Inside the Portal.

Two figures were struggling to advance through a half-collapsed hallway.

The raging swarms roaming the interior of the Portal not only broke down the layers of defenses, but also demolished many of the illegal buildings mounted on the Portals&ash;&ash;

Assembly line factory, parts manufacturing workshop, arsenal, food manufacturing plant, botanical garden, constant temperature pasture, automatic fertility base, main steam boiler and so on

After decades of renovation, construction, and expansion, the volume of these illegal constructions has become incredibly large, long exceeding the size of the energy tower itself, and has become a huge and bloated steel monster.

Massive clumps of metal and concrete are stacked on top of each other like overgrown sarcomas, constantly and greedily sucking up every nutrient (electricity) from the tower.

And today, when facing excision, it is inevitable to endure labor pains.

Now, more than half of the passages in the tower have collapsed due to the demolition of the building, and it is not easy to find a way from the bottom of the tower to get into the inside of the tower.

Chang Gung, do you really want to believe the words of that transcendent creature?

Or else? Do we have other options?

Lu Changgeng glanced at him, then turned his head and tried to push a boulder aside, squeezing it along the gap.

As you saw just now, even a shot from an enchanted bullet at a very close range would not be able to do him the slightest damage. We didn't use force to deter him&ash;&ash; at least not without the help of containment

He trudged into the narrow, cramped passageway, sweeping the rubble ruins in front of him: and based on the Red Lantern Legion and the Psychic Plague, this guy could at least reach the level of Wasteland Nightmare, and maybe even rise to the rating of Doom Nova

Lao Fan, who followed behind, was still a little reluctant to admit the truth: but if we use containment objects, we still have a chance in a one-on-one state

Price.

Lu Changgeng interrupted him.

The use of containment comes at a cost, and even if we can afford it, there's no guarantee that the Red Lantern Corps won't be affected if we kill that otherworldly creature.

He turned his head and looked at his colleagues: if you think about it, the current Red Lantern Corps is a group of madmen, and there is a man who is still sane leading this group of madmen to use them as gunmen; But what happens if the leader dies suddenly?

Lao Fan was stunned, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then his expression became afraid: You mean, they will become a group of complete madmen

Yes, the harm caused by a group of led madmen is completely different from that of a group of leaderless madmen. Lu Changgeng said slowly, the former is terrifying, but the trajectory of action is at least traceable; As long as there is reason, there will be a purpose, and if there is a purpose, it can be targeted, and the only enemy we need to deal with is the manipulator behind this group of madmen; And the latter is the real chaos, and we will face all kinds of madmen in the future

He slowly paints a picture of hell.

Countless fanatical lunatics will do all sorts of crazy acts, for no reason, for no purpose, and will do all kinds of sabotage purely for fun

Pure chaos.

It's like a clown troupe

The thought of such a picture made Lao Fan shudder, inexplicably thinking that there had been a very similar group.

But there are still insects and bones in the wilderness, and here is the night hemisphere, and the environment is extremely cold. Even if they fall into chaos, they won't survive long in the wilderness, right? But soon he shook his head again, still a little reluctant to believe that the situation would be as bad as Lu Changgeng depicted.

Lu Changgeng just glanced at him, and then continued to focus on cleaning up the ruins, and said unhurriedly.

After watching the previous battles, do you really think those bugs and skeletons in the wilderness can pose a threat to them?

Those bugs with corrosive guns in their hands and big scythes on their backs, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, prohibiting orders, and completely specializing the combat ability of the legion can't be beaten, do you think those wild bugs in the wilderness can be beaten?

Lao Fan was speechless:

What's more, as you heard just now, there is a father and a mother behind that transcendent creature, and even if we use containment to deal with him, it won't do much.

So we can only do what he says? Lao Fan was a little unwilling.

Take it one step at a time Lu Changgeng sighed, he just wanted us to save a few people, and I just happened to have something I wanted to ask that bastard chairman

Unable to accept the tragic cycle that Night City staged every day, which most people are accustomed to, unable to accept the oppression and exploitation of the people at the bottom by the aristocracy as a matter of course, unable to accept the family concept, and at the same time not understood by the family, he left the suffocating city with his equipment and death after the coming-of-age ceremony, and crossed the border of morning and dusk to the rich day hemisphere.

During his ten years of wandering, as if to expel the dark and cold city of his memory, he left footprints all over the hemisphere as a traveler, from small villages with garbage heaps to large cities sheltered by institutions, from deserted cities now covered in greenery to endless loess deserts

He knew many people and witnessed many things.

The more you can see, the more you can see the dark and cold city, the insensitive faces of the low-level workers in the city, and the extravagant and depraved aristocrats from above, the clearer and clearer it becomes in the memory.

Before <, he had already met many people and witnessed many things, and finally mustered up the courage to embark on a journey home, he wanted to change such a city, and wanted to break the heavy shackles on the workers at the bottom.

He was ambitious and vowed to change such a mistaken hometown.

But when he saw Runtu being tortured into a soulless walking corpse, and the other workers looked at him with respect and fear, when he saw the sheriff grinning and smiling and killing a worker who accidentally stepped on their shoes, and when he saw the vampires who squeezed and grabbed the blood and sweat of the workers still living a luxurious life

He was skeptical.

Doubt if you can change the city.

He was confused.

I wonder how much of a difference I can make if I come back.

Then, he failed.

His hesitation, his cry, all turned into useless work, and sank silently in the city, without even stirring up a wave.

Lu Changgeng walked slowly in front, and suddenly heard a slight noise from the corner in front of him.

Who is it?!

His warning made Lao Fan instantly nervous, and the two of them each pulled out their pocket pistols from their arms and pointed them in the direction from which the sound came.

Around the corner in front of him was an indelible shadow, and soon, a figure slowly stepped out of the shadows.

The shadows gradually faded, and he was tall, and his burly body was covered with new wounds and old scars that had not yet healed, as well as that fierce and vicious appearance.

First Hunter.

There is no need to report his home, just this fierce face and the momentum that he has cultivated across countless battlefields are enough for the two of them to judge his identity.

Who are you? Why is it here?

Worried about whether they will succeed?

Looking in the direction of the energy tower, Runtu woke up from his distraction, and nodded a little helplessly: Yes

Don't worry, they are the elite sent by the day hemisphere, and this little thing will not be difficult for them. It's better to say that if they can't do this little thing well, they don't want to be investigators, it's better to change careers as soon as possible, and the incarnation of the ideology wave his hand indifferently, and his consciousness is completely immersed in the operation panel that only has a projection.

The projection curtain is divided into several windows, projecting several images of different battlefields at once, the largest of which is a projection of the current battle situation in the Night City

In the streets and alleys of the city, all the checkpoints leading to the outside world have been blocked, and the Kuroshio, which represents the enemy army, rushes to the positions marked with red *** blocks in waves

The tide was constantly extinguished and swallowed, and the red points of light were occasionally extinguished, but they were soon replenished and pushed back, and the two sides continued to tug at each other on the front line, presenting themselves in front of the incarnation of the ideology with a narrow front that stretched out.

Countless combat units of brigades, squadrons, and squads are tugging back and forth on this front, forming a front-line battlefield with dogs and teeth, and the two commanders of this war are hiding behind the scenes to control the soldiers under their hands.

It can't go on like this, the incarnation of the thought tide bit his fingers, his brows were tightly locked and he stared at the sand table projection, and Runtu on the side wondered: What's wrong? Did something happen?

The energy output efficiency is too slow. The incarnation of the ideology said, this battle has a time limit, do you see the countdown in the lower left corner of the projection? There are less than ten minutes left.

Runtu looked at these drawings and was still very ignorant: Huh? Do you want to hold on until the countdown is over?

It's the end of the countdown, we all have to finish playing the thought incarnation without a good airway, to be precise, you all have to be finished, my father will protect my mother, and I can dive into the sea of minds at any time to avoid the effect of the spell, but you can't run away.

Until now, the energy output of the Red Lantern Legion has only consumed one-third of the rune array's circulating energy, and there seems to be an external energy injection every minute and second, and if this continues, the dissolving love will take effect

Dissolving Love Runtu opened his mouth, he remembered this term, this is a very terrifying magic array, which can dissolve everything in the magic array into small particles like sand&ash;&ash; not long ago, this kid in front of him explained this term to them, so what should I do? Is there anything I can do that I can help with?

How do you think you can help? The thought incarnate rolled its eyes.

Runtu was speechless for a while: I will do some mechanical repairs, and I have learned a little wiring skills from Lao Meng that can overload the line and burn it off, and I will use a throwing gun

Forget it, don't think about it so much, leave the important task to those investigators to complete Before he finished speaking, the incarnation of the ideology waved his hand and interrupted him, I'll solve this matter, you just stay here and don't run around

As he spoke, the figure of the thought avatar began to become transparent.

Wait a minute! Where are you going?

Go and cut the commander on the opposite side.