The pictures showed men and women who had been abducted.
There was a reason so few people lived nearby: all the space that should have been used for housing had been taken up by people.
As the NCPD and the Mox took over the upper floors, one horrifying picture after another appeared in the database.
Like Maelstrom, the Brain Maggot Gang was made up of people who heavily modified their bodies, and uncontrolled body modification could lead to all sorts of things:
For example, Maelstrom used to cut off the limbs of young people passing by and replace them with unsuitable cyberware. Nerve inflammation could drive people mad with pain, and unsuitable limbs could make them suffer worse than death.
Information from the Cyberware Modulator could be misinterpreted: raising an arm might be decoded as spinning around, grabbing something as putting it down, and walking as crouching.
Such absurd errors could change the human brain, eventually causing mental and neurological damage that was difficult to describe in detail.
And Skill Shards, as a revolutionary invention that used digital commands to control the human body and achieve various effects, naturally had their own risks.
The Brain Maggot Gang needed plenty of test subjects to help them test the Skill Shards they had picked up from the black market, trash cans, and recycling centers. Some of them could be deadly.
River opened the door, and a stench hit them-
Inside, a small pile of corpses had been neatly "stacked." They were dead, rotting, and reeking.
Most of the corpses had twisted limbs, displaced muscles, and deformed bones. Most of their skin was charred black, as if it had been burned, and they all wore different expressions. They looked like something straight out of a nightmare.
People had to be alive when they