Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

This house has no stance, no camp, and no fighting.

All that remains are humans in shelters, hiding from natural disasters outside, just as they have for thousands of years.

After a whole day, the wind outside began to subside. Perhaps after the natural disaster, people will pick up weapons again and try every means to hurt each other.

beep.

The target sends out information:

[There's a Night City mercenary in our house, probably with the same goal as the others.]

Chapter 311 Still Flying North

It seems Bob doesn't really believe Vito can take them all down.

As the storm was about to end, he secretly sent a message to his brothers to prepare, but he didn't notice that his terminal had sent an attachment by itself.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Vito, you're even more despicable than a corporate dog! You pretend to save someone and then upload a virus, and the person should thank you!"

The attachment was sent to everyone around, and many people have already opened this cryptic file.

"Thanks for the compliment, Johnny. We should get down to business."

Vito opened the door and walked out. The instant Vito stepped out, Bob rushed to the sofa to grab his weapon, but just as his hand touched the gun, his prosthetic eye suddenly malfunctioned.

"what!!!"

Bob died from an electromagnetic short circuit amidst his own screams. Taylor, who was standing nearby, knew that once the wind outside stopped, Bob, a die-hard Max fan, would definitely call his brothers and Vito for a real fight. He didn't expect that the other party was already prepared.

Taylor was reluctant to take action, but Bob was dead, and he had been in the same room with him without any problems. He couldn't possibly explain it to Dega. So he gritted his teeth and secretly moved towards the door.

"Fire two shots into the air; that'll be enough to make up for the oil costs paid by the Snake Gang!"

Taylor wasn't the stereotypical type like Bob and his ilk, who were full of standard answers, stuck in their own ways of thinking, and didn't like to use their brains.

Max was merely deliberately catering to the image of wandering rebels that these people imagined. Taylor had also seen what the Snake Gang looked like at the beginning; it was nothing more than a wandering armed with Max's authority as a leader.

Snakes shed their skin, but they never change their nature.

More than half of the people outside opened the attachment, and the 'Deserved Virus' inside quickly triggered and spread. The remaining people who had not yet opened the attachment were also located and their positions were uploaded to Vito's prosthetic eye by the target location puppet.

When the wind stopped, people had to get moving. After Vito went out, more than twenty guns were pointed at his head, and four or five fully armed Serpent Gang gunmen stood around Vito's hound.

"That's quite a spectacle!"

Vito slightly raised his hands, giving a somewhat awkward French salute. Several of the Snake Gang's gunmen, who had served as mercenaries in Night City, recognized Vito.

"Stopwatch Vito! Holy crap, he's in the Badlands too?"

Several people exclaimed in surprise; only those who had served as mercenaries in Night City knew the true value of the title "Stopwatch."

(Vito's private message: Stop bragging! I'm not some terrible watch! I hate that lousy nickname!)

"What kind of alarm clock or stopwatch is this, you brat? How did you even get here?!"

Dega didn't care about Vito or not; he walked up to Vito with his head held high, carrying a shotgun.

The two faced each other, and Dega realized that he was half a head shorter than Vito. He stabbed Vito in the chest with a needle shotgun.

"You little brat, kneel down and answer me, or I'll make you bruised and battered!"

"You want me to kneel down? You must be joking. Why don't you kneel down and I'll spare your life after you answer my questions?"

Vito spoke calmly, adding that the contagious puppets were already prepared and the area could be cleared immediately.

"You, say that again! We have more men and guns than you, who do you think you are? Adam's Hammer?"

Dega pointed the gun at Vito, threatening him menacingly. He had been having a run of bad luck lately, failing to accomplish anything, and was now furious.

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to waste time with you guys."

Snapped!

Vito snapped his fingers with his right hand, and most of the Snake Gang gunmen had their prosthetic eyes reactivated. They then began releasing contagious puppets into the surrounding area.

click!

Boom!

Amidst the chaos of the Snake Gang gunmen, Vito snatched the needle and kicked Dega to the ground.

Click!

A shotgun was pressed against Dega's neck.

"Don't make wild gestures if you're not going to fire. Do you still have more people and more guns?"

Screams filled the air; the virus, as expected, kept releasing electromagnetic short circuits, and for a moment, electric arcs raged throughout the abandoned town, creating a spectacular scene.

Taylor, who had just emerged, saw Vito being held at gunpoint and thought Vito was doomed. He was about to grab a gun and blend into the group when, in an instant, the situation reversed.

"Come, come, I'll give you a chance to kneel down."

Vito folded the needle-shaped weapon, took out the shotgun shells, and threw them aside. Dega, whose eyes held a sinister glint, secretly pulled out a dagger from his waist, intending to deliver a fatal blow while Vito was distracted.

Clang!

Dega was kicked to the ground again.

"Even if I gave you a chance, you wouldn't be able to use it. With your speed, you're still trying to play with a knife."

There's only one chance. If Dega doesn't want to kneel down and answer questions properly, he'll have his chest stepped on while he's being asked.

Vito had a suspicion in his mind when he was talking to Bob and the others.

"Come on, I'll ask you a question, and you answer: How many people did you send out?"

Dega grabbed Vito's combat boots with all his might, but he couldn't lift them up no matter what he did. It felt like Thor's hammer had been placed on his chest, making it impossible for him to breathe.

"You...let go...of me! Our people will be there soon!"

Vito slightly reduced his strength, and Dega, who had become the Red Man, showed some relief.

"How many people are there, and what are their weapons?"

“We have five hundred demon hounds alone! And the rest… ah!”

Vito couldn't be bothered to listen to this idiot's nonsense. Five hundred demon hounds, grown from the ground?

He sent Panan and his men a location, instructing Panan to bring Adcado's men over to drive the Serpent's Hounds back.

"Speak properly, or you'll suffer the consequences."

Dega, feeling the pressure on his chest again, had no choice but to tell the truth.

He said that Max didn't take Adcado seriously, so the Communists deployed this batch of Demon Dogs and other armed off-road vehicles. The off-road vehicles withdrew when the sandstorm was about to come, and only the Demon Dog convoy rushed into the sand with their heavy armor.

"I heard that your Snake Clan is now militarily strong, yet you've only produced this many people. What are the others doing?"

"Max sent the others to kill the traitor and the Night Wanderer, saying that there can only be one voice in the evil land."

"This idiot seems to have really gone mad. Okay, one last question: where is Max's hideout?"

"Will you let me go if I tell you?"

"Don't be silly, Mr. Redface. I was just joking. Do you think I'd let you go after you've been helping Max slaughter innocent people?"

How did you know... ah!

Vito pressed down hard on his foot again. Sure enough, he had long suspected that someone like Dega was being entrusted with important tasks because he had been doing dirty work for Max.

"Quickly, tell me the coordinates of your hideout, and I'll give you a quick death. Otherwise, I'll let you taste what it's like to have ethanol 2 injected into your veins."

The thought of Dega Jiaoguang was terrifying, but he gritted his teeth and tried to save his life.

“Giving you the coordinates won’t help; Max moves around every now and then.”

"That's not really your business. Go ahead and tell me."

"I told you, you spared my life, and I'll leave here and never show my face to you again!"

“Although I don’t like haggling, I, Vito, agree. Go ahead.”

Three minutes later, having obtained the detailed coordinates, Vito released Dega and went to the back seat of the Demon Dog to get his things.

Just as Dega, who thought he had escaped death, breathed a sigh of relief, he looked up and saw a square-headed face.

"Accept the punishment; now it is the punisher who is speaking to you."

Chapter 312 Black and White

When Adcado's men arrived, only Vito and Taylor remained in the town. Taylor huddled to one side, trembling, while Vito, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, looked at the data on Dega's behavior.

Thor, the leader of Adcardo, looked grave. The Serpent State had so many armored vehicles; the danger Adcardo faced was more serious than he had imagined.

Vito is no ordinary man; he managed to take down so many people all by himself.

"Dega Jiao! That beast!"

Carmela saw the corpse at Vito's feet; it was this guy who had been chasing them and indirectly caused Carlo's death.

"He didn't die easily; my first shot blew up his pain editor."

Vito saw a lot of dirty stuff in Dega’s records. Max used his rhetoric and the company’s secret support to build up a large group of people. The original old men of Snakebon were either dead or had fled.

"You're Vito? I'm Thor, from Adcardo."

"Hello, Thor, I'd love to say a few more words to you, but the situation isn't quite right right now. Do you know Joaquin?"

“I know, the free man from the north. He tried to get Adcardo to ally with him, but we hadn’t broken ties with the Serpent Clan yet, so we didn’t agree.”

“Do you know where his camp is? My friends might be there, I have to go find them.”

"Okay, I'll have Panan take you there."

"Thanks, Thor. By the way, have you two made up?"

“We were all doing this for the family. It was just a quarrel between family members before, huh? How did you know? Did Panan tell you?”

The car door opened, and Vito jumped inside.

"We'll talk slowly when I get to the Adcado camp. Let's hurry up and drive these demon hounds back to prepare for battle. The Serpent State has something big planned."

Tingwei and the Demon Dog rushed north. The strong wind had passed, and many black dots on the bad soil were heading north.

Life in the wasteland was already so difficult. Now, in addition to struggling against the harsh conditions of the land and the relentless advance of the Serpent Clan, the wanderers chose to head north to the camp of the free men.

To defend their last remaining, cherished freedom.

……

North, Joaquin's Free Men Camp.

When Jack first saw the massive sandstorm, he was almost speechless. The overwhelming yellow sand swept in, leaving the city bumpkin Mr. Jack Wells dumbfounded.

If Vincent hadn't brought Jackla into the house, the big guy would probably be buried in the sand.

Still no signal?

Jack went outside to stretch his body. Their communications were blocked, and their mobile terminals had no signal. Joaquin said that after Snake Gang cooperated with the company, the company provided Snake Gang with a strong signal blocker.

According to Joaquin, even if the earth were to turn upside down one day, it would all be Snake Bang's doing.

"No, Jack, how about we go back to Night City? This signal jamming is too weird. We haven't been able to contact the team for several days."

To be honest, I'm really missing Valerie right now. If she were here, she'd definitely have a way to counter this signal-blocking thing.

Vincent reluctantly put down the mobile terminal he had been fiddling with for a long time and accepted the fact that the message could not be sent.

"What did Joaquin say? Didn't he say he'd send a message back to Wild Wolves? He hasn't contacted my mom for several days. If I go back, she'll definitely start nagging me endlessly."

"It's alright, just say you were with Vito, and Mrs. Wells won't blame you."

"Sigh! What a mess this is! Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered something. Do you think they might come looking for us in the Evil Land?"

Jack scratched his head; his hair was full of sand, making him feel terrible.