This left V confused and terrified.
What had just happened?
Where was everyone else?
Just then.
A huge bat suddenly burst out of the shadows.
It wasn't as though V had never seen a bat, but one this huge, with wings that could wrap around an entire calf...
V had only seen those in fantasy adventure braindances.
Never mind that most animals and plants had gone extinct by 2077.
Had bats this big existed decades ago, before those extinctions?
These thoughts flashed through V's mind and vanished.
She timed it right and rolled to the side.
She dodged the enormous bat's vicious charge.
Having missed its strike, the bat opened its mouth and let out a piercing roar.
The roar seemed to carry some kind of magic. V's Militech Cybernetic Eye crackled with sparks.
Her vision quickly began to shake and blur.
This was a hacker's cybernetic eye
reboot.
Fortunately, the hacking cyberware V had installed was the latest model of Fourth Generation Cybernetics that Su Xiao had obtained for her.
Besides, V was a capable electronic warfare specialist herself.
The eye reboot lasted less than a second before her vision returned to normal.
But how could a bat use a hacker's eye reboot?
What chilled V even more was that the instant her vision returned, she saw the bat practically pressed against her face.
V immediately felt a sharp pain in her neck.
The bat had bitten into the side of her neck.
Her face twisted with pain, but a moment later, she turned that pain into strength, channeling it into her right knee.
She slammed her knee into the bat's soft belly.
Just as V had expected, the agonizing pain made the bat release its jaws from her neck.
Flapping its wings, it shrieked and flew back onto