Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 18 18. Mission accomplished
Watching the face covered with artificial eyes exploding in front of him, Carl shook his head and tilted his body to the side.

"Hey, are you okay KK?"

Oliver, who was faster than Jack, quickly supported Carl. Looking at the bloody face of the Whirlpool Gang, he was a little shocked: "It really looks like a blood flower bloomed."

"Almost died."

Carl felt a severe pain in his face and his hand seemed to be dislocated. The power and reaction force of the Crusher were too exaggerated. He just fired a shot and lost feeling in both hands.

"Get up first, Carl."

Jack came over to help lift Carl up, and seeing his crooked nose and broken cheek with flesh and blood in cross section, he reached out and pressed on his nose.

"Bear with me."

Then, without giving Carl a chance to react, Jack bent his nose hard. Carl only felt a clicking sound in his head, and his nose was bent back.

"Ow!"

The painful feeling made Carl scream out: "Damn it, Jack, you don't even give me time to prepare?!"

"I'm going to prepare you for more pain."

Jack said with great experience, looking at Carl's miserable face, he smiled, which looked very honest under his current expression: "How do you feel now?"

"Much better. At least it's just painful, not throbbing anymore."

Grinning, Carl glanced at the Vortex Gang member lying on the ground and said, "Looking at the quality of this guy's subcutaneous armor, he might be the boss of this local Vortex Gang. Ordinary thugs probably can't afford subcutaneous armor that can resist the copperhead snake's shooting. Maybe we can breathe a sigh of relief."

"No wonder this job is worth 100,000 Euros. Damn it, I thought that company dog ​​was kind-hearted, but it turns out he's such a tough guy that even a copperhead snake can't get in. This thing will cost at least 30,000 Euros." Jack changed his previous name for his employer, and he became a company dog ​​again.

"It's okay. Now most of the things have been solved. All we need to do next is find the box and destroy it. Then we'll have the remaining 70,000 euros. We can share them later. You'll have enough money to rebuild a similar subdermal armor."

Carl patted Jack on the shoulder and said, "But after we find the thing, we have to go find Lao Wei to treat us."

"Let's do as you say."

Oliver picked up the Crusher that had fallen out of Carl's hand when he fired the gun. "We can also use the access to the bodies of the previous group of people to see if we can take the money from their personal accounts. I hope the brains aren't too badly damaged, or we won't be able to read it."

"That might not work. I shot each of them in the head."

Karl shrugged: “Speaking of which, why did this woman chase you and beat you up? What romantic debt do you owe?”

"Who knows? He's dead anyway, so there's no way to ask him. If he's still alive, I can try to find a hacker to read his data."

While chatting, the three of them acted quickly. Jack, who had a leg injury, picked up guns along the way and sold them. Oliver and Carl, who had no mobility problems but was hit in the face, went to find the computer in the factory and connected to it to read the records about the boxes.

It took Carl half an hour to find a computer on the first floor of the factory. Although he did not read any information about the mission from it, he still saw some interesting things.

That was the record of the Vortex Gang's recent attacks on various companies and conflicts with various gangs.

"The Whirlpool Gang started making trouble again in the Kabuki District yesterday." This was what Carl heard when he first came to this world, from the announcer's words, plus the robbery of the Sixth Street Gang's gun transport related to Oliver, and the robbery of the company's dog box in this mission, and then count the series of records on the computer now.
The Whirlpool Gang is preparing for something, and this thing might not be that small.

But this has nothing to do with me.

He was just a small figure who had just arrived in Night City on his second day. He couldn't get involved in the affairs of a large gang with a total number of more than 1,300 people. Although he had killed more than 20 people from the Whirlpool Gang, it was still too few compared to the total number of people.

'I found the box.'

Oliver's communication came, along with the relevant location. After receiving the communication, Carl disconnected the computer in front of him, and took the Lexington and fired a shot to destroy its data.

It wasn't for the purpose of hiding, after all, their situation had already been exposed through surveillance, they just took the computer to test its power.

Lexington can't penetrate subcutaneous armor, but it can still destroy computers. However, look at the way its bullets get stuck in the computer.
'It's just okay.'

The penetration is still not enough, maybe I really need to buy a new gun. In his heart, Carl was ready to abandon this "old love" that he had just obtained the next day.

When he arrived at where Oliver was, Jack had already arrived before him, and the box that was exactly the same as the one in the information given by the employer was right in front of him.

Carl nodded to the two people, then dialed his employer's number, and after a few seconds, the call was connected.

"How was the mission accomplished?"

This number seemed to be a number that the employer had specially arranged for this mission. As soon as the call was connected, the other party knew it was from Carl.

"I've got the box. Do you need to verify it?"

"What does the box look like?"

Carl observed the box and reported the relevant data as well as the feature of the box with a red flower pattern on it.

"It's this box. Destroy it."

"understood."

Carl nodded at Oliver, and Oliver walked to the access point in the room, used his own access point to connect to the room's surveillance and started recording the screen.

Then Carl took a few steps back, and Jack tied a few grenades next to the box. Then he put the box in a corner away from them, pulled out the bolt in one breath, and ran away.

Five seconds later, the grenade exploded and the box was blown into pieces. In the last cracked image before the explosion, Carl seemed to see some strip-shaped data chips in it, but all of this turned into ashes or fragments with the exploding fireball.

Oliver waited for a while, unplugged the cable, and transferred the video file to Carl, who forwarded it to his employer.

After more than ten seconds, Karl's call with his employer was disconnected.

"You have done a good job on this mission. I am very satisfied that you are not too curious."

At the same time as this message was transmitted over the phone, Carl's account indicated that 70,000 Euros had been deposited into his account.

This employer is very decisive in giving rewards after the work is completed. To be honest, he is a good employer.

"how?"

Oliver glanced at the residue. Although he was a little curious about what was inside the box, he was more concerned about the reward.

"It's in the account. I'll transfer it to you right away."

The next second, Oliver received a tip that he got 23,300 Euros, and so did Jack.

"We still have an extra hundred euros here that's hard to divide. When we have enough money for dinner, let's go find a nice restaurant to eat tonight."

"I know a few good restaurants."

Jack agreed with Carl's suggestion, but he still added: "If we only go to those places, one hundred euros may not be enough. I'll go back a little bit."

"Come on, consider it my treat."

With Carl's indifferent wave of his hand, their team's first mission was over.

Task amount reward.

One hundred thousand euros.

　p.s. I will adjust the price of the prosthesis according to my own feeling, and the same goes for the prices of other things. After all, the rewards for tasks in the game and in the anime are too different. I hope you understand.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)