Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 18 Poison Fang
night.

The neon night gradually enveloped the entire city.

Layers upon layers of buildings and buildings are also lit up with mottled night lights. Westbrook Cherry Blossom Street (Note 1) is bustling with pedestrians coming and going, and the neon advertising signs of shops along the street are flashing holographic projections.

This style street near the river bend in the inner city is full of pink like Japanese cherry blossoms.

A long modified off-road and a Delaman taxi parked in front of an apartment successively. It was Mann and others who came off the off-road, and Tang Yu walked out of the Delaman taxi.

Tang Yu looked up at the seaside bay apartment, which was only seven or eight stories high, then looked sideways at Lucy and asked, "This is where you live."

Lucy walked straight to the front without looking back, but said directly.

"Of course it can't compare to the villa area where your company's top executives live."

"But it's the only place where you get the secrecy you need, the isolation from electronic surveillance, no one else bothering you, and absolutely no corporate or gang encounters."

"If you think there is a better place to go, it's too late to go now."

Dorio added from the side.

"Lucy is the technical hacker of our team, and there is no problem with the strict confidentiality measures. It is best to talk about this cooperation at her home."

Tang Yu suddenly felt that they had a deep prejudice against him, but it was true in his imagination. Wearing the skin of a company dog ​​will inevitably be disgusting, but he can see it, which is better than when he and Johnny made the Arasaka family old every day Xiaohang is still friendly a lot.

He didn't say much, and followed Lucy's pace into the apartment building and began to climb the stairs.

The entire stairwell is filled with dark blue, and the incandescent lamps on the ceiling are very old, and they flicker slightly when they emit light.

It wasn't until everyone climbed to the top floor and saw an electronic gate on the left side of the corridor that Lucy walked over and opened the door.

Tang Yu followed and walked in, and saw that the entire apartment was small in size, and the common interior design was similar to the apartment that Gloria rented.

The living room is divided into a bathroom and a toilet, and there is a connected bedroom. In the hall, there are basic living furnishings such as simple leather sofas and glass coffee tables.

The bathtub curtain in the bathroom was half covered, and the bathtub could be seen to be filled with shards of ice that hadn't fully melted.

The glass coffee table in the living room was empty, with an ashtray placed alone.

Another valuable thing at home is the necessary hacker chair and computer desk for cyber hackers.

The most conspicuous thing is the floor-to-ceiling panoramic glass bay window in the living room, through which you can see the seaside view of Night City.

Lucy lightly covered her temples with her left hand, yellow circles flickered in the pupils of her eyes, and said after a few seconds: "Okay, I have turned off all the electronic probes and camera recording facilities, and the entire room has been electronically isolated from the network and physically soundproofed. You can start negotiating deals."

After finishing speaking, he walked to the only large French bay window in the room and sat down, lit a cigarette by himself, and smoked it silently.

It seems to be admiring, on the river bend between the two ends of the city, a long steel bridge is located, and the sea rocket launch base is farther in sight.

Mann didn't want to show off with Tang Yu anymore, and asked straight to the point after sitting down.

"What exactly do you want to cooperate with us?"

Tang Yu sat on the sofa by the bay window at the other end, looked at Mann and others across the coffee table, and said lightly.

"I want to cooperate with you to cheat people from the Arasaka company, or to be precise, my deadly enemy in Arasaka."

Hearing Tang Yu's words, everyone was obviously taken aback, and even the smoke at Lucy's fingertips stopped in mid-air, quietly spontaneously igniting.

Mann never thought of cooperating with people from the Arasaka Company, and the target turned out to be the people who engaged in the Arasaka Company.

It takes Tang Yu's level to make a shot, and the target to be cheated will definitely not be simple.

Mann's tone was a little mocking: "It seems that the company really likes dogs to eat dogs."

Tang Yu was very calm: "As long as something dares to bite, even if the other party is a dog, it will bite back, isn't it?"

"Not long after I came back, I was plotted against by people in the company, and Gloria's car accident was inseparable from them."

"Things have come to this point, either I trample them to death in the company, or they trample me to death."

Lucy on the bay window couldn't help but look at Tang Yu on the sofa from the corner of her eye. Her young and handsome appearance did not show the imprint of having experienced a cruel workplace at all, but her words always made people feel an inexplicable emotion, sometimes like A lone wolf, sometimes like a lamb, is confusing.

Dorio saw it a little deeper than Mann, and added, "If the disputes involved in your Arasaka company involve Arasaka's high-level secrets, aren't you afraid of being sold as information after we get hold of it? You should know Yes, there are a lot of people watching what Arasaka is doing."

Tang Yu said indifferently with a face of indifference.

"It seems that you still don't know much about the functions of the counterintelligence department."

"If there is information leaked about this matter, anyone who knows about it will be labeled by Arasaka as an enemy who stole the company's information."

"And I represent the counterintelligence department, and I only need to deal with the enemy."

Mann suddenly became angry when he heard this, stood up and glared at Tang Yu and asked, "According to what you said, if something goes wrong, you will put all the responsibility on us?"

Tang Yu replied decisively and simply: "Do you expect the people in the company to protect you like a holy mistress and take all the scapegoats for you, so that you can be lucky when you cooperate? Cooperating with the company is not only about Just sincerity."

After hearing the harsh words, Dorio directly held Mann, who was about to be furious, and said directly to Tang Yu: "I think what you are telling is the truth, at least better than those middlemen who are full of lies and deceit."

Tang Yu couldn't help but smiled and praised Dorio and said: "Perhaps, you are more suitable to lead this team than Mann. Now that we have reached a preliminary consensus, it is time to talk about specific cooperation matters."

Under Dorio's pressure, Mann sat down patiently and continued to listen to Tang Yu's explanation and arrangement.

Tang Yu turned to look at Lucy and said, "You can pass on the contents of the chip to them. Since we cooperate, we should know something about the real situation."

Lucy resisted being directed by an outsider or a company employee, and after a moment of hesitation, she took out the chip and threw it to Mann.

After Mann and the others inserted the chip into the slot on the back of their brains, and read part of the conversation between Tang Yu and Jenkins, as well as the origin of the military-grade Sienwistan, they suddenly understood why Tang Yu said that he would die if he installed Sianweistan.

Because this powerful military-grade prosthetic body is an experimental product of military technology, it is specially equipped for cyberpunks with military physical fitness, and then generates specific human experiment data by observing the use and operation of the installed object.

Even though Mann already knew that the prosthetic body he bought came from the corpse of a cyber lunatic, he still didn't think about it carefully.

If it is really installed, it may become a test product of military technology without knowing it. Even if it dies, the corpse will be sent to the laboratory for dissection and research, just like turning around and seeing the scarlet blood snake dormant in the dark opening Sharp and venomous fangs rushed towards his face.

Mann shuddered.

Note 1: To avoid harmony, this metaphor refers to a street named after a good life.

(End of this chapter)