[Lucy: What is the moon actually like? Why did they get involved here?]
On the way back, Lucy asked a question she had wanted to ask Lier earlier, because this big brother gave the impression that he knew everything and had operated at every level.
Gangs, the NCPD, corporations... they had attacked them all head-on, and not once had this mysterious big brother shown the slightest sign of fear.
And he lacked the reckless inexperience of a street kid. You could call him crazy, yet there always seemed to be a hint of ease about him-
Of course, all of this rested on their not yet knowing that a nuclear bomb had exploded in Night City last night.
In short, whether in courage, knowledge, or ability, the presence Lier projected was absolutely not something an ordinary street punk could possess.
[Lier: That's normal. Oxygen, water, and concrete are about the only things the moon doesn't have to import, but production still relies on a lot of equipment, and that equipment needs an energy supply.]
[Lier: Anyway, space colonization is complicated. You can simply think of them as poor-very, very poor. They need to import supplies from Earth, or they can't even keep basic operations running.]
[Lier: If they can't do without Earth, they'll find ways to exert influence on the ground. And Night City has Orbital Air's lunar flights... it's normal for them to monitor the situation here.]
[Lier: All right, that's it for you for now. Report to Network Watch-and leave out the part where I was involved. Just say you picked up a copy of the report off the ground.]
[Transfer: +5,000 eddies]
Considering that this job had mainly been helping Network Watch and hadn't involved any gunfights, 5,000 eddies was no small sum. Besides, they still had