Chapter 3 The middleman is to learn to show off
In the cyberpunk world, the original Internet was blown up by the legendary hacker Bartmos. Any hacker who tries to directly access the original network will be attacked by AI.
So the current network model is that people access the Internet through the LAN provided by the network monitor, so on a network scale, everyone is separated.
Atlanta belongs to the Rust Belt Network Administrative Region. If you want to transfer information from the Taiping State area to which Night City belongs, you can't do it without a certain level.
This place covers the central and eastern regions of the United States, covering a large number of giant building complexes, while Atlanta is the core of the city. It is developed and stable, but before V came here, he only knew that this was a very prosperous place. place.
In fact, except for corporate dogs, no one frequently flows between different network domains. Information communication in this world is both broad and narrow, technically superb but narrow in practical application.
The way Lille talked so eloquently made V take a few glances at this purely physical human being -
After all, the street boy V is just a street kid with no culture.
Seeing V's appearance, Lille secretly pumped his fist to celebrate the victory in the second stage, and there was also some success in the third stage.
The first stage of successful communication is when the other party is willing to listen to him, the second stage is when the other party starts to ask questions, and the third stage is when the other party starts to think about what you have to say——
And you know that he will eventually believe you.
“V, Atlanta is not suitable for you, not for a street boy like you. You dream of making big money, but the only way left for the bottom here is to work honestly.
But you You don't want to do those boring and tedious jobs, so you have to leave in the end, and believe me, you will have to spend at least one year in jail before you leave.
Now I will give you a second way - —Do you want to make a lot of money?"
Speak halfway and then get to the point.
Instead of going through his communication process step by step, Lille got right to the point.
He wanted to stretch out his hand, but found that his body was too weak, so he could only put his hand tremblingly on the table, making a handshake gesture.
If his physical condition was normal, he would be sweating like crazy right now——
The handshake represents the success of the third stage, and even directly reaches the fourth stage-the deal.
But the success rate of such a risky move will never exceed 50%.
Unless the other person is a street kid who wants to be famous.
It is impossible for such a person to swallow the anger of being fooled, and there is also an opportunity to make a lot of money here - robbing the company dog is no burden to V.
It is very prudent to advance the conversation process slowly, but if you say too much, you may make many mistakes. Lille must seize the information he knows for sure and maximize his advantage.
V did not put down the gun, but looked Lear up and down: "What's your name."
"Lil Lee - so you just need to call me Lear. , this is both my English name and my Chinese name.”
"Weird name - you look too ugly, please wear some clothes."
V did not shake hands, and pulled some clothes to Lille: "Put it on, and then tell me what you want to do. ——But let’s talk first, I’m just listening.”
Liel took the clothes and said: “Move Mr. Zhu Shen to the car and find a safe place to talk.”
< br>Putting on new clothes - a pair of dark green dirty cropped pants and a white coat, Lille felt like a human again, although not entirely, he looked like the homeless people on the streets of Night City tramp.
Atlanta, the core of the city, is prosperous and safe. Unlike driving on the road where you may be hit by rockets from gangs, what you can feel here is the prosperity of technology and the prosperity of mankind. great.
Towering buildings, well-ordered traffic flows under intelligent algorithms, hurried crowds, sparkling floating cars flying across the sky from time to time, and clean and atmospheric holographic projection promotional videos can be seen everywhere.
The basis for achieving all this is absolute surveillance and absolute capital punishment for cyber crimes.
It is impossible to hide traces on the Internet, and naturally it is impossible to hide the actual criminal behavior.
Everyone is monitored, everyone is safe, this is Atlanta.
After passing the viaduct, the car drove all the way to the edge of the city. It was still very safe here, at least there were no gunshots everywhere.
But it is very dark here, people’s eyes are dull, fatigue is their standard, and poverty is a disease destined to haunt them for a lifetime or even several generations.
“If I were to do nothing every day like these guys, I might as well just die.”
Driving in the car, V suddenly complained.
"People are very patient. Not everyone is like you, V."
V glanced at Lille in the passenger seat: "What about you? You look like Unlike those corporate dogs, a bald donkey can know so many things?”
"First of all, I'm not a bald donkey, and secondly - why do you think I'm not a company dog?"
"Haha, you don't even have a high-end prosthetic body, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf?"
< br>"Look, this is where you are ignorant." Lille decisively launched a belittling mode. In order to save his life, he used some means when necessary.
“If the company only likes guys with full-body prosthetics, then all members of the Uzumaki Gang are not allowed to join the company to receive trauma team insurance? Wake up, V, the degree of prosthetics is not the company’s top concern at all.
< br>They are originally producing prosthetics, and their talents other than prosthetics are more important”
Lille wasn't lying - strictly speaking, in his previous life, he was considered a corporate dog in the eyes of street guys like V.
If you can work in a company if you are in good health, then the company will be full of sports students.嗗——
The harsh sound of brakes interrupted Lille's talk, and the inertia almost threw him against the glass.
“I can kill you with a sudden brake, are you still pretending?”
Lille looked helpless as V closed the door and got out of the car.
This girl is really hot-tempered - well, the V I control in the game is even more violent, the one in the Violent Terror Mobile Team.
This place is a temporary residence that V found - an iron house that no one wants. You only need to pay 120 euros a month to the rental company.
That's right, it's just such a shabby house made of iron sheets, with no smart lines, no physical network channels, nothing, only an unstable power supply line and land use rights, 120 euros a month.
The advantage is that you can avoid law enforcement, but the disadvantage is that you can avoid law enforcement. If you don't have something to do, you won't dare to sleep here.
Bang.
Zhu Shen was thrown to the ground, and V said: "Okay, what do you want to do?"
"Find out what secrets they have, and then determine how much we can make."
V was stunned for a moment: "You He said it was a trick on me. "
Lille explained: "Yes, your employer tricked you, but the reason why he hired you is probably because they can't deal with the official - this paragraph. How did you tell your employer about the time? ”
"I said I was still chasing those scavengers - she really didn't suspect it, but I guess it was just a matter of time before she found out."
"It doesn't matter to wake this guy up, it's just a physiological matter. Wake up, don’t help him remove the isolation chip.”
“That’s a lot to ask for.”
As he said that, V took out the pneumatic injection and gave it to Mr. Zhu.
“Hu——”
As if returning from hell, the man took a deep breath and exhaled it, looking around in horror:
"Who are you - who are you? Where am I?"
"We is your savior - depending on your answers you may be in heaven or hell - I guess you have discovered your system Hacked."
"Damn it!" Zhu Shen was stunned for a moment, and then he roared after realizing that all the prosthetics were unusable, "Let me go, and I can give you more money."< br>
I have to say that Mr. Zhu was quite calm, and it only took a few seconds to regain his composure - at least on the surface.
Lear touched his chin: "So you've already guessed who screwed you?"
Company dogs still have a very keen sense of smell when it comes to conspiracy, especially when they have already been screwed. Continuing to blame the scavengers is a sign of substandard intelligence.
Zhu Shen raised his head and looked at Lille warily: "Let me go, I can give you a sum of money, and then pretend that none of this happened."
"Huh, As expected of a company dog, he still speaks so rudely at this time," V sneered from the side.
Lille said: "Look, if you understand your situation, you should know that if we give you money and let you go, we will definitely die - and you Will die too.
But we can definitely continue to act according to the employer's script, and at least we can reimburse transportation expenses and so on. "
Zhu Shen said, "Then you can continue acting. ”
Lier smiled and said nothing, but looked into the eyes of the company executive. After a few seconds, Zhu Shen’s face began to turn blue.
The system virus will make his The dizziness and nausea caused by the disorder of the prosthetic body interfered with his judgment, making it difficult for him to maintain his thoughts.
But just like Lear thought, he did not immediately restore the system and call the police - this was. A good thing means good rewards.
Leal said: "But you guessed it, the employer is not very honest with us, and I don't like to be deceived - so give you a chance, we can help you, as long as you bid higher - of course, very high High.
You know, you are very lucky. I just came out and am very receptive to this kind of high-risk work."
"Ugh-" Zhu Shen started to do it. Ouch, but he quickly adjusted.
Raising his head, he glanced at Lille, then at V, and finally said to Lille: "I will only talk to you."
Lille was overjoyed, but He controlled it very well, and those pretentious film and television materials flashed crazily in his mind——
The middleman can be poor or weak, but he must be able to show off, especially in front of mercenaries.
"Okay - heaven is to the left, V, please open the door on the left for this gentleman."
V opened the door on the left with a strange expression.
The iron room does have two rooms, but the other room is a toilet. It is impossible to let Zhu Shen enter the toilet to talk, right?
The bald donkey who is so pretentious.
(End of this chapter)