Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

"Good evening, Night City! Here's an urgent news break. The Westbrook District is in turmoil today. Thirty-two criminal incidents occurred in just one day. The NCPD is exhausted and clamoring for a salary increase. .The Tiger Claw Gang, which used to be domineering in the past, suffered heavy losses today. Forty-one backbone members died on the street, the same way of death! Ha!..."

"Buen trabajo (Spanish: Well done)! Girl!" Jack Wells, who was sitting in the passenger seat, listened carefully to the radio broadcast, turned around and gave Xi Da a thumbs up, "It's so easy to do it!"

"No matter how many bastards from the Tiger Claw Gang die, they are like cockroaches in the garbage dump, they are endlessly killed and exterminated!" V drove the car and glanced at the back seat of the car through the rearview mirror. The short-haired girl who was talking to someone on the phone said, "Thanks to Xi Da, otherwise it would still be disgusting to be bitten by these cockroaches."

"I'm just so-so. My partner...my boyfriend is awesome!" Xida responded, defining the relationship between them without permission. She glanced nervously at Yahweh beside her.

Yahweh turned his head and smiled at her, keeping his right hand where it was without any intention of moving.

Xi Da was worried about gain and loss, and held his hand tightly with her left hand. However, considering that now was not a good time for in-depth communication, she sighed and turned to respond to the surprised gossip from the two people in the front row.

"Joooo!" Jack was shocked that Xida's "boyfriend" could easily kill forty-one people remotely without showing his face in an instant. He thought that even if he was not a legendary cyber hacker, he was not far behind.

V raised her eyebrows. She had looked carefully before. The forty-one Tiger Claw gangsters died in extremely miserable circumstances. As a senior employee of Arasaka Company, she subconsciously determined that Xi Da's "boyfriend" was extremely dangerous and uncontrollable. Factor, but in a blink of an eye she suppressed this professional instinct.

In the City of Night, strength is the key to survival. V sincerely wishes for her to have such a strong companion to protect her. She doesn't want to hear that this cute little girl dies unexpectedly.

Xi Da generously thanked the two for their special blessings, and said that she and her boyfriend still had private matters to discuss. V and Jack smiled at each other jokingly and did not continue to chatter.

"Yahweh..." Heda moved to the left, turned around and looked at Yahweh, getting closer to the illusory him.

"Xida?" Yahweh also turned his head and looked at her beautiful violet eyes. He felt that her mood was a bit unstable.

Xida Kasdeyi is a very emotional girl. This is the conclusion reached by Yahweh through 24-hour non-stop observation.

The same was true for their first encounter. For some reason that Yahweh still couldn't figure out, he was aware of it when she desperately inserted a biochip of unknown origin into the interface on the back of her head.

She is as depraved as the charming Asmodeus, and is the first anchor for him to fall into the mortal world, but he is willing to do so.

So he simply moved to the right to Xi Da's position, so that their figures overlapped.

Just like this morning, even if there is no warmth of physical contact, the feeling of heart-to-heart connection cannot be deceiving.

Xi Ta pursed her lips and turned to look at the flowing neon lights outside the window.

In the blurred reflection of the car window, the girl with short hair smiled brightly.

Compared to Xi Da's cautious driving style and Yawei's smooth driving style, V's driving style is particularly violent. It wasn't until Tingwei Mackinac stopped that Xi Da came back to her senses from the ambiguous atmosphere. She glanced at the time displayed on the car's display in surprise. The half-hour drive took V only fifteen minutes. Within minutes, he followed the navigation and sent them to the next life.

"This is V's first time here," Jack Wells got out of the car and led V down the stairs to the entrance to the next life.

Xi Da shook his dizzy head, got out of the car with Yawei, and walked side by side behind Jack and V.

"Hi! Emerick!" Seeing from a distance that Jack and the security guard at the door of Afterlife were not dealing with each other very much, Xida quickly ran over to say hello. She didn't want to be scolded by Rogge again later.

"Welcome back, kid." Faced with a good kid like Xi Da who often comes in and out of the next life, the fierce Emerick also softened.

Jack touched his nose and followed Xi Da into the afterlife club under V's mocking eyes.

"You would never imagine, V," Jack whispered to V, "this place was a morgue decades ago!"

"Oh!" V replied perfunctorily, looking curiously at the unique decoration of the next life.

"Don't take it seriously! Girl," Jack patted V on the shoulder, "Can you imagine? Susan Forrest, Old Snake and even Morgan Blackhand are all regular visitors here!" For Ding Ding of Night City Jack is a treasure trove of famous legendary figures.

"Good evening, Xi Da," bartender Claire greeted the guests as usual, "and Jack Wills and..." She hesitated appropriately, kindly leaving space for the new faces to introduce themselves.

"V, just call me V." V nodded to Claire to express his gratitude.

"Okay, Jack, V, do you want a drink?" Claire put down the wine glass that she had just wiped. "You are not allowed to drink. Roger specially said that girls who are not good drinkers are not allowed to drink!" She squinted and smiled. , pointing not far away.

"Well..." Xi Da stood on tiptoes and made a cute face towards Rogge who was watching the movement here, but did not refuse Rogge's kindness.

Jack and V were a little surprised that Queen Rogge of the Afterlife was taking care of Xi Da, but they didn't say much and let Xi Da sit on the other side, which just gave the little girl and her partner who was talking on the phone some private space.

"Two glasses of old-fashioned tequila, with some beer and chili." Jack made a "two" gesture, which was so funny that V couldn't bear to look at it.

"Two shots of Johnny Silverhand, here you go," Claire finished the mix quickly and skillfully.

"It seems that someone has done enough homework here." She approved and pushed the wine glass in front of Jack and V.

"That's right, chica (girl)." Jack took the wine glass.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" V looked at the two people in confusion as they were talking about something she didn't understand, as if they were having an underground connection.

"It's an old rule here." Xi Da, who was sitting aside, took the time to explain.

"That's right, the drinks here are all under the names of regular customers." Claire cleaned the bar and wine glasses with a smile, and added, "If you want to die particularly wonderfully, you'd better do it in a big way and die in the middle. , people in Night City will remember his name."

"You said it, I want to make one for myself," Jack took a sip of the wine. The sweet and spicy taste made him excited.

"The price is too high..." V shook his head, a little hard to understand.

"Everyone has to die! Rather than die of old age and no place, I would rather do something big and live my life in vain!" Jack was open-minded and looked ambitious.

V didn't answer, just raised his glass towards Jack.

"To the City of Night! To the next life!" They clinked their glasses boldly and downed the drink in one gulp.

Xi Ta sat on the other side and politely raised a glass filled with ice water to gesture to the two of them.

"My name is Jack, Jack Wells," Jack wiped the spilled wine from the corner of his mouth, "Would you like to leave a copy of my recipe?" he asked Claire.

"Okay." Claire hesitated for a few seconds, not letting Jack down.

"One shot of vodka, ice, lime juice, ginger beer," Jack paused, "and most importantly... add some love."

"Okay, I remember." Claire nodded, turned around and asked V, "What about you? Miss V?"

"I'll forget it..." V shook her head. If there were no accidents, she would have to spend most of her life in Arasaka Company, which would be incompatible with the legendary life.

"I want it, I want it!" Xi Da looked at him with eyes wide open.

Yahweh was also very curious about what recipe Xi Da wanted to keep, since he obviously had such a poor alcohol capacity.

"Okay, okay..." Unable to resist Xi Da's nagging, Claire reluctantly agreed.

"One for me and one for my boyfriend!" Xi Da began to push further.

"There's really nothing I can do about you..." Claire was helpless and curious about what kind of wine formula there was in Xi Da's little head.

"A cup of Xida Castei! The recipe is a cup of new tequila, orange liquor, some lime juice, coarse salt, and ice!" Xida gestured happily with both hands in the air.

"anything else?"

"And...wait for me to ask." Xida frowned delicately and turned to look at Yahweh who had already come to her side.

"Yahweh, what's your last name?" she asked in a low voice, but she didn't even know his last name. What a big mistake!

"Yahweh Kasdeyi" Yahweh reciprocated and looked at Xi's cute face that suddenly turned red, and was very satisfied with her cute reaction.

"...Yahweh Kasdeyi! The recipe is..." She forgot her words in excitement, "a glass of gin, absinthe and vodka, plus lemon peel and olives!"

"The King of Cocktails and the Queen of Cocktails?" Claire smiled exaggeratedly, "They share the same last name... It seems like our little Xi has grown up..."

"Well..." Xi Da felt as if his face was about to melt.

Jack and V looked at each other and both thought Xiao Xi was very interesting.

"Anyway, here's to the City of Night!" Jack and V exchanged glasses for each other, Xi Da also joined in the fun with water instead of wine, and Yahweh sat beside her, watching everything silently.

Under the green light of the next life, the joy and happiness on their faces are so eye-catching and fascinating.

Company V and Jack in the game are already old acquaintances at the beginning, so we might as well change it.

I am also grateful to my friends for their support. I have received the website message and can sign the contract. After the contract is signed, the plot will be more dramatic. I always feel that the relationship between Yahweh and Xida is a bit dull.