Chapter 609: Lizzie Bar
[July 12, I opened this new diary to remind myself not to indulge in pleasure every day. I will work harder from tomorrow to raise my Ghost Walker proficiency to 100%.]
[July 13, artillery fire.]
[July 14, artillery fire.]
【July 15, artillery fire.】
[July 16, Xia Yu, Xia Yu! How could you be so depraved! Have you forgotten the plans you made earlier? Confucius said, "I examine myself three times a day." This cannot go on! ]
[July 17, artillery fire.]
[July 18, artillery fire.]
Xia Yu: “…”
Looking at the events of the past few days recorded in his diary, Xia Yu couldn't help but cover his face. It would be better not to write it down.
When I opened the diary, I couldn't see the word "effort". I could only see the date on each page and the word "smack down" recorded at the end.
"Oh my god! No! I'm going to become a useless person if I keep going like this!"
Xia Yu slammed the diary shut, patted his cheek, and stood up from the desk. Because Mai Shiranui had a Yamato Nadeshiko personality, after being taken care of by Mai Shiranui, he directly moved closer to a useless person.
"It's true that sex is like a knife that scrapes bones. I have to go out for a walk today, otherwise I won't even be able to hold the knife well."
After making up his mind, Xia Yu gritted his teeth, equipped the Ghost Walker card, jumped up, and jumped directly out of the open window.
Then he used the Ghost Walker's grappling hook to run towards the top of the tall building. The Ghost Walker can use the implant to run on the wall, so even a vertical and smooth 90-degree wall can be walked on as if it were flat ground.
In just a few seconds, he had reached the top of the tall building.
Feeling the breeze on his face, Xia Yu let out a breath, sat down along the edge of the building, and then looked at the hustle and bustle of traffic below.
Facts aside, Night City is actually pretty beautiful.
The projected unreal swimming fish, flashing neon lights, and bustling streets make it look like a dream city at first glance.
Unfortunately, beneath this dream city is endless exploitation and desire. Just staying alive is already a struggle. Apart from those vested interests who are high above, who has the leisure to take a closer look at the beauty of Night City?
After enjoying the cool breeze for a while, Xia Yu felt that his mind was almost clear, so he sent a communication request to Mann.
Since you want to keep yourself active, there is no need to actively look for commissions with higher commissions. You can just follow these mercenary teams.
These teams would definitely be happy to have him join them. After all, his fighting power is enough to lead the team to victory.
Who doesn’t want to have a big boss to lead them to victory without any effort?
Xia Yu: "Is he dead?"
Mann: "Oh, no auspicious words can come out of your mouth. I'm still alive and well, not dead yet!"
Xia Yu: "It's OK as long as you're not dead. Do you have any big commissions recently? I want to take advantage of it."
Mann: "Thanks to you, I turned down a big commission. As a result, no comparable commission has appeared until now. I can only accept some small commissions to train new people."
A big commission that was turned down?
Seeing this sentence, Xia Yu thought for a while and felt that this big commission should be the commission from Faraday to the Mann team to investigate the anomalies in Taiping Island.
It seems that the other party took his advice to heart, otherwise it would be hard to say whether he would live or die.
Mann: "But thanks to your reminder, the recent actions of the Pacific Island are not hidden at all. Many cyberpunks have never come out after entering, and we have no confidence that we can escape unscathed."
Xia Yu: "Don't thank me too much, 200,000 Euros as a thank you fee will be enough."
Mann: "Why the hell don't you just go and rob it!"
Xia Yu: "Robbery is not as profitable as this."
Mann: “…”
I can’t continue the conversation today. Why hasn’t this guy been beaten to death yet?
What? Those who wanted to kill the other party were killed instead? That's fine.
After chatting for a few more words, the two hung up the phone. Although Mann and his team had only accepted some small commissions, it would still be easy to fail if they didn't take them seriously at all.
After learning that he could not get the mission from Mann, Xia Yu thought about it and sent another message to Jack Wells.
If this local Jack doesn't have any good commissions, then he can only go to handsome Jack and ask him to find some guys for him to practice on.
Xia Yu: "Is he dead?"
Jack: "Oh! Hermanos (brothers), I will not die before I become a great man, and even if I die, I will only die on the way to becoming a great man."
Xia Yu: "As long as you're still alive, I want to ask if you have any commissions recently? I want to take advantage of it."
Jack: "Commission? Hmm..."
Jack: "That's right, I have a girl I want to introduce to you. That girl has brought a commission that can make a lot of money. I believe you won't refuse it."
Girl?
Xia Yu looked at the word and thought about it for a moment.
Jack didn't seem to know many girls, could it be Misty?
Misty is quite mysterious, because she runs a psychic house. Although the store is not big, the variety of goods is quite complete.
It is filled with all kinds of incense sticks for exorcising evil spirits, yarrow stems, Tibetan "Book of the Dead" separation chips and luck-changing pendants. She can also use tarot cards to help people tell fortunes, and her accuracy rate is quite high.
In the Cyberpunk 2077 fan fiction he had read before, each fan fiction protagonist would do some divination, and the answer would be almost always accurate.
How about he try it too?
Thinking of this, Xia Yu replied.
Xia Yu: "I didn't expect a big, burly guy like you could date girls. I thought you could only date gay guys with your body type."
Jack: "Don't disgust me, I don't know any homosexuals, that girl is an old acquaintance of mine."
Jack: "I'm waiting for Lizzie to come over. It depends on whether you come first or she comes first."
Xia Yu: "Okay, if the commission is not big, I won't help."
Jack: "Don't worry, you will be satisfied."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Yu stood up, opened the map and route in the virtual world, and jumped down from the top of the building.
"Wuhu~Take off!"
…
Lizzie's Bar is located in Watson's Kabuki district, near the Rei nightclub.
The bar is a gathering place for the Mox gang and an open space filled with sex workers, anarchists and LGBT people.
Speaking of the Watson District, it has a long history. When the nuclear explosion in 2023 brought disaster to the center of Night City, the nearby Watson District became Noah's Ark.
Traumatized but hopeful citizens flocked here for refuge, but by the 2050s, Watson District began to be marginalized.
Until now, Watson has not been able to return to its former prosperity, but despite this, the small houses and narrow alleys in Watson are buzzing with the most exciting sound, that is the hope that has never disappeared.
But this hope is not so easy to thrive. After all, to this day, Watson is still the poorest area in Night City.
Xia Yu flew in the air with the help of the grappling hook, and saw that the narrow and crisscrossing alleys of the Kabuki district were filled with grocery stores, cheap cosmetics stores and cheap second-hand stores, all of which were decorated with Chinese lanterns and flashing neon lights.
In this area, there is a fancy backstreet nightclub. From the gang logo with an axe on the wall, it can be seen that this nightclub is Lizzie Bar.
"Hey, Arasaka's hovercraft?"
Xia Yu fell from mid-air and half-crouched on the wire fence near Lizzie Bar, watching a hovercraft with the Arasaka logo printed on it descend from the sky.
As the hovercraft descended, it almost hit three hooligans who were playing basketball nearby.
Seeing the door of the hovercraft open, the three thugs approached aggressively.
"Are you fucking sick, stupid corporate dog?!"
"Do you think this is an airport? You almost fucking killed us!"
The leading thug took a basketball and threw it at the company employee who got off the car, but just as he got close, the basketball was slapped away by the company employee and hit another thug on the head, knocking him unconscious.
Immediately afterwards, the leading gangster was slapped on the neck by a company employee and fell to the ground.
Seeing that the company employee who got off the car was not easy to deal with, the remaining gangster quickly raised his hands and stepped back: "No, hey, we...we don't want to cause trouble to you."
After easily dealing with the three thugs who were looking for trouble, the company employees walked towards Lizzie Bar in a heroic manner.
"You're still a woman?"
Xia Yu looked at the company employee who was walking over and was a little surprised. The company employee who got off the hovercraft was a blue-haired woman, and she was quite pretty.
“It’s pretty nice.”
As if she had heard Xia Yu's chatter, the blue-haired woman glanced at Xia Yu who was squatting on the wire fence, snorted coldly and ignored him.
Arriving at the entrance of the bar, the blue-haired woman said directly to the Mox Gang member holding a baseball bat at the door: "You, help me watch the hovercraft."
"Why? That's not what I do."
The Mox Gang member looked at the company employee in front of him and asked bluntly.
"That's an order. Don't let me see a scratch on you when you come back."
Facing the blue-haired woman's domineering attitude, the Mox Gang member frowned, but still gave in and said, "Welcome to Sister Lizzie."
As she spoke, she made way and opened the entrance to the bar. Seeing this, the blue-haired woman strode directly in.
"Tsk tsk, so arrogant, worthy of being a company employee."
Xia Yu, who was watching the whole process, commented that the company's employees were indeed very powerful and were always so aggressive towards these low-class residents.
Suddenly, Jack called again.
Jack: "Where is she? The girl I mentioned will be here soon, don't fall behind."
Xia Yu: "Don't worry, I'm already at the door."
After replying to Jack, Xia Yu hung up the phone, jumped lightly from the guardrail, and strode towards the entrance of Lizzie Bar.
The member of the Mox Gang wanted to close the entrance again, but when he saw another person coming and who looked like someone not to be trifled with, he gave way again.
"Thanks, sister~"
Xia Yu nodded at the member and stepped in quickly.
