[Sandevistan cybernetic body disabled]
Only after hearing the system notification did Chen Feng understand what had happened. "She's a Netrunner. While she was talking, she hacked into the Sandevistan and paralyzed my spine."
In a universe with technology this advanced, installing a cybernetic body without any hacking skills really was asking to die.
Live and learn.
Chen Feng had already decided to remove the Sandevistan once he got back. For now, though, lying helpless on the ground, he could only accept his defeat.
He felt a cold touch against his leg. The woman with multicolored hair was searching his pockets.
"No tattoos, no secret drugs, no animal features."
"What luck. A pure human with just one cybernetic body."
"Baby, you're practically a living organ warehouse."
As she spoke, the woman scanned Chen Feng's cybernetic body with her glowing electronic eye. "Strange. This model isn't from Militech or Heavy Machinery. Baby, you look so honest. I never thought you'd be a thief."
But she soon realized something was wrong. "Wait, that thing in you is a Sandevistan!"
Everyone knew the Sandevistan was a bullet-time military cybernetic body, notorious for its enormous strain on the user. Even heavily modified mercenaries could drop dead on the spot if they used it too much.
As for unmodified, pure humans, activating it just once would turn them into a pile of shredded flesh, unable to withstand the strain.
"Are you a superhuman? Or do you have a death wish?"
While the woman was speaking, she suddenly heard a strange sound.
Rustle, rustle.
How to describe it? It was like an ear-cleaning specialist repeatedly brushing a strand of hair near the cochlea.
Something was growing.
There was a loud clang.
A manhole cover flew off, and something glittering surged up from below, accompanied by