From ship girl to machine god

Rebecca didn't know what Bluebird was thinking, but Rebecca still had to answer her question properly: "It's one o'clock in the afternoon. If it gets dark, it should be after six o'clock."

"That means we have to wait here for about five or six hours?" Qingniao estimated the time, looked at the surrounding environment, thought for a while and said, "Find a place to rest, and find a place to put these things." , we’ll deal with it when Mann and the others arrive.”

After saying that, Qingniao glanced at Alpha again and said to her: "I will help you adjust your body during this period. I can see that your condition is very poor."

"Follow your will." Alpha didn't say much. Although she had regained her ability to move at this moment, her condition was not good at all.

In the previous battle with Blue Bird, the injuries caused by the punch were not effectively treated. All the combat prostheses in her body were closed by Blue Bird, and the remaining life-support prostheses could not do anything to her. After receiving effective treatment for her injuries, she was now just able to keep her injuries from getting worse.

After all, reality is not a game. There is no ridiculous setting like breathing to restore blood or a needle to restore all injuries.

Alpha needs to repair the damaged prosthetic body, treat his own injuries, and take medicine to control the side effects of the activation of his own biochemical organs.

It can be said that although Alpha possesses strong combat power, just like any sophisticated weapon requiring careful maintenance and good logistical support, she also requires very complex maintenance to ensure that her body functions well and can exert its maximum potential. Come on fighting.

But now that she is separated from the maintenance of military technology, Alpha is not sure whether she can maintain her physical condition in the future, how much combat effectiveness she can exert, and how long she has left in her life.

When she was in the research and development department of military technology, she knew clearly that after undergoing transformation, she must regularly take drugs to stabilize her body condition to maintain her life. Once she stopped taking the drugs, the biochemical organs in her body would begin to produce rejection reactions, and even cause systemic irritation. Organ failure and death.

However, rather than being used as a test subject for military technology or a knife for doing dirty work, Alpha still likes to be able to choose the lifestyle he wants with his own will.

Even if the price you need to pay is your own life and everything.

Blue Bird seemed to be aware of Alpha's emotions, but she didn't pay too much attention to it. She couldn't trust Alpha yet, and even if she decided to recruit her, she would have to wait.

So after asking Rebecca to find an empty house where no one was, Blue Bird directed Alpha to help move the part of Blue Bird’s loot left by the previous wanderers there, and then the three of them hid in the house. , while avoiding the wind and sand, waiting for the arrival of Mann and others.

During this period, Jade Bird also activated his medical module and conducted a detailed examination of Alpha.

The prosthetic damage on her body was not easy to repair due to the lack of tools at the moment, but fortunately, the blue bird's previous punch was not too severe. After turning off the severely damaged prosthetic body, there was basically no big problem.

What was really seriously damaged was Alpha's internal organs, as well as the damage to her body caused by the toxic side effects of hormones produced by her biochemical organs after the high-speed battle.

This part of damaged Alpha carries drugs to treat and alleviate the side effects of hormones. After using them, her condition was effectively controlled.

As for further treatment and removal of the additional monitoring implants added by military technology, it is not something Jade Bird can complete now.

Of course, if Jade Bird doesn't mind deploying its medical module and engineering module in front of Alpha, there will be no problem.

As long as Blue Bird is willing, it can completely solve all the problems on Alpha, and can even use biotechnology and mechanical technology to create three different styles of new bodies for her: purely biological, purely mechanical, and hybrid.

But right now, Blue Bird doesn’t plan to do that.

At least Alpha is not qualified to know her true identity, and even Rebecca Bluebird has to consider whether she can tell her that she is a ship girl.

So after temporarily stabilizing Alpha's situation, Blue Bird began to chat with her one after another in order to obtain more intelligence and information from her.

Chapter 57 Arriving in Los Santos

It was already dusk when Mann and others arrived in the town.

While Blue Bird was waiting for several hours, another team also arrived at this small town on the way to Los Santos.

However, their luck was not as good as that of the mercenary team Alpha was in before. Due to the lack of manpower and the opponent's stubborn resistance, they only lasted for half a minute before Jade Bird took action personally. All destroyed.

"If you don't resist, you won't die. Why don't you understand?" When Alpha looked at Qingniao saying this expressionlessly, he removed his blood-stained fist from the body of a mercenary who was punched through the chest. When she took it out, she felt like she was just lucky to be alive for eight lifetimes.

Blue Bird's fighting ability really exceeded Alpha's imagination.

Although she could face this group of mercenaries within half a minute with her full strength, she did so at the expense of her all-out explosion and overloaded use of Sianwistan.

To be able to annihilate an entire group of mercenaries with bare hands as easily as Blue Bird did was completely beyond the limits of Alpha's abilities.

Even some taboo projects being developed by military technology cannot do such a thing under the best circumstances.

Thinking that he had wanted to kill her before, Alpha felt deeply that he really didn't know how high the sky was. If the punch that Blue Bird gave her at that time had been as strong as it is now, then she would have been beaten like the mercenary who was killed by Blue Bird. Wear a pair.

Fortunately, the blue bird did not kill her, but gave her the freedom she dreamed of, which made Alpha naturally feel grateful to the blue bird.

So when Jade Bird introduced Mann to her and expressed his desire to recruit her to join the Cyberpunk team, Alpha chose to join without much hesitation.

"Very good. In that case, Alpha, you, Pyrrha, and Sasha will stay in the town to watch these things. Mann, Dorio, and Rebekah will accompany me to Los Santos." Blue Bird also responded when he saw this. He made a new arrangement: "The car you seized and these things will be left in the town together. It is not far from Los Santos. Let's go into the city to deliver the goods. If everything goes well, we will stay in Los Santos for the night." At night, you can go back tomorrow.”

"Okay, everything will be as arranged by you, boss." Of course Mann had no objection to this. After learning that Jade Bird annihilated a mercenary team by himself, he already had a fanatical admiration for Jade Bird. I won't consider anything that goes against Bluebird.

The trophies they had obtained at this time were not large at all. A total of three mercenary teams had been defeated or annihilated, and the cargo, vehicles and other trophies they carried were quite large.

Of course, these things cannot be brought to Los Santos, after all, they are not very clean stolen goods.

So they can only stay in this town, take them with them when they return, and then transport them back to Night City for processing.

Although there should be black markets or middlemen in Los Santos that can handle these things, the Cyberpunk team obviously does not have such connections.

Therefore, Qingniao could only leave a few people to guard these things, and she took the remaining people to Los Santos to deliver the goods.

Others had no objections to Jade Bird's arrangement. After allocating the manpower, Jade Bird once again got into the modified Beamon of the Cyberpunk team and drove to Los Santos under the driving of the driver.

The town they passed was not far from Los Santos. After driving for another half an hour and before the sun had completely sunk into the horizon, they successfully arrived in Los Santos.

"Oh my god! This looks even more prosperous than the Night City!" Rebecca leaned against the car window and looked at Los Santos, where the neon lights were gradually lighting up at night, and she exclaimed in sincere amazement.

Rebecca couldn't help but be surprised. Los Santos was not the city in Night City that had survived the nuclear bomb and was rebuilt.

As the most prosperous city on the West Coast of the United States and the second largest city in the United States, this city was the economic, cultural and technological center of the West Coast of the United States before the Great Collapse.

Compared with a city like Night City, which is only a hundred years old even if you don't count the reconstruction after the nuclear bomb, Los Santos is undoubtedly much stronger, whether it is history, culture, economic level, The city size and population are much greater than Night City.

In particular, there are many famous schools here that were established before the Great Collapse Era. They are much better than those schools in Night City that specialize in training corporate dogs for companies.

Of course, the way out for their graduates after graduation is to become corporate dogs, but there are other options besides that, and the learning content is more comprehensive and academic, unlike Arasaka University in Night City. It is completely aimed at educating students in the same way as training dogs for companies.

Although after the Unification War, Los Santos was inevitably controlled by the federal government and military technology, at least it has not completely fallen into the hands of the company.

Or to put it another way, it is not captured by giant companies like Military Technology. Unlike Night City, it is completely decided by Arasaka and Military Technology. Even the mayor is only controlled by them. String puppet.

Although American-style elections only elect representatives of interest groups, politicians themselves are a force. This is also the basis for the federal government to nationalize military technology after the Fourth Corporate War.

The politicians in Night City have been completely controlled, and Los Santos can at least form a balance of power with some local companies before the Unification War.

It wasn't until the Unification War, when the California government that controlled Los Santos fell to the Union, that the city was controlled by federal troops and military technology.

This is why when Jade Bird and the others entered Los Santos, patrols of military technology troops could be seen everywhere on the streets, as well as checkpoints, checkpoints and other facilities set up by the police and federal troops.

And because it was already dark, the city seemed to have implemented a curfew policy. Although not everyone was allowed to go out, the atmosphere on the streets was still somewhat deserted and chilly.

"It has been five years since the Unification War, is Los Santos still under such martial law?" Faraday, the driver, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the police and soldiers outside the car window.

Qingniao heard his emotion and asked curiously: "Do you know what is going on? Have you been to Los Santos before?"

"Yes, not long after the Unification War, I worked for a logistics company for a while. At that time, I delivered goods to this city." The driver explained to Qingniao, with some emotion in his tone: "At that time, because the war had just begun, Not long after it ended, the federal troops controlling Los Santos declared the city to be under martial law. I originally thought it would pass soon, but I didn’t expect Los Santos to still be like this today."

Chapter 58 Mia Lucchesi

When Faraday was introducing Los Santos to Blue Bird, their car was also stopped by a checkpoint.

Perhaps heavy transport vehicles like Beamon were only owned by companies, but the soldiers who stopped them didn't have a bad attitude. They just asked them why they were still on the streets of Los Santos at night.

"Sorry, sir, we didn't know that Los Santos can't go out on the streets at night." Faraday hurriedly explained to the soldier who stopped them, and showed him various certificates and documents provided by Wislow: "We started at night. I'm from the city, and I've accepted a commission from military technology to send a batch of goods to Los Santos. I'd be very grateful if you could give me some directions!"

While delivering documents and explanations, Faraday also inserted a few banknotes into the documents as usual.

The soldier looked through the document and naturally saw the military technology logo on it, as well as the banknotes sandwiched in the document.

"Los Santos has been enforcing a nighttime curfew policy. Vehicles are not allowed to pass through the streets in the main city after seven o'clock in the evening. You need to apply for a pass to pass." The soldier quietly put the banknotes into his pocket. , and then pointed in a slightly gentler tone: "Didn't anyone tell you when you entered the city? They should be responsible for notifying vehicles entering Los Santos to abide by the curfew."

Hearing what the soldier said, the blue bird on the side said: "Maybe it's because we got the certificate of military technology, so even if we come in, no one will dare to stop us when we see the military technology signboard, right?

But they didn't expect that sir, you are so dedicated to your duties. If everyone in this country performs their duties as seriously as you, sir, the country should... no, it should be said that it will definitely become better, right? "

Blue Bird's rainbow fart undoubtedly made the soldier feel a lot better. At the same time, he also understood the hidden meaning of Blue Bird's words. They were people with military technology. It was best to stay out of the way without legitimate reasons.

In fact, although it is the federal government that controls military technology and turns it into a state-owned enterprise, 50 years have passed and military technology has in turn penetrated the federal government very effectively.

Judging from the current relationship between the federal government and military technology, it is difficult to say who controls whom, or whether the two have become one.

The troops of Military Technology work for the federal government, training troops and providing weapons for them. The former president of Military Technology has become the president of the federation. The relationship between the two has been difficult to clarify or separate.

Therefore, even if the federal army faces people with military technology, it is difficult to do anything to those with military technology.

And usually, people in military technology also hold special licenses that symbolize privileges, and they don't have to worry about the laws of the federal government at all.

In addition, since Military Technology started out as relying on military orders from the federal army, the relationship between the two parties may be closer than that between Military Technology and the federal government, making it even less likely that the Federal Army will embarrass the people of Military Technology.

Therefore, the soldier did not have too much entanglement. After confirming that the documents presented by Jade Bird and the others were valid, he let them pass. He even sent a soldier to guide them and sent them all the way to the Military Technology Center. Industrial park in Los Santos.

Like the Arasaka Beachfront and Arasaka Industrial Park established in Arasaka in Night City, the military technology that has mastered the city of Los Santos has also established a large-scale production factory here.

These giant companies are not the so-called Wall Street financial giants in Jade Bird's previous life. They rely more on real industries rather than illusory financial numbers.

Therefore large-scale production plants are essential.

In fact, even Night City, which is not controlled by Military Technology, still has a huge industrial park that mainly produces electronic products. This is also the largest electronic product production base in the world for Military Technology.

In comparison, the military science and technology industrial park here in Los Santos even looks smaller.

After all, military technology has been deeply cultivated in Night City for decades. On the contrary, Los Santos has only been in control for a short time, making the entire park look like it was built not long ago.

But this has little to do with Jade Bird. She only cares about how much she can earn from this order.

Although they obtained the Beamon transport vehicle in advance and purchased the prosthetic bodies and equipment of Mann and others from Wislow at a preferential price, these are not actually the largest income from this commission.

As for being nurtured by military technology and becoming a legend, the tail of the lily of the valley hanging in front of Amiya can be seen but not eaten.

The real reward is the real money you can receive after delivery.

And what makes Jade Bird even more concerned is that he has killed three competitors and is he ranked first.

"You are the first to arrive. I didn't expect that the person recommended by the sales department would win this competition." A woman wearing a military technology suit watched her men lift the encrypted cargo box from Beamon's trunk. With a smile on his face, he also looked at Jade Bird: "Are you the Miss Jade Bird that Weislow said? I am Mia Lucchesi, the director of the special projects department of the Military Science and Technology Los Santos Branch. Weislow used to My boss, he mentioned you to me before.

You can arrive first. It seems that Wislow has hit the mark this time. He has been very good at seizing opportunities in the past, and this time seems to be no exception. "

"Although my first impression of him was quite annoying, I have to say that he is a good salesman, with good eloquence and emotional intelligence." Qingniao looked at this woman and the bodyguard standing behind her, and his eyes couldn't help but condense slightly.

With the blue bird's eyesight, he could easily see that the bodyguard behind the woman who claimed to be Wislow's boss had a very high level of prosthetic transformation and had a very tough aura.

If Alpha is a technology verification machine stacked up with experimental technologies, then the woman's bodyguard in front of him is a mass-produced machine assembled with various mature technologies.

Although the performance has been reduced, Qingniao can see that this bodyguard may not be as good as Alpha in terms of physical performance, but Alpha will definitely not be able to defeat him.

This is the gap in combat experience, just like Adam Hammer still can't beat old Morgan even if he is no longer a human being.

And this also made Qingniao realize that the woman in front of him was not a crotchless supervisor like Wislow, but a real power manager of military technology. Whether it was the resources or the strength he possessed, she was not Wislow. Comparable.

Mia raised her eyebrows after listening to Jade Bird's evaluation of Vislow, and then laughed: "It seems that our evaluations of Vislow are similar. He is indeed very eloquent."