Even without being on-site, he could hear the continuous explosions coming from the tunnel’s end.
Although the Night Wanderers usually had sticky fingers, often eating up the employer’s goods or even killing the employer.
But that was only because they knew the other party was an individual; they wouldn’t dare touch goods from the real big bosses.
Sometimes they’d rob a batch or two from companies, but they’d stop after a point. Petty theft, small goods; major shipments had escort teams they couldn’t defeat.
The Night Wanderer line, with numerous interests tied up both upstream and downstream, really breaking this line would offend many people.
And Mayer could only think of two people.
Colonel Kurt Hansen, this guy wanted to take over the Night Wanderers’ smuggling line and become the biggest smuggler in Night City.
Military Science, they manage the security on the outskirts of Evil Land, also cracking down on smuggling, having had many conflicts with the Night Wanderers.
But everyone knew Military Science would smuggle themselves, and the so-called crackdown on smuggling was just to make money conveniently.
He couldn’t help but ask the communications officer beside him
"How many people did that company send?"
Although the monitoring was hacked, he could contact the frontline himself, but the other side had hackers, Li Hua and the others were still tangled with them, what if they stuffed a Demonic Puppet into his brain?
The sidekick immediately contacted Raymond, who was commanding the Night Wanderers to intercept the players.
The players’ firepower was fucking fierce, machine guns, rocket launchers, even high-explosive bombs, these lunatics completely didn’t fear collapsing the tunnel.
In their eyes, the battlefield environment was indestructible.
To block the players, Raymond himself was carrying a rifle by now.
He hid behind cover, and upon hearing the inquiry, slightly raised his head, and bullets whizzed past his scalp.
His whole person was covered in dust kicked up by explosions.
Definitely more than that!
The explosions around were too loud, clearly brain-machine communication, yet he seemed afraid the communications officer couldn’t hear, so he shouted loudly
"Many! Over ten machine guns, and there are rocket launchers and explosives, I suspect at least forty! They even have exoskeletons!"
Exoskeleton power armor?
The communications officer shuddered
Mayer immediately pressed on
The communications officer pursed his lips, speaking with a stutter
"Th-there... Over sixty people came... Each with a machine gun, armored cars with rocket launchers, a-and power armor!"
Mayer almost cursed out loud.
Are you fucking with me?
What kind of capability do the Night Wanderers have, armored cars with multiple rocket launchers were already outrageous, and they pulled out power armor, something only the army would use?
The ones making the move definitely had to be Military Science, no doubt!
Dog Town had too many watchers, impossible for such a large-scale expedition, even less likely to bring precious power armor here.
These new bastards from the United States finally decided to move against us, huh!
No matter how many people they sent, the Stone Ridge Mountain Tunnel was the lifeline of the Night Wanderers, it couldn’t be abandoned.
Mayer gritted his teeth
So what if it’s Military Science, Evil Land is their territory!
Over sixty people, drown them with numbers!
"Quick, notify Lawrence and Becca, let everyone from nearby outposts come immediately! The sooner, the better!"
"Just say... say Military Science brought over a hundred people, they brought three assault power armors and a tank!"
The communications officer was stunned
"Huh, my ass, say it quickly!"
If he weren’t afraid of making the other side sound too fearsome, scaring off the Night Wanderers from other outposts, Mayer even wanted to say
"The other side deployed a whole division to surround me!"
Within less than half an hour, the entire Night Wanderer outpost in Evil Land received this message.
Over a hundred people attacked the Stone Ridge Mountain Tunnel
And there’s power armor and tanks
This means war, doesn’t it?
The situation didn’t progress in the direction Lin Miao expected, but instead took off wildly in a direction neither he nor Adcardo anticipated.
Night Wanderer numbers at various outposts varied.
Stone Ridge Mountain housed over a hundred regularly, the abandoned factory seventy or eighty, most others were small outposts of three to four people, larger ones seven to eight.
Moreover, the Evil Land Plain was vast and uninhabited, slightly removed from Night City, basically only transport convoys from companies and outposts of Military Science operated, along with Night Wanderers and Adcardo.
The massive riot of Night Wanderers left their traces around the plain, from one to four vehicles, mainly charging towards Stone Ridge Mountain Tunnel.
And the movement by the Night Wanderers immediately stretched the nerves of the officers stationed at Evil Land outposts, thinking these smugglers were up to something big.
Automated machine guns and surveillance drones were instantly deployed around the outpost, soldiers armed to the teeth, preventing these rioters from going insane and attacking the outpost.
The passing Night Wanderers saw.
Wow, such tight defense, whatever Mayer said must be right, it had to be Military Science attacking Stone Ridge Mountain!
The two sides already had constant conflicts over police-gang relations and smuggling business issues, Night Wanderers weren’t like those city gangs who knew the rules, in Evil Land it’s all about lawlessness.
These scattered soldiers definitely couldn’t fight.
But it didn’t stop them from taking a leak when passing by to show these company dogs, did they think Night Wanderers were pushovers?
Night Wanderers, venting their frustrations, raced wildly around the Sunrise Inn turned garrison outpost and other patrol convoys, then pulled out submachine guns and rifles to shoot into the sky, making strange cries, making Military Science soldiers even more tense.
But even so, without an order from their superiors, they didn’t dare open fire first, after all, there were only about thirty of them here, Night Wanderers had hundreds in Evil Land.
Even if their superiors had requested reinforcement, the Night Wanderers would definitely arrive first.
By the time Military Science reinforcements arrived, they could already be done for.
Until a brainless fool of a Night Wanderer pulled out a rocket launcher, aiming to fire at the empty space outside the outpost to scare those company dogs.
The massive explosion of the rocket and its roar startled the garrison officers.
Night Wanderers knew they intentionally missed.
But Military Science soldiers didn’t, they immediately began counterattacking, leading to a violent clash with bullets flying.
"Open fire! Open fire!"
"Night Wanderers are attacking our outpost, we need support! Repeating, we need support!"
In just an hour, the whole of Evil Land turned into chaos, fighting broke out everywhere.
Players versus Night Wanderers
Adcardo versus Night Wanderers
Military Science versus Night Wanderers
Even some passing convoys got dragged in.