How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

Chapter 25

25. customer

‘Purified Potato’ by Azdec, a food engineering company, is a new product that removes contaminants by washing wasteland potatoes with a special solution, and is up to 17% cheaper than potatoes from dome farms.

“Only 17%? Are you just washing it?”

“Most of the washing water is also contaminated. Even more, it is a wasteland plant where genetic mutations have occurred. Detoxification is not an easy task.”

The potatoes grown in the dome are yellow and round, but the potatoes from the wasteland are black, pointed, and have holes in them. It was a visual that I couldn’t eat even if I pretended. Although Max has already eaten five.

An Azdek company employee proudly explained that his tanned face was full of pimples.

“Our company’s technology is improving day by day. Sooner or later, we can lower the unit price by 23%.”

“Then why don’t we lower the price sufficiently before selling it?”

“Of course it will, but this distribution is a preliminary research and promotion. We plan to sell it at 1 credit per 150g.”

The average weight of a wasteland potato was around 300g, so it was 2 credits per piece. Even without turning on the brain chip calculator, I could tell that it was a deficit sale.

“That is definitely cheap. Do you sell them in Junk Town?”

“My main target is Junk Town restaurateurs. It covers a total of 44 restaurants from 11th Street to 15th Street.”

When Leonard and the potato entrepreneur talked excitedly about business, local fixer Noah Lucas yawned.

“You don’t need to know that, do you? Client, what are we specifically supposed to do?”

“Oops, you forgot something important. Today, at 15:00, join the convoy at Checkpoint No. 3 in Head Town, escort it to 13-1st Street in Junk Town, and keep the cargo until 19:00 the next day.”

Leonard checked the time and was dissatisfied.

“Then it’s a 28-hour request, right? If you count from now, it will be 30 hours.”

Noah Lucas left the brain chip and counted on his fingers.

“150 credits per hour isn’t bad, right? I feel like a business man.”

“Wait, is that 4,500 credits? I have 3,000 credits?”

“Ahem, that’s the career gap.”

In fact, it was the fault of Jake, the broker who was getting the request at a low price. It may not be Noah Lucas, but Leonard and Max, who intervened in someone else’s request. However, Noah, who was as begrudging as Yonsei, didn’t care much.

“Are you from A-022 City? Who was the fixer they hired? Wouldn’t the city be more dangerous than the wasteland?”

“I hired a fixer at the starting point, but they said it was difficult to work in the city center because I was a non-citizen.”

“Oh, you must be from the suburbs. I have quite a few friends like that.”

“It costs a few pennies in taxes.”

This gave me all the information I needed. No additional risk factors were significant. Junk Town itself is like a den of robbers. Leonard opened the driver’s seat of the pickup truck, which was not like new, but it was repaired so that it could be ridden.

“Things never went well in Head Town…”

“It will work out this time. Now, let’s go!”

Max and Noah climbed into the passenger seat and the luggage compartment, respectively. Leonard was at a loss for words for a moment at the natural ride.

“…why ride in someone else’s luggage compartment? Isn’t that your motorcycle?”

“Ah, we need to save on gas. I’ll be back here anyway.”

“How much is my gas? Getting a lot of pay really sucks…”

“I am clean! Washed in ten days! Little assistant, am I dirty?”

“no. It’s beautiful.”

The black-headed beast was not to be reaped. Max’s hair isn’t black, but it was. As a whale, the young could not beat the old and the young, so they just gave up.

“Everything that gets entangled with a company is like this. let’s go. go.”

Noah Lucas sat at the end of the luggage compartment, waving his legs and humming. It was a very old song, probably sung before Leonard and Max were born, maybe before the ground burned down. It didn’t fit the mood these days, but there was something strangely attracted to it.

“Some of the fixers were like that.”

Max looked at Noah Lucas with a hazy face. Leonard stuck the peeled lollipop into the pathetic assistant’s snout and pulled out a new one.

“You’ll change your mind when you see that old man fighting.”

For some reason, it seemed that such an opportunity would come soon.

Leonard leaned against the car door and looked at the horizon. As a company, the time commitment was accurate. As the number in the middle of the clock changed from 59 to 00, a thick cloud of dust rose on the other side of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was an armed convoy of Azdek Corporation.

“No, not armed. It’s just a convoy.”

There was only one trolley full of black grime and a jeep covered with a whistle. At least the jeep was a fixer vehicle hired by A-022 City. Compared to the armed convoy of Big Ground, which I met not long ago, it was shabby and laughable.

“Are you a company? Isn’t it the local supermarket?”

“Twenty years ago, it was pretty good…”

Since it was in the early stages of groundbreaking, it was at the level of a supermarket. Noah Lucas jumped out of the luggage compartment and came next to Leonard.

“A driver, a bodyguard, and the five of us to protect the cargo?”

When I put it on, Max said ‘Hee-hee-!’ laughed On the other hand, the request over there seems to have ended here. I stopped the car in front of the checkpoint and the truck driver and the jeep solver talked about something. It was far away and I couldn’t hear it well. If you hacked either of them, you could eavesdrop, but you didn’t. Even with a one-day request, first impressions were important. After a while, the truck departed. The jeep made a U-turn without crossing the checkpoint.

“Looks like it’s our turn now.”

Noah Lucas smirked. With 4,500 credits, Leonard was confident to laugh. An Azdex company employee opened the window and asked.

“Are you Mr. Walker and Mr. Lucas, hired by the City branch of A-044?”

I didn’t have to answer. The fixer greeted with open arms.

“Welcome to A-044 ‘Sodom’ City.”

Leonard’s pickup truck led the way, followed by an Azdek lorry. There was no big scavenger to shoot on the city roads where corporate vehicles went, so it was more like a guide than an escort.

“What about gangsters?”