Cyberpunk: 2075

"The drinks you want."

The female bartender at the Hawkmoth Bar did not keep Carl and the others waiting for too long. After everyone from Carl's team sat down, a cup of sweet tea was placed in front of Carl, who asked for a drink first.

The sweet tea given to Karl was obviously prepared. It not only contained ice cubes, but also put a few mint leaves. This kind of sweet tea tasted refreshing and cold. In this increasingly hot weather, it was obviously the best. It couldn't be more enjoyable.

It seems that the business of this shop is good, and there is nothing strange about ice cubes. An ordinary ice machine can use water that may not be very clean to make ice cubes that look translucent, but mint leaves are not something like that. There are bars. ‘

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Looking at the sweet tea brought to him, Karl looked at the mint leaves.

In bars in Night City, even if there are drinks with leaves like this, those green choices are usually rosemary, because rosemary has the effect of protecting and nourishing the liver, and drinking it together with alcohol can relieve hangovers. , to alleviate the damage caused by alcohol to the liver. Although most reformed personnel do not care about this, high-end bars will always have some corporate dogs who will take injections tomorrow but pursue health. Rosemary is for those personnel Prepared, but mint leaves are different.

In terms of taste, mint leaves pursue coolness and refreshing. This flavor is usually prepared in bars for those guests who do not like to drink excessively or who prefer fresh tastes.

Such customers often do not come to the bar to enjoy alcohol, or in other words, they do not come for the wine.

If you are in a bar like "Afterlife", it is not surprising to see mint leaves, because that is where Afterlife receives all kinds of guests, and afterlife can also have the financial resources to prepare fresh mint leaves. However, in Afterlife Isn’t it a bit unusual that mint leaves are always available in regular pubs in apparently poorer neighborhoods?

Calmly, Carl picked up the sweet tea, and just as he was halfway through it, Jack stretched out his hand towards the sweet tea in his hand: "Carl, I'm so thirsty, can you give me a sip to moisten my mouth first?" ”

"I don't care."

Karl naturally handed over the sweet tea, and Jack smiled sheepishly and took a big sip.

"I have activated the prosthetic body 'Black Mamba' I installed on the circulatory system, and have also started taste analysis of the liquid components in the entrance. If I detect toxins later, I will do it directly. ‘

Jack drank the sweet tea with a smile, and at the same time notified his companions in the communication to get ready.

In order to cooperate with the function of his violent prosthesis in regulating body hormones, Jack recently installed the prosthesis 'Black Mamba', which can assist the circulatory system in expelling toxins and resisting toxins. As the only one in the team who has special skills for this As a human being, it was naturally impossible for him to let Karl drink an uncertain drink in front of strange personnel, so he took on this responsibility himself.

The sweet tea drink liquid was not swallowed directly by Jack. Jack kept pouring the glass, but used his big hands to conceal the change in the amount of liquid in the cup. He only used his tongue and lips to take in a little sweet tea into his mouth, and then The wrist moved slightly,

He poured the liquid inside into his inner sleeve along his wrist.

"Ha, it's so enjoyable."

Some ice cubes were left, and Jack's palms were slightly bent, covering his already wet inner sleeves at an angle that the bartender at the Hawkmoth Bar couldn't see, and then he put back the empty glass with only some ice cubes left. on the counter.

"I asked Karl, why do you always like to drink sweet tea? In this weather, you drink it mixed with ice cubes and mint leaves.

My whole body felt so good, I felt like my mouth was no longer dry all of a sudden. "

Seeing that he was talking with saliva flying around, Jack showed an innocent look that was surprised by the taste of sweet tea. While he was speaking with emotion, he used the upper and lower parts of his lips to spread all the contamination on his lips. Also shake off some of the wine that needs to be soaked in.

"You finished mine in one gulp. I originally wanted to take a sip without dissing you."

Amid Carl's complaints, which seemed to be a little disgusted, Jack had already completed the test.

I don’t have any problem with the ingredients of the wine just relying on my mouth. My prosthetic authority has been released to T-BUG. Can T-BUG find signs of invading substances from the circulatory system that are not good for the body? If Yes, remember to call the trauma team so I can lie down and be ready to be lifted up. ‘

The trauma team is not allowed to enter the Dog Town area. I saw the news a few days ago that the trauma team was shot down by the ghost dog... ,

The test was completed and the ingredients were normal. Except for the sweet tea drink, which as always contained excessive amounts of sugar, and some large amounts of added sugar from the brand, everything was normal.

"In other words, there was no poisoning?

While chatting with Mann, Oliver sent a message in the communication: "Are we too worried?"

"Everyone has secrets, maybe this is it. It's always right to be careful in Dog Town, but you should also be careful next time. If the first cup is not poisoned, maybe the next few cups will be poisoned. ”

Looking at the T-BUG message, V didn’t feel that his companions were making too much fuss, but there was a problem:

"Jack found an excuse to drink the first glass of wine, so we can't all find excuses to drink the rest of the wine for Jack. We don't have equipment to resist toxins. How can we drink? Or tell Mann and the others to leave. Don’t stay in a bar that makes you feel weird.”

‘This is a good idea, although according to Mann and the others, this bar is their station in Dog Town, and nothing has happened to them, but things always have to be safe. "

Jack said in the communication: "Why should we find a reason to drag Mann and the others away and let them take us around?"

"It's possible, but not now."

Karl agrees with not drinking at the Worry Bar, but he just visited the city layout center of Night City and got the general building plan of this place before the Unification War, and in that On the picture, he found an interesting point.

According to the structure of this place, there must be a large open space, and it is located underground of the Hawk Moth Bar. In other words, the Hawk Moth Bar is opened above the large space, and the Hawk Moth Bar is Judging from the age of the structure, it was built six years ago.

And six years ago...

It was the end of the Unification War.

This is too much of a coincidence.