LRAB Chapter 56
Chapter 56
Chapter 56: The Somersault Cat
“Almost. It can indeed increase the speed.”
Ali turned on”Sian Westin” and instantly entered the high-speed mode. The moment Mann reacted, Ali flashed back to his original position. The difference was that Ali was already wearing the sunglasses that Mann held in his hand!
So fast, this speed made Mann sweat coldly. If Ali wanted his life, he would not be able to react at all and would be killed instantly.
However, the increase in combat power brought by this speed did make Mann very jealous. He looked at Ali straight with undisguised desire in his eyes. Mann asked with a curious tone:”So how do you feel about using this thing?”
“Don’t even think about it. The side effects of implants like”Siannistan” are so great that you can’t bear it.”
Ali’s words were cold. He decisively poured a basin of cold water on Mann. As a”veteran”, Ali naturally understood what Mann wanted to do. He was just like the original plot, coveting the military-grade”Siannistan””！
“I can see that your body is almost at its”limit”. Don’t add any more implants. It would be better if you downgrade the other combat implants in your body.”
Ali kindly mentioned this. After all, in the original series, Mann still couldn’t resist the side effects of the implants and turned into a cyberpsychopath at the last moment.……
“You don’t have to worry about this, I know what’s going on.”
Although Mann felt something about this, he didn’t seem to care on the surface. Ali also knew that words could not persuade this cyberpunk who couldn’t stop, so he stopped talking.
At night, the place where Mann’s team often went to in the anime was the TURBO restaurant near Japan Street. Today was different. The mysterious”Shadow” also joined the party of the cyberpunks. The cyberpunks experienced life-and-death commissions during the day, and their spirits were stretched to the extreme at night, so they needed a hot party to relieve stress.
It is worth mentioning that in the anime, Lucy’s apartment is upstairs near this restaurant. Unfortunately, due to Ali, Lucy has no intersection with Mann’s team except for knowing Qiwei.
In the center of the party, Pira was holding his long arms, holding a few plates and a dozen bottles of wine, and showing off in front of everyone.
“Look at this!”
Pira bent down and dragged the plates sideways one by one, performing difficult acrobatics. The atmosphere on the scene was livened up by his own efforts, and the whole scene was very lively!
Sister-in-law Dolio and driver Falco sat in the front row watching Pira’s performance. Seeing Pira’s funny performance, sister-in-law Dolio laughed out loud, drank the beer in her hand, and threw the bottle directly at Pira.
Pira took the opportunity to catch it, and continued to perform with another bottle in his hand. Seeing that Pira could catch it, Dolio threw out more than a dozen bottles, all of which were caught steadily by Pira, and then performed acrobatics in front of Dolio with these dozen bottles.
“My fingers are amazing! Don’t you think so?”
Pira chuckled, with a rather obscene expression!
Sasha was chatting with Qiwei in private, and Qiwei was a little surprised to learn that Sasha had a boyfriend. She leaned against the wall in the dark and smoked silently, glancing at Ali, the new stranger, from time to time. At this time, Ali just sat aside silently. He turned on the”optical camouflage”, so his presence was very low, because at this time he was connected to the brain system, listening to a series of check-in sounds from the system!
【Sign in!】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes in the plot character Mann and obtaining the exclusive skill [Military-grade Destroyer Gorilla Arm】】
【Gorilla Arms: Gorilla Arms greatly increase your strength and recharge with each attack. When performing heavy attacks, they deal additional damage based on the recharge level. Gorilla Arms are powerful enough to brute force locked doors and even rip turrets off their bases.】
【Destruction Cannon: An assassination weapon hidden in the gorilla’s arm. Who would have thought that a gorilla’s arm, which increases its strength, would contain a huge cannon muzzle? The power of the cannonball is extremely great, and it can even smash a human body into pieces when exploded at close range!】
【Sign in!】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes in the plot character Dolio and obtaining the exclusive combat skill [Intermediate Boxing Mastery】】
【Intermediate boxing: A strong boxer, whose superb boxing skills are enough to win many boxing fighting competitions in modern times. Although he is not at the level of”undefeated champion”, he is of the same weight and strength. In the case of bare-handed close combat, one person is more than enough to beat five.】
【There are five levels of boxing skills: low, intermediate, advanced, epic, and legendary. Intermediate boxing skills are enough to be called masters in other places, but they are not enough in Night City. Faced with many fighting chips, intermediate boxing skills will also seem powerless.】
【Sign in!】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes in the plot character Falco and obtaining the exclusive survival skill [Advanced Driving Skills]】】
【Advanced driving skills: Congratulations on becoming a senior driver. In modern times, you will definitely be crowned with the title of”God of Driving”. No matter what kind of severe road or environment, your driving skills are as amazing as walking on flat ground.】
【Driving skills are also divided into five levels: low, intermediate, advanced, epic, and legendary. Advanced driving skills mean that you can drive most of the vehicles on the market. Even if you have never driven a car before, with the talent brought by advanced driving skills, you can quickly get started!】
【Sign in!】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes in the plot character Pira and obtaining the exclusive survival skill [Intermediate Technical Master】】
【Intermediate Technical Master: If being able to skillfully assemble and repair an expensive racing car is considered a low-level technical master, then to reach the intermediate master level, the minimum requirement is to be able to assemble a multi-functional tank or a more complex line armored vehicle.】
【Intermediate technical masters are also divided into: elementary, intermediate, advanced, epic, and legendary.
Intermediate technical masters can already allow you to repair and assemble most of the military-grade weapons and equipment in Night City.
Although you cannot assemble weapons at the level of”demon lizards” and”manned mechas”, it is more than enough to repair a combat robot.
】After obtaining four good skills at once, Ali’s strength has improved by leaps and bounds again without anyone noticing.
However, this time, two duplicate skills appeared in the sign-in.
【Sign in!】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes with the plot character Rebecca and obtaining the exclusive combat skill [Intermediate Gunner】】
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in for three minutes in the plot character Qiwei and obtaining exclusive combat skills [Level 11 Advanced Hacker Skills】】
“”Intermediate Gunner” and”Advanced Hacker”. Ali already has the”Advanced Gunner” from Jack and the”Level 12 Advanced Hacker” from Sasha. These duplicate skills are obviously useless.
【Ding, congratulations to the host for signing in 15 times. The skill decomposition function has been enabled. The host can decompose unnecessary skills into [Upgrade Patch × 1】】
【Upgrade patch: As the name implies, it can provide upgrade services for the host’s skills. For example, a military-grade blue skill can be upgraded to a custom-grade purple skill, and a purple skill can be upgraded to a legendary orange skill.】
【To upgrade from blue military grade to epic grade, you need to upgrade the patch x 1, and to upgrade from purple epic grade to orange legendary grade, you need to upgrade the patch x 3.】
【Note that orange skills are the highest level in this world and cannot be upgraded.
Just when Ali was worried, the system unlocking sound rang in his head. His eyes lit up. There was an additional function of [Decomposition Skills].
He decisively decomposed Rebecca’s [Intermediate Gunner] and Qiwei’s [Advanced Hacker Skills] into two upgrade patches. Ali was thinking about who should use these two patches. Ali opened the skill panel to check his skill library:
Implant skills: [Military-grade Receiving Groove] [Legendary Electromagnetic Mantis Blade] [Legendary Circulatory System Blood Pump] [Epic Sian Westin] [Military-grade Single Molecule Wire] [Legendary Optical Camouflage] [Military-grade Destruction Cannon Gorilla Arm] Combat skills:
[Sasha’s Level 12 Advanced Hacker Skills] [Jack Wells’s Advanced Gunner] [Dorio’s Intermediate Boxing]
Life skills: [Victor’s Advanced Medical Skills] [Falco’s Advanced Driving Skills] [Pira’s Intermediate Technical Master]
Looking at his current skills, it takes three advanced patches to upgrade from epic to legendary, so there is no need to think about it for the time being. Ali looked at those advanced skills.
He thought about what was the most important thing in a dangerous place like Night City. It was combat ability. Everything else was nonsense!
Especially hacking and shooting. Ali thought about it and finally decisively added these two upgrade patches to [Advanced Gunner] and [Advanced Hacker]!
【Ding!
Soon, as the upgrade patch was used, the system announcement of the skill upgrade rang in Ali’s head!
【Congratulations to the host for upgrading his skill level and obtaining the skills [Epic Gunner Skills] [Level 15 Epic Hacker Skills]】】
【Epic Gunner: Congratulations, you have become a true”little god” in terms of marksmanship. Various firearms are like extensions of your hands and feet, and you can use them with ease. Your marksmanship has almost reached the level of doing whatever you want. Continuous shooting and hitting the target is as easy as breathing for you. At the same time, your awareness and understanding of marksmanship have also successfully entered the ranks of”gods”!】
【Level 15 hacking skills: Levels 15-17 are epic hackers, and their hacking skills are all T1 level in the world. They are all big shots who hide deep in the depths and do not need to show up. Representative figures include: V at the beginning of the company, ministers and above of various intelligence companies, personal bodyguards of bosses of major companies, such as Oda, Zhucun, legendary cyberpunk spider Murphy, and hacker members of the terrorist mobile team.
The improvement of these two skills directly raised Ali’s strength to a higher level. Ali can clearly feel that his understanding of firearms has reached a new height. Even when he looks at Sasha and Qiwei, he has an illusion that he can crack the invasion of their brains at any time.
“Hey, why is Brother Shadow sitting here in a daze? Have some carbonated cola, my name is Rebecca, and I am Sister Sasha’s close-fitting little cotton-padded jacket!”
Rebecca took a can of carbonated cola and came over to greet Ali. Ali reacted and silently took Rebecca’s carbonated cola and took a sip. Well, it was indeed full of technology and hard work.……
“Tell me, how did you rescue Sister Sasha?”
Rebecca was not polite either. She sat down next to Ali and looked at him with great interest. Ali did not hide anything. He just opened his mantis blade, rushed in to kill all the special forces soldiers, and then shot down the hovercraft. Of course, he did not tell the details.
“Wow, it looks like you are very strong!”
“Can you show me what a mantis knife looks like?”
Rebecca likes these fighting scenes the most. When she heard that Ali killed the armed forces like chopping melons and vegetables, her eyes lit up with excitement.
“”Okay.”
Ali did not hide anything, and slowly stretched out two legendary mantis knives with electromagnetic flashes from his arms. The cold light on the tips of the knives flashed, and immediately attracted the attention of all the cyberpunks present!
“It’s a high-end product. The greater the power of the implant, the greater the side effects. Is his brain made of iron if he dares to equip himself with a mantis knife of this level?”
“What a terrifying implant! I’m shaking all over at the first sight of it. My sense of crisis never lies. This knife will surely cut me in half!”
“What grade of mantis blade is this? Military grade? Impossible, military grade can’t have this much.���Powerful, I didn’t expect that this kind of high-end thing customized by a company would appear in a cyberpunk group like us!”
The appearance of the legendary electromagnetic mantis knife instantly attracted everyone’s attention, including Rebecca beside her. She looked at this beautiful and deadly weapon and couldn’t help but want to reach out and touch it.
“Don’t touch it, your fingers will be cut off!”
Ali quickly retracted the mantis knife and warned, Rebecca then covered her fingers and reacted, looking at Ali’s arm with lingering fear, there was a mantis knife flashing with electric light hidden in it.
“With just this mantis blade, Shadow’s resistance to implants and talent are definitely not inferior to those of the bigwigs in the company.”
“I didn’t expect that this fledgling”Shadow” would have such a good implant. I wonder how much it would be worth if I took it apart and sold it? It’s a pity that he was brought by Mann’s team. Mann is not someone you can mess with.”
The world of cyberpunk is the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive. The appearance of a strong man like Ali instantly attracted the respect and flattery of all the cyberpunks present. Of course, there were also some crazy people who wanted to rob Ali of his money and life.
In short, the party became hot again, but the protagonist was no longer the funny Pira, but the”Shadow” Ali with a powerful implant.
“Wow, Sasha, you got an incredible boyfriend.”
“He is very mysterious, I don’t even know if he has other implants.”
Qiwei exhaled a puff of smoke and praised Sasha beside her. Sasha was not surprised by this. After all, when she first met Ali, she was also shocked by the appearance of the electromagnetic mantis knife.
“By the way, Sasha, you just told me that he is also a hacker, a senior hacker who is no less capable than you?”
“Yes, meow, I still remember the scene clearly. He hacked the armed hacker in the biotech hovercraft, which helped me get out of trouble.”
“Is that so? A high-level hacker equipped with a mantis blade, feels unhappy with Black Brain and deliberately goes to engage in close combat with others?”
“Um, that’s indeed the case.”
“Haha, that’s really like an elephant on a cow, so awesome.”
Qiwei couldn’t help but complain silently.
Soon as time passed, late night came quietly, and the time of gathering passed little by little. The cyberpunks also left the party one after another.
After exchanging phone numbers with Ali, the members of Mann’s team also dispersed and went back to their homes. However, before leaving, Dolio secretly found Sasha and handed her a pack of condoms. Mann also came to Ali and took out a pack of condoms.
“Boy, safety is the most important thing. Sasha is a gentle person, and I hope you can be gentle too!”
“Are you worrying too much?”
Unlike the shy Sasha, Ali looked at Mann’s condoms with a frown on his face. He took the condom from Mann’s hand, took a look at it, and then threw it back to Mann with disdain:”Tsk, this model is too small, keep it for yourself, I can’t use it.”
“Hey, you are not big, but you are so arrogant! Don’t tell me you have a big steel cannon installed down there.”？”
“You don’t need that stuff, this is the original paint.”
This shocked Mann.
Of course, it was just a little farce and Ali didn’t take it seriously. Mann was willing to joke with him, which also showed that their friendship was slowly getting closer.
At this time, Ali was walking on the streets of Japan Street holding Sasha’s hand. They revealed their identities and Ali also met Sasha’s”family”.
Sasha and Ali walked side by side on the road in the moonlight, telling each other about their thoughts after not seeing each other for these days. As they walked, they somehow arrived at the door of Sasha’s house.
“Ahem, Ali Meow, I have a cat upstairs that can do backflips.”