Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 890 - 289: I Can Also Negotiate, I Can Also Be Patriotic_2

"In childhood memories, we were always fighting."

(The meaning of the drumbeat is unclear)

"It's time to put an end to it."

Dante may not be some half-demon who can soar through the heavens and earth, nor is he the son of Sparta, but having been an agent in the Intelligence Bureau for many years, he's developed his own combat style.

He calls it—Gun-Fu.

Bam bam bam!!!

With two pistols in Dante's hands, he unleashed a barrage like a machine gun, rubber bullets showering down on the Exchange Coupon.

The Exchange Coupon was also serious; although he had no Yan Mo knife, he was proficient in martial arts, bat bomb batarangs, and even had electric shock gloves—all fully equipped.

He threw two darts to draw attention, engaged Sianweistan, and transformed into a rapidly moving shadow attempting to dodge the bullets while charging into Dante's blind spot for a close combat.

But Dante wasn't afraid of this at all. When two magazines were emptied, the automatic cartridge reloading device in his sleeves refilled them. Immediately, in his hands, the pistols danced like butterflies, continuously firing from all sorts of incredible angles around him, forcing Exchange Coupon to retreat.

With the short-lived Klenchikov effect, his moves were both flashy and impressive, nearly bedazzling some lower-level players.

In Dante's peak period, he could even control four guns simultaneously with his two hands, of course, it was more for show than practical use.

The players who previously felt that the 'Dante' role wasn't accurately portrayed now not only shut their mouths but began marveling loudly.

"Damn, did this Dante unlock God-mode with guns? I feel like it's even cooler than in the game."

"Holy nuts, can guns even be fired like this? I feel like I was playing with firewood sticks before."

"I'm a firearms mastery level 6! Why does it feel like I leveled up for nothing?"

"My brain is telling me it learned it!"

"Your hands will tell you that's an illusion."

"Master!!! Please teach me your ways!"

Although Exchange Coupon was already at the forefront among players, with full mastery in both combat and stealth, just slightly weaker than Dante in skill, he was far inferior in comparison to the scene's dynamics. Many people felt this guy was erratic, sticking to lower-road moves.

On top of that, with The Beatles performing an impromptu musical piece outside,

"I am the approaching storm!!!"

The audience at this public cosplay event was thoroughly excited, shouting "666," enjoying it to the fullest even up to the end.

And what surprised Dante the most was that these people really kept their promise and took him to the bunker to retrieve data after the performance ended.

The only minor issue was that he had no capability to prevent this data from falling into Horizon Corporation's hands.

Fortunately, the relations between both parties weren't that tense, leaving it to the higher-ups to negotiate with them further.

However... after acquiring the data, this group didn't seem intent on letting him leave so easily.

"Master!!! Make me as handsome as you!"

"If you do not reject me, I wish to adopt you as my godfather!"

These folks are just a bunch of lunatics!

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Headaches.

Handz considered many scenarios for the denouement and outcome of the Dog Town incident.

He was seventy percent confident Hansen would die in this power struggle.

Cuba and Soviet Petrochemical had already grown disappointed with him; Hansen had even disturbed Military Technology's Little Beidou, and unless he could outright kill Lin Miao, declaring Dog Town's sovereignty anew, only then would he have a slim chance of surviving.

As long as Hansen was eliminated and Lin Miao was heavily wounded, Handz could then use his resources to prop up a puppet, keeping Dog Town's black market running.

Moreover, from any viewpoint, Horizon Corporation's aggressive expansion was not a good signal for those major corporations.

Not to mention their blatant recklessness in waging gang wars throughout Night City, directly striking at Yunding—such madness beyond any measure of discipline.

Yet the development didn't proceed as Handz expected; instead, more uncontrollable factors interjected into this struggle, plunging the situation into chaos.

Hansen had invoked a rogue AI, causing thousands of Hellhounds and Chimeras to surge into Night City, an offense more than enough to kill Hansen a thousand times over.

Then there was the Little Beidou Laboratory; whether because Hansen was desperate or the rogue AI was wreaking havoc, the underground reactor experienced a fault leading to a shutdown, the nuclear waste container rupturing and leaking, with nuclear waste now being released in the offshore zone.

This was a radiation level that those radioactive filters couldn't handle, even more severe than the initial days after the nuclear explosion before.

As far as he knew, the top-tier companies in Night City had already started a massive sell-off of their assets.

The uninformed mid-small companies picking up the slack thought they were snagging a great bargain, celebrating gleefully, clueless that soon they'd regret today's decision for a lifetime.

Thus, under such circumstances, the value of Dog Town and even Night City, both having just been heavily hit, plummeted.

Hence, Handz's heart bled.

This was the labor of over a decade he spent cultivating, and now it was all to be reduced to ashes—how could it not break his heart?

"Professor Griffin, today we received many calls from enthusiastic citizens claiming that their home Geiger indicators were going off, but recently there haven't been...uh...any radiation incidents reported in Night City. The Santo Domingo nuclear station is also operating normally, so as an expert in nuclear theory, do you have any reasonable explanation for this phenomenon?"

"First of all, we must understand that it is now 2076. Due to decades of nuclear wars, the Earth's radiation levels are steadily increasing, and the Geiger indicators on the market are still warning based on standards from a century ago, which is obviously outdated. Moreover, modern humans have much greater resistance to nuclear radiation than those from a hundred years ago..."