Hell's Kitchen can also be regarded as one of the most famous landmarks in New York. In a sense, this neighborhood in Manhattan is indeed on the same level of popularity as Wall Street, which is also located in this area.
It's just that Wall Street is famous for its influence on the international financial industry, while Hell's Kitchen is famous for its chaotic security and influence on the American criminal industry.
To put it more simply, this is a literal living hell. Many famous bosses and gangs in the history of American gangs were born here. It can be said that if you are a gangster and tell everyone that you are from Hell's Kitchen, you will be disappointed.
Can be looked down upon by people on the road.
Correspondingly, the security here is almost non-existent.
Unlike Night City, where the city is chaotic and gang-controlled areas still have a certain degree of order, Hell's Kitchen is a place where even in gang-controlled areas, you will still encounter various violent incidents, and even the scene of a gun battle that looks like a battlefield.
Hell's Kitchen is not the official name of this area. According to New York's official administrative division, it should be called Clinton or West Midtown.
The reason why it is called Hell's Kitchen comes from the first wave of European immigrants and the Great Famine in Ireland.
At that time, due to the great famine caused by the potato crop failure in Ireland, a large number of Irish people crossed the Atlantic and came to the United States, hoping to live a good life here.
However, the Irish immigrants who sold all their belongings in exchange for a ship ticket had neither money nor skills, and their labor force could not be sold cheaply compared to the good black uncle, so they soon fell into a state of abject poverty.
To paraphrase a popular saying, it is a state of "the stinky Irish beggars are coming to the United States to beg for food."
Under this circumstance, it is obviously impossible for Irish immigrants to find a good place to live in a big city like New York, and they can only squeeze into places with low land prices or cheap rents.
Under normal circumstances, the public security in such places is of course not very good, and the deterioration of public security caused by the influx of large numbers of immigrants will further lead to a vicious cycle, causing land prices and public security to plummet out of control.
Hell's Kitchen is in such a state, because the land price is low, the public security is poor. The low public security situation means that no developers are willing to develop here, thus making the land price even lower...
So much so that at the end of the 19th century, this place was described as hell, and Hell's Kitchen got its name from this.
But for Mann's team, Hell's Kitchen gave them a familiar feeling.
After arriving in the Marvel world, they received warm hospitality from Tony, who not only gave them a good place to settle down, but also upgraded their prosthetics and equipment through the powerful technical strength of Stark Industries, giving them
There are a lot of weapons that may not be as technologically advanced as those in the Cyber World, but are not bad at all in terms of power. It can be said that Mann's team has completely replaced their guns with cannons.
Originally in Night City, mercenaries like Mann's team could only afford third-generation prosthetics (purple) if they were exhausted. They couldn't be first-hand goods. Usually, mercenaries with poor economic conditions had to use first- and second-generation prosthetics.
Prosthetic body (blue and white), as for the most advanced fourth generation (orange) on the market, it is almost unthinkable.
But after arriving in the Marvel world, Tony, who had already mastered the technology of prosthetics, quickly helped all members of the Mann team to create a tailor-made fourth-generation prosthetic body for each of them, making their current combat effectiveness better than before.
Climbed more than one level.
If we want to calculate the combat effectiveness, the previous Mann team may have suffered heavy casualties when fighting Adam Hammer, but now... they can consider how to dismantle Adam Hammer in a better way.
And when such a powerful mercenary team is sent to Hell's Kitchen and collides with the gangs here, you can imagine what kind of chemical reaction will occur and what kind of sparks will burst out.
"Seriously, this reminds me of Taipingzhou, but to be honest, even Taipingzhou isn't this messy, right?" Mann's girlfriend Dorio couldn't help complaining while driving.
For the entire Mann team, life after coming to the Marvel world is so beautiful that they feel unreal.
Whether it's delicious natural food, comfortable accommodation, or "good" social security for them, the Mann team feels like they're in a dream. It took them some time to get used to a situation where no game suddenly pops up on the street.
Bo's psychotic life leads to a killing spree.
But when they accepted Steve's employment and came to Hell's Kitchen, the gang shootouts and various violent incidents that took place on the streets made them feel as if they were back in Night City.
After all, the streets of Night City are famous for chaos, gang wars, cyber maniacs killing people, idiots who take drugs or watch Mewtwo and burn their brains...
Except that the technology level is not that high, everything in Hell's Kitchen exudes a flavor that is familiar to Mann's team.
"If you don't go to the territory of the Voodoo Gang in Taipingzhou, it's really similar to this." Mann responded while leaning out of the car window from the passenger seat and using the projectile launcher on his arm to shoot down the vehicle chasing them behind him.
In Dolio's words: "If it were the territory of the Voodoo Gang, it would be relatively less chaotic and they would still maintain their own lives."
David, who made the same move as Mann, pulled his body back from the car window. While reloading the submachine gun in his hand, he participated in the chat: "Which gang will not maintain order in their own territory? Even the ones from the Whirlpool Gang
Helping to rehabilitate lunatics will also make their own territory less chaotic, otherwise no one will visit their place."
"But it seems different here. The territory of these gangs is also very chaotic." Lucy, who was sitting behind David, glanced at the streets on both sides and said casually while operating the laptop on her lap.
At this time, all the members of Mann's team were in the car, but except for Mann, David and Rebecca who were outputting firepower backwards, and Dorio who was driving, the two hackers of the team, Lucy and Sasha, were just sitting in the car.
In the back seat, they were busy working on laptops, which were relatively primitive for them.
Although there is room for hackers in the Marvel world, the people here do not have such a high degree of prosthetic modification, and they do not have a neuroelectronic interface. On the contrary, although Sasha, a hacker, is equipped with the network neural interface that he dreams of,
, but still not of any great use.
Because in the Marvel world, she can't directly invade someone's brain and then use a virus to burn him into an idiot.
Together with Lucy, she can only access the network through computers of this era and collect the intelligence and information the team needs. She cannot kill everyone like she did in Night City, or even remotely burn the enemy's brains.
It can be said that the technology level is insufficient. For a profession like hacking that relies on high technology and the Internet, it is simply an epic level of weakening.
In particular, the security protocols used in the Marvel world are very different from those in the cyber world. They must manually modify the operating modes of several commonly used software and electronic viruses, and adjust the codes to adapt these programs to the network environment of this era.
But even so, the power the two of them can exert is terrifying.
At this moment, all devices in Hell's Kitchen that can access the network and undamaged cameras have been hacked by them.
Although there are no hacker chairs and various professional equipment in this world, the combat effectiveness they can exert is greatly reduced. Basically, except for the portable equipment provided by Tony and some of Stark Industries' computer resources, they can only rely on their own
The brain provides computing power, but this still allows them to easily monitor the situation in the entire Hell's Kitchen and provide their teammates with real-time environmental changes on their action routes.
Of course, by the way, they can also simply forge the video footage captured by the camera, which is easier than forging or editing Mewtwo images.
Relying on the technical support of the two hackers, even though Mann's team only had one box truck and was being chased by many gangs in Hell's Kitchen, they were still able to escape boldly and shoot these with long guns and short cannons.
Gangsters cry for father and mother.
"The task entrusted by Mr. Steve is to let us investigate the security situation in Hell's Kitchen, but from now on, the security situation in Hell's Kitchen is almost hopeless." Sasha monitored various data while looking from his own thoughts.
Split a thread and participated in the chat: "The gangs here cover almost all local residents. If you want to improve public security, there is no other way but to replace all the people. It's like Night City wants to improve security in Taipingzhou."
, the only way is to eradicate the Voodoo Gang.
And I also found that there are a lot of super criminal activities in this area, and we may need some combat support and help from some official forces."
At this point, Sasha paused and added in an unacceptable tone: "To be honest, I never thought that one day we would be doing NCPD work, and we would be commissioned by a certain congressman.
!If we were still in Night City, we would probably be called company dogs."
"According to Night City's standards, we are already standard corporate dogs now, the kind that have been incorporated." Lucy, who had actually been a corporate dog on the side, was deeply touched by this, and couldn't help but say with the same emotion:
"Although Tony's help to us is out of goodwill, it cannot hide the fact that he is the boss of the company. Stark Industries is a super giant that is even more powerful than Military Technology and Arasaka.
It's just that due to the legal restrictions of this world and Tony's own moral constraints, Stark Industries has not grown into a terrifying giant like our world."
"If we are following Tony, there seems to be nothing wrong with being a company dog. At least we have all put on new prosthetics, right?" The violent lolita Rebecca used the grenade launcher in her hand to literally hit a vehicle that was chasing them.
The blast flew to the sky, and he said in a very thorough tone: "If it is in Night City, don't tell us where we can get a complete set of fourth-generation prosthetics, even if we have channels, we will become mercenaries
I can’t afford any of these with my little money, can I?”
"At least we can still get Sian Westan." Dolio said suddenly, and this sentence made Rebecca immediately turn her eyes to David.
The Mann team did obtain a piece of Sianweistan, which was ripped from a living person through David's mother, and this prosthetic body was finally installed on David, giving him extremely powerful combat power.
Although he can't beat the terrifying heavy prosthetic monsters like Adam Hammer, beating ordinary mercenaries on the streets is indeed as easy as playing, provided that David's body can withstand the side effects of using such a powerful prosthetic body.
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But when it comes to getting a fourth-generation prosthetic body of the same level, for the Mann team, even if they dismantle everyone into their organs and sell them, they can only get a few pieces.
That's why Rebecca said that being a company dog is actually not bad.
"In terms of salary, being a company dog is not bad, but the prerequisite is that you are willing to work so hard for the company that you don't even care about your own life." Lucy, who has had the experience of being a dog in Arasaka, said, but she also added
Said: "The treatment Tony gave us was not proportional to what he asked us to do. We got the best treatment, but the work we did was actually not difficult. This made me a little uneasy. I always felt like I was hanging in the air.
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"Don't worry too much. If he gave us so much to pay for our lives, these things are enough to buy several of our lives, right? Just give it to him. Anyway, we owed him when we were in Night City
That's enough." Mann was very open-minded. Having already experienced a cyberpsychotic attack, he actually didn't value life and death that much.
When David arrived, he loaded his bullets, and while shooting the pursuers behind him, he said: "I think you may be overthinking. This world is different from ours, isn't it? They have law and order here. Let's think about it.
The way of the question is also different. Maybe we feel that Tony has given us so much that we need to sell our lives to him to repay it, but in Tony's view, he may just give some gifts to his friends?"
"How can you give someone a fourth-generation prosthetic body as a gift? Even the company boss is not so generous, right?" Rebecca suddenly laughed loudly at David's naivety.
But Lucy spoke at this time: "If we evaluate it based on the logic of this world, Tony gave us these prosthetics, just like David said, he just gave us very expensive gifts, because Tony's status in this world is about
It is equivalent to Saburo Arasaka's status in our world or even higher.
He is the world's richest man and most genius inventor, as well as the most famous superhero and playboy, and he used to spend a lot more money on women and luxuries than you can imagine.
If we want to describe it, maybe we think it is a very valuable thing, but in the eyes of rich people, it is not worth mentioning."
"But even so, we must be worthy of the treatment Tony gave us, right? He helped pull us out of the hell in Night City." Mann listened to the discussion and finally ended with a final speech.
