[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-660":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152651,1495,"Chapter 654 - 625: Humanitarian Aid from Dog Town","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-660",660,"\u003Cp>\"I’m here to buy something. Uh... I’m a doctor. Nika can supply me with some blood...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Nika you’re talking about, is she a Scavenger?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Long Beach Junkyard, the sun rose, and a foul smell permeated the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Animal Gang was clearing out the Scavenger’s den, moving usable items from inside——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place was really run-down; Lille was preparing to build a small base nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Man King stood at the door, communicating with a middle-aged man whose hairline was ridiculously high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The latter claimed to be Anderson. When everyone else kept their distance from the place, this seemingly not idiotic middle-aged man did a stupid thing by approaching on his own. Not knowing what was wrong with his brain, the idle Wild Man King came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man was only of average height, but before the Wild Man King, he looked like a chick. She could squash him with a slap. It was obvious he knew this, which made her all the more curious about what trick he was playing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nika...\" The Wild Man King mouthed the name just as her lackeys were carrying out corpses in pairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pursed her lips and told Anderson, \"Nika, right? Go find out who she is yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the Scavenger corpses being hauled out in batches, Anderson felt his brain explode!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scavengers were gone. Who would sell them drugs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Scavengers are gone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gone. What exactly do you do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I’m a doctor. You killed the Scavengers... Do you know what kind of impact this will have on Dog Town?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Man King found it amusing and idly picked at her ear. \"What impact? Is there someone to mourn kidney-thieves?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kidney-thieves... They are scum, but without them, nothing comes into Dog Town! My patients, those kids...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Buzz——]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A broadcast suddenly interrupted in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This is Kurt Hansen, and now for an important news flash.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[After discussions with the NCPD authorities, a humanitarian aid corridor to Dog Town will be opened to provide humanitarian aid resources and medical assistance to residents stranded there.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Buzz.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cheesy plot and complaints came to an abrupt halt; even the Wild Man King found the expression on Anderson’s face somewhat amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Man King was uneducated and didn’t understand geopolitical shifts, but she watched TV!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some trashy TV shows liked to depict plots where, after a villain dies, it supposedly leads to a social vacuum, displacement, and loss of income——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the internet, people referred to these plots as bullshit and generally believed it was corporate propaganda, attempting to brainwash the masses with dumb TV to promote corporate values, implying that another company would take over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She realized this point couldn’t be contested, yet it felt frustrating, like being forced to acknowledge an unwelcome truth without any room for refutation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now things were different——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The NCPD was corrupt too, but it was still better than the Scavengers, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, it was said that this batch of NCPD had significant ties to her employer and boss, the Burger King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She might be uneducated, but she knew perfection was impossible. Still, she wasn’t a psycho. Whenever she had a choice, she preferred to be a good person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anderson’s expression changed multiple times, looking from the broadcast in the sky to the Scavenger corpses being treated as garbage. After shifting his gaze repeatedly, he finally blurted out:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh... So how do you sell these humanitarian supplies?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ll know soon enough——\" The Wild Man King waved at her lackeys in the distance. \"You’re a doctor, right? I’ll give it to you at cost price. After all, Scavenger stuff is trash anyway.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Anderson’s shocked gaze, a dirty box of artificial blood was loaded onto his shabby car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hansen: Oh, you’ve got guts. I should switch to combat mode and have the Netherworld Dog drag you out of Dog Town.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hansen’s communication image appeared in Lille’s visual system as he walked and replied to the message:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Smart people would be happy to have a more suitable partner rather than getting upset over a few negligible former partners.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hansen: According to you, I should welcome you for breaking the local ecosystem.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: You should welcome me. I have better tech than the Voodoo Gang and more capital than the Scavengers. If you want to get out of this half-baked state and clean up your act, you should team up with me rather than stick around with your old soldier’s barbecue shack.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hansen: You’re insulting my military career...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: That thing has long been ground into the dirt by New America and yourself.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hansen: Interesting. And you, as a wanted man by the corp and Night City, how do you expect to do what you said? Without Dog Town, you’re just a stray dog.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: That’s why you should team up with me. We have a lot in common.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hansen: You’ve got more to say than Hans. You should have contacted me directly. The banquet starts in two days; be ready with your stakes.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: I’m looking forward to seeing how luxurious your hotel is, Colonel.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Dog Town’s gate, the atmosphere was tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netherworld Dog’s soldiers, armored vehicles, drones, and mechas stood behind the fortification’s cover. It looked like they could switch to combat mode in seconds and unleash firepower that could decimate the locals of Taiping State.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the opposing \"NCPD outsourced personnel\" were no pushovers either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soldiers equipped with standardized prosthetics, drone arrays in neat formations, heavy combat soldiers in exoskeletons, and armored vehicles with heavy firepower and electromagnetic guns—one could believe they came to attack Dog Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netherworld Dog was a gang-run army; the Burger King’s guys were gang members who operated like a military unit. Both sides stared at each other, trash talk leaking from their eyes, but they kept their restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David completed the inventory check with the Netherworld Dog officer at the gate. Mackinaw Mammoth vehicles modified for cargo hauled humanitarian supplies to the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some essential military supplies were sent in as well——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, the Sapphire Feast was a grand black market transaction, and Hansen wasn’t the type to show fear at threats. He wanted to see something substantial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supplies slowly flowed into the basement under the desolate buildings. Supplies and gang lackeys kept pouring in. What was originally a temporary holdout for Lille became a legitimate fortress in Dog Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prosthetics doctors, tech experts, and hackers who had provided services and resources to locals cut ties with the Scavengers and shifted their dealings here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon arrival, Lille’s lackeys began repairing and fortifying the desolate buildings, connecting cables, installing generators, and communication devices as required...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After David took care of everything, Lille walked out of the room. He promptly stepped up:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, all the stuff is here. This place looks chaotic, worse than Saint Domingo by a hundred times.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This place is a war zone. You did well; keep it up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille praised him briefly and walked off. V, however, glanced curiously at David——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, she had clearly seen the kid make out with that white-haired hacker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kid.\" V called out to David. \"You and your friend... progressing quickly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David scratched his head. \"Not bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not bad... Alright, go back to work.\" V said, then followed in the direction Lille had left.\u003C\u002Fp>",1218,"2026-06-03T12:33:34.019Z","2026-06-03T12:33:40.482Z",1,"novelbin.me","054e9a712beaad6d98da71c7b5e15cc6d5c33ee35a46b2a37f2c564a85ac0709","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-661","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-659",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]