Night falls.

The entire northern part of Watson was silent in a medium-large chunk of darkness.

There are only a few old public street lights, which cast a light on the ground every few meters.

Occasionally, the street lamps emitted the sizzling sound of electric sparks, the light and shadow were sometimes bright and dark, and the back alleys on both sides of the street were completely darkened.

At this time.

Tang Yu and Jack were lurking in the core area of the abandoned steel factory, and far away from the workshop, they found a high ground formed by the accumulation of containers, and quietly observed the situation around the workshop.

The reason why I didn't get too close was to prevent being detected by drone detection, after all, the purpose of this trip was more to find the right time to end as a bystander.

The two sat cross-legged on the container and waited quietly.

Tang Yu found that the workshop in the middle of the room, where six members of the Vortex Gang had taken two of them in the evening, and it seemed that there was something else.

The remaining four didn't make any new moves, each enjoying heavy metal music in the workshop, not worrying about the next trade with Mann.

Soon.

Nine o'clock arrived.

This is Mann's agreed trading time.

Tang Yu stared at it, although he couldn't see it very clearly, he could tell that a group of people had entered the factory and were slowly approaching the door of the workshop.

Soon.

The members of the Vortex Gang in the workshop opened the automatic modification gate of the workshop.

The Vortex Gang has carried out small-scale modifications to the workshop stronghold, which is not only used for regular gatherings and entertainment, but also has a considerable degree of defensive function.

They usually only choose one part of the factory for centralized transformation, and other areas basically belong to the three areas.

But the Vortex Gang really has only one lair.

Whole food processing plant.

As the base of the Vortex Gang, the whole food processing factory has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to invest in renovation and reconstruction, not only with water and electricity, but also with various armored batteries, just like a military base.

Mann's trade location is one of the many Vortex strongholds in Watson, and it is not large.

As the newcomers walked under the light of the workshop door, Tang Yu immediately recognized their appearance and identity.

It's Team Mann.

At the head is the big man Mann, who carries a safe in his hand, which is supposed to contain trading items.

Beside him are Pila, the bearded technomaniac, and Dorio, the fierce sister of King Kong.

Standing at the end, Qi Wei, who was still tall, looked at everything with a cold expression.

The only thing that Tang Yu paid special attention to was the appearance of a new member of the team that he had never seen before.

She stood beside Pila, chewing gum and blowing bubbles, looking a little bothered.

Shoulder-length light green hair is tied up in a double ponytail with a black headband, a black stand-up collar punk sweatshirt and close-fitting shorts wrap around the body, and two green shelled modified pistols are held in their hands, and their hands are crossed behind their heads.

Double-check.

There are five members of Mann's team, and Lucy, the silver-haired girl, is not among them.

Tang Yu speculated that she might be acting as an outside hacker to assist Team Mann remotely, while Qi Wei should be responsible for solving the Vortex Gang prosthetic invasion.

But considering Lucy's behavior in the train car at the time, it may be that she didn't want to clash with the Arasaka agents head-on.

There is definitely a secret between Lucy and Arasaka, and it is very likely that this secret is related to the persecution and hackers.

Almost no one understands the dirty actions of the Arasaka Company better than Tang Yu.

Human experiments like the cybermaniac James are just the tip of the iceberg of Arasaka's vast dark empire.

But now it seems that even if Lucy didn't go straight down, the configuration of the Mann team, the four Vortex Gang members are obviously not enough.

Even when the Arasaka Special Service team comes, it may not be its opponent.

The Mann team that crawled out of the pile of dead people is a strong existence in terms of individual strength and level of cooperation in fighting together.

With the brainless and crazy nature of the Vortex Gang, it is impossible to honestly pay for the goods on their own territory.

Almost all of these cyber maniacs suffer from varying degrees of cyber psychosis, and their behavior and logic often go their own way.

Now.

After confirming the identities of Mann and the others, the gate slowly lifted upwards.

Two members of the Vortex Gang walked out of the gate, their skin was dark blue, which was a symptom of heavy metal poisoning.

The entire facial bone from the forehead to the eye socket was removed and replaced by a metal electronic panel prosthetic with four to five red prosthetic eyes.

Very similar to their blood-colored skull spider totem, it looks like a cyber zombie, an integration of death, metal, machinery, and human body, and there is a strange madness everywhere.

Mann saw the red electronic prosthetic eye on the other man's face flicker, and at the same time, a swirl of lenses zoomed in and out, as if he was scanning and adjusting the focus of his gaze.

The leader of the Uzumaki Gang coughed a few times, and there was still smoke powder spewing out of his nasal cavity, like the smell of burnt plastic.

"It's on time, have you brought your things?"

Mann lifted the safe in his hand and slapped it hard, signaling for the other party to put the trade items inside.

The Vortex Gang looked the big man up and down again, and warned viciously, "When you come in, you all be honest with me!" ”

Mann snorted in response.

The team of five followed the Vortex Gang into the floodgates.

The girl with the double ponytail, who was walking next to Pila, turned her head and spit the soft red gum in her mouth on the ground, glanced at the Uzumaki Gang with disdain, and strode into the workshop with the team.

Waiting for Mann and the others to enter the workshop, Tang Yu turned on the thermal imaging scan of the Dragon Fist glasses and continued to observe the situation in the workshop.

Although you can't see the specific details, you can roughly tell what is happening on the spot by using the different shape thermal images of each person.

After Mann and others entered the workshop, they immediately observed the internal layout and situation.

The entire workshop is filled with pale red gray fog lights, and the heavy metal rock music bombards the ears, just like their red prosthetic eyes, which immerse people in the noisy hellish world of red and black.

The interior space is not large, a total of two floors have been transformed, and there are iron stairs on the left and right sides leading to the second floor, two members of the Vortex Gang stand on the second floor and stare downward, and an automatic heavy machine gun is set up in the middle.

In the middle of the hall lay a few tattered sofas, surrounded by a steel plate cutting table, on which an old-fashioned two-cylinder speaker sits and hums deafening music.

On the floor and tables of the workshop, there are scattered glass tubes of used drug injections, as well as silver tin foil that burns half after smoking.

Mann was seated on the shabby couch in the middle of the hall, Dorio on the right-hand side, Cele on the left-hand side with her long legs crossed, and the two-ponytailed girl alone dominating the entire sofa.

Only Pyrrha was immediately attracted by the gizmos on the cutting table and leaned in.

The Uzumaki gang walked up to the cutting table, picked up the burnt tin foil at random, and squatted in front of the table to carefully pull the scattered powder resembling yellow sawdust from the table onto the paper.

A lot of iron filings and dust were also mixed in, and he rolled them into the shape of a ball.

He smirked and lit the tinfoil ball, which he shoved into a vacuum.

As the tinfoil balls burned, the can was soon covered with yellowish-white smoke.

He pointed the spout of the can to his nose and slammed it in, then shook his black head and took a sip.

It wasn't until every alveolar in the entire lung was filled with smoke that he let go of the jar and let out a long puff of white smoke.

Comfortably, he said, "Oh hoo...."

Then there was a big shudder, and then he held the jar and handed it to Mann's face, and shook it twice: "Try two sips for Lao Tzu, this taste will definitely make you ecstatic"

Mann was silent and didn't move to pick it up, knowing that there wasn't anything good in the jar.

But the other party put things in his face, with a posture that if you don't smoke me, I won't talk about business.

Dolio, who was sitting next to him, had a bad face and bluntly dissuaded: "We're here to talk about business, not to suck some with you here."

The Vortex Gang still smiled, and the jar was stretched out in front of Dorio's face.

"Here you go"

Mann's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent, and his hand slowly rested on the trigger of the gun.

And the Vortex Gang also put away their wanton smiles, and the two upstairs even picked up guns and pointed them at them.

Mann didn't hesitate, just about to reach out and take the jar.

But he was directly snatched away by a long mechanical prosthetic arm, and he picked up the small jar and sucked it in according to the other party's appearance.

When she took a puff of the can's smoked Pila, her whole face instantly turned red, as if she was forcibly suppressing the smoke and choking her nose.

Finally, like a buffalo snorting, two pillars of smoke erupted from the nose and mouth.

"Whew..."

Pila exclaimed excitedly and excitedly: "This thing is really amazing, I can suck like this all day!" ”

The Vortex Gang looked at Pila, who was a little surprised, and grinned when they saw Pila's satisfied appearance.

"You're very good, now we're friends who can talk about business, you can call Lao Tzu Dumduum"

Pila looked at Dumdum drunkenly and burped: "You can call Lao Tzu Pila Pila, haha"

Dumdum and the others laughed.

The original tense atmosphere was easily dissolved by Pila's clever moves.

Mann put the safe in his hand on the table: "This is what is traded today, military-grade Sianweistein, from the slain cyber madman James, for 50,000 euros"

Dumdum picked up the safe and put it beside him: "How many passwords, we have to inspect the goods first"

“1003”

Dumdom opened the safe according to the code given by Mann, and a bloodstained Swystein Neural OS kit lay completely in the safe.

Dumdum turned on the prosthetic eye scan and began to examine the details of the prosthesis, and after confirming it, he closed the safe again, looked at Mann and the others, and said.

"It's okay for the thing to be genuine, but do you know who wants this prosthesis?"

Mann also looked at Dumdom: "It's your business, I'll just take the money and leave"

As soon as the words fell.

The iron gates of the workshop opened, and more than a dozen members of the Vortex Gang rushed in from outside, each with a gun pointed at Mann and them.

Almost at the same time, Mann also raised his arm cannon and heavy machine gun to aim at the sudden intruder, and Dorio and the others picked up the guy and aimed it at the Vortex Gang.

The double-ponytailed little Lori was even more furious, and the left and right pistols slashed straight at the brains of the two members of the Vortex Gang, and the two of them together couldn't make up one brain.

The two sides confronted each other.

But the Vortex Gang is significantly more dominant in numbers and venues.

The leader of the Vortex Gang strode directly in front of Mann and threatened, "Are you talking to Lao Tzu about business? Now Lao Tzu will teach you how to talk about business, and you will get out of the house as soon as you leave it."

Mann was not afraid: "Bastard! Who are you? ”

The other party seemed to be stimulated by Mann's question, and after spreading his hands, he laughed wildly: "Hahaha, you don't even know Lao Tzu when you step on a horse, and you dare to come over to make a deal, today Lao Tzu will tell you that Lao Tzu is Royce, and this prosthetic body Lao Tzu wants"

Royce put the gun to Mann's forehead again, "Do you want to die here, or do you want to get out of here before I change my mind?" ”

Mann has heard of Royce, the second-in-command of the Vortex Gang, a typical cyber fuser, who does things with no consequences.

Mann speculated that Royce might have seen five people on his side and wanted to take the deal for himself.

Qi Wei covered her temple with one hand, and her pink prosthetic eyes scanned the fourteen Vortex Gang present with a red aperture.

In just a few seconds, they can remotely hack into their prosthetic bodies and burn the electronics, now waiting for Mann to act.

But Mann's concern is not the current situation, but when Arasaka's special service will play.

Just now, Dumdom has taken out the military-grade Sianweistan to confirm, and he believes that the Arasaka special service should have found out.

Wait.

Royce's expression became visibly more hideous when he saw that Mann still didn't let go, neither letting go of his gun nor agreeing to leave.

Just when Royce was about to lose his patience and prepare to blow up the head of the black man in front of him with one shot.

Suddenly, the red light in the workshop went out, and the whole workshop suddenly fell into darkness.

Several emergency lights come on, indicating safe passages that no longer exist.

Almost at the same time, the steel gate of the workshop was blasted open by a huge impact, and it flew down and smashed into the two members of the Vortex Gang at the door.

Bang!

The big steel board clattered against their whole bodies, and their brains were like watermelons being flattened by a cart, flesh and blood flying all over the ground, and dark blood smeared the walls.

Dozens of red laser points shine into the house, and as long as they fall on people, countless bullets are shot through them.

Click... Click...

Four Uzumaki Gang members were shot open one after another, and the red prosthetic eyes on their faces were blasted into several black holes.

The sudden attack shocked everyone in the Vortex Gang present, and hurriedly looked at the situation outside the gate.

Royce reacted immediately and scolded loudly: "Grass, they made the ghosts, kill them!" ”

Royce believes that Mann arranged the explosion outside the door, and then wants to open fire on Mann and the others.

The Mann Gorilla arm, who had been prepared for a long time, had already completed his energy accumulation, and when Royce turned back to shout, he faced the muzzle of Royce's raised gun and slammed it with a heavy punch.

At the same time, Royce did not hesitate to pull the trigger.

Bullets flew out of the air, colliding with the bombarded fists.

The bullet only ginked a little into the huge fist, but the heavy fist smashed into Royce's face.

Boom!

Royce's whole body flew out like an upside-down onion, and half of his electronic prosthetic face was smashed directly into the back of his head.

Seeing Mann's move, the two-ponytailed little Lori no longer suppressed her temper, she had long been unaccustomed to seeing this group of cyber maniacs, her face was hideous and she smiled wildly and opened her bow left and right, and the gun in her hand frantically strafed the Vortex Gang.

Qi Wei sat on the couch, took advantage of the momentum with a high leg to turn over lightly, hid behind the couch, and then prepared to activate the prosthetic invasion.

I saw two whirlpool gangs on the high platform on the second floor, holding heavy machine guns and firing wildly at the workshop below.

At the same time, the automatic heavy machine gun installation was activated, and the terrifying fire instantly erupted so that Mann and the others couldn't raise their heads, so they had to find cover one after another to dodge.

When the guns were fired.

Dumdum directly picked up the military-grade Sianwistan prosthetic body and fled, he couldn't control the current situation, he just wanted to get the goods away quickly.

The whole workshop was full of smoke and dust, and the lights were dark and indistinguishable, Dumdom successfully got the safe and escaped to the secret passage that was opened privately.

There was an open field of weeds, abandoned for years, and no electronic devices could detect signs of his escape.

The terrifying firepower pressed Mann and the others and made it difficult to fight back, and even the rampaging double ponytail crazy girl was snatched away by Mann, squatting and hiding under the cutting table, and the table was hit by bullets and sparks were overflowing.

But the two-ponytail mad girl seemed to have no fear at all, and she picked up her gun and tried to shoot back, but she was grabbed by the shoulder.

At this time, the raiding team outside the door began to enter the workshop, and the precise coverage of the firepower quickly cleared out the remaining members of the Vortex Gang in the workshop.

Two Uzumperi men on the second floor were shooting wildly at the raiders with machine guns, but the bullets didn't seem to work on their bulletproof helmets and clothing.

Click...

After the raiding team strafed, the last two members of the Vortex Gang were also shot and killed on the second floor, falling straight down.

Mann looked at the corner of the cutting table and said in an anxious tone.

"It's the Arasaka Special Service!"

In just a few seconds, Qi Wei quickly completed the intrusion control of the automatic heavy machine gun installation, adjusting the muzzle of the gun to shoot wildly at the Arasaka special service team entering the door.

The powerful armor-piercing bullet hit the Arasaka special service members at high speed, and directly exploded the helmet and even revealed the brain.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Pyra threw a series of explosions at the door of the workshop.

Burst! Burst! Burst!

Several air explosions occurred in the air one after another, and the huge impact force wrapped in shrapnel instantly cut several members of the Arasaka Special Service into pieces.

The Arasaka Special Service team, which entered the first batch, was beaten back again and again, giving Mann and the others a little respite, and they quickly adjusted their positions to occupy a relatively strong terrain defense.

A new wave of attacks by the Arasaka special service team has begun, with high-explosive grenades being thrown into the workshop one after another to clear the field, and the armor-piercing heavy artillery directly piercing the walls of the workshop and smashing the automatic heavy machine gun installation on the second floor.

The situation became more and more critical, and Qi Wei quickly contacted Lucy, who was monitoring outside the venue.

"Have you arrived with military tech?"

At this time, Lucy was in the work car, and Ning Mei carefully controlled the drone to probe the situation in the workshop.

But not long after her unmanned hovering outside the workshop, she was shot down by an electromagnetic pulse, and the last picture captured was the side of a military technology floating vehicle.

“MILITECH”

Lucy replied in a deep voice: "The military technology armed float has arrived, and my drone has just been shot down"

Qi Wei quickly conveyed the news to Mann and the others, and as long as they waited for the military technology personnel to poke the rear of the Arasaka special service team, they could take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

Mann noticed that the safe was gone, and glanced around: "The prosthetic body is gone, it must have been taken by the Vortex Gang, we can't get out now, let Lucy go and investigate the situation on the west side of the factory, there is a weeded no man's land!" ”

Lucy quickly got out of the car and plunged headlong into the dark alley near the abandoned steel factory, and sped towards the west.

At this time, military technology floats on the car.

Meredith Stott is holding an optical electron telescope and looking down at the abandoned steel mill.

After confirming that the Arasaka special service team was fighting with the people in the workshop, he said coldly.

"Don't rush yet"

"When they're almost done"

"Let's go to the finish again"