The moon and stars are scarce, and the night is getting stronger.

Santo Domingo Valley District, Wallerson Street.

Outside of the dilapidated factory, there are a few small hot food shops filled with fireworks, simple storefronts and pale blue neon lights that act as a small shelter to isolate the oppressive nature of the cyberpunk night.

Only in such a small shop and drinking sweet stupid monkeys, V, as a senior executive of the company, can feel a little soothing mentally.

Next to V, sat a strong man with a samurai hair.

Dressed in a black jacket and with a golden cross around his neck, he has a tall figure as big as a giant bear.

Jack Wells.

A former Valentino gang member, he's also a loyal and talkative Heywood tough guy.

Of course, he still has another identity at the moment, that is, V's best friend who has been with him for many years.

Only when facing this cheerful big man.

V can let go of all the intrigues in the company, and feel the almost non-existent human touch of Night City in the other party.

But today, the meeting between the two of them is obviously not just a simple gathering of friends.

"Mija (girl), don't you know what I'm doing?"

As he spoke, Jack patted V's shoulder heroically before continuing.

"Reliable must be reliable!"

But V muttered dissatisfied.

"I just know what you're doing, so I'm not at ease, if you hadn't been talking about it, I wouldn't have entrusted such an important task to you."

"You have to know that if things go wrong, I'm going to be out of luck."

Jack didn't care about this in the slightest, and slammed his big fan-like hand on his chest.

"I understand, I understand, big sister, don't worry, the person I'm looking for this time is definitely a powerful and ruthless character!"

Hearing this, V finally stopped grumbling and drank most of the stupid monkey in his hand.

"I hope it's as you say, so who's the middleman you're looking for?"

As he asked, V reasoned to himself.

"Rog? No, you shouldn't have any friendship with her, so you should be a priest. ”

Hearing this, Jack scratched his face with his fingers in embarrassment.

"Uh, neither."

"Huh? Who is that, and do you know any other famous intermediaries? I haven't seen you for a while, and I can't imagine that you are getting more and more mixed. ”

"It's good, it's not like I'm so busy with all the fuck in the company all day."

Speaking of this, V's face also showed a beautiful smile and then said to the boss on the side.

"Boss, a few more cans of stupid monkeys, I have to celebrate my brother today."

"Hey! Well, you have a real eye! ”

Seeing that V had already paid for the table to be filled with yellow-green corn syrup, Jack couldn't help but have a little cold sweat running across his forehead.

Although he and David were very happy when they agreed to come down, it was really a bit difficult to explain it now.

Forget it, you can only take one step at a time, just like who said that the boat to the bridgehead is naturally not straight, there will always be a solution.

"Well, I'll tell you first, I'm not looking for a middleman but a mercenary."

Looking at Jack with a strange look, V also realized that something was wrong, and then his expression changed and he asked the other party in a suspicious tone.

"Mercenaries? Did you skip the middleman step directly? Well, it's not a big deal. ”

"Which elite mercenary group is that?"

Hearing this, the cold sweat on Jack's forehead suddenly increased.

Then he looked away with a weak heart, and then continued to speak.

"It's not a mercenary group, it's a lone wolf brother I met some time ago!"

As soon as he heard this, even V was finally completely shocked.

"Lone wolf?! Damn, Jack, do you want to kill us!! ”

To know what they are going to do next, even those elite mercenary groups have a great probability of overturning.

That's why V thought that Jack would look for a reliable middleman to arrange specific matters.

However, now it seems that she is completely overthinking.

After inexplicably getting to this job, Jack not only did not find a middleman, but also wanted to act with a lone wolf.

If it really does what Jack arranged.

That's simply, it's raining dung and collecting umbrellas - death () is coming!

But seeing V look at himself with a foolish look, Jack finally began his own quibble.

"Eh, big girl, what kind of eyes are you, I can tell you that Brother David's strength is definitely much stronger than you think, although the debut time is not very long, but the 100% task completion rate is not blown."

"And he's already had two similar operations, you know, this experience is a plus, believe me!"

"Besides, you can add people after you recruit people, isn't it convenient to pull out the people who organized the action first and get acquainted with you."

However, listening to Jack's words, V fell into an inexplicable silence again.

David?

A mercenary she had never heard of, even with Jack's strong assurance, she was completely unable to entrust such an important task to an unknown lone wolf.

Don't say anything else.

is such a newly debuted cyberpunk mercenary, there is a high probability that she will not even be able to beat her, let alone take Jack on a mission later.

After all, all the prosthetics implanted in his body are high-level prostheses, and the prostheses that circulate among those mercenaries are simply worlds apart.

Not to mention a newly debuted mercenary.

However, V obviously couldn't do anything that directly chilled Jack's heart.

Anyway, the guy named David is going to be there soon, and when the time comes, he will beat up the other party in the name of testing, so that Jack will realize the seriousness of the problem and push the matter off.

Alas, I really paid too much for this friendship.

Thinking of this, V took another sullen sip of the stupid monkey and then gave Jack a vaccination.

"Okay, but the ugly words are ahead, if the other party fails to meet my expectations, I will deal with the follow-up of this matter myself."

"Jack, you have to understand that doing things for the company is definitely not a joke, if you take a wrong step, don't say it's you, even I will be swallowed up in an instant."

Looking at the serious look on his friend's face, Jack also nodded solemnly.

"You also know me, although I don't do much of this work, but I will never do anything to be an X son and set up a memorial arch."

"If Brother David can't get into your eyes, then I will never say a word for him if this matter is blown!"

After all, he knew the reason for David's autism during this period from the Mann team.

That's why Jack is so focused on finding a way to get revenge for David from V, so that he can get back together.

However, if David did not have the ability to take revenge, then he would naturally not let his brother die.

That's it.

V also sighed slightly and didn't say anything more, just silently raised the jar in his hand and clinked glasses to Jack.

"Okay, don't be too burdened, it's a mule or a horse, and now, come to the City of Night!"

"Hahahaha, that makes sense! The City of Night! ”

A moment has passed.

Look at the cramped table top filled with chartreuse jars, and Jack's familiar back.

David, who hurried over after taking care of it a little, immediately realized that he had finally found the right place.

However, compared to Jack, it was obvious that the strange and beautiful figure beside the other party attracted David's attention more.

With short shoulder-length hair and a slightly cold and handsome face, the only fly in the ointment is the slightly old-fashioned Arasaka uniform.

If nothing else, this girl should be what Jack said was his best friend at Arasaka.

Thinking of this, David exhaled slightly, then straightened his clothes and walked to the two of them.

"Hey Jack, long time no see."

"David! Long time no see, brother, you look much better than you did a while ago. ”

Seeing David regain his spirits, Jack was clearly happy and patted the other man on the shoulder.

"If you want me to say, you should have flushed this vent in your body a long time ago like flushing the toilet, but fortunately, it's not too late to recover."

As he spoke, he introduced David to the beautiful girl beside him.

"David, this is V! Another dear friend of mine besides you! ”

"Watching the three of us get together, I knew we were going to have some amazing chemistry, you said yes V."

And with Jack's opening introduction, V also generously stretched out his hand to David.

"Deputy Minister of Arasaka Counterintelligence, V."

"Mercenary, David Martinez."

In this way, David officially said hello to V.

But after officially meeting the talent that Jack touted heavily.

David's situation apparently still made V, the deputy head of the counterintelligence department, feel a deep shock.

Not because it's strong, it's because it's too weak.

She had never imagined that a mercenary could have so little prosthetic modification.

Aside from the basic transformation similar to the communication prosthesis, the degree of transformation on David's body is even rarer than that of some of the pampered high-level officials in the Arasaka Company.

This kind of situation, even in this entire cyberpunk world, is extremely explosive.

God knows where Jack found such a living treasure from.

With this quality, he can still be famous in cyberpunk, and Jack, an old boy, is afraid that he is not fooling others.

This guy is so weak that she doesn't even want to apply for reconnaissance permissions.

Thinking of this, V finally stopped hesitating and said directly to David.

"Everyone's time is precious, and I'll be straight about it."

"Although Jack recommended you to me, I don't think you have the necessary skills to complete this commission, and it would be better for everyone if you gave up now."

However, listening to V's words, David did not show the slightest surprise, but silently drove the operation of the magic machine, and quietly covered V's body.

The redemption points at the entry-level of this ability are one hundred points, which is almost equivalent to the points that he can get by signing in for more than a month.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen had already made him start hoarding points before, and he had been self-contained for a while, so he could immediately redeem this ability.

If nothing else, it's clear that this new exchange ability will be put to good use right away.

After all, such questioning situations had not happened less often when he had just become a lone wolf mercenary.

David clearly has a lot of experience in dealing with this.

"I don't think my strength will be able to fulfill the commission you are talking about, so Miss V, I don't want to accept your suggestion."

After hearing David's words, V also shook his head lightly and then spoke a little impatiently.

"Tsk, in that case, let me see if you're qualified."

It's just a little kid who hasn't had a prosthetic body implanted much, and she doesn't even need to use her real personality to easily beat the other party down.

So now V just wants to solve this funny farce quickly, and then go to find a top middleman to complete his task himself.

With the fall of V's words, the atmosphere that was friendly just now suddenly became solemn.

"In other words, if I can defeat you, I will be able to get this commission, right?"

Looking at V, who got up and walked outside the store and put up an offensive stance, David also walked in front of the other party and asked calmly.

V just sneered softly at this.

"You're quite confident in yourself, but the premise of self-confidence should be that you really have the ability to do this, and I'll talk about it when you're really beaten."

Hearing this, David nodded before continuing.

"Is that so? Then I got it. ”

As David's words fell.

Immediately afterwards, V directly turned on the kung fu chip in her brain, and fully took over her prosthetic authority.

Kui arm series kung fu chips.

The best of the best of kung fu chips.

Coupled with her high-level prosthesis, even if you use Superman, it is obvious that her current state is definitely not an exaggerated adjective.

Even the thick steel plate in front of her may have to punch her to make a hole, let alone David's fragile original body.

The next moment.

Under the control of the kung fu chip, V's fist was like a ghost, and it skipped through countless afterimages directly in the air.

Then he punched a heavy punch in the void and slammed it directly into David's defenseless abdomen.

It was so fast that even Jack, who had an eye prosthesis, almost couldn't catch up.

And the terrifying strength shown by V couldn't help but make him feel deeply shocked.

After all, even he had never seen his friend do it himself.

Who would have thought that the deputy head of the counterintelligence department, who sat in the office every day, would have such an amazing power in his fist.

It's terrifying!

However, compared to the strength of the shocked V, it is obvious that David's performance is what he cares about the most at the moment.

However, to Jack's surprise, even the heavy punch was about to hit David.

But David still stood still, not knowing what he was doing.

And V, who saw this scene, naturally did not have any merciless thoughts of his subordinates.

If you can't even catch her punch, then you might as well die here.

After all, even if he let him go, such a self-aware person would definitely end up in Night City more cruelly than dying at her hands.

If Jack fools him again, then the problem will be big.

However, just as V's consciousness was like a bystander, observing everything on the scene.

An inexplicable feeling of powerlessness instantly swept through her whole body, and then instantly pulled her consciousness back into her body.

Bang~

The weak fist slammed into David's body like a tickle, driven by inertia.

The next moment.

With a crisp sound of "pop", V, who was still majestic just now, sat in a humiliating posture of pouting his ass and ducking, and first made zero contact with the ground with his face.

Such an amazing scene made Jack, who was eating melons on the side, burst into Heywood's foul language.

"Icarajo!"

In his field of vision, David just stood there motionless.

Immediately afterwards, V collapsed directly on the ground and completely lost his combat effectiveness.

And it's obviously not just Jack who feels the shock.

V, who has experienced this process firsthand, obviously has a deeper understanding of this.

Just for a moment.

The prosthetic body of her whole body seemed to be hacked, and she completely lost contact with her.

No matter how much she manipulated her, she couldn't take back control of any of her bodies.

Obviously, she has a military-grade anti-intrusion chip implanted in her body, and David didn't have any hacker-like behavior just now.

But the other party strangely cut off all connections between his body and the prosthetic body.

Could it be that this kid has invented a fully automated hacking technique that she doesn't know about?

What the hell is going on with this TM!?

Obviously, even the famous V would never think of the seemingly harmless teenager in front of him.

would actually use the top exercises of another world to hurt her young mind without talking about martial arts.

But one thing is undoubted.

V lost.

And what's even more terrifying is that she can't even understand how she lost.

However, David obviously didn't intend to give her much time to think silently.

After quietly fading the ability of the imperial object, David pulled up a confused V.

When he finally came back to his senses, he spoke again under the shocked gaze of the two.

"Now can we continue with what we just talked about?"

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