Chapter 13: The Gathering

"Oh yes, there's one more thing."

Mann stared at the silent Thor and said, "You have to hand over this little boy named Balek Maiti to me." ”

"You're getting an inch!" Mann's words add fuel to the fire for Thor.

"What? A traitor you want to protect too? I've heard that the people in Adcardo are good, but now it seems, that's it! ”

"That's something that's inside our Adicado! It's not your turn to be here! ”

Just as the two waves were tense, a gunshot interrupted the negotiations.

Mann didn't speak, and a hand had reached the gun in the back of his waist, as it was coming from Adicado's side.

Quarrels are quarrels, but Thor didn't want to cause trouble at this juncture, so he hurriedly shouted: "Who is it?!" Who TM fired the gun! ”

He was answered by a hearty female voice.

"It's me!"

The crowd once again made a way for a woman with healthy wheat-colored skin and beautiful black hair tied back behind her head, and Adicado's jacket and jeans could not hide the graceful curves underneath.

She held a pistol in her right hand and dragged a corpse in her left.

"Panamy! What are you doing! Thor's eyes widened with rage, and he watched the woman in front of him slowly walk to the center of the field.

The woman known as Panam ignored Thor's roar and threw the corpse at Mann's feet, where a bloody hole was cut in the corpse's forehead, and the blood flowed out in a small stream.

"I'm Panam, Panam Palmer." She pointed her pistol at the corpse on the ground, "This is the Barek Maiti you wanted, and the double commission you just mentioned, I agreed." ”

"Are you crazy?"

Thor roared from the sidelines, "You know what happened to Adicado now!" For this operation, our savings have bottomed out! You're going to promise double? Are you in a brain sleep! ”

Panam tilted his head, still looking at Mann, "You hear me?" We really don't have any money now, this time the commission will be paid to you at the original price, and we will definitely pay it back if we promise you double as promised. ”

"Yes!"

Thor wanted to say something, but Mann answered directly.

"It's refreshing! I promise you, I owe it first. ”

"Mann, Adricado owes you and your team a favor."

Now that they had received an answer, Mann and the others did not stop too long, turned around and got into the car and prepared to leave.

Rebecca clasped her hands in front of her chest, squinted at Thor, and mocked, "You are still the leader of Adicado, a big man is not as happy as a woman." ”

After Mann and the others left, Panam withdrew his gaze and walked towards his vehicle.

As he passed Thor, whose face was as black as coal, Panan looked ahead and said:

"Thor, your plan will hurt the family one day, so the company dog will ignore us trash struggling to survive in the bad land, and stop thinking about having anything to do with the company."

"Not Adicado at all."

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"I'm sorry, Mann, I didn't expect this to happen, it's a remiss of my duty."

On the way back to Night City, the intermediary entrusted this time, Dakota Smith, called.

"Don't say that, Dakota, I trust you, an intermediary doesn't joke with his reputation, and your reputation is well-known."

"Well, thank you for your trust, Mann, I will definitely recommend it to you next time."

"Haha, I'm happy to have your words!"

With that, Mann hung up the communication.

He looked at Bai Xing next to him and smiled: "Okay, boy, it's all over, according to the usual practice, we are going to the old place for a drink, are you coming?" ”

"Of course, if you can stop drinking."

"Whatever you want, just come."

At night, in a small square in front of a small shop, Mann and his gang are celebrating.

It has become a habit to meet here every time a mission is completed.

Shirahoshi sat and watched as Pyrra performed acrobatics with his long arms.

The plate of wine bottles kept rising and falling and flipping in his hands, and no matter what, they couldn't fall to the ground, causing the audience to laugh.

Rebecca was drinking with Falco, Sasha was watching her, and Qi Wei was still the same, leaning against the wall and smoking silently.

"How does it feel?"

Mann sat down next to Shirahoshi with two bottles of drink, and handed one of the bottles to Shirahoshi.

"What do you mean?"

Bai Xing opened the lid and smelled it, it was soda, and then he was relieved.

"Of course, it's the feeling of the team, how is it compared to your previous lone wolf days?"

Mann naturally had wine in his hand, and he threw his head up and gulped it down, and he finished half the bottle in one fell swoop.

"It feels good, it's great."

"yes, that's good. But don't forget, in Night City, in this hellish place, you can always trust 100% of the only one who can be trusted. ”

Mann put down the bottle and continued, "By the way, this is the reward for this time, and yours has already been given to everyone else. ”

His eyes lit up and he transferred money to Shirahoshi.

Eight thousand euros went into Shirahoshi's account, and as Sasha said, Mann was also very good at dividing the money.

"Boy, take the money and pretend to be a paraprosthesis, you see that your whole body is a protomorph, there is no deterrent at all, and you can't attract women."

"Look at me again!" Mann bared a mouthful of white teeth and raised his arm to show Shirahoshi his massive muscles.

"How intimidating, how powerful!"

Glancing at Mann's muscles as he drank his soda, thinking that you were all tech and ruthless, he said, "No, for some reason, I can't pretend to be a prosthetic." ”

It's not like he didn't think about pretending to be a prosthetic before, but he doesn't have that ability.

The stand-in messenger is closely related to the stand-in, like a wave in the golden wind, his leg is broken, and even the leg of the silver chariot with him is broken.

Shirahoshi he didn't dare to bet.

He didn't care about it when he installed the brain computer before, but now he is still a little afraid in retrospect, but fortunately, the brain computer is to fill in the brain, and there is no need to cut off half of it and then replace it with a mechanical one.

Men smiled unsurprisingly when he said this, "I see, I see, who in Night City doesn't have a little secret in their hearts?" ”

After that, he looked at the prosthetic arm he had installed at a great deal of money as if he had a feeling, and said: "It's okay if you don't install it, the prosthetic thing is not finished after it is installed, and the subsequent maintenance, repair of the broken, and necessary immunosuppressants are all a lot of expenses." ”

"What's more, with your ability, even if you don't pretend to be prosthetic, you can have good strength."

Mann clenched his fists twice, then tensed hard, his unseen eyes under his sunglasses staring at his arm that was somehow trembling slightly.

"Prosthetic...... It's not a good thing......" he whispered to himself.

Mann took out a syringe from his pocket and stabbed it on his arm, the drug injected into it made him feel much refreshed, and his hands no longer trembled.

He couldn't stop here now.

"What did you say?"

Shirahoshi looked at Mann suspiciously, the words were too quiet for him to hear.

"I said let you have fun!"

Mann's voice rose sharply an octave as if to inspire.

With that, he slapped Shirahoshi twice on the shoulder and flirted with Dorio with the bottle.

Shirahoshi looked at his departing back and always felt a little strange.

As he left, Sasha sat down next to Shirahoshi.

On the table in the distance, Rebecca had fallen asleep, and Falco was throwing up on the wall with Qi Wei's support.

"Shirahoshi, do you know about cyberpsychosis?" She said.

"I've heard others mention it, but I've never seen it, and I don't understand it."

Sasha took a sip of wine from her glass in both hands, her eyes worried as she looked at the two Mann Dolio sitting together and laughing.

"Prosthetic implants bring all kinds of benefits to people, but they also have serious side effects, eroding people's nerves and making people crazy."

"This has been improved with the help of excellent installation technology and immunosuppressants."

"But he's different, he has an obsession with becoming stronger in his heart, which prosthetic body can make his strength go to the next level, he will pretend which, no matter whether he can bear it or not, he has gone too far to the end, and it will be difficult to go back."

"Mann, I've been showing symptoms......"