Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

It's no secret in the industry that Lucy has always avoided corporate-related commissions. The public reason she gave was that she was afraid of being held accountable by the company if she messed up, but this reason actually applies to business from any source. If any commission is messed up, the principal may be held accountable. Intermediaries are often tasked with dealing with another intermediary, and most of them are of this accountability type.

From avoiding company-related business to fully cooperating with the company, this is equivalent to a [-]-degree turn. If it was just a business that made money, Lucy would rather retire now and not waste that effort. But there was something Zhuang Xuteng said that convinced her: if you don't get close to the beast, how can you find the beast's weakness and give it a knife?
  "Give me an hour to think about it," Lucy waved her hand and asked Zhuang Xuteng to go out first. Only a handful of people in the world know about the relationship between Naike and Zhuang Xuteng, and even fewer people can continue to conduct in-depth investigations and know about Zhuang Xuteng's brother Zhuang Teng, let alone have a connection. Lucy knew that she was responsible for Zhuang Teng's death in a car accident. This could not be solved by punishing a few mercenaries on duty.

She has organized countless ambushes and assassinations, so she can certainly see the strangeness in Zhuang Teng's car accident, and she knows very well that Naike can also smell problems - problems in the company. She had never analyzed this matter in front of Zhuang Xuteng, because she had always been afraid that Zhuang Xuteng would impulsively seek trouble for the company. At the same time, she could also see that Zhuang Xuteng deliberately did not mention this matter in order to have more time to prepare and think about it.

They didn't want a showdown, so they maintained a silent understanding.

At this point, Lucy took off her mask, took off her gloves, and touched the skin of her face with her fingers. She is an older version of Meteor, except that her left eye, cheek, teeth and mandible have been replaced with implants to compensate for the loss of body tissue. These injuries were caused by a company commission. The failure of the mission forced her to end her mercenary career early and embark on the path of a middleman.

First serve as someone's deputy, and then train his daughter to become an intelligence officer. During this period, he used a company entrustment to trick his boss to death, and then became a complete middleman after inheriting the inheritance. Lucy's basic impression of the company's entrustment was that it would kill mercenaries and trap middlemen, but she also knew that Zhuang Xuteng was right: only by being close to the company would there be a chance to harm the company.

"You want to figure out how your brother died, and I also have things I want to figure out. I believe you will not jump to the company, nor will you betray or betray me halfway." Although Lucy was talking to herself, But at the same time, he was also speaking to the shadow of Zhuang Xuteng in his heart. "I need a sharp blade that knows how to hide it in a sheath, and you should be my best choice. The Famine Stranger is a little behind, and the Gorgon Road is a little behind. There are many people, one after another, and they are gone. It’s just gone. I wasn’t very hopeful at first, but in the end I was waiting for someone who is the most ruthless and knows how to ‘hide’ the best.”

"If you can't do it, then I won't wait for the next one to appear. More than fifty years have passed since the corporate war. In another ten years, no one will want to explore its secrets, and it will be impossible to find out again. Zhuang Xuteng, Naike, Scarecrow... I hope you can give me a little surprise. You know, it will be very tiring to continue to be a middleman, and it will be even more tiring to deal with the company. "

Whether something can be done or not, in most cases depends not on the so-called timing, trend, or investment, but on the people. Who does it, with whom, and to whom. Society is about the relationship between people. Without a good partner or a good knife, Lucy would not want to have a chance with the company. She calmed down and thought carefully, considering both the way forward and the way back. She had to leave a way out, because she was not alone and had a beloved daughter to take care of.

She picked up the encrypted phone again, called Meteor, and told her her thoughts. She didn't want her daughter to know too much about the conspiracy, so she said that Naike proposed to fully cooperate with the company and use the moat company and the middleman-mercenary platform to seize the gang's resources, thereby achieving the two goals of self-rescue and development at the same time.

Meteor felt that this matter was not easy, and since they had no experience in this area before, the risks were relatively high. Moreover, the biggest problem when working with companies is that there is no advantage in intelligence capabilities. If the client wants to dig a hole to kill us, the hole will be invisible and they will not be able to detect it in advance.

"He also knows this risk, and he wants to accept this challenge." Lucy said on the phone: "And don't forget what I mentioned to you: the quality of Nightingale's new intelligence spy implant is 87% , and Naike took away the body of the skull dragon. In addition, he installed an extremely advanced implanted eye, and he also took away the other body."

Meteor understood his mother's hint: if he cooperates with the company, he will have the opportunity to obtain implants of company personnel, and Nike must have a way to deal with the implants of corpses, which means that they can also enhance and even cross the company and non-company. Huge capability gap among people.

"I will prepare an escape route for us. We need to transfer some assets and reduce the current size." Lucy said to Meteor: "This work must be done as soon as possible, preferably within these few days. Work hard and think more." Find a way and put in some effort to remove any traces that may be traced.”

After arranging these things, Lucy put on the mask again and called Nake back to express her agreement with his plan. She will plan carefully to meet with Ge Gongdao as soon as possible, and then use the middleman's network to facilitate this matter.

"In the hour just now, I thought a lot - not including whether you would agree with my suggestion. I am not worried about this issue." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Simply showing goodwill to the company cannot guarantee the success of our plan. I think it should Fight against our competitors. I will lead the team to fight against gangs, use any means, do not pick targets, and fight whenever we can."

Hearing this, Lucy frowned and immediately began to make calculations. "I don't doubt your strength. Not to mention that you are more proficient in stealth and have two intelligence officers to assist you. Even if your master Famine Stranger wanted to attack the gang with all his strength, it would be difficult for the gang to defend him. However, the gang Never like to be defensive, they just retaliate."

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "I know that my actions will definitely lead to retaliation, but the targets of retaliation will definitely be the entire middleman-mercenary group, plus the Moat Company. Since you and Brother Dao can prepare in advance, you can Take advantage of the situation, withstand the erosion when the tide comes, and become the one who integrates resources and ultimately makes a profit.”

"Nike, you are quite ruthless... You have left a good impression on all the middlemen and mercenaries, but this time you are going to use all of them to realize your plan. Many mercenaries will die because of your actions, you know Is this true? Are you mentally prepared?"

"I guarantee that gangs will die more than mercenaries, and I am not responsible for the life, death, wealth or poverty of all mercenaries. If there is an organization responsible for this, perhaps it should be the Middlemen Association. But this association has even lost its identity The compensation has not been paid, so I don’t care what the association thinks.” Zhuang Xuteng smiled and said: “I think the middleman-mercenary industry has many rules that are very good and should be retained, but the old era has passed, and new weapons have The new era has come, and companies have begun to arm gangs. Those who cannot get ahead of this new wave will definitely be submerged by it, and no one will be left alive."

Lucy nodded: "You are right. As long as you are slow at this time, you will have no choice but to wait for death. We started too late, and the people in front colluded with the referee to cheat. Do you think we still have a chance to catch up?"

"On the one hand, we have to act as quickly as possible, and we are not afraid of taking bigger steps. On the other hand, I will try my best to reduce those old-era gadgets in the previous wave to rubble."

Lucy smiled happily at that. She said: "There have been many capable people among the mercenaries, but there are still more people who work for money. Even if there are a few angry ones, they will only take action when others have provoked their own interests. What you said just now Like a madman, a madman who is ready to take down the gang alone! I have always been curious about how far a seemingly crazy mercenary can go. Scarecrow, what do you need?"

"Guns, a lot of guns; explosives, shock bombs, anything that can explode. A few safe houses, I can get supplies directly." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Once the operation starts, Nightingale, Yanque and I will not appear again. , especially will not come to you, so these things must be arranged in advance. Well, including on the information network, there will be no further contact, because I don’t know if the company’s technical personnel will be involved after the gang is beaten. "

"That's unlikely, but you do need to be on guard." Lucy said: "When are you going to start taking action?" "It starts tomorrow night, so you give me a commission task tomorrow, and then I disappear. I will Completely hide yourself with the two sisters. You can try to find us, but we will not respond. We will only come back to find you when we feel that we are almost done and are sure that we have got rid of the tail."

"Need money?"

"If I need it, I'll take money from the gang; if I need food, I'll get it myself from their kitchen. Haha, I have money."

"I know you are rich, but the rock bird and nightingale cannot work in vain. They are not your servants."

"Of course I won't treat them badly. Our team's internal accounts have always been very clear." Zhuang Xuteng waved his hand and said: "Currently they owe me money. For this operation, their work will be calculated for me according to the market price. If the operation is profitable, , we will still share it equally, but their debt repayment priority..."

Lucy nodded: "No need to continue, you are doing the right thing. I will start to find someone to mobilize the supplies, and I will give you a paper list at noon tomorrow. All actions will not leave any other paper or information. I will only explain the traces on the Internet to the employees in person."

"This is the best." Zhuang Xuteng stood up and said, "I will go find Nightingale and Yanque and inform them of the good news."

"Haha, good news? You really have a sense of humor. Do you think leading them to kill the gang is good news?"

"They have a chance to pay back the money. Isn't that good news?" Zhuang Xuteng smiled, turned and left with a confident step.

Two hours later, Zhuang Xuteng met the two sisters in the basement of the implant shop, and he came up with his plan. Although the two sisters are subject to Zhuang Xuteng to a certain extent due to their debt relationship, Zhuang Xuteng fully respects their opinions. If they were unwilling to undertake such a dangerous project with uncertain rewards, he would never force it. For the Cranosaurus implant, the two of them would definitely have to pay him, but as long as it was money, they didn't say they had to use this mission to pay it back.

Zhuang Xuteng asked the sisters to think about the risks carefully before making an answer. The two of them chatted privately for a while using communication antennas, heads to head, and finally decided to participate in this project together. "Okay! With the two of you participating, I will be able to carry out operations better. I have already thought about the general division of labor: I will be responsible for the assault, and you two will be responsible for local local control and global risk monitoring on site. In addition, I want Doyle to Come in and take on support and some of the logistics.”

The two sisters expressed confusion, so Zhuang Xuteng told them about Doyle's feud with the gang. "There is no possibility of him betraying us to the gangs. His experience in the Constitutional Army and black boxing competitions made him very vigilant. I also promised him that if I want to take action against the gangs, I will call him."

Nightingale blinked and said: "In this case, his credibility is not a problem, but he must be clear: when escaping from tracking and other actions, he must act according to the information given by the two of us. Naike, your elusiveness is beyond According to our standards, we are not worried about you. But you can leave the team and act alone, as long as you have enough food and drink and a place to sleep. But the two of us need a lot of supplies and equipment to support the operation, which is more cumbersome, so Doyle's main job It will help us."

"Yes, I'll make sure he understands that, and I'm looking for him to cover you."

"Okay then, call him down?"

Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said: "Doyle is not a formal member of our team, so he only needs to know the time, location, mission content and mission purpose, and there is no need to tell him anything else. Overall, he is not the core of this mission. There are only three of us as core members. Therefore, it is up to the three of us to decide what target to attack this time."

Yanque rubbed his hands and said, "This time I'm going to beat the gang up..."

"No, we must destroy the gang! Everything is working towards this goal." Zhuang Xuteng said: "The question now is, how many people need to be killed to turn a gang into a waste?"

Nightingale and Rock Bird looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: "No one has done this before. There is no historical data and it cannot be analyzed."

"No, think about it from another perspective: How can one gang be eradicated or merged with another gang?"

"I know this!" Yanque raised his hand and said: "Gangs fight for territory. Kill the person in charge and the main thugs of a certain territory, and other gangs will come over and grab it, one after another... Hiss, Naike, I understand, you don’t want to behead, but you want to behead your hands!”

"Yes." Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "The senior elders of the gang, nine bags, nine heads, or level nine, no matter what their names are, they all cherish their lives. They have bodyguards around them, and they are quite capable of fighting. It takes a lot of time and effort to find them. , it’s also very troublesome to kill. There is also the most critical issue: there are relatively few mercenaries who can sneak up on them and assassinate them. If you rank them from high to low, you can find me quickly. So, let’s kill the middle-level people this time, so that Everyone above and below them should see what the consequences are for joining a gang."