Perhaps sensing Su Xiao's doubts, Rebecca used the gun body of Tech Pistol to gently pat his little head, a bit like scratching his hair.
"Mann went to upgrade the prosthetic body again. Dorio was worried and went with him. Sasha was catching up on her sleep. She worked hard all night last night and was exhausted. She probably hasn't gotten up yet."
"You said Mann upgraded his prosthetic body? Damn, why is he upgrading his prosthetic body again?"
Su Xiao, who has always been elegant and easy-going, rarely used a foul language.
Didn't he just give Mann a pair of Power Gauntlet?
How long has it been since?
Why are you running to upgrade your prosthetic body now?
Mann is so obsessed with power?
This thought only occupied my brain for a second before being driven away by Su Xiao.
No, this is not Mann obsessed with power.
A more accurate statement would be that Mann cannot stop improving his strength.
Just as Su Xiao is the core of the team, Mann is also the captain of their team.
As a captain, you have the obligation to protect your teammates.
Perhaps it was out of this consideration that Mann transformed himself crazily and worked hard to upgrade his prosthetic body.
Rather than becoming Cyberpsychosis, that man was more afraid of losing his companions.
Su Xiao drove to the Long Beach North intersection of Watson District.
This is located at Northside Industrial District.
It is already the edge of Night City.
Not far away are the few remaining factories of Northside Industrial District that are still in operation.
The white smoke never stops day and night, from then on
Emitted from these huge chimneys.
Northside Industrial District is not a high-rise building without Japantown.
But they are completely incomparable in terms of quantity.
Apartments Rebecca and Pila are across the road.
It's that kind of small apartment building that's very shabby and old.
Didn't keep Su Xiao waiting too long.
The automatic door of the apartment swung and retreated to both sides.
Just like the last time we met, Rebecca, wearing a large coat, stood at the door and looked around.
After seeing the familiar SUV parked on the roadside, he ran over in a hurry.
Rebecca originally wanted to sit in the passenger seat, but when she got closer and saw Lucy sitting there, she opened the back seat door and sat in.
"Rebecca, you probably don't know the new members of my team. Let me introduce to you, Rebecca, this is Lucy, Lucy, this is Rebecca."
"Hello."
"Hello."
The two greeted each other politely but at a distance.
Rebecca put his penis into the empty seat under the seat.
Then she lay down on the back of the chair in the front row and saw Su Xiao dressed in a white windbreaker. Rebecca's eyes couldn't help but light up.
"Su, are you going to apply to be the host of a TV show?"
"Forget it, I can't do that."
Being a host seems easy and makes a lot of money, but in fact not everyone can be one.
Even if you graduate from a prestigious school and have a professional background, you may not be able to become the host of the Night City TV show.
Take Ruth Zheng, the host of <Info Talk> as an example.
In the autobiography she asked the gunman to write, she openly admitted that the manuscript <Info Talk> was not actually written by her at all.
Ruth Zheng didn't even bother to memorize the script. She just looked at the teleprompter and read out the script written by the intern when she was on the show.
Just like that, the money she earned in the last episode of the show was more than what most Night City people earn in a year.
So how did she get up here?
One of her father's colleagues is the program producer of News 54.
It was her father who made connections and made her become the host of <Info Talk>.
It's just so logical.
If you don't have such a background and backstage, you can only be an intern serving tea and water at best.
As for whether there is a chance to become a permanent member and when it will be possible...
Then only God knows.
"What kind of job is it? Who sent it?"
On the way to Santo Domingo, Rebecca, who was sitting in the back row, was chirping like a bird and kept asking questions.
Su Xiao glanced at her. "It's Old Captain... You are the mercenary team from Santo Domingo. You don't know this middleman who is also Santo Domingo, right?"
"I recognize it. I recognize it."
"Oh? Then let me hear it."
Rebecca proudly puffed up his chest, shook his head and said proudly.
"The information about Old Captain is still Sasha - it was obtained by the hackers in our team. I heard that before becoming Santo Domingo's middleman, Old Captain's name was Muammar Reyes, and he was Corp Dog, who was responsible for handling..."
"Hey, no one wants to know this anyway. However, he soon discovered that all companies are the same-either you are defeated by them, or you are defeated by them, and he prefers the latter."
"Often those who have escaped poverty and become rich always like to help the less fortunate folks, and Old Captain is the same."
"As a middleman who has become famous recently, almost half of Santo Domingo's working-class people, when they need help, the first person they think of is him, so he can be said to be earning a lot of money."
"But it doesn't mean that he is a greedy and selfish person. On the contrary, everyone who has worked with Old Captain respects him, just like he respects them."
"In fact, the title Old Captain was given by someone who received his help."
"Old Captain's most famous saying is - 'The world ruled by corporations is a plague. Power will eventually return to the people. We are the flesh and blood and backbone of this place, and we will succeed, just wait and see'."
Su Xiao The more she listened, the more she felt something was wrong and quickly interrupted her.
"Are you sure the information found by Sasha is correct? This doesn't sound like a middleman, but rather..."
Su Xiao scratched his hair in distress.
He couldn't think of a suitable adjective at the moment.
"Anyway, Old Captain is a very good person," Rebecca shook her head again, "It's just that we usually cooperate more with Faraday."
"Really? But I think you can consider changing to a middleman in the future."
"Ah?"
Rebecca opened his mouth wide with a look of surprise.
"Ah what? You didn't sell yourselves to a middleman, so why hang yourself on a tree? That guy Faraday has a very bad reputation. If you cooperate with him, be careful and you will be betrayed by him one day."
Su Xiao looked back at Rebecca: "I'm not an alarmist. You are just working in Santo Domingo. You should know better than me. Don't you think there are not enough low-level mercenaries and street gangsters who are exploited by Faraday?"
Rebecca put his hands on the seat, and his legs stretched out from under his large coat could not reach the ground and were shaking.
"That's what I said, but Mann
He felt that working with Faraday was a big job and the pay was high."
Su Xiao corrected with a serious face. "But at the same time, the risks are also high. High risks can bring high returns, but what do high returns bring? The endless road of prosthetic body upgrades."
"All the money earned from missions is spent on upgrading the prosthetic body. Later, in order to earn more money, I have to take on missions with higher risks. In order to survive these high-risk missions, I have to upgrade the prosthetic body again..."
"Rebecca, didn't you realize that this is a dead end?"
Rebecca was speechless.
She stopped talking.
Immediately, she lowered her head.
There was sadness in his tone.
"Mann... even if I tell him this, he won't listen."
"Su, actually, the eldest sister knows what you said, and she has been trying to persuade Mann, but Mann... he is just a stubborn donkey. Even eight horses can't bring him back what he has decided."
Su Xiao also sighed.
If Mann is one of your own team members, if you dare not listen to the advice, you don't need to talk so much, just catch him and beat him up.
Not convinced?
Then fight until you are convinced.
The atmosphere in the car became somewhat silent and depressing.
Lucy put his elbow against the car door, clenched his fingers into a fist, and gently leaned his fist against his head. He coughed and changed the subject. "Su, why don't you tell us about this mission in detail?"
Su Xiao understood, no longer obsessed with Mann's affairs, and nodded.
"Old Captain wants us to go to Eden Gang's territory and rescue a hacker named T-BUG."
"When she was trying to hack into Subnet of Eden Gang, she didn't expect that there was also a powerful hacker in Eden Gang."
"He trapped T-BUG in Subnet and tried to use Subnet's Offensive Firewall to get rid of T-BUG."
In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, there are many ways to surf the Internet.
As long as you have a mobile phone or a computer, you can access the Internet.
But it's just limited to surfing the Internet.
If you want to use this to hack into other people's Subnet, don't even think about it.
Therefore, professional hackers usually use more efficient methods.
In other words, he will transform himself into a high-capacity neural interface (Deep Dive Interface) that is directly connected to the occipital lobe (the lobe at the end of the cerebral hemisphere).
Only by using Deep Dive Interface can you enter the maze (Cyberspace) composed of constantly changing neon graphics and rotating grids.
But the disadvantage of using this method of hacking is that once you lose in a hacker duel, your skull will be burned alive.
"If it were an ordinary hacker, the moment Offensive Firewall was triggered, he would be killed directly, and his brain would be burned into a fireball by Offensive Firewall."
"But this hacker named T-BUG is unusual. She keeps circling in the enemy's Subnet, like a slippery loach, but she never gets caught by the other party's hackers."
"It's just that she has no way to successfully escape from Offensive Firewall."
Rebecca thoughtfully said, "That's why she asked us for help?"
"Yes, she entrusted Old Captain with the hope that someone can go to Eden Gang's site, find Eden Gang's hacker, and unplug his network cable."
"As long as there are no hackers entangled, T-BUG can escape from Offensive Firewall."
Unplugging the network cable sounds simple.
It's also simple to make.
When a hacker works, he usually lies on a hacker chair with a tube inserted into the back of his head. His body is in reality, but his consciousness is immersed in the world of Cyberspace.
As long as he stays in Cyberspace, even if you walk up to him and put a gun to his head, he will be as unaware as a dead dog.
Old Captain said that the hacker is in Eden Gang's stronghold, so as long as the so-called Eden Gang is not alerted.
Sneak in, unplug the hacker's network cable, and come out without anyone noticing, then the mission is over.
Not only that, Old Captain also provided Su Xiao and others with a detailed map of Eden Gang's stronghold.
Although there is no personnel deployment and patrol routes, there are secret passages to the stronghold on this map.