Chapter 631 Mysterious Client

Walking up the dim staircase leading to the underground entrance, just one more step down is the entrance to the Afterlife Bar.

As soon as he entered the five-meter-long passage, the music inside the bar could be heard faintly.

A tall man with a face full of mechanical lines stood there, looking at the visitors with a stern expression.

Seeing Vincent's appearance, a smile appeared on the strong man's stern face.

"Good evening, V."

"Good evening, Bronson."

Vincent smiled back.

The strong man's name is Aymeric Bronson. He is an exclusive mercenary for the next life. He is equipped with many high-end prosthetics and his strength is pretty good. Although he is not as good as Vincent today, he can deal with some gang members and troublesome mercenaries. The soldiers are still more than enough.

Generally speaking, all guests who come to the bar for the first time, regardless of qualifications, will be stopped by him as long as their reputation is not famous enough.

But Vincent certainly wouldn't be treated that way.

The first time he came here, he had already built a straight passage with the corpses of hundreds of scavengers.

Bronson smiled, checked his mind, and made way for a passage.

The iron door in front of him slowly opened, and the rock music in the bar suddenly surged out.

Vincent smiled and bumped fists with Bronson, then took Jack into the Afterlife Bar.

"Hi V, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Claire at the bar front desk greeted Vincent familiarly.

Vincent walked over with a smile: "Not bad. How about you guys? How is business?"

Claire wiped the wine glass and shrugged: "Look at it yourself, it's not bad. People who come here, whether they are discussing business or relaxing, are always thirsty. I only need to be responsible for pouring the wine."

After a few polite words, Vincent returned to the topic.

"Where's Roger?"

"In the private room inside, you can just go in without saying hello."

"Okay, see you later!"

Vincent waved his hand and walked towards the back of the bar.

Jack was a step behind, leaning on the front desk and whispered: "Have a glass of old-fashioned tequila with some beer and chili. Leave it here for now. I'll come and get it when the conversation is over."

Claire smiled and said: "A glass of Johnny Silverhand, no problem."

"Jack!"

Vincent's voice came from afar.

Jack winked at Claire, then strode after her.

After bypassing the winding passages and passing through the noisy crowd smelling of alcohol, the two arrived at the secret private room inside the bar.

Generally speaking, only the most powerful business in Night City would be discussed in this kind of place.

Jack became interested, with a look of excitement on his tough-guy face.

Vincent is also very happy, because in his influence, the system will reward a lot of points for tasks like this.

After this mission, he might be able to exchange enough system points for a complete set of Nano Iron Man suits.

When they arrived outside the secret box, two bodyguards in suits, a man and a woman, were standing at the door, looking at them sternly.

What surprised Vincent and Jack was that the degree of transformation of the two bodyguards' prosthetics did not seem to be very high. At least on the surface, there was no trace of mechanical integration.

...Could it be the most high-end bionic prosthetic limb?

Vincent raised his eyebrows and subconsciously turned on the scan.

At this moment, the blue light in the eyes of the woman in a suit, who was about 1.7 meters tall, directly invaded his system and turned off the scanning function of his mechanical prosthetic eye.

Looking at the red warning pop-up window in front of him, Vincent felt a sense of shock in his heart.

His prosthetic eye is a legendary golden prosthetic body [Qi Lu Si’s Oracle]!

How could he be noticed by the other party so easily...

It seems that the client is very powerful.

Vincent thought silently in his heart.

The woman in a suit looked at him coldly and said, "Mr. V, please be more respectful..."

Vincent raised his hand with a smile and apologized: "Sorry, sorry, I was presumptuous."

The strong man in a suit next to him turned slightly sideways and said in the same cold voice: "Come in, our boss wants to see you."

"laugh--"

The iron door of the soundproof box slowly opened.

Vincent responded with a friendly smile and walked in without fear.

The dim box was only illuminated by light strips embedded in the ceiling, and the four walls were made of special sound-absorbing metal. Even if there was a sudden explosion in the box, the outside world would not know about it at all.

On the left side after entering the door, Rogge, the Queen of the Afterlife and the most powerful middleman in Night City, sat there, with his left hand on the back of the leather sofa, a glass of wine in his right hand, and a slight glance at Vincent at the door.

Further inside, a handsome young man in a white suit sat there, with his hands folded on his chest, and a pair of dark red eyes looking at him with interest.

"Since everyone is here, I won't bother you."

Rogge stood up with the wine glass, raised it to the handsome young man with a smile, and drank it all in one gulp.

After finishing the drink, she put down the wine glass, and when passing Vincent at the door, she reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"V, wish you good luck."

Vincent smiled slightly, and just when he was about to reply, a message suddenly popped up in his eyes, which was sent to him by Rogge.

"V, be careful. I can't find out the origin of this person. You have to be careful and pay attention."

"……Thanks."

Vincent calmly thanked him.

Rogge's eyes moved slightly, but he walked out of the box without speaking.

"Are you the client?"

Vincent unceremoniously sat on the sofa on the right side of the door.

Jack stood at the door, his arms crossed, his eyes seemingly looking at the boy, but in fact he was paying attention to the two bodyguards outside the door.

The two brothers have been partners for a long time, and they know very well how to cooperate to maximize safety in this situation.

The handsome boy in the white suit didn't care about the two people's defense and vigilance.

He threw out a paper document and said with a smile: "I don't like to talk nonsense. The content of the commissioned task and the subsequent reward are all written on it. Take a look for yourself!"

"..."

Vincent picked up the document and said, "Handwritten, this is really rare!"

The boy in the suit smiled and said, "The target is Arasaka Company, we can't afford to be careless."

Vincent's palm froze slightly when he flipped the document, and then looked up at the boy in surprise.

The boy smiled and said, "Why, are you scared?"

"..."

Vincent didn't answer, but just looked at him strangely, and then turned his eyes back to the document in his hand.

The mission was simple. It was to go to a secret Arasaka experimental base outside Santo Domingo and seize the experimental product there - a large war armored prosthesis called Cybertron.

According to the description in the document, this was a military-grade experimental implant secretly researched by Arasaka.

The Arasaka executives who invested in this project believed that as long as this implant was put on the market, it would be able to completely overwhelm the military technology of the same super company in the market of small-scale wars.

It can be said that this is one of the highest-level secret experimental projects of Arasaka.

But the boy opposite took it out lightly and planned to entrust mercenaries to rob it.

...Is this something a normal person can do?

And Vincent still remembered that the Cybertron project appeared in the derivative anime "Edgewalker".

According to the plot in the anime, Mr. Faraday, the middleman in Night City, used the team of the protagonist David to learn about the information of the Cybertron, and then used this as a basis to reach a secret agreement with the Arasaka Company, and betrayed the protagonist David, tricking him into installing the Cybertron in various ways to test the actual combat data of the Cybertron for the Arasaka Company.

Calculating the time, the current plot should indeed have progressed to this step.

But the client of this side quest should be Mr. Faraday, how come a mysterious boy suddenly appeared?

Could it be... the butterfly effect after he traveled through time?

Vincent frowned and thought, while looking at the boy in the white suit at the innermost.

Suddenly, he asked, "Are you from military technology?"

The handsome boy shook his head: "No, my name is Zuo Yu, and I'm from Kunlun Group."

"... Kunlun Group?"

Vincent was stunned for a moment.

He had only played games and watched anime, and he didn't know the complete background story and past history of Cyberpunk very well.

But even so, he basically knows all the super companies in the cyberpunk world, but he has never heard of Kunlun Group!

But the name sounds like a super company in China.

Could it be a rival of Kangtao Company in China?

Vincent pondered in his heart and did not answer for a long time.

Jack glanced at Vincent's profile, his eyes seemed a little surprised.

He hadn't seen a commission that made Vincent feel entangled for a long time.

Zuo Yu asked with a smile: "Give me a straight answer, do you accept it or not?"

"...I accept it!"

Vincent came back to his senses, nodded heavily, and accepted the document.

Zuo Yu smiled and leaned back on the sofa: "Very good, the experimental base is not large on the surface, but the underground space is not small, and the security force equipped is enough to fight a small army."

"You sneak in, it's best to find a few more skilled hackers."

"If there is no candidate, I can recommend you..."

"No need." Vincent smiled and stood up, "Boss Zuo, you may not know the style of our team, but it doesn't matter, you just sit here and wait to receive the prosthetic King Kong!"

"However, for such a dangerous mission... Isn't the reward a little low?"

"One hundred thousand!" Zuo Yu raised a finger, "plus a military-grade implant."

Vincent's eyes lit up and he said decisively: "Deal!"

...

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After Vincent and Jack left, the two suited bodyguards at the door walked in.

The Western European woman was surprised and said, "Boss, haven't you arranged for the Nine-Tailed Fox Team to control the Arasaka executives and prepare to acquire Arasaka in the name of Kunlun Group?"

"Why did you come to see a mercenary and entrust him to rob Arasaka?"

Zuo Yu glanced at her and said meaningfully, "What do you know? That's the famous V!"