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

“V, you’re here.”

"Yeah, I'm here."

V walked to Bai Rui and leaned against the railing, his lips moving as if hesitating whether to speak.

"You've seen it all, so just ask whatever you want to ask."

Crowds of people were walking back and forth on the old streets, all of them in a hurry with their heads down, no one knew where they came from or where they were going.

"That's Arasaka's guy. The Tiger Claw Gang's business is over. Why..."

"She came to see me."

Bai Rui knew what V was worried about and just said it out loud.

"V, I know that companies are not good things. After taking advantage of the poor people, they will be thrown into the sewer."

"But we need all the strength we can get right now."

"In the city, gangs like the Tiger Claws don't even take us seriously."

"If they continue to hang around on the streets, how long will the fighting last and how many more people will die?"

"We have to climb higher. We can't be bullied anymore."

"..."

V didn't say anything, but gently placed his hand on Bai Rui's thin shoulder, his eyes as blue as the sea, revealing tenderness and concern.

"It's okay, Bai Rui. No matter what happens, I will always stand by your side."

After listening to V's assurance, Bai Rui, who was originally nervous, slowly calmed down.

Finally, she let out a long sigh.

Her deep-seated fear that V would not approve of her finally dissipated.

V is still as gentle as ever.

"Do what you want, Bai Rui."

"As long as I'm here, no one, whether it's the company or anyone else, can hurt you."

"After all, I am your sister, right?"

"I will protect your dream."

Holding her face in V's warm palms, she looked up into V's all-embracing blue eyes.

Bai Rui smiled.

He gently took V's hand.

Obviously, these words were sweet to the point of making her teeth ache, but now she was enjoying them particularly.

Night City doesn't need those twists and turns.

They just need to express their love openly.

"Yeah, a sister who would trick her sister into bed."

After a joke, the atmosphere between the two was restored.

At the same time, there are some things Bai Rui didn't say.

She chose to reach out to Arasaka.

Because Arasaka also has what she needs.

A "soul killer" program that can harvest human consciousness.

With this key, she would probably know how to solve the problem of harvesting, transcribing and preserving human consciousness.

If we overcome this difficulty, we can then discuss the creation of new humans.

And it seems that Anders' research has produced some results recently.

Just to see if it can be used.

......

Beehive Building.

In front of a room on the third floor.

"Dong dong dong."

Bai Rui knocked on the door.

"Put the food outside."

A male voice came from inside the door.

Bai Rui raised his eyebrows.

Hey, this kid really takes this seriously.

She simply turned the doorknob and walked in.

"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"

"Beep beep!"

From the direction of the bedroom in the room, the sound of electronic gunfire could be heard continuously.

Go into the bedroom.

A man in a suit was sitting on the sofa, his hand holding the handle constantly operating it. He even had no time to touch his glasses until they almost fell off.

On the big screen opposite him, an exciting FPS gun battle was reaching its climax, with gunfire flashing non-stop, even more intense than the real thing.

"You're living a pretty relaxing life, Anders."

Bai Rui leaned against the door frame, watching Anders speechlessly as he worked so anxiously that sweat broke out on his forehead.

This playful and ambitious man in a suit is the current guest of the Beehive.

Anders Heilmann.

Former director of the Arasaka Relic project.

What's in your head can make companies willing to pay for ten aircraft carriers.

But now, he is playing video games here like a decadent middle-aged man.

It's been like this since I caught it.

Apart from being busy occasionally, I just enjoy life here.

"Who? Bai Rui?"

Anders finally heard the noise behind him, but he didn't even turn his head. He was too busy.

I am guarding B.

"I still can't believe that a former executive of Arasaka Corporation, an honorary professor of twelve universities, an elite whose brain can change the world, is just sitting here playing video games."

"You know shit."

Anders finally found time to push up his glasses.

But he immediately gripped the handle again, afraid of missing a second.

“I used this to relieve stress while I was working on my PhD in cybersecurity.”

"Yeah!"

As Anders was speaking, he only had time to let out a scream before the screen turned blood red.

The character he was operating was killed by a sniper guy who poked his head out from the crack of the door.

"EZ4ENCE ENCE ENCE!"

"dens putted upperbelt!"

"putted upper belt~"

With Anders' death, the entire army was wiped out and the opponent's victory music played.

Anders dropped the controller in frustration and leaned back on the sofa.

Bai Rui shrugged. It seemed that even network engineering experts could not solve some problems.

"By the way, you came here because of the solution you gave me last time. I did achieve some results."

The game failed, but Anders quickly got into work mode, opened the drawer, took out a stack of reports and handed them to Bai Rui.

Why use paper instead of data chips?

Of course it's for safety.

"This thing you gave me is really difficult to deal with. I started out the same way as you did, thinking that this solution was some kind of organic liquid, but my research in this direction has made no progress at all."

“It’s a waste of time.”

As Anders spoke, Bai Rui listened and flipped through the report in his hand.

The green solution in the glass tube in the chart was what V got from Moritz, and it was what Moritz called the "original solution."

Bai Rui will never forget how much trouble the diluted version of this solution, "Compound No. 4", caused him.

"But then, guess what, I accidentally scanned it with a magnetic detector, and that's when I found the problem."

"It's all thanks to me. Other mediocre people would never notice that the fit of the magnetic response index does not come from the liquid itself..."

Anders was talking there, and Bai Rui had finished reading the report.

The final conclusion was reached about the solution that can mutate people into a bunch of monsters with tentacles.

"You mean, what actually works in this solution is the plasma metal dissolved in it, and the solution is just some kind of inorganic liquid that inhibits the activity of the metal."

"Yes, you will never imagine how magical this thing is."

“As a metal, it possesses the properties of an organic substance.”

"I call it 'active metal.'"

Anders opened his hands, exaggerating how amazing his discovery was.

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"So, you've said a lot, but what is the use of this 'active metal'?"

Anders said a lot, but Bai Rui frowned and didn't understand much.

Although she had taught herself some knowledge of materials science and manufacturing, it was all for the purpose of designing more powerful toys. Anders used some professional terms that she was not familiar with, and to be honest, she could not understand them.

She only cared about whether this so-called "active metal" had any more effective combat functions besides turning people into tentacle monsters.

"Forehead....."

Anders smacked his lips, still unsatisfied after being interrupted.

He remembered that Bai Rui in front of him was not a colleague in the laboratory, even though his actual hands-on ability far exceeded that of any cutting-edge technology laboratory.

"Well, let's put it simply. 'Active metals' exist in the solution as ions, just like salt in salt water. We can't see what effect it has yet. We can only do further testing after we prepare it."

"Can it be replaced, like copper sulfate, through a chemical reaction?"

Bai Rui asked.

"Hmm... It's hard to say. I have to try. This metal element has no corresponding element in the periodic table. It seems to be some kind of artificial synthetic element, or even more exaggerated, an element that humans have never seen before."

"But what we know now is that in magnetic tests, these metals show extremely strong magnetic changes. Sometimes they can reach the maximum magnetism that can only be achieved under laboratory conditions, with incredible magnetic energy product and magnetic field strength, but sometimes they show no magnetic response at all. I guess this is due to the abnormal activity intensity changes of the metal itself."

"Okay, okay, so what exactly does this thing do?"

Seeing Anders talking happily to himself again, Bai Rui quickly interrupted him.

"Um......"

Anders, who was interrupted repeatedly, looked helpless. He smacked his lips and had to talk to this guy about what he knew.