Chapter 165 Kidnapping
"Boss, Kotaro was ambushed at the ancestral home of the Fengma family. The two sides fought fiercely, and were finally defeated and kidnapped. The
ninjas from Iga should be the ones who did it. Some of them were involved in the last crusade against Tokugawa. Appeared in.
But there should be other companies behind them to provide technical support. The specific coordinates cannot be traced at present, and no one has contacted the company for the time being...
Boss? Boss? Did you hear that?"
"Oh...I know, I know, You check first and leave me alone."
Li Pan covered his face and fell into self-denial of 'Why are all my subordinates a group of losers who are not successful enough to succeed and fail to do anything big?' middle.
Well, actually, I really can’t blame Kotaro this time. After all, he was at Li Pan's request to fetch the shrine in a state of war. He left the team and was alone and was besieged. It was normal for him to be caught.
Not to mention the reputation of Iga ninjas, when those space dogs started to take action, even Li Pan couldn't play without cheating. And even Shiba didn't detect anyone taking action.
The other side must have the support of company-level hackers to plot against Kotaro. I just didn't expect that the Iga clan team would be so fast. Gao Tianyuan's bones were still cold, and he hooked up with other companies.
Li Pan was also helpless. The most troublesome thing was that he didn't know who was holding the 'Mikyo' now. Without the 'Mikoshi', it would be impossible to reach a deal with Amakusa. That guy is also a crazy arsonist. If he gets angry and interferes with it, the fleet's affairs may also be ruined.
But now Li Pan really doesn't have time to do the daily routine of saving Kotaro. The shuttle has arrived at its destination.
Opening the hatch and jumping down, Li Pan strode into the home base of cyberpunk and middlemen, the 'Have a Bad Death' Bar.
When he opened the door and walked in, the surrounding mercenaries and bounty hunters all turned to stare at him, pressing their guns and sharpening their knives. They all seemed to have seen the walking money bag and were ready to make a move.
After all, Li Pan suddenly became the most beautiful kid in the Night City last night, with a reward of 150 billion in the city. I am afraid that even the adult super dream porn star anchors do not have such high attention as him.
Although the rule of 'die a good death' prohibits the use of guns in the bar, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Sure enough, a mercenary immediately got up and walked towards Li Pan, blocking his way, and took the gorilla arm and artificial The muscle fibers are activated and the whole body blows up like a balloon.
When Li Pan saw the other person walking in front of him, he didn't even give way within five feet of him. As if he didn't have any eyes for him, he pressed his head against him. Not bothering to talk nonsense, he raised his hand and slapped the mercenary on the face. His cheek was shattered, and he fell to the ground, falling into a deep sleep like a baby.
The other mercenaries couldn't help but sit back again.
The bar security guard came over quickly with a machine gun.
"What are you looking at? He's drunk."
The security guard had no choice but to glare at Li Pan and move to make way for him.
In the soundproof private room, Iron Queen Vajra, or perhaps the agent prosthetic body she used, was waiting on the sofa with her legs crossed. Standing next to him were two sturdy bodyguards, veterans with military-style armed implants all over their bodies.
The queen wore a very cool V-shaped camouflage tights, which exposed her arms and legs. Her whole body was stained with sweat. Her healthy brown-black skin looked particularly delicate and plump, shiny, and steaming heat radiated from the metal joints of the prosthetic body. , it looks like he was doing some strenuous exercise just now, and now he is taking off the SBS exoskeleton armor and custom implant to dissipate heat.
Wajira didn't care about Li Pan's gaze and said,
"You really dare to call the money directly. This is a private gift. Are you not afraid that I will betray you?"
Li Pan didn't care,
"It's just a small amount of money. What the hell, my time is very precious, it costs hundreds of millions every minute, okay?
Not to mention that one nuclear bomb only costs 50 million. If you are really that short of money and want to increase the price, then I can give you an extra bomb, okay? Okay."
The bodyguards beside Vajira glared at each other, but Vajira himself grinned.
"Haha, you are indeed a corporate dog of TheM. You spend a lot of money in a panic, and you can pay more than 10 million in taxes without blinking an eye. But,
you are so luxurious that you use a shuttle to travel, so you must not be short of the gas money. Yes.
This business is done, are you interested in continuing to take care of my business?"
"Taking care of your business? What kind of business? Do you want to drink and chat with me?"
Li Pan studied the other party's thigh.
Vajira sneered, activated his central nervous system to accelerate, set off a gust of hot wind, and instantly stabbed the mantis knife in front of Li Pan's eyes.
"Not only will we drink and chat with you, we will also accompany you on the battlefield. What do you think, are you interested in such a mercenary?"
Li Pan raised a finger to push the tip of the knife away,
"Okay, you make an offer and I'll pay."
Wa Geela took back the blade and handed him a chip.
"It's refreshing enough. I like to deal with refreshing people. You keep your promises and I keep my word. Here is the beacon star map of the goods. When you
get the goods and make a business, you can talk to me directly if you have any needs. "
So Li Pan watched his thighs cough, and the Iron Queen left her side.
Without further ado, Li Pan left the bar, jumped back on the shuttle with a big jump, and flew away in a swish, leaving behind a group of cyberpunk mercenaries who chased them out in tanks carrying RPGs, leaving them dumbfounded.
Hey, are you stupid? I can fly!
Ahem, anyway, send the coordinates of the cargo to Chengzi and Nana, so that they can prepare to sail to pick up the cargo as soon as possible. Li Pan suddenly remembered what the queen said just now and checked the fuel consumption of the shuttle.
By the way, here are things like engines and fuel.
Currently, the most commonly used FTL technology for spacecraft in the planes of the heavens is the commonly known as WARP jump. It uses the Hyperdrive super-light engine, which twists and folds the space around the hull through a force field, allowing the spacecraft to stay in place at super-light speeds and follow gravity. Channel ejection can achieve superluminal jumps of 5 times, 10 times, or even 500 times at the beginning.
The advantage of this kind of FTL is that you can jump right from the start and arrive at any time. It has intelligent auxiliary navigation. As long as you have a star map and beacon in your hand and confirm the gravitational field and space environment near the landing point in advance, there will be almost no accidents.
There are also disadvantages, such as the need for a star map. Without a star map, spices and navigators are needed. In addition, the Hyperdrive hyperdrive requires a special WarpCell jump battery, which provides an instant huge energy output to distort the space position.
Ordinary batteries cannot bear the high energy output and energy load. Therefore, the Warpcell jump battery is not only a technical threshold unique to the super company's patent, but also expensive and has a high loss rate. In the kind of high-intensity war where the whole jump is carried out, the battleship is The biggest reason for the locked destruction was the Warpcell failure, which caused the jump to stop.
Therefore, during the operation of the spacecraft and the maintenance of the hyperlight engine, the most important thing is the maintenance of the battery pack. Special maintenance fluid, coolant, and nano-repair materials need to be injected to cool the battery pack and stop damage. This comprehensive battery cooling and maintenance fluid is called Cellsoup by astronauts. Although it is not a real fuel, it is also a type of consumable.
What the company's fleet lacks the most now is actually this thing. If the battery soup is not enough, no matter how powerful the fleet is, it will become a piece of fish on the chopping board after just a few jumps.
Fortunately, Cellsoup is a mass-produced industrial product necessary for starships. Although it is expensive, has limited production capacity, and the effects of each company's products vary, 0791's local leader, Gao Tianyuan, can indeed produce it, and you can still buy it as long as you are willing to spend money.
By the way, don't even mention Takamagahara. Although he can't jump to Warp500, Momojiji can only jump to Warp15. The starting point is very weak, but he does have the patented technology of manufacturing Warpcell, and he has surpassed it. The threshold is just limited by materials and patents, development has stagnated, and it is not as advanced as the current first echelon.
Of course, this is not the only consumable item.
The FTL engine is used during the jump. In addition to the Hyperdrive super-light engine set, the spaceship will also be equipped with a set of PPE, Pulsed Plasma Engine, to meet the needs of sub-light speed navigation and low-Earth orbit cruising.
The principle of the PPE engine is to use pulse discharge, arc decomposition of plasma, and use the Lorentz force to accelerate charged ions through the magnetic field to drive the spacecraft.
PPE has been developed for a long time, has perfect structural design, short start-up time, large thrust adjustment range, accurate and reliable, and can use cheap solid propellants that can be industrially synthesized. It is economical and efficient. It is now a very popular civilian technology and can be widely used in the interstellar space. Warships, SMS, drones and other military equipment, as well as advanced aerospace vehicles and other equipment vehicles.
However, the biggest problem with PPE is that the principle of this engine is simple, and it is essentially the same as particle accelerators and plasma cannons.
Nowadays, various technologies are rampant, and interested people can buy design blueprints from the deep web, customize and modify PPE, and use it as a plasma cannon or EMP generator.
The Security Bureau now even registers sniper rifles one by one, and of course strictly supervises PPE, a potential killer weapon. Large-capacity ship-grade PPE engines are not allowed to descend into earth orbit at all. Small ones must also be approved and filed. The security system and transportation system will track and locate the coordinates of each set of equipment throughout the process to prevent unauthorized demolition and modification. A permit must also be filed for startup.
In view of these safety regulations, taking the Solarbus Shuttle that Li Pan bought as an example, a third power system, which is an old-fashioned fuel engine, is installed on the aircraft.
Although it is said to be 'old-fashioned', it is actually very advanced now. The thermal efficiency and power consumption are not inferior to those of PPE. However, the engine design is more complex, there are more patents, and various fuels are generally more expensive. Although it has multiple functions In theory, all kinds of fossil fuels, synthetic fuels, and natural gas can be used in the conversion chamber. However, in view of the requirements of environmental protection policies on the earth, although there is continuous acid rain, high-energy-density fuels such as metallic hydrogen and metallic nitrogen are generally used. . And the fuel cannot be ionized as much as PPE. You just burn a piece of it as soon as you start.
So after all this talk, Li Pan just wanted to say that he just discovered that after running in a shuttle for a short while and taking off twice, the fuel consumption was almost 40,000 yuan less at the current market price of fuel... Ouch
Ward Mom, help me... I only need four hundred to take a taxi!
Can't afford it, can't afford it...
what? Switching from oil to electricity? Of course, there are also pure motors, solar cells and magnetic levitation systems or anti-gravity systems, but they are generally used in small vehicles, motorcycles, cars, and floating vehicles. With the tonnage and range of a shuttle, it is too luxurious to travel to the plane with a full set of anti-gravity systems. The cost is at least tens of millions...
Well, the shuttle cannot afford to ride on it anyway. This thing is still a low-Earth orbit shuttle after all. It's used for occasional rescues, emergencies, pretense, and shooting. It's really not worth using it for transportation.
So the automatic navigation arrived at the port of Night City and landed on the newly purchased Whale 18. Li Pan entered the cockpit while scrolling through a motorcycle magazine.
"Eighteen! Fill up the fuel for my boat! Then wash and wax it for me!
Also, what's going on now? Can you grasp Kotaro's position?"
Ya came to work overtime in the middle of the night to rescue employees, so this little oil It would be too much if the company refuses to reimburse the fee.
In the command room, Shiba has established a new company encrypted channel, Kotaro's rescue discussion group, and added all company members to the discussion.
Ah Qi, "Boss, the attacker kidnapped Kotaro and fled into the underground city. I urgently dispatched a drone to track him, but the opponent spread a large number of interference signal sources along the way. It will take time to investigate and analyze. No trace of the opponent has been found yet. ."
Eighteen opened the surveillance of various urban areas in Night City. In addition to the layout of Night City, they also marked the detected underground waterways with graffiti.
"Tsk, that's really troublesome... What about the missing person crystal ball?"
Aqi explained,
"At Ashiya-kun's place, he and Rama also went to the scene to assist in the investigation, but the search radius of the divination ball is only ten kilometers. We haven't found it yet. We are staying at the company."
0113007 asked abruptly,
"Why are you so mobilized? Is this just a temporary worker?"
Li Pan also knew the temperament of these cosmic people, so he didn't want to argue with him about this, and said casually.
"Although he is a temporary worker, 0791034 is also the apostle of the Sealing Demon God. Rounding it up can also be counted as the company's combat power and property. Now is a state of war, and everyone's strength is important." Li Pan looked at the old house of the Sealing Demon family
. Satellite images, as well as the battle records restored by the 18th reconnaissance, estimated the destructive power of these Iga ninjas, and felt that... it was actually not bad. There were at most three Tengu-level ones on site, and he could take them down by himself.
"Shiba, is there an Iga stronghold in the city?"
Shiba immediately marked an office building in the city. Employees working overtime and their identity information are also projected.
Oh, I really can't believe that all the ordinary people in this room are actually ninja killers with tens of thousands of dollars in rewards.
"This is Iga's office in the Night City, but it's just an office address for liaison ninja hiring tasks. There are no suspicious people or vehicles coming or going in the nearby CCTV closed-circuit surveillance. Kotaro should not be here." "Whatever, Ma
. Germany Now, any cat or dog dares to accept the reward offered by me to catch my person! If I ransack his house today, will he kick my nose in my face and chop off my head tomorrow!? Beat! After the beating, everyone will exchange prisoners! Eighteen
Eighteen Get ready to go out with me!"
Eighteen, "Okay~~"
0113007 quickly interrupted,
"Wait a minute, wait a minute! Manager, do you want to go in person again?
Why don't you wait until tomorrow for the first batch of biochemical humans I cultivated ? The soldier embryos will be fully developed..."
Li Pan waved his hand,
"It's okay, you just have to worry about yourself. I'll take care of this small scene.
Eighteen, are you ready here? How much combat preparations are available? ."
Shiba sent the list,
"The fleas and spiders of the Marine Combat Squadron have been sent to search the underground city, and the heavy-duty drones of the Naval Combat Squadron are still undergoing system upgrades and spraying anti-corrosion coatings. Now there is
a full The aerospace UAV squadron is available. Eighty medium-sized UAVs have completed module updates and system upgrades. They can be dispatched as long as they are authorized to load weapons."
Li Pan glanced at them casually.
'Cyaneus' aerospace fighter, 'Falcon' multi-purpose fighter, 'Fregata' anti-ship attack aircraft, 'Canus' stealth bomber, 'Petrel' electronic support aircraft, five models, each with a squadron of sixteen aircraft. .
Ouch, Gao Tianyuan is quite interesting. The batches given are all export products for foreign trade, and they are all medium-sized aircraft. So the strength is almost as strong as an aviation division. In fact, despite the fact that they all have foreign names and are so high-end
, These are actually drones produced locally by Muramasa Industries and Shibata Heavy Industries.
For example, 'Spider Style', the foreign trade version of another brand is called 'Araneida', they are the same thing. Because of the large-scale industrialized assembly line production these days, military products also use standardized modules. In addition to retaining the main structure, various equipment modules need to be updated at any time, replacing old and outdated level 4 equipment with new level 5 military technology. The current 'Spider' alone is a product that has been iteratively updated dozens of times.
So if it is the same model, the one called 'Araneida', it is usually a special supply for foreign trade. It is an order placed by a fleet or company from another world. The suit is selected according to the special environment, and the gravity parameters and environment parameters are updated to adjust the OS program, because they are all The latest one must use the latest generation design blueprint, and its product technology and material stability must be improved compared to the old model.
In order to cope with complex battlefield conditions and take into account the convenience required for supply, maintenance, reorganization and combat readiness, military equipment of different models and similar uses will try to use interchangeable universal interfaces of the same specification.
For example, 'Cyaneus' and 'Falcon', 'Fregata' and 'Canus' can be swapped and compatible to a certain extent. This ensures that combat effectiveness can be quickly formed even in the event of battle damage.
Li Pan also started ordering directly.
"This is a rented commercial office building. There are many civilians nearby. Don't bring heavy bombs such as nuclear warheads or guided bombs. Conventional weapons are enough. Just give me a
set of 'Petrel' and a set of 'Falcon'. Provide Electronic and fire support, well, it's better to be a little more luxurious. Let's have another group of 'Cyaneus' to support the alert."
Eighteen, "OK, arrangements!"
Three groups of twelve medium-sized drones quickly completed combat readiness and ejected to set sail.
They are said to be 'medium-sized', but they are actually behemoths with a wingspan of more than fifteen meters, a take-off weight of more than one hundred tons, and a bomb load of more than fifty tons.
Well, after all, the 'Spider' is only classified as a 'light' anti-infantry fighting vehicle. And these 'medium-sized' are designed to deal with ships, fortresses, and army groups. As for 'heavy' drones, they are generally used against interstellar battleships, such as those drone turrets used on space stations, and raider mines with their own jump engines.
So Li Pan didn't even need to take the float vehicle. He directly put on the SBS armor and airborne to a track for a raid. As soon as he lay down in the infantry drop cabin, he was hung directly under the wing of a 'Cyaneus' by the robotic arm and followed the crew directly. Supersonic speed sets sail.
There is a Whale-Eighteen central drone control system for central command, and a large number of spy satellites to provide intelligence and data support. Li Pan, lying in an airdrop coffin, can also use intelligent assistance to completely control the battlefield situation.
A mere five minutes later, three groups of twelve medium-sized fighters began a supersonic stealth cruise, broke through the Night City air defense circle, and arrived at the 'target', the sky above the Iga Ninja Office.
Then the action begins.
'Petrel' activates quadruple electromagnetic interference, hacks into the neighborhood signal center, seizes camera surveillance, and cuts off all network connections.
'Falcon' accelerated its dive and circled around. The machine gun fired a target in fifteen seconds. The accurately calculated trajectory perfectly avoided the load-bearing wall and directly cleared the entire target floor.
'Cyaneus' dropped the assault pod, hitting the infantry drop pod like a torpedo into the office with precision.
"Hand over the gun and not kill!"
Li Pan jumped out of the infantry cabin holding two machine guns.
The sight was a mess, and the office area had been turned into a bellows leaking air from all sides. The masonry and metal parts of the human body's prosthesis fell to pieces on the ground, and the pieces of meat all over the floor were the pieces of meat that had been swept away by shrapnel from machine cannons.
A half-human, half-crow monster lay twitching in a pool of blood, with a crooked nose and squinting eyes, spraying blood. This thing has been completely torn apart, and the head and spine are like unzipped zippers, separated from the body cavity of the torso that was almost torn into chrysanthemum petals by shrapnel.
Well, this is a big tengu that transformed in time. He was hit four times and survived, not because of how strong he was, but because Li Pan called his name and wanted to save him.
"Hattori Hanzo?"
The system scanned the iris to confirm that the identity was correct.
Li Pan stomped him in the face.
"Capture him!"
(End of chapter)