Cyberpunk: 2075

"Dog Town, I was thinking about going to see it a few days ago, and today I have the chance."

Sitting in the driver's seat, driving the modified Hera on the roads of Taiping State, Oliver, who had a day off yesterday, is in a good mood now: "It's really in time."

"I don't know if it's in time, but I know the reward this time is quite generous, so I have to work hard."

The voice of T-BUG came from the communication. Until now, when she mentioned the reward for this job, there was an unspeakable shock in her words: "Six hundred thousand euros per person, I have never taken such a big order."

"It's just five months' salary for Brown and his team now."

Carl didn't think the price was exaggerated. Brown and his team are now bodyguards for Kerry, one person is 120,000 euros a month,

Six hundred thousand per person for this job is indeed five months' salary for Brown and his team, and if this number is compared with the salary that Carl can get every month from the dangerous girl... .

"I'm not shocked by the money."

T-BUG made her voice through the ball: "Of course my savings are far more than this number, but this is a job, 600,000 per job, or 600,000 per person, the five of us together have 3 million, and a job that pays 3 million euros at a time... I have never received such a job."

"Correction, it should be 2.4 million, my 600,000 was exchanged for a single molecule wire."

Carl slightly pulled out a section of the single molecule wire that showed a silver luster in the car, and said: "This prosthesis, I feel it is worth more than 600,000."

"More than worth more." T-BUG heard Carl mention his single molecule wire, and his tone became more serious: "Have you really studied the single molecule wire you are using now? The material used to make up your current molecular wire is the best information transmission material. One gram of this material costs...

"I know."

Carl interrupted T-BUG's words: "Old Wei's surprised look is still fresh in my memory. "

"How can I not be surprised? In the past, I only heard from Oliver and Jack that you had a good relationship with the young lady of Arasaka. I always thought they were just bragging, and the relationship between you was at most an employer and an employee, but now look... :.. Could it be that you are really friends? "

"What else?"

"Damn it, Carl, you are not really a rich kid, is your background really made up?"

Listening to the communication, even T-BUG rarely burst out with more vulgar words. V, who was sitting next to Carl in the car, interrupted the conversation between the two because he was concerned about another thing:

"Okay, okay, let's put this kind of reward aside. We have received the full amount of money this time, so we have to work hard. I am from outside, and I have only heard a little about Dog Town from other tribes. I know that it is not a place for serious people to go.

Can anyone tell me what kind of place is the Dog Town we are about to go to? ”

V was unparalleled in the team in his persistence in doing his job after receiving the money. As V asked about Dogtown, Oliver, a native of Night City, gave a brief formal explanation.

“In short, during the Unification War, a colonel from the New America who came from military technology, named Kurt Hansen, attacked Night City on the orders of his superiors, and later took a piece of land in the southernmost part of Night City, which is the Pacific Continent;

As a result, at the end of the Unification War, due to the interference of Arasaka, Night City became a special independent city-state. Military Technology did not want to cause a second conflict with Arasaka, so it directly abandoned Hansen and his men and treated them as abandoned pawns;

And none of Hansen's group was willing to just lay down their weapons and surrender to Arasaka, nor were they willing to go back to continue to serve the New America that betrayed them, so they relied on the unique geographical location of Dogtown and Hansen's own ability to engage in arms smuggling and trading,

and established Dogtown as an independent kingdom. ”

“It sounds like another wicked thing done by a big company.”

After listening to Oliver’s popularization, who was more familiar with the affairs of the New United States due to family reasons, V expressed his own feelings.

“As for the morality of the company, we can’t really expect those high-ranking presidents or CEOs to care about these once loyal soldiers, right?”

Jack, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, said: “Hansen, who was abandoned, is now doing very well and has a great reputation. He is about to become the king of this independent kingdom. I heard that in Dog Town, all the company staff have to look at his face.”

“Do all the company staff have to look at his face?

Carl raised his eyebrows slightly: "Dogtown is not big, no matter how powerful Hansen is, he won't have many people under him. Can the company tolerate that?"

"When a group of sharks surround a marlin, the marlin can always get temporary safety. This is because no shark is willing to expose its weaknesses during hunting. If it is exposed, then the target will become two."

"In The Old Man and the Sea, the shark was also eaten by the sharks because of the injury...

Carl understood what Jack meant. In simple terms, this place is needed by all companies. It is a place for intermediaries to do business. They can take this place, but after paying the price, they may not be able to obtain the benefits that are worth the price in the competition among other companies. If losses are incurred, other companies may take advantage of it. Therefore, under the watchful eyes of the sharks, this marlin has temporarily found peace.

"For the company, everything has to be in line with interests. Now it seems that it is true."

Carl has seen the checkpoint entering Dog Town getting closer and closer, and at this moment, he thought of a very appropriate description of Kurt Hansen:

"Speaking of which, do you think that what Kurt Hansen is doing now is a bit like a middleman, but unlike the middleman who acts as a mercenary agent, Kurt Hansen is doing his own business while establishing some private business for companies?"

"Then Hanz, the biggest middleman in Taiping State, may not like Hansen too much. People in the same industry are enemies. I just don't know if Hansen thinks highly of Hanz. There is still a gap between the business on both sides."

Listening to Carl's interesting description, Oliver smiled and then slowed down.

Before entering the checkpoint of Dog Town, a group of people wearing green, similar to military uniforms, were signaling them to stop the car and walked towards them.