LRAB Chapter 63
Chapter 63
Chapter 63 Faraday
“The border security made a report to the company, saying that we took their goods.”
“This group of people who are pushing the line dare to mess with us and make fun of us. I have kindly advised him, but I didn’t expect him to do it anyway.”
A Li looked at Jack Wells:”I have to go back.”
“where to?”
“Send someone to hell!”
Soon,”Shadow” came to the border station not far from Night City. An armored vehicle was parked next to it. Jack Wells looked at Ali and said,”Brother, do we really want to do this? That’s the border of Night City. Killing them is a big deal.”
“I know it’s a big deal, but the murderer was Shadow, and it has little to do with Jack and Ali. Besides, it’s just a small city defense guard who died, and it won’t be reported to the higher-ups.”
“Don’t worry, Jack, I can guarantee they won’t find any evidence of our murder.”
“I have [speed] and [invisibility], and I am also a [hacker].】！”
“Anyway, Jack, you stay here and take care of me. If I fail, my escape will be in your hands.”
“Don’t worry Fratres (brother), as long as you come over I will step on the accelerator to the bottom!”
“Be careful. If the alarm inside goes off, Old Jack will not be afraid. I will drive in with my gun pointed to pick you up!”
Ali patted Jack Wells on the shoulder. His words were enough. Then, the [Legendary Optical Camouflage] was activated, and the whole person entered the invisible state.
【[Legendary Sian Westin] was activated, and Ali’s figure instantly disappeared in front of Jack Wells. He was approaching the border inspection building at a very fast speed, leaving only Jack Wells with a worried look.
At this time, the border guard in charge of the interrogation did not know that death was approaching. He was still lying on the recliner, touching his pocket and whistling leisurely with a handful of account chips”earned” today.
Of course, this pile of account chips is not something he can keep alone. Every colleague at the border station has to share a part, but the money he can get is not a small amount. At least it is much higher than the salary he earned by running to the border to be a border guard.
But the whistle stopped blowing. He didn’t know what was wrong today. He always felt a blockage in his chest, as if something unfortunate was about to happen. This made him think of a sentence that the mysterious man said to him earlier.
“A heaven, a hell!”
“Fuck, what the hell is heaven? I’m just a wanderer without a family. I came to Night City to look for food. How dare you threaten me?”
“They are all stupid idiots, they really think they are Johnny Silverhand or Morgan Blackhand. Why are they pretending to be so powerful? They must have died in the hands of military technology!”
“Guess who’s going to die?”
At this moment, something was wrong in the interrogation room. The surveillance camera on the upper left corner suddenly flashed and stopped, accompanied by a familiar voice!
The city defense guard’s pupils shrank, because in the invisible air, the figure of Ali slowly emerged, and at the same time, his two shining electromagnetic mantis knives appeared!
“save……”
Puff!
The city defense guard wanted to call for help immediately, but before he could even shout for help, his throat was cut open by a knife, causing the sound to get stuck in his throat, and he could no longer shout.
“Don’t be afraid, take a deep breath”
“It’s normal to feel a little dizzy.”
The city guard’s eyes were red and he was having trouble breathing. He stared at the”shadow” in front of him whose appearance he couldn’t see clearly. At this moment, he felt regretful.
“A heaven, a hell”
“It turns out that this”thought” represents the choice in life”
“If God can give me another chance, I will definitely……”
The city defense guard stretched out his hand, but it fell down weakly. Ali looked at the corpse with wide eyes in front of him. He stepped forward and took out all the account chips in his pocket, then turned and left.
“I hope you can keep your eyes open in your next life”
“Be more conspicuous!”
Ali left. Relying on the invisibility brought by the [Legendary Optical Camouflage] and the extreme speed of [Legendary Sian Westin], he sneaked into the city defense station and killed people without anyone noticing, and left without anyone noticing.
Returning to Jack Wells, Ali took out the account chip that he wanted to hide secretly:”Look, look what I found.”
“Wow, you’re so awesome, Li, you actually did it. You killed a city defense guard without anyone noticing. This will be on the news tomorrow morning, and it will be big news!”
“Go ahead, use the middleman’s money to shut your mouth.”
Looking at the excited Jack, Ali threw the account chip given by the middleman to Jack Wells. Since he wanted to hide it secretly, he would give it to him openly.
This was also a warning to Jack that he didn’t care about Jack Wells’s cleverness, but he still hoped that this cleverness would not be put on Ali. After all, what he wanted was nothing in Ali’s eyes. What was really expensive was the brotherhood between each other.
Jack Wells took his account chip, and he moved his lips slightly to say something, but was interrupted by Ali:”Okay, stop nagging, you come and drive me, let’s go back to the garage to divide the stolen goods, and then go home and have a good sleep.”
“All right!”
Jack Wells thought about it and decided to explain it clearly when they divided the spoils. Heywood’s men never hesitated. He drove Ali back to the garage where they hid.
“Let’s calculate the profit first. I’ll give you half of the 30,000 euros from selling the car.……”
“Wait, Ali, can we share the money this time?”
“”Okay.”
Jack Wells seemed to have something to hide. Ali didn’t understand what he was worried about, so he nodded. After all, it didn’t matter who got the money.
“First of all, I can’t take a penny of this 30,000 euros, and the money given by the middleman to bribe the group of people who pressed the line, and this armored vehicle”
“Although I don’t want to admit it, Old Jack really didn’t help from beginning to end. Although my brother is greedy for money, he never takes money from his brothers.”
“I only take half of the task, and I think it’s worth it to get 6,000 euros.”
Jack Wells said, and he handed over the account chip, but Ali didn’t take it.
“First of all, Jack, you have misjudged your position and your value.”
“You are my teammate. You didn’t hesitate when we fought the”Night Walker”. You didn’t hesitate when we faced so many people like”Adecado”. You followed me when I went back to the city defense to kill people.”
“Although you want to secretly save some money from the middleman to bribe the city defense, there is nothing wrong with that. You are more useful than you think.”
“But……”
“Okay, stop being so hypocritical. The Jack Wells I know is a man with big ambitions and wants to be a legend. Don’t forget your promise, Jack.”
“If we want to be famous, we must not be too particular about details.”
“Split in half, we have to do this anyway”
“Partner!”
Ali stretched out his arm, Jack Wells bit his lip, the big guy actually burst into tears, he looked at the arm that Ali stretched out, gritted his teeth and grabbed it.
The two men grabbed each other’s arms, feeling the strength coming from their arms, Jack Wells finally showed his original confident smile:”Fratres (brother)!”
Actually, Ali could understand Jack Wells’s feeling of loss. After all, he was a proud man with a strong self-esteem, but he was led through the game by Ali, whom he considered a”brother”, from beginning to end. This twisted and entangled feeling might not be easier than if he was really hit by a bullet.
And what Ali was doing now was to dig out the bullet in his heart. After all, it was Jack Wells who led him to the first commissioned mission. At the same time, Jack had been dealing with his sister for him, which brought a lot of convenience to Ali.
Jack had done the best he could, and he didn’t ask for anything in return. What could Jack Wells be blamed for?
This sentimental big guy, his heart is always filled with a little love, which caused him to die in Night City at a young age, and was also the reason why he could become a legend in the next life.
“Ah Li, but I still think this is not a good idea. We can split the money, but what about the car? You don’t want the cash, and I can’t split it in half and give it to you.”
“It’s very simple, just consider it as a gift from me to you.”
Ali took out his Mallorian Overture:”You can give me a pistol, so it’s not too much for me to give you a car in return? What, do you think my gift is too light? Or do you think it comes from”Night Walker”?”？”
“No way, man I love this armored car, it’s the best car I’ve ever driven, old Jack”
“It sounds like you’ve driven other nice cars.”
“Hehe, that’s right.”
Just talk it out with Jack Wells, and then the two brothers went to the trunk of the car, and Jack Wells opened the cargo that they had obtained after going through so many dangers.
“Ah Li, that middleman cheated us. If you weren’t here for this commission, I think Old Jack would have failed. He might even have lost his life. So I don’t plan to give this thing to him so easily.”
“Why don’t we open it and see what treasure is inside? If it’s good stuff, we can sell it to him at a higher price. If it’s useless, we can just throw it to Faraday as usual.”
“Wait, Faraday?”
Ali looked at Jack Wells:”You said that our middleman for this commission is Faraday?”
Ali was a little surprised to hear this name, because he was quite familiar with this person. The image of Faraday suddenly appeared in his mind. He had short hair, three eyes on the left face and one eye on the right face. He was wearing a suit and looked sinister and cunning. He was a famous four-eyed guy in Night City.
Faraday is a character in”Cyberpunk: Edgewalker” and the most disgusting villain. As a man who works for military technology, he often instructs Mann’s team to carry out work related to Tanaka in the anime.
He is the middleman of Night City. He has a cold and inhuman personality. He is also a fence-sitter. He will move his ass to the side that pays more. In the anime, he also betrayed military technology and was successfully bought by Arasaka.
At the same time, he is a tight egoist. He will not reveal too much mission information to the hired object to reduce his own risks, and he will not be too close to Cyberpunk.
It is undeniable that his ability as a middleman is actually quite strong. He is precise in doing things. If he makes a plan, he needs to master all the actions that the commissioned Cyberpunk will take.
In the anime”Edgewalker”, he commissioned Mann’s team and others stole the navigation records of Tanaka’s driver, trying to use it to grasp Tanaka’s actions. He was very dissatisfied with Mann and others for not following the original plan and alarming the other party, and warned them personally. After Mann’s death, he failed to steal the Arasaka intelligence in Tanaka’s brain, and could not get the reward from [Military Technology]. He was attacked by people hired by Arasaka and almost died.
Later, he contacted Arasaka’s personnel and made a deal, and finally decided to help Arasaka capture Lucy, a network hacker who threatened Arasaka. He even used Qi Wei to betray Mann’s team and discovered Tanaka’s [Cyborg] plan, so he decided to help David Martinez install Cyborg again, so as to give the data as a gift to Arasaka, and seek a position in Arasaka Enterprises.
Unfortunately, he finally rushed to the Arasaka Building, but was still severely injured by David, who was close to mental collapse and wearing [Cyborg], using gravity.
He then called the trauma team, but unfortunately he was stopped by David using [Sian Westin] when retreating, and was involved in the explosion of the missile launched by Adam’s hammer at David.���Was blown away and fell to his death in the Arasaka Building
“Right? Any questions? I tell you, he is a very famous middleman, wearing a suit, driving a luxury car, and he has many famous and powerful cyberpunks working with him.”
“I originally thought that this job would be a good one. When I accepted the job, the four-eyed guy chose simple ones. I didn’t expect that the job would be so dangerous.”
“If I remember correctly, Faraday is the middleman of military technology!”
Ali looked at Jack Wells with a dark face:”Jack, don’t you do any research before you take the job? How dare you take the job for a military technology company sent by a middleman of military technology?”
“No way? This is the first time I get a job from Faraday. I guess he is from the military technology industry? But who would have thought that as a middleman for military technology, why would he send us to get military technology goods?”
“Ali, what do you think he means? Is he trying to rob his fellow thieves?”
After hearing what Ali said, Jack Wells finally realized that something was wrong. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this job was not right. Although Faraday had a good influence, from the exit documents to the customs declaration form, it was obvious that these things were not something that a small middleman could get.
“I think I know the reason. I’ll tell you later.”
“But there’s really a lizard in there, right?”
Ali touched the black safe on the trunk of the car, which had the military technology logo on it. When he opened it, a classic iguana appeared inside.
“Ino, Nanmes, Ali, how did you guess so accurately? It really is a lizard, a real living iguana! Damn, didn’t this thing become extinct more than 30 years ago?”
Jack Wells widened his eyes:”Man, maybe we are really going to get rich. An animal that should have been extinct but is now alive must be worth a lot of money!”
“What a pity! I originally wanted to have a pet, and named it”Qian Duoduo”.””
“But the most important thing right now is to earn more euros. This kind of rare goods is in short supply all over the world. We can get more by finding a reliable middleman. After all, those rich people love to collect these rare species.”
Compared to Jack’s surprise, Ali seemed a little calm. He touched the cold iguana. The hard touch was very uncomfortable. As expected, cold-blooded animals are not as comfortable as fluffy cats.
“But Ali, why did Faraday do this? According to what you said, he is a middleman in military technology. Although this iguana is very precious, unless he is crazy, he would not destroy his reputation, right?”
“This is a very common company tactic, and Faraday is just an obedient tool. For example, this iguana was sent by the US headquarters of Military Technology, but a leader in the Night City branch wanted to take it for himself. What should be done?”
“It’s very simple. Ask a middleman to hire a few rookie racers who are willing to sacrifice their lives for money.���The punks snatched the goods and returned them to the leaders,”passing from left hand to right hand”.”，
Then this little rare thing will become the leader’s personal collection, and we will just become the unknown scapegoat in their report.”
“No way, there are so many twists and turns in the company?”
“This is just the beginning.”
Ali looked at Jack Wells, who put the lizard back into the box:”Faraday has so many people under him, do you know why he gave the job to a strange and fledgling cyberpunk like you?”
“Because he has no intention of letting you live. When you bring this iguana to Faraday, his thugs hiding in the dark will shoot you in the head.”
“Only when the boy is killed without a complete body and without evidence can the leader feel at ease. After all, how can the life of a rookie street kid be compared to pleasing the leader?”
“What!”