[RIVER: Your judgment was right. The Brain Maggot Gang had planted miniature transmitters in many corners of the city through its maze of underground spaces.]
[RIVER: The interference array could make crimes committed in a certain area disappear completely from NCPD's surveillance system. All we had to do was kill every witness, and it would take us a long time to notice anything was wrong.]
[RIVER: A lot of gangs have come back, and they've been getting more and more active lately. Looks like they all want to get a head start in this race. Your plan's more addictive than drugs.]
[RIVER: The streets have been even messier these past two days. Aside from the mandatory curfew, there've been shootouts at all hours.]
[RIVER: Guess what I heard people saying when I went out yesterday? They've actually started thanking those old gangs.]
[RIVER: What the hell.]
"Woohoo!"
The nearly ten-ton pickup tore across the Badlands dunes at high speed. In another vehicle, the suspension probably wouldn't have lasted a minute at this pace.
V stood in the truck bed, facing the flying dust-
This was great. Driving a truck like this was exhilarating, even if all that hit her in the face was dust.
Jackie excitedly typed away in the back seat:
[Mercenary Handbook-Vehicles:]
[Listen up, rookies. There's only one kind of vehicle you need in this world: lots of space, plenty of horsepower, and the ability to do 80 in the crater-filled Badlands.]
Jackie glanced up at the speedometer.
[90]
He looked again. They were already at 100!
"Mano!" Jackie shouted excitedly to Lier. "Can we go any faster?!"
"Any faster and it won't be safe!"
The sound of the vehicle swerving wildly, the engine roaring, and the chassis clanging against rocks and uneven ground meant the two of