Cyberpunk: 2075

"Have you recently become a regular employee of Danger Girls Agency?"

Early in the morning, as soon as Karl woke up, Blanca called and complained.

"You're not willing to work for me, but then turn around and work as bodyguards for those detectives wearing cat-ear prostheses?"

"It's just a part-time job. They give me a lot of money and allow me to work as a task. Of course I am willing."

Karl rubbed his blurry eyes that had just woken up: "I was doing this a few days ago. You suddenly called today. Is this an official notification of your information?"

"To be precise, I was still working overtime, and then someone told me that the name of the famous mercenary KK appeared on the list of Danger Girls Agency."

"Still working overtime?"

As the data flowed, Karl opened the window of the apartment, and a mixture of colored light immediately shone in from the outside.

I looked at the sky.

"It's already morning."

"Seven twenty-two in the morning."

Blanca's voice revealed a sense of resentment: "I have been working for thirty hours straight, and the latest active injection was just ten minutes and twenty seconds ago."

"As expected of a company man."

Karl sighed: "Fortunately, I didn't listen to your nonsense and become a company dog."

"Speaking of your current status as a person, it doesn't matter what the company is."

Maybe she was really stressed out after working overtime for too long. After chatting with Karl for a few words, Blanca felt a little more relaxed, as if she could breathe more comfortably:

"But if you had agreed to be my subordinate, you would probably still be working overtime now and wouldn't be sleeping so peacefully."

"So, what are you doing as a mercenary who works overtime and comes to me, a mercenary who has nothing to do? You heard the news this morning and complained to me. Isn't this not your nature?"

"Guess what the intelligence officer handed me over at the same time I received the news about your list?

"Submit something...:"

Karl didn't mind guessing the riddle that Blanca deliberately provoked.

Blanca's current identity is a manager related to the personnel of the military technology company ACPA. Although Karl did not hear Blanca brag about her position in detail, her status will not be lower when it comes to ACPA. What a person can get...,

There are many types, but the ones Blanca can reveal to herself and mention...:

"I think it's 'outsiders' who have entered the City of Night, right?"

The communication cannot be stated explicitly because it may be intercepted or eavesdropped, so Karl guessed using words that only he and Blanca could understand.

Blanca stopped showing off this time: "As you thought, outsiders are here."

ACPA trainee from the same group as that guy.

Karl recalled the opponent who was only one Adam's Hammer away from killing him.

This long-term task, which was the first to be received, is finally making progress.

"Is everyone here?"

Karl got up and started washing.

"pioneer."

"Understood."

The tense situation in the city has passed. Can we send someone in first to take a look?

"Am I still the target?"

"The information that you became an official employee of Danger Girl was handed to me by the Intelligence Department."

Another meaning of this sentence is that the people below do not know.

"It seems that people in your company really want to get relevant data tests, and for this, they are actually willing to make such sacrifices."

Blanca has long told Karl that people in military technology companies have a negative attitude toward ACPA personnel who control exoskeletons.

He was very interested in the combat data in the city and wanted to get the former training personnel to trouble Carl by giving those personnel a reason for revenge and revenge.

Now it seems that even though I have become a formal employee officially, the people in the military science and technology department have not changed their minds at all.

"Don't you think it's not cost-effective for your company to just send these people here?"

"Maybe they think you are no match?"

Blanca's words made Karl smile: "I was given all the information by my boss, and my whereabouts and data were betrayed by the company. I am just a team wearing exoskeletons. I am no match... This kind of joke is good. Blanca.”

"You are so arrogant. Are you not afraid of falling into the gutter?"

"It's not so much arrogance as...

Karl spat out the tap water with an astringent taste in his mouth: "I believe in the ability of you company dogs to plot against your subordinates and betray others."

"That's not a nice thing to say."

Blanca said quietly, but her tone relaxed at the end: "But what you said is indeed the truth Karl."

Blanca, who had absolutely no shame or guilt about this, said: "That's how it is in the company.

You betray me, I betray you, climb up if you have greater interests. If you stay in this place for a long time, everyone will become like that. "

"So, you wanted me to be a company dog ​​before?"

"No, maybe it's more of a selfish thing."

What Blanca said next was a bit beyond Karl’s expectations:

"I just think you might be different, the special one."

"After you said that whoever joins the company will be like that, you immediately said that I am the special one. What kind of rhetorical skills are you using? Do you want to arouse some pride in me?"

After buying a bottle of real water to rinse his mouth, Carl gulped down the remaining water in one breath, and then he was completely awake after washing:

"Maybe soon after I join the company, I will become like your former subordinate, and sell you out when I have the chance?"

"That's possible, but by then, I may not be able to find another K to help me."

Blanca's words were light but very clear: "So, did you forget the restaurant and time we agreed on?"

"Of course not, after all, the employer has already paid."

What Carl cares more about now is something else:

"What about the information about the people who have entered Night City? When will it be sent over? I just have nothing to do, so I can go now. If we kill him, do we need to leave him alive to pass on a message to his classmates, or can we kill him directly? "

"Are you always so quick to change the subject... Go to the delivery point in Little Chinatown. I have recorded the code for the time we agreed on. You can pick up the goods at that time. The information is all in it. As for the person, you can do whatever you want with him, but remember not to destroy the recording chip at the back of the neck. I still keep it to maintain face with the people in the research department."

"I understand. You can kill him, but you can't attack and damage a fatal point, right?"

After Carl silently took note, he asked a key question: "Then is the exoskeleton allowed to be lost?"

This question did not make Blanca hesitate for a moment.

"Within my job."

This sentence means.

Yes.