Chương 13: Night City Compulsory Traffic Insurance
"Well, Bai Rui, I wonder if we can go to Japan Street this weekend?" With Jack's encouragement, V finally hesitantly invited her. "Just play games, buy things, etc."
Japantown, the most prosperous area in Westbrook, is full of high-rise buildings filled with clothing supermarkets, game halls, casinos, discos... In short, there are all kinds of fancy things that can empty your wallet. Tourists like to go there, and locals like to go there too.
However, when she heard the invitation, Bai Rui raised her eyebrows in confusion. Going out to play was always good, but she didn't know why V brought this up at this time. The blood on their bodies had not yet been washed clean.
Bai Rui's silence made V's face hot. Although Jack, who was driving, kept frowning to signal her not to worry and the situation was still under control, V's mind was in a mess at this time, and she probably didn't even know where to put her hands.
The plan to ask Bai Rui out to play was suggested by Jack. He said that if you want to seduce a girl, you have to attack like a beast. Take the girl out to play, hug her a little, exchange food, etc., and you'll feel the rush.
But having said that, when it came to the moment of inviting her, V was extremely nervous. She felt hot from her face to her ears, and her whole body was tense. She didn't dare to look at Bai Rui.
In the past, when she took Bai Rui out to play, she clearly had no burden at all. But when she thought about the change in her purpose, turned it into an ulterior motive, and deliberately wanted to do this or that to Bai Rui, V became so nervous that she even forgot who she was.
"Jack and Misty together?" Bai Rui obviously misunderstood. She thought V was talking in the car to invite Jack to be a couple. "That's fine. I've been wanting to relax for a long time."
She agreed, but it was not completely what V wanted. She just wanted to be alone with Bai Rui and stimulate the possible spark of love. Thinking of this, V looked at Jack for help.
"Well, Bai Rui, Misty, and I may not be able to go. We just happen to have something to do that day." Jack is a good brother as always. He immediately came up with an assist and created a chance for the two to be alone.
"That's fine, Sister V, just the two of us. I also want to buy some second-hand parts. There's a nice flea market on Japan Street." Although Bai Rui felt that Sister V was a little weird today, she didn't think much about it and attributed it to the fact that V didn't sleep well last night.
Although it was a bit bumpy, it finally worked. V let out a long sigh of relief and collapsed on the seat like a ball of mud.
"Wait a minute, don't relax, V, something's happening." Jack, who was holding the steering wheel, suddenly looked nervous. He glanced at the rearview mirror from time to time. The car speed increased significantly, and it was obvious that something was wrong.
Outside the car window, fine raindrops were dripping on the asphalt road. There were few pedestrians on the sidewalk. The street lights were flashing dazzling white lights, dispelling the darkness on the road.
In the rearview mirror, Jack noticed that there was a truck following behind them. Even after turning two corners, it was still following behind them. It was obviously coming for them.
As if it knew Jack had discovered it, the truck roared and accelerated, overtook them in the side lane, and turned straight ahead.
"Chingado (Shit), V!" Jack had just finished speaking when he saw the door of the truck in front of him open, and his eyes widened instantly. "Scavenger! ihijosde puta (Damn it)!"
The door opened, revealing two scavengers in the truck, holding assault rifles in their hands, with the black muzzles pointing directly at them. Without hesitation, Bai Rui and V tensed up instantly and immediately switched to combat form. They stood on the left and right, holding their guns and leaning out of the window.
"Da da da!!!"
Up ahead, the scavengers fired fiercely. Jack gritted his teeth and twisted the steering wheel hard. The tires spun with a hissing sound, and he managed to prevent the car from being shot into pieces.
"Hold on, Jack!" However, V and Bai Rui, who leaned out, were in a bad condition. They were almost thrown out of the car by the sudden force. Dripping in the rain, the two men struggled to aim their guns at the truck in front of them.
"Bang, bang, bang!!!"
V pulled the trigger, and the crisp sound of Saratoga's gun burst out instantly, forming a long line, spotting the truck with bullet holes. Two scavengers holding assault rifles were knocked down and fell on the road. The vehicle ran over the bodies, causing the body of the car to shake violently. V's submachine gun went out of control and fired into the sky.
Before V could yell, the truck in front suddenly slowed down, causing V's car to almost crash into the back of the truck. Jack turned the steering wheel violently, barely missing the truck and rushing onto the sidewalk, scaring several pedestrians and making them scream and dodge in panic.
"Damn, I'm sorry!" Jack apologized and turned the car back to the asphalt road, but the truck didn't give up and accelerated to the side, ramming straight into them from the left.
"Fuck!" Bai Rui screamed and quickly retreated into the car. The next second, the two cars collided. The strong force caused the car's body to shake violently. The three people in the car were shaken as if they were stuffed into the drum of a washing machine. Bai Rui in the back seat was shaken off the seat, and her face hit the bottom of the seat closely, which made her dizzy.
"Damn!" Jack's driver's seat was the most seriously damaged, the door was twisted, the window was shattered, the explosion flew everywhere, and the debris covered Jack. Jack gritted his teeth and endured the impact, holding the steering wheel tightly to prevent the car from crashing into the shoulder of the road.
V held on to the roof tightly with her left hand, so she was not thrown out. She had just been hit hard in the waist. She bit her jaw to endure the pain, and lay on the roof with the gun in her hand. She raised the gun in her hand with difficulty in the cold rain, aimed with her eyes, and pulled the trigger at the open side door of the truck.
The side door of the truck opened, and several gunmen were about to open fire and beat the three people in the car into a pulp, but V's bullet arrived first. After a series of crisp bangs, several scavengers were shot into sieves along with their guns.
"V, hit that driver!" The two cars were too big, and V's car was flying with sparks. Seeing that the car was about to be squeezed into a roadside shop, Jack spoke hurriedly.
As if she had heard his warning, V eagerly pulled the trigger, the Saratoga in her hand burst into flames, and the bullet shattered the truck window. However, the vehicle was shaking, making the gun inaccurate. The driver of the other vehicle was fine, still twisting the steering wheel, and planning to hit them again after putting some distance between them.
"Damn, I'm out of bullets!" Seeing that the enemy was about to attack again, a clear sound of empty fire came from the submachine gun. V secretly said badly, but it was obviously too late to go back to the car to get the magazine.
Just as the two men clenched their jaws and prepared for another round of impact, three crisp gunshots rang out in succession, shaking their eardrums and hearts.
One shot hit the steering wheel of the truck, causing sparks and a notch. The second shot hit the arm of the street sweeper who was driving the car, causing blood, flesh and bone to bleed out. However, the driver seemed to be high on drugs and could not feel the pain. He used his other hand to hit the steering wheel and continued to ram their car with unabated momentum.
The bullet, this time, finally hit the enemy's vital point. The yellow bullet made a sonic boom in the air, drew a straight line, and drilled into the driver's ear. The next second, half of the driver's head exploded like a watermelon, and blood with white turbidity sprinkled on the car window like a blooming flower. The fallen driver's body, however, took the car off the road and crashed straight into the building next to it.
"Damn!" With a loud bang, Jack and V, who were flying past, only had time to see the fire of the explosion behind them.
In the back seat, Bai Rui leaned against the car door, her hand still in a shooting posture, residual smoke rising from the muzzle of the purple-painted "Vitamin B" gun.
Bai Rui was gasping for breath, terrified.
It was so dangerous time and time again that she began to doubt whether she had traveled to a game world of [Extremely Difficult] difficulty. Otherwise, why was it so dangerous every time? The three of them almost died.
"Well done, Bai Rui!" However, the two people who were rescued were very excited. V reached out and pulled Bai Rui up and sat her back in her chair.
"Phew, I almost lost my life." Jack exhaled while driving smoothly on the road, obviously still a little frightened. "But I scratched your baby. Sorry, V."
"It's okay, Jack. Being alive is better than anything else." V waved her hand and sat back in her seat.
Miraculously, such a fierce gun battle on the street did not attract any NCPD police officers. It seemed that just as Wakako said, all the police officers were transferred to block the roads leading to various places in Watson District.
The three of them had no trouble along the way. Jack drove the two of them to the cross-district bridge connecting the Watson district, which was the district where V and Bai Rui lived.
Bai Rui has her own guess about the blockade of Watson District.
In the game, this is naturally to restrict players from wandering around at the beginning and to set regional restrictions for the development of the main storyline, but in reality, Bai Rui speculated that this may be related to the filial son Arasaka Yorinobu.
Arasaka Corporation is one of the giants in Night City. The top boss is Saburo Arasaka, who founded the Arasaka Group, but he is usually at the headquarters in Tokyo. The person in charge in Night City is his son Yorinobu Arasaka.
Arasaka Yorinobu has always been against his father, and recently he stole the relic chip containing the consciousness of Johnny Silverhand, the terrorist who blew up the old Arasaka Tower more than 50 years ago. Arasaka Saburo then came to Night City, ready to question his unfilial son. The blockade of Watson District is closely related to this matter. After all, many factories of Arasaka Group are in Watson District. It is not impossible that it was for Saburo's safety.
On the inter-district bridge, red lights were flashing, police cars were blocking the road horizontally, NCPD officers were setting up roadblocks, and there were even a few military-tech mechas parked nearby, probably to prevent people from causing trouble. It was truly a day of harmony between the police and the public.
"Damn, they've taken out the roadblocks." Jack stepped on the brakes lightly, and the vehicle slowly stopped in front of the roadblock.
The NCPD officers had no easier job than the mercenaries. They were still guarding the intersection in the heavy rain. When they saw a vehicle approaching, a female police officer with a high ponytail walked over in the rain.
"The Watson area has been blocked off, awaiting further notification. This is a necessary safety measure." The tone was official and there was nothing wrong with it except that it was annoying.
As usual, she glanced into the car and when she saw two beauties sitting in the big guy's car, the policewoman raised her eyebrows in surprise. Wow, one is cold and the other is cute, both are top beauties, this guy is really lucky.
It was only because she was wearing sunglasses that the three men couldn't see the policewoman's expression, otherwise, V would be furious if she was mistaken for someone else's mistress.
"Officer, ma'am. We are so lucky to have you." Hearing Jack's slick tone, V and Bai Rui knew that he was going to use his "friendship magic" again.
"Really? Then can you tell me what's different about me?" The policewoman was obviously bored to death on duty, so she had the leisure to bend over and listen to Jack's lies.
"A heart of gold. Because only someone like you could understand how much I need to get back to my girl." Climbing the ladder, that's Jack's trick.
"Your...daughter?" Jack didn't look like an office worker, which made the policewoman suspicious.
"That's right. If I don't go back, my daughter will be worried to death." But Jack opened his eyes wide and said it as if it were true, making her unable to judge clearly for a moment.
"Look at me, I'm trying hard to be a decent person. She gave me a chance and is waiting for me." Jack spread his hands, pretending to be the prodigal son in any story who turned over a new leaf and returned to his family.
"Well...it's just so touching." The policewoman shook her head and relaxed her neck, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Okay, this is the last one." The female police officer ordered her men to remove the roadblock and stood up. "You guys go!"
Bai Rui and V were both a little surprised. They didn't expect it to actually work. They at least thought that they would have to put some bribes in the driver's license to get it done, but they didn't expect to meet such a good police officer.
In Night City, this is rarer than gold. That's why they say Jack is a fool with good fortune.
"Have a nice evening, officer." Jack thanked her "sincerely" and drove away with his foot on the accelerator.
"She quite likes you." V leaned her hand against the car window, still a little incredulous.
"Of course I touched her with my sincerity." Jack seemed very proud.
"Yes..." V was speechless. If she hadn't seen Jack swearing in Spanish while firing, she would have believed it.
"I am loyal and firm in my feelings..." Jack was addicted to pretending, and completely devoted to his fake life. "And I am not pretentious, you know."
"Hmm..." Bai Rui stretched out the tone and almost asked Jack Turtle to go to the barbershop.
The vehicle was driving in the rain, but there was a car blocked at the intersection ahead, along with several armed guys. The three men frowned.
"Get out of the car!"
"Hurry up! I don't have time to waste with you!"
Several gang members pointed guns at the car owner and forced him to get out of the car.
It turned out to be a robbery, and they thought it was a big deal.
"V, look, there's something wrong over there."
Just as Jack was wondering whether to change the route, the roar of a hovercraft's engine sounded above their heads, and a hovercraft spewing blue flames appeared above their field of vision. The hovercraft lowered its altitude and hovered above the robbed vehicle. The NCPD logo was clearly painted on the gray-blue body of the vehicle.
"Terrorist Squad!" Jack took a deep breath and looked like he had seen his mother.
In the wind and rain, the hatch of the gray-blue hovercraft opened, revealing several guys in heavy uniforms. As soon as the door opened, they jumped down one after another, with flames coming out of the jets under their feet, and they landed safely.
Seeing this, the gang members opened fire hastily, without even trying to dodge, and the bullets hitting the cops were all blocked by their heavy armor and helmets. These heavily armored cops raised their pistols as if no one was around in the hail of bullets. The technical pistols spewed out blue flames, and the plasma bullets fired from them burned the bandits' inferior bulletproof vests and flesh into a charred ball in a few hits, causing them to fall to the ground in pain.
"They don't look like ordinary cops." V frowned in surprise.
"Because they are not ordinary cops, they are the Terrorist Squad, the elite thugs hired by the NCPD." Jack, who was born and raised in Night City, knows these gangster nemeses very well. "If the case is serious, they will come over. The few idiots over there are not enough for them to fill their teeth."
As soon as he finished speaking, several gangsters were lying on the ground, dead as salted fish. A police officer from the terrorist squad waved at Jack and told them to leave.
"Looks like the show is over." Jack stepped on the accelerator and turned into the road leading to V's apartment.
"We're here. Your house is just ahead." The car quickly turned into the parking lot of the No. 10 super skyscraper.
"What are you going to do? Heywood can't go back now."
"It's okay, V. They'll let me go."
"Are you sure?" V raised an eyebrow.
"Of course, I can be Harmonious Jack again." Jack seemed very confident in his "friendship magic".
After driving around one parking lot after another, the car finally stopped in front of the building's elevator.
"Sweet dreams then." Jack stepped on the brakes.
"Say hello to Misty for me."
"Me too." Bai Rui added.
"I will. Ahi luego (See you later)."
V, Bai Rui and Jack bumped fists, unbuckled their seat belts and got out of the car.
No. 10 Superbike Building.
V's apartment.
"What's wrong with you, Sister V, be careful."
As soon as V opened the door of the apartment, she almost fell to the ground. Bai Rui quickly helped V over and put her on the chair.
"It's okay, Bai Rui. I might have caught a virus when I connected to Sanders earlier." V rubbed her forehead and calmed down a little.
"Do you want to go find Old Vic now?" Bai Rui asked with concern.
Bai Rui no longer dared to treat this as a game world. If she had not been present in the previous few times, Jack and V might have been killed. Now she was even more cautious. If the Virus in V was different from the one in the game, then it would be really terrible.
"It's okay, it's not a big problem. Let's go tomorrow morning." V forced a smile and comforted Bai Rui.
"Okay then, tell me if you feel unwell." Bai Rui was relieved when she saw V's face recover and stood up. "Sit down, I'll get you some water."
Bai Rui walked to the table, opened the small freezer, took out two bags of packaged drinking water, tore them open, put them into the kettle, turned on the switch, and started to boil.
People in Night City don't drink hot water. This is something Bai Rui, who has always believed that drinking more hot water is fine, simply cannot accept. So she took a thermos cup and used the induction cooker, the resistor from the radio, and aluminum sheets to make a kettle.
At the same time, it also shocked V, little Bai Rui who not only loved drinking Coke, but also loved drinking boiled water. She didn't know where these strange habits of Bai Rui came from.
Bai Rui not only drinks it herself but also forces V to drink it, especially when she is sick or feeling uncomfortable, Bai Rui often says "Drink more hot water".
While the water was boiling, Bai Rui opened the small freezer, got herself a small bottle of Coca-Cola, and opened it with a click, and the pleasant sound of bubbles bursting rang out as expected. She closed her eyes and took a big gulp, enjoying the pleasure of carbon dioxide hitting her mouth and esophagus with her eyes closed.
"Bai Rui, get me a bottle of beer." V's eyes looked longingly at the big green stick in the small freezer.
"Don't even think about it." Bai Rui closed the cabinet door, interrupting V's delusion, turned around poured the boiled water into the cup, and placed it on the table to V's right. "If you feel uncomfortable and still want to drink, drink it in your dream."
V touched her nose and could only drink the steaming hot water obediently.
Bai Rui is a very strict person at home. No one knows when she became like this. In the beginning, it was clearly her who took care of Bai Rui when she came here. Now, at some point, their relationship seems to have turned upside down. In daily life, it is Bai Rui who takes care of V.
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