"V, Jack, are you at the Wolf Bar? The client of the previous order wants to meet with us.

It just so happened that I had an idea, and we met there. ”

Jack: "My house is here, you say, brother." ”

V: "I'm at Jack's house, and I'm finally alive, and seeing you've been at home all day, I thought you'd be dead."

You should run more or something, sister will take you. ”

Lille: "Night running in Night City? Think you have too many bullets and too hard a scalp? I rented something at home for workouts. ”

V: "I can't get used to thinking of everything, and I'll clean you up sooner or later." ”

While taking a shower, Lille recalled a scene from an anime and was suddenly stunned.

yes, why did David and Lucy go for a night run at night?

Maybe it's because of poverty.

......

The Wolf Bar, opened by Mrs. Jack's mother, Mrs. Wells.

In a way, the wolf is the equivalent of Heywood's afterlife nightclub - a favorite meeting place for mercenaries, middlemen, and gang kids.

But to be more relaxed, many people come here just for a drink.

For the Valentino kids, this might be a home for them.

The enthusiastic Spanish music of the past has now become silent, with fans babbling on small round tables and chairs.

As soon as Lille walked over, he saw Jack standing at the entrance of the alley, although he didn't say it directly, but it was obvious that Jack was worried that Lille was robbed by the thugs again.

"Hermanos (brother), how did you sleep last night?"

"It's okay, I've practiced my skills, and if you pretend to be prosthetics in the future... Forget it, I don't want to rob Lao Wei's business. ”

"Haha, Lao Wei is the best prosthetic doctor in the city, you have to work harder if you want to surpass him."

After walking a few steps, they saw V standing at the entrance of the street, just standing quietly like that, looking ahead.

Just in time to see an old woman muttering to herself at the flaming bucket by the wall.

Lille patted V: "What, what are you thinking?" ”

V looked at the old woman's back and muttered:

"I just think... Her daughter and she were miserable.

Her daughter died of a stray bullet in the street, and no one remembered her at the funeral, leaving her mother alone in the corner to mourn - and when the mother also died, no one remembered her.

Two small characters who have disappeared in time and no one remembers. ”

The flame was mixed with the smell of metal, and this was the incense to bid farewell to her daughter.

The old woman seemed to have been wandering for two days - it looked like she had spent all her savings on the honorarium.

It looks like her life has come to an end.

"Let's go, hear what this mother has to say—give her a drink, I think she probably hasn't enjoyed anything."

......

The girl who was killed by the Six Street Gang is called Amina, who has just turned 22 this year and is about to graduate, and has already received the opportunity to intern at Arasaka Company.

Although the job is not so good, it is an assembler located in Orbit City, and he may only be able to go home for a few days a year.

But at least it's the company's job, and the rail city is better than safety.

For this job, Melissa borrowed a lot of loans, saved money to support Amina, and her daughter was also very competitive, at least she found a job.

Truth be told, the second half of his life can be imagined by Lille.

14 years of hard study, 40 years of hard work to repay the loan, in short, it is a lifetime.

The assembly work of 14 hours a year, 360 days a year, may not save 100,000 euros in a few decades of life.

A boring and depressing life - but there is always someone who can sustain itself because of the good times of the previous 14 years.

Another humble child - but maybe she doesn't have a dream of burning down the city, but she also has a family she loves, and a family that loves her.

Maybe later, she will have the family she loves and loves her, not so dazzling, but warm enough.

Such a life comes to an end because of a 2 euro bullet.

Melissa finished telling her daughter's story with red eyes, it was such a short story that it only took a few words to tell clearly.

But Melissa remembers every detail, the first time the child laughed, the first time she walked, the first time she called her mother, the first time she was angry, the first time she hugged her...

Perhaps for society, children are just scraps of society, but for mothers they are shining treasures.

“... Thank you for hearing me out. ”

Lille raised his glass: "Toast... Amina, a good girl who works hard. ”

"To Amina."

The three of them drank the wine down.

Melissa smiled wearily and handed a watch to Lille, "It's time for me to go, I know you're busy too, just... Protect yourself.

It was Amina's first gift to me, an old-fashioned watch that she had repaired herself, and I didn't need it anymore, though..."

Lille shook his head and took the watch: "We'll remember Amina." ”

The old woman nodded contentedly and left the wolf bar.

This is an old antique from the old era, and it is not a precious watch, but an ordinary mechanical watch.

As ordinary as its owner, it turns in order.

Mrs. Wells, who was not far away, quietly wiped her tears, and this scene was watched by Jack.

"It's often said that Night City burns people's dreams, but in fact it's more burned out of this mundane wish, throwing not even many sparks into the fire."

Lille put his watch away as he spoke, and said to Jack, "Jack, we can talk about work for a moment." ”

"Thank you, brother, no one will feel good when they see this scene."

......

V poured himself another glass of wine: "I suddenly think it's a good job to kill that guy, even if it's a little less money - tell me what you've done since you got back?" ”

"I tried a few puppets and dismantled his prosthetic body - dismantled and pretended, installed and disassembled, and practiced his hands."

"You didn't numb him, did you?"

"Nonsense, do I look like a fool? Let's match the funds first, I have 40,000 euros left, how much do you have? ”

After paying the tuition and buying a prosthetic, Lille's only money is left.

However, he had expected that the money would come and be spent quickly, especially for someone like him who was dying.

"Am I? There are still 400,000 yuan, I paid back Lao Wei's money, paid the rent, and then I plan to give myself a new arm, the goods have not yet arrived, but I have already booked in Lao Weina. ”

"Arms? Mantis knives? ”

"How do you know?" V looked surprised, "I plan to quietly take it out in the future to surprise the audience, speaking of which, do you think I should pretend to be a Sianweistein?" ”

Implanting prostheses has the potential to lead to cyberpsychosis, and Swystein is a must-have for a notorious madman.

Unlike Kronchkov's passive prosthesis, Sanderstein's probability of causing cyberpsychosis is much higher than that of conventional prostheses.

Lille thought for a moment and said, "If you have this concern, don't pretend. ”

Reality is not a game, and Lille doesn't think that V here really has the kind of condition that doesn't matter what kind of prosthetic body it is.

Besides, V isn't alone at this point.

"So let's talk about life, we..."

Bang!

Gunshots and screams rang out outside, and the two of them instantly tensed up—

"Valentino's brains, let's die!"

There was a crisp thud, and a few bullets hit V's back and were bounced--

"It's the Six Street Gang! Grass! ”