Chapter 119 Trophies

Before dawn, the badlands plunge into deeper darkness.

Tang Yu sat by the bonfire, staring at the flames that made crackling sounds from time to time.

Next to him, Panan picked up a piece of firewood and added it to the bonfire, and the fire gradually became more intense.

Sasha sat on the other side of Tang Yu, obediently stretching out her hands to warm herself by the fire, but her eyes never left Tang Yu.

Gloria and Mann were chatting with the tribe's cowboy hat elder, who couldn't stop expressing his gratitude.

Even though it was a paid commission, it was obvious that this matter had exceeded expectations, and it was greatly exceeded.

Dorio, Rebekah, Qiwei, and Falco were sitting around another campfire, with the two sides clearly separated.

There was a big battle just now, and everyone present fell into silence.

Although the night wandering ghosts and Kang Tao's small group of intelligent mechanized troops were eliminated, the heavy atmosphere has not dissipated, and a depressive atmosphere permeated the tribe.

At that time, Mann and others were in a critical situation. They were trapped behind the rock wall of the canyon. There were Kangtao heavy combat drones above and Kangtao intelligent combat robots approaching from the bottom of the slope. It could be said that they were completely in a dead situation.

Fortunately, Tang Yu led people to break the situation. First, Panan stood in the distance and carried an RPG rocket on his shoulder. He destroyed the Kangtao drone with one shot, creating a gap in firepower. Gloria drove to the slope position and let Sasha, who was in combat mode,

Sha rushes into the robot camp.

Tang Yu and Gloria continued to chase the biotechnology company employees, captured Alex Pushkin, handed him to Mann, and brought him back to the tribe.

Alex is now hanging at the entrance of the tribe's camp, and all passing tribe members can pick up stones and throw them at him.

Panan looked up at the next door and found a loli at another bonfire, seemingly staring at Tang Yu and Sasha, her eyes full of questioning.

She asked: "How about it, can you tell me what's going on here? Those mercenaries seem to know you."

Tang Yu asked Gloria to communicate with the tribe people about the follow-up matters. In fact, this matter had nothing to do with Panan, so it would be okay to tell her.

Sasha also wanted to know the cause and effect of this incident, so she stared at Tang Yu seriously, expecting him to tell the story behind it.

Just as Tang Yu was about to explain, another figure came over, moved a small wooden stool and sat across from the bonfire, and said with a dissatisfied look: "I want to listen too."

After saying that, she glanced at Sasha suspiciously, and then at Tang Yu. Her eyes were full of strange question marks. She seemed to be scratching her head and couldn't figure out why the company was here, why Sasha didn't recognize her, and why she didn't know her.

How did you get together with the company?

strangeness!

It’s really strange!

Rebecca wanted to ask on her way back to the tribe from the canyon. She saw with her own eyes the sudden appearance of Sasha, and then the sudden appearance of the company.

Finally, Sasha turned around and got into the company car. She was really shocked for a whole year.

On the way back, Dolio held Rebecca in the passenger seat and stopped Rebecca's questions several times.

Falco and Qiwei sat in the back row, responsible for guarding the biotechnology company employees.

Mann drove the car without saying a word, his expression extremely heavy.

Rebecca also understood that it was not appropriate to ask questions in this situation, so she patiently calmed down.

After arriving at the tribe, she heard someone talking over the campfire. Rebecca could no longer hold back her curiosity and wanted to hear Tang Yu explain the whole story.

Tang Yu knew that Rebecca was also fully involved in the commissioned task, so there was no problem with her knowing about it.

"Speaking of this matter, you also know some circumstances, which are closely related to the company."

"Biotechnology is cultivating a superbug and developing new antibiotics to combat it."

"Now that experimental products have been developed, sample clinical trials need to be conducted."

"Furthermore, drug clinical trials are different from other products and must be supported by a large amount of sample data."

"Biotechnology does not want to spend a lot of money to find volunteers, but it also wants to obtain enough test samples, so it sets its sights on the wanderer tribe in the bad land."

Panan got angry when he heard this and cursed: "Is this how those corporate dogs treat homeless people? Do they have any humanity at all?! Not a single good thing!"

Hearing Panan's anger, Sasha and Rebecca both looked at her.

It's a bit bad to call the company a dog in front of the company people.

Panan, who has a carefree personality, doesn't care about this at all, not to mention that she doesn't know the identity of Tang Yu in front of her at all, so she just continues to urge: "Speak quickly, speak quickly, I'm still listening."

Tang Yu smiled helplessly: "You are right, the company does not have any good things."

"According to Alex Pushkin, an employee of the biotechnology company, it was his boss Dr. Joanne Koch who selected this tribe."

"Dr. Joanne Kochi is the regional director of technology and development of a biotechnology company, responsible for the development and testing of new drugs. She decided to use the Wanderer tribe to conduct clinical trials, and then asked Alex to supervise the matter."

"Alex couldn't find a tribe that volunteered to participate in the experiment, so he contacted the notorious Night Walkers in the Badlands, because except for the Night Walkers, no tribe was willing to take on the company's dirty work."

"At the same time, biotechnology is also worried that the matter will be exposed, so it does not allow night wanderers to throw D into the water source, so as not to make the matter bigger and attract more people's attention."

"So the night wandering ghosts are targeting this tribe, the 'Red Ocher', which is weak in overall strength."

"With the tacit approval of Biotech's Joanne Koch, Night Walkers launched their operation."

After hearing this, Panan cursed again: "A bunch of bullies who are afraid of the strong. They bark everywhere all day long. They will kill them every time they see them!"

This time, Sasha and Rebecca agreed with Pannan's statement. The Night Walkers were real cancers of the Badlands and should be eliminated.

"After that, the night wandering ghosts took the super bacteria provided by biotechnology and dropped D in the areas where the red ocher tribe often scavenged. They put these infectious bacteria into various foods. If you eat them carelessly, you will become infected."

"In addition, drug dealers will also help biotechnology and sell the antibiotics developed by the company to tribes."

"Obviously, these antibiotics cannot protect against superbugs at all, and may even have side effects."

"The corpses that died after being infected will be snatched back by the night wandering ghosts and handed over to biotechnology, and then brought back to the company's R&D department to continue sample research."

Hearing this, Rebecca suddenly realized, and quickly added: "I know this! When I was hiding behind the ghost carriage dressed as a corpse, I heard them saying that a corpse would be sold to the company for 10,000 euros."

Panan scolded even more fiercely. He never thought that biotechnology would be so crazy and use money to buy and sell human lives.

This money is really easy and easy to come by. You can earn hundreds of thousands of euros by transporting some corpses.

Rebecca knew that she followed Mann's team through life and death, and each person received an average of 10,000 or 20,000 euros after a mission.

The key point is that missions with high rewards like this are not often available. I usually take on small missions. If everyone can share a thousand euros in one game, it is considered good.

Tang Yu could only tell them: "Once there is an appropriate profit, the company will be bold. If there is 50% profit, the company will take risks. If there is 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws. There are

With 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime." (Note 1)

"Now that biotechnology has invested so much in the research and development of antibiotics, I am afraid that they have already found buyers who are willing to pay more. For them, these hundreds of thousands of euros are just a drop in the bucket of the entire project."

"The Kangtao intelligent mechanical force you saw is a security service outsourced by biotechnology. The security investment alone is a huge sum of money."

Everyone was silent after listening.

The company controls funds, technology, resources, and weapons. Not only are these giants rich enough to rival the country, but they even have the ability to start a protracted war, which is far beyond what a group of mercenaries can contend with.

Even though it is known as the most liberal city in the world, Night City is still shrouded in the shadow of the company, and almost nothing can be done without the company.

Rebecca felt inexplicably depressed. Although she had always hated the company, she could still feel the despair of being targeted by the company at this moment.

A tribe of a thousand people is considered a relatively powerful force in the bad land, but in the eyes of the company, it is just a bunch of chickens and dogs.

She was a little irritated for no reason, and unconsciously looked up at Tang Yu, only to find that he was warming himself up by the fire with a calm demeanor, telling them about the ugliness of the company as if he were having a family affair.

"Isn't he also from the company? Why do he say these things? And what's going on with Sasha?"

Rebecca thought silently in her heart, unable to understand what Tang Yu did.

But when she saw Tang Yu's clear and translucent eyes flashing with fire, she vaguely understood something in her heart, but she still couldn't explain it.

Tang Yu saw that they suddenly became depressed after listening, so it was hard to continue talking about these troublesome things.

When it comes to the filthiness of the company, even the homeless people on the streets of Night City can spit it out, let alone them.

Everyone understands that the company is the culprit of all misfortunes, but living in Night City, everyone can only accept everything numbly.

After all, life goes on, right?

At this time, Gloria finished talking to the elder cowboy, turned around and came behind Tang Yu, squatted down and said closely.

"They have paid for this mission, a total of 100,000 euros, and Mann gets 60%."

"In addition, the tribe elders are willing to take the initiative to bear the loss of Mann's vehicles."

Tang Yu nodded slightly. Adding up the vehicle losses, ammunition consumption, etc. this time, Mann and the others, 60,000 euros really can't make much money. The tribe is willing to bear more, which is also good for them.

Gloria then made a suggestion, asking Tang Yu to make a decision: "There are still a lot of trophies left in the wreckage of the Night Wandering Ghost convoy and the Kangtao intelligent transportation unit. I think it is not convenient to take them back, so should I leave them to the tribe for processing.

"

The trophies were obtained by Mann's team and Tang Yu, so the decision-making power naturally rests with Tang Yu.

But these trophies are of no use to Tang Yu, but he considers that the Red Ocher Tribe can only handle part of the trophies, such as guns and ammunition, off-road vehicle wreckage parts, etc., which can help them improve their ability to protect themselves.

But Kang Tao's ground armored vehicle carrying the robot is a big thing. Giving red ocher to it is not only a waste, but will also attract Kang Tao's attention, which may cause another disturbance.

Tang Yu then turned to look at Panan and asked, "Would you like a gift for your tribe?"

Panan was a little strange. He didn't know what kind of medicine Tang Yu was selling in the gourd, so he asked: "What gift? Don't try to use junk goods as payment. I won't do such stupid things."

Tang Yu mentioned: "Kangtao's ground armored vehicle is a big guy. If it is given to Adecado, senior mechanical engineer Mitch will have something good to study."
To be continued...