Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 488 101. Whole Foods Factory

Whirlpool Gang.

This is an organization founded in the Red Era after the nuclear explosion in Night City in 2023. Its predecessor was once a gang that focused on high-intensity crazy transformation. Later, through a series of developments and changes, it evolved into the gang that is now entrenched in the Watson district of Night City. According to NCPD calculations, it has 1300 members.

Almost everyone in the Uzumaki Gang will eventually become a cyberpsychopath, but they usually don't live to see that day because the crazy transformation in their bodies will overwhelm them and take their lives. In this case, the members of the Uzumaki Gang are often young and strong, and are equipped with a variety of high-load prostheses.

Faced with the Whirlpool Gang, which has such an organized group of members, in street fighting, even the Six Street Gang veterans with rich combat experience and the Tiger Claw Gang, which is well-equipped with sophisticated weapons, cannot stand up to them. It is precisely because of this force that the Whirlpool Gang has been able to firmly occupy an area of ​​Night City with fewer people than most Night City gangs, and in recent years, under the command of Boss Brick, it has begun to expand to other neighborhoods.

For Carl, the Vortex Gang was the first opponent he encountered when he came to Night City. It was because he was almost blown in the head by a stray bullet from the Vortex Gang that Carl picked up the gun, aimed it at Night City, and started to fire hard at it. In the early days when he became a mercenary, his opponents were always the Vortex Gang, so frequent that he later began to complain why it was those crazy people from the Vortex Gang again.

But now if you think about it, Carl hasn't received any mission related to the Vortex Gang for a long time.

This doesn't mean that Carl is only targeting other gangs, but there are really no middlemen who will specifically issue tasks related to the Vortex Gang.

There is no point in targeting a few lunatics who won't live long anyway. Even if they go crazy, there will be the Terrorist Squad and NCPD to deal with them. Instead of wasting the money, you can just see the body of the Uzumaki gang member on the street in a few days.

There are no relevant missions to be received, and on the other hand, the people from the Whirlpool Gang will not provoke Carl and others for no reason. They are just crazy, but they are not fools.

There is a piece of knowledge that is not uncommon on the streets: the members of the Uzumaki Gang are not stupid. They have excellent prosthetic modifications and related technologies, otherwise they would not be able to support their crazy transformations. The gold content of that technology may even be better than that of other gangs because of the many "experimental products" within the gang. There are even rumors that some companies' experimental products will be handed over to the Uzumaki Gang, so that they can use them for "clinical trials" on gang members before they go on the market.

This group of people knows very well who they can mess with and who they'd better not mess with, and it's obvious that Carl and his gang are the ones they'd better not mess with. Unless it's necessary, even the Vortex Gang doesn't want to conflict with Carl and his gang.

But just because they don't want to doesn't mean Karl won't cause trouble for them this time.

Carl took money from others and did things for them, and he had no shame in asking Uzumaki for help.

You can go and cause trouble for them all you want, what can the Uzumaki Gang do? You can't just call the police and cry about your grievances and go to the NCPD.

"Bah."

Carl got out of the parked Delaman car and stepped on the muddy and oily ground.

Due to the organizational structure of the Vortex Gang, unless necessary, groups often act in the form of small groups. Each of these groups will find a base, and at most there will be more than 30 active members. This way of action not only prevents one cyber-psychopath from affecting other groups, but also ensures the structure of the Vortex Gang. Under this habit of action, even the people around the boss of the Vortex Gang are no exception, and there are only more than 30 people at most.

The place where Brick, the boss of the Vortex Gang, has been entrenched recently is a Whole Foods factory located in the northern industrial area of ​​Watson District. According to the information provided by T-BUG, the Whole Foods factory seemed to have been in operation before, but after being occupied by the Vortex Gang, it became their territory, producing large and small packages of synthetic food for them to sell. It is even possible that the food sold at the snack stand downstairs of Carl and his friends is purchased from the Vortex Gang.

About thirty people
Walking in the midday sunshine, Carl felt that the sun was a little dazzling today.

It's too glaring.

I just don't know if the sun on the ground was much brighter than the sun in the sky when the nuclear explosion occurred in Night City. Carl has read some later accounts from eyewitnesses who said that the light of the nuclear explosion was almost two or three times as bright as the sun. Just looking at it from a distance can blind one's eyes and bring tears to one's eyes.

Why did I suddenly think of that? Strange. I feel that my thoughts today are a bit strange. Carl thought that unless the company war started again, Night City would not be hit by another nuclear bomb. Military technology and Arasaka's interests are in this area. Unless it is a war, a confrontation at all costs may attract the kind of mutual destruction of interests. Otherwise, there should be nothing that needs a nuclear bomb.
Thinking of this, Carl approached the Whole Foods factory where Brick's Whirlpool Gang was located. The strange thing was that when he walked to a distance of fifty meters from the Whole Foods factory, he did not feel that he was being watched in the Whole Foods factory.

Is there no camera installed on the periphery?
Carl, who originally planned to fight the Vortex Gang alone and find Brick to remove his limbs, strangely moved closer. Until he walked to the door of the Whole Foods factory and saw the scanning camera, Carl did not see any movement of the camera.

The camera hung there lifelessly, as if there was no one controlling it from behind.

"Could it be that the information T-BUG gave me was wrong and I went to the wrong place?"

Carl compared the address shown in the information.

That's right.

Did T-BUG make the wrong mistake? She actually made such a mistake. It's really unlike her.
Just when Carl thought he had come up empty-handed and that Brick's Vortex Gang was not in this territory, he heard a noise in the Whole Foods factory.

"Crackle, crackle, bang, bang..."

The sound was far away, as if it was inside a Whole Foods factory, but the sound made Carl's expression slightly more serious.

Because he definitely wouldn't have heard that sound wrong.

There were gunshots inside.

It seems something unexpected happened.

Carl looked at the steel rolling door in front of him and didn't hesitate for too long.

The monomolecular line passed by, and a rectangular gap appeared. At the same time, the defensive machine gun that was automatically activated behind the rolling door sensed the intrusion and pointed the muzzle at Carl.

"Click, buzz."

The muzzle of the gun, which had just been raised, was automatically retracted the next second.

'Takeover complete.'

Carl walked forward as if he was strolling in the street.

Let me see what's going on.

(End of this chapter)