In Night City, I was picked up by a female V

"Hi, Misty, good morning!" Jack and V walked in and helped Bai Rui solve the situation.

"V, Jack." Misty turned and waved at them. "By the way, V, Dr. Victor can see you now."

"Okay, I'll go right away." V ​​nodded.

"Then I'll wait for you here. Misty and I need to have a private chat." Jack said this, but his gossipy heart was burning with curiosity. His eyes kept moving between the awkward Bai Rui and V, as if he was enjoying the show.

"Do you want to go together?" V stretched out his hand as he passed by Bai Rui.

"Hmph." Bai Rui turned his head away and ignored V.

She was very angry now, and what she was thinking was to use cold violence against her to let her know that she was not so easy to control.

Of course, for V, this was just his girlfriend being upset.

"Then I'll go by myself. You have to wait for me here obediently." She touched Bai Rui's head lovingly, and before Bai Rui could react and make a sound of anger, she swiftly slipped out of the back door, leaving only her voice echoing at the door.

Bai Rui was so angry that he could only sit back in his seat reluctantly.

Covering his face, Bai Rui could only sulk by himself.

She didn't even know where V learned all these tricks from.

Since this morning, V seemed like a different person. He no longer concealed his intentions at all, and looked at himself intently, as if he was afraid that others might not see through him.

Who is he? He is a top-notch hero, a real man who is determined to become a legend in Night City, a strong man who can sit on the top seat in Liangshan Water Margin. How could he be taken down by a little cool sister of V? It is impossible, absolutely impossible.

Just thinking about it in his heart was not enough, Bai Rui stomped his feet on the floor again, pretending that it was V's annoying face below.

Only after doing all this did Bai Rui manage to cheer up.

It's so quiet. Didn't we just leave a V? Where's Misty? Why is no one talking?

At this moment, Bai Rui realized something was wrong and raised his head, his gaze happened to meet two pairs of fiery and gossipy eyes.

I saw Jack and Misty, one leaning on one side of the counter and the other on the other side, both of them looking at me with gossipy expressions, just like spectators.

Shit, I wonder if these two saw everything I did just now.

Staring with his eyes wide open, Bai Rui suddenly felt a great sense of shame rising in his heart, and his face suddenly became flushed.

"Hehe, haha, Bai Rui, actually we didn't see anything, right, Misty." Seeing Bai Rui like this, the two of them didn't understand that the girl was shy, and they hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

"Yeah, yeah, Jack and I were just talking about, um, what were we talking about." Misty was also trying hard to hide her auntie smile.

"By the way, speaking of Night City's most powerful middleman, Dexter Deshawn, he has assigned us a big job..."

Jack and Misty were still performing clumsily, but Bai Rui could no longer suppress the shame in her heart. Finally, after hesitating for a while, she suddenly covered her face, pushed open the back door, and hid like a little girl.

"I, I'm going to go see how Old Wei is doing."

He lowered his head and covered his face and ran away in one go. Looking at Bai Rui's shy appearance running away, Misty and Jack smiled at each other.

"By the way, are you really not going to remind Bai Rui? There's still a kiss mark on her neck." Misty covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes full of smiles.

"Hey, no thanks." Jack smiled and waved his hand, "When we first got together, we played a lot more."

V and Bai Rui, who are still playing chase and escape, don’t know that this pair is the heavyweights.

Victor's clinic is in the basement in the alley behind Misty's shop. Just turn left when you go out.

As I stepped out of the door, I saw several gentlemen lying on the ground in the dilapidated alley, smoking and intoxicated, as well as a few homeless old men wearing cheap Mewtwo cigarettes, drooling and grinning lasciviously on a tattered mat.

Night City is like this, it always shows its worst side to ruin the good mood that has finally started.

However, looking at the familiar decadent and depraved scene on the street, Bai Rui felt a little calmer.

Yes, she is a mercenary who makes a living in this rotten city, determined to become a legendary urban troublemaker, a heinous criminal in the eyes of the NCPD. In this city, she can sleep with whoever she wants.

How could he be defeated by a small V? It's ridiculous. Thinking of this, Bai Rui regained his confidence as a man from his profession and strode into Lao Wei's clinic.

As I walked down the stairs, I heard the conversation between V and Lao Wei inside.

"...Dexter Deshawn. Jack said he got a job from him. He was very mysterious and wanted an interview. I have to go there soon." I knew it was V from the clear female voice.

"Oh? Dexter DeShawn. Well, he's quite famous, but I guess you haven't gotten the money yet." Lao Wei's voice was vicissitudes and steady, just like those middle-aged protagonists with glorious pasts in American TV dramas, his eyes full of stories.

"Oh, by the way, Old V." V suddenly raised his voice as if he heard a voice behind him. "I want to decorate some new things, and I want something serious. Strengthen the field of vision, and replace the arm, preferably a completely mechanical one!"

Victor looked at V and raised his eyebrows, but didn't even move a finger, because he knew that V said these things just to tease him.

Of course, he wasn't the one being amused, but he was still happy to watch the show.

"You dare!" Sure enough, before V finished speaking, Bai Rui's angry voice came immediately.

Bai Rui took two steps at a time and walked up the stairs angrily until he arrived in front of the two people.

"You promised me that you would not put on any more prosthetics!" Bai Rui looked at V with a teasing look on his face, and was so angry that he bared his teeth like a little wild cat.

She had just calmed down three seconds ago, but this rogue V broke her defense again. She was so angry that she wanted to bite her.

Looking at the anxious Bai Rui, V folded his hands and said teasingly, "Oh, I thought you forgot."

Looking at V's rogue appearance, Bai Rui finally realized that he had been fooled again.

Bai Rui, a 1.80-meter-tall man, was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He pointed at V and stammered, too anxious to speak.

"Okay, okay, sorry, Bai Rui, I was just kidding." Seeing that Bai Rui was really anxious, the 1.72-meter-tall V quickly put his arm around Bai Rui's shoulders and held her head in his arms to comfort her.

This time, Bai Rui did not rush to push V away, but grabbed the corner of V's clothes, full of fear.

Although she came to the cyberpunk world, Bai Rui has never liked prosthetics and she herself has not installed any prosthetics on her body.

Because she has always had this kind of worry.

Cutting off one's intact organs and replacing them with cold machines is like a part of the person, or a part of the soul, will leave the body along with the bloody flesh that is cut off, and the person will no longer be the same person.

It would be fine if one or two prosthetic bodies were replaced for the purpose of treating an incurable disease, but in this cyber world, replacing prosthetic bodies is not a means of curing a disease, but something as casual as changing a mobile phone case or a piece of clothing. People replace themselves with prosthetic bodies when they feel like it, destroying their original bodies into pieces.

To Bai Rui, it was horrifying that her original body was despised and even rejected, and treated like a toy. She could not accept it at all.

Some people replace an arm today and a leg tomorrow. The more exaggerated ones are like Adam Hammer. In the end, only half of the head is left that he was born with. In the end, can we still say that this person is the same person as before?

When Bai Rui thought that V might have this possibility, she found it unacceptable. To her, the smell, temperature, and touch of V's skin were all part of V as a person.

If V's whole body was replaced with a cold machine, and she couldn't feel the other person's warmth or hear her heartbeat even when hugged, would she still be able to look at V with the same eyes as before?

Just like in the continuous transformation operations, the original V will die piece by piece, until finally, only a cold machine with V's memory is left.

Just imagining this, Bai Rui felt a great fear in his heart.

Chapter 18 Unexpected Title

"I say, are all young people so open-minded nowadays?" Victor, who was sitting on a chair, saw V and Bai Rui's expressions and turned down the volume of the boxing channel. "They don't care that I, an outsider, am here."

Victor's voice reminded Bai Rui how shameful his current posture was. He quickly pushed V away and turned his head away.

"Sorry, Bai Rui, I swear to you, I will never mention the prosthetics again." V obviously didn't expect Bai Rui to take the prosthetics so seriously. Now he extremely regrets making a joke about it. He quickly apologized, hoping to get Bai Rui's forgiveness.

"Who cares about you? You make your own decisions!" Bai Rui stretched out his hand to stop V who wanted to hug him again.

Bai Rui was obviously angry, even a fool could see that. V scratched his nose, feeling caught in a dilemma because of the disaster he had created.

"It won't do any harm to the body to disinfect and update the old prosthesis instead of installing a new one, right? Don't you think so, Bai Rui?"

In the end, it was Victor who came out to rescue the two quarreling guys.

"Is it okay? Bai Rui." V looked at Bai Rui with inquiring eyes.

"Go, go, you'd better ask Lao Wei to clear out the yellow garbage in your mind." Bai Rui finally gave a V code.

At this time, Bai Rui remembered that there was a virus in V's brain. She could make a fuss about it, but she couldn't delay the important matter. V was weird enough already, and she didn't want V to get even weirder because of the virus in his brain.

"Okay, V, sit on the chair, don't be nervous, relax." Victor pushed the ground with his feet and drifted to the operating chair with robotic arms and searchlights.

V lay on the chair as if she was going to the dentist, with the bright searchlight shining on her face. Since her eyeballs had been replaced with artificial eyes a long time ago, replacing them now would not violate the agreement between her and Bai Rui.

"Here's something good for you, the Qilusi optical eye." Doctor Victor put on an auxiliary robotic arm, gave his arm an injection of sedative, and began to prepare to take action.

"Wait, Old Victor." Bai Rui called out to Victor.

"Can you give V the goods I have in stock? The best ones." Bai Rui looked at V with a complicated expression, turned his head away and didn't want to speak.

"That's not for Xin..." Victor realized he had overstepped his bounds before he finished speaking. "Well, V, it looks like the big boss Bai Rui will pay for you today."

"What do you mean?" V, who was lying on the chair, asked in confusion, but Victor had already stood up and was looking for something in the warehouse, while Bai Rui was standing aside, obviously not wanting to talk. No one answered V's doubts.

"This is it." Victor came over with a long aluminum can that was steaming. "This is a hard-to-find commodity in the city. I'm the only one with it."

"What is this?" V looked at Victor's mysterious look and felt puzzled. What on earth made Old V so mysterious?

"It's still made by Qilusi Company." Unscrewing the can, Victor used the robot to pick out the eyeball with artificial neural connection. "But it's the top-grade one, Qilusi Prosthetic Eye Type 3, specially prepared for those picky guys."

"Lie down and don't move." V wanted to ask how to get such an expensive thing out, but Victor had already given her an injection of anesthetic, and V's eyes suddenly became dazed.

Bai Rui turned her head away, unable to bear to watch. To her, watching such a bizarre scene would prevent her from appreciating V's beauty in the future.

"Well, these can be integrated with the Qilusi technology." Victor operated the smart terminal at the side, stood up and used the auxiliary robotic arm to remove V's Xibeihuo prosthetic eye and installed a new Qilusi prosthetic eye.

"Let's witness a miracle. I'll connect you right away." Under Victor's guidance, V turned on and debugged his prosthetic eye.

"You may feel a little uncomfortable at first. Blurred vision, unclear colors, and frame skipping..."

After a while, V walked down from the operating chair.

"Damn, I can see things much more clearly!"

V took a few steps and found it unbelievable that everything in front of him became so clear that he could even see the slightest changes in Bai Rui's expression.

As for the virus in her brain, Victor also helped her to clear it out. Although Bai Rui looked at V's "lucky" eyes because he was not used to the focusing of his new eyes, he felt that the virus had taken root in V's brain and could not be cleared away.

"Old Wei, I remember this guy V. He probably owes you a lot of money."

"Yeah, quite a few. I saved a lot of minor bumps and bruises. Adding them up, I think it's over 20,000."

"Then I'll pay her off." Bai Rui took out his smartphone and transferred money to Lao Wei.

Lao Wei's eyes flashed yellow, obviously the funds had arrived.

"Bai Rui, where did you get the money?"

Before V could recover from the excitement of getting new eyes, he was shocked by Bai Rui's generosity.

Recalling that it was Bai Rui who funded the top-notch artificial eye for himself, V was even more confused as to where Bai Rui got so much money.

It's not that V looks down on people, but Bai Rui is a guy who spends money like water. He spent all his own money and also spent all V's money. And now, the debt he owed to Lao Wei plus the cost of this advanced prosthetic eye is at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. Bai Rui took it out at once, easier than taking out a bottle of Monkey Powder from his backpack. How could V not be shocked.

"Bai Rui, haven't you told V about that yet?" Victor also looked at V in confusion, wondering why Bai Rui didn't tell V about such a big thing.

"Bai Rui!?" Seeing Victor's appearance, V became even more curious, staring at Bai Rui with inquiring eyes.

"This idiot doesn't need to know." Bai Rui enjoyed watching V's anxious look.

This time she finally got her revenge. Don't you like to be the top? Why can't you show your previous posture? You may be curious or confused, but I won't tell you.

Bai Rui went from borrowing money from V to living on, to now spending 20,000 to 30,000 euros in his spare time. There is a story behind this.

To be honest, this was earned through the cooperation between Bai Rui and Victor.

Victor has the channels for purchasing and shipping prosthetics, and Bai Rui has the extraordinary manufacturing technology brought by the system. On the premise that Victor provides drawings and samples, Bai Rui can imitate prosthetics at a relatively low cost. In simple terms, he is manufacturing cheap goods.

Due to the need to lower costs, the effectiveness of the prostheses produced is less than 70% to 80% of the original ones. But the advantage is low cost. By relying on some scrapped garbage and electronic components, Bai Rui can use 30% to 40% of the cost to produce counterfeit prostheses with 70% to 80% effectiveness. This huge profit difference makes many customers very willing to pay for them, especially when these Xibei products are not carried by second-hand prostheses. Viruses, or have various malfunctions, have become hot items among cash-strapped customers.

Thanks to this, Bai Rui made a huge fortune.

And this is only part of it. The other part of the money comes from her creation, the fighter Arnold.

In the past two or three months, she has not let Arnold idle. Relying on Arnold's strong fighting ability, she has completed many commissions from middlemen and earned a lot of money.

As a black-hearted capitalist, Bai Rui naturally accepted all of Arnold's compensation without leaving a single cent.

Relying on his extremely high commission completion rate, the name of "Terminator" Arnold also became famous on the streets.

Everyone on the street knows that there is a "Terminator" Arnold in Watson District. He is ruthless and efficient. If there are big and difficult orders, the middlemen are happy to find him.

This is naturally all part of Bai Rui's plan.

She planned to use Arnold's body to infiltrate the mercenary circle and obtain more information about large companies.

Because, although Bai Rui has excellent skills, she cannot create things out of thin air, nor can she make something amazing without samples and design drawings.

She only has strong manufacturing capabilities, but she can't do whatever she says. She has to make everything one circuit at a time, one component at a time. This is not something that can be accomplished by imagination alone.