Like a student asking a question in class, the giant raised his hand, and after Lin Miao gestured for him to speak, he said
"What if we shoot and blow up the oil tanker?"
Every one of this generation grew up watching United States blockbusters, where shooting an oil tanker or oil barrel to explode is a classic scene.
Yet Lin Miao said, "That’s not possible. Although Chun Er is flammable and explosive, an empty oil tanker weighs 35 tons. Its tank is made of thickened special steel, and there are reinforced partitions in the inner cabin. Unless you use anti-material weapons, you can’t penetrate the tank, and even if you do penetrate the tank, the material of the inner partition won’t produce sparks. The friction temperature of the bullet with the tank is not enough to ignite Chun Er."
"So you can fire at will, but keep an eye on those Night Wanderers. If they really go crazy and try to throw grenades or other explosives into the tank, then an explosion might occur."
Lin Miao did not believe that a criminal organization, which had been smuggling in the Evil Land for years, would really decide to risk everything.
The possibility is small, but it is not impossible.
Brother Ni then asked
"If the mission fails and we can’t stop the fleet, what will happen?"
"That’s a good question." Lin Miao looked at the four players and slowly said, "If we fail, it will undoubtedly deal a major blow to the future development of the office. Not only will our regional reputation decline, but Adcardo’s favor towards us will deteriorate to indifference or even hostility. So only success is allowed, failure is not."
The four were instantly shocked!
Do you have to be that serious? Why does it sound like an ’all-or-nothing for the empire’s rise and fall’ situation?
They instantly realized that this mission might be the first branching point in the game’s storyline. If they took the wrong path or lost, at worst they’d head towards a bad ending, at best the game’s closed beta progress would halt.
Isn’t this something you’d risk your life for?
Lin Miao was forced to choose this way too.
Profit is always linked with risk; there are no guaranteed deals on this planet.
If he followed the steps, one day he might die in this city, a city far more stubborn than normal people’s imaginations. He didn’t want to become one of those mercenaries who only thought of making a big score: either becoming a legend or dying on the streets, or becoming wealthy overnight.
So, he could only take risks and leverage investments, because opportunities aren’t always there, and when you encounter one, you must be able to seize it.
Winning rewards at the club, losing also has rewards at the club.
And of course, after the stick comes the carrot.
"Of course, the rewards after the mission will be very generous, definitely worthy of everyone’s effort."
After saying that, he issued the same mission to the four in front plus the five players in the basement
[Main Mission: Not only mold is interested in oil]
[Mission Objective: Eliminate or repel all Night Wanderers, make them pay for their illegal criminal actions, and reclaim the Chun Er fuel they stole to support our great cause]
[Mission Rewards: The system will calculate points based on the player’s contribution to the entire action, which can be exchanged for weapons, cybernetic bodies, vehicles, fuel, O-gold after the action ends, regional reputation rises, neutral faction - Adcardo’s favor increases]
[Mission Failure Punishment: Game progress put on hold, version will halt at 0.3, neutral faction - Adcardo’s favor decreases, regional reputation decreases]
[PS: This mission is a high-risk main line, with a very high probability of death, so player death penalties are minimized, only 1 day (limited to frontal combat).]
Even a fool could see the importance of this task far exceeded all the novice tasks they received before.
Excited, nervous, thrilled
Various emotions surfaced on their faces, but there was no fear of death.
Didn’t you hear what the mission said?
The death penalty time is reduced to 1 day, and if they don’t count side missions, each of them could only earn 200 or 300 euros a day by labor, while the base income of this mission is definitely above 1,000 euros.
Even rewards are secondary; the key is the big scene! Fierce gunfights! Finally, like heroes saving the day!
Brother Ni couldn’t hold back just thinking about it.
He made three compound crossbows over these two days, but most people thought he was wasting his time, since everyone had guns, who would use a crossbow?
But Brother Ni just didn’t believe that nonsense, he just wanted to prove to this bunch that crossbows can be used.
Lin Miao waved his hand, and the four Super Dream Rings simultaneously stopped working, calling the players back to reality from their dream and told them.
"This data chip will always be here, you can freely use the Super Dream Headsets to view it, but you can’t take the Super Dream Headsets out of the office, and the remaining time has to be used for training and preparing for tomorrow’s mission."
Even Lin Miao himself didn’t plan to go back to Night City today.
As soon as he finished speaking, this group hurriedly restarted the Super Dream, this thing similar to virtual reality technology, and can be freely opened and closed, just like their helmets.
However, they quickly found the issue: this data chip could only be used to watch the full video shot by drones. Although it can be fast-forwarded, rewound, and zoomed in like a player to view details, there was nothing else it could do.