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Start dateMar 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
End dateApr 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Damn... the power of this grenade is really something..."
Alex Carter, who was revived thanks to his secondary heart, crawled out of the wreckage.
At this time, he had returned to his original appearance.
As for the implant that originally belonged to Hanako Arasaka, it was completely left in the wreckage after he abandoned part of his body tissue.
In this way, even if people from all walks of life in Night City suspected the cause of Hanako Arasaka's death, they would not be able to find out.
His sleight of hand was quite effective.
Well, although falling from a five-hundred-meter height and being blown to pieces wasn't pleasant, it wasn't a loss.
Before the crowd gathered around, Alex hurriedly dragged his quickly recovering remnants and disappeared around the street corner.
Returning to the villa through the teleportation point, Alex found V in the courtyard, nervously watching Shockwave, which had returned.
Seeing Alex's figure, V hurriedly shouted: "Alex! Don't get close to that car! It's suspicious!
Alex was momentarily stunned, then walked to V's side with amusement.
"What's so suspicious? This is our new car."
"New car?" V furrowed her brows and asked, puzzled, "Guinevere, the Sword of the Lake, this car is a limited edition worldwide. How did you get it?"
"And this car just hacked into the villa's security system, and the battle robot drove in by itself!"
"I've never heard of the Sword of the Lake having such a strong hacking system on it."
"Alex, have you been deceived by someone? Yorinobu? Or someone from Kang Tao?"
"It should be Kang Tao; driverless technology is only truly popularized in the East."
Before Alex could speak, V had already started to speculate.
Alex could only shake his head with a wry smile.
It seems that mercenaries have been suspicious for a long time. Cyberpunk is no different from the real world.
Not continuing with any useless explanation, Alex chose to use reality to prove it.
He shouted loudly: "Shockwave, transform!"
"Shockwave, transform!" With the cold electronic sound emanating from the Sword of the Lake, the whole car began to unfold rapidly...
*Kaka bang bang...*
In the sound of metal surfaces rubbing and V's unbelievably shocked gaze, Shockwave stood up slowly.
The eight-meter-high body was slightly different from the original due to the change in the second form.
But it remained so burly and powerful.
A huge electronic eye flickered with scarlet light.
*Bang, bang...*
Seeing Shockwave coming towards him and Alex, the shocked V took out her pistol and aimed it.
But was stopped by Alex.
Alex comforted: "V, don't worry, Shockwave is one of us."
"One of us... a person?"
V looked at the big guy in front of her in disbelief.
Shockwave was also scanning V.
Alex looked at Shockwave and said, "Her orders in the future will be mine."
"Follow your orders, my master, but if the orders conflict, I will execute your orders first."
Shockwave fell to the ground on one knee and said coldly.
Listening to the dialogue between the person and the machine, V looked at Alex for a while and Shockwave for a while, unsure of what to say.
Even Johnny appeared at the foot of Shockwave at this time, looking up at this behemoth.
"Damn, Alex, you've been away for so long, and you've made something this awesome?"
"Compared to it, those battle robots that Kang Tao gave you are nothing!"
"Damn! Too awesome!"
It made Johnny, who was usually dissatisfied with everyone, express such admiration.
You can imagine how shocked he is now.
Although Shockwave always looks cold, it wasn't the time to be confused.
Seeing that he had nothing to do here, without Alex speaking, Shockwave took the initiative to restore the form of the Sword of the Lake.
Consciously parked in the villa's garage.
"How is it? Do you like the new car?" Alex asked, teasingly holding V by the waist.
On V's side, it was only now that she gradually recovered.
She looked at Alex in disbelief: "You call this thing... a car? How did you get it?"
"It's 'he,' not 'it,'" Alex corrected.
"Shockwave... Well, he's a silicon-based life form from aliens, and he has complete self-consciousness."
"Aliens? Silicon-based life?" V repeated Alex's words, confusion in her mind.
For some reason, ever since that day when Alex appeared inexplicably on the bed, found in the room of the Arasaka Building, V felt that her worldview was gradually being subverted.
Life had undergone a 360-degree transformation.
However, with the "biological prosthesis" as a lesson learned, V accepted Shockwave very quickly.
"So apart from looking very impressive, does this big guy have anything else that's more powerful?" V asked with interest.
As soon as he heard this question, Alex got excited.
"Of course there is!"
"The advantages of silicon-based organisms on the network are not comparable to those of us carbon-based organisms."
"As early as just now, he eliminated a network monitoring force that came out of nowhere."
"And Shockwave is a fighter himself."
"If he wants to, even without using hacking technology, he can completely overthrow several action teams with military technology with his powerful combat power."
Listening to Alex's enthusiastic talk, V was endlessly fascinated.
But at the same time, a question lingered in her mind...
"Why would such a powerful guy listen to you?"
This time, it hit the mark.
Alex touched his nose embarrassedly and said cheekily, "Because I'm better than him."
"Heh..." Johnny, who was looking at Shockwave in the form of a car in the garage, couldn't help laughing.
"You? Fighting with a few meters tall metal giant?"
"Alex, who do you think can believe this?"
V also glanced at Alex.
That look seemed to say: Do you think I believe it?
In fact, to be honest, Alex felt that there wasn't much bragging in his words.
The Blacklight Virus in his body had been growing.
From the very beginning, he couldn't be as hard as Adam Smasher.
Up to now, the power has been able to absolutely suppress Smasher.
Although not reckless against Shockwave.
But his strong recovery ability, as well as his flexible body, the ability to assimilate, and other miscellaneous abilities.
Even if you can't win, you won't lose.
Moreover, his strengths are in targeted infiltration and raids.
Shockwave's strength is in the attack on designated targets.
The two are not comparable.
Johnny walked out of the garage, sat in front of Alex, and asked curiously, "Alex, who do you think is stronger, this thing or Otto?"
Alex shook his head slightly: "I don't know either, but I guess it should be evenly matched."
"God knows how long these silicon-based beings have lived, and their processors and algorithms are constantly being optimized, and they are certainly not comparable to artificial objects in this world."
"However, Otto's existence is rather special, and his size is also surprisingly large. It's hard to say who is stronger and who is weaker."
Just as Alex was talking, the communication between him, V, and Jackie suddenly sounded.
Jackie's voice came out.
"Alex, V, did you watch the news?"
"Hanako Arasaka committed suicide!