Cyberpunk: 2075

"Tell me something."

Karl sat on the sofa in the box and looked at the old captain who also sat down: "Whether it is a commission or whether you want to establish a basic cooperative relationship, you can talk about it."

"Of course it's an entrustment. I can't specially invite you here just to keep in touch with each other, right?"

The old captain blinked: "Wouldn't that mean you lose your status?"

"Don't you need a trial or test or something?"

Hearing what the old captain said, Oliver smiled. He didn't know which middleman he was thinking of: "I thought every middleman in Saint-Domingue would like to do something to understand it beforehand."

"That's not necessary."

Saying this, the old captain raised the glass of wine he poured and gestured to the three people. After being rejected by the three people, he continued: "Since I have found you, I trust you. I don't need any trial. It's just that I don't have any." Only people with poor vision do it.”

It felt like someone in the middle was being mocked.

"Then let's talk about the job."

I have to say that the trusting attitude shown by the old captain was indeed very refreshing. Jack, who originally rarely spoke when discussing the mission, said:

"What kind of job is it? Don't tell us that you need to break into a big company with thousands of euros to rob people.

We all know that kind of work, and only fools can do it. "

"Don't worry, they are all knowledgeable. They still can't do this kind of thing."

The old captain took out something like a projector and placed it on the glass table in the middle of the box.

"Let's talk about money first, then things. I won't talk nonsense. For 80,000 euros, I need you to kill a gang member. Can you do it?"

80,000 euros...

To be honest, this amount of money is already incredibly generous for a first-time intermediary.

Even the old middlemen had to think twice before spending the money to hire Karl and the others.

For the first time Faraday and Karl collaborated, the commission was 6,000 euros, which was the smallest, followed by Wakako’s 30,000 euros and the priest’s 60,000 euros.

When it came to giving a large amount of money, the old captain really didn't lie. He directly gave the highest amount in the middleman's first entrustment.

It is almost three times higher than the commission fee of 30,000 euros that Karl gave V.

But everyone knows that if you are willing to pay this amount of money during the first meeting, then this job will definitely not be easy.

"Get rid of the gang members."

Listening to these words, Oliver remembered where the old captain was active: "People from the Sixth Street Gang?"

"I'm not going to provoke the Sixth Street Gang now. I was just let go of a job, and the mercenaries I finally hired were killed. Someone came to attack this business when it just started. I have to get it back. Isn’t it about face?”

The old captain said and announced the name of the gang: "They are from the Animal Gang."

"The Animal Gang?"

Listening to this gang, which he had rarely had contact with since coming to Night City, information about the Animal Gang flashed through Carl's mind.

[Animal Gang]: A radical street gang that runs rampant in western Taipingzhou. They never use traditional prosthetics.

Instead, they use large amounts of ketone, growth hormone and other animal supplements to strengthen their bodies. The gang has 2,500-3,000 members.

NCPD gang threat level evaluation: High This gang likes to use various supplements and rough prosthetics to strengthen their gang. Carl’s impression of them is that they take over the task of watching the scenes in many bars in Night City. Overall, this gang is actually It can be considered a street security group.

"If you are from the Animal Gang, you can do this job."

Karl nodded, taking over the task on behalf of the team.

"Then, let's talk about it in detail."

"Easy to say."

Hearing Karl's affirmative answer, the old captain couldn't help but smile on his face, as if he had seen that the job was completed.

After he pressed an embedded button on the projector, a small mechanical lens rose up in the middle of the projector, and a human figure was projected from it.

"Johnny Hand Silver, thirty-two years old this year..."

"Wait a minute, what did you say?"

Hearing the name, Oliver couldn't help but interrupt the old captain's words. He patted his ears with his palms, and then seemed to have heard wrongly: "Johnny Silverhand?!"

"Johnny-hand silver."

The old captain corrected his words and said:

"I know you will misunderstand him as the rock star from half a century ago. No, he used to be called Rick. Later, when he was young, he listened to Johnny Silverhand's songs and fell in love with Johnny Silverhand's appearance. He changed his name and dressed up like Johnny Silverhand, and he became the number one figure in the Johnny-imitation circle in Night City."

"Just an imitator?"

"Otherwise, why can't Johnny Silverhand, who has been dead for almost half a century, crawl out of hell and lie around in front of us?"

The old captain said: "Anyway, that was two years ago. He joined the Animal Gang two years ago.

He practiced hard every day and injected himself with hormones. Except for the silver hand that was installed after cutting off his original hand in order to imitate his original hand, his current appearance no longer looked like Johnny Silverhand at all. ,

As he said that, the old captain pointed at the projected image. Judging from the appearance, it was indeed a muscular man wearing sunglasses and a thick waist.

"In short, I have another customer who is also a Johnny Silverhand fan. He wants to sell a car. But he made an appointment with this Johnny Silverhand and I will be the middleman to carry out the transaction. This guy let us go. The boss called me here to see the mercenary who was staying in the car, but he killed it and drove the car away without paying a penny. Do you think you can tolerate this? Then I definitely can’t. "

The old captain made a gesture of spreading his hands:

"If other people find out about this later, where will I put my face, right? So I have to get my face back no matter what, whether it's for my second-hand car dealer business or this just-started middleman business.

He has to die... Of course, it would be even better if you could bring the car back. In this way, if you want to buy a car in the future, I can give you a 20% discount. "

"I almost understand."

Carl nodded.

It's a simple matter, just kill people and drive back, and the reward is 80,000 euros.

"So, do you have any information about where they are, Taiping Prefecture?"

The territory of the Animal Gang is Taiping Prefecture.

"No, it's in the city center."

The old captain said: "He has a fixed habit every night, which is to take a group of his men to visit the chip bookstore and buy books there."

"A strong man like this who practices martial arts reads a book?"

"You can't discriminate based on appearance."

As the old captain spoke, he took out a chip, signaled it to the three of them, and inserted it into the slot of the projector. After that, the projected objects changed and turned into pieces of text floating in the light.

"This is what I recently learned about the books he likes to read."

Carl looked at the book, and its title was...

"Johnny Silverhand and Kerry's Little Secret"