Chapter 148 The Wanderer with Internal and External Troubles

"So Hector didn't kill the old bastard."

Cedric looked a little sluggish when he returned to the tribe, which seemed to be a side effect of being cured of cyberpsychosis.

All of his prosthetics have been replaced with basic-level functional prosthetics and no longer have combat capabilities.

"Are you disappointed?" Neville sat next to him and told him about the popular science during this period.

"No" Cedric shook his head, "If it were me, I would definitely beat that guy to death, but I know that old guy Hector would definitely not do that. The old patriarch chose him to succeed because of this.

You don’t know what he was like before he took action. Every time, he would think about it for a long time. If you ask me, he is very capable of doing things, but he is very capable of killing people.”

"Do you think he should be cooler?"

"No." Cedric shook his head again, looking a little disappointed, "I now understand what the old patriarch meant."

Let’s not talk about the stories that happened and experienced to me.

If you kill a Sieg Q, other show hosts will step in to take over, and there may even be a replacement for Sieg Q the next day.

TV stations will only remember homeless people killing people in public.

But now, everyone knows that the shot did not kill Sieg Q. They also know that red ocher was experimented on and that the blood contained toxins, and no one dared to claim and treat the virus.

As soon as Zig Q appears on the TV station, when people see his processed face, they will think of the gun fired by Hector.

I will remember what happened that night.

Zig Q's career has been ruined, not only for him but also for the brand. This is a reciprocal response to humiliation.

Maybe one day, the Zig Q brand will be completely abandoned, the host will lose his face, lose the spotlight he relies on to survive, and be forced to float in the society. Maybe at that time, he will regret what he did today.

Cedric looked at the people in the tribe, all wrapped in reflective cloth——

Now, he is the only one who still has the same symptoms, the others are all dead.

It's like an era has passed.

The situation of the tribesmen who have lost their asylum has become increasingly difficult. Even mass-produced cheap things like dog rice (Note 1) have to be soaked in drinks.

Seeing that my family can only eat this kind of food is always tormenting in my heart.

Cedric looked at all this in a daze - he was the one who would go into biotechnology regardless, and he was also the first.

And now he is the only one who survives, and the one who suffers the most.

He suddenly thought of what the old patriarch had said to him, and then said in a daze:

"Neville, remember, we wanderers are not murderers.

When you decide to kill someone, you should look into his eyes, look into his eyes and make sure that he will go to hell after death.

Or -- you're going to hell. "

Neville was stunned for a moment and nodded.

At this time, Leal happened to come out of the tent - he had just counted the supplies that Regina had sent to her.

Mainly some food and drinks, as well as some standard civilian implantable prostheses, which are not high in price and not as good as military combat prostheses, but are stable.

Cedric's words happened to be heard by Lille, and he nodded with deep understanding: "Are you talking about Sieg Q? Hector's choice in this matter has helped us a lot. With that shot, At least he defeated the enemy several million euros.

Cedric, I have something to ask you. I'm looking for a homeless camp with complete prosthetic equipment. "

"Then you have found the right person." Cedric stood up on crutches, "Although you are already a legend in Night City, if you want to deal with the Rangers, you need a big brother like me-- I mean the big brother in the Rangers.

Neville, you come too, the other tribes have not seen your new leader yet. "

"Adekado is divided into many tribes, and each tribe has its own things that it is good at - but that was more than ten years ago, and now it is becoming more and more blurred.

As for why, it's because someone made a bad start.

More than ten years ago, the Santiago clan leader disappeared, and everyone in the clan appeared.

The company began to recruit these tribes with special abilities, and some people just followed them, completely forgetting what the company did to us!

From that time on, many tribes were recruited and divided. Gradually, everyone stopped contacting each other. Until today

Alas, you saw it too. "

In the car, Lille nodded slightly. This was very close to the truth he thought:

Dividing a huge organization into several departments that are proficient in a certain area is a method to improve the efficiency of organizational operations.

It is also extremely adaptable to the way organizations operate in this society.

However, specialization means strong coupling, which in turn means weak cohesion.

The essence of the wanderers is a clan-like organization based on tribal blood relations. Some people may be good at a certain thing, but in general, they still need to help each other for various problems, so as to learn other aspects of knowledge. and ability.

Division of labor can help improve efficiency in a certain field, but it can turn tribes within the organization into small organizational groups with strong coupling.

Some people with outstanding abilities will think about this question: Instead of being dragged down by other parts of this "big family", why not join another "civilized society" that can give themselves better conditions to make more money?

It is difficult for this kind of group to withstand the torture of the capitalist world - because for these groups, their strong professional abilities that significantly exceed their parts can be exchanged for the unit of measurement of power, money.

Then they will find that a large part of their income has to be invested in construction and subsidies in other areas to drive the growth of other parts.

This is not a bad thing - it is bad. After Santiago disappeared, it became obvious that no one in the leaderless Adecado clan could exercise this distributed power well.

If the power of income distribution is exercised improperly, it is no wonder that the people under the command have other ideas.

Excellent ideas have become the poison of large discrete organizations, and people can be poached away with just a little temptation from the outside world.

No wonder even a wanderer in the game is considering cooperating with the company. There are threats and inducements, and there are all kinds of internal and external troubles.

Leal thought for a while and asked: "What is Red Ocher good at inside Adecado?"

"Red Ocher used to be organized by a small group of miners. We can find water and prospect, but if you want to wander in the bad land, these skills are basic.

We taught this knowledge to other tribes, and then learned how to modify vehicles - isn't that Mackinac good? "

"It's really good - haven't you seen the news?"

"What news?"

"You'd better watch it for yourself after that, I won't spoil it - continue to talk about Adecado."

"Where did you talk about just now? By the way, vehicle modification - but this is also a skill that a wanderer must know, to understand his own car.

However, modifying vehicles is more of a necessary skill for survival, so we have to find some dangerous jobs to do at any time.

Overall, there's nothing particularly outstanding about Red Ocher, but we know all the skills a wanderer needs. "

It's logical - the tribes with specialized skills are poached, and the rest are of course the tribes with less outstanding abilities.

It's okay to protect yourself, but it's even more difficult to live well - obviously, the same is true for the tribe they are going to meet now.

"Then, what we are looking for now is the Bright family, who are in a similar situation to us, but they mainly do smuggling.

I've been parked in Night City for a while, and it's been a hard time - I have some friendship with their boss, a friendship we got from fighting for oil in the past.

By the way, their boss is Sol Bright. He has considered cooperating with biotechnology before and asked us about our situation - alas, but we haven't contacted him for a long time. "

Cedric sighed: "The biotechnology contract has such a clause, so... it's really fucked. We're almost there, I'll say hello to them."

Lille looked at the growing white tents and buses and RVs in the distance, and thought to himself: Solbret, this is the macho guy in the game who follows V into the tower.

There is also a prosthetic doctor in the Bright family camp, and they can lend equipment to V and Jack for repairs and physical examinations.

Cedric suddenly said: "The middleman wants to talk to you. Dakota Smith is a kind old woman. Do you want to talk?"

"certainly."

"Well she said she'd be there soon."

Thanks to Blofenni for the 500 starting coin reward, and thanks to other people’s equipment for the 246 starting coin reward.

Thanks to _Don’t use your brain_, and the 100 starting coin reward for laughing all the way.

Note 1: Mass-produced nutritional supplements that meet most nutritional needs but often look, smell and taste like dry pet food, which is where it gets its name.