"Alright, enough talk from both of you." D opened the PDA, "The target is two kilometers away. Get ready."
Upon hearing this, Luo Qi rolled over on the rooftop, grabbed the Ajax rifle next to him, and checked the action and safety. Placing the rifle on the sandbags, he felt as if he was in an open battlefield.
However, there weren't that many flashy billboards on a battlefield.
D, C, and Dragan were across the highway, forming a crossfire network with him. From here, they could barely see the well-hidden gun muzzles.
"T-Bug, are you ready?"
Luo Qi patted the metal roof beneath him and asked.
"You don't have to be so loud. I can hear you." T-Bug sighed helplessly, "I'm ready."
"Sniper in position."
Mo Er's crisp voice came through the earpiece.
"Be accurate later, girl," Dragan was somewhat worried.
"Don't occupy the channel. Over." Mo Er didn't give him any face.
Luo Qi's attention was entirely on the bend of the overpass, where the Militech convoy would appear—if everything went as planned.
"How far now? Give me updates." He took deep breaths and exhaled, repeating the process to steady his heartbeat.
"1.2 kilometers... 1 kilometer... 800 meters..."
"Target in sight."
Luo Qi suddenly spoke, and his heart jumped.
A dark armored vehicle appeared first, with matte black paint accentuating the bright yellow letters on its side under the sun.
MILITECH, military technology.
The massive armored transport vehicle "Behemoth" slowly descended from the bridge amidst the heavy engine roar, surrounded by protection.
"Uploading the puppet!" T-Bug quickly invaded Militech's equipment.
Militech's convoy wasn't stupid enough to connect directly to the public network. They used their company's network, and even their internal communications were protected by ICE in their local area network. To upload the puppet into the enemy's vehicle and their minds, T-Bug's first step was to deceive the ICE and gain access to their LAN.
"Click, click..."
The warning turrets on the two armored vehicles retracted without warning, indicating her invasion was successful.
"ICE is too thick. Give me thirty seconds!"
Disabling the engines of the vehicles wasn't an easy task, especially for a Militech convoy. So T-Bug immediately targeted the soldiers inside and invaded their implants.
However, in just a few hundred meters, the convoy, not traveling slowly, would pass through in just over ten seconds.
Proceed to the second step immediately!
"Bang-!!!!"
The moment T-Bug's voice stopped, a massive explosion erupted in their ears.
Mo Er, positioned a hundred meters away and looking down from a high vantage point, opened fire.
The tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet struck like divine thunder from the heavens. The moment the gunshot rang out, the bullet easily penetrated the armored transport's front bulletproof glass and shattered half of the driver's head.
No one could see the fleeting flash of the shooting star.
"Screech, screech, screech-!!!!"
The out-of-control truck quickly veered off the road, crooked and increasingly faster, until it finally crashed into the abandoned car wreckage by the side of the road, its front bouncing and hitting a roadside tree hard.
At the same time, the escort vehicle that was forcibly pushed aside by the truck in front started to swerve, trying to stabilize and return to the road. But it collided head-on with an oncoming sedan on the other side of the road, causing it to roll over.
"Beep, BOOM——!!!"
A ground-shaking shock!
Luoqi was lying on the rooftop, and the impact and noise from the explosion shook his whole body.
In the midst of the ringing in his ears, he gritted his teeth and saw that the rear armored car was thrown five or six meters into the air, tumbling and spinning like a leaping fireball.
It then crashed to the ground, clanging and rolling out with a series of bangs and crashes.
The Militech soldiers who had just disembarked couldn't even steady themselves before they were buried in the explosion.
"Under attack! Call for backup! Regroup——ugh!!"
A team of fully armed soldiers quickly disembarked from the armored transport vehicle. A noncommissioned officer who was still trying to find cover during the tactical maneuver had the back of his head shot through by Luoqi, leaving a quickly dissipating blood mist in the air.
"Fire!"
Intense gunfire erupted from the other side of the road, forming a continuous barrage.
The Militech soldiers were caught off guard and wanted to fight back, but their rifles seemed to have gone crazy and started firing randomly on their own.
T-Bug's puppet had taken effect!
D and his team took advantage of the chaos, especially C's light machine gun, which mowed down enemies like cutting rice, leaving a row of bullet holes across the road and on the enemy's bodies, causing sparks to fly off their armor.
If the enemy were soft targets, they would have been crippled or killed in this round, and there would be no chance of resistance. But Militech was not known for being kind-hearted, and under the protection of subcutaneous armor and alloy skeletons, their soldiers could still fight.
Just as they abandoned their primary weapons and pulled out purely mechanical pistols from their holsters, a buzzing sound fell from above and landed among several soldiers.
"Bang bang bang bang bang...!!!"
A series of explosions enveloped a radius of three to four meters like a cluster of fire and ashes.
White phosphorus incendiary grenades, electromagnetic pulse bombs, fragmentation mines, and biological hazard grenades...
Luoqi had installed six or seven different types of explosives on the kamikaze drone. If it weren't for the drone's limited payload capacity, he would have even added a pack of C4 filled with iron fragments and steel needles.
The effect was outstanding.
The three Militech soldiers in the blast radius instantly lost their fighting capabilities, screaming and falling to the ground as they caught fire and emitted green smoke.
At a farther distance, the remaining few soldiers continued to resist, but within seconds, the sound of rotors overhead signaled their impending doom.
The drone dove down in their terrified gaze.
"Bang bang bang bang bang...!!!"
Thunder on the ground.
Civilian vehicles near the intersection began to flee in panic, some rushing into the wilderness, and some driving in reverse like mad. By the time all the Militech soldiers were dealt with, the surroundings were eerily quiet.
Only the burning car shells still made "popping" sounds, and when the wind blew, it brought a foul smell of burning.
A soldier, who had not yet taken his last breath, lay on the cold asphalt road.
Blood stained his face, and in those stiff eyes, electric sparks kept shattering. With great effort, he exhaled a large mouthful of blood-stained air from his trachea.
His left leg had vanished in the explosion, and his right arm was grotesquely fractured.
Those guys wearing ridiculous clown masks, dressed in wrinkled suits and leather shoes, slowly approached.
Comical masks, hideous faces, bright red lips, and a funny big nose, even the flag painted on them.
He recognized it.
It was the flag of the old United States—fifty white stars symbolizing the states, and thirteen red and white stripes representing the founding thirteen colonies.
However, that was the history of his father's or grandfather's generation.
After a series of devastating wars such as the Central American War, the Corporate War, the Gang War, the Independence War, and the Civil War, the land of America had disintegrated.
Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, three states in the northwest of the old United States, formed the "Pacific Confederation."
The southern state of Texas had become "The Republic of Texas" for many years.
To the west of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico was the loosely formed "Western States," also known as Free States.
The rest were all territories of the "New United States of America."
As for California, where Night City was located, it was even divided into North and South, fighting back and forth with the support of the Free States and the New United States.
As for the glory of America? It had long disappeared into the dust of history...
His fingertips were just a little away from reaching the handgun that had fallen on the ground.
"Rumble rumble rumble... splat."
A speeding cargo truck ran over his body and stopped steadily.
"Quick! Load the cargo!"
D directed C and Dragan to unload a complete set of equipment from the truck.
A portable cutting drill, equipped with an alloy collapsible frame, required no continuous operation and worked automatically.
The rear compartment of the armored transport vehicle was wide open, but the cargo was secured in a closed partition, with only a few pull-rod boxes in size, not much.
"Key, password, fingerprint, biometric signal, digital certificate, five-fold verification - are they transporting a nuclear bomb?"
T-Bug finished packing her equipment, came over to take a look, and sighed.
The fixed drill started working, and the thermal jet and drill head began to create sparks in the compartment.
"Zzzzzzzzzzzz..."
The high-frequency cutting emitted a noise that made their ears want to explode. Ruoqi felt his teeth starting to ache, and goosebumps came in waves.
Moer, carrying a large box, had already walked out of the abandoned factory, looking at the military technology corpses on the ground, not knowing what she was thinking.
Ruoqi hurriedly took out the spray Old Wei had given him and comforted her, worried that her PTSD would relapse.
Then he saw a triumphant smile on Moer's face.
From now on, anyone who dared to say she had poor mental quality, Ruoqi could twist their head off.
In the race against time to escape, she even had the mood to joke.
Well, buddy, I'll just say it straight.
"Clang..."
The cut bars and latches fell into the vehicle, making a crisp sound.
D and the others, one inside the vehicle, one underneath, and one at the back.