Chapter 167 Crash!
[Damn... V, don't believe what that agent said. This woman is not a good person at first glance. Be careful that she will be used as a gun. ]
Although Song Zhaomei blocked Johnny Silverhand in the Relic chip before communicating with V, Johnny still heard the entire conversation between V and Song Zhaomei.
When he learned that V seemed to be interested in the conditions proposed by Song Zhaomei, he couldn't help but be anxious. Such an obvious scam, V couldn't fall for it so easily!
'Johnny, I know I can't completely believe Song Zhaomei's words, but I could only pretend to be interested in her conditions just now, otherwise you and I might be plotted against by Song Zhaomei. '
When V learned that Song Zhaomei herself was on the Sky-Sky No. 1 airship thousands of meters high, he felt a little stunned.
After all, under normal circumstances, the effective hacking range of network hackers is only a few dozen meters away, at most within 500 meters. It was the first time that V had seen a hacker like Song Zhaomei who hacked from thousands of meters high.
What's more, Song Zhaomei's hacking method can ignore the defense and counterattack of the AI White Queen, which means that as long as Song Zhaomei is willing, she can easily take his life at any time!
In this situation where the gap between the enemy and us is too large, V can only stabilize Song Zhaomei first. If he makes the other party angry, he will be burned by Song Zhaomei in a minute.
[Well... you are right, then what are your plans now, do you go to the open-pit mine to work for Song Zhaomei, or leave now? ]
Johnny also realized that his words and deeds just now seemed a bit reckless, and he might kill V, but he really didn't want to see V and Song Zhaomei mixed together.
If he was asked to deal with this matter, Johnny would follow the clues to find Song Zhaomei's location, and then shoot this stinky bitch.
There is no good thing that will fall into the pie in the world, there are only inexplicable and unprovoked disasters.
Johnny knew that Song Zhaomei, a disaster star of the United Intelligence Bureau, would not have good intentions. Anyone who helped her would be in trouble!
‘Let’s report the situation here to Mr. Li Ang first.’ V said after thinking for a while.
He is now used to reporting to Li Ang first when he encounters trouble.
This is not because V intends to show his loyalty to Li Ang and facilitate his promotion in LA Company.
But now the size of LA Company is already quite amazing, and Li Ang knows too many big figures and company forces.
In this situation where multiple forces are intertwined, V will choose the wrong answer if he is not careful, and the price of choosing the wrong answer may not be something he can afford.
After weighing the pros and cons, he directly reported the situation to Li Ang, who knows everything, and asked for help, so as to avoid the wrong choice as much as possible.
[Tsk! You have really changed your temper now. You were a little reluctant to do something for LA Company before. 】
【Now, whenever you run into trouble, you report to Leon immediately. It seems that you have gotten used to being a company agent. 】
Johnny Silverhand smiled at V jokingly. The assimilation of the environment on people is greater than he imagined.
It has only been a short time since V changed from a rebellious wanderer to a dedicated company agent. Everything is subject to the law of true fragrance.
‘Now the entire Night City is almost the asset of LA Company. What’s the point of worrying about these things? ’
V responded to Johnny unhappily.
Human power is destined to be unable to defeat nature.
Since there is no way to resist the invasion of the world by the company’s power, it is not a bad thing to join the most powerful company.
Immediately, V immediately called Leon and told Leon everything that had just happened, including the fact that Song Zhaomei was able to invade his system.
When Li Ang learned that Song Zhaomei had found V and asked him to do something for her in exchange for the AI neural matrix, he immediately realized that Song Zhaomei had reached some kind of cooperation with Hansen.
‘Song Zhaomei, this self-righteous bird, actually tried to cooperate with a dog town warlord like Kurt Hansen to escape the cage of the United Intelligence Bureau. That won’t work. ’
Li Ang was thoughtful.
Although V did not provide him with much information, Li Ang quickly guessed Song Zhaomei’s real purpose. She needed an AI neural matrix device to cure her illness.
But Song Zhaomei was worried that LA Company and New America were in the same group, so she targeted the neural matrix devices of other companies.
In addition to LA Company, only the top European giants can manufacture AI neural matrix devices.
If it is not unexpected, the force that manipulated Song Zhaomei to betray President Miles is most likely a European consortium, and the dog town warlord Hansen is just one of the black gloves.
Their goal is to kill or imprison Miles Rosalind to prevent the New American troops from continuing to advance westward.
But Song Zhaomei had already reached a deal with Hansen, but she still wanted to bring in the outsider V, which means that Song Zhaomei didn't want Miles to fall into Hansen's hands.
The only purpose of V's appearance in this game is to muddy the water. Only by doing so can Song Zhaomei take advantage of the chaos to get her own AI neural matrix device.
She is trying to play with everyone!
'This lark has come to this point today, but Miles... must be trapped in Dog Town! '
Li Ang already had a clear idea of dealing with it. Since he happened to catch up with the big drama of imprisoning the president, he would step in and support the puppet president belonging to LA Company!
Thinking of this, Li Ang slowly said to V:
[You can follow Song Zhaomei to do things. If you encounter trouble that makes you difficult to make up your mind, report the news to me as soon as possible. 】
Li Ang's reply surprised V, because he had the same idea as Johnny, thinking that there was no need to get involved in this dispute.
But Li Ang wanted to follow Song Zhaomei to do something unknown, and V noticed that Li Ang seemed to know something, but he didn't tell him this time.
"Okay, then I'll go to the open-pit mine to meet Song Zhaomei now." V responded.
Since Li Ang is not going to explain the matter clearly to himself, it means that the matter is relatively complicated, and the less he, as a chess piece, knows, the better.
[Well, I have now remotely upgraded the AI White Queen's system. Next time Song Zhaomei contacts you, you will no longer feel pain. 】
[Besides, you can send me encrypted messages directly using White Queen. 】
Li Ang knew how Song Zhaomei got in touch with V. She used the extremely powerful blackwall protocol to directly invade V's Relic chip and projected herself into V's mind.
If this was replaced by an ordinary ICE protocol intrusion, Song Zhaomei would be reverse-attacked by the AI White Queen in minutes.
But if it is a blackwall agreement, the situation is different.
Because Black Wall itself is a kind of AI, its level specifications are much stronger than the current AI White Queen, so Song Zhaomei can use the more advanced Black Wall ICE to invade V's brain.
However, by doing this, Song Zhaomei was making a huge gamble with her own life. Once she failed and failed to get the AI neural matrix device she wanted, the end that awaited her would be death!
The impact of data flow from the black wall will cause Song Zhaomei's whole-body prosthesis to have a short-circuit failure, and eventually her brain will be cooked due to the overloaded amount of data.
But even so, Song Zhaomei still risked her life to reach a deal and cooperate with Hansen, which is enough to show the extent of Miles' control over her.
He would rather pay the price of his life to escape from the CIA prison.
"Okay, I know what to do!"
After getting Li Ang's nod of permission, V immediately set off and came to the area near the open-pit mine in Dog Town. This place was more of a mine than a huge waste site.
In an abandoned site strewn with electronic waste, a half-broken nuclear-powered submarine was stuck upside down in the rubble, and the nuclear power device of this submarine was the source of electricity currently used by Dog Town.
[This place has a unique flavor. At least you can see the sky. The black market there is full of smoky stench. Even if you are hiding in your mind, I can feel uncomfortable. 】
Johnny Silverhand's figure emerged. Just as he was about to take a good look at the blue sky, he suddenly saw countless newspapers falling from the sky.
"What is this."
V, who also noticed the abnormal situation, had the same reaction as the passers-by around him. He curiously picked up the fallen newspaper and took a closer look.
When they read in the newspaper that the troops of New America were about to conquer Night City and clear out the rebels in the city, the passers-by just silently threw away the newspaper, seemingly not taking it seriously at all. .
V, on the other hand, stared at the contents of the newspaper in stunned silence. If the New American Soldier Corps captured Night City, at least half of the people in the city would have to run away!
"I wonder how Mr. Li Ang will view this matter. Will he allow Miles to drive New America's tanks into Night City?"
V felt increasingly unpredictable about the current situation. Song Zhaomei asked her to wait for her here. There was no way she was just letting him read these newspapers.
[Hahaha, our boss Leon is the big winner behind the scenes. Miles has spent money on so many arms orders for LA Company. No matter whether he loses or wins this war, he can't lose to LA Company. 】
Johnny Silverhand was not worried at all about whether Night City would be invaded by war. After all, this was the territory of the LA Company. Miles wanted to find someone to vent his anger, so he decided to take the Dog Town warlords to vent his anger.
As for Night City's Civic Center, Watson District and other urban areas, Johnny believed that Li Ang would not allow these big-headed soldiers to come in and cause damage.
After all, these are all the company's property. Dare to destroy the company's property unless Miles is crazy and intends to break up with Leon.
But as a shrewd politician, Miles would never take the initiative to conflict with Leon over the handling of Night City.
"Song Zhaomei said that she would take the initiative to contact us when we get to the open-pit mine, but now we can't see her. This is really strange."
Just as V looked around, trying to find Song Zhaomei's figure, he suddenly heard a rumbling sound in the sky, accompanied by Song Zhaomei's hurried words.
"V, I'm very grateful that you believe in me and come here to help me, but the situation is very critical now, and I have to..."
Before Song Zhaomei could finish speaking, the communication was automatically interrupted, and V also noticed that the rumbling sound in the sky was getting louder and louder.
He looked up and discovered that a huge airship was descending at an extremely fast speed.
Looking at the airship with the NUSA logo, V immediately realized that this was the Kongtian No. 1 airship that Song Zhaomei mentioned!
"Song Zhaomei, what's going on over there? Damn... Why did you stop talking halfway? What the hell is going on!"
Just as V wanted to take a few steps outside and try to resume the call with Song Zhaomei, a "meteor" launched from nowhere came towards Kongtian No. 1 with a strange trajectory.
It was an intelligent tracking missile launched by the Dog Town rebels!
Boom...!!
Kongtian No. 1, which was already in an emergency landing state, lost control after being attacked by this missile and quickly fell towards V.
The flashing sparks jumped on the Kongtian No. 1 airship, and the huge body quickly pressed the air to emit a terrifying tremor and roar, making V feel that everything around him was trembling.
【Fuck...V, get out of the way quickly, this airship is going to crash! 】
Johnny Silverhand shouted with all his might. He knew that Song Zhaomei, the bitch agent, had no good intentions. She actually tricked V here to hit the airship.
This is simply insane!
In an emergency, V hurriedly retreated, opened up a distance in time, and quickly found a suitable shelter, and then lay down behind the shelter.
The falling Sky-Sky No. 1 made a whistling sound while passing through V's sky, and crashed into the unfinished building not far behind V.
The large unfinished shopping mall built of reinforced concrete was pierced through by Sky-Sky No. 1 like a piece of tender tofu. Fortunately, the airship did not explode and cause secondary damage.
[Oh my god, Sky-Sky No. 1 crashed? ! ]
Looking at the wreckage of the airship not far away, Johnny Silverhand immediately realized that this matter was far more than he imagined.
The only thing he could be sure of was that Song Zhaomei must have concealed some key information.
[V, Sky One is President Miles's exclusive vehicle. Maybe Miles himself is in that airship. Now that the airship has crashed, maybe Miles is dead too! ]
V doesn't care about President Miles' life or death now. He just wants to know what's going on with Song Zhaomei. If Song Zhaomei is dead, then he will be fine.
"Song Zhaomei, are you still alive? If you hear me, please reply!" V called the other party's name and rushed to the ruins quickly.
Since Sky One was shot down by the rebels in Dog Town, it means that the person who targeted this airship is most likely Kurt Hansen, the warlord leader of Dog Town!
