Chapter 973: The war begins
A week later.
The City of Night has become increasingly depressed these days, but municipal statistics show that the social order is becoming more and more stable. Uncontrollable violent crimes and shootings have even reached the lowest value since the city was founded, and even the employment rate has been effectively controlled and has declined steadily.
Before seeing this situation again, if someone, Perales and Ryan, said that the economic depression was accompanied by the stability of the city, they would definitely sneer and treat each other as a madman.
But the reality is that Night City is more orderly than any period in history, and almost everyone, as long as they are not born criminals, can find a job
Of course, criminals can find a home here, but it is certainly not the home they want.
This phenomenon made Ryan and Perales puzzled: in order to be able to take their current position, they basically had some desperate attitude and devoted all their resources to their degrees, so they took their experiences and knowledge they learned in school and society seriously, and the experiences were broken as a result.
But if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to clarify the logic inside: the depression is because the company is afraid of the "power" of Night City. The environment here is no longer suitable for large companies to do business, and the unfamiliar environment makes people feel reluctant to retreat.
But the order is more complicated. On the one hand, everyone is afraid of Burger King, and on the other hand, although those who listen to Burger King cannot be the boss, they can meet the needs -
At least, civilians can have enough food and their lives are booming. The bosses of gangs who pursue higher levels have new industries to manage, which is somewhat satisfying their psychological pursuits.
And no matter who it is, staying in Night City is basically satisfied with a status quo: here, the order of the company is gone:
No biological virus is released to dump expired vaccines, no human organ transactions, no drug transactions and various corruption that ordinary people cannot do.
Perares looked at the thriving Night City - in his eyes, it was the thriving Night City, and only large companies were depressed.
Sometimes he had an illusion that this was the city that Knight, the founder of Night City, wanted to build, but Knight didn't know how to maintain true freedom under free trade.
While thinking about him, he spoke:
".Now we have dignity. The company has gotten away with its tail. Kangtao and Peizhuo Petrochemical have moved the equipment away. The former is fine, and the latter. They slaughtered us a lot before leaving, but the oil saved is enough to be used until the end of the year.
Do you think the current Night City and the Night City that Knight wants to build are closer or further away?"
"I want me to say that it is the stable economic cycle that supports all this. Think carefully about it, without the euro, you won't be able to eat. There are also those exaggerated AI helpers. This is a characteristic industry in Night City."
Lian held a Mexican cigarette in his mouth: It's not as good as before, you have to smoke some cheap and affordable things.
After saying that, he paused and gently shook the ash off the ashtray: "That's hard to say, Knight is a stable supporter of free trade--
A city of freedom that supports free trade and hopes that the city will not be oppressed by force majeure. If you want me to say that you are quite similar to him, you always want to make some unreasonable idealism. "
Perares was not stubborn either. He used to be a genius who followed the bottom. After experiencing the Ye family group, he could no longer be arrogant.
"So we must unite and cooperate. Following your methods is a dead end, right? "
"This is right - unity and cooperation sounds quite idealistic."
Go--
A huge roar came from outside the window, which was a huge metal explosion-proof door that was opening:
The launch silo of the intercontinental nuclear fusion missile was hidden deep on the ground, and the sound came from the opening explosion-proof structure!
The gears rotate, the hydraulic piston roared lowly, and the alloy door panel painted with warning colors slowly slid along the track, opening layer by layer, revealing the bottomless missile silo.
The dustproof layer cracked with the vibration, and the peeling metal debris slid in the glimmer of light, falling into the bottomless launch silo-
The red warning lights lit up one after another, high-pressure airflow was released from the sealed system, and the evaporated cooling mist poured out along the pressure relief port. The afterglow of the sunset passed through the scorching breath of the steel beast, and light columns sprinkled on the ground.
Drones, engineers and soldiers walked quickly, and everyone's hearts were pounding. They may not know what this thing is for, but they know they are going to start war on the new United States.
Even Ryan and Perales: they never thought that there would be a day when they would go to war with the company, to the new United States, to the European Community, to the world.
The two of them watched this scene selflessly, the tea in their hands gradually cooled down, and the cigarettes gradually burned to the end.
Give me a loud noise, followed by a flashing warning light and a prompt sound:
[Send command confirmation. 】
【The cooling system is released, and the ignition thruster begins to preheat. 】
Ash fell to the ground——
Everything is about to be settled.
Three hours before the launch order is issued.
In the cyberspace, the two AIs, Muramasa and Illuminati, monitor everything in the launch silo.
The former goes deep into every inch of the line and control panel, and accepts feedback data from each engineering robot and operating equipment for monitoring;
The latter completely accepts data feedback from all humans, and anyone who has a high deviation from the speculative situation will be dealt with immediately.
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One surveillance machinery and the other surveillance humans. No company in Night City is willing to invest, but there are still a large number of spies. However, under the strong monitoring of the two AIs, there is no top-secret news that has left Taipingzhou or even the city defense military base.
At the same time, the most elite troops in Night City are approaching Southern California.
This army has begun to use the same equipment as Tiezhu. Each soldier has passed the "psychological quality assessment" of the Illuminati, and his combat skills have been improved through the virtual reality training ground in the past few days.
Only comment on combat skills, it is hard to say that everyone in this group of preparatory Tiezhu is qualified, but when they survive this battle, they will be the real Tiezhu.
Each vehicle of the army is equipped with a stealth system that combines surface coating and interference signal transmission and other equipment to operate. The armed vehicle made by Mackinac general vehicle is running on the evil soil, and smoke and dust are everywhere. In the end, the drones in Southern California will still find abnormalities, but they will have to wait until these troops break into the evil soil outside the city.
A small number of iron lords and regular troops will attack from land, while the remaining iron lords will pass the airlifts behind the large forces, and then airdrop them directly to various target locations, including city halls, military bases, and power grids, after the black wall bombs destroy the city command system.
In the battle situation prediction, this battle will not be too simple, because most of the new United States' military power has been transferred to Southern California.
Hanson sat in the car, watching the countdown on the action on the HUD, silently reciting what he wanted to do:
"Fight, then start the black wall bomb, the iron lord conducts assault, the floating car airdrops the combat mecha, take the new US military camp, and then bomb the city hall."
Suddenly, a light rose from the City of Night, and Hansen felt that he had auditory hallucinations:
It was the sound of an intercontinental missile piercing the sky and rushing straight to the target.
But the next second, he heard the real sound of bullets breaking through the air-
The patrol drone in the air discovered them!
Huh--Boom!
As soon as the micro missile flew out of the drone in the sky, it was shot by a sniper rifle and exploded the battery. Metal debris flew everywhere, and the automation forces in Southern California discovered an abnormality!
"Occurrence!"
(The end of this chapter)