Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"How long can I hold on..."

At this moment, a communication came.

The first one was a picture, and when David opened the picture, his pupils suddenly shrank.

"Mann?"

[Moshimoshi~Can you hear me, David~]

Zhang Yi's voice came from it, with the usual teasing tone.

[See? Your former big brother. I spent a lot of pocket money and worked hard to put him together.]

"...what do you want?" David tried to calm himself down as much as possible and said after taking a look at Lucy upstairs. "What do you need me to do?"

[Don't worry~ I just put it together, I don't know if I can move it yet~] Zhang Yi said [As for what I need you to do...]

【Just do it naturally...】

[I will call you when the time comes. Of course, it is also possible that you will call me...]

"...What exactly is that thing? Why do people in your company value it so much?"

[What is it? You will know when the time comes.]

[By the way, remember to keep an eye on your girlfriend recently~]

[I'm waiting to eat your dog food~]

The call was hung up, and the only sound left on the other end was the beeping sound.

Putting down his hands, David thought about what Zhang Yi meant, but with such limited information, it was completely useless.

After fruitless thinking, David looked upstairs again and saw Lucy sleeping peacefully.

"...I will definitely take you to the moon..."

. . . . . .

The building where Martis is located

"I have to say, sometimes being a riddle teller is quite fun~" Zhang Yi said after putting down the phone. "The premise is that you are the one telling the riddle..."

"I have to check again to see if Mann installed it correctly..."

"I used to have a mental illness as a training exercise, and I put my left and right hands on the wrong way..."

At this time, the imperial guards standing outside the door knocked on the door and said at the door.

"Sir [Nameless], the people from the Mechanicus have arrived."

"arrive?"

“She arrived earlier, made some preparations, and now she wishes to meet with you.

Then the door opened and a member of the Mechanicus walked in.

"What the hell...?"

Not all members of the Mechanicus have undergone mechanical transformation to become half-human, half-ghost.

Except for a few who recruit apprentices on various planets, most of the people of the Mechanicus use incubators to artificially train apprentices or servants - their genes and other things can be adjusted.

In other words, as long as the oil guys want, they can also grow up to be loli with white hair and red eyes or something like that (but for them, this is meaningless).

In addition, the Mechanicus is not only related to various machines, but also in charge of genes, computer programs, relic excavation, and forging.

There are also many purists within the Mechanicus who refuse unnecessary and excessive mechanical modifications.

So, it's not difficult for them to look good if they want to.

The priest in front of Zhang Yi is just like this.

"I am the technical priest of XXX Forging Planet -- biological expert, Zero..."

"According to the request of General Casting, from now on, I will be at your disposal, Your Excellency the Living Saint."

At this time, the female technical priest who called herself Zero standing in front of Zhang Yi did not show any signs of excessive transformation. Except for the four claws behind her back and a left arm, the rest of her body was original. She had a beautiful but expressionless face - in some ways, the three-no thing also touched Zhang Yi's heart.

The most important thing is...

"...so...big..."

"Are you looking at me, Mr. Living Saint?" Ling followed Zhang Yi's gaze and pulled her chest towards him, revealing her deep V line. "Do you need me to take off my clothes?"

"Don't! I was wrong, sister!" Zhang Yi immediately reacted to the man in front of him and waved his hands in panic. "If you take it off, this book will be gone!"

At this time, the two imperial guards who were responsible for protecting Zhang Yi also poked their heads out from the door, as if they wanted to watch the live broadcast.

"This...that..." Zhang Yi didn't know what to say for a moment. "By the way, come and help me check if this (referring to Mann) is installed correctly."

Finally, with Zhang Yi's diversion of attention, Zero began to check Mann's condition.

"Although I am not a priest who specializes in mechanics, I can see that this work is very good for an apprentice..."

"That is, I didn't put my hands in the wrong place this time."

"Yes, but... you put the legs on the wrong way around."

".....What the hell?"

191. Everything has a price (Part )

wilderness

This is a suburb far away from Night City. It is a barren land and also the favorite place for many mercenaries to fight.

The convoy with the [Arasaka] logo was exchanging fire with unknown mercenaries, and the convoy was separated.

As the convoy separated, another car drove out from a hiding place - it was David's convoy.

Rebecca who has heavy firepower, Qiwei the hacker, Falco who is in charge of driving, Pira who should have died but is alive, and...

David

This former good student of [Arasaka Academy] has now become a qualified cyberpunk.

Today, they will complete the largest order they have ever received - intercepting Arasaka's transport convoy and obtaining the escorted items on board.

This task was assigned by their old customer, Faraday, and simply speaking, the other party's arrangement was reasonable.

At this time, David and others had successfully caught up with the separated escort convoy. Rebecca, with the cover of her brother's (Pira) bomb and her own desperate fighting style, killed an escort vehicle, while the guards on the other vehicle continued to shoot at them.

"give it to me!"

"Wait! You are not allowed to use Sianweisi again..."

The military-grade prosthesis was activated, and the [Sianwestin] on David's body gave him super-fast movement speed for a short period of time. Combined with other prostheses, he successfully killed the guard on the last car.

Afterwards, he used [Sian Westin] to plant a bomb on the escort vehicle and then returned to the vehicle.

boom!

After an explosion, the escort vehicle storing the target items was unharmed.

"Isn't this thing too hard?!" (Rebecca)

"Pyrrha, any more bombs?" (David)

"Yes, I do, but I'm not sure if it can explode!" (Pyrrha)

After another investigation, everyone discovered that the car was not only incredibly hard physically, but also had a very strong ICE (firewall) that Qiwei could not break through in a short time, and it was still unmanned.

And ahead, it's not far from the cliff.

"Falco, do as I say!"

"Wait, you don't want..."

By using the vehicle's hook lock and David's unreasonable speed, David and his team successfully overturned the escort vehicle before it drove off the cliff - although their own car also overturned.

"You are too much! David!" Rebecca yelled at David.

"Huh - huh - but it was successful..." David, who was a little tired after using [Sian Westin] continuously, responded.

"Can't you just care about me, your brother?" Pyrrha said as she climbed out of the overturned car.

"Who cares if you live or die? Gibbon!"

After things stabilized, Qiwei began to try to open the escort vehicle, and the other team members also relaxed.

And shortly after that, the army of [Military Technology] surrounded them without any warning.

Under the opponent's fierce attack, Qiwei opened the escort car in time to allow more people to get in.

At the same time, the escort was also displayed in front of them.

【Cyborg】

This large-scale prosthesis, which is also of military grade, is the escort cargo of the Arasaka convoy and is also the center of this series of events.

At this moment, Faraday, her employer, suddenly called and Lucy's voice came from there.

Everything is for [Cyborg] and the person who is most suitable to use and test it - David.

Lucy was captured and they were surrounded again. Although it was an enemy trap, it seemed that the only way to break out of the situation was to try putting on this deadly thing (cyborg).

But before that, David called Zhang Yi.

[Hello~ I can see clearly from above~] The call was connected, and Zhang Yi's voice came first [There are so many soldiers, magic lizard tanks, and missile vehicles~ The military technology has been invested heavily~]

"Here's the thing for you. Can you save Lucy?"

[Unfortunately, no] Zhang Yi said [You have to wear it]

[The oil guy needs the usage data of this thing to determine whether it is worth buying]

[Don’t be too quick to lose your temper, look at the sky]

At this time, a servo skull fell from the sky carrying a suitcase and handed it to David.

Inside the suitcase was a chip and a can of injection medicine.

[Insert the chip, and we can get detailed data and battle footage when you use that thing (cyborg), and that can of medicine...]

[It can be used as a last resort at the last moment - just think of it as a can of super-strong inhibitor that is extremely harmful to the brain~]

[According to my estimation, your own medicines, plus this potion of mine, should be enough - enough for you to achieve your goal.]

"...when I have done what you asked me to do?"

[Then I can promise that I will try my best to save all of you]

"...you know something, right?"

[What do I know? Who knows?]

[That's it. I'm dead. Come on, David.]

As Zhang Yi hung up the phone, he turned and looked at Father Cadoch behind him.

"Do you have to torture this little guy?"

"We are not doing charity." Kadoc's face, which was covered by most mechanical devices, showed no expression. "I have also read their stories..."

"That kind of thing happens almost every day on some planets in my world. It's not surprising, nor is it enough to be sad about it..."

"We need to confirm whether the [Cyborg] you mentioned is really that valuable, and use this to determine whether this world's [Old Network] is worth spending more time on."

"If it's not worth it, then we won't lose much if we give him that inferior potion. But if the opposite is true..."

"You can use David, who was seriously injured by the use of the potion, to tie up the only 'mining machine' you know of at this stage, which has been mining information in the [Old Network], right?" Zhang Yi said. "Okay~ Who told me that I don't have any power of my own at this stage~"

"It's unlikely that two 'corn spirits' will allow me to help them alone."

"..." (The Imperial Guards said they were used to this name)

Zhang Yi bid farewell to Kadoc and other members of the Mechanicus who were preparing to receive the data stream and returned to his own machinery room.

Among them, Mann, who has awakened, is sitting on the operating table, getting familiar with his body.

"It seems that my skills are not bad~" Zhang Yi said, looking at Mann who was able to move normally. "David managed your team well while you were asleep..."

"I just got into a big trouble recently~"