Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 264 26. V's Condition

"I can't get in touch with you."

On the road outside Pitkin County in west-central Colorado, V wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked up at the big sun hanging high in the sky, and found that the sun in February was also very poisonous.

It has been four days since V left the tribe, and not long ago, Carl and his friends sent a message to V, saying that they would come to pick him up and asked him to send his location. V had just sent his location when the contact was lost. He didn't even know whether the location was sent successfully.

'Should I continue to move forward and see if I can run into Carl and the others on the road, or should I stay here according to the location that I don't know if it was successfully sent?'

V hasn't figured out what to do yet, but no matter what he does, he has something he has to do.

Turning around and looking at his own Thunderous Galina "Viper" lying on the side of the road, V sighed deeply.

The car broke down again.

There was only an abandoned town around, and there were no maintenance workers.

"I don't know what car Carl and the others are driving to pick me up. Will it be Hera? If it is the modified Hera, then it will take another five or six days for them to arrive. During this period of time."

After searching his pockets, V only pulled out a synthetic energy bar.

This is his only food. If he wants to survive for five days,
We must first find a way to solve the problem of survival.

V grew up in the Badlands after all. Even though he was driven out of the tribe due to a conflict with the leader and had nothing with him, he still had no problem finding food and water in the wilderness with the little he had now.

Look for parts to repair the car, and also for food.

Having determined his next course of action, V took out a car cover from the trunk of his vehicle. After covering his vehicle, he walked back towards the abandoned town he had passed by, holding the Copperhead assault rifle.

There might still be something left in this deserted town, and perhaps we could find some methanol fuel and tools to repair vehicles.

After walking back along the road for almost an hour, V, feeling the sweat dripping down his cheeks, finally walked back to the abandoned town.

There weren't many houses in this small town, only about a dozen single-story bungalows. V started searching from the periphery, and after searching four houses, he finally found some cereal that had been expired for an unknown period of time in a place that looked like it was originally a small town store.

After opening it and looking at the cereal inside, V confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the smell and appearance, and then hid the cereal in the lining of his clothes. When he was about to look for other things, he heard the sound of exhaust slowly approaching from a distance.

'There is a vehicle approaching.'

The first thing he did was to take out the cereal he had just hidden and put it back to its original place. After preventing the possibility of noise caused by the squeezing of clothes, V slowly picked up the Copperhead Snake and walked to the place where the floor-to-ceiling window of the store used to be, but now there was only a hole. He turned half of his body to the side and looked towards the place where the sound came from outside.

There aren't many wanderer tribes around here.
As V was watching, three cars were driving towards him in the distance, and when he saw a logo on those cars, V unconsciously tightened his grip on Copperhead.

'The Sword Society.'

V recognized the logo on the car; it was the unique symbol of a nearby sword-fighting society.

This group of people who call themselves the Angry Gang are the most notorious among the Luan Dao Society. There is no solidarity among the companions. They can form a tribe purely because the leader can bring them enough benefits. The reason why this gang has survived in Colorado is because they are good at fighting. Being good at fighting is enough reason to survive in the bad land.

The vehicle slowly stopped in the town, and then nine people got out of the vehicle. V watched them whisper a few words, then dispersed and searched the town.

'That's bad.'

This group of random swordsmen also came to search for supplies.

An encounter with the Luandao Society is not something that can just end with a face-to-face exchange of greetings and smiles.

This group of people never mind robbing someone, and if the target is a person, it's even better.

V's heart sank as he watched the nine members of the Luan Dao Society disperse and form teams of three to explore the three surrounding houses.

The direction one team was heading was a house that V had just searched, and based on the experience of people surviving in the wilderness, it wouldn’t take long for them to discover that the house had been searched, and then they would soon realize that there were people around.

This car will leave tire marks when driving in the bad land, especially in such an abandoned town. The absence of tire marks means that
The person we just searched for is in the house!
We can't wait for them to notice and become alert, we have to take action first.

This group of random swordsmen are very good at fighting, but his V is no pushover either. Just a month ago, he had a meat dinner at Carl's house in Night City.

Holding the copperhead snake in his hand, V went out from the back door of the house, walked slowly through the blind spot of the night walker, and moved towards the house he had searched before.

When V walked to the house, one of the three night-wandering ghosts who were searching the area happened to be turning over rubble outside the house, trying to see if he could find some iron parts or the like.

Staring at the nightwalker with his back to him, V remained silent and slowly approached, then suddenly raised his hand and used the copperhead snake in his hand to replace his arm to clamp the nightwalker's neck from behind.

The Night Walker who was attacked suddenly wanted to resist immediately, but V's action was quite quick. When he couldn't make any sound because of his neck being stuck, his body pressed closely from behind.
"Click."

V slowly put down the night ghost who died of cervical dislocation, without letting his body fall on the rubble and making any noise, and his face remained calm.

V killed someone for the first time when he was 16 years old. His opponent was also a night-wandering ghost. Now, simply killing the enemy will not cause any fluctuations in his mood.

The first enemy is easy to deal with, but the remaining enemies are not so easy.

There were two people in the searched house, and they were crammed into a small room. Killing one of them would inevitably alert the second.

That is
Stealth ends.

"Hey, come over here and take a look. It looks like someone has rummaged around here."

While a night ghost in the room was calling his companions over, V slipped into the house through the back door.

Without waiting for the two nightwalkers to react, the copperhead snake in V's hand began to hiss.

(End of this chapter)