Harem Streamer System: Every Crime I Broadcast Wins Me a Superheroine - Chapter 232

Chapter 232: Fast and Furious

━ Expressway, Meteor Hills ━

Scott was in the backseat, sitting far too calmly for someone in a car that was barreling down the expressway at over a hundred miles per hour—with zero control. The SUV had been hacked, brakes dead, steering shaky, and yet, he leaned back with one hand on his chin like he was just out for a drive.

“So it’s not just me and your husband that want you dead, huh? (￢_￢)”

He glanced at the panicked woman in the driver’s seat.

Then, he sighed.

“Is there anyone that actually likes you?”

Adira’s grip tightened on the wheel.

Her knuckles were white, eyes sharp despite the cold sweat trickling down her forehead.

The car jolted as she swerved past a van.

“It’s not what you’re thinking—!”

She shouted as her eyes scanned the lanes ahead.

“It’s not what you think… I work with another group, and they’re always watching me. They must’ve found out I got captured, so now their next move is probably to kill me—just to make sure I don’t mess up their plans. They’ve always been quick and ruthless like that.”

She paused, breathing in sharp.

“They’re efficient.”

Scott blinked at her with a blank face.

“You say that like it’s a compliment.”

She didn’t answer.

Behind them, a black sedan weaved through the traffic like a predator in pursuit.

Inside, Nina sat forward, her brows wrinkled, eyes locked on the distant SUV.

Something felt wrong.

“Keep up with them!”

“We’re trying…”

The driver grunted.

“She’s moving like a street racer on steroids—”

Then Nina’s eyes narrowed.

“Wait… what’s that?”

She pointed.

Just above the SUV, a dark blur zipped across the sky.

One of the men squinted.

“It… kinda looks like a person?”

The driver didn’t need to be told twice.

He slammed his foot on the gas.

･･･

Back inside the SUV, Adira was steering like her life depended on it—which it did. The brakes were dead, the car wasn’t responding to half her inputs, and the damn thing was moving so fast it made her vision blur.

However, Scott was casually listening to Jake through the earpiece.

[Yo, I tapped into a few expressway cams to see what you guys are dealing with… that thing following you… yeah, it’s got a jetpack and some hyper-advanced armor. I’m 100% sure it’s not just any mercenary. Unless it’s Star Rider from Galactic Legends episo—]

Scott cut him off instantly. “What do you mean?”

[I did some scans, matched it up with tech logs. That’s the third technophage unit that showed up at the Black Industries Tech Expo a few months ago.]

Scott’s lips parted slightly.

“… The green technophage.”

So she wasn’t lying.

Black Mechanica really was involved.

And they weren’t joking around either—sending a full-blown alien cyborg instead of the usual masked killers like Grave or Trickshot? That meant this was war.

Jake’s voice cut in again.

[So, what do you need me to do?]

Scott exhaled slowly.

“Try to regain control of the SUV’s systems. I’ll try to hack into it from here using my—”

BOOOOOOM!!

The SUV shook violently while its heated tires screeched as it fishtailed across the asphalt.

“KYAAAAHHHH!!”

Adira and Scott both jerked forward, nearly slamming into the reinforced windows.

Scott’s ears rang.

“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT—!?”

Adira’s eyes were wild. She couldn’t even speak.

Scott tried the window control.

No response. Figures.

He looked up—and spotted the culprit.

Hovering above them, arms transformed into a massive, sleek sniper cannon, was the armored hunter.

The barrel still glowed from the last blast.

Scott grabbed his plasma pistol and aimed.

First he’d blast the windows open, and then…

“I’m shooting that bastard out of the sk—”

“Wait!”

Adira barked.

“It won’t work! The windows are plasmaproof. I had them installed after… past incidents.”

Her voice cracked.

“But I guess that’s what’s going to kill us now, huh?”

She shook her head hard—like she was trying to shake off a nightmare.

But this one wasn’t ending.

Another sharp curve came up.

Adira tried to turn the wheel, but the SUV slammed hard against the side railing.

Metal screeched, and sparks flew out like fireworks.

She screamed, squeezed her eyes shut, and dropped her head onto the steering wheel.

“I… I can’t take this anymore…”

She whimpered like a dog.

Now, Scott was the only one who could see the road.

“ADIRA! CROSSWALK AHEAD—!”

A cluster of trucks and fast-moving cars suddenly appeared like a wall. Scott lunged forward, grabbed the wheel with both hands, and yanked.

The SUV dangerously twisted just enough to slip through the narrowest of gaps between the oncoming vehicles as its tires howled across the road.

They emerged into a wider, busier road.

Adira looked like she had completely lost it.

Her hair was a mess, her eyes were frozen with fear, and her cheeks were stained with tears.

Scott patted her back.

“Hey, hey. Switch seats. Come on. I got it.”

She hesitated like a nervous child, then finally crawled over to the passenger side.

Scott slid into the driver’s seat and grabbed control just in time to dodge a minivan.

･･･

In the black sedan, Nina’s jaw was tight.

One of her men said—

“That SUV’s moving way too damn fast—!”

But Nina didn’t care for commentary right now.

“Just don’t lose them. I don’t care what happens.”

She pushed her glasses up her sweaty face and stared ahead with steel in her eyes.

･･･

Scott twisted the wheel again to narrowly dodge another vehicle.

“Crowe!”

He shouted as he drove.

“Talk to me! Who the hell is that thing up there?”

Adira was still recovering from her panic.

She sat up and wiped her face. Her voice trembled.

“His name is Jade Sniper. He’s not like Red Titan that attacked Metro City—this one has full sync with his tech eater. Perfect compatibility. He’s faster, smarter… deadlier. He’s modeled his weapon system after studying everything—missile launchers, rifles, shotguns… snipers. And he’s fused them into one monster of a gun.”

The speed and accuracy of a sniper and the destructive force of a missile.

She pressed her head against the dashboard again.

“God… I should’ve seen this coming.”

KRAKOOOOM!

Another shot tore through the sky.

Scott yanked the wheel just in time.

BOOOOOM!

The blazing green bullet landed where the SUV would have been and mercilessly carved a crater into the road and flipped two cars into the air like toys.

And then came the next volley.

BOOM! BOOOOM!! BOOOOOOM!!!

Jade Sniper unleashed a barrage of high velocity, plasma tipped rounds, each more unpredictable than the last. And despite the speed, Scott was still weaving through it like a madman.

Jade Sniper unleashed a barrage of high velocity, plasma tipped rounds at the speeding car, while also randomizing the SUV’s speed to make it harder for Scott to dodge. But somehow, Scott was still managing to swerve and slide past the nonstop rain of bullets.

“Impressive, human…”

The flying soldier sounded like a distorted creature.

Scott didn’t feel an ounce of pressure behind the steering wheel—not after all his months of handling GT-Rs and cutting corners with his Lamborghini Huracán like a devil on tires.

But he’d be lying if he said this wasn’t giving him a major headache.

Unlike any car he’d driven, this SUV was being force-fed random speed bursts like it was on a broken rollercoaster. One second it was zooming like a rocket, the next it decelerated so fast that both he and Adira slammed into the dashboard with teeth-rattling force.

And then it was back to light-speed again.

“Dammit…”

Scott muttered, steering hard left as they barely avoided a delivery truck.

“I can’t stand this… whoever programmed this lunatic system is out of their mind.”

Countless times, the SUV rammed into cars, clipped the sides of vans, or scraped the frames of trucks.

Metal screeched, glass shattered, and still (somehow) they hadn’t died.

The only reason was that Scott had both arms locked with pure adrenaline-fueled strength, spinning the wheel with precision that came from doing training simulations of reckless street racing and maybe just a touch of divine luck.

He gritted his teeth.

『Thanks to Jake, it seems like the bastard can’t totally switch the car off and just nuke us where we sit… but that’s not going to be enough to save our asses.』

His foot slammed down on the brake—again—useless.

That was when the next wave hit.

A stream of cars flooded the lane.

Scott swerved past the first one clean.

The second one—CRASH!—rammed them sideways.

Then a third, BANG!—but he curved fast enough to avoid a total wreck.

He barely dodged the fourth and fifth—

Then the sixth car came out of nowhere and smashed bumper-to-bumper into the SUV. The vehicle shuddered violently as the sixth car flipped over them, spun mid-air, and slammed into the asphalt behind in a flaming roll.

Adira screamed like a banshee.

“AHHHHHHHH!!”

She clawed at her seatbelt, back pressed deep into the chair, hands trembling like an earthquake was inside her skin. Her wide eyes looked unblinking, unseeing—like she belonged in a padded room with no sharp objects.

She couldn’t even look anymore.

She closed her eyes tight and kept screaming.

Meanwhile, Scott’s face hadn’t changed once.

Cold, focused.

The only thing on his mind—

『Where’s the next damn obstacle?』

He flicked his eyes to the mirror—Jade Sniper was still up there, floating like a mecha god of death as he already reloaded another round of his oversized sniper cannon.

“Oh boy… (;一_一)”

Scott popped open the glove compartment, grabbed a stick of gum, and casually tossed it into his mouth like he had all the time in the world.

Chew. Chew. Sigh.

“Hey.” He glanced at Adira.

“W-, What!?” she snapped, half-whimpering.

“Keep pressing the window button. See if it responds.”

She didn’t question him.

Just started frantically tapping the window control like it owed her money.

Her hands were shaking, her lips quivering.

“C-, Come on, come on, come on—!”

･･･

Back in the sedan, Nina was at her limit.

“WHAT IS GOING ON!?”

She screamed and slammed her fist into the driver’s shoulder with panic in her heart.

The man winced. “I’m trying!”

“TRY FASTER, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT!”

She was breathing so hard she sounded like an angry dog with rabies.

Her men were silent—none of them dared say a word.

VROOOOOOM—!!

The driver floored it.

･･･

Back in the SUV, Scott’s hands were still on the wheel.

But now, with Adira distracted, the blue technophage began to slither out of his forearm like metallic veins made of living wire. It pulsed under his skin, then extended itself through the interface, connecting directly with the SUV’s corrupted computing system.

Scott felt the burn instantly.

Blood trickled from his nose.

The pain was like holding lightning in his skull.

But he didn’t stop.

“C’mon… just a little more…”

The technophage twisted and bit into the code.

And then—click.

The window started to roll down.

Adira gasped. “YES!”

Scott gave a short nod. “Good girl.”

Eyes back on the road.

—

Jade Sniper’s systems flickered.

His connection was severed.

“Insolence…”

The alien hissed viciously.

He raised his arm-sniper as the barrel pulsed violently with green light.

This time, he activated advanced aim protocols.

He wasn’t missing again.

The crosshairs locked.

Trigger pulled.

BOOOOOM!!

Scott’s eyes widened—but only for a split-second.

Then he slammed his foot on the accelerator—full throttle.

Then immediately slammed the brake.

His body lurched forward from the sudden jolt, but his arms didn’t stop. He twisted the wheel so hard that the SUV spun into a high-speed 360-degree drift that sent rubber peeling off the tires.

In that moment—mid-spin—Scott had a clear, perfect view of Jade Sniper hovering in the air.

He could see him through the passenger’s window.

He didn’t hesitate.

In one easy move, he drew his plasma pistol from its holster and let the technophage wrap around it to enhance it with blinding blue energy.

The pistol glowed with crackling white-blue light.

BLAM!

A beam tore through the air like a divine spear.

The bolt of ionized plasma slammed into Jade Sniper mid-flight.

The alien screeched—his armor bubbled, peeled, then began to split apart like it was being cooked alive. The green technophage recoiled violently, unable to withstand the sudden energy overload.

Jade Sniper’s eyes turned blank with pain.

“KREEEAAAAAAA!!”

He fell from the sky.

THUD—!!

He slammed into the road below.

His armor hissed and melted away.

Beneath it, he wasn’t machine—he was fully alien.

Light green skin. Bald head. No nose.

Red, reptilian eyes filled with hate.

The SUV finished its drift.

Adira was slumped against the window as her eyes spun from the sheer force of the move.

She hadn’t even seen half of what happened.

She just knew she should’ve passed out by now.

But somehow… they were alive.

Scott smirked, spinning the wheel back to center as he straightened the car on the road.

『I used the technophage to hack back into the SUV… but I also adjusted its entire frame—reduced the high center of gravity, stabilized its wheel grip… made it drift-capable.』

He let out a low chuckle.

Then there’s what Anthony Black said at the Tech Expo from months back…

『Technophages are weak to ionic particle surgery. So I overloaded the pistol—superheated the plasma into a state of high-energy ionization, then converted it into a molecular-disrupting beam. The beam scanned and matched Jade Sniper’s biomolecular frequency and used it against him. Destructive interference at the genetic level.』

He tossed the still-humming pistol aside.

Over the comms Jake shouted—

[WOO-HOOO!! Fast and furious baby! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧]

Scott chuckled and focused on the wheels.

He was now in full control.

But behind them…

SCREEEEECH.

Jade Sniper’s burned body twitched.

His red eyes snapped open.

He snarled like a dying animal as green blood oozed out of his mouth and splattered on the road. With a trembling claw, he began pulling himself forward.

The technophage armor responded—bits and pieces crawling back toward him as it reattached his limbs.

“RrrhhhhhHHHHAAAAAGHH—!!”

His alien exoskeleton was taking shape again.

Adira looked in the side mirror.

“He’s… not dead…?”

Scott grinned, licking blood off his lip.

“Nope.”

He flexed his fingers.

“But he’s pissed off now.”

This made Adira even more uncomfortable.

Then Scott smiled at her.

“Don’t worry about that… you’re important to me, so I’ll make sure I protect you.”

Adira didn’t understand what he meant by important, but she felt her cheeks go red a bit.

“Uhm… tha… thank you…”

“I don’t… know why you’re thanking me… (￢_￢)”

After all, he has things he wanted to use her for.

Jake chuckled over the comms—

[It’s probably Stockholm Syndrome, kek…]

Scott rolled his eyes.

“Shut up…”

Adira quickly nodded and submissively answered—

“Yes, sir…”

“Not… you… (;一_一)”