Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

"Ha, thanks, Jack."

Rocky smiled helplessly.

He didn't worry about himself.

"No, I haven't encountered anything, and I don't have any problems. I just want to know your thoughts." Luo Qi paused and reconsidered his words, "About this...retirement."

"Do you really want to talk about this?"

Jack touched his forehead, "You make me feel like an old cadre."

He thought for a while, looking at the sea water rushing under the bridge in front of him: "To be honest, I planned to rely on relic once and for all. From now on, I will wash my hands in a golden basin, fuck the mercenaries and middlemen, and let's live a happy life go."

"But you also know that sometimes, life will not always be smooth sailing." Jack looked at it very openly, "but now, there are a lot of commissions waiting for us to do, and they are all white money. .When were we ever this rich?"

"That's true. Now it's our job."

Luo Qi thought back to the time when they first came to Night City.

The three rookies, and the dream city full of countless temptations and opportunities, really make people miss it, but not miss it.

But fortunately, looking forward, Night City is still the same Night City, there are always fights.

"There is money to earn, life to spend, didn't we want this at the beginning?"

Hearing Jack's voice, Luo Qi's eyes were a little dazed.

I don't know when, the world that has completely deviated from the original plot has made him feel more and more insecure.

To be honest, he was not worried about his own safety at all, but the situation of that night in the Cyan Bi Mansion often appeared in his dreams.

Today there is the Ganbi Building, and tomorrow there will be the Chiyan Building.

But he knew that danger would never stop them.

Because danger always coexists with opportunity.

Compared with those people at the bottom who are at a loss and can't find a way out, they at least have a chance to fight for the future for themselves, even if they have to risk saying goodbye to the world at any time.

Speaking of lofty dreams, the goal of the three of them is to become a legend in Night City - who doesn't love to become famous and then return home?

If you want to say a little wish.

Jack wanted to open a shop next to Misty's tantric hall, specializing in motorcycles. V wants to be an unrestrained, free wanderer, where people go wherever their hearts go.

As for Luo Qi, he was afraid that others would laugh at him if he said it—it would be nice to be a happy salted fish without doing anything all day long.

The best is an lsp salted fish, double the happiness.

However, whether it is a dream or a wish, Luo Qi doesn't really matter.

It's good to have it, and it's OK to not have it.

"It's a bit early to talk about retirement at the age of 20." Luo Qi touched his chin, "He Gezi is also an old man born in the 90s, and he hasn't retired yet."

However, this is just an appearance, and it looks quite positive.

To say what really made him choose to continue to struggle...

Of course it's because of poverty.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be fun to go home and hold a girl?

Chapter 72 Nice to meet you, kid

"Nice to meet you, Lucky."

The old man raised his glass, took a small sip, and then drank it down.

The small cup, which was less than one tael, felt as if he drank it full of draft beer.

His Mediterranean, under the light of the bar, reflects the light of chaos.

Sebastian Ibarra, an ordinary pastor in Heywood, walked on the street with an ordinary appearance that would get lost in the crowd at any time.

He is not young anymore, the last half circle of hair that is still struggling to fade on the nape of the neck and the roots of the ears, and the modified nails exposed among the scattered age spots are his last stubbornness.

The mercenaries generally called him the priest.

That's why a bunch of Valentino gang bosses in the booth next door have to smile here and there—no one dares to mess with this ordinary-looking old man in Heywood, just like no one Dare to touch a tiger's butt.

"Me too, long time no see, Father."

Luo Qi picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

Originally, he, Jack, and V were chatting over a little wine in this bar, and Luo Qi was gurgling with a straw, bored to the point of bubbling.

Just when they were going to find something to do somewhere, or to seek some bad luck from some blind bastard, this slow, silent old man stood at their table.

At first glance, Luo Qi really thought he was a priest preaching, but after a closer look—oh my god, isn't this a priest! ?

As a matter of course, he was warmly invited to sit down.

"It's thanks to the priest that I now have so many good commissions to choose from." Jack raised his eyebrows, winking at Luo Qi and V, like a kid showing off his big baby.

"That's because you are capable, my child."

The priest said calmly, without any change because of Jack's flattery.

"Hey, that's not it."

Because of the priest's praise, Jack admitted that he was very embarrassed, "Lucky, V, Heywood has a lot of new work recently, and he is too busy, do you want to help?"

"New job? What kind of job?"

V poured himself a glass, poured half a glass for Lucky, and asked.

Heywood is the territory of the Valentino gang. Compared with other gangs, the Valentino gang is more united and values ​​friendship. Only a capable and famous intermediary like the priest can gain a firm foothold.

This place has always been their own enclosure, even if it is work, it is digested internally, and not many mercenaries from outside will take over.

Unless...really a lot.

"It's got everything, it's the same old thing."

Jack snapped his fingers and said, "Vengeance, murder, smuggling, drug trafficking, and human trafficking."

It's a cliché, not just a Heywood cliché, but a Night City cliché.

As long as you are willing, you can receive any commission without a lower limit.

For example, it is as small as attacking a convoy to cheat insurance, or as big as helping a company kill people and hide corpses.For a rich man, he sent his tired [-] mistress and her lover into the sea with a car, stole illegal blackmail videos from illegal surveillance videos in some illegal places, and stopped by on the way back. A fire turns a competitor's warehouse into a bonfire...

Sometimes, Luo Qi even feels that he is not in the night city of cyberpunk, but Los Santos of Grand Theft Auto.

Of course, he often took on the job of murder and arson, but he never did the outrageous entrustment.

Anyway, you have to choose, at least choose a job that you can sleep with your conscience at night, right?

Helping the company dog ​​bite the dog, helping the gangster dog eat the dog, and get money, it is really happy to hear it.

Luo Qi, V, and Jack can become brothers, at least in terms of right and wrong, the three views are basically the same.

So much so that later on, some ordinary people who knew them, after they slaughtered the guys who bullied their subordinates or hired workers all day long, would greet them with a forced smile while sweating——

Uncle, come again next time.

That's the way it is said, but there are always people doing the work.

Inevitably, they will always know some colleagues with dirty hands.

Some have been seen in bars, nightclubs or even on the street before, and the next time, his body will lie in front of Luo Qi, and the knife in Luo Qi's hand is still dripping blood.

In Emmerich's words - sooner or later, the mercenaries in Night City will have to carefully weigh whether to complete the commission or save their lives because Luo Qi is facing them.

This is one of the few times that Luo Qi has intuitively felt what it means to "play his own brand".

"How is it? You did a good job at Rogge's place?"

It is a taboo in Taoism to talk about another middleman in front of one middleman.

Whatever the reason, it's best to keep your mouth shut unless you have to.

But if the person who initiated the topic is an intermediary, the situation will become delicate.

The priest looked at Luo Qi and asked calmly.

When the three of them used to do some low-end work, it was always Watson District and Haywood going back and forth.

The stolen goods from Watson District were found and sold in Heywood, and the goods from Heywood were smuggled to the black market in Watson District to sell, all through the way of the priest.

Although the trip to the Cyan Bi Mansion was not a huge success, it also earned them a reputation as a lifeless and ruthless character.

But a series of unlucky things have made them return to the entrusted business until now.

It's just that Luo Qi followed Rogge to do things more, V was busy dealing with the troubles outside and inside the city with Adecardo, and only Jack returned to Heywood wholeheartedly.

Parting ways, parting ways?

Not really.

In Luo Qi's view, it's more like mercenaries are starting to run around and expand channels for the entrusted market of their choice.

I haven't seen any big jobs, even the T-Bugs who stay in the house and disconnect the line will go all the way, and a group of people will come to the door in a hurry to have a mess, which is quite a shadow of a mercenary squad.

"Rogge? It's okay. There's a lot of work, but you also know that in the afterlife, the most indispensable thing is mercenaries." Luo Qi didn't know what the priest wanted to ask, so he made a few ambiguous questions.

He knew that if the priest had any idea about Rogge, it would definitely not be like this.

"That's good." The priest's expression made it clear that it was not a simple greeting, but a glance at Jack, signaling him to introduce the situation.

"Um, shall I?"

Jack pointed to himself, then nodded at the priest, then turned the big eyeballs on the big head, and carefully checked the surrounding environment.

"It's true that there's been a lot of work recently, but some are too much."

What do you mean?

Luo Qi and V looked at each other, and found that the other party didn't understand what it meant, so they turned their eyes to Jack together.

"This is Heywood, the site of the Valentino gang, but recently there have been many commissions from other districts. At first it was smuggling, and then it was sales. More and more brothers found that there were a lot of outsiders around. stranger."

Jack said mysteriously.

"So, who are these people?"

Luo Qi didn't feel that his suspicion, or the priest's suspicion, was a kind of unfounded nervousness.

For so many years, Heywood's population composition and composition have been relatively stable. I dare not say that everyone knows the bottom line, but such abnormal changes, although not large-scale, are enough to attract attention.

The last change was the outflow of population from the city center caused by a certain riot in Night City.

"According to what I heard, some of them came from outside the city," the priest added.

"Outside the city? It can't be the bad luck that Dakota came to look for you, right?"

V frowned and asked.

Dakota Smith, the middleman of the bad land in the east of the city, is considered to be the one with the widest business scope in the few man-made facilities outside the city of Night City.

People from the Pomo tribe in Northern California are now middlemen.

It seems that after the unification war from 2069 to 2070, she started to work alone, but many of the people who worked for her were family members or friends when they were homeless.

For the homeless, the family is not only a family, but also a society.

If the system is family, then it would be very difficult for Arasaka Yoshinobu to escape.If Adekado is a family member, it would be difficult for Panan to have nothing to do with himself.If the Valentino gang were family members, it would be difficult for Jack to completely forget the people and things in the land where he grew up.

In the same way, it is difficult to say that there is no communication between middlemen.

"It's not her, that old vulture. She never stabs people in the back." There was a meaningful smile on the priest's face. of strange powers, "was the Wanderer."

"Wanderers? When are they planning to get off their horses? Come to a ghost place like Night City to make a living?" Luo Qi asked incomprehensibly, "Anyway, it can't be Adekado, there is only one of them In Night City, still under Rogge."

"It's the Chaotic Knife Club."

The priest didn't keep a secret, and directly revealed the answer to the mystery.

"I'm not surprised at all."

V sighed and drank the wine in the glass.

These people, you can't think of them as vagabonds at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are gangsters in the bad land, and they are even a little conservative.