Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 119 Booty

Before dawn, the Badlands plunged into deeper darkness.

Tang Yu sat by the campfire, staring at the flames that made crackling noises from time to time.

Phra Nang, who was beside him, picked up a piece of wood and added it to the campfire, and the fire gradually burned more vigorously.

Sasha sat on the other side of Tang Yu, obediently stretching out his hands to warm himself by the fire, but his eyes never left Tang Yu.

Gloria and Mann were chatting with the tribe's cowboy hat elder, and the other party couldn't stop expressing his gratitude.

Even though it was a paid commission, it was obvious that this matter had exceeded expectations, and by a large margin.

Dorio, Rebecca, Qiwei, and Falco sat around another bonfire, and the two sides were clearly separated.

After going through a big battle just now, everyone present fell into silence.

Although the night wandering ghost and Kang Tao's small group of intelligent mechanized troops were dealt with, the heavy atmosphere has not dissipated, and the depressive atmosphere permeates the tribe.

At that time, Mann and others were in a critical situation. They were trapped behind the rock wall of the canyon, with Kangtao's heavy combat drone above and Kangtao's intelligent combat robot approaching below the slope. It can be said that they were completely dead.

Fortunately, Tang Yu led people to break the situation. First, Panan stood in the distance and carried the RPG rocket on his shoulders, blasting the Kangtao drone with one shot, creating a gap in firepower. Gloria drove to the slope position, allowing Sa Sand rushed into the robot camp.

Tang Yu and Gloria continued to pursue the staff of the biotechnology company, took Alex Pushkin, handed it over to Mann and brought it back to the tribe.

Alex is now hanging at the gate of the tribal camp, and all the tribal members passing by can pick up stones and throw him.

Panan looked up at the next door, and found that the loli in another bonfire seemed to be staring at Tang Yu and Sasha, his eyes full of doubts.

She asked, "How about it, can you tell me what's going on here? Those mercenaries seem to know you."

Tang Yu asked Gloria to communicate with the tribe about follow-up matters. This matter has nothing to do with Panan, so it's okay to tell her.

Sasha also wanted to know the cause and effect of this incident, so he stared at Tang Yu seriously, expecting him to tell the story behind it.

Just when Tang Yu was about to explain, another figure came over, moved a small wooden stool and sat opposite the campfire, and said with dissatisfaction: "I want to listen too."

After finishing speaking, she looked at Sasha suspiciously, and then at Tang Yu, her eyes were full of strange question marks, she seemed to be scratching her head and couldn't figure out why the company was here, why didn't Sasha know herself, and why How is it with the company.

strange!
It's really strange!
Rebecca wanted to ask on the way back to the tribe from the canyon, and saw Sasha's sudden appearance with her own eyes, and then the company's sudden appearance.

Finally, Sasha turned around and got on the company car. She was really shocked for a whole year.

On the way back, Dorio held Rebecca in the co-pilot and stopped Rebecca from asking several times.

Falco and Qiwei sat in the back row and were in charge of guarding the staff of the biotechnology company.

Mann drove the car without saying a word, with an extremely heavy expression on his face.

Rebecca also understood that it was not easy to ask more questions on this occasion, so she calmed down patiently.

After arriving at the tribe, when she heard someone talking over the bonfire, Rebecca couldn't hold back her inner curiosity anymore, and wanted to hear Tang Yu explain the ins and outs of the whole thing.

Tang Yu knew that Rebecca was also involved in the entrusted task throughout the whole process, and she knew that there was nothing wrong with it.

"Speaking of this matter, you also know something, and it has nothing to do with the company."

"Biotechnology is breeding a superbug and developing new antibiotics to fight it."

"Now that experimental products have been researched, sample clinical trials are needed."

"Moreover, drug clinical trials are different from other products, and must be supported by a large number of sample data."

"Biological technology does not want to spend a lot of money to find volunteers, but also wants to obtain enough test samples, so it turned its attention to the homeless tribe on the bad land."

Panan got angry when he heard this, and scolded: "Is that how those company dogs treat the homeless? They still have a trace of humanity?! Not a single good thing!"

Hearing Panan's anger, Sasha and Rebecca Zizi looked at her.

In front of the company people, it is a bit bad to call the company dog.

Panan, who has a carefree personality, doesn't care about these at all, not to mention that she doesn't know Tang Yu's identity in front of her at all, so she just continues to urge: "Speak quickly, I'm still listening."

Tang Yu smiled helplessly: "You are right, the company really doesn't have a good thing."

"According to Alex Pushkin, an employee of the biotechnology company, it was his boss, Dr. Joanne Koch, who chose this tribe."

"Dr. Joanne Koch is the regional director of technology and development of a biotechnology company, responsible for the development and experimentation of new drugs. She decided to use the homeless tribe to conduct clinical trials, and then asked Alex to supervise the matter."

"Alex couldn't find a tribe that volunteered to participate in the experiment, so he contacted the notorious night goblins in the Badlands, because no tribe would accept the company's dirty work except for the night goblins."

"At the same time, Biotechnology is also worried that the matter will be exposed, so it is not allowed to cast D in the water source, so as not to make things bigger and attract more people's attention."

"So the night tour ghosts are eyeing this tribe, the 'red ocher' with weaker overall strength."

"With the acquiescence of Biotech's Joanne Koch, Nightwalker is in motion."

Panan cursed again after listening: "A group of bullying dogs who bark everywhere all day long, and they will kill each time they see each other!"

This time, Sasha and Rebecca agree with Panan's statement that the Night Walker is a real evil tumor, and it should be removed.

"Afterwards, the night ghost took the super bacteria provided by biotechnology and dropped D in the area where the red ochre tribe often scavenged waste. They put these infectious bacteria into various foods, and if they ate them carelessly, they would be infected."

"The other drug dealers will also help biotech by selling antibiotics developed by companies to tribes."

"Obviously, these antibiotics are not effective against superbugs at all, and may even have side effects."

"The corpses that died after infection will be snatched back by Ye Yougui and handed over to Biotechnology, and brought back to the company's R&D department to continue the sample research."

Hearing this, Rebecca suddenly realized, and quickly added: "I know about this! When I pretended to be a dead body and hid behind the night ghost car, I heard them say that a dead body would be sold to the company for [-] euros."

Panan scolded even more fiercely. He never thought that biotechnology would be so frenzied and use money to buy and sell human lives.

This money is really too simple and easy, and you can earn hundreds of thousands of euros by transporting some corpses.

Rebecca knew that she followed Mann's team through life and death, and after a mission, each person received an average of [-] or [-] Euros.

The key point is that this kind of high-paying missions are not often available. Usually, they take on some small missions. After a game, everyone can share a thousand euro gold, which is not bad.

Tang Yu can only tell them: "Once there is an appropriate profit, the company will be bold. With 50.00% profit, the company will take risks. With 1% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws. With [-]% With a profit of three hundred, it dares to commit any crime." (Note [-])

"Now that biotechnology has invested so much in the research and development of antibiotics, I'm afraid it has already found a buyer who is willing to pay more. To them, these hundreds of thousands of euros are just a drop in the bucket of the whole project."

"The Kangtao intelligent mechanical troops you see are security services outsourced by biotechnology. The investment in security fees alone is not a small sum of money."

Everyone was silent after listening.

The company controls capital, technology, resources, and armed forces. The few giants are not only wealthy, but even have the ability to start a protracted war. They are far from being able to compete with a group of mercenaries.

Even Night City, known as the most free city in the world, is also shrouded in the shadow of the company, and almost everything is inseparable from the company.

Rebecca was inexplicably depressed. Although she had always hated the company, she could feel the despair of being targeted by the company at this moment.

A tribe of thousands of people is considered a relatively powerful force in the bad land, but in the eyes of the company, it is just a group of chickens and dogs.

She was inexplicably agitated, and looked up at Tang Yu unconsciously, and found that he was warming up the fire with a calm expression, telling them about the ugliness of the company as if he was doing homework.

"Isn't he also from the company? Why do you say this? And what's going on with Sasha?"

Rebecca thought silently in her heart, unable to understand Tang Yu's approach.

But when she saw Tang Yu's clear and bright eyes shining brightly, she vaguely understood something in her heart, but she still couldn't say it.

Tang Yu saw that they suddenly became depressed after listening to them, so it was difficult to continue talking about these troublesome things.

Talking about the filth of the company, even homeless people on the streets of Night City can spray it twice, let alone them.

Everyone understands that the company is the culprit of all misfortunes, but being born in Night City, everyone can only accept everything numbly.

After all, life goes on, doesn't it?
At this time, Gloria finished talking with the elder cowboy, turned around and came behind Tang Yu, squatted down and approached and said.

"They have already paid the reward for this mission, a total of [-] euros, and Mann gets [-]%."

"In addition, the tribal elders are willing to take the initiative to bear the loss of Mann's vehicles."

Tang Yu nodded slightly. Mann's vehicle loss, ammunition consumption, etc. added up this time, [-] Euro gold really can't make much money. The tribe is willing to bear a little more, which is also good for them.

Gloria then made a suggestion, asking Tang Yu to make a decision: "The wreckage of the Night Tour Ghost convoy and Kangtao's intelligent transport troops still have a lot of spoils left. I don't think it's convenient to take them back. Should I hand them over to the tribe. "

The spoils were won by Mann's team and Tang Yu, so the decision is naturally on Tang Yu's side.

But these trophies are of no use to Tang Yu, but he considers that the red ocher tribe can only deal with some trophies, such as guns and ammunition, wrecked parts of off-road vehicles, etc., which can help them improve their ability to protect themselves.

But Kang Tao’s ground armored vehicle carrying the robot is a big guy, and handing over the red ocher is not only a waste, but it will also attract Kang Tao’s attention, which may cause another storm.

Tang Yu then turned to look at Panan and asked, "Would you like a gift for your tribe?"

Panan was a little strange. He didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Tang Yu's gourd, so he asked, "What gift? Don't try to use junk to pay for the reward. I don't do such stupid things."

Tang Yu mentioned: "Kang Tao's ground armored vehicle is a big guy. If it is given to Adekado, senior mechanical engineer Mitch will have something good to study."

Panan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt that this gift was very good. Bringing it back would not only improve the mechanization level of the camp, enhance the transportation capacity, but also allow Mitch to develop more good things.

But she quickly thought of a problem, this guy gave such a good thing for no reason, maybe there is something wrong, so she asked suspiciously.

"What? Why do you say give it away, make a price, tell me, as long as it's not too outrageous, I can still go back and persuade Sol."

Tang Yu smiled calmly and said, "Well, I will make a price. If I get into trouble someday in the future, please take me in for a while."

Panan inexplicably felt something strange in his words, and then comforted him boldly: "What are you talking about, there won't be such a day, then I won't go around with you anymore, I really want armored vehicles, and Adecardo owes you It's a personal favor, I'll cover you when you come to the Badlands."

Tang Yu also smiled and said: "Okay, with your words, I am also half of the Adekado family."

He then turned around and asked Gloria, except for the Kangtao ground armored vehicle, all other spoils of war should be given to the Red Ocher Tribe.

Gloria nodded, approving Tang Yu's arrangement. After this battle, the morale of this thousand-member tribe plummeted. It will take time to recover.

Kangtao's ground armored vehicle is here to attract thieves.

Not to mention the other tribes of homeless people around, just Luan Dao will hear the news, and I am afraid they will all come to walk around.

Finally, Gloria also reported an important thing.

"The tribe is very grateful and proposed to ask us to do another commission."

Tang Yu had guessed it, and motioned Gloria to continue.

Gloria said earnestly: "The tribe wants to entrust us to assassinate the company's mastermind, the regional director of technology and development of biotechnology, Joanne Koch."

Assassination of top biotech companies?
Tang Yu believes that revenge is necessary. This tribe still has a lot of backbone, and there is a temperament of revenge in the blood.

But the degree of danger of this entrustment is even higher than that of a melee in a bad land.

As a high-level executive of a biotechnology company, Joanne Koch is heavily guarded. If she wants to assassinate her, she has to keep an eye on the timing.

Now that the tribal D test on the Badlands side has gone wrong, Joanne Koch will definitely be more vigilant.

However, although assassination is difficult, it is not impossible.

As long as Joanne Koch is still in Night City, he can find the right opportunity to kill her.

at this time.

The elder in the cowboy hat walked over slowly and said hello to Tang Yu. He knew that among this group of people, Tang Yu was the one who could really make the decision.

"Mr. Tang, I take the liberty to invite you and everyone to take a look at our tribe, is that okay?"

Facing the invitation of the elder in the cowboy hat, Tang Yu stood up and followed his steps.

Seeing this, Gloria quickly got up and followed.

Sasha and Rebecca also reacted, and immediately got up and chased after them.

Suddenly there was only Panan left by the campfire. She looked at the fire with some boredom, threw away the dry wood in her hand, and stood up to follow.

Tang Yu saw women and children sleeping in the dilapidated tent, young and strong men guarding the safety of the tribe, and other tribesmen who had returned from carrying the loot.

Under the introduction of the cowboy hat elders, gradually understand the pattern and history of their entire tribe.

The sky is gradually turning pale.

The elder in the cowboy hat led the crowd to an open space, where the ground was filled with the just-captured trophies of the camp.

There are guns, ammunition, cannon barrels, the wreckage of drones, assorted electronic components, and broken alloy limbs of robots.

The variety is quite rich and diverse, and the quantity is not small, so it can be sold for some money.

The elder in the cowboy hat pointed to the objects on the ground and said sincerely: "Mr. Tang, after we collect all these objects, we will find a channel to sell them, and the money sold will be transferred to your middleman in time."

Tang Yu directly refused, and asked the tribe to keep these spoils for his own use, and the few small money sold at a low price did not mean much to him.

The elder in the cowboy hat thanked repeatedly, and almost couldn't hold back the old tears again. Fortunately, he commissioned to find Gloria and met Tang Yu.

At the beginning, they found a few intermediaries in Night City, but no one was willing to step into this muddy water. If it really dragged on, the entire tribe might face extinction.

Thousands of people, men, women and children, were all reduced to the company's test samples, and were slaughtered wantonly by night wandering ghosts.

But right now, none of that has happened.

All because of one person.

Tang Yu.

As the leader of the tribe, the elder in the cowboy hat is naturally very grateful and respectful to him.

Tang Yu doesn't care how respectful and grateful the elder in the cowboy hat is. Many things are done as they please. If you really want to be grateful, you might as well be grateful to Gloria.

Without her courage and firmness, this commission would never have come to where it is today.

In addition, the desperate and hard work of Mann and others is an indispensable part of the completion of the whole commission.

Suddenly, Tang Yu's eyes were attracted by a pistol on the ground.

The gun body projected a bullet image, about the size of a thumb, wearing sunglasses full of aura, humming a strange tune.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang."

Isn't this Four Seasons Treasure?

Tang Yu was a little surprised. He once picked up the Four Seasons Treasure at the scene of gang fights in the city, but this time he met him here.

He conveniently picked up the Four Seasons Treasure from the ground, held it in his hand and looked at it.

Sasha also noticed the Four Seasons Treasure in Tang Yu's hand, and thought it was a little fun, and said, "Why is this gun still singing?"

Sijibao bullet shot Sasha a look.

"Please don't interrupt me, I am soothing the boredom of waiting through relaxing tunes."

Sasha: "."

Tang Yu was very impressed with this grumbling gun. The bullets can automatically navigate and chase the enemy, which is more suitable for newcomers.

He played with it a little bit in his hand, but Sijibao was still so stingy.

"If you don't love me, don't come close to me, please don't shake, okay?"

The originally heavy atmosphere was amused by the Four Seasons Treasure.

Tang Yu handed the pistol to Gloria next to her. This gun was just right for her to stay for self-defense.

"Hold it, it's called Sijibao, it's a smart pistol, the bullets are automatically guided to chase the enemy."

Gloria quickly took Sijibao, feeling a little surprised. It should be very good to hear Tang Yu introduce this gun.

The commission was also completed, and what should be seen was also seen. Tang Yu felt that it was almost time to return.

As for whether to accept the new commission from the cowboy hat elder, let Gloria make up her own mind.

His current company status is somewhat unsuitable for being involved in disputes with biotechnology.

Assassinating a senior executive of a biotechnology company, although it is a challenge for Mann and the others, it is not completely impossible.

Tang Yu turned around, said goodbye to the elder in the cowboy hat, walked towards Tingwei, and decided to return at dawn.

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Note 1: Quoted and adapted from "Das Kapital".

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