Night City's jurisdiction wasn't limited to the city proper. It also included the vast plains beyond the city.
The area was so expansive that using satellites to locate people on the plains and identify them one by one was quite impractical. From here on, the corporation's control dropped off a cliff.
Nomads made up the main population of the Badlands. They were far more likely to have no cyberware at all, and there were even plenty of lucky ones who had been born naturally healthy, making it difficult for netrunners to gather much information in the area.
Vast, endless deserts, Joshua trees, low hills, dried-up oil fields, piles of junk, and isolated little towns. The paved roads lay buried beneath yellow sand and dust. That was the Badlands in its entirety.
The area was so vast that the NCPD couldn't spare enough officers to send out there, so they contracted the Badlands' security to Militech forces. But most of Militech's troops stayed near highway exits and border lines.
Four Nomad-style vehicles drove across the desert. Seven young members of the Red Ochre Tribe had come to pick up Cedric, and aside from Nawei, none of them had experience in a large-scale shootout.
V and Lier sat in the modified Type 66. Jackie rode with Nawei. His bones hadn't fully healed, so he wasn't fit to fight and would direct things from that vehicle instead.
V wasn't suited to fighting either, but the Yinglong submachine gun had already been connected to the vehicle's gun interface. With Panoramic Crystal Ball Technology, she could control the gun from inside the vehicle.
"Now we've switched places. Never thought the day would come." V said as she connected through her Personal Link. "Looks like it's working fine."
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