The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

The screeching sounds kept piercing the air!

Just with that one strike, the EMT collapsed onto the dented ground under their astonished gazes.

"Well, that repulsion is pretty strong," Su Qi breathed out lightly.

"Self-destruction... self-destruction..." The EMTs had no thoughts of their own, their consciousness completely suppressed by the chip, and they still made their final counterattack.

And the next moment.

"Defense."

Su Qi stretched out his hand, and repulsion once again encircled him, intercepting all explosive fluctuations like forming a wall of air, instead flipping two nearby people over.

Very powerful.

But at the same time, it consumed a lot.

Su Qi's spiritual energy was also rapidly decreasing.

"..."

Adam Hammer and Poker K were on the ground, silently watching as Su Qi slowly walked toward them from the center of the blasted scene.

They knew it was their turn now.

"It seems..."

Poker took out a cigar but found no fire. "So this is your way of intervening..."

"Let's see if it has dissuaded anyone," Su Qi said, pulling a lighter from his pocket and tossing it to him.

"Not bad, you managed to do it, but..."

Adam Hammer didn't move, just silently watching Su Qi, his voice cold: "But can you dissuade the thousands still fighting?"

"Can you dissuade those disgusting elites?"

"Can you dissuade the cruel rules of Night City..."

Su Qi sat down on the steps:

"Both of you big shots... going to give a good speech now that death is near?"

Poker K, covered in blood, with a big hole in his chest, shakily smoked his cigar, coughed softly, exhaled a puff of smoke, squinting his eyes: "Just telling you the facts. To stand firm in Night City, you must follow the rules and be more ruthless than everyone else, but this Illegal Land is just another brutal cage."

"You see it that clearly?"

"Give me a hit too," Adam Hammer said softly.

"Tch, I'd only give it to you now."

Poker K, trembling, passed the cigar along.

Adam Hammer's arms had both blown off, so he couldn't catch it.

"You two, so maimed, still wanting to kiss indirectly," Su Qi shook his head. "Let me do it."

Su Qi took the cigar, putting it in Adam Hammer's mouth.

"..."

Adam Hammer felt the searing heat in his mouth.

He silently stared at Su Qi: "You put it in backwards."

"No wonder I said the smoke seems to be coming from inside."

"..."

Adam Hammer took a deep puff of the repositioned cigar, closed his eyes, his tone gradually calming: "In Night City, an individual's power is ultimately flimsy, because I understand this, I know no matter how strong I become, or how perfectly modified, I'll eventually die here, so I established Black Emperor, and have been here for decades."

"Cruelty, slaughter, intimidation, that's everything needed to survive."

"But now it's also coming to an end, a few words from the elites are enough to destroy."

The blood from Poker K flowed more heavily, his lips dried and pale, feeling the draining life force, silently raising his head and staring at the sky:

"No matter what you do next, you can't do better than us."

Su Qi smiled calmly: "Just dog-eat-dog, spoken so bravely?"

"Also, can't do better than you?"

"Whom are you insulting?"

He gently crushed the sparks from the cigar:

"There's a saying 'a single spark can start a prairie fire.'"

"The power you underestimate will eventually completely submerge yourselves."

In their shocked pupils,

The whole sky's black curtain reflected, then a faint starfire appeared, gradually magnifying!

It was a Fire Dragon composed of flames!

Roaring as it approached furiously with its flames from afar!

At the same time.

Numerous merchants followed by countless poor stormed in their wake!

They were bursting, roaring!

Be it gang members or squads from the Main City, all were retreating in disarray!

Roars came from all directions!

As if to shatter the skies!

Both were trembling as they watched these poor, merchants, having never seen such a scene before.

All enemies were being purged!

The crowd was unstoppable!

Finally.

A dense crowd step by step surrounded the battlefield,

Various unreturned combat prosthetics echoed, the air filled with unburned smells, and weapons overheated, still smoking, with everyone from the flickering red lights of their prosthetic eyes all watching the scene before them, staring at the two terrifying gang leaders who oppressed them.

But no one spoke.

"Turns out..." Poker K... with his last energy rasping in his throat like a sigh, like an epiphany: "it's... like this."

Adam Hammer also pale, but his eyes trembled, although he could no longer speak.

Su Qi looked at them.

"Can only say, in the next life, make sure to modify well and strive to be reborn."

The two at the brink of death, unclear what emotions they harbored, yet perhaps didn't have time to say, gradually lost their final life forces.

The two huge forces ruling this land, tonight...

Obliterated.