In the dark night, the manticore-tailed float leaps through the wasteland of the Badlands, like a black falcon walking alone in the sky, floating alone in the moonlit and starry sky.

Kitagawa Hiroshi had an impetuous expression and fidgeted in the driver's seat, his eyes glancing at the display screen in the car from time to time.

At this time, the screen is displayed on the monitoring screen behind the floating car.

Not long ago, he could see a figure floating down on the screen, landing on the floating car that was traveling far away.

Unfortunately, the two of them went in opposite directions, and the light of the floating car soon disappeared in the vast darkness of the night, like a star that dissipated before dawn.

Now, the dark night serves as a curtain, and the lower half of the land is full of black tide-like loess Gobi at a glance, and the sparse desert vegetation also adds a bit of depression to this bad land.

It was a dark scene, with no light in sight.

It's so rare that even the members of the Wanderer Clan, the Blade Society, and other organizations wandering in the Badlands can't see it, it's a dead land, and fine grains of sand waft in the air.

In addition to the fact that this is a barren land where birds don't poop, another important reason for this phenomenon is that large areas of the area are deeply buried with many wartime mines.

Aside from the wanderers who take risks and make a living from their own unique smuggling routes, there are hardly any living creatures here.

The shrubs and vegetation blown by the wind and sand are the only thing that has life here.

However, it is precisely because it is this kind of barren place that Kitagawa Hiroshi feels inexplicably irritable.

It's too remote and too far from Night City!

Kitagawa Hao really couldn't understand why Lin Mo wanted to let himself not turn back, and just drove the floating car in the direction of Night City.

He believed that with Lin Jun's strength, it would definitely not be a problem to successfully kill that big man, but after that, how should Lin Jun return to the world of human civilization?

It's impossible to run back to Night City on your legs!

Moreover, thinking of what Lin Jun said to him before leaving, and his look of relief that ushered in the end, until now, Beichuan Hao still felt that there were countless doubts plaguing him in his heart.

But no matter how much you doubt, Lin Jun's order is still greater than everything.

Kitagawa endured the discomfort in his heart and continued to control the floating car towards the city with a sea of lights.

The journey was safe and sound, only accompanied by the night breeze.

As the distance from the city gradually approached, Kitagawa Hiroshi could even vaguely see the road through the wasteland.

Inadvertently, he glanced at the display again.

This time, he froze.

The fiery red star fell from the sky, dragging the long tail of the bright flame, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark sky, and a sharp sound of breaking the sky could be faintly heard.

The silent wasteland was like the silence before the rainstorm at the moment, until the red star fell to the earth and burst through the night sky like thunder.

All sounds have become false, and only the incomparable blasting sound is left between heaven and earth.

Without hesitation, Kitagawa Hiroshi immediately closed his eyes, completely blocked out his hearing enhancer, and the whole person shrank under the seat.

The mushroom cloud rose from the ground, sweeping this violent energy in all directions, the crimson fire and the ink-stained smoke blended together, setting off a frenzied wind, and the breath of death accompanied it into the distance.

The Manticore float shook a few times, then floated smoothly in the sky, heading towards Night City.

Kitagawa Hao gasped and reluctantly sat back in his chair, his irritability and anxiety completely disappeared at this time, and only shock and confusion remained in his heart.

"Lin Jun—" he muttered as if in a dream, and he didn't even have to guess to know who caused the explosion.

Almost instantly, Lin Mo's words before parting lingered in his mind.

"When the sun appears, you will understand everything."

Kitagawa Hiroshi instantly realized.

It turns out that the so-called sun, is this explosion?

Kitagawa Hiroshi didn't know what mood he should be in to face the scene in front of him,

Shock? Frightened? Suddenly?

All kinds of complex emotions are mixed in the heart, and Kitagawa Hiroshi doesn't know how to deal with it.

He barely took a breath of cold air, calmed down, and then strengthened his mind, and flew the floating car in the direction of Night City.

While there are many things he doesn't know now, there is also one thing he only understands.

That's what Lin Mo said to him:

"I'm not going to die!"

Even though it's the power of the sun.

......

......

On the viaduct in the city.

"We've finally done a big deal! Damn, I'm so happy, David, have you seen it, my cannon pole! Those company dogs still think they are invincible in a floating car! But they ignored my cannon, and with a few bursts of smoke! ”

An ordinary business vehicle was driving on the bridge, and it had already left the scene, and Jack and others, who were disguised as company people, were sitting in the car, and only Jack's excited voice kept sounding in the small space.

David was dressed in a sophisticated suit and looked like a professional driver.

In the face of Jack's excited shouts, he didn't show so passion, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he nodded from time to time. His eyes looked deep ahead.

Jack sat in the back seat of the car, his body kept swaying, as if he was dancing, and then he stretched out his hand, patted the strong man beside him, and exclaimed:

"Of course, there is also our big brother, if you didn't take a hand next to me, maybe Lao Tzu would really run away in disgrace, damn, it's not cool just to think about it, those company dogs really can't afford to play, and they still want to attack from under the building, the routine is really dirty!"

The strong man looked out of the car window indifferently, and the godless prosthetic eye reflected the city under the viaduct.

He was happy, but not happy, and he didn't know why.

It's good to kill the person who kills Moore Technology, but no matter how you kill it, the figure of Momo Lake in my mind is still gone.

I'll never see you again...

Seeing that he didn't react for a long time, Jack thought for a while, his eyes wandering away from the strong man.

His massive body took up the position of two people, and if he hadn't been properly treated in the institute and replaced most of the high-load prostheses in his body with light-duty prostheses, he might not have been able to get into the car.

"By the way, big brother, I haven't asked you what to call it, we both beat Moore Technology again, we can be regarded as brothers in trouble, and we will share blessings in the future, you can't be absent." Jack elbowed the other man.

The strong man moved slightly, like a thinker coming back from his contemplation, and he turned his head to look at Jack blankly, without any joy on his face.

"I don't know... Call it a madman... A lot of doctors, they call me that. ”

"Crazy? Wouldn't it be embarrassing for me if I used this word to scold someone one day, and you suddenly turned around and shouted? Jack shook his head and vetoed.

The strong man asked sneeringly, "That... What is it called... Test subjects? ”

Jack took a good look at the strong man, observing the traces of his prosthetic body, and suddenly stopped his gaze on his arm.

"Are your hands implanted with mantis knives?" Jack asked, surprised.

The strong man nodded in a daze, and with a click, his two arms suddenly "opened", his skin completed its transformation like a transformer, and two shiny blades similar to the shape of the front limbs of the praying mantis appeared in the small car.

Jack was startled, and quickly shrank to the corner of the car, only to see that the strong man's mantis knife had cut the top cover of the car.

", brother, don't show your big baby here!" Jack hurriedly shouted.

The strong man was stunned and nodded:

"Oh."

The mantis shrank sharply, and the skin armor that had been stretched out returned to its original position, and the strong man continued to sit in place like a good baby.

Jack breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but complain:

"I didn't expect you to have this thing, why haven't I seen you use it... Do you remember what happened that night? I thought you were more used to using a katana. ”

"That night—" The strong man lowered his head in thought, and vaguely remembered what had happened at Lizzy's Bar.

"Remember, the boss was strong and fast, it was too late to use his hands ... Only use a knife. He muttered.

It seems that it will take a little time to pop out the mantis knife, so it is too late...... Jack thought for a moment, and understood what the strong man meant.

He thought for a while, smiled and patted the strong man's shoulder, and asked:

"I remember that the user of the mantis knife could walk on the wall like a gecko if he was skilled, can you?"

The strong man blinked, then nodded.

"Yes."

"That's good, I'll call you a gecko from now on, what do you think, brother." Jack suggested with a smile.

The strong man did not hesitate and continued to nod.

"That's decent, don't choose a nice name, if our brothers become legends in the future, but everyone is saying that Jack's good partner is crazy, how bad it is." Jack laughed.

The gecko's face was expressionless, and he couldn't understand what Jack meant.

"Forget it, you'll understand it later." Jack looked like a passerby, lying relaxed in his seat, turning his head to look out the car window.

"This time, we will definitely make a sensation all over the world......"

As soon as the words fell, a white light lit up in the distance of the city, interrupting Jack's words.

This was followed by a crimson fireworks, followed by an explosion that shook the city.

Jack was stunned, his fledgling ambition completely vanished in the explosion.

At this moment, he felt his insignificance in front of this force.

"My Heavenly Father......" He couldn't help but burst out his native language, his expression stunned.

Not only him, but even David in the driver's seat was stunned, and subconsciously turned on the autopilot mode of the car, and then the whole person's vision was only the mushroom cloud rising from the wasteland in the distance.

The car was driving on the viaduct, and the night sky was as bright as day tonight.