"News Channel 54 reports for you—"
"We now interrupt with urgent news. We have just received word that the team sent by Dogtown to transport weapons was attacked by unknown assailants in the Badlands."
"The casualties are still being counted. The nearby area has been secured by the army under Colonel Kurt Hansen. Unfortunately, our reporter has not been able to reach this ambitious strategist."
"For more news, please stay tuned—"
Jack Seno reached out and cut off the radio, his expression turning grim at the news.
Compared to Jack's bad expression, Logan Lane was more curious and confused about this world.
He wasn't a street kid or a corporate lackey, so how did he become a member of Dogtown?
But this was also good news; after all, he was a soldier of Dogtown! Otherwise, the previous battle would have been disastrous.
It was now 2075, and the story of this world had not yet fully unfolded.
The embers of the Fourth Corporate War still lingered in this world, and Night City, a valuable asset, was left to this fertile land of North America.
Those legends who belong to this place are here, slowly walking towards the trajectory of their lives.
Speaking of which...
Logan looked at his personal attribute panel, his eyes darkening a bit.
So weak, that was Logan's current evaluation of himself.
The prosthesis was all inferior assembly goods, the panel was very low, and there wasn't much money in his pocket.
Anyway, this guy's military pay was either used to buy some flashy junk mixed with paracetamol or to play cards with the old hands in the barracks for a few nights.
Logan hesitated.
Where to go? How to start moving forward? He had no idea about these questions at the moment.
He was just reborn, and when his head was dizzy, he was slapped hard by the explosive Night City.
It seemed that he could only go back to Dogtown to report.
He couldn't just wander the streets looking for Rebecca and others, telling them he wanted to join, right?
The life-or-death moment just now made his heart race wildly.
When fighting with the Cyberpunk team, Logan subconsciously called Jack to secure the goods, which was actually the fear of Colonel Hansen in his original memory.
That guy is courageous, good at controlling people's hearts, and clear about rewards and punishments, but the punishments are quite severe.
[The character "Rebecca"'s favorability has been updated]
[Favorability: 0 (You have aroused her curiosity, good luck)]
[Reward: Reaction +2]
Logan, who had just come to his senses after the distress, did not notice anything unusual. He blinked, but the feeling of power he imagined did not occur. He just felt that his head was lighter, and the hand holding the rifle was stronger.
Well, finally there is a way forward—
Squeak! The sharp sound of tires rubbing against the road was heard.
"Damn it! Brother, we can't go back."
"Damn it, I dare not even think about how Hansen will deal with us."
Jack's brakes almost made the unprepared Logan hit the console.
Logan frowned. Jack looked like he had lost his soul. Could it be that Hansen was worse than he imagined?
Jack shook his injured arm and lit a cigarette with trembling hands. "Let's go together, buddy."
Logan said the first sentence, "I don't think this is a good idea. Hansen's influence is all over Night City, and NCPD is in cahoots with them. Where do you want to go? Unless you leave this damn place and go to New America."
After all, there is a reason for losing the goods and returning at this time. If he runs away, it will be difficult to explain.
God knows whether Hansen will think that Jack is the insider who sold the information to the Cyberpunk team.
"NCPD?" Jack looked like he knew everything about it. "Well, anyway, I don't plan to go back to work for Hansen. What do you think, brother?"
Logan looked at Jack's hand on the pistol on his waist without leaving a trace, and he also unconsciously grasped the barrel of the rifle.
The scene froze for a moment.
Until the cigarette butt was about to burn out, Logan spoke:
"Okay, buddy, you go, I will say that I haven't seen you at Hansen's side."
He squeezed a smile on his face.
After all, he owed someone a life, and everyone has their own ambitions. What Jack does is his business.
As for Logan, he had a reason to go back.
Because the development panel gave him great confidence:
[Character: Kurt Hansen]
[Faction: Dogtown]
[Favorability: 0 (You definitely don't want to see him have a low impression of you, so go back and admit your mistake)]
[Development value: Very high.]
[Stage reward: Return to Dogtown to see him, get the opportunity to contact other legends, all attributes +1.]
After listening to Logan's words, Jack's tense body gradually relaxed. After smoking that puff of cigarette, he jumped out of the car facing Logan. This kid was quite defensive, fearing that Logan would shoot him.
"Let's go, buddy, no matter where we go, it's not here."
"I'll give you this glove, a super good company product, wear-resistant, strong, and non-slip!"
Logan looked at Jack, who was staggering and disappearing at the corner of the street in the rearview mirror, picked up the gloves covered with blood and sweat, and shook his head helplessly. Both paths were difficult to choose, but he always felt that the situation in Dogtown might not be so bad.
Hansen would not make it too hard on his own people, provided that the mistake was not made by his own people.
The car started and drove along the road of Taipingzhou with burning garbage and paint cans to the checkpoint in Dogtown.
"Please accept the inspection."
The soldier in the external mecha stretched out his hand to stop him. The rolling door behind him was filled with interlaced infrared rays, and even the number of hairs on your body could be clearly seen.
Logan showed his neck, and the soldier slowly checked after inserting the line into his brain-computer interface.
"Those unlucky guys this morning were you?"
The soldier said in a joking tone, "Colonel Hansen was waiting for you. You are the third one to escape with your tail between your legs."
Logan forced a smile and followed the instructions to accept various scans.
"Damn, drive faster! Are you waiting to wash your car here?"
The soldiers at the checkpoint were not very polite to their own people.
The magnificent "Sapphire Blue" is one of the few buildings in Dogtown that is up to par. Hansen's empire is directly inserted into Night City. This former soldier of the New America has long been a thorn in the eyes and flesh of various forces.
After Logan got out of the car and several soldiers disarmed him, he was pressed down by a huge force on the shoulder.
"Hey, Logan! Show your eyes!"
The soldier with letters tattooed on his face, who seemed to be a good friend of Logan's previous life, whispered a few words, and then he was escorted to the elevator of Sapphire Blue.
...
"Manny, did you understand what I said?"
Rebecca was curled up on the sofa in a bar room on Twisting Street, with her feet on the table and shaking her calves, shouting unsatisfiedly.
"Calm down, you mean that Nether Dog knows your name? It's unlikely..."
Manny rubbed his temple with a headache.
"Didn't we agree on this, Manny? This is the top secret job that the middleman introduced to me?"
Rebecca sneered and continued in a long and slow voice: "The good thing about this job is that the idiots of the Hellhounds are shouting my name and calling me a fool! Damn!"
Rebecca's brother Pyrrha waved his arms exaggeratedly, "I thought this job was as simple as assembling a grenade!"
"Now it's good, people know your name—hey! I know you, you're the chick I picked up in the bar!"
Manny's head hurt even more when he heard Pyrrha's mumbling complaints.
The middleman doesn't care about cleaning up the mess, this matter can only be handled by the team, so he moved his eyes to the girl in the corner who was leaning against the wall with her arms folded, checking the information.
"What do you think, Sasha?"
Sasha Yakovleva's holographic glasses closed the message, and a pink heart popped up to close the interface, matching her pink and black hacker customer service.
She straightened the black hair by her ears and said, "Dogtown is a bit disgusting."
"But you can leave it to me to see which big shot of the Nether Dog this is."
(Bobby Shields awaits…)...
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