[Memory storage read.] [Cyberware Modulator operation log read] [Hardware damaged,,,] [Data stream intercepted, restoring.] [Little Octopus: Big bro, it really is cracked software and hardware. Pretty impressive, but when something went wrong, the guy just kicked the bucket.]
Erenan Street was a slum made up of a jumble of irregular, low-rise apartment buildings that were decades old. Illegal additions twisted overhead, blocking out the street above. Walking through the streets, you could barely see even Night City's lights, let alone the night sky.
Before the operation began, Lier was still checking and scanning the vendor's memory.
Because the Brain Maggot Gang was a nasty bunch that was good at schemes and trickery.
Judging by the vendor's behavior before and after, there was a strong chance that the Brain Maggot Gang had remotely controlled him to reveal this location. They wanted people to come knocking.
Lier exited the database and returned to reality.
The Phoenix Nightclub on Erenan Street, which had been smashed up, was still being rebuilt, surrounded by scaffolding. Nearby, workers using Specialized Work Cyberware were laboring, then heading to the joytoy shop next door to blow off some steam once their work was done.
On the surface, Erenan Street hadn't changed at all.
There was no sign of the Brain Maggot Gang.
Some people might ask: Why did Lier still seem to learn nothing from the information every time, even though he'd gained experience studying at Arasaka Academy and had advanced Network Watch tutorials?
First of all, information technology wasn't magic. Information wasn't attached to magical elements floating in the air, where a mage could train hard and become a seventh-tier archmage who could easily suppress a sixth-tier archmage.
Cyberwarfare was multidimensional work. Computing Power was an extremely broad concept. Even if an attacker had only