Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

Meanwhile, in the other corner.

"Awesome, Vito! Keep playing like that!"

Fred is now like a player who has mastered the version's answer, facing an ancient, bottom-tier hero without any skill required.

What numbers? All I see is talent and hard work.

Ding!

The bell rang to start the second round.

Jack changed his strategy this time, using the butterfly step to move around constantly and occasionally thrusting forward with a punch.

Vito suddenly stood still, which confused Jack. He wanted to drag Vito into the fray, but Vito remained motionless.

Jack stepped forward and unleashed a combination of punches—a straight punch followed by a backflip and a hook—but Vito stood still and dodged them all by shaking his head.

Jack was getting impatient. He only had Vito's face in his eyes, and he just wanted to hit that face, even if only once.

"Jack, don't fall for it!"

Old Wei shouted a warning to Jack from below the ring, but it was too late.

Vito suddenly crouched down and landed a left hook on Jack's unsuspecting abdomen. Jack swayed, and then Vito followed up with a right uppercut, which went through Jack's uncontrollable hand and hit Jack's chin.

Boom!

Jack fell to the ground in the ring, and the referee began counting.

Eight! Nine! Ten!

The referee crossed his arms to signal the end of the match.

The crowd erupted in noise. They thought that Jack was a size bigger than Vito, and that the fight should have been evenly matched, if not one-sided. How could it have ended in less than two rounds?

Old Wei shook his head with a wry smile, then went up on stage to check on Jack's condition.

I'm not afraid of opponents who are strong; I'm afraid of opponents who are not only strong but also outmaneuver me strategically.

Jack shook his head, slowly got up, and Vito took off his gloves and went over to help him.

"Damn, Mano, your hands are like cannonballs!"

Fred's face lit up with a smile.

"Everyone's watching you, Vito. They can feel your hunger, they know you'll be the champion!"

Vito helped Jack up and said.

"Take it easy, let's relax these next few days. If you put all your money on my head, maybe we can buy a new motorcycle. I heard there's a retro collector's edition on the market called Seitaro. We can't miss it."

Jack paused for a few minutes, then quickly accepted his loss to Vito, after all, he could tell that Vito was an expert in combat.

"If Vito, you can perform like this every game, I'll have extra money to renovate the Wolves!"

Chapter 39 Dog piss house

As the fight day approached, the people at the Devil Boxing Club were making tense preparations for Vito, but Vito himself didn't care at all. He ate and drank as usual, and occasionally took on a couple of gigs to earn some extra money.

What? What do you mean by "cheating makes a difference"? It's all about talent and hard work. I, Vito, didn't cheat!

During this time, Vito's prosthetic body was undergoing a series of changes, and people from the Dovalentino gang came to Vito's training facility to check on him and, incidentally, to sound out his opinion.

These short mules weren't rich by nature, but they knew how capable Vito was and wanted to gamble on him to make some extra money.

Johnny said this after seeing Street V's past in the original work.

"You've just mustered up the courage to go out and make a living a few blocks away."

This statement is sharp but true. The Valentino gang has a large territory with more than 6,000 members. Many of them just need a gang to protect them as they grow up. Apart from the frequent shootings, their lives are no different from those of ordinary people.

"Thank you, Gloria, I feel much better!"

After the Valentino gang members thanked Gloria for her treatment, they came to Vito, who was still sitting on the deck chair by the door, drinking an ice-cold beer and reading a book.

"Hey, Vito, can you be honest with the brothers? How confident are you really?"

Vito didn't even lift his eyelids as he spoke.

"If the other side doesn't use any mantis knife or monomolecular lines, then I'm 99% sure."

Valentino hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said.

"Damn, that's all I need to hear! I'll get the guys together and back you up! If the Animal Gang or any other lousy gang tries anything underhanded, I'll take them down with the guys!"

Vito nodded slightly.

"Don't worry, I've looked at the list of participants from each district. There aren't any legendary figures. Unless the Animal Gang can bring in Adam Hammer, no one can make you lose money."

The Valentino members walked away while making a phone call, while Vito continued drinking his beer.

Beep~ Beep~ Beep~

The Night City general-purpose phone rang.

It was a call from the team's new hacker, T-bug. After Qiwei returned to the team, Vito and Jack did a few more jobs, not big or small, but they had to work out with T-bug for a while.

T-bug wasn't some half-baked roadside operative; she was cautious and precise. If it weren't for Dexter's affair dragging her into it, she wouldn't have joined Vito's team.

"Is there a bug, or are you finally thinking of meeting your teammates offline?"

Vito's voice was lazy.

"No, let's talk about meeting later, Vito. I found a job, let me tell you about it."

T-bug's voice was calm, but Vito detected something unusual in it.

"I'm not trying to be mean, but even though you're the third-in-command and technical director of the doctor-patient relationship mediation group, you can't just accept a job first and then notify us. So, what kind of job is it?"

T-bug was a bit helpless. Vito was usually unserious, and Jack was a big mouthpiece, but when these two got to work, they were like different people, just as they boasted—efficient and precise.

But this was a complicated matter, and T-bug had to ask Vito for help.

“To be honest, this has something to do with me. Dexter DeShawn messed up his middleman job last year. Those guys can't find Dexter, so now they're coming to me! They're saying I'm close to that fat black guy, and maybe he's hiding in my house. Damn it! How am I supposed to know where he is!”

As a professional hacker, T-bug has always been able to manage his emotions, but this time the situation may indeed be urgent.

Students who frequently use the internet know that people who frequent the internet are most afraid of being contacted offline, especially when the person who comes to you in real life is fully armed and covered in blood.

"OK, bug. Let's go through the normal commission process. Send me the mission objectives, and emmm, give Jack a copy too. Let's get this done as soon as possible. Jack's been obsessed with the championship lately. We need to get him doing something so he doesn't go crazy."

T-bug breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Vito readily agree.

"Thank you, Vito. Consider this something I owe you."

Vito didn't take it to heart.

"No need to say that, Bug. Once a commission is given, it's a mission. There's no question of owing anything. Although you haven't been in the team for long, you're still the third-in-command. We can't let the core of the group be sabotaged by some scoundrels."

T-bug knew that Vito didn't want to feel guilty.

"Okay, I'll send you the mission objectives now, I'm hanging up!"

The phone call ended.

Gloria came out and added some ice to Vito's ice bucket.

"be careful."

Vito put down his book and smiled.

"It's just a small job. The shop's been really busy lately, so I'll give you a bonus at the end of the month, Gloria."

Gloria shook her head.

"I'm talking about boxing. I've seen many people ruined by small moves in the ring. I hope you're not next."

"It's okay, if it really doesn't work, I'll cheat. Once the prosthetic body is activated, bullets can't penetrate it."

Gloria smiled and nodded, then suddenly asked a question.

"Have all the items in the warehouse been sold? If so, I'll update the accounts."

Vito shook his head.

"They were all dismantled and used for modification."

Gloria stared into Vito's eyes, a hint of worry in them.

"Vito, are you having prosthetic surgery on yourself?"

Vito paused for a few seconds before replying.

"Yes, but it's just an upgrade to the prosthetic body. You've also connected via personal connection; that machine is very stable and won't malfunction."

Gloria was somewhat taken aback after receiving the answer.

"But, but that's very dangerous. If something goes wrong with your surgery, you might never wake up again! So many prosthetics, if you remove them and then replace them with other parts, it's bound to cause big problems sooner or later!"

Vito waved his hand.

"This is my experiment. I can modify the quality of the prosthetic body within a controllable range. Don't worry, Gloria, I know what I'm doing. The subcutaneous armor I modified is already close to military grade. In the future, it will be even stronger than military grade."

Gloria's fingers were tangled in her white coat.

“Don’t take your life so lightly, Vito. You’re a good person, the kind of kind I’ve never met before. You should…”

Vito interrupted Gloria.

“Don’t worry, Gloria, I cherish my life. Actually, we’re all the same. We all want to be able to protect the people we care about and fulfill our wishes as soon as possible. You are, Jack is, and David is. I used to think this was all a game, but when I came to Night City and met you all, I know that now, even though Night City is still so smelly and disgusting, I have a home here.”

Gloria looked at the man who had pulled her back from the brink of death, her eyes filled with tears.

That day, her will to live sustained her. She didn't believe in God, but she couldn't stop praying in her heart. Then a man carried her from a deathbed to a lifebed.

"Vito, I know you know what you're doing, but please don't let it come to the point where you have to replace your heart too, okay?"

Chapter 40 Mountain Sparrow

"Hey, bug, did you hack in?"

Jack's loud voice rang out on the shared channel.

"It'll be a little while. They've set up a separate subnet here. It'll take a bit of time, but not too long. If you get bored, you can have a smoke with Vito."

T-bug is infiltrating the Vortex Gang's subnet, and today, Vito and Jack's target is the Vortex Gang's leader, Conte.

After losing the fight against the Tiger Claw Gang, these madmen who had modified their bodies with prosthetics all retreated to the old industrial area in the north.

They were in the business of selling stimulants and reselling prosthetic bodies, and occasionally they would steal a few orders from the company.

In Night City, Cyber ​​Psychosis was once another name for the Vortex Gang.

Conte is the new leader of the Whirlpool Gang. In recent years, being a gang leader has been a high-risk profession. The previous one was killed in a street brawl last year.

After Conte took over, there were voices of opposition within the gang. Royce, the former boss's second-in-command, was always talking nonsense, which annoyed Conte.

How do you win over your subordinates?

After racking his brains for many days and inhaling countless sparkles, Kanter finally came up with a great idea.

Avenge the former boss!

Later on, Conte was unable to take down the Tiger Claw Gang, nor could he find Dexter DeShawn who had escaped, but he was still very willing to cause trouble for a hacker.

So he gave the order that whoever killed T-bug would become his second-in-command, the gang's second-in-command.

And so, trouble came to T-bug.

"Alright, the Vortex Gang's subnet has been hacked. This Counter isn't very good either; his network setup is like a rotten piece of cheese. I've shut down their turrets and am using the cameras to locate Counter."

T-bug's voice rang out again.

Vito looked at the Whole Foods factory and put his arm around Jack, pointing it out to him.

“Jack, look there, under that fence. That’s where I was when I first came to Night City. I didn’t even have a pair of pants.”