from night city

Even if you graduate from a prestigious school and have a professional background, you may not be able to become the host of a Night City TV show.

Take Ruth Zheng, the host of "Information Talk".

In her autobiography written by the gunman, she openly admitted that the manuscript of "Intelligence Talk" was not actually written by her at all.

Ruth Zheng didn't even bother to memorize the script. She just looked at the teleprompter and read out the script written by the intern when she was on the show.

Just like that, she earned more money from her last show than most people in Night City earn in a year.

So how did she get up here?

One of her father's colleagues is a program producer at News 54.

It was her father who made connections and made her the host of "Information Talk".

It's just so logical.

Without such a background and background, at best, you can only be an intern serving tea and water.

As for whether there is a chance to become a full-time official and when it will be possible...

Only God knows.

……

"What kind of job is it? Who sent it?"

Still on the way to Santo Domingo, Rebecca, who was sitting in the back seat, was chirping like a bird and asking questions non-stop.

Su Xiao glanced at her: "It's the old captain... You are a mercenary team from Saint-Domingue. You don't know this middleman who is also from Saint-Domingue, right?"

"I recognize it."

"Oh? Then let me hear."

Rebecca puffed up her chest proudly, shook her head and said proudly.

"The information about the old captain was obtained by Sasha - the hacker in our team. I heard that before he became the middleman in Santo Domingo, the old captain's name was Muammar Reyes. A company dog ​​responsible for handling..."

"Hey, no one wants to know that anyway. However, he soon discovered that all companies are the same-either you are defeated by them or you are defeated by them, and he prefers the latter."

"Often those who have escaped poverty and become rich always like to help the less fortunate folks, and the same goes for the old captain."

"As a middleman who has recently become famous, almost half of the working-class people in Santo Domingo will think of him first when they need help. Therefore, he can be said to be making a lot of money."

"But it doesn't mean that he is a greedy and selfish person. On the contrary, everyone who has worked with the old captain respects him as much as he respects them."

"In fact, the title of Old Captain was given by someone who received his help."

"The most famous saying of the old captain is - 'The world ruled by companies is a plague. Power will eventually return to the hands of the people. We are the flesh and blood and backbone of this place, and we will succeed, just wait and see'." "

The more Lidya Su listened, the more she felt something was wrong and quickly interrupted her.

"Are you sure the information Sasha found is correct? This doesn't sound like an intermediary, but more like..."

Lidya Su scratched her hair in distress.

He couldn't think of a suitable adjective at the moment.

"Anyway, the old captain is a very good person," Rebecca shook her head again, "It's just that we usually cooperate more with Faraday."

"Really? But I think you can consider changing to a middleman in the future."

"what?"

Rebecca opened her mouth, looking surprised.

"Ah what? You didn't sell yourselves to a middleman, so why hang yourself on a tree? That guy Faraday has a very bad reputation. If you cooperate with him, be careful and you will be betrayed by him one day."

Su Xiao turned back and glanced at Rebecca: "I'm not an alarmist. You are from the Santo Domingo area. You should know better than me. Don't you think there are not many low-level mercenaries and street gangsters who are exploited by Faraday?"

Rebecca put her hands on the seat, and her legs stretched out from under her large coat could not reach the ground, shaking.

"That's what I say, but Mann

He felt that working with Faraday was a big job and the pay was high. "

Su Xiao corrected him with a serious face: "But at the same time, the risks are also high. High risks can bring high returns, but what do high returns bring? The never-ending road to upgrade the prosthetic body."

“All the money earned from missions is spent on upgrading the prosthetic body. Later, in order to earn more money, I have to take on missions with higher risks. In order to survive these high-risk missions, I have to upgrade the prosthetic body again. body……"

"Rebecca, don't you realize this is a dead end?"

Rebecca was speechless.

She stopped talking.

Then, she lowered her head.

There was sadness in his tone.

"Mann...even if I tell him this, he won't listen."

"Su, actually, the eldest sister knows what you said, and she has been trying to persuade Mann, but Mann... he is just a stubborn donkey. Even eight horses can't pull back what he has decided."

Lidya Su also sighed.

If Mann was one of his team members and he dared not listen to advice, he wouldn't need to talk nonsense and just catch him and beat him up.

Dissatisfied?

Then fight until you are convinced.

The atmosphere in the car became somewhat silent and depressing.

Lucy put her elbow on the car door, clenched her fingers into a fist, and gently leaned her fist against her head. She coughed and changed the subject: "Su, why don't you talk to us about this mission in detail."

Su Xiao understood, no longer obsessed with Mann's affairs, nodded.

"The old captain wants us to go to the Eden Gang's territory and rescue a hacker named T-BUG."

"When she tried to invade the Eden Gang's subnet, she didn't expect that there was also a powerful hacker in the Eden Gang."

"He trapped the T-BUG in the subnet and tried to use the subnet's offensive defense wall to get rid of the T-BUG."

In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, there are many ways to surf the Internet.

As long as you have a mobile phone or a computer, you can access the Internet.

But it’s just limited to surfing the Internet.

Don't even think about using this to hack into other people's subnets.

Therefore, professional hackers usually use more efficient methods.

That is to say, he will transform himself into a high-capacity neural interface (deep dive interface) directly connected to the occipital lobe (the lobe at the end of the cerebral hemisphere).

Only by using the deep dive interface can you enter the maze (cyberspace) composed of ever-changing neon graphics and rotating and flying grids.

But the disadvantage of using this method of hacking is that once you lose in a hacker duel, your skull will be burned alive.

"For an ordinary hacker, the moment the offensive defense wall is triggered, he will be killed directly, and his brain will be burned into a fireball by the offensive defense wall."

"But this hacker named T-BUG is extraordinary. She keeps circling in the enemy's subnet, like a slippery loach, and she never gets caught by the other party's hackers."

"It's just that she has no way to successfully escape from the offensive defense wall."

Rebecca thought thoughtfully: "That's why she asked us for help?"

"Yes, she entrusted the old captain to hope that someone could go to the Eden Gang's territory, find the Eden Gang's hacker, and unplug his network cable."

"As long as there are no hackers entangled, T-BUG can escape from the offensive defense wall."

Unplugging the network cable sounds simple.

It's also simple to make.

When a hacker works, he usually lies on a hacker chair with a tube inserted into the back of his head. His body is in reality, but his consciousness is immersed in the world of cyberspace.

As long as he stays in cyberspace, even if you walk up to him and put a gun to his head, he will be as unaware as a dead dog.

The old captain said that the hacker was in the Eden Gang's stronghold, so as long as the so-called Eden Gang was not alerted.

Sneak in, unplug the hacker's network cable, and come out without anyone noticing, and the mission will be over.

Not only that, the old captain also provided Su Xiao and others with a detailed map of the Eden Gang's stronghold.

Although there is no personnel deployment and patrol routes, there are secret passages to the stronghold on this map.

As long as they enter along the secret passage, they can approach the hacker without knowing it and kill him.

In other words, it's just like going to the mall and it's so relaxing.

Rebecca lay down comfortably on her seat.

It was as if he was already counting the rewards he was about to receive.

But then she seemed to have thought of something, stood up suddenly, and walked forward with an anxious look on her face and asked.

"Wait a minute, Su, whose territory did you just talk about?!"

"The Eden Gang, some people also call them "Eden's Gate". "

Seeing Rebecca's reaction, Su Xiao frowned: "I rarely interact with people in Santo Domingo. Why, are they famous in Santo Domingo? How do I remember, what happened in Santo Domingo?" Isn’t the famous gang the Six Street Gang?”

Rebecca frowned.

Su Xiao had almost never seen such an expression on this loli's face.

"This is not a matter of fame. If you look at the number of people and the scope of influence alone, the Eden Gang is indeed just a third-rate gang."

"But if you underestimate them because of this, you will suffer."

"Even the Sixth Street Gang doesn't dare to provoke them easily, not because they can't be beaten, but because once they get entangled, they will be in trouble."

"Because of the Eden Gang

The guys are all brainwashed lunatics. "

"Even if the Sixth Street Gang can chew them up, they will still lose a lot of teeth."

"If the strength suffers too much, other gangs will be happy to take over Santo Domingo for the Sixth Street Gang."

"It is precisely with this in mind that the Sixth Street Gang maintains a strange tacit understanding with the Eden Gang."

"——As long as the Eden Gang people stay in their one-third of an acre of land and don't go out wandering around, then the Sixth Street Gang won't bother them."

"Speaking of the Eden Gang, their leader is a man named Joseph Sid. He is revered as the Holy Father by his followers."