Faulty Utopia

Watching the grenade fly towards him, Sun Jack quickly raised his hand and shot the grenade in mid-air, detonating it.

"Fuck your mother!" Tapai cursed like the locals as he greeted him.

But soon, a hail of bullets forced them to take cover behind barricades; there were at least a dozen enemies.

At that moment, PUS proudly said, "How about that, bro? My prosthetic body's pretty good, right? Fully equipped, direct sales from the company, with built-in assistive aiming!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked down at the screen, "Friends watching the live stream, if you're interested, please click the link below to purchase. Enter my name PUS, and you'll get a 5% discount!"

"We're about to die! And you're still shilling products? Turn off the livestream! They found us because of your streaming!" At this moment, Sun Jack had a new understanding of Tapai's earlier words, realizing these guys really were a bunch of crazies.

Just then, Sun Jack suddenly noticed something terrifying: there was not a single Baldy in the crowd, they all had hair!

The next moment, he felt a tingling sensation on his back, and the memory of being stabbed in the stomach by a blade flashed through his mind.

Some lessons only need to be learned once to be etched in one's memory forever. Sun Jack quickly dove forward, evading the attack from behind.

Without any hesitation, he spun around and fired, but the shell didn't detonate on impact, instead shooting towards the dark clouds in the sky where Baldy had gone invisible again.

It seemed like a brief respite, but Sun Jack knew it was an illusion; the enemy had already flanked them, blocking off all escape routes.

This time was different from the rest; Baldy had come specifically for them, and there was no one nearby to divert the disaster elsewhere.

"Fuck! Why is it so hard to stay alive!!" At this moment, Sun Jack started to feel the pain in his wounds again.

"Damn it! Let's go down fighting!!" Sun Jack gritted his teeth, stood out from the cover, and pulled the trigger at someone nearby.

Accompanied by his roar, the bullet flew out, tearing the enemy's neck into two halves.

Before he could catch his breath, a shadow lunged at Sun Jack with incredible speed. Sun Jack raised his weapon and fired, blasting the attacker into pieces.

The next moment, a blade wreathed in electric arcs sprang out from Sun Jack's forearm, colliding with a blade thrust from the air, creating a shower of sparks.

However, unexpectedly during the standoff, the enemy's finger suddenly erected, and a bullet shot out from it, hitting Sun Jack.

At this moment, Sun Jack didn't bother to dodge. He raised his gun and returned fire at Baldy.

Bullets sprayed, flesh splattered, and Baldy, who didn't want to trade blows with Sun Jack, quickly retreated and disappeared into the rain.

"Hahaha! Badass! Where did you use to hang out?"

Bloody all over, Sun Jack took out the last bit of his pain and adrenaline injectors and shot them all into his body. As the pain completely disappeared, his thoughts became much sharper.

"You okay?" Tapai, who was still firing his gun, had half-transparent sensor lines snaking out from his fingers, rapidly stitching up Sun Jack's wounds with the sensor lines.

Feeling a bit dizzy, Sun Jack looked down and spat a large mouthful of bloody sputum onto the ground, "He's invisible; do you have any way to detect him?"

"My visual hardware has thermal imaging, but I need your authorization!"

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Can you blame me? If there's anyone to blame, it's those goddamn developers who came up with those restriction rules. 'AI Rule Number One: unless a user's life is in danger, no AI shall proactively request authorization for any self-access permissions.'"

"Isn't this considered a threat to life? I authorize you to activate thermal imaging!" As soon as Sun Jack spoke, the display frame on Tapai's face instantly turned red. "8 o'clock, to the left!"

No sooner had Tapai spoken than Sun Jack was about to raise his gun to shoot, but he stopped abruptly. "You can see him now, right?"

"Yes."

Sun Jack couldn't help but clench his metal fist. "Alright, then let's not reveal this ability just yet. Using it directly would be too wasteful. Let's take this opportunity to ambush that Baldy good and proper!"

Sun Jack, along with Tapai and Bro 6PUS, continued to shoot at the encroaching enemies while using cover, ignoring the invisible Baldy that Tapai could see.

"Watch out..here he comes." Tapai's faint voice reached Sun Jack's ears, making his heart race.

Just as the blade appeared again at Sun Jack's waist, he spun quickly and fired straight into the air above the blade.

Bullets sprayed, hitting Baldy, piercing through his Simulated Skin, and revealing the pitch-black metal skeleton beneath.

Baldy clearly hadn't anticipated this turn of events and immediately tried to retreat, but by then Tapai had already blocked his escape with a gun.

Facing the man who had almost killed him, Sun Jack felt an intense desire to drink his blood, to eat his flesh.

"Go to hell!!"

With a pincer attack from both sides, Baldy's Mimetic Camouflage couldn't hold up much longer as large chunks of Simulated Skin started to fall off.

Just as Baldy was about to fall, his face, from which the Simulated Skin had peeled, twisted and roared, "You think that's all I've got? Screw you! Taste my EMP, you son of a bitch!!"

As his pupils flashed blue, a disc-shaped drone the size of a palm shot straight out from his abdomen, hovering ten meters in the air.

An extremely strong electromagnetic pulse emitted from the center of the drone, instantly spreading out and rendering all electromagnetic devices within a 50-meter range of the trigger useless.

Bro 6PUS and Baldy's subordinates fell to the ground one by one, their prosthetic limbs twitching uncontrollably, and smoke began to billow from the ports at the back of their heads.

This electromagnetic pulse caused immense damage to circuits, and even Tapai, the prehistoric android, instantly crashed, seizing up and freezing in place.

With a smirk on his face, Baldy watched it all, knowing the streets talked about his Mimetic Camouflage being military-grade, but everybody was fooled.

His secret weapon, the EMP drone, was truly military-grade. With this trick, he had deceived countless people.

Most cybernetic enhancements and neural systems were rendered equal before the EMP, all mechanical devices short-circuited! His enemies turned into lambs for the slaughter, at his mercy.

With a squelching sound, the smile on his face suddenly froze in place, and when he looked down, he saw a blade piercing through his chest.

Clovis looked astonished at the youth who had attacked him, as if seeing a ghost, and found it unbelievable.

"How... how is this possible! It can't be, you shouldn't be able to move! No one can resist my EMP! The neural components in your body should be completely fried!"

Sun Jack ferociously pulled out the knife and stabbed it viciously back into his rotten face. "Fuck! I don't have a system!!"