Cyberpunk: 2075

"Ding."

"Hello, is this Ms. Dakota Smith?"

"Where did you get my number, kid... Forget it, there's no need to call me Ms. Just call me Dakota, tell me about your origins."

Dakota Smith answered the call, a little surprised. As a middleman, she usually asked her hackers to help open the box when she wanted to find a mercenary. This was the first time in history that she was the one to be opened.

"My mercenary name is K. I wonder if you have heard of this name."

"KK... A mercenary who has recently become famous in the city. I have heard of your name."

Carl's reputation in the middleman business is still quite loud. Basically, the middleman in charge of a region knows something about him. However, generally speaking, even if the middleman who can control a region, he will not take the initiative to find him before Carl comes to this area:

This involves the implicit territory regulations of the middlemen in each region. Only the middlemen who do not follow the rules will run around in various regions. Under normal circumstances, the middlemen in the region where the mercenaries go will be responsible for the contact tasks.

If KK came to the Badlands, then Dakota Smith would naturally want to contact this famous person, but her intelligence did not say that KK had come to the Badlands.

Could it be that her intelligence network did not collect any information about KK's whereabouts?

Thinking of this, Dakota Smith asked: "So, what's the matter with you, KK? Could it be that you came to the Badlands to help me solve some headaches? I welcome it very much."

Who would not like a mercenary with a 100% completion rate and a 100% praise rate? There are many troublesome tasks on hand, and such capable people are needed as many as possible.

"If there is a small job that can be solved by the way, I don't mind taking it. I am still in the city now, but I will go to the Badlands soon. I want to come to you, the most famous middleman in the Badlands, to get to know you first, and arrange a commission by the way."

Arrange a commission.

This sentence is very interesting.

Dakota Smith habitually took a sip of pure oxygen from the oxygen cylinder hanging on her waist. After calming her mind with this habit that she had maintained for decades, she said:

"You mean, you have a commission to ask me for help?"

"Almost. I want you to help me find a group of people. Recently, a group of night wanderers robbed the company's goods. We want to know their whereabouts."

"You took the company's job, right?"

Dakota Smith's words did not get a response from Carl, but she knew that this was Carl's tacit consent.

The legendary mercenary Morgan Blackhand wrote a book called "Executor's Manual", which basically tells what a mercenary should pay attention to and what he should not do when doing a mission. Basically, all famous mercenaries have read that book more or less, and most of the clauses in it have become recognized rules in the industry, and there is one in this rule.

When mercenaries are performing tasks, they cannot disclose the details of the mission to irrelevant personnel.

After the mission is completed, you can brag as much as you want. When you are drunk, you can even tell clearly how many leg hairs the enemy has in the scope when shooting. But during the mission, a qualified mercenary should not do this.

Carl, who cares about his reputation as a mercenary, will not say it, but smart people can understand.

Not caring about such things, Dakota Smith bypassed this topic and only asked a key question,

"How much are you going to pay?"

The price is the standard for the excellence of mercenaries. Every middleman knows clearly what kind of mercenaries can be hired with how much money. Every middleman has dreamed of getting top mercenaries to do things for a few thousand euros, but it is unlikely to be realized after all.

Carl is also an insider. He knows the rules, so he reported a suitable number right away.

"30,000 euros, you can give a deposit of 10,000 euros first."

Before discussing the remuneration with Dakota Smith, Carl discussed it with several other people in the team communication.

As the captain, he will pay for this money, and it can be deducted from the total remuneration. Anyway, the client will pay him, so he doesn't have to change hands.

"30,000 Euros..."

Dakota Smith's voice was obviously lighter when he heard the money, and there seemed to be a hint of happiness in it: "This is not a small amount in the Bad Land."

What level of mercenaries can be hired with 30,000 Euros?

With 60,000 Euros, the priest can ask Carl and his team to do a job once.

With 30,000 Euros, Wakako, who is cooperating for the first time, can ask Carl and his team to do a job once.

If you convert it a little, you can ask people of the level of Carl's team in the Bad Land to help do a job.

Of course, it can't be converted like this in essence. Working for the priest and Wakako, they all said that this is a small job for Carl's team, and 30,000 Euros and 60,000 Euros are not worth it. It's just because of some reasons that they can use this price to ask Carl and his team to work.

For example, to repay favors, such as hackers to help this job.

With only 30,000 Euros, you can forget about hiring the Badlands Carl team, but considering that people in the Badlands are not wealthy, you can probably hire a team of the level of Badlands Mann or Badlands Brown.

That is, you can come in and have a drink, which is considered to be a street celebrity.

"Most of the mercenaries in the Badlands will fight for your commission, but I have to think carefully about who to send."

Dakota Smith responded to Carl while thinking that the Badlands were not a good place to live.

Most of the mercenaries in such places actually lived closer to Saint Domingo. Those people were fine working in marginal areas, but they could forget about tracking down night ghosts. If they wanted to find someone, they had to find someone with seniority.

As for seniority...

Dakota Smith suddenly thought of a force.

To find night ghosts, perhaps it was not necessary to entrust mercenaries. Aren't the Wanderer Family in the Badlands also good candidates for entrustment?

Dakota Smith is very familiar with the affairs of various families in the Badlands. From what she knows, there is a wanderer family called Buckle that is splitting up because after the death of the old leader, none of their new leaders can serve for more than two years, so the whole family is in chaos and has no direction;

I heard that recently some members of the Buckle family want to cooperate with the notorious Snake State. Many young members are very dissatisfied with this and have begun to actively contact the outside world, thinking about whether they can do something. And it happens that a group of people from the Buckle family have been active near Night City in the past few months.

That group of people are running around for money...

They may be interested in this commission.