The Creators: From Night City

"Director Aurora, this is Valerie, the new head of the intelligence department." Gloria clearly knew the situation. "Please treat her as soon as possible. The boss has authorized the use of Class III medical clearance. After all, there's a lot of work waiting to be taken over as soon as she recovers."

Vincent looked at the pale pretty face on the hospital bed, then looked at Jack who was winking at him, and simply turned over and got off the medical bed produced by Raven Technology, and waved his head to signal Jack to go outside to talk.

Anyway, this was just a routine check-up and he was in good health.

The originally bloated Base No. 6 has now become much more spacious. A large number of storage warehouses, confidential ecological sandboxes, sealed plantations, and even the armory's back-end warehouses have been moved to the ever-expanding "Heimer", leaving only a front desk counter for business reception.

Of course, this matter is still top secret, and only a few high-ranking members of [Anti-Entropy] who have been audited know the truth, and what they know is still vague.

"What's going on?" Vincent asked his friend.

"Hey, don't mention it. This is not a very embarrassing thing to do." Jack felt that the matter was not very glorious and was unwilling to say more.

"This is the friend you mentioned earlier, also named V. Doesn't she work in Arasaka?"

"It's a long story, but to put it simply, she switched jobs from Arasaka." Jack tried to get away with it.

Vincent wanted to ask more questions, but Anti-Entropy's internal system suddenly popped up a wide-area notification. The target group was all combatants belonging to the mobile combat unit, which belonged to the special operations department. The two cobblers who had flexible attendance all day long had no missions at the moment and were obviously also on the call-up list. So the two of them had to put the topic aside and took a car to the Watson District of Night City to carry out the mission.

"Hey, ask Panam to come along one day, and I'll take Misty out for dinner." Jack, feeling guilty, started to change the subject as soon as he got in the car.

Vincent drove past the innermost checkpoint and saw Mann, the head of the armed department, mobilizing people. He waited for them for a while and followed the convoy out of the base.

Behind them are the logistics workers.

"Let's do it another time. Panam is currently arguing with Thor about the Bright family's surrender." Vincent replied with a bitter face.

"I don't know what these wanderers are thinking. Aren't the conditions provided by [Anti-Entropy] good enough? They provide food, accommodation and money. If my roots weren't in Heywood, I would have wanted to stay here permanently." Jack sighed.

"I can understand this." Vincent, who was born a wanderer, could empathize with the twists and turns here.

"The Bright family has dozens of members, so it's normal for them to have different ideas. Some of them become nomads to escape the past, stay away from corporate control, and pursue freedom."

"Freedom without enough food to eat?" Jack sneered disdainfully.

“Sometimes the shackles of the spirit are far more painful than those of the body.”

"Come on, you're the first team leader of the Anti-Entropy Operations Department, with a promotion and a raise, and a beautiful woman by your side, and you still have the mood to be sad and melancholic. What should I do?"

"But then again, you've been promoted for so many days now, but you still haven't set up your own team? I don't believe you don't have other friends with good skills."

Vincent was naturally promoted on the spot due to his outstanding performance in the Wasteland Rally, but although his team was established, he himself had no plans to recruit new soldiers.

For these 'flexible employment' special action teams, [Anti-Entropy] adopts an alternative 'Amoeba' model. Team members are recruited by the team leader himself and only need to pass [Anti-Entropy's] unique psychological test.

"I'm waiting for the matter between Panam and Thor to be settled. I've already told Mitch and Scorpion that they're coming over."

"Sure, they're both good players." Jack winked at Vincent. "Besides, if they both join the team, Panam will have to join too."

"There's not even a hint of destiny." Vincent drove very fast, using inertia to press Jack down on the seat, fearing that his friend would see the corners of his mouth that couldn't help but rise.

The car passed Hongfeng and sped north along Republic East Road. After passing Japan Street with tall buildings, it arrived at the abandoned factory area north of Long Beach.

As the car passed Yuanhai Street, dense gunshots were transmitted into the car through the crystal ball system, as dense and harsh as firecrackers set off during the New Year.

"The industrial zone is really bustling today." Jack adjusted the positions of the two pistols, pulled out a "Suppressor" semi-automatic shotgun from under his feet, and loaded it.

The recruitment mission this time is very simple, which is to declare war on the Vortex Gang and send all the Vortex Gang members who occupy the Anti-Entropy Factory into the sky.

Before the car even stopped, the duo pushed the door open and got out.

The people led by Mann have already started a fight with the Whirlpool Gang, and the two sides are fighting back and forth in a fierce battle.

Of course, it was not only lively, but the number of people in the Whirlpool Gang also began to decrease rapidly.

The dedicated combatants of the [Anti-Entropy] armed personnel are not like agents like Vincent and Jack. Since they do not need to hide in the crowd and only need to fight in the front, their prosthetic modifications are all focused on shooting confrontation, ballistic assistance, firepower pressure and full-body protection.

It can be said that it is full of fighting power.

Chapter 467: Whirlpool Gang Cultists

At least one out of every two people has modified a projectile arm, and one out of every ten people is a full-time battlefield hacker.

Not to mention that all the personnel are equipped with a ballistic coordination system modified by Aurora and finely calibrated by the craftsman Jiang Bing. All the weapons in their hands are carefully tuned. All of them have at least 800 hours of virtual combat training. Bullying these second-rate guys whose standard gun-holding posture is calibrated on-site with behavioral chips is simply too overwhelming.

This is also because they take into account that they are in Night City and need to do some face-saving work, and they cannot use heavy firepower.

Otherwise, the combat armor would have swept through long ago.

In the one-sided battle, Jack drove his specially modified 'Speed ​​III' prosthetic legs and cut into the battlefield from the side at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.

To call it a battle would be a bit of an overestimation of these Vortex Gang members. Many of them had been stunned by the precise firepower and could only huddle in the bunker like quails, raising their guns above their heads and firing continuously in the direction of the enemy.

It only took Jack two blinks of an eye to rush to the back of a member of the Vortex Gang at the edge of the battlefield. The other party's head turned suddenly and hit the muzzle of the huge shotgun.

"surprise!"

Jack pulled the trigger decisively, and the shotgun bullets mixed with a large number of alloy marbles directly shot the disgusting panel on the opponent's face into a ball of paste.

Jack had participated in many street fights. Even now, the Valentino Gang and the Six Street Gang were still at odds, and friction would still arise where their territories intersected. However, this was the first time he had seen a street fight of such a large scale.

The northern industrial area of ​​Night City is originally a deserted place, and the security situation is almost as bad as that of Taiping State. In addition, it has been occupied by the Vortex Gang for a long time, and there are no normal residents at all.

If no residents were involved, there would be no NCPD dispatch, and if no NCPD dispatched, there would be no Terrorism Squad to mediate.

Moreover, the Vortex Gang is also known for its bravery and brutality in the underworld. They have never admitted to being a coward. As soon as Jiang Bing took action, the Vortex Gang in the entire abandoned factory area was alarmed. They moved towards the direction of the conflict while constantly calling their friends, causing the scale of the fight to grow larger and larger.

Vincent held the gun and fired a few precise shots, making several holes in the body of a Vortex Gang member. He wanted to move out of range and fire a few more shots, but a gang member with a body like an iron hedgehog suddenly rushed out from behind the cover and slashed at Vincent's face with his own tetanus machete.

He was greeted by a series of scorching bullets, but since the opponent dared to engage in close combat, he must have something to rely on.

Sian Westin started up, and the gang members who entered the "time stop" state suddenly turned into ghosts, dodged the bullets, and came in front of Vincent.

However, the machete he swung was blocked by a pop-up mantis knife. Vincent, who had also entered the time-stop state, blocked the attack at a much faster speed than him, and the mantis knife on his other arm pierced him directly through.

The people from [Anti-Entropy] rushed forward, breaking through two blocks in succession, directly piercing through the blockade of the Vortex Gang, and arrived at the main battlefield and origin of this street fight.

It is truly a position.

Several privately modified vehicles were scattered and overturned, still burning with flames, and a big pit was right between the two warring parties.

The road, railings, and concrete foundations that served as shelters had all been destroyed and were radially distributed around the pit, while a pile of broken bodies lay on both sides of the pit.

Mann was obviously stunned. No matter how he looked at it, the big hole looked like a cannon crater.

Relying on the Anti-Entropy factory, everyone established a defensive position. Mann, Vincent, Jack, and a small team of team members entered the factory to look for their boss.

This vehicle manufacturing plant is a multi-story steel structure factory. In order to meet the needs of large-scale equipment installation and logistics transportation, the width of the factory is about 40 meters and the floor height is about 10 meters.

The stamping workshop, welding workshop, painting workshop, assembly workshop, engine workshop, battery workshop, logistics and warehousing area, quality inspection area, power station (power supply/gas supply/water supply), and office area are clearly divided. After all, Lingji Company had been operating seriously for a period of time before it went bankrupt.

They are serious about making cars, and even though they are poorly made, they have all the necessary manufacturing equipment.

Large high-speed stamping machines, unwinding lines, mold warehouses, quality inspection equipment, KUKA welding robots, a large number of resistance welding/laser welding equipment, drying furnaces and other large equipment are rusted due to long-term disuse, but they are all well kept where they should be in the factory.

Of course, forget about small equipment like the cooling water circulation system, transformers, torque wrenches, and filling equipment, as they had all been dismantled a long time ago. After all, this factory and its equipment were considered Night City property, public property, and there was no one specifically responsible for their care.

In addition, this place has been drastically transformed by the Whirlpool Gang who have been entrenched here for many years into a stronghold that suits their positioning. A large number of mechanical arms, prosthetics, panels, and lighting pipelines are piled up randomly. In addition to the creepy Whirlpool Gang's gang logo, the walls are also covered with a large number of inexplicable blood-red slogans, skulls, hexagrams, goat skulls, devil's eyes and other mysterious mystical elements, making this place look like a cult's nest.

Coupled with the dilapidated lighting system and the blood-red ambient lighting that the Vortex Gang privately installed, it is even more haunted than a haunted house.

The crowd followed the staggered paths, seeing traces of bodies either hanging on the beams or painted on the walls, and finally met their boss in the spray painting workshop.

At this moment, Jiang Bing was staring at the bloody and weird bloody ritual scene in front of him in a daze.

Everyone in Night City knows that the Vortex Gang produces many lunatics, but the fact that the Vortex Gang produces many cultists is really a niche news.

Mann carefully stepped over the hexagram made of cables on the ground, and made sure not to touch the light tubes at each sharp corner of the hexagram. Finally, he stepped on a lot of blood and came to the boss's side.

"Boss, all our people are here. What is this?" Mann's eyes were glued to the [Treaty] that Jiang Bing was casually leaning on. The extremely violent caliber and appearance made him sure that the gun crater outside was the masterpiece of this thing.

Jiang Bing held the gun body with one hand and gently tapped the freezer in front of him with the other hand. He looked at the wall with a serious face. Mann only then realized that there was a woman soaking in the freezer in front of him, a woman who had just been transformed.

The woman was completely naked, her feet had been turned into knife feet, her eyes had been replaced with scarlet eyepieces embedded in her flesh, her body was covered with modified prosthetic joints, and she was lying face up in the freezer, her life or death unknown.

Chapter 468 The Essence of Life

Add to that the seven or eight bodies lying dead around the freezer, and it looked like the scene of a bloody and evil ritual of death sacrifice to the devil.

"Dios (God), V, are these cultists of the Whirlpool Gang crazy? Are they willing to sacrifice themselves like this?" Jack didn't even dare to go into the hexagram, his face full of horror.

"I killed these people." Jiang Bing, who was in deep thought, suddenly came to his senses and replied in the face of everyone's ambiguous expressions.

"The one in the freezer isn't dead yet. Get someone to take her back to the medical base for emergency treatment. But first, handcuff her and have the medical staff remove her combat prosthesis to avoid hurting anyone. After all, she's probably gone insane."

Mann naturally did as he was told.

It is much easier to rush into an encirclement than to break out of it.

The people from the Whirlpool Gang were scared after being beaten, but they still lingered not far away and were unwilling to leave.

Before getting into the car, Jiang Bing held the [Treaty] level and fired another shot at the area where the Whirlpool Gang's crowd was most concentrated.

Accompanied by the roar of artillery fire that was enough to shatter eardrums, a bomb accurately fired into the factory building at the corner. With the earth-shaking roar, the symbolic resistance of the Vortex Gang was suddenly weakened a lot.

"jingle"

A heavy explosive shell ejected from the barrel of [Treaty] and fell to the ground with a crisp collision sound.

"Kill them."

Jiang Bing gave the order.

Then, gunshots rang out, and death and blood were crushed under the wheels.

.........

There is a reason why the Vortex Gang is crazy. They worship physical weakness and mechanical ascension, and they quietly collude with the roaming AI outside the wall.

Although all major forces have done this a lot.

This conclusion was the diagnosis Aurora gave the next day.

It doesn't take much effort. The resident database of the NCPD department is even open to the public for a fee. A simple facial scan can reveal the identity information of the woman being sacrificed.

Lina Delain, a convenience store clerk from Westbrook, Night City, was reported missing two weeks ago.

Obviously, he was either kidnapped by the Whirlpool Gang, or captured by human traffickers and sold to the Whirlpool Gang as a sacrifice.

After undergoing severe prosthetic transformation, her consciousness was directly uploaded to cyberspace during the so-called cyber sacrifice ceremony. The people from the Whirlpool Gang used their own methods to break through the black wall and sent her consciousness directly behind the wall.

The person must be completely crazy. He was probably already crazy when he was being transformed.

Although the black wall can block most of the chaos caused by roaming AI, it cannot stop people inside the wall from actively infiltrating outside the wall.

Even the most stringent blockade will have loopholes, not to mention that this is a giant cyber defense project involving the entire European Community and even the world.

Apart from the Vortex Gang and the Voodoo Gang, high-end hackers and even major companies have ways to cross the black wall. Even in private forums deep in cyberspace, you can buy a so-called "Crossing Code" for a few dollars.

This poor girl is beyond help. Her chaotic brain and madness are filled with meaningless codes. These binary junk codes have replaced all her consciousness and personality, destroying and blocking her thinking ability like a torrent.

However, it cannot be said that the medical department is not capable. After all, for [Anti-Entropy], if technology doesn't work, there is still magic.

In a sense, the sacrifices that have undergone the cyber cult's sacrificial rituals are excellent research topics. The itchy female sorcerers used magic rituals to fight poison with poison, and unexpectedly they actually pried something out of the other party's mouth.

Jiang Bing was holding a data pad and reading the medical report sent from the second laboratory where Margarita was. It was a prophetic poem full of absurdity and mystery, and it was filled with the atmosphere of the Riddler getting out of Night City.

[I guard the kingdom of humans and shadows, both now and then.

The eyes of hope descend from the sky to the earth.

And Lilith hid the Tenth Holy Ring from the eyes of the ancestors.

The Wolf Father calls out to all spirits to seek the inheritance of the immortal blood.

The Mother of the Moon is about to arrive at the Earth, and the vampires awaken, bringing the oracle's order.

The Revelation is coming.]

This prophetic poem with no beginning or end left everyone who handled it baffled. The content of the poem was obviously conveying some information, or it was an encrypted code used to spread information, but the lack of information left everyone confused.

Only Jiang Bing seemed to be thinking about something.

…………

Mr. Blue Eyes appeared in the badlands outside Night City and sat in front of the Sunset Motel, which did not surprise Jiang Bing.

His plain suit was stained by the wind and sand, but he didn't care at all.

He seemed to be watching the sunset, and also seemed to be waiting for the night.

When Jiang Bing got closer, he heard the other party reciting a poem softly in a very popular voice.

If I were to transcend nature, I would never use it again.