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Just when he was hesitating whether to contact Rogge again, a strange phone call suddenly came in.

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Mosley was stunned for a moment when he saw this unfamiliar number.

Who is this?

His colleagues in network monitoring would not contact him proactively, and he also noted the names of his colleagues.

His social circle is very narrow. Apart from his colleagues in the company, he has basically no friends. His classmates in his school days have long since lost contact and no longer interact with each other.

In Night City, he only knew Mr. Hands and the Savage King, two people who would take the initiative to call him.

But he also added the numbers of these two people.

So, who could be calling this unknown call?

While Mosley was dazed, the phone was still ringing.

After hesitating for a moment, Mosley finally picked up the phone.

"Who are you?"

A young voice came from the phone: "I heard that you have been in some trouble recently, and I am here to help you."

"Help me?" Mosley was instantly startled and became alert.

He was indeed in trouble now, but how did the young man on the phone know?

Moreover, except for Rogge, who was dissatisfied with the price, all the middlemen in the city refused to take this job.

Who is this young man? How dare he go against the Voodoo Gang?

Is he really confident? Or is he actually a liar?

"Who are you? Where did you get this number?"

Perhaps hearing Mosley's nervousness and vigilance, the young man smiled and said gently.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am the president of Shuguang Military Contracting Company. You can call me Su. As for where I got this number, of course it was from Rogge."

Hearing Rogge's name, Mosley's tone softened slightly.

Although he had not been in Night City for a long time, both Mr. Hands and the Savage King had told him how powerful Rogge was.

And in this Night City, no one would dare to use Rogge's guise to cheat.

Because Rogge, a former cyber widow, would really stuff people into iron barrels, then fill them with cement and sink them into the bay.

However, although the other party claimed to have obtained his contact information from Rogge, the name of the company he claimed to be in was very unfamiliar.

"Shuguang Military Contracting Company? Why haven't I heard of this company's name?"

"It's a new company that has just been established. It's normal if you haven't heard of it. You can search it on the Internet and log in to our official website to have a look."

Hearing this, Mosley frowned, used the computer on his hand, and found the official website Su Xiao mentioned on the search engine and clicked in.

Su Xiao spent a huge amount of money to find someone to build the official website of Shuguang Club.

And it is deliberately benchmarked against the official websites of giant companies such as Kangtao/Arasaka/Military Technology.

Money is not an issue, but the official website must be beautiful and sophisticated enough.

Su Xiao didn't know such a person, but that didn't prevent Rogge from knowing such a person.

Among the experts, not only those who work in companies are literate, nor are all those who work on the streets illiterate.

As long as the money is in place, nothing is impossible.

And this is indeed the case. What Mosley sees now is a particularly high-end and high-end official website.

"Let's talk face to face. Where are you now?"

"I'm just outside the Grand Empire Mall. From here I can clearly see the unfinished mall building."

"Then come directly from the front entrance. I'll tell the people here and they will bring you in to find me."

Ten minutes later, Mosley finally saw Lidya Su in the cinema.

What surprised Mosley was that the owner of the voice on the phone was much younger than he thought.

"Are you Su? You are so unexpectedly young."

"People are not judged by their appearance. If you judge by age, Arasaka Yorinobu looks only in his thirties. You would never expect that he is actually seventy or eighty years old."

What Su Xiao said made sense. Mosley nodded and stopped worrying about the age issue.

"Then let me get straight to the point. Mr. Su just said on the phone that he wanted to help me. I wonder how much Mr. Su knows about my current situation?"

Su Xiao spread her hands and said: "I know you are an agent sent by the Internet Monitoring, and I also know that you want to deal with the Voodoo Gang."

Mosley was not very surprised by Su Xiao's answer.

He has called almost all the middlemen in the city, and everyone knows that because the Voodoo Gang is constantly causing trouble on the black wall, network supervision will not let go of the Voodoo Gang.

And even people who don’t know, based on this

Some information is enough to make the above judgment.

Mosley nodded again and said, "So, Mr. Su is willing to take the initiative to accept this commission?"

"Yes, I am confident of dealing with the Voodoo Gang, but I have a request."

Mosley raised his eyebrows. He probably guessed what Su Xiao's request was: "Remuneration issue?"

"Yes, five million euros is too little, and it is completely out of proportion to the cost of eliminating a gang that is good at hacking technology."

If Mosley had just arrived in Night City and didn't know much about the situation in Night City, he might have thought that Su Xiao was taking the opportunity to ask for a price.

However, after staying in Night City for a while, especially after encountering obstacles in various middlemen, Mosley had a basic understanding of the market.

Realizing that the initial offer of five million euros was indeed a bit too low.

So he asked politely: "How much do you want?"

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"Twenty million euros."

"This is impossible!"

Although Mosley knew that Su Xiao would raise the price, he did not expect that Su Xiao would increase the price to four times.

This is simply a price hike.

"There is nothing impossible about this. Your requirement is to completely eliminate a gang, not to fight in a small way. If you want to completely eliminate the Voodoo Gang, it must be this number."

"The most I can promise you is eight million, but twenty million is impossible. Do you know what twenty million means?"

"Of course," Su Xiao smiled, "Twenty million means that your trip to Night City will be successfully completed, the Voodoo Gang will be uprooted and completely eliminated, and you no longer need to worry about the Voodoo Gang in the dark. The walls are causing you trouble.”

He opened his hands: "In my opinion, if the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem. What's more, as a company that maintains the free world, Tangtang Network Monitoring cannot even pay this mere 20 million yuan. Get up?"

"What's more, the 20 million euros are not all mine. The 3 million euros are your share."

Mosley frowned: "You want to bribe me?"

"Bribery?" Su Xiao suddenly laughed as if she heard a funny joke.

"You are still an Anglo-Saxon. Isn't this a common trick you use? Even I, a Seris, know that we are all adults, so don't act like what we are taught in school."

Many people think that South Korea's power-for-money transactions are dirty. In fact, they are all inherited from Europe and the United States.

There is no such thing as accepting bribes in Europe and the United States because they are making honest political donations.

In fact, regardless of system or race, everyone is human, not Trisolaran.

As long as we are human, we cannot violate human nature.

If you want the other party to give you the green light, then you must also involve the other party so that the other party can also benefit from it.

Everyone has benefits and everyone is part of this chain of interests. This kind of relationship is the most stable and reliable.

Sure enough, after Su Xiao proposed that three million could be given to the other party, Mosley, who had just firmly thought it was impossible, stopped talking now.

Although she doesn't understand network monitoring, Su Xiao understands the company.

Just look at the situation of this guy Mosley.

If he was getting good treatment in the company, how could he be the only one who came all the way from Europe?

Even if you have to hire the Animal Gang, at least the most core manpower should be your own.

How can there be a polished commander like Mosley?

Therefore, this is enough to see how disliked Mosley is in the company.

There is a saying that money is the courage of a hero, and gold is the waist of a man. If you have money, you can naturally straighten your waist and be a man. If you don't have money, you can only bend your waist for five buckets of rice.

Although it is not ruled out that some people are working for their dreams, the vast majority of people are just "slaves" to money.

They just go to work for the sake of going to work and work for the sake of working.

This Mosley, at first glance, is an honest man who has been criticized in the company. But there is no other way. If you don’t have money, you can only continue to endure it until it breaks out or perishes in patience.

But now, Su Xiao gave him a third possibility, which was to complete this business and then get the three million Su Xiao gave him to leave.

After taking a look at Mosley's face, Su Xiao continued to strike while the iron was hot.

"If it doesn't work, then there is no other way. I won't offend a hacker gang that can burn other people's heads from thousands of miles away for a mere eight million."

"The maximum amount I can personally decide is eight million. If it exceeds eight million, I can only apply with the boss. Twenty million is a bit too much. I...I'm not sure if it can be approved."

The three million rebates and free donations that Su Xiao promised were too tempting.

You must know that when Mosley was working at the British headquarters, he worked exhausting overtime every day and only earned just over 100,000 euros at the end of the year.

These three million euros are equivalent to buying out his thirty years of working time at once.

This will not only prevent him from working for the next thirty years, but also allow him to live a life without having to work overtime and stay up late. It will also make his body healthier and healthier.

You won’t become sick all over because of overuse.

Therefore, Mosley's attitude changed from the very beginning.

From the company's standpoint, he became a temporary comrade on the same front as Su Xiao.

"Whether this issue can be approved or not is up to you."

Seeing that Mosley still looked confused, Su Xiao patiently explained to him: "Your headquarters is unwilling to increase the funds allocated to you. What could be the reason? Isn't it because we don't pay enough attention to this issue?"

"In this way, wouldn't the problem be very simple? As long as they pay attention to the problem of the Voodoo Gang, wouldn't the funds be reduced?"

This is actually a very simple thing. For example, if a country's military wants to obtain more military spending, it will list various factors such as the world situation, neighboring countries, and its own environment.

This makes the big guys in Congress who hold the power of appropriation realize that our country is in such a dangerous environment, that there are so many countries that are eyeing us, and that the world situation is so dangerous...

It doesn’t matter whether these analyzes are correct or not, as long as the appropriators feel that they are correct and military spending can be approved, then it is correct.

In the same way, Mosley's reward for being able to make the decision is up to eight million, and there is no reward for anything above that.

Why not?

To put it bluntly, the network monitoring company actually doesn’t pay that much attention to the situation here.

Otherwise, why would Mosley be sent here alone?

"It is said that only babies who cry will get milk. If you finish all the work without saying a word, how will the boss know how hard and tired you are?"

"He will only think that the task given to you is too easy, or that your ability is stronger than others, so he just wants you to do more. This is the so-called 'the capable do more work'."

“So, reporting is a very important job, not only to let the leader know that you are busy, but also to let the leader know how busy you are, how many things you have done, how troublesome these things are, etc.”

Mosley was stunned.

Although he is not a newcomer to the company, he has always been diligent in doing things.

Just like Su Xiao said, when the leader arranged the task, he did it all without saying a word.

And the superiors indeed assigned him tasks with more workload than others.

In the past, Mosley just thought it was because he was easy to bully.

But now that Lidya Su said this, it seems that this is not entirely the case.

"Does...does it need to be like this?"

Lidya Su nodded and said seriously.