Everything in the lower town has a temperament that is out of place in the city center.

The chaos, the disorder, here is something that White Night didn't expect at all.

Bang bang bang!

Suddenly, there was a dense burst of gunfire from the streets. Bai Ye and Ilsa reacted quickly, immediately found a corner cover, and lurked.

"Shootout?" Bai Ye wondered in his heart, could it be that this place was also invaded by the black-clothed door of the General Services Department? Are they chasing players?

That's what I've seen in District 21.

But what happened next was completely unexpected by White Night.

As the dense gunfire kept getting closer. White Night saw both sides of the shootout.

It turned out to be two gangsters in a shootout!

A group of people wore fluorescent jackets with colorful hairstyles that were very exaggerated. They had all sorts of guns in their hands, and they were frantically pouring bullets from their magazines.

The other party was similar to them, with deep sunken eye sockets, big dark circles, and some fingers were missing a few sections. It looks like some gambler.

Armed with all sorts of guns, the two sides use trash cans, autodroids, and walls as cover, and engage in frenzied firefights. While snoring, he kept cursing.

After a firefight, the gamblers kept retreating, and the thugs pressed proudly.

It was clear that the gamblers were not as well equipped as the gangsters, and after a short period of resistance. The gamblers retreated, screaming and cursing. Several bodies were left on the streets.

The shootout in the streets has come to an end for the time being.

This is not what surprised Bai Ye the most.

What he didn't expect the most was that from the beginning to the end, there was no security force to stop it. It's as if this is a land of utter lawlessness.

It's not just an ordinary gangster fight, it's a fierce shootout! Even this level of exchange of fire could not attract the attention of the security officers. It can be seen that what is the level of law and order here in normal times?

This is also Hongcheng! A few dozen minutes ago, in the center of Hongcheng City in the middle of the night, law enforcement vehicles could be seen patrolling everywhere, and residents were living and working in peace and contentment.

Who would have thought that just a few kilometers away, it would completely change its appearance.

White Night and Ilsa got up from behind cover. It was found that many pedestrians were also hiding, and they only walked out after the shootout.

The men didn't seem to be very alarmed by the shootout, with the usual numbness on their faces. Seeing the bloody corpses on the ground, and the thugs screaming that they were not dead yet, they didn't care much.

I looked around and saw that there was no danger. They went about their own business.

"This shootout...... I'm afraid it happens several times a day. The inhabitants are completely used to it. Bai Ye speculated in his heart. How many times does it take to be stimulated to be indifferent to such a dangerous scene?

The chaos in the lower town made Bai Ye suddenly feel familiar.

The streets of Night City, that's what it is.

A place of utter lawlessness.

Hongcheng ...... The city, in just one month, is rapidly approaching in the direction of Night City. The speed of chaos is much faster than the speed of technology. What will happen in the future, no one can predict.

Bai Ye looked at Ilsa beside her, she looked at all this, still expressionless.

Bai Ye didn't know if she had known about the situation here for a long time, or if she was so calm that this kind of thing couldn't hit her nerves.

Ilsa felt Bai Ye's gaze and glanced at him, "Keep walking, we're almost there." ”

Bai Ye nodded and didn't say anything more. Follow Ilsa and keep moving forward.

The next thing they didn't encounter was anything particularly outrageous, and Ilsa took White Night to a gun supply store and stopped.

"This is it?" White Night looked at the gun supply store. Ilsa nodded.

It's an old-fashioned shop, with a green sign that has turned white and has some dust accumulated over the years. Some vintage firearms are displayed in the window. The iron fence at the door and outside the glass window warns the thugs with ulterior motives that this is not the place to be messed with.

In this kind of confusion, there should be nothing wrong with opening up the data perspective yourself.

Bai Ye thought to himself.

He directly opened the [Network Access Warehouse, Network Monitoring Network Drive Type II], and suddenly there was a white light in front of him, and the data torrent began to flow.

After entering the data perspective, Bai Ye found that most of the devices around him were still mobile phones and computers, and there were not many prosthetics.

He randomly browsed the mobile phone information of some people around him, and soon found that this was the sphere of influence of the "Black Blood Gang".

No wonder there are no thugs who don't know how to live or die here, it turns out that they are in the gang's sphere of influence.

According to the characteristic conditions of the "Black Blood Gang", Bai Ye quickly found several gangsters on the side of the road.

Most of these people are burly men with tattoos on their arms that look like black blood lines. They don't hide their gang identity, and they intimidate every curious and inquiring gaze.

They are all exceptionally physically strong. Almost everyone looks like a bodybuilder, with bulging muscles. The muscles of the big arm are like rocks, the green tendons are emerging, the latissimus dorsi is developed like a bird, and the pectoral muscles can run a horse.

Many people are bald, and green tendons can be seen on their foreheads. The latissimus dorsi is connected directly to the top of the head.

Such muscle conditions are obviously not achievable by natural fitness. Even professional bodybuilders need a lot of injections and years of training to maintain such muscle levels.

The whole gang is such people...... The guys in this gang are too keen on fitness, right?

This reminds White Night of a gang in the Night City game, the "Gang of Animals".

The gang force of the "Animal Gang" is a similar creed. They focus on strengthening the muscles of the body. Use steroids and a lot of other boosting hormones to make your body exceptionally strong. Huge amounts of testosterone, as well as animal supplements such as growth hormone, are also commonly used drugs, regardless of the dangers.

The Animals Gang pursues the most brutal and primitive aspects of human nature, and they try to break the boundaries between humans and animals and make themselves a new subspecies.

Such gang rules are too similar to those of the members of the "Black Blood Gang".

White Night also found a little. The Black Blood Gang's bodies had no white light other than their mobile phones. None of them have been modified by cyberprosthesis.

The same goes for the "Animal Gang". They never use traditional prosthetics and rely only on their own bodies to fight.

The "Black Blood Gang" and the "Animal Gang" are too similar, and Bai Ye is almost certain that there must be an inextricable connection between the two gangs.

Even the "Black Blood Gang" is a branch of the "Animal Gang", maybe it's not a sub-organization.

Have the forces in Night City reached here?

Soon, Bai Ye took his eyes off these barbarians of the "Black Blood Gang" and observed more unusual places.

From the moment I entered this neighborhood, I found a little bit in the white night. The situation around is very strange.

Many of them were not normal, with high expressions and red eyes, as if they were bullfights in a bullring.

Bai Ye thought that these people had taken some kind of drug, which caused them to be mentally excited. But when he looked closely, he knew that this was not the case. This kind of excitement should be caused by intense exercise. To be precise, it was caused by a fight.

The men all had minor injuries on their bodies, and the bruises on their faces, redness, swelling and bruising on their bodies indicated that they all seemed to have experienced fierce fighting.

After a very fierce fight, it was only a minor injury. There were no broken tendons, no gunshot wounds, knife wounds or anything like that. Obviously, it's a close fight. It's more of a sparring nature.

"Is it a ring match? Or is it an organizational exchange? ”

Bai Ye speculated in his heart.

There were also some people on the street whose mechanical prostheses had been broken, and components such as alloy bones and wires were exposed to the air, and some electric sparks were constantly ejected. They lay in front of the prosthetic doctor, waiting in line for rescue.

Others spar with robots in the open field, practicing boxing and other martial arts.

The skeleton of the sparring robot is alloyed, and targets are used in key parts such as the head and arms. These soft targets are not meant to protect the robot, but to protect those who practice with the robot. If those fragile human bodies collide directly with the alloy, there will only be one result. That's to go to the doctor.

The sparring robot, which looks dull, is very professional and effective once it is activated.

"Choose Base Mode!"

A man standing in front of a sparring robot practicing martial arts gives a command. There was a burst of laughter from the crowd around them.

"Hahahaha, basic mode! You're a shame kid. Go out, don't say it's in our neighborhood. ”

"What are you kidding, the basic mode is the mode played by a seven-year-old! You just go to practice with elementary school students, and be careful that they make you cry! ”

The muscular men on the lookouts let out a taunt.

Fight Kid gave up his empty seat: "You guys try it, Basic Mode." ”

The people around him immediately fell silent.

They are all players who like to talk about it, and once they really want to do it with this sparring robot, they are not stupid. It seems that they have all fought against this sparring robot. Obviously, I have suffered a lot.

"Is this sparring robot so powerful? None of these self-righteous muscular men dared to go up and do it. Bai Ye stood and watched such a scene, thinking with interest.

Seeing that the people around him were stunned, the fighting kid took a sip of disdain and returned to the sparring robot.

The people watching the excitement in the white night and around watched the battle between the brady and the sparring robot.

The stunned sparring robot, once activated, immediately burst into a blue light in its eyes. Without any reminder of the beginning, the sparring robot was silent and immediately launched a onslaught on the brat.

The brad kid was clearly prepared, setting up a standard boxing stance, one short dodging the robot's right uppercut, and then slamming a hook into the head of the sparring robot.

"Score: three points!" On the bot points panel, a prompt pops up.

The people around also cheered: "Good counterattack!" Played beautifully! ”

The fighting boy was a little proud, and his spirit relaxed slightly. Unexpectedly, the sparring robot showed no mercy, and raised his knee and slammed it on the lower abdomen of the fighting boy.

"Poof!" The brad let out a scream, clutched his abdomen in pain, and crouched down.

The sparring robot did not hear the command to stop and attacked on its own.

Knock the brady straight to the ground, punches and kicks together.

The brad was hit in the vital position and couldn't even speak, let alone get up and fight back. fell to the ground this time, and he was beaten passively at all, and he had no ability to fight back at all. was directly beaten by a fighting robot for a while.

The people around him looked at the joke, pointing, hugging their shoulders and laughing.

"Bang bang! Bang bang bang! After a storm of fierce attacks, the fighting boy finally spoke: "Stop, stop!" ”

The sparring robot heard the command, made a soft sound, stopped the attack, and returned to a stunned state.

The brad clutched his abdomen and struggled to stand up. The whole body was covered with bruises and redness, and the whole person looked embarrassed.

He glared at the spectators unhappily. Angrily kicked the fighting robot.

Then he limped out of here.

The people around him began to point and point quietly.

"What a coward. Even the fighting robots in the basic mode can't beat them. ”

"Hah! Let the robot fight well. It's really enjoyable. ”

"Let's go, have a couple of drinks?"

"Wait a minute. Let's see if there are any fools coming over and fighting the robots. ”

……

After watching the excitement, Bai Ye continued to observe the surrounding situation.

He noticed that there were a lot of posters on the walls.

It is not surprising that there are posters on the walls of such places, and it can be said that there is no city cleaning at all. All kinds of strange graffiti, small advertisements, advertisements for pharmaceutical companies to recruit experimental questions, missing person notices, Hongcheng propaganda...... All sorts of things, everything. Advertisements are posted layer upon layer.

It's just that the poster that Bai Ye saw was particularly conspicuous. This poster is huge, fresh and eye-catching, and it looks like it was posted not long ago.

The main body of the poster is a burly swarthy man. The face is fierce and muscular, and he looks out with his shoulders crossed.

The title is: "Blade" won ten consecutive victories, and the Hongcheng points race ranked first!

There is also a line of small print below: [The $10 million grand prize, who will go in a week?] 】

Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, and then noticed that this was a ring match related to cyberspace?

The "blade" on the cover has two traces of silver metal threads on the arm.

With his name added, Hakuya speculated that he was a person who had been transformed by the mantis knife cyberprosthesis.

Obviously, those who have not undergone any prosthetic modifications will only lose when they fight against "Blade".

In other words, only the closed beta players in the "Night City" game are qualified to fight someone like "Blade".

In fact, there have already been ring competitions dominated by cyber prosthetic transformation fighters, and their influence is still very wide.

Has Hongcheng's cyber technology reached this level?