"boom!"
After a dull sound, David was kicked to the ground again by Adam Heavy Hammer, and Miyoko Okawa, who had been wandering outside the battlefield looking for opportunities, also activated Si'an Westan in time and rushed forward, using her Mantis Knife to hold it. A fatal kick from the hammer.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this woman is done, right!?"
The rhythm of the battle was repeatedly disrupted by Miyoko, and Adam Hammer, who failed to kill David, was almost crazy. However, seeing the opponent's mantis knife stabbing directly into the vital part of his prosthetic leg, he had to accelerate his retreat violently. Only then could he barely avoid the extremely sharp single-molecule blade of the Mantis Knife.
Just as Heavy Hammer was thinking about how to break up the opponent's formation, Lucy, who was at the rear, immediately used her hacking ability to interfere with his prosthetic operating system. Although the firewall in his body was the work of Arasaka's network experts and was almost impossible to break through, under Lucy's best efforts to interfere, his movements were inevitably a little sluggish.
It is precisely this subtle sluggishness that makes Heavy Hammer always unable to attack according to his own ideas. This made him extremely angry, but he couldn't think of a good way to deal with it for a while.
Looking at Adam Hammer, who was firmly restrained by David and Miyoko, Lucy's forehead was already covered with sweat, and she was obviously reaching her limit.
Chonghammer's firewall was thicker than any she had encountered before, and it also had the ability to fight back autonomously. If she hadn't replaced her network access chip with the Crow Microcontroller Type 4, known as the "battleship", she would have been defeated by the opponent's counterattack from the network level.
Qiwei, who found that Lucy was unable to hold on, waved her hand and threw all the dozen drones she had just gained control over at Arasaka's prosthetic ninjas, giving Mann and others a breathing space. She quickly ran over to Lucy and took over her task of attacking the Hammer Firewall.
As two hackers with different styles in the team, Lucy is more talented, but influenced by her past experience, she is extremely conservative in the use of her hacking abilities, while Qiwei is just the opposite. She can use the back of her head to quickly It can be seen from the four-phase transmission Ripple 4 chip that the cracking ability is brought to the extreme. It can be seen that she likes to use her experienced cracking ability to take the initiative to attack.
After handing over the control of more than a dozen Pterodactyl drones and eight Octant drones to Lucy, Qiwei did not dare to delay and immediately began to crack the Heavy Hammer firewall.
Unfortunately, the results did not change with the substitutions. For Qiwei, who was just a street hacker a few days ago, the task of breaking through Arasaka's top-level firewall was still too difficult.
"Cough cough cough, bah!"
Spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with prosthetic fragments, David wiped the corners of his mouth and was about to get up, only to find that he only had the last bottle of immunosuppressant he carried with him.
Looking at the green liquid rippling in the bottle, he injected it into his body without hesitation. Robert did not exaggerate the efficacy of immunosuppressants. The severe pain all over David's body was immediately relieved, and his brain became much clearer.
Holding the curled katana in his right hand, David raised his left hand and pointed a smart pistol picked up from the corpse of an Arasaka soldier at Adam Hammer, who was having a fierce exchange with Miyoko.
As he pulled the trigger, tracking bullets hit Heavy Hammer's body one after another, causing sparks to fly and once again arousing the opponent's long-simmering anger. He slapped Miyoko away with a heavy palm, then appeared in front of David with a whoosh, grabbed the opponent's arms and kicked her away with all his strength.
Dropping his two arms that were still dripping with blood, Zhongmai laughed wildly with satisfaction. But to his surprise, David soon dragged his bruised body down from the depression of the floating car and lost his life. With both arms, he did not give up, but bit the handle of the katana with his mouth, with unprecedented determination in his eyes.
Just when the angry Hammer was about to step forward to give David the final blow, Tomohiko Kuroiwa, who was at the back, suddenly shouted in shock and anger: "Someone sent an anonymous message to the border checkpoint. All the people at the checkpoint All the military technology troops are coming here!"
You must know that as a neutral city, Night City is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from the border wall between Northern and Southern California. The distance to the crash site is only fifty kilometers at most. For military technology armored personnel carriers and tanks that can reach speeds of up to hundreds of kilometers per hour, this journey only takes half an hour, not to mention the opponent's overwhelming drone battle group.
"All retreat!"
After careful consideration, Hei Yan suppressed the reluctance in his heart and issued the retreat order, but Adam Heavy Hammer, who had already killed him, was not willing to listen.
Seeing that the other party refused to give up, Heiyan said coldly in the communication channel: "If you don't want to leave, no one will force you, but if Arasaka gets into trouble with military technology again because of you, even your ten lives will not be enough to die."
Hearing this, Zhongham had no choice but to turn off the rocket launcher on his shoulder that was still firing non-stop, jumped into the compartment of the Arasaka truck and left quickly, leaving behind a messy battlefield and the seriously injured David and others.
In Heiyan's view, although this group of edgewalkers who don't know the heights of the world are very powerful, they can only go so far. The military-tech Lizard armored vehicles and Sandman tanks are no joke. Even Adam Hammer can't bear a shot, let alone the edgewalker who is already at the end of his rope.
Just when Mann and others were helping each other to get into the car and leave, with the sound of the aerial vehicle landing, Harland walked out of an invisible armored aerial vehicle and clapped his hands to signal everyone to get on the aerial vehicle. .
As for the two Bratsk trucks that were affected by the battle and looked somewhat tattered, they were completely destroyed by the automatic turrets mounted on the floating vehicles, leaving no evidence behind.
Looking at the ground getting farther and farther outside the window and the billowing dust kicked up by the military technology army in the distance, everyone looked at each other and laughed heartily. Not only did they complete this mission worth 10 million euros, but no one died during the battle with Arasaka Company. I am afraid that even if I search all over Night City, I will not be able to find another team that can reach this level.
Of course, everyone has not forgotten David, who was the most seriously injured. Under the treatment of the robot doctor and Lucy's distressed gaze, David's somewhat disordered vital signs quickly stabilized. The people in the floating car who were treating their wounds by themselves no longer worried when they saw this, but comforted the man who had lost his arms. David said that as long as he survives these days, he won't be able to get any kind of prosthetic arm when he gets rich.
After realizing that Mann and others were looking at him expectantly, Harland shook his head and said: "It will take some time to identify the seeds, but I assure you that as soon as the qualified inspection report comes out, eight million The euros will be transferred to your account immediately. Don't worry, Mr. Star is not the kind of person to burn bridges."
Although everyone was a little disappointed when they heard this, they had no objections. Because what Harland said is right, this is the rule of Night City. No employer's money is blown by the wind, and inspection is also part of the task process.
Considering that Falco had already negotiated terms with the Nether Dog mercenaries in Taiping, Harland did not take the initiative to invite them to the group's safe house to avoid the limelight. Instead, he flicked a gold coin made of pure gold to Mann. He said that he could contact him at any time if necessary.
"This gold coin means that you have gained the friendship of Mr. Star. Before he meets you in person, you can use this gold coin to go to the designated location to seek help for anything. My people will do their best to meet your requests."
After leaving a message to everyone on the float car, Haaland threw a control chip to Falco before getting off the car, saying that the float car was regarded as a gift from him to the Mann team, and then Leave gracefully.
At this time, no one realized that their behavior of snatching seeds was about to set off an uproar that would sweep the entire world.
...
In Biotechnology's headquarters building on the east coast of the United States, a company employee wearing a white uniform quickly walked into the office and said urgently to the company executive in front of him who was solely responsible for seed transportation: "News has just been sent from the Night City Planting Base. , they received a notification from Military Technology, the convoy was confirmed to have been hijacked, and they are collecting evidence from the scene."
As soon as the executive heard that the seeds were missing, his originally calm face suddenly turned extremely ugly. He kept rubbing his temples with his thumbs, trying to guess who was so bold as to dare to disturb the company.
After thinking for a while, the executive said in a deep voice: "There is not a lot of transportation business between the company and Night City. Why did the robbers choose to attack this time? I suspect that there is a spy in the senior management who leaked information to the hostile company, otherwise With the security force of the convoy, ordinary people simply can’t eat it.”
Pointing to the battlefield filled with craters in the holographic image, which looked like a battlefield on the surface of the moon, the executive said with increasing certainty: "Just look at the weapons used by these robbers. EMP missiles, smart weapons, and electromagnetic sniper rifles. How can this be an ordinary robbery?" With the equipment that bandits and vagabonds have, I'm sure this was a premeditated attack."
Seeing that his boss was so sure, the company employees pointed to the members of the Whirlpool Gang who were captured alive by military technology in the projection, saying that these gang members arrived at the crash site almost at the same time as the military technology troops. ,
Although the suspicion of the Uzumaki Gang stealing the seeds can be basically ruled out, they definitely have their own sources of intelligence. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Uzumaki Gang to rush to the scene of the incident and search as soon as the robbers left.
"Then let's interrogate these guys, the ones who use drugs to kill them!"
After viciously sentencing the members of the Whirlpool Gang headed by Royce to death, the company's executives immediately organized an internal meeting with the intention of uncovering the mole and digging out the true identity of the robbers.
At the same time, the biotechnology mercenaries who have been stationed in the eastern plantation area of Night City have also been ordered to march into Night City and search for seed robbers throughout the city. This move is undoubtedly provoking the overlords of Night City Arasaka and the Ye family. sensitive nerves of the company.
So the day after the convoy was robbed, Night City's morning news also departed from its usual relaxed and humorous nature, pointing out that the current situation in the city was not optimistic.
In the city center and the Haywood District, the armed forces of Arasaka and Biotech are facing off. In poor areas such as Watson District and Santo Domingo, a large number of armed citizens who were dissatisfied with the abuse of force by biotechnology companies were fighting with the military and police on the streets. Gangs took the opportunity to sell weapons and make money. More than 200 people died in just one night. The incidence of cyberpsychosis surged overnight, and the violent terrorist mobile team was seriously short of manpower.
With the number of vicious incidents soaring wildly, Night City has turned into a huge powder keg. Just waiting for some thoughtful people to light the fuse, a big explosion no less big than the Fourth Corporate War will happen again. .
The question is, are Arasaka and Military Technology, the two protagonists in the last war, ready to fight again? Is it really worth starting a war over biotech seeds? Who is behind the seed robbery?
Everything is unknown...
