The firelight was made by the wanderers.

As Lille guessed, the NCPD itself has been under-policed for a long time, and this time it was the city center that went wrong.

To the south of the city center is Heywood, crisscrossed by various large roads and small roads, and it is difficult to completely block them.

And today, just tonight, it's not just Lille who gives them intensity.

A large number of wanderers entered the city, and they were holding signs and banners.

Their weather-beaten cars are like moving scrap metal, but the sound of their powerful engines proves that they are still alive and well.

However, the front car had a special thing tied to the hood - a coffin made of iron plates, the front of which was sealed with glass, and a windproof torch was inserted on the side.

Inside the coffin were the bodies of some blackened corpses—the Red Ochre tribe who had died miserably from the experiments.

This was something Lille didn't expect - he just gave a push, saying that the people who needed red ochre to attract firepower, and they did it.

Even at the expense of displaying corpses.

Heywood's men all came out, and they followed the wanderers, who had come to see the excitement.

But this excitement provides cover for the wanderers - NCPD can't kill people in the street, right?

"Unscrupulous company biotechnology! They poisoned us! We've had several deaths! Let's pass! We're looking for biotechnology to get an explanation! ”

"Biotechnology has lost its conscience, 5,000 euros to buy a human life, and murder pays for life!"

"Company dogs! Stupid slivers! Go to hell! ”

Bang.

Plastic bottles and cans smashed into the armored vehicles of the NCPD, and nothing else happened except for a few loud sounds.

It's really loud, though.

The NCPD police were on a tight line, and every time the other person threw out the canister, they had to make sure it was not a grenade.

In particular, the sick number of red ochre is even more scary.

Some of the skin exposed under their thick clothing shone slightly in the moonlight and light, and their eyes were bloodshot and red—like a piece of red ochre.

The dark red eyes stared at them, like a werewolf staring at their prey, as if they were really going to eat people in the next second.

Flames reflected the corpses, and banners lit up in neon light.

In the police car, a sturdy young policeman watched all this with a solemn expression, and his left eye was modified into a tactical prosthetic eye, which looked like a one-eyed dragon.

Another normal eye reveals helplessness and anger - anger at the status quo.

The door snapped open, and an older policeman sat in, relaxed and holding two cans of coffee.

The young policeman said, "We're just watching? ”

"Or else? Relax, River, too, our job is to keep an eye on this mob.

Should I say it or not, these wanderers are quite honest, and the guns are all put away. ”

The old policeman in the co-pilot opened the drink jar and the hot coffee.

"It's like that, and we don't care?"

"That level of policing is not something we can handle."

The new policeman was nervous and wavered in his beliefs and ideals, and the old policeman opened the lid and tasted warm coffee.

After taking a sip, he said: "Maybe it's the company dog eats the dog, we can't deal with this kind of thing, we can only rely on the coordination from above."

If it weren't for the company's dog-eat-dog terrorist attack, it wouldn't be our turn, and the Terrorist Task Force would have dealt with it.

We're dealing with this little situation. ”

River, who was a little younger, let out another helpless lament.

The feeling of working experience at NCPD is as follows:

Guns are pointed at the poor, not at the rich; I can't manage big things, and I don't want to take care of small things; If something happens, call the terrorist mobile team, and if nothing happens, go to the streets.

This NCPD is the self-proclaimed line of defense to protect Night City!

Thinking so, a dispatch order came from the police channel.

"Wanderers are beginning to move through the Haywood blockade area, the eastern and northern blockade lines of the Civic Center have been downgraded, and blockade forces are preparing to move to the Haywood area."

"The Heywood Defense District pays attention to coordinating the blockade line."

The old policeman gestured to River, and the car slowly moved with the protest procession of homeless.

He turned down some police radios, and even turned on his personal radio station-

"Welcome to today's Conversation with Zigge Q Tonight, do you know what's going on in the city center?"

"Rockets explode, homeless people protest, and luxury cars worth millions are blown up to scrap metal, is this a distortion of human nature, or is it a moral degradation?"

"Today we have a special guest - a wanderer from Adicado, Hector!"

The old policeman took out a small packet of potato chips from his pocket and said with great interest:

"These media people are so powerful, we can't catch the homeless."

——

From: Hector.

Hector: We've got people in place – we don't even have to think about your request.

Hector: We'll provide you with all the help you need.

Hector: The company didn't treat us as human beings from the beginning, it was my naivety and stupidity that killed Andri, Cedric, Ares, Sezar, Albert, and Sivir.

Hector: I'm going to hell because of this, but before I go to hell, of course I want to pull a couple of company dogs to hell with me.

Hector: All the good hands are in the city, and they've all been injected with enough sustained-release agents to not drop their chains until it's over, before dawn.

Hector: I know this request is a bit unreasonable, but I beg that after this, you can take care of Neville and the rest of your people.

Hector: Thank you for everything you've done for us, and I'll do everything I can to get you a chance.

Hector: Thank you for giving me this opportunity, I'm a coward, I can't watch them die because of me.

Hector: Thank you.

Hector: Red ochre awaits your orders.

Lille finished reading the message Hector had given him - it was clear that it was no longer Hector who was in charge.

It's a contradictory man, Lille can feel it.

He longs for a worthy self-destruction.

Lille sighed and looked at everyone in the room.

"Mann, your target is Impala Motors, get off at once."

Dorio looked at Mann with a worried look, "It's all like this, do you want to continue?"

Mann had completely removed the small arm with the projectile launcher, and now he was disabled.

Of course, the rest of his arm wasn't an ornament.

Lille looked at Mann, who slapped the table angrily: "Of course we have to continue!" We've come this far just to give Sasha an explanation--

This time we're not just in it for the money, if you guys want to quit, then quit, but I'm not going to quit! ”

Mann is of the very high type, in line with what Lille imagined of him.

Give him a clue to grasp, and he won't let go.

This is paranoia.

Rebecca, Pyra and Dolio don't need to be said - they're teammates with Sasha.

The only destabilizing factor is Qi Wei.

But she didn't say anything, and her presence was very low.

But he was still targeted by Lille: "Your hackers probably don't have this idea. ”

"Oh, do I have a choice?"

"Nope."

Lille has long brought them close to their own data barriers, which is also internal surveillance.

She has not had the opportunity to contact an intermediary, at least not so far.

Qi Wei still asked, "I only have one question, how much money can we make?" ”

Lille looked at Mann: "I don't want any of the remuneration that Faraday said, you can divide it yourself, in addition to the money over there, I can also give you 100,000 euros."

I have only one request, you have to finish this order under my name. ”

Faraday's reward Lille didn't know – he didn't ask.

If the mercenary wanted to know the remuneration first, or take the money first, it could be discussed, but Lille didn't ask at all.

As for the 90,000, it was given by Mendoza and Barnes.

The two of them made up a total of 400,000 euros, saying that it is not too much, and it is not much less.

Well, if you look at the number of 400,000 alone, it must be too much, but the problem is that the 400,000 to buy the nightingale plan is really a bit of a secret.

But it doesn't matter, Lille doesn't value the 400,000.

And as a de facto intermediary coordinator, he has cleared most of the obstacles and paved the way for himself.

Excluding the money that will be used to purchase the Delaman service and the various upcoming components, all Lille can give to the Mann team is 100,000 euros.

Lille was already quite kind to them - according to the rules of Night City, the middleman and the mercenary were divided into seventy and three points, and they would divide it among thirty thousand.

So for Mann, it's still a very tempting number for mercenaries.

"Huh?"

Team Mann was stunned.

What does that mean?

Is this the good he doesn't want, and the bad is all planted on his head?

No matter how strong the data barrier is, no one can guarantee that it will never be breached, is Burger King crazy?

"I'll get to the details later, but now let's talk about your course of action."

Lille handed Mann the sorted out separation chip.

Impala Motors, located east of Night City, is almost outside the city, in a rather remote corner.

The company advertises the use of fully automated car assembly technology, so there are almost no workers working there.

It now appears that they were not using automated technology, but that the place was originally a server used by biotechnology to store the data of the Nightingale Project.

Thanks to Morton's project manager and insidious style, they now have account information for all their employees.

All they had to do was find a place to enter the stuff and they would gain control of the factory.

The difficulty lies in how to break through the defenses of Impala Motors -

"There's even a Arasaka mecha there?!!"

Rebecca and Pila's voices were so loud that they made Lille's ears tingle.

Arasaka Mecha - This is also the reason why Arasaka will not leave any evidence that they are looking for someone to target biotechnology.

Although there is a great deal of opposition between some of the mega-companies, such as Military Technology and Arasaka, there is still cooperation.

For example, Arasaka will buy Beamon armored vehicles with military technology, and military technology will also consider Arasaka's mechas.

When there is no excuse, everyone still has to abide by international law.

This is especially true of biotechnology, where appropriate cross-buying is necessary to ensure that the two top companies in the private armed forces sector do not deliberately target them.

Although biotechnology security is mainly composed of military technology personnel and equipment, they still choose some Arasaka equipment.

But if it is revealed that Arasaka is secretly investigating himself, of course this purchase order will have to fall on another company-

Therefore, Arasaka wants to find out about the military science and wants to get military information from biotechnology, but he is afraid that the exposure of the matter will affect him.

Lille plucked out his ears and said to this loud-voiced little Lori:

"Don't shout so loudly - don't you have hackers on your team too? The control instructions and instructions for the mecha are all in the chip.

The account information of the staff in the park can still be used, and it can be hacked by connecting to the local area network, and you don't even have to face its ICE. ”

Top hack: Unplug the network cable.

There are even more top-notch, plug in the network cable, enter the account password - your mecha is good, now it's mine.

Contrary to its terrifying appearance and combat effectiveness, the fully automatic Arasaka mech is usually deeply connected to the subnet, which makes it easy to hack.

This is also the only drawback of this war machine.

"It's simple." Qi Wei was wearing a mask and couldn't see all of her facial expressions.

But it was clear that she was under a lot of pressure.

Yes, Lille has all the tools ready.

The internal structure of Impala Motors, the composition of security personnel, and even the employee account are not just one employee account, but all the staff accounts.

Rationally, this hack is simply not difficult, the key is where to find the LAN interface.

But. The thought that it was an Arasaka mecha made it impossible for people to think normally.

Lille continued: "Listen, you still have a team of wanderers to support, I found a relationship outside, they all have good goods in their hands, at least it's okay to fight head-on, give me a fight, understand?" ”

Mann nodded, "It's hard work, but since you're willing to take on all the follow-ups, of course we'll succeed." ”

"Good—one last thing." Lille knocked on the table, "And the most important thing, this commission, remember who sent it?" ”

Mann froze.

Who sent the commission?

Theoretically, it's Faraday.

But since they got on the subway, they have not communicated with Faraday since Lille's instructions.

Can this still be counted as an errand for Faraday?

He said tentatively, "Faraday? ”

Lille smiled and nodded: "That's right, the entire commission was issued by Faraday, and the goal was to investigate Project Nightingale, and the relationship between Project Nightingale and military technology.

We were commissioned at the Afterlife Nightclub, and then the communicator was damaged during the battle.

Unable to contact Faraday, he accepted commissions from two reporters, Mendoza and Barnes.

In the end, we are strong mercenaries, and no matter what the situation is, we decided to move on with the mission - got it? ”

Mann's brain was a little overwhelmed, and not only him, but everyone here was a little dizzy.

Only Qi Wei smelled a little bit of conspiracy: Burger King's goal was not a commission at all.

"Got it, but how do we get out?"

Lille gestured out the door.

A Delaman armored taxi slowly appeared at the door.

"50,000 euros of excellence service, the target location is near the impala automobile company, get in the car, but there is no turning back."

(End of chapter)