Six hours later

………………

For the protagonist of the work in another world that he first met, the time to supplement the plot content of the original book was a little longer than Bai Lan expected.

But fortunately, the ten episodes of the anime with English subtitles, as well as the large number of setting supplements on the English wiki, are far more persuasive than their own empty explanations.

“…… To put it this way...... Everything about me and that world was originally fictional......"

So much so that after reading all the above contents, the girl in front of her naturally became a little depressed, and then began to slightly wrap her hands around her curled legs.

"You don't have to be so discouraged...... After all, your existence is unmistakable to me and to most of the 'observers' in this world. ”

"So you don't have to doubt the true nature of your own existence and living environment, just treat these computer animations and settings as some kind of 'prophetic story' that has been proposed to your world."

"After all, the state in which you are still alive in this world is a negation of the original work that has already issued a 'death sentence' to you......"

I don't know if the girl herself is strong-willed enough, or if Bai Lan's words of consolation really played a role.

So much so that it didn't take long for Sasha to regain his spirits, and when he stood up straight again, he made a serious request to Bai Lan's side:

"I see...... So, can you get me back to Night City now? ”

"Even if I'm wanted by [Biotech], I may not be able to get along in Night City in the future, but I at least want to report to Mann and them......"

But for the other party's seemingly relatively normal request...... Bai Lan gave a somewhat unexpected negative reply:

"Well...... Yes, but I don't want to do it yet......"

"Is it because of the animated plot of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?"

Sasha, who raised his eyebrows slightly, quickly tried to deduce the man's intention to prevent him from going back through the content of the original animation he had just seen:

"Do you have a crush on that woman named Lucy? So you want to keep the status quo of what looks like I'm dead until they join Team Mann, until 2076, when the original main story begins? ”

"The mind is flexible, but the reason why I don't want you to go back for the time being is not all that."

After giving his own evaluation of the flexibility of the mind in charge of the positioning of the hacker of the Mann team.

Bai Lan, who clasped her hands around her chest, immediately said the point of the other party's mind that was not flexible enough:

"The main reason is actually ————Why should I help you? Do you think I'm a good person and can take whatever I want? ”

"I'm not from the Charity Hall, it's fun enough to save your life for no reason, what benefit can I bring if I let you go back next?"

Although Bai Lan has never thought of himself as a wicked person.

But at least it's not a good person who can benefit all beings.

At least when he does something that has no practical benefit to him, even if the difficulty of that thing is just a small task for him, he has absolutely no motivation in his whole person.

If you want him to help, you have to show some practical benefits that he can see.

The person who trades with him may make a profit, but the other party, as the main owner, will definitely not lose money.

Although Bai Lan's own thinking in his heart was like this.

But Sasha, who obviously misunderstood the actual intention of Bai Lan's words, now looked Bai Lan up and down for a while, except for a little weaker figure, all external factors were behind the appearance of a middle-to-upper posture...... At first, he nodded and slowly took off his pink coat:

"Oh, if that's what you want...... That's fine. ”

Should it be said that the sexual concept of Europeans and Americans is quite open?

Even if it was misunderstood as a book plot that had to return to his own world through a pillow business with the strange man in front of him, the other party did not have any obvious disgust in this process.

Just casually threw his coat on the bay window of Bai Lan's bedroom, and then began to try to pull down his concave and convex tights zipper that set off his entire figure with a rather calm face......

It's just that this kind of book plot is obviously too exciting for the man who is currently mainly hungry for the other party's future hacking skills:

"Don't take off your clothes! I'm not that kind of ...... Well, I might indeed be a vulgar person! But at least I wouldn't do it with strangers I haven't been emotionally attached to, and I don't trust enough! ”

"I just want to talk about business, not in love!"

So much so that this guy who hurriedly raised his hand to dissuade the other party's actions immediately turned around and stopped looking at the other party's further actions......

After realizing that in addition to his self-confident appearance, he was not the target of the other party's covetousness, Sasha, who was left with the answer naturally quite easy to surface, immediately re-zipped his own set of erotic tights, tilted his head and looked at Bai Lan again and asked:

“…… So you want to use my hacking skills to make money for you? ”

"Right! In fact, I won't tell you the truth, the current economic environment on my side has been embarrassed to the level equivalent of only 1,000 euros in your world...... So after gaining the ability to travel through other worlds, the reason to want to make some money to improve the living environment in the first place should be very normal, right? ”

Bai Lan's confession here was quite sincere.

"What's my share? And how long will I have to work for you? ”

And Sasha, who quickly entered the mercenary state of business mode, now asked the two most important hourly wage questions with one hand and slightly stroked his chin.

"It's worthy of being a professional mercenary, and the speed of getting used to it is fast......"

After seeing that the other party finally entered the state of talking about business, he turned his body back to Bai Lan in front of the other party, and even put forward various conditions on his side eloquently:

"The period of working for me is set at half a year."

"And I'm not a capitalist demon, so I'm exploiting...... Well, it's to extract a certain amount of your labor remuneration, as your temporary stay in my world's rent sharing, let's open it. ”

"How is it only seventy percent?"

Sasha, who pursed her lips, seemed to be a little dissatisfied with this sharing ratio.

"Seventy percent is mine, and you are thirty percent."

And Bai Lan, who maintained the state of dead fish eyes, corrected a mistake in the other party's words quite calmly.

"That's not going to work! I'm the only one doing the work, right? ”

As soon as she heard this, the girl's mentality quickly became quite unbalanced, and even verbally protested against the unfair treatment on her side.

"Why can't it be? I can't open the initiative to pass through the door, but it's on my side, as long as I don't want to open it, even if you kill me, I can't go back. ”

But Bai Lan, who relied on the monopoly of the crossing gate and had nothing to fear in his hands, now began to put up a score in front of this hacker in a grand manner:

"If you still want to maintain and upgrade the prosthetic body in the future, instead of just letting the prosthetic body deteriorate or malfunction, so that there are [cyber psychosis] that only prosthetic people who have undergone prosthetic transformation, it is better to accept my arrangement......

"Aren't you afraid that I, who have accepted all this silently, will leave you a little trouble when I go back in the future?"

Sasha, who naturally used threats to return when faced with threats, now looked at Bai Lan's ancient pupils with dissatisfaction and asked.

"If you have the ability, just fix it, anyway, after my parents died three years ago, I have completely become carefree, and after obtaining this ability to travel through the heavens, I have long been ready to completely give up staying in the main world, but continue to wander in the ten thousand worlds."

But in terms of swagger and bare feet, the side that still completely grasps the initiative, and Bai Lan, who wants to appear higher, is obviously not afraid of Sasha's reciprocal respect.

"It's a big deal, I'll go to other worlds in the future to muffle and develop for a while, and then I'll come back and pay back double the trouble you gave me."

“…… At least five or five, right? ”

So Sasha, who finally shook his bottom line and began to compromise, is now trying to bargain with him quite weakly......

"No!"

"Sixty-four points, no more!"

"Thirty and a half, love to do it, if you don't do it, I'll throw you into other worlds, and let you fend for yourself."

Speaking of which, while revealing the bottom line of acceptance on his side, this man with squinted eyes is now facing the flexible and active Catwoman hacker again, explaining the other party's old business and the superior nature of the current world:

"Don't you forget that the electronic information development technology in my world is only in 2022...... No, it's not even as good as the 2020 level of your mechanical prosthetics and immature electronic AI. ”

"In a world where my electronic technology is extremely backward compared to the environment you live in———— how many people like you, a future hacker from 55 years later, will be your opponent when you put it on the whole Internet for hacking behavior in these years? If you want to make money, isn't it easy to earn money to the point of counting money to the point where your hands are numb? ”

"As long as you exchange all the money you earn in my world for luxury hard currency such as gold or jewelry, which can be used in any human society, and get all the "Cyberpunk Series" worlds over there and exchange them for cash, won't you be able to live freely for a lifetime?"

"There is some truth to that...... Then slot! ”

Immediately afterwards, I saw Sasha, who had a personality like a cheerful and outgoing version of the original animation heroine, decisively stretched out her right hand towards Bai Lan after a little thought...... The man, who hesitated for a moment, immediately and quickly took the other party's unexpectedly slender little hand as a result of this short-term deal......

In this way, Bai Lan's cohabitation life with this young hacker from the future officially began.