Chapter 23

Chapter 23: NASDAQ Group’s Capture Operation

“Rather than letting this cybernetic body benefit the NASDAQ Group, it’s better to give it to Alice and leave after the final surgery,” Dr. Jack said to Luo Sheng, looking at Alice with her incomplete body.

“Where to?” Luo Sheng asked curiously.

“The Resistance Organization,” Dr. Jack replied, then lifted Alice onto the operating table, preparing for surgery.

“Is it that urgent?”

“There’s no time left. Go guard the entrance.”

With that, Dr. Jack pressed the clinic’s reaction device. Instantly, metal shutters came down, and red lights illuminated the inside of the clinic. Many computers and machines started their automatic self-destruct programs.

Luo Sheng was left stunned by the sight.

“Dr. Jack, this is…?”

Dr. Jack didn’t hide anything and said plainly, “I’m a member of the Resistance Organization. But now, because of you and me, we’ve been exposed.”

Luo Sheng wanted to apologize, but the other had already pushed Alice into the operating room.

He planned to install this super biomechanical body on her.

Luo Sheng also learned about the Resistance Organization’s affairs.

It was actually a civilian organization resisting Sky City. Today’s Sky City was no longer the glory of humanity, but had become the property of interest groups or the rich.

They controlled the Alliance’s upper echelons through vast amounts of money, thereby controlling everything, and constructing an eternal static world.

They established violent institutions, controlled world resources, closed off channels for advancement, and continuously sucked blood from civilians. They used entertainment and addictive products to weaken the civilians’ will and ability to resist, thus building a pyramid of power.

At the top of the pyramid were the conglomerates and the rich. They were local tyrants, firmly controlling everything and enjoying everything.

The people at the bottom were the objects of their enslavement and exploitation, working for them generation after generation.

This is what’s called today: a cyberpunk world of collapsed authority and unbalanced order.

Therefore, the Resistance Organization was born. They depicted a world after overthrowing the rule of conglomerates and the Alliance, a world of the people.

Simply put, it was to create a utopian society where the young are nurtured, the students are educated, the workers are rewarded, the sick are treated, and the elderly are cared for.

Dr. Jack came from there, becoming an undercover agent infiltrating the Earth City-State of Detroit, just to collect intelligence on Sky City and the Alliance, as well as the weaknesses of the NASDAQ Group.

Now that Luo Sheng and Alice were wanted, he naturally couldn’t escape the fate of being scrutinized.

1 hour later.

A loud rumbling sound came from outside the clinic.

A Black Hawk patrol aircraft using an axle-less ion propulsion system (similar to the Samson in Avatar) hovered outside the clinic. Its strong spotlights shone down like the midday sun, instantly dispelling the night.

The huge loudspeaker on it kept shouting: “You’re surrounded! Come out and surrender! No killing if you disarm!”

Although they said this, the dark muzzles of the Gatling guns were already aimed at the clinic, showing no intention of persuasion.

The patrol aircraft’s hatch opened, and a large number of black-uniformed guards came down, approaching with heavy machine guns, quickly surrounding the clinic.

The black-clothed guard captain said quietly into the communicator: “Kill them all, whether they disarm or not.”

Then the guards took out explosive materials to destroy the metal windows, followed by throwing metal balls inside. A second later, a violent explosion was heard from the clinic, with power no less than C4 explosives. Fortunately, the clinic was built with a metal frame, barely withstanding the explosive damage.

At this time, civilians around the clinic panicked, frantically fleeing the area.

The black-clothed guards, certain there was no movement inside, rushed into the clinic for a perfect decapitation operation.

However…

“Ahhh!!!”

Suddenly, not long after the black-clothed guards entered, screams came from inside, followed by gunfire.

But the gunfire only lasted for 2 seconds before stopping.

Then, from the blown-open gap of the clinic, a large amount of black mist surged out, spreading throughout the street.

“Turn on the thermal imaging devices.”

The captain gave the order, and the guards all lit up their glasses. Immediately, blue glowing eyes appeared in the black mist.

But they were shocked by what they saw. In the virtual vision, the spread of black mist was accompanied by an icy world, with ice quickly spreading to their feet.

“Damn it, why is there ice here?”

A guard cursed as he lifted his boot.

Then he saw a figure without temperature emerge from under the ice. A flash of golden cold light, and this guard’s head was separated from his body.

Seeing this, other companions opened fire.

But that figure instantly sank under the ice, impossible to kill.

“Ah!!! Ghost!!!”

Soon, screams arose one after another from the clinic under the black mist. Within 10 seconds, the black-clothed guards surrounding the clinic were basically all dead.

Meanwhile, the Gatling guns on the Black Hawk patrol aircraft circling in the sky aimed at the clinic, spewing red flames. Bullet-sized shells rained down, instantly turning the clinic’s metal shutters into sieves.

Red flashes also erupted from within the black mist.

The Black Hawk patrol aircraft pilots originally thought the flashes were the effect of their machine guns.

A second later, they no longer thought so.

The flashes burst out of the black mist, and they realized they were actually fireballs, equally densely bombarding the patrol aircraft. The pilots’ faces turned pale as they hurriedly maneuvered the Black Hawk to escape, but unfortunately, the patrol aircraft was not as agile as the fireballs.

“No!!!”

Screams came from the cockpit.

Instantly, flames shot up, and the patrol aircraft became a fireball illuminating the entire sky above the Detroit City-State. Finally, it became a grand firework blooming open, visible even from Sky City above the earth city below.

The black-clothed guard team under the jurisdiction of the Detroit City-State and NASDAQ Group, which surrounded the clinic, was completely wiped out in less than 5 minutes.

After the black mist and icy world dissipated, flames flickered on the ground, corpses were scattered everywhere, and not far away, a damaged Black Hawk patrol aircraft was burning fiercely.

When Dr. Jack came out, he saw his clinic completely unrecognizable and was stunned for a while.

Luo Sheng, on the other hand, was unscathed, sitting in the hall in a daze.

What kind of monster was this guy in front of him?

He had taken care of the NASDAQ Group’s guard team in one go. Those were the conglomerate’s dogs, and their heavy weapons were not inferior.

Seeing Dr. Jack come out, Luo Sheng stood up and asked, “How’s the surgery?”

“Perfect, or perhaps she was born suited for this biomechanical body.”

As soon as Dr. Jack finished speaking.

Alice slowly walked out of the operating room.

Now she looked more like a human, no longer a bare mechanical cybernetic body, but a flawless figure. The interfaces of the cybernetic body were even invisible, as if they were innate.

Especially the body without excess fat, beautiful body curves, and long legs in perfect golden ratio with the body, beautiful to the point of feeling unreal.

Except for the pulse energy device exposed on the spine, about the size of a palm.

“How is it?” Alice asked.

“Ahem… perfect.”

Luo Sheng coughed dryly, very naturally becoming entranced.

Alice smiled slightly, but she said, “I feel this cybernetic body is a bit strange.”

Dr. Jack stroked his prickly beard and explained, “You need to accept the new body and form a large number of neural connections with the new body. This is just the initial state, neural connection growth takes time. Currently, you can only master 3% of the body’s capabilities.”

“No wonder.”

Alice raised her palm and found her five fingers moving very stiffly.

At this time, the rumbling of several more patrol aircraft came from outside.

Dr. Jack put on his hat and said, “Let’s leave through the tunnel.”

“Mm.” Luo Sheng nodded.

That previous battle had already consumed half of his spiritual power. He probably couldn’t handle another round.

Then the 3 of them escaped to the underground sewer. However, Alice had just completed her body modification and her limbs were not coordinated, so Luo Sheng carried her on his back as they fled.

At this time, Luo Sheng discovered the terrifying nature of this biomechanical body.

No matter how Alice was scratched, the wounds could be fully repaired within 10 seconds. The damaged skin would return to its smooth and flawless state, completely overturning people’s cognition.

Then they arrived at an abandoned iron house in the suburbs.

After Dr. Jack revealed his identity, the Resistance Organization in Detroit quickly came to their aid. They got into a high-powered 4-wheel drive off-road vehicle and drove far in one direction.

Meanwhile.

Near the clinic, an officer with a cigarette in his mouth, stepping on scrap metal, cursed through gritted teeth: “Damn it, they got away!”

A soldier suddenly came to report: “A car has been found rapidly leaving Detroit!”

“It should be them. Stop the pursuit. Let those old men in the conglomerate worry about it. The area outside the city is not under our jurisdiction,” the officer said, throwing away his cigarette butt.