Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 92 Darkness (Thanks to Operations Officer Keli Sauce)
late at night.

A small car was galloping on the streets of Night City, carrying three people, heading north to Watson District.

Sitting in the driver's seat was Jack, a big street boy from Heywood, holding the steering wheel with one hand, humming the radio tune "Body Temperature" in his mouth.

Sitting in the co-pilot's seat was Tang Yu, a high-level executive from Arasaka Company. He leaned against the car window, with the breeze blowing across his forehead, giving him a slight chill.

Sitting in the back seat of the car was Gloria, the middleman who had just debuted. She came to the Maelstrom Gang site in the middle of the night to go to the Dance of Death club. It was the first time in her life that such an exciting thing happened.

But with Tang Yu, Gloria didn't feel very scared, but a little happy, at least it showed that Tang Yu didn't regard her as a burden.

Jack heard the strange song played on the radio, and complained helplessly.

"Is it because I'm getting older and I can't understand the current pop music more and more?"

It's okay for Tang Yu. For him, what he listens to is often not songs.

"Why, you are still playing deep, maybe you are still a hardcore fan of Samurai band."

Jack smiled: "Hey, although I don't listen to the old songs of Samurai Band very much, it doesn't stop me from being a fan of Johnny Silver Hands."

Tang Yu joked with a smile: "You don't know what kind of waste Johnny is. If you really see him one day, you may be hanged by his stinky mouth."

Jack smiled: "It's okay, even if I was hanged by Johnny's silver hand in my dream, I would be willing. Who wouldn't order a cup of Johnny's silver hand in the next life?"

Tang Yu agreed: "That's true."

Jack changed the subject and asked about Gloria in the back row.

"Sister, thank you for Riley Hein."

When we first met, Tang Yu had already introduced Gloria to Jack, and explained that she was responsible for investigating Riley Hein.

Gloria responded, "You're welcome, it's all the way it should be."

Jack praised again: "I have to say, brother, you have a good vision. You have found such a potential middleman. The friends you know are definitely right."

Tang Yu said with a smile: "You are turning a corner to praise yourself."

Gloria couldn't help smiling when she heard the two joking.

She saw that Tang Yu and Jack chatted very harmoniously. Compared with the previous impression of Tang Yu, it was completely different.

When I first met Tang Yu, I always gave people a kind of extravagance that rejected people for thousands of miles.

As long as he stands there, he can feel his uniqueness, and the temperament of a superior is fully revealed.

But now Tang Yu looks so easy-going and free and easy, maybe this is Tang Yu's attitude when he treats his friends.

"Sister, why are you in a daze? Don't worry, going to the Death's Dance Club tonight is to see the world."

"That place is really fucked up. Although it's my first time going there, the natives of Heywood are not short of courage."

Gloria's silent thoughts were interrupted by Jack's sudden words, and she explained in a panic: "No, I didn't think about anything."

Seeing that Gloria was a little embarrassed, Tang Yu uttered a voice to help her out.

"Almost there, Jack, get ready to pull over."

It is located at the intersection of Pershing Street, surrounded by a large number of abandoned factories.

With the decline of industry and serious population loss, the supporting hotel buildings have also been abandoned.

The Death's Dance Club is hidden behind a hotel not far away, which is connected to an abandoned factory, which was transformed into a nightclub bar by the Vortex Gang.

The Dance of Death Club is one of the most important strongholds of the Maelstrom Gang. It generates a lot of income every night, and at the same time widely sells their special 'paralysis', which can be eaten with Black Chaomeng to experience leverage.

The streets are deserted, with rubbish piled at the corners, dim lights illuminating the streets and alleys, almost no pedestrians can be seen, and occasionally a few armored vehicles pass by.

After Jack pulled over, the three of them got out of the car together and walked to the deserted building.

There is a signboard on the top of the main entrance of the hotel, and the huge HOTEL is lit with blue lights.

The surrounding walls are covered with graffiti, and the scarlet skeleton spider pattern can be seen everywhere, indicating that it has entered the sphere of influence of the Maelstrom Gang.

Tang Yu has an impression of this place, and the group of gangsters from the whirlpool gang usually gather here when they have nothing to do.

The three of them walked towards an entrance on the ground floor of the building, passed through the hall, and went up to the second floor from the iron stairs.

When passing by, members of the Maelstrom Gang in twos and threes cast strange glances at them, but then immersed themselves in the smoky world and continued to enjoy it.

The three of them came to the entrance of the elevator on the second floor, and there were guards from the whirlpool gang. The iconic facial prosthetic transformation made the guards look a little scary.

There were a lot of people coming to the Dance of Death club at this point, so the guard didn't stop him, and stepped aside on his own initiative, speaking with a strange mechanical accent.

"Heh, the original body, before I came to the whirlpool gang, I was cleaner than you."

The three of them ignored the guard's broken words, walked into the elevator, pressed down on the third floor, and went straight to the Dance of Death club.

Gloria looked around curiously, feeling dizzy.

The scarlet dazzling light, the deafening subwoofer, the bloody graffiti, and the crowd shaking their heads.

With the addition of cybernetic zombie-like whirlpool gang members, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a hellish shop.

In front of the iron gate of the club, four Maelstrom gang members were squatting and smoking big cigarettes. Among them, the one leaning against the gate was the 'old friend' Dumdum.

Dum Dum recognized Tang Yu and Jack almost at a glance.

That night, Tang Yu shot Royce directly, and the cruel methods are vividly remembered.

He straightened up and asked coldly.

"It's you? What, why are you here? Don't you think the incident last time wasn't big enough?"

Jack stepped forward and said, "It turned out to be you, kid. We came to find Brick. Do you remember Royce's favor? It's time to repay it."

Dumdum: "Do you still dare to bring up this matter and want to get shot in the head? But you did help me, come with me, Brick may have wanted to see you a long time ago."

Dumdum did not embarrass the three of them, and the iron gate behind him slid open automatically, and the three of them followed him into the Dance of Death club and came to a high platform, from which they could just overlook the entire dance floor and DJ booth.

Brick was sitting on the sofa with his head up, enjoying a special cigarette, and the table in front of him was piled with wine bottles, tin foil and guns.

Dum Dum took the initiative to step forward and said in advance.

"Brick, there is a new guest, the one who killed Royce as I told you last time."

Only then did Brick turn his head, and the red electronic prosthetic eye on his forehead looked at the three of them.

After a while, he spoke.

"No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like someone who can kill Royce. Sit down. I have seen a lot of people in the company. I haven't had a chance to settle the debt."

Tang Yu knew that he was referring to the transaction that night. A dozen people from the Maelstrom Gang died in the abandoned steel factory.

Dumdum asked his men to bring a rough leather sofa and put it opposite Brick.

Tang Yu sat up straight, and Jack and Gloria stood behind him.

"Brick, you have to calculate this account carefully, otherwise you don't know how much you owe me."

Brick threw the cigarette pot in his hand on the table casually, stared at the four scarlet electrons, and said coldly.

"Why, you group of company dogs killed more than a dozen of my brothers on horseback, and even Royce was shot in the head by you. From the beginning, you have no kindness, and you said that I owe you favors?"

After finishing speaking, the surrounding whirlpool gang members gradually gathered up, staring at the three of them with unfriendly expressions.

Tang Yu looked at Brick indifferently, and said with a smile: "You are pretending to be confused. Who doesn't know that Royce has long wanted to replace you. Do you think you can still sit here and enjoy it? Use your mechanical brain."

Brick didn't speak, and the two looked at each other for a moment.

Suddenly, Brick laughed coldly, and then laughed louder and louder.

"Haha, hahaha."

"You are really smart, you deserve to come from the company."

"Let's be honest, that transaction was asked for by Royce himself, and he didn't tell me at all. He can only say that he deserves it."

"I don't need to pursue this matter, now you can talk about what you want to come here."

Tang Yu said frankly: "Didn't I just say it, come to settle accounts with you."

Brick dismissed this, and leaned back on the sofa and twisted his neck: "Accounts can never be settled, today is this company, tomorrow is that company, who knows how they got mixed up, you kill me, I kill You, huh, don't have a good thing."

Tang Yu denied: "You can't say that, if you really want to spread it out, the culprit who killed your brothers in the whirlpool gang that day should be counted on military technology. It was a trap set by them from the beginning, etc. You are just cannon fodder to lure people from Arasaka."

"Besides, you guys are still working on military technology recently. Do you remember Riley Hein? Valentino's kid was kidnapped by you a while ago, and he's clamoring for revenge now."

After Brick finished listening, he looked up at Jack.

Jack folded his arms around his chest, with a ball head, a big gold chain around his neck, and a denim jacket with tattoos. At first glance, he looked like a street kid from Heywood, with a Valentino flavor.

Brick said disdainfully: "So you came here to collect debts for that kid? If so, don't blame me for turning my face and denying others."

Jack snorted coldly: "Who are you scaring? If you came to collect debts, your club would have been reduced to hell. If you don't want to see God so early, I advise you to be more sensible. Valentino is not a soft persimmon."

Brick said coldly: "Who told that kid to wander around on my territory, there are so many subordinates, whoever is kidnapped is the one, and he can only be blamed for being unlucky, you know?"

Tang Yu said frankly: "Brick, there is an injustice and a debtor. We don't need to pursue this matter, but you have to let the military technology bleed. Find out what you are doing for the military technology."

Brick stared at Tang Yu suspiciously, and said in a deep voice: "I want to know about military technology so much, are you working for the Arasaka Company?"

Tang Yu didn't deny it, silently acquiescing.

Brick smiled: "Let's just say it, the company dog ​​bites the dog. It's not impossible to give this information to you, but there are a lot of things involved in it. I'm worried. If I tell you tonight, you may be gone tomorrow night." ,hey-hey"

Tang Yu smiled lightly: "Really? Then I'm more interested. It's too small for me to bother to know."

Brick laughed loudly again: "I just like your madness, well, about Riley Hein, to tell you the truth, he is just a bad luck."

"I don't want to work for these company dogs, but you know, they give too much."

"Military science and technology requires fresh human bodies. To carry out new prosthetic body experiments, the key is to be young and middle-aged, so I have to arrange for someone to catch him."

"I happened to meet Valentino's gang kid who was wandering on the road, so I was arrested for prosthetic body experiments."

Hearing this, Jack's eyes were already burning with anger, wishing to overturn the table and kill this group of scumbags, but he also understood that the real mastermind was still the company, and the Maelstrom Gang was just a group of tool people.

Even if it wasn't Riley Hine, there would be another victim, and it was an endless loop.

Since Tang Yu still had business to discuss, Jack could only suppress his anger and continue to listen to Brick's story.

On the other side, Gloria remained silent from beginning to end, listening carefully to the ins and outs of this matter.

Military technology, Arasaka, human experimentation, Uzumaki gang, etc., these words are all familiar to her, but this is the first time she has such in-depth contact.

This muddy water was much deeper than she had imagined. To a certain extent, she had truly seen how dark the dark side of Night City really is.

Gloria glanced at Tang Yu, knowing that this conversation meant officially getting involved in the high-level game of the company's gang.

She stabilized her mind and continued to listen to the conversation between the two.

Brick: "The reason why military technology came to us so urgently is because they have a deal with NCPD. I don't know exactly what the project is. It's not a new combat implant or the like."

"Besides, I'll send you another piece of information."

"It's not just military technology that finds us to work. Even the Arasaka R&D Department also approached me. Hehe, the methods are no worse than theirs."

"Riley Hein can be regarded as making the best use of everything. The body was bought for military technology for new prosthetic experiments, the organs were bought for biotechnology for drug experiments, and even the brain was bought for Ye's company for brain flower experiments."

"This is all I can say. As for more details, I have nothing to say. In short, you know the company's twists and turns better than I do, don't you?"

After Brick finished speaking, he picked up a new bottle of cigarette cans, started smoking vigorously, and asked Tang Yu if he wanted to try it too.

Tang Yu refused, and he was analyzing and judging the rich information hidden in Brick's words.

All major companies in Night City have privately cooperated with the Maelstrom Gang to carry out some shady activities, these are nothing new.

What really caught Tang Yu's attention was that Military Technology recently had a deal with NCPD involving combat implants, so he asked the Whirlpool to arrest people for experiments urgently.

This line can continue to be dug down.

As for the actions of biotechnology and Ye's company, Tang Yu can only keep a conservative understanding for the time being, and it is not time to intervene in these secrets.

Speaking of which, Tang Yu basically got all the information he wanted.

Since it involves military technology and NCPD, as well as related investigations such as cyber lunatics, Tang Yu has a suitable candidate in his mind.

Tang Yu got up from the sofa and said directly.

"Brick, your information is of good value."

Brick laughed and said, "It's better to leave."

Dumdum, who was on the side, saw the three leaving, and approached Brick and asked, "Just let the three of them go?"

Brick snorted coldly: "Let this group of companies eat dogs, I just use money to work, and I am not responsible for giving them the blame!"

"Isn't there a batch of military technology coming in from outside the city, I heard that there is a newly developed high-tech gadget called Xiaopingtou."

"Let the brothers prepare in advance, find an opportunity to hit them hard, and let the company dogs also improve their memory."

The three of Tang Yu walked out of the Dance of Death club and returned to Qingleng Street.

Seeing a vehicle parked not far away, Jack yelled, "This group of blind people actually painted graffiti on our car, drawing a skeleton spider!"

Seeing this, Tang Yu sprayed a large spider pattern on the side of the car, and smiled: "It's already a face for not burning the car, let alone, this spider graffiti is quite similar, and it will be much safer to drive in Watson in the future. "

The three of them talked and laughed, got into the car, and galloped all the way to the south of Night City.

In the co-pilot's seat, Tang Yu looked at the late sky and didn't plan to run at night anymore.

After the scavenger revenge incident that night, the night run had to stop for at least a while.

He said to Jack, "Take Gloria home first."

Jack pressed the radio switch, adjusted to the body temperature radio 98.7, and the car stereo began to play music.

"No problem, we will send the middle lady home safely."

Before Gloria could explain, the music drowned out her voice.

There were not many street vehicles in the middle of the night, and we arrived at the super skyscraper H4 in the Santo Domingo Valley area smoothly.

After thanking Gloria, she got up and got out of the car.

Watching Jack carry Tang Yu, the car continued to drive towards the street.

After the vehicle disappeared from view, Gloria turned and walked upstairs, her mind was full of the content of today's conversation.

Military Technology and the Maelstrom Gang secretly cooperated in human experiments, and captured Riley Hine, a member of the Valentino Gang.

Later, Biotechnology and Ye's Company also got involved, and even the Arasaka Company had similar methods.

She felt distraught.

In the past, I only thought that the company was superior, and when I joined the company, I could stand up and join the group of successful people.

It now appears that the company's so-called success is all based on countless sins.

Rao had worked in a public medical center before, and had known many companies' cruel and cruel deeds, but it was the first time that she had been exposed so directly in front of her eyes.

"Is this the company?"

"Then Mr. Tang."

Gloria didn't dare to think about it, and didn't want to think about it.

If one day she really knew what she shouldn't know, she would be in an even more embarrassing situation.

Gloria seemed to lose her soul, opened the door and entered the house, took off her shoes and collapsed on the sofa in the living room.

Staring blankly at the ceiling.

suddenly.

She received a message, and the aperture of the prosthetic eye rotated, and she checked it quickly.

It's from Tang Yu.

The main content is a business card with contacts and contact details.

"Regina Jones?"

"News 54 reporter?" (Note 1)

Additional message: "The transaction between military technology and NCPD, as well as related human experiments, you continue to investigate, try to contact Regina Jones, maybe there will be unexpected gains."

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Note 1: At this time, Regina Jones has not resigned from News54.

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　　It’s really super invincible, thanks to the handsome Yanzu for their support, today’s explosive update is here, and I will strive to continue tomorrow, and my eyes are wasted after a day of coding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)