Cyber Era Witch-Chapter 77 - 60 Garage

77: Chapter 60 Garage

77 -60 Garage

An unmanned drone fired at the Giant Rat in the sky, but the rat’s fur seemed specially hardened, providing a considerable degree of protection, much like the steel plates of an armored vehicle, rendering bullets ineffective against it.

Amidst the frenzied shouts and roars of countless Ratmen, the Giant Rat let out a thunderous roar that shook the entire building incessantly, shattering the windows one after another.

Fight and win!

For the survival of the Ratmen!

All of the Ratmen beside the Giant Rat appeared as diminutive as children, looking up at it with childlike eyes, full of expectation for its next move.

The Giant Rat stood tall, flaunting its twisted and bulging muscles, as pairs of specially designed chemical pumps injected Power into its back, invigorating it.

Its eyes blazed red as it struck a heavy blow towards Zuo Hongchen’s company building!

Boom!

The Giant Rat struck the building hard, causing the entire structure to sway.

Light fixtures broke off the ceiling and shattered, and the sounds of computers, water cups, and documents falling to the floor echoed from the offices above as cracks spread across the floorboards.

“Such a huge rat!”

“Run for it!”

“Help!”

The company employees’ mettle turned to dust in the face of that strike, and they began to scream in terror.

Before this calamity struck, they were ordinary company employees at best.

Just mustering the will to go to the lobby and block the rats had been their limit.

Once their courage was exhausted, they couldn’t possibly remain calm in the presence of creatures of such size.

Their thoughts became as chaotic as the myriad numbers on financial statements, and they couldn’t even bring themselves to shoot at the ordinary Ratmen charging in.

Seeing the panicked faces of his colleagues, Xu Yang knew their morale had collapsed.

Only resolute commands could untangle this mess.

“Everyone head to the garage!” Xu Yang shouted.

They could still take in one last piece of advice before losing their reason, and sometimes one sentence was enough.

“To the garage!” Asa Katsuragi also commanded loudly.

The submachine gun in her hand, known as the “Flame-type,” was famous for its strong recoil and astonishing lethality.

After reloading a magazine, she fired a burst at the restless rat horde.

The gun’s muzzle flash illuminated her resolute expression, her metallic muscles taming the kickback of the volatile “Flame-type,” making it seem exceptionally nimble and easy to control in her hands.

But bullets still couldn’t suppress the Ratmen.

The arrival of the behemoth stirred them into an even greater frenzy.

It was now the humans who seemed as timid as rats.

The Giant Rat continued its assault, shaking the building.

The company employees crouched and bent over, dodging nonexistent falling rocks, and poured down the side stairs.

The wall-mounted emergency lights lit up with the glow of electric gas, pointing the way forward like tiny guiding hands in the darkness.

Xu Yang kept firing, trying to slow the frontal pressure.

“You too, go!” Asa Katsuragi pushed Xu Yang into the corridor, volunteering to cover the rear.

“Aaaoooh!”

“I’m going to kill you!”

“Kill!” The Ratmen repeated a few human words and, like a whirlwind sweeping across the grass, surged through the lobby toward Asa Katsuragi at the stair entrance.

When the bullets ran out and there was no time to reload, she threw her empty gun away and resorted to punching, kicking, and elbowing.

Like a war machine, she mercilessly delivered blows to the approaching Ratmen.

The touch meant death, a brush meant disability.

To the generally frail Ratmen, the robust Asa Katsuragi became an insurmountable stone wall.

A Black-Furred Stout Rat charged at Asa Katsuragi with a club, but before it could attack, she landed a punch straight to its head, sending it spinning.

She immediately snatched the club from its hand.

With a weapon in her grasp, her combat power surged manifold.

She swung once and ended the Black-Furred Stout Rat’s life.

Then she retreated to the corner of the stairwell, a place impervious to outside fire.

The Ratmen pouring in couldn’t spread out, and she single-handedly blocked the corridor, creating an impenetrable defense.

“Aaaoooh!”

“Charge!”

“Exterminate the humans!” Even so, the Ratmen never backed down, nor did they retreat a single step.

Clutching the metal rod, Asa Katsuragi swept left and right, instantly knocking two charging Ratmen away.

They had been at full force, but Asa Katsuragi seemed to have boundless strength.

The rod in her hands was like a tree trunk, with a single swing repelling several Ratmen simultaneously.

“Get down!” Xu Yang turned and saw Asa Katsuragi still at the top of the stairwell, and he commanded sharply.

“I can hold them off!” Asa Katsuragi was covered in rat blood, looking ferocious, and her voice was hoarse.

“This is an order!” He doubted she would retreat without such a command, ready to die for her comrades.

Asa Katsuragi took a deep breath.

She angled her body and rushed downward.

Bullets whizzed through the air, hitting the walls of the stairwell and leaving deep holes.

The onslaught of pale-furred weak rats, big black rats, and sharpshooters surged in.

If she stayed any longer, it certainly meant mortal peril.

“I was almost killed!” Asa Katsuragi ran down several steps, reeking of rat blood.

“That was reckless.

Why push so hard?” Xu Yang led her to the garage.

“I needed to prove myself!” Asa Katsuragi shouted, “I can fight; at least that’s something I can do.

The only thing I can do…

the only thing I can do to help everyone at this stage!”

“A second later and you would have died there.”

That way, maybe everyone wouldn’t forget me.

A shiver ran through Asa Katsuragi’s heart.

That would have been good.

When they reached the garage, Xu Yang saw a lot of people crowded around his Shuttle Machine, begging to get on, which was a bit troublesome.

Li Xiaomin stood angrily at the hatch, refusing to let others board.

In his view, the Shuttle Machine wasn’t something just anyone was entitled to ride.

Thanks to the earlier holding action in the lobby, the Ratmen couldn’t immediately rush into the garage, allowing employees to find all operable cars and vehicles.

Still, there wasn’t enough room for everyone, so many hoped to hitch a ride on Xu Yang’s Shuttle Machine.

Zuo Hongchen and his close employees were sitting in a car, having started the engine, ready to make a getaway, obviously unconcerned about the fate of others.

And nobody else dared to squeeze into the boss’s car, even at such a time, because the hierarchical social order was still deeply ingrained in people’s hearts.

“We have to help them.” Asa Katsuragi knew that the later arriving employees were mostly those who had helped them fight the rats in the lobby, which was why they were late.

If those who hadn’t exerted any effort escaped by car, but those who had worked were left behind to die, that would be disgraceful.

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The garage kept shaking.

The beast struck the building again, not only causing the internal structure to start collapsing, but Xu Yang also heard the exterior walls crumbling completely, bricks hitting the ground with a chaotic and heavy sound.

The building probably wouldn’t last much longer.

The shuttle machine’s engines blasted, ready to ascend at any moment.

“You guys go up,” Xu Yang couldn’t leave people to be fed to the rats.

To aspire to be a reformer, yet if one talks of fighting ideologies and changing the world, but does nothing when faced with death, that would be too hypocritical.

It’s still necessary to be consistent in words and actions.

At times like this, one couldn’t criticize people’s survival instincts.

If the roles were reversed, he too would do everything possible to get on the shuttle machine.

Being left behind meant only one outcome: death by the rats.

“Thank you!”

“Thank you, bro!”

“Thank you!

Thank you!”

“You saved our lives!” The company employees, excited and moved, scrambled to get on board.

Lila, at the control console, looked back at Xu Yang’s actions, feeling her resolve strengthen.

He was truly worth following and serving.

However, too many people had boarded, making the cabin crowded.

Asa Katsuragi struggled to get on for a while, and Xu Yang was even less likely to.

“Get lost!” Li Xiaomin randomly pushed from inside, shoving a female employee down to clear some space and then waved frantically at Xu Yang, “Senior!

Katsuragi!

Come on up!”

The girl pushed off the shuttle machine instantly burst into tears, quivering all over.

“No, don’t leave me behind…” she knelt on the ground, pleading desperately, “Take me with you!

Take me with you!”

“Who are you to come up?

Who are you?” Li Xiaomin had been standing at the hatch the whole time, preventing company people from barging in, “Others, get down two of you, don’t make me drive you away!”

Inside the shuttle machine, Jumen Commerce’s people were nervous and uneasy.

The limited vehicle was already packed to bursting, and those who didn’t make it would be engulfed by the Rat Tide in an instant, especially the few men and women near the hatch, who looked at Xu Yang with mournful eyes.

Those who were emotionally fragile had already started to cry.

“Let us stay behind!”

“Please!”

“Ahh…” Their pleading voices were relentless, and the girl outside the shuttle had completely collapsed, her face streaming with tears.

Asa Katsuragi climbed onto the shuttle, pushed the others inside, then pulled up Xu Yang.

The space inside was now completely full.

Originally, fitting 10 people into 8 seats was a bit of a squeeze, but now there were 25 people crammed in!

“Make them get out, or I’ll kill them!” Farosa’s voice rang from deep within the shuttle.

Xu Yang couldn’t see her; Farosa had been squeezed who knows where.

Xu Yang squeezed in, trying to find a secure footing.

He saw the AutoDoc was still shut, indicating there was space inside.

But why was it shut?

It’s usually on by default.

“Don’t rush to cry, I have a way.

Two of you get in the AutoDoc,” Xu Yang ordered, “Use the manual panel to operate and open it.”

He instructed how to open the shuttle’s AutoDoc only to see Cui Junyou inside, having drunk half a bottle of foreign liquor, lying on the surgery chair in a haze, leaving Xu Yang helpless.

Once the AutoDoc was activated, 3 of the company people rushed inside, making the cabin seem more spacious.

Xu Yang pulled the girl from the ground onto the shuttle.

She moved inside, too weak to push through and just stood on the doorway’s platform, preventing the door from closing.

The screeching was incessant, the Ratmen were near, there was no time to adjust positions or close the hatch, it had to be left like that.

“I’ll hold her!

Go now!

Close it later!” Asa Katsuragi shouted, grabbing the hatch with her left hand and holding the girl’s arm with her right to prevent her from falling.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” The girl kept crying her thanks.

“Go!” Xu Yang commanded.

Lila quickly lifted the shuttle off the ground, forming a convoy with other vehicles, swiftly making their way out of Jumen Commerce Corporation, crushing some angry Ratmen on the road.

The speed was fast, and the wind whistled by Xu Yang’s ears.

He’d always sat steadied inside the shuttle, and this was his first time launching with the hatch wide open.

Fortunately, they had used the space of the AutoDoc, and Nidelaide had voluntarily climbed onto the roof, using magnetic implants to adhere herself there.

With the space for standing cleared, Asa Katsuragi slowly moved back a bit, first stuffed the girl inside, and then forcefully pulled the hatch closed.

All of the cabin’s passengers were rescued, each showing their gratitude, especially the girl who was pulled on board, continuously voicing her thanks.

Although the process was taxing, the result allowed more people to survive, which was good.

Xu Yang thought to himself that it was a small effort on his part, but for them, it was the difference between life and death.

Farosa’s feelings were quite different, though.

She didn’t like ordinary people.

These people, who knows if they were servants, slaves, merchants, or farmers, why should they share a room with her?

Farosa thought to herself.

Emitting foul odors, selfish and despicable humans…

The Giant Rat originally ravaging the building turned to see the shuttle and convoy leaving, furiously venting its anger on the nearby commerce buildings.

It slammed into one, a hit that seemed to destroy the load-bearing wall, causing the whole office building to crumble like a castle of corrugated cardboard knocked over, collapsing instantly, disappearing in the rising dust, with metal and brick structures tearing apart with loud noises.

The sign of Jumen Commerce Corporation broke in the middle, the wrapped electric wires and light tubes all bursting.

“No— no— no!” Watching his own and his father’s hard work destroyed in an instant, Zuo Hongchen’s eyes widened in anguished roar, his sight darkened, and he passed out.