Gift?

What gift?

Lin Mo was a little confused for a while.

Although he didn't accept ordinary gifts, when he left Night City, in order to arrange follow-up plans and hope that his teammates could grow, he also asked David, Lucy, and Jack to give him a gift in the name of "gift".

Then, in the name of "returning the gift", he gave each of them what he had prepared.

But in a serious conversation atmosphere like the two of them in front of him, the word "gift" suddenly popped out, and the sudden turn of conversation made him inexplicably have a sense of gangster dealing.

After the elders of both sides finished talking about business, they began to enhance the "relationship" with some small gifts that could not be put on the table.

It's just that those gifts are often related to "violence", "money", and "pornography", but the "gifts" in Knight's mouth now obviously have nothing to do with these vulgar things.

After all, one second they were still talking about Taipingzhou, but the next second they turned the topic to this aspect...

In a very short period of time, Lin Mo's brain was racing rapidly, and he began to wonder why Knight chose to say such things at this time.

It didn't take long to think about it, at least it didn't make Knight himself wait too long, and Lin Mo quickly thought of something.

Speaking of which, it seems like he showed off his hacking skills in front of Knight for the first time, right?

And Knight's ontology is an AI, and the gift he said is not related to hackers?

"What caused you to ask me this question at this time?" Lin Mo did not give a positive answer, and after a short period of shock, he quickly regained his composure and asked himself:

"I guess it has something to do with what just happened in cyberspace?"

Knight held the steering wheel in his hand and turned his head to look at Lin Mo in surprise, as if he didn't expect the other party to react so quickly.

"There's a connection—" he said softly.

Lin Mo nodded clearly, thinking in his mind what Knight might say next, and asked quietly:

"I'm not a person who likes people to hide it from me, just say it directly, I need to know the cause and effect of this gift, not just give it to me."

"Then you can embarrass me, do you want me to write an argumentative essay on "Why Knight Gave Lin Mo a Gift"?" The corners of Knight's mouth rose slightly, and his blue eyes still looked straight at the road ahead:

"If you really want to explain it, it will probably take a long time."

Lin Mo moved his gaze downward, glanced at the display screen in the car, reached out and clicked on it a few times, and displayed the navigation screen.

"We're still some time away, so it should be enough for you to explain." He said.

For this trip, due to the defects of his body, Knight also deliberately made some cover-ups, and the car in front of him looked like an ordinary civilian car from the outside.

But in fact, the entire frame of the car is made of extremely strong bulletproof material, which is enough to ensure the safety of the occupants in the car.

Although for Lin Mo, these are unnecessary measures.

But given his fragile body, Knight had to be well prepared.

In addition, in the trunk of the car, he also placed some instruments to enhance the network signal to ensure that he would not suddenly "disconnect" when driving, resulting in a not so good scene.

Since these measures inevitably increase the weight of the car, it also means that the car is not going fast.

Knight glanced at the navigation screen in the car, but didn't say anything, and he realized that if he didn't explain it clearly, I'm afraid Lin Mo wouldn't accept this gift.

He sighed, put on a helpless look, and joked:

"It seems that I can't afford to write this argumentative essay."

Then, under Lin Mo's gaze, Knight straightened his face and said seriously:

"Before I came into contact with you, actually

I've been watching you for a long time, and I'm sure you know that."

"Hmm."

"So, like your teammates, I have always been very aware of your personal strength, when you broke into the Moore Technology Building alone and slashed Luo Yin with your own hands, although this feat was beyond my expectations, but your combat power did not exceed my expectations..."

"It's because of your amazing performance that the people on our side are very interested in you, because we are always looking for someone like you, and then invest in it, and work with it..."

"But although your strength is strong, in the beginning, you did not meet our requirements in some aspects."

"Huh." Lin Mo smiled, and immediately understood what Knight meant by "certain aspects".

"You mean my hacking skills are not good, so I looked a little cheap in your eyes at the time, right?" He asked provocatively.

"Yes." Knight replied honestly:

"In the past, we had imagined that in a place like Night City, in such a chaotic environment, there would be a person with a very high talent for fighting, who could be a person with a high talent for prosthetics, like Adam's hammer; It can also be unmatched in hacking technology, like Bartmoss in the past..."

"Without exception, if people like this grow up in Night City, they will inevitably become "legends", and we can choose this time to reach out to them and reach a cooperation..."

"But before you came along, we never imagined that someone would be able to stand up to a company on their own in reality... Even if you used the power of the people around you when you broke into the Moore Tech Building, that can't hide your excellence."

Speaking of this, Knight couldn't help but pause, his blue fluorescent eyes glanced at Lin Mo quite complicatedly, and said faintly after a while:

"To tell you the truth, Lin Mo, you are really not as strong as a human being, you obviously don't have a high degree of righteousness, but you successfully killed Adam's hammer..."

Facing the praise that came down like a mountain, Lin Mo seemed quite calm.

However, Knight's explanation also answered a question for him.

It's no wonder that in the ending options at the end of the game, only V, who chooses the sun ending and becomes a legend in the afterlife, will be invited by Mr. Blue-Eyes to cooperate.

It seems that they only value legends with "potential for cooperation".

He looked back at Knight's solemn face and said with a smile:

"So with all that, your gift is just to compliment me?"

Knight shook his head, "No, in fact, we have been preparing this gift for many years, thinking of giving it to the legends who may appear in the future to improve their strength."

"What kind of gift are you talking about?" Lin Mo frowned, and a hint of déjà vu rose in his heart for no reason.

Hackers, legends with super talents, serendipitous gifts... All kinds of factors are mixed together, and they all seem to faintly point to a certain truth.

"This gift, I would like to call it the "Miracle of the Freezer." Knight unhurriedly revealed the answer:

"This is a bequest from a legendary hacker who died in the 20s, his body abandoned in a freezer... For a variety of reasons, his body ended up in our hands."

Lin Mo raised his eyebrows, and a rare look of shock appeared in his eyes.

"Batmoss's body?" Almost as soon as Knight finished speaking, he could not hide the consternation in his heart, and quickly said the correct answer.

"That's right." Knight nodded, not giving Lin Mo time to think, and immediately explained:

"There are many rumors about the death of this legendary hacker, both in Night City and around the world, but he died in Night City, and as the founder of this city, we at Night Clan happen to have the truth of the rumors..."

Lin Mo's eyes widened rarely, and he put on a posture of listening carefully, and looked sideways at Knight with a slight frown, waiting for his next words.

Knight is well organized

地 says:

「... This truth is actually very simple to explain, when the corporate war between Arasaka and the two major military technology companies progressed to the end, in addition to the nuclear explosion on the top floor of the Arasaka Tower, there was also an unknown war going on in the cyberspace."

"This war is fierce, but little is known because the location of the war is in cyberspace, and the attacking force is Arasaka, who have formed an army of anti-hackers to guard against their own network data barriers... But their opponent is only one man."

"As for the result... Even though the Arasaka Company tried its best to hide it afterwards, our people still found some information at the time, and in that war, Buttermoss single-handedly defeated Arasaka's hacker army, and finally succeeded in entering Arasaka's data fortress."

"But we don't know what happened after that—" Knight's expression became a little solemn:

"Because after Bartmoss himself entered the data fortress, he completely lost his figure in cyberspace, and no one knows what he did in it, and no one knows what he met in it... Anyway, Batmoss hasn't been seen since."

"And his mysterious disappearance in the cyberspace also caused his own protection procedures to fail, and finally his location information was completely exposed, and the Arasaka Company immediately organized a commando team to rush to the building where his body was..."

"We don't know what happened in the building, except that it was eventually destroyed by cluster bombs and turned into a ruin, just like Night City, which was devastated after the war."

"Eventually, we at the Night Company also took on the rebuilding of the city after the end of the corporate war, and it was because of the destruction of that building that we had a legitimate reason to intervene in the reconstruction of the building and successfully found a freezer from the rubble."

Lin Mo looked at Knight with a solemn gaze, slowly spoke, and took Knight's words:

"That's the freezer that holds Bartmoss himself..."