[{"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-891":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},1152950,1495,"Chapter 885 - 164: Black Dog (Part Two)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-891",891,"\u003Cp>When they saw the raging Jilafa Type 3, people suddenly realized that those gunshots and explosions weren’t merely a massacre...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t entirely powerless!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Carl, most people had a simple mindset; they had no idea why these robots went crazy, or why production instructions appeared in their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But simple-minded didn’t mean they were fools; they knew if it weren’t for that giraffe charging out and kicking the EBM vehicle apart, they’d be finished!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The EBM army were genuine professionals at warfare, able to proficiently use any firearm on the market, and killing was just a job for them, without a tinge of hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, EU citizens could hardly even get into a fight, let alone go to war; expecting them to pick up weapons and confront was an impossibility—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were efficient at work!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the EU’s decades of standardization and stable environment, it had the world’s largest, most skilled, and stress-resilient workforce!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could remain focused even as the factory next door exploded, seek shelter in a typhoon to avoid being late, and endure high-intensity electricity threatening to short out their prosthetics in toxic air until assignments were complete...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they lacked experience in fighting or killing, if they could survive by working, there was truly no one better than them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, guys! Let’s do it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot also donned workwear, plunging his entire arm into the neural metallurgical interface, while dense neural pathways extended along his attire—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neural metallurgical furnace ceaselessly sprayed powder, as currents violently flickered within; the production line’s speed hit maximum, the hammer’s operation pushed thresholds, circuitry currents well exceeded working ranges, with robots, engravers, lasers, and welding machines all in full swing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, objects never before made rolled off the production line, barely cooled down before being sent to the assembly station—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assembly arm installed devices onto the Jilafa Type 3, as workers pulled the lengthy cords to plug the equipment into modular interfaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The workshop seethed with aromas of machine oil, metal dust, and welding arcs, as mechanical arms slid along tracks, a symphony of low metal roars mingled with distant explosions, metal fused, and sparks flew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Groan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giant cranes hoisted the last weapon components into place via thick steel chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: Serial number 17, stepping module calibrated, spine hydraulics debugged, load test ready...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sevens looked at this robot, profoundly awed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jilafa Type 3, bearing a giraffe’s appearance, with supporting skeletal upgrades, could reach a neck height of 8 meters, serving as a communication antenna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the enhanced outer framework had transformed this robot into a fortress, with multiple segments of reinforced alloy rattling and stretching, four hydraulic-powered legs humming like a tank starting up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re collaborating with rogue AI...\" Sevens muttered, \"It’s too implausible...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The factory’s modified roof opened slowly, revealing a sky turned into a battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A floating car swept rapidly overhead—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world before everyone’s eyes pixelated, as black and red lightning burst from the giraffe’s power source, traversing circuits to fully energize the electromagnetic gun mounted on this industrial robot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weapon shrouded in dark red currents was unmistakable to any worker who dismantled it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Industrial-grade arc welders, magnetic transport devices, heavy industrial robotic arms, industrial liquid nitrogen pipelines, and even the shells loaded into the cannon—assembled from steel-cutting and high-density alloy round heads, somewhat like a nail gun...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could easily relate every component to their daily production equipment, yet when assembled together...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew, this was a cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Name: \"Garbage Blaster\" Electromagnetic Launcher]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description: A weapon born from a civilian industrial line, a super cannon with removed software limitations.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The workers watched as the roof opened slowly, the Jilafa Type 3 stood, aiming its head at the sky, their work ceaseless, reaching a rock music climax in their minds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Squinting a prosthetic eye in the steel forest, shadowed by a black hound]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Cornered, the chase never stops...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dark sky, blood-red night, ominous omen]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[How to stop, when everything has just begun!]...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The black hound in my brain! Leading me to the end!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The black hound in my brain! Leading me to the end!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black lightning burst wildly from the energy source, climbing up the Jilafa Type 3’s spine, filling the cannon, gathering force...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[EMB Assault Team Beta: This is impossible... Zzz!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The alloy blocks accelerated by the electromagnetic gun transformed into shells rivaling a tank’s main cannon, as the floating car, already overwhelmed by lasers, was directly hit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The immense kinetic impact unbalanced the entire vehicle, with overburdened engines spewing flames, exploding amidst whirlwind tumults, bringing death to its passengers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Run! Run!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The EBM commandos on the ground had no time for the fleeing workers and citizens, for they also had robots behind them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All their stimulants injected at once, electric pain shot through the brain, yet prosthetics locked them down completely!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without software drives, these limbs were not only useless but as immobile as if filled with lead; their mental states were highly tense and alert, yet their bodies felt deathly still!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disordered physical conditions hastened mental breakdowns, causing constant madness and epilepsy, rendering them incapable of proper assault or even perceiving their targets!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Johnny sang the same refrain, yet EBM and workers felt differently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally pursuers, they became the hunted prey!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More despairingly, the EBM’s heavenward strike was clearly a strategic weapon, and under these circumstances, it distinguished neither ally nor foe...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The workers found no help, and neither could the EBM soldiers relay messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud explosion, black smoke arose from the police station, while orderly marching echoed through the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disoriented corporate soldiers immediately realized what was happening:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If rogue AI could control the whole industrial machinery of Bremen, why wouldn’t they attack the police station to seize EU machines and equipment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were left with a single question:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why hadn’t the rogue AI attacked the closest workers first, but collaborated with them instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could there truly be a Machine Soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>EBM strategically blundered: workers weren’t forcibly locked in with EBM soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, the soldiers were forcibly trapped in Bremen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robots stood before paralyzed soldiers, raising their weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet their five senses were disrupted, neural networks suffered widespread burns, feeling almost nothing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the ever-louder roars remained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The hunter has become the hunted, running and chasing are no longer opposed—]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Run! Escape!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>",1062,"2026-06-03T12:33:37.306Z","2026-06-03T12:33:42.185Z",1,"novelbin.me","c641c3f41749efd35887e76642080b3878cfa056fa6db2eb3b854595c6edeb2b","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-892","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-890",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]