Walk into the dimly lit staircase that leads to the underground entrance, and just one level further down is the entrance to the Afterlife Bar.

As soon as you enter the five-meter-long passage, the music inside the bar is faintly heard.

A tall man with a face full of mechanical chimeric lines stood there, looking at the visitor with a grim expression.

Seeing Vincent's appearance, a smile appeared on the strong man's cold face.

"Good evening, V."

"Good evening, Bronson."

Vincent replied with a smile.

The strong man's name is Americ Bronson, who is an exclusive mercenary in the next life, equipped with a lot of high-level prosthetics, and his strength is not bad, although it is not as good as Vincent today, but it is more than enough to deal with some gangsters and troublemakers.

Generally speaking, all first-time guests to the bar, regardless of qualifications, as long as they are not famous enough, will be stopped by him.

But Vincent certainly won't be treated that way.

The first time he arrived, he had already built a straight passage out of hundreds of scavengers' corpses.

Bronson smiled and came out of the way.

The iron door in front of him slowly opened, and the rock music in the bar suddenly surged.

Vincent laughed and punched Bronson, then led Jack into the afterlife.

"Hi V, long time no see, how's it going?"

Claire, the front desk of the bar, greeted Vincent familiarly.

Vincent walked over with a smile: "It's not bad, what about you guys, how is the business?" ”

Claire wiped the wine glass, shrugged her shoulders and said: "Look at it yourself, it's okay, people who come here, whether it's talking about business or relaxing, will always be thirsty, I just need to be in charge of pouring the wine." ”

With two polite sentences, Vincent returned to the topic.

"Where's Rogge?"

"In the private room inside, you can just go in and don't have to say hello."

"Okay, see you later!"

Vincent waved his hand and walked to the inside of the bar.

Jack took a step behind and leaned back on the front desk and whispered, "Have a cup of old-fashioned tequila, add some beer and peppers, put it here first, and wait for the meeting to finish, I'll come and get it." ”

Claire smiled, "A glass of Johnny's silver hands, no problem." ”

"Jack!"

Vincent's voice could be heard in the distance.

Jack winked at Claire and strode after her.

Rounding the winding passages and through the boisterous crowd full of alcohol, the two arrived at a secret private room inside the bar.

Generally speaking, only the best business in Night City is negotiated in this kind of place.

Jack was interested, and there was excitement on his tough guy-like face.

Vincent is also very happy, because in his influence, the system will also reward a lot of points for a mission like this.

After this mission, he may be able to redeem a complete set of Nano Iron Man suits with enough system points he has accumulated.

Outside the secret box, two bodyguards in suits, a man and a woman, were standing at the door, looking at them with a grim expression.

To Vincent's and Jack's surprise, the two bodyguards' prosthetic modifications didn't seem to be very high, at least on the surface, there were no signs of mechanical mosaicism.

…… Is it the most high-end biomimetic prosthetic?

Vincent raised an eyebrow and subconsciously turned on the scan.

At this moment, the blue light in the eyes of the woman in the suit, who was about 1.7 meters tall, was full of blue light, and it actually directly invaded his system and turned off the scanning function of his mechanical prosthetic eye.

Looking at the red warning pop-up window in front of him, a trace of shock welled up in Vincent's heart.

His prosthetic eye is a legendary golden prosthetic [Giroji 'Oracle']!

It was so easy to be noticed by the other party......

It seems that the client is very powerful.

Vincent thought silently.

The woman in the suit looked at him coldly and said, "Mr. V, please be respectful......"

Vincent smiled and raised his hand and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was presumptuous." ”

The strong man in the suit next to him turned sideways slightly, and said in the same cold voice: "Come in, our boss wants to see you." ”

"Whew-"

The iron door of the soundproof box slowly opened.

Vincent smiled back with a friendly smile and walked in without fear.

The dimly lit box is lit only by light bars embedded in the ceiling, and all four walls are made of sound-absorbing metal, so that even if there is a sudden explosion in the box, the outside world will not know at all.

On the left-hand side of the door, Rog, the queen of the afterlife and the most powerful middleman in Night City, sat there, his left hand resting on the back of the leather sofa, holding a glass of wine in his right hand, and his eyes glanced slightly at Vincent at the door.

Inside, a handsome young man in a white suit sat there, his hands crossed in front of his chest, and a pair of dark red eyes looked at him with interest.

"Since everyone is here, then I won't bother."

Rogge stood up with his glass, smiled and raised it to the handsome young man, and drank it all with his hand.

When she was done, she put her glass down and reached out and patted Vincent on the shoulder as she passed by the door.

"V, good luck."

Vincent smiled slightly, and just wanted to reply, a message suddenly popped up in his eyes, which was sent to him by Rogge.

"V, be careful, I can't find out the origin of this person, you have to pay careful attention."

“…… Thank you. ”

Vincent thanked him quietly.

Rogge's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't speak, and just walked out of the box.

"You're the client?"

Vincent sat unceremoniously on the couch to the right hand side of the door.

Jack stood in the doorway, his hands on his chest, his eyes seemed to look at the boy, but he actually paid attention to the two bodyguards outside the door.

The two brothers have been working together for a long time and know exactly how to work together to maximize safety in this situation.

For the two of them to be defensive and vigilant, the handsome young man in a white suit didn't care.

He casually threw out a paper document and said with a smile: "I don't like to talk nonsense, the content of the entrusted task, as well as the honorarium afterwards, are all written on it, you can see for yourself!" ”

“……”

Vincent picked up the document and sighed, "Handwritten, this is really rare!" ”

The young man in the suit smiled, "The target is the Arasaka Company, and we can't afford to be careless." ”

Vincent's palm flickering through the document stiffened slightly, and then looked up at the boy in surprise.

The young man smiled and said, "What, scared?" ”

“……”

Vincent didn't answer, just gave him a strange look before returning to the document in his hand.

The mission is simple: travel to a secret experimental base in Arasaka on the outskirts of Santo Domingo and seize the experimental product there, a large war armored prosthetic limb called the Prosthetic King Kong.

According to the description of the contents of the document, this is a military-grade experimental implant secretly researched by the Arasaka company.

The Arasaka executives who invested in the project believed that if the implant was put on the market, it would be able to completely overtake the military technology of the same super-corporation in the market for small-scale warfare.

It can be said that this is one of the highest-level secret experimental projects of the Arasaka company.

But the young man on the other side took it out lightly, and planned to entrust the mercenaries to snatch it.

…… Is this something that a normal person can do?

And Vincent still remembers that the project Prosthetic King Kong appeared in the spin-off anime "Edge Walker".

According to the plot in the anime, Mr. Faraday, the middleman of Night City, used the team of the protagonist David to obtain the information of the prosthetic King Kong, and then used this as a basis to reach a secret agreement with the Arasaka company, and betrayed the protagonist David, and fooled him into putting on the prosthetic King Kong in various ways to test the actual combat data of the prosthetic King Kong for the Arasaka company.

Calculate the time, and the current plot should indeed progress to this point.

But the client of this side quest should be Mr. Faraday, why did a mysterious teenager suddenly appear?

Could it be ...... Is it the butterfly effect after he crosses over?

Vincent frowned and thought as he looked at the innermost boy in a white suit.

Suddenly, he asked, "Are you a military technologist?" ”

The handsome young man shook his head: "No, my name is Zuo Yu, and I am from the Kunlun Group. ”

“…… Kunlun Group? ”

Vincent was stunned for a moment.

He has only played games, watched anime, and doesn't know much about cyberpunk's full backstory and past history.

But even so, he basically knows about those super companies in the cyberpunk world, and he has never heard of a Kunlun Group!

But listening to the name, it looks like a super company in Huaxia.

Could it be that Kangtao is the opponent of Kangtao in China?

Vincent pondered in his heart and did not answer for a long time.

Jack glanced at Vincent's side face with a look of surprise.

It had been a long time since he had seen a commission that would make Vincent feel entangled.

Zuo Yu asked with a smile: "Give me a happy word, take it or not?" ”

“…… I'll pick it up! ”

Vincent came back to his senses, nodded heavily, and accepted the paper.

Zuo Yu smiled and leaned on the back of the sofa: "Very good, the surface of that experimental base is not large, but the underground space is not small, and the security force assembled is enough to fight against a small army." ”

"You guys sneak in, you'd better find a few clever hackers."

"If there is no candidate, I can recommend you ......"

"No need." Vincent got up with a smile, "Boss Zuo, you may not know much about the style of our team, but it doesn't matter, you just need to sit here and wait to receive the prosthetic King Kong!" ”

"But such a dangerous task...... Is the gratuity a little less? ”

"One hundred thousand!" Zuo Yu held up a finger, "Plus a military-grade implant." ”

Vincent's eyes lit up and said decisively: "Deal!" ”

……

……

After Vincent and Jack left, two suit-clad bodyguards at the door walked in.

The woman of Western European ethnicity was surprised: "Boss, haven't you already arranged for the Nine-Tailed Fox Team to control the high-level Arasaka and prepare to buy the Arasaka Company in the name of the Kunlun Group?" ”

"Why did you come to meet a mercenary and entrust him to rob the Arasaka Company?"

Zuo Yu glanced at her and said meaningfully: "What do you know, that's the famous V!" ”

(End of chapter)