Chapter 4 Die early
“I believe you can guess without me telling you that there is a mole on your side.”
Lil’s opening statement was very direct, and Zhu Shen listened to it. He nodded and said: "It's my deputy Cai Pin, she is yours The client?”
“I don’t know.” Lear shook his head, “The identity of the client is a secret, sorry.”
There is no confidentiality at all. There is no need to know who the person is.
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?"
"You can think that I am."
"Then let's communicate in Oriental language - —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, and prosthetics are implanted. If the body is broken, it means the body is broken.
Leer nodded and switched the language: "Okay - go on, what's the festival?"
"What's the festival? It's just that she wants to take my position, I just didn't expect that she would Let's 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 from there. Now I have been arrested. In order to ensure efficiency, they It is very likely that Cai Pin will be responsible for this matter first.
When she actually does it 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.
Listen, I haven't restarted the system yet, contacted the trauma team and called the police There is only one reason: I want Cai Pin to die, and I can't mess with this batch of goods.
Me. I don’t want APD to intervene 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.”
Liel didn’t respond immediately and just looked away. on the TV, where an ad for Zeta Technologies was playing, showing that the company was far ahead in market share of neural processors.
However, I don’t know what the problem is. There is another advertisement after this advertisement, indicating that the top civilian neuroprocessor is still the military technology Sianwei Stan.
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.
Lil thought for a while and said: "Then you are lucky, you have met the best mercenary, let's talk about the price."
"The best mercenary, right? ?" Zhu Shen was noncommittal, but he also understood that he didn't have much choice now.
After thinking for a moment, he offered his own price: "400,000 will buy Cai Pin's life, 400,000 will buy this batch of goods to Night City, and 200,000 will buy you covert operations - remember, Keep it quiet, I don’t want to deal with APD.”
Leal shook his head: "So much work for one million? Come on, we are now talking about killing a company executive in Atlanta without anyone noticing, and you have no other choice.
Trust me , as long as you show up on the street, a steady stream of chases will follow, and then you can only choose between pursuing yourself or calling the police.
The probability of death in the former case is almost 100. 100 points, the latter one, you have to lose your job, it sounds like killing you.
But you don't want to choose either - 2 million, this is a hard job.
And you. 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, and Lille just shrugged: "We are a team, she always needs to know the mission goals, requirements and rewards, right?
V, drive, we are looking for Personal prosthetic doctor—Mr. Zhu, I think you have someone to choose?”
V who was driving looked very calm, but in fact he was dizzy.
2 million euros!
Who the hell would work as a mercenary if they have such money! Just go and enjoy life!
She glanced at Lille: "You're really not a bad guy."
Lille's businessmen complimented each other: "If you win a prize, win a prize, I will ask you to do more in the future. After all, you are a famous V Ah."
Although V didn't say anything, it was obvious that Lille was very comfortable with flattering him: "How to divide the money?"
"I am seven and you are three - the rules of the street."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Where is the street rule for a bald ass like you, seven or three?"
"Look, I am now considered half a middleman, you 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?"
Lil is confident - from now on, street boy V Zhentian will have something to ask for. It's up to him, so you can do whatever you want.
In fact, this is what middlemen do. They deal with the funders and then use 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 does not like middlemen or mercenaries, but they will only contact middlemen and will not discuss business directly with mercenaries.
Lir pretended to be a novice middleman in front of Zhu Shen. In fact, he did play this role in this mission.
It’s just that V knows that Lille is definitely not a middleman - intuition.
V did not speak, but Lille could really feel the solemn atmosphere in the air.
"Ahem. Considering that I have just opened my business now, your risk is relatively high on this order, so you can get 10% more." V glanced at Lille: "Fifty-five - you can't do it without me."
Lille could only accept it helplessly: "Well, it is the first time after all, but it is impossible to get all the money. , don’t be too greedy.”
V’s grip on the steering wheel loosened: “So, what should we do next?”
“Use the deposit that Mr. Zhu gave us first. To do a big job, you have to use good products. Then we will find some helpers and prepare to give Ms. Cai a surprise.
Uh-cough-cough--! ”
Halfway through 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 He felt his body again, but it was extremely numb——
And there was a black halo around his vision, like myopia, seeing things with double images.
He could hear everything. Not seeing, the eyes see things but have difficulty distinguishing what appears 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 deal was gone, "I'll go and put your eyes on"
Lille's right His eyes were completely bloodshot, and the entire whites of his eyes were bloodshot.
"It's okay." Leal lay on the chair, breathing heavily -
Advance payment In addition to replacing V with a more useful combat prosthesis, he also had to find a professional Have your doctor check your health.
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 recommended by Zhu Shen and used by the corporate dog queen——
As long as you don't cross the line, it is a real black clinic - Zhu Shen said so.
Liel lay down on the operating table and had a full body examination.
The doctor responsible for the examination seemed to have prostheses installed only in 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 effect had not completely worn off.
"How old are you?"
"It should be 18, what's wrong?" After finishing speaking, Lille asked curiously, "What about you?"
"I'm 62."
Lille was shocked because the doctor looked to be in his thirties at most, so he blurted out: "So old?"
"Indeed. Very old." The doctor glanced at Lear and changed the topic, "But you died earlier than me." After saying that, the doctor handed Lear 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. 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 your vision, blurred vision, double images, and small flying insects in your vision?
In the end, these are not what you need to worry about most, because if this is all, 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 faster, maybe a month or two.
The solution is to install neural implants to enhance 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 have seen someone with such a contradictory body.
To be honest, your brain has many folds, excellent surface area conditions, and very active brain 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 goes for 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 obtain technology points]
[Note: Technology points can be used to assist analysis technology or. What to bring】
However, things like the crossing belt system have happened, and Lille has to solve the problem in its own way.
(End of this chapter)