"Who said that?" Brainbuster asked casually while hacking into the enemy and exchanging attacks.
"It's a new-series planetary mainframe. Supposedly, it was developed for reproductive systems. Through the evolution of reproductive systems, it developed the need for partners and spouses. That's quite similar to my performance, so we get along very well."
"..."
What kind of bizarre planetary mainframe was developed in that direction?
And what the hell did that have in common with you? Weren't you an expert in manipulating brains and personalities? You took the upper route, while it took the lower route. What could you possibly have in common?
"Old man, has the defensive strength of this place increased?"
Brainbuster suddenly noticed something strange. As the corridor gradually turned pure white, its defensive strength was also growing.
Previously, the walls had collapsed on the spot after just one impact from the mechanical viruses, but now they could actually withstand two or three hits.
And—
"This place isn't Arasaka Tower, is it?"
To commemorate his idol from back then, Brainbuster had gone to considerable trouble to use data to generate the complete interior structure of Arasaka Tower.
But the long corridors, sealed metal doors, and even the violent noises coming from inside those doors were clearly different from Arasaka Tower's style. Instead, they resembled the relief buildings in some of Night City's slums.
The corridor's old-fashioned lamps even crackled from time to time.
The Second-Generation Fortress Old Man opened a rattling iron door. Soon, a Skynet Killer wearing small round sunglasses walked out.
It was a tall, slender male humanoid entity. His long robe was made of semitransparent data streams and silver nanofibers, and he wore a pair of iconic round sunglasses.
*He evolved from a Cloudwing Killer into a Skynet Killer, and changed his suit into traditional