The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 499 - 270: Can Jiang Shu’s Abs Fight?!
Chapter 499: Chapter 270: Can Jiang Shu’s Abs Fight?!”You’re not Rift, who are you?!” Wolf exclaimed in shock upon seeing the Cleaner’s face clearly; he had always thought that this Cleaner was Rift Gary, the very target he had been pursuing...

However, now, he suddenly discovered that the Cleaner was not Gary?

A Disguise Technique?

Wolf harbored such a suspicion in his heart and then immediately pressed his hands on the Cleaner’s limbs.

Only one felt like hard metal, the rest were normal flesh and blood.

It couldn’t possibly be Gary, after all Gary’s limbs had mostly been replaced by Prosthetic Bodies.

So who was this guy?!

Wolf’s gaze shifted back to the Chairman, who now stood behind his nanny robot, looking at Wolf, Jiang Shu, and the Cleaner lying on the ground with a wary expression.

Sunlight spilled onto the corridor of the Seges Building, the floor painted in the stark contrast of light and shadow. Everything here seemed peaceful, but the atmosphere had plummeted into tension.

The Chairman furrowed his brows slightly, his eyes flicking to the bullet hole in the wall of the corridor, calming the nerves that had spiked within him a moment ago.

That Cleaner had fired at him just now, hadn’t he?

Luckily, he missed.

He then looked puzzledly at Wolf, who had pinned the Cleaner to the ground.

He recognized the faces of Wolf and Jiang Shu, today’s clients from the Iris Family. Based on the report from the head of the supervision team, these two were from the police department, and they had come to investigate their corporation today.

But what was with this assassin?

According to this police officer, he was after this Cleaner, not here to investigate their company.

These questions had no time to be sorted out in the Chairman’s mind before a new situation arose.

”Chairman, we’re here!” A bunch of burly men came running from the end of the corridor, all dressed in identical uniforms but with a sloppy look—either missing a button here or an unflipped collar there.

They were armed with protective weapons such as net guns, medicine forks, batons, and explosion-proof shields, all looking fiercely intimidating.

Yet, looking at this group, the Chairman found his assurance; these were his fighting dogs, and with them here, his safety was seemingly secured.

”Wu—mm—” However, just then, the air raid alarm of the Seges Building suddenly rang out, but after only one or two tones, a shadow flashed past the corridor windows.

Like lightning cutting through the sky, a black and red afterimage traced an arc against the cloudless blue, resembling a rift in the heavens.

Then it plunged.

With gravity multiplying its velocity, the Rift in the sky tucked in its wings, minimizing air resistance and accelerating to his peak velocity, like a dark red spike plummeting from the heavens to earth.

Moments before nearing the building’s glass, Rift suddenly spread one half of his wings, then made a slight fold. The high-altitude wind skimmed across the curve of the metallic wings, instantly altering Rift’s trajectory. No longer in a simple free fall, he now drew a tiny arc.

And the Chairman was right at the mid-point of that arc.

One could imagine that without any mishap, Gary would penetrate the building’s glass from above, snatch up the Chairman, and then escape through the glass windows of the floor below.

But if there should be no accident, it likely meant an accident was imminent.

”Ping—” The glass above shattered as Gary’s form broke through, his hand reaching out for the Chairman.

He didn’t just use one hand; he used both. One hand to swat aside the nanny robot blocking the Chairman, the other reached for the Chairman himself.

In that instant, almost everyone on the scene was frozen in place.

Jiang Shu watched indifferently, witnessing everything unfold; Wolf, who had been handcuffing the Cleaner just a second ago, naturally couldn’t react in time; the supervision team members also showed astonishment, standing five or six meters from the Chairman, unable to be of any help.

Only the leader of the supervision team seemed startled—or perhaps the high-priced ability purchased by the Chairman was now taking effect. He was holding the military-grade Electric Grid Gun he had recently received, and he pulled the trigger aimed at his own Chairman.

This Electric Grid Gun was nothing like a regular net gun; it didn’t shoot metal nets but rather dispersion-type electric tines that, upon contact with a solid or after being fired for two seconds, generated a special current. Dozens of electric tines connected to each other, forming a massive electrical net.

For this reason, the Electric Grid Gun had an extremely high capture rate and did not require predicting the opponent’s evasive moves based on their level of excitement, incomparable to any ordinary metal net gun.

”!!” Rift was immediately startled as the image of the electric tines appeared in his eyes.

Rift’s Prosthetic Eye was not merely an imitation of a human eye; as this suit of Armor was capable of aerial combat, the accompanying Prosthetic Eye also possessed the sharpness of an eagle’s and the multi-angle observation of a fly’s compound eyes.

It was precisely because of this that he was able to react in an instant.

No good, he couldn’t go for the Chairman. That electrical net was targeted at the Chairman, and if he continued on his previous trajectory, he would be captured by the electrical net!

While he could instantly cut through a metal net with the blades on his wings, this electricity was invisible, and once the current burst forth, his Prosthetic Body would be subject to a strong electrical arc impact.

A malfunction of his prosthetic functions was the least of his worries; if he fell into a violent state due to Cyber Syndrome...