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"This operation is...very complicated."

Thor closed his eyes and swallowed.

"Hive, even though they saved my life and I am willing to risk everything to help them, this time, it's a war against the Tiger Claw Gang that is at the peak of its power in the city."

"It's highly unlikely that Beehive and the others will win."

"Therefore, the commandos must reduce unnecessary sacrifices when necessary and withdraw from the battlefield before the outcome is determined."

Although he was a little confused just now, Panam understood now.

"You mean you're just sending a few people there for show, and if there's any danger you're going to abandon the hive, right?"

"No, that's not what I mean, Panam. If there is a chance of winning, we will fight to the end."

"But... I'm sorry, you have to consider reality when pursuing your ideals. I'm afraid it will be difficult for Hive this time."

"Humph."

Glancing at the two of them, Panam snorted coldly.

"I can pretend I don't know anything else, but I will be the captain of this commando team."

"This, Panam..."

"Let her be."

Mitch was about to dissuade him, but Saul made up his mind.

"Now that she knows the plan, let her participate."

Even if she wasn't allowed to attend, she would go secretly.

Thor thought so.

"Panam is a member of the tribe, I believe she knows the importance of this."

"You only have ten spots. Go recruit those who are willing to fight for the Hive."

Saul's tone left no room for doubt.

"Fifteen people."

Panam's tone was equally unquestionable, and he turned and left.

"Oh, back then she was a little girl who could even fix a crooked tire, how come she has become like this now?"

Mitch shook his head and sighed.

"Just treat it as a test. On one side are friends, and on the other side are tribes. Life is not a fairy tale, and people always have to make some difficult choices."

Thor folded his arms and watched Panam walk down the stairs.

Chapter 257: Isn’t it good to exchange compromise for peace?

"Bai Rui, Adekado is ready to support us."

Judy hung up the phone and turned to Bai Rui.

"I told you they were reliable!"

Bai Rui jumped on his chair excitedly.

"How many men are they prepared to send out in battle? Two hundred? Three hundred?"

Bai Rui couldn't wait to ask.

"When the time comes, we will attack from the north with Hive and Adecado from the south. Together, we will attack Japan Street from both sides. Victory will definitely be ours!"

Forehead......

Looking at the excited Bai Rui, Judy found it difficult to say the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

"Um... um... Bai Rui, the Adecado family said they don't have enough troops to launch an attack. They can only send a 15-man commando team led by the wanderer Panam."

......

Bai Rui didn't say anything.

She only felt a faint sadness and annoyance in her heart.

What about the unbreakable alliance?

However, Bai Rui's resentment only lasted for a short while. After a long sigh, she accepted this shitty reality.

"It seems that everyone still doesn't believe us."

Yes, these small organizations that have only recently emerged are facing the famous Tiger Claw Gang that has been entrenched in Night City for decades. No matter how you look at it, they can't win.

In terms of military strength, the Hive, including non-combat personnel, has no more than 200 people at most, while the Tiger Claw Gang, according to the NCPD's official statistics, has thousands of people, not to mention the large and small peripheral groups that support the Tiger Claw Gang.

Let's fight for territory. The Beehive only has the Beehive Building that they snatched from the Motorcycle Gang, including a half-meter walkway outside the Beehive Building, because this is the garbage collection area of ​​the building.

The Tiger Claw Gang, Japan Street, Westbrook, and North Oak have a lot of territory, countless casinos, Mewtwo, Pachinko, and bars. Their daily turnover can fill up the Beehive Building from inside to outside.

As for Hive, to put it in a positive way, it is a physical enterprise that is engaged in prosthetic technology. To put it in a negative way, it is a low-class enterprise that is competing with Scavenger for the three-no prosthetic market.

Others call them scavengers, but their beehive must be called a little mouse.

Anyway, they are all small creatures that create garbage and dirty water in the sewers, so the eldest brother won’t talk about the second brother.

In this situation, how can the people of Night City believe that they can win this battle?

Even though there are many organizations in Night City that hate the Tiger Claw Gang or are even hostile to the Tiger Claw Gang, they dare not board the Hive's ship.

In their eyes, the Hive that had offended the Tiger Claw Gang was now at the point where their survival was being counted in hours.

It's just a living corpse.

Unless the Hive shows a different performance in the war, they will not be able to find the power to support them in the complex power layout of Night City.

......

In recent days, a piece of news has occupied the vision and hot spot of Night City.

a war.

A gang war.

At a time when various companies have been restraining their practices recently and tend to use independent mercenaries to handle affairs, which is boring and unexciting, the news that a gang war is about to break out has naturally become a well-deserved hot spot in Night City.

As if pushed by an invisible hand, television stations, forums, websites, radio stations and even talk shows, all channels that could reach residents' eyes and ears were firing like crazy, and everyone was discussing the upcoming war between the Tiger Claw Gang and the Hive.

For a time, even the news that the mayor of Night City died suddenly and without cause was pushed to the second place on the hot searches, while the news that the executive director of Peizhuo Petrochemical drove drunk and crashed into a school bus, killing sixteen children, ranked third.

In this lively atmosphere of eating melons, people can't help but ask, who is Beehive?

Finally, people checked and found out that it was a three-no cyborg trafficking organization with less than 200 people, the scavenger brother team.

After that, the focus of people's discussion became how long it would take the Tiger Claws to destroy a beehive.

"The Beehive, what a bunch of idiots! They could have stayed in the sewers but insisted on provoking the Tiger Claw Gang. Now you see, they're going to be blown to pieces."

"Hahaha, I don't think this beehive would last more than half an hour if a fight really started."

"I think half an hour is a bit too much. It should be at least an hour. After all, it takes more than half an hour to drive from Japantown to Little Chinatown."

"Are you guys crazy? The Tiger Claws are killing citizens. Is this something you can joke about? The Hive is just a prosthetics company. I've used their prosthetics before. The Tiger Claws are starting a war for no reason. Isn't this persecution?"

"Haha, the way the defenses upstairs are broken is hilarious. They even talk about gang fights in such a high-sounding way."

"That's right. Didn't the Tiger Claw Gang give the Beehive a chance? It was the Beehive Gang that refused to buy out the Tiger Claw Gang and attacked the innocent workers. Isn't that courting death? Wouldn't it be better to compromise and exchange peace for peace?"

Similar discussions were everywhere on Night City's intranet.

Amid the overwhelming and difficult-to-distinguish true and false information bombardment released by various different information sources, the name "Hive" began to slide towards extremes in reputation as soon as it was born.

All kinds of crimes were blamed on Beehive, and even some of the motorcycle gang's old stories were wrongly pinned on Beehive. For a time, the name Beehive was hated by everyone on the local area network, and even if a small number of people spontaneously protested, it was of no avail.

The noise on the LAN is not groundless, but the result of deliberate manipulation by someone with ulterior motives.

The mastermind behind this is none other than the undisputed future leader of the Tiger Claw Gang, Jotaro Masaharu.

"Haha, it seems our media friends are starting to make an effort, haha, not bad, not bad..."

He smiled deeply, and gently shook the hand holding the red wine glass. The deep red wine rose and fell and swirled in the glass like waves.

Jotaro is in a good mood.

Everything was going as he planned.

War is always portrayed as something grand, but Jotaro simply simplifies it into two words: guns and horns.

And now, with the guns unfired, it is time for the trumpets to show their power.

The opinions of the masses are as easy to manipulate as a pile of sand. Jotaro only needs to invest a tiny bit of money, and the media that love Okin more than the truth will talk for him and create an image of a sinful and despicable hive in the minds of Night City residents, just like the Tiger Claws themselves.

As for why they did this, it's simple, just to divert the attention of Night City residents.

Taking the spotlight off Night City and promoting the war? It seemed contradictory.

But it's not.

When people gather together, their minds are as simple as sheep, but if you accidentally let them see the truth, they will burst out with incredible power.

Jotaro is not a fool. Since he is not a fool, he will naturally learn from past lessons.

The lessons from the riots ten years ago.

Chapter 258 You still say you are not five hundred thousand! ?

In 2067, a girl at Lizzie's Bar was brutally murdered by three Tiger Claw Gang members.

Bar owner Elizabeth Borden executed three Tiger Claw gang members with an axe and hung them on display outside the door.

But such behavior is tantamount to provocation in the eyes of the Tiger Claw Gang.

The lives of the three low-level minions are not important, but the reputation of the Tiger Claw Gang is very important.

So the Tiger Claws raided the Lizzie's Bar in the following raid, and Elizabeth Borden was killed.

The matter should have ended there.

The gangs' rampant tyranny in the city should have been something that the civilians were forced to accept.

But I don’t know if it was fate or the last straw that broke the camel’s back, but this time the Tiger Claw Gang really incurred the wrath of the public.

Protracted mass demonstrations against the Tiger Claws and their properties have broken out across Night City.

This really put a lot of pressure on the Tiger Claw Gang.

Not only did the Tiger Claws' sphere of influence shrink, but it also led to the emergence of the Mox Gang, a new anti-Tiger Claws gang formed by radical protesters.

Simply put, this is the result of the Tiger Claw Gang incurring public anger.

And Jotaro didn't want this to happen again.

He doesn't want the Hive to become a lone hero who "resists power" or "fights gangs."

So what’s the best approach?

Of course it's throwing dirty water on the other party.

What's more, the fact that the Hive was angry and attacked his place was a handle that was delivered to his door, and he didn't even need to deliberately fake it.

As long as the Beehive is portrayed as an equally despicable and evil gang, the war will be a confrontation between gangs rather than a fairy tale of justice versus evil.

The residents of Night City will not react much to this.

The masses, the masses, the masses whose eyes are blocked are the good masses.

Jotaro thought proudly.

He had already won half the battle before it even started.

The Hive has lost its greatest and most likely support, which is the support of the seven million mobs in Night City.

.......

The media fallout soon reached the Hive.

"According to the research report of our independent investigator, Beehive was responsible for the terrorist attack in North Oak District on the night of the 14th, and its leader Victor Victor was responsible for the deaths of people."