Kong Taoluo

"The reason you deleted my voice from your cache, is because you never expected to hear it again. Am I right, Zhang Jaibou?"

- Kong Taoluo, confronting Zhang Jaibou

Kong Taoluo was a Triad assassin 22nd century Shanghai, which had become a center of cybernetics technology, including black market sales of illegal cybernetic modifications. Taoluo was the only pure human assassin, in a profession where many Triad assassin's practiced a form of kung-fu which combined traditional Chinese weapons with cybernetic augmentations. Kong, on the other hand, prefers to his own body's natural energies to generate an electromagnetic pulse, a technique known as the "Lightning Palm", which can disrupt electronics, and is fatal to cyborgs, who rely on their mechanical bodies to perform all vital functions.

Taoluo was betrayed by his best friend, Liu Haojun, and was presumed dead after an incident in Macau. Haojun kidnapped and gang raped Taoluo's younger sister, Ruili, along with five other high-ranking Triad members. The reason behind this heinous crime went beyond mere sadism, but to trigger the severe trauma which aided in the illegal process to transfer part of a human brain to an android body, as part of an experiment by scientist Xie Xida. Ruili, or at least her body, was killed in the process, but her conciousness was divided into five parts and transferred to five female androids, or gynoids, and they are known.

The five gynoids containing part of Ruili's conscience were taken by Liu and four other ranking Triad officers, most of whom used them as their sexual playthings. Two years after departing Shanghai, Kong returns for revenge, and first confronts Xie Xida, who tells him that, if he recovers all five gynoids, he could combine them into one, and essentially revive his sister.

As Xie did not actually rape his sister, Kong does not kill him, simply severing one of his arms after asking Xie if he could make a cybernetic prosthetic on short notice. Kong then attacks the first of five high-ranking Triads, Zhang Jaibou, in his home, using his EMP generation to shut down the ceiling mounted microwave guns on the ceiling of his home, before managing to outfight Zhang in spite of his massive cybernetic fists, and kill him with his "Lightning Palm" EMP attack.

Taoluo then beheads Zhang's gynoid and copies the data in its brain into another, which he intends to use to revive his sister. Taoluo then attacks Zhu Shaoyan, a particularly sadistic female Triad assassin, known to commit brutal murder and rape for entertainment. Taoluo kills Shaoyan after a protracted battle, ending in him severing her leg with his sword and killing her with an EMP attack. Kong then collects the data from the second gynoid and adds it to "Ruili".

Taoluo's third victim is Ng Winshing, the CEO of Shanghai Cybernetics, as well as a high-level Triad associate. Ng lacks major changes to his cybernetic body, but is holed up in a skyscraper behind armies of guards. Taoluo enlists the help of Russian mafia member Mikhail Strugrev, another enemy of Ng, who, along with his associates, assaults the Shanghai Cybernetics main offices in mechanized exoskeletons armed with miniguns and grenade launchers while Taoluo infiltrates via VTOL aircraft. Strugrev's assault causes severe casualties among the guards, however eventually, his forces are either killed or pushed back, and Ng escapes in VTOL aircraft.

Taoluo, however, gives chase, and survives Ng's attempts to disable his aircraft with a computer virus. Taoluo turns Ng's own virus against him, causing his aircraft to crash, before dispatching the "combat mode" of his gynoid, a robotic spider with machine guns and mechanical blades. Kong then removes the gynoid's head and copies the data on the hard drive onto Ruili, who begins showing human emotions similar to those of his sister, but who is clearly psychologically damaged from her mistreatment.

Taoluo goes on to battle and kill two cybernetic assassins, the Yeon twins, Kain and Soin, before going to the home of Liu Haojun, who has, in the mean time, killed off the previous triad boss and is now the leader of the organization. Kong fights and kills Win Bei-Xin, an assassin who uses throwing darts guided by a laser in his multiple cybernetic eyes, and takes the fourth gynoid, nearly completing Ruili.

Taoluo, however, discovers that Liu has gone to Kong's old home. Taoluo meets Liu in the garden, and the two face off, Kong discovering that Haojun can imitate his techniques, in spite of it supposedly being impossible with a cybernetic body. Liu states that he created a cybernetic body with a similar chi flow to a human body. The two of them fight an extended duel, until Taoluo kills Liu, but is mortally wounded in the fight.

Ruili comforts Taoluo in his final moments, and promises to see him again. The scene then changes to a fully complete Ruili conversing with Xida, who tells her that she is a now an information-based lifeform, capable of transferring from robotic body to body. As long as her data is not delete or the hard drive containing her destroyed, Ruili is essentially immortal. Ruili then convinces Xida to combine her brain with that of Taoluo's, which was being sustained artificially in a specially designed case. The final scene shows Taoluo reunited with Ruili, there minds merged into one body.