Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past.

Chapter 116 Hot Pot and Cucumber

Perhaps it was because of the meal time, the shop was full of people.

"Can Lucy eat spicy food?"

Shita's soft voice rang in his ears.

Lucy withdrew her gaze from looking around, and replied softly: "I've never eaten hot pot before... I don't think I can eat spicy food..."

"Then order a mandarin duck hot pot first? To avoid some digestive diseases caused by excessive spicy food..."

After seeing Lucy nodding to express that she had no objection, Xita tapped the electronic ordering interface a few times with her finger.

This hot pot restaurant in the heart of Night City is expensive, but the efficiency and quality of service it provides is really worth it.

After waiting for about 5 minutes, a pot of well-prepared hot pot ingredients was brought out by the waiter.

"Did you order the mandarin duck pot?"

Yawei just came back from the dining area, carrying a lot of dishes in his hands, as if he was doing acrobatics.

Different from the a la carte mode at noon, this store will transform into a self-service mode at night to cater to the habit of people with spare money in their pockets for dinner at night, which is one of the characteristics.

"You're so funny..." Lucy stood up while making complaints, took large and small dishes from Yawei's hand, and placed them neatly on the table.

"Where's Xita?" Yawei glanced at the empty seat beside Lucy and asked curiously.

"Here, look behind you, it's at the door." Lucy pointed her chin in the direction of the door, and dropped the beef slices and mutton slices on the table evenly into the clear soup and spicy soup.

"Hello! Sorry for being late, there is a bit of traffic jam on the road..." Unlike the last time we met, this time V could clearly see that he had done a lot of well-dressed appearance, and he appeared to be more mature and professional.

"It's okay..." Yawei nodded, and pointed to Lucy who was sitting next to him, "Xita should have introduced you to us, a new member of our team, Lucy."

Lucy stood up politely and shook hands with the newcomers.

"Here, next to me is Jill, who is currently a bartender in a bar." V pulled Jill together and sat on Lucy's left.

"If you have a chance, you can go to that bar..." Xi Tan nodded, and while talking, she sat on Lucy's right hand side, next to Yawei.

"By the way, is your team on vacation recently? I haven't heard any news about your activities for several days." V put his bag on the armchair and asked curiously.

"It's about the same... It is estimated that we will pick up jobs again at the end of January." Yawei looked at V sitting on the right, and thought for a while before answering.

"What about you, V? Did you encounter any troubles on the way to promotion?" Xi Tan asked, glanced at the bottom of the pot that was already boiling, and greeted everyone to eat by themselves.

"A few people are quite bitter, but it's not a problem..." V smiled disdainfully, expressing that he didn't take those jealous villains to heart, "I heard Xita say that Lucy is a pretty good hacker? Sure enough? Today's young people are amazing..."

Lucy took a sip of the tea in hand and nodded cautiously.

"You said that I seem to be very old, old-fashioned." Jill rolled her eyes at V and complained in a low voice.

"Oh... I forgot, I think you are the oldest here." V was also unambiguous, and directly hit back with a straight ball.

"Pfft..." Xi Tan couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud as she watched their happy little theater.

"Listen to the accent, are Jill and Xita both French?" Lucy looked back and forth between Xita and Jill several times, and finally asked curiously.

"Ah? So do I have an accent?" Xi Tan was a little surprised, and she thought her spoken English was authentic enough.

"It's to the extent that if you don't compare and listen carefully, you can't hear it." Yawei still comforted his girlfriend a few words.

"I'm indeed French, and I also studied in France..." Jill fiddled with her long purple hair, so as not to accidentally get it on the plate when she lowered her head.

"Before I was born, our family moved from France to Night City..." Xi Tan recalled, but his eyes were a little dark.

Yawei held her somewhat cold hand at the right time, and changed the subject calmly, "V and Jill, what plans do you two have for the future? Do you want to continue your studies at work or do something else... ..."

"Actually, I didn't intend to be a bartender..." Jill replied, scratching the back of her head. I keep hitting a wall, how about trying bartending?'..."

"So you got the bartender's license by chance?" Lucy glanced at the downcast Xita, rubbed her palm apologetically, and continued the conversation.

"Almost...but after this guy broke up with her ex-girlfriend." V smiled and threw the boiled mutton into his mouth, chewing and rubbing Jill's head at the same time.

"How do you know?" Jill was a little surprised. She remembered that she hadn't mentioned her unbearable emotional experience to others.

"Ha... It seems that a certain guy has not realized that he has completely turned into a big mouth after being drunk... He is crying and talking loudly about how he and his ex-girlfriend are... such as the 'cucumber' incident..." V was helpless He shook his head with a speechless expression.

"Tell me in detail!" Xi Tan tidied up her emotions and became lively again.

"Uh... Jill, can I tell..." V turned his head and glanced at Jill, only to find that she had given up on her head, lying on the table and pretending to be dead.

"It's better for me to come in person... Anyway, it's an old story..." After a while, Jill raised her head and replied in a muffled voice, "Cough...I'll make a long story short... Xita can cover your boyfriend's ears ..."

"I once hid all the happy bars in my house...only to find out that my ex-girlfriend was substituting cucumbers...The follow-up to this was that she made that cucumber a few days later became a salad and asked me: 'Honey, do you like the taste of me for lunch?'”

"In the end, she gave me a shirt with a cucumber pattern on it... Okay, okay, I know it's hard for you to hold back your laughter, so you can laugh if you want..."

"You guys are really good at it..." Xi Tan praised Yawei in surprise while covering Yawei's ears tightly, but the corners of his mouth couldn't stop the arc of gloating.

"Is it the one I thought..." Lucy was shocked that girls still have this kind of gameplay, and the old Internet knowledge she found didn't include this aspect.

"Yes, that's the kind..." V nodded with a heavy face, but secretly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingers.

"Good boy, don't learn..." Jill said to the ignorant Lucy, "That kind of poor-quality bred cucumbers sting people... If you are not careful, you will cut the skin..."

Yawei was burying his head in the binge eating, as if he didn't hear anything.

(End of this chapter)