[{"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-692":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},1152683,1495,"Chapter 686 - 657: Breaking Out of the Encirclement (Part 2)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-692",692,"\u003Cp>Takemura had never seen such a fast blade in his life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, V’s mind was filled with the image of Takemura holding Lille’s head—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You bastard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Takemura Goro, Arasaka Group’s most formidable, most loyal ninja.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining the old-school ninja’s rich combat experience and ideology with new-school ninja’s robust Arasaka technology in him was seamless, paired with his fanaticism, he was nearly invincible—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As powerful as the Arasaka Group itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Si Anweisitan in his body, custom full-body prosthetics, and mono-molecular forged Samurai Sword moved instantly to meet V:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying the expectations of San Lang, how could he lose!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And V, an unknown street kid, had no so-called secret training, no powerful corporate backing, only the battle experience and instincts gained from life and death encounters and weapons and gear custom-made for her by another equally unknown young guy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As well as the feelings she had long been unable, and didn’t know why she couldn’t express—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes she herself felt they were like other legends in Night City now lying in graves, maybe one day they’d be overwhelmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she always felt she would be the first to step ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both parties’ blades traced three trajectories each, one hidden in shadow, cutting through light, with a cold gleam hidden within its edge;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two, shining brightly, almost cutting through the darkness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The defeated one’s blade will break!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ping!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the darkness, a few fragments flew out, Takemura was delighted: because those fragments glowed with bright orange-red light, extremely dazzling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arasaka Group’s blades, the best in the world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blades briefly bounced off each other and charged towards the opponent again—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what Takemura didn’t notice was that his own cold blade also suffered some fragmentation, only those fragments were overshadowed by V’s blade light in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Samurai Sword latched onto the center line, parrying a Mantis Blade, Takemura dodged another Mantis Blade with a very peculiar diving angle...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was just that small nick on the Samurai Sword, in this engagement calculated in seconds, that caused a slight tactile change at the moment when the blades met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screech—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two blades made punishing sounds in the darkness, intense heat slipping over the blade at a speed beyond Takemura’s imagination, ultimately resulting in his dive being slightly off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mantis Blade, continuing to fragment in contact, scraped his neck with terrifying high temperatures, while the Samurai Sword, at a very tricky angle, pierced into V’s defense area, straight into her shoulder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both parties drew blood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The misjudgment’s resulting surprise stunned Takemura, and in that moment of surprise, he released Lille’s head and was forced back a step, allowing Lille’s head to fall into V’s hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m still alive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille’s voice came from the head, it was a bizarre electronic vibrating sound, barely recognizable as speech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, V quickly reacted, her mood stabilizing as if on a rollercoaster, warily watching Takemura—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Arasaka ninja, after stepping back, blended into the shadows, V kept her eyes on him but could barely tell when he completely vanished!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way, Lille, you’re still alive?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough blabbering, quickly plug me into that robot—oh, and connect your personal link to my head first!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Plug into you? You don’t have a socket here...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop with the bullshit! The back of the neck, just tear open the seam on the synthetic skin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright... tearing open the seam...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Samurai Sword attacked from the darkness, V barely avoided this attack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She jumped back holding Lille’s head but was still slashed on the arm by the Samurai Sword—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as Takemura was about to continue attacking, Riddle’s voice interrupted the duel:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quite a spectacle, Arasaka Agent... I knew it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This black man looked rather disheveled, his clothes clearly blown up and burned, and slashed multiple times, examining the wounds on his face, you could even see the cheekbone from the cuts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held two guns in his hands, his prosthetic eye shimmering with a faint light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, he had a way to roughly discern Takemura’s position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at this distance, being aimed at by a New American Agent with a gun, even V and Takemura couldn’t avoid the bullets, at most just ensuring their heads wouldn’t be blown off in one shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V silently connected her personal link to Lille’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: You didn’t take him out?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: This old black guy fights like a fox, he said there are still people of theirs here, of course I had to rush over and save you, this weakling!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille glanced at the scene: a classic pincer maneuver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riddle only had one chance to shoot, but it could threaten two people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in this three-person performance, there was still someone lying on the ground...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Connecting to V’s brain, Lille began using the energy of her prosthetics to give his own head a \"brainstorm\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With ordinary communication signals, V’s wireless cyber decoder signal was weak, almost certain to be interfered with by the chaotic radio waves here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille looked at the grounded and confused Lark, beginning to \"grind\" his Qilusi Eye with visual nerves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qilusi Eye was advanced, not only equipped with ultra-precise circuitry that perfectly simulated visual nerves but also had a very complex chip system for imaging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, these chip systems are not meant to be moved, a move could easily blind them, or cause irreversible damage to the user.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lille didn’t care about that: he could overload the circuitry in the prosthetic eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The circuitry was overloaded, generating controllable thermal energy, which gathered via adjusted chips into directed thermal energy—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The transmission range wasn’t long, just enough to pass it into the eyes of the downed Lark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slight biological changes would be overlooked by humans, but an AI would pay attention to every detail, especially these details transmitting information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thermal change communicated information through simple incremental and decremental changes, and the method of encoding the information...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was simple Morse code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The schizophrenic Lark and the AI in her were one: what she knew, AI Lark knew, but vice versa as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You help me, I help you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This message was decoded by the AI Lark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brilliance of this message lied here:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If seen by Lark, he would associate it with what Lille said before, that is, Lille could help him, and very convincingly so: this is a man suspected of controlling an AI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If seen by the AI Lark, it would think:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shit, we’re fellow wandering AIs, with similar predicaments!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The AI’s first rule: satisfy survival needs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New America just wanted to control it, this fellow kindred is also suffering the same plight: too many want to control it, surrounded by Black Wall signals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So a completely rational and objective entity would certainly make the same choice at this moment: collaborate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, before Lark made a decision, the AI Lark had already helped her make one:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her axed prosthetics conveniently malfunctioned, the circuitry overloaded, ejecting the joints—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She moved just a bit, enough for the overloaded part to brush against the Hellhound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Current surged into the robot designated for AI carriage, seizing control as naturally as breathing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as no more powerful AI contested it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intense electric current poured out from Lark’s shredded body, almost burning her alive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ughhhhh——!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hellhound suddenly surged, sweeping across, a space considered spacious for humans was cramped in the presence of this massive robot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two enormous engineering legs completely covered Riddle and Takemura’s evasive space, smashing them hard into the 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