People are in Night City, start to add points

Gloria thought for a moment and asked again.

It has been a long time since she gave David pocket money last time.

"Enough, and this time it's Lucy's treat."

"That's it."

Gloria glanced at her son and sighed helplessly.

"Next time you go out with a girl, don't let the other party spend money, understand."

"Occasionally she invites a guest..."

Just as David was about to explain a few words, he suddenly found a prompt popping up in his brain, and Gloria transferred him a sum of pocket money.

Looking at his bank account, there was an increase of 60 yuan in the deposit figure of more than [-] yuan with a long string of zeros. David opened his mouth, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.

After a moment, David forced a smile.

"Mom, I really have enough money. Let this money be used as the utility bill for next month."

He paused, then continued to explain.

"It's like this. Because of my good grades, I was selected to participate in an Arasaka Tower project, and I can get some extra subsidies."

"is it?"

Hearing these words, Gloria straightened her back all of a sudden, and her eyes sparkled.

"Awesome! This is a good opportunity. We have to do a good job in Arasaka Tower and learn more things. Do you hear me?"

"Ok."

"Listen more and talk less, don't talk back to those regular employees... Also, don't waste the money you earn..."

Gloria gave her nagging instructions again, and David leaned against the wall of the living room, and patiently agreed one by one.

"...And you can't be complacent, David, after all, you are not a regular employee of Arasaka yet, and there is still a long way to go, come on!"

Faced with his mother's encouragement, David nodded sincerely and then returned to his room.

"After a while, let's buy some gifts for Gloria."

Closing the door, David shook his head.

"I have to make my mother's life better."

"There is also this project. After the transformation of the driver is completed, it may be possible to make some requests to Bramwell to improve the living conditions of the family through formal means."

The greasy feeling brought by the meat sauce rice has not dissipated, and he is still a little thirsty. David drank the remaining Coke in one gulp, and then sat on the hard bed with a bit of buttocks.

"But Mann and the others are really messing around..."

Sighing helplessly, he frowned, recalling what happened just now.

It is undoubtedly a pleasure to have dinner with Lucy, even if the two of them didn't talk about any extra topics, they just discussed food, music, exchanged contact information after the meal, and said goodbye again, but staying with the beautiful girl, in itself It's a pleasing thing.

"I was indeed negligent. I didn't expect the tremendous pressure they would have to bear after they had nothing to do."

David leaned back, lying on the bed in a large font, his thoughts gradually spread.

"But it's not like rushing to the doctor like this..."

You must know that the networks of different floors in Arasaka Tower are physically separated, and the scope of his current activities is only in the almost lowest-level network.

Those materials with a higher level of confidentiality are all built separately, located in the middle and high-level positions, and they will not know unless they go to a certain floor.

For example, in the prosthesis testing laboratory, there is a computer that can only be authorized by the supervisor and can be connected to an intermediate network.

"According to Mann's idea, the idea of ​​connecting the puppet to the network of Arasaka Tower through a random person, and looking for King Kong along the network is definitely not feasible. There is no way to touch the edge of the 'Prosthetic King Kong'. Putting 'David Martinez' at risk for doing things for them."

David frowned bit by bit, feeling more and more difficult about this matter.

After all, David is Moon, and Moon is David. Even though he is aware of the problem, he cannot immediately warn Mann. This will cause them to have unnecessary associations, and they may be aware of Moon's true identity.

And not only that, even if he didn't notice it, it would cause the pressure on Mann's team to rise further.

Who can bear to be watched by others for their behavior, and be warned if there is any sign of trouble?Not to mention, Mann is a guy who pretends to be a prosthetic body and has potential cyber psychosis.

At the station in Company Square just now, Mann couldn't control his emotions, and the way he yelled hysterically at Lucy in the communication was very much like a precursor to cyberpsychosis in the animation.

"Forget it, tell them about the Arasaka network situation after a while, and warn them about their petty actions..."

David muttered to himself and made a decision in his heart.

What if Mann's cyberpsychosis had an early onset if he was provoked by himself?

And according to their plan, Lucy will have several dates to get closer before making the request to 'implant the puppet into the Arasaka Network'. There is still some time before this, so it is not so urgent.

Well, I decided to postpone this matter for Mann's consideration.

Definitely don't want to experience a few dates with Lucy!

Volume 89: Chapter 88 Chapter [-]: Social Animal Life

The next day, on a misty morning, David stepped out of the S-Bahn station in Company Square.

Due to the existence of several industrial areas, the air quality in Night City has always been bad. In addition, there was a light rain last night, and the whole city was immediately shrouded in gray-white mist.

David yawned big, feeling dizzy.

In the next few days, he will work at the Arasaka Tower to complete the transformation of the built-in driver of the prosthetic body, so he also needs to have the same attendance hours as the Arasaka employees.

That's why he's here so early in the morning.

Walking in the mist and cold wind, David truly experienced the feeling of social animals in 2075.

"You have to arrive at seven in the morning, and leave at ten or eleven in the evening, every day. This is not a place for people to stay..."

After criticizing the evil capital in his heart, David began to think about how to ask Bramwell for leave so that he could leave early.

As a 'relationship household' designated by the leader and an informal employee, I should be able to leave early occasionally... right?

While walking, David glanced at the reminder in his brain, and there were only 2 minutes left until seven o'clock.

He suddenly became nervous, and quickly trotted all the way through the elevated passage and the road to the bottom of the Arakasa Tower.

But it was still a little late. When David finished the security check, rushed into the stairs, and came to the door of the laboratory on the 54th floor-atrium, the pointer had already pointed to 6:[-], and he was [-] minutes late.

"I really envy you. It's not within the monitoring scope of the attendance AI. Instead, we are already deducting wages in seconds."

The black supervisor named Baptiste raised his head, watched David walk into the laboratory out of breath, and said with emotion.

"However, try to be as early as possible next time. If it is discovered by other departments, it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble."

I don't need that little subsidy, can I come later in the future?

David complained silently in his heart, then nodded quite sincerely, and turned to his seat.

Due to his understanding of biology, especially the brain, the second prosthetic body he handled was also located in the frontal cortex.

'Visual cortex support' can enhance the user's perception ability by stimulating the brain, and is used to assist aiming in most cases.

This is a slender red wire, with ports connected to the brain at both ends, and a square chip in the center.

Like the 'edge enhancement system', the 'visual cortex support' has been launched for many years, and it is difficult to improve the hardware level, and the profit is not high, so it was used for David to modify the software.

With previous experience, David's renovation was very fast this time, and it took only one or two hours to complete the work.

But in order not to attract attention, he still sat in his seat, sometimes frowning at the screen, sometimes typing on the keyboard, pretending to be still working hard.

It's a pity that during working hours, the laboratory's network is closed and cannot connect to the outside world, otherwise you can fish or something...

David sighed, and began to think about downloading novels and movies in his brain before coming to work tomorrow.

In the boredom, time passed bit by bit, and several hours passed.

"David."

Hearing Baptiste's voice behind him, David immediately perked up, pretending to be immersed in his work, and then turned back with some confusion.

"This is the 'hacking ability specialized equipment' you applied for earlier."

Next to Baptiste was a self-driving car, which was filled with black safes of various sizes.

"It can only be used in the laboratory, and if it is damaged, it will be compensated according to the price... By the way, what do you want this thing for?"

"I want to find some inspiration from the drivers of hacking equipment." David looked away from the car and said sincerely: "Maybe we can draw inferences by analogy and lead to different ideas."

"As you like."

Baptiste shrugged and said nothing.

This is actually not within the scope of work, but considering that David was introduced by Bramwell and the reasons given are reasonable, Baptiste just turned a blind eye.

"But you can go back and work on it, it's lunch break."

Watching the cart drive towards David, Baptiste added another sentence.

"There is a half-hour lunch break every day, and a free lunch is provided at the central location on this floor—of course, the taste is actually mediocre. If you want a better one, you have to go to the restaurant downstairs to buy it."

lunch break?

David glanced at the time in his brain, and it was already 02:30 in the afternoon.

Starting at seven o'clock in the morning, everyone has worked for seven and a half hours, and after a half-hour break, there is still the same length of working time waiting for them.

Arasaka doesn't think that as long as it's half of the working time, it's considered a lunch break, right?

Watching Baptiste turn and walk away, David smiled wryly, stood up from his chair, and walked out.

After a while, he walked out of the laboratory door and out of the range of the jammer, and the brain computer immediately connected to the wireless network, and many unread messages appeared on the communication interface.

David glanced quickly, first deleted the junk advertisements, and then walked towards the center of the floor while slowly checking the remaining messages.

The first one was from Arasaka Academy.

"Student David Martinez, you have received a request from the company, and you are specially approved to go to Arasaka Tower to participate in project work. During this period, it is still counted as attendance at the academy. Please abide by the rules and regulations of Arasaka Tower and work hard... ..."

A notification was full of clichés. David just forked it out after reading a few sentences, and then clicked on the next one.

Gloria: "I'm going to work overtime today too. Let's prepare dinner by myself. There are bread and sausages in the kitchen. (If you go out with Lucy, don't come back too late)"

The corners of David's mouth twitched slightly, and he replied a good word.

Mother is very concerned about her love...

He sighed, and continued to slide down the communication interface, and then three or four unread messages from Lucy appeared in front of him.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"How about yesterday's meat sauce rice:) I also know a Chinese restaurant, the taste is also very good, do you want to go together next time..."

"...Are you busy at Arasaka Tower?"

Is this the beginning of the relationship? You are really dedicated, Miss Mercenary...

David came to the center of the floor and took his place behind the lunch line.

He considered it, then replied.

"Yeah, I just finished work and I'm going to have lunch."

The message had just been sent, and only two or three seconds later, Lucy quickly sent a reply, as if she had been waiting for him.

"It's hard work!"

Volume 90: Chapter 89 Chapter [-]: The Lunch Problem

"It's hard work!"

After this sentence, Lucy added an emoji expression.

Seemingly afraid that David would not know what to reply, she paused for two seconds, and then took the initiative to send a few messages.

"By the way, it's only lunch break now, so haven't you had lunch yet?"

"Arasaka's lunch must be delicious, ours is terrible..."

It looks like it.

David couldn't help laughing. When I went to Little Chinatown for dinner yesterday, Lucy claimed to work for a small company near the company square.

He was about to reply, subconsciously clicked on the emoticon list, and then realized that this is 2075, and all the emoticons he had saved in his previous life were gone.