Chapter 42 I Never Accept Confessions

On the other side.

Grace simultaneously launched an assassination against another Trauma Team vigilante.

He did not possess Su Wen's armor-piercing capability for a one-hit kill.

However, the stalwart Black man utilized his supernatural trait, "Velocity Control," in tandem with Brazilian jiu-jitsu chokeholds.

Even if it took a little longer, he could silently eliminate the enemy.

The two men exchanged a glance in the dark, exchanging the hand signal for completion.

In the pitch-black dead of night,

Miss Hacker spoke through the communication channel:

"The enemy won't realize this quickly that their response unit has suffered casualties.

"The time vacuum left for you won't last long.

"After all, Leis Angton's cybernetic augmentation technology monitors vital signs in real-time."

"Take this chance to eliminate the five remaining enemies: the one in Room 2, 35 meters ahead to your right, and the four guarding Section B, Level 6 and the glass mirror corridor of Section A in the core building."

Hearing Miss Caroline Diliya say this,

Su Wen, acting as a rigorous scientific researcher, raised a question:

"Caroline.

"Since you have already breached Leis Angton's internal system, can you attempt to mimic the vital signals of the Trauma Team cyborgs?"

The hacker miss pondered for a moment before giving an uncertain answer:

"Give me some time. I have never decrypted Leis Angton's biological signals before.

"The most critical obstacle here is the lack of their internal data translation logic."

Su Wen smiled:

"What if I happen to have high-end, precision biological detection equipment belonging to Leis Angton right here, and it has already been implanted into Racing Car No. 25?"

"Open access for me immediately; I am going to synchronously integrate into your racing car's main control logic board."

Only now did Caroline Diliya realize:

Merely through a single racing competition, she fundamentally could not comprehend the full depth of this handsome Night Watchman, Rhine.

This man was simply too mysterious!

"If we have ready-made transcoding logic, even if I cannot completely decrypt it,

"I can still help you simulate the identity of 'Trauma Team employee BTU_7' within the data lines."

Leis Angton probably could not have imagined under any circumstances

that the high-precision detection equipment lost due to electromagnetic storms in the BHX District deep-sea ruins

would now become the key to making the Detroit branch core building fall without a fight.

"I will buy you some time."

Su Wen's style of action lacked any hesitation.

He flashed a "stealth" and "assassination" hand signal to Grace beside him.

Then,

in the darkness,

One,

two,

three.

Bang!

Accompanying the heavy, dull thud of a Trauma Team vigilante collapsing to the ground,

the internal communication lines of Leis Angton also seemed to sink into quiet alongside the approaching night.

Ten minutes later.

Looking at the cybernetically augmented person collapsed at the corner,

the lighting system of the entire building was gradually recovering,

and the positions of the two men were about to be exposed.

At this critical, hair-trigger moment,

Caroline's message rang out timely in the communication channel:

"Data masking complete."

[Current Area: Leis Angton Detroit Branch Building — Section A, Level 7]

[Current Two-Star Mission Completion Progress: 13%]

[Note: As a legend of the City of Chaos, your wisdom has indeed brought you good fortune.]

In an instant,

countless red dots densely presented themselves on the three-dimensional map.

All of these individuals were members of the [Trauma Team].

If a direct frontal clash broke out,

even as a Tier 3 transcendental, Su Wen estimated he would have to pack it in.

He finally understood now:

the Trauma Team hunting down the White Hound Fern was only a small fraction; the cybernetically augmented individuals prepared for relic reconnaissance and Lost Sea route exploration constituted the vast majority.

"It seems my luck is indeed quite good."

"I have also disguised your identity information.

"But please remember, this is merely an overlay at the data end.

"If the enemy actually lays eyes on you, there will be no room for maneuvering whatsoever."

Su Wen calmly and gently wiped the cold blade:

"It doesn't matter; I merely wish to leave a bit of suspense for the upcoming chaos."

Standing by the building's glass curtain wall, he heard the roar of motorbikes gathering down below.

Those were members of the Carnival Racing Crew.

These racing maniacs were among the first batch of people to arrive.

And following closely behind them

were the gang scavenger factions driving heavy armored vehicle convoys.

They had even brought anti-tank rocket launchers.

"What the fuck, get out of the way!"

"Greenrit, are you out of your damn mind?!"

"Don't blow me up!"

The crowd experienced a brief moment of vacuum.

Accompanied by the piercing, fiery glare of armor-piercing rockets trailing exhaust flames,

the entire building shuddered.

Leis Angton's alloy gates were declared breached in less than a second.

The madmen of the City of Chaos, cyberpsychos, and grassroots rebels flooded into the building brandishing all manner of heavily modified weapons.

Under Su Wen's rallying call,

in the fifth year of the Genesis Era — Autumn,

an unprecedentedly large-scale "anti-cyber oligarchy" riot erupted across Detroit.

Compared to the historical French Revolution of 1789

and the Berlin Revolution of 1843,

whenever civilization stood at a turning point,

someone would always stand up, hoist high the banner, and forge beacons out of iron and fire.

At this moment,

the collective rebellious consciousness of humanity

had once again awakened in Detroit.

[Completed Historical View of Civilization — Monument Event — "Detroit, Sleepless Tonight"]

[World Influence +5000]

[Future Timeline: Splitting point appears for the relic event "The Firewood Gatherer of the Slums," branch characters survive in the "Winter Night Without Heat" Great Desolation Wall event]

[Achieved 80% progress on the S-rank hidden mission belonging to the great legend of the City of Chaos]

"Next, amidst this chaos, let us first fulfill our promises to you and to Fern."

Su Wen flicked the dust off his black trench coat,

then, following Caroline's communication guidance route, headed toward the experimental zone where the innocents were imprisoned.

"The experimental zone is on the floor directly above your current position.

"I suggest taking the fire escape. The enemies currently guarding the fire escape are two Tier 1 cybernetically augmented transcendentals. Do you feel any pressure?"

"No problem."

Su Wen was very clear on his current combat capability.

Moreover, under the buffs of the Night Watchman and the blessing of speed abilities, Grace's combat power was not weak either.

Disguised as Trauma Team patrollers, the two men struck out from the shadows of the corner,

instantly pinning down and silencing the cybernetically augmented transcendentals.

Then,

Su Wen kicked open the heavy door.

However, the scene before their eyes

truly exceeded the bottom line of humanity:

A tiny figure wearing a lab coat and a pale complexion was curled up inside an experimental containment unit.

Countless slender, transparent tubes were inserted into her body, surrounded by sickening, floating abyssal entities.

[Abyssal spiritual pollution detected]

[Night Watchman buff activated]

[Abyssal will pollution adjudication in progress; psychological threshold not exceeded, pollution purged]

Simultaneously,

that tiny figure also caught sight of the stalwart Black man.

Struggling through her pain, she reached out her hand toward Grace and managed a clear, innocent smile:

"Uncle Grace, little Miranda never cried 'hurt,' not even once."

At this moment,

the eyes of this hardened man—who hadn't even so much as frowned when bullets pierced his flesh—welled up with tears.

He only trembled as he repeated:

"I know."

"I... know."

"I'm sorry, I let you suffer."

In the distance,

several researchers in white shirts were preparing to flee.

One of them said in panic:

"Leis Angton made me do it all, it has nothing to do with me, nothing to do with me!"

Grace rushed up to him and landed a vicious punch, knocking the researcher's teeth loose as they flew out.

"!!! You bunch of beasts!"

"If scientific research transcends humanity, then indeed, you no longer deserve to be called human beings."

Su Wen raised his firearm,

stuffed the muzzle directly into the mouth of the trash who had only felt empathy for his own kind when faced with death,

and said with utmost calmness:

"Also, I never accept repentance."

He pulled the trigger.

On the screen,

the massive roar of the Magnum and the wildly splattering blood-red backdrop testified to his fury.