Chapter 148 The Wanderer with Internal and External Troubles
“So Hector didn’t kill that old bastard.”
Cedric, who returned to the tribe, looked a little sluggish, and seemed to have recovered. Side effects of cyberpsychosis.
His prosthetics have all been replaced with basic-level functional prosthetics and no longer have combat capabilities.
"Are you disappointed?" Neville sat next to him and told him what happened during this time.
"No" Cedric shook his head, "If it were me, I would definitely beat that guy to death, but I know that old guy Hector would definitely not do that. The old patriarch chose him to succeed because of this.
You don’t know what he was like before he did something. Every time, he would think about it for a long time. If you want me to say, he did something. The ability is strong, but when it comes to killing people"
"Do you think he should be colder?"
"No." Cedric shook his head again, looking a little disappointed, "I am now. I understand what the old patriarch means.”
Let’s not talk about the stories that happened to me.
If you kill a Sieg Q, other show hosts will step in to take over, and there may even be a replacement for Sieg Q the next day.
TV stations will only remember homeless people killing people in public.
But now, everyone knows that the shot did not kill Sieg Q, and they all know that red ocher was experimented on, and the blood contains toxins, and no one dares to claim and treat the virus.
As soon as Zig Q appears on the TV station, when people see his processed face, they will think of the gun fired by Hector.
I will think of what happened that night.
Zig Q's career has been ruined, not only for him but also for the brand. This is a reciprocal response to humiliation.
Maybe one day, the Zig Q brand will be completely abandoned. He will lose his face as a host, lose the spotlight he relies on to survive, and be forced to float up and down in society. Maybe at that time, he will regret what he has done today. things.
Cedric looked at the people in the tribe, all wrapped in reflective cloth -
Now, he is the only one who still has the same symptoms, the others are all dead. .
It’s like an era has passed.
The situation of the tribesmen who have lost their asylum has become increasingly difficult. Even mass-produced cheap things like dog rice (Note 1) have to be soaked in drinks.
Seeing that my family can only eat this kind of food always makes me feel tortured.
Cedric looked at all this in a daze - he was the one who went into biotechnology no matter what, and he was also the first.
And now he is the only one who survives, and the one who suffers the most.
He suddenly thought of what the old patriarch said to him, and then said in a daze:
"Neville, please remember, we wanderers are not murderers
When you decide to kill someone, you should look into his eyes, look into his eyes, and make sure that he will die after death. Go to hell.
Or - you will go to hell."
Neville was stunned for a moment and nodded.
At this moment, Leal happened to come out of the tent - he had just counted the supplies that Regina had sent to her.
Mainly some food and drinks, as well as some standard civilian implantable prostheses, which are not high in price and not as good as military combat prostheses, but are stable.
Cedric's words happened to be heard by Lear, and he nodded with deep understanding: "Are you talking about Sieg Q? Hector's choice in this matter has helped us a lot, That shot killed at least several million euros of the enemy.
Cedric, I have something to ask you. I want to find a homeless camp with complete prosthetic doctor equipment." br>
"Then you have found the right person." Cedric stood up on crutches. "Although you are already a legend in Night City, if you want to deal with the Rangers, you need me. Such a big brother - I mean the big brother in the Wanderers.
Neville, come with me, the other tribes have not seen your new leader."
"Adecado is divided into many tribes, and each tribe has its own things that it is good at - but that was more than ten years ago, and now it is becoming more and more blurry.
As for why, because Someone made a bad start.
More than ten years ago, the Santiago clan leader disappeared, and everyone in the clan appeared.
The company began to recruit these people with special abilities. Some people just followed us, completely forgetting what the company did to us!
From that time on, many tribes were recruited and divided, slowly! Slowly, we haven’t contacted each other very much, until today
Alas, you saw it too. "In the car, Lear nodded slightly. This was very close to the truth he thought:
Cutting a huge organization into several departments that are proficient in a certain field is a way to improve the efficiency of organizational operations.
It is also an organizational operation method that is extremely suitable for this society.
However, specialization means strong coupling, which in turn means weak cohesion. >
The essence of the wanderers is a clan-like organization based on tribal blood relations. Some people may be good at a certain thing, but in general, they still need to help each other for various problems, so as to learn other aspects of knowledge. and ability.
Division of labor is conducive to improving efficiency in a certain field, but it will turn tribes within the organization into small organizational groups with strong coupling.
Some people with outstanding abilities will think about this question: Instead of being in this "big family" that is dragged down by other parts, why not join another "civilized society" that can give themselves better conditions to earn money? More money?
It is difficult for this kind of group to withstand the torture of the capitalist world - because for these groups, their strong professional abilities that significantly exceed their parts can be exchanged for the unit of measurement of power, money.
Then they will find that a large part of their earnings must be invested in construction and subsidies in other fields to drive the growth of other parts.
This is not a bad thing - it is bad. After Santiago disappeared, it became obvious that no one in the leaderless Adecado clan could exercise this distributed power well.
If the power of income distribution is improperly exercised, it is no wonder that the people under his command have other ideas.
Excellent ideas have become the poison of large discrete organizations. As long as there is a little temptation from the outside world, people can be poached away.
No wonder even a wanderer in the game is considering cooperating with the company. There are threats and inducements, and there are all kinds of internal and external troubles.
Liel thought for a while and asked: "What is red ocher good at in Adecado?"
"Red Ocher used to be organized by a small group of miners. We can find water and prospect, but if you want to wander in the bad land, these skills are basic.
We teach this knowledge to He joined other tribes and then learned how to modify vehicles - that Mackinaw is pretty good. Right?"
"It's really good - you haven't read the news yet?"
"What news?"
"You'd better read it yourself, I won't. Spoilers – continue with the story of Adecado.”
"What did you say just now? By the way, vehicle modification - but this is also a skill that wanderers must know, to understand their own cars.
But modifying vehicles is more of a necessary skill for survival, so we have to Feel free to find dangerous jobs to do
It is logical - the tribes with specialized skills are poached, and the remaining ones are left. Of course, the tribes that don't have outstanding abilities are the ones that will be taken down.
Self-protection is okay, but it is extremely difficult to live well - obviously, the same is true for the tribe they are going to meet now.
"Then, what we are looking for now is the Bright family, who are in a similar situation to us, but they are mainly engaged in smuggling.
I have been parked in Night City for a while, and life is difficult - —I have some friendship with their boss, which we got from fighting for oil.
By the way, their boss is Sol Bright. He has also considered cooperation with biotechnology before and asked about it. Our situation - ugh, but we haven't contacted each other for a long time."
Cedric sighed: "The biotechnology contract has such a clause, so... it's really fucked, we're almost there. Let me say hello to them."
Liel looked at the growing white tents and buses and RVs in the distance, and thought to himself: Solbret, this is the macho guy in the game who follows V into the tower.
There is also a prosthetic doctor in the Bright family camp, and they can lend equipment to V and Jack for repairs and physical examinations.
Cedric suddenly said: "The middleman wants to talk to you. Dakota Smith is a kind old woman. Do you want to chat?"
"Of course."< br>
“Well, she said she will be there soon.”
Thanks to Blofenni for the 500 starting coin reward, and thanks to other people’s equipment for the 246 starting coin reward
Thanks to _Don’t use your brain_, and laughed all the way for the 100 starting coin reward
Note 1: Mass-produced nutritional products meet most nutritional needs, but often look, smell and taste like dry pet food , which is where its name comes from.
(End of this chapter)