Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 251 13. Carjacking Begins

"The target is expected to pass the road in five minutes."

Listening to the headset communication on his combat uniform, Carl half-lay on the co-pilot's chair, waiting quietly.

The camouflaged freight truck of Military Technology is currently parked on the back of a hillside next to the Badlands Highway, less than two hundred meters away from the highway. This distance ensures that after the arrival of Arasaka's freight truck, the camouflaged freight truck of Military Technology can approach as soon as possible.

The process of hijacking goods was well known to those in military technology, but Carl had no experience with it and did not understand it, so he was quite quiet and did not say a word on the communication.

But he listened to the whole conversation, and the overall feeling of the chat was
They are people with military technology, no wonder they bring military equipment, they are meticulous even in the casual chat before starting the operation, they only talk about the mission when they open their mouths, without saying anything more, listening to their communications, it is really very obvious to distinguish them from gang communications, is this the so-called difference between regular army and street people?

When Carl was on a mission, he and T-BUG had eavesdropped on the communications of gang targets many times. In their channels, apart from dirty talk, they just talked about where to go or who to kill. There was not even a single useful piece of information in ten sentences. In comparison, Carl really liked the chat style of the military technology channel.

Carl didn't know that while he was inwardly admiring the regular army quality of military technology, Meredith, who was sitting in the driver's seat next to him, gripping the steering wheel tightly, was cursing in her heart.

"Usually, they all talk a lot, relying on the fact that they are seconded from the Special Operations Department and are not from the same department as me. Why are they all silent today? Aren't they very talkative? Why are they silent now?"

Meredith really wanted to rush out of the car and peel off their helmets to see if the people inside were still the same group.

Just because a KK came and sat in the car next to him, they were all so cowardly, but he wouldn't eat anyone.

"Click."

Carl, who was sitting next to her, watched Meredith's hands gripping the steering wheel tighter and tighter, almost breaking it. He wanted to remind her, but after thinking it over, he didn't say anything.

It's better not to talk about things you don't understand. Maybe the car they drive is the same as the one Mr. Johnson drives, with some buttons hidden in the steering wheel to start the vehicle. They are professionals who have robbed several times, so it's not surprising that they have some special modifications.

The silent atmosphere did not last long. After the Arasaka convoy was detected approaching, the military-tech vehicles started to move.

The one-way glass slowly rose, and in the dust blown by the wind, the freight truck drove on the road. After a while, the traces of Arasaka's vehicle appeared in the distance.

Arasaka's freight truck was driving very fast, and as the Militech camouflage vehicle intentionally slowed down its speed, it soon caught up with the Militech vehicle from behind.

Carl observed the Arasaka transport team that was driving quickly past them and was not wary of their freight trucks. He probably understood why they were so bold and confident.

On the surface, the camouflaged vehicle of military technology is just an ordinary Columbus. Although this type of vehicle is economical and suitable for the middle and lower class people to transport goods, it has no protective and combat capabilities. Compared with the modified trucks and escorting armored vehicles of the Arasaka Transport Team, it is not a threat at all. Since there is no threat, there is naturally no need to be vigilant.

This isn't a particularly uncommon type of vehicle, and Arasaka's transport team has been driving on the road for so long. If every Columbus was on guard, their scheduled arrival time would be delayed. By then, the people above would blame them, and everyone would have their wages and performance deducted.

Having calculated the psychology of the Arasaka transport team, Meredith's expression gradually turned cold as he watched two heavy trucks and an escorting armored vehicle passing by.

'Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters.' Meredith kept calculating the distance for the ambush in his mind and waited for the best opportunity.

"Activate the explosive device."

Following Meredith's order, the remote-controlled mines and induction mines that had been deployed in advance were detonated almost at the same time. As the explosion sounded throughout the highway, the heavy truck traveling in the front was hit from bottom to top by the explosion, and the body of the truck instantly overturned.

Ordinary mines cannot completely destroy the truck modified by Arasaka, but they can still destroy the armor and make it overturn.

Amid the terrified screams of the Arasaka driver in the truck, the heavy truck crashed heavily onto the road. The driver of the second truck, which was following the first truck and keeping a certain distance from the leading truck, immediately slammed on the brakes, but the weight of the truck itself and its inertia still made it impossible for him to control the vehicle. After the first vehicle overturned, the second truck hit its rear end heavily.

"Many of the drivers in Arasaka's freight transport have a gang past. They always like to pursue speed and modification, so the so-called safe distance between their vehicles is actually not enough to make evasive braking in an emergency."

As someone in the military technology department of Arasaka's mortal enemy, Meredith knew Arasaka's nature very well. While explaining to Carl why the trucks that kept their distance could not make an emergency evasive move, she began to give orders over the comms: "Tell those paid wanderers to wait. Let's activate the communication shielding first. When the problem is solved, they can take away all the vehicles except for the goods inside."

"Command, they have already started."

Listening to the voice in the communication, Meredith, who had originally tilted his head towards Carl and was talking to Carl, immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the Arasaka convoy that was ambushed. And just as his subordinates had said in the communication, the twenty or so Rangers who had been ambushing there had already picked up their messy guns and launched an attack on the Arasaka convoy.

"You really can't expect these homeless people to listen to orders. After only cooperating a few times, they started to do things on their own. What a bunch of idiots!"

Meredith cursed, but her hands moved quickly and immediately activated the communication interference.

Originally, Meredith planned to wait a few seconds to ensure the detonation of the remote-controlled mine, but now it seems that she has to go straight ahead.

"Send the identification signature to those stupid bums. Don't let them attack us. Keep an eye on the armored vehicle. Don't let it run. Disable it. Then shoot down the Arasaka bastards that come down from it."

After turning and braking to stop the poorly protected Columbus, Meredith, wearing an Arasaka soldier uniform and holding a Kantō sword, rushed out of the car.

"Arasaka uniform, a Ranger, and the goods they took were from Kang Tao. I have made up the disguise for you."

With a sigh in his heart, Karl got out of the car with the ceremony documents he brought with him.

mission target.

All the Arasaka escort personnel were killed.

(End of this chapter)