Chapter 4 Die early
"I believe you can guess without me telling you that there is a mole on your side."
Lier's opening remarks were very direct. Zhu Shen nodded after listening and said: "This is my deputy Cai Pin. Is she your client?"
"I don't know." Lear shook his head, "The client's identity is a secret, sorry."
There is no confidentiality. Lille has no idea who V’s client is, and there is no need to know.
First of all, the authenticity of the client's identity is doubtful. Secondly, if Zhu Shen doesn't even know who has the opportunity and motive to hack him, he might as well throw him back now.
"Humph, are you still doing this? Are you an Oriental?"
"Consider I am."
"Then we'll communicate in Eastern languages - I'm going to turn off the translator. Turning off some systems will make me feel better."
In 2077, for enhanced people equipped with prosthetics, electronic viruses and biological viruses are indistinguishable from each other. If the prosthetic implant is broken, it is equivalent to the body being broken.
Lear nodded and switched the language: "Okay - go ahead and talk about what you are having fun with."
"What's the festival? It's just that she wants to take my position. I just didn't expect that she would take action at this juncture."
Zhu Shen frowned and looked very irritated: "We have a batch of goods that need to be transported to Night City and transported back to the headquarters. Now that I have been arrested, in order to ensure efficiency, they will probably let Cai Pin take charge of this matter first.
Once she actually succeeds and takes my position, no one will care about my life or death. "
"What's in that shipment?"
Zhu Shen glanced at Lille: "Some prototype finished products and semi-finished components, new products developed by the Atlanta Marketing Department, need to be submitted for approval by the headquarters for production.
Look, I haven't rebooted the system yet. There's only one reason for contacting the trauma team and calling the police: I want Cai Pin dead, and I can't mess with this batch.
I don't want APD to step in and get me into trouble. I will continue to be disconnected. You have to catch her off guard and ensure that my work goes smoothly. "
Lear did not respond immediately and just looked at the TV, where an advertisement for Zeta Technology was playing, showing that the company was far ahead in the market share of neural processors.
But I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but another one was inserted after this advertisement, indicating that the top civilian neural processor is still the military technology’s Sianwestein.
This is like a slap in the face - "Although you sell a lot, don't forget that mine are top quality."
However, Zeta Technology can only continue, after all, this is the territory of military technology.
Lear thought for a while and said: "Then you are lucky. You have met the best mercenary. Let's talk about the price."
"Is he the best mercenary?" Zhu Shen was noncommittal, but he also understood that he didn't have many choices now.
After thinking for a moment, he offered his own price: "400,000 for Cai Pin's life, 400,000 for sending this batch of goods to Night City, 200,000 for your covert operations - remember, the noise must be small, I don't want to Deal with APD.”
Leal shook his head: "So much work for one million? Come on, we are talking about killing a company executive in Atlanta without anyone noticing, and you have no other choice.
Believe me, as long as you show up on the street, a steady stream of pursuits will follow, and then you can only choose between pursuing yourself or calling the police.
The former one, the probability of death is almost 100%, the latter one, you have to lose your job, sounds the same as killing you.
However, you don't want to choose either of them - 2 million, this is a hard job.
And you have to pay a deposit first, and then I want a copy of Kangtao's internal local intelligence analysis. "
Almost without hesitation, Zhu Shen nodded: "Deal, my system cannot be restarted, but I still have safe funds, a total of 400,000 euros, which are placed in European banks and she cannot find them."
After blowing a whistle, Lille opened the door. V was standing in front of the door. Considering the poor sound insulation here, he must have listened to the transaction word for word.
Zhu Shen looked constipated, but Leer just shrugged: "We are on the same team, she always needs to know the mission objectives, requirements and rewards, right?
V, drive, we need to find a prosthetic doctor - Mr. Zhu, I think you should have someone, right? "
V looked very calm while driving, but in fact he was feeling dizzy.
2 million euros!
Who the hell would work as a mercenary if they had such money! Just go and enjoy life!
She glanced at Lear and said, "You're really not a bad boy."
Lille businessmen exchanged compliments: "If you win a prize, win a prize, I will ask you to do more in the future. After all, you are the famous V."
Although V didn't say anything, it was obvious that Lille was very comfortable with flattering him: "How will the money be divided?"
"I am seven and you are three - street rules."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Where are the street rules for a bald ass like you?"
"Look, I'm half a middleman now. If you don't want to do it, you can leave me alone. But if you kill me, do you think the sponsor will continue to cooperate?"
Lille is confident - from now on, street boy V Zhentian will be able to ask for help from him, so he can do whatever he wants.
In fact, this is what middlemen do, dealing with the funders and then using their connections to initiate actions.
In the end, a stupid young man was hired to take care of the matter. The stupid young man wanted to be able to work quickly, but his head would get dizzy when he thought about money.
The company looks down on both middlemen and mercenaries, but they will only contact middlemen and will not discuss business directly with mercenaries.
Lier pretended to be a novice go-between in front of Zhu Shen. In fact, he played this role in this mission.
It’s just that V knows that Lille is definitely not a middleman – intuition.
V didn't speak, but Lille could really feel the solemn atmosphere in the air.
"Ahem. Considering that I have just opened my business, your risk is relatively high on this order, so you can get an extra 10%."
V glanced at Lear: "Fifty-five - you can't do it without me."
Lille could only accept it helplessly: "Okay, it's the first time after all, but it's impossible to get all the money, so don't be too greedy."
V's grip on the steering wheel loosened a little: "So, what should we do next?"
"First we will use the deposit that Mr. Zhu gave us. For big jobs, we must use good goods. Then we will find some helpers and prepare to give Miss Cai a surprise.
Uh--cough-cough--! "
In the middle of speaking, Lille suddenly felt a violent burning sensation in his lungs.
For a moment, his limbs seemed to have completely lost contact with his brain. The next moment, he felt his body again, but it was extremely numb--
Moreover, there was a dark halo around his vision, just like myopia, seeing things with double images.
He could hear nothing, and his eyes could see but had difficulty distinguishing what appeared to him visually.
A few seconds later, the sound of the trumpet reappeared in his ears, and his consciousness seemed to have just returned from hell.
"Are you okay? You seem to have just died." V was a little worried that the 500,000 yuan order he had received was gone, "I'll take care of your eyes."
Lear's right eye was completely bloodshot, and the entire white of his eye was bloodshot.
"It's okay." Lear lay on the chair, breathing in the air——
In addition to using the advance payment to replace V with a more useful combat prosthesis, he also had to find a specialized doctor to check his physical condition.
In other words, this is his primary goal.
The two drove to the bank to withdraw Zhu Shen's safe funds, and then drove all the way to a black clinic on the edge of the city. This was a black clinic recommended by Zhu Shen and used by corporate dogs——
As long as you don't cross the line, it's a real black clinic - Zhu Shen said so.
Leer lay down on the operating table and had a full-body examination.
The doctor responsible for the examination seemed to have prostheses installed on only his eyes, but both arms were fully equipped with prostheses, and he performed the examination in conjunction with the workbench.
Relatively speaking, he is a normal prosthetic doctor - after all, in the rust belt area, the apparently decent style is the mainstream of the company.
"This is your situation." The doctor hesitated to speak while looking at the report that only he could see.
"What's wrong?" Lear opened his eyes, but the anesthetic had not yet completely worn off.
"how old are you?"
"It should be 18, what's wrong?" Lear asked curiously after finishing speaking, "What about you?"
"I'm 62."
Lear was shocked because the doctor looked to be in his thirties at most, so he blurted out: "So old?"
"You are indeed very old." The doctor glanced at Lear and changed the topic, "But you died earlier than me."
After speaking, the doctor handed Lille a tablet with the test results displayed on it.
"All your organs are failing. It would be okay if you don't have a prosthetic body, but the process can be accelerated several times with a prosthetic body.
The most terrible thing is that your cells are radioactive, which will affect precision implants and greatly increase the failure rate. Therefore, you can only use the most advanced second-generation implants and say goodbye to brand-name products.
A little more urgent - your eyes are probably going to go blind soon. Do you feel that there is a black halo around the field of vision, blurred vision, double images, and small flying insects in the field of vision?
In the end, these are not what you need to worry about most, because if this is the case, you can live for at least four or five years.
What you need to be most concerned about is that your spinal cord gray matter activity is decreasing. In other words, you will be paralyzed soon. This is relatively fast, maybe one or two months away.
The solution is to install neural implants to strengthen the central nervous system, but as I said before, this will shorten your lifespan. "
The doctor was not blind. He could see that Lille was a street kid with no stable job.
For this kind of street kid, paralysis is no different from their life--of course, in a sense, the inability to wear a prosthetic body can also be regarded as killing him.
“This is the first time I’ve seen someone’s body be so contradictory.
To be honest, your brain has many folds, excellent surface area conditions, and very active brain electrical signals.
But your body, your cells, are completely unsuitable for implants, and any implanted device will shorten your life.
Otherwise you might be able to work in network security. "
In 2077, everyone needs a prosthetic body, and the same applies to network hackers. Only by maximizing the potential of the brain can we better deal with various real-life situations.
Without a prosthetic body, being an ordinary citizen is the only option, but unfortunately it is difficult to live long.
[Complete a comprehensive physical examination and read the report carefully to gain technology points. 】
[Note: Science and technology points can be used to assist analysis techniques or carry items]
However, things like the crossing belt system have happened, and Lille has to solve the problem in its own way.
