Perhaps sensing that the atmosphere in the car was too depressing, Johnny Silverhand, who had been silent before, jumped out and joked in Peacock's ear.
Peacock knew why this senior was acting like this. This terrorist who was afraid of chaos in the world was dissatisfied with Peacock and the others' procrastination.
Today, Johnny Silverhand is responsible for playing the front line for Peacock and the others. He will control the city's Delamain cars and cause chaos everywhere.
If Peacock and the others don't start this 16-kilometer life-and-death escape, he won't be able to work, and now this man can finally work.
May 31, 2077
The time has only reached eight o'clock, and the traffic situation in Night City has become unprecedentedly chaotic.
I don’t know why, but traffic accidents keep happening everywhere.
Although most of them were just minor bumps and scratches, and so far, the most serious injury was just a scratch on someone's forehead, but it was enough to keep the police busy.
As the instigator, Johnny Silverhand has been snickering.
People nowadays want to rely on intelligent AI for everything, because they always feel that artificial intelligence is safe and reliable, and more effective than their own heads.
But such a well-behaved and obedient AI seems to have taken the wrong medicine today.
In just half an hour, more than 30 traffic accidents occurred in the Westbrook area, affecting hundreds of people.
Taking advantage of this chaos, Peacock and the others successfully left Westbrook and entered the south.
In order not to reveal their intentions, their pickup truck did not head directly towards the coordinates.
Following the route planned by Johnny Silverhand, the pickup truck circled around that location and cautiously approached forward.
When we were 8 kilometers away from the Wall of Sighs, there were obviously fewer cars on the street, and drones whizzing by frequently appeared in the sky.
Some of these drones are police patrol aircraft, while others bear the emblems of Arasaka or Military Technology. They move regularly and closely monitor the situation on the streets.
After approaching the city wall, Sandra scanned the sky every half minute.
Her data can be shared directly with Zhucun, so Zhucun can also know the drone's movements in advance.
At the beginning, Takemura was still able to find opportunities and try to get through the gaps of those drones.
However, as they continued to go deeper, the density of various drones became larger and larger, and Takemura had no way to avoid them.
As the pickup truck was photographed again and again by drones, their risk of exposure rose rapidly.
After persisting like this for a while, Sandra felt that she had almost reached her limit. So she asked Takemura to slow down the car while opening her backpack.
After taking out two pocket drones, Sandra quickly completed the debugging. Then she opened the window and released the two drones.
This is Sandra's method of dealing with those drones, and it is also the result of everyone's discussion last night.
"We must find ways to deal with the drones of those big companies, otherwise we will definitely not be able to survive for long before we are discovered."
Because he was once a senior security officer at Arasaka International, Takemura knew all about the methods of big companies.
"I have a way, just leave this to me."
Regarding the question raised by Takemura, Sandra immediately took it upon herself, because this
It's just the right time to take advantage of her strengths.
Sandra was once a well-known hacker in Night City, and the safe house they are staying in now is Sandra's former hacker base.
Although there is a serious shortage of things here, Sandra still pieced together and finally built the two drones.
If Sandra has enough materials, she can definitely build an electronic warfare drone that releases the emp storm.
Unfortunately, she only had some old and old materials, so what she finally made were the two rabbits that lured the hunting dogs.
After Sandra released the two drones, the drones codenamed Rabbit 1 and Rabbit 2 went east and west.
These two decoys fly leisurely while releasing electromagnetic signals in specific bands, and these are the most sensitive bands for reconnaissance drones.
According to the settings of those drones, this interference signal source from the air needs to be determined as soon as possible.
So the rabbits had just been released, and the drones that were originally patrolling in the air were all hooked.
Just a moment ago they were maneuvering in an orderly manner, but now they are all scent hounds.
The hunting dogs chased them all the way looking for the scent, while the two rabbits continued to move forward regardless, attracting more drones for their owners.
"Takemura, we have about two minutes!"
Looking at the real-time images transmitted back from the VR glasses, Sandra made this prediction.
At this time, her two decoys were almost surrounded, and the drone operators would soon understand that they had been fooled, so this was their last chance.
As an experienced security officer, Zhucun didn't need Sandra's reminder.
Just when the two rabbits lured away the nearest drone, he had already begun to increase his speed, and now he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
In order not to reveal their intentions before, they traveled in a zigzag manner.
But it was almost time to see the situation, so the pickup truck turned south again and headed straight for that coordinate point.
"There are still 6.6 kilometers left, we will definitely make it!"
With Takemura's roar, the speed of the pickup truck has reached its limit.
At their current speed, 6.6 kilometers would only take a few minutes. They had to rush out before the enemy could react.
However, just as the running pickup truck passed the first intersection, a large drone flew over from the west.
It almost immediately locked onto the speeding pickup truck, and then the drone sounded its alarm bell.
"The gray pickup truck below, please stop immediately and get inspected.
Note, this is the last warning. If it is not implemented, the police drone will have the right to use force!"
While sending an ultimatum to the suspicious pickup truck, the police drone reported the situation here to the command center.
Not long after, Peacock heard police sirens blaring from all directions. He didn't know how many police cars were surrounding them from all directions.
"This is a Tengu-type combat drone produced by Arasaka. I can't get rid of it!"
Taking a look at the bamboo drone in the sky that obviously had two barrels, Takemura immediately recognized the model of the thing.
Today, there are only a few large arms companies that are capable of manufacturing equipment such as drones.
Night City is mainly funded by Military Technology and Arasaka International, so the city's police and self-defense forces all use weapons and equipment produced by these two companies.
For Night City, Arasaka and military technology have always been generous, so the police of Night City have Tengu-type combat drones that are also considered mainstream equipment in Arasaka.
"give it to me!"
Since Takemura can't get rid of the other party, Peacock has no choice.
He couldn't let this thing keep buzzing in his head, so he immediately pulled out his pistol and prepared to shoot the thing down.
"No! Peacock, leave it to me, I can deal with it!"
Before Peacock could open the window, Sandra in the back seat immediately stopped him.
Peacock had seen Sandra's hacking prowess, and since the girl said she could handle it, Peacock let her do it.
After pulling down her VR glasses, layers of numbers immediately appeared in front of Sandra.
These digital waves composed of 0s and 1s are the firewall of the drone in the sky. Just when Sandra scanned the other party, she was already planning to make good use of the drone.
The digital waves embodied by the firewall kept piling up before Sandra's eyes, then quickly bursting.
What Sandra has to do now is to find a way to the core in this digital tide.
As long as it can find that way, the drone no longer belongs to the police and becomes Sandra's toy.
When Sandra first started cracking, she was still a little rusty. But she quickly got the feel for it, and she started to make gains.
As Sandra went deeper, the controller of the drone also became aware of the intruder.
At this point, no one was willing to give up control, so the two sides used hacker software as weapons and began an invisible fight.
The Tengu drone reacted immediately to this fight. Now it aimed its gun at the pickup truck, and then moved its machine gun away, like a patient suffering from schizophrenia.
As Sandra entered the battle, the Tengu drone in the sky was still unable to exert its full function, but the signal it sent before still attracted new enemies.
Not long after, two police cars with red and blue lights flashing appeared directly in front of Peacock and the others. At the same time, four black cars also appeared from behind.
Just 50 meters away from the pickup truck, the two police cars in front turned sideways.
Amidst the unpleasant braking sound, they turned 180 degrees, just blocking the path forward of the peacocks.
"Everyone, get ready! I'm going to start!"
Seeing the two cars' heads touching each other, Zhucun shouted and tightened his grip on the steering wheel.
At this moment, they were still 4.4 kilometers away from the coordinate point. Takemura was quite satisfied that he could hold on until here before using force, so he couldn't wait to show his fangs.
Just as Takemura stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward, Peacock left his seat and crawled towards the back of the car.
When passing by the back seat, he stopped deliberately and touched Amber's little head.
Opening the rear window, the peacock jumped into the bed of the pickup truck.
"Bang!"
At this moment, Takemura drove his pickup truck and crashed into the two police cars that were blocking the road.
Because they arrived in such a hurry, the police only had time to block the road with police cars, but they had no time to set up more obstacles.
It was precisely because he saw this that Takemura bumped into him without hesitation.
Takemura wandered around outside for a long time last night. He risked being discovered and carefully selected in several parking lots before finally choosing the pickup truck he now has.
The acceleration performance of the Pickard is definitely not as good as that of a sedan, but it is heavy enough.
With its weight greater than that of a police car and its speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour, the pickup truck successfully knocked a gap between the two police cars that were closely connected.
Following a long streak of sparks and a sharp friction sound, Takemura controlled the pickup truck and squeezed through the gap.
Before the people in the police car could react to the collision, the four chasing cars also hit them.
Because of these continuous collisions, the poor police car was like an overturned turtle, spinning in place, and the police inside were wailing.
"Quick! Speed up! Catch up with me!"
We must intercept them in our area and not let them escape to the territory of those dwarf carrots! "
At this moment, in one of the four cars, a sinister-looking Hippocrates was desperately urging the driver to speed up.
Hippocrates directed the trapping of Meredith in the Bodhi Street neighborhood last night. Although he didn't let Meredith escape, the operation ended in failure.
At the last moment, Meredith killed herself cleanly with a bullet.
She took away all the secrets, which drove Hippocrates almost crazy.
After preliminary cleaning of the scene, the internal investigation team discovered the secret tunnel that had been blown down, which also explained why they did not find Meredith's daughter.
When Hippocrates' hackers found the surveillance photos from the computers here, Hippocrates was not crazy, but wanted to kill someone.
"Peacock, peacock, it's you again. I'm only one step away, just one step away!"
Because he had the photo, Hippocrates was now able to report to his superiors.
This photo is the best evidence that Meredith has been colluding with the company's enemies.
This discovery satisfied the bureaucrats, but Hippocrates could not forgive himself.
As long as he thought about the peacock sneaking away under his nose again, and this time the peacock also kidnapped Meredith's daughter, he wanted to kill.
After discovering the secret passage, the internal investigation team immediately sent people to clean it up.
They dug up part of the tunnel that had been destroyed by the explosion, and then continued searching along the parts that had not yet collapsed.
Hippocrates had no interest in such pure hindsight.
The result was just as he thought, the people from the internal investigation team chased them all the way to the underground pipe network, and then they could only return in frustration.
"Now we and Arasaka want to catch that group of people. This is definitely an unprecedented move.
Peacock is not only exposed now, but he is also accompanied by two burdens, Sandra and Amber.
In this case, he cannot hide in the city, so he will definitely try to escape outside the city.
Minister, please allow me to lead the internal investigation team to continue hunting Peacock.
Although I have dug up the traitor Meredith, I have reason to suspect that there may be a mole hiding deeper within us.
If we can't catch him before other departments, those traitors may help him escape, or they may kill people to silence him, so he can only be caught by us."
After rushing back to the company, Hippocrates used this argument to convince the head of the internal investigation team.
Looking at the photos that Hippocrates brought back, the minister finally chose to support this young man with a strong desire to win, so Hippocrates also appeared near the city wall today.
As the saying goes: Enemies meet on a narrow road, so Hippocrates randomly picked an area to stay in, and then he learned that there was an extremely suspicious pickup truck here, so he immediately patted him on the back.
"Peacock!"
As soon as the peacock in front got out of the cab, Hippocrates, who was following behind, immediately screamed.
Enemies were extremely jealous when they met. From that moment on, Hippocrates ignored him and urged the driver to speed up and catch up with the pickup truck in front of him as soon as possible.
Compared with special vehicles with military technology, pickup trucks are definitely inferior. So it didn’t take long for two patrol cars to overtake the truck from the left and right, tightly wrapping the pickup truck.
Now there is only half a car body difference between them and the pickup truck in front. As long as they push harder, they can overtake the pickup truck and then stop it forcefully.
After seeing someone get into the car from the cab, the military technology operators in the two vehicles knew what the person who came out wanted to do.
"You are about to die, but you still want to resist?"
Seeing the peacock in the truck in front, the operators in the two cars immediately lowered the windows.
Just now, their boss has repeatedly reminded them to try their best to capture the wanted criminal in the car alive, so these operators by the window are holding non-lethal weapons.
While they were waiting for the windows to be lowered, the peacock squatting in the back of the car reached out and pulled off the colorful striped cloth covering the floor, and the guns in the car were finally exposed.
Before the civil strife broke out in the Dorset family, Sandra once replenished a batch of supplies for Peacock.
At that time, she was still a young lady who responded to everything, so Sandra naturally got whatever she wanted.
When she secretly went to see Peacock that night, her car was packed full. In addition to food and clothing, Sandra also brought a lot of weapons and ammunition.
These firearms were all selected by Sandra's bodyguard Pedes, and the big man was an expert at them, so of course his choice would not be wrong.
The only pity is that Pedes only took light weapons, so now Peacock and Takemura don't have anything heavy.
Holding a Sidewinder submachine gun in his left and right hands respectively, Peacock was in no hurry to fire.
The moment the cars on both sides lowered their windows, he suddenly stood up and spread his arms.
"Chu, tug, tug!"
Before the operators could stretch out their guns, Peacock's two rattlesnakes simultaneously sprayed out long bursts of gunfire.
Although it only revealed a narrow strip, it was enough for Peacock, who had been practicing instinctive shooting for a long time.
The 25-meter range around Peacock is his absolute territory. Within this area, he never has to raise his gun to aim, and can shoot based on his feeling.
In just a few seconds, the rattlesnake in the peacock's hand made a clear and crisp clicking sound at the same time.
That was the sound of the gun being fired after all the bullets were fired. He had poured out a total of 80 bullets from two magazines.
At the same time as he heard the clicking sound, Peacock loosened his hands and dropped the submachine gun without bullets. He reached down and a Copperhead with a full magazine was in his hand.