Chapter 118: Chapter 110: Soaring Over Downtown

Jack crashed into the wall with a bang, his forehead buzzing from the impact. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Confused by the blow, he slowed his movements, bouncing back up like a ball—thankfully, he was holding onto Spider Silk.

However, with that bounce, Lille flipped over—if Jack had landed on him, it would have been painful!

"Dammit! Jack, grab the wall!"

Lille’s scream snapped Jack back to the moment, and in midair, he managed to move and finally turned around to cling to the wall.

"Dammit..." Lille wiped his sweat, beginning to doubt his choice.

"Oh my god..." After making sure he wasn’t sliding down, Jack glanced behind—

They were already between the high buildings.

"Are you okay?" Jack finally remembered the person hanging behind him, "Uh...I didn’t mean to..."

V’s voice came over the comms, "Ha ha, Jack, you look a bit dizzy—hurry up and keep up with us!"

Lille also gestured for Jack to follow.

It had to be said, V was very adept with this system.

Her reaction was fast already, and with Si Anweisitan and Krensky enhancements, plus Enhanced Achilles Tendon on her feet, she practically resembled a small Spiderman.

After getting used to the Magnetic Suction Gloves, V’s speed increased significantly, jumping up the walls of the skyscrapers.

These bold movements amazed Jack—

As they continued to climb, their altitude had already exceeded a hundred meters!

With the rise in height, the air got colder, the scent in the air started to thin out.

The smell of sewage, tobacco, leaking heat, and garbage odors...

These mixed smells lessened, until only Night City’s acrid mild acidic mist remained.

This was the unique scent that, even standing at the top of Night City, couldn’t be ignored, the mild irritation and the distinct edges of the skyscrapers composed the view of Night City they now saw.

Peeling back those absurd scenes from the lower layers, that was the city Night City truly was.

Now, only these skyscrapers were so conspicuous.

Approaching Company Square, they could see more clearly the corporate troops stationed on the streets and NCPD vehicles.

Apart from those special Super Corporation employees, most people stayed at home—

The city center hadn’t seen incidents like this in a long time, consecutive explosions and gunfights left everyone alarmed—

The few long-lived natives of Night City were reminded of the gang wars from decades ago.

The gangs thought the corporations were weakening and took to the streets to declare their sovereignty; the corporations, in turn, promptly started their war machine.

Floating Tanks, Armored Transport Vehicles, Heavy Firepower, and heavily modified cyborg humans took to the streets, forming a tightly ordered array to massacre the gang members.

Every corner of the street could see blood.

This serious scene evoked those bloody memories deep inside them, and people tightly shut their doors.

Clearly, the metro incident put Military Technology in an awkward position, and other companies tacitly allowed short-term martial law measures to demonstrate authority.

After all...from start to finish, these events weren’t really supported by any Super Corporation; naturally, no one opposed this measure.

It was a bitterly cold night.

Not only were armed personnel stationed on the streets for patrols, but the surroundings of the five major corporations also had a large amount of unmanned drones.

The most eye-catching were the two Scorpion-tailed Lion Floating Cars slowly patrolling the sky.

With such defenses, trying to break through on the ground was simply a fool’s dream—countless eyes and tactical sensors were watching.

V clicked her tongue, "I remember this place was packed with people this morning; now, it looks like a war zone."

"In a sense, it still is crowded with people."

One thousand meters away from Company Square, the trio clung to the wall of a Super Skyscraper.

Lille quickly scanned the surrounding armed forces arrangement, trying to find a path into the Biotechnology Building.

Intimidating as it looked, Lille knew this was a good sign.

With a large crowd wandering nearby Company Square for defense against infiltration, many of these people were highly experienced agents on duty.

Now that they had adjusted their strategy to display power, those agents had naturally been withdrawn—

Since not even the five major heads had any objections to an immediate issuance of a warrant, not only Military Technology believed the person had fled.

So, this martial law was more about deterring the people of Night City—just because there was a problem at City Hall didn’t mean they’d lost control here.

A warrant had been issued, but a little more time was needed to investigate the specific identity of the suspects, and the company’s hackers had already started to act.

The company’s disposition was mainly to demonstrate sovereignty, but a flawless defense was still laid out on the ground.

Even the airspace at the 50-meter mark was heavily secured, but the higher regions were not so—only scattered small drones were visible, clearly the higher the altitude, the less probably the companies thought of being invaded.

Soon, Lille found the entrance route.

But this route was quite circuitous.

Firstly, we need to know that the Biotechnology Building, although it stands in Company Square as one of the five behemoths, demonstrates their control over Night City.

However, biotechnology real estate isn’t just this one building—even though this building also covers an area of over 80,000 square meters and rises over 400 meters.

People in Company Square are usually deceived by the relatively rustic design of the Biotechnology Building and its not-so-prominent height.

Visually, the building doesn’t look very tall, and uses strange yellow metallic walls, though expansive, it gives a feeling of being stubby and round.

But if you come to its side, you would witness an architectural miracle—a kilometer-long giant aerial structure.

No exaggeration, that thing looks like they turned a skyscraper on its side.

The horizontally laid Biotechnology Building spans a kilometer, linking the Biotechnology Building at Company Square with the City Hall real estate.

It is a building almost as tall, where subsidiary companies of Biotechnology operate, or rent out spaces to other high-tech enterprises.

For example, softsys, a company focused on developing software systems for civil equipment, and offices of All Food Company, which was acquired by Biotechnology.

The building in City Hall also links several buildings with smaller but similarly structured corridors—

This is almost like an aerial empire.

Indeed, within this biotech real estate, a unique ecosystem has formed.

If you’re wealthy enough, you could spend your entire life without leaving these buildings, living among the clouds.

This complex aerial linkage structure was the route that Lille saw.

With the help of that huge aerial footbridge, or rather aerial building, the trio could bypass the heavily guarded ground forces and skirt around the mid-to-high level drone fleets.

Lille quickly uploaded the organized route into the other two people’s Prosthetic Eyes.

Jack and V looked towards another tall building—the distance they had to cross this time was vast, below it was a six-lane main road.

Two armored vehicles approached each other—Lille gave the command when the vehicles were about to meet.

The two exchanged glances; V’s Enhanced Achilles Tendon suddenly exerted force, kicking off; Spider Silk shot out, almost skimming in low flight, using the night as cover to leap over the main road.

With a snap, V adhered to the wall, then combined jumping and climbing, reaching the top of the high building in seconds, then gestured to Jack.

Jack, without Enhanced Achilles Tendons and heavier in weight, and also carrying Lille, needed V’s help.

He held Lille with one hand, then said, "Ready?"

"My planned route, and you’re asking me?"

Although Lille said that, he was quite nervous inside.

The plan was—Jack would first use his Giant Gorilla Arms to throw him out.

Jack nodded, took a breath, and began to swing gently with Lille’s hand—

"1...2...3...V, catch!"

How powerful a King Kong Arm could be, Lille had never been hit by one before.

It was only after Jack threw him out that he really understood how outrageous it was—

Jack’s other hand slid a bit under the enormous force; Lille felt his head go empty.

He appeared in the middle of the road, and he was flying very high.

At the highest point where the upward inertia was completely canceled, V shot out the Spider Silk according to the plan and caught Lille—

Then the most difficult part was over, but Lille dropped the ball.

Weightlessness caused his blood circulation to be poor and his brain to be oxygen-deprived; he forgot to take protective measures and crashed into the glass with a bang.

V anxiously called Lille’s name, then quickly pulled him up: "Lille? What are you spacing out for?!"

"I... damn..." Lille slapped his forehead, snapping out of his dazed state.

The good news was he hit bulletproof glass, which was relatively softer.

He shook his head, as the biometrics monitor kept alarming and stimulated his auxiliary heart to increase blood pressure and supply blood to the brain.

Although he felt like he had been shattered, he had no serious damage and quickly recovered.

"I’m fine... Jack, come on over."

"You scared me to death—"

Jack on the other side breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest.

Then he bent his elbows sharply, exerted force, and leaped high—lacking Enhanced Achilles Tendons, but having Giant Gorilla Arms.

Similarly, nearly skimming the road at ultra-low altitude, another patrol team drove over the road——

All seemed normal.