Night.

The neon night gradually envelops the city.

The buildings are lit up with dappled night lights, and the Westbrook Cherry Blossom Street (Note 1) is bustling with pedestrians and holographic projections on neon signboards along the streets.

This charming street near the inner city bay is full of Japanese cherry blossom-like peach.

A long-modified, off-road and a Dramain taxi stopped in front of an apartment one after another, and it was Mann and others who walked down from the off-road, and Tang Yu who walked down from the Delamain taxi.

Tang Yu looked up at the seaside apartment, which was only seven or eight stories high, and then looked sideways at Lucy and asked, "This is where you live."

Lucy walked straight to the front and didn't look back, but said directly.

"Naturally, it is not as good as the villa area where your company's high-level people live"

"But that's the only place you need to be confidential, isolated from electronic surveillance, undisturbed by no one else, and absolutely untouched by companies or gangs."

"If you think there's a better place to go, it's too late to go"

Dorio added.

"Lucy is a technical hacker for our team, and there is always no problem with strict secrecy, and it is best to talk about this collaboration in her home"

Tang Yu suddenly felt that their prejudices against themselves were indeed very deep, but the imagination was true, wearing the skin of the company dog would inevitably attract disgust, but he could also see it, which was much friendlier than when he and Johnny talked about the whole Arasaka family every day.

He didn't say much, and followed Lucy's steps into the apartment building and began to climb the stairs.

The entire stairwell was covered in dark cyan, and the incandescent lights on the ceiling were old, glowing with a slight flicker.

It wasn't until everyone climbed to the top floor and saw an electronic gate on the left side of the hallway that Lucy walked over and swiped the door open.

Tang Yu followed and walked in, and saw that the entire apartment was not large, and the common interior design was similar to the apartment type rented by Gloria.

The living room has a separate bathroom and toilet, and there is an adjoining bedroom, and the hall has basic living furnishings such as a simple leather sofa and a glass coffee table.

The bathtub curtain in the bathroom is halfway obscured, and the bathtub can be seen to be filled with ice cubes that have not completely melted.

The glass coffee table in the living room was empty, and an ashtray was placed alone.

In addition, the valuable things in the house are the hacker chairs and computer desks that are necessary for cyber hackers.

The most conspicuous thing is the floor-to-ceiling panoramic glass bay window in the living room, through which you can see the waterfront view of Night City.

Lucy covered her temples with her left hand, and the pupils of her eyes flashed with yellow apertures, and after a few seconds, she said, "It's okay, I've turned off all the facilities for electronic probes and camera recordings, and the whole room is electronically isolated from the network and physically soundproofed, you can start talking about the deal."

After speaking, he walked to the only floor-to-ceiling bay window in the room and sat down, lit a cigarette to himself, and smoked silently.

As if admiring, a long steel bridge sits across the river bay between the two ends of the city, and a sea rocket launch base beyond.

Mann didn't want to play tricks with Tang Yu anymore, so he sat down and asked straight to the point.

"What the hell do you want to work with us?"

Tang Yu sat on the sofa by the bay window at the other end, looked at Mann and the others across the coffee table, and said lightly.

"I want to work with you to pit someone from the Arasaka Company, or to be precise, my sworn enemy in Arasaka"

Hearing Tang Yu's words, everyone was obviously stunned, and even the smoke from Lucy's fingertips stopped in mid-air, quietly spontaneously combusting.

Mann couldn't have imagined that he would cooperate with the people of the Arasaka Company, the goal was to engage in the people of the Arasaka Company, and he needed Tang Yu's level to make a move, and the object of the pit would definitely not be simple.

Mann's tone was a little sarcastic: "It seems that the company really likes dog-eat-dog." ”

Tang Yu said very calmly: "As long as something dares to bite it, even if the other party is a dog, it must bite back, isn't it?" ”

"Not long after I came back, I was plotted by people in the company, and Gloria's car accident had nothing to do with them"

"Things have come to this point, either I stomp on them in the company or they trample on me"

Lucy on the bay window couldn't help but look at Tang Yu on the sofa, her young and delicate appearance couldn't see the marks of the cruel workplace at all, but the words she said always made people feel an inexplicable emotion, sometimes like a lone wolf, sometimes like a lamb, which was incomprehensible.

Dolio looked at it more deeply than Mann, and added, "If intervening in the dispute within your Arasaka Company involves the secrets of the high-level Arasaka company, aren't you afraid that we will be able to sell it as information after we grasp it?" You should know that there are a lot of people staring at Arasaka's movements."

Tang Yu looked indifferent and said lightly.

"It seems that you still don't know much about the functions of the Counterintelligence Department."

"If there is an intelligence leak about this, anyone who knows about it will be labeled by Arasaka as an enemy for stealing the company's intelligence."

"And I'm representing the counterintelligence department, and I'm only responsible for dealing with the enemy."

Mann suddenly lost his temper when he heard this, stood up and glared at Tang Yu and asked, "According to what you say, if something goes wrong, you will put all the blame on us?" ”

Tang Yu replied decisively and simply: "Do you expect the people of the company to protect you like a holy master and mother, and take all the black cauldrons for you, so that you can be lucky when cooperating?" When working with a company, it's not just about sincerity. ”

After hearing these harsh words, Dorio directly pressed Mann, who was about to become angry, and said directly to Tang Yu: "I think you are telling the truth, at least better than those middlemen who are full of lies and deception. ”

Tang Yu couldn't help but smile and admired Dolio: "Perhaps, you are more suitable to lead this team than Mann, since we have reached a preliminary consensus, it is time to talk about specific cooperation matters."

Under the pressure of Dorio, Mann sat down patiently and continued to listen to Tang Yu's words and arrangements.

Tang Yu turned his head to look at Lucy and said, "You can pass on the content of the chip to them, since you are cooperating, you should know more about the real situation." ”

Lucy resisted being commanded by an outsider or a company employee, and after hesitating for a moment, she took out the chip and threw it to Mann.

After Mann inserted the chip into the slot behind his head, and read part of the dialogue between Tang Yu and Jenkins, as well as the origin of the military-grade Sianweistan, he immediately understood why Tang Yu said that he would definitely die if he installed Sianweistan.

Because this powerful military-grade prosthetic is an experimental product of military technology, it is specially equipped for cyberpunk use with military physical literacy, and then generates specific human experimental data by observing the use and operation of the installed object.

Even though Mann knew that the prosthetic body he bought came from the corpse of a cyber maniac, he still didn't think about it.

If it is really installed on this, I am afraid that it will become an experiment of military science and technology unconsciously, and even if the dead body is dead, it will be sent to the laboratory for dissection and research, as if I suddenly turned around and saw the scarlet blood snake dormant in the shadows open its sharp fangs and rushed to the face.

Mann shuddered.

Note 1: In order to avoid harmony, this metaphor refers to a street named after a good day.