【Night~ City Audience, good evening! 】

[Tonight's guest is Martin Coleman, a citizen of the ordinary Night City, who ...... Hi Martin, how would you present yourself? 】

At the top of a neon-lit skyscraper, a hanging screen is playing Night City's TV show, and a host in a sparkling yellow coat is introducing the show's guests.

Tonight's rambling program is, disabled laid-off workers!

[Well, you saw it too, I ...... I don't have an arm. 】

[It's so tragic, Martin, may I ask if it was an accident or was it attacked by a wanderer?] 】

[No, it's not like that, huh...... Well, since 2056, I've been working for them at the New American Automobile Manufacturing Company......]

[Then the company ran into some problems and decided to start cutting costs, and one day they called us all to the break room, saying that we were inefficient, procrastinating, incompetent, and so on, and they let us choose for ourselves, either we would replace our arms with Zeta Tech's prosthetics, or we would fire the squid, and there would be no severance pay. 】

[So what do you do?] 】

[Others will be the same as me, I have two daughters, my wife can't work, I have no choice, and the surgery is not free, they forced us to buy their loan, pay it off in installments in 20 years, and the money will be deducted directly from the salary......]

"Tsk, why hasn't the target come yet! Let me blow the cold wind on the top floor, this hatred, I have made a note. ”

At the top of the big screen playing the show, Xia Yu sat on the edge of it, his legs hanging like this, and he was still holding a steaming cup of noodles in his hand.

After taking two bites of hot synthetic noodles, Xia Yu muttered a little unpleasantly, fortunately, there was still food to warm his stomach and not dry the cold wind.

There are no natural foods anymore, they are all synthetic foods, but ...... Who cares, you can eat it anyway, plus it tastes good.

Pure technology, no ruthlessness.

"Gollum...... Ha. ”

After drinking the hot noodle soup in one go, Xia Yu threw it away casually and threw the garbage out casually, not caring at all whether he was throwing objects from a high altitude.

In Night City, it's normal to shoot cannons on the streets, of course, more cannons don't even have to be fired, and you can only use inferior Mewtwo to paralyze your nerves.

The randomness of life and the randomness of death, this is the cyberpunk era of the future!

Do you have a story to share with the world? A tragic accident? Family disputes? If you are waiting for anything, call 1900ZIGGYQ now! 】

Listening to the host's closing remarks, Xia Yu yawned, this show is really boring, pure show, without a trace of truth.

But no matter in that world, TV shows are like this, it's all scripts.

After waiting for another moment, Xia Yu's eyes suddenly froze, and the long-awaited target finally appeared.

On that bustling street, a sports car is moving, and there are many colorful motorcycles around the sports car.

The side of the sports car is spray-painted with tiger stripes, a symbol of the Night City Tigerclaw.

Night City is a melting pot of cultures and nationalities, and the Tigerclaw are a brutal criminal gang from Japantown and one of Night City's biggest crime syndicates.

The gang members are predominantly Asian, and their aim is to maintain control over the territory, occasionally gobbling up other gangs and their businesses.

The characteristics of the members are also extremely uniform, with glowing tattoos, speeding street motorcycles, and knives and ribs that are the hallmarks of the members of the Tiger Claw Gang.

While the Tiger Claw Gang is basically only active in Japantown, Little Chinatown, Kabuki District, and Charter Hill, there are occasional exceptions, like this one.

Xia Yu's eyes lit up with a blue data stream, and after comparing it with the information given by the employer, he once again determined that it was the goal.

"OK, it's time to work."

Xia Yu, who was sitting on the big screen, twisted his arms, supported his hands, and immediately fell down in obedience to gravity.

The wind blew on his face, making Xia Yu's hair rattle, and seeing the dense villains below grow bigger in his eyes, Xia Yu opened his hands and shouted loudly.

"Good evening, Night City!"

The speed of free fall was not slow, it had already fallen to the middle of the building in just a few seconds, and when he felt that the distance was almost there, Xia Yu's heart moved, and the whole person directly changed his appearance.

In layman's terms, he covered the skin.

After hiding his true face, Xia Yu flicked his left hand, and an azure glowing rope shot out of his wrist, hooking a fulcrum.

The rope tightened instantly, and his whole body was swinging high like Spider-Man.

Although the original name of this trick is Rift Interference, he prefers to call it a grappling hook directly, which is clear at a glance.

After swinging into the air, Xia Yu used the grappling hook to leap over the sports car again and again, and then pulled out the ghostly crane feather he was carrying behind his back.

This is a long, straight-edged knife, with a black matte blade and a variety of patterns and serrations, giving it a low-key handsomeness.

Xia Yu, who has not unlocked other weapons for the time being, can only use this exclusive weapon.

Sooner or later, he'll have to slash people with a rainbow knife!

Xia Yu, who was thinking silently in his heart, exploded in mid-air, his senses increased synchronously, and he himself also entered bullet time.

Looking at the members of the Tiger Claw Gang who didn't perceive the danger at all below him, as well as the sports car sitting on the target, Xia Yu stabbed straight down with a long knife in his hand!

Rumble!!!

The crane feathers stabbed directly into the hood of a bulletproof sports car, and then stabbed out of the chassis, pulling a long ravine into the road.

Suffering a sudden impact, the sports car flipped up violently, and Xia Yu pulled back in time to avoid the crushing of the sports car.

It wasn't until this moment that the motorcycles escorting the sports car reacted.

Bang bang bang!!

Then these members of the Tiger Claw Gang on motorcycles did not hesitate at all, and shot a continuous stream of bullets at Xia Yu's retreating figure with great martial virtue.

Boom! Boom! Qiang ——!

Xia Yu is also very martial arts, holding the knife in both hands, dancing quickly in front of him, and the afterimage of the knife body forms a black curtain, picking up all the bullets without falling one by one.

Some of the bullets even went straight back the same way, opening the heads of some of the members, and a large number of brains splashed out, staining the ground bright red.

It wasn't until the scene was quiet that the Tiger Claw Gang, which had finished with a wave of attacks, saw the incoming figure clearly.

It was a slender humanoid silhouette, wearing a hooded jacket and holding a long, matte knife, with no skin exposed, at least all visible mechanics.

"Whole body prosthetic!? Damn, it's a ghostwalker! ”

“TMD！ Why are we being targeted by Ghostwalkers! ”

"Kill him!"

Although they learned that the attacker was a ghostwalker who had recently gained fame, the Tiger Claw Gang was not discouraged, they were all mixed society, and no one would dare to step forward.

Besides, in Night City, neither one's own life nor someone else's life is actually that important.

"Kill!"

Realizing that the gun was useless, the Tiger Claw Gang members simply threw away the gun in their hands, drew their own saber, or ejected the mantis knife, and slashed towards Xia Yu.

Because most of the Tigerclaw Gang members prefer to fight in close quarters, almost all of them are armed with knives and wear light armor.

On the streets, scuffles came.

When passers-by saw this scene, they took the initiative to get out of the way, or drove to speed up and flee here.

As residents of Night City, they know what it takes to save their lives.

In this city where there is a small fuss in three days and a big fuss in five days, if you don't know how to protect yourself, you don't know how you died.

But even so, it is still possible for life to be harvested inadvertently, maybe it is a gang conflict, or maybe a cyber maniac goes crazy, anyway, life is the least worth mentioning in this city.

In the center of the melee, Xia Yu held the knife in one hand, his head was slightly sideways, avoiding the mantis knife that was slashing at him, and then with a backhand wave, the person who attacked him immediately became two.

The internal organs flowed to the ground, and the smell of blood spread, which seemed to irritate the others, and the speed of the attack increased again.

In the face of the dense attackers, Xia Yu directly turned on the sensory enhancement!

The knife that had been slashing at a rapid pace slowed down in his eyes, and as he dodged, he swung the Crane Feather, causing a man's head to fly with each swing.

Then the pillar of blood gushed out from the sky, staining the eyes of the others red.

It was a massacre without resistance, after all, with the mobility of the Ghostrunners, the average prosthetic would not be able to keep up with it unless it had a military-grade implant.

Puff——!

As the last pillar of blood erupted, no one was standing at the scene, and the ground was littered with headless corpses, or corpses that had been cut in half.

Anyway, none of them are complete, and they are all dead.

There's no way, who let the ghost walker only use cold weapons, and if cold weapons want to kill people, they can only be decapitated or directly cut in half, unlike guns, and the headshot is over.

"Yes, sure enough, the proficiency has increased by a while."

Xia Yu played with the knife flower, stepped over the corpses that covered the ground, stepped on the pool of blood and made a clattering sound towards the target.

With a flick of the blade, the blood-filled Youxing Crane Feather became smooth as new again, although it was just a cold weapon, but the technology content on it was not low.

Bang!

Suddenly, a bullet shot at Xia Yu, but Xia Yu just swung the blade and bounced the bullet back.

"Ahh

A terrible scream was heard, and the target, who had escaped from the flipping sports car, was now twitching with his bleeding palm.

The bullet just now was shot by him, and people are lucky, but Xia Yu told him with reality that luck can only be thought about.

Boom!

The long knife stabbed down, and the target looked at the black blade that was close at hand, and his throat moved, not daring to scream again.

"Cooperate well and you will be able to live."

Beneath the hood, a calm male voice came from the mechanical mask with yellow light stripes, not like a synthesized electronic sound.

"Hmmm! Well! ”

Hearing this warning, the target hurriedly nodded, since he didn't kill him, he had to live no matter what.

Cracking sound!

Seeing this, Xia Yu took out an electric shocker and slammed it directly at the target, convulsing his electric body and rolling his eyes.

After the target lost consciousness, Xia Yu stopped the electric shock, carried the target with his backhand, and then escaped before the trauma team came.

He didn't want to go through unnecessary battles, although he could increase his proficiency just by fighting, but if he continued to fight, it would only get more and more troublesome.

He's not a real ghostwalker, and a real ghostwalker may not be tired, but he certainly will.

And there is no need to worry about the traces of the battle on the spot, anyway, in Night City, there will always be someone to clean it up.

Xia Yu, who was carrying the target, used a grappling hook to float through the neon-colored city, and the dazzling light pollution did not affect him.

He had to hand over his target to his employer as soon as possible, or he would have to go through another battle if he was overtaken.

"Tsk, I knew I wouldn't take this kind of mission, but the assassination mission is still suitable for ghostwalkers."

After walking around the bush for a long time, Xia Yu fell to the ground and said with some unpleasant thoughts.

But if there is such a task, he may still take it, but there must be a premise.

Gotta add money!

Xia Yu, who had landed, turned a few more positions, and then quietly entered a warehouse, where a figure was facing away from him in the center of the warehouse.

"Someone got it."

Seeing that the figure was motionless, Xia Yu had to cough lightly and reminded loudly.

A voice suddenly sounded in the empty warehouse, and the figure with his back to Xia Yu tensed his body violently, but after noticing that it was a familiar voice, he relaxed and turned around.

"It's worthy of a ghost walker, and it really acts like a ghost, and it can't be detected in the slightest."

Of course, you must know that Ghostwalker is equipped with a stealth module, and neither cameras, infrared, nor network surveillance can detect its traces, which is why Ghostwalker is called a ghost.

But he won't be stupid enough to explain to others, he can just know why.

"Let's settle the bill."

"Hmm."

The figure nodded, a data streamer flashed in his eyes, and the account in front of Xia Yu was immediately credited with twenty-five thousand euros.

In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, the euro has replaced the dollar as the world currency, and its value has skyrocketed.

Night City, as a city jointly managed by a number of giant multinational companies, also uses the euro, or Europe for short.

Looking at the final payment in the account, the corners of Xia Yu's mouth hooked, this is why he is too troublesome to take the task.

"Looking forward to our next collaboration."

Xia Yu put down the target he was carrying, waved his hand at his employer, and disappeared in place.

"What is the next collaboration? Heh......"

The figure sneered, stepped forward and dragged away the target brought by Xia Yu, and quietly left the warehouse.

On the top floor of the warehouse, Xia Yu opened his account and took another look, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Tsk, so much, you can't be lucky when you go out." ”

Watching his money go up, his mood really became happy, even if he had a lot of money at his disposal now, but in Night City, no one would think that he had a lot of money.

"And the proficiency is also increasing steadily, I really want to know if the day I reach the full level of proficiency, can I directly slash Adam's hammer with one sword?"

After putting away his account, Xia Yu looked at another light curtain in front of him.

[Name: Xia Yu]

[Card Slot: Ghostwalker]

[Proficiency: 66%]

【Cards Owned】

【Draw Cards】

[Draw Point: 2]

【Recycle Bin】

As long as you wait until the proficiency level is full, the Ghostwalker card can be used without taking up a place, and the card slot can be vacated for the next card.

The first draw was able to draw a ghostwalker suitable for this cyberpunk world, and his luck was really good, and he was out of Europe.

(End of chapter)