From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 275: Experimental Troops’ New “Biological Weapons” in the Rainforest War

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At this time, David walked slowly to the edge of the apron, stood beside the safety fence and looked down.

As the morning breeze blew, this young man who was originally just "struggling" in Night City indirectly fulfilled his mother's expectations.
That is, "standing on the top of Arasaka Tower."

However, today's Arasaka Tower has become the branch building of Atlas.

David looked down at the equally brand new Night City, at the people running on the sidewalks and train stations, and at the NCPD officers who had changed their uniforms and equipment and were selected and appointed by Atlas. His mood was even more indescribable.

"Hey! Kid, follow me!"

An AECS veteran in black uniform reminded David when he saw him falling behind.

This attracted the attention of a few people.

People like Lucy, who had short silver hair and was also wearing a black uniform, and Rebecca, who had pale skin and green hair, all turned their heads to look behind them.

"Yes!"

David, who was reminded, did not linger any longer and quickly followed the end of the team and walked into the building together.

Seeing this, Rebecca turned her head and confirmed with Lucy:

"That boy seems to be Gloria's son?"

"Ah."

Lucy nodded.

"It's quite cute, haha!" Rebecca smiled in a low voice.

Then, the girl, whose entire body was highly prosthetic, took another look at the layout of the top floor of the building and continued to sigh:

"So this is the office environment of those giant companies? Wow, so luxurious."

While expressing her feelings, she looked at the several AECS veterans who were leading the way and whispered:

"And what is Atlas planning to do by calling us together? Can you guess, Lucy?"

More than half a month ago, as free mercenaries, they believed the middleman's words "more money, bigger business" and chose to besiege the 09th Branch in the Westbrook District.

As a result, before they could get close to Division 09, they were scared away by the Paris-class orbital bombardment.

It was their act of fleeing that alerted the ODST and Honor Warriors who were carrying out the airborne attack, and their timely surrender prevented them from being shot by the "extreme" ODST.

Afterwards, they were captured and put into a makeshift prison built by the Engineering Department in the suburbs.

Although there was no freedom at all, I had good food and drink for three days.

Afterwards, they were "visited" by a group of biological department technicians wearing white uniforms and masks.

After drawing and collecting their blood and tissue samples, they waited for several days before Atlas' human resources staff asked them to sign a temporary agreement and a "non-staff employee" contract.

Mann, Qiwei and others are still "mercenaries", but they are mercenaries fighting for Atlas.

It has now been sent to the South American front.

Of course, even though they are "cannon fodder", Atlas still provides these mercenaries with Gauss weapons instead of modular firearms for armed security.

At the same time, the Biological Department also implanted a self-destruct chip made of metallic hydrogen into the necks of these mercenaries to ensure that the mercenaries could perform their tasks normally.

Since almost every mercenary has an electronic eye, it makes real-time monitoring by the biological department more convenient.

If any abnormality is found, or the mercenary's movements are inconsistent with the mission objectives, the Biological Department will directly activate the self-destruct chip.

No matter which universe they are in, mercenaries are not protected by so-called international law, so Atlas's method is already very "humane"
Mercenaries are at least much better than those D-level personnel who have no freedom at all.

But Rebecca and Lucy were left in the temporary prison.

It was not until the early hours of this morning that the two of them were taken to the airship by the veterans of AECS, and then they were in the former Arasaka Tower, now the branch building.

Moreover, Rebecca thought about taking the opportunity to escape, but the relevant news continued to be broadcast in the temporary prison. She knew that Atlas had taken control of Night City and even most of North America in a short time, and pushed the front line into the depths of the rain forest of South America.

So where can you escape to?
Night City is full of Atlas surveillance.

What's more, her brother was forcibly sent to the front line. If she escaped, Atlas would most likely detonate the chip directly.

When Lucy heard Rebecca's question, she recalled the painful memories of Arasaka's various experiments and tests when she was young, and she frowned and responded:
“All big companies are the same.”

"The same? What does that mean?" Rebecca was puzzled.

"We are just expendable materials for them." Lucy Riddler replied halfway before explaining:
"In other words, our bodies and brains are valuable to them for research and use, so we were not sent directly to the front line like Mann and his men."

"So, we are the guinea pigs, then?" Rebecca opened her eyes wide.

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Lucy nodded without denying.

"impossible."

However, David, who had already walked up to the two of them, immediately denied it:
"You are too narrow-minded to think that Atlas is the same as Arasaka and military technology."

As an intern security guard at Atlas, David naturally wanted to defend his company. Moreover, he did not give Rebecca and Lucy a chance to refute and continued:

"Don't forget that you are prisoners, and we are serious people."

"You little brat!"

Hearing this, Rebecca reached out and wanted to teach David a lesson.

However, when the AECS veteran walking in front turned his head to observe, Rebecca quickly withdrew her hand and showed a harmless smile.

In response, the veteran did not say much, but simply led this group of "problematic" people under the age of 18 to the top-floor conference room with the door open. He said "go in" and retreated to the outside of the corridor with his comrades.

Seeing this scene, David, who was originally an "intern security guard", and a group of people who had signed part-time contracts with Atlas before the war walked into the meeting room.

Rebecca, Lucy and a few other captives hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to move forward.

Then, what came into view was a group of biological technicians, several AECS elites holding BFG plasma guns and wearing Mikep power armor, and Atlas officials sitting behind the conference table.

Among them are Price and Serin, who is not human.

Seeing this group of children walking into the conference room, Price, who was extremely rare, was not smoking a cigar. Instead, he waved his hand, allowing each of them to have a holographic screen in front of them, and said, "Everyone, according to the test and analysis of the Biology Department, your body or brain has certain talents.

So the company is going to transfer you to the Biological Department to become a test force specializing in testing new products, and what you have in front of you is salary and benefits, as well as the content of the formal contract. "

As he spoke, Price leaned back in his chair and said in a deep voice:

"Whether you join or refuse, you have the right to make your own choice, but if you are a prisoner of the company, you will continue to serve your sentence until the end of the war.

Furthermore, your prison records will be incorporated into your identity files, so please consider this carefully."

Hearing these words, David did not hesitate at all. He slid the holographic screen in front of him to the bottom and prepared to sign his name.

Since you can go further in Atlas, what is there to worry about?
What's more, after the bombing of the Arasaka headquarters, his mother Gloria almost fully supported him and completely became a member of Atlas.

On the other hand, Rebecca, Lucy, and a small number of prisoners were thinking about the pros and cons of joining the "experimental force".

At this time, the capital of Colombia, Bogota, is about 70 kilometers south of the Macarena Mountains;
Boom—boom—! !

The sound of artillery fire and explosions echoed through the tropical rainforest, and occasionally a small mushroom cloud would slowly rise.

Here, with only a three-hour time difference from Night City, it is midday when the temperature is the hottest.

Looking around, there was a vast green ocean of lush branches and leaves everywhere, and there were no attacking or defending troops at all.

However, the north has many black-painted aerial gunboats that continue to provide absolute firepower support to their own troops.

Zoom in and take a closer look.

These aerial gunboats are about 50 meters long, 30 meters wide and 15 meters high, with vertical missile silos. They look like flying "turtles" and are extremely heavy.

In fact, the official name of these gunboats is AC-420/Atlas Model gunboat, code-named "Vulture".

The Vulture is a heavy vertical take-off and landing aircraft used by the UNSC. While ensuring air superiority, it can provide firepower output and assistance to ground units for a long time.

After improvements such as enlargement and widening by the Atlas Research Department, the Vulture's performance and firepower are far superior to before.

可搭载56枚导弹，4挺35mm高斯机炮，2门105mm电浆炮。

In addition, the 35mm Gauss machine gun can also be loaded with smart magnetic nail bullets.

In other words, once the gunner in charge of the machine gun finds a hostile target, or if friendly units provide guidance and markings, long-distance "tracking" and shooting can be achieved.

After all, the range of the Gauss machine gun in the atmosphere can easily exceed 10,000 meters.

This is also why Atlas chose the Gauss series of weapons as the close defense means for space ships.

As for the Vulture, which maintained a low altitude of one thousand meters above the ground, it was carrying out saturation bombing on military-tech defense facilities and troop concentrations in accordance with the requirements of the Royal Capital Knights and the Night Owl Commandos in the rain forest.

Of course, if the "cannon fodder" mercenaries find high-value targets, the Vulture's crew will also provide assistance.

Atlas is still very humane most of the time.

Even the most heinous D-level personnel will be given the benefits promised before the test after completing certain tests with extremely low survival rates.

In addition to the Vulture, there are also a large number of Black Falcon and Falcon assault boats hovering over the rainforest, carrying more troops to the front line.

There are also transport boats that look like small Valkyrie space transport aircraft, which fly over the front line under the escort of a drone formation and its accompanying Black Falcons and Falcons.

Then various Atlas combat mechas and regular models of Tyrant were dropped to the ground.

The rainforest terrain is complex, and Atlas' main battle tanks such as Titan and Killer, even if equipped with magnetic levitation engines, cannot provide good support for ground forces.

On the contrary, Mechas and Tyrants, which are also infantry units, can provide good firepower output.

In addition, tens of thousands of hellhounds bred by the Veronica virus pushed the front line from Atlas to here, using their small size, agility and high mobility to assist the troops in quickly detecting the main positions and fortifications of military technology.

And Colombia, even in the Cyberpunk universe, has not been able to avoid becoming a country infested with drug lords.

Due to the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the extremely low employment rate, Military Technology took advantage of this opportunity to gather a large number of "expendable" security forces, and also set up some factories in Colombia.

In addition, the top management wanted to fight to the death and put their hopes on uniting the global giants, so they gathered the last living forces in South America to try to fight against the "invaders" from other universes.
That is Atlas.

Atlas announced the fact that they came from the main universe on its official website and in the news.

However, local giants such as Arasaka and Militech have doubts about this fact. More importantly, the two sides have fundamentally different philosophies and cannot accept such naive ideas as "for the sake of humanity".

For humanity?

After taking power, of course, it is for oneself! The most correct choice is to do everything possible to gather all the resources and wealth into "one's own hands".

Therefore, the fifth corporate war that broke out in the Cyberpunk universe is equivalent to a dispute over "interests" between local giants and foreign forces.

However, no matter how much the local giants resist, they cannot stop the "spread" of Atlas.

at this time;
A Swift Shadow III command-type assault boat was hovering at an altitude of ten thousand meters above the Macarena Mountains.

Although the Eunio aerospace vehicle, which was improved by the Valkyrie, was gradually phased out by the company due to the emergence of space ships, multi-purpose vehicles such as the Swift Shadow are still the "hot cakes" of the armed forces.

With its huge size, terrifying carrying capacity, and ability to perform tasks such as early warning and command, the Swift Shadow Aerospace Assault Boat is also favored by the Primarchs.

Therefore, Dorn, wearing his exclusive power armor, was standing in the command cabin of the Phantom III, observing the entire battle situation that broke out on the surface.

The Macarena Mountains contain a military technology experimental base and an arsenal of cutting-edge weapons and vehicles.

So Dorn planned to "grab" those for himself and, in the process, destroy the last main force of military technology.

In fact, he could also directly order the fleet to drop hydrogen bombs here in low-Earth orbit to solve all hidden dangers once and for all, but this move was obviously not in Dorn's style.

For example, when it comes to the metal hydrogen missiles that bombed the island nation's homeland, Dorn would also issue a statement emphasizing that metal hydrogen is just Atlas' conventional weapon, not at the tactical or strategic level.

No matter what, Dorne would not just "nuclearize" everything.

After all, what he needs is to achieve integration for the company and his father, not to incite hatred.

In addition, it was Dorn who first proposed the formation of an experimental force for the Biological Department under Terilla.

Because the Primarch realized that if he could effectively control the erosion of the human brain by the prosthesis and enhance safety as much as possible, it would help to comprehensively improve the combat capabilities of grassroots soldiers such as armed security.

In particular, the prosthetics that can greatly improve reaction and speed. For example, Adam Hammer, who was "slapped to death" by him, has a military-grade prosthetic called "Sian Westin".

If it is added to synthetic humans or clones.
Perhaps it can serve as the company's next-generation mass-produced "biological weapon."

(End of this chapter)