CHAPTER 93: CHAPTER 28 I SUSPECT YOU HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION_3

While the five new players happily purchased the qualification for modification surgery and headed to the basement, Brother Ni and his team were poring over the transaction page at the computer.

"This... Transdream Headband? What’s this for? Isn’t 2000 Euro a bit too expensive?"

Even the player with the most savings, Brother Dao, only has 2100. After deducting the surgery fee, he can’t afford this thing at all.

It’s not that Lin Miao is deliberately cheating the players, but the price of this thing in Night City is indeed 2000 each. Otherwise, Gloria wouldn’t have let David use an old model headband from over twenty years ago until now without wanting to change it. It’s almost equivalent to her monthly salary.

Of course, Lin Miao had considered that players couldn’t afford the headband.

Clap, clap, clap

Lin Miao’s clapping drew the players’ attention away from the computer and towards the tactical command table, where four Transdream Headbands lay before him.

All stolen and grabbed

Brother Ni took a closer look, "What the hell, we’ve seen this thing before, but we thought it was some parts and threw it aside without caring."

Could this be a clue to some hidden side mission?

Thinking of how this thing is worth 2000, and they actually missed it, tossing it away as trash to the NPC, the players felt a deep pang of regret!

However, it made the players realize that this game isn’t just about realism; many small details can be deeply explored.

Lin Miao first demonstrated to the players the usage and purpose of the Transdream Headband, invoking a series of amazement, and everyone understood that this was just a preview of the content before the version update.

However, the players certainly don’t have the same luck as Lin Miao in finding someone like Lucy to give them a download package.

And the player’s gap compared to others immediately became evident here; if players are the sub-server, then Lin Miao is the main server. If he wants, he can send any installation package to every player’s head simultaneously and achieve networking.

They inherently possess a special local area network independent of this world’s internet; the specific location of the system server remains a mystery, and those so-called training chip encryptions of big companies mean nothing to them. If one can see, everyone can see.

After all, the true meaning of the internet lies in sharing... provided there’s no malefactor setting barriers.

After Lin Miao instructed the players to wear the headbands, he uploaded the intelligence chip data obtained from Adcardo yesterday onto the player system network, simultaneously using the Transdream Headband to pull the players’ consciousness into the data.

A flash of strong light passed, and the four players were shocked to find their vision had elevated to over a thousand meters high, overlooking the roads and ridges of the ground below.

Brother Ni: "Damn! I’m afraid of heights! There’s not even haystacks below, am I going to fall to death?"

Potato: "Don’t be afraid, even if there are haystacks below, you’d die if you fell."

After a brief panic, they quickly realized this was only an overlook perspective; their bodies weren’t there at all.

At this moment, Lin Miao’s voice began explaining from the side.

"Remember the person we caught at the garbage hill a few days ago?"

"Remember." *4

These days, Lin Miao has been going to the office to meet the players and then leaving, without telling the players what he’s been up to. Though curious, the players didn’t ask further, since curiosity is not as important as mission rewards. Were they supposed to monitor an NPC’s movements 24/7?

"Based on the clues obtained from interrogation, I went to scout the Distant Mountains and found numerous traces of Night Wanderer activity. They’re planning to break open Peizhuo Petrochemical Corporation’s oil pipelines to steal large amounts of fuel."

"Night Wanderer are unimaginably fierce! If they get these resources, they’re sure to pose an even greater threat to the surrounding ordinary citizens, so we must not let them succeed! We must maintain peace in this area and safeguard the life and property of the people here, even if it costs our lives!"

First, label the Night Wanderers as terrorists, then use the slogans of maintaining peace, anti-terrorism... cough cough...

Mind you, this is the new United States, so doing this is following local customs.

After throwing some rainbow praise to the players, Lin Miao began talking about tactical planning, which was the result of consultation with Adcardo and Mann’s squad.

"The entire Distant Mountain Ridge stretches hundreds of kilometers, starting from the outskirts of Night City to southeast extending to Santiago border, and further south is Mexico."

"The Night Wanderer’s target is at the foot of the mountain at the ridge’s starting point, which is a shaded slope facing away from Night City. Peizhuo Petrochemical’s oil pipeline is usually buried tens of meters under the ground, and due to geological movements, there are underground cavities there, making it the area where the pipeline is closest to the surface, only over ten meters deep."

This information is truly shocking; unless you’re middle or upper management at Peizhuo Petrochemical, it’s absolutely impossible to obtain such detailed intel. Instinct told Lin Miao, Peizhuo Petrochemical had no reason to let a middleman like Handz touch on this.

The entire drone footage shifted and transformed following Lin Miao’s explanation, with animations representing enemies and friendly forces accompanying the presentation.

"To cover up their activities, Night Wanderers work in the day and transport soil at night. According to intel stolen by our hacker, construction has already been completed."

"Furthermore, tomorrow, at two o’clock in the afternoon, Peizhuo Petrochemical will start transporting 60,000 ton of Chun Er to Night City, taking about four hours."

This pipeline is one of only three main pipelines Peizhuo Petrochemical has in Night City; just the diameter is 2 meters and the transport volume of Chun Er is up to 16,000 ton per hour.

"The area around the opening is heavily guarded, with over ten hidden outposts marked inside. If they weren’t afraid of attracting attention, there would be more. Their firepower is strong, plus we have to be cautious of Peizhuo Petrochemical, so we decided to abandon a frontal attack and intercept when Night Wanderers finish loading and head north to retreat."

South of the highway is Night City, near Peizhuo Petrochemical’s guarded station and Military Science’s anti-smuggling operations. Even if given ten guts, Night Wanderers wouldn’t dare retreat blatantly in that direction.

"Night Wanderers have prepared five Behemoth heavy tankers, each with a capacity of 40T, as well as twenty modified cabins, four of which have large caliber cannons welded on top, and every five kilometers along the retreat route there’s a Night Wanderer patrol team. Any situation can lead to Night Wanderer convoy changing their retreat route."

"So we prepared three checkpoints in total; the moment tankers pass the first checkpoint, the hidden Adcardo will immediately cut off their following convoy. To protect the tankers, Night Wanderers surely won’t opt for a stop and battle with Adcardo, while just ahead on the main road junction, there’ll be a mercenary squad disguised as road construction crew to force the Night Wanderer convoy onto the auxiliary road. At the final checkpoint, which we guard, we must block the entire convoy here and hold out until Adcardo and the mercenary squad can come to support and eliminate all the Night Wanderers."

"If unexpected situations arise, adapt accordingly."

What?

You ask, what if Peizhuo Petrochemical people discover midway?

The answer is: deal with it coldly.

Once an ordinary operation is detected by Peizhuo Petrochemical, no matter whose hands the oil ends up in, they’re doomed.

No one would think their 20 wheels can outrun a military armed aerial vehicle going 600KM per hour, regardless of terrain, equipped with large-caliber weapons and vector engines, right?

For Peizhuo Petrochemical, hundreds of thousands are just trivial. Even if all the oil spills on the ground, they wouldn’t care; these transnational giants have daily revenues marching up tens of millions, losing hundreds of thousands is truly just a drop in the bucket for them. But those stealing oil must die, otherwise more would follow suit.

Moreover, this involves major issues of internal traitors within their company, which is why Lin Miao chose to use ambush tactics rather than pursuit; in case of a problem, they can still withdraw and escape.

I’m just passing by, none of this concerns me.