Chapter 275: Experimental Forces, Rainforest Warfare, New "Biological Weapons"

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At this time, David walked slowly to the edge of the apron, stood next to the safety fence and looked down.

As the morning breeze wafted around, the boy who was originally just "struggling" in the Night City indirectly fulfilled his mother's expectations.

That is, "Standing at the top of Arasaka Tower".

But today's Arasaka Tower is already the branch building of Atlas.

David looked down at the night city, which was also brand new. He looked at the people running on the sidewalks and train stations, as well as the NCPD police officers who had changed their clothes and equipment and were selected and appointed by Atlas. His mood was even more indescribable.

"Hey! Boy, follow up!"

An AECS veteran wearing a black uniform reminded David when he saw that he was lagging behind.

This caught the attention of a few people.

Lucy, who had short silver hair and was also wearing a black uniform, and Rebecca, who had bluish-white skin and bluish-green hair, turned to look behind them.

"yes!"

After being reminded, David stopped lingering and quickly followed the end of the team and walked into the building together.

Seeing this, Rebecca turned her head and confirmed to Lucy:

"That boy seems to be Gloria's son?"

"Um."

Lucy nodded.

"It's quite cute, haha!" Rebecca lowered her voice and smiled.

Then, the girl, whose whole body was highly prosthetic, looked at the layout of the top floor of the building and continued to sigh:

"So this is the office environment of those giant companies? Gee, it's so luxurious."

While feeling emotional, she looked at the few AECS veterans who were leading the way and whispered:

"And what is Atlas planning to do by calling us together? Can you guess it? Lucy."

More than half a month ago, as free mercenaries, they believed in the middlemen's words of "big money, big deals" and chose to besiege the 09 branch in the Westbrook neighborhood.

As a result, before they even got close to Division 09, they were frightened away by the Paris-class orbital bombardment.

It was their escape that alerted the ODSTs and Glory Warriors who were performing airborne landings. Together with their timely surrender, they were not shot by the "extreme" ODSTs.

Afterwards, they were captured and imprisoned in a temporary prison built by the Ministry of Engineering on the outskirts.

Although there was no freedom at all, we stayed for three days with good food and drink.

Afterwards, they were "visited" by a group of biology department technicians wearing white uniforms and masks.

After extracting and collecting their blood and tissue samples, they waited for several days before Atlas' personnel staff asked them to sign a temporary agreement and a contract for "non-staff employees."

Mann, Qi Wei and others are still "mercenaries", but they are mercenaries fighting for Atlas.

It has been sent to the front line in South America.

Of course, even with the "cannon fodder" attribute, Atlas still provides these mercenaries with Gauss weapons instead of modular firearms for armed security.

At the same time, the Department of Biology also implanted a self-exploding chip made of metallic hydrogen into the necks of these mercenaries to ensure that the mercenaries could perform their tasks normally.

In addition, almost every mercenary has electronic eyes, which actually facilitates the biological department's real-time monitoring.

If an abnormality is discovered, or the mercenary's movements are inconsistent with the mission objectives, the biology department will directly activate the self-destruct chip.

No matter which universe they are in, mercenaries are not protected by so-called international law, so Atlas's methods can be considered very "humane"

Mercenaries are at least much better than those D-class personnel who have no freedom at all.

But Rebecca and Lucy were left in the temporary prison.

It wasn't until early this morning that the two of them were taken to the airship by the veterans of AECS, and then they were in the former Arasaka Tower and now the branch building.

Moreover, Rebecca thought about taking the opportunity to escape, but relevant news continued to be played in the temporary prison. She knew that Atlas had taken control of Night City and even most of North America in a short period of time, pushing the battle line deep into the rainforests of South America. at.

So escape, where can you escape to?

Night City is full of Atlas surveillance.

What's more, her brother was forcibly sent to the front line. If she escaped, Atlas might directly detonate the chip.

Upon hearing Rebecca's inquiry, Lucy recalled the painful memories of Arasaka's various experiments and tests when she was young, and responded with a slight frown:

"Big companies are all the same."

"The same look? What do you mean?" Rebecca was puzzled.

"We are just their consumable materials." Lucy the Riddler's reply was halfway through before giving an explanation:

"In other words, our bodies and brains have research and use value for them, so they are not sent directly to the front line like Mann and others."

"According to you, we are guinea pigs?" Rebecca opened her eyes wide.

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Lucy nodded without denying.

"impossible."

However, David, who had already walked to the two of them, immediately denied:

"It's because your minds are too narrow-minded that you think Atlas is the same as Arasaka and military technology."

As an intern security guard at Atlas, David naturally wanted to clear his company's name. Moreover, he did not give Rebecca and Lucy a chance to refute, and continued:

"Don't forget that you are prisoners and we are serious people."

"You little brat!"

Hearing this, Rebecca reached out and wanted to teach David a lesson.

However, when the AECS veteran in front turned his head to observe, Rebecca quickly withdrew her hand and showed a harmless smile.

In response, the veteran did not say much, but led this group of "problematic" people under the age of 18 to the top floor conference room with the door open, left a word "go in", and retreated to the corridor with his comrades.

Seeing this scene, David, who was originally an "intern security guard", and a group of people who signed part-time contracts with Atlas before the war walked into the conference room.

Rebecca, Lucy and a few captives hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to step forward.

Then, what came into view was a group of biological technicians, several AECS elites holding BFG plasma guns and wearing MacP power armor, and Atlas officials sitting behind the conference table.

Among them were Price and Serin, who was not human.

Seeing the group of children walking into the conference room, Price rarely smoked a cigar, but waved his hand, letting each of them have a holographic screen in front of them, and said:

"Everyone, according to the test analysis of the Biological Department, your body or brain has certain talents.

So the company is going to transfer you to the Biological Department to become a test force specializing in testing new products, and what you have in front of you is salary and benefits, as well as the content of the formal contract."

As he said, Price leaned back in his chair and said in a deep voice:

"Whether to join or refuse, you have the right to choose independently, but as a prisoner of the company, you will continue to serve your sentence until the end of the war.

And your prison record will also be incorporated into your identity file, so think about it carefully."

Hearing these words, David did not hesitate at all, slid the holographic screen in front of him to the bottom, and prepared to sign his name.

Since he can go further in Atlas, what else is there to worry about?

What's more, after the bombing of the Arasaka headquarters, his mother Gloria almost fully supported him and completely became a member of Atlas.

On the other hand, Rebecca and Lucy, as well as a few captives, were thinking about the pros and cons of joining the "experimental force".

At this time, in the Macarena Mountains, about 70 kilometers south of Bogota, the capital of Colombia;

Boom-boom--! !

The sound of artillery and explosions echoed in the tropical rainforest, and sometimes small mushroom clouds rose slowly.

It was only three hours away from Night City, and it was the hottest noon.

Looking around, there was a green ocean of dense branches and leaves everywhere, and there was no attacking or defending troops at all.

However, there were many black-painted aerial gunboats in the north, which continued to provide absolute firepower assistance to their own troops.

Closer observation.

These aerial gunboats were about 50 meters long, 30 meters wide and 15 meters high, with vertical missile silos, and the overall look was like a flying "turtle", extremely heavy.

In fact, the official name of these aerial gunships is AC-420/Atlas Model aerial gunship, codenamed "Vulture".

The Vulture was originally a heavy vertical take-off and landing aircraft used by the UNSC. While ensuring air superiority, it can provide firepower output and assistance to ground units for a long time.

After the Atlas Research Department's enlargement and widening and other improvements, the performance and firepower of the Vulture are far beyond the past.

It can carry 5 Gauss cannons and 2 105mm plasma cannons.

And the 35mm Gauss cannon can also be loaded with smart magnetic nail bullets.

In other words, once the gunner in charge of the machine gun finds the hostile target, or if it is guided and marked by friendly units, it can achieve long-distance "tracking" shooting.

After all, the range of the Gauss cannon in the atmosphere can easily exceed 10,000 meters.

This is also why Atlas chose the Gauss series of weapons as a close defense means for space ships.

As for the Vulture, which was maintained at a low altitude of 1,000 meters above the ground, it carried out saturation bombing on the defense facilities and troop concentrations of military technology according to the requirements of the Royal Capital Knights and the Night Owl Commando in the rainforest.

Of course, if the "cannon fodder" mercenaries found high-value targets, the crew of the Vulture would also provide assistance.

Atlas was still very humane at most times.

Even the extremely evil D-level personnel would be given the benefits promised before the test after completing certain tests with extremely low survival rates.

In addition to the Vulture, there were also a large number of Black Falcon and Falcon assault boats hovering over the rainforest, carrying more troops to the front line.

There was also a transport boat that looked like a small Valkyrie air and space transport aircraft, which flew to the front line under the escort of a drone formation and the accompanying Black Falcon and Falcon.

Then the various combat mechas of Atlas and the conventional Tyrant were delivered to the ground.

The terrain of the rainforest is complex. Atlas's main battle tanks such as Titan and Killer, even with the addition of magnetic levitation engines, cannot provide good support for ground forces.

On the contrary, the mechas and tyrants, which are also infantry units, can provide good firepower output.

Moreover, tens of thousands of hellhounds bred by the Veronica virus have pushed the front line from Atlas to here, using their small size, agility and strong mobility to assist the troops in quickly detecting the main positions and fortifications of military technology.

And Colombia, even in the "Cyberpunk" universe, has not been able to avoid becoming a country where drug lords are rampant.

Due to the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the extremely low employment rate, Military Technology took advantage of this opportunity to gather a large number of "expendable" security forces, and also set up some factories in Colombia.

In addition, the top management wanted to fight to the death and put their hopes on uniting global giants, so they gathered the last living forces in South America to try to fight against the "invaders" from other universes.

That is Atlas.

Atlas announced the fact that they came from the main universe on its official website and in the news.

However, local giants such as Arasaka and Military Technology have doubts about this fact. More importantly, the two sides have fundamentally different ideas and cannot accept such naive ideas as "for humanity".

For humanity?

After taking power, of course it should be for oneself! The most correct choice is to do everything possible to gather all the resources and wealth in "one's own" hands.

Therefore, the fifth corporate war that broke out in the "Cyberpunk" universe is equivalent to the "interest" dispute between local giants and foreign forces.

However, no matter how much the local giants resist, they cannot stop the "spread" of Atlas.

At this time;

A Swift Shadow III command assault boat was hovering in the sky above the Macarena Mountains at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Although the Eunio aerospace vehicle improved by the Valkyrie was gradually eliminated by the company due to the emergence of space ships, multi-purpose vehicles like the Swift Shadow are still the "hot cakes" of the armed departments.

With its huge body, terrifying carrying capacity, and ability to perform early warning, command and other tasks, the Swift Shadow aerospace assault boat is also favored by the Primarchs.

Therefore, Dorn, wearing exclusive power armor, was standing in the command cabin of this Phantom III, observing the battle situation that broke out on the surface.

The Macarena Mountains contain experimental bases for military technology, as well as arsenals for cutting-edge weapons and vehicles.

So Dorn is ready to "grab" those for himself, and disintegrate the last main force of military technology.

In fact, he can also directly let the fleet drop hydrogen bombs here in low-Earth orbit to solve all hidden dangers once and for all, but this move is obviously not in line with Dorn's style.

For example, in the case of the metal hydrogen missiles that bombed the island nation, Dorn would also issue a statement, emphasizing that metal hydrogen is just a conventional weapon of Atlas, not a tactical or strategic level.

No matter what, Dorn would not "nuclearize" everything right away.

After all, what he needs is to achieve integration for the company and his father, not to attract hatred.

In addition, it was Dorn who first proposed to form a test force for the biological department under Terrela.

Because the Primarch realized that if the erosion of the human brain by the prosthesis can be effectively controlled and safety can be enhanced as much as possible, it would help to comprehensively improve the combat capabilities of grassroots soldiers such as armed security.

Especially the prosthesis that can greatly improve reaction and speed, such as Adam Heavy Hammer, who was "slapped to death" by him, has a military-grade prosthesis called "Sian Westin".

If it is installed on synthetics and clones.

Maybe it can be used as the company's next generation of mass-produced "biological weapons".