Cutting off Xiulan's right hand in order to bypass a fingerprint authentication system, the Player and Hendricks were able to secure some of the data before making a hasty escape. An enraged Xiulan ordered every 54i soldier in the area to kill the two as they fought their way to the stolen files. The Player and Hendricks were compromised by the 54i leaders, Goh Min and Goh Xiulan, forcing them to retaliate and inadvertently kill Min. In order to determine the truth behind the killings, the Player and Hendricks posed as arms dealers and infiltrated the 54i headquarters in an attempt to recover the stolen information, which included security footage from the black station. Some of the stolen files found their way to the 54 Immortals. Kane concludes that the last recorded activity at the station was that of Taylor's team, which the Player found hard to believe. Fighting through the streets of the quarantine zone against the 54 Immortals with Hendricks, and regrouping with their CIA handler Rachel Kane, the Player discovered the black station staff dead and the local data drives, containing stolen secret CIA files. The Player, meanwhile, was assigned to investigate an abandoned CIA black station in Singapore. Dragging them into the same immersion, Corvus consumed their minds and controlled them, forcing them to explore Taylor's memories in search for answers regarding its inception, which had been found by Taylor and Hendricks in real life during their hunt for the traitor Dylan Stone and his team in 2064. Unaware that they were dead, they underwent successful augmentation in this immersion and became a member of the Cyber Ops unit, alongside Jacob Hendricks who had also underwent cybernetic upgrades.Д¬orvus managed to spread into the DNI Infection of Diaz, Hall and Maretti after Taylor succumbed. Taylor attempted a DNI interface with the dying Player, and through their agony in death, Corvus was reborn, manifesting itself in Taylor's DNI and pulling the Player's consciousness through to Taylor's DNI.ДЄlthough the Player was pronounced dead moments later, they lived on through DNI, confined to an immersion created by Corvus from parts of Taylor's memories. Afterward, Taylor oversaw the augmentation procedure until a life support failure threatened the Player's life.

While training the Player through a DNI immersion, Taylor taught the Player the importance of self-sacrifice to save the lives of others. The procedure involved replacing the Player's dismembered arms and broken legs with cybernetic equivalents, and implanting them with a Direct Neural Interface. Having been impressed with the Player's skills in Ethiopia, Taylor recommended them for Project Prometheus, the Winslow Accord's 'Cyber Soldier' program. You should know that.' - Sebastian Krueger, regarding the Player's suitability for the 'Cyber Soldier' program At the last second, the Player was rescued by Taylor.ДЄugmentation procedure ' I expect better. The Player tried to fight it off, but was dismembered, having both of their arms ripped off, as well as breaking one leg and ripping the other. An NRC GI Unit then approached the Player. Hendricks and the Player managed to secure a VTOL extraction for Said and Khalil, but the Player missed boarding the VTOL. Hendricks convinced Taylor to take his team and rescue the other prisoners whilst he and the Player escaped with a stolen APC. With their help, the operatives made short work of the remaining NRC forces in the area, but after their primary extraction plan failed, they were forced to fall back to a secondary extraction point. Fighting their way through NRC guards, the four were ambushed by a large group of NRC soldiers, but were assisted by Taylor and his 'Cyber Ops' team Sebastian Diaz, Sarah Hall and Peter Maretti. Having served alongside Khalil a year earlier, Hendricks reluctantly agreed and freed Khalil. Upon locating Said, the Player and Hendricks discovered that there were many more hostages being tortured however, Commander John Taylor's priorities lay only in Minister Said.ДЄfter killing Said's interrogators, he insisted that they also rescue Lieutenant Zeyad Khalil, an Egyptian Army officer being detained nearby. systems against an incoming cargo plane, the pair used the chaos to divert the NRC forces away from the target. Causing a massive disturbance by turning the base's D.E.A.D. After briefing from Hendricks, the two went undercover in an NRC airbase in the Siemen Mountains to rescue the Egyptian Minister Said from torture and interrogation. As a new recruit in a hostage rescue unit, the Player was introduced to their new commanding officer, Jacob Hendricks.

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