Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 185 44. The Terrorist Squad Retreats
"Are you guys crazy?"

Although he is a member of the Terrorist Squad who is considered a cyber psychopath in the eyes of outsiders, the captain still asked this question.

If these NCPD officers weren't crazy, how could they point guns at themselves while shaking with fear?

The captain was thinking.

He was thinking that after killing all these NCPD police officers, would his evaluation from the mental examiners drop to the point where he would need re-treatment.

Maybe, but now that they are already blocking our way.

The captain of the terrorist squad slowly placed his hand on the trigger.

He was ready to take action, and now all he had to do was give a signal to the members of his team.

"drop."

Just then, a message from above came through his communication.

'The mission is over, the threat has been eliminated, and the next step in the containment of the prisoners will be taken over by NCPD official Sergeant Johnson.'

Feeling the buzzing sound of the alarm in his brain along with the information, this former NCPD elite police officer who had volunteered to join the Terrorist Squadron understood that this was a warning from his superiors.

A strange thing.

The Terrorist Mobile Team has absolute autonomy when they are on duty. A team leader can decide all combat decisions, including retreat and attack. The people above rarely interfere with the actions of the Terrorist Mobile Team, and if they do, it means one thing.

This matter is not negotiable. If the members of the Terrorist Mobile Team do not want the chips specially set up in their heads to begin restricting their actions, then they'd better obey now.

Big companies spend huge sums of money to fund the Terrorist Squad, not because they are kind enough to care about the law and order in Night City, they just unite and want a tool to maintain the ultimate stability of the city. What they want is the highest force to suppress cyber psychopaths on the streets, not to cultivate equally dangerous and disobedient lunatics. If this tool is not stable enough, they don't mind throwing it away and replacing it with another one.

After receiving the call, the captain of the terrorist squad looked at Carl deeply. The other party's information had just been updated, which made the captain of the terrorist squad understand why the operation was suspended.

'Dangerous Girl Official Employee.'

Dangerous Girl happens to be a force that strongly supports the Terrorist Mobile Team in terms of intelligence and financial assistance.

There was no need to think about whether to go to war with a mercenary who had enough strength to kill them, regardless of the risk of losing their already scarce personnel, and go into battle under the data control from above, or to retreat.

The Terrorist Squad has only been described as crazy, but never as stupid.

"It looks like someone is sending out a false signal that they need us."

The captain of the terrorist squad slowly lowered his gun and said these words, which made the solemn atmosphere disappear completely. Many NCPD officers who were holding their guns tightly and had already broken out in cold sweats on their backs were a little bit incredulous when they heard these words.

They couldn't believe that these were the words spoken by the Terrorist Mobile Squad.

I almost thought we were going to have a real fight today!

When many police officers breathed a sigh of relief, Johnson also smiled.

He put down the gun he had been holding up as a sign of sincerity and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, someone in our company didn't conduct a thorough investigation, which resulted in the small matter being transferred to your side. I will definitely conduct a thorough investigation of the internal situation later."

Listening to Johnson's apology, the captain acted as if he was deaf and didn't care about him at all.

He's just a sheriff who's less threatening than a street mercenary. There's really nothing to worry about.

The captain raised his hand, gave his team the order to retreat, and then spoke to Carl: "Mercenary KK, maybe in the future, we will have a chance to fight each other."

"You have two mistakes."

Carl stood up from the corpse, his left hand hanging naturally at his side, and he raised his right hand and shook two fingers.

A finger bent down.

"First, even if there is such a time, this sentence should be said by me instead of you, because I am not a cyberpsychopath. If there is a conflict among us, it must be me who is causing trouble for you. And secondly." Carl bent his second finger and clenched it into a fist.

"It's not you and me, it's you and"

"us."

When the familiar voice sounded again in Carl's communication, a Sky Hera car came speeding over. With the sound of the car door being pushed open, two figures walked out, each holding a weapon.

"KK, you saved the people but didn't tell us but only told T-BUG, right?"

Oliver complained and glanced at the captain of the terrorist squad.

"It's such a cool thing, couldn't you have said it earlier?"

"We have brought the person you wanted."

Jack didn't look at the captain of the terrorist squad. He got out of the car and went to the trunk, opened it and took out a person with the Tiger Claw Gang logo on his body.

"T-BUG targeted this guy who was involved in the kidnapping case. We rushed over and snatched him away."

"As expected of you."

Karl smiled and nodded at Johnson who was walking over: "I'll leave this person to you to deal with later, Mr. Johnson, it's really troublesome."

"If Andy is interested in joining the NCPD, I would be happy to arrange an interrogation position for him."

Johnson walked over, looked at the girl covered with clothes on the ground, then looked at the young man who had fainted beside the girl but was still breathing, and sighed deeply.

"What is this all about?"

“So, this is Night City.”

As Carl and Johnson spoke, the captain of the Terrorist Squad took a final look at Carl, as if he wanted to memorize his appearance in his mind, and then turned and left.

The NCPD officers who were originally surrounding the scene made way for the Terrorist Squad. Each of them felt a sense of suffocation as this group of heavily-armored people passed through them. However, after the Terrorist Squad left and jumped onto the hovercraft and flew away, the NCPD officers began to move swiftly again.

"Collect this body. Wait a minute, his gun is pretty good, and he used it with Kenshin. Check the body, maybe there's something good there, take it all."

"Do you want to take the prosthetic body too?"

"Take the bodies back. The prosthetics on them are all pretty good. Recycle them, make them secretly, and sell them cheaply to those people on the street who use low-quality prosthetics. Don't we collect protection money from a prosthetics doctor named Brother Finger on Twisting Street? Sell them all to him. He has a lot of low-end customers. The prosthetics used by those people are almost older than my grandmother."

"You're talking about Fein Gestadt. Isn't that guy a pervert?"

"The pervert is the only cyborg doctor on that street, and he is still a human being after all."

"Too."

Listening to the NCPD officers around him talking openly, Carl looked at Mr. Johnson, who looked a little embarrassed, and thought for a moment before finally speaking politely:
"Business is booming these days, Mr. Johnson."

"Come on, forget about doing something embarrassing."

Johnson wanted to cover his face with his hands, but when he thought of the people on the street who were using junk prosthetics, he sighed again: "Sometimes, it's both a guilty conscience and a relief to do this kind of thing of digging up corpses."

"It's okay again."

Carl glanced at the corpses on the ground quite naturally: "It's much better than letting these gangsters and scavengers do disgusting things with their prostheses."

"That's the truth."

This is Night City, after all.

　P.S. According to the setting of the board game, almost everyone in the Terrorist Squad can fight off the cyber psychopaths on the street in a one-on-one duel (those who can't are basically top characters)
　　
　
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