"Nang 31, an emergency incident has occurred in Sector K, Santo Domingo. Platinum member ID HBM77 is in severe life-threatening danger. Head over for immediate support."
With the issuance of the superior system’s command, the action team that had been resting on an industrial building’s helipad quickly packed up all their equipment within 45 seconds and rushed into the Atlas compartment. With the ignition of four appropriately sized turbojet engines, the hovercar, which ran rampant across Night City, took off once again.
An operative wearing a protective mask said with some annoyance, "I bet a hundred bucks there will be those reckless guys again this time."
The person sitting opposite him shook his head. "I don’t bet. Where do these lunatics come from? They’re everywhere, like cockroaches you can’t kill off. It’ll definitely be the same this time."
The Trauma Team at the Santo Domingo branch had been speechless these days; they had no idea how many times their rescues had been interrupted this month, and they didn’t even know how much of their salary would be docked.
They wished they could strangle the players alive.
And as expected, this time the ERO ambulance had beaten them to it again.
Looking down at the ambulance speeding across the street, the Trauma Team operative was speechless and covered his forehead.
"Fuck, we only took five minutes and thirteen seconds this time. How did these bastards manage it? How can they be faster than us?"
"I suspect these people drag our members into the car and injure them, forcing a sale."
Every Trauma Team wanted to curse the near-rogue rescues by the players, but they also knew that a small company like ERO was just a mouse that could be easily crushed by the Trauma Team. Every time, they chased them into chaos and caused heavy casualties.
They just didn’t understand why such a small company could find so many troublemakers.
"Proceed for lateral interception, set up machine gun fire suppression, heavy-modified interceptors to block the vehicle. If they don’t hand over the member, eliminate them all on the spot."
This time, the Trauma Team was determined. Whatever it took, they would stop the vehicle, kill everyone, and take the member away.
The four engines suddenly increased power, jets of plasma drawing long lines in the air, and the hovercar, with the size comparable to a motorhome, swiftly approached the ground. The optical scanner at the bottom quickly drew a square warning line on the street’s surface, red alarms blaring through the streets. People and vehicles in the vicinity quickly dispersed, knowing that a bloody battle was about to unfold there.
If you don’t want to die, it’s best to leave quickly.
Moreover, their intercept point was cunningly chosen on an overpass, where there’s no room to turn around or escape, and certainly no way to bypass the Trauma Team’s interception.
"Shit, what do we do?" Shui Yue in the passenger seat of the ambulance looked at the floating vehicle descending to two meters from the ground, opening the cabin door to reveal a heavy machine gun, and was utterly shocked. "Why are these guys so fast? Damn it, we haven’t even reached the ambush point yet!"
Both sides were surprised by each other’s reaction speed. Such hasty decisions inevitably had various loopholes.
"What do we do? Chill!"
The driver, Giant, gritted his teeth and not only didn’t brake but slammed the gas pedal to the floor, charging up the slope ahead.
"Today, I’ll show you what it means to be the King of Cars in Gongshu District! Everyone, hold onto the handrails! I’m going to fight it out."
Everyone was stunned, even V and Jack in the back of the van were startled, quickly grabbing the handrails inside the compartment. Then they felt the vehicle begin to shake violently.
The giant quickly shifted gears, sharply turned the steering wheel and pulled the handbrake in one go. The vehicle suddenly spun horizontally, the tires locked by the giant’s forceful pull of the handbrake, and under the influence of its own inertia, the ambulance actually drifted horizontally, spinning and flipping off the ground — a maneuver he would never dare to perform in real life.
"Good game!!! Ahahahaha!!!"
The people inside the compartment felt the world spinning, letting out various screams.
Getting on this vehicle was definitely the most regrettable thing V had ever done in his life.
Only the driver, Giant, was still laughing wildly, "I’ll fucking crash you!"
The two heavily cyber-augmented employees who had just jumped out of the hovercar to forcibly stop it were dumbfounded. They saw the four-wheeled ERO ambulance begin to fly and, under the horrified gaze of the machine gunner, spin and collide with their hovercar, leading to a face-to-face embrace.
"Lift off! Emergency evasion! Emergency evasion!"
The ERO ambulance, although unable to fly, was incredibly sturdy thanks to bulletproof processing. Even the Atlas, which had been through numerous battles, didn’t fare well after the collision.
With a sound of grating metal deformation, the ERO ambulance brutally crashed the hovercar several meters away. It was difficult for the car to stabilize in the air, and two of its engines flickered like sneezing fits.
"Warning! Warning! Engines 1 and 3 disabled, immediate landing required! Immediate landing required!"
The cockpit flashed with blinding red lights indicating danger, with the alert repeatedly sounding. The control panel clearly showed that half of the hovercar was crippled, with problems everywhere.
If it weren’t for the AI operator, it wouldn’t have been able to continue working, controlling the sputtering engines to slowly land on the highway.
As for the ERO ambulance, it rolled out on the highway, looking no different from a lump of deformed scrap metal.
At least it didn’t have the movie-style explosion after collisions, which in reality occurs at an extremely low probability.
People in both ambulances only felt the world spinning, and the violent collision seemed to shake their brains out.