Cyberpunk: 2075

At seven o'clock in the morning, Karl opened his eyes. He got up out of habit, washed up, and was about to take out bread and milk from the refrigerator, when he suddenly thought...

"Don't I have to go to school today?"

After putting the bread and milk that had not yet torn open the plastic bags back into the refrigerator, Karl sat on the sofa in the room and hugged his head.

Damn, I got up early.

"Are you awake?"

Carl sent a message to Oliver and Jack, and after waiting for a while, he did not see their reply. The two adapted much faster than himself, and they are probably still sleeping now.

After thinking about it, Karl sent David a message. Karl: Are you awake? How was yesterday?

David: Already at the academy. I went home yesterday after seeing them connect to Tanaka. Mann said that the next thing does not require interns to participate.

Carl: Did Mann say anything?

David: He said that after this job is over, he will take me to do a few small jobs to learn first. It seems that this is how they all come here.

Karl: Then it seems that Mann is indeed planning to accept you.

For the street team, it is almost a standard procedure to test new members by doing a few simple tasks. Mann, who is from the bottom of the street, is much more skilled than Karl and the others in this regard.

After thinking about it, Karl sent another message.

Karl: From today onwards, you will have to rely on yourself to deal with Mewtwo in school, so work hard.

After sending this text message, Karl did not read David's reply. He picked up the midnight bag, opened the door, and prepared to go downstairs to have breakfast.

There is actually a lot of frozen pork in the refrigerator at home, but thawing takes time. Karl is too lazy to spend a lot of time thawing it in the morning to fry a piece of pork to eat as bacon, so he can just have an ordinary breakfast at a roadside stall.

There were quite a lot of people in the elevator going downstairs today. When Karl walked in, there were already six people standing inside. After glancing around at the residents of the super skyscraper in different clothes, Karl calmly walked among them.

If it were a movie, the six people standing around Carl must have been sent by some secret organization to deal with Carl's assassins, but obviously the residents of Night City were too busy to do any movie tricks.

For ordinary residents of Night City, the only thing they can think of as "assassination" is to shoot people in the back on the street with a Lexington.

The elevator reached the ground floor and Karl stepped out of the elevator.

The bottom floor of the super skyscraper is the first floor. In this regard, the name of the Night City that once belonged to America is similar to the one in Carl’s memory in his previous life. The basement is considered to be the first floor. Generally speaking, this sense of familiarity is better than that of the British city. There are better ways to calculate floors.

As always, he walked to the food stall not far from the exit of the super skyscraper and sat down. Carl said hello to the boss who was already somewhat familiar.

"Guest, you are here, what would you like to eat?"

"A fried noodle, the kind with beaten synthetic eggs, a little starchy ham sausage, and a little 'organic' vegetables."

The organic vegetables on the street in 2075 are not real vegetables. It's just that a brand registered the word "organic" and sold it as a label for synthetic vegetables, just like XX Coke or XX iced black tea.

Similar to this company, there are also things like organic pork.

Carl can barely eat a little bit of starch sausage. I can only say that this thing is good because it contains more starch than synthetic meat.

Much better than those synthetic meats that taste like rotten wood and plastic.

"Okay, guest, please wait a moment."

While the stall owner was busy working on the wok, Carl bought a cup of sweet tea at the small vending counter in the store and started to contact T-BUG.

He has decided to take on this mission.

drop.

Karl originally thought that T-BUG might not be awake at this time, and he would only be put on hold when he called, but he did not expect that he had just dialed and was connected the next moment.

Whether it was because he had woken up early or because he was a night owl and hadn't slept, Carl didn't know.

On the other end of the communication, a female voice came.

"Who are you and why do you know my contact number?"

At the same time, Carl noticed a flow of data coming through the communication, and T-BUG was trying to use the communication to find out the situation on Carl's side.

The vigilance is quite high.

"I was introduced by Kazuko."

Carl used these words to make T-BUG stop invading.

"Wakako...I understand, are you the mercenary she found?"

"Absolutely. She asked me to ask you about this job. What exactly is it?"

"Wait a moment."

Although the voice belonging to T-BUG on the other end of the communication lowered some sense of vigilance, it still had some distrust: "It's just Wakako's name, but I can't believe it. Maybe you heard it from some loud-mouthed mercenary. As for the mercenary that He Gezi can find, he should be somewhat famous in the city. Who are you? "

Carl could hear some of the hidden meaning of T-BUG's words. If he couldn't tell his name or say anything, the suspended data flow might start again.

Karl didn't want to keep the idea of ​​competing with his next partner in hacking skills. According to his understanding of himself, his level was limited. He might be successfully hacked by T-BUG and have some black history of operations exposed. Instead of doing that, it would be better to report his name honestly. Anyway, his name should be a bit famous.

"I'm KK, have you heard of it?"

"Mercenary KK?"

T-BUG on the other end of the communication obviously knew Karl's reputation. She paused slightly and accepted the matter before speaking again: "I didn't expect Wakako to hire a mercenary of your level."

"Aren't you afraid that I'm an imposter?"

"There may not be anyone in Night City who dares to impersonate that name and is good at taking on middleman tasks yet."

"This makes me feel ashamed of being flattered."

"It's nothing to be embarrassed about being famous. Since it's you, then this This job might be easier. Do you want me to send the detailed information of the target and the kidnapper in the location now?

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Listening to T-BUG, Carl was a little surprised. He had read the general information sent by Wakako yesterday, which concealed important information. One of them was that the target was kidnapped at 10 o'clock last night. Now it has only been nine hours, and T-BUG has found out everything?

"Detailed information, you didn't make a mistake, right? In our industry, the so-called detailed information means that you have to check the person's ancestors for 18 generations."

"Although it's not to that extent, I have found out everyone's family situation and what their relatives are doing, hobbies, private sexual fetishes, and who the sex dolls they often look for are. "

Listening to T-BUG's words, Carl admitted that he was really a little shocked.

He didn't have many familiar hackers. He counted himself as half, Sasha as one, Lucy as one, and Qiwei as one, which added up to only three and a half. And among these three and a half people, to do what T-BUG said in a relaxed manner, it might take three or four days, or even longer.

This hacker is awesome.

"How did you do it?"

"Humans are born social animals. As long as they live, they will always leave traces in society."

Listening to these particularly familiar words, Carl raised his eyebrows.

"Aristotle's famous saying?"

"Oh, you actually understand this too?"

Listening to T-BUG's voice, Carl looked through the information.

It seems that the hacker he met is not only capable, but also a cultured person.

In this era of knowledge monopoly, not many people on the street know Aristotle.