The Creators: From Night City

"It's understandable. When you work in a company and get paid, you're guaranteed a stable income, but you can forget about freedom." Valerie, a company dog, felt the same way.

She turned off Market Street into the Haywood Valley area and sped toward the Chicken Helper restaurant.

"It will be done quickly. I just need to make an introduction and then I can leave work." Jack smiled.

"No rush. My friend has found a mid-level manager at LCC and is currently negotiating with him. It will take some time. Anyway, I have nothing to do right now, so I'll give you a ride."

"But then again, Haywood hasn't changed." Valerie was sighing when her car was suddenly stopped as it turned onto Palm View Avenue.

"Stop the car and get checked!"

An NCPD officer put his hands on his hips and signaled the car to stop.

"What happened up there, officer?" Valerie rolled down the window and turned to ask.

"Who knows? Maybe there are cyber-psychopaths causing trouble. Anyway, there are orders from above to temporarily block the valley area. You can go back to where you came from." The NCPD officer chewed gum impatiently and perfunctorily handled the matter in a businesslike manner.

"Where else can we go back to? My home is in Haywood, officer. Please be kind. My mother is waiting for me to come home for dinner." Jack, who was in the passenger seat, leaned forward and begged for mercy. However, the gold decorations on his face and the typical Valentino gang tattoos on his body were very convincing.

"Don't do these things, it's useless. Orders are orders, back up quickly." The other party didn't give any face at all, and was about to step forward and knock on the car window to warn.

But Valerie shoved her outstretched hand away and snapped, "Who are you talking to? I'm Skarner, an investigator from the Arasaka Special Operations Group. I'm currently on a special mission. You can continue to hold me back, but if you delay Arasaka, I will report everything that just happened truthfully. And guess what, there won't be another body in the bay."

The other person's face instantly turned purple, but after hesitating for a long time, he didn't dare to say a harsh word.

After all, what Valerie said was true, and Arasaka had done this many times.

The corners of his mouth twitched a few times as he looked at Valerie, who had a stern and domineering expression on her face. He didn't dare to bet on how much truth or falsehood the other party said, so he could only let her go according to his heart.

The Quartz EC-L R275 swaggered through the police car cordon. Jack turned and watched as the NCPD reversed and closed the cordon after they passed. He couldn't help but sigh, "You've got it, V. You were so domineering just now. You made that cop so scared he couldn't even fart."

"He didn't dare to gamble. After all, the Special Operations Group really dared to do that."

As the car passed the Palm View Avenue, a military-grade Manticore armored hovercraft flew over the two people's heads and flew forward. The two sides of the hovercraft were painted with the unique English logo of the Terrorist Mobile Team.

The shrill sound of alarm bells echoed everywhere.

"Wow, even the terrorist squad has been alarmed. Where is this cyber psychosis happening again?" Jack exclaimed.

"Let's stay away from them. These lunatics are even more dangerous than cyberpsychopaths," Jack advised.

But the result was unexpected. The car sped all the way towards the kitchen helper chicken, and the violent and maneuverable hovercraft also flew in the same direction.

Just as Jack was feeling anxious and worried, when the car passed the apartment complex in the valley area and he could see the kitchen helper chicken in the distance, Jack's heart finally gave out.

The one who got into trouble was the kitchen helper chicken.

Thick smoke billowed from the burning wreckage of more than a dozen cars, and the heavy rain made the visibility at the scene extremely poor. Even the heavy rain could not extinguish the burning ethanol-2 gasoline. Amid the continuous gunfire, many Hera EC-H I860 NCPD law enforcement vehicles and even Chevrolet Kaiser 720 NCPD armored vehicles were parked on both sides of the road. Grenades, bullets, projectiles, and even drones kept pouring fire on the half-collapsed and smoke-filled Helper Chicken Restaurant.

"Is this a scene of a fight between the Valentino gang and the NCPD?" Valerie parked the car far away and speculated with a frown.

Chapter 431 Survival from a narrow escape

"Who knows." Jack took out his 'Golden Bitch', loaded it with a serious look on his face, and kept it by his side for use, so as not to be slow to catch up when firing later.

"Is your boss in there?" Valerie thought of a possibility and quickly opened the car door and got out with Jack.

Jack took two quick steps toward the area of ​​the exchange of fire, and was grabbed by Valerie. "Are you going over there like this? You're courting death!"

Jack turned around and said, "Of course I'm not that stupid, V. I'm going to observe first..."

But before he could finish his words, the floating car that was slowly hovering in the air was smashed to pieces by a heavy armored vehicle.

The huge roar and the loud noise of the wreckage hitting the road directly pushed the two people back into the car.

"I'll give you 10 seconds to disappear from my sight." As a rough voice distorted by the visor sounded, a scarlet figure broke through the thick fog, looking extremely hideous under the firelight of the surrounding vehicle wreckage.

"PCA!! (Powered Combat Armor)" A shrill and panicked scream pierced the battlefield.

This made them panic. PCA was not a small military technology like the Centaur Armor. This weapon was designed to be used in the most intense battlefield confrontations since its invention. It was an absolute weapon of war.

It is often not seen on small-scale, low-intensity battlefields, and it is even less likely to appear in Night City, which has the "Heavy Weapons Embargo Treaty".

A figure suddenly appeared next to the woman in blood-red power armor, and her sharp mantis blade and arm were grabbed by the other party.

He is a member of the terrorist squad.

There were large areas of damage on the opponent's uniforms, but the fall of the hovercraft was not enough to kill these cyber monsters who were armed to the heels.

She is alive, and so are her teammates.

The next second, two balls of flame exploded on the scarlet power armor. They were projectiles fired by other operators. It was not known whether these lunatics were confident in their teammates or simply did not care. They fired madly, completely disregarding the possibility of accidentally injuring teammates nearby.

The close combat terrorist mobile team operator was still using another mantis blade to cut the opponent in vain. The next second, her figure disappeared instantly. With a loud bang, she was embedded into the hard concrete road under her feet.

Under everyone's gaze, the man in blood-red power armor raised his foot and stomped down at the opponent.

With a tremor like a small earthquake, the ground cracked in all directions with countless spider-web-like cracks. Of course, the operator was dead.

At this moment, Valerie had already pulled Jack into the car. This scene was completely beyond the ability of the two of them to participate in.

I can't afford to offend him, I can't afford to offend him at all.

The blood-red figure instantly turned into a blur of bubbles that burst in the air. With a loud bang loud enough to shatter eardrums, a 4-ton Chevrolet Kaiser 720 NCPD armored vehicle was kicked and flew out in a spin, crushing a terrorist mobile team operator into a mixture of metal and flesh.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the other party appeared in front of another Hera EC-H I860 NCPD law enforcer, grabbed it with both hands, and easily swung the entire police car over his head as if he picked up a fly swatter, and smashed it onto the other police car.

Under his operation, the two cars were compressed into one.

The hacker operator of the Terrorist Mobile Team seemed to shout a few words, then simply took out his pistol for self-defense and fired at the opponent repeatedly, but the opponent got close to him in the next second, and he kicked the opponent, sending him flying nearly a hundred meters in a spin. The highly tough alloy armor and metal bones on his body allowed the opponent to barely maintain his human form, and finally he was heavily embedded in the outer wall of the apartment building next to Valerie's car, blooming into a flesh and blood graffiti with a diameter of three or four meters.

The two people in the car swallowed their saliva involuntarily. Valerie frantically started the engine and prepared to reverse. When she looked up, she found that the head of the power armor had turned towards them at some point. Under the two sky-high horns were a pair of scarlet eyes that seemed to be filled with corpses and blood. They were staring at the car, or rather, at Valerie who was looking at him, as if to say, why don't you try to move?

The second-in-command of the counterintelligence team suddenly stiffened, a layer of white sweat broke out on his back, and his hands holding the steering wheel suddenly loosened as if he had been electrocuted.

Explosions, the roar of car explosions merged into one, blood, splashed, squeezed, burst, and even turned into a bloody mist, painted the scene with spots of blood clots.

Including the NCPD who had just arrived to reinforce, in less than 30 seconds, there was nothing intact left on the street in front of the Chicken Helper except for the wreckage of the exploded vehicle and the human body parts scattered everywhere.

The other person looked at the car where the duo was from a distance, and turned and walked into the thick smoke amid Jack's almost trembling prayer.

Although she didn't know why the other party let her go, Valerie hurriedly started the car and drove away from the scene.

"Oh my god, this thing is so fierce it looks like a demon."

"This isn't just any power armor," Valerie, a seasoned veteran, successfully suppressed the slight tremors of her body caused by adrenaline, analyzing, "It's definitely cutting-edge technology from some laboratory. Did you notice they're equipped with Sian Westin-like prosthetics? Furthermore, the armor's instantaneous power output is astonishingly high. I even suspect this was created by those 'High Knights' on the Moon."

"Night City is about to fall into chaos." The other party made the final conclusion.

[Anti-Entropy] Many old employees in the company knew that the boss, Mr. Sable, owned a set of scarlet armor, but Jack joined the company late and Valerie had just returned to Night City, so they knew nothing about it, which led to a wonderful misunderstanding.

[Power - Chi You] had appeared in Night City before, and each time he appeared, a large number of deaths were accompanied. Last time, various forces investigated it for a long time, but based on the destructive power that Jiang Bing just displayed, this group of people is likely to go crazy again.

And when Jiang Bing looked at them just now, he did "see" Jack's figure. The 2.5 cm thin armor of the Quartz EC-L R275 could not block Jiang Bing's mental power.

Jack soon received a message from Jiang Bing, canceling the meeting.

"Your boss doesn't have anything to do with this, does he?" Valerie's professional experience made her keenly aware of certain truths.

"Compared to my friends, I've been able to live well until now because I understand one thing: never meddle in other people's affairs."

Jack looks careless, but he is actually very meticulous. He knows certain things well, but just like what he said, he also acts with a wise but foolish attitude.

"You're right. Work is the most important thing right now." Valerie stopped talking, suppressed her speculation in her heart, and focused on her own promotion.

Chapter 432 Heading to the New World

Jiang Bing returned to the Bad Land carrying a spherical object wrapped in clothes, but as soon as he got off the train, news about Mr. Blue Eyes followed.

[Mr. Blue Eyes: What happened to you? You made such a big noise just now.]

Jiang Bing was not at all surprised by Mr. Blue Eyes' intelligence capabilities.

Jiang Bing: I was a step too late. The target had already escaped from home. I chased him all the way to his base at the Kitchen Helper, only to encounter him and his subordinates being silenced by a group of corrupt police.

【Mr. Blue Eyes: And then?】

[Jiang Bing: The person is dead, but the brain is still there, but the other party obviously won't give it to me obediently.]

[Mr. Blue Eyes: So you even threw away the NCPD who came to support you?!]

Jiang Bing: These people are clearly in the same group. They came prepared. They'll be waiting nearby when I arrive.

[Mr. Blue Eyes: But the Terrorist Squad will not obey Wilton Holt's orders.]

[Jiang Bing: I can only say that they were just unlucky.]

[Mr. Blue Eyes: I'll help you keep this under wraps. I won't ask where you got that nano armor, but it's best to use it less often in the city. Also, it's best to stay out of sight for now.]

Jiang Bing thought to himself, "If I don't wear a layer of armor, it will be even more difficult to explain."

[Mr. Blue Eyes: Do you have the Javier Alvarado brain machine?]

Jiang Bing: It's all intact. I have a friend who's good at brain-computer decoding and data organization. We can try to see if we can salvage something useful.

Mr. Blue Eyes: 42, right? She is indeed an expert in this area.

【Jiang Bing:!!!, you still know her?】

【Mr. Blue Eyes: I knew her earlier than you.】

Jiang Bing suddenly realized.

[Jiang Bing: So this is our first meeting?]

Mr. Blue Eyes: Well, she said a lot of good things about you to me, Mr. Sabul. But I have to say that not everyone is qualified to work with me.

After finishing his boasting, Mr. Blue Eyes took the initiative to take over the matter.

Compared to 42's shabby use of a second-hand Xiongfeng drone to pick up the goods, Mr. Blue Eyes was much more generous. He specially sent a "Shengteng" large cargo drone marked with the Tito Logistics logo to take the "goods" back.

Only Boss Jiang was left sitting dejectedly on a rock in the bad land, lamenting that his first failure in the underworld had come to an end.

Taking Mr. Blue Eyes' advice into consideration, Jiang Bing didn't even plan to return to Night City. He took the train back to Base No. 6, ready to go to another world to avoid the limelight.

By the way, find some fertilizer for Heimer.

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The feeling of downhill in the new world without coordinates is not pleasant no matter how many times you do it.

Although the [Key] can more or less guarantee his life safety, it cannot guarantee the safety of the environment he lands in.

Jiang Bing directly broke through the dense tree canopy and fell on the thick humus layer composed of fallen leaves, roots, vines and moss.

This is a dense forest. The surrounding trees are lush and green, and the grass is growing very vigorously. Jiang Bing can feel the rich breath of life coming from these unknown plants from a long distance away.

The air was filled with a fresh and sweet smell, which made Jiang Bing's nose, which had been exposed to the industrial waste gas of Night City, feel a chill, and his spirit unconsciously perked up.

The energy concentration in this world is extremely high, and the life energy transformed from plants even overflows into the air.

The air in the real other world is sweeter.

There are a large number of unknown insects living in the forest, as well as many small animals that Jiang Bing does not recognize.

These natural creatures are huge in size and beautiful in appearance because of the abundant life energy.

Although he didn't know the specific names, in just a short while of standing here, Jiang Bing had already seen grasshoppers the size of a palm, butterflies that were constantly shaking off their shiny scales, rhinoceros beetles the size of a fist, groups of carrying ants the size of fingers, animals that looked like rabbits the size of puppies, and dragonflies the length of an adult's forearm.

Faced with such an ecological environment, Jiang Bing once wondered if he had arrived on Skull Island.

The wish he made to the Key Elf was to find a world where Heimer could have a good meal. Now it seems that Jiang Bingxian can have a good meal.

But a fat firefly-like insect flying slowly with a large green water droplet on its abdomen instantly awakened his long-forgotten memories.

"Honeybug!"

This is an insect similar to a bee, but its way of collecting nectar is more unique. It mainly collects nectar from the flowers of the healing dew grass, and then uses its abdomen to store this nectar with a restorative effect, forming a large nectar bubble.

More importantly, this bug is the most common and unique insect in Monster Hunter World.

Jiang Bing looked at the thriving natural ecology around him, and suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the ecology was so prosperous. It felt like he had landed in the world of "Monster Hunter".

He curiously used his cane to poke the plump and juicy ball of water in the honey bug's abdomen, and a sticky and sweet fragrance full of life energy spread along with the scattered juice.

This energy was so vigorous and transparent, so exaggerated that it even accelerated the growth of all the surrounding plants by an order of magnitude in an instant.

Looking at this display that was like a treasure from heaven and earth, Jiang Bing was secretly shocked, "Does it have to be so exaggerated?"

Before he could do more experiments, a brutal and ferocious roar swept across most of the forest, startling a large number of birds that Jiang Bing didn't even recognize, and insects flew into the air in chaos.

Needless to say, it must have come from the 'monster'.

It was not in Jiang Bing's nature to not join in the fun. He leaped among the bushes like Spider-Man, quickly approaching the place where the roar came from.