Compared with before, the streets of Night City have become a little quieter at this time, with no bustling crowds and no heavy traffic.
Because of the threat of nuclear war, many people in Night City have left the city to seek a safer living space. After all, Night City is the most attractive city for nuclear bombs in the world.
The grievances between players and Tang Ji are well known to the world. If the players have nothing to do one day, it is completely reasonable to throw some nuclear bombs into Night City through the dimensional gate.
Many others were absorbed by several large shelter construction projects inside and outside Night City. As financial turmoil and wars broke out one after another, a large number of small and medium-sized companies went bankrupt, and the unemployment rate in Night City once dropped from
Twenty-four percent jumped to 46 percent.
You must know that although the unemployment rate in Night City has always been high, that is because many people at the bottom belong to gangs. In name, they are unemployed without jobs, but in fact they are engaged in high-risk and high-return gray businesses.
But the unemployment frenzy a while ago was real unemployment. A large number of companies went bankrupt. Every day, investors jumped from high-rise buildings and fell into a pool of flesh and blood.
Those corporate dogs who are accustomed to white-collar life either have large loans that have not been repaid, or they are infected with various luxurious 'bad habits', such as the small black bottle version of Paradise, which is said to allow people to enjoy themselves while enjoying themselves.
Liver, nourish hair.
However, the good news is that more banks have failed, and even before it was too late to complete mergers and acquisitions and debt transfers, many people found themselves suddenly freed from debt overnight and became "free men."
It's a pity that they will soon jump from one pit to another. The good news is that the seats in the shelter are given priority to the residents of Night City. The bad news is that even so, the seats are very scarce.
According to statistics from 2055 two years ago, Night City has a population of nearly seven million, but the shelter currently being built by the Night City government can only accommodate 200,000 people.
Even including the shelters built by the Valentino Gang and several other private companies, only about half a million people were lucky enough to live underground.
Federal Shelter No. 97, which is currently under construction by the Storm Bear Gang, is marked on the federal archives as a very large shelter that can accommodate about 50,000 people. The entire shelter is cylindrical and deeply inserted into the ground. It is made of five meters thick.
The alloy top cover serves as the first line of protection.
The entire shelter was poured entirely underground using a new type of cement. Superhumans were involved in the entire process, and all technical specifications were very bold.
Anthony Hopkins is the supervisory officer of the shelter. He has the highest authority in charge of quality audits and has the right to terminate the project at any time. He will directly become the first manager of the shelter after it is put into operation.
The former leader of the Bear Gang and current director of the Mengma Engineering Construction Group, Isla Barros, is now convinced of Anthony and behaves very well-behaved.
What should you do if a person has no family and no hobbies, but has a backing, is upright, rigid, and business-oriented? Burrows has no choice. He can only learn what it means to be imaginary and conciliatory, and what it means to do so with a smile on his face...
Forget it, there is nothing to complain about. Others deceive superiors and subordinates in engineering projects just to make money, but Barros deceives superiors and subordinates just to survive.
Anthony kept a close eye on the entire project and did not allow any mistakes to appear. The people below wanted to make some profits from it, but they were punished several times. Now there are great complaints within the gang, and some people even proposed to kill Anthony and replace him with someone in charge.
Barros had to assure Anthony that there would be no problems with the project, while explaining to his men that it was not the time to get money yet.
He couldn't figure out if these people had trained their muscles into their brains, or if they drank too much protein powder and their brains had solidified. Behind Anthony was Tang Ji. Don't these people know? And what time of the year is it now? Don't build it properly.
Shelter, did you take the money to buy a cemetery?
However, even though Burrows is sober in the world, he still lacks prestige after taking over the Bear Gang, and he has never been able to make money with this gang of muscle sticks, so he cannot control the evil thoughts of his men.
The only thing he could do was to take the initiative to tell Anthony that there was a group of street fighters who had split from the Bear Gang recently. Maybe, maybe, they probably wanted to harm him. The matter of Barros Paul had nothing to do with him. Dina hoped that Anthony could
Enhance personal security.
As a result, Anthony looked at Burrows as if he were a fool and left directly. That afternoon, Burrows received news that half of the middle and high-level leaders of his violent Bear Gang suddenly died. They were all killed by long-distance snipers. The most exaggerated one
The bullet penetrated three walls and killed the driver who was operating the engineering exoskeleton without any damage to the exoskeleton itself.
"Can you control your gang now? I need you to increase your workload by 30% starting from today." As soon as Barros received the news, Anthony walked into his office with the report.
: "Vault 97 must be completed before December 1st."
"But...but we can't complete all the work in less than three months!" After hearing the construction time limit, Barros didn't even care about the sudden death of the gang's backbone, and said nervously: "Even if the workload increases by 100%,
Thirty is impossible. Some prefabricated parts are still in transit and must be constructed in sequence..."
As he spoke, Barros suddenly realized something, his whole face suddenly turned white, and he asked in a more nervous tone: "Mr. Anthony, I know about your relationship with Tang Ji... You said it must be on December 1st
Do you have any inside information about completing the shelter before? Or..."
"I didn't say anything, but this is an order from the federal government. If I were you, I would do my best to complete this task." Anthony still said expressionlessly, but it was enough to show that he came to Barros specifically.
Make up your own mind.
"Those prefabricated parts will arrive before your project progresses, so you don't need to worry about it, and..." Anthony looked at Barros and said word by word: "Our conversations are confidential, don't let others make unreasonable guesses."
Barros swallowed and nodded vigorously.
How he understood this order specifically, Anthony didn't know. He just followed the morality in his heart and hoped to save as many lives as possible.
Although Mikkelsen's apocalyptic plan has not spread to the entire team, as the people closest to Tang Ji, they always have a way to get more information than others.
Coupled with the emergency order from the federal government, Anthony could easily deduce that Mikkelsen's big plan might be about to begin. However, no one knew the true scale of the Apocalypse Plan. Anthony simply thought that this was the beginning of a full-scale nuclear war.
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In the face of professional soldiers like Anthony, nuclear bombs are really not that scary. During the corporate war, both sides were using tactical nuclear bombs, and now the war between humans and players has normalized nuclear war.
In fact, its impact on the human world is minimal. Except for a few cities that were directly destroyed by nuclear bombs, people in most places did not even have an impact on their daily lives. It is only sometimes necessary to provide additional protection against radioactive dust.
Anthony knows that Barros is not a person who keeps secrets. The date of December 1st will soon be spread throughout the Night City through his mouth, and all the forces that are building shelters will be reminded of this.
As he expected, the news quickly leaked out from Barros. The first to react was the Valentino gang. Gusvota directly distributed high-end goods from Paradise to the construction site as necessities, requiring all workers to work ten hours a day.
Eight hours, but he also promised that all workers would get their own place in the shelter.
It's just that the Valentino Gang doesn't know that in Mikkelsen's plan, although there are nearly twenty permanent shelters in Night City, large and small, the only one that is really located on the 'safe point' is the one where Anthony is.
refuge.
In the Apocalypse Plan, Night City is the key target. The entire plan is not as simple as detonating a nuclear explosive device. That is just the last step.
Before detonating, Mikkelsen must ensure that as many players are online as possible. After all, no matter how powerful the weapons in this world are, and no matter how special Tangji is, they can only kill players who exist in this world, and cannot threaten offline players.
status player.
As for how to get as many players online as possible on Apocalypse Day, Mikkelsen already has a detailed plan.
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"The whole city is like a big construction site now. I haven't seen this kind of scene in many years." Edward was half lying on a beach chair on the balcony of a high-rise apartment in Heywood District, wearing shorts and slippers, looking very relaxed.
Looking into the distance with interest.
The rumbling construction machinery was under construction there, pouring the soil dug out from deep underground to the ground. Tang Anran's life-saving capsule was placed next to it, leaning against the balcony wall, as if he was also basking in the sun.
"I liked these construction machinery when I was a child, and all the boys liked it." Edward patted Tang Anran's survival capsule: "I guess he likes it too, what do you think?"
"I don't know. I didn't see these things when I was a kid. I just remember that everyone was proud to own a real gun." Tang Ji stood in the shadows, watching the heated scene in the distance.
This is one of Edward's safe houses, less than two kilometers away from the Valentino Gang's shelter in downtown Haywood, so you can get a full view of it.
"Do you think they can complete the entire shelter before everything happens?" Edward turned and asked.
But what responded to him was only Tang Ji's silence. Silence can mean many things, and today's one is undoubtedly negative.
"Christmas, hey, that bastard Mikkelsen can come up with such a fucked-up day. I sincerely don't let people have a good holiday." Edward looked at the blue voucher in his hand that represented the quota for the shelter, and gently put it in his hands.
It was put back on the table: "I won't go. It's boring and meaningless to be so old, and..."
At this point, Edward glanced at the life-support capsule next to him, with a trace of regret on his face: "I guess I will never see the day when he can run under the sun in this life. Give the opportunity to young people, anyone."
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"You and An Ran are in the same shelter." Tang Ji said from behind Edward: "Wu Qianying said that he would not stop researching An Ran's genome."
"What she said was just to deceive you, a bastard. If An Ran's problems could be solved so easily, a smart person like Wu Qianying would have found a way long ago." Edward's hand was caressing back and forth on the surface of the survival chamber, as if caressing a baby.
Smooth face: "She didn't solve it when she had a complete laboratory. She didn't solve it when she had a whole team behind her. Now she's going to live in a shelter. Can she solve it?"
"It's impossible. People can't always lie to themselves." Edward moved his chair to get closer to the life-saving cabin. He patted the life-saving cabin and said, "I believe that Anron will get better sooner or later.
, but this time may be fifty years later, or it may be a hundred years later, for me it is the next life."
"I've been pretty enough in this life. Even after I retired, your life was a bit miserable. But I don't regret it, and I have nothing to regret. It was my choice not to go to the shelter, and it has nothing to do with you." Edward was free and easy.
"Just think of it as me suddenly waking up and wanting to do something good," he said.
"One ticket can only save one person." Tang Ji picked up the voucher and put it in Edward's hand: "But you are different. You are very important. You are my last relative."
"You actually want to tell me that it makes you feel better and in a better mood, which is very important to the world, right?" Edward held the blue voucher in his hand and looked at Tang Ji with a smile, but his tone was serious
Got up.
Tang Ji frowned and didn't answer, but that's what he meant.
"You don't have the nerve to say it!" Edward hit Tang Ji's head hard, causing severe pain in his own hand.
"Is this what I taught you? Others can think and do this and put you on a pedestal. That's their freedom. I can't control it, but you can't!" Edward stood up straight: "Don't you always look down on me?
Are those seven deadly sins greed, gluttony, and jealousy? If you think so, what’s the difference between you and them? It’s just that they walk fast and you walk slowly!”
"Everything you said is right! I was wrong!" Tang Ji admitted his mistake cleanly, but still frowned: "But you have to go to the shelter! No one can say it! If you don't go, I will knock you out.
He was frozen in the survival cabin with An Ran!"
"Your fucking little bastard's wings are stiff, aren't you!" Mr. Edward's eyes widened. He never expected that you would be so shameless when Tangtang was furious: "Okay! Okay!"
Edward panted for a long time before he regained his breath. He looked at Tang Anran, then at the blue voucher in Tang Jihe's hand, and at the Heywood District shelter in the distance where he was working overtime under construction. Finally, he sighed and pointed.
Looking at the shelter in the distance: "I don't ask you for anything else. If you find a relationship to mention their progress, I will go there to finish it before it's too late, okay?"