Night City.

Huge displays for propaganda can be seen everywhere in the Civic Center.

At this time, News 54 is broadcasting today's news.

"Welcome to WNS News for the next week's breaking news."

"A week ago, a gang of unidentified criminals broke into the Civic Center and caused significant damage in several important locations in the Municipal Square and Company Square, killing a large number of military technology employees."

"In this attack, criminals broke into the Biotech Building and damaged the current control system inside the building, causing the building to emit abnormal electromagnetic pulses."

"After this EMP, several companies' important facilities and equipment were damaged, and many residents near the company square found that their implants were malfunctioning."

"The Mayor of Night City, Lucius Lane, was also in the range of the EMP, he was on official business at the Civic Center at the time, and the long hours of overtime and the EMP caused him some damage."

"But fortunately, yesterday, the diligent mayor woke up in the hospital."

"The second piece of news is that there was a cyberpsychiatric attack on Route 96 in Night City yesterday, and it is reported that the cyberpsychotic named Gabrio Blaitz is a security employee in military technology."

"Cyberpsychosis killed five of the team's colleagues and killed twenty-three citizens."

"The town hall takes this incident very seriously, and has adjusted the lockdown contract and added the NCPD duty list to the highway"

The subway doors slowly opened.

The two skill chip thieves walked out with a handful of chips, and when they walked a few steps and the car drove away, the white-haired girl threw away the chip in her hand, squinted and laughed, and patted the boy next to her on the shoulder.

"Good job, much more skilled than at the beginning, when I stole that big man just now, I pinched your sweat for you."

David smiled back and handed the chip to Lucy.

"You have to learn something, right?"

As he spoke, David saw the news broadcast on the big screen on the wall, and suddenly stood still, the emotion in his eyes could hardly be said to be envy or admiration, or both.

Lucy took a few steps forward, and when she saw David like this, she snapped a knife and smashed it on his head.

"Still thinking about that day? You don't really want to do that kind of work, do you? ”

David touched his head: "Well, it's a little dangerous, but there's a lot of money." ”

"Sort of?" Lucy's eyes narrowed slightly, and she tilted her head to look at David, "I thought she was smart, but it turned out that she was still a stunned young man."

Not to mention what happened that day, that cyber psycho on the news can hit ten - no, maybe a hundred of you!

Do you think you have too much life to spend? Still want to make the headlines? ”

David was looked at by Lucy and stepped back a little: "Hey, I'm just talking about it, besides, can't I reflect on it?" ”

Lucy stared at David suspiciously for a few more seconds before turning her head and continuing on.

Then David said, "I wonder if we're going to find a middleman to do something else?" Like saving people from scavengers and stuff"

Lucy looked back again, and said, "I knew you kid was thinking about something else."

"I said you, aren't you a little inflated?" As she spoke, she also pinched David's arms and waist with her hands—

This time David couldn't be rectified - poor David, was toyed with by Lucy.

"It's a little longer, but it's not too much, is there really something wrong with the brain?"

Lucy touched David's abdomen all the way to his face: "You still don't seem to understand, gunplay and stealing are two different concepts." ”

David looked at Lucy, still stood up straight and said, "But we're not newbies either, we also killed a military tech person!" ”

Lucy reluctantly withdrew her hand: "That person was also killed by me, okay?" Do you want to see what gun you're holding? ”

"Freedom--this gun isn't high-end, but it's more than enough to hit a scavenger, right?"

Lucy turned her head and continued walking, asking as she went:

Are you short of money?"

"That's not true, the last money was paid for the rent and loans, and my mother's salary will be paid this month, and after removing the remaining loans and expenses, I should still be able to save some."

"I remember you didn't say you were looking for work during the day? How's it going? ”

Speaking of this, David's face turned red directly - he sent Lucy a message record of his own:

Foreman: The salary has arrived, remember to take a look.

David: Why is it only 50 euros? Didn't you say 200-1000 euros?

Foreman: Don't slander my innocence, take a good look at it.

David: Yes, it is written as "0.2~1K euros"?

David: .0.2 euros to 1000 euros?

Foreman: Right.

"Hahahahaha."

Lucy's silver bell-like laughter erupted, clutching her stomach and laughing.

David looked helpless: "I work 12 hours a day, and I don't have a minute to rest. Stupid talent! ”

Lucy laughed for a long time, and finally stopped leaning against the wall: "Ahem. Hahaha. Well, you're so stupidly cute. ”

To be honest, it made Lucy laugh all day, but she instinctively looked at her account balance:

Account balance: 30,982 euros.

Then she couldn't laugh - she had stolen skill chips in Night City for so many years, and if it weren't for Lille's big wave for them, she would only have a deposit of more than 10,000 euros at this time.

To go to the moon, the cheapest ticket costs 200,000 euros.

Seeing that Lucy was no longer smiling, David said a little melancholy: "And I always feel that my mother is very nervous."

Seriously, I actually quite like my life now, but. My mom has that look on her face every time she sees someone in the company, and I can see that she doesn't care what I'm going to do, but she's still there."

In this world, there are many extralegal fanatics and many perverts.

But there are also many ordinary people.

Ordinary people's perception of this world is: the company is very powerful, although the company's work is hard and fucked, but stable!

And people who have been in large companies have a lot of face when they go out.

After graduation, you can even go out to work, and it is the current situation of many people to take a full-time job skills certificate at home and sharpen their heads to go to the company.

That is, this is the freest city in the world, Night City, in Atlanta, Tokyo and other developed areas of Europe, only the most unselective street boys will become thieves and mercenaries.

The freedom of Night City may seem to some to be a false illusion, but in those major cities, pervasive surveillance, a suffocating force gap between corporations and ordinary people, makes this false illusion no longer exist.

Ironically, by 2077, it is precisely this deformed city that will continue to maintain rapid economic growth.

So, it's hard to say who is more naïve and who is more realistic, David or Gloria.

Lucy was the same - she was now wondering if her cringe, could she really make her dream of going to the moon come true?

In Night City, how can there be anyone who survives and dies without regrets?

So she instinctively lit a cigarette, and the two leaned against the glass wall of the aisle, watching the bustling crowd.

"Okay, then let's try something else."

David was stunned for a moment, but he didn't show a very happy expression, just smiled softly.

"Don't worry, there's no danger - even if there's danger, I'll get in front of you."

Lucy didn't speak, just smiled.

Then David's system suddenly went wrong, and both of them were stunned.

Lucy turns on analysis mode in an instant, and then she discovers that the problem comes from the channel and special software she used to communicate with Burger King last time.

The source of the data is almost impossible to trace back – and simply unstoppable.

From: Burger King.

Burger King: David, there's a job for you.

David suddenly became quite excited—Lucy was speechless for a while, and said that if there is danger, you will stand in the way, and I think you are the one who opened the door to danger!

"Don't get excited, ask him what he's going to do first!"

David nodded hurriedly, but the information in his head had already been sent.

David: You say!

(End of chapter)