Night Hacker Chapter 28: Fight in the rain
A heavy downpour is washing over Kabukicho, and the signs and neon lights of shops on both sides of the street are dimmed.
Walking down the street, Lorna considered the downpour a boon.
Only at times like this are the streets empty, without the always noisy and crowded crowds.
The rainwater swayed the messy wires and accumulated in puddles on the ground, flooding the false dreams brought by the neon lights and restoring the dilapidated essence of this place.
A plastic canopy was installed at the entrance of a food store, and a transparent plastic fence was set up underneath to protect the various fruits placed on the road from the northern agricultural area from the rain. At this time, some pedestrians crowded in Take shelter from the rain there.
The owner of the food store was wary of a few street children stealing things, while yelling at people to get out.
Lorna noticed that while the boss was yelling at the children on this side, there was a younger girl who was only a few years old quietly slipped to the side of the fruit bar, quickly hugged some fruits and then jumped Rain ran away.
Those children who were responsible for holding back the boss, in turn, scolded the boss severely, and were then kicked out by the boss.
Lorna couldn't help smiling, and some childhood memories came to mind.
For more than ten years, nothing has changed except that there are more garbage in the rotten mud pond.
That was after the failure of the flesh and blood operation, her father waited for the beheading and hanging of the leaders of the flesh and blood faction...
Soon, a nuclear leak occurred in the bone and blood area, and everyone couldn't live anymore.
She has nowhere to go, and the flesh and blood people don't want her to leave there. Once she leaves, it seems that there will be an official end.
But she had to leave again. The identity of "Daughter of Flesh and Blood" is too sensitive. Whether it is the New World Bank or the "Flesh and Blood Gang" formed by the remnants of the Flesh and Blood faction, there are people who want her dead. Someone wants to control her and use her.
Suddenly one day, Lorna Lude disappeared, and several of her father's old subordinates who had survived the catastrophe arranged for her to leave the Bone and Blood District.
But they couldn't protect themselves and couldn't take care of her.
For the next ten or eight years, Lorna became such a street child, wandering around Kabukicho, Sanmanga, Jianggu, and the Walled City. She followed a group of friends everywhere, everywhere. steal something.
They call themselves the "Mice Gang".
In fact, there was a period of time, although it was very hard, but Lorna was quite happy...
Until the mouse gang was cleaned up by the Police Department, some people escaped and joined the adults' gangs, some people were taken to orphanages and disappeared, and Lorna continued to roam the streets.
The sound of soft electronic music came from a shop.
Lorna stopped on the side of the street, looking at the rows of products through a floor-to-ceiling red window.
The heavy rain made the neon lights dim, but the lights in the window were soft and bright, and there seemed to be a layer of warmth through the glass.
On the rows of product columns in the window, there are exquisite car models, cloth bear dolls, small robots, building block puzzles, etc., which are collectibles that children and adults will love when they see them.
With the rain hitting her face, Lorna looked slightly dazed.
She used to really want such a singing rag doll, but she managed to steal it.
But after a while, she threw the cloth bear into the trash can.
That's not hers.
"Hey..." Lorna's heart was jumping a little strangely at this time. Now that she has the money to buy it, she can buy the cloth bear and then buy the car model... But, she caressed and pretended to be with her left hand. The alien right hand on the upper body.
Let's buy a little robot and give it to Gu He as another gift...
That guy is very strange. He said that he was an orphan since he was a child and grew up in the voodoo ruins.
But he wasn't someone who grew up on the street, Lorna could tell at a glance, he couldn't pretend, Gu He wasn't as dirty as street kids, and street kids weren't as kind as him.
No wonder Lao Fan doesn't like him, old people only like familiar things.
But she, she's not that old.
After two days, Lorna wanted to talk to Gu He again, maybe she wanted to get some courage from him... to go back to the Bone and Blood District. It has been ten years since she left there.
Click, a sound of steady footsteps sounded at the corner of the street, which immediately caught Lorna's vigilant attention.
Under such heavy rain, few people can maintain this kind of stability, unless they are... Transcendents.
Lorna turned her head to look, the heavy rain made everything hazy, and the puddles on the road were stepped on and splashed water.
It was a young woman with a petite figure of only about 1.5 meters, short black hair, and a simple black dress with no other decorations. There was a faint and gentle smile on her face, like an unforgettable girl. ordinary passers-by.
But Lorna could tell it was false at a glance, and felt a dangerous breath coming from the rain.
This kind of person, this kind of talent grew up on the street, numb and cruel.
The woman stopped, and the distance between the two was about ten steps.
"Lorna Lude, someone pays me to cut off your head."
"Oh." Lorna laughed suddenly, "I'll give you double the money, you go back and cut off that guy's head."
Why is she not surprised at this kind of thing.
It's like a nerve has been broken long ago, and there is only one reaction to everything: come on, I'll see what's going on this time.
"You can't afford that price." The woman in black said, and pulled out a curved red-handled samurai sword from her back. But your head can be exchanged for a house in Jianggu District.”
"Is it that much? I thought no matter what, it's also a seaside villa in the harbor area..."
Lorna narrowed her eyes, and the alien's right hand slowly clenched into a fist.
She had no doubt that the samurai sword could cut off her head with one blow.
It looks like... a guy from the assassin class?
Hunter and Assassin sound similar, but they are actually two professions with completely different abilities.
The origins are also different, the hunter type belongs to the eleventh house, and the assassin type belongs to the ninth house, both of which are so-called future masters.
"Sorry." The woman in black held a samurai sword and bowed deeply, "My name is Ayako, please give me your advice."
"Fuck you." Lorna rushed forward against the rain, closing the distance between them.
That woman may really be an assassin, or she may already be a second-order user, her strength is completely different from those heretics with strong muscles and rags, and she is even more difficult to deal with than the unformed embryonic species.
The distance just now made Lorna not confident that she would be able to entangle the opponent as soon as she released the nerve bundle.
On the contrary, it is very likely that the other party will use a samurai sword to break all the nerve threads, causing her own damage.
The falling rain hit the neon signboard, which obscured the light, but it still illuminated this corner of the street.
However, the woman in black suddenly disappeared, and her whole body, including the samurai sword, disappeared as if invisible.
He is indeed an assassin, and the samurai sword is one of his prosthetic bodies.
Assassin professional department J-level program: Stealth
While Lorna continued to rush, her green eyes paid attention to the trajectory of the rain and night wind in this space.
The stealth program can only affect other people's sensory information, especially the vision, making people invisible. It doesn't mean that it is really invisible. The woman in black is still here...
Here! Lorna jumped to dodge suddenly, the rain splashed from the original position, and the raindrops were smashed by the blade.
Her back instinctively burst into cold sweat. If she had been hit by the knife just now, she would have been split in two by the middle.
While these thoughts were flying, Lorna dodged again and again. With the hunter's superb nerve sensitivity, she was always able to avoid the cold light from the ghost in advance, as if dancing in the rain, the dance of the blade. .
At this time, the neon sign "Good Things Shop" of the shop with red windows changed the color of the lights.
It changed from red to purple blue, and at that moment, the light pierced through the rain, reflecting a strange and hazy phantom flashing in the rain, and the light stirred by the katana sword was like a wave.
Here it is! Lorna opened her eyes sharply~IndoMTL.com~This is a fleeting opportunity...
Her heterogeneous right hand exploded with a bang, transforming into a nerve bundle state, countless blood threads flying all over the sky, and quickly rushed towards the phantom, like a spider web entangled a small bug.
The phantom's humanoid shape was immediately exposed to the rain.
"I've got you!" Lorna screamed, those **** threads pierced through the opponent's head skin and forcibly connected to the opponent's brain nerves.
J-level Hunter Program: Nervous Invasion
However, just after this intrusion, she suddenly felt an inexplicable chill, the chill of falling into a trap.
"I caught you." The voice of the woman in black sounded calmly in the rain, "Are you sure we are just assassins?"
Lorna stared at the opponent's figure reappearing little by little, but she was unable to activate the turbulent flow of Q-level program information.
We? Of course she could hear what the other party said...
The figure of the woman in black became taller, with long legs and high waist, and her face also appeared. It was a face that she was familiar with but hated to see, with green pupils, big eyes, and a straight nose. Lorna - Ludd's face.
Professional actor department, J-level program: mask
Now, the woman in black is not in a hurry, like a cat that has controlled a mouse.
"You decide when to connect, and we decide when to disconnect." The woman said calmly in another voice.
For a moment, Lorna was covered in cold sweat, never feeling death so close like now.
The woman in black is really a... doll.
Doll professional department, J-level program: container
The assassin and the actor are all connected to the doll through the spiritual network channel.