Just like nobody dares to question General Bulashit's intentions, do you want to spend some time in the Truth Department's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?

Though Lin Miao is just trying to save some money.

Purchasing airship soldier transport services costs 450 Orokin per trip, and there's no discount even for group purchases.

But buying low-altitude airdrop services only costs 12,000 Orokin to transport four containers with a total of 200 players, which is a definite bargain.

However, Lin Miao does offer some compensation for these players, which is an exclusive cutscene CG animation!

Even the Sword Saints in the Vanguard Camp don't have this privilege!

Plus, they still have time to go into Cyberspace and play Lego, experience other new version content, it's just too enjoyable.

As the last player was stuffed into the container, the airship in front of Lin Miao completed its loading task and began adjusting its engines to take off from the port.

Fortunately, the auxiliary operators of the Military Technology division didn't know what Lin Miao was stuffing into their airship's cargo hold, otherwise, they would have reported Lin Miao for illegally smuggling live beings.

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Flying from California's Night City to Cuba is thousands of kilometers in a straight line alone, but the airship definitely can't travel in a straight path.

This is a military operation, blatantly flying over Mexico is simply asking the Cubans to notice.

Even if the Military Technology's airship radar stealth effect is strong, it can't act that way, it's pure disrespect to the Cubans.

The Cubans have planes if they want planes, missiles if they want missiles, and the radar is from Europe, crashing head-on into them might lead to a death without even knowing how it happened.

Therefore, this landing operation was selected at Cuba's southern Pig Bay, far from heavily defended city lines, and the swampland makes it impossible for drug dealers to deploy heavy equipment, leveling the equipment disparity between them and the players.

So the route was set on the sea.

Three heavy hovercars took off at noon from Night City, detouring south over the sparse and expansive land of Mexico's Oaxaca state, heading towards the famous Cayman Islands, and under the cover of darkness approaching Pig Bay to deploy landing craft loaded with Sword Saints to initiate a surprise landing attack.

On this journey, the Sword Saints' interest in the airship was quickly worn away.

Because it's not open to them.

Everyone had to sit obediently in the landing craft and weren't allowed to move around, and while the landing craft wasn't fully enclosed, nothing could be seen in the cargo hold, which was quite unpleasant, so they simply donned the Super Dream Headband and played in Cyberspace.

But the players' casual behavior only drew disdain from the Military Technology soldiers watching them through monitors on the airship.

"I heard these guys turned Night City upside down and even dealt with Colonel Hansen, but now they don't seem impressive. Jones, I'll bet you these guys won't last three hours on the beach."

To the Horizon Mercenaries, Military Technology soldiers feel not just a rivalry.

For soldiers, war and battles mean not just death, but also military merit, extra wartime salary, and bonuses.

Now that Horizon Corporation has taken over the Cuban ground operations, it means less merit and money for Military Technology soldiers; dislike is inevitable.

"You're quite optimistic."

Jones chuckled.

"I just hope these guys don't capsize our landing craft, and I'd be thankful. I bet in three days, this company will be begging us to go down and clean up their mess."

Military Technology soldiers outside of Night City know little of what happened there, and even if they do, they don't care.

No heavy weapons allowed within dozens of kilometers of Night City is a self-imposed restriction in their eyes.

It's just minor scuffles between the gangs.

As for Colonel Hansen?

It must have been another underhanded trick by enemy companies who picked up the scraps left by these small fries.

Look at these players all using Super Dream on the landing craft without even a lookout for warning.

Their military discipline is lax and extremely negligent! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Thinking of this, Jones slapped the table in anger.

"It's a pity Colonel Hansen's stellar reputation was ruined by this bunch."

Even though Hansen announced a rebellion and left New America, in the eyes of New America soldiers, Colonel Hansen, who attacked Night City alone, is somewhat of a hero.

Naturally, they have a grudge against the Horizon Mercenaries.

And it's not just them, the higher ranks of the New American Army have large opinions about Miles' decision this time.

They see it as distrust of their capabilities.

The most important thing is, without the army engaging in battle, how could the Commissioner Smiths make money?

Lin Miao's move cut off their path to profits and military merit, and they'll certainly lay traps for him in the future.

But these aren't issues for players to worry about; their task is to enjoy the present.

Tens of hours flying, from daylight to night, from California to the Cayman Islands.

Players even have time to log off and deal with real-world matters in between.

It's a perfect blend of work and leisure.

When they logged back in, the airship's flying altitude had dropped to less than 10 meters above sea level, and its speed was gradually slowing down.

Even so, the sea was still churned into waves by the air currents surrounding the airship.