from night city

although

Although I haven't returned to Night City yet, the atmosphere in the car is obviously much more relaxed.

Jose no longer looked like he was mourning.

When the number of vehicles waiting to pass inspection increased from dozens to more than 20, the gate at the entrance of the checkpoint suddenly closed and the roadblock in front of them slowly rose.

"what happened?"

"Look there."

Looking in the direction Lucy was pointing, she saw scrolling subtitles on the holographic display above the checkpoint.

“夏季工作时间——8:00到15:00，冬季工作时间——9:00到15:00。”

Su Xiao quickly took a look at the time and found that the current time was 14:36.

Jack, who was sitting next to Su Xiao, said, "Damn, isn't the closing time three o'clock in the afternoon? It's only after two o'clock, are these bitches touching me like this?"

However, no matter how he cursed, it was an indisputable fact that the checkpoint stopped passing. Su Xiao saw the vehicles queuing in front and were slowly turning around and leaving the checkpoint.

"Lucy, help us find a motel nearby."

It was not Lucy who spoke, but V: "There is a restaurant on the road we came from. It only takes about ten minutes to get there."

"Okay, let's go there then."

Jack hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said: "Would you like to go to other checkpoints?"

The border between California and Mexico is very long, and of course there is more than one checkpoint.

But Lidya Su thought about it and shook his head to deny the proposal.

"Since this checkpoint has been closed, the other checkpoints are probably about the same. Let's find a motel to stay in and wait until tomorrow before we set off and cross the border."

Su Xiao dared to be so sure because all the checkpoints on the border were set up by the United States.

After the collapse of the United States, these checkpoints were taken over by the new America and the countries that broke away from the old United States (Texas, California).

Su Xiao believes that the Salamanca Group has the ability to corrupt Tijuana's official power, but he does not believe that the Salamanca Group still has the ability to command people in California.

……

After driving for more than ten minutes, we finally saw the motel that V mentioned.

At this time, several cars were parked outside the motel.

They must have planned to go to the checkpoint to cross the border, but found that the checkpoint was closed and had no choice but to find a place to spend the night.

After finding a seat, Jack parked the car, and then Su Xiao booked three adjacent rooms at the front desk.

He shared a room with Jack, V and Lucy, and finally José and Maria.

They stayed in the outer room, leaving José and María in the inner room so they could be looked after.

This motel looks very shabby, at least 30 years old, but the accommodation fee is not cheap, almost twice that of a regular hotel in Tijuana.

But it's such a desolate place with no village or shop. If I don't want to sleep in the car, I have no choice but to live here.

Fortunately, Jose's father, Dante Gonzalez, promised to cover all the expenses for the round trip. If it's more expensive, then it's more expensive.

In addition, this motel has complete water and electricity, unlike some hotels that only have power and water for a few hours a day, and the rooms provided are clean and tidy with no peculiar smell, which is not too bad.

……

The time soon came to night.

Because they had nothing to do, after dinner, both Su Xiao and Jack lay in bed early to rest.

In the middle of the night, Lidya Su couldn't sleep and got up from the bed.

He walked to the window, opened the curtains, and looked outside.

It was dark outside the motel, with no other light except for the lights and holographic projections of the checkpoint in the distance.

As for the road outside the motel, it was as quiet as death.

He stood by the window and stared out the window for a while, then closed the curtains again and prepared to go to bed.

But just when he returned to bed, he suddenly heard a very quiet sound coming from the corridor outside.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, but there was no sound again.

If it were anyone else, they might think that they heard it wrong and wouldn't care anymore.

But Su Xiao reached out, fumbled for the tactical goggles that were placed on the bedside table while sleeping, and put them on her face.

In the dark room, a red light lit up on the tactical eyepiece.

Several figures standing in the corridor, holding weapons, suddenly appeared in Su Xiao's field of vision.

Su Xiao picked up Murasame who was placed beside the bed, pulled out his samurai sword, walked lightly to the door of the room, then opened the door suddenly, drew his sword and slashed.

The killers standing in the corridor did not expect that the door would be opened from the inside. They had no time to react and were struck by the knife from the right shoulder and then from the left waist.

A large amount of warm blood immediately sprayed throughout the corridor.

The remaining killers had already reacted and hurriedly shouted "Fire! Kill him!"

But Su Xiao was already like a cheetah, rushing into the crowd.

Suddenly, everyone felt that time slowed down.

They could clearly see the bullets being fired slowly making ripples one after another in the air.

You can also see a series of afterimages caused by Su Xiao

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Time resumed its flow, and a blood arrow shot out from everyone's neck at the same time.

The killers clutched their necks and fell down, spurting blood.

What was seen in the eyes that were slowly losing their vitality was the elegant back of Su Xiaoxue Zhenna's knife.

The door opens.

V and Lucy both rushed out.

Because they were not at home, but outside, before going back to the room, Su Xiao specifically told them not to take off their clothes, but to sleep together with their clothes on.

The two of them were able to come out immediately after hearing the noise coming from outside.

When they saw the corpses on the corridor outside, both women showed surprised expressions.

Su Xiao said lightly: "It's a killer sent by the Salamanca Group."

Although there are no obvious tattoos or marks on these people's bodies, even if you think about the heels, you know that this matter is definitely related to the Salamanca Group.

At this time, footsteps sounded behind him, but Jack also woke up and came out of the room.

When he saw the body, he cursed loudly.

Jack's face didn't look good.

In fact, except for Su Xiao, whose expression was still expressionless, the expressions of Jack, V, and Lucy were not good-looking.

I originally thought that after leaving Tijuana, the people from the Salamanca Group would lose track of them and wouldn't come looking for them for a while.

As a result, they just stayed in this motel, and they were approached by the Salamanca Group's killers in the middle of the night.

"How did they find us? How did they know we were here?"

Jack really couldn't understand.

Even people from the Salamanca Group guessed that Su Xiao and his party were going back to Night City, so they ran to the border.But how could they be so accurate, knowing that Su Xiao and his party would definitely spend the night in this motel?

After all, this is not the only motel on the road from Tijuana to the border.

There are so many motels, unless the killers of the Salamanca Group come one by one.

But that kind of thing seems impossible even if I think about it.

"Now is not the time to dwell on this, Jack. There are still a few killers down there. Let's deal with them first."

Su Xiao waved her hand, signaling Jack to focus on the matter in front of him.

He shared the image of the enemy's position scanned on the tactical eyepiece with the other three people.

"Lucy, you go to Jose's room and be responsible for protecting them; V, Jack, let's go and deal with the remaining enemies."

No one else objected.

Maybe democracy works at other times, but at this time, there can only be one voice.

What's more, Su Xiao has never made any mistakes, and they have absolute trust in Su Xiao.

Su Xiao went back to his room first and came out with three guns and a grenade.

He handed the Sadara and the grenade to Jack, the Achilles Technical Precision Rifle to V, and he held the Codex.

Su Xiao waved his hand, and then he walked in front with the code, followed by Jack, and V followed at the back.

From the scan results, we can know that the remaining enemies are in the foyer downstairs.

They may be guarding here in the foyer to prevent Su Xiao and others from jumping out of the window and escaping.

After all, this motel only has two floors. If you jump from the second floor, you will most likely be fine. Unless you are extremely unlucky, you will break your leg.

The three of them walked quietly to the stairs from the second floor to the first floor. Su Xiao was in the communication channel and asked the other two to hide against the wall while she slowly poked her head out.

Looking down from the stairs on the second floor, you can only see one enemy.

The remaining enemies are invisible because their vision is blocked.

Su Xiao thought for a moment, and soon came up with the idea of ​​annihilating all the enemies.

"Jack, get the grenades ready."

Upon hearing this, Jack put Sadara down and took out the fragmentation grenade that Su Xiao had just handed him.

"Don't worry, wait for my instructions," Su Xiao waved his hand towards V, "V, use your technical precision rifle to kill that enemy."

V nodded when he heard the words, walked up from behind, passed Su Xiao, half-knelt on the ground, picked up Achilles, and could see the enemy in the hall below from the stairs, and put on the scope inside.

The charging speed of this Achilles is very fast, and it only takes less than a second to complete the charging.

Then the next second, a big hole was blown out of the enemy's chest, and he flew out.