"Good morning! Night City! Yesterday's Dead Man's Lotto, the final result was a full thirty-nine! Thanks to the endless gang fights, Heywood alone hung ten. To make matters worse, the elite squad created by the NCPD, which had exhausted its financial resources, turned out to be destroyed in an old hotel in Watson District! Also lost a floating car! I see that you all have to lose money, and the NCPD has vowed to do everything in its power to fight the murderer to the death! The new president of the Arasaka Group, Arasaka Yoritobu, announced the unilateral termination of all agreements with military technology! And accuse military technology of killing his father! Let's take another look at Night City, where there is another power outage in Santo Domingo. The destruction of the power grid is another good thing done by network hackers. At the same time, Westbrook's trauma team was on the sidewalk collecting the bodies of victims of cyber psychosis. And in Taiping Prefecture... All right... Taiping State is still that Taiping State. I'm your iron buddy Stan. Come with me and start a new day in the city of dreams! ”

The sound of the news woke Ryan up, he slowly opened his eyes, and found himself lying on a sofa, covered with a blanket, and a cup of hot water still steaming on the table in front of the sofa, the wound on his left hand was no longer painful, and the smell of disinfectant water rushed into his nose, making him instantly sober.

"How long did I sleep?"

"One Day and One Night"

A voice answered Ryan's question, and Ryan looked around to see that he was in a basement prosthetic facility, the dim lighting made the room look a little eerie, in the middle of the room was a chair from the time of the prosthetic transformation, and there was a large iron table next to it, with a lot of equipment and a computer and an honest radio, and the radio was playing the news.

In front of the iron table sat an old man with white hair, wearing a white coat. The light faded just enough to reach him, and there was a tube on the chair that had been modified by the prosthesis, but it was not turned on, and the old man was listening to the radio in the shadows

The old man turned around, and first saw a red light suddenly appear in the darkness, half of the old man's head was replaced by a machine, on one side was a normal human appearance, and on the other side was a robot, and the red prosthetic eyes made people shudder.

"Is the TV too loud?" The old man asked

"No," Ryan shook his head, and with that, he opened his communication panel, hoping that he hadn't missed any important information while he was asleep.

(You have two from Barre. Ruth's unread message)

"Thank you very much for the hotel! I owe you two favors! ”

"I'll be waiting for you in the night of the afterlife nightclub in three days!"

Ryan closed the communication panel and said to the old man

"Uncle De, did anything happen in Night City during my trip to Atlanta?"

"Nothing is bigger than the death of Saburo Arasaka," said the old man known as Uncle Toku, "If you have to say one, Dexter's death should be counted as one, and the middle people of Night City have carried out a small shuffle, and many new middlemen have taken the opportunity to take the position"

"The big black fat man? I think Richie seemed to have worked under him before, and now they were down there to be a companion...... How did you die?" Ryan paused and continued

"I don't know, only that his body was found in a garbage dump outside of Night City by a wanderer from a junkyard." Uncle De said

"By the way, do you know the head of the Arasaka Intelligence Department, Arasaka Himetsuki?" Ryan suddenly remembered the woman

"I don't know...... But it is said that the methods are quite ruthless, from the head of an intelligence department to the head of the intelligence department in a few years, it is said that there are some contradictions with Clark......"

"What is the contradiction between the Minister of Intelligence and the Minister of Operations?" Ryan was a little puzzled

"You can ask David...... Speaking of which, you really have fate, and it was actually him when you returned to Night City. Uncle De said

Ryan noticed a few bottles of medicine on Uncle De's table, and picked them up with some curiosity to look at them

"Painkillers? Is there something wrong with the prosthesis?"

"No, just a few stomach aches once in a while....... It's an old problem. Uncle De looked at Ryan's wounded medicine and said, "The bullet on your shoulder has been taken out for you, the subcutaneous armor has resisted most of the damage, and the bullet hasn't even hurt your bones."

"Thank you for taking care of you all these years, Uncle De."

Uncle De just waved his hand lightly, signaling Ryan not to take it to heart

"You don't have to worry about the Wasteboard Industrial Park, Nilco will help you with most of the troubles, but you'll have to ask the hackers in Ruth's team to do you a small favor," Uncle De said to Ryan after changing the subject

"What do you need the hackers of Ruth's team for?" Ryan asked, a little puzzled

"Nilko can enter the security system and temporarily turn off the security, but he needs the hackers of the Ruth team to help him sweep the tail and erase his traces, which is equivalent to blaming the Ruth team," Uncle De explained

"No problem, I just saved Ruth's life, the mercenaries of Night City care most about credibility and favors, he will help with this" Ryan nodded

"That's it! Go meet that David, you haven't seen him in almost a year, and it's not far away...... Do you remember the road?" Uncle De asked

"Uncle De, I grew up in Night City, and the place I am most familiar with is Night City! You can find your way with your eyes closed. Ryan said angrily

"Haha, let's go, it's time for you two good brothers to get together, remember to come and see Uncle De if you have nothing to do!" Uncle De waved his hand at Ryan, as if to chase him away

Ryan nodded, got up and left, saw the clothes that had been cleaned by Uncle De on the armrest of the sofa, and took them and left here.

Uncle De looked at Ryan's departing back and muttered

"The former bastard has grown so big! I'd be glad if I could see it....."

Colorful neon lights illuminate this steel city, advertising girls with holographic projections on high-rise buildings struggle to show off, company dogs in Westbrook's bar spend a lot of money, and the bar owner who is still scolding company dogs one second is eager to go up and kneel and lick the leather shoes he just called company dogs!

In a small alley where the neon lights don't shine, or next to a stinky ditch, a scavenger casually disposes of a hollowed-out corpse into the sewage;

Hundreds of people die every day in Night City, but the news never goes on the news, perhaps because of statistical difficulties, or because they feel that these slums have been eviscerated and raped to death by gang members. Whatever! But this is Night City! Ryan's familiar Night City!

Uncle De's clinic is in the basement of the small alley of Japan Street, and when he walks out of the small alley outside the basement, the bustling appearance of Japantown is presented in front of Lane.

The streets of Japantown are probably the liveliest places in the whole of Night City, and people of all religions like to come here, such as company dogs, strays, mercenaries, and ordinary people in Night City

On the street, there are people selling snacks, sex dolls standing on the street, middle-aged uncles singing on the street, their arms have been replaced with silver prosthetic limbs, all kinds of small toys are being sold, and there are little girls begging who are in rags next to them.

It doesn't look very old, maybe only seven or eight years old, and his legs were broken due to external forces, so he could see that he was not born, and his tattered clothes couldn't cover the shocking wounds on half of his body!

The girl looked at the passers-by with empty and dull eyes, there was not a single coin in the begging bowl, her thin figure, and she looked as if she would die on the street in the next second, and when she died, maybe a scavenger would dig up her fresh organs, and then throw them in the stinky ditch of some alley like other people who had their organs removed. Ryan just glanced at it and left like everyone else in Night City's Japantown

Lane had barely taken a few steps out of the alley in the basement when a familiar and unfamiliar voice stopped him.

"Ryan?"