A dilapidated car with a black shell drove through the wilderness.

A huge signage light curtain stands in the middle of a fork in the road that reads: "Turn left into Night City, right turn Kuala Lumpur New Town".

Susan took the steering wheel to the right, and the car ran over the garbage scattered on the road, heading for the rain and fog in the distance.

[The explosion in Kowloon is not over yet, we interviewed the former commander of the NCPD, huh...... Excuse me, about ......]

[Hey, what's going on out there?] 】

【Bang!】 】

[Ah——! 】

[Who is it!] 】

[Beep-]

[Hehe...... Ladies and gentlemen, we are a gang in the ninth district, now please pay attention, we want to resist the rule of military technology, our faith is Arasaka Lai Xuan, we want to be like Arasaka Lai Xuan stinky barren board, stinky military technology]

[If you are interested in becoming a rebel, please call the hotline -96......]

【Bang!】 Bang bang bang! Dada! 】

[Beep-]

[Sorry guys, just now, it was a playback episode...... So we're going to interview ......]

【Magnetic ......】

[Here is news 54]

[The attack in Kowloon has not yet been resolved, and the authorities have not given any reasonable explanation]

[We have to look at the situation again......]

[However, in order to comfort the residents of Kowloon City, Military Technology has decided to let all employees take unpaid leave tomorrow...... One hour】

"Fuck the military tech ......"

Susan turned off the radio and played a tune.

Soothing music rhythms.

Kuala Lumpur New Town is just around the corner.

Heavy rain was brewing, and black clouds were surging.

Towering buildings tore through the rolling clouds, and thunder rumbled through the dark clouds.

Rain and powder of gunpowder fall on the car windows – welcome to the city.

Susan parked the car on a dirt road in the suburbs, got out of the car with a cigarette in her mouth, pulled a pistol from the back seat, and put it on her waist.

She's one of the best doctors in the neighborhood, but she's notorious.

Because Susan often robs the business of large physiotherapy clinics, she is a good person, but she was born in the wrong era, and in the drunken cyber world, Susan is an alternative.

But even if she doesn't fit in with the world, Susan knows what to do in the city – bring a gun.

In her words: In the city, you don't carry a gun on the street, just like a big aunt doesn't carry a sanitary napkin when she doesn't wear a sanitary napkin.

"Hey, Susan."

The girl, Michiko Uesugi, opened the roller shutter door of the black doctor's clinic and walked over to take the surgical tools from Susan's hand.

"I only have three hours, Michiko." Susan hurriedly walked into the medical room and began to fiddle with the equipment: "There is a grapevine, about four hours later, the military technology will clean up a group of wanderers in the wilderness, and I don't want to be accidentally injured into blood foam by the spiral hand knife of the prosthetic King Kong." ”

"Okay, good~" Michiko picked up the medical sheet: "Well, two patients, one is an employee of military technology, and the other is a patient I found." ”

"What about people?"

"Which are you talking about?" Michiko took out a chip and handed it to Susan: "Why don't you see it yourself?" ”

Susan inserts the chip into the back of her head.

Valerie...... Well...... Waste that could not fit the implant, the bone broke, well, I get it. ”

Most people in this world use prosthetics instead of flesh and blood, and pure bone scraping and healing have become rare.

"Military technology doesn't care if its employees live or die, which is why Valerie commissioned a car dealer named Old Captain to contact me." Michiko sat down on a chair with her slender legs resting on the coffee table: "But unfortunately, Valerie was injured again, and I heard that when she went out on crutches, she was broken off her other leg by a passing gang member. ”

She ...... Is it so unlucky? Susan was shocked.

"Did you know that Night City used to have a famous V?" Michiko said.

"What does you mean ......" Susan understood almost in seconds: "I understand, I have offended too many people, and I can't live peacefully if I want to, and making the enemy's life worse than death is the common method of those vulgar people." ”

"Anyway, I never understood why V joined Military Technology and was still an office clerk."

"There's something strange about this, I heard that it has something to do with an intermediary in Night City." Susan stopped talking and pulled out the chip: "What about another patient's profile?" ”

The patient...... It's kind of ...... Special. Michiko's eyes glanced to the other side: "A big beautiful girl, but I can't understand her request, you want to go when you have surgery." ”

"Then you can tell me about the operation."

"That...... She's here to pretend to be that......"

Susan thought for a minute before she understood.

"I'm grass."

……

[The outer area of the uterus cannot be compatible with the flesh and blood, and there is a trace of electricity leakage]

[Power supply up to 1000 volts]

Operating room.

Susan looked at the results of the examination on the computer screen, and her face was embarrassed.

"What the hell is this......"

"What's the matter, Dr. Susan, what's the problem?" Michiko put on a mask to tidy up the surgical tray: "Talk to me?" ”

Susan touched her chin and said, "In one second, 1000 kilovolts can raise the human body by 1587 degrees Celsius, and the melting point of pure iron is about 1538 degrees Celsius. ”

"What do you mean......" Michiko looked at the operating table with her eyes open, looking Alzheimer's tea, and then the corners of her mouth trembled slightly: "I'll go...... Who was so vicious as to install this kind of thing on this girl? ”

Susan speculated with interest: "The new sex doll chip 'Succubus 40' can make the uterine carrier produce a temperature of more than 45 degrees, she can't be an experimental sex dow, right?" ”

Michiko smiled: "This is a sex doll, you don't need to use a steamer to make dumplings." ”

Susan asked, "Michiko, where the hell did you pick up this item?" Don't hide it, I want to know the risk, you're a middleman, there must be something hidden, right? ”

"yes, I'm the middleman...... But this girl ...... Helped me do a commission that was completely impossible to complete. Michiko helped tap on the keyboard, typed in the surgery code, and said, "I picked her up a few hours ago at the garbage dump, I saw that she was in such good shape, I wanted to dismantle her and sell the parts, but I was almost killed by her, and then ...... She saw a commission in my hand......"

[Thief Line: Chapter 1, Approaching Michiko Uesugi and completing her two commissions]

Cha Bai fell into a half-asleep state in a trance.

The thief line, the content of the first chapter is not difficult, at least not like Li Nuo's one, and you have to understand it yourself.

At that time, in order to speed up, Chahaku put a hammer against Michiko Uesugi on the head, and directly skipped the first chapter and entered the second chapter.

I learned this from Li Nuo.

If you can use violent means to speed up, you don't have to worry about anything, and courtesy, righteousness, and shame can sometimes be abandoned.

[Thief Line: Chapter 2, Save the Girl "Prime"]

……

Milan was a storekeeper at the Weapons Administration.

In the description of outsiders, she is a conservative, silent, somewhat autistic woman.

Such a person is most suitable for warehouse management.

But Milan is only forced, she likes to communicate with people, but if she exposes her chatty nature, the company may take her vocal cords away.

One day, a group of guards wearing military technology combat uniforms brought in a batch of important goods.

Look at the armed with loaded guns, and the staff who come in and out. Milan just do what they have to do – don't look and shut up.

It is estimated that it is a confidential source.

Everything in a big company is not interesting to her.

Until she heard the little girl's cry from the cargo box.

Don't look, then shut up.

Milan numbed herself, like the honest man she had always played.

She remembered the voices of girls in the back room who were screaming so violently that they were begging until they were finally full of desperate weeping.

The little girl was probably only ten years old.

Military technology must have found some treasure and wanted to dismember her.

The soldier locked the door of the warehouse and said to Milan, who was visibly frightened: "Don't worry, it's none of your business. ”

One night.

Milan saw a little girl in the corner of the warehouse, with black hair and freckles on her pale skin.

The brown pupil of his left eye looked at her blankly.

The right eye is hollow and has been dug out.

Milan was terrified.

Because she knew who this girl was, that was the goods.

The girl's name is "Prim", and this is her number: Prim 0.

"Can you help me?"

Prim sent a request to Milan.

"Please help me."

Milan did not agree, but notified the army to tie the girl back.

Late at night.

After a hard day's work, Milan returned to his cubicle.

Suddenly there was a power outage.

She pulled out a charger and connected it to a small lamp, enough power for her to glow for hours.

Bored Milan looked out the window.

The company building was lit up, and the huge projection advertising screen on the curtain wall showed the image of a good life.

The people in the picture are well-dressed, meticulous in their hairstyles, holding wine glasses, standing in their own garden as far as the eye can see.

His dog rolls freely on the lawn beneath his feet, eating the finest synthetic meat.

His child had just received his 10th birthday gift, a floating car.

The building emits dazzling brilliance, all kinds of gorgeous images, endless commodity displays, everything is dizzying, as if there is a beautiful picture in front of you.

The changing light also illuminates the modest bedroom in Milan through the window.

Illuminates potholes, damp, moldy floors.

illuminates the yellowed walls of electronic screens.

Milan stared motionlessly at the small lamp, which looked dim, drowning in the glow that swayed as if it didn't want money.

Finally, the battery ran out and the lights went out.

Milan seemed to see the shadow of the little girl crying for help, she took a deep breath, picked up her phone, and dialed an intermediary.

"Hey, I'm Michiko Uesugi."

"I ...... I hope to save a child...... But I don't have the money......"

Less than an hour.

A girl with short white hair finds Milan.

[Thief Line: Chapter 2, Save the Girl "Prime"]

Cha Bai looked at the panel.

Then I learned what had happened from Milan.

Milan didn't trust Cha Bai at first, or rather, she didn't trust herself.

She only has 1,500 euros to divert and the rest to pay for her parents' repairs.

"If you can't get it, don't give me any money."

Cha Bai said this to Milan.

"Incredible......

Milan really thought it was incredible, how could there be such a guy who sent her to death, she didn't dress like a mercenary, and she was very good-looking, her limbs were very slender, and the most beautiful idol of New America was a little less beautiful in front of her.

This kind of person doesn't even want money, and he is completely sent to death.

Milan knew that the so-called middleman must be playing tricks on her.

Until twenty minutes later.

Cha Bai took a photo of himself with "Prim" to Milan.

Milan looked out.

On the skyscraper outside the window, the light curtain changes colors, and on the black-and-white screen, the theological advertisements of military technology in Kowloon are on the big screen.

The company claims that what reassures employees is a miracle that can change everything and counterbalance demonization.

Milan suddenly realized.

"Original...... The mercenary was a miracle. ”

[Thief Line: Chapter 2, stealing the girl's gouged out eyes and cooperating with reporters]

This is the second task Chabai received after sending the little girl to Michiko Uesugi.

In the middle of the mission, she also received a phone call.

A woman who claims to be a journalist wants to make a deal with Chabai.

"I know Michiko, and I know everything about her, so I want to entrust you with one thing privately, please don't get me wrong...... This matter is too dangerous, I'm afraid that Michiko will be involved, can you, help me find a piece of information. ”

If it weren't for the task panel to let her cooperate, Cha Bai would definitely hang up the phone at the beginning.

This time, Chahaku is tasked with stealing Prim's gouged-out prosthetic eye.

It seems strange, but in fact, the main problem is Prim, she is a new type of modified human, it is said that it is to restrain the test subject of the ancient god code, and her prosthetic eyes have information to observe the potential dangers of the old gods.

And, Prim is a treasure all over his body.

If Leno and Marje had discovered Prim, the girl might have been reborn in the garbage.

But Cha Bai only feels that she has the same disease as this little girl, she is also an experimental robot, and it is more high-end.

Before leaving, Chahaku made a request to Michiko, a request for surgery.

Michiko thought it was ridiculous.

And Cha Bai also has a task of stealing military scientific and technological materials, which he wants to give to that reporter.

It's even more difficult, Michiko feels that Chabai has gone and there is no return.

But in less than half an hour, she was stupid.

She heard the news that the military science and technology enhancement combat camp in the suburbs was blown up by a white-haired woman, and the whole process only lasted five minutes, in other words, the military technology reinforcement soldier team was wiped out after only five minutes.

Five minutes after the news was received, Chahaku took a photo of "Prim's" prosthetic eye to Michiko.

Frightened, Michiko immediately deleted the photo.

"I picked up a monster ......"

However, the situation is not over.

Cha Bai got a document from the Armaments Department of Military Science and Technology.

She went to the agreed location and handed over the information to the reporter.

"My name is Ross Parker, and I'm ...... It's an employee of the former Araban. ”

The reporter introduced himself like this.

She seemed to be afraid that Chabai didn't understand, and said it in detail.

"After all, I used to be a senior inspector, and I know that Arady is a fucked up, but I can't help it, in comparison, I hate military technology more, I hate President Miles behind that company, I know you kidnapped a little girl."

Ross Parker put the girl's picture in front of Cha Bai's eyes.

"Listen, I'm not threatening you, I need your help, Prim is special, she has some kind of diamond on her that can restrain the code of the old gods, yes, diamonds."

"Can you bring me Prim, she may be the only possibility to bring down military technology."

"Of course...... It's human nature if you don't help, but I'll give you a lot of money for you to consider. ”

Cha Bai was silent for a long time, and without the task panel appearing, she lost interest.

Fei Kou This kind of thing is Li Nuo's job, and it is not in her business scope, so Chabai got up and left.

Reporter Ross Parker stopped her.

"Listen to my friend...... You must help me! ”

Cha Bai paused, turned his head to look over, and the eyes under the black blindfold had actually seen the truth.

"Actually, you want to dismantle her and sell her for money, right? Sold to military technology. ”

After all, if you bring in Li Nuo, you can easily associate these dirty methods and lies.

Ross Parker was silent for a long time, then bit his lip after eating the closed door: "Okay, please." ”

The above is the simple experience of Chabai.

With the player's strong force, many tasks that seem impossible in this world have become simple.

Time comes back to the present.

The tea white on the operating table is reminiscent of the story of "Octopath Traveler".

The eight main characters.

Since it's the main character.,It must be guys who are beyond the strength of the worldview.。

But now that there are only six players playing the main role, where are the remaining two?

"Hey, white-haired girl, the operation has begun, I have to give you a layer of anesthetic." Susan walked over and said.

"No, I have a way to endure it." Cha Bai recited a spell that paralyzed his lower body, and said, "I'm hard, you'd better use a tool like a water knife." ”

"That's right...... Susan slid her nails over her white, fair skin, "God...... Is the quality of biomimetic skin so high now? ”

"How do I do the surgery?" Cha Bai asked.

"That part...... The surgery can be performed with an extender without even surgery, but we need to replace your drain head, which will take a bit of effort. ”

"The time of the operation is about ...... Two hours. ”

"Please as soon as possible." Cha Bai replied and closed his eyes.

The girl, Prim, stood in the corner, watching the operation.

The girl's pupils flickered with its data streams and magical energy, chanting a language that no one could understand.

In her voice, Susan's surgery went even more smoothly than she had imagined.

An hour and a half later, the operation ended.

"Congratulations, you're a normal woman."

Susan's sentence to Cha Bai was tinged with a hint of banter.

"Don't install a strange succubus system on yourself in the future, your thing looks like magic, the voltage intensity is uneven, if it weren't for the unknown power suppressed in the process, we might ...... Surgery will fail. ”

"Anyway, thank you." Chabai sat up.

The room was full of women, and she stepped off the operating table and glanced naked in the mirror.

At this time, the news broadcast came on the TV.

[It is reported that the situation in Kowloon is still escalating]

[A large number of monsters have appeared, we have evacuated some of the residents who have gold cards, as for the rest, the 10% discount coupon of the big lotto supermarket is for you to choose]

"Grass, these bastards." Susan has a very bad impression of the company: "If you don't have a gold card, you are not a person, and the Lotto supermarket is a special area for the rich, so what's the point of giving discount coupons to the poor." ”

Cha Bai is getting dressed.

She glanced at the clock and planned to go find Valerie, or V, first.

As for Li Nuo...... Anyway, nothing will happen to that guy.

Just then, the final mission panel flashed out.

[Thief Line Final Chapter: Waiting for the seller to contact → seller has already come]

【Reward: Skill Heist】

[Choice Task: Give Prim to the Seller, or Set Prim Free]

There was an argument outside the door.

Michiko Uesugi is arguing with a man in a military tech uniform.

"We don't have any little girls in our possession!"

"No, no, no, ma'am, I'm here to ask for someone, not to inquire."

The soldier waved his hand, several cars stopped at the door, and more than a dozen soldiers with military technology came down, among which a large cart walked down was a special combat unit wearing a vajra prosthesis.

Susan grabbed Cha Bai's arm.

"Let's go, now follow me!"

"Why?" Cha Bai asked.

"I don't want my patient to be beaten into a sieve by bullets before they have recovered!" Susan is a doctor with medical ethics, the kind that is rare.

Cha Bai actually saw the shadow of Marjie in her.

"It's okay."

When Cha Bai said this, there were already soldiers with military technology breaking in.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed in front of her, and someone found Prim from the back room.

When the little girl was carried away by the soldiers and loaded into a container like garbage.

A flaming hammer smashed the soldier's helmet.

The night, the rain, the fire.

The white-haired girl stood in the center of the muzzle like a flame of divine punishment.

A minute later.

The container containing Prim was smashed open, and the little girl looked at the tea-white blue pupils, her eyes stunned.

"Today is a freshman."

Chabai stretched out his hand and said to her, and to himself.

Prim just shook his head.

"You helped me, and I want to reciprocate...... I'm not from this world, I'm from the other side of the portal. ”

"The Celestial Spheres Meet?" Cha Bai said words that others couldn't understand, and in this world, there were fragments of the Celestial Sphere Convergence brought by the Cairo Star people, except for demons and monsters, there was no need to be surprised that any creature that did not belong to that world appeared.

Prim didn't say anything, just pressed his palm to his chest.

In the midst of the brilliance, she held a ...... in her hand Strange, dull-colored gemstones.

Cha Bai took the gem and looked up, and the girl had disappeared.

"What the hell is this ......"

She thinks the girl might be a ghost-like creature of cyborgs.

【Dull Gem】

[The final reward of the thief line, the final reward of the linkage scholar line needs to be linked to play a role]

[Note: Something that each traveler obtains in a mission is a key item to destroy demons]

"Damn, you bastard!" Not far away, Michiko's shouting and scolding could be heard.

Cha Bai pinched the gem in his hand, silently put it into the backpack compartment, and walked over.

"Remember that reporter, Ross Parker?" Michiko asked Chahaku, and she continued, "There's a chip here, you can see for yourself." ”

Cha Bai inserts the chip into the groove on the back of the head.

A flurry of conversation data flashed.

Rospark: "I reported that a white-haired mercenary took Prim. ”

Soldier: "Who are you?" ”

Ross Parker: "Reporter, it doesn't matter, listen, I know where they are, but I want money." ”

Soldier: "Where?" ”

Ross Parker: "Listen, call me first!" The intelligence fee, the intelligence fee of your government, how much is given to me! ”

Soldier: "Okay ma'am, but you have to tell you what's going on, or we'll have to find you and take you to the interrogation room." ”

Ross Parker: "You're going to find an intermediary, her name is Michiko, and besides, the perpetrator is supposed to be a white-haired chick, the parts on that woman's body are very interesting, you can disassemble her, but I want you to capture or kill her first-hand, I'm a journalist after all." ”

Soldier: "Deal." ”

Cha Bai pulled out the chip and threw it on the table.

She now has two choices, first, find V, and second, find Li Nuo.

The Thief Line quest is complete, and the [Fetch Leather Bag] is ready to use.

Before that happens, though, she's going to do another thing.

"Hey, hey, why are you going!" Michiko stopped Chahaku, she didn't want this mercenary with the potential to become a legend to slip out of her nose.

"That reporter, Ross Parker, sold you and me." Cha Bai put on an eye patch: "I have to kill her." ”

When someone else gambles with your life, don't hesitate to kill that person, this is what Li Nuoqian told him to do.

Chabai inherits the nature of Jiye No. 2 - kindness.

In many worlds, kindness is a bad habit, so Li Nuo will often tell her not to hesitate when it is time to do it.

She got on Michiko's motorcycle and drove to the city in the heavy rain.

……

"Yes, I just need that white-haired chick's data, damn, the old lady begged her so lowly, that stupid girl didn't realize a problem......"

Ross Parker sat at home on the phone.

"When I show her the photos, I'm telling her that if you don't help me, I'll find a new buyer on my own."

"Don't say that, it's Michiko's stupid bitch who is to blame, who told her to raise such a brainless mercenary."

Outside the window, the rain was pouring down.

Neon lights poured into the room, and a long shadow covered the neon light and stretched to Ross Parker's feet.

"Found it."

Cha Bai stood on the windowsill, squatted down, took out a gun, and pasted it outside the window.

The blue eyes reflected Ross Parker's terrifying expression.

A gunshot rang out.

Blood splattered on the walls, covered in dark shadows.

Cha Bai heard the sound of a military technology vehicle passing below, and broke into Ross Park's residence.

She is not afraid to leave any footprints.

Anyway, the footprints of a heel won't be taken as a killer's sole.

"So now...... Go find Valerie. ”

She has a roadmap given by Michiko.

Thunder roared outside the window.

Chabai glanced at the dark clouds above the rainy night.

In the distance, the scorching fire in Kowloon became the city's most special light curtain, hitting the surging black clouds.

[Here is news 54]

The TV screen is still on.

A photo of the priest was displayed next to the host.

[Military science and technology denied that the priest who made the rebellion was sent by them, and it is understood that someone in the New American government agency spoke out that this priest was a demon]

[The army has blocked the outer area of Kowloon, once the situation is over, find the priest, and the answer will be known]

[Some parades claimed that the appearance of the priest was the return of the apocalypse, but fortunately, the procession had been arrested and prepared to be sent to the Arctic Circle for new human transformation]

"What the hell did you do...... It's hard for my questline to become like this......"

Tea white puzzled.

She thought about it, between V and Li Nuo, it was more important to confirm Li Nuo's safety first.

The swap feature for special friends cannot be unlocked.

But she now has a way to find Linuo.

She took out the [Fetch Leather Bag], and fantasized about Li Nuo's cheap face in her mind.

……

Nie Chuang made a round and returned to the "safe house" in the basement.

"It seems that the monsters have made the gang miserable enough, and they don't have the energy to search for the two of us."

"Isn't that good...... But it's never the Devil Gang that is in trouble......," Li Nuo lit a fire, using the weapon box as a slate, roasting the decoction powder.

"What are you?" Nie Chuang saw that there were a few jars beside Li Nuo.

"I'm making a psychiatric sprayer...... Li Nuo crushed the baked powder, "To put it bluntly, I need to create a little more chaos for them." ”

Nie Chuang stared blankly: "Mr. Shenguan...... None of your work styles from the beginning to the present have anything to do with the priests, what the hell do you believe in, Satan? ”

Li Nuo: "Nie Chuang." ”

Nie Chuang was stunned: "I...... Do you believe in me? ”

Li Nuo: "Nie Chuang, you stepped on the dust I made......"

Nie Chuang immediately moved away.

The dust of the nerve virus gas was raised, Nie Chuang dipped some of it with his fingers, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed: "What the hell is this......

"Inhaling a small amount will hallucinate, but that's okay." Li Nuo raised his eyes, Nie Chuang's expression froze, and he said with a smile: "You will have a hallucinogenic feeling like seeing a miracle, just last for a while." ”

Nie Chuang only heard "seeing miracles", and the rest of the people didn't hear it, and he had already fallen into a hallucination......

He saw the past of the bullets.

Saw a meat grinder on the battlefield.

Miracles......

Where are the miracles......

Nie Chuang remembered the last miracle Li Nuo had said, and he ran through the forest, trying to find a way to escape from the battlefield.

In reality, Li Nuo reluctantly pressed Nie Chuang, who was running wildly, to the ground and injected him with "baloro enzyme", an anti-cyberpsychotic drug.

Nie Chuang softened a little: "Mr. Divine Officer...... I'm still hallucinating...... Can you cure me with a little magic...... I ...... grass Headache ......"

Li Nuo smiled with a humble eye: "Magical means? Did I call God out for you? He wanted to say, "Are you mistaken?"

However, a space-time hole appeared behind him.

Tea white's straight long legs stepped out of the hole.

Li Nuo turned his head sideways and was stunned: "You ......"

"Why are you so slow?" Cha Bai grabbed Li Nuo's shoulders and fell to the ground.

"Something happened to me here......" Li Nuo had a reassuring expression.

Cha Bai pointed behind Li Nuo: "You...... Is this what you're referring to? ”

Leno looked back.

Nie Chuang knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction of Cha Bai......

muttered to himself: "It turns out that there is really a god ......"

Cha Bai's first reaction subconsciously was, Li Nuo, are you bullying people again?

So she helped Nie Chuang up instead of Li Nuo.

Cha Bai said apologetically: "I'm sorry, you shouldn't have faced this. ”

"And so it was...... It's what a god would say......" Nie Chuang looked at Li Nuo and said in surprise, "You are actually a real priest?" ”

(End of chapter)