Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 887 - 287: The Normal Performance of the Major Ward (Part 2)
Better not let them meddle in anything.
"All the loans from the Tiger Claw Gang have been forgiven?"
A Sex Doll was stunned when she saw this line on the list. She owed over eighty thousand in high-interest loans to the Tiger Claw Gang and used to have to repay a large sum every month.
Even after three years of payments, the principal hadn't reduced by a cent, all she paid was interest.
Now these people have forgiven her entire loan, which to her, was akin to a fantasy.
"Is this true?"
"Yes."
Maimaiti waved his hand, indicating to the other party that after verifying the identity information on the system, they could sign and head home.
As for whether they wanted to come for job training and psychological counseling after signing, he couldn't care less.
Recently, a few new players have come specifically for this task.
Similar situations like Yunding's were happening all over Night City. Taking over these bars completely would inevitably take a long time, but things in Dog Town were much simpler and more convenient.
After all, Dog Town was originally a pile of ruins with no laws, everything was operated based on unspoken rules everyone defaulted to.
The main battleground between the players and Hansen was the streets and the Netherworld Dog station, with the northern stadium, southern scrapyard, and the center's Heavy Heart Bar mostly unaffected, witnessing the grand spectacle of two tigers vying for control.
After Hansen fled, the Netherworld Dogs, now without command, operated independently. Originally, AI diversion had distracted the players, allowing them to hold on for a bit.
But Erebos' self-destruction caused the Hellhounds to completely paralyze, allowing players to take advantage and clean up the remnants in Dog Town. The already severely damaged Netherworld Dog Team soon collapsed under their siege.
The most interesting thing is, if defeat happens elsewhere, deserters scattering is normal, but in Dog Town there's nowhere to run.
The walls Hansen built to protect his reign ironically became a prison for the Netherworld Dog Team.
Plus, the rumors of Hansen's escape spread like wildfire, leaving the remaining soldiers with no fighting spirit; their motive shifted from serving Colonel Hansen to merely surviving.
The presence of one person completely shattered the soldiers' determination to hold on.
Gago Zab.
The financial officer by Hansen's side.
He stood with the players, broadcasting to the Hellhound soldiers in various strongholds through the Dog Town radio, urging them to surrender, while also announcing Horizon Corporation's control over Dog Town.
"Netherworld Dog Soldiers, I am Gago Zab, here to inform you of some unfortunate news: Kurt Hansen, who shamefully abandoned you and fled alone, has just been executed..."
"What? Colonel Hansen is dead?"
Inside the Gem Cyan Hotel, the Netherworld Dog soldiers, still holding guns and trying to reclaim the kitchen from the players, looked at each other incredulously, unsure if they should continue fighting.
Some didn't believe it.
"Impossible, those guys must be spreading rumors! That's Colonel Hansen we're talking about."
"But... it's Gago speaking, he wouldn't lie..." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
"But..."
The soldiers were rife with discussion, but Gago wasn't giving them much time to ponder it, fully committed to saving as many Netherworld Dog soldiers as possible. Only this way, his value wouldn't be zero in the eyes of Military Technology, New America, or Lin Miao.
"Kurt Hansen, his lifetime of evil deeds has ended, but the pain he brought to Dog Town is hard to repair..."
If he outright insulted Hansen, it would undoubtedly trigger the soldiers' anger and have the opposite effect, because in their eyes, Hansen was a charismatic leader and hero, excellent at boosting morale.
So Gago straightforwardly exposed how much money Hansen made off Dog Town, and the shady deals he secretly conducted with those companies.
Despite many not believing it, resistance quickly crumbled, and they began to surrender in a structured manner.
If this were a battlefield in the countryside, the players would likely enjoy fighting the Netherworld Dogs to the last man, after all, they were just XP packs. But Dog Town was filled with Hansen's hidden stash points and warehouses, and if the soldiers despaired and blew up grenades with the supplies, the only losers would be the players themselves.
Moreover, Gago's role was far more than just coaxing surrender. He understood Hansen's assets and networks inside out.
With his help, the players had a remarkably easy time inheriting Hansen's legacy.
"What's this?"
In Hansen's smuggling tunnel, a buddy wearing MT-3 was handling a gun almost as tall as a person with curiosity.
"This gun's barrel is almost the size of my head."
He propped the gun on the ground like he genuinely planned to jam his own head inside to see.
"This is a plasma emitter smuggled from Military Technology; it's for individual combat. But Colonel Hansen didn't see the need for it in Dog Town, and the ammo cost is too high, so it's been idle here."
Gago was grateful the gun wasn't loaded, otherwise he feared the idiot might actually blow his head off with it.
"Hahaha! Ahahaha!!"
The Truth Department looked at box after box of arms with drooling excitement, his face behind the mask resembling Gollum with the One Ring.
He simply lay atop an infantry fighting vehicle gathering dust in the warehouse.
"Now all these belong to the Super Earth Government!"
Oh mine! All mine!
Though they still had to go through the bidding settlement process, he already made up his mind to gather as much high-end military gear as possible; since Super Earth currently has a lot of combat players, might as well go all in.
