From ship girl to machine god

Blue Bird did not stop them, and after indicating that they could move freely, he stopped Dorio alone.

"Our trip to Los Santos may take a few days. Please see what supplies you need to prepare, and then purchase the amount that everyone needs for a week." Qingniao explained to Dolio.

After hearing what Qingniao said clearly, Dorio nodded and agreed: "I know the boss, and I will prepare things for the road."

Dorio understood what Blue Bird meant. This was a far-off mission. For a cyberpunk team that had little experience in this area, it was undoubtedly necessary to make various preparations.

As for preparing supplies, Jade Bird considered that they needed to rush for time along the way and be wary of malicious competition from other teams. They prepared to ensure the team's consumption without obtaining supplies from the outside world.

Chapter 39 Heading to Los Santos

Three days passed in a blink of an eye. When old Morgan completed the adjustment of this heavy transport vehicle and happily returned to his farm with the good wine given to him by Blue Bird, it was also the time for the Cyberpunk team and Vislow Make an appointment for departure.

The group of people drove this modified heavy armored transport vehicle to the agreed-upon military technology industrial park and stopped at the entrance of a warehouse, where Wislow was waiting for them.

"How many teams are participating in this competition?" Jade Bird asked Weislow. Before setting off, she wanted to know more about the competitors.

Although other competitors are meaningless to Blue Bird, she is powerful enough to ensure that everything goes smoothly, but this is no reason to be careless.

The lion also uses all his strength to fight the rabbit, not to mention that the opponent still has the advantage without counting the blue bird.

"I have inquired. A total of six managers participated in this competition, and there were eight teams including us." Although Wislow is not very powerful, he is still somewhat capable, and he can still get information about his competitors: "The director of the security department and the director of the R&D department have the most resources at their disposal. You should pay more attention to their two teams. They should be the biggest challenge on your trip.

The director of the logistics department hired three teams, with the largest number but average strength. He probably planned to win with quantity. Although it is not a cause for concern, it needs to be paid attention to.

I didn't get much specific information about the remaining two department heads, but they basically don't pose a threat. As long as you're not careless, there will be no problem. "

While telling Jade Bird about these situations, Wislow also handed a separation chip to Jade Bird.

After taking the separated chip, Jade Bird turned around and threw the chip to Mann. Jade Bird didn't intend to worry about these matters herself. In her opinion, it was just fine to let Mann handle it.

As someone who can build a team from scratch, Mann has never let the Blue Birds down in this regard.

After understanding this information, Mann also had a better understanding of their mission this time, and at the same time gained more confidence.

Although he had not come into contact with several of the teams recorded in the discrete chip before and had only roughly heard of their reputations, their overall strength was far superior to that of the Cyberpunk team before he met Jade Bird.

Even for the current cyberpunk team, the strongest ones are still a lot stronger.

Of course, this is not a weak assessment after picking out the Blue Bird alone. After all, if the Blue Bird is included, all the mercenaries in Night City can probably be bundled together to cover one of her hands.

Therefore, although Mann was wary and attentive to the opponents he might encounter on this trip, he did not feel that he could not defeat them.

After being trained and beaten by Jade Bird, as well as the equipment being updated, Mann's confidence in the Cyberpunk team has been established.

Perhaps other mercenary teams are indeed very strong, and they were enemies that the previous cyberpunk team could not defeat, but for the current cyberpunk team, they are already considered opponents that can be fought.

While Mann was reviewing the information, Wieslow directed a group of security personnel wearing military technology combat uniforms to lift a tightly sealed metal box into the car.

"The box itself has a timer and locator. The timer will start after you leave this park, and the timer will stop when it is transported to the Los Santos branch." Vislow explained the details of this escort mission to Jade Bird. , and also handed her some required documents: "These documents can prove that you have accepted the employment of Military Technology and escorted this batch of goods to Los Santos. The police and New American Military Company along the way have already said hello. Yes, as long as you have this document, they won’t make things difficult for you.”

"Really? But I don't think your competitors will watch us pass the customs smoothly like this." Jade Bird said casually, and after checking the documents to make sure there were no problems, handed them over to Mann for collection.

"Then it all depends on your own ability." When Weislow listened to Qingniao's casual question, his face showed a helpless expression, but at the same time he also smiled at Qingniao: "And this commission, Isn’t what we’re fighting for is the ability of you mercenaries to deal with these problems?”

Hearing what Wislow said, Qingniao shrugged indifferently: "Okay, at worst, we'll kill him all the way."

After saying that, she glanced at Wislow and saw that he had nothing more to say, so she got into the car with Mann and signaled the driver to drive outside the park.

"Boss, it's about 200 kilometers from Night City to Los Santos. If we go along the interstate highway and everything goes well, we can get there in one day." Mann opened an electronic map and explained to Jade Bird, while also The interstate highway from Night City to Los Santos is marked on the map.

The blue bird just glanced at it and asked Mann: "Is this the only way?"

"That's not true, but this road is the fastest." Mann called up other routes on the electronic map and explained to Blue Bird: "Most of the area between Los Santos and Night City was in the old American era. Wilderness, the interstate highway connecting the two cities is the main way to travel.

In addition to this interstate highway, there are some other roads that also connect the two cities, but those roads are the roads built by the independent state of California. The road conditions are not ideal, and some even need to pass through bad soil and some Towns, this will delay a lot of time, if we want to go quickly, the interstate is the fastest. "

At this point, Mann did not forget to add: "Of course, if we can make use of the railway transportation network in the old United States, it can be reached by rail, but those railways are rarely used now.

We can also travel by air or sea, but we don't have such access. "

After listening to Mann's explanation, Qingniao already had a general idea in his mind.

Obviously taking the interstate highway is the fastest and best route, but it is also the route most likely to encounter enemies and be intercepted.

Everyone knows that this road is easy to walk, and assuming you will take this road, it is naturally the easiest to intercept, as long as you set up an ambush in advance.

So you can imagine how much trouble you will encounter along the way.

Of course you can change the route, but it’s hard to say how much time will be lost on the way.

With Blue Bird's ability, of course there are other solutions to this problem, such as directly summoning her body, loading the car and cargo and flying directly to Los Santos.

But not only does one expose his own identity in doing so, there is no need for the other to do so.

So after thinking about it for a while, Jade Bird simply nodded to Mann and said, "Let's take this road and see who can stop us."

Chapter 40 Walking on the Road

Beamon, who had just driven out of the city limits, was quickly stopped.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that anyone wants to test how hard the front end of this car is, it's just a routine inspection by customs.

Mann showed all their identification documents and cooperated with border agents to inspect their carriage.

Although the border inspection station has complete scanning equipment that can directly scan the entire vehicle, the cargo boxes they install on the vehicle cannot be penetrated by the scanning equipment, so manual inspection is also necessary.

Normally, this is the time when these border inspectors ask for bribes.

In order to avoid trouble, generally people who run goods will prepare a small amount of money and hand it to the border inspector at this time, so as to cover up the less legal and compliant goods on their vehicles, or to avoid getting into trouble and delaying the delivery time.

For example, now, when the border inspector saw a box with military technology marks printed on it in the carriage, he pretended to squat down and look left and right, and then said to Mann: "This box is very similar to the stolen goods from a theft case we received before. Like, we need to do further investigation, please drive your car to the side and wait for the next processing."

This is exactly the usual trick used by border inspectors. They say they want to detain the car and the goods for further investigation. It doesn't take long, it only takes a few days to disgust people to death.

Under normal circumstances, in order to avoid delays, people who sell goods will make excuses or bribe them, so that these border inspectors will let them go.

Of course, Mann was also prepared for this. However, when he took out a roll of euros from his pocket and planned to hand it to the border inspector as usual, the other person's face suddenly changed and he pushed the money away with an attitude of stern refusal. return.

At first, Mann thought the other party was too little, so he added another roll. Unexpectedly, the other party's face fell down, and he looked like "You are insulting me."

This made Mann confused about what the situation was. He could only park the car aside according to the other party's request, and then discuss with others what to do.

After listening to Mann's story, Jade Bird figured out what was going on. After she smiled disdainfully, she called Rebecca and approached the border inspector who stopped them.

"Are you their leader?" Qingniao put on a cold face. After the other party nodded expressionlessly, he continued: "It was the people from Military Technology who asked you to stop us, right? The other party probably gave I have given you a lot of benefits just to drag us here?"

"This has nothing to do with you. The goods you are transporting are involved in a theft case. You must stay here for inspection!" Obviously, the border inspector would not admit it directly. Instead, he looked stern because of Qingniao's questioning.

Bluebird probably guessed what was going on from the other person's expression, so he didn't say anything more.

He just said to Rebecca who had not yet understood what the blue bird was calling him to do: "Fire to the side and find a conspicuous target."

Rebecca was still a little confused, but she understood the blue bird's instructions, so she operated her handheld ion launcher without hesitation, and controlled the two mechanical arms that she had not fully mastered to stabilize it. He lifted the cannon body and fired a shot at a stone on the side that was as tall as a person.

A flash of white light flashed, and with a "boom" the entire stone was blown to pieces.

The power of the ion launcher made Rebecca very excited. Her eyes were rolling wildly, and she seemed to be still unfinished, so she almost asked Jade Bird if she could have another shot.

However, Jade Bird motioned for her to play for a while, then looked at the border inspector who was already fighting in front of him, and said to him: "The other party probably didn't tell you that I was also entrusted with a task by a director of military technology?

This is competition and strife within their military technology. Are you prepared to get involved and be crushed to pieces? "

Obviously, the border inspector deliberately stopped Jade Bird and the others here for the benefit.

However, it was also obvious that the people behind the other party did not expect them to play a big role. Otherwise, there should be other follow-up arrangements, not just asking Jade Bird and the others to park the car aside and wait for processing.

Therefore, Jade Bird did not take any drastic measures. It just showed force and simply explained that the water here was very deep, allowing the other party to make their own decisions.

Sure enough, for this border inspector, he just planned to deliberately make things difficult for the blue bird as usual, and had no intention of risking his life for such a thing.

Under the "powerful" force deterrence of the ion launcher, after hesitating for a while, he chose to let Qade Bird and others leave quickly on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."

When the car was back on the road, Jade Bird did not feel relaxed. Instead, he reminded everyone in the team channel: "Now it's time to get serious. Everyone should be more vigilant. Rebecca, turn on the automatic weapon base station on the roof of the car. If you see a suspicious target, just shoot it down."

"I know the boss!" Rebecca quickly sent a reply, and the automatic weapon base station on the roof of the car immediately entered working mode.

As for other people in the car, they also began to organize their weapons, tightened their posture, and got ready.

Their car quickly drove out of Night City and drove into the desert.

"Are there other human lives besides wanderers in this wasteland?" Looking at the desert land with rolling yellow sand outside the car window, Blue Bird suddenly asked Mann for no reason.

"Yes boss, in addition to the Wanderer family, there are many people living in the wasteland. Some people gather together and live in those small towns, and some people wander around like the Wanderers." Mann said to This person seems to understand quite well, and even showed his yearning during the explanation to Qingniao: "In short, there are still many people living freely in this wasteland without any restrictions or corporate exploitation."

"Freedom! How many crimes have been committed in your name." Blue Bird couldn't help but sigh. Freedom is undoubtedly beautiful, but is it really freedom when all restraints are lost?

Qade Bird didn't intend to think about this kind of thing, and he couldn't allow her to think about such profound philosophical issues in detail.

Because at this time, billowing smoke and dust shot out from behind the hills on both sides of the road, and one could tell at a glance that it was a vehicle heading towards them.

It seems that because someone disturbed his nature, Qingniao's face looked a little unsightly.

Using powerful dynamic vision, he observed that the guys who were killed in the smoke did not seem to be good people, and no information was received in the communication channel. Jade Bird ordered in the team channel: "Guests are coming, please entertain them well. Lest they go to hell and say we were unholy to our guests.”

Chapter 41 Wanderers in the Wilderness

The reception of the Cyberpunk team was really warm and thoughtful. The grenades and heavy machine gun bullets fired from the automatic weapon base station quickly sent these evil guests with rolling yellow sand to hell.

This didn't even slow down Beamon, even though the top speed of this heavy armored transport vehicle was only [-] miles per hour.

"Is it the Sword Club?" Qingniao looked at the modified cars that had been destroyed and had a style that resembled those of the homeless, but they were not quite like the homeless families in his impression, so he asked Mann on the side.

Mann nodded slightly, but he was not completely sure: "It does look like a gang of swordsmen, but they didn't identify themselves, so I can't be sure."

"It doesn't matter, we've all been killed anyway." Qingniao didn't care if she offended a certain wanderer family. She was more concerned about what troubles she would encounter on this trip: "Will they show up again?"

"It's hard to say that the Luan Dao Society is not a well-organized existence. They are more scattered in the bad land and wasteland. Although they are all called Luan Dao Gui, they are not a group. Mann explained, and also introduced the chaos of the Knife Club: "It is very likely that these we encountered are one group, and another group will pop up later. This is all possible. Even a decent family of wanderers may not come out to do something."

Yes, the wandering family, which is like a breath of fresh air in this terrible cesspool-like world, can be equated with bandits and robbers in a sense.

This is also the main reason why in the original game plot, neither the town’s police chief nor the people at the border checkpoint had a good impression of the homeless people.

Even Adkardos, who is willing to accompany V through life and death in the game plot and uses the power of his entire tribe to help V, is still a group of bandits who make a living by robbery.

But relatively speaking, they do value affection and justice, and have their own set of moral concepts of right and wrong. Once they accept you as one of them, they will help each other at all costs like true blood brothers.

But this does not conceal the fact that the wanderers are actually gangs wandering in the bad land.

This is not difficult to understand. The so-called wanderers can actually be regarded as nomads or gypsies in the cyberpunk era, except that their cattle, sheep and caravans have been turned into various modified cars.

These wanderers do not live in a fixed location, but wander around without a fixed location.