The Creators: From Night City

"You can just wave your hand," reminded the experienced driver Natalie.

"The media's cameras are all focused on the favorites to win the championship, or on the teams that are doing something fancy. No one will pay attention to us, the last-place team."

Natalie's words were definitely not groundless. Compared to the several teams that were doing fancy things to attract attention, the media's cameras were mostly focused on Arasaka, Militech, Rayfield, Goodra, Wilford and even the Cherokee team.

The first two are because they have the local media and their own mouthpieces to pay attention to them, and the latter few teams are the favorites to win the championship every year, so they naturally have their own traffic. The Cherokee team, with its square car and mediocre participants, is interesting. They are the only team that has been able to reach the finish line every year in the 19 rallies. This team has encountered difficulties in the competitions over the years, but the drivers have been able to successfully bring the car to the finish line every time.

Please note that it is taken to the terminal.

There was one, which was also the most thrilling one. Two drivers drove and repaired their car, and in the end they pushed the car, which had reached the scrap standard, across the finish line. Although they got the last place, this move also made them famous.

What's the buzz? What's the buzz? What's the hype? The Cherokee marketing team nailed it. Every year, they had one goal: to get the car across the finish line within the time limit. Beyond that, ranking and performance didn't matter.

So when others pursue speed, time, offensiveness and defense, and all-weather and all-terrain adaptability, the Cherokee stands out for its durability, ease of maintenance, stability, and cautious approach.

This move is considered a legendary endurance king in rally racing.

Hearing this, Vincent waved his hand with a heavy idol burden, but he didn't notice that the corners of his mouth were almost grinning to his ears.

"Your girlfriend is pretty hot." Natalie gave her own evaluation as she looked at Panam who was pulling Mitch Scorpion and cheering loudly.

"Looks like she's a Latina chick, you're in for a treat."

"Natalie, don't talk nonsense, we are just ordinary friends." Vincent usually handles things carelessly and remains calm even when rolling in the hail of bullets, but when talking about personal emotional issues, he seems like a different person, shy and timid.

"Come on, the look you two gave each other just now was almost tearing." Natalie had an expression that said, "Don't try to fool me."

Thanks to the jobs and cheap supplies provided by [Anti-Entropy], the wanderers of the Adecado clan, including the Bright family, have lived a much better life than before.

They started out running deliveries and smuggling goods between Night City and Site 6, and now they are distributing goods to various states in the new United States and even Mexico, or acting as spies for Anti-Entropy. When necessary, they will also work part-time as Didi thugs to take orders online. None of them have to worry about food and drink.

Under the dual call of precious resources and powerful military force of [Anti-Entropy], Adecardo still maintains its independent status on the surface, but in fact, most of the clans and dozens of families have unknowingly united under the banner of [Anti-Entropy].

After all, if you eat Anti-Entropy's food, you have to carry Anti-Entropy's gun, and it is normal to be controlled by others.

After experiencing the days of abundant resources, these Badlands garbage men can never go back to the days when they ate garbage and drank filtered water.

Although they openly advocate freedom and advocate anti-corporation and anti-capitalism, in reality these are just slogans they force themselves to fill their spiritual hunger when they are starving. When an olive branch with generous pay, easy work and security is offered to them, they will all grab it tightly. No one will shout about freedom at this time, but instead choose to make a fortune in silence.

Didn’t you see that before Saul Bright decided to fully turn to [Anti-Entropy], his family was in such a difficult situation that they were about to cooperate with biotechnology?

Compared to the reputation of [Anti-Entropy] for being ruthless but equally generous, biotechnology can be said to be notorious for its ruthless nature.

And now, apart from anything else, the base where the Bright family is located can really be regarded as a paradise in the evil land.

The abundant resources have led dozens of families to gather around Base No. 6 and set up camp nearby, making it convenient for material transportation and daily transportation.

In the past, the scarce resources in the barren lands could not even support these homeless people who dug for food in the soil, but times have changed.

In the past, although all the families belonged to Adecardo, they all lived a tight life. They were thinking about how to fill their stomachs all day long. How could they have the energy to be friendly and help each other? In addition, in order to ensure that the surrounding resources could support the family, each family was far apart from each other. If something really happened, it would take a lot of time to get to the road.

And now, they work together for [Anti-Entropy]. This job alone is enough to support a family, and the rest of the time is used for social development.

This unusual move not only caused the vigilance of many forces, but also had unexpected advantages.

That is unity.

Jiang Bingle noticed and even intentionally promoted the livelihood of millions of workers. After all, the greater the responsibility, the greater the power.

The interest bundling tactic remains a classic because it works.

I believe that when there are forces targeting [Anti-Entropy] in the future, they will not only have to confront [Anti-Entropy] head-on, but they will also have to get past these one million tank workers. After all, with Jiang Bing's methods, [Anti-Entropy] can really just walk away, and who knows whose life will be taken away by the mess it leaves behind.

Chapter 404 Face to Face

This is also one of the main reasons why [Anti-Entropy] is now dancing happily in Night City but has not attracted multi-party targeting. After all, it has no permanent property, and the only "Good Again" food processing factory looks like a charity. This kind of organization with money, resources, ruthless people and few words really dares to nuke Arasaka Tower again, or the new White House of New America, if it is forced into a corner.

Anyway, in this environment, nuclear bombs are available on the black market.

Of course, no one would have thought that in a certain dimension in the United States in the early 20th century, an entire industrial park including a uranium enrichment plant, a heavy water manufacturing plant, a high-energy explosives synthesis plant, a precision detonator manufacturing plant, a metal purification smelting plant, and a plutonium production reactor had sprung up in the western United States, and was producing big bombs in full swing.

Boss Jiang knows very well that peace can only be achieved by holding nuclear weapons.

The recent peaceful environment of the family has also largely alleviated the conflicts between Thor and Panam. To put it bluntly, the conflicts and quarrels in the past were all caused by the lack of guarantee of survival.

If people are well fed, warmly clothed and safe, most conflicts will disappear immediately.

Having been liberated from the difficulties in life, Panam naturally has more time and energy to focus on other aspects.

For example, her beloved car, and the relationship between her and a homeless person from the Buckle family.

The emotions of the wanderers are straightforward and passionate. After all, the death that follows them like a shadow all day long forces them to abandon their ineffective reserve and euphemism.

Their relationship progressed rapidly, even though they were rarely together.

Amid Vincent's hesitant defense, the pre-match promotional presentation finally came to an end.

With colorful dust fireworks exploding in the sky and a series of cheers, the competition officially began.

There is no such thing as a leader giving a speech at such an event. After all, if the audience is angered, they will really pull out their guns.

54 cars lined up on the spacious road and began to warm up their engines as the timer on the side counted down.

Low, clear, hoarse, heavy, humming, all kinds of engine roars came one after another, and the sound waves even drowned out the cheers of the audience.

3,2,1...

As the countdown decreased, everyone increased the engine speed to the highest threshold that the system could withstand when starting.

"boom!"

The starting gun sounded, and as Natalie stepped on the accelerator, the tire dug a shallow dent in the ground. The sudden acceleration pressed Vincent hard onto the passenger seat. Amid the sounds of burning tires, the car rushed out in an instant.

But there was already a car that had left the others far behind and was at the front of the team.

It was Rayfield's car.

The car company specializing in supercars, whose entry vehicle, 'Mirror Knight', has two characteristics.

The first is that it looks good: the mirror-like body is so smooth that it does not tolerate any flaws, and it can effectively reduce wind resistance. The mirror made of high-strength alloy can also ensure its protective strength. Coupled with the slender and streamlined body, it looks like a crystal shuttle in the sun.

The second is the fast speed: if everyone else can be considered to have started with a catapult, then the Mirror Knight can be considered to have started with a launch.

In just over a second, it had accelerated to a speed of nearly 40 meters per second, and left the others far behind with seemingly unlimited acceleration.

"Oh my god, is this a missile?!" Vincent couldn't help but swear as he looked at the back of the other car.

"Don't be nervous." Natalie, the veteran driver, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and replied with a relaxed expression.

"If running fast is the key to victory, then the race wouldn't be called 'Wasteland Rally', it would be called Formula One or something like that."

"Let it run for a while. When the road is rough, speed is not a good thing."

Natalie almost kicked the accelerator of the "Son of the Badlands" into the fuel tank, but the 6.2-meter body and huge weight made its acceleration efficiency still unsatisfactory. Before the straight sprint section of the starting station was completed, the car fell to the back of the team.

Fortunately, neither of the two people in the car was in a hurry.

[Qiwei: The communication channel has been encrypted, you can talk without worry.]

[Vincent, Natalie: Got it.]

[Natalie: How's the progress on 'Ha Da Bo'?]

[Qiwei: It's 7.3 kilometers away from you, but you two are heading straight for it. It will probably run into it in a few minutes.]

Before anyone could finish their conversation on the communication channel, a black racing car suddenly appeared from the side and headed straight for the 'Son of the Evil Land'.

Natalie easily dodged this Thousand Year Kill.

Compared with the crystal ball system of ordinary vehicles, this type of racing vehicle uses a more advanced immersive sensor control. This system is similar to the sensory invasive driving method of the Magic Lizard armored vehicle. It can use the connection between the prosthesis and the brain-computer, and through the camera equipment throughout the car body, the driver can grasp the 360-degree situation around the car at any time, making it convenient to perform various complex operations.

However, the disadvantages of this type of system are equally obvious. The first is that special prosthetic modifications and training are required to master this multi-perspective driving method. At the same time, the large amount of data processing work will occupy all the driver's attention. Other tasks such as route planning, data confirmation, and communication with the back-end team have to be handled by the co-pilot.

Or part of the field of vision can be handed over to the navigator, which is also the main reason why racing requires a two-person team.

A professional prosthetic connection cable is directly connected to the slot behind Natalie's ear, which is closest to the location of her brain-computer interface. It frees her limbs while providing her with a steady stream of data reference.

"Son of a bitch, he's being treated like a soft persimmon." The female driver is three-quarters Slavic, and when she gets angry, she's no less irritable than Vincent.

Her artificial eye was stained with blue light by the large amount of data. With the help of the camera equipment at the rear of the car, she drove the car diagonally to the front right where the attacker was.

After a series of maneuvers that dazzled Vincent, the "Son of the Badlands" swung its body in a beautiful big tailswing, like a flying kick towards the front of the opponent's car.

The drivers who can participate in this race are not simple. When the opponent lightly presses the brakes to slow down and make the "cyber whip kick" miss, the accelerator is already ready, just waiting for the "Son of the Badlands" to swing the car parallel to the ground so that he can increase the speed and kick it in the waist.

"Hold on tight!" Natalie suddenly blurted out a word, and the steering wheel was turned to the bottom in an instant as the electric fiber bundles on her arms exerted force together.

The metal tires rubbed against the ground, even emitting a series of sparks. While making two body positions as much as possible, the car had completely changed its direction, with the front of the car facing the black racing car.

Natalie's lips curled up in a dangerous smile.

Come on, let’s fight head-on. A real man has to face it head-on!

Chapter 405 Wasteland Rush 1

The opponent's vehicle's bumper was replaced with a protruding trapezoidal alloy to serve as a ramming angle, but the front armor plate of the "Son of the Wasteland" was also made into an inverted V shape and was also solid.

In order to increase the cushioning effect, Jiang Bing deliberately left a buffer gap between the corner and the main body of the car when assembling this part, and the filler was the kinetic field from the world of "Dead Space".

This artificial stance derived from unified field theory technology is absolutely black technology at present.

The bumper is supported by the position generated by the unified field theory. The force generated by the collision will be completely absorbed by the position before breaking through the threshold of the kinetic energy position, and will not be transmitted to the main body of the car at all.

This is a black technology that is countless times more powerful than the non-Newtonian fluid cushioning commonly used in racing cars on the market.

The heat sink on Natalie's body was spewing out hot air. Under the high-power operation of the rapid anti-prosthetic component, she quickly adjusted the impact angle.

In Vincent's somewhat confused eyes, Natalie stomped on the brakes hard and simultaneously released the alloy brake hoe that Jiang Bing had specially modified.

The thick alloy brake hoe embedded into the ground instantly, and before the car could be completely stopped, the other car crashed into it head-on due to inertia.

boom!

The loud noise and the instantaneous stopping force made Vincent's vision go dark, but the impact feedback that followed was unexpectedly light.

The two cars collided, but the bumper enhanced by black technology prevented the "Son of the Badlands" from suffering any damage. Although the opponent's car did not undergo any obvious deformation, it did not have a brake hoe inserted into the ground to provide additional grip. The whole car was caught in the huge inertia and turned over in the air. After turning two and a half times in the air, the car was thrown upside down on the road beside it, watching the "Son of the Badlands" drive away.

This scene was captured by drones flying high in the sky, which immediately caused an uproar.

"With a beautiful drift and emergency braking, the driver of the 'Good Again' team successfully used the grip provided by the external brake hoe to push his opponent away, contributing the first wonderful shot of this competition. It's really amazing." Proudrev Hunter, who can be a host, naturally has some skills, and he analyzed it immediately.

Vincent raised his head and watched through the camera as the other team struggled to get out of their cars and push their carts together. He couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Ha, it's so exciting right from the start, won't the next part be even more exciting?"

"What do you think? This is just the appetizer." The racer, who had been silent for a long time, felt that his old feeling was slowly returning after this warm-up, and answered excitedly.

After driving over the cement road and stepping into the badlands, the ground covered with gravel and yellow sand inevitably causes all cars to slow down, while the rugged road surface and uneven heights test the driver's ability to plan and choose the road while driving at high speed.

Fortunately, these are basic skills, and Natalie drives with ease.

"That team is eliminated now?" Vincent asked, still thinking about the collision just now.

"How is that possible? They were just temporarily behind. A collision of this magnitude, hitting the strongest part of the front, won't cause any significant damage to the car."

The female driver changed gears, applied the brakes, and reversed the steering wheel, easily avoiding a huge rock exposed on the surface with a smooth drift, and sprinted forward without slowing down.

"There's only one elimination criterion for the Wasteland Rally." The road ahead was in good condition, giving Natalie a moment to chat with Vincent. With a hint of sarcasm, she emphasized, "That's a car crash and a fatality."

When they reached the yellow sandy road section in the Badlands, the 54 convoys were divided into three distinct teams.

The "Son of Badland" was parked at the end of the middle stream of traffic, driving at a steady pace, and even then had to dodge sudden attacks from the racing cars behind it from time to time.

Competitors don't care about being polite and courteous. When they overtake you, as long as the angle is right, they will hit you without hesitation.

The further we drove, the more small sand and gravel were carried in the wind. At high speed, these sand and gravel hit the armor plate of the car, making a noisy and fragmented sound.

The battle has begun to intensify.

The exposed rocks and yellow sand together form this rugged road surface, making all vehicles driving into it dance a "ballet" involuntarily.

The bad road conditions will inevitably slow down the vehicles, which provides an opportunity for the racing cars to compete with each other.

Among the more than 50 teams, there are many teams with new and old grudges.

A sleek racing car with a beetle-like appearance in front of the left side of the "Son of the Bad Land" had just dived onto a sand dune when it was knocked into the air by a muscle car with light blue acceleration fireworks spraying from the rear end. It rolled on the sand and rolled over and over in the pouring sand like a rolling gourd.

The muscle car didn't stop there. It landed and spun to adjust the angle. The acceleration fireworks at the rear of the car kept lighting up, as if it was going to destroy the other car and kill the people on it.

You have to know that there are no refueling stations throughout the rally. Some racing cars equipped with short-term acceleration methods such as nitrogen, nitromethane, metallic hydrogen, kinetic energy recovery, superconducting capacitor pulses, magnetohydrodynamic propulsion, etc. will default to saving energy as much as possible, so that they can use it at the most critical time points. No one will believe that there is no mortal hatred between them and the other side who consumes energy to death at the beginning of the race.

Vincent had already seen a racing car with a severely deformed door anchored on a huge rock protrusion on the side of the road.

This car originally belonged to the first tier and was obviously produced by a big manufacturer, but it was obviously also attacked.

Vincent wanted to take another look when a storm mixed with yellow sand and dust suddenly passed over their heads, casting a yellow filter over everything.