Chapter 621 Scavenger's Lair

"Fuck."

In the dim building, a scavenger with only half of his body left crawled on the ground, and his blood dragged a long trail, blending into the blood of many victims here.

The surrounding wires and light bulbs flashed with sparks, and the lights were dim.

All the electronic equipment in the Long Beach stockyard suddenly exploded, and the server used to support the internal communication of the scavengers turned into a cyber bomb. The guys who were unlucky and were using the network at that time had their brains roasted on the spot.

Ten minutes ago, he was still glad that he didn't use the Internet to watch porn at that time, but now his thoughts have changed:

Damn, this is how life is. The people who died just now just need to die honestly, and the living have to grope in the dark to repair the circuit with fear, and they don't know which wire will be electrocuted.

Even after experiencing the time of groping and repairing for a long time, he still has to crawl on the ground with his intestines.

The pain invaded his brain, and his mind was blurred. What supported him to crawl so firmly?

The scavenger crawled to the corner of the wall and tried to raise his head to look at the hammer on the table.

"Uh, idiot, it's dead."

Bang!

A scavenger pulled the corner of the table with his hands, and the hammer fell from the table, smashing his head and ending his life.

Boom--

Fire and explosions came from the passage, and heavy footsteps echoed in the underground facilities.

The Long Beach stockyard was shrouded in darkness, and from time to time there were gunshots and fighting sounds. The gunshots were loud and sharp, and the gun flames were particularly bright in the darkness.

Creak--

The sounds of fighting were all kinds of strange, concrete was smashed, and the color steel plates used for construction made a harsh sound under pressure, but compared to Night City, the battles here always lacked a sound:

The screams of panicked passers-by.

"Awesome!"

Boom!

Jack blasted the concrete wall in a circle, and sand and gravel flew.

After crossing the gap, several scavengers who were sitting on the ground with their faces covered retreated in fear, but Jack did not do anything. A group of burly Animal Gang men rushed in with big guns and big sticks, and killed all the scavengers in no time.

The scene was a bit tragic: the Animal Gang liked to use this method of combat when they could use melee weapons.

Jack shook his shoulders and said with lingering feelings: "That's it? I thought this was the largest scavenger den, why can't I feel any resistance?"

"Don't you see how many people's prosthetic equipment here is scrapped, and they can't cope with the hallucinations in their heads, and you let them have a gunfight. You overestimate these kidney-cutting people."

As Lille walked, he instructed V to take out a small scanner from the temporary trunk added by the wheelchair.

The combat capability of the scavengers is generally average. I have never heard of any group of scavengers who specifically target the regular army of the company with strong combat effectiveness or lone wolves. The main working method is to use insidious means such as deception, drugging, hacking technology or bartering to get the target. Even if they use forced means such as kidnapping, they are all aimed at ordinary people with little combat effectiveness.

V is still shaking his head, and has not completely recovered from the previous wave of attacks.

For security needs, Lier even turned off all her neural implants, including Sian Westin, which will greatly reduce her reaction to a certain extent. She is still in the adaptation period.

"Did the person who attacked me just now come in from here?"

"It's hard to say, but it shouldn't be."

Lier can get a detail from the plot in the original work: Lark belongs to New America, and New America actually has a few remaining agents in Dog Town, just like the Nether Dog stayed in Taiping State.

These agents have actually lost contact, and even in the internal files of New America, they have been removed or even silenced for various reasons.

However, in some specific cases, they are completely likely to be rehired by the New America: In the original plot, President Miles re-activated these agents in order to recover from the setbacks he encountered in Dog Town, and the way of activation was also very simple, that is, telling them that they can leave Dog Town after this job is done.

Not everyone chooses to come to Dog Town voluntarily, so they can't choose to leave on their own initiative. Such a choice of leaving the war zone and returning to "civilized society" is very tempting.

Moreover, among these agents, there are really those who love the New America very much-or their sense of responsibility is so strong that even if the New America abandons them, when the president's lawsuit comes down, he will still go back to contribute to the New America.

And one of the agents, her main base is in the Long Beach dump, and she opened a bar in this garbage dump.

The bar is very easy to recognize, and this place is very scarce. So when Lil arrived, he confirmed the situation of the bar as soon as possible:

It was closed there, and I don't know whether it ran away or temporarily avoided the limelight. Lil didn't do too much testing to avoid revealing too much information.

V put away the transmitter, retracted the personal link, and looked at the bloody walls and operating room around him: "Is this the studio where they make millions of euros every year?"

"In Dogtown, their main business is not reselling human organs, second-hand and pirated prostheses."

Lille's wheelchair moved forward, and the mechanical arm slid from the armrest to the ground, operating on the cable.

The attack of the black wall even affected this side, indicating that Lark had hacked the equipment here at that time and used this place as one of the springboards for network attacks.

It was obvious that with her skills and the operational agents of New America, it would not be difficult to do whatever she wanted here.

While detecting the condition of the den's equipment, Lear explained to V: "First of all, the Long Beach Stockyard is a garbage dump. It is nominally used for people to throw garbage, but most of the things thrown in are valuable facilities and equipment. When goods come in, When the garbage goes out, the genuine product ordered by the unlucky guy becomes the garbage produced here.

And a guy who is inconvenient or unable to buy genuine products buys goods at a price higher than the market price. This is a large-scale reselling business.

Secondly, Scavenger Scavenger has a humanitarian relief organization under its name. "

V and Jack were both stunned when they heard this:

Scavenger and humanitarian aid, can these two words be put together?

Just when they entered the den, they saw dozens of hollowed-out bodies. Some were piled randomly in the garbage room waiting to be sent away, and some were even stuffed in the refrigerator. When the time comes, they will be scrapped along with the refrigerator. The door is full of A dummy with a clearly marked price.

Internal organs, skin, facial features, and implants are all there. In the eyes of the scavenger, there is no such thing as a person, but a living commodity.

Do they engage in humanitarian relief?

“There is a saying that if humanitarian relief supplies are too valuable, those responsible for the relief will definitely reduce the value of these supplies until they are almost worthless.

Therefore, in this world, there is actually no humanitarian relief at all, and Night City will not spend money to provide it. Everyone knows that it is meaningless - and there is no money to be made. "

Lille's eyes flashed blue, and he locked all the cables and began to try to recover some data, but there was almost no progress. The black wall destroyed the software and hardware too thoroughly, and just the aftermath could cause unimaginable damage.

".However, the cost of the original work of scavengers is not high: a bullet and a handful of medicine can kill a healthy person. On the contrary, doing this work can also give them another channel to sell stolen goods, and they may be able to find big live, such as the Luxor Villa and the big shots who need to sell their stolen goods.

In this field, they have almost no competitors. Humanitarian relief is an area where it is almost impossible to make a profit, but if the cost is low, it can be done. "

V frowned: "Then what exactly did they save?"

"Rescuing people living in despair with cheap hallucinogens, of course."