But this also confirms a fact from the side: the players were lured in.

To prevent Lin Miao from refusing to take the mission, this group of people specifically contacted the lousy warrior suspected of gathering news for Brother Dao.

Even if the Truth Department and those others didn't come, the lousy warrior and Brother Dao would certainly return.

Moreover, the entrance was always there, and they had ten thousand ways for the players to accidentally discover this secret entrance.

But the identity of the initiator is currently unknown, the purpose is unclear, though it's highly likely they're targeting him.

Who could it be...

Furthermore, when Lucy invaded its surface database, she also learned a bit about this underground clubhouse.

"It's actually the biotech doing this, I was shocked when I found out."

Lucy said in a deep voice, "I thought only Huang Ban or Military Science would do such things."

Her mood was obviously bad; thankfully, she wasn't live streaming, otherwise, the scene just now would have been enough to make her lose it.

"Military Science and Huang Ban wouldn't do this. To them, it's redundant."

"Huang Ban only returned to Night City in '69. Although they were brought in by Mayor Laine, they remain outsiders to Night City."

"Military Science poses even more of a threat to Night City; they haven't even tidied up the mess in Dog Town, where would they dare to touch these things."

"Back then, just the nuclear bomb discussion triggered by Santiago had kept Miles busy with charity for years to suppress it unless she went mad, she wouldn't leave room for criticism here."

"Only the European Community, who doesn't want either side to grow big, and has been operating here for a long time, has enough motive to commit this action."

"Moreover, this is just one of their branches; the main office is over in Europe..."

The players actually saw only the tip of the iceberg of this ancient castle; cannibalism is already one of the milder problems here.

Further down, there's a human milk factory exclusively for cultists, providing them with full-body blood replacement service once every six months, or imitating the ancients for blood baths.

As for where the blood comes from, it's obvious just by thinking about it.

Aside from the data room on the bottommost floor, there are hundreds of men and women injected with sleep-inducing drugs on a timer, ready to be awakened at any moment for use.

Moreover, their ages are even younger, including newborn babies.

This place, just as the old captain described, is one of the most rotten and filthy corners of this world.

Therefore, Lin Miao's mood is very bad now.

He watched the patrol team walking past the railing entrance below, almost unable to resist issuing a large-scale mission to summon players to smash this place down.

"Stay alert, Squad Four just lost contact with the breeding area, the intruder may be right in front of us."

The captain in the lead raised his rifle and, taking small steps, advanced with his team.

It's not that he doesn't want to quickly rush to support, but Squad Four died too quickly, didn't even have time to call for support.

The enemy's number is unknown, strength is unknown, rushing to the scene quickly is asking to die.

Anyway, the floor doors are now locked by the program, slow advance and search each spot with no issues.

But years of combat experience made him sense a glance from under a ventilation shaft, instinctively raising his gun barrel, ready to check the ventilation duct, he then matched eyes with a pair of cybernetic eyes emitting blue light.

"Enemy!"

As soon as he spoke, Lin Miao stomped open the railing, several hundred kilograms of weight plus his fist heavily smashed onto the captain's head, instantly denting his heavily modified cybernetic skull, crashing into the wall, life or death unknown.

He then landed and rolled, firing three shots with the large-caliber pistol in his left hand, each bullet hitting the head, instantly killing the two security guards who didn't have time to dodge.

Their rifles, triggered by reflex, fired wildly around, bullets bouncing off walls, but as long as they didn't hit directly, there wouldn't be injuries.

No choice, Lin Miao after all wasn't truly Batman, his fighting still hung with basic Level 6, so it's mainly about taking advantage of surprise attacks and street brawls, naturally requiring some extra help.

The remaining heavily-modified soldier activated Sianweistan upon Lin Miao's kill of the captain, not only dodging Lin Miao's shots, but also springing out a mantis knife from his right hand, lunging at Lin Miao.

The edge was sharp, just looking at its pattern one knew it wasn't streetside goods, not even nearing skin it already stung slightly.

Lin Miao didn't want to bet who's neck was tougher, he sprung out serrated arm blades from the gauntlets on both arms to block the knife blade, then crossed forcefully, under the opponent's shocked gaze, the mantis knife broke with a snap, shot out and inserted back into the wall.

Before he had time to retreat, his head was gripped by a large hand and brutally smashed into the wall, blue cybernetic blood burst on a wall.

"Lucy, have you found where they're hiding the safe area?"

"Not yet... Their database has two layers, inside protection is too tight, that previous intruder didn't get in either."

Lucy's voice carried discontent, being stymied in her professional field was very frustrating.

"Could you use the new program you developed to attack?"

"No, the data interface we brought is too weak, unless the opponent initiates an attack, it's not enough to support too many people accessing."

"...Wait, it seems they're moving!"

...

With the removal of the prosthetic ban directive, some originally forbidden functions could be activated now.

Wave after wave of images transmitted from the security team's cybernetic eyes to the safe area's monitoring room were simultaneously arranged before the cardinal's eyes.

Although Squad Four, who were killed by the intruder, saw barely useful images due to smoke grenades' cover, Squad Two got actual footage.

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