Chapter 9 The Santo Domingo District

Walking out of the izakaya, Ryan passed by the corpse of the little beggar, and there was not a trace of fluctuation in his heart, as always.

The fate of the poor people in Night City is always the same, it is nothing more than the killing of their father, the killing of their mother, the killing of themselves, or the killing of someone close to them, the gang will start a battle in the streets at any time, and the civilians passing by will be mercilessly involved.

The law and order in the Civic Center and Westskbrook are barely in the past under the maintenance of the NCPD, and as for the other districts, they are all fertile ground for gangsters!

Ryan still followed Kia's advice and bought a pack of fried chicken, the cheapest kind.

Boarding the tram to the Santo Domingo Valley District, Lane watched the city's architecture change outside the window.

Reinforced concrete cities, gorgeous neon lights, floating cars like spaceships shuttling through the gaps of towering buildings, and advertisements on the rooftops and clouds are played all night, even in the wilderness dozens of miles away.

Leaving the Westbrook district, towering buildings descend geometrically, with scattered tall buildings surrounded by a stunted slum.

On the streets of Westbrook, you can always see a drunk company dog who has just drunk from a bar, hugging left and right, two sex dolls holding him towards the hotel, and occasionally a company dog with an innocent-looking schoolgirl.

In the Santo Domingo district, the upside-down tram finally drove into the slums, and sewage spread in the corner of the street, the sewage pipe was already blocked, and the street was stinking.

In the garbage heap of the garbage cans lie a few half-dead addicts, who lack arms and legs, who have already sold their limbs for money, and used cheap drugs to let themselves die in a fictional paradise.

Ryan got off the train and set foot on the land of Santo Domingo.

High-rise buildings are towering, singing and dancing are leveling, and it is the city of night that is drunk and golden; The poor who are missing arms and legs are like walking corpses on the stinking dirt roads, and it is also Night City.

On the side of the street, several members of the Sixth Street Gang stood in front of a broken car and chatted.

Kia's address was in the River Valley, but it was close to the Colorado Farm District, and it was still a long way from where he got off.

Ryan passed by the Six Street Gang members and could hear what they were discussing.

"I heard that the Tiger Claw Gang seems to have a fight with the Valentillo Gang today!"

"How did I hear that the Tigerclaw Gang leader and the Valentillo gang leader met?"

"These are our matters, we should collect protection money every day, you two can be clever!"

"In two days, it will be the day my girl pays her tuition! When I didn't join the Six Street Gang two months ago, I didn't know where to make money, so I could still have a drink and chat! ”

“......”

Ryan didn't care about the content of their conversations, and the conversations between them were usually just from somewhere, hearsay, as a talking point when they were chatting and drinking.

As for joining a gang to make money? It is true that they will make a lot more money than doing ordinary jobs, but generally their lifespan will not exceed half a year, maybe tomorrow they will die in the fight between gangs, and then only their weak wives and children will be left, what is the fate that awaits them? Ryan didn't know, and he didn't want to know, what did the fate of those people have to do with him?

The two most important rules of survival for ordinary people who want to live long in Night City are 1. Be nosy and 2. Stay away from gangs.

Night City has made countless people rich overnight and broken families overnight.

A quarter of an hour later, Ryan finally arrived at the place where Kia was addressed, an old-fashioned residential building.

From the moment he entered the neighborhood, Ryan had no members of the Six Street Gang in sight, an old residential building next to an abandoned factory building.

Ryan had seen these places on Ruth's profile, and this place was Ruth's territory.

Walking upstairs, the stairwell is full of spray paint that I don't know when.

A drunken man was lying drunk in the aisle on the first floor, the narrow aisle was basically occupied by his body and the wine bottles around him, the dim light shone on his body, and a smell of alcohol mixed with a foul smell wafted from him.

From his Ryan, he took a look at the drunkard, who had prosthetic limbs but was covered in dirt and dust, and couldn't tell the exact model.

Ryan bypassed the only empty space next to him and came to the fourth floor, where he knocked on the door of the address given by Kia.

After a while, Ryan saw the cat's eye open, and he couldn't see inside, but he could see him inside.

After seeing Lane's appearance, the door opened, and it was not Catherine who opened the door, but Kia.

"Catherine! Takeaway to ...... Oh no, Ryan has arrived! ”

Kia said, smiled and took the fried chicken from Ryan's hand, and said to him happily

"Come on, what kind of gifts do you bring!"

“......”

Ryan suddenly wanted to kill the woman for a moment, but held back.

It is a very simple house, as soon as you enter the door is the living room, there are two rooms on the left hand of the living room, and the kitchen is completely open on the right hand, and there is a window directly opposite the door, and the hazy moonlight shines through the gap in the window, shining on the small sofa under the window, and in front of the sofa there is a small wooden table about the same length as the sofa.

Catherine walked out of the room, wearing a white shirt.

Kia beckoned Ryan in, put the fried chicken on the table in front of the couch, and beckoned Catherine to speak.

"Go get the Pepsi I bought today!"

Catherine obediently silently took three bottles of Coke out of the refrigerator.

Kia took two cans of Coke and gave it to Ryan.

"Let's talk first!"

After Qi Ya finished speaking, she took a small stool, sat on the opposite side of the sofa, and ate fried chicken.

Ryan and Catherine sat down on the couch and watched the fried chicken be eaten by Kia, and Ryan asked Catherine if it was there.

"Aren't you going to eat?"

Catherine shook her head and said

"I don't like fried chicken, my sister does."

“......”

It's the third time! Ryan still didn't act in order to take care of the overall situation! He finally came to this point, how could he fail because of a woman? But she's too cheap!

"Why is your sister so picking? Didn't Ruth give her money? Ryan asked with a smile.

"All her money is used to support her younger siblings, and so is mine." Catherine said.

"Younger siblings? Do you have any other siblings?"

"Well, there are twenty-seven." Catherine nodded and replied.

"Twenty-seven?"

"There's an orphanage on Coronado Farm, not far from here, two blocks, that my sister created." Catherine explained.

Ryan was stunned, if Kia was helping the scavenger open a pig farm, would she be so picky? This house, too, has two rooms, and looks like it was created before the Fourth Company War. Could it really be an orphanage? Ryan has been in many cities, and there are only a handful of real orphanages, most of which are just doing illegal things under the guise of orphanages!

A small number of them are just politicians' shows! After a while, they are left to fend for themselves.

"My sister told me everything about you, but you have to grant me two requests!" Catherine said, looking into Ryan's eyes.

"Isn't it okay to save your life?" Ryan frowned.

"It's not going to be too much of a request, it's just a matter of getting it done for you!"

"One is that I will go with you when you go to the central area of the Arabanan Industrial Park, and there are also things I want; The second is that you have to protect us these days, someone wants to buy our lives, and if we die, there is no way to help you! ”

Ryan looked at Catherine's azure eyes, and the moonlight outside the window hit her blonde hair, making her look like an otherworldly fairy.

This beautiful face is also the woman on the LY profile photo.

Ryan was silent for two seconds before speaking.

"I can take you into the Central District, but I can't guarantee your safety! As for the second request, I can help you with the people who want to kill you, but everything must be left to me, and you must answer some of my questions. ”

"Deal!"