The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

"Who asked you to pay first?"

"It's unbelievable. Even the kids in Night City know that they have to pay for goods, right?"

"That is to say, being betrayed is ultimately your own fault, Man Yin."

The teasing of his teammates made Manin, who was already a victim of wire fraud, even more irritable.

As the word "Shut up" came out, the others smacked their lips and fell silent.

Shooting geese all day, and then being pecked in the eye by a goose... This is what happened to Man Yin.

He had been in Night City for many years and had seen all kinds of dirty and disgusting things. He had also made corresponding preparations, but in the end, he still failed.

"But even if you say so, I can't do anything about it. After all, after you said you didn't want that one anymore, I just gave it to someone else."

"Someone else? Who?"

If possible, Mainin plans to talk to that person and see if he can buy it back... although the chances are a bit slim.

"Father."

"..."

Well, that's definitely not coming back.

Although there are many priests in Night City, there is only one who can consume military-grade Sianwestan.

Sebastian Ibarra, Haywood's biggest and most famous middleman.

If Lin Qiao sold it to the other party for 30 euros, then it would cost at least 40 to buy it back.

——And this does not include the cost of installation.

Unfortunately, Mainin and his team obviously couldn't come up with so much money... Even if they did, it would only seriously damage their vitality.

If something goes wrong in the next mission, the whole team will have a hard time.

Not to mention that they have been defrauded of more than 100,000 euros. If they want to raise the money in a short period of time, they can only borrow from loan sharks.

What's even worse is that with the priest's methods, it is estimated that Swanwesten would have been sold to someone else by now.

"hateful……!"

Thinking of this, Maine felt even more headache.

If I had known this would happen, I would not have been so cheap in the first place. Or I should have been tougher and demanded payment before delivery. Otherwise, things would not have turned out like this.

He looked at Lin Qiao with the last glimmer of hope, but the latter just shook her head while holding the cup of Nebula coffee, indicating that she could do nothing to help.

——Wow, that’s it.

Mainin's heart sank immediately.

"Instead of coming to me, why don't you go find the supplier you mentioned and get the goods back as soon as possible?"

Hearing this, Man Yin sighed: "Although I also want to, but by this time, she would have left Night City a long time ago."

Doing something like this, no matter how you look at it, it seems like they are just thinking about making a quick buck in the end... Only a fool would continue to stay in Night City.

If the other party had acted faster, he would have probably left California by now.

Although they did not intend to let go of this "old friend" who had cheated them, due to the urgency of this commission, they really did not have time to find the other party to have a good talk.

"But that's not entirely true. Maybe the other party wants to kill two birds with one stone and sell Sian Westin twice, so he may stay in Night City to find the next scapegoat."

"..."

Frankly speaking, this is possible.

But based on Man Yin's understanding of the supplier, and her cautious personality, the probability of her doing this is not high.

...No, that's not the case.

Facts have proved that I have been wrong, so it is hard to say whether my judgment based on past experience is still accurate.

"You have nothing to do right now anyway, why not follow the clues and look for it first, maybe it will work wonders."

"And with Qi Wei, a cyber hacker, here, it shouldn't be difficult to hack into the NCPD's network and find clues about a person."

"If we move fast enough, maybe we can not only get back Swanwestin, but also the money that was defrauded."

Chapter 340: Saving the dying and the wounded

As a new cyber hacker joining Maine's team after Sasha's departure, Qiwei's abilities are not the best in Night City, but they are also first-rate.

In fact, because he is older, his skills are better than Sasha's.

Moreover, in order to facilitate major companies to secretly check information, the firewall level of the NCPD database is not too high, and there is even a specific backdoor.

Of course, only people in the company know the latter.

By the way, when Sasha left, Lin Qiao and Lucy used the excuse of Fujioka Kaoru being liquidated to openly leave Arasaka, and Manin also tried to get Lucy to join them.

——But he was rejected by both of them at the same time.

"Forget it, it seems that this is the only way for now... Sorry, I disturbed you this time."

Main let out a long sigh and stood up from the sofa.

Now we can only hope that the other party is still in Night City... However, no one present is very hopeful about this.

Otherwise, they would not have come to find Lin Qiao first.

Lin Qiao stood at the door and watched the car carrying four people disappear at the end of the street.

Although Mann didn't know, for Lin Qiao, getting another accelerated tenderloin was just a matter of a word.

You don't even have to leave your home, the Arasaka people will automatically deliver the goods to your door within twenty minutes at most.

But this matter is still a little too conspicuous after all.

——In the space of half a month, I got two military-grade Sian Westin tanks, and they were all first-hand goods... Brother, what's your way? Can you introduce me to it?

In short, if this matter were to leak out even a little bit, it would cause a lot of trouble.

Manin's relationship with him was not enough for him to take the risk.

After all, the opportunity has been given to me, and I didn't seize it, so don't blame him for making a fool of myself.

And in a way, it was a good thing that Main didn't get Swanwestin.

Over the years, the level of his prosthetic modification has reached its limit, and continuing the modification will not be a good thing for him or the entire team.

Even in recent times, Lin Qiao has discovered that he has vague signs of cyberpsychosis.

——This can be seen from the sudden increase in his demand for immunosuppressants.

In this situation, if you install a military-grade accelerator... even if we make an optimistic estimate, you will become a cyber maniac within a week.

Lin Qiao had already taken the time to tell Dolio about the relevant information. As for how to deal with it, it was up to them internally.

In short, it would be a good thing to take advantage of the failure of this commission to let Maine suspend the prosthetic transformation, or even simply downgrade the prosthetic.

if everything goes well.

……

What Lin Qiao didn't expect was that the next morning, before dawn, Dolio and Rebecca knocked on the door of the clinic with an unconscious red-haired woman.

He looked at the two people with blood on their bodies, and then at the red-haired woman lying on the ground, dying.

Lin Qiao felt as if she had understood something.

"Well, let me make it clear in advance that although I don't have a medical license, I haven't read the Hippocratic Oath, and I don't mind sacrificing the lives of innocent people to save my own when necessary, but I really don't want to be a street scavenger..."

"Who cares about you? Besides, we are not the ones who cut kidneys!"

The grumpy Rei Chihuahua Becca-chan responded directly.

It's more like the opposite. They're in this state because they just killed a bunch of damn scavengers.

"Okay, Rebecca, now's not the time to dwell on this."

Dolio grabbed Rebecca's collar and pulled her aside, looking depressed.

Then he pointed to the red-haired woman on the ground.

"She is the supplier that Maine told you about this morning, Gloria Martinez."

"Qi Wei sneaked into the NCPD database and found out that she was in a car accident yesterday afternoon and was sent to the hospital..."

Perhaps it was because of this reason that she suddenly lost contact.

It was also thanks to them listening to Lin Qiao's suggestion and making up their minds to track down the other party that things did not get to the worst point.

Unfortunately, even though he was sent to the hospital in time, because he only received the lowest level of medical package, the so-called surgical rescue was simply to bandage the wound and then hang saline solution.

After that, the injured can just lie in bed and wait to recover... in the end they will basically die anyway.

Even some of the medical staff there have some connection with the scavengers.

——Although they would not kidnap people or forcibly demolish houses openly, wouldn’t it be easy for them to use their power to find a few “dying” injured and sick patients and sell them off?

Anyway, even with the cheapest medical package, family members can’t visit, so it’s just their words.

Even the hospital itself condones this kind of thing... as long as you pay the money and don't make a big deal out of it so as not to affect the normal operations of the hospital.

It can be said that when Man Yin and his men showed up, the kidney-cutting gang had already taken out their weapons and were planning to dismantle the parts on the spot.

"Although the person was saved, her condition is not optimistic."

After all, it was a car accident, and the treatment was perfunctory, and it lasted almost a day.

The fact that she is still alive today can only be attributed to her good fortune and her strong will to survive.

"So you thought of coming to my place?"

Lin Qiao sighed helplessly.

"But it's not me who said anything. You are already in the hospital. Why don't you just tie up a doctor, point a gun at him, and ask him to deal with it urgently? Then transfer him afterwards, right?"

“…Sorry, the situation was urgent and I didn’t think too much about it.”

Dolio seemed a little embarrassed, but with the gunfire flying everywhere, they really didn't have much choice.

Besides, that place is indeed unsafe. We don't know if the scavengers will provide follow-up support or the NCPD will come.

"No, I'm not blaming you... Never mind, let's save people first."

Without further ado, Lin Qiao walked up to Gloria and checked her injuries.

"Let me check... I have multiple soft tissue contusions, fractures of my leg, arm, and ribs, and some of the wounds are infected..."

"Can it be saved?"

"The cricket was only fatally wounded, but he won't die."

Lin Qiao asked Lucy to push the stretcher over, and the two of them lifted Gloria from the ground.

With the gurgling sound of wheels turning, the door of the operating room closed, leaving only three women waiting outside.

The music of the mantra of rebirth coming from the operating room...

But apparently because she felt it was unlucky, after broadcasting it for about ten seconds, Lin Qiao changed it to the dynamic "Bobo Chicken".

After a while, the door of the clinic opened again and attracted the attention of the three people.

Manin and Pyrrha walked in...and with them came a young boy in a yellow coat.

——Those are the uniforms of the municipal corpse transport team.

At the same time, for some unknown reason, the boy's left face became swollen as if he had been beaten.

Chapter 341 David and the Slap Superman

"Should I...really go to Arasaka Academy?"

David asked himself this question more than once, but he denied it more than once.

Whether it is the contempt of classmates, the deliberate neglect of teachers, or the jaw-dropping tuition fees, the answer seems to have been revealed.