20: Prepare for delivery

Turning around, Fang Yun searched the "Night Vision Ghost" he had just beheaded again.

Although this "Night Vision Ghost" wasn't blasted into pieces by Fang Yun, Fang Yun had no intention of reselling used cyberware, nor did he care for the low-level cyberware on this guy, so he didn't bother with the cyberware, only focusing on searching for chips.

In the end, Fang Yun only found 1 "First Order Chip: Cyberware Capacity +2", 1 "First Order Chip: Shooting Accuracy +2%", and 1 "First Order Chip: Defense +2" on the "Night Vision Ghost".

Fang Yun muttered softly:

"This Nightwalker looked a bit stronger than those two Nightwalker lackeys, and it turns out he really was just a bit stronger."

After speaking, Fang Yun got up and walked a couple of steps, collecting the weapons from these three Nightwalkers as well.

There were a total of 2 First Order daggers, 1 First Order retractable baton, and 3 First Order kinetic handguns.

Although the weapons on these three Nightwalkers were useless to Fang Yun, this was the first time Fang Yun had obtained loot from scavenging, so Fang Yun decided to keep them properly and not decompose them into enhancement components.

"There shouldn't be anything else."

Fang Yun said with a bit of regret:

"What a shame, no golden legendary drop. Didn't they say small mobs could drop golden legendaries? There's none here either. Shrimp head game developers, shrimp head game planners, truly shrimp head."

Valentine, who was scavenging loot not far from Fang Yun, only collected the Nightwalkers' firearms and ammunition, leaving the other items.

After scavenging the loot, Valentine walked over to Fang Yun, happened to hear what Fang Yun said, and couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Golden legendary? What's that?"

Fang Yun waved his hand and said:

"Nothing, just something that doesn't exist."

"Speaking of which, you guys are done scavenging too, right?"

Valentine nodded.

Toke, who like Valentine had only taken the firearms and ammunition, also walked over and said:

"There's nothing really worth taking. Besides the bullets being useful, only the guns are worth a little money."

Fang Yun understood this; after all, not everyone was like him and possessed the cyberpunk module, so the scope of valuable loot was naturally much smaller.

Furthermore, Valentine and Toke weren't the type to deal in reselling used cyberware, so only firearms and ammunition counted as valuable loot.

"So, can we go get the cargo you hid now?"

Fang Yun made an inquisitive gesture.

Valentine and Toke nodded together.

"Let's go, time to complete the quest." (Valentine)

"Okay." x2

Fang Yun followed behind Toke, passing through one hidden path after another.

During the boring process of following, Fang Yun used the only currently available function of the NPC module on Valentine and Toke respectively—viewing NPC friendliness.

[Name]: Valentine Buckle (Valentine)

[Friendliness]: 5

...

[Name]: Toke Buckle

[Friendliness]: 5

...

"Hmm, for a first meeting, this friendliness isn't low. ...This might have something to do with my strong power."

Fang Yun believed his thoughts were likely correct; if it weren't for his strong power, Valentine and Toke's friendliness towards him might not necessarily have reached 5 points.

Of course, if he were very weak, it's not impossible that these two people's friendliness towards him might be even higher.

While somewhat bored following Toke and weaving through various hidden paths, Fang Yun's mind wandered for a while.

Then, Fang Yun reined in his thoughts and began to think about how to increase Valentine's friendliness.

"Emm... First, I need to find a way to stick with Valentine. Valentine is from the Buckle Family. If I can stay in the Buckle Family Camp, I'll have more opportunities to increase Valentine's friendliness."

"If I can't stay in the Buckle Family Camp, then I'll have to exchange contact information with Valentine first, and then find opportunities to help Valentine resolve things similar to this Nightwalker raid, which should increase friendliness."

Just as Fang Yun was lost in thought, he suddenly noticed that Toke, who was leading the way ahead of him, had stopped.

With a sudden stop, Fang Yun quickly halted to prevent himself from bumping into Toke.

"Toke, we finally made it? You hid the cargo quite well."

Fang Yun asked.

"That's right, the cargo is hidden here. Wait a moment, once I get the cargo, we can continue completing the quest."

Toke replied, calling Valentine to join him in moving aside the camouflage covering the cargo. Then, Toke and Valentine each took out a cargo box from a large box beneath the camouflage.

The cargo box was a rectangular prism roughly 60 cm × 15 cm × 30 cm, made of some kind of steel, with a medical supply sticker logo on the front.

Although Fang Yun knew from the car radio that Valentine and Toke were transporting a total of two cargo boxes, he didn't know what these two people were transporting.

Seeing the medical supply logo on the cargo box, Fang Yun couldn't help but ask:

"If it's convenient, could you tell me what cargo you're transporting? It looks like medical supplies?"

Valentine and Toke exchanged glances. Then, Valentine turned and said to Fang Yun:

"We can tell you, after all, this quest isn't a secret quest."

"As you thought, the cargo we're transporting is indeed medical supplies."

"This batch of cargo is medical supplies ordered by Weeks Town in the Badlands from Night City."

"In fact, many small towns in the Badlands order various supplies from Night City. Not just medical supplies, but also medical equipment, firearms and ammunition, melee weapons, brand new or used cyberware, food supplies, and so on."

"The cargo that towns in the Badlands entrust our Buckle Family to transport is usually legal cargo, but occasionally, or rather, often occasionally, there will be some illegal cargo."

"Illegal cargo naturally needs to be kept secret. In addition, certain special cargo also needs to be kept secret, such as cargo that the client requires us to keep confidential."

"As for the cargo for this quest, it's just some ordinary medical supplies, and the client didn't require it to be kept secret."

"In fact, Toke and I never understood why Nightwalkers would pursue us. After all, the transport route the family arranged for us was relatively safe, and we weren't transporting anything valuable."

Saying this, Valentine spread his hands, indicating he was somewhat confused.

Toke reached out from Valentine's side and patted Valentine's shoulder.

"Alright, Valentine. After we finish transporting the cargo and return to the family, you'll have plenty of time to think about this issue. For now, let's focus on completing the quest."

Valentine lowered his hands, nodded, and agreed with Toke's statement.

Fang Yun listened to Valentine and Toke from the side, stroked his chin, and began to ponder:

"Valentine is indeed worthy of being the protagonist. I suspect, no, I'm almost certain, there's a conspiracy behind this Nightwalker raid."

Fang Yun narrowed his eyes slightly.

"I smell a conspiracy."