“Hey, buddy, stop playing dead. Quickly tell me your terminal’s location so I can send you on your way.”
Jiang Heng stepped on the Vortex Gang member, who had been dismembered but was still alive. He then gave a very amiable smile.
“I, I won't tell you! You won't get away with offending the Vortex Gang!”
The Vortex Gang member's voice had a mechanical feel to it, clearly even his vocal cords had been replaced with cybernetics.
“Oh, you're so tough? Good, I like tough guys.”
Jiang Heng didn’t get angry, instead, the smile on his face widened.
Then, he raised the hand holding the knife.
Seeing this, the Vortex Gang member immediately panicked, "You, what are you going to do?"
"What am I going to do? Since you won't tell me, I'll have to kill you, otherwise, what's the point of keeping you around to seek revenge on me later?" Jiang Heng said with a smile.
Hearing this, the Vortex Gang member felt like this guy was a devil. How could such a pleasant-looking face spout such cold words?
Puchi~
A light sound, Jiang Heng's blade had already plunged into the man's chest and twisted a few times.
"Aaaaah!!"
The poor Vortex Gang member let out a piercing scream, even Lucy, who had just reached the factory entrance, could hear it.
His limbs were all cybernetic implants, so he didn't feel much pain when Jiang Heng chopped them off. But his heart was a real biological one, and Jiang Heng's strike had truly caused him excruciating pain.
"Don't, don't move, I'll tell you, I'll tell you right now!"
Immediately, the Vortex Gang member caved in. He never intended to protect the secret, but he still had to put up a show, negotiate some terms, otherwise, wouldn't it make him look spineless?
However, he never expected Jiang Heng to be so unconventional. Before he could even mention terms, the knife came down, and the position of the strike was extremely dangerous, the blade was almost grazing his heart.
"The terminal is, is in the basement… on the second… floor, the second… room… you can let…"
"Okay, I got it. Thanks for telling me."
Puchi~
Jiang Heng's unsheathed knife moved sideways slightly. The Vortex Gang member’s heart ruptured, and blood instantly gushed out like a fountain.
Before his death, he still couldn't figure out why Jiang Heng was so decisive. He hadn't even finished pleading for his life.
Jiang Heng wasn't interested in his thoughts. Retracting his knife, he looked around, corpses littered the ground, blood flowed like a river. But he didn't feel any remorse.
The gangs of Night City, perhaps only the Mox gang was slightly better, the rest were all guilty of heinous crimes, committing every atrocity imaginable.
Even the Valentinos, known for their brotherhood, had many illegal businesses. Money laundering, gambling, drugs, these were all commonplace, but there were also things like human trafficking, black market cybernetic implants and more.
After all, they were gangs, could you expect them to uphold justice?
The darkness of Night City was something that people living in Jiang Heng's world couldn't even imagine. Even players who played the game "Cyberpunk 2077" only experienced a glimpse of it.
In the game, many of the dialogue of NPCs in the streets and alleys, as well as information on various braindances, reveal the darkness of this world, but many players just didn't pay attention.
Players usually only care about things related to the game's plot. As for everything else, there are very few who deliberately try to understand it. Take those braindances, how many players actually read every piece of information on them?
Jiang Heng actually didn’t know much about this before. Even when he was playing the game, he rarely paid attention to these things. But when he came to this world and felt it firsthand, he understood how desperate the bottom dwellers of this world truly were.
Therefore, when Jiang Heng encountered members of these gangs, he almost always eliminated them without mercy. He wasn't some great benefactor or a beacon of justice, but if he saw something he couldn't stand, he wouldn't hesitate to dispose of it.
…
Then, Jiang Heng didn't stay any longer. He went straight to the basement’s second floor.
Soon after, Lucy arrived.
"Jiang Heng, are you hurt?" As soon as she found Jiang Heng, Lucy asked.
"No, it’s just a small matter. How could I possibly be hurt?" Jiang Heng said with a smile.
"Whew~" Seeing this, Lucy let out a sigh of relief, then rolled her eyes at him. "You scared me to death. You installed Sianwei Stein, why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"Well, I'll explain later, this isn't a good place to talk." Jiang Heng explained.
"Alright, let's finish this task first…"
Lucy also knew that the most important thing was to get the data. While saying this, she walked towards the second room.
Beep beep~~
However, at this moment, a beeping sound rang out.
Jiang Heng's expression changed. He was familiar with this sound, it was an anti-personnel directional demolition mine!
ps: Actually, I wanted the male V and Johnny Silverhand to go gay, but if you guys want to see the female V, you can have it your way.