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

V was very calm. She glanced at the female corpse. The prosthetic parts that had not been stripped off her body looked very cheap. It was obvious at a glance that she could not be the target of the mission.

"Let's keep looking." V continued walking.

V just opened the door a crack, but Jack behind her pulled her back.

"V, hey, look up, there's someone up ahead."

V carefully opened the door, and sure enough, there was a scavenger with his back to them, shirtless, covered in tattoos, and holding a gun in his hand. However, the harsh music they played to cover up the screams of the victims has now become their own death rope.

V was seen bending over and sneaking up behind the scavenger, standing up and strangling the scavenger's neck. He then used both hands to twist the neck with a snap. His movements were so quick and clean that the scavenger didn't even have time to scream.

After stuffing the scavenger's body into a box nearby, V waved to Jack and the others, indicating that it was safe.

Amid the harsh music, the three of them walked hunched over in a crooked room filled with bloody prosthetics and garbage that could easily fall to the ground if they were not careful.

"Don't be distracted, someone is coming, and they will soon find you."

Just as Jack and his companions turned two corners, a bug reminder sounded in the communication channel.

"These idiots are kidney-cutting bastards." Jack cursed and quickly hid beside the cabinet in front. The two followed him. The next second, three scavengers came in from the wide room outside, chatting and laughing, and did not notice them.

"Don't be impatient. Make sure you are sure before you strike." Jack held the gun and looked vigilantly at the three scavengers who were looking for something with their backs to them.

"One each, pick the one closest to you." Jack swallowed and nodded at the two of them.

The three of them stuck their butts out and moved silently towards the scavenger like three lurking cougars.

Bai Rui put the gun in front of her waistband so that she could shoot at the first moment if anything went wrong. She moved extremely cautiously and kept her eyes fixed on her target.

Just kidding, you have to be careful. Her strength is only eight points, which is not as good as V and Jack next to her who are strong enough to fight bulls.

The scavenger was still searching for something on the table, maybe a client list, or maybe the information on the next victim, but who cared? Bai Rui swallowed his saliva, and leaped up like a cheetah. His two arms popped out like whips and tightly strangled the scavenger's neck.

Bai Rui could feel the surging in the other person's throat and the hertzian breathing sound, but even so, Bai Rui showed no mercy. He exerted force with both hands, and with a click, the cartilage in the other person's neck was instantly broken.

"Well done, Bai Rui." On the side, Jack and V easily took care of the enemy and were giving Bai Rui a thumbs up.

"Okay, we're out of breath, but there are still a lot of people in the room outside. We'd better sneak in."

Turning around and leaving the room, sunlight poured into the spacious room through the blinds. There were at least a dozen scavengers inside, sitting or standing there chatting.

The three of them did not dare to be careless. They followed the position marked for them by the bug on the holographic screen in front of them. With the help of various sundries and desks as a barrier, they walked along the wall around the wide room to a dim small room amid the sound of harsh electronic music.

As they got closer to the target, the three became more careful, suppressing their breathing and footsteps to the minimum.

"you……"

Just after passing a small corridor, a sudden sound gave V, the leader, goose bumps all over his body. At the side, a scavenger leader saw that the person coming was not his subordinate, and his eyes widened immediately.

"Damn it, where did it come from..." The leader reached out and grabbed the machine gun on the desk.

V was shocked when he saw this. The room was small and they would definitely be dead if the other party got the machine gun.

His body moved subconsciously, and V hit the tall leader on the chin with the butt of his gun, causing him to stagger.

At this time, Jack behind him also saw the machine gun on the table, and immediately reached out to knock the machine gun down, preventing the leader from reaching it.

However, the leader was tall and strong, and when he saw that he couldn't get the gun, he pushed V away with one hand and was about to push the door open and run out to warn his subordinates. Because the music was too loud, the people in the large room outside the house could not hear what was happening inside.

Seeing this, Jack and V were extremely anxious, but they did not dare to shoot for fear of alerting the dozen scavengers outside the house.

Just as the leader's hand was about to reach the door handle, Jack and V gritted their teeth and prepared to fight to the death and shoot, but there was a dull puff, and half of the leader's head was blown off, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

Turning his head, he saw Bai Rui at the aisle breathing heavily, his chest heaving violently, and his hand holding "Vitamin B" was shaking.

"I brought a silencer with me, maybe I'll need it." Bai Rui's face was pale with beads of sweat on it. He looked at Jack and the other man and forced a smile. It was a very close call just now, and it almost turned into a face-to-face fight.

"Bai Rui, well done." V gave Bai Rui a hug regardless of the dead body. Jack also wiped the sweat off his forehead, looking like he had survived a disaster. "It was almost over, Bai Rui, thanks to you for being there."

"The target's final location is locked behind the door. You should be able to see it when you push the door." Bug's voice was still so calm and plain.

"Bug, you really have no empathy." Jack let out a long sigh, then tilted his head to signal V and the others to follow.

"Well, let's finish this mission quickly." In front of the coordinates, Jack opened the door and walked in. "This, fuck..."

As the three of them entered the room, they froze on the spot. Even Jack and V couldn't help it and almost vomited because of the scene inside.

Chapter 12 Trauma Team

Under the dim blue light, white mist-like cold air lingered and floated. Four or five bathtubs were placed on the white tiled floor, filled with floating ice cubes and twisted corpses.

The scene is much more terrifying than in the game.

The smell of condensing agent and corpse stench mixed into a hellish smell that poured mercilessly into their lungs, forcing them to stop breathing.

Bai Rui was the first one who couldn't help himself. He bent over and vomited a pool of water, then staggered out of the house while holding onto the door frame. "Come on, I can't stand it, V."

Bai Rui walked and vomited until he collapsed on the desk outside and barely recovered.

"Damn, V, hurry up and get it done. I'll cover you." Jack frowned, stood guard at the door with a gun in hand, and kept urging V to go in with his eyes, looking very cunning.

"What a mess." The two accomplices hid, and V could only pinch his nose and walk in with a bitter face, moving the corpses among the bathtubs, searching for the target they were looking for.

"Fuck, let me tell you, V, I've seen a lot of dead people, but this... this..." Standing at the door, looking at the horrifying scene, Jack was still adding to V's psychological burden. "This is fucking disgusting, what is this for? A human meat freezer? Damn scavenger, so inhuman..."

"I swear... this is my last job. I will never take this kind of job again."

As Jack spoke tremblingly, V pushed a body out of the bathtub and saw the target's face sinking under the ice water.

"V?" V's movement caught Jack's attention.

"This should be her, target confirmed." V frowned and carried out the naked rescue target.

Outside the door, Bai Rui lay on the table and rested for a while before he barely recovered.

"Damn, I'd rather have a fight with the Tiger Claw Gang than do this kind of work again." Bai Rui thought that no matter how disgusting it was, it would be no different from the game, but reality taught her a severe lesson.

"What is this?" Bai Rui's hand touched something papery on the desk. He looked down and saw it was a stack of folded euro gold.

Seeing the money, Bai Rui raised her eyebrows. Although the feeling of nausea still remained, the green banknotes still gave her enough comfort. Bai Rui quickly opened the drawer, and sure enough, there was a pile of banknotes quietly waiting for her.

Damn, these guys who sell kidneys have made so much ill-gotten gains.

Looking at these green bills, Bai Rui's breath became heavier. With so much money, she could already see the cool parts on her new machine.

Adhering to V's Three Lights spirit in the game, Bai Rui did not hesitate, but immediately reached out and stuffed stacks of money into his pockets. If his jacket could not fit them, he stuffed them into his trouser pockets, filling up his jacket and trouser pockets, looking like a money-grubber.

"…Let's go and take her out."

Jack and V ran out one after another, with V holding their target user in his arms.

"Bai Rui, hurry up, the trauma team is coming." Jack almost froze when he saw Bai Rui packing money. He was almost vomiting bile just now, so why is he so happy to pick up money now?

"Okay, I'll be right there!" Bai Rui, who was wearing a suit of gold and looked a little bloated, picked up the pistol on the table and followed the two men out of the side door to the balcony.

Walking to the balcony, the three of them squinted their eyes due to the dazzling sunlight. The roar of an engine came to their ears. A hovercraft with the trauma team logo painted on it had flown over and stopped beside the balcony.

"Docking, keep out of the way! Security procedures are activated. Follow all instructions."

A red alert was projected from the hovercraft onto the balcony, the hatch opened, and several fully armed trauma team members came down.

"Hurry, put the patient on the ground." Within the red frame warning range, the squadron soldiers opened the stretcher and pointed their guns at V and gave orders.

V trotted forward and placed the client on the stand.

"Back five steps!" Before he could even let go of his V-hands, he was pushed away by a soldier beside him.

"Hey, can you guys be a little more fucking polite!" Bai Rui stepped forward to support V, gritted his teeth, and looked at the trauma team with anger on his face.

Without replying, after using a defibrillator to give the lying client an electric shock, the two men lifted him up. Several soldiers pointed guns at V and the other two slowly retreated back to the hovercraft.

The car door closed, the engine spurted out, and the whole journey took less than half a minute, as if they had never been there.

"What a bunch of bastards!" The hovercraft sped away, and Bai Rui's eyes were filled with anger.

"Forget it, Bai Rui, this is the character of these guys." V smiled and patted Bai Rui's hand that was supporting him, and comforted him.

"Yes, Bai Rui, let's go quickly. We can take the elevator directly to the garage." Jack also said so.

"Okay, let's go." Bai Rui suppressed her dissatisfaction. Since the people had already run away, she couldn't settle the score. She had to put her gun back and go back to the house with the two of them.

When the trauma team arrived, all the scavengers in the hall had run away. Now the hall was in a mess, with knocked-over debris everywhere. Jack and the other two were moving around.

"This trauma team is just a group of scavengers in white clothes, no different from these guys." Jack talked about the trauma team. As a kid born and raised in the city, he has seen many of these guys falling from the sky on heavy motorcycles.

"'Seven minutes to save a life or your money back' sounds good, but these guys have turned the doctor's responsibility to save lives into a business, the worst kind."

"If you have money and are a platinum member, then it's no problem. These guys can show up with guns in a minute and rescue you from the hail of bullets. But if you don't have money, fuck, they won't even move an inch even if you die in front of them."

"Children from poor families who want to see a doctor either go to unlicensed black doctors, who have a one-third chance of survival, a one-third chance of death from unlicensed drugs and surgical infection, and another one-third chance of death from the doctor's targeting of your prosthetics."

"As for the family doctor arranged by the Night City government, the appointment is scheduled for ten years in the future."

"But I don't think those rich people will have a good life. The trauma team are not angels, they are paid mercenaries. You may not be dead yet, but they will dismantle your high-end prostheses and sell them. Yes, these things are done in a covert and beautiful way. The parliament has investigated more than a dozen times, but nothing has been found. If three of the responsible persons had not died, the public would have really ignored it."

"Rich or poor, they all die in the mud of Night City. This is Night City. This is where we roll around every day..."

The three of them had already gotten back into the car, and the echo of Jack's words still lingered in Bai Rui's ears for a long time. She stared at the parking lot outside the window in a daze, and her heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

"I'm getting ready to log off now. See you in the future." In the end, it was the sound of the bug that woke Bai Rui up.

"…Um, listen, chica, I have something to ask." Jack leaned over to the driver's seat and looked at V sheepishly. "Um, can I borrow your car?"

"Hmm?" V raised an eyebrow in confusion and looked at Jack, not understanding his intention.

"I have an appointment with Misty, but... we can't take the subway! It would be too embarrassing."

"Okay then, I'll save my face for my buddy. Jack, just use it." V was very generous and agreed without hesitation.

"Bai Rui? You don't mind, do you?" Jack turned his head and looked at Bai Rui.

"Hmm?" Bai Rui just woke up from his dream, "Ah, the car, V's car, as long as she agrees."

Even though there was Bai Rui, a money-making beast, at home, V still managed to change his car and bought a new one.

Tianqiong Company, the EC-D I360 model of the Hera series, a four-seater family car with a matte black exterior. Its biggest features are its cheapness and durability, and Tianqiong Company has even suffered losses because of it.

In 2023, they released the first model of the Hera series. It turned out to be so durable and so easy to repair that it nearly bankrupted the company.

However, after learning the high-tech "planned obsolescence" of other companies, this situation no longer occurs. However, compared with other unscrupulous products, the Hera series is still known for being cheap and durable.

But even if the car was cheap, V couldn't afford the full price, all thanks to Bai Rui, who drained her wallet clean.

What’s even more tragic is that V’s apartment is still rented.

As the protagonist of the game, he has to pay off a car loan and cannot afford to buy a house, so he can only rent one. Except for the fact that he starts with sackcloth clothes in Skyrim 5, all his equipment is obtained by fighting for the root of the enemy. Who can be more miserable than V?

"Okay then, I'll take you home first." Jack squinted his eyes and lit the fire, as if he was imagining the happy time he would have with his girlfriend Misty.

"Oh, I almost forgot. I have to call Wakako and tell her that it's done." Jack was idle. He almost forgot about it.

"You drive, I'll come." V's eyes glowed blue and he made a video call to Wakako.

"By the way, Jack, you can't go out and play with your girlfriend without money." While V was on the phone, Bai Rui took out the money he had looted from the scavenger, counted out about one-third of it and stuffed it into Jack's hand.

"Wow, Bai Rui." Jack first sighed at the thickness of the money, but then stretched out his hand to push it back. "This is not a mission reward, this is your own money, Bai Rui, you should keep it, I can't take it."

"Hey, you're not, Jack, what's the relationship between us?" Bai Rui's boyish appearance made it seem out of place to say such street talk, but she herself didn't notice anything unusual. "This isn't a profit sharing, it's a gift for big brother."

"Okay then, Bai Rui, you're such a good sister." Unable to resist Bai Rui's enthusiasm, Jack nodded and accepted it gratefully. He originally wanted to say "good sister", but when he thought of V who was plotting against Bai Rui next to him, he decided not to say something that could easily cause misunderstanding.

"...Okay, thank you." V hung up the phone. "Wakako said that Watson District is about to be blocked by NCPD. We have to go back quickly. I don't want to sleep in a hotel full of needles and condoms."

"No problem!" Not only could he see his girlfriend, but he also got a lot of money. Jack was so happy that his brows relaxed in laughter. He shifted gears and stepped on the accelerator in one go, and the car rushed out of the parking lot.

It is about ten o'clock in the evening now. The street lights and neon signs on the buildings are all lit up, illuminating the streets with colorful lights that are dazzling and the light pollution is very serious.

Driving on the flat road and looking at the night view outside the car window, the three finally calmed down from the tension of the battle.

"By the way, V." After a moment of silence, Jack, who was driving, seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and looked at V, winking. "Well, I remember you asked me before if you had anything to say to Bai Rui."

Being stared at with such a strange look by Jack, V, who was leaning against the car window with his hand, was a little confused at first, but suddenly, as if he remembered something, a blush appeared on his face.

"Ah, now..." V, who had been so resolute and capable just now, suddenly became awkward and spoke hesitantly, which was a 180-degree turn.

The strange interaction between the two caught the attention of Bai Rui in the back seat. She frowned and looked at V who was behaving strangely, her big eyes full of confusion and inquiry.

Chapter 13 Night City Compulsory Traffic Insurance (4000)

"Well, Bai Rui, I wonder if we can go to Japan Street this weekend?" With Jack's encouragement, V finally hesitantly invited him. "Just play games, buy things, etc."