Cyberpunk: 2075

"Thank you very much for your assistance this time. It is not our style of military technology to let you go on a wasted trip.... We will submit the relevant compensation to you in the future."

After being chased back to Night City by the storm, Meredith apologized to Carl before he left, but in response, Carl just nodded slightly, took off his combat uniform and left in the motorcade.

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The agreed thing was that Karl could take a few things with him on this trip. Karl actually took a few apples, but this obviously could not be regarded as a commission for this wilderness mission. After all, there were too many accidents in this mission. , it has gone beyond the scope of ordinary cargo interception tasks.

Karl didn't say whether he wanted it or not, but the person involved had to give it. This was a sign of sincerity.

No one would have a conflict with a mercenary of Karl's level just because of a small profit. In the eyes of a corporate dog who is proficient in calculations, it is a very unworthy loss-making transaction.

Carl returned home with a pocket full of apples, looked through the cell phone communications that had been interrupted due to the hurricane, and saw some new messages.

Um.

Still nothing special to worry about, just ordinary small talk.

Perhaps the only thing that needs to be taken care of is the message from Mr. Jensen. He said that there was a factional fight within the Tiger Claw Gang this morning. Andy has found traces of a senior member of the Tiger Claw Gang and has begun to track it.

Hope everything is safe.

With this in mind, Karl put the seven apples he brought back into the refrigerator in the room. After thinking about it, he took out another one, walked to the bathroom and started cleaning the apples.

Although the water in Watson District of Night City is not much better than that of Santo Domingo District, which is seriously polluted, it is still ok to wash away the sand and dust. What follows... ． ,

I walked to the vending machine, bought a bottle of pure water, and walked to the sink to rinse it one last time.

It was hard to get fresh fruit, but it was better to eat it mixed with the contaminated water droplets left on it.

Karl remembered reading before that there was a waxy protective film on the outside of apples, and polluted water could not actually penetrate it, but it was always good to be on the safe side.

Oh, you have to do a final test before eating.

Karl walked to the weapons depot and rummaged through it, and pulled out a chip from the compartment.

The food analysis chip is the same one Chiyome used for her drug test. Carl bought it after Chiyome recommended it.

After inserting the wafer into a flat-bottomed scanning table, Carl placed the apple on it, and the scanning table began scanning.

After a few breaths, the scanning ended, the four corners of the scanning head lit up, and then a palm-sized screen popped up from the bottom, displaying the relevant scanning data.

Karl took a brief look at the scanned results, and there were no problems.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with this batch of apples themselves.

So, was this the reason why the group of attackers who were also Arasaka attacked Arasaka?

Karl took out the diamond-shaped wooden block he took back. He didn't think this thing was just an accident.

This kind of thing mixed in the pile of apples should originally be something glued to the wooden box. Although Karl didn't know if every wooden box had it, he was sure that it was definitely not ordinary.

The reason is simple.

This diamond-shaped wooden block is placed inside the box, and if the apple hits it, a concave surface will appear. This is definitely something that should not exist for transportation.

Because apples with concave surfaces are susceptible to bacterial erosion and will rot faster than intact apples, a rotten apple will emit more ethylene than normal apples, causing other apples around it to ripen faster and become overripe. Apples will also produce ethylene, which will then cause a chain reaction and destroy a box of apples.

This is why when you see rotten fruits in a pile of fruits, you should pick them out as soon as possible. Thanks to this little family knowledge in the past, Karl can judge that this kind of defect should not exist in the transportation industry.

It was intentional.

In the past, it could still explain design communication errors. In this era when fresh fruits are quite precious, such a design that will damage the company's property... ． .

If the company was really that stupid, it would not be able to survive in today's society.

Karl looked over and over at the redundant design inside the box in his hand, searching for the knowledge reserves in his brain, trying to find something that fit this diamond-shaped wooden block from everything he knew in the past, but he searched all his memories and found nothing. I can't find anything that matches what's in front of me.

Because from the appearance, this is a wooden block that feels a little thick and heavy.

Karl put the wooden block on the table, gnawed the sweet and sour apple, frowned and thought.

Assumption.

Assume first.

Assuming that the purpose of the group of Arasaka attackers was this wooden block that escaped military technology scanning because its shell was made of wood, then what was the significance of this wooden block?

Is there a different one in each box, can it be assembled to form a Gundam?

Wooden Gundam?

But even if there is one piece in each box, it is not big enough when assembled. Even if I want to put it all together, I am not sure where the remaining pieces of wood that may exist in the bad land have flown to.

Then there is only one possibility.

Putting the bitten apple next to him, Karl stretched out his hands and pinched the two corners of the diamond-shaped wooden block cautiously and carefully.

Open it and see if there's anything in it.

"Click."

The texture of the wood block was not hard, it was more like it started to break the moment Carl exerted a little force.

Hollow.

Carl watched as the five-centimeter-thick diamond-shaped wood block was opened by himself, revealing a layer of tinfoil.

Tinfoil?

This unique handicraft product originally produced in ‘Shaoxing’ was used to worship ghosts and gods. In today’s world, it mostly serves as a seal.

Carl remembered that this thing had good heat insulation.

Are you afraid of the high temperature environment that may exist in the bad land?

Carl continued to carefully pinch a corner of the tinfoil, tearing the whole piece of tinfoil into pieces and opening it. Inside the tinfoil package, there was a small sculpture.

It was a small sculpture, and it was hard to see its specific appearance. It just looked like a bird, without even claws, only two pairs of wings and a beak, and the material was also wood.

It was wood again, a Russian doll, right?

Carl took out the sculpture, crushed it with a second try, and then found that the last thing in the broken wooden sculpture was a piece of paper.

Note.

It's really rare.

Nowadays, most people use chips to carry information. Reading paper books is something that only wanderers in the bad land would do.

Carl opened the mysterious note that was hidden for a long time, and finally revealed its appearance. Then he found that there was only one sentence written inside.

'The location has been found. This paper records part of the location. The location of the item is 142°10' east longitude and 27°45' north latitude.