Chapter 914 - 193 Aerial Stunts

The moment the terrorist attack occurred, the European Barrier simultaneously issued a level-one alert instruction to the entire Berlin, with floating cars, police cars, drones, and officers all converging on the incident area—

Why was Blais running like a madman? Because locking down Berlin might take some time, but sealing off a street is just too simple!

Under the regulation of the European Barrier, in less than a minute, not even a fly could escape from this street!

He wanted to turn to Matt, but Matt was under the spotlight at the moment; if he really turned to him, the two of them might spend the rest of their lives in a European Union prison!

So there was only one solution left:

Berlin is huge, but floating cars are fast. Lille had already activated the module in Matt’s Cyber Modulator, allowing him to hack directly into the floating car in the air, making it glide at high speed towards the incident site!

As for Blais, he was indeed frail; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to escape the European Union border screening...

But right now, this was the only way!

Born desperados are destined for a life on the run!

Whirr—

In the sky, the floating car Matt was riding emitted black smoke, and two auxiliary mechanical wings bounced out from the car’s chassis—

This vehicle relies on a powerful engine and thruster to maintain its stance, but once it encounters a malfunction, safety devices will also deploy.

Most of the time, however, these mechanisms can only slightly decelerate the car, trying to let it land in a "safe" place...

The car’s vertical speed continued to soar!

Drones rushing to seal the airspace were all knocked away by the floating car, as Blais pulled out something from his clothing:

During the chaos in Bremen, factories produced many military weapons, and some were placed on those Jilafa Industry robots, but Lille had also prepared something for Blais—

This was a Spider Silk Emitter, though unlike those used by superhumans like Spiderman, this device was secured to the waist with a set of retractable high-strength carbon fiber frames to fix it from the waist to the thigh, preventing a normal human from being torn apart by the immense acceleration.

No matter what, this thing still looked extremely unreliable:

Blais couldn’t understand how that tiny bottle of Spider Silk Solution could shoot out highly adhesive, high-strength super cords!

But at this moment, he had no other choice!

"Now I get to experience big bro’s gear too!!!"

Whoosh!

The floating car skimmed over rooftops, with an incredibly loud noise like a plane passing overhead, the smoke-trailing floating car zipped over people’s heads like a missile, and at this moment, Blais pulled out his personal link plugged into the public network interface—

Then, he did a sky-piercing move, shooting out the spider silk!

Thump!

A tremendous force seemed to hit him from behind, his head suddenly lost all sensation, and everything before him vanished!

The only thing he could see was the timestamp in the upper left corner of his visual system—

One second, just a second passed, blood returned to his brain, vision restored, and he was already looking at the whole of Berlin!

The hacked floating car sliced through the air like a bird, its engine fully engaged, even erupting in intense flames, hurtling towards the New Berlin District!

The troops advancing on orders towards the Old East Germany region paused as they saw this fireball; in that instant, the lockdown directive originally targeting the Old East Germany Industrial Zone became a city-wide lockdown across all of Berlin!

Blais hanging underneath the car only felt the wind roaring, rain droplets slicing like blades across his cheeks, and his heart had never pumped so vigorously in its life!

"I... shit..."

Bang!

The car door flew off, yet Blais hanging under the car remained in a dazed state; he might have heard the car door eject, but his mind couldn’t process anything!

Inside the vehicle, although the speed of these floating cars making wild air maneuvers was hard for an ordinary person to withstand, for Matt it was just another day!

He elbowed open the car door!

Not only did he elbow open the car door, but Matt also saw the silk threads hanging below the car, and that face distorted madly in the wind left Matt bewildered, but he recognized the spider silk clinging to the vehicle!

That stuff was a biological product frequently used by big bro and his group!

With Lille’s disappearance, that stuff had long been used up; no way anyone else should have it in their possession!

Matt’s pupils contracted sharply, suppressing his shock and other thoughts with all his might; as a child practically raised by fugitives, he knew he couldn’t let Blais get captured by the European Union!

"Son... we’re going to jump the car... damn it, what are you doing!!!"

"Dad! Don’t worry about me—"

The voice came from behind, and Matt directly pulled his dad out, ensuring his emergency parachute was securely strapped before tossing him out!

Whoosh!

In the gust, the moment his father was thrown out, he blacked out, and his screams didn’t last long.

After taking care of his dad, Matt looked at Blais dangling below like a fly:

He didn’t know Blais, but the appearance of big bro’s stuff on him indicated he knew something!

Even though he desperately wanted to pull Blais up for questioning, by the time he did, the car would have hit the skyscrapers—

Even if he had to crash-land, he could only choose a remote area where the Berlin police, Interpol, and Network Supervision couldn’t catch them for the time being...

Not knowing who hacked the car, software control seemed unlikely, but he could still exert hardware control:

Back in the day, big bro Jack in Night City gripped a helicopter with his bare hands, enduring the vehicle’s weight, performing a "swing" in the air...

Thinking on it, Matt felt the surge of hot blood—

Despite dreaming of becoming an athletic star, at this moment, he once again felt that surging blood-borne excitement!

He grasped the edge of the floating car’s door, both hands clutching the spider silk, one foot in the vehicle, fiercely kicked out at the glider with the other!

Working with the car’s momentum, Matt fiercely tugged on the spider silk, jostling Blais right into the floating car!

Bam!

Whap, whap.

"Bro!" Matt shouted at the dazed Blais below, giving him two slaps, "Big bro is still alive, right!!!"

But obviously, Blais, still mortal, couldn’t withstand such maneuvering, as soon as he got into the car his eyes rolled back, and he foamed at the mouth...

Blais couldn’t respond.

Matt could only grit his teeth: Clearly, he wouldn’t get answers now, but he had to protect the person.

Being from Night City, he had an innate sense for outlaws, and Blais was definitely Night City born!

With such thoughts, he didn’t hesitate further, directly tying Blais to the seat, fastening the seatbelt:

The floating car hadn’t completely lost power, more like it was hacked, hence the previous dive, now the engine surged back, even at the risk of overloading and burning.

As long as it didn’t crash vertically, this Mackinaw Floating Shadow from Night City could definitely withstand!

"Pal, find me once you wake up, don’t you die..."

Finishing, Matt grabbed the car’s door edge, pressing himself against its surface like a reptile, lowering himself from the floating car!

His movements would make anyone gasp:

At such speed, to control oneself against the car’s surface grabbing just the door edge, that was not something purely human!

Even mechanical exoskeletons could slip their grip!

Blood oozed from Matt’s palms, he glanced at the floating car’s engine, then at Blais:

He didn’t know Blais’s true identity, but he had to act...

Everyone hoped the Burger King would return to Night City, and he was no different.

With such thoughts, energies poured forth, erupting from his muscles, that already exaggerated muscular physique inflating sharply, clothing fragments swirling in the wind—

That foot, which never had a chance to unleash its power on the football field, fiercely kicked at the engine!

"Aaaaaaaaah!"

Bam!

The engine burst apart from Matt’s kick, separating man and vehicle, Matt crashing towards the Sky Garden in New Berlin District, while the vehicle swerved, plummeting towards the station at New Berlin District’s edge.

That place was crowded, and crucially, it had a canopy...

To provide some buffering at least.