Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

Although he had only been in Night City for a month, V had already come to accept this cyborg doctor whose character was completely unlike that of a Night City native, and they had even become close enough to talk to each other.

Old Wei chuckled and called back, "You'd better save your money. If you don't spend the money you make from selling lizards carefully, you won't even have money for rent in a year."

“I’ll have the money soon. Remember, save the new prosthetic eye for me.” V said confidently.

V's reply worried Old Wei, who then shouted, "Be more careful when you're working. If things get really bad, give up the job. Don't risk your life. As long as you give up on getting ahead and the fantasy of being special, life is still easy. Staying alive is the most important thing!"

I don't know if V heard it or not, but the car had already driven far away.

The Cleaners' base was a small, old, and dilapidated street that looked neither like a place from 2076 nor like a house from 2025; it was even more run-down.

"Looks like this is all the cleaners are capable of."

He drove the car far away behind a wall cover, turned off the engine, and the usually carefree Jack lowered his voice. He had two pistols tucked into his waistband and a shotgun in his hand. He moved stealthily, showing a shrewdness beneath his rough exterior.

Strategically, they despise the enemy, but tactically, they remain cautious.

He gestured with his lip: "Make a fortune, earn a lot of money, become famous, brother."

V gestured, and the two of them split up into two groups, using various natural cover to approach the old, dilapidated house in Building 4 where the cleaners were located. The old house was quite large, with several people guarding the first floor.

However, the cleaners are not soldiers, so their garrison is somewhat lax and has some weaknesses.

V and Jack seized an opportunity, one slipping through the front door and the other through the broken window, sneaking behind the two cleaners. Suddenly, they covered the cleaners' mouths and snapped their necks with a snap, swift and clean.

There was some commotion, but the other garrisonman was happily listening to music and didn't notice anything. Just like the other two, he didn't even know he was dead before his neck was twisted, and he followed in their footsteps.

"Nice!"

The game started smoothly, and Jack was laughing so hard he was numb. He and V turned around and went upstairs, wanting to replicate this move and kill everyone with an assassin.

Unexpectedly, their luck turned sour. Just as they turned the corner and went up the stairs, a cleaner came down from the second floor.

"what?"

Six eyes met, three faces stared at each other, and all were stunned for a half-second.

"have--"

The scavenger instinctively shouted out, but before he could finish speaking, V's big gun fired a bullet, sending him to hell. However, the gun's shout also alerted all the other scavengers above.

Suddenly, a barrage of gunfire erupted, preventing Jack and V from even showing their faces. They managed to get forward only after throwing smoke grenades while some of the enemy reloaded.

In the smoke, no one could see anyone else, and everyone fired instinctively. Jack was unlucky; a bullet grazed his arm, and he was so angry that he cursed, "Fuck, I'll kill you, Jack!"

Amidst a hail of bullets, after a barrage of fire, Jack's score was 0.5, while V's score meant that everyone on the Scavenger's side except for their leader was wiped out.

The scavenger boss had several prosthetic arms. He didn't even bother to change his magazine. He rushed over and took down V, who was very close by. The strength of his prosthetic arm was so great that it was as if he was going to crush V's head and make it explode like a watermelon.

Jack slammed the butt of his gun into the back of the guy's head, drawing blood. This angered the guy, who turned around, and V seized the opportunity to raise his knee and elbow him in the groin.

"puff!"

Good, it seems this guy's job wasn't replaced with a prosthetic body.

A pincer attack from both sides, followed by a decisive blow to the groin, secured victory, and the entire group of scavengers was quickly wiped out.

"This is the power of our legendary team! Hehehe, don't underestimate us just because we're still unknown newcomers!"

"Stop joking around, let's find out what the middleman wants first," V reminded him of the important matter. "Did the middleman say what kind of object it was? This place doesn't look like it's hiding anything good like a crew cut. I've scanned it all, and it's all ordinary stuff."

Ignoring his bleeding arm, Jack scratched his head and said, "It probably can't be scanned, right?"

"There are still things that can't be scanned?" V was surprised. These days, anything that can be associated with rarity is definitely related to electronics, so it's impossible that it can't be scanned.

Jack was also a little confused: "The middleman said it was... uh, a doll, or a toy? Anyway, it was that kind of thing, and it was quite small."

"A doll? A toy?" V raised an eyebrow. "The kind of stuff little girls play with, are you sure?"

"It's probably just something similar to a doll, right?" Jack also felt it was strange. What kind of doll couldn't a rich person buy? But anyway, let's look for it.

Regardless of how bad the tattered doll is, it's what people want anyway.

"Yes, let's look for it."

V stopped worrying about that and started rummaging through everything. Of course, before that, they had to get the cleaners' guns and cybernetic bodies and put them in a bag to store them.

These spoils of war will eventually be sold for money.

They searched from the second floor to the fourth floor, then to the first floor, and finally found what was clearly the middleman's target in a hidden corner on the third floor.

"Let me see, it's about the size of my palm, all red, not quite hard, not quite soft, and it's pointed on top. Hmm, I'm sure it's the one the middleman was talking about."

Jack carefully examined the items, nodded, and decided to put away the worthless, broken doll.

V picked it up and played with it for a while. "It's really strange. I can't tell what material it's made of at all, and it can't be scanned to find any electronic programs. I've never seen such a weird thing before."

“Who says otherwise?” Jack also came over and poked the pointy thing on the doll’s head again and again.

If I were you, I wouldn't stay here any longer. Hurry up and get ready, it's time to go, someone's coming.

"Who?"

V and Jack both widened their eyes at the same time, looking completely bewildered and confused. "Wasn't it you who spoke?"

Who is speaking?

It's me.

The voice came again, this time clearer, but even more unbelievable.

V stared wide-eyed at the palm-sized doll in her hand: "It's you?"

"What's going on?" Jack was a little incoherent. "Could it be that the material is the latest material that is specially designed to prevent scanning of prosthetic eyes, but there is actually a mechanism inside, making it an AI doll, or is it a doll-like communicator, with someone talking to us on the other end of the phone?"

He was unusually timid.

Human imagination is boundless; even in 2076, the stories of ghosts and monsters will never disappear.

If these red dolls weren't due to his two assumptions, wouldn't they look like something out of a ghost story, as if some evil spirit had possessed the toys? That's terrifying!

Stop these baseless speculations, and you, stop babbling on with that broken mechanical eye scanning thing. Seeing this junk makes me angry!

V was annoyed: "No, what did I do to you with my prosthetic eye? Even if it's not the latest model, it's not bad either, is it?"

[It has absolutely nothing to do with the model number or anything like that. Why would you go to such lengths to get a foreign product when you're perfectly healthy?]

“No,” V laughed in exasperation, “These days, how can you be a mercenary without a prosthetic eye? You won’t even be able to control the enemy’s surveillance. Forget about being a mercenary, you’d need a prosthetic eye even for a regular job these days!”

【? ? ? 】

【And you're still acting so self-righteous?】

【Don't you know what it means to be the best in the world? A natural person, a natural soul, is the superior human being. A natural person is the best and most correct human being. What are all these prosthetics and artificial limbs compared to a single hair of my natural limbs and natural organs? A natural person will always surpass technological creations!】

"Instant hair!"

[Must be bought instantly!]

"Damn it! Let me ask you, let me ask you, are you a human or a ghost? If you're a human, then let me ask you, how can you fight someone with a cybernetic body without one? You think you can fool me into being crippled? If I'm a natural person, then you'll compensate me for the power I lack as a mercenary, right?"

"The power needed for mere mercenaries is enough for humans to handle even one or two monsters if they put in the effort. So tell me, can this kind of thing be done with these broken cybernetic bodies?"

V gasped, his teeth aching: "Damn, I think you're just a bunch of idiots from the nature school, a fucking brainless troll!"

[Forget about that, grab your partner and run!]

"What do you mean?"

[As I've already said, someone's coming, armed, at least a dozen of them, full of malice. If they see you, they won't let you go, and they might even be targeting me, understand?]

"Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier!"

Regardless of whether the information is true or not, since there is a possibility, of course we should run away immediately!

It's quite normal that more than one investor is eyeing this special AI toy. It's rare, but it does happen that other investors send other mercenaries to steal it at the same time.

"Bang, bang!"

Gunshots rang out. Jack peered out of the third-floor window and exclaimed, "Damn it, it's the Vortex Gang! We're going to have to run for our lives, V!"

In a race against time, carrying the scavenger's spoils, he tossed the red doll into the bag, threw out a rope, and jumped out of the back window to the ground floor.

This round of search and raid has been completed; now it's just a matter of whether we can successfully evacuate!

Volume 1: 469. Cyberpunk 2077, Nature's V Launch

469. Cyberpunk 2077, Nature V Launch

It feels so hot, I miss my lover.

This was the first time Seven had ever considered taking action against humans.

He knew, he always knew, that there are good and bad people in humanity, good people and bad people, good side and bad side.

He can always tolerate the bad side, but that's only when humanity is being hostile towards others. But now, this fist really can't be pressed down just because he wants to.

Seven never expected that he would fall into such a godforsaken place.

After everyone activated their Shining Aura and focused all their power on Kassapa, defeating the evil Hand of Creation and Perpetua, they were caught off guard by the Dark Sparks of the New Dark Lucifer while blocking the largest explosion in history. After everyone was scattered, he didn't know how long he had been drifting in the spacetime turbulence.

All that could be seen was that everyone caught in the turbulence was scattered in different directions, with virtually no two people together. Even Mefilas was separated from the Alien Empera.

Naturally, he was all alone here as well.

Amidst the turbulence, Seven saw other worlds far removed from the void and the Ultra Infinite Multiverse. It seemed that people in those worlds had also been affected by the final explosion and suffered trauma.

Although he didn't recognize who it was, and didn't see all the people affected, he did see two.

One was an armored man with a thick gold chain and some kind of belt around his waist, who seemed to have considerable skill in the power of time.

The explosion had already reached almost the boundary, and everyone could have stayed safe by simply taking cover. However, the armored man, who was very sensitive to time, looked up to observe.

Upon glancing up to observe, there was no escaping it; a sudden, painful fall left him, his fate unknown.

If it weren't for the fact that they were already at the edge of the explosion zone, and the remaining explosive force had been reduced countless times, then the "unknown fate" could be removed, and they would be directly declared dead.

The other one was a bird. Although it looked like a bird, Lao Qi was certain it was in disguise. Although he couldn't tell what the thing actually looked like, he could only see that the bird seemed to be in a place filled with many gears.

The bird's fate was no longer uncertain; it appeared to have suffered some unknown injury, but it wasn't quite on the verge of death.

Although it was pitiful, since he had no spare strength and could barely take care of himself, Lao Qi didn't care much about it.

The main point is that caring is useless anyway.

Having been struck by the Dark Spark, he had already become a Spark Doll while still in the spacetime turbulence. His power was completely sealed, and he could only be swept along by the spacetime turbulence, drifting with the current, until finally he was abandoned at some point and abruptly fell into some other world.