"Is this really Taiping Chau? Fuck me! That's a big change. ”

Jack drove into the Taiping Continent, where construction had restarted, his face full of shock, as did V and Xia Yu in the back seat.

Especially Xia Yu, no one knows better than him how much Taiping Continent has changed, after all, when he came to clean up last time, he had a thorough understanding of the top and bottom left and right here.

But now, he almost thought he was in the wrong place!

Hell, the unfinished buildings are being renovated, and they look like they once looked so dilapidated.

The number of homeless people who once filled the streets has also been greatly reduced, and those who have lost hope in life seem to have regained hope to move forward.

Crumbling infrastructure is being re-established, rampant gang violence is gone, and while residents walking the streets still rarely smile, at least there is some sparkle in the eyes of those who once looked godless.

"This Nima, is this really Taipingzhou?"

Jack drove slowly, looking at the new Taiping Chau, and he even saw that many people were repainting the walls and covering all the graffiti on the building with white paint.

If he read it correctly, the graffiti were the logos of the Voodoo Gang and the Scavengers, respectively, and a means for the gang to swear dominion.

But now it seems that everything is different, order seems to have returned here, and the gangs that once ruled here have been erased by the new white paint, like their own graffiti logos.

"Ahem, Jack, concentrate on driving, you almost hit someone."

V's reaction was not so big, after all, she had just returned to Night City, and she didn't feel much about the changes in Taiping Continent.

And even when she used to work in Night City, she had been shuttling between companies, and she never cared about this impoverished place.

"Oh, really, people here don't look at the road!"

Jack hurriedly twisted the steering wheel and drove the car back from the sidewalk back to the driveway, and couldn't help but curse a little.

After driving for a while, Jack asked, "Then let's go directly to the company called Metal Gear to find out the situation?" ”

"That's it if you go according to plan, but planning is not a panacea, it's more about improvisation." V shrugged and replied, she had always left the matter of intelligence to others, and this was the first time she had gone out in person.

Empirically, she certainly wasn't as good as Jack and the others, but she came with her because she knew how the company worked, and what information was important and what was hidden.

If she didn't do it herself, maybe Jack and the others directly found her a pile of garbage, and it would be for nothing.

"Improvisation?"

Jack muttered, and at this time, Xia Yu suddenly spoke: "Then I will set up an encrypted through route, which can avoid all inspections and let us go straight to the head office building of Metal Gear." ”

"Do you need time?" Jack turned his head and asked casually.

"Of course, it's only a few bottles of wine, and it won't be long."

"Then I'll go to the streets to inquire about intelligence, after all, I am most familiar with this, sometimes street intelligence can often bring some unexpected effects, just call me when you leave."

Jack said with a smile as he drove the car towards a nearby bar parking space.

After parking the car, Jack got out of the car and went straight to the bar, V didn't follow, she would look abrupt when she followed Jack in street dress.

Xia Yu just sat in the car and infiltrated the network, he really planned to find a direct route to encryption through his hacking skills.

If you do the task, you must be serious.

Seeing that Jack and Xia Yu were starting to do their own things, V had to lean on the seat with his hands on his chest and close his eyes to recuperate.

This operation brought her a lot of pressure, it can almost be said that she was walking on a tightrope, and if she failed, she would definitely fall off the tightrope and fall directly to pieces.

Let's hope everything goes well.

It didn't take long for the yellow stripes on Xia Yu's mask to light up, and he had returned from the online world.

"It's done, it's time for us to go."

Hearing this, V's eyes lit up with a streamer of data, and she was informing Jack.

A few minutes later, Jack also returned without incident.

"Drive, go!"

Jack, who was back in the driver's seat, held the steering wheel and drove forward, and he also received the route from Xia Yu.

After watching it for a while, Jack couldn't help but talk again, he couldn't be idle, even if he was driving, he had to chat and fart.

"Hey, do you know what I just heard at the bar?"

“……”

"What did you hear?"

Seeing that Xia Yu didn't mean to respond, V had to open his mouth and reply to Jack.

"I actually heard what they were talking about how good this new company was, I really don't know what kind of ecstasy soup this new company has poured into these people, and how they can still let a group of people who are under the company maintain the company like this."

While driving the car, Jack said with interest: "But I think this is at most just a hint of sweetness given to them by the company, and when the company uses these people, it will definitely sweep this group of idiots out of Taiping Island like garbage." ”

As he spoke, Jack sighed faintly: "But these people are actually quite pitiful, and I sympathize with these Haitians, because I feel that they are somewhat similar to the Heywoods." ”

Heywood is home to Latino immigrants, predominantly Mexican.

Although they are also Latino immigrants, Haitian immigrants settled in Taiping Chau after the island was destroyed and were not able to integrate into Heywood.

As a result, the two waves of people formed different cultures, and even their customs and beliefs were different.

The biggest difference is that they Heywood can accept other immigrants, but not in Taipingzhou, where outsiders are extremely unwelcoming to the local population.

But now that Taiping Zhou has been toppled and reset, those habits and strange customs and beliefs should also be changed.

"Don't be so pessimistic, maybe this new company is a conscientious company, don't you think the current Taipingzhou is changing in a good direction?"

Xia Yu sat in the back seat and gave a different point of view, how to say that Metal Gear is also his company, then he designated to say something good.

And he is telling the truth, because he has a conscience, so his company must also have a conscience.

The inhabitants of this world have to thank the time-travelers for being above the moral level of the aborigines, after all, according to normal circumstances, except for some special circumstances, the vast majority of people who grow up in civilized societies will have a conscience.

It just so happens that he has no special circumstances, so even if he has been in this world for so long, he still has a conscience, and he can still memorize the core values of the 24 characters.

"I said, do you think too well of the company?"

Regarding Xia Yu's statement, Jack disagreed: "Todos los cuervos son negros (the world is as black as a crow), no matter where they are, no matter what kind of company, they will not have a conscience. ”

"Alright, we're almost there."

While chatting and driving, Jack had already driven to the destination given by Xia Yu, and I have to say that the road was indeed smooth, and they did not encounter the checkpoint at all.

After driving the car to the parking position given by Xia Yu, Jack got out of the car and opened the trunk, and took out his two favorite kinetic pistols from it.

"I'm going to dye this thing golden sooner or later."

While testing the smoothness of the pistol, Jack showed V his love for the gun: "And I even have a name in mind, and when it is dyed gold, I will change the name of this gun to the Golden Cruel Woman." ”

"Cheesy, what age is it, and golden weapons are used."

Xia Yu complained about Jack's aesthetics, and at the same time took out his own secluded crane feather from the trunk, and said with some yearning after waving it.

"If you want me to say, it's better to look neon, sooner or later I'll have to cut people with a long knife that flashes neon, it's just handsome."

"You want to take a lamp and cut someone?"

For Xia Yu's aesthetics, Jack is also a little disgusted, who would cut people with colored light tubes? It's just weird, okay.

"What? Do you want to test if my knife is fast or not? ”

"My guns aren't unpleasant!"

Looking at Xia Yu and Jack, who suddenly quarreled like children, V couldn't help but cover his forehead and sigh, when has this been, and he is still arguing over these trivial things.

"Alright, you two, do you only have two small pistols and a cold weapon long knife? There is no more powerful weapon? ”

V looked at Xia Yu who was holding a long knife and Jack who was holding a gun in both hands, and couldn't help frowning and asked.

I don't even have a submachine gun, so how can I break through if I am discovered?

"Don't worry, V, don't look at the ghost's weapon is just a long knife, but that's much more powerful than a submachine gun."

Jack arched V with his elbow and gave a reassuring look, but V rolled his eyes at Jack's words, not at all relieved.

She hadn't seen Xia Yu's strength, and until now, she only thought that Xia Yu was a high-end hacker with a little combat effectiveness and no need for a hacker chair.

"Take these, I'm glad I'm well prepared."

V took out the box he had brought from the trunk and opened it on the ground, revealing the weapons inside.

"TKI-20 Shingen, a smart submachine gun made by Arasaka, can fire tracking bullets at high speed, which is much better than the two little guys in your hand."

"Don't talk nonsense, they're big steel cannons."

Jack put away his twin guns a little stupidly, although he didn't want to admit it, but the weapons that V brought were indeed better than his two guns.

"And you, put your long knife away and use this."

V took out a kinetic assault rifle and handed it to Xia Yu, but Xia Yu just shook his head and said, "Seriously, I'm still more used to using knives than guns, and it's a pure waste to give it to me." ”

Although Xia Yu was telling the truth, in V's ears, it was that this hacker didn't know how to use a gun, so she didn't insist anymore and handed the gun to Jack directly.

"Still let me hold it?"

Somewhat speechless, Jack took the gun and slung it on his shoulder, now he was like a humanoid arsenal, carrying four guns, two of which were submachine guns and rifles.