Cyberpunk: 2075

"Good shot, David."

"You're still far behind Carl."

After taking out the Tiger Claw gang member in retaliation, David asked Carl something.

"Karl, can you recommend a mercenary team to me? I want to be like you and work as a mercenary after class."

"Do you want to be a mercenary...

Karl looked at David, looking at his eyes that seemed to have made up his mind. After being silent for a while amid the constant gunfire outside the bunker, he said, "The look in your eyes means that you no longer intend to continue on the company's path." Is it on your way?"

"I'm still one year away from graduating from middle school, and Arasaka College's undergraduate program is a two-year program, which means it will take me three years to become a low-level company employee, and after that, I don't know how long it will take to become a low-level company employee. It has been too long to become a protected middle-class human being. I want to be able to protect my mother immediately. "

"But weren't you very safe in the past...:

Karl said nothing more mid-sentence.

How long can that kind of luck last? What happened today is not the end of luck. "Then there is no need to be a mercenary. The danger of being a mercenary is only more dangerous than your life now." You can live in the morning and die in the afternoon, or die at noon. Even if you want to grow up, there is no need to be a mercenary. "

Karl is very clear about the mercenary business: "You can ask specialized people to teach..."

Why did I say something stupid again.

Is it realistic for David’s family to hire bodyguards and hire people to teach?

Karl thought for a while and said:

"I can lend you money so that you can hire someone to teach you or be your bodyguard. I don't care if you pay it back when you become a company employee and make money."

"No Carl."

David shook his head and rejected Karl's kindness. He stared at Karl and said, "I have been getting your help, but at least for the things I have made up my mind, I don't want to rely on you anymore."

David recalled that in his despair, he thought of Karl for the first time, and said slowly: "I am really grateful to you Karl, you have made me grow and let me understand the truth about the company. I think,

At least as a man, you have to do it yourself when it comes to things that require you to sacrifice your life. "

"What you said is already mature enough, David."

Karl looked at David and suddenly asked a question.

"What is your dream?"

In the past, David would definitely answer these words as his mother expected him to become the top person in the company. But now, David did not hesitate to answer with David's own dream.

"I want to be able to protect the people I want to protect."

This seems to be no different from what David expected in the past, but the words that were actually spoken with the word "dream" are different.

Looking at David, who had his own dream, shining like gold, as if he was glowing,

Carl asked the final question.

"Aren't you afraid that your mother will be sad when she finds out you are dead?"

"I don't want to see myself crying because I am unable to protect my mother. I want to become stronger, not afraid of gangsters, not afraid of gangs, not afraid of the darkness of the company. In this regard, let me, as a son, , let’s be willful.”

Do you choose to be on tenterhooks that you already know all the time? You need to be on tenterhooks when you step into the company. Just like now, you can die at any time. Or do you choose to take a step on your own initiative and use your own will to explore the darkness? The road is to become stronger and face the company head-on amid the expectations of his mother. David obviously chose the latter.

If you don't move forward, you will have to wait in fear for death that may come at any time, or if you move forward, face death yourself and try to defeat him?

How to choose?

Everyone has a different answer, but those who take brave steps deserve Karl's respect no matter what.

"You are an amazing friend of mine."

Knowing that he is not strong enough, he wants to become stronger, and is no longer willing to rely on himself, Jack and Oliver. Today, David is a man who can be equal to them.

It seems that I feel that there is nothing wrong in treating David like them.

Karl had no right to interfere with a man's belief, so at the end, he smiled and said something that made the determined David feel dumbfounded.

"You said don't rely on us, you still have to let us recommend a mercenary team for you to join."

"this:

David's face turned a little red, and the firm look he had just put on suddenly collapsed. After that, he said a little embarrassedly: "Just this time."

"Then consider it as David that you owe me, Karl, the first real favor."

Karl smiled and said: "With the favor of the future big shot, I have to help you find a suitable mercenary team."

Karl thought about the mercenary team he knew.

Not many, just two, each of them enough for Karl to trust.

One team was Team Brown, whom I met during the escort mission. The team that went to death so handsomely was almost picked up and buried together with Carl and others. Even at the last moment of death, they took care of the youngest. Man, let him go and keep him alive. There will be absolutely no problem if David joins that team.

But Karl didn't know much about their team, and he didn't know if there was still a shortage of people.

Compared to this, Karl knew the other team better.

Mann Squad.

Recalling the same escort mission, Mann said he would be at the front, and he really was at the front.

Thinking about his team organization with high work efficiency and clear division of labor, Karl felt that he could ask Mann if he could insert a subordinate to learn his skills.

However...: It's not very good to just push a baby bird without any prosthetic body, even if it's just to pick up the goods.

"To become a mercenary and a student, to have two identities at the same time, David, you need a certain kind of prosthetic body. It just so happens that I have a prosthetic body like this here. I just don't want to use it anymore. I dislike its neural connections. If you are willing, this can be transitioned to you for free:

You don't have to refuse in this regard, and it doesn't count as help. It's normal to give small gifts to friends, and then...it's considered a reward for the mission. "

"Mission reward?"

"Tomorrow I will take you to meet a mercenary team I know well. You will work as a handyman to help. If you do well, you will be rewarded with the task and recommendations to them."

"What if I can't do it well?"

"Don't you have confidence?"

"have."

"Then I definitely owe you this recommendation. I trust you, so I'll pay you in advance."

Karl listened to the gunshots gradually subsided outside and contacted Lao Wei.

"Lao Wei, do you have a ballistic co-processor over there?"

[Ballistic Co-Processor]: Directly connects the user's optical implant and weapon system to provide real-time data tracking.