Cyberpunk: Monster Hunter of Night City

With only two legs, Alex Knight knew he couldn't outrun a four-wheeled technological marvel in the Badlands. If he hid and those two's cyberware recovered, they'd come looking for him, leaving him at a disadvantage.

Through his binoculars, Alex had seen the driver glance in his direction. He needed to eliminate these two threats to his safety.

They were just two Night City Ghosts! He had dispatched plenty in the game.

Recalling Lucy's warning, Alex swiftly put away the binoculars and nimbly climbed down the iron tower.

"Five minutes? That's enough!"

He dashed through the wall gap, sprinting toward the stopped pickup truck.

With 8 points of strength, Alex's muscles rivaled those of an Olympic weightlifting champion, each stride kicking up dust. His 7 points of agility accelerated his leg movements.

Combining muscle strength in his legs and hips with swift reflexes, Alex's sprint speed easily surpassed ten meters per second.

His 8 points of constitution endowed him with robust cardiopulmonary function and ample stamina, maintaining ten-meter sprint speed for over a thousand meters.

With 7 points of spirit, focusing his attention sharpened his senses, almost creating the illusion of time slowing down.

Alex's attributes were at the peak of human physical quality in his original world. He believed he could handle two Cyberpunks with compromised cyberware.

After running 100 meters from the abandoned factory, he spotted the dark-skinned man standing by the pickup truck, 40 meters away. The man's expression shifted from surprise to terror.

**[Roya Soma Lordpez]** Mexican

- **Age:** 36

- **Identity:** Night City Ghosts, Maelstrom grunt

- **Cyberware Coverage:** 35%

- **Description:** Human organ trafficking, drug transport, assaulting police, kidnapping, extortion, first-degree murder, pica (human)

- **[NCPD Bounty: 300 euro]**

- **Status:** Arm cyberware overloaded, recovery time (2 minutes 21 seconds)

- **P.S.:** Scum, no crime in beating him to death.

Lordpez wanted to retrieve his weapon, but he hadn't expected someone to emerge from this abandoned airport, clearly intent on attacking them.

"Seeking death!" he muttered.

Roya attempted to draw his pistol, but his malfunctioning cyberware arm wouldn't comply; two attempts left the pistol stuck in the holster.

In combat, malfunctioning cyberware is fatal.

"That damn woman! Damn it, this kid runs fast."

Seeing the person charging at him, Roya abandoned complaints, crossing his arms. Confident his subdermal armor and steel cyber-hands could block the attack, he thought, "Once my hand's fixed, I'll twist your head off."

Before Roya's ferocious expression fully formed, it froze.

While sprinting, Alex clasped his hands, and a thick iron round shield appeared. Holding it against his chest, his last 20 meters propelled him five to six meters per stride.

On his fourth step, Alex unleashed all his strength. His right leg muscles swelled, and his thigh's "ka-beng ka-beng" tearing sound accompanied his heavy stomp, propelling him three meters.

The 51-jin heavy shield, combined with his sturdy 150-plus-jin frame, crashed into Lordpez with the extreme speed of a sprint.

For the inexperienced, a charge is the most potent attack form. Mass combined with speed equals destructive power.

**Bang~ Ding~**

A bell-like clang rang out. Under the terrifying impact, the 200-plus-jin man flew seven or eight meters.

A normal person might have died from such an impact. But a cyber-modified person had life-saving assets—subdermal armor, metal lungs, blood pumps.

Yet under ton-level impact, Roya's assets fell short. He lay on the ground, cyberware eyeballs bulging, steel cyber-arm deformed, and subdermal armor caved in. His sternum was likely broken.

Roya tried standing, but moving felt like suffocation; his implanted iron lung was damaged.

Alex sent the dark-skinned man flying but felt unwell himself. Swallowing the metallic taste, he rushed to the man's landing spot, shield crashing onto his forehead. Amidst a crisp crack, red blood, white pulp, and unknown liquids remained on the shield.

"One left."

Alex turned to the yellow-skinned driver fumbling in the car.

**[Saburo Inoshita]** Japanese

- **Age:** 30

- **Identity:** Night City Ghosts, Maelstrom grunt

- **Cyberware Coverage:** 21%

- **Description:** Human organ trafficking, illegal drug transport, rape.

- **[NCPD Bounty: 150 euro]**

- **Status:** Cyber-eye restarting, recovery time (1 minute 59 seconds)

- **P.S.:** Die, Jap.

Saburo Inoshita, hearing his boss's roar and realizing an attack, pretended to panic to lower the enemy's guard. But his ears perked up, and one hand drew a pistol, disengaging the safety. At the first sound, he'd empty the magazine.

**Whoosh~**

Here it comes!

"I heard it."

**Thud.**

Before Saburo could raise his pistol, numbness spread across his face, and then... nothing.

Alex shook his wrist; a concrete stone he'd picked up came in handy. Despite lacking a Throwing skill, it was a direct hit, knocking the Jap out cold.

Alex aimed at the passenger side, where the window was down, and hurled two stones, hitting the driver. Seeing the Jap truly motionless, he cautiously raised his shield, approaching.

He opened the car door, single-handedly pulling out the unconscious driver. To be safe, Alex brought the shield down on the Jap's mangled forehead.

**Crunch.** The Jap's limbs twitched before stilling, adding another life to the shield.

In just one minute, Alex dispatched two Night City Ghosts.

Staring at the two motionless bodies, a strange emotion surged in Alex. He realized this was reality, not the game Cyberpunk 2077.

"Does this count as killing?"

Game and reality clashed.

But Alex quickly rationalized.

"If you don't kill them, they will kill you, Alex. You're just acting in self-defense."

It was emergency evasion!

Dog-eat-dog world.

After calming down, Alex opened the Newbie Pack.

Carefully searching the bodies, he found two pistols of the same model, four fragmentation grenades, some bullets, a roll of paper money, and three cans. Then he walked over 50 meters to pick up an assault rifle.

**[D5 Copperhead] Kinetic Assault Rifle**

- **Quality:** Excellent

- **Description:** From Arasaka to Zimbabwe, a versatile weapon for versatile combat, effective range 1100 meters, bullet kinetic energy 4200 joules.

- **P.S.:** Heavy recoil, difficult to control.

**[DR5 Nova] Kinetic Revolver**

- **Quality:** Common

- **Description:** Retro design, 6-round capacity, effective range 150 meters, bullet kinetic energy 420 joules.

- **P.S.:** A cowboy's favorite.

**[Fragmentation Grenade] F-GX**

- **Quality:** Common

- **Description:** 15 grams of TNT explosive, fragmentation kill radius 6 meters.

- **Description:** Disposable item, please throw far when using.

**[Euro] Common Currency**

- **Quality:** Common

- **Description:** Buying and selling, people can't live without it.

- **P.S.:** Everyone loves me.

**[Big Elephant] Pneumatic Inhalant**

- **Quality:** Common

- **Description:** Analgesic, sedative, affects internal secretion, paralyzes nerves, mental euphoria. Take a hit of Big Elephant, no worries about flying high.

- **P.S.:** Good children, please stay away from it.