Cyber Era Witch-Chapter 62 - 45 Riot Dog

62: Chapter 45: Riot Dog

62 -45: Riot Dog

Xu Yang returned to the side of the shuttle machine, pondering how the Ratman disaster would end, when he looked up and saw Lila and Farosa returning together.

“Where have you been?” Xu Yang looked at them, his eyes brightening, “You’ve both changed into new clothes.”

Lila was dressed in a retro long robe, wearing a tragic mask from the theater, completely hiding her mechanical body beneath the clothing.

She also used a belt to hang her original head at her waist, like something an ancient sinister witch would do.

Farosa, on the other hand, wore a short skirt, black stockings, and a shirt, looking completely at home on modern streets, reminding Xu Yang of the schoolgirls from Corporate People Middle School who had no idea which positions they would pursue in the future, enjoying shopping and summer.

Considering their true identities, it looked as though they had swapped clothes.

Even more bizarre was that Farosa’s expression was tight, and she remained silent, her previous arrogance gone without a trace.

“We stopped at a clothing store for a while,” Lila said.

“I am very happy, my head at my waist fits quite nicely.”

“You look beautiful, Farosa too,” Xu Yang complimented, then turned back to the matter at hand, “You must have fought something, Ratmen?”

“I did my best to defeat an ancient monster.

In the process, Farosa fell,” Lila said.

“Lies…” Farosa said bitterly.

“Which part is wrong?” Lila countered.

“The first half of the sentence or the second?”

Farosa looked dejected, and Xu Yang sensed that her aura was much weaker than before, her whole person very downcast.

He had no idea what she had gone through, especially in the presence of Lila, as if she couldn’t raise her head anymore.

He was clueless about what had happened.

However, according to Lila’s nature, if she thought it necessary to explain, she would lay out the whole story to him.

Since Lila had said little now, it meant the problem wasn’t serious.

Better to focus on the situation at the junction.

The others gradually returned after purchasing what they needed, one after another entering the shuttle machine.

Zuo Hongchen was still eagerly hoping to pass through No.

1 Junction.

“Everything is fine on my company’s end,” Zuo Hongchen looked at his phone, “but I just can’t come up with the 1 million…

It’s ridiculous, I can’t even borrow it.”

“Aren’t you a small business owner?” Cui Junyou pressed aggressively.

“Where is your money?”

“I run a company to make money, not because I have money,” Zuo Hongchen defended, “even though I own the company, I’m still like you all, desperately trying to make a living!”

“Every penny you earn is squeezed out of your employees, and even your own security service is so poor.

Where are your workers?

Are they risking death from overwork to make you money?

What about them?”

“I…” Zuo Hongchen was at a loss for words under Cui Junyou’s pressure.

“You’re a businessman that doesn’t spit out bones,” Cui Junyou said ominously.

“With just one sentence, you show your true colors.

Would you be willing to pay for security services for your employees?

You buy poor services for yourself because you are lucky and extremely greedy.

You don’t buy for your employees because you don’t see them as human.

How are you any different from other capitalists?”

While Xu Yang was weighing the pros and cons, the situation on the highland had changed again.

“There’s still noise over there,” Li Xiaomin said nervously.

“Senior, there really won’t be any more bloodshed, right?”

In the past half hour, the people on Number 26 Highland had grown even more restless.

Now, they were holding up placards, using their phones to record the surrounding scenes, or scanning incessantly with eye implants and uploading data, frantically posting online, wanting to expose to the world what was happening here.

Correspondingly, within minutes, the network signals around them were artificially cut off.

Just as they sent out some messages, the signal vanished, waving their phones in all directions, yet completely unable to communicate.

The cage of information had been constructed.

The predicament these people faced could never be conveyed to the outside by their own strength.

Aizu City was nothing more than a poor, marginalized underground city.

Even if all its inhabitants perished, it wouldn’t cause a ripple outside.

Cries of woe, sounds of despair and endless chatter filled the air, as the people on Number 26 Highland could no longer muster the spirit to do anything but teeter on the brink of collapse while waiting.

Ah…” Kojima Kanako tiptoed, struggling with how to get through the angry and restless crowd ahead to make contact with the man in the red suit.

Her carefully hidden Special Protection Card was the perfect treasure for getting out of a sticky situation.

Any company or Witch had to respect her little card a hundredfold, and she was well aware of that.

Kanako took out her phone to make a call but found the signal was also cut.

This place had suddenly become a civilization-deprived no man’s land.

Or perhaps the Corporate Alliance was hoping to turn Number 26 Highland into a no man’s land.

“We’ll fight them!”

“If they don’t want us to live, then we’ll fight them too!”

“Gather the weapons!”

“Charge!” Exciting words rang out from the crowd, quickly igniting their fury.

“If they want to fight, we might as well take advantage of the chaos…” Asa Katsuragi was eager to try.

Farosa paused for a moment.

She looked back towards Hui City District behind No.

1 Junction, faintly sensing an unusual magic power.

Was it an illusion?

“A strong combat entity is rapidly approaching,” Lila stood up swiftly.

“One High-Ranking Combat Witch.”

In an instant, a fully armed Combat Witch appeared, streaking through the underground city like a high-speed fighter jet, appearing abruptly above No.

1 Junction.

She was clad in high-end armored battle gear, an indestructible combat attire enveloping her body, with an open-faced mask helmet on her head, and large metallic thrust wings unfolded on her back.

They were not merely for show; on one hand, they provided the ability to move at high speeds, as if carrying an aviation engine, a burden only a Witch’s body could bear; on the other hand, they were specialized magic amplifiers, greatly enhancing her magic power.

The Combat Witch hovered in the air.

The moment she appeared, the crowd went silent.

An unshakeable presence.

The moment Xu Yang beheld the other’s appearance, he felt as if he had plunged into an ice cave.

Pan Ruiyi.

“It’s a member of the Riot Control Mobile Unit…”

“Ah ah…”

“That one from the Xia District…”

“How could this be…”

“It’s over…”

“Could it be that we are all…” The crowd held their breath, only whispers could be heard.

“People from the Riot Control Mobile Unit have come.” Zuo Hongchen slumped back.

“What is that?” Farosa stared intently at the witch in the sky, who, in her eyes, resembled a heretical witch dressed in knight’s armor, with wings that allowed flight.

“The so-called Riot Control Mobile Unit is a Quick Reaction Force specially devised to deal with crises in the Eastern Hemisphere,” explained Lila.

“It was established under an agreement by six of the Eastern Hemisphere’s most prestigious gigantic corporations.

Those corporations include Kyushu High Pavilion, Heavenly Cardinal Manufacturing, Northern Military Industry, Kyoto Infinity, Great Ocean Engineering, and Modern Entertainment.

They each dispatched one powerful Combat Witch, totaling a luxurious lineup of six High-Ranking Witches.”

The Riot Control Mobile Unit, composed of six High-Ranking Combat Witches, was considered upper-middle-tier in the power hierarchy of the Eastern Hemisphere.

Although they were not as strong as the top-tier reality distorters, their cooperation allowed them to control any form of crisis.

“Xu Yang…

what’s wrong with you?” Farosa turned and noticed Xu Yang’s extremely anxious expression.

For Xu Yang, the situation had reached its most terrifying point.

“Senior?” Li Xiaomin also became fearful upon seeing Xu Yang’s complexion.

If Xu Yang lost his composure, they were all finished.

“Are you okay?

Are there side effects to the implant?” Cui Junyou hastily asked.

Xu Yang thought only of fleeing, or hiding.

Pan Ruiyi…

It was she, the Battle Witch he had encountered in the parking lot when he left the company.

Back then, Pan Ruiyi had ruthlessly humiliated Xu Yang.

He had sworn he would never let such a thing happen again, but she just had to appear here, at this moment!

Compared to their encounter that day, her image had changed significantly; she had switched to sturdy battle armor, yet she did not conceal her face, enabling Xu Yang to recognize her instantly.

“Entrusted by the Corporate Alliance, the Riot Control Mobile Unit has come to take control of the situation!” Pan Ruiyi announced loudly, with an extremely arrogant tone, her arms crossed over her chest, her gaze sweeping over the crowd.

“Everyone drop your weapons!

Line up one by one!

Follow the arrangements of Aizu City’s Civic Service Company, and pay to get through.”

“What?”

“We have no money!”

“Please, help us!

Kill the rats!

Save us!”

“The corporations harm people!

Save us!”

The people were crying out.

“I am here on orders!

There are no other miscellaneous things!” Pan Ruiyi waved her hand.

“All of you shut up.

Interrupt my work again, and you will all be killed!”

Xu Yang backed away step by step, but his comrades around him were all watching him.

Those who had followed him all this way were now all looking at him, waiting for Xu Yang’s decision.

He realized he could not afford to lose composure like this, but he also knew that if Pan Ruiyi found him, he was as good as dead.

Pan Ruiyi tilted her body and dove downward, patrolling across the square.

She herself lacked any technical skills, but the sheer pressure emanating from her was enough to cause immense stress.

Her technological wings beat continuously behind her, thundering through the air.

Oh Pan Ruiyi…

Pan Ruiyi.

Among the Mobile Unit, she possessed the most ferocious close-quarter combat abilities.

Her witch powers specialized in close combat, making her peerless at close-range fighting.

Even on a global scale, no other witch could dominate her in one-on-one close combat.

Take the current situation, for instance—Pan Ruiyi alone could wipe out the entire Rat Tide, albeit a bit slowly, and the Ratmen were completely ineffective against her.

I absolutely must not be discovered.

If Pan Ruiyi finds out I am here, not only I but also everyone else, we’re all done for.

Xu Yang retreated back into the Shuttle Machine, wiping the cold sweat off his forehead.

The threat of death made him uneasy, and the dreadful memories of that day in the parking lot resurfaced in his mind.

Just stay hidden, hold your breath, and don’t let Pan Ruiyi find you.

I’ve clawed my way up from the sunless mining pits all the way to this place; I cannot fall here…

The others also had grave expressions on their faces.

Kojima Kanako, upon seeing Pan Ruiyi’s arrival, excitedly showed a smile.

She fished out a golden card from among the game data cards in her sling bag and waved frantically at Pan Ruiyi in the sky.

In the midst of the silent crowd, Kanako stood out conspicuously.

“Hey, over here!

This way!” she shouted at Pan Ruiyi, then turned around with a smile and waved at Xu Yang.

“This is my big gift!

I am going to save everyone!”

Xu Yang’s blood nearly froze, and his heart almost stopped beating.

Kanako—don’t—