Players Invade Cyberpunk

Just listening to the other party calmly describe those tactics made the players marvel, they had never heard of such things before.

Even the players currently feared by gangs rarely torture victims; most of the time it's a clean shot to end it.

Shui Yue shook his head, full of emotion.

"The old society turned people into ghosts; modern society is better. What romanticized old tales like the Republic, it's really just foolishness asking for trouble."

The crimson killer smiled.

"Does distance create beauty? Mainly it's due to a lack of historical knowledge and political education. Most people are unaware of the methods of the reactionary forces of that era, which leads to a romanticized perception. This is a misconception of the world that can be avoided through education."

Seemingly intrigued by the conversation, several players ignored the Chaotic Blade Association fighting fiercely around them. They found a safe spot to squat down and consulted the crimson killer one by one about the so-called anti-bandit stories, and the crimson killer patiently explained each one.

Finally, when Adcardo surrounded the entire camp and a fierce battle followed, as they began to count prisoners and spoils, they discovered those few were still squatting in the ruins, gathered like children attending a class, their expressions serious, just lacking paper and pen for notes.

As for the Chaotic Blade Association?

No one paid attention to their performance by the roadside.

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The assassination plan failed; the entire squad was annihilated, and the signal locator embedded in the prosthetic was jammed, not even the bodies were recovered.

The mission for Huang Ban's special action team can be said to have ended in absolute defeat.

Although many mercenaries who participated in the event also died in Huang Ban's assassination operation, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the real focus is Horizon Corporation.

If they can't take them down, even if everyone else is killed, it's still a failure.

However, when Albertson returned to Huang Ban Tower, she could still comfort herself.

Because she had originally anticipated a scenario where military technology might intervene to save people, as long as this corporation's arrogance could be suppressed and its industrial layout severely damaged, it was equivalent to killing Lin Miao.

If two of the three battlefields could be secured…

No, even one would meet Albertson's goal, at least allowing some reporting and buying some time.

But what she hadn't expected was that the assassination plan failed, and just at dawn she received a message.

[Chaotic Blade Association and Horizon Corporation fought bitterly at Stone Ridge Mountain throughout the night, Chaotic Blade Association 700 men retreated completely, the command center was bombed, severe casualties incurred, and a large number of personnel captured, with only a few escaping the battlefield]

This information was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Albertson, startling her to leap from the sofa.

"Lost the battle? How is that possible?"

She stared with wide eyes, as if listening to an impossibility.

What nonsense is this?

The estimated combat strength outside the city was far lower than that inside.

Huang Ban had provided quite a lot of good stuff, not even mentioning intelligent guns and weapons, they supplied a full thousand shells for programmability mortars, not to mention conventional mortars and military drones, with enough firepower to level the mountain.

And you tell me they lost?

In just one night?

Even if you sent 700 pigs to Stone Ridge Mountain, those mercenaries couldn't possibly capture them all in one night, right?

Suppressing her anger, Albertson continued reading, and the more she read, the more furrowed her brow became.

An unexpectedly large number of elite hackers breached the Chaotic Blade Association's intranet, severely reducing the effectiveness of intelligent weapons, preventing precise strikes.

An unknown offensive virus paralyzed almost all of Chaotic Blade Association's servers, forcing them to fight independently offline.

Even the top hacker Strak, dispatched by the Chaotic Blade Association, took a fall, likely dying in the network battle.

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Albertson's face bore a black man's questioning expression.

This doesn't add up, does it?

Based on the detection by her subordinates, Horizon Corporation only had one elite hacker Lucy and a group of regular hackers.

Defeating the Voodoo Gang was merely lucky, having stumbled on the Voodoo Gang's hideout and siding with the Haitians, ultimately using underhanded means to succeed.

Now you tell me this group not only crashed Chaotic Blade Association's network but also blew up their server in network warfare?

Then who were the Horizon Corporation hackers fighting and brawling with gang hackers on the city network tonight?

Was it me?

Even though everyone knew Horizon Corporation held an AI, aside from Horizon Corporation internally and the Internet Supervisor, hardly anyone knew the origin of this entity was a semi-nomadic AI nurtured by the Voodoo Gang.

Externally, Lin Miao couldn't possibly call it Sea God, but rather the W—Industrial Module.

Moreover, AI's growth requires time; this entity had only emerged for a month or so, no one would have anticipated it was already a mature artificial intelligence.

In reality, there's no saying washed clean by a third weakened dark by a third times stronger; once it's your father, it's always your father.

Sea God couldn't beat Lin Miao, but couldn't beat your gang-nurtured hackers either?

The consecutive failures on two battlefields plunged Albertson into an icy abyss, for this meant her final chance lay in Big Sur, the largest and most likely place for victory.

If she lost here, she'd be truly finished.

She knew that the resources provided to the Chaotic Blade Association were part of the request for resources in the special ops plan against Horizon Corporation.

If lost, this account would be held against her.

Loss would mean the countless years of hard-earned resources she accumulated would be completely wasted, fully recovered by the company board for compensation.