People are in Night City, start to add points

"...Okay, I'll pay the money."

Hearing Louis Brown let out a long breath and his tone returned to calm, Regina raised the corners of her mouth slightly, shook the wine glass in her hand, and hung up the communication call.

Then, she dialed another number.

Volume 56: Chapter 56 Chapter [-]: New Tasks

This time she waited significantly longer.

After nearly 2 minutes, the communication finally sounded the connection tone.

"Good morning, Mr. Angelo Matt, I'm Regina Jones."

Regina coughed lightly, and spoke first when the phone was connected.

"Ah."

The other party didn't express much, and said in a low voice.

"Say something."

"It's like this..." Regina narrowed her eyes slightly, and her speech speed increased a lot: "You may already know what happened in the Lava Bar yesterday."

"You did it?"

"Yes, people from Valentino's gang found me and wanted to buy Morita Daichi's life."

Regina paused, then continued.

"During the execution of the mission, the people I sent found an NCPD police officer. But unfortunately, this police officer had already died in the abuse of the Tiger Claw Gang, and my people could only take his Corpse."

"I understand."

Angelo Matt immediately understood what Regina meant without too many hints.

"I will send someone to bring him back. It is a pity that ncpd has lost a hero police officer..."

Compared with just now, Angelo Matt's tone has softened a lot.

"It's not a coincidence. Your people are one step late. If you can bring him out alive, you will get a lot of rewards, but now it will be much less."

Hearing this, Regina sighed silently, but her voice was still steady.

"It's okay, it's a pleasure to help you."

Just when she thought this conversation was about to come to an end, Angelo Matt spoke again after a brief silence.

"I have some knowledge of what happened in the Lava Bar. In addition to a mercenary squad, you also sent a hacker, right?"

"Yes..." Regina's voice froze for a moment, she didn't expect the other party to mention this suddenly.

"Hehe, nice guy."

Matt laughed a few times, and then continued to ask casually.

"What is your name?"

"You know, these hackers have always paid attention to privacy."

Regina pursed her lips and replied helplessly.

"I only know his code name..."

"...moon."

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Southeast Watson, near a bar in Japan Street.

The members of the mercenary squad are gathering together to celebrate the successful completion of this mission.

"Why didn't Qiwei come?"

Rebecca was lying on the sofa with her limbs stretched out, shaking her head and looking left and right.

At this time, she had already taken off the thick coat, and her upper body was only wearing a thin and flat bra. The pink prosthetic lines on her collarbone and lower abdomen were unreservedly exposed.

"Where are you going..." Pila on the sofa on the other side whispered.

"what?"

Hearing this, Rebecca narrowed her eyes and countered.

"So you're here too. I thought you were staying at the Lava Bar. After all, the waiters there are big and enthusiastic..."

"Drink your bar!"

A wine bottle was thrown over, Rebecca reached out to catch it firmly, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip.

"Hic—cool!"

She licked her lips, and the smile returned to her face.

"It's better to be a bar in a small place."

This wine bar is not big, and the decoration is relatively simple. It is incomparable with places like Lava Bar, but it is better than the price, and it will not hurt you to drink it open.

"Qi Wei has other things."

Mann, who was sitting on the edge, stood up, walked slowly to the center of the crowd, and looked around.

"Let's eat and drink enough. Now let's discuss a problem. I want to add another hacker to the team."

"what?"

Rebecca, who was rolling on the sofa, stopped and looked at Mann blankly.

"You kicked Qi Wei?"

"I said, add another hacker, and then."

Mann put his hand on his forehead and sighed helplessly.

"It's business, Rebecca, don't interrupt."

His expression gradually became serious, watching his team members.

"After yesterday, I feel the need to add another hacker to the team."

"I think you must have the same feeling as I do, that is, top hackers are so important that they can ignore the barriers of space and do everything out of sight."

"They can erase all the gaps in other places. No matter how well prepared you are, it's useless no matter how tightly guarded you are... You don't even know how you died in the end."

In the slow and low voice of Mann, the team members fell silent.

"Indeed, it's terrible..."

Dorio nodded, with a feeling of lingering fear.

"But this kind of top experts basically only exist in major companies and network supervisors—the one I met yesterday is probably like this." Mann was silent for a few seconds, and then continued: "But we may not be able to recruit them." This level of hackers can only be compensated by quantity."

"I told Qi Wei about this idea, and she also agreed with it, and told me that she knows a good hacker and can invite her to join us."

"she?"

Pyra, who had kept her head down all the time and didn't comment on this topic, had a bright eye.

"That's right, it's also a woman, Qi Wei went to pick her up."

"Ah - one more person to share the money, right?"

Rebecca sat cross-legged on the sofa, drooped her head, and muttered something in a low voice, but she didn't object.

Seeing that the matter had been finalized, Dorio picked up the wine glass again.

"Tell me, yesterday...what is the origin of that person yesterday?"

She paused, then continued speaking.

"I asked Qi Wei, the system of the Lava Bar, and the firewall in that Morita Daichi's brain computer are not ordinary products, even worse than some small and medium-sized companies, but they are like toys in front of that person."

Mann obviously thought about this question, and immediately continued.

"That's right, logically speaking, a master like this would not appear in a mission of this level. I'm afraid his commission alone is several times higher than that of our entire team."

Even though a day has passed, Mann still felt a little dignified when he recalled the scene at that time.

The hacker pretended to be the voice of Morita's cronies and other younger brothers, and lured Morita to the empty corridor all the way, but what he did was very simple, just follow behind and shoot when prompted.

Compared with the frontal hail of bullets, this method of playing with the enemy makes him, a veteran who kills without blinking an eye, feel even more frightened.

He even had a feeling that the hacker who called himself 'moon' was like a cat catching a mouse. He could obviously release a lethal puppet and burn the opponent's brain without anyone noticing, but he just wanted to play with it and make the enemy panic. and die in despair.

Mann took a sip, trying to dispel the inexplicable fear in his heart with alcohol.

"It doesn't matter, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet a boss of this level in the future."

"What if, once we become enemies, we don't even know how to die."

"It is still necessary to add one more hacker..."

Others also started discussing in a hurry, while Mann drank the wine silently, estimating the time in his heart.

It's been a long time, Qiwei and the person she's looking for should be here soon...

At this moment, Mann suddenly found a message received in his brain.

"There is a new mission, let's meet and chat."

Mann frowned, opened the communication list, and found this person's notes.

【Middleman-Faraday】

Volume 57: Chapter [-] Testimonials

It's about to be put on the shelves, let's knock one for everyone first.

Boom boom boom!

Then there are some nonsense words. In fact, as early as when 2077 was released, I wanted to write a cyberpunk-themed book, but I was delayed because of other work. Until I finished watching Edgewalker, the animation brought me a lot of emotion. I re-imagined an opening and released the book during the quiet period.

I want to write the good end of David and Lucy, and I also want to write the cyberpunk world in my heart.

I am very grateful to the book friends who have collected, and I am very grateful to the book friends who voted for me. Without your encouragement, I would not be able to make it to the present. Every day when I go home, I will first look at the posts and tickets. , Seeing that the person who has been voting is suddenly absent one day, I start to reflect on whether I have written a question... Wait, and then rolled to the code under the urging of gkd one by one.

I really want to thank you for always encouraging me and cheering for me.

It is precisely because of your support and the desire to create in my heart that I decided to finish writing this story seriously even when my grades were not good enough and my friends advised me to "really fail" and "the heat has passed". It took a few years for the world to emerge.

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Volume 58: Chapter 57 Chapter [-]: Ethical Issues

North Side Apartment, Room 1242.

David tapped the keyboard very rhythmically, and lines of code continued to emerge on the screen in front of him.

After about half an hour, he gradually stopped what he was doing and picked up the coffee cup on the table.

It has been four days since the intelligence was raised to 10 points.

For the past four days, whenever he had time, he spent time in the safe house, and finally constructed the prototype of the new puppet.

However, further research and development have encountered some problems.

After slowly drinking the coffee in the cup, David immersed his consciousness into the brain computer, entered the hacker forum, and opened the private chat interface with 'Armstrong'.

To the moon: "Excuse me, do you think hackers can control other people's cognition, emotions and even thinking?"

He was silent for a moment, sighed silently, and then added another sentence.

"I have such an idea, but when I think about it carefully, I feel a kind of fear instead."

According to David's conception, since memory can be affected by a puppet, can it be used to control other parts of the target's brain in the same way?

For example, by stimulating different areas of the brain to elicit different emotions in the target.

Since he already had the experience of 'memory erasure' and 'memory modification', he quickly completed the production of the puppet, leaving only the specific operation part, which involved his little knowledge of biology, and he needed to Further study and research within Arasaka College's electronic library.

The new puppet plus 'memory modification', the combination of the two can even achieve the effect of magic in fantasy novels, that is to completely change and manipulate a person's self-cognition, making the other person a 'living' puppet.

Although there is no actual operation, David is sure that he can do it. As long as there is a powerful enough Chaomeng editor, as long as there is enough computing power, give him half a month... no, in a week, he can completely change a person. into another person.