Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

"Thank you, Neto, for bringing the goods."

Neto said apologetically.

“I can’t afford a car. I always walk when I go out. There haven’t been many jobs at the gang lately. I have to support my whole family with my meager earnings.”

Vito pulled Li Ying into the Wild Kids Repair Shop.

"Liying, your first order has come in."

Li Ying immediately put on her gloves and got ready.

"When are you coming? Now?"

Vito nodded and parked the Type 66 in the store.

"This is my surprise for you. We're going to work together to modify a car that's our own."

Liying put her index and middle fingers together next to her eyebrows in a salute.

"Ready to start work at any moment, Boss!"

Looking at the energetic Li Ying, Vito couldn't help but reach out and gently pinch her nose. He then put on professional repair gloves and devoted himself to the modification work.

Little Cha, who was admiring his handsome face in the mirror, was also called over by Vito to move tools and materials.

The Type 66 that Vito brought was an armed vehicle with a fully armored hull and two machine guns at the front. Vito had modified the machine gun positions, changing the original fixed machine guns to a movable structure that could be offset 22.5 degrees in all directions.

In this way, machine guns can play a greater role in actual combat.

After repositioning the machine gun, Vito looked at Li Ying, who was focused on the task at hand. She was already sweating profusely and was occasionally tapping her forehead with her forearm.

Vito brought a silk cloth to wipe the sweat from Liying's forehead. Liying playfully dodged the cloth, wiping the sweat onto Vito's clothes, and even twirled around against Vito's chest.

"Hey, hey, hey, are you Little Niu Niu?"

"No, no, no, I'm a little goat, the kind that gores!"

Vito connected to the robotic arm and helped under Li Ying's command. The modification process of the entire car was very fast. When it came to the debugging stage, Vito went to transport the machine to Li Ying.

"When I came back, there wasn't even a sign here. How come it opened in the afternoon?"

Jack's loud voice rang out before he even arrived.

Vito laughed and tossed Jack a small bottle of Coke.

"There's no way around it, I can't wait to finish modifying the Type 66 with Liying. The gift Liying prepared for you is on the table over there."

"A gift? How could I possibly accept that!"

Despite saying that, Jack's hands were quick; he opened the package and exclaimed in admiration.

"Girls are so thoughtful. I'm going to put this in my room. Oh, by the way, Liying, come to my house for dinner when you're done. My mom heard that Vito has someone, and she's been nagging me to meet you."

Li Ying blushed.

"Huh? I haven't prepared anything yet!"

Vitoti Liying came to the rescue.

"Liying is moving to my place. We'll be busy moving things for a few days. Let's talk about it after everything is settled. Has the Wild Wolf renovation started? I saw that Pepi had already taken the arcade machines with him last time."

Jack pulled out a toolbox and sat down.

“It’s being done. My mom says I don’t need to waste the money I work so hard to earn on wolves, but I can tell she’s quite happy about it.”

At this moment, Little Cha brought Jack a chair and carefully patted Jack on the back.

"Holy crap, who is this handsome guy? How come he walks so quietly!"

Vito helped Li Ying take off her oil-stained gloves and said casually.

"Little Cha, he picked out a face for himself, so I put it on him and added a synthetic skin. You can't tell he's a robot unless you scan him."

Xiao Cha argued.

"Little Cha is a human being now!"

Jack remarked with emotion.

"Now I can't recognize him at all. Is Xiao Cha working in the store?"

Liying sprayed oil remover on Vito's hands, and after Vito's hands were clean, she sprayed the oil on her own hands as well.

Vito walked over and patted Cha on the shoulder, saying this.

"Little Cha is temporarily helping Li Ying at the repair shop and also helping Gloria move her prosthetic body. He's taking some time to settle down, and he'll join us on missions in a while."

At this moment, Xiao Cha suddenly rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly.

"Vito, could you give Cha some money in advance? Cha just saw a lot of nice clothes online and wants some."

Vito suddenly thought of Angel Eyes, who was dressed very flamboyantly.

"I can transfer the money to you, but promise me, Cha, that you'll be a person of taste, okay?"

Little Cha nodded. Only after Vito's transfer failed did he realize that Little Cha was a robot and hadn't opened an account for him yet.

He then helped Cha open a private account, while Li Ying invited Jack to test drive the new Type 66 that she and Vito had modified together.

They named the vehicle "Dangerous Driving".

The relaxed and pleasant atmosphere diluted the betrayal and killings I had witnessed in the past few days.

Chapter 79 Silence

Happy times are always short-lived. After settling in, Vito arrived at Okada Wakako's pinball shop. Today, he was going to visit the queen behind the Tiger Claw Gang.

“You’ve finally arrived, Vito. I thought you didn’t like coming to old people’s shops.”

Seeing that Okada Wakako didn't intend to invite him to sit down, Vito casually replied.

“I came as soon as I heard there was business, Ms. Wakako, but I don’t have much time.”

"Don't rush, young man, there's a big job here that will benefit you greatly."

"What kind of work?"

"We need to find someone, a foreign friend, who disappeared after coming to Night City. This is a major diplomatic matter and cannot be taken lightly."

Vito looked around Wakako's office with interest, seemingly unconcerned about what Wakako had said.

"People in the underworld say that Wakako's big job is like a pile of shit wrapped in gold paper."

Wakako was not angry when she heard such offensive words; she continued to speak slowly.

“If I were you, I wouldn’t listen to other people’s gossip. This person is called Jin Yan, and she’s hiding a lot of secrets. The whole of Night City is looking for her.”

Upon hearing the name, Vito instinctively went to Okada Wakako and asked the bodyguard at the door to bring over a stool from in front of the pachinko machine.

The bodyguard glanced at Wakako Okada, and Wakako nodded slightly.

"It seems you're quite interested in this job?"

Vito sat down at his desk.

"Who is the client, Arakawa? Or some other company?"

Okada Wakako frowned; she hadn't frowned like this when she heard the "golden paper wrapped in shit" remark.

“Vito, you know the rules. If I were to proactively disclose the client's information, my reputation would be ruined. Is this your first day on the job?”

Vito didn't press further. He had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on. The companies that Wakako would usually find troublesome were the major corporations in Night City. He just didn't know if it was Arasaka, military technology, or Night Corporation.

"Dead or alive?"

"Try to capture her alive, and don't damage her brain. This is the client's specific request."

"Okay, I'll take the job. Give me the details of the task."

……

Arakasaka Tower, Rintaro's office.

"So, you believed everything that mercenary said?"

Rintaro had his back to Yoshitaka Sato and was looking at a briefing.

“I’ve verified it, and I’ve confirmed that this Solomon should be Solomon Reed, a former Joint Logistics Command agent. I just don’t know what his motives are.”

Rintaro turned around.

"It's ridiculous that a former agent who was betrayed has resurfaced. This mercenary is really talking nonsense."

The Vermilion Bird of the East has flown to Night City, carrying something important, but now it has escaped our control.

Have all the fake information been released?

Yoshitaka Sato nodded.

"They released him, and those guys in the counterintelligence department didn't even notice. But Zhu? He's so important, why..."

Rintaro interrupted Yoshitaka Sato.

“Sato, you can go now. Encourage the counterintelligence department to track down Zhu. During this time, fulfill any requests those pigeons may have.”

Sato Yoshitaka bowed and left the office, but a strange glint appeared in his eyes.

Rintaro placed the presentation on his desk.

Kim Yeon

codename Zhu?

A hacker from the Arasaka Asian District, a corporate spy, defected to Night City with secret program data.

Their online contacts could not be tracked, and all of their offline contacts died from overheating of their prosthetic bodies, suggesting they were assassinated by a virus program.

Zeta Technology, Military Technology, and Ye's Company have all become involved in tracking Zhu Wei. Lin Xiaohan, head of Kangtao Company, has checked into the Night City Hongbi Hotel. Currently, no evidence has been found that Kangtao is involved in the Zhu Wei incident.

"Even I can't see Zhu's detailed information, this must be a tricky situation."

Rintaro had been battling military technology for many years, and he knew about Solomon Reed, the Joint Logistics Command agent.

When he heard the name, he was already fairly certain that the square-headed man was Li De, since the new America was very unwilling to keep Night City in the list of independent cities.

President Miles of New America is an ambitious man. According to Arasaka's corporate spies, Miles is preparing a weapon of mass destruction even more powerful than the Soul Killer.

The person who betrayed Zhu this time must be someone from the military technology group; otherwise, Zhu wouldn't have been able to make his way to Night City so easily.

According to Rintaro's analysis, the fact that the square-headed guy, who was initially used as a smokescreen to attract attention, has suddenly disappeared recently suggests that he is secretly preparing to cover for Zhu.

If the doves in the counterintelligence department find Zhu, Saburo Arasaka will purge the entire Night City counterintelligence department. If the doves can't find Zhu, then Rintaro can directly reach into the counterintelligence department, which is already considered incompetent.

Those who play with fire know best how to control it. Rintaro applied to headquarters for Class A defensive pre-construction measures, which is equivalent to digging a firebreak to prevent the fire from burning him.

drop.

[Application for Class A defense pre-construction has been approved]

Rintaro glanced casually at the security personnel list and saw a familiar name.

Adam's Heavy Hammer.

……

Vito had no idea that his casual fabrication to swindle funds from Agent Arasaka would lead the Night City's Arasaka leadership to overthink things.

He now sensed that this was a serious matter, as there were discrepancies between the information Okada Wakako had provided and the information Valerie had given him.

According to Valerie's information, Kim Yeon is just an Arasaka employee who was transferred to Night City, while Okada Wakako's information says that Kim Yeon is a company spy.

Optimistically speaking, the two intelligence departments have different information, but the worst-case scenario is that both sides have false information.

"The water won't recede in 2076 either."

Vito sighed and then made a phone call to Jack.

"Hey, Jack, stop looking for people for now. Get V out of here. We need to finalize this commission. There's definitely something fishy about this commission!"

"What's going on? Didn't you go to Wakako's place? Did you get any inside information?"

"It's hard to say over the phone. The water is very murky this time. Let's meet in person and arrange to meet her at the auto repair shop so she can avoid people."