How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

50. smoke screen

The old smuggler repeatedly emphasized that it was a simple request, but if it was really simple, I would handle it myself and not catch the solver. It was right to avoid requests that did not go through an intermediary because the post-processing was complicated. rationally, in principle.

“I’ll get you what you said last time.”

“The other day?”

The old smuggler pretended to look around. Excluding the maggots entangled in the food, it was a suggestive gesture, since it was only Leonard and the old man.

“Gold Brownie 66 Model 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun.”

“The M66 machine gun? Didn’t you say it couldn’t be leaked because it was an active duty equipment for the Allied Forces?”

“So, service. They usually don’t.”

“…doesn’t that mean the service is free?”

“Free is free.”

Sigma would hate it if he found out. It’s just that it’s expensive and it increases the useless collection. But the collection was originally like that.

“Let’s just listen.”

The old smuggler’s expression brightened.

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Thirty minutes had passed since I advised not to trust people.

“Simple things suck…”

Advice from adults is actually something you can’t keep. I couldn’t believe the old smuggler’s words.

“It’s not a detention center, it’s a checkpoint. Can’t we just poke a few credits and get it?”

Max asked innocently. No, it’s not naive to give bribes, so you’d have to say it’s stupid.

“If the corporate public security was that easy, the old man would have spent the money behind him to get it out.”

“is that so? After all, he is rich.”

The smuggler old man’s simple request is to retrieve the cargo truck that was seized at Checkpoint 7 in Wing Town. According to the notification from the public security, unauthorized cargo has been found and is being investigated.

The war ended seven years ago, but the relationship between the ground and the underground, the New Human Federation and the Old Human Federation was still uncomfortable, and the military equipment trade was more complicated than any other corporate order. In this case, bribery did not work.

“Then how do you find the smuggling truck? Shall we blow up the checkpoint?”

“Let’s try it when you want to stop living.”

There was a reason a lot of inspiration hung over Leonard. It wasn’t something a gang or scavenger could do.

“Then what are you going to do? Shall I give up?”

Leonard answered Django in vain.

“Let’s go and think about it.”

The reason Wing Town is called Wing Town is because it is located between two forking roads.

If you go east along the outer road from A-044 City, there is a northeast road to A-039 City and a southeast road to A-038 City. They are called the right wing and left wing, respectively, and the 7th checkpoint was located 3 km from the left wing.

Leonard parked a pickup truck at the entrance to Wing Town, reminiscent of a frontier town in the Wild West, and fixed a surveillance camera that was out of place in the Wild West. With this, Leonard’s pickup truck never left 11th Street in Junk Town. Max groaned as he pulled down his guitar bag.

“I am hungry. Let’s start eating something.”

“There’s canned food there.”

“I don’t have a bottle opener.”

It was a lot of work. Leonard pulled a knife from his shoulder holster. Max looked suspiciously.

“Isn’t this a stabbing knife?”

“I haven’t been stabbed yet.”

Leonard remembered the position of the holster. Sheathed on his back and kicked a .45 caliber ‘Air Force’ revolver into his left armpit. It felt like the right balance was right now. As a test, I put my hand in both armpits and pulled out the gun, and it was pulled out easily. A single revolver could make up for the lack of firepower.

Max watched curiously as he poked a knife through the lid of the can.

“Companies on the ground also make revolvers. I also make sniper rifles and machine guns. Because Rykov doesn’t make anything. Why are you insisting on Allied weapons?”

I wouldn’t know if it was in the early days of land pioneering, but there was no technical difference these days. Leonard swung his two revolvers back and forth.

“It’s just that I’m used to it.”

“Because you’re from the Allies?”

“That too…”

While Leonard was thinking about how to explain, the blade went in. The chicken was detected by the sensitive olfactory sensor.

“Chicken is chicken!”

Max, who likes meat, was excited to cut it. He was good at stealing canned goods when he was young. Leonard looked down the street south after warning him to wash and return the knife. Left Wing Checkpoint 7 wasn’t far away. I had to put in the effort as much as I received the advance payment.

“The classic method would be nice.”

“What is it?”

Max asked, smearing a lump of grease around his mouth. Leonard took a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.

“It is a time-tested operation.”

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Leonard and Max ate canned food and slept until the sun went down. Even though infrared eyes and heat-sensing implants were commonplace, stealing was still good at night.

Leonard woke up Max, who slept coolly after seeing A-044 City with the sunset behind him.

“Start.”

In addition to security personnel armed with heavy weapons, the checkpoint was also equipped with a number of tactical drones and automatic turrets. Even if the defense facilities were neutralized, it was difficult to escape as they received direct support from the Federal Armed Patrol. Whether it was a frontal attack or a surprise attack, no answer came from the attack. The best is to steal, the best of the best is to bounce quickly.

“Arrived at location A.”

The Fixer isn’t a thief, but he has some equipment that a thief would envy. One of them was a thermo-optical camouflage system.

Leonard hid himself in the optics and approached 20m in front of the checkpoint. Although it is within the surveillance range of tactical drones, it has not been caught thanks to science and technology.

-should? do it now?

Max asked breathlessly. I wondered if I was scared by now, but I was excited to hear it. A kid who would die with a single shot was overly brave.

“sun.”

The result of the permission came from the other side of Leonard. An intense flash of light rips through the darkness, followed by a roar. Kwaaang-! Quaang-!

“Mmm, what is it?”

“what is this sound!”

Public security agents poured out of the checkpoint. I enlarged the implant eye to the east where the glare was shining, but I couldn’t see anything. Black and tawny smoke blew through the low moorland winds.

“damn! It’s a smoke grenade!”

“Enemies! Prepare for an attack!”

To be precise, it was the N77 flash grenade and the N88 smoke grenade. The tactical drone is booming! With a roar, the security guards with loaded guns dispersed into battle formations. However, there will be no attack they want. The bad boy who made a fuss had already run away.

“There’s nothing as proven as a double operation.”

Leonard crossed the checkpoint boundary. We disabled the most dangerous automatic turret and boarded the Smuggler’s Cargo. There was a loud sound of the car door opening and closing, but neither man nor machine noticed. After shouting from the east, they hit from the west, literally Seongdonggyukseo (聲東擊西).

“I got into the car. Go to the next location.”

-Smoke, shall we explode the smoke?

“Not yet. Let’s go according to plan.”

According to plan, this was a crisis. Leonard plugged in the spare key the old smuggler had given him. Just in time, a smoke screen blew the wind and hit the checkpoint. The smoke scattered thinly and could not hide anything, but it could create an atmosphere.

Vureung- Vureung-

The cargo truck started up. A nearby public security agent turned casually. Leonard made a ‘bang’ sound with his finger gun. The implant eyeball, which raised its performance to its maximum, burst as it was. The pain was also painful, but the repair cost was pitiful.

“back! It’s behind you!”

Leonard turned on all the headlights and stepped hard on the accelerator. It was almost the same as the police officers turning their guns and the cargo truck driving through the barriers at the checkpoint. Most of the bullets missed into the air.

“Now!”

Max pulled out an N88 smoke grenade safety pin and scattered it on the floor. Even one explosion covers a bunker, but when dozens explode at the same time, a black curtain is formed on the road. Leonard’s cargo rattled – rattled – and plunged into a wall of black smoke.

“Eh, Achoo! So, you did it! Coke! Coke!”

Max quickly jumped into the cargo truck sticking his head through the smoke. The wind was against the wind, but the smoke was so acrid that my nose flowed. It was an amount that could suffocate. The cyborg agent was also breathing, so he couldn’t catch up right away.

“Are you running to the wasteland like this?”

“I have to get rid of that before then.”

Leonard glanced in his side mirror. The two-legged cyborg did not pursue, but the propeller-powered tactical drone wheezed through the smoke. Even without scanning, it was clear that the number was large.

“It’s not a swarm of flies…”

Leonard’s pupils changed. A drone hacked in advance at a checkpoint changed its target. Due to its weight, it uses 9mm pistol rounds, but due to its weight, it could break a similar drone that uses aluminum armor. Tata Tang-! Tata Tang-!

The bullets fired by the three-point burst embroidered the night sky in a dizzying way. Combating high-speed, omnidirectional maneuvers with tactical drones was more complex than an old-time fighter. However, humans have evolved along with the times.

bang!

Max leaned out the window and fired his shotgun. It is a birdshot that is not often used due to its low lethality, but by changing the material and increasing the charge, it was able to shoot down at least a small drone flying in the air. First of all, the range of bullets was wide and the accuracy rate was high.

“It’s not a bird shot! Let’s call it a drone shot!”

Max exclaimed, ‘Wah ha ha!’ laughed Leonard pulled on Max’s belt with his right arm. As soon as he entered the car, a bullet raked the front passenger seat. If you’re a little late, you’ll have a hole in your head.

“Do you think you are Ryan? Wake!’

Leonard simultaneously piloted a cargo truck and two tactical drones. There were three windows in front of my eyes, but the direction of my eyes were all different. Among the implant hackers treated as eccentrics, there was no hacker who could show such feats.

Ta-dad-dad- bang-!

Shot down an additional tactical drone. However, things were not good. The tactical drone in Leonard’s control ran out of bullets. While firing an empty gun, he was shot down and fell.

‘Now I’m in my 7th. can do.’

Leonard glanced at Max. ‘Are you ready?’ Max nodded after reloading. ‘I’ll be alone now!’ Something wasn’t right with the signal.

Leonard judged that his mind and heart worked and stepped on the brakes. Kiyi Iik-! Unable to overcome inertia, the car body turned sideways. Leonard let go of the handle and drew his revolver. Gun&Gun’s revolver was basically a single & double action, so it was possible to fire quickly. I pulled the trigger with a pair of pistols, one in each hand. Bang bang bang-! thump-!

For shooting from a slippery car, the hit rate was excellent. It may also be because the device did not respond to the sudden reversal. Four of the seven planes were hit by bullets and crashed.

“Hey-! Surprise!”

Max fired his shotgun repeatedly as the hull rotated. 45 caliber shower, but the birdshot net was unavoidable. Two tactical drones exploded in the air. Looking at the results, there was no shortage even if he was a sharpshooter.

“There is still one left…!”

Leonard’s hacking drone is also left. Leonard head-butted with the drone he was piloting. Kwagwawang-! The largest and most spectacular explosion among the drones that exploded today.

Leonard shifted gears and stepped on the accelerator to return the cargo to its original position. The criminal vehicle that overturned Checkpoint 7 proceeded into the wasteland as if it had never stopped.

“The FAP should have been dispatched by now. We need to get as far away from the city as possible.”

“Then when are you going home?”

Leonard calculated how long old smuggler would come to pick up the cargo. It will take quite a while because it is an inspiration with a lot of caution.

“Well… it will take a few days.”

Max’s expression deteriorated. I don’t know if it’s worth the hard work.