This city may be the city that Tang Ji has visited most times besides Night City, but this time he returned to his old place, this city has been razed to the ground like other places in the world.
Of course, for the current Tang Ji, this is the first time in his life that he has set foot in this city. Obviously, the current Paris cannot meet the title of the city of art. It is just a ruin larger than the City of Night.
Surte was bored and picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the distance. His behavior was just that of a naughty kid who had nothing to do. However, this naughty kid was a super human, so he looked particularly bearish.
The stone was accelerated to a speed of tens of kilometers per hour almost instantly. It flew several kilometers and hit a broken wall, directly shattering the relic that had survived the apocalypse and the big storm.
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Soult jumped a little excitedly, still like a child.
"Be careful, there is a shelter here." Tang Ji reminded Sirte when he saw him reaching out to pick up stones again.
Soult smiled sarcastically and gave up his childish behavior. He just hadn't been on the field with Tang Ji for a long time, and he felt a little excited.
Their mission this time was to come over here and kill a few players to warm up the scene. In Wu Qianying's words, these new players must first have a basic idea of Tang Ji.
After all, today is different from the past. Before the Apocalypse, Tang Ji was under the spotlight wherever he went, but now he has to earn his reputation bit by bit on his own.
As for the players, there must always be smart people who realize first that the player Tang Ji killed has never been online again.
Companies and pioneers can make up 10,000 reasons to cover up Tang Ji's specialness, but Tang Ji only needs to be persistent to get rid of any lie.
"It's a pity. When I came here last time, I quite liked it." Surte looked into the distance and tried to find the players in the ruins, but it was obvious that the area they were in was very quiet, let alone the players.
There is nothing moving.
Compared to Sirte, Tangji behaved very silently.
He has not yet adapted to this kind of rapid transition from Australia to the Federation, and from the Federation to Europe. Although it is not Wang Zhengdao who takes him to move quickly, but Sirte, there is more or less a spatial adaptation process.
But he is still a little uncomfortable with this lifestyle of traveling around the world just to kill people.
After all, in Tang Ji's memory, he was just a law enforcer in Night City just a few months ago. Now he needs to hunt players all over the world, and today is still Christmas. No matter what happened in Tang Ji's memory, it really happened.
Yes, it was still a fictional dream. Last Christmas, he had a happy family.
Now he only has Surte by his side, the land beneath his feet is in ruins, and his Christmas gift is the player.
This is not to say that Tang Ji has no feelings for Surte. Although they have only been together for a short time, Tang Ji can still feel the passion for him in Surte's heart. In Edward's words, Surte is Tang Anran.
's 'brother'.
Of course, considering that Tang Anran still looks like a baby, saying that Surte is his younger brother is a bit head-scratching.
However, since the emergence of hibernation technology, the world has experienced major events such as the Apocalypse Day. The ethical chaos brought about by hibernation technology is countless, so this incident is not a big deal.
According to Wu Qianying's plan, Tang Ji only needs to do what he is good at. As for how to go to the moon and bring Tang Anran's boy back safe and sound, she will take care of it, and Tang Ji chooses to believe her.
Whether it is for Sirte or Tangji, it is not difficult to find potential players in an area the size of a city.
The former can measure the entire city in one minute and cover every corner, while the latter can detect sounds as loud as heartbeats within a few kilometers of the surroundings just by closing their eyes and listening slightly.
In fact, that's exactly what they did. Soult took some time to find a team of four scavengers in a corner a few kilometers away. He directly knocked them unconscious and packed them all back.
However, it is a pity that there are no players in this team of scavengers. Tang Ji can feel that these people are ordinary people, and there is also an 'old human' who entered the shelter before the Apocalypse and has been dormant until he was thawed two years ago.
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"Tang Ji? Are you Tang Ji?!" The other party's tone went from confused to surprised to ecstatic. In just a short moment, his emotions changed three times, and the expression on his face was even more complex enough to win the award.
Oscar.
"I knew you weren't dead! Those damn players are back again! You have to save us!" The scavenger seemed to have found the organization in an instant, stood up straight, and vividly described his experience in the dungeon to Tang Ji.
everything of.
"They came very suddenly, and most of the guards did not respond. This was the same as their previous tactics, launching a surprise attack and then carrying out beheading tactics, but this time they beheaded them very thoroughly," the scavenger said.
I drew a simple map on the ground with my finger.
He said with regret in his tone: "I served in the coalition forces for a period of time, in the logistics department, but I only participated in two battles, and the coalition forces gave up on the front line."
Tang Ji could feel the other party's unconditional trust in him, so he just nodded silently to show that he understood his regret.
"But it's okay now. If you come, those players will definitely flee!" The scavenger clenched his fists and continued: "The gang has been occupying the dungeon for almost a week. There are rumors that Philip Taha is still there.
During the escape, if you can find him, the soldiers of the Taha Gang may be our help. It's not that they don't want to resist, they just can't find the leader."
"By the way, my name is Russell, Russell Bellamy. I used to belong to the Gallic Foreign Legion." Russell stretched out his hand towards Tang Ji and looked at him with eyes full of excitement.
When Tang Ji shook hands with the other party, he could feel Russell trembling. He felt that he had underestimated his influence before the Apocalypse Day.
"I know eleven entrances to and from the underground city in District 13, including a passage for smuggling. There are no guards or surveillance cameras there." Russell told Tang Ji what he knew without reservation.
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The other three scavengers who formed the team with him widened their eyes as they watched Russell talking in front of Tang Ji. They were all from the New Hope generation, and they had only heard some legends about the name Tang Ji that were both true and false.
, it was the first time to see a real person.
But Russell is their captain. This team of scavengers has been able to return home with a full load many times in the past year or so and evaded raids by predators, all because of Russell's experience, so they respect Russell very much, and this respect also exists now.
It spread to Tang Ji.
No one asks stupid questions. The wasteland world in the future of the Apocalypse will not be able to breed the kind of innocent people with a virgin heart. The New Hope generation has learned from an early age that no matter what you want, you have to work hard to get it yourself.
And facing intruders like players, human beings' instinctive reaction is to resist, but some people are braver and some are not so brave.
No matter how well the players package their behavior, they are like parasites and need to rely on their physical bodies to move around in this world, which will still arouse human fear.
The resistance in the District 13 underground city has never stopped, but it is less intense due to the lack of organized planning. Otherwise, Philip Taha and Mikkelsen would have encountered mishaps long ago.
"Sir, there are players on the 41st Cross Street. You can't go there." A woman in a cloak reminded Phillip in a low voice as she passed by. Then, as if nothing happened, she carried a basket of fresh food.
Handing out the fresh fruits, I walked forward without looking back.
In front of it is a material distribution point established by players. These fresh fruits are materials that they transported from nowhere.
Philip, who was walking with his face covered, was very sure that these fruits were not from the underground city of District 13. He could see clearly that they were peaches, and there were no peach trees in the underground city of District 13.
Except for a few people who have become player bodies and benefited from it, and who sincerely want to cooperate with players, other dungeon residents are using uncooperative methods to oppose the player's rule, intentionally or unintentionally.
This kind of resistance is very down-to-earth. Dungeon residents who are used to living a hard life will not refuse the various materials provided by players, but they will never provide any convenience to players.
Those who are named and selected by lot, as well as their family members, will be isolated by the residents of the shelter. They will not say anything in front of those people, and a few will voluntarily become vegetarians in order to have enough food or to live a good life.
The individual family felt obvious hostility from the surrounding environment.
Although players have only occupied the dungeon in District 13 for a short period of time, within this short period of time, the residents of the dungeon have divided into obvious factions.
The few Taha Gang officers who were lucky enough to survive took their trusted soldiers with them and retreated to the 'old city' where the Taha Gang first established the city. The routes there were complicated and the space was narrow, making it very unsuitable compared to the new city built later.
Survive.
After the Apocalypse and during the period when the big storm was raging, many remote areas in the old city had been abandoned by the Taha gang. Some of these areas were too close to the surface and had high radiation levels, making them unfit for habitation; some areas were
Groundwater flooded the area, making it impassable; some areas were abandoned due to landslides.
Now these places are being used again by the soldiers of the Taha Gang. Of course, this does not mean that they have cut off their contacts with the new city.
Because the number of players is not large enough and they do not understand the local environment well enough, in the past week, these Taha gang soldiers have basically survived by relying on the materials that players used to exchange for people's hearts and minds.
However, as players further invest resources in the dungeon of District 13, and as the number of players increases and they strengthen their control over this area, this method of exploiting loopholes will definitely be curbed.
Philip and the others are now trying to pass through an area blocked by players and go to a control room in the direction of the dungeon center of District 13. Philip wants to use his authority to open a previously blocked passage.
That passage was blocked due to underground water leakage in NC-8. Because of the blocking of this passage, the Taha gang lost the entire weapons warehouse inventory.
However, the manpower and material resources spent on clearing the passage back then were not worth the gain just to obtain worthless weapons, so they simply closed the passage. Now it is time to reopen the passage so that the resisters can regain sufficient firepower.
Mikkelsen was not with Philip. As one of the remaining two giants of the resistance organization, Mikkelsen would not take the initiative to take risks. Of course he was not afraid of death, but he could not die in such a worthless way.
It was under this circumstance that Russell brought Tangji and Soult into the underground city of District 13.
Obviously, in the past few years after waking up from the hibernation capsule, Russell was not a law-abiding citizen. He and several of his scavengers carefully ran a smuggling route.
There are no cameras on this route that connects the underground city of District 13 to the surface, and it is not known to the Taha Gang.
It should have belonged to a smuggler in District 13 outside the Taha gang. Russell also discovered this route by chance. There was also a section of the passage that had collapsed at the time. He used it every time he went out.
The excuse for scavenging was dug out bit by bit with others.
In fact, there are not that many things that can be traded in the wasteland, so most of what is done in Russell is human trafficking.
Some underground city residents yearn for freedom and do not want to be restrained by the Taha Gang in the underground city, so Russell pays them to bring them to the surface; some survivors living on the surface dream of living in a safe and comfortable underground shelter.
So Russell paid them to bring them back from the surface.
Russell's business is not very good, but in the past year, he has still completed more than 20 human transactions.
The reason why he was willing to take risks and took Tangji and Soult into the dungeon of District 13 was because he had always suspected that players could dismantle the Taha Gang so easily just because of his small human trafficking.
Russell brought at least eight strangers from the surface into the dungeon, and whether there are any players among these eight people, I am afraid he will never know.
"I heard that Philip Taha is still alive, but this is just a rumor, I have never seen it." Russell was walking in the tunnel, and while talking, he turned back to Tangji and explained: "But I can find a group of resisters, I
If you have given them food, they will definitely be able to provide you with more information."
"It's no longer needed." Tang Ji suddenly grabbed Russell and pushed the relatively strong man against the wall to the back of the team. The next second, with a flash of light, a bullet hit Tang Ji's forehead.
