Chapter 2 Talent

After being harshly educated by Buck, Jason covered his head and reluctantly slipped into the warehouse to start cleaning. "Hey, Alan, how are you doing, is life going well at school? With Jason's stinky boy with you, you should get into a lot of trouble. Buck leaned against the bar, poured two drinks, and slid them to Alan's hand, motioning for him to treat.

Alan was also not polite, took a sip and said: "Actually, it's nothing, with Jason by his side, there is still a lot of fun in life, he is very good at enlivening the atmosphere and is very energetic." ”

Buck smiled after hearing this: "To put it bluntly, isn't this a clown, hahahaha!" ”

Then he said earnestly: "Listen, Alan, you are different from Jason, I can see that among your peers in this part of Heywood, you are a very good talent, which is destined for your future, and will reach a different height, I'm not talking about mercenaries or company dogs crawling around in Night City, but the kind of people who want to become legends, so you know what I mean." ”

Alan couldn't help but be stunned, to be honest, he didn't expect Buck, a big boss, to say these things to him, and he didn't expect him to give himself such a high evaluation, which made him a little embarrassed.

"By the way, what are you doing here, and you're doing your little invention again?" Buck looked at Alan's laptop with a look of surprise.

"It's nothing, it's just some hacking applets, I'll tinker with it myself." Alan stopped what he was doing, drank the drink in one gulp, and then packed up his things and prepared to get up and leave.

"I'll go first, Buck, remember to remind Jason that kid for the afternoon exam, don't be late." Alan stood at the door of the store and waved his hand without looking back.

"Got it, be careful on the road!" Buck replied.

With a backpack on his back, Alan strolls through the streets of Schönbrunn, a relatively safe area in the Night City, especially to the west, bordering the city centre. Most of the buildings here are modern, new buildings, the product of the redevelopment of Night City. As you head southwest, the buildings become more and more small and even a little old. Some apartments range in price from moderate to low, but Schönbrunn still retains its overall sense of class. Most of the houses were built in the second phase of reconstruction. This is where ordinary people live. To the east, you will see simple shacks, reminiscent of the history of rebuilding 35 years ago. There are a lot of Valentino gang members on the street, and there is a lot of graffiti on the walls.

Alan came to a prosthetic shop, and the owner of this shop was Rhaenys, a well-known local prosthetic doctor who was known for his superb implant skills. According to most customers, if Rhaenys opened a store in the city center, she would definitely make a lot of money, and within a year she could buy a property there and live a high life.

But for some reason, Rhaenys doesn't seem to like the life of the upper class, and whenever she mentions it, she will scoff and show a disdainful expression, and Alan once asked her this question, and the answer she got was "The old lady just doesn't look down on those upper class people." ”

Alan pushed open the door and came to the front desk, "Is Rhaenys there?" Something to ask her. ”

The front desk attendant glanced at the wall clock on the wall and said, "The boss will be back in a while, you can go to the waiting room and sit for a while." ”

Then Alan went to the waiting room, sat quietly on the sofa, and after a while, out of boredom, he picked a book from the bookshelf and read it, called "The Origin of Optics of Giroji", a leader in optical design and manufacturing, known for its high-quality eye implants and scanners, and the company has also invested heavily in orbital projects in Asia and the Americas. Since a brief conflict between Shijiji and Zeiss in Europe during the Fourth Corporate War, the two companies have signed a peace treaty and divided their spheres of influence. But today, the two are still in a Cold War, spying on each other and potentially deliberately sabotaging rivals' projects.

About fifteen minutes later, there was a knock on the door, and a woman in a white coat approached Alan, looking down at him. "Boy, what is there to ask me, is there a lack of money, I finally figured it out, you want to worship me as a teacher, come and work with me!" Rhaenys was tall, dressed in a white robe on a blue background, wearing a black dress inside, with long black hair, a shallow scar on her fair cheeks, and a metal prosthetic leg on her right arm, shining with cold light.

Alan was about to speak when she interrupted, "Forget it, let's talk about something in the operating room." ”

After arriving in the operating room, Rhaenys pressed Alan on the operating chair, and with a click, Alan was fixed on it, unable to move, like a guinea pig, and could only be slaughtered.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Rhaenys stared at Alan with amusement.

Alan looked calm, "I have a new network access bay in the pocket of my shirt, and I need you to swap it with the Winter Moon Electronics Type 1 I use now." ”

Rhaenys fumbled around with Alan for a while, found a black network access warehouse, and looked at it in her hand for a while, what brand is this, which company is new, why haven't I heard of it.

Alan smiled slightly: "Of course you haven't heard of it, because this is my homemade, I call it Black Rain Type 1." ”

Rhaenys looked puzzled and worried after hearing this, "Is it different from the original, it is still homemade, is it safe and reliable?" ”

Ailan said confidently: "I'm doing things, aren't you still at ease, let's start directly." ”

Rhaenys didn't hesitate and began the implant surgery.

An hour later, Rhaenys put down her tools. "Give it a try."

A large black frame popped up in front of Ailan's eyes, "System reset..... During the reset....... "After the reading bar is completed, a black box pops up" "Data uploading, do not disconnect......." After about 10 seconds, the system is restarted.

Ailan glanced around, "The system is running normally, the signal reception is normal, everything is normal, it seems that the hard work of more than a month has not been in vain." Alan let out a long sigh of relief.

"So, is there anything different about your homemade thing?"

Alan smiled; "I'll show you how, see."

"You know the camera hack, I can further strengthen it now, evolve to the prosthetic eye, but it's not as simple as restarting the prosthetic eye, I can make you my eyes and see what you see. For example, if you take a book and turn to any page, I can know what you see. ”

Rhaenys became interested as soon as she heard this, and casually took a book from the shelf, the "Lone Wolf Handbook" Morgan's black hand book, and she turned to a page randomly, "Tell me, the content of this page must be word for word!" ”

Alan smiled slightly; "The contents of this page are."

Do you think you have what it takes to become a legendary lone wolf? Of course you have. Otherwise, what are you doing with this book? You need everyone to respect you and fear you. You have to be a human being. Maybe you've heard someone tell me that I didn't shoot a shot, and a look shocked all directions. Let me tell you a secret: it's not impossible, and you can do it too. But you have to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and the number of times you can't count it yourself. After thousands of battles, millions of bullets, and hundreds of gallons of blood (including your own), this is the life you have to live. You also need to have a reliable prosthetic doctor who can talk about righteousness, who can have a lifelong friendship with you, and who will tell you every week, "It's a miracle that you're not dead." "At least that's what you're lucky enough to hear."

After hearing this, Rhaenys looked at Alan in amazement, unable to speak for a long time.

"How, is there anything wrong?"

Rhaenys couldn't help but exclaim, ", awesome! Allen. You're the Eye of God. ”

Alan shook his head, "It's still far from the Eye of God, at present, the range of influence it can cover is only a dozen meters in radius, and the time is limited, only three minutes, it needs to be further improved, if there can be a crow microcontrol type 3 or Dongyue, a high-level goods like a network supervisor, it is not impossible to overlook the entire Night City in the future, and then it can be called the real Eye of God." ”

After hearing this, Rhaenys couldn't help but show a worried expression; "Listen, Alan, I'm glad you created this powerful technology, but don't show it off in front of people, if you are targeted by the Vortex Gang or the kidney-cutting people, it will be troublesome, and the worst case scenario is that a large company has taken a fancy to your technology, and the better case may recruit you into it, and the worse case is that it will directly kill you."

Alan looked at Rhaenys with a relaxed expression; "Don't worry, I have my own measure, I am not guilty, but I am guilty. I still understand this. ”

"Okay, don't worry about me, I'll go first, I have to take the exam in the afternoon."