On the Badlands, the troops of military technology are restoring the scene.

This is a holographic reconnaissance reconstruction system, a large number of sensors are placed around the scene, collect and scan high-precision temperature, humidity, wind speed, and capture chemical composition, explosive residues, and all possible clues.

The on-site scouts crouched next to a puddle of broken armor plates with a material analysis scanner in their hands.

All the Columbus cargo vans scattered next to it were scanned, including the tire tracks that had been run over from the ground.

Reconnaissance drones follow these trajectories, guiding soldiers to deploy sensors over a wider area.

After the calculation of the central processing unit, it was finally restored to the scene.

This battlefield is wide.

There are only a few completely scrapped Columbus trucks left at the site, as well as a discarded drone mech, and the ground is littered with debris fragments and an unidentified mixture of liquids.

The scan is complete, and the holographic projection begins to restore the event.

[Engagement dynamic range data upload]

[The battle is divided into several stages]

[Phase 1: The attacker uses some kind of long-range artillery projectile launcher to carry out an attack outside the reconnaissance range, and the shell type includes high-explosive shells and high-power EMP]

[Entering the database to find ammunition models that may match the data. 】

【High possibility of self-production】

[Phase 2: The enemy may attempt to hack and fail; Engineers restore electronics, centaur mechs begin to deploy, plasma cannons hit targets, and part of the enemy withdraws]

[Anomaly: The deployment of the Centaur Mech may not comply with the laws and regulations of Night City, and this information is to be handled only by agents with sufficient security levels.] 】

[Phase 3. 】

A squad leader with tactical sunglasses slung his gun behind his back and leaned over to grab some sort of analyzer on the ground for further scanning.

It's just that the more information you get, the more illusory the holographic projection becomes, a lot of mosaics – because some of them are too perverse.

The first two phases are easy to explain, and it is nothing more than the enemy making a sneak attack, and then approaching the use of wireless devices to carry out the hacking.

However, it was clear that the robbers had failed, and the engineers were able to restore communications and equipment power, and began deploying the centaur mech.

It was easy for the big guy to take out a few carjackers, and the tide of battle was reversed, and the plasma cannon equipped with the centaur mecha broke up the robbers in an instant, and some of them even fled on the spot.

So far, it's been normal and very reasonable.

Until the third stage, there was a problem with the restoration of reconnaissance equipment - there was too little data, and there were a large number of mosaics on the restored site.

Too little data says only one thing: the battle was extremely short, leaving little trace.

First on the ground, what she was scanning looked like the armored wreckage of Beamon's armored car.

The armor of the Beamon armored vehicle will accumulate heat energy when it encounters an attack with enough kinetic energy, which will eventually induce a small explosion.

Theoretically, detonating the reactive armor would cause the ammunition to be deflected by the explosion, thus reducing the probability of penetration, but this time the reactive armor does not seem to be working properly.

There are two possibilities: the armor is pierced from the inside; Armor-piercing shells in places are already powerful enough to ignore such damage.

And according to the materials science database, it seems that the armored vehicle did suffer an internal blow.

So, the central computer immediately constructs a possible scenario:

It is possible that the drone mecha launched an attack on the armored vehicle from the inside, and in this case, the computer considers two most likely scenarios:

First, the drone armor is hacked; In the second case, the drone mecha is trapped in the car and must be violently broken through the armored vehicle.

This is a headache, there is a big disagreement in the holographic reconnaissance system, and more intelligence must be entered to eliminate it.

The squad leader thought about it for a while and decided to deduce the second possibility first: that is, the armored vehicle was trapped.

The result of this choice is even more outrageous.

If it is the second case, it means that Beamon overturned, and considering that the car was driven away, the reconnaissance system believes that the car did not suffer fatal damage.

It should have been the driver who was killed.

And what about snipers?

【On-site reconnaissance results:】

[The attacker uses a cat and a sniper rifle to kill the pilot, the vehicle rolls over, the drone mech fails to deploy, and the centaur mech operator meets the enemy.] 】

[Range distance estimate: 1000-1600 meters]

【Shooting environment restoration. 】

Snipers snipe from 1000 meters away! And probability, most likely, it is at 1400-1500 meters

They can find possible sniper points, but they are on the motorcycle prints!

There is a lot of evidence that the sniper really completed the sniper on the motorcycle at this distance, riding a motorcycle.

The speed of this motorcycle is at least between 140-155 miles. On the Badlands!

Judging from the trajectory, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is flying!

You can hit like this, hell?!

If the analysis continues, after the car capsizes, the centaur mecha jumps off the outer pylon, and then another motorcycle even rushes towards the mecha!

The motorcycle seemed to fly up in front of the mech, and then the mech seemed to have been hit by something.

At first, the team leader thought it was a motorcycle hit, just like a motorcycle bomb in the city center before, but there were traces of a motorcycle not far away.

Other words

Holograms show that the mosaic on the motorcycle crashed into the mecha.

Then in less than 30 seconds of confrontation, this man took out the mecha in an unknown way.

In other words, in the whole matter, the two robbers who came later, riding a motorcycle of more than 150 miles, killed the driver at a distance of more than 1,000 meters on the bad land!

Then another car, at a speed of more than a hundred miles, collided with the centaur mecha and somehow dismantled the centaur mecha!

Another Centaur mech was in a similar situation, the motorcycle went around in a circle, and then when the centaur mech fired, it also crashed into the mecha, and then the mecha stopped working!

The most outrageous thing is the damage to this drone armor.

Although there was an attack from inside the cargo compartment, the direction of the overall armor explosion still indicates that the enemy used armor-piercing shells to attack from the outside, and the drone armor was also hit by bullets.

However, there is only one place on the drone armor that is damaged, but this one place is completely penetrated!

Judging from the previous situation, the drone armor was in the cargo compartment of the Beamon armored car and was pierced by a bullet!

That is, the enemy most likely burst the armor of the Bimon armored car with a single shot, as well as drone mech!

What weapon can be so powerful?

Databases can match some of these powerful things, but they shouldn't be in Night City.

The information from here is already a bit outrageous, maybe the truth is so outrageous, but it is also possible that the previous node speculated that something went wrong.

For example, it was actually the mecha that was hacked, not the car that overturned.

If the mech is hacked, it means that the mech killed the driver and the vehicle overturned, which seems to make a lot more sense.

However, the combat data transmitted back from the battlefield was intermittent, and there was no way to determine whether the mecha had been hacked.

In both cases, there are many mysteries.

But no matter what, that's all the exact information you can get on the spot, and how to do the follow-up depends on the opinion of your boss.

[On-site exploration completed]

【Intelligence Upcoming】

The City of Night is the center of the city.

Anthony is in front of the sink, looking in the mirror, but in fact reviewing the latest accident report.

However, this report cannot be said to be useless, only completely useless.

What does it mean that the enemy can blow up a car with a single shot and destroy the drone mecha core computer?

He couldn't figure out what kind of weapon could be so perverted!

The prosthetic eye's head-up HUD shows a row of small print:

[You have been in the bathroom for more than 1 minute, and too long will cause other thoughts from your meeting partners and affect the efficiency of the meeting.] 】

Anthony washed his face and turned to leave the bathroom.

In the conference room, a somewhat obese middle-aged man sits in a striped suit and a pair of black sunglasses, making it difficult to read any additional information through his eyes.

He looked at Anthony with a cigar in his mouth, "Mr. Gilchrist, I want you to know that my time is precious.

Can you get back to our topic? If you don't have anything to say, we'll stop it for today. ”

There was no clue about anything, and Anthony only felt that his blood pressure was about to explode.

For him, the company's affairs can be put to the back burner – and more importantly, if he can't prove that the whole thing is the devil's fault, he's finished!

So he said, "Mayor Lane, our convoy has been hijacked, and I can't give you a definite answer. ”

Ryan shrugged, then took a drag on his cigarette, not seeing any fluctuations in his heart.

"Then all I can say is that this is Night City, is there any other problem?"

Ryan didn't care at all about his life or death.

"I would like to receive assistance from Night City, according to Night City law"

"According to Night City law, company employees have immunity here, not governed by the law, and naturally Night City doesn't have much obligation to you.

You'll have to figure it out yourself, Gilchrist.

The armament of military technology is very good, and I am interested in having you deal with the northern industrial area of Watson.

But to be honest, if you can't even see your own stuff, how can I trust you with the project? ”

Ryan shook his head, got up and straightened his clothes, and threw the cigar into the ashbox.

"I want you to know that elections are coming up, and if I can't clean up the homeless people in Watson because of these moths

Do you know what people think of me? They'll say, I can't even control Watson, that's where I came out.

So you'd better move quickly, or I'll have to find Arasaka. ”

Anthony still doesn't give up: "If Night City helps, I can fund the investigation in full." ”

"It's not about the money."

Ryan picked up his briefcase, shook his head, and headed out the door.

Anthony sat in his seat and said nothing.

Before leaving the door, Ryan suddenly said, "If you really don't have a clue, I suggest you investigate the Vortex Gang, they are veteran when it comes to stealing the company's fleet."

The city has its own temper, and you have to learn to solve problems by means other than money.

Good luck. ”

Ryan left the room, leaving Anthony alone in his chair.

Walking out the door, Ryan lit another cigarette.

"Damn, there are also people robbing military technology cars."

[Attn: Internet Surveillance Foundation]

[Ryan: The military technology car was robbed in the bad land, and the person in charge had no clue. 】

[Contact: What does it have to do with us?] 】

[Ryan: I told him to go to the Vortex Gang.] 】

[Contact: How dare you talk nonsense. 】

[Ryan: Nine times out of ten, the Vortex Gang robbed it.] 】

After Ryan finished sending the message, he got into the floating car, and thought to himself:

No one knows Night City better than I do.

(End of chapter)