Cyberpunk: 2075

On January 20, 2076, the Carl team, which had just completed their commission, lay limply in Oliver's home.

"It's finally over!"

Oliver raised his soft hands and sighed: "I have been doing tasks since Christmas.

I can't stop. Those middlemen really don't treat us as human beings. I've fired so many rounds of bullets in the past few days that my hands are still numb. "

"I've been doing this for about twenty days. Every day I get up and go to work in the car. I haven't seen Misty for many days."

Jack threw aside the double-barreled shotgun with the 'Sardara' technology in his hand, picked up the small cola handed over by T-BUG, and took a sip: "Thanks, T-BUG."

"It's okay. After all, compared to you on the front line, I only provide online support, so I'm not very tired."

T-BUG, who recently moved her home to a super skyscraper, actually came from next door. She looked at the three people slumped on the sofa, her account balance flashed in her eyes, and she was very excited about joining this team. Decision, very happy.

Besides Carl's team, could she find another such a capable team in Night City?

Apparently not anymore.

In twenty days, she made almost 600,000 euros. This was based on the fact that there was no big job. T-BUG compared it with the past. When she was alone in the past, she had to make so much money. Then But it takes about four or five months, and you have to worry about the final payment from the middleman and the betrayal of the temporary team members.

""T-BUG, I want it too. "

Karl, who was lying on the other side, lazily raised his hand, and the next moment T-BUG threw a bottle of iced sweet tea into his palm.

"Oh, T-BUG, how did you know I like to drink this."

"You drink this every day, how can I not know?"

"Too."

In the voice of T-BUG, Karl moved his body, sat up straight on the sofa, opened the sweet tea and took a sip, then said: "Today's mission can be regarded as the last mission we have received recently. We are all busy. It’s been almost a month, and it’s time to take a rest. I’ll notify the people in the middle later and tell them that we’ll be taking a break for the next few days, and if I need anything, I’ll find someone else.”

"That's about it. I plan to go back to Santo Domingo. I didn't go back to spend Christmas with my family. I have to go back to spend time with my family when I'm free."

Oliver agreed with Carl's decision to take a rest. It would be better to say that if it weren't for the fact that there were too many tasks at hand,

It wouldn't make sense if he didn't deal with it. He had long thought about taking a rest.

"Then just relax in the past few days."

Karl looked at his own smart submachine gun 'Dian Shi' at his feet: "I also have to find time to practice the Dian Shi. Recently, I always feel that the bullets have a subtle sense of sluggishness when I shoot. I don't know if it's something wrong. What’s the problem?”

"Then when I have to find Misty, I can also ask Lao Wei to help me see how well the blood-activating pump I installed has adapted to my body."

Jack said: "Anyway, I feel like my whole body is stronger after getting the blood pump."

"Accelerate the supply of oxygen to the cells of the body, and you can run a thousand kilometers in one breath without gasping for breath. How can you not be strong?"

Carl thought for a moment about the prosthetics his team had recently installed.

T-BUG upgraded her access memory and installed an 'external disk' prosthesis, while Jack installed an 'adrenaline enhancer' to enhance his subcutaneous armor, and then the first two Tian installed a blood-activating pump, and Oliver installed smart connection and visual cortex support. In order to ensure the stability when using the kinetic sniper rifle, he changed it to better nanofibers.

Then there is myself...:

Carl doesn't have many prosthetics installed, except for an external disk prosthesis in the frontal cortex area like T-BUG.

In addition to enhancing the brain's ability to store and process information, it also installed a 'memory enhancement' prosthetic body, which can optimize the synchronization between the brain and the prosthetic body. Then, with the help of T-BUG, Got three new golems, synapse melt, prosthetic malfunction, and restarted the prosthetic eye.

Generally speaking, relying on these upgraded prosthetics, in the past month or so, there is no small job that Karl and his team have taken that cannot be solved in more than two days, and it is precisely because of this job that they made the call today ,

The efficiency that can be solved tomorrow morning or even this afternoon keeps them busy. To a certain extent, it is because of this efficiency that they have more things to do.

It's quite ironic when you think about it. When you work in a company, you are given the impression that you can do more if you can do it.... But there are differences.

Even if you are talented in the company, sometimes you may not be able to get compensation that matches your abilities, and it may even become compulsory to work overtime. ’

While drinking sweet tea, Karl sent a message to the intermediary, saying that he would not take any jobs in the next few days. Don't contact them for small jobs. If you have urgent and big tasks, he would contact them. Then he received a new message.

This news made Karl's originally lazy eyes become more serious.

""There is news from V, telling us that he is safe. "

Such a sentence attracted the attention of the three people lazily sitting on the sofa.

""V has finally reached a place where communication is normal? ! "

A little surprised, Oliver sat over and said, "I haven't been able to contact him recently. I was thinking about finding connections to find him."

"He said there was a tornado in front of him and then there was no news. I thought he was really involved."

When Jack heard that V was okay and reported that he was okay, he couldn't help but smile: "As long as he's okay."

"He said he had returned to the Bakker family, and then...

Karl looked at the next message sent by V. His originally happy face froze for a moment and frowned after reading the next message: "When he returned to the Bakker family, the Bakker family was already in trouble. The latest leader seems to have made a decision to join the Snake State. V went back with money to protest, trying to explain that the family could take other paths, but it was completely useless and it was very unpleasant. "

"Finally, do you want to join the Snake Nation?"

Jack also frowned after listening to Carl's words. Because they were familiar with V, they also knew the current situation of the V family, that is, the Bakker family no longer has a leader who can convince the public, and it is difficult to survive. So that family is thinking about whether to change direction, but changing direction to join Snake State would be like "I remember Snake State, is there a company behind it?"

T-BUG said, and Carl nodded: "In other words, they are dogs raised by the company. The wanderers themselves are a group of people who were persecuted by the company and united in the bad land. Now they have to lick their faces and return to the enemy. dog..:

I have to say, it's quite ironic. "

"It's absolutely impossible for V to agree to it. His temperament..."

Oliver sighed: "I can't come to an agreement after seeing this."

"It's not that we can't talk about it later."

Karl looked at the message sent by V: "He and the leader had too much quarrels in this regard. He wanted to use the money he earned to show that the Bakker family could stand up again. As a result, he annoyed the leader and thought he was challenging the leader's authority. So he was kicked out of the Bakker family."

"What, you kicked someone just because of a quarrel?"

Jack was a little unbelievable: "V treats them as family. When he was in the city, he always wanted to make money and go back to see if we could still discuss it."

"Maybe being a company dog ​​is more important than family.'

Karl didn't know what to say: "Anyway, V has made trouble with them now and is ready to come to Night City to hang out."

"I really don't know whether I should be angry or happy about V's situation."

Hearing that V was coming to Night City again, Jack's attitude was a bit complicated.

If V comes to Night City, he must be planning to work with them. It is naturally a very happy thing to have someone like V who they can talk to as their teammate. However, this kind of thing is based on V In the case of being kicked out by the family, it's a bit hard to say.

Jack himself couldn't figure out whether he was more angry because V was kicked out of his family, or whether he was more happy that V came to Night City.

"Let's wait until V comes to talk about this kind of thing."

Karl looked at the news and concluded: "It will take some time before V comes. We will see his attitude then."