Cyberpunk: 2075

"Welcome to Los Angeles, everyone from Team KK."

In an abandoned town in the badlands near Los Angeles, the largest city in Southern California, Carl met the contact who had previously sent a message on his mobile phone to welcome them.

It's not even a contact person. According to the entrustment, this person is only responsible for giving them some information needed for the mission, and then leaving. The entire mission process, including how to obtain the documents and how to bring them, belongs to the KK team. matter.

"Well disguised."

Karl carefully looked at the contact person who greeted them, and had to admit that this person's appearance was very deceiving.

Judging from his appearance alone, the connector is a male, about 1.6 meters tall, wearing a gray and dusty hat. Under the hat is a messy blond hair. His body is so thin that he can barely hold up his body. The clothes, the freckles on his face and his childish face make people look at him and their first reaction is to think that he is just an ordinary Badland teenager.

This youthful and bad-land appearance is indeed difficult to attract the attention of others. As a disguise, it is really suitable.

The blond boy didn't reply to Karl's words of praising his disguise, as if it was a matter of course. He observed the surroundings and confirmed that there were no people in the bad land outside the abandoned town. The other shadows approached and handed out something. Karl just took it, and before he could say anything, he saw the connector turn around.

"Then, everything is left to you. I hope you will not let down the reputation of the team."

After leaving such words of warning, he put down his hat and walked away in a hurry. Not long after, the sound of motorcycle engines came from the deserted town. When Karl and the others saw him again When he contacted the person, he had already driven an inconspicuous vehicle into the wilderness of the bad land.

"That motorcycle is a model I have never seen before, but from the general structure, it can be seen that the parts of four famous and durable motorcycles are assembled. They were disassembled and assembled from abandoned motorcycles. The specific source cannot be traced. ”

V watched the motorcycle going away, and used his experience as a former wanderer to educate his companions: "Not only the identity, but also the vehicle were carefully selected. This person should have received professional training. At least he is a qualified wanderer in disguise.”

"Agent, or spy?"

Oliver rubbed the small beard on his chin and guessed: "I have heard of the New United States CIA, which is the internal intelligence-led department of the New United States that has both information collection and law enforcement functions. They specialize in carrying out operations on specific matters. And investigation, and lurking everywhere, could we encounter it today? "

"Whether it is or not, it should not be something that the client wants us to delve into."

Karl observed what the contact person handed over and found that it was a notebook wrapped in old rags.

Pulling open the rag that could be easily torn with just a little force, Karl opened the book with slightly old and dim pages, and found that the book was filled with all kinds of information.

Karl took a look at it and found that it was information introducing the current situation in Los Angeles.

After the United States of America split and each city-state became independent, Los Angeles, once the second largest city in the United States and the largest city in the West, fell away from the control of the federal government, and what followed was a series of chaos.

As the center of industry, commerce, international trade and other affairs of the "City of Angels", Los Angeles was greatly affected by the division of the country. After the rise in prices and unemployment caused by the economic impact, the streets fell into looting of goods and unemployment. In the chaos of the tide, the Los Angeles Police Department, which was the only one able to maintain order at the time, caused a series of dissatisfaction due to excessive enforcement during the chaotic period, which led to the second Los Angeles riots against the police officers. (The first time was in 1992)

During the riots between citizens and police officers, a large number of robberies, assaults, arson and murders occurred during the riots, but the courts were slow to rule on violent law enforcement officers amid the chaos, which further led to chaos Intensification of:

Almost all the citizens of the city joined in the chaotic frenzy, venting their dissatisfaction to everyone around them with their madness. This city with a population of several million almost fell into chaos on the first day of the great chaos. The number of deaths and injuries exceeded the first Los Angeles riot in the past, reaching thousands. Compared with the first riot, the National Guard and Marine Corps were still stopping it. This second time, even the police were deeply involved. No one can stop the riots trapped in it.

No one can say for sure the exact death toll during the Los Angeles Riots, but what is known is that since the riots, Los Angeles has fallen from its throne as the largest and most populous "City of Angels" in western North America.

The city gradually declined due to chaos and economic collapse, architectural derelict and massive population loss. At the same time, Northern California's Night City emerged, replacing Los Angeles' former status as the center of Western North America and becoming the center of all people. Attention-grabbing, well-known as the 'City of Glory'.

Los Angeles and Night City are like brothers, reflecting each other. Compared with the prosperous Night City, until the split ended and the new United States accepted the intervention and reached a form of return to the Federation, Los Angeles has not been able to return to the past. One tenth is prosperous, and therefore,

Los Angeles, which hurriedly wanted to return to its past status and swore allegiance to the new United States, hated the "brother" who took away its status."

"In the city, you can't say that you are from Night City, let alone that you are a resident of Night City, otherwise you will often be hostile to the chaotic street people. They hate the people of Night City and envy those who have not surrendered and still enjoy the prosperity of Night City. Looking at the introduction of Los Angeles on the page, Jack and Oliver, as locals of Night City, have twitched their expressions.

"Envy the people of Night City who enjoy the prosperity?"

Jack muttered.

"This sounds too niche."

Oliver looked strange.

It's too outrageous that there are still people who envy Night City, that ghost place.

"Don't worry, there are more to come."

Carl turned the page and found that there was nothing written on the second page, only two simple lines of words.

"Seven bars in the city."

"Code - 'all-match, free", you can use this to get intelligence information in the city from the bar owner. "

"It seems that we have not only got information about the local conditions and people, but also recommended places.'