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Perhaps sensing Su Xiao's doubts, Rebecca gently patted her little head with the barrel of the technical pistol, a bit like scratching her hair.

"Mann ran to upgrade the prosthetic body again. Dolio was worried and went with him. Sasha was catching up on her sleep. She worked hard all night last night and was exhausted. She probably hasn't gotten up yet."

"You said Mann upgraded his prosthetic body? Damn, why is he upgrading his prosthetic body again?"

Su Xiao, who has always been elegant and easy-going, rarely cursed.

Didn't he just give Mann a pair of power gauntlets?

How long has it been?

Why are you running to upgrade your prosthetic body now?

How obsessed is Mann with power?

This thought only occupied the brain for a second before being dispelled by Su Xiao.

No, this isn’t Mann’s obsession with power.

To be more accurate, Mann can't stop improving his strength.

Just like Su Xiao is the core of the team, Mann is also the captain of their team.

As a captain, you have the obligation to protect your teammates.

Perhaps it was out of this consideration that Mann frantically transformed himself and desperately upgraded his prosthetic body.

That man was more afraid of losing his companions than becoming a cyberpsycho himself.

…

Su Xiao drove to the Long Beach North intersection in Watson District.

This is located in the industrial zone in the north of the city.

It is already the edge of Night City.

Not far away are the few remaining and still functioning factories in the industrial zone in the north of the city.

The white smoke never stops day and night, from then on

Emitted from these huge chimneys.

The industrial area in the north of the city is not without the high-rise buildings like Japan Street.

But there is absolutely no comparison in terms of quantity.

Rebekah and Pyrrha's apartment was across the road.

It's that kind of small apartment building that's very shabby and old.

Lidya Su was not made to wait too long.

The apartment's automatic door swung and retreated to both sides.

Just like the last time they met, Rebecca, wearing a large coat, stood at the door and looked around.

After seeing the familiar SUV parked on the roadside, he ran over in a hurry.

Rebecca originally wanted to sit in the passenger seat, but when she got closer and saw Lucy sitting there, she opened the back seat door and got in.

"Rebecca, you probably don't know the new members of my team. Let me introduce you to them. Rebecca, this is Lucy. Lucy, this is Rebecca."

"Hello."

"Hello."

The two greeted each other politely but at a distance.

Rebecca put her penis into the empty space under the seat.

Then she lay down on the back of the chair in the front row, and Rebecca's eyes lit up when she saw Lidya Su wearing a white windbreaker.

"Su, are you going to apply to be the host of a TV show?"

"Forget it, I can't do that."

Being a host looks easy and makes a lot of money, but in fact not everyone can be one.

Even if you graduate from a prestigious school and have a professional background, you may not be able to become the host of a Night City TV show.

Take Ruth Zheng, the host of "Information Talk".

In her autobiography written by the gunman, she openly admitted that the manuscript of "Intelligence Talk" was not actually written by her at all.

Ruth Zheng didn't even bother to memorize the script. She just looked at the teleprompter and read out the script written by the intern when she was on the show.

Just like that, she earned more money from her last show than most people in Night City earn in a year.

So how did she get up here?

One of her father's colleagues is a program producer at News 54.

It was her father who made connections and made her the host of "Information Talk".

It's just so logical.

Without such a background and background, at best, you can only be an intern serving tea and water.

As for whether there is a chance to become a full-time official and when it will be possible...

Only God knows.

…

"What kind of job is it? Who sent it?"

Still on the way to Santo Domingo, Rebecca, who was sitting in the back seat, was chirping like a bird and asking questions non-stop.

Su Xiao glanced at her: "It's the old captain... You are a mercenary team from Saint-Domingue. You don't know this middleman who is also from Saint-Domingue, right?"

"I recognize it."

"Oh? Then let me hear it."

Rebecca puffed up her chest proudly, shook her head and said proudly.

"The information about the old captain was obtained by Sasha - the hacker in our team. I heard that before he became the middleman in Santo Domingo, the old captain's name was Muammar Reyes. A company dog ​​responsible for handling..."

"Hey, no one wants to know that anyway. However, he soon discovered that all companies are the same-either you are defeated by them or you are defeated by them, and he prefers the latter."

"Often those who have escaped poverty and become rich always like to help the less fortunate folks, and the same goes for the old captain."

"As a middleman who has recently become famous, almost half of the working-class people in Santo Domingo will think of him first when they need help. Therefore, he can be said to be earning a lot of money."

"But it doesn't mean that he is a greedy and selfish person. On the contrary, everyone who has worked with the old captain respects him as much as he respects them."

"In fact, the title of Old Captain was given by someone who received his help."

"The most famous saying of the old captain is - 'The world ruled by companies is a plague. Power will eventually return to the hands of the people. We are the flesh and blood and backbone of this place, and we will succeed, just wait and see'." "

The more Lidya Su listened, the more she felt something was wrong and quickly interrupted her.

"Are you sure the information Sasha found is correct? This doesn't sound like an intermediary, but more like..."

Lidya Su scratched her hair in distress.

He couldn't think of a suitable adjective at the moment.

"Anyway, the old captain is a very good person," Rebecca shook her head again, "It's just that we usually cooperate more with Faraday."

"Really? But I think you can consider changing to a middleman in the future."

"ah?"

Rebecca opened her mouth, looking surprised.

"Ah, what? You didn't sell yourselves to a middleman, so why hang yourself on a tree? That guy Faraday has a very bad reputation. If you cooperate with him, be careful and you will be betrayed by him one day."

Su Xiao turned back and glanced at Rebecca: "I'm not an alarmist. You are from the Santo Domingo area. You should know better than me. Don't you think there are not many low-level mercenaries and street gangsters who are exploited by Faraday?"

Rebecca put her hands on the seat, and her legs stretched out from under her large coat could not reach the ground, shaking.

"That's what I say, but Mann

He felt that working with Faraday was a big job and the pay was high. "

Su Xiao corrected him with a serious face: "But at the same time, the risks are also high. High risks can bring high returns, but what do high returns bring? The never-ending road to upgrade the prosthetic body."

“All the money earned from missions is spent on upgrading the prosthetic body. Later, in order to earn more money, I have to take on missions with higher risks. In order to survive these high-risk missions, I have to upgrade the prosthetic body again. body……"

"Rebecca, don't you realize this is a dead end?"

Rebecca was speechless.

She stopped talking.

Then, she lowered her head.

There was sadness in his tone.

"Mann...even if I tell him this, he won't listen."

"Su, in fact, the eldest sister knows what you said. She has been trying to persuade Mann, but Mann... he is just a stubborn donkey. Even eight horses can't pull back what he has decided."

Lidya Su also sighed.

If Mann was one of his team members, if he dared not listen to advice, he wouldn't have to talk nonsense and just catch him and beat him up.

Not convinced?

Then fight until you are convinced.

The atmosphere in the car became somewhat silent and depressing.

Lucy put her elbow on the car door, clenched her fingers into a fist, and gently leaned her fist against her head. She coughed and changed the subject: "Su, why don't you talk to us about this mission in detail."

Su Xiao understood, no longer obsessed with Mann's affairs, nodded.

"The old captain wants us to go to the Eden Gang's territory and rescue a hacker named T-BUG."

"When she tried to invade the Eden Gang's subnet, she didn't expect that there was also a powerful hacker in the Eden Gang."

"He trapped the T-BUG in the subnet and tried to use the subnet's offensive defense wall to get rid of the T-BUG."

In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, there are many ways to surf the Internet.

As long as you have a mobile phone or a computer, you can access the Internet.

But it’s just limited to surfing the Internet.

Don't even think about using this to hack into other people's subnets.

Therefore, professional hackers usually use more efficient methods.

That is to say, he will transform himself into a high-capacity neural interface (deep dive interface) directly connected to the occipital lobe (the lobe at the end of the cerebral hemisphere).

Only by using the deep dive interface can you enter the maze (cyberspace) composed of ever-changing neon graphics and rotating and flying grids.

But the disadvantage of using this method of hacking is that once you lose in a hacker duel, your skull will be burned alive.

"For an ordinary hacker, the moment the offensive defense wall is triggered, he will be killed directly, and his brain will be burned into a fireball by the offensive defense wall."

"But this hacker named T-BUG is extraordinary. She keeps circling in the enemy's subnet, like a slippery loach, and she never gets caught by the other party's hackers."

"It's just that she has no way to successfully escape from the offensive defense wall."

Rebecca thought thoughtfully: "That's why she asked us for help?"

"Yes, she entrusted the old captain to hope that someone could go to the Eden Gang's territory, find the Eden Gang's hacker, and unplug his network cable."

"As long as there are no hackers entangled, T-BUG can escape from the offensive defense wall."

Unplugging the network cable sounds simple.

It’s also simple to make.

When a hacker works, he usually lies on a hacker chair with a tube inserted into the back of his head. His body is in reality, but his consciousness is immersed in the world of cyberspace.

As long as he stays in cyberspace, even if you walk up to him and put a gun to his head, he will be as unaware as a dead dog.

The old captain said that the hacker was in the Eden Gang's stronghold, so as long as the so-called Eden Gang was not alerted.

Sneak in, unplug the hacker's network cable, and come out without anyone noticing, and the mission will be over.

Not only that, the old captain also provided Su Xiao and others with a detailed map of the Eden Gang's stronghold.

Although there is no personnel deployment and patrol routes, there are secret passages to the stronghold on this map.