Zongman: Simultaneously travel through time and start a one-person chat group

Under Gloria's seriousness, David, who was a good boy at heart, could only nod and say yes. Before leaving, he kicked the iron can under his feet to vent his inner emotions.

After David left, Gloria looked at Qiao Qiao with a pleading look on her face. She said, "Qiao, I only have one child. I don't want him to be like us in the future. He is a good student and will definitely be able to stand on the Arasaka Tower."

"Standing on the Arasaka Tower is like being the boss of 140 people. I understand a mother's desire for her son to succeed."

Qiao Qiao understood this feeling too well, and said: "My parents, like you, Gloria, hoped that I could stand on the Arasaka Tower. So, they worked hard to support my education while they were still alive, and then they both died in the sweatshop. I should have talked to you about this, Gloria, there is only one way to be happy, and unfortunate people have their own misfortunes."

"So, Joe, believe me, David has great potential. As long as he finishes his studies, he will definitely be able to join Arasaka. You must not let him become a mercenary."

Cornelia had obviously slept for too long and had not yet asked around, so she didn't know the current value of Qiao Qiao.

"Do you really think I want to use David as a mercenary to go to the battlefield? If I say I want to form a team, there are too many excellent mercenaries who will come to me on their own accord."

After Qiao Qiao's experiences during this period, many people have extended olive branches to him, and many people have bluntly stated that they must be included in Qiao Qiao's organizational team.

Among them, one who is quite enthusiastic about this kind of team is Jack Wells, a good brother of Cyberpunk 2077. It turns out that at this point in time, Jack has already been in Night City, but he is not very famous.

The big man, who looks simple and honest but is delicate in heart, stayed at the mission site of Qiao Qiao just to meet Qiao Qiao, the living devil of Night City. Of course, Qiao Qiao had no intention of forming a team. He was more efficient working alone, and even when there were not enough people, he had the flesh and blood clone technique.

So, Qiao Qiao needs to kidnap a David?

"Ma'am, I'm just giving David a possibility, giving a young man full of hope a chance."

"That kid David should have better options."

"Is it standing on Arasaka Tower?"

"Yes." Gloria nodded firmly. This also expressed the common understanding of everyone in society. The cyber world is dominated by large corporations.

"Oh." Qiao Qiao sighed helplessly and looked at the scenery outside. Only then did he discover that there was a hotel building not far from the cafe.

Mrs. Gloria realized something and her face suddenly flushed slightly.

……

"Madam, you don't want to either..."

Such a scenario is unlikely to happen to Mrs. Gloria Martinez.

Gloria is not a simple person. After all, simple people would have been devoured to pieces at the bottom of the jungle of the jungle.

Gloria is a strong woman who can socialize with David and the mercenary Mann and the cyborg doctor Qiao Qiao.

The fact that she is just an ordinary scavenger who has the courage to steal prosthetics from corpses, including the military-grade Stan device that is the origin of the story of Edgerunner, explains it all.

It is definitely not something that can be done by one person. It requires the courage to eat fat, the carefulness to pass a series of inspections, and the coordination, bribery, and buying off of colleagues.

In the end, it was successful and no one noticed. It was not until David installed the device to take revenge that he was caught by the academy's AI.

This method is very clever.

There are two reasons for this compromise.

First, David is now implicated in this matter, and the mother is hindering her son.

The second reason is that the life-saving favor is too great. After all, if Gloria was a heartless person, then Qiao Qiao would definitely not lend her money. In the original book, Mann would not say that he let David join their team in the name of repaying his mother's kindness.

These are the credits accumulated over time.

Now Gloria even made Qiao Qiao feel that if he was really bad, he could use this to threaten her, and she might not even resist even if she was put in forty-eight positions.

Qiao Qiao took a deep breath and blew out smoke rings that flashed the color of the equipment under the neon lights.

"Do I look like a bad guy? Beg me for mercy and don't let David fall into evil ways or anything."

Qiao Qiao was helpless in being regarded as a bad guy. In Qiao Qiao's eyes, David was just a poor man. In the original book, his whole life was spent getting out of the shadow of his mother. He had no dreams, but he burned himself out for the dreams of others.

What kind of spirit is this? No one would think this is not a shining point.

Gloria is great, and so is David.

Therefore, Qiao Qiao wanted to give outstanding people a way out.

(ahbe)……

"Speaking of which, Dr. Jackal, is what you just said true? Can the interest I owe you really be worth this price? If you calculate it this way, with this interest, a lot of people will want to borrow money from you."

"I thought it was a loan? Anyone can borrow it? I said there's no interest, but you're so scared, so I'll just charge a lower rate."

"Wow, you're such a nice person, how come I didn't notice it before."

Gloria turned over and felt her back ache.

"You don't have a job now."

"Yeah, I can't go back to the job as a street cleaner. Damn it... Qiao, if there's any good job over there, remember to introduce it to me first."

"Will you give me a job?"

"Give you a job? Did you pay? You obviously take care of all the work in your own clinic, a one-stop service. Is there any work assigned to outsiders?"

"Take a look at this contract yourself." Qiao Qiao said as he threw a previously drafted contract to Gloria.

"Ah?" Gloria lay on the sofa, picked up the contract that Qiao Qiao threw over and took a look at it.

At first I thought, “My job is to purchase and close the warehouse? Well, the salary is pretty normal…”

However, the following content gradually became crazy in Gloria's eyes.

"Eight hours a day, two days off a week, overtime pay, medical insurance, profit sharing benefits, sick leave, maternity leave..."

Gloria looked at the list and jumped up from the sofa as if she had seen a ghost.

She, who lives like a 007 every day, finds it hard to imagine all the contents written in this contract. You know, Kangtao works fourteen hours a day and is recognized as a company with the best benefits.

So, Gloria looked at Qiao Qiao with her eyes wide open, with the words "Are you crazy?" written all over them.

"Do you want to do it?" Qiao Qiao asked.

To be honest, the benefits in this contract are really exaggerated for Gloria's generation.

This is like pie in the sky, but in the cyber society it is often a deadly poison, and the risks may far outweigh the benefits.

However, Gloria knew that she had no job and was actually at the end of her rope.

Thinking about this, Qiao Qiao's personality and how much he trusted him flashed through his mind. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Go!"

……

into the night.

Qiao Qiao stood on the building, playing with the newly acquired legendary prosthetic single-molecule thread.

“Molecular lines are really cool.”

This thing will automatically charge when there is enough energy, and when it is fully charged, one hit can cause extremely high burst damage.

If I were to describe this feeling, it was like the first time Qiao Qiao saw the laser beam murder incident in the fire escape of the Resident Evil on TV.

After cutting his palm, Qiao Qiao put away the dangerous toy and started to learn to do real work, which was to learn how to mold his golden light spell into molecular lines.

Divided into silk threads, he had a lot of experience in his previous one-person world.

But molecular lines are very special and difficult.

However, if this were to succeed, the golden molecular rays would be much more outrageous than any golden blade.

After all, as long as the line is strong enough, the concentrated damage it inflicts is always more terrifying than a blade. Qiao Qiao, who had a prototype after imitating it, was quite excited to play with it, and then he used the golden light to separate into lines and wrap around the building to move around.

"Now, don't just call him Cyber ​​Batman, you can even call him Cyber ​​Spider-Man."

Qiao Qiao returned to where he had lived before.

The clinic on the ninth floor at the top of the building has been completely abandoned without Qiao Qiao, and Qiao Qiao's purpose is not to return to his former home, but to stop at Room 304 on the third floor.

Because Qiao Qiao wanted to talk to Camus about whether he wanted to return to human form. Qiao Qiao had prepared a prosthetic body for this childhood friend to transplant.

"Camus, it's me."

No matter how much you knock on the door from outside, Camus will not open it.

However, this time Qiao Qiao knocked on the door accidentally, and the door of Room 304 creaked open quickly.

"..."

It was dark inside, but it did not obstruct Qiao Qiao's vision.

When Qiao Qiao saw the signs that the lock on the door had been pried open, he felt that his time was running out.

After entering and finding that the entire room was emptied and all the defense equipment was destroyed, Qiao Qiao felt that what he was worried about had indeed happened.

201. Cyber ​​Qiao Qiao: Arasaka, well done! Very good! I declare war on you

"Sasha? Still autistic and not answering the phone... Are you there, Lucy? Yes, I need you to help me check the closed-circuit cameras around."

Qiao Qiao contacted several of the most advanced hackers in his mind.

Qiao Qiao had discussed this with Jack before, but Jack had not yet contacted Tbug. So, after leaving aside the Voodoo Gang, who had skills but were not trustworthy, Qiao Qiao could only trust the two hackers from Mann's team.

Sasha is in autistic state now, so Qiao Qiao can only find Lucy~.

As for Qi Wei's words, Qiao Qiao didn't trust them. Besides, Qi Wei was timid and might expose the matter without knowing the situation clearly.

"So, what is the situation now?"

The heroine Lucy was called out with an impatient look on her face. However, knowing that fists are the truth in this world, Lucy still rushed over and stole a few chips of Arasaka company employees on the way.

"Looking for someone, Camus. My childhood friend is missing. Please check his closed-circuit camera for me."

As Qiao Qiao said this, he directly scribbled out a number, causing the money in Lucy's poor wallet to suddenly skyrocket.

"How generous! With that much money, you can get those famous hackers to do it for you."

"Sasha is autistic and can't find anyone. That's why I found you. I know you are quite good at this. After all, you are from Arasaka..."

"Are you investigating me?"

Lucy paused.

What Lucy is best at is infiltration operations, commonly known as mining. The reason for this is that Arasaka trained Lucy and others to be used as mining tools.

Think about what the RTX3090 will look like after mining, and you will understand why Lucy came out.

Now, Lucy couldn't decide whether to light or not light the ladies' cigarette in her hand.

His fingers moved slightly as if he was about to draw out the molecular line, but when he thought of Qiao Qiao's terrifying strength, he instantly gave up the idea.

"Very clever, little Lucy. Who do you think you are? Do you need me to investigate?"

"...Indeed. After all, I am just a nobody. But a big shot like you should also know that Arasaka has been targeting you recently."

"After all, Arasaka is the king of Night City. Hehe, I guess my deeds have been figured out. Let's investigate quickly. There will be other rewards after the investigation is completed."

Qiao Qiao asked Lucy to conduct the investigation, and he was mentally prepared to wait for a long time.

As a result, Lucy gave Qiao Qiao the answer shortly after connecting to the closed-circuit camera.

"One piece of good news, one piece of bad news."

"Let's talk together. I'm busy."

"Good news, the person has been found. Bad news, your good friend was captured by the soldiers of the king you mentioned."

The video Lucy exported later showed a team kicking the door open and rushing in to dismantle the equipment. All the security equipment that Camus had prepared for himself seemed to malfunction when they rushed in...

Qiao Qiao directly took off a CCTV. There was a big Arasaka logo on the device...

"The merchant left a backstage. What's the reason? He only has a brain left. What value does it have?"

"Yes, it's very valuable, but because the information has been buried, ordinary people like us don't know that a brain that has survived for so long is actually very important experimental data for Arasaka. Why do you think they were so willing to buy back all kinds of original goods at a high price? They didn't think they were really going to make soup with it, did they?"

Lucy explained, "Many of the guys whose brains were left were already dead. Although the Arasaka officials said that it was because they had no money to continue to maintain the equipment of the brain in the tank, in fact, it was because their brains reached the limit of survival after losing their bodies and died naturally. It's a miracle that your friend has survived for so many years. She is also a hacker, but her skills are very poor. She was caught by someone, and a certain person in charge remembered this plan and immediately sent a team...

Qiao Qiao finally understood.

It was a small step in the experiment with the mikoshi and the digital life form, an extra small branch. Whether it succeeded or not would not affect the overall situation. But with a successfully tested experimental product in front of us, how could we let it be lost?

"It turns out that they have been keeping an eye on it for a long time. They have been laying the groundwork for so many years..."

When Qiao Qiao thought of this, strong emotions gushed out and the Three Corpse Gods suddenly became furious.

Lucy was completely unaware that in the darkness of the small room, three amorphous black giants gradually emerged from Qiao Qiao's shadow.

"Well done! Arasaka, well done! Very good."

"Ah? Are you crazy? Then don't involve me."