The Mackinac is parked on the side of the road, and unlike the legendary Mackinaw, this is a regular enhanced version of the Mackinaw.

The appearance is unremarkable, at most the shell is a little harder, and the seat is a little softer.

Lille sat in the driver's seat and slammed the door shut.

"Get in the car, you don't want to be seen by passers-by, do you?"

The co-pilot's door was opened, and it was none other than Bryce, the cyber monitoring liaison of the Burger King squad.

The electronic rearview mirror of the vehicle had already spotted the agent in the "sentry" mode of the little octopus, and he had been waiting for it for some time.

The Cyber Surveillance agent looked a lot more haggard than ever, and it was clear that the changes in Night City in recent days had added a lot of work to their workload, especially yesterday's blackout.

Santo Domingo is a poor area, but there are also functioning industrial areas, and the economic damage caused by such a large-scale EMP is simply immeasurable.

Those small companies and small factories are nothing in themselves, but together they are important customers who provide profits to the parent company.

And that superior company happens to be the head snake of Night City, the Night Clan.

Bryce pinched his eyebrows and leaned back on Mackinault's backrest, his eyes closed as if to relax.

Lille glanced at it, and could see that there were many more obvious pinholes in his hands—

It is important to know that high-end pneumatic syringes use air pressure injection, and the liquid will be pressed into the skin under high pressure and penetrate into the capillaries, which is essentially a non-porous injection.

Bryce, as an agent of network surveillance, will never use inferior equipment, although he has been bleeding heavily in order to hire Lille before.

But even so, there were holes in his hands due to repeated injections, and you can imagine how often he injected himself with drugs during this time.

Lille commented: "How do you feel that you, the company dog, are more desperate than us mercenaries." ”

Bryce didn't answer the question, but complimented the car.

"The seats are good, wide and comfortable."

"Mackinaw's premium business chairs, which are not available to ordinary people."

No one would put such a low-cost product on a large pickup truck with a focus on leather durability.

"I said, it's just for celebrities." Bryce sighed, took out a small box of special chewing gum from his pocket, and got to the point as he chewed:

"I'd like to see those mercenaries, how many are still alive?"

"Three."

"You're so ruthless." Bryce sighed, "Now the insurance company is laughing." ”

"Can they still buy insurance?" Lille was surprised, what company dared to sell insurance to mercenaries?

In the case of insurance, actuarial science is a cumbersome process, because the insurance company must ensure that the expected cost of the insured item is less than the insurance cost.

However, risk is a difficult item to estimate accurately, so insurance companies favor those who have a stable life to buy, and avoid people and situations who are already facing extremely high risk.

It can be said that the high-risk insurance project is gambling, the gambling of the insured and the insurance company.

Bryce shrugged: "Well, you know that in Europe, the competition between companies is fierce, and there are many ways to deceive insurance companies.

But when I matched their information, it didn't make sense to buy any insurance.

If you have the opportunity in the future, you will also come into contact with another kind of insurance, which is for top celebrities lone wolves, basically betting on how long they will live. ”

Lille bowed slightly: "Credit default swaps? ”

Bryce looked surprised: "You know quite a lot, but I'm not here to discuss this with you this time, I want to dig something out of their heads."

I knew you wanted to ask, so I'll be blunt: this is the request of the City of Night and the Night Clan.

The power of cyber surveillance in North America is recognized, and the rights and obligations are relative, and now we are required to fulfill our obligations.

Alas, the most fucking job is this kind of work, and the Night Company didn't give us any logs, saying it was a company secret.

But they demanded that we find the culprit, and that it must be as soon as possible, or they will demand compensation from the City of Night according to the law, and the money will be deducted from us. ”

And the law?

Lille asked: "Wait a minute, isn't the enforcement power of cyber surveillance in North America tacitly approved?" How can there be a law to follow? ”

"Look, that's where you misunderstand online surveillance." Bryce explained, "Acquiescence was a long time ago, and we all act in accordance with the law online, especially in Night City.

Mayor Lane has given us a lot of power and support, but we are also somewhat responsible for the losses caused by cybercrime in other companies. ”

After the collapse of the old network of network monitoring, the company's attributes are infinitely weakened compared to other enterprises, making people forget that it is essentially a network security company.

To this day, most Night City people have no idea what the hell this company is doing.

Of course, most of the time, the laws and regulations are just the company's night pot, and they only take it out when they want to use it, and there are many outrageous regulations in it.

But in general, reading the legal regulations is very helpful to understand some of the company's behavior.

Now, for example, from Bryce's words, Lille can understand that the cyber surveillance department in Night City is indeed responsible for a large part of Ryan's responsibility.

The city of Night is not as rumored to be, and it has no ability at all under the oppression of the company.

The law enforcement power of cyber surveillance is approved by Lane, so although it seems that cyber surveillance is responsible to other companies, it is actually helping Lane maintain his position.

In general, Lane has indeed tied online surveillance to his side through political and economic means.

Lille thought for a moment and said, "So this job was actually done by Ryan, does he know that you came to me?" ”

Bryce didn't speak, but looked ahead.

An extended Alvarado from Villefort drives through the intersection.

"See the car? It looks ordinary, but the bulletproof parts are all Arasaka's top-of-the-line single-molecule armor, and the tires are battlefield-level flat-proof tires and chassis made of military technology.

You just need to know that it's also awesome, the cost and running cost are dozens of times more expensive than the Mackinac you are driving now, and there is no market.

There's only one in the entire Night City. ”

Lille didn't refute, because he probably knew who was in the car.

Current Mayor Lucius Lane.

The "Heroic Mayor" who led Night City through the Unification War is also the "company lackey" who brought Arasaka back to Night City.

The car looks unremarkable, the cost is estimated to be more expensive than the "legendary" Mackinought, and the safety level is even much higher.

Bryce watched the car go away, obviously relieved, because his colleagues were in charge of the rest of the matter.

"It's a lot of nervousness for the whole department when someone like this goes out - but congratulations, the big guy is interested in you."

Lille started the car and did not comment on this statement.

"I can meet your request, but are you ready to be paid?"

"Of course." Bryce put his hand on the window, "You're lucky with shit, this time the reward is definitely worth it." ”

Lille didn't take this argument seriously.

It's certainly an ugly corporate style: everything you are given ends up doing for them, and the pay is no exception.

(End of chapter)