Chapter 22: The Siege
"! Broom head, you're a psychopath! ”
Warren Stein's side kicked Li Pan out of the ghoul's communication channel as soon as possible.
Well, killing the three-headed dog, there will definitely be consequences.
Although the public safety system in Taiping District has been taken offline at this time, there will be no criminal record without monitoring. However, according to Li Pan's understanding of the military organization, which can mobilize spider-like auxiliary operations on a large scale, the local sweeping troops must have built their own anti-jamming military communication local area network.
The drone also scanned and uploaded his psychiatric report, and as long as the people in the war zone are not stupid, they also know that the murder has nothing to do with him. Presumably, the nearby drones must have received Li Pan's humanoid images and killing commands now.
Li Fan doesn't care, as long as he escapes. The three-headed dog still doesn't dare to kill people under public surveillance, probably......
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The orange-red fireballs that rose up blocked the retreat, and the drones dropped cluster bombs and incendiary bombs from a long-range artillery bombardment, bombarding them wildly, turning all the blocks leading to the exit of the highway in Taiping District into a sea of fire.
It's very decisive, and it's good to have a company to reimburse the ammunition expenses.
But Li Pan didn't stop, but rushed to the explosion zone with the line of fire.
Can't stop, can't detour, the soldier he killed just now was obviously in charge of the guard of a large area nearby, so he dared to ignore the wartime rules and military discipline, and swaggered out to blackmail the ghouls.
So if you don't take advantage of the fact that there are no other living people nearby, and escape before the three-headed dog army surrounds you to take revenge, you will definitely die.
Although the three-headed dog also reacted quickly and blocked the retreat with incendiary grenades, this was a means of intercepting the combat troops.
Silly, grandpa is Superman! Just jump over the wall of fire!
So Li Pan quickly used Xingtian to calculate, quickly found a way out in the sea of fire, and then ran with all his strength according to the planned route, climbed the nearby apartment building, and parked and leaped wildly between the corridors.
Don't say it, the fourth-level life form is strong, it is strong, and you can go up to more than ten floors in one breath without breathing, and Li Pan has also comprehended the 'light gong', as long as you adjust your breathing, infuse the strength in your body into your legs, and kick hard, the whole person will jump up like a frog with a spring!
Whoosh, sprint from the rooftops of more than a dozen floors, jump and soar between high-rise buildings, and then sprint, in one go, across the sea of fire at once! Fall into the high-speed isolation zone!
I have to say that it was quite exciting, Li Pan turned over more than a dozen times in a row, and hit his head on the protective fence before stopping. If this were an ordinary person, the whole person would have fallen like a meatloaf, but he felt okay, and he didn't even wear a formal suit, just a little dust.
Well, if you learn it, it seems that you won't have to wait for the elevator in the future.
"Bang!"
As soon as he got up from the ground, Li Pan suddenly felt as if he had been punched hard in the back, and when he fell to the ground, he saw his right hand fly out with a large piece of limb flesh.
The fourth-level bulletproof vest is useless at all, it's the same as the paper paste, and the fourth-level strengthened body is the same, it's just a bloody tofu, and it will be broken with a snap.
Sniper, through the cover of the building complex, hit by the interference of the turbulence of the sea of fire, Made's group of wild dogs is quite powerful.
And if the other party has this kind of strength, he can obviously kill with a headshot, but he only hits his right hand, probably because he still wants to have two more shots of him.
Sure enough, the pest treatment troops are all mentally ill.
Li Pan couldn't care about anything else, so he immediately inserted the strengthening pill into his neck and filled it, and at the same time grabbed a handful of the wound on the right limb, twisted the blood vessels and muscles together, and then grabbed the containment tank with one hand, and fled with his waist against the highway.
It hurts, the half-pulled body was torn apart by shrapnel, of course it hurts, ordinary people probably go straight to the point of shock and fainting, but Li Pan has experience in breaking his hand, and now the strength of his body is really a lot better.
So he was obviously smashed by a shot, but he didn't snort, and he simply ran away neatly when he got up.
The three-headed dog didn't fire a second shot.
I guess I found a fun toy and wanted to keep it for a while.
Considering that Xingtian was forcibly linked by the three-headed dog just now, and may have been tracked by hackers, Li Pan ran all the way, and did not dare to log in to QVN to shout for help after escaping to the public area. But fortunately, now he is in the urban area, and the roadside traffic terminal called a smart taxi, and directly took the company to the backstop.
In the City of Nights, you may not even be able to trust life and death, but you can always trust taxis.
After all, your brother may let your pigeon sell you when you run away, but the taxi will be waiting for you at the right place at the right time.
Because taxis belong to the public transportation system, they are fully intelligent, autonomous, and intelligently operated. In other words, there is no emotion and no interest in the established procedure, so as long as you are a law-abiding citizen, you can use the public transportation system to reach any corner of human civilization.
Of course, the disadvantages of this system are also obvious, first, first of all, you have to be a citizen who can access the system, and you are not wanted by the security system. Second, expensive, expensive to die.
It's really expensive, take a floating drop, go directly to the company's parking apron, less than ten minutes by car, a starting price actually costs 400 yuan!? Orange's grocery cart seems to be only 13,000 in total, right? If he can get a 50% discount on second-hand use, maybe he should buy a car......
Li Pan was bleeding all the way, came to the office, and returned to the file with the filing cabinet.
This time, not only his hands, but also his formal wear were reset together, and it was clear that the Guardian, as a contractual partner of the company's employees, was also protected by the filing cabinet.
However, the ability of the filing cabinet obviously has a limit, at least the fourth-level strengthened body that Li Pan obtained with "Nine Yin Refining Form" belongs to the so-called 'non-reset', and there is no need to repeat cultivation, but as soon as he relaxes, Li Pan can also clearly feel that he escaped just now, and his 'internal strength' has been consumed a lot, and it has not been reset, and it seems that he still has to re-cultivate by himself every night.
It's just that this time it's not as good luck as the previous two days, probably the severed limb is more serious than the internal injury, although Li Pan was restored to its original state, but the 49,500 prosthetic system was also reset together. The Xingtian and ballistic processors are gone.
Well, anyway, Xingtian may have been registered by the three-headed dog, and it doesn't matter what kind of puppet is installed, the reset will be reset. But his ballistic processor is left-handed, left-handed! Why do you want to wash it off together! It's too much!
And you don't have to ask, prosthetic plug-ins can be reset, and unpaid loans are obviously 'non-reset'.
Alas, I can't afford to hurt, but I really can't afford to hurt......
It's not good to be so neat, the system networking chip is so expensive, who can afford to reset it all the time! Is there any other way......
"Yes. If you don't want to install a built-in chip and want to surf the Internet, use Mewtwo glasses. Oh, aren't you a military communicator, just change it. ”
Because the No. 7 warehouse has not yet been renovated, the technical consultant on the first day of work, No. 18, is studying the old-fashioned computer, stretching out two index fingers, clicking on the keyboard one by one, writing a daily report.
She was also idle and had nothing to do, so she helped Li Pan easily, dismantled the gas mask he rented, took out the built-in headset used by the mercenary team to contact from it, linked it with the terminal tablet, downloaded the UI and reprogrammed, and soon helped Li Pan to access the QVN account by voice.
"Citizen Li Pan, account cash 783.17 ......"
"Awesome, it's really networked......"
Listening to the electronic sound from the microphone, Li Pan was speechless.
The eighteenth got it with his hands, and started to bang again, da, da, and hit the keyboard,
"The security system was originally designed for military communication networks, and this is also the reason why you have to serve in the military to obtain citizenship, as long as there is an account and an input terminal, you can link, but the old-fashioned external access equipment is too insecure and easy to lose and damage, so it is gradually replaced by a built-in brain plug.
If you really want to use an external terminal, when the big snake is installed, I can build a separate server for company members, the device is only adjusted to the accessor, and the browsing history and account will be retained in the cloud. This allows you to access the Internet even without a personal chip.
It's just that in this way, the records of your access to the public safety system will be kept on file in the company's server, so it doesn't matter? ”
"It's okay, it's just an emergency, anyway, I don't use the company computer to watch movies. Whole. ”
There are a lot of external network access terminals, the most typical ones are old-fashioned VR glasses or something, now the popular brain plug and built-in chip on the market, those eye headset tablets or something, they are all civilian equipment, patents have been published, any electronics factory workshop, can be 3D printing, DIY assembly, become a small toy for geeks.
The external equipment still on sale on the market is mainly military products, special equipment used to combat electromagnetic environment and ECM interference. Although it is not necessarily much cheaper than an implantable chip, and it lacks a lot of the latest technology, and the system is worse than one version, at least it will not be reset by the filing cabinet along with it.
Eighteen holds his chin,
"But I suggest you install the latest version of the access chip, after all, there is no absolute security field on the network, even HT's chaos server is not unbreakable, you are a legal citizen, and it is better to have system support than nothing.
What's more, I only have one big snake, if the top hacker team really comes in, don't blame me for stealing your account, I will definitely be done by then. ”
Li Pan smiled, "It's okay, I believe in your skills, not to mention that I am so kind, there are less than eight hundred yuan in my account, what kind of hacker and idle egg pain to steal my number." ”
Eighteen looked at Ah Qi, who was mopping the floor at the door of the company, cleaning a large area of blood on the ground, and looked at Li Pan, who was 'kind', with a suspicious gaze. But in the end, the other party is the top boss, and helping the general manager repair the computer is also a part of technical support, so there is no need to say more.
Li Pan glanced at it and saw that she was looking at the system log of the technical department on the computer, and then remembered that there was still a technical department in the building that had not been cleaned.
"By the way, do you have a way to turn off those drones in the technical department?"
The manager talked about business, and Eighteen also said seriously,
"The head office has sent me the equipment records of the technical department, although the company is off from the network, but the technical department has a network port, you can buy the latest military drones, built-in high-energy batteries to carry interference, physical access, it is equivalent to a mobile subnet server. When the time comes, as long as I give me permission, I can take over the access control and security network again.
But hackers are not omnipotent, I am just a network programmer, considering that there may be equipment damage in the technical department, it is best to need engineers with electrical and mechanical related majors to support and collaborate. ”
"Oh, I'm an engineer, as long as I have the model of the equipment and the blueprint of the design when I bought it, I can maintain ......it."
Li Pan suddenly reacted,
"Wait, eighteen, you're saying it's the work of three people, right? General manager authorization, programmer takeover, engineer repair? ”
Eighteen was inexplicable, "yes, what's wrong?" ”
Li Pan nodded solemnly, "That's right!" How can I do the work of two people by myself! I want a raise! If you don't give me a raise, I'll hire someone again! Can't get used to this group of capitalists! ”
“……”
Eighteen squinted at his boss, thinking that this guy might be sicker than he was, and he needed to take some medicine.
At this time, Ah Qi, who came to wash the mop, held up the sign,
'Before entering the technical department, it is best to send someone to reconnoiter to ensure the safety of the technician. Park security guards are not allowed to enter the office, and it is best to sign a special armed guard. ’
Li Pan praised, "That's right! Aqi, you're so right! Security guard! You have to hire a security guard! I don't even have a security guard when I go out! It's so cheap! ”
Ah Qi, 'You should give priority to recruiting personnel, after all, our company's turnover rate is quite high, and the efficiency of our interviews one by one is too low, and we need professional talents. And you're alright? Why are the pants still dripping blood? ’
"Oh, it's okay, it's the meat in your pocket that is crushed...... Li Pan thought for a while, "That's okay, Ah Qi, you come to interview and recruit people." Eighteen, you make a list, what equipment you need, just buy. I'm out on a field job. ”
So Li Pan casually picked a 'monster containment mission', applied for a social car, went to the church of the Lover's Gang first, and sent the things retrieved from the Taiping District to the pastor.
"It's rare for you to make a special trip...... What is it? Can't you put it together in a jar? ”
The pastor just wanted to shake hands, and then frowned and watched Li Pan take it out of his trouser pocket and stuff it into a bloody mess in his hand.
"The heart of the enemy, didn't you say that you were going to hold a mourning party? Let's use this to honor the spirits of the whole family in the sky. ”
Li Pan explained seriously.
"Uh...... Maybe it's a cultural difference, we usually only use the relics of the deceased to remember, and generally don't use the enemy's internal organs and blood sacrifices, but we have received your heart. ”
The priest was also a sweater, and hurriedly stuffed the heart and liver in his hand to the bodyguard, and wiped his hands with a tissue.
"I contacted Lena's relatives because there is a vacancy and they are in the process of applying for a temporary residence permit at the immigration office, and will notify you when the funeral time is confirmed."
Li Pan shook his head, "I still don't bother, so as not to cause trouble again......"
The pastor shook his head, "Don't worry too much, many times we act out of good intentions, but we don't necessarily get good results. But this is by no means the fault of the good deeds themselves. It's the world that's wrong. ”
Li Pan nodded again and again, "There is really something wrong with this world, but I am also serious, the person who killed the three-headed dog may be shot at any time recently, so I will not run around and implicate the innocent." ”
The priest looked at the rotten lump of meat silently and said, "All right, then may the Lord bless you......"
Li Pan is quite apologetic to the pastor, after all, a big man like the other party, if it weren't for the monster company represented by Li Pan, he probably wouldn't have been guilty of subsidizing the big bear's family and helping them move, and now he is also arranging the funeral, losing a lot of money.
However, the pastor didn't mention the money, and prepared the resume that Li Pan entrusted him to screen, obviously the other party cared more about the relationship with the company and the personal friendship with Li Pan, the general manager.
Many friends and many roads, Li Pan knows that there is a well-connected boss like a priest to help him in the night, and things are much easier. He tossed with Ah Qi for a day yesterday, and he recruited eighteen of them, and Kotaro was still assessing.
Looking through the resumes given by the pastor, there are about 30 people, all of whom have more than 20 years of work experience, and a large family of skilled workers, blue-collar workers, and drivers. All of them are innocent, and the highest criminal record is only a car violation, and they are all kind citizens who work hard and pay taxes in the city. It's really reassuring.
It's just that they are a little too honest, after all, most of these people are migrant workers who have applied for temporary residence permits, and there is not a single 'citizen', so naturally they cannot enjoy various benefits at the system level, let alone risk being deported to commit crimes. So strictly speaking, they don't quite meet the employment requirements of Monster Corporation.
But Li Pan also knows that as long as there is a bite to eat, even if these people know the risks of the monster company, they would rather 'die of a work injury' on the job.
After all, if there is no permanent employment contract for a long time, the migrant workers will have their temporary residence permits revoked, they will lose their eligibility to rent cheap apartments, and their families will be driven to live in garbage dumps, and eventually they will either become gangs or be forced to flee outside the night capital, where they will struggle to survive in the heavily polluted wilderness garbage dumps.
Compared to the township settlements full of doomsday radiation, mutant cockroaches, out-of-control weapons, armed rebels and exiles, and even the purgatory on earth, such as the Night City, where the Dead Man's Lotto climbs to new heights every day, the people outside look like paradise, waiting in line to immigrate in to make firewood.
People in the city want to go out, people outside the city want to come in, this is the capital of the night.