Cyberpunk: 2075

The moment he saw the twisting blood stain, Karl could already discern the trajectory of the blood stain's fluctuations.

Judging from the traces, someone stepped on the blood and rushed toward him while stepping on the blood.

But he didn't see any figure.

This means...

Raising his hand, Karl used his right hand to hold a mantis knife that was chopped down and displayed translucently on his side.

"Optical camouflage, huh?"

Turning his head slightly, Karl looked at the translucent figure slowly emerging from the transparent side beside him, with a calm expression. Then, he moved his left hand and the neurotoxin knife flew out.

Facing the flying knife, the first reaction of the attacker who used optical camouflage to remain translucent was to retreat, but when he wanted to do so, he found that his Mantis Knife was firmly held in Carl's hand. The power prevented him from moving his wrist at all.

This is all the shortcomings of the Mantis Sword compared to the Samurai Sword. The prosthetic body of the connected arm has replaced part of the limb, and it can no longer be discarded at will like the sword held in the hand.

This was considered an advantage when suddenly attacked, but turned into a fatal flaw when someone caught him firmly.

One arm was controlled.

Should he take the initiative to cut off his hand with another mantis knife and escape, or continue to try to use his own strength to pull out the mantis knife held by Karl?

Faced with the sudden attack, V and the others just protected Nobu Arasaka without even moving.

They are bodyguards, so they naturally have to put the safety of their master first, let alone a one-on-one fight, they don't think anything will happen to Karl.

To put it bluntly, even if Adam Hammer was standing here, he couldn't send Karl away before they could support him after just a few meetings.

Under the watchful eyes of several people, this sudden attacker did something extremely difficult and something that no one had expected.

He actually ignored the knife that flew into his arms. Because of the angle, he used another mantis knife that was difficult to fly. His footsteps were a little bit on the ground, and his whole body actually followed the mantis knife arm that was caught by Karl. , turned over directly.

This operation caused Karl's expression to fluctuate slightly, because Karl was sure that he was holding it firmly. The attacker's mantis knife didn't even move, but in this case, the opponent could keep his arm still. The whole body rotates with the arms as the fulcrum,

Is this using the arm as a wheel axle?

Karl did not see blood stains, which meant that the attacker did not spin in a circle and actively shed his blood while paying the price of tearing and breaking the flesh of his arm to avoid his own flying knife. His entire rotation did not harm him. cause any damage to the body.

Are there any special modifications made to the shoulder joint?

When he realized this, Karl took a half-step back, and with this half-step, he narrowly avoided another mantis knife slashing at him after the attacker spun around.

While dodging the chop, with the tip of the blade pointing downwards to the ground, Karl used his right hand to pull the attacker towards him with his arm, and at the same time, he sharply raised his right knee and pushed him forward.

If nothing else goes wrong, the attacker who was dragged over by Karl and unable to resist would be hit directly in the stomach by Karl's knee.

And Karl's attack was enough to shatter all the internal organs in his abdominal cavity,

But when Karl pulled, he felt a sense of failure.

The feeling he felt back to him when he pulled his right arm was an empty feeling of powerlessness, and the weight he could feel between his arms was extremely light.

The only thing Karl pulled over was the attacker's arm.

So the previous rotation was a screw-like structure that loosened the shoulder joint. Did you remove it?

This guy's prosthetic body is really weird.

Karl saw the figure who took the initiative to remove an arm and kept its translucent form while retreating, so he stepped forward to pursue him.

But just as he took a step, his right hand gave him a feeling of warmth.

Although Carl's arm is a prosthetic body, the feeling of using it is no different from the previous arm, even the feeling of temperature is the same. Now Carl can feel the Mantis Knife arm he is holding in his right hand heating up.

Something that was heating up, no matter what, was definitely not a good thing, so Karl threw the arm towards the retreating attacker without hesitation, and at the same time, his body retreated a little further.

As expected, less than half a second after leaving Karl, the arm reacted with heat and started to explode.

"Todoroki—"

In the shock wave of the explosion, Karl's expression remained unchanged. He just faced the shock wave and dazzling light. At the same time, he raised his hand in the firelight and caught a few fragments of the mantis knife that flew towards him due to damage.

Karl, who knew that his face must be stained with soot, started to move forward as soon as the short-term explosion shock wave and bright light disappeared. The smoke raised by the explosion once again reflected the path that caused the explosion. Behind the translucent figure, the mantis knife held between Karl's fingers flew out.

"Ding ding ding ding."

The fragments of the Mantis Knife were neatly pierced into the translucent attacker, but all they made was the clanging sound of metal impacting.

This made everyone present wide-eyed.

Because everyone knows how powerful it is to use optical camouflage and also equip subcutaneous armor that can resist the fragments of Karl's flying knife.

Even Chiyo, who was considered qualified by Kenichi Shiro at the time, surpassed his students, and had excellent prosthetic tolerance,

only had optical camouflage installed.

This guy's prosthetic tolerance is good. ’

Carl praised in his heart and decided to be more serious.

I had planned to save some energy and hold back to see if I could leave a survivor for interrogation, but now, it seems that I have to change this idea.

It will take some effort.

‘Carl will have to work hard. ’

When Carl thought so, and the others thought so too, only a second later, the others saw the attacker suddenly fall to the ground and couldn't get up.

Hmm?

Several people subconsciously looked at Carl.

Subdued in an instant?

So fast?

“Ah?”

Carl was also stunned for a moment.

The reason for his stunnedness was not that he didn't subdue the attacker in front of him. Although it only took a second, and Carl didn't even get close, he did subdue the attacker.

However, Carl originally just wanted to transmit a movement barrier to the attacker to make him stop. He didn't expect that when he broke in, he found that the attacker's program was a bit strange, so he changed it slightly, but he didn't expect...

"This guy...

Carl looked at the attacker who gradually revealed the metallic color from the semi-transparent, and understood why the opponent's prosthesis was so strange.

"It's a robot. "