Chapter 1077: Chapter 350: Rome Breaks Into the West (Part 2)

Since it’s not in the core area of Saint Louis, no one can manage these lawless bandits.

So, this time, only about thirty people were willing to join the trio in fighting against the bandits, mostly townsfolk who had a blood feud with the Black Blood Gang.

Among them is even a military chaplain, somewhat filling the vacancy left by New Dynasty Elegance not coming along.

"According to the information I found yesterday, the Black Blood Gang robbed a batch of auto parts two days ago and are now hiding in the southwest, in the Sunset Hill direction. Before this batch of goods is processed, they can’t move their base."

Jing Luo Tears operates the drone through the panel in his hand, which has already ascended over a thousand meters, overlooking the earth, trying to locate the opponent’s base on the map.

He asked,

"What’s your plan for the attack? We can’t rely on those townsfolk behind us."

Having a feud is one thing, but they wouldn’t stake their lives here, neither leading the charge nor fighting uphill battles. Even a little trouble, and these townsfolk would run faster than anyone.

The three of them can’t handle dozens of enemies either.

"Do you really think I’m reckless?"

Ecstasy flung four or five chips from his hand.

"I spent a lot of money on the forum buying open-source behavior viruses. When the time comes, connect to the Black Blood Gang’s intranet, put the debuff in, then pass a buff to these townsfolk to boost their combat power, and it’s easy-peasy."

Don’t be fooled, finding good hackers in Night City is like finding a few hidden talents—except Night City is so densely populated that they appear less valuable.

Saint Louis has only two to three hundred thousand people in total. Even if there are hackers, who would become bandits in the wild?

As for open-source viruses, they are virus source codes made by Jackal and other high-level hacker players, allowing novice players to try them out, then upload them to the forum for others to use.

Even if not a hacker, as long as one’s intelligence is over 6, a Mechanic can use calculating power to place such standard virus programs, but if the opponent upgrades their firewall, such standard viruses become invalid, and non-hackers can’t improvise during combat.

"Heard inspiration was gained from a Mewtwo editor named Judy, integrating the behavior chip program and virus together, which can forcibly control the opponent’s physical actions and even speech. Composite electronic viruses are also quite difficult to clean up."

After hearing Ecstasy’s explanation, Tears took it in his hands to examine, but without writings on it, no one knew what kind of virus it was.

Moreover, to him, the virus was less intriguing than another thing Ecstasy mentioned.

"Judy? Tang Judy?"

Tears was a bit excited.

"Is it Zhang Min? I’m telling you, I like Zhang Min the most..."

"Are you crazy? This is Night City, not Hong Kong. Where would Tang Judy come from? I’m even Wang Zu Xian! Just a Mewtwo editor at Lizi Bar."

Ecstasy nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"And it’s 2076 now, buddy; even if Zhang Min were here, she’d be a hundred-year-old granny."

"So what? Haven’t you heard Potato and the others ran into Heimdall? Maybe I’ll see Keanu Reeves, who’s missing a hacker in a cyber game Easter egg?"

Tears held his heart with both hands.

"You don’t know, Zhang Min is exactly my type."

"Whatever suits you."

Ecstasy was not a fan of stars, indifferent to actors; is there any game that’s fun?

A sharp brake kicked the opposition out of the fantasy.

"Here we are, it should be somewhere around here. Did your drone find anything?"

"Let me raise it a bit higher."

Tears continued to elevate the drone. With no national height limitations, their drone could fly several thousand meters for optimal reconnaissance.

Behind them, townsfolk in personal cars and motorcycles also dismounted, holding guns on alert.

Unlike players, they weren’t fully armed, at most had two magazines, very few prosthetics, even their bulletproof vests were distributed from that batch of supplies Ecstasy originally brought.

"I found it."

Tears synchronized his vision with the drone, the data stream suddenly brightened.

"It’s in a mountain hollow six kilometers northwest, with someone keeping watch."

Frenzy had already started unloading his MT-3 from the vehicle, preparing to gear up, but a townsfolk suddenly called the trio over.

"Please wait."

The elderly chaplain walked at the forefront of the crowd.

He was too old, even panting after two steps.

"We have some words for you, Sheriff."

"Hmm?"

Ecstasy felt strange; they couldn’t possibly want to back out at this point, right?

But somehow, looking at these townsfolk, he felt there was some heroic vibe about them.

Townsfolk took off their hats, placing them on their chests, surrounding the trio.

The chaplain stretched his hands out to the townsfolk beside him.

"Friends, before fighting against the Black Blood Gang, I ask everyone to hold hands together and say some words to the Hell Divers..."

Townsfolk formed a circle, holding hands, their gazes towards the Divers were pious and full of respect.

"The Black Blood Gang has been roaming outside the town for many years. They brutally killed nearly a hundred townsfolk. With guns in our hands, we dare not resist.

But today, I thank Super Earth and Horizon Corporation for sending the Hell Divers to us.

Life has been tough for us, often facing existential crises, but now, Divers bring us infinite confidence to survive.

People need heroes, we need heroes, Super Earth sent heroes.

It’s lucky to believe in someone.