Cyberpunk: 2075

"There are so many people."

It was already the day of the commission. After the client, Faraday, sent them over and negotiated with the guards who were obviously Arasaka, Carl, Oliver and Jack were allowed to carry weapons and enter a transport port in the Arasaka seaside area. In the warehouse, after they entered, they discovered that even if they had arrived an hour early, they were still a group of people who had arrived late.

Because apart from them, there were already at least twenty mercenaries inside, equipped with various prosthetic bodies and holding various specially modified firearms, waiting there.

"There are really many people."

In response to Jack's emotion, Carl responded and then observed the mercenaries who were going to perform the mission together. Not to mention, after carefully looking at the various prosthetics and weapons on them, Carl found that he actually I can recognize most of them.

"Subcutaneous armor, Mantis knife, Saratoga submachine gun, Kenshin pistol, Nova pistol... Oh, Oliver, you also have the SOR-22 kinetic energy precision rifle that you finally got. They seem to be quite capable. people.”

None of these weapons are cheap, at least the low-level mercenaries cannot afford them, but thinking about it, how can someone who can be sent by various middlemen still use weapons like Lexington.

"You still have to say that."

Oliver looked at the SOR-22 kinetic energy precision rifle in his hand, then at the Saratoga submachine gun in Jack's hand, and then at the Kenshin in Carl's hand, and realized that if the three of them merged into this group with weapons, Among the mercenaries, there is absolutely no difference between the teams.

"Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, Carl, Oliver, counting us, there are already twenty-six people. If everyone counts one hundred thousand employment wages, how much did the employer spend this time?" money."

"You have neglected the part paid to the middleman and there are a series of other expenses. Anyway, it is definitely a figure that we can hardly imagine, Jack."

Oliver only felt that it was a number that he might never come into contact with in his life: "The gap between people is really bigger than between dogs and dogs."

"It's like you've seen dogs in Night City."

Karl laughed: "I have seen a lot of cute dogs, and I even raised them before."

"How come I haven't seen it before." In response to Carl's show-off behavior, Oliver gave him a middle finger: "A company dog ​​is not a dog."

"You two, stop bickering with each other. Someone's here again. Doesn't it look familiar to you?"

Jack nudged the two people with his elbows and motioned them to look towards the entrance of the warehouse where they had entered not long ago. Oliver and Carl looked over and found that they were indeed acquaintances.

"That's not the one before..."

Looking at the strong yellow-haired man who was alone and holding a big machine gun in one hand, Oliver recognized him: "The one who was fighting in front of the Chaomeng store. I remember that he had two team members at that time, why was he alone? "

"Maybe they're dead, or they think they're not qualified to participate in this mission."

Karl was not very impressed by this strong man, and said in a casual tone: "After all, nothing that happens in this Night City is surprising."

As Karl was talking, he realized that after seeing the three of them, the burly man with yellow hair actually walked straight towards them.

‘Looking for trouble? ’

This was Karl's first thought, but then he realized that it didn't look like it, because after the yellow-haired man approached them, his expression actually showed that he had finally found it.

"You are Carl, Oliver, and Jack."

The strong man with yellow hair called the three of them by name as soon as he arrived, and then introduced himself: "My name is Mann, and I used to work for Faraday, but this time Faraday said that he only had three places, so I I accepted a commission from another intermediary and am waiting for an escort mission. Do you want to hook up with me?"

"Mann?"

Karl was not in a hurry to answer. He first sent a message to Faraday and confirmed the other party's identity before speaking: "Why did you think of teaming up with us?"

"That's the mission."

Mann looked at the other teams and then looked at Carl and the others: "After all, with Faraday's relationship, I feel that you can still trust me, and I am also a little curious about your abilities. I have not been working with him for a long time. Too bad, he would actually give up my team and choose a new team. I never thought that this would happen."

"Plus, you're the only one, right?"

Karl could see another layer of intelligence beneath Mann's muscular appearance. It was very dangerous for a person to carry out a life-or-death mission of escorting someone for a reward, so he thought of relying on some connections with a middleman to keep each other warm.

Being able to work as a mercenary on the street and using a middleman, Mann is certainly not a fool. He still understands that there is strength in numbers.

"That's what it means."

It didn't matter to Mann that Karl saw through his mind. He saw that Karl was the leader of the group, stared at Karl and asked: "Then what do you think?"

"What are you good at?"

"If I need it, I can rely on a suit of skin armor and hold this 'Type 31 heavy machine gun' in front of me. Is this enough?"

In other words, if Karl and others behind him had any idea, they could shoot him in the back at any time.

"That's enough."

Karl stretched out his hand and shook Mann's hand: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."

“A pleasure to work with.”

A smile appeared on Mann's face: "Captain."

"Just call me KK. You can use this as your code name."

Now that Mann has temporarily joined the team, Karl doesn't mind introducing them.

"Jack, he does the same thing as you. Anyway, it depends on the two of you to use fire suppression to deal with others. Oliver, he is a medic and a sniper. If you are injured or need remote support, you can ask him for help. As for My words...."

Karl thought about his position and gave a strange reply: "You should know when the fight starts."

"You'll know when the fight starts?"

Mann didn't quite understand, but seeing how understanding both Oliver and Jack looked, he ignored it.

Anyway, it’s just one mission, and it’s enough to have a basic understanding of cooperation. If I can survive and complete the mission this time, I don’t know when the next cooperation will be.

Time passed quickly while the mercenaries were familiar with or observing their teammates.

At exactly nine o'clock, a company dog ​​wearing Arasaka clothing walked into the warehouse with a group of Arasaka security personnel.

The mission has begun.