i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 21

Li Pan took Chengzi's grocery shopping cart GALENA G240 to Taiping District, looking out the car window at the flashing lights in the underground high-speed tunnel.

"You know Taiping District, why is it called Taiping District?"

Orange glanced at him in the rearview mirror,
"...Because the plan is on the edge of the Pacific Ocean?"

"Hehe, I heard that Magellan traveled around the world and crossed the ocean. He didn't encounter a storm for three whole months. When he arrived in Lucong smoothly, the crew cheered that this is really a piece of the fucking Pacific Ocean.

... But now it looks like it might just be their luck.And most people don't have that luck. "

"Does the military school still teach you these ancient histories?"

Li Pan shook his head, and forwarded the message from the pastor to Cheng Zi,

"Name, home address and social security number, please help me find it."

Cheng Zi nodded, "Your girlfriend?"

Li Pan, "Friends and family members."

Cheng Zi, "I'll ask my colleagues to pay attention, don't mind too much, this kind of thing won't stop."

"Dog fight?"

"Well, the old industrial zone has been completely abandoned. Gao Tianyuan has been in business for so many years, and there are too many remnants under his banner, and the quotation is too high, so we will definitely not be able to negotiate.

Since Ye Shi refused to compromise and agree to the other party's conditions, he might as well start anew and rebuild a new production base.This is not just a threat at the negotiating table.When the Taiping District was planned, a lot of benefits were given to attract skilled workers and immigrants to settle down. Even I was moved.
But this kind of bottom line is equivalent to putting a noose around the neck. The chaebols in the old capital area will not sit idly by. The riot of the red dog coming out of the cage tonight is probably just the prelude to the war. "

Li Pan listened to Cheng Zi's explanation and looked at the sea on the other side of the cross-sea bridge in silence.

Because of heavy pollution, the Pacific Ocean has long been divided by huge garbage continents and patches of red algae. Only the sea area near the center of the city, and those private resort islands, were fenced by chaebols with polymer membranes and used as distant star colonies. technology, shaping the artificial ecosystem.Let the rich at the top still be able to enjoy the sun, the beach, the blue sky and the sea on this decaying planet.

But for other citizens, what they can enjoy is only what Li Pan sees right now, as Chengzi’s G240 drives out of the high-speed tunnel, and under the deep darkness, bloody and rotten. sea ​​of ​​garbage.

From a distance, it looks like a slum that covers the sky. Yes, it is the Pacific Ocean. The bottom is the sticky mud of waste water and fuel oil in industrial areas, and there are all kinds of plastic garbage on it. It covers the entire coastal port area and cannot be seen at a glance. The huge garbage continent on the edge.

It’s not that the tax bureau doesn’t levy pollution fines on factories, but the companies have calculated that paying fines is more cost-effective than environmental rectification. Some companies directly hire gangs to ‘steal’ toxic waste and waste, as long as they don’t get caught. It's none of their business where the rubbish goes in the end.

What's more, what 0791 needs now is economic recovery and employment opportunities, so the police will not be particularly strict in investigations, and to be honest, in a world where the gap between rich and poor is polarized, not so many people care about environmental pollution. subject.

So far away, at the end of the garbage island, Li Pan saw the torches that stretched into the sky. Well, that was not a torch, but a burning oil refinery.A line of fire spread across the horizon, billowing thick smoke covering the sky.

In the war zone, the flames of war in the Taiping zone have been ignited.

At this time, Chengzi's pupils flickered, and he frowned, and passed the information fed back from NCHC to Li Pan,

"The situation is not very good. My colleagues told me that there are still sporadic firefights in the Taiping Zone. Your friend's address is also classified as a war zone. We can't go in and clean it up for the time being."

Li Pan nodded, "It doesn't matter, as long as there is a map, I will go in and bring out their remains."

Cheng Zi persuaded, "You really don't wait until daylight? Once it is classified as a war zone, all the nearby security systems and Internet of Things will be offline. It is not recorded that a three-headed dog uses heavy weapons to kill people inside! You don't know , there are seventh-level soldiers in that army!"

Li Pan shrugged, took off the name tag on his collar,
"That's just right. Although I'm just going to collect a corpse, I don't mind killing two people."

Unable to persuade him, Cheng Zi could only sigh,

"You take care of yourself."

When we came to the border, the NCPA group of useless things really closed the highway entrance and exit and huddled together at the checkpoint. The NCHC rescue team could only set up a temporary camp in the highway service area first, and then went out to rescue people after they were cleared.

Li Pan also got off the bus at the camp, and was planning to say goodbye to Cheng Zi, and followed the map to bring back the bodies of Daxiong's family.Cheng Zi stopped him.

"Someone can go in with you. Have you ever heard of cyberpunk?"

"The group of mercenaries?"

The famous cyberpunk, a free mercenary who rebelled against the system, rebelled against the company and rebelled against the authority, wandered on the edge of the social forbidden zone.

Among these people are the veterans who survived the corporate war, the elites who failed their startups, the technical masters who wandered on the streets, and the outlaws who wandered in the wilderness. They are all legends who despise authority and refuse to succumb to the corporate system.

Well, it’s overblown, this group is generally independent mercenaries without affiliation, a small circle on the edge of the law, sometimes working alone, sometimes forming a group freely, accepting tasks from middlemen of various forces, and fighting against each other in the capital of the night. Dealing with all kinds of forces.

Although the company doesn't like wild dogs, throwing some bones to feed these wild dogs from time to time is also to avoid direct conflicts between the company and the company, between the company and the security bureau, intensify conflicts, trigger new wars, and compromise with each other a compromise approach.

These mercenaries called cyberpunks are the forefront and buffer zone of corporate wars.

"I know some friends in the circle, 'ghouls', who enter the battlefield to pick up corpses, collect weapons and equipment, and so on. They can take you for a while. If there are more people, at least it will be safer."

"Okay, thank you."

So under the introduction of Cheng Zi, Li Pan met Warren Stein.

It can be identified at a glance that this is a veteran who crawled from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, wearing artificial muscle fibers and ceramic bulletproof armor, gorilla arms, high-explosive howitzers, and a solid fourth-level mercenary.

The other party glanced at Li Pan, and had the same intuition, and nodded at Cheng Zi.

"...Have you ever killed someone?" Orange asked curiously, "It's the first time I've seen him be so polite to a newcomer."

"I'll buy you a drink another day."

Li Pan smiled at her, bid farewell to Cheng Zi temporarily, and joined Wallenstein's team.

This team of ghouls is a team of 20 people who gathered temporarily at the scene to pick up corpses.

The battlefield of vicious dogs and dogs has always been a place where risks and opportunities coexist. Although there is a high probability of being wiped out by the three-headed dog's heavy mecha, if you can find four-, five-, or even seven-level equipment and weapons, Then change the shotgun to the gun, and hit the first prize all at once.

Therefore, cyberpunks also have their own rules, and veterans are even more straightforward. They don’t talk nonsense at all, and directly send over the battle map to get to the point.

"The rules are very simple, whoever sees it first will get it, no one is allowed to grab it, if you don't follow the rules, everyone will fight on the spot, and no one owes anyone else.

I'll take you all the way for Chengzi, the coordinates are near No. [-] Battlefield, and I'll just wait for you for a quarter of an hour, no more waiting. "

Because Li Pan came in a hurry, he rented the other party's spare equipment on the spot, a bullet-proof vest with a four-level military alloy plate, a level-four military helmet, a gas mask, an emergency hemostatic kit, a first-aid inhaler, an analgesic enhancer, and a multi-function Engineer shovel, a set cost a little 2000.

Well, rent it, and you have to pay it back if you survive.

In addition, Wallenstein also sold him a magazine with seven bullets, 150 per round, a total of 3100, and the cash was reduced to 1200.However, Li Pan also came out of a military academy, so he naturally knew that these equipments were all worthwhile.

Wallenstein also explained.

"These are five-level armor-piercing implosion bombs made by me. The three-headed dog wears five-level SBS space combat suits, and there is also a shock-proof self-healing biological gel coat inside. Only customized ammunition can cause effective damage. Remember at least A shot in the head."

Li Pan looked at him,
"No ammunition for Akainu?"

Wallenstein was expressionless,

"No need, Akainu has limited supplies and usually won't engage us.

But most of those people were veterans of the border pest control unit, and they basically cleared the field when they acted.Those who pick up corpses will not hold back when they see us.

Don't spit it out in my gas mask if you see something too much in it later. "

Li Pan nodded slowly, knowing it well.

Frontier Pest Troops? This may be the strongest infantry in the history of human civilization.After all, usually speaking, 'pest treatment', it's all about aliens.

Of course, it is not limited to alien creatures, there are also various extraterrestrial civilizations, non-human existence, biochemical crises that are out of control, mutant civilizations that have gone astray, in short, all races that have the ability and potential to threaten the continuation of human civilization. are 'pests' and must be destroyed.

But don't think that these pest handling troops are really 'guardians of mankind' or 'partners of justice', because there are not a few parallel earths that have perished in their hands.

After all, the definition of "pest" is decided by the Public Safety Council composed of corporate giants. In the final analysis, it is still profit, so those that can make the company make money are "beneficial insects", and those that may cause economic losses are " Pests'.

Therefore, for front-line soldiers like the Three-Headed Dog, all living things in the Taiping District are bugs. There is no distinction between good and bad bugs, and if they are found, they will be destroyed. This is the best way to deal with them.

So Li Pan put on his equipment and followed Wallenstein's team over the highway viaduct, avoiding minefields, forts and drone warning nets, and entered the center of Taiping District.

According to Ye's Group's plan, this place is to be built as a comprehensive new city of industrial areas and residential areas, with various factories, apartment buildings, and comprehensive commercial centers. There are streets and viaducts everywhere, like a steel jungle, and the terrain is extremely complicated.

From time to time, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the distance, echoing in the burning city of steel, it was clear that the battle had not stopped.

In order to prevent the three-headed dog's unrestricted anti-riot operation from being dispatched by camera surveillance, causing a public relations disaster, after entering the Taiping District, Xing Tian also showed that he was disconnected from the virtual network. Li Pan could only rely on the map stored offline, and Hua Lun Subnet communication provided by the Stein Squad UAV Sentinel to confirm the surrounding situation.

Such a complex urban battlefield environment without electronic support is the one that experienced veterans are most afraid of. If there is a turret sweeping over any window, it may directly wipe out your team.And you can't put the reconnaissance drone too far away, or the signal will be too strong to attract the attention of the three-headed dog, and a mobile team may drop from the sky to sanction it.

Therefore, although no troops from the two warring parties were encountered nearby, everyone approached very cautiously and moved slowly between various bunkers. They first cleared mines and then carefully collected wreckage and equipment. It took a full hour to reach the No. [-] battlefield.

"The sentinels are alert, start collecting, and rest in place for 10 minutes after the end."

Wallenstein ordered and nodded to Li Pan.

So Li Pan left the team and went to the apartment rented by Daxiong's girlfriend according to his social security account.

Using the molecular blade of the engineering shovel to cut open the explosion-proof door, Li Pan entered from the fire exit, climbed up the sixth floor along the elevator, and found the target room.

The scene was very tragic. Armor-piercing submunitions for street fighting were used. The warhead of the submunition broke into the apartment and imploded. The bullets bloomed like fireworks, and the burst of plasma fire burst from the central area, blasting the entire building into a thousand holes. In an instant, the residents in the building were smashed into pieces by the splashing plasma mass. Under the high pressure and high heat, the human body exploded like an egg in a microwave oven, and splashed on the ceiling of the apartment where the mortgage was not paid off. , the sebum and internal organs burned into a scorched paste, sticking together into a tan, and the broken bones were blown everywhere.

Li Pan collected human tissues at the scene, compared and confirmed the room number, medical insurance and dental records, and confirmed the identity of the deceased. Limited, only mother and child can be put together, so please ask the pastor to put them and the remaining prosthetic bodies of Big Bear in an urn.

Due to the limited manpower of NCHC, usually in this case, when cleaning the ground, the body tissues sorted out are burned together to ashes. If there is a need for family members, some of them are packaged and distributed to them for funeral use.

Although you can ask Chengzi for a favor, after the battle is over, let her come for a trip.But Li Pan felt obliged to collect the corpse himself.

No one asked him to do this, he just wanted to take a look for himself.

Take a look to see if Big Bear's family members are really dead.

Take a look at the final outcome of most of the ordinary residents of the night capital.

Now that he has seen it with his own eyes, let's go back.

So Li Pan walked back with the tissue tank on his back. When he returned to the meeting point, he saw Wallenstein chatting with a soldier in black armor who looked like a robot from a distance, smoking and chatting.

Under the support of the outer metal skeleton, the soldier was covered with a thick military alloy armor, just like an ancient heavy armored knight. He was two heads taller than Warrenstein. At this time, only his chin was exposed, holding Warren in his mouth. Stein's cigar and chatter with him.

And behind the soldier, there is a huge robot more than five meters high with four legs and four arms. From a distance, it looks like a fat spider with arms and legs. Battlefield drones.

This is the most versatile equipment used by the military. It is a real killer weapon and a full-featured weapon platform. It can be refitted according to the needs of various battlefield environments and use various military weapon systems to provide fire support for front-line infantry.

As a special engineer reserve trained by the military academy, once Li Pan is enlisted in the army, his main task will be to maintain the spider fleet, which is the main force of the infantry army.

As for the soldier and the drone, the fluorescent three-headed dog spray paint on the black-gold metal armor couldn't be more clear and conspicuous under the night vision imaging.

The moment Li Pan walked out of the ruins, the spider-type drone aimed and irradiated the laser immediately, and forced access to his chip system to read the data.

'Identification, citizens, employees of the company, and social security. '

'Spiritual appraisal, blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue, deviation value 0, safe. '

So the spider turned the machine gun and turned to aim at the other cyberpunk mercenaries on the scene. The prosthetic eye on the three-headed dog soldier's helmet also turned around, glanced at Li Pan, took another sip of his cigar, and continued talking to Wallenstein.

"Seventy-three, I'm seven, call me in cash, now."

Wallenstein shook his head,

"Your asking price is too high. With so many of us, those prosthetic bodies have to be reorganized before they can be sold on the black market. I will give you [-]% at most."

The three-headed dog turned its righteous eyes and stared at him,
"Do you think I'm a company dog? Hmm! Do you think I'm bargaining with you? Hmm! There are too many people, do you want me to kill a few now? Hmm!"

Li Pan walked towards them, walked all the way to the spider, looked at the missile launcher that the spider was shooting into the air, suddenly picked up the engineering shovel, activated the molecular blade, and struck with all his strength, breaking the armor of the spider drone The chassis hit the core processor with a single blow, hitting the core chip, and the spider crashed instantly.

When the three-headed dog soldier and the cyberpunks turned to look at him, "Bang!" A gunshot was heard, and Li Pan pulled out the 'black kite' and blasted the soldier's head.

Then he came over, split open the soldier's body with a shovel, dug out the heart, put it in the pocket of his suit trousers, and walked back with the containment jar on his back.

Wallenstein just stood there the whole time, staring, brain tissue and blood sprayed all over his face. He couldn't help opening his jaw, and the cigar in his mouth fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)