Faulty Utopia

When he felt that Baldy's brain was completely scrambled to mush, the pent-up breath in Sun Jack's heart finally subsided.

As Sun Jack lifted his foot and gave a powerful kick, accompanied by the blade without electric arcs being pulled from the flesh, Baldy's body collapsed with a boom.

He must have hit something in his neural system, as sounds of men and women gasping played in a loop from his neural jacks.

"Holy shit, were you really watching porn while fighting?" An irritated Sun Jack walked over, grabbed the knife in his hand, and directly chopped off his head.

After doing this, he didn't have time to catch a single breath, he clenched his fist with the knife and walked toward the underlings of Baldy sprawled on the ground.

One slice after another, Sun Jack was already exhausted, but he didn't dare to stop. If they woke up, he would be the one to die.

Sun Jack found himself killing with remarkable ease, as if he had done it hundreds, if not thousands of times.

And when the last enemy had his head cut off by Sun Jack, he collapsed in the puddle gasping for air, his wounds began to hurt again. "Why is this painkiller so ineffective?"

"It's not that the painkiller is ineffective, it's that your body has reached its limit, you're too badly injured." A smoking Tapai staggered over, helped Sun Jack up from the ground. "Badass, Jack."

"Are you okay? You're smoking all over."

"Won't die, just short-circuited."

"What the hell is this? I just want to live, why is it so hard?" The blood dripping from the corner of Sun Jack's mouth fell into the puddle, gradually dyeing the black water red.

"Who do I ask if you ask me? Let's get out of here first," Tapai said, supporting him as they slowly made their way out of the ruins.

"Wait for me!" Song 6 PUS, still smoking from his head, wobbled but managed to follow.

"You sure are tough to kill." Sun Jack, with his head tilted, glanced at him sideways. Useless, only dragging his feet. He wouldn't have bothered to save him if it weren't for the need of startup capital.

"Don't blame me for dragging you down; I'm injured like this, how could I help? Besides, isn't my combat prosthetic body installed on you? So if you kill, it's as if I killed."

"Wait up, I'm starting a live stream, folks, I'm back---"

"Turn off the live stream!" With both Sun Jack and Tapai speaking up at the same time, Song 6 finally complied.

If he dared to live stream again, Sun Jack was ready to shove a gun barrel into his mouth and fire it up.

Sun Jack looked up, letting the rain wash over his face, at least it could keep him a bit clearer, he was feeling sleepy now.

Feeling the acid rain drip on the wound where a piece of his ear was missing, his ear began to hurt too.

Just when he was feeling the rain wash over him, Sun Jack, looking up, suddenly saw something emerging from the clouds. The rain gradually stopped, and something in the clouds blocked the rain.

At first, it was just a black angle, but soon enough that angle slowly extended, and the dark metal continued to extend and grow bigger, until it was larger than a mountain, even almost filling Sun Jack's entire field of vision.

Looking at the object emerging from the clouds, still growing, Sun Jack instantly felt an overwhelming fear of the unknown, a suffocating chill, "What on earth... is that thing?"

The next moment, the sky suddenly turned white, and as he struggled to adjust to the bright light, he squinted open his eyes, barely making out what seemed to be a blindingly large column of light the size of a house.

The steel behemoth occupying almost the entire sky, with ten bright lights shining like a deity looking down on everything below with contempt.

At that moment, Sun Jack finally understood—the thing in the sky was man-made, it was a gigantic Spacecraft Carrier!

The next moment, a deafening mechanical voice boomed from above, "Warning, warning, this is company territory, Gaofeng Technology Company owns all rights to space debris. All personnel on site cease theft immediately and vacate the area within 1 minute. Otherwise, the company will take all legal measures to protect its property. 59, 58, 57...."

The voice switched between various languages, mechanical yet chilling, the message it contained making Sun Jack feel extremely uneasy, especially after seeing the reactions of the others in the rubble.

By now, the sound of gunfire elsewhere had ceased; faced with the massive object overhead, they had lost any interest in killing each other and instead hastily left with their spoils of war.

He didn't know what the so-called 'all legal measures' were, but he was certain they weren't anything good. The three of them desperately hurried forward.

"35, 34, 33...." The countdown sounded like a death knell over everyone's heads. The previously white welding lights turned a bright red and began to flash incessantly, creating an incredibly oppressive atmosphere.

"Look over there!" Following the direction of Tapai's pointed finger, Sun Jack could make out a mountain peak in the hazy rain mist.

As Sun Jack got closer, he finally saw it clearly—it was a garbage mountain made up of various plastic bags.

He ran forward with all his might, but it seemed that his altercation with Baldy had depleted his last bit of strength, making his steps unbearably heavy.

Suddenly the flashing in the sky stopped. "....3, 2, 1, according to Castle Law Article 315, you are infringing on private property, the company will now commence with unlimited liability self-defense."

Groggily lifting his head, Sun Jack saw the sky filled with the red and green lights of drones' night positioning, like a red and green death snowfall mingling with the heavy rain.

"Run!!" Song 6 ran over, using his prosthetic arm to support Sun Jack on his other side, heading towards the garbage mountain.

When the red and green snowflakes landed on people's heads, they began spewing deadly flames, sweeping through all living things in the ruins. Bullets fell with the rainwater, leaving people unable to distinguish between the two.

Looking at the drones flying toward him from the sky, Sun Jack clenched his teeth and lifted his metal prosthetic body, firing rounds of ammunition that soared through the rain and detonated drone after drone in the air.

But those drones seemed endless, no matter how many were destroyed, new ones quickly took their place.

"Are we really going to die now?" Looking at the red and green snowflakes filling the sky, Sun Jack frantically searched for a solution, but despite racking his brains, he couldn't come up with anything.

The drones weren't the point at all; no matter how many were shot down, the real issue was that massive steel behemoth in the sky!

The three of them had no chance against that thing. The disparity between them and their enemy was simply too great; it was virtually a dead end!

At this moment, drones swarmed above their heads like the gaze of the Grim Reaper, and the air seemed to solidify.

"Rescue probability 0%..... Rescue probability 0%...." Tapai kept calculating, searching for even a glimmer of hope.

Looking at the drones filling the skies and the Spacecraft Carrier that had virtually replaced the sky above them, Sun Jack completely despaired. It was an entity humanity couldn't possibly resist.

Just as they were about to be turned into sieves, Song 6PUS, who had been following behind Sun Jack, stepped forward. "Heroes always make their entrance last, let me handle this."

"What?" Sun Jack looked on in shock, "Could this kid be a master? Had he been playing possum all along?"

Song 6 faced the airborne reapers without fear and with a swift motion pulled out a Gold Card from his pocket. Raising it high with one hand, he declared with an expression full of pride, "I! Have! Money!!"

No sooner had these words been spoken than the rotating barrels of the drones came to a halt, and the cameras turned towards Song 6PUS.

"I'm buying time with money!" As Song 6PUS said this, a drone flew down rapidly, scanning the card.

Once the money was transferred, the drones dispersed from above their heads as if nothing had happened.

Even the steel behemoth in the sky considerately changed the lights shining on them from red back to white, the only thing missing was a farewell song, and the suffocating sense of oppression was gone.