Half an hour later, the car stopped on the side of the road.

The reason is that there is no gas.

"When it comes to gasoline, I have some spare ones in the mechanical storage box I have." Nanami said as she pulled out her new weapon, an EMP stick, from the car.

Li Nuo changed back into the black Order's coat of the priest, walked out of the car with the failed decoction, threw the potion to the ground in disappointment, and said: "The car fuel in the cyber world is not gasoline, it is CHOOH2, a biofuel similar to super ethanol. ”

Michiko also got out of the car and threw Nanami a chip.

"See for yourself, silly girl, I don't know this."

Nanami pouted and inserted the chip: "After 2020, in the global oil crisis, CHOOH2 replaced traditional fossil fuels and became the main source of energy. This thing...... Isn't it biodiesel? ”

Li Nuo put the rewarded book "Alzu's Alchemy" into the compartment of his backpack, knocked on the fuel tank, and raised his eyebrows.

"Different regions and different countries are very different in terms of science and technology in terms of civilian base, although you can see high-end vehicles floating cars when you look up, but this kind of high-tech products on the background of the social form is completely impossible to directly popularize to the extent of the streets and alleys, economic development, social form, resource distribution, etc. do not support will become this kind of scene, can only say that in the kind of oligopoly and capitalism is extremely expanded, the distribution of social resources is deformed, the top people go out to fly in the sky, the rich middle class drives a good car, Civilians at the bottom drive assembled cars. ”

"Understand, boy." Michiko was a little appreciative: "Mr. Priest, if you have to die this time, do you want to be my exclusive mercenary?" ”

"Tell me how far the scavenger's lair is away." Li Nuo said.

Michiko looked at a hill behind Li Nuo: "See there, optical camouflage projector, building hidden on the hill, inside is the scavenger's lair." ”

Cha Bai activated the prosthetic eye: "There is a thermal energy reaction. ”

"High-tech,......" Li Nuo sighed, "How did I not know that an underground organization like a scavenger still has this level of technology." ”

He walked that way with his head in his hands.

Michiko said on the road: "The reflective layer material projected by the satellite system is, to put it bluntly, actually a means of military science and technology. ”

"Military science and technology...... Working with a scavenger? Nanami wondered.

"It's not cooperation, it's subordination, in the past, the American continent was chaotic, and scavengers could make trouble everywhere, but now it's unified, they are still alive and chic, and they kidnap a few honest people when they have nothing to do, pull out people's prosthetics and sell them, and they don't even keep their brains, why do you think they can be so rampant?" Michiko said with a smile: "Every time a scavenger attack occurs, the police are pretentious to be present after the attack is over, and our middlemen have not received a large-scale extermination commission for scavengers in the past two years, and the reason from beginning to end is not that there are people above." ”

Li Nuo: "Thieves with troops." ”

Michiko bowed: "Yes, that's right, I don't know how crazy President Myers is, using this group of scavengers to dissect monsters to make weapons, she has put all the violent groups she can use into her pocket." ”

She took a few steps forward, staggered an angle, and continued to move forward for nearly a hundred meters.

A building that could not be seen on the highway suddenly appeared, distorting the light and the scene like a mirage.

Factory.

A factory that smells of blood.

"Hmm...... The situation of the scavengers is a bit like the Devil Gang in Kowloon. Li Nuo took a sharp breath, the smell of rotten flesh became stronger and stronger, and there was a V breath, but it was too weak, and it was almost covered by the smell of blood.

"But the Devil Gang is different, they still have a slight relationship with the internal struggle of politics, in short, we low-level maggots don't understand and don't understand." Michiko paused: "Hey...... What are you going to do? ”

Li Nuo was rolling up his sleeves: "Huh? ”

Nanami also looked back: "Huh? ”

Cha Bai explained: "Needless to say, since they have the support of the new United States, they must have a lot of resources. ”

Michiko looked at them with a strange gaze.

Cairo-kun said knowingly: "Understood, it's a disaster!" ”

Li Nuo praised: "It's worthy of being an interstellar pirate, I know it very well." ”

Cairo-kun didn't understand, but he thought he was praising it, so he covered his face and smiled shyly: "(づど) Hehe~"

Although the goal is V, the player is like a dog, how can a wild dog not rummage through the dumpster.

"Change the word, open the blind box." Li Nuo licked his lips and walked over.

There was the sound of a car driving behind him.

Nanami: "Another one." ”

The off-road vehicle stopped nearby, Xing Kai got out of the car, holding a piece of rye bread: "Yo~"

Li Nuo pointed to the top of the hill: "Kill the scavenger, are you interested?" ”

"Let's get down to business first." Xing Kai didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "My mission line finally got a chip password key, which is linked with the swordsman line. ”

"That Sumi is a swordsman's line...... Let's wait for her to come. Nanami said.

Li Nuo let out a "hmm", retracted his gaze, turned around, and tapped his cane on the ground: "Chabai, stay to protect Miss Michiko and Cairo-kun, by the way, Nie Chuang is still in the car." After a while when we entered, he waited at the door with them. If there are reinforcements appearing, they will be addressed here. ”

Another layer of meaning is that "your own people" need to watch Cairo-kun.

Chabai: "Are you alone?" ”

Li Nuo snapped his fingers: "Who went in with me?" ”

"In addition to killing the scavenger, the main purpose is to save V, right?" Xing Kai shrugged his shoulders: "In case she is dying, I may be useful." ”

He followed Li Nuo, and Nanami consciously followed.

Cha Bai looked at Li Nuo's back, and there was a look of worry hidden in his eyes covered by goggles.

The imprint of the tongue coating has been heating up.

【Evoking Brand】

[Demon or unspeakable magic, can also be called a curse, you can choose a shell for the demon's soul to carry its weight, but be aware that the strength of the shell must be equal to the strength of the demon itself, otherwise it will be unhappy and turn you into a madman with its mind]

Through the feedback from the events in Nine Dragons, she was sure that when the demon appeared nearby, the [Evoking Brand] would generate heat.

"Li Nuo......"

……

"Li Nuo, what are you doing with an NPC?" Nanami means Michiko.

"Middleman, we need this kind of information monger." Li Nuo's pupils glanced to the side.

Nanami asked, "About the Mirror Master......"

Li Nuo: "Don't ask, don't think, he can read what is going on in our heads, and before everyone gathers, there is one step at a time." ”

Nanami let out an "um" and then turned back: "Who?" ”

Li Nuo and Xing Kai stopped, looking inexplicably at Nanami and her empty behind.

"I ......" Nanami was a little surprised: "I just heard someone talking behind me......"

"Say what?" Li Nuo asked.

Nanami: "I don't understand...... But it always feels like it's calling me ......"

At this point, they heard the sound of the system:

[Reminder, the closer you get to Night City, the more dangerous it is in your ears]

"Old Gods?" Xing Kai was puzzled: "I remember you said that in the script of "The Witcher", the convergence of the celestial spheres led to the invasion of "Bloodborne Curse". ”

He looked at Lino.

"Hmm......" Li Nuo glanced around: "I don't know." ”

No one knows what he's thinking, only he knows, and it's better not to think about anything now.

Nanami's eyes trembled slightly, she turned her head invisibly, and asked cautiously, "But why, only I can hear it." ”

Xing Kai: "I have high medical values and passive resistance skills. ”

Li Nuo: "I have low health stats and have passive resistance skills. ”

Nanami took a deep breath and felt that she couldn't talk anymore, so she walked towards the factory first.

Xing Kai walked behind and asked, "Have you seen Annabelle?" ”

Li Nuo bowed: "Well, she asked me to find you back." ”

Xing Kai laughed: "Ha...... Funny woman. ”

Li Nuo asked, "Don't care?" ”

Xing Kai: "Game life, there is no need to care. ”

When people are lying, the micro-expressions are obvious, and the pupils, corners of the eyes, lips, and subtle changes can see the traces of lies.

For example, as Marger puts it, his pupils move to the right, or, when he doesn't mean it, his eyes look at an area that reassures him.

Xing Kai subconsciously glanced at the sky behind the dark clouds in the distance.

Li Nuo looked at this [Rescuer] carefully, with curly hair, beard, tall man, and a lazy face, similar to the black-haired Sakata Gintoki who ran out of the theater of "Gintama".

"Alright, it's ......" Nanami pulled out a pair of glasses and put them on.

Idiosyncratic body temperature sensing goggles.

The moment she put on the goggles, the transmission tube connected to her neck emitted a faint red light, which made Nanami's head body temperature stabilize at 38.8 degrees, and she felt a trance of high fever and dizziness, but at the same time, the environmental information received by the sensors in her body was also conveyed to her.

She could see light and colors invisible to humans, the monotonous and dim hills took on a different look, and the electromagnetic waves that transmitted electricity and signals shrouded the entire vision in a twilight glow.

All human signs obscured by optical camouflage are visible on the glasses.

"There are thirty-two people in total, not many, but there is a big guy."

Nanami took two steps to the side.

One heeled shoe, the other mechanical leg, with a strange step that looks like a cat and a crab mixed together.

"Damn...... There were forty-six people with a cold body temperature, and about seventeen things that were not human. ”

"Miss...... What kind of high-tech is this for you? Xing Kai asked.

"Do you want it?" Nanami looked over: "First amputate the leg, and then connect the sensor from the bone to the head, and the whole process can not be anesthetic, you must stay awake at all times to adjust the vision." ”

Even Li Nuo felt that this girl was really ruthless...... In order to live the script, I don't even care if I can live in reality.

"I'm going to live in Basel." Nanami seemed to know what they were thinking, and said: "Anyway, I can't live in reality without two arms, why don't you be bold, it's nothing more than being a disabled person, it's the same thing." ”

"Don't talk nonsense......" Li Nuo didn't have the heart to joke today, V is very important, and he must be rescued as soon as possible: "Consult the two of you, are we going to break in or sneak in?" ”

"Is there a difference?"

"Yes."

At this time, Xing Kai asked a question that should not be asked: "Why are you wearing a helmet?" ”

Li Nuo took off his helmet.

Xing Kai and Nanami almost pumped over.

The mirror had an hour to go before the expiration of the time limit for changing his face, during which time his face was a weapon of mental pollution.

Li Nuo put on his helmet and walked over with a cane.

The two men holding the door were holding rifles, and they did not panic or have other emotions when they saw Li Nuo's appearance.

Obviously, it is frequented by the lost.

As for what the consequences are for those who patronize, hehehe~

You can tell from the septic tank not far from the factory.

Scavengers are very principled, using prosthetic eyes to explore basic information, as long as they do not have "identity", they can be regarded as commodities.

For example, Li Nuo's profile is "none".

Because his identity as a priest was removed from the list of military technology, and his previous resume was being tampered with by the official, he knew at a glance that this guy had no identity and no background.

Leno turned to Nanami's stick and said, "Send the donors to God." ”

Nanami complained fiercely: "Don't think I don't know Sun Wukong!" ”

In the next second, this woman who was also full of practicality was holding a long stick, like a monkey brother in a short skirt, and knocked the two guards to the door with a stick.

The strong wind blew over, blowing away the hat that Li Nuo was wearing on his helmet, and his "oops" skills were enough.

Then, when the hat flew onto a small platform half a height on the first floor of the factory, Li Nuo disappeared and used the characteristics of the [Flying Thor's Hat] to directly teleport to the upper floor of the factory.

He opened the iron door and bumped into a big brother with a gun.

"Hmmm......"

"Uh......"

One was sluggish, and Li Nuo pulled out a knife and stabbed the other party in the neck.

"I'm going to see you!"

Blood crashed all over the ground.

Li Nuo stuck himself in the dark corner of the second-floor platform, looked at the terrain here, and found the fire plan from the wall......

"God fire picture...... The scavenger who cut the kidney is quite aware of safety. ”

Player View:

Li Nuo: "I found the fire map, the dissection room is on the basement floor, don't take the elevator, the stairs on the northeast side." ”

Nanami: "Why are you doing it separately from us?" ”

Li Nuo: "I'm going to take off my helmet, do you want to see my face?" ”

Xing Kai: "Your Excellency is wise. ”

Su Mei: "Isn't my little brother handsome?" ”

Since the first encounter with the script of "Nier", Su Mei has always wanted to see Li Nuo's face, for no other reason, a guy with brains, thin body, good voice, holding a cane and wearing a trench coat, no matter how you think about it, it should be a bit of a girl's comic.

Li Nuo knew Su Mei's thoughts, so he didn't let her see it.

It's not hanging her.

It's just fun.

Nanami: "You're going to regret it, you're going to regret it." ”

Xing Kai: "Have you ever seen the ancient gods?" ”

Sumei: "I...... Never mind...... I'm slow. ”

Cha Bai: "Li Nuo, Cairo-kun accidentally sucked your nerve virus qi, it wants to hit Miss Michiko, should I open Luo-jun?" ”

Li Nuo: "If the child wants to hit you, let it hit, Miss Michiko can understand." ”

……

On the other side, Nanami crushed a group of gun-wielding scavengers with a fierce force.

Poof-

The stick slashed her head, and the blood like watermelon juice splashed her face, and she ducked behind the bunker in a panic, knocking out the bullet stuck in her shoulder in the gunshot.

The blood-stained warhead clanged to the ground, and Nanami spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Hey, doctor, you're going to do it."

Xing Kai hid behind the door and said softly: "You also know that medical soldiers generally have no combat effectiveness. ”

"Who believes it?" Nanami was stunned, and a wall-piercing bullet slashed through her face, leaving a bloody trail on her cheek.

As long as they are not damaged by a weapon that compresses space, they will generally not be scarred.

But strangely, Nanami felt the muscles in her face heat up.

"Bullets carry skills."

"It smells like gold coins......"

In the next second, the wound left by the bullet caused the cheek to explode!

"Hiss......"

She rushed out with blood, a stick stabbed into the shooter's chest, purple light glowing from the cracks in the mechanical legs, and the internal micro-motors worked like a cry ready to go.

The soles of his feet spewed flames, and with the help of a stick, he pierced the opponent's chest and knocked the opponent into the unmanned warehouse.

The man jerked the trigger, leaving a string of bullet marks in Nanami's chest.

With a flash of golden light, the bullet that seeped into the skin bounced back, crackling into the body of the shooter.

[Qilin Gong: Protection].

Half of Nanami's face was blown off, half of her face was blown open, and her bones were exposed to blood and air.

She stepped on the other party with one foot, twisted the stick to release electromagnetic waves, and ended the other party's life in a muffled roar.

[Kill 5551 players]

[Gold Earned: 2500]

"Looks like there's still a player lurking here."

Xing Kai said and walked over.

Nanami turned back to her hideous face and looked stunned.

All the scavengers were lying on the ground in a moment.

"Don't move." Xing Kai's fingers touched the bridge of her nose.

Warmth poured into the brain along the wound.

"Medical players are rare." Nanami touched the wound where the flesh was squirming and recovering.

"It doesn't matter, what matters is that there may be something more powerful down there." Xing Kai walked to the stairwell: "Where there are players, it won't be normal, but I guess...... There shouldn't be many players here, two or three are pretty much the same. ”

As he said.

Li Nuo "sneaked" into the basement first.

When he was on the basement level, he was kind of an eye-opener.

"Scavengers are outrageous."

Ten beds, like a morgue, with a crematorium next to it, take out the internal organs and implants, and then send the corpse into the fire to be burned to ashes.

There was a strange smell in the air, and he inhaled sharply, and the layers of the smell were sniffed out by him, peppermint, cooking oil, cloves, flavonoids, terpenes, phenols.

"Add a little dwarven spirits and it's a poisonous scent."

A knife flashed out from behind.

Li Nuo blocked the blade with his weapon box and retreated: "The scavenger doesn't know how to play alchemy, right?" ”

A player with a cyber samurai sneered, "Don't bother me with the main story, bastard." ”

Li Nuo sneered and took off his helmet again.

A player hiding in the shadows to gas poison gas hears a thick, melodious, howl from a teammate.

"He's been kicked?"

In the next second, Li Nuo rushed out with the face of the ancient god.

Taking advantage of the other party's stunned look, the [Seal of Axi] was activated.

"What's your main story?"

"By order of the Secret Service...... Assist the scavenger, bring V's information back, and kill V. ”

The player returned to consciousness the next second, and the muzzle of the black hole was already pressed against his head.

Li Nuo pulled the trigger.

The bullet exploded the opponent's skull.

"The camps are different...... I wanted to drag you into the sea......

Li Nuo put away the gun, he wanted to see more and more what the hell he looked like now. But for his own sake, he put on his helmet.

After scavenging the Blood Potion from the dead player, immediately follow the direction of the smell of V.

He strode over, and his mobile phone rang, it was a text message from Chabai: They have reinforcements, don't come out, I'll solve it.

After taking two steps, the mobile phone signal was gone, and the lack of signal meant that there was a secret hidden, Li Nuo thought so and put the phone back in his pocket and walked to a room, where the smell of V was interrupted, or rather, masked by other smells.

Gently pushing the door open, the fierce and thick smell of blood hit his face like a tidal wave.

In the blood-stained room, there were dozens of inhuman-looking corpses.

A few "doctors" wearing masks were packing up their surgical instruments, and as soon as they turned their heads, several gunshots rang out.

Li Nuo left a living mouth, if nothing else, this guy was dressed like a leader, and the senses of the "hunter" told him that there was something abnormal about this guy.

Swap out a "mercury bullet" and take out a folding stool and place it on the blood-covered floor.

Pull the person up and put them on the seat.

"I ask, you say."

"You ......"

Without letting the other party speak, Li Nuo kicked on the chair of the folding stool.

The iron rod went straight to the opponent's god's realm.

However, the guy suddenly laughed: "Grass...... How do you know I'm good at this? ”

Li Nuo glared at the dead fish and kicked the chair leg again.

The iron rod drilled a few centimeters upwards.

The guy stopped laughing, his teeth under the mask rubbing and creaking, and he couldn't speak in pain.

"The iron rod of the chair is one meter long, I don't know if your rectum can reach your throat." Li Nuo put the muzzle of the gun against the opponent's neck: "Where is V?" ”

The guy glanced at the cupboard in the room.

"Are you still alive?" Li Nuo asked.

"Alive, being ...... Waiting for the order to dissect her......" Struggled to pop out of the guy's teeth: "It's the order of the superiors......"

"Who's the superior?"

Miles ...... President Myers ......"

Doctor Scavenger suddenly cracked open and a tumor-covered head emerged from his body.

The open mouthparts were aimed at Li Nuo's face and bit over!

Pull the trigger, and the mercury bullet that has long been ready to fire blasts the opponent's head.

The monster sat back on the folding stool and twitched a few times before falling silent, its flesh thinning and sliding from its seat to the floor like a loach.

Blood splattered on Li Nuo's clothes, dipped in the black fabric.

Li Nuo tilted his head: "The mutation of people in the direction of demons is not so simple...... You're the hell, right? ”

The Mirror Master, who was the only one he could see, stood in the corner and applauded, "It's just getting started, Mr. Witcher." ”

In the next second, the Mirror Master disappeared into the darkness and disappeared.

Huang Liang's dream-like illusion made Li Nuo's head numb, but he knew that seeing the mirror master was not an illusion, and he could really feel that there was malice staring at him.

"It's annoying......"

Li Nuo took a deep breath, he usually enlivened the atmosphere, and would do something that seemed out of tune to make the people around him not nervous.

Now he wasn't in that mood at all.

The pressure is mounting......

Especially...... Ever since entering the area of Night City, the Mirror Master has been flickering in sight.

Just like in the story of "The Witcher", Geralt has been hiding in the crowd to spy on him from the very beginning of the story.

He didn't know what the mirror was for.

But there are two things he is sure of.

1. The Mirror Master wants to spy on the minds of the players.

Second, the purpose of the Master of Mirrors is not just to kill him, there must be something else.

During that conversation in Nine Dragons, Master Mirror said that he was waiting for Li Nuo in Night City.

What is the purpose of waiting for Li Nuo......

Just kill him?

Want to see a fun challenge?

Li Nuo didn't think so, the words of demons are deceptive, and the Mirror Master must have other purposes, and they are more dangerous than imagined.

The Mirror Master likes to play with people's fate, but his play often has a clear purpose, and is by no means a child's unfounded amusement.

Therefore, V, who was played with by the mirror master and did not get killed, is very important.

To sum up, all Li Nuo can do now is to temporarily empty his mind and wait for the players to gather before making plans.

Afraid.

Don't want to die.

Mingming just pulled her back.

Finally, it's not alone, but I want to leave her alone.

It can't be done.

He couldn't do it.

So Li Nuo looked at the position where the mirror master disappeared, and the killing energy in the depths of his eyes couldn't be hidden.

In any case, the demon must die.

Anything that threatens the future must die.

He followed the scavenger's gaze before he died, and was about to open the only cabinet in the room when there was a noise from outside.

Li Nuo originally thought it was Nanami and they exchanged fire with the scavenger hiding here, but the sound of a series of jumping music that followed made him have to stop what he was doing.

He drew his gun, leaned against the doorway, and opened a ......

Xing Kai stood in the aisle, smoking a cigarette with an anxious face.

Nanami stood in the distance with one hand on her hips.

Her stick stood in the middle of the aisle, around which a scavenger dressed as someone else was pole dancing......

Nanami turned her head and looked at Li Nuo, who had already opened the door, with a little embarrassment in her tone, and explained: "He's a player, it's not easy to fight, and I can't help it." ”

Li Nuo's eyes narrowed into a slit: "What have I seen......"

The stick is the reward weapon of Nanami's "Dancing Lady Line", and it is also a gain that she doesn't want to talk about.

【Dancer's Pole +6】

【Quality: Excellent】

[Attribute bonus: Strength +13, Reaction +6]

[Equipment requirements: Strength 25, learn the skill "Dance of Thought"]

[Effect 1: Shockwave that releases electromagnetic pulses]

[Effect 2: Let the other touchers make a judgment, and if the judgment fails, you have to dance a pole dance around a stick, and in the process of dancing, the opponent's physical resistance and magic resistance increase by 50%, but the brain will fall into a "dizzy" state as if it has been broken, and after dancing, all physical strength will be exhausted]

[Description: In a sense, this is a magic prop]

There are several traveler lanes, and the player is rewarded with a lot of things that look cheating and are useful.

For example, Nanami's stick, such as Li Nuo's "recovery technique" that can't be used.

Anyway, after Nanami got rid of the player, Li Nuo pointed to the house: "Let's go, it should be clean." ”

Xing Kai was the first to follow, walked into the house, and saw the corpses that had been hollowed out one by one, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"All that's left is the skin." His gaze locked on the corpse of a woman: "Vivisection......"

Nanami walked in, picked up a chip card on the table, popped up the window, and looked at the message inside, her eyes slightly deep.

"First attack, then kidnapping, taking a small life, dismantling it for money, one trick is eaten all over the world, these people will not waste any bits and pieces on people, the cyber components and organs that can be dismantled and sold for money will be directly taken to the black market, and the rest of the miscellaneous pieces that can't be seen are either wholesaled or burned, or thrown out to feed the mice."

She threw the chip on the ground and stomped on it.

"Or, as the chip says, some entrepreneur has a business with them and buys second-hand implants."

"What do entrepreneurs want second-hand implants for?" Xing Kai asked.

"Install it for the employees, of course, the cost must be paid for by the employees themselves." Nanami raised her eyebrows disdainfully, which reminded her of her living environment since she was a child: "Let priceless lives become priceless first, and then use priceless employees to create valuable goods, punk enough." ”

Xing Kai tried to close the eyelids of the woman's corpse, and said to himself: "The player has experienced the train assessment of dead corpses all over the ground, otherwise the psychological endurance of ordinary people really can't stand this." ”

"[Rescuer], if you guess correctly, the sensitivity to life before death should be many times greater than that of ordinary people, right?" Li Nuo asked, opened the cabinet door, and took out the bag containing V.

"On the other hand, the [Remnant Blood] should be much less sensitive to life than ordinary people during his lifetime, right?" Xing Kai suddenly paused when he said this: "......"

Li Nuo carried V's bag on the ground and unzipped it, revealing half of V's cheek.

He placed the [Mask of the Emir] in front of his face.

【V (Valerie)】

[Level: Lv60]

[Strength: 11]

[reaction: 15]

[Spiritual Power: 5]

[Constitution: 100]

[Insight: 72]

[Medical: 99]

[Note: Her original stat shouldn't be like this, the numerical fluctuation is related to willpower]

Li Nuo put down his mask: "It's V, that's right." ”

Xing Kai sighed: "I didn't expect the strongest ...... in the world It's still a big beauty. ”

Nanami walked over and pursed her lips and said, "But her head is ...... There's a hole......"

V's long hair covered his cheeks, which were covered with dried blood, and his skin was pale and poignant, like a dead man.

Li Nuo put his hand under V's neck, and he couldn't feel the pulse jumping.

"Isn't it...... He's dead? ”

"It's fine." Xing Kai squatted on the ground, snorted a cigarette and said, "As long as it's not dead, I can save it." ”

……

Outside.

Under the dark clouds, the flames intertwined with black flames.

The supporting scavenger troops were blocked by a ray of shadows at the door.

Bullets are ineffective against her.

Bombs can be dodged by her.

Melee is toyed with by her.

The scavengers felt the desperation of those they dissected.

Cha Bai habitually trampled a scavenger to death with the heel of his shoe.

She looked up expressionlessly, pulled the hammer out of the head of a person on the other side, stained with scarlet sticky brushing, and sprang up violently, smashing the person who had just taken out the phone to call for backup.

In the distance, Cairo-kun cowered in Michiko's arms.

"It's scary...... She's the white-haired banshee......"

"What a white-haired banshee, isn't she just a mercenary?" Michiko pushed Cairo-kun away and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't eat Lao Niang's tofu!" ”

Chabai killed the last scavenger and looked at Cairo-kun and Michiko who looked like enemies in the distance.

She casually took the clothes off the corpse and wiped the blood from the hammer and heel.

"Beep-Miss Chabai?"

The electronic communicator in his head heard Marger's voice.

"How did you suddenly get in touch?"

"Maybe it's because I'm almost under the clouds."

"Under the clouds?"

Cha Bai looked at the sky.

On the gloomy dark clouds, raindrops slid down.

"Miss Chabai, Li Nuo can't be contacted, I guess he may be in the underground area, I'm not worried about his safety, he won't be in danger anyway, I mean, you stay away from him."

"Far away?"

Cha Bai's eyelids jumped and jumped, and he looked at the sky uneasily.

"Marje...... What are you doing? ”

"Emergency landing."

After Marje said these four words, the signal was interrupted.

She opens the player's map and sees the red dot marked Marje, directly above it.

"Oh no......"

She also remembered Li Nuo's comment to Brother Ma: If my surprise is ten, Maljie is 100 million.

Tick –

A voice like opening the rebirth system interrupted Chabai's train of thought.

Cha Bai looked at the source of the sound and picked up a signaler from the corpse there.

[The Last Defense Machine, "Adam's Hammer", has been activated]

His eyes were stunned.

She immediately took out her mobile phone and tried to call Li Nuo, but there was no contact signal in the basement, and she opened the player's vision and left a message.

Then, he didn't care how there was a defense machine called "Adam's Hammer", and turned his head in the direction of Cairo-kun and shouted: "Come with me!" ”

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

With the Mirror Master here, any outrageous unfolding can happen.

She took Cairo-kun and Michiko and ran to the scavenger's factory in stride.

……

Valerie's dreams are chaotic.

After the scavenger's gunshot, she seemed to see the passing of life.

Although her parents died young, Valerie's resources from an early age are beyond the reach of many people in their lifetimes.

She grew up living in Charter Hill, Night City, an affluent area of Night City.

After graduating, she went to work for the Araban, which is completely different from the company dog of the Arabal, Valerie is an alternative to this world.

Be bold as a wanderer.

Reckless like a street kid.

Be as shrewd as a company dog.

This is Valerie in miniature.

The contradiction between mind and body shaped the first mercenary of Night City, and even the most powerful single "Superman" in the world.

After she entered Arabaya, she initially worked in Night City, mainly responsible for the intelligence warfare missions between various companies and Arasaka Company, and then parachuted into Night City's counterintelligence department.

The promotion from an ordinary agent to the head of the counterintelligence department requires that she must be a ruthless, murderous and unscrupulous person who pursues status and power by any means.

Counterintelligence is an espionage war of intelligence gathering, which requires a high degree of mental flexibility, wandering in danger, and excellent skills.

But even so, Valerie has always stayed true to her nature.

She has never been polluted by this filthy world.

Until later......

Valerie still remembers the rumors she heard about David Martinez, a boy who challenged the authority of the company and finally disappeared somewhere in the world, who knows what happened to that guy, anyway, the result of rebelling against the company will not be good.

Just like she was later.

Just like me.

Just like me...... Valerie – V.

Valerie's subconscious is darkness.

She saw a door.

There was a white glow on the other side of the door, and she couldn't get used to it for a moment.

Valerie wanted to walk over it, after all, it was the only place where there was light.

She passed step by step, step by step.

Even if you know that it is not necessarily a good place, you still want to go there, just like a traveler in the desert, the sewage may make you diarrhea, but you can't live if you are thirsty, who cares about that.

She needs light, she needs to expel the darkness in front of her, she needs to break free from the endless darkness of life.

Need......

“V。”

Valerie turned her head and she heard a very, very familiar voice.

Johnny ......

"Grass, V, look what the you're doing!"

She couldn't see Johnny's silver hand, but the rock kid who had blasted the Arasaka Tower with a nuclear bomb must be on her ears.

Johnny ...... I ......"

"V, no...... Don't give up resistance. ”

"But...... I was ...... by Miles"

She didn't wait for Johnny's Silver Hand to respond, the memory that existed in Relic2 was long gone.

"Sure enough...... In the end I had nothing. ”

Valerie walked to the door that was open to the light.

A hand grabbed her shoulder as one foot had already stepped through the door, and the light overshadowed half of her body.

"Old ......"

She turned her head, and by the light, she saw Mr. Victor's resolute face in sunglasses.

"Old Wei?"

Victor's cheeks were smiling, and his face flickered, and his face changed to that of a lazy man with curly hair and a stubble beard.

"Don't die yet."

“V。”

Her consciousness was suddenly pulled back into the darkness.

Faintly, she heard a noise coming from reality.

"Hey, Xing Kai, you can't do it."

"Remnant blood boy, shut up, don't you see that I'm tired and sweating!"

"Nanami, don't squat opposite Xing Kai."

"Why?"

"You're wearing a miniskirt!"

"My sweat has nothing to do with this!"

V opened his eyes.

In a blurred vision, three heads hovered in front of the retina.

"It'......" she was dazed, and all she felt was a sharp pain in her head.

Li Nuo laughed wildly and slapped Xing Kai's back: "Awesome, Xing Kai!" ”

"I can't do it...... Xing Kai was sweating profusely, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and sat on the dirty blood of the horns: "The energy consumed by the big treatment technique is too high...... I'll take a break...... Feel free to do whatever you want. ”

V blinked and stared at Li Nuo and Nanami in front of him with big eyes.

"I ...... I am...... I remember that I was given ...... by the scavengers."

"Forget it, I'm not good at deceiving people, so let's do it." Nanami patted Li Nuo on the shoulder, stood up and walked to the folding stool that was still on the ground.

Poof——!

"Ah——! Li Nuo——! ”

V looked at Nanami, who was jumping on her feet, and turned her gaze to Li Nuo again in confusion.

Li Nuo: "V? ”

V: "No...... Valerie. ”

Li Nuo shook his head invisibly: "It doesn't matter if you are V or Valerie, I'm looking for you." ”

"What are you looking for me to do?"

"I need to kill the new President of the United States of America, Rosalind Myers, and get something from her." Li Nuo paused: "The mission is dangerous, and our group of people have other things to do, so we need the best mercenaries to help us." ”

"I need to know why you killed Miles." When V said this, it meant that she was tempted.

To tell you the truth, the final chapter branch of the "Divine Official Line" requires that Miles be killed, but Li Nuo can't say the same, after all, you told an NPC that I have a quest panel for me to kill the president, which is too funny.

"Well, divine punishment."

He gave an even more absurd reason.

The corners of V's mouth twitched, what the hell......

"Miles ......" V seemed to be touched at the heartstrings: "I'm sorry...... I can't even take care of myself now. ”

"It's okay." Li Nuo paused for a moment: "V, I thought of eleven plans to trick you into helping me before I came, but then I felt that if it was the famous V, then I didn't need to say anything, what should I do, you yourself know better than anyone else." ”

V is special.

In any script, she is the special one.

It's not like Cha Bai's original 2B, or most of the protagonists who started from scratch.

This man is imprinted in his soul with a spirit of rebellion and individualism that is alien to the world.

Li Nuo had a clear understanding of V in his heart.

Monster.

A monster in its own right.

In this damn cyber society, everything she does is go against the rules of the game.

For example, a certain mother raised her child alone, and the day before the child graduated, a guy in a suit threw thousands of yuan, leaving a sentence: I'm sorry that my client drank too much and killed your daughter, and a few thousand yuan is my heart.

The mother trembled angrily, the perpetrator was too lazy to apologize to you in person, but as a low-class resident, there was no place to reason, even if he retaliated by strong means, he couldn't find anyone, until one day his mother found the perpetrator's phone, and the murderer on the other end of the phone said that if he was not satisfied, then the mother would be the next few thousand yuan.

She called the police, and the police told her that to read the rules of this world, life was worth thousands of dollars.

It's almost time to step on a horse, stupid bottom-level people.

That's the rule.

Priceless lives are worth at least a few thousand dollars, even if you hit a big luck.

Mother wants to get justice.

Yes, there is justice in this world.

She gave all her savings, her daughter's life money, to an intermediary.

The middleman said that such a small amount of money could only invite the most awesome fool in the city.

A few hours later, gunfire erupted in the mansion, and a platoon of people fought inside.

A few more hours later, the mother received the gift she was most looking forward to, a car parked in front of her house, and the trunk was packed like a pig with the crumbs that had killed her daughter.

"Do you want to do it yourself, or do you give him a shot now, or do I throw him into the sea."

Her name is V.

He is the best mercenary in Night City.

A conscientious journalist who was thrown into a psychiatric hospital for touching something he shouldn't have touched.

The sister of the woman standing on the street was abused to death by a perverted man, and was made into a film and sold for money.

The brothers who grew up together were gutted by scavengers.

The bottom is not capable of changing the status quo, but it can seek the help of a person who can bring you justice, and this person really sees the gang police company as nothing, her violence alone overrides all weapons, above her is the real root of all evil in the cyberpunk world, and below her is the morality and fairness pursued by all the people at the bottom.

This is V, although she always says that she is just fighting to live, but she never minds killing a few scumbags, after all, the legend is also a matter of word of mouth.

So, now Li Nuo intends to leave the choice to herself.

It's to do back to V.

Or continue to be Valerie.

"I'm not able to load the implant." V lowered his head and looked at the severe, but already painful numb legs: "What can I do?" ”

For the first time, V took a closer look at the person in front of him.

"I, I remember you...... You coffin board. She looked at Li Nuo's weapon box and said, "You are a priest, the information says ...... It was the priest who attacked the Nine Dragons. ”

"Since you're a priest, there's a way to get you back to where you used to be." When Li Nuo said this, his mind was full of Marjie's cheap face.

He added, "Maybe it's going to be even better." ”

Suddenly, there was a sound of shaking in the room, like a chill of a wild beast coming out of its cage that swept over the blood-covered room.

The lights on the ceiling began to flicker incessantly.

A large amount of white steam erupted from the pipes of the walls.

"It seems that there is a boss battle ......" Nanami covered her ass and said, "Li Nuo, if I were you, I would pick up the cane now." ”

"That's right......" Li Nuo's eyes under his helmet looked at the ceiling, or rather, the sky above the factory, to be exact.

Xing Kai clicked on the player's window and said, "Miss White-haired left a message, saying that a robot has been activated, Adam Hammer." ”

V's eyes were stunned: "Adam Hammer ......"

At this moment, the roof was knocked open!

Adam Hammer, the guy who had been shattered by a shot from Leno but resurrected, jumped down from above, and he pressed straight down to Nanami directly below.

Boom!

Blood splattered on the ground.

Nanami slid out of the way with a quick step, staring blankly at the mechanical meat grinder that had almost slipped her into a pulp.

"Quick reaction...... Adam Hammer raised his eyes that glittered red: "Intruder, ...... must be killed"

Nanami said, "Lino, I heard from Marje that you knocked Adam Hammer down in 2076. ”

"He was taken over by military technology, and he seems to have been resurrected." Li Nuo licked his lips, suddenly grabbed V's arm, and then shot a trick silk to wrap around Nanami's waist, shouting: "Stay away, it's coming suddenly!" ”

Cha Bai's last message popped up in the window: Marjie is going to be airborne, Li Nuo, stay away.

A violent impact swept through the factory!

Pipes, roofs, floors, furniture, experimental equipment, surgical tools, corpses upstairs, a series of things were swept together by the impact and smashed into the basement!

After a loud bang, the figure of the white robot was imprinted behind the dust.

The cabin opens.

"Humph......"

Malger stepped on Adam's hammer, which had been smashed into parts, and picked up the guy's head.

"Sorry...... I smashed the wrong person. ”

He pulled out the Comrade's Hammer.

A thud knocked the hammer's head into mechanical shreds.

When he looked around, Chahaku broke in from the outside with Cairo-kun and Michiko.

"It's ...... late"

Cha Bai panted, not tired, but nervous.

"No, it's okay......"

Li Nuo crawled out of the iron sheet of the rubble and pulled V out.

"It doesn't matter if you have the [Seal of Quinn], ...... Wait, Chabai, what about Nie Chuang? ”

Cha Bai covered his mouth: "Forget, forget in the car!" ”

Xing Kai's head broke free from the ruins, and after pulling Nanami out, he couldn't help but roar: "Whose explosives are like this!" ”

"Hmph......" Marje explained, "I originally wanted to use Li Nuo's [Quin's Seal] as an air cushion......"

He pointed to the white robot behind him: "A combat robot that imitates the Leaf Force." The cushioning system is a bit of a problem, but the good news is that it's very stiff, you say, Mr. Victor. ”

"yes...... Brother Ma...... You're sick. "Victor was released by Marje with a summoning projection.

The moment V saw Victor, his eyes glazed over.

For her, who lost her parents at a young age, Victor is like a father.

"Old ......"

"yes, don't come unharmed, V."

"Ahem......" Li Nuo dusted off the soil on his body and said down the slope, "Look, V, Mr. Victor has joined us, and now the choice is yours." ”

Nanami's eyes were blank in the vertigo before the impact passed, and she glanced at Lino and then at Marjie.

"And said there was no plan...... These two people are so dirty......"

(End of chapter)