Game world survival starts from Resident Evil 2

That evening, a Caucasian Bratsk heavy truck with an old and mottled appearance, breathing heavily, slowly drove from the edge of Taiping Island.

The cargo box of this Bratsk was even an extra-high model, which made the steps of this giant beast heavy as if it was carrying a mountain on its back.

The marks on the cargo box were very messy. At first glance, it was the red ochre pattern of the Wanderer Tribe, but there were also traces of Adecado and even the paint of the Random Sword Society on the bottom.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that this truck had carried countless goods, and most of them were not valuable.

Bratsk turned right at the intersection of the unfinished Great Empire Shopping Mall and drove into a narrow road surrounded by fluorescent green isolation fences. At the end of the narrow road was a heavily guarded checkpoint.

Sentry machine guns, intelligent turrets, and a mecha were watching from left to right in the middle of the road, and the guards around were always watching the vehicles entering and leaving, guarding them tightly.

Above the checkpoint, a green flag of "Hellhound" was nailed to the wall, still rustling with dissatisfaction.

Hellhound is the name of Hansen's group, and this is the gate of Dog Town and the passage for vehicles to enter and exit. All vehicles passing through here must undergo strict scanning before they can pass.

This Bratzke is the troop carrier of the Night Demons. It is actually the one that Arasaka used to transport the cyborg.

At that time, the car was abandoned in the Badlands, but it was not scrapped, but picked up by the wanderers of Adecado.

Mitch of Adecado was also thoughtful. Before dismantling the cargo box, he specifically asked Li You if he wanted the car. Considering that it might be useful in the future, Li You asked it over and asked Adecado's friends to help "make it old".

Then there is this old-looking heavy truck. It has to be said that the wanderers are still very professional in this area.

The driver at this time was also a cybernetic Night Devil, Grayson. The car was loaded with a heavy hammer cybernetic Night Devil, two cybernetic King Kongs, and several ordinary cybernetic Night Devils, which filled the thickened cargo box.

As for the other cybernetic Night Devils, they were left behind for a distance, forming another convoy waiting.

Here, Grayson watched the rolling door in front of him rise, and then drove slowly into the scanning channel.

All vehicles entering and leaving must undergo security checks here. At this time, the front and rear roadblocks rose, and a row of four laser scanners smoothly scanned the car from bottom to top, and then the alarm emitted a yellow light.

This means that this car needs to be questioned and inspected.

So, a sergeant wearing a green combat uniform of the Hellhound came over, knocked on the window, and asked: "What's in this car? Why can't it be scanned out?"

The two Bratzke cargo boxes were originally customized by Arasaka and can shield detection. Li You added a circle of isolation coating produced by the core of the nest in it just in case, so the Hellhound machine can't scan anything.

But in a place like security check, not being able to scan it out is already a problem.

Grayson replied: "It's a special cargo sent to the Heart-wrenching Club."

He took out a rare paper document and handed it to the sergeant. The Hellhound sergeant took it, looked at it, and sneered: "It's the old man Hanz again. Okay, go over!"

According to his instructions, the roadblock was lowered, and the roller shutter door in front opened. So Grayson took back the document, started the car again, and drove into Dog Town.

After entering Dog Town, what you see is indeed a new world, but it is not a good direction.

Tall buildings stood on both sides, and their shadows covered the road ahead. The road was extremely dirty, with garbage and car wreckage piled on both sides.

Homeless people walked in groups of two or three with blurred eyes and staggering steps, while those who were still strong gathered around a pile of garbage bags to keep warm.

But I don’t know what chemicals were burning in the pile, and the flames on it actually glowed green, and a pungent and unpleasant smell drifted away, but the homeless people did not react.

A little further ahead, you can see three Nether Dog soldiers beating homeless people on the side of the road. They were very heavy-handed, punching and kicking, and the two people being beaten could only roll on the ground to avoid it, but they were soon beaten to lose strength, breathing out more than breathing in, and almost unable to move.

The Nether Dog soldiers did not disperse until then, and as soon as they left, the other homeless people who had been hiding around immediately swarmed over and groped back and forth on the two unlucky guys on the ground.

Not to mention, someone actually found a purple-black inhaler and greedily inhaled it on the spot, but was immediately knocked down by the people around him, and the inhaler was taken away, and then the process was repeated again.

Just one inhaler caused a small-scale chaos on the roadside.

After driving a short distance forward, until climbing the relatively gentle uphill, it was considered to be out of the shadow of the two buildings at the entrance and saw the full view of Dog Town.

The area of ​​Dog Town is actually very small, even smaller than that of the adjacent Pacific Island, but in terms of building density, it is one of the best in the entire Night City.

Here, high-rise buildings are next to low-rise shopping malls, and special buildings of strange shapes and styles are scattered all over the ground, such as pyramid-shaped bars, sanatorium buildings that look like standing coins, and strange buildings that look like giant human heads. There are all kinds of things.

Of course, we must not forget the huge circular stadium at the northernmost end of Dog Town, and the stockyard made of containers at the southernmost end. These two areas are the most densely populated.

One is a commercial core and the other is a slum settlement.

In the sky, a huge airship slowly passed by, with a large portrait of Colonel Hansen on the projection screen on the side.

Grayson drove and turned right at the intersection ahead.

Originally, if you really wanted to go to the Worry Bar, you should have turned left. The bar was the pyramid-shaped building, but Grayson didn't really deliver goods anyway.

He moved along here, passing through one after another large and small Nether Dog checkpoints, passing under the overpass formed by the mechanical arms of large engineering vehicles parked on the roadside, and finally parked the car at the southernmost end of Dog Town. The bottom floor of the dilapidated cylindrical skyscraper.

This is the location where Mr. Hands agreed to meet, because it is next to the densely populated Long Beach stockyard, which is suitable for concealment.

At this time, two freight trucks were parked here. The people in the trucks were standing on the roadside, chatting about topics such as "How much did you earn last time transporting goods?" and "How is your wife doing lately?" He looks like an ordinary wage earner from Dog Town.

But when Bratzke appeared, they all looked over intentionally or unintentionally, and noticed the inconspicuous tearing mark on the front of the car, so one of them walked up and started to read the code:

"Is this the emergency shipment to the nursing home this time?"

Grayson stuck his head out and replied: "No, it was sent to the Known Realm Bar."

The man then nodded: "Come down."

Grayson circled around the load-bearing pillar on the ground floor of the building, almost touching the rear of the car against the wall on one side, and then jumped out of the car.

Most of the people who had been chatting just now came over: "People from the 'Night Devil'?"

Grayson nodded: "The rest will be here soon."

"Okay, then we will lead the way to the place designated by Mr. Hands."

They waited here for about ten minutes. Three armed vehicles with a clear wanderer style drove forward and stopped at the roadside. The prosthetic night demons walked out one by one.

Seeing so many elite warriors, Hanz's people were obviously a little frightened, but the leader still said: "Come with us."

In addition to old research facilities for military technology, there are also bunkers, abandoned underground passages, and underground parking lots and other buildings underground in Dog Town. They are densely packed and connected in all directions, but they have also collapsed due to disrepair and are difficult to pass through.

According to Li You's request and Mr. Hanz's inspection, the temporary base of the Night Stalkers was finally located underground in this skyscraper.

In addition to Brazkree's three humanoid weapons, the task of the other night demons is not only to help control them, but more importantly, to explore the underground of Dog Town while the three of them are sleeping in the car. .

It's obvious that no one else is better suited for this task than the Night Stalkers.

At the same time, outside Dog Town, on the Taiping Island side, more night demons were searching along the old intercontinental maglev tunnel.

Their goals are to enter the Little Beidou Base in the ending of Shadow of the Past, and the other is to find a safe underground passage into and out of Dog Town.

After all, it was obviously impossible to transport the Chimera out of Hansen's warehouse by land. What's more, Li You is also somewhat interested in other war machines in Hansen's hands - and of course he didn't buy them.

After these tasks were assigned, most of the prosthetic Night Demons were occupied, and with some others following Yori Xuan, Li You rarely experienced the dilemma of "short manpower" again.

But fortunately, ordinary night demons can also perform the task of searching underground, so they don't necessarily have to leave everything to the artificial night demons.

Moreover, the Stone Ridge Mountain Research Center has recently implanted brain-computer chips into the first batch of ordinary night demons, and it is said that the rejection reaction is not strong. If we are optimistic, a large number of degraded versions of the sentient night demons should soon come off the operating table and act as a new force.

In short, Li You's night demons and prosthetic night demons basically have things to be busy with now. The ordinary night demons, except for a small emergency team, are all waiting in line for surgery.

As for those secondary night demons, they can basically only be used as thugs and cannot continue to fight under the sun, so their numbers have basically been maintained long ago.

And what about Li You himself? He had already arrived at the private room on the third floor of the Worry Bar one step ahead to talk face to face with Mr. Hands.

The private room on the third floor of the bar is Mr. Hanz's exclusive reception room. It is here in the game that he meets V, and everyone can see his true face.

Hands is actually a man with neat appearance and calm temperament. He looks about forty or fifty years old. He is wearing a dark suit, his hair is neatly combed back, and his thick beard is also neatly groomed, which adds to his aura. Elegant charm.

What is very distinctive is that his hair and beard are black on both sides and gray in the middle, which is unforgettable.

"Welcome! My favorite quasi-legendary mercenary!"

Hanz opened his hands to Li You to express his enthusiasm, but he didn't actually mean to hug or shake hands.

Li You also knew his character. Hanz was the kind of calm and unassuming person. His special welcome showed how much he valued himself.

But Li You still looked at him, thinking a little.

Although many people may not know, the modeling of Mr. Hands in the early version of the game is different from that in the 2.0 version.

At that time, Hands was a slightly fatter, but younger man with no beard, different clothing and hand prosthesis.     It's just that he didn't have the opportunity to show his face at that time, so many people didn't notice his appearance changes.

As for how Li You knew it, it was because he had a bug when he was playing the old version of the phone before - or it might be that there was a problem with the power supply of the Night City Power Bureau at that time - in short, Mr. Hands, who was supposed to be hiding in the shadows, suddenly had the lights in the room brightened, allowing Li You to see his face clearly.

So, the difference between the two versions of Hands is actually not small, even the voice actors are different.

However, the one who appeared in front of Li You was still Hands after 2.0.

Of course, although the appearance and voice actor have changed, the personality of "Mr. Hands" has not changed. His real name is Wade Brick. He used to work at Petrochemical, and now he is a famous middleman active in Pacific Island and Dog Town.

Interestingly, the famous "black fat man" in the game, Dexter Deshawn, the middleman assigned to V and Jack to steal the chip, was actually active in Taipingzhou in the past. As a result, he messed up a big order and made the whole Taipingzhou a mess. He had to go out and hide for two years before returning.

Judging from this performance, Mr. Hands may have taken over Dexter's power at that time and expanded in Taipingzhou. Before that, he and Dexter probably didn't get along.

Because when he met V for the first time, he would also say something sarcastic about the "late Mr. Deshawn".

By the way, our black fat Jesus should still be eating pizza in the secret villa to reward himself, and it is estimated that he will not come back until next year.

Although I don't know if I will wait until that time, if Li You really encounters him, this big golden arm guy should be the first to end up with Farah.

Although from the perspective of the middleman, he didn't do anything too excessive, but sorry, this is a personal grudge.

"…Please sit down, Li You, let's have a good chat."

Mr. Hands didn't notice Li You's distraction for a moment, and greeted him:

"Have some tea, I specially made it. As far as I know, you should be from the East. I wonder if this tea suits your taste."

Mr. Hands picked up the teapot on the table beside him, poured two cups into the tea bowl, and then brought it to the tea table.

"Please."

Li You naturally wouldn't refuse, and smiled and said, "Thank you."

He sat down on the sofa with Hands, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, tasted the taste, and felt that it was actually not bad.

"How is it?"

Li You nodded: "I don't really know much about tea, but this taste is very similar to what I had in my hometown before."

Mr. Hands smiled: "That's great."

"Then, let's talk about this cooperation?"

Seeing Li You nod, Hands took out a separation chip and said: "This is the specific information you commissioned to investigate before, you can take a look first."

Li You took the chip without hesitation, inserted it into the smartphone, and displayed the data on the eyepiece.

Speaking of what he asked Mr. Hands to help investigate in Dog Town before, it was nothing more than the location of those military technology underground research bases.

He already knew where to enter the core base of Xiao Beidou, and Li You also knew the location of Hansen's big treasure, the Chimera tank known as the "Zhongpingtou".

So the rest is the most important thing in the DLC plot-the neural matrix used to integrate the AI ​​outside the black wall.

The DLC does not elaborate on how Lark knew that Hansen had dug this thing out, and how he got in touch with him, but judging from the time, this key item should not have been unearthed yet, otherwise Lark would not have waited for almost a year to find this thing, and was forced to get in touch with the President of NUSA.

So what Li You asked Mr. Hands to investigate was the possible storage location of this thing.

Of course, he couldn't say what he was looking for, and he also had to be prepared in case this thing had been dug out, so he made all the requirements clear in advance, and the answers were in the separation chip.

Li You looked at the detailed information displayed on the eyepiece and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"… In the past six months, Hansen's people have not carried out large-scale excavation operations, and the neural matrix should still be underground.

"… At present, there are two largest underground research facilities that have been discovered and have not been opened in the Dog Town. The Nether Dog has arranged an excavation plan, but it is still in the preparation stage. It is expected to start construction in a month at the earliest, and the two facilities will be carried out in turn.

"…Currently, the entrances to these two underground facilities have been blocked and are guarded by Nether Dog soldiers around the clock, with strict security."

The information also included a lot of more detailed details. Even with Li You's current brain power, it took more than a minute to read and digest all the information.

Li You thought: "It seems that what I'm looking for is likely in these two bunkers."

He looked at Mr. Hands again: "You can actually dig out so much detailed information in the dog town under Hansen's strict control. You are worthy of being my most promising middleman."

Mr. Hands was amused: "Why do I feel like I just said this?"

"But that aside, in terms of Dog Town intelligence, I have a secret team that I can trust, and they know where to touch and where not to touch during the investigation, so they are very efficient.

"Compared to this, you actually read through so much information in this chip so quickly. As a person with a brain-computer chip, I feel inferior. It seems that I am really getting older. "

Li You just smiled: "I am still in this business without pretending to be a prosthetic body. Of course I have my own trump card, otherwise I just don't know the importance."

"That's right." Hanz seemed to agree with Li You's words.

"So, when are you going to take action?"

Li You thought for a moment: "I read your information and found that both bunkers are more tightly guarded than I expected. Looking at this configuration, I have to kill all the ghost dogs guarding the gates and then set off a big firecracker. It’s possible to break through, but then the whole dog town would have to know that I’m here to celebrate the festival, which would be a bit troublesome.”

Hanz said: "...Although I don't know what kind of 'firecrackers' you brought, it is true. Hansen is not particularly interested in these two bunkers now. There is still fun to sneak in. If you are tough, That would be equivalent to declaring war on Hansen, and it would also make him understand the value of the things inside, and the gains outweigh the losses.”

"I'm not saying, although you and your Night Devil are both impressive, I guess it's too much to fight in an away game in Dog Town.

"I don't know what you're looking for inside, and I won't ask any more questions, but maybe we can work together on this matter."

Li You raised his eyebrows: "As expected of Mr. Hands, it seems you have a way out again?"

Mr. Hanz's smile remained unchanged: "If I want to open a market in Dog Town, it is equivalent to digging a hole in Hansen's backyard. I won't be able to survive without finding more ways."

Li You didn't hesitate: "Then just say it, I'll listen."

"Okay. Let's put it this way, I met a... friend not long ago. He is engaged in the civil engineering industry in Dog Town. His professional level is very reliable. He dug several underground facilities before.

"And I heard that the Nether Dog's excavation operation this time was still outsourced to them. He even went to the bunker gate to personally inspect it for a few days before to formulate an excavation plan. I believe he can help you."

Is there such a good thing?

Li You looked at Mr. Hands: "So, what price do you plan to sell this friend's contact information for?"

Hanz replied: "There is no need to talk about money. You and I are both people who are not short of money. We don't want to buy tanks and submarines from Hansen."

"What I want is still the same, which is what I just said, to open the market in Dog Town. And in order to do this, I need you to do me a small favor."

"A little favor?" Li You asked.

"For a giant who has legendary strength and controls a gang of hundreds of people, it is indeed just a small favor." Hanz nodded.

"Tell me about it." Li You agreed in no hurry.

"Actually, it's a job you're very good at. It's also helping yourself." Mr. Hands looked at him, "You destroyed the main force of the Voodoo Gang in Taipingzhou and occupied their lair. Even Ziwang Both Poseidon and Data Fortress were spared."

"Although some of the Voodoo Gang in Dog Town have officially broken up with the Taipingzhou gang, there are still many people who have the same heart as them, not to mention that Poseidon has fallen into your hands.

"And it just so happened that the Voodoo Gang here accepted Hansen's commission and recently attacked my hacker team... yes, the same group of people who helped you find the data. They had an accident this time and lost two people."

Li You: "I'm sorry."

Hanz shook his head: "They are all aware of this risk, so it's nothing. But counting this time, these guys have already cost me four hackers, which is too much."

"Now that you are here, I want to ask you to come forward and help me deal with this group of people. It is up to you to decide how to do it, kill them all, capture them, or expel them.

"As long as you don't make too much noise and attract the attention of the Netherworld Dogs, I can help you put an end to it. As long as you make them no longer my trouble."

Li You looked at him: "It seems that I have no reason to refuse. Such good cooperation conditions cannot be obtained from other middlemen."

Hanz shook his head: "Although I have always been very confident, this is not the case."

"Li You, you have to know that you have been a big boss for a long time. Now you are not at the same level as ordinary mercenaries, and naturally they cannot be in the same price range.

"To cooperate with people like you, mutual benefit and win-win results are the most basic respect. Just like how I sometimes do business with other giants, only in this way can we continue to operate for a long time."

I have to say that Mr. Hanz's knowledge of advancement and retreat, and general knowledge, made Li You very satisfied.

Moreover, the conditions of cooperation were indeed very favorable to him, so he extended his hand: "Okay, then it will be a pleasure to cooperate."

A smile appeared on Hanz's face again, and he held hands with Li You: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."