Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 834 - 269: I Am the Genuine Article! (3)

He took a chip out from the back of his neck and threw it over to Lin Miao.

"This is everything I know. I don't know which parts you want, but almost everything is in there. You'd better hurry; I can guarantee Dog Town is in chaos right now. Hansen isn't a straightforward guy. Your people might have already been raided by him, so you'd better kill me quickly."

"Now, let me see exactly how you, the authentic version of [Failed History], are stronger than me!"

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The phrase 'survival of the strongest' is not accurate.

True natural evolution is about survival of the fittest.

But the law of the jungle is indeed a real thing.

Benjamin has always believed that he is on the correct path of human biological evolution, rather than mechanical evolution. Not only does it turn people into something less than ghosts or humans, it also carries the risk of cyberpsychosis.

And to prove this, he enjoyed using words to guide those arrogant corporate dogs. He let them revel in the pleasure of killing and devouring the lower class, including looking down from the underground castle at the pigs and the cult members bred for slaughter. It was a feeling of untold superiority.

All of this was ruined by the person before him. When seeing this person up close, there was an aura of 'completeness' about them, and he became the one looked down upon, at least he felt so.

Angry?

Furious?

How could I be!

This is the moment he adheres to his beliefs. Because you are stronger than me, you are more 'superior,' so killing me and even devouring me is justified.

When V chased all the way to the factory zone with the driver's head, the area was already in ruins. The factory zone, already ruined by an earthquake by a third, was further devastated now, with at least three or four factory buildings collapsing, ruins everywhere, and even fires breaking out in some places.

If it hadn't been cleared in advance, I'm afraid it would've been surrounded by NCPD.

"Come on! Kill me! Hahahaha!"

Amidst the flames and steel, even the air was boiling. Benjamin's crippled body was held by Lin Miao with one hand, as the burnt embers drifted around them.

Lin Miao's mouth was bloodstained, his upper clothes were torn by the scalpel, his muscular torso riddled with bloody wounds, and even Benjamin's teeth marks remained on his face. The flames reflected in his eyes, like burning fury.

Both against the biotech and Soviet Petrochemical, and against this maniac in front of him.

This guy had already gone insane, even when Lin Miao tore off both of his arms, broke his legs, he still tried to bite him, showing a fighting spirit more tenacious than anyone Lin Miao had seen.

"Does it not matter to you if you fail your task from Soviet Petrochemical and biotech?"

"Who...cough...cares about them?"

Aside from those with vested interests, when have company employees truly cared about corporate interests?

If there's a good price, isn't it all about selling anyway?

Even Benjamin, a genetically modified human, was no different.

Loyalty is a sci-fi word for them.

"....."

Lin Miao looked at the dying Benjamin and asked him.

"What's your original name?"

"Benjamin Button."

"I'll remember you."

Lin Miao nodded slightly, then applied force to the hand gripping Benjamin's neck.

Snap.

The crisp sound of vertebrae displacement could be heard, and the already dying Benjamin completely lost his breath, his body going limp.

No matter how much hardship he had in the past, it had nothing to do with Lin Miao.

Given his methods, he could be said to have died serving justice, Lin Miao acted without a trace of pity.

"Is it done?"

V uneasily looked around. She hadn't expected the usually amiable Lin Miao to be so ruthless when taking action.

"You made too much noise, those guys definitely saw it."

"Let them see it, this world doesn't lack someone like me, modified or not, it's still better than you, a monster."

V was just a bit scuffed on her clothes, unlike Lin Miao who was in such a sorry state, not to mention the secretary ran off while V's professor's driver was killed, showing that this guy couldn't be seen with normal human thinking.

Lin Miao pointed at the corpse on the ground.

"Load him into the car."

"But that's my own car. Do you know how much it costs to wash it?"

"I'll buy you a new one."

"Okay, boss."

V picked up Benjamin's body and walked out. She could tell Lin Miao was in a bad mood, so she didn't ask anything further.

Francis Yang...

Clone...

Lin Miao followed behind V, his mind sifting through the chip Benjamin had left.

Contained within were not only lists of cult members but also a wealth of intelligence information, about biotech, Soviet Petrochemical, the Soviets, the Cleaner list, and the one Lin Miao was most focused on.

Biotech had indeed been researching large-scale rapid human cloning technology in the castle's underground, but the technological breakthroughs were elusive.

Francis Yang was a prodigy in biological cloning and worked for biotech in Night City back then, developing cloning technology.

Rumors say he cloned his deceased daughter but was never satisfied, thinking he cloned another person. He attempted to seek Outkanning's Soul Killer technology to genuinely replicate a daughter from his memories, rather than a cloned forgery. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

In the end, he and his lab vanished in the nuclear explosion set off by Silver Hand, all technical data lost as the network crashed, leaving biotech struggling to recover anything, with little success.

Benjamin was an unfinished embryo left by Francis Yang, a collaborative project with the Soviets.

After the doctor's death, the Soviets spent decades cultivating him, but the outcome wasn't good, with genetic defects limiting the experimental subject's lifespan to 30 years maximum.

Lin Miao looked at his hand.

[Authentic version]?

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