Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

“I know this makes you all very sad, but Sami probably doesn’t participate much in camp deliveries, right?”

The camp raid is a done deal; the guy getting robbed shouldn't be Sami's fault, unless you're constantly telling her you're going to raid the camp. "Isn't that a bit naive?"

Max's expression grew even more serious after hearing Vito's words, and he didn't even notice the cigarette burning his fingers.

There's a mole within the Snake Gang!

Chapter 68 Shout!

Max's cigarette burned out, and after hearing Vito's words, his fingertips trembled as he barely managed to pull himself out of Sami's tragic past, his eyes swirling with anger and disbelief.

"There's a traitor among them! What's wrong with the Snake Clan?! They actually colluded with the Night Wanderers to harm their own people!"

He clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white, and his whole body radiated a suppressed ferocity. The usually kind tribal chief was now driven to ruthlessness by the complete betrayal.

Wanderers of the wilderness band together for survival from birth; betraying their tribe is an unforgivable sin.

Vito stubbed out his cigarette, the butt flickering like a spark.

"Anger solves nothing."

Max took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his surging emotions, and looked up at Vito.

"Do you have a solution?"

There is one.

Vito revealed his pre-planned scheme.

"Tomorrow morning, under the pretext of dispersing supplies and mitigating risks, you will divide all the delivery and escort teams in the camp into five small teams, each heading to a different supply point in the wasteland. The final destination of all five teams is that abandoned mine transfer station deep in the Badlands."

Max raised an eyebrow, instantly understanding the underlying meaning.

"You and I will lead the combat personnel near their final transit point, without revealing any trace."

The five teams take different routes and depart at different times. Only the mole will send a message to the Night Wanderer in advance and lie in ambush at the destination or along the way.

Whichever squad is ambushed, there's a traitor within that squad.

He paused for a moment, then added.

"The entire operation is kept secret. No one but you and me knows the true arrangements. This way, we can at least check out Xiu Dan T first."

"Do as you say! I'll arrange for people to split it up right now, and absolutely no word will leak out!"

That night, the camp remained quiet and peaceful, and no one knew that a hunt targeting the mole had been quietly set up.

Carlo stayed with Sami, who had calmed down, in the tent to rest. The little girl's eyes were empty, filled with self-blame.

Jack, on the other hand, went early to count the weapons and check the equipment, eagerly waiting to deal with the Night Wanderer.

The next day, just as dawn was breaking and the sandstorms of the harsh land were still howling, Max gathered all the members of the group and, according to plan, divided them into five teams.

After that, he issued different supply point missions, only saying that different squads should not communicate during the missions. His tone was normal, and he did not show any abnormality.

Without a doubt, the team members quickly organized supplies and inspected the trucks. The five teams drove out of the Snake Village camp one after another, heading in different directions.

Time passed slowly, and the first five teams drove smoothly towards the abandoned mine transfer station without encountering any obstacles.

Max stared at the locator in his hand, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper.

Finally, as the last squad drove into the canyon area surrounding the mine transfer station, a series of urgent cries for help suddenly came through the radio, accompanied by dense gunfire and the roar of explosions!

"There's an ambush! It's the Night Wanderers' convoy! They've been waiting here for a while!"

"Their firepower is too strong, we can't hold on!"

Vito's eyes narrowed, and he gave the order in a cold and decisive voice.

"Max, you and Carol lead your men to flank from the left canyon, Jack and I will launch a frontal assault. Annihilate the Night Wanderer Team, don't let a single one escape!"

The magician accelerated instantly, the engine roaring as it broke through the sandstorm and sped toward the ambush site.

At this moment, inside the canyon, Night Wanderer's modified vehicle had surrounded Snake Gang's Xiaojinghua F group. The gunmen were firing wildly with machine guns, and the Wanderer team members in the vehicle were retreating step by step.

Just then, Vito's off-road vehicle was the first to rush into the battlefield, and the Sany heavy machine guns instantly spat fire, accurately sweeping at the Night Wanderer's gunmen. Max's elite troops also flanked from the side, forming an encirclement.

The Night Wanderers never expected the Snake Gang to provide support so quickly, and they were thrown into chaos. They had come to intercept supplies after receiving a message from an insider, but they hadn't expected to fall into Vito's trap.

The battle lasted less than twenty minutes. The Night Wanderer's ambush convoy was completely destroyed, all the ambushers were wiped out, and the corpses lay scattered in the sandstorm, with black smoke billowing from the wreckage of the tanks.

Still shaken, the two looked at Vito and Max with astonishment.

Max stood at the front of the convoy, his face ashen, his gaze sweeping over the team members before him.

“All five teams were headed here, but only your team was ambushed. The mole is among you.”

One sentence caused the delivery team members present to change their expressions drastically. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and suspicion.

Vito stepped forward slowly, without uttering any unnecessary words.

“Separate them all and interrogate them one by one. Seize all their communications and personal devices, and I will read the data.”

Jack and Carol quickly separated the team members and took them to different carriages for individual interrogation. However, after interrogating several people, they all denied everything, were emotional, and did not reveal any flaws.

Vito sat to the side, reading through the collected personal terminal and communication device data one by one, and looking through recent communication records and location information.

Vito noticed one of the members, Toby, who was usually in charge of checking the betting odds. He seemed quiet and unremarkable.

Vito discovered that the terminal contained frequent encrypted data upload records, and the upload times were all before each fold.

More importantly, his self-test results contained glimpses of drug metabolism data and frequent drug intake records.

Vito took the terminal tablet, walked up to Toby who was being held in solitary confinement, and threw the terminal in front of him.

Toby's face turned deathly pale instantly, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, he clenched his fists unconsciously, and his eyes were filled with panic.

"Toby, you've been caught. You've been consuming glitter every day. You'll probably only be able to become a night owl from now on."

Toby shuddered, unable to hold on any longer, and collapsed into the chair, clutching his head with both hands, letting out a desperate sob.

This wanderer, who came from a plantation background, simply couldn't hide his betrayal.

"It was me...it was me who did it..."

His voice was hoarse as he confessed everything: he spent long hours running long distances to buy drugs, and he started using shampoos, eventually becoming addicted and unable to break free.

Later, he was discovered by the Night Wanderers, who used this to blackmail him, demanding that he either provide information about the location of the Snake Tribe or tell Max about his drug use so that he could be expelled from the tribe.

Torn between the torment of drug addiction and the rules of the tribe, Toby, with nowhere else to turn, ultimately chose betrayal.

Even in this incident of the arms robbery and the attack on the camp, it was only after Sami revealed his location that he provided additional defensive information, which made the Night Wanderer's attack incredibly accurate.

When the truth came out, Max was trembling with anger upon learning the result. Looking at the tribesman he had once trusted, his eyes were filled with disappointment.

Chapter 69 A Journey Without Any Surprises

Vito and Jack didn't get involved in the Snake Clan's internal affairs regarding the traitors; the two of them were currently whispering amongst themselves next to the magician Merrimack.

"Vittor, your car probably needs major repairs."

Jack touched the damaged parts of the magician's vehicle and said, his tone tinged with heartache.

"This isn't my car! My car doesn't have this many bullet holes!"

This was Vito's first car, and he usually took good care of it. He really didn't want to see his beloved car damaged like this.

"The gangs in this bad land have fierce firepower, it's like a war. Look at that guy over there who was shot in two, he actually pulled out a man-portable missile launcher and pointed it at us, which scared me so much that I quickly hit him twice!"

Jack pointed to the corpse of a night-wandering ghost and said to Vito, still feeling a lingering fear.

"These are no ordinary bandits; we must strike hard! Jack, I think your equipment needs an upgrade. Relying solely on reason and the Golden Fierce Woman is a disadvantage in the wasteland!"

Vito nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll get a Defender to supplement our firepower later."

At that moment, Jack lowered his voice and said to Vito.

"Actually, I think Toby is pretty unlucky."

"How so?"

"When this 'Sparkling' stuff first came out, it was a short-acting stimulant, and many people who did high-intensity work probably took some."

Then something went wrong. I heard from Lao Wei that more and more people were getting addicted to Shining. Lao Wei said that Shining had secretly added a lot of new things, like acetaminophen or something, which I don't really understand.

But the end result is that more and more people unknowingly become addicts!

Vito was deeply moved after hearing this. He had seen many addicts in Night City, sometimes lying directly on the roadside, and sometimes lying in abandoned houses.

When Vito disguised himself as a blockhead, passersby and gang members were terrified of him, but the addict always stared at him blankly, his eyes like a stagnant pool.

On one occasion, Vito saw a group of addicts living below the Scavengers' stronghold, surviving on scraps thrown away by the Scavengers.

"Night City will treat everyone equally, even if you only go to the city from time to time."

On Max's side, the matter of the traitor was almost settled. After a public trial by the Snakes, the traitor Toby was executed by firing squad members he had betrayed.

beep~ beep~

Vito received a phone call from Wakako Okada.

"Hello, this is Vito. The medical dispute mediation team will not be taking any more cases for the next three days."

"Hehe, Vito, you're really interesting. What have you been up to lately?"

"I didn't do much, just took on odd jobs to make ends meet."

"Really? Why don't you come and sit in my little shop? Don't you know the address? I'll send it to you now."

"No need, Wakako. I've had a little friction with the Tiger Claw Gang recently. I'll come visit you in a few days after we resolve our conflict."

"I've heard about it, but is your way of resolving conflicts to find another Tiger Claw gang member and stage a massacre at the nightclub?"

"Maybe, let's see if the Tiger Claw Gang knows what's good for them."

"Perhaps you need me to help you mediate your relationship with the Tiger Claw Gang. Trust me, it will benefit your business. For just 30,000 euros, I can make sure the Tiger Claw Gang stops bothering you."

Wakako's voice was very soft, as if she were talking about a trivial matter, but Wakako had the ability to interfere in every aspect of the Tiger Claw Gang.

"No, Wakako, I really enjoy teasing kittens. They can jump around and not hurt me, so they can only rage helplessly."

Wakako laughed for a while again.

"Is this an interesting young man? Come visit my shop when you have time. My business and yours are a good match, but hurry, because I'm known for being impatient."

"I will. I'll go as soon as I'm done with this. This time, definitely."

After ending the phone call, Vito jumped onto the magician's chair.

“Jack’s gone. We need to hurry and send Toby’s personal terminal to T-bug so she can impersonate Toby.”

Jack took Toby's data and terminal from Carol and began contacting T-bug.

It was already evening when the group returned to the Snake Village camp.

Max's big room has almost turned into a conference room.

"Next, we'll put meat in the truck to attract the hornets. Max, Snakebang is about to ship a batch of goods. I'll put some chips in this shipment, and I'll also put a tracking device on the truck as double insurance."

This shipment needs to be large enough to qualify as something to be taken back to the Bayonet Gang's hideout. You're in charge of preparing it.

My hacker will impersonate Toby, explaining why the Bayonet Gang failed this time, while also revealing the Snake Gang's secrets.

As for the delivery person, I have a small suggestion: Carlo is quite good.

Max lit a cigar, and he grinned as he bit it.

"Should we send the bomb in with us? We can detonate it remotely after you collect the data!"

Vito felt that the old man wanted to blow him up too.

"No need, we'll deliver the electromagnetic pulse bombs ourselves. But your idea is quite good, and I'll incorporate some of it."

Max also handed Vito a cigar.