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Chapter 110 - 34: Post-Match Summary, Aiming for S65, Author Battles Geriatric Feike in ICU_2

Chapter 110: Chapter 34: Post-Match Summary, Aiming for S65, Author Battles Geriatric Feike in ICU_2

[Expert Expert Super Expert: Without them, you couldn’t even start this raid. I estimate these monsters are at least two or three levels higher than you. This time, it’s like Snow White and the Huntsman leading the nine dwarfs on a palace raid.]

Many people on the forum were discussing the promotional video, and some players were complaining that the respawn cooldown in this game was too long. If Lin Miao hadn’t set the time to one day, they might have been reluctant to become the suicide squad.

Lin Miao was also helpless about this. If there were no penalty for death, this group of players would likely test the game’s limits and bugs in various ways, so it was a necessary measure.

After bidding farewell to the old captain and Adcardo, Lin Miao didn’t return to Night City. Instead, he grabbed a batch of tools from Adcardo and stayed overnight at the office after saying goodbye to Mann’s team, taking the opportunity to tally player points and check inventory from this operation.

Despite his cheerful mood, in Lucy and Mann’s eyes, Lin Miao seemed downcast because of the deaths of his comrades and needed some time alone.

Natural Curl and Pandora worked swiftly, and by the time Lin Miao returned, they had already recovered the bodies and logged off long ago.

Now Lin Miao only hoped that these evil-doers, who had finally met players as Night Wanderers, could make a new contribution to society tomorrow.

Player points were calculated based on headcount plus battlefield contribution and were settled uniformly by the system.

The player with the highest points was Brother Ni, with 9 headcounts plus taking on the boss with a self-destruct task, totaling around 3200 points.

Potato and Giant also had a lot of headcounts, but the machine guns and grenades were borrowed from Lin Miao, so their points were discounted, both getting around 2400.

Natural Curl got 2200 by single-handedly killing an elite, plus two small fries, and completing the body collection task. The rest scored between 1800 and 2000, and Pandora tagged along for a task, or she might have ended up at the bottom.

Although it didn’t seem much, all their bodies were recovered together, and no equipment was lost. If you count the auction the players will hold after they respawn tomorrow, it could be said they made a big profit.

The only slight loss was for Giant, whose motorcycle exploded with no compensation.

After recovering the bodies, a large number of prosthetic limbs were salvaged. Excluding those damaged in combat, there were over seventy limbs, thirty-three sets of enhanced tendons, bionic joints, as well as internal organs, bionic eyes, and a few brain components. Most could be considered white-grade, with only five or six greens, over sixty guns of various types, more than two thousand rounds of ammo, and even four vehicle-mounted machine guns dismantled. You could say it was a bumper harvest.

What surprised Lin Miao was that among these Night Wanderers, there was actually a hacker, who was taken out by Lucy with little presence, leaving behind a deep-dive interface and some hacker prosthetics. It’s hard to tell if her last misstep was due to strong opponents or weak ones this time.

But now the office’s warehouse couldn’t fit everything, and some internal organs and brain components needed to be preserved in biomass to avoid spoilage. Tomorrow, they’d have to assign players a new task to build out two more warehouses, and it wouldn’t hurt to find something else to keep them busy.

Regarding the players, Lin Miao had to admit their potential was greater than he had imagined. What they did today could probably not even be accomplished by low-level mercenaries in Night City... Perhaps future actions could be bolder?

Currently, if you don’t count the corporations, the biggest local power in Evil Land is still the Night Wanderers. Even though dozens were killed today, there are at least three to four hundred of them in the outskirts of Night City, or Sol wouldn’t be so wary of them.

But Paul’s death will inevitably cause turmoil within the Night Wanderers. Besides their main stronghold at Stone Ridge Mountain Tunnel and Factory, they have many smaller posts. Maybe this is a chance to take them out, occasionally let players raid and level up a bit.

And as equipment quantity and variety begin to increase, and players’ communication channels with the outside world expand, the original gray-market prosthetic limbs and bullet prices need to be adjusted to prevent players from dumping and profiting from price differences. Ideally, establishing their own ammunition production line would be best...

Of course, what Lin Miao coveted most wasn’t anything related to people or experience but the smuggling operations of these Night Wanderers.

Smuggling is a highly profitable business, aiming to transport goods across borders through certain channels to avoid tariffs. Those engaged in this business are respectfully called "International Trade Duty-Free Officers."

There’s no chance for Lin Miao to get the Night Wanderers’ channels. Even if he wiped them all out, their superior is the Chaotic Blade Association. Any meeting would certainly end in a fight to the death, and thinking about acquiring goods that way is out of the question. Even their lower ranks wouldn’t acknowledge him; he still needs to wipe them all out.

But if I can’t get the channels, I can at least take your goods. The Night Wanderers have been in the Evil Land for years and must have stockpiled some good stuff.

Just the thought of it makes Lin Miao almost unable to resist rallying the players to "collect illegal goods and illicit gains"—a notion of raiding and looting.

After all, he and the small players are still in a stage of struggling to survive in Evil Land. To develop quickly, they can only rely on robbery in the short term. Raiding Night Wanderers for coins is a sustainable, though exhausting, strategy.

Determined to frequently visit this evil neighbor in the future, Lin Miao shifted his focus back to himself. After this battle, he leveled up again, as did the players, though they couldn’t see their panels while incapacitated.