Chapter 1818 – [Cyberpunk: Dimension Runner]

Arjuna was speechless for a while due to Eve’s harsh words, but he came to his senses and returned to the main topic.

We tried to hack into the Shanghai Group’s server to secure physical evidence of the attack, and our identity was revealed, so we started this mess. There’s no way we can stay quiet, and if that’s the case, it’s better to immediately use our hand to silence our mouths before something happens.

“If you refuse the offer, there is only one thing left. Since you have great abilities, after subduing you, I will replace part of your brain with a machine and make you cooperate with my plan.”

“Did your mom teach you that?”

“You just said that insults from a non-existent mother are meaningless.”

“I know. I’m just saying it to make you feel bad.”

“…”

Arjuna was silent for a while, but after that she just moved the people she controlled.

Corporate security guards, as well as executives of the Shanghai Group, who are plastered with high-quality implants even if they are not for combat use, look at us with insensitive and expressionless faces. And then he started running.

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a big fight here, but… There are people who need to be secured first. It’s Chairman Wang Chen who is being suppressed over there.

“First, secure Chairman Wang Chen!!!!!”

“Oh!!!!!”

[I have to fight too!!!!]

Eventually, the three of me, Eden, and Keter rushed in. People from numerous Shanghai groups attacked us with optimal coordination as if they were one body, but even that was meaningless in the face of overwhelming force.

Even if ants spread their wildest dreams, would humans die? Even if the ants are as threatening as army ants, a person can escape if they run at full speed.

Kwaaaaang!!!! Kwazizig!!!!

Eden and I destroyed the security guards who were trying to fire small missiles or something, and Keter was next to us, scattering seeds like a shotgun. At the same time, a vine grows from that spot and wraps itself around the opponent, preventing them from moving… No, the pressure is even greater than that, twisting their limbs and killing them.

It’s killing people, but I don’t really care. In the first place, those who are controlled by Arjuna have lost their humanity to the point where they can no longer be called human.

Even the soul entered reincarnation the moment humanity was extinguished, so it is virtually no different from death. Eden seems much closer to a zombie or something, as he doesn’t really care.

John, who was following us and looking after us, shouted as he was trying to save Chairman Wang Chen.

“Hey!!!! Why are you trying to save that guy Wang Chen!!! It’s not worth it to him!!!!!”

“Once the job is done, there’s no one else who can prove it to me!!!! If I don’t want to be accused of being the worst terrorist who ruined the Shanghai Group later, I have to save him!!!!”

“Damn, I can’t help it!!!! I don’t know, but you guys are the problem!!!!”

“What can’t a loser do?”

This situation can be ended somehow. But apart from that, the difference between finishing well or not also determines the end of this trip.

Almost all executives of a mega-corporation became Arjuna’s puppets. The only one who is sane is Chairman Wang Chen, who is a purist and does not have any implants. Later, after work, he stops the machine rebellion, but if he is falsely accused of being a terrorist, it will be difficult for even Chairman Naomoto to cover up.

Anyway, we took out about half of the people in the party hall and got closer to Chairman Wang Chen, but in the meantime, other security agents and people from inside the headquarters continued to flock in, so the loss over there was virtually zero. In addition, Arjuna’s android also remained.

It’s not a problem in terms of force, but… It’s annoying. Should I just plan from the beginning and crush it all?

“I didn’t do it because I thought about humanity, but if the other person has already been made non-human, I can use it without a conscience.”

And Eve, who succeeded in remote hacking, began controlling the security guards. I don’t know if it’s just a simple implant hack, but she can even control thoughts, so she’s no different from Eve’s doll.

If it were done to an ordinary person, it would be nothing more than murder, but that would be nothing more than something Arjuna had already done with her corpse. Since it is manipulating a corpse like a necromancer, it may be raised as an ethical issue, but strictly speaking, it is not like murder.

Soon, security guards began attacking Arjuna. When she was attacked by the person she was controlling, she hesitated for a moment due to the somewhat unexpected situation, but since she is a machine, she quickly assessed the situation and began to respond.

Moreover, Arjuna’s android body was strong. It’s not for nothing that she was in charge of protecting the chairman of a mega-corporation. Despite her feminine appearance, her strength and built-in equipment were all impressive.

I basically have an MC implant that people mistake for me, so I got rid of anything that was in the way, similar to telekinesis, and like Shining Fingers, I was surrounded by high-temperature energy in my hand, melting and cutting anything it touched, like a lecture given by a martial arts master.

The security guards that Eve hacked were only wasting time, but that was enough. Because I ended up standing in front of him.

“Hey, you annoying bastard.”

“No matter what implants you wear, you can’t beat me…”

“What?”

Kwahiah ah ah ah ahhhhh !!!

Before he could finish his sentence, I kicked him in the chest without giving him time to react, sending him flying far away. The blow was so strong that, despite the android’s strong body, the body was split in half and the body flew far away, smashing several walls and falling.

John looked at him with a puzzled expression. He didn’t think it would be handled so easily.

“I knew I was confident in my skills, but I never thought I could send an android, like Chairman Wang Chen’s personal bodyguard, flying away with one blow… What kind of implant did they use?”

“A basic implant that all humans have.”

“… There is such a thing?”

Will is something everyone is born with. On the other hand, everything is made up of will if you climb up.

In a world where only technology has developed, it is difficult to realize that will. The low point may be high here, where even the local gangsters have at least one or two implants, but the high point is high, like a fantasy world with magic even if it is a medieval level civilization. Ah, maybe that’s the case with the undead lich wizard at the other-dimensional restaurant?

Anyway, the scene was roughly organized. Eve hacked into the remaining security guards and took control, leaving them barely able to catch their breath.

Since we were able to secure Chairman Wang Chen and avoid the worst after the incident, all that was left was to close this incident. Chairman Wang Chen, who was so confused about the story item that affects the ending… He fainted because he was so dumbfounded that even his executives and children were like puppets.

“What do you plan to do now? Are you going to escape? With the second lady’s Net Rider ability, I think we can escape from the current situation.”

“Apart from that, I’m worried about that bastard. No, you’re just leaving this bastard who touched my daughter? I should kill him.”

“I don’t know if that’s reckless or reckless.”

“Toward the loser. Anyway, Eve, how can I deal with that guy without a problem?”

“First, we have prevented him from escaping to the Shanghai Group’s external network through Cherubim. However, since he is a man without humanity, he can install artificial intelligence in the body of an android or cyberpath and physically escape… We have to deal with the most fundamental things.”

“Something fundamental?”

“For him to copy and paste like that, he needs a computer with that much computing power and functionality. And what he’s using for that…”

“It must be the Shanghai Group’s main server.”

The place where Eve and John went out and hacked during the party to obtain information was from the intelligence department of the Shanghai Group headquarters, but in the end, that was just a place that used the main server. Then, Arjuna found out, but anyway, the main server is somewhere else.

Even in modern society, the servers used by companies are kept in separate server rooms. How terrible would this world be? Moreover, since it is the most important facility of a very large corporation, it must have been placed in a very safe place. John spoke as if he knew.

“The Shanghai Group’s main server is located in a facility hundreds of meters below the headquarters. It is considered one of the human facilities that would be safe even if a nuclear war broke out.”

Well, if you put it above ground, you can use a bomb or something like that, but if it’s underground, you can’t do that, you can’t dig quietly, and it won’t be destroyed except by an earthquake.

First, there will be a passage, so just attack through that and destroy the main server. It’s probably full of all kinds of valuable data and everything Shanghai Group has accumulated, but what do you know? Anyway, it is a meaningless story at the point when Arjuna is in control.

“Just tell me where the passage to the main server room is. You will take Chairman Wang Chen and protect him, and I will go and destroy the main server.”

“You’re going to destroy the main server that contains everything about the Shanghai Group? That’s almost like destroying the Shanghai Group itself… Okay, I’m going with you.”

“I have enough on my own.”

“If I can destroy one of the places that are my parents’ enemies with my own hands, I will follow suit somehow. I won’t be in your way, so don’t worry.”

John’s skills were quite outstanding. He probably made up his mind and prepared this time and followed along with the mindset that he didn’t care if he died, and perhaps because of that, he probably wouldn’t have been pushed back much even if he fought Arjuna’s female android body one-on-one. He probably could have won if he had added some variables.

There is no problem if you take it with you. Rather, it could be a way to get revenge, but it would be better to take her and fulfill one of her goals in life.

“Then Dad, we’re going out, so finish your work and come back.”

“We will support you remotely through the terminal, so if you have any problems, just let us know.”

[If you arrive safely, I will let you touch my chest.]

“No, I know for sure that you will come back safely, so what are you talking about?”

[That’s what I’m saying.]

Anyway, the other kids escaped out of the headquarters by protecting Chairman Wang Chen as a witness and testimony, and John and I moved to destroy the main server.

The Shanghai Group headquarters generally has facilities in the basement, but there is a separate passage leading down to the main server. Of course, there was not only a passage, but various spaces such as resting and maintenance in between. And not only that, but also various defense facilities and equipment.

“We could go down through the elevator shaft… But they must have already realized our purpose, so the elevators have stopped, and the vertical passages have been blocked off with bulkheads on each floor. It will take a year to destroy them.”

“But it is meaningless.”

Quasic, Quasic, Quasic, Quasic, Quasic, Quasic!!!!

“… It’s ridiculous at this point. Furthermore, it’s not like an MC implant, so what on earth is it?”

“I’ll let you know when I’m done.”

John asks incredulously as the elevator comes using telekinesis and destroys all the bulkheads blocking the vertical passage. To be honest, after the incident happened, even common sense here showed a few strange things, so it’s natural to be suspicious.

He’s a good guy, so I guess you can explain this to him. I think it would be quite fun to come as a guest to an 2D restaurant in the future.

Anyway, go down using the vertical passage of the elevator. You can’t go straight down to the main server room using a passage that looks like several L-shaped connections, so you have to cross the underground facility again and take another elevator to go down, and so on several times.

That means it is an important facility for security. Normally, this is a facility that cannot be easily built no matter how much military force is poured into it. And…

Kiyiing!!!!

“It’s a large military weapon!!!! Something you would only see in a corporate war here?!”

In the wide underground passage leading down to the main server room, several ugly robots tens of meters tall were waiting for us. Considering that it has an uneasy feeling even though it is a machine as well as all kinds of weapons, it can be said that it is a weapon that has killed quite a few people.

Truly a weapon of war. The space is large, and the main server room is still far away, so they use their firepower to their heart’s content and move to destroy intruders. John was also nervous and tried to fight as best as he could using the implants he had…

“You can only waste time with something like this.”

Fuuuuu!!!!

A military robot is shattered with one light punch. John, who had proudly deployed his implants, looks at this with a dumbfounded look on his face.

And keep punching. Meanwhile, they also tried to attack me, but neither flying missiles nor laser beams worked on me. Then, it explodes and shatters with a single punch.

“Arjuna, are you watching? I’m coming to kill you.”

Even if you destroy a machine that doesn’t know the human mind, it won’t feel anything in the first place. He’s originally a guy with a twisted sense of existence, but he hasn’t realized his emotions. Even if you break it, that’s all

So, in return for trying to mess with our Eden, I will kindly teach you human emotions.

The fear and despair that an opponent so overwhelmingly strong that no matter what you can do, is coming to kill you.