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Chapter 181: The Gap of Times

Watching the news broadcast by News 54, the most authoritative news program in Night City, the people at the Six Street Gang headquarters were silent.

If it were in the past, the Six Street Gang would probably have already started arguing endlessly, or even split internally, and tried to surrender to the giant corporate alliance.

But now, in the empty factory, after a month of brainwashing-like intensive training, the soldiers standing in a row were like javelins. Their faces were cold, their eyes were looking forward, without any expression, and they were silent like stone sculptures. Just standing there, they exuded a suffocating pressure.

On the second floor escalator, Armstrong nodded with satisfaction, extinguished his cigar, and said calmly, "Not bad, it seems that the training has been effective. They have finally transformed from a group of guerrillas into real desperadoes."

"This is all thanks to your will."

Will Cannon, who was standing beside Armstrong, wiped the cold sweat from his temples. If it were in the past, the current Cannon would definitely surrender without saying anything - whoever wants to come can come, and at the same time, provoking so many giant companies, let alone ordinary legends, even if a company of Morgan Blackhand came, they would only be reduced to pieces in the end, with no remains left.

But now, after witnessing Armstrong's almost insane training method - or strengthening program - even the artillery was horrified and even uneasy about the changes in these veterans.

All unnecessary organs were removed, leaving only the brain and biological nerves. Completely immersed in organic biological solution, virtual reality was introduced in the form of a brain in a vat, and uninterrupted combat training was carried out. Every action and every attack in the process would stimulate the corresponding brain area and nerve tissue to deepen the subconscious and neural memory.

After each training session, the memory pituitary gland is stimulated with controlled electric shocks, which ensures that the combat memory will be eliminated, preventing mechanical adaptation during continuous training, while also deepening the subconscious impression through continuous memory stimulation.

Now, the brains of these living soldiers, called brains in a vat, have been transferred and given integrated combat prostheses made entirely of special alloys.

According to conservative estimates, the prosthetic transformation of these soldiers has reached 98%. In other words, apart from the brain and the small nervous system, they are completely made of machines.

They still retain their self-awareness and instincts. However, during the long brainwashing, obeying orders takes precedence over their desire for life.

Then there are the prosthetic bodies on their bodies.

In previous combat training, the artillery also wanted to try to suppress these soldiers by using the advantage of numbers. But unfortunately, the difference in the quality of the prosthesis was too great. The standard kinetic mantis blade could not break through the defense, and the light firepower could only leave a series of craters and sparks. The long-range sniper rifle could produce effective damage, but unless it hit the head and directly destroyed the brain, it could continue to fight and counterattack - the body was completely made of prosthesis, and there was no damage to the physiological structure that would make it impossible to fight.

With very tacit tactical coordination, the artillery conducted three actual combat training exercises.

Among them, the Six Street Gang has 200 soldiers, and the Desperado reinforced soldiers are a combat team of 6 people.

"In the same period of time, the first actual combat training had a death ratio of 84/2. The second time, with the experience of the last time, Will Cannon thought that the data of the Six Street Gang soldiers would be better. After all, a large number of people means more tactics to choose from. In the end, the death ratio was 184/0. The third time, the annihilation was completed three minutes after the start of the performance, and the desperadoes had no casualties and 0 injuries."

While reporting the battle intelligence related to the desperado to Armstrong, Will Cannon felt terrified and excited from the bottom of his heart. The so-called zero damage does not mean that the desperado has not been attacked. It means that it has not been attacked effectively - that is, the attacks have not been able to break through the defense and will not affect the combat capability.

In Will Cannon's observation, the coordination between these desperado reinforced soldiers cannot be explained by tacit understanding.

But literally it is a person.

Vision is shared, and the summarized combat experience will be conveyed to all teammates through prosthetic signals at the first time.

Therefore, for the outlaw enhanced soldiers, they have only just entered the battlefield, and they already have the combat experience and combat wisdom of veterans who have fought hundreds of battles. After only one battle, all members can grasp the enemy's combat intelligence. After two experiences, they can understand all the enemy's habits and tactical specialties.

This is no longer a gap in technology, but a gap in the times.

To use a current example, people have thought about how the fourth-generation fighter jets can defeat the fifth-generation fighter jets. Due to many performance considerations, the fifth-generation aircraft can often only carry 8 missiles. Therefore, the method people gave was to use the vast territory to constantly force the fifth-generation aircraft to reduce its movements with radar, and then the fourth-generation aircraft lined up to rush towards the fifth-generation aircraft, consuming the missile ammunition of the fifth-generation aircraft. After the first fourth-generation aircraft was shot down, the second aircraft followed, and after the second aircraft was shot down, the third aircraft followed. Simply put, the first eight aircraft are live targets, used to consume the opponent's ammunition and close the distance. In theory, by the time of the ninth aircraft, there is a slight chance of shooting down the opponent.

After the development of their own fifth-generation aircraft was completed, people discovered that the imagined tactics were almost completely untenable - in two actual combat exercises, the first test result was 72 to 0, and the second test result was 108 to 0 based on the experience of the previous exercise.

According to the pilots who participated in the exercise, the radar of the fourth-generation aircraft could not lock onto the enemy at all. However, after firing 8 missiles at the super-detection range, the fifth-generation aircraft could fly back to the base to reload before the remaining enemy aircraft had discovered them, and then fly back to the war zone within half an hour to continue slaughtering the enemy aircraft one-sidedly...

And now, looking at the soldiers below, Will Cannon was extremely sure that Armstrong had mastered prosthetic technology far beyond this era.

In addition to being terrified, Will Cannon also felt a strong sense of excitement.

Because the troops in front of them are not the enemy, but on their side!
Looking at the troops in front of him, Armstrong nodded with satisfaction, and then contacted Ron:

"Those giant companies can no longer hold back. The initiator is Saburo Arasaka of the Arasaka Group. I'm ready. Are you?"

"understood."

As Ron answered, ripples appeared in the space, and then David and others, fully armed, walked out of it.

(End of this chapter)