Chapter 919 - 198: Howling Gale (Part 2)

[Name: TS-3 Model Exoskeleton]

[Description: An exoskeleton equipped for riflemen whose physical fitness doesn’t meet standards, effectively enhancing physical strength and preventing limb deformation from high-intensity combat.]

[Note: Just knowing hacker skills isn’t enough to play this game.]

Blais was wearing a set of work clothes, looking a bit more robust than usual, because underneath the garment, he was already wearing a tight-fitting lightweight exoskeleton.

This gadget was an improvement over the exoskeleton once used by V, with lower costs and easier production compared to prosthetic implants, and was an illegal component manufactured during the Black Dog incident.

Mechanical devices improved by the Cybertrons usually have a very convenient folding storage function and extremely high space utilization, allowing Blais to carry this thing along.

As a hacker, Blais had become accustomed to "thinking things through" to solve problems for a long while...

But when facing the European Union, the overwhelming blockade was simply beyond his capability to handle.

Although the Mackinaw Floating Shadow was incredibly tough, his body wasn’t nearly as hard; not to mention the minor fractures, all the muscles in his body were stiff.

Fortunately, the exoskeleton could solve the problem: Military Technology and Arasaka Group knew exactly how powerful the exoskeletons used by the Burger King crime syndicate were.

Now the European Union would know as well.

[Blais: This is ridiculous, I’ve handled countless incidents for those Golden Sons, and most of the time their habit is to launch a spokesperson...]

[Blais: If something incites public anger with massive social media backlash, they will push a scapegoat to the forefront, then sacrifice the pawn to appease, and people will soon forget about it.]

[Blais: I bet you have this feeling of punching cotton, because that was my experience in Network Supervision.]

Thanks to the terrorist attack, the entire city’s police were on alert.

In fact, there was no need to investigate anymore—

Blais was sure this event was real, but the mastermind behind it was definitely not this Visconti.

[Blais: The Visconti family is just a phony noble house; 21 years ago the European Union wanted to allocate funds for children with congenital diseases, and they didn’t want to give the money to Biotechnology directly, so they created this company.]

[Blais: Now I understand why the kids from Foxstone and Bremen couldn’t go back.]

The truth was out, but as Blais said, it felt like punching cotton.

Although Blais’s tone was very calm, his heart was not at peace:

Network Supervision was the organization within the European Union that dealt with these matters the most, and any crime committed by these privileged individuals hidden beneath the surface was always shouldered by some lackey, they would never be punished.

Once he decided to leave his homeland, going to Night City to take charge of AI-related affairs to forget it all, only to find that even the attitude towards AI in Network Supervision was biased—

The European Union, Network Supervision... whether companies or countries, they were all hiding too much.

[Blais: ...Do you remember the day you were supposed to apprehend Jotaro?]

[Lille: To be precise, I didn’t "apprehend" him.]

[Blais: I wish I could do the same.]

[Lille: That would get you killed terribly.]

Bam!

Blais punched the wall with such force that a fist mark was left on the metal surface—right now he missed Night City.

[Lille: What’s the rush, we still have a chance to do something.]

[Blais: But we don’t even know who’s behind all this!]

Blais raised his head to look at Europa Tower—

This sky-scraping super tower was the core of the European Union, and the defense outside was beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

The terrorist attack not only startled the European Union, forcing the Golden Son to sacrifice a pawn, but also clearly disrupted Blais’s infiltration activities...

Clearly, with Lille’s help, he could have slipped in unnoticed.

[Lille: We can still get in, and there aren’t just one or two channels...]

[Lille: Get ready.]

Upon hearing this, Blais gathered his emotions, relying on the exoskeleton, silently standing at the street corner, watching the distant Europa Tower through the reflection in the glass.

Almost simultaneously, all the drones in the sky experienced a momentary delay!

This scene was very abrupt, and the uniform movement made people unconsciously look up!

...

Buzz——

As if to respond to Elliot and the workers’ enthusiasm, a whale let out a massive sound in the tank!

"If we can go through the storm, we can go through the atmosphere!"

The voice from the ocean was invigorating: or rather, under such circumstances, any voice showcasing strength could invigorate people!

"The next fifty years!" Elliot directly jumped out of the car, walked up to the maintenance walkway beside the whale tank, and shouted passionately to the people around, "In the next fifty years, we will no longer be confined to Earth!"

"We will leave Earth, embrace the stars, embrace the infinite, and our future will shine among the stars!"

Boom!

With the sky clouded over, gale-force winds grew, thunder clapped suddenly!

"We won’t let anyone thwart our steps or steal our future!"

The workers roared in response: "That’s right!"

The scene quickly turned fanatical!

If anyone who lived through decades ago was here, they would remember the punk rock movement, the great strikes before the Su Federation was born, how they liberated Germany long ago, how people once took back land from old nobles and capitalists—

This scene completely infected everyone!

Except for one person who would not be moved:

A person determined to create cyber psychosis today.

Lightning flickered, thunder rumbled between clouds!

The typhoon that the European Union prepared for weeks was about to hit the coast!

"Comrades!" Elliot shouted passionately, "Look around you, look around all of us! We stand united!

Someone is hiding among us, he—"

Boom!

The explosion from within the clouds almost deafened everyone!

But thunder wasn’t enough to break people’s eardrums—

An explosion could!

People thought they were stunned by the thunder, but when they looked up at the sky, countless fragments of buildings sliced through the air!

Flames covered the whole sky!

A huge explosion occurred at the core factory of the IEC!

A massive piece of metal flew towards the shouting Elliot like a cannonball, and at that moment, he was back at Foxstone’s small factory...

When cyber psychosis took over the entire factory, the production line turned into a cannon chamber, the products into cannonballs, and these former "civilian" items were equally lethal!

"Get out of the way!"

...

"You betrayed us..."

The face of the person pressing the button twisted, and liquid mixed with organic solvent, tears, and blood flowed from the eye socket of the prosthetic eye.

"They should be the ones to catch..."

The insane actions filled the entire power room with toxic fumes, and the temperature kept rising—

The skin of the cyber psychosis was scalded by the high temperature, peeling off layer by layer, with no fire on the surface, only the industrial skin constantly melting from heat...

Bones and muscles revealed, fallen blood and tears also evaporated in the high temperature!

"You betrayed us!!!"