Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 187 - 164 Annihilation of the Prey

Chapter 187: Chapter 164 Annihilation of the Prey

Lila steadied her sniper rifle and quietly observed.

Mireya remained calm, her gaze shifting toward Suzuki Springs. She made a tactical sign to Suzuki Shinji, who nodded vigorously, signaling his officers and subordinates to charge forward. More than 300 gang members and 100 underworld robots howled as they launched their attack. Their formation was scattered, but their aggression was fierce.

"Kill!"

"Charge!" The crowd surged forward, continuously throwing explosives in their hands. Assault troops picked up rocket launchers and bombarded the walls of Suzuki Springs, collapsing it. The ground shook violently, stones flew everywhere, and the injured screamed in agony.

Immediately after, members of the Suzuki Group hurled grenades and Molotov cocktails at the entrance with great force. Explosions and roaring noises erupted one after another, and big fires quickly spread like snakes crawling everywhere, entwining anything they met, and the flames grew more intense.

In the wake of the fierce assault, all glass doors, windows, and curtain walls were shattered to the ground, leaving only steel and aluminum frames barely supporting the structure of the entrance, looking particularly desolate. Countless painstakingly arranged setups were smashed to pieces in the battle.

Facing the fierce attack from the Suzuki Group, the Katsuragi Gang fought to the death in defense.

Among them was an especially brave squad leader who picked up two submachine guns, activated the adrenaline injections implanted in his body, and charged out furiously, spraying bullets at the members of the Suzuki Group outside.

"Don’t fall back!" he roared loudly, his vision tinged red. The combat analyzer implanted in his brain continually scanned the battlefield for threats, helping him to dodge lethal attacks.

With such a brave officer leading the team, the Katsuragi Gang fought bloodily and did not fall back.

"Ayeee!"

"The firepower is too strong!"

"Be careful!" Members of the Suzuki Group, having been locked up in detention for a whole month, were out of practice in battle and temporarily pressured such that they couldn’t raise their heads. Even Suzuki Shinji himself quickly retreated to avoid the brunt of the attack.

"Fire! Attack!" Suzuki Shinji yelled at the top of his lungs, "Don’t let one person stop you!"

Mireya reached out, breaking the deadlock.

Suddenly, the movements of the Katsuragi Gang squad leader froze. No matter how loudly those around him shouted, it was no use; he stopped firing, his arms hung naturally at his sides, motionless, his gaze vacant, his lips quivering.

"Forever Mireya," he pledged his loyalty, then turned his head and fiercely fired at his former comrades.

Rat-a-tat-tat—

A series of bullets flew out, instantly killing several Katsuragi Gang members at the hands of their former comrade, their eyes wide open in disbelief of what had just happened. Those who survived also suddenly ceased resisting, becoming eternal servants under Mireya’s control.

Thus, an extremely bizarre scene unfolded. They turned in unison and attacked the inside of Suzuki Springs.

In the deeper areas of the building, the Katsuragi Gang members were caught off guard and hesitated to strike down these "comrades." The boss’s first command was never to betray, and how could they bring themselves to fire on comrades they stood with just a second ago? Numerous elite members were instantly killed by the betrayal of their allies, and blood covered the front yard.

With Mireya overseeing the situation, there was no delay in the Suzuki Group’s advance.

"Move! Charge in!" Suzuki Shinji seeing the situation was overjoyed. How could the mere Katsuragi Gang be a match for the Witch?

He raised his arm and called out, and the members of the Suzuki Group immediately roared, racing to storm into Suzuki Springs, eager to take back their territory, entering one after another.

The fall of the front section of Suzuki Springs forced Lila to speed up.

"The Pale Legion," the main combat force of Lighthouse Core, all equipped with advanced personal armor. This armor adopted a fully enclosed design, grew with its wearer, and read the wearer’s neural activities during combat, learning their fighting style and supporting their combat activities to the fullest. The armor itself also had strong protective capabilities, with a uniform appearance and paint scheme.

Mireya had also requested such armor for herself, to aid in concealing her identity. Although she wore the armor for the first time before going into battle, it quickly adapted to her body readings and combat habits. The lining of the armor automatically transformed, memorized, and fitted her voluptuous figure, adjusting and making space, feeling even more comfortable than wearing close-fitting clothing. She almost wanted to wear this personal armor forever, which was even larger than the largest size top she could buy.

Lila silently discerned.

The corporate wars of the Taixi Continent were similar; Witches would disguise themselves to be completely indistinguishable from human soldiers in appearance, thus facilitating Witches to move around among humans.

She first identified traces in the air, not directly scanning the armor itself, but capturing traces of Magic Power. Mireya’s previous release of Magic Power to control Katsuragi Gang fighters had left flaws.

Lila narrowed down the range of suspects, 5, 3...

Fearing that she was in peril, Mireya longed to end the battle quickly.

"There are unknown combatants on the street," Mireya ordered. "Maintain combat formation, deploy the energy field generator, notify Quero to act, and initiate the Beta combat plan."

She transmitted these messages through the communicator built into her armor, informing only the seven members of the Pale Legion by her side, soldiers from New Taixi State who were well-equipped and highly trained for battle.

One member of the Pale Legion went to activate the energy shield generator, three of them positioned their rifles towards Suzuki Springs, on alert, and the other three guarded the southern side of the street, ready to counter if the sniper appeared again.

Mireya herself held a gun at the ready behind the shuttle machine, to prevent any further surprises.

Not wanting to reveal his presence now that he had attracted attention, Rolo hesitated to emerge. Before him were a full seven members of the Pale Legion—they were not yet engaged in formal combat, and if he were to launch an assault, the entire Suzuki Springs would be crushed.

The Invisible Imperial Guard, Pale Legion, Professional Ninjas... These elite units, selected from humans, were battle-hardened. Their confrontations with each other could change in the blink of an eye, allowing no room for even the slightest oversight.

Huang Feng glanced back at the onlookers who had curiously approached the alley and opened fire without mercy, scaring them away. A40 leaned against the wall, using its central processor to edit and simulate combat scenarios, tuning its artificial intelligence core to optimal condition.

The members of the Suzuki Group had already advanced into Suzuki Springs. Meanwhile, Lila’s surveillance was nearing completion.

Their armors were identical in appearance and they all carried standard firearms. Lila attempted to identify the Witch from the last three suspicious soldiers.

She couldn’t afford to make a mistake; otherwise, she would certainly be annihilated by their counterattack.

Lila accessed her memory files, which included recordings of how they had jumped from the shuttle machine, dispersed, and then reformed into a combat formation.

Using the computer programs in her body, she parsed, copied, and re-modeled this series of movements to identify the subtle differences in their gaits.

There were inherent differences in the way men and women walked—women had wider pelvises, and their muscle strength differed from that of men, making it impossible for their movements to be completely identical to those of men.

Thanks to the brand new body and chip that Xu Yang had installed in Lila, she completed tens of thousands of calculations, simulations, and comparisons in a very short time.

Using the stride of one member of the Pale Legion as a reference, the degree of conformity in the strides of the other members ranged from 85% to 97%.

However, the movements of one "soldier" were only 67% similar, clearly less practiced than the others, filled with superfluous motions.

That person was also one of the three suspects Lila had identified, which increased the likelihood to the maximum.

I’ve found you, Mireya.

Lila adjusted her sniper rifle into energy penetration mode, aiming for Mireya’s head. She fine-tuned the bullet’s angle of entry and rotation speed, then pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The sound of the Cassandro Comet Gun rang out.

With a buzz, the bullet was stopped by the energy shield next to the soldier, creating a large patch of pale blue ripples, like a bullet entering water. The energy wave fluctuated violently, and although the bullet’s kinetic energy rapidly decreased after hitting the energy field, it successfully hit Mireya, knocking her to the ground.

Mireya, standing guard, instantly felt a severe pain in her face as the bullet penetrated the energy shield. Despite the significant energy loss, it still managed to breach the protective headgear of her personal armor and embed itself just above her eyebrow. Mireya fell backwards immediately, the bullet lodged in her frontal bone, pressed against her cerebral cortex. Even with the dual interception of the energy shield and advanced personal armor, Lila’s shot was effective in wounding her.

How—Mireya’s consciousness was consumed by the searing pain and disconnected.

"Sniper!" shouted a member of the Pale Legion, pinpointing the direction of Lila’s shot. Another soldier immediately raised his main battle rifle and fired towards the window where Lila was positioned.

The bullets sprayed out, forcing Lila to retreat from the window. As she shifted backward with her gun, she heard the sound of a rocket’s tail flame outside the window, and she knew that the enemy had deployed heavy firepower.

Lila was prepared for this and immediately executed a tactical maneuver, diving forward to avoid the blast.

In an instant, she collided with a shadow that suddenly appeared, which tightly hugged her. The next second, light and shadow flickered around them, and when she reappeared, she was already on the roof of another building next door.

Boom!

An explosion erupted nearby.

Accompanied by the loud collapse of walls and the caving in of ceilings, Lila looked towards the place where she had been hiding. The dilapidated, fragile apartment collapsed thunderously in the explosion.

The ground shook incessantly, with sounds of heavy objects falling and fragile ones breaking echoing everywhere. A tumultuous din pierced the walls, turning into a distorted screeching, as if someone was fiercely banging a cracked gong right next to Lila’s ears.

She escaped unharmed...

Feeling something in her arms, she saw that 101 was pushing her away with a look of disgust.