Cyberpunk: 2075

After walking more than ten meters in the alley, Karl stopped. What appeared in front of him was the street scene at the other end of the alley.

"Not here."

Karl turned his head and said to his companion walking behind him: "The camera on the opposite side did not capture the appearance of James Reddington."

"So, is it really in this alley?"

V looked at the three-story buildings on both sides of the alley, walked back and forth a few steps, and used his prosthetic eyes with Oliver to scan the wall in the dark and shook his head: "There is no easy point to climb over, and you can't see the wall. There are damaged areas, but there are no marks on them.”

"The last place where the footprints stop is here."

After checking his surroundings, Oliver stopped in front of a manhole cover in an alley.

"It's really like walking through the sewers."

Jack squatted in front of the manhole cover and looked at the manhole cover. He stretched out his hand and used a little force to lift the manhole cover a little by using the damaged concrete floor around the manhole cover.

"How's it going down there?"

Oliver poked his head over curiously, and then saw a red light from the darkness.

"Trigger mine."

Jack's tone was calm: "The sensing line is in the middle of the manhole cover. I didn't lift it completely. It hasn't been triggered yet."

"Do you want me to solve it?"

Karl pulled out the monomolecular wire. He was able to insert the monomolecular wire through the gap to eliminate the trigger mine.

"No, this trigger mine has no access point. It is an old-fashioned type and is not connected to the user. Even if it is triggered, the user will not notice it."

Jack said this, took a breath, stretched out his hand, and the hormonal changes controlled by the postsynaptic accelerator.

It was just a blink of an eye, and when Oliver saw Jack's hand stretched out again, there was only a pile of parts in his hand.

"In this kind of old-fashioned landmine, the sensor is connected to the ignition plug. When something is sensed, the fuse will be triggered to cause the explosive content to burn and explode. All you need to do is remove this aspect."

"Dismantle the detonation device and interrupt the explosive chain reaction to defuse the bomb?"

V, who knew more about technology, stared at the detonation device dismantled in Jack's hand and nodded: "It seems that relatively new electronic leads are only used on the induction line, and the whole thing is indeed old-fashioned."

"It's lifted. I'll go down and help you explore."

After Jack said this, he opened the manhole cover and took a look below to make sure there were no more induction mines in the darkness. Then he slowly went down the ladder under the manhole cover. A few seconds later, Oliver heard footsteps on the tip of his ears. At the same time as the sound of the ground, Jack's voice came from below:

"Come on down. This place has been renovated. The liquid falling from the manhole cover above will pass through the drainage pipe halfway into the underground sewer. People can still pass by on the road beside the waterway. It seems that the careful Tiger Claw Gang has taken this place down. It’s been transformed.”

After hearing the confirmation from his companions, the remaining people above also went down one after another. When it was finally Karl's turn to go down, he conveniently put on the manhole cover to prevent passers-by from falling down when they could not see the way through the alley in the dark.

Going down from the ladder, there was indeed a rough drainage pipe made of iron sheet blocking the ladder at the last part. Carl had to jump to the side in the last two meters and landed on the cement next to the underground waterway that could be passed by. On the walkway.

When we were up there, we smelled the smell of chemicals mixed with filth from the sewers, but it was bearable. When we got down below, we faced the impact of the smell. Carl felt quite sour and had an indescribable nausea. feel.

"I should wear a chip that can control my sense of smell."

"It's rare but strange. When we dealt with the scavenger stronghold, we were used to the smell. You can get used to this smell if you take a few more breaths."

Oliver didn't think it was anything. Compared with the smell of household odor mixed with blood, urine and organ fluids in the scavenger's stronghold, the smell of the sewer was just a bit choking, but not overpowering. nausea.

"I'd rather not adapt."

Karl complained in a low voice, looking at Jack who had already started to move forward in the aisle that could only accommodate Nai. He began to shut up and keep quiet, and only asked in the communication: "Did you find any trace of Jack?"

Jack turned around. In the darkness of the waterway, his face was strangely reflected by the fluorescent chemical liquid in the waterway next to him, but he could see that face slowly moving along with his neck:

"Someone in this aisle must have accidentally touched something flowing in the water channel next to it. There are little fluorescent lights along the way, one every few meters, which is quite clear."

"Are there any fluorescent lights?"

In the corridor alone, Karl, who could not clearly see the scenery on Jack's side due to the obstruction of Jack's body, found that after Jack turned around and walked out a few steps and his eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, he found that in the sewer corridor, It is true that under the chemical fluorescent light of the waterway next to it, it does not look very eye-catching, but it is still very clear that little chemical fluorescent lights flash on the aisle.

Walking behind Jack, looking at these fluorescent lights every few steps, Carl felt that he had accidentally touched them.

This is more likely to be:

"I feel like this is more like some kind of deliberate guide mark. I visually estimated that the distance of each chemical fluorescent light is between 2.8 and 3 meters, which is the normal walking distance that a normal adult can have after taking four steps. The difference of 20 centimeters is also within the error range of dropping chemical fluorescent liquid. Judging from the shoe prints printed by the light next to the liquid, the person who dropped the liquid should be about 1.8 meters tall."

"I can understand the first part, but how did you figure out the latter part, Carl?"

V was very surprised by Carl's judgment, and Carl honestly stated the reason for his inference:

"In fact, it is mostly speculation. This is the knowledge I learned from the detective Super Dream downloaded from the relevant website as the dangerous girl's bodyguard. It says that the height of ordinary people in Night City is generally about 6.75 times the length of the foot. I saw that the man's shoe print was about 270 mm, which is 27 cm, and 27 times 6.75 is 182.25 cm. There may be some data deviation, so it is about 1.8 meters. "

"That's awesome."

V sighed: "Your work at the detective agency is not in vain. Lend me the Mewtwo later. I am also interested. I am really curious about what kind of people can shoot such detailed Mewtwo films."

"I remember one is John Doyle and the other is Arthur Baker. I don't know why, but I always feel that the names are familiar.

If you come to me later, I will put it on the Mewtwo shelf in the room and give it to you when the time comes."

Chatting in the communication, several people walked in the sewers with green fluorescent lights, slowly approaching the hidden pharmaceutical factory built by the Tiger Claw Gang in the sewers.