is a better filming location than the apartments along Haywood Street—

The increasingly close horn sounds were making people restless. When people peeked through the glass windows, shattered fixtures burst into electrical sparks, dim neon lights along with those sparks illuminated phantoms wandering in the high sky!

Unexpectedly intense electromagnetic changes and high-power movements made Eclipse’s stealth module no longer sufficient for complete concealment. This full-body cyborg used all its strength to climb and move between the tall buildings...

He had only one question in his mind: How could this be happening?

Crack!

His metallic fingers clutched deeply into the concrete wall, forcibly creating a grip point on the uneven surface.

Combining that with the force from two powerful legs pushing off, it provided enough strength for him to leap vertically over a meter on the wall, effortlessly grabbing onto a higher skywalk.

Vertical climbing was much harder than sliding down between buildings, yet this cyborg’s speed was so fast that it was hard to see. Each time the electric light flickered and the light changed drastically, exposing his form, he would appear in a new position.

Citizens watching this scene from inside the buildings were somewhat terrified: If such an enemy was chasing me, how could I even hide?

To the ordinary eye, they were almost teleporting between buildings!

Like evil ghosts, elusive, hard to even see clearly, let alone that they could easily crush one’s head.

And it wasn’t just one such evil ghost.

The disrupted optical camouflage, the afterimages created by the fast movement under the lights, and the real figures were mixed together, making it impossible for ordinary people to determine how many such cyborgs were moving quickly between the buildings...

They just felt like it was a hundred ghosts in a night parade!

But what they didn’t know was that this was the limit of this body: because behind the ghost that citizens feared, there was an even fiercer ghost!

BOOM!

A violent explosion came from a lower skywalk, where an Eclipse cyborg was forced to self-destruct!

The melted concrete from the high-temperature blast followed the ruptured steel structure and crashed down, a motorcycle... a motorcycle flew out of the explosion!

If Eclipse was an evil ghost, then the person on this motorcycle would be the Hell Knight!

Everyone could see it clearly!

The Blast Ride’s exaggerated explosive propulsion method made the bike fly up directly, under V’s control, the tires slammed onto the wall heavily, violent horsepower burst out, the tires turned red-hot, the wall peeled off, and then the thrusters ignited again!

Unlike humans who could cling steadily to building walls, this wild vehicle touched the wall only once, and the exaggerated torque and thrust gave it a power far beyond that of a cyborg jump!

The vehicle soared into the sky like a rocket, with a jump height far surpassing Eclipse’s limit, leaping over two meters at once!

V’s Mantis Blade extended, the slightly hot Chroni Titanium alloy tore through an existing crack in the wall and embedded deeply into it. Her other hand shot out Spider Silk, gripping the wall with one hand and pulling hard with the other!

The airborne Bursting Red Rider swung in an arc in the air, crashing heavily onto another pedestrian skywalk, gaining a new foothold, and continuing its total burst!

The spectators were stunned: a motorcycle was jumping! Jumping higher and higher!

With one set of maneuvers, she had directly caught up with a full-body cyborg who was still struggling to climb!

Her opponent turned back in horror, this glance felt like a lifetime...

He wanted to escape, but Eclipse’s extreme mobility was more than halved before V, so he could only turn back to resist.

In mid-air, the fully mechanical body had an advantage in adjusting its posture. The heat sink slots at the back of this cyborg fully opened, releasing streams of high-temperature steam to obscure V’s vision and cause her sensors to misjudge.

At the same time, the spring-blade in Eclipse’s arm was prepared for a desperate strike.

Each of these blades was made of special alloy, the mechanical power storage inside the body was compressed to the extreme during motion, aided by gunpowder, the exit speed could rival some high-tech weapons—

Unfortunately for him, V wasn’t the only pursuer; so was the motorcycle.

The thruster of the Blast Ride propelled it with a fiery burst, the fiery wave blowing away the steam, instantly burning this guy’s head, turning his sensors and face into a blob of mush—

The spring-blade shot out, but only grazed V’s side, and even if it barely hit, it would only have struck the motorcycle’s exterior...

Bang!

The wheel arced in the air, smashing this guy hard onto the point he originally intended to reach.

The immense force, the burning flames, the solid full-body prosthetics collapsed under the pressure and high temperature; the rotating tires shredded his disintegrating body into fragments, crashing down towards the ground.

"Wuhu!" V’s face flushed with excitement, "This thing is awesome!"

[Si Anweisitan Power Monitoring: Time Stop effect power increased, detected new neural currents, deviation correction, power correction, re-estimation...]

[Current time stop effect: 31%]

[Exceeded original firmware theoretical limit.]

Phut phut—

Just when V wanted to continue chasing other fleeing enemies, the thruster made a sound like an old car...

The fuel had dropped to a level where vigorous driving mode was no longer usable.

The bike began to fall.

The escaping guys finally relaxed seeing this scene...

Fortunately, physics still restricted her.

But in the next second, they couldn’t laugh anymore.

They saw the legendary Mackinaw, this super truck, squeezing into the alley without any regard for life!

Not only did the vehicle come in, but if you looked closely, you’d see an unlucky guy hit on the hood, his arm spewing high-temperature flames, like some sort of welding torch.

Why call him unlucky?

The alley was only slightly wider than the truck, so Mackinaw almost crashed in!

The warrior who tried to use some high-temperature spray device on the armored vehicle got crushed between the building’s corner and the vehicle! The body barely maintained balance in the high-speed impact, and the mercenary who was jammed got worn down in the friction between the body armor and the walls...

And Jack, holding what should have been his motorcycle above his head, flushed with exertion, throwing the bike out!

"Catch the bike!"

BOOOM!

The motorcycle Jack threw onto the wall collided heavily with the wall’s surface, one rising, the other descending.

The one rising was grabbed by V’s hands, the one descending was steadied by Jack—

V gave a thumbs-up, and the motorcycle bounced twice on the wall before charging straight at the enemy again!

The latter suddenly felt a wave of despair. In less than a millisecond, the entire Night City’s power supply showed anomalies!

An invisible electromagnetic wave was amplified hundreds of times; for the full-body prosthetic users, especially those using Munemasa provided prosthetics...

Their heads were suddenly filled with noise!

[Evolution Heart: Thought disorder and extremism induced by specific electromagnetic waves]

[Effect eliminated.]