You fucker, aren’t you tired!
Lin Miao instinctively wanted to throw up what he’d eaten today, but he managed to hold it in.
"Are you saying that the Night Wanderer is smuggling corpses to those food factories and selling them as meat?"
Sol recalled the report he found, actually, the presence of red blood cells and E. coli in the air was the least of the issues.
"Most of the meat protein sold by the Night City’s food factories is grasshoppers, earthworms; that’s what they advertise openly, right."
"At least that’s how it’s promoted."
Lin Miao calmed himself down
"Is there some hidden dark truth?"
Sol said, "In the inspector’s recording, the manager of that branch even complained about the high cost of insects, wanting to replace food ingredients with waste pollutants to cut costs."
"Simply put... it’s feces and corpses."
I was wrong, really wrong, I shouldn’t have come here, if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have heard these things, without hearing these things, I wouldn’t react to food in the future.
How can Lin Miao face those synthetic foods anymore?
Lin Miao always thought at worst it was just industrial chemical synthesis like those colas, sugars, and whatever, he wasn’t picky; as long as he could eat and digest, it’d be fine, but then you...
Lin Miao held the wall, vomiting out all his breakfast from today; fortunately, he usually ate meat from canned extraction, otherwise, he’d be regretting it now.
Honestly, he had overestimated the baseline of these companies.
"You don’t need to react like that."
Sol could hardly maintain composure seeing his reaction
"Compared to the daily production of food factories, the amount we have here doesn’t even add up to a thousandth of it; even if it’s feces... haha, you can’t taste it, can you?"
"Stop," Lin Miao interrupted Sol’s chatter, if he continued, Lin Miao would never eat again.
He leaned against the wall, panting as he said
"From now on I’ll grow my own food, those damn bastards."
He hadn’t used the design plan for the hydroponic farm yet, and had a pack of vegetable seeds unused; once the water plant is fixed, he won’t wait a second.
In this aspect, the native cyber person Sol and Lin Miao’s hygiene views showed a gap.
Anyway, Lin Miao couldn’t accept having issues with what he eats.
"How do we deal with these then..."
Sol was seeking Lin Miao’s opinion, after all, they had agreed on equal shares here, even the corpses couldn’t be dealt with unilaterally without letting the other party know.
"Take your people away and bury them, as for the rest... if you can identify the bodies leave a name, burn the others along with this ice warehouse, the faster the better."
If Panam found out about this whole deal she’d definitely go looking for the Night Wanderer to blow it up.
Soon, following Sol’s order, Scorpio quickly moved out two bodies, Tutu cut the power, poured gasoline in the frozen storage, and set it ablaze.
After this little episode, more and more supplies from the tunnel warehouse were cleared out.
There were many varied things, just the inventory check took two full days.
More than 200 light guns, 15 heavy machine guns, a total of twelve tons of various bullets, 300 grenades; not many rocket launchers left, only about twenty rounds remaining, the Night Wanderer’s gang had never had enough of those, let alone they used quite a few in the last battle.
More than twenty modified vehicles, not counting those blown up; the Night Wanderer’s team definitely had a hobby for cars, the spare parts even included high-quality goods.
There were also numerous prosthetics, not the gray-market prosthetics smuggled out by Gloria from the hospital; mostly white, some green gear, and not limited to limbs, quite a few internal organ prosthetics were among them.
Too bad there weren’t any blue gear, though Lin Miao figured those were stored in a vault somewhere.
What’s left are the smuggled goods.
Lots of electronic devices, like Zeta Technology computers, components for Huang Ban and Tsunami Defense firearms, various biochips, custom behavioral chips, Black Mewtwo from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and regular prosthetics prepared for smuggling to the Soviet Union...
All these goods can be sent out via Adcardo’s channel to be exchanged for cash, but of course, they should keep what they want first; even so, Lin Miao estimated that even with a fifty-fifty split it would be around two million, Sol probably hadn’t expected to gain so much from this operation.
These had been transported from all over the world to Night City, then smuggled across North America; and Chaotic Blade Association’s plans to smuggle them worldwide, the Night Wanderer is just a lower-tier gang, a mere transit point, the real loot is taken by Chaotic Blade Association and the corporate dogs hiring them for smuggling.
And this is just a part of the inconspicuous segment of Night City’s smuggling channel during a period; who knows how many small targets Dog Town could earn annually as the core.
Otherwise, Paul wouldn’t bother to come personally for a seventy or eighty thousand oil theft deal.
But if these goods were intercepted by him, then they’d be his.
But seeing these things raised Lin Miao’s interest towards Adcardo.
Chaotic Blade Association and Meta Group are outliers among wanderer settlements, the relationships between other wanderer settlements and cities aren’t as tight as these two.
They rob companies too, but not as brazenly as Chaotic Blade Association; so where do they get their smuggling goods from?