Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 102 80. Thief?

David followed the white color and found that its owner was a woman with short hair with pink roots and white tips. She looked to be about twenty years old. She was wearing a short jacket on the outside and a black tight leather jacket underneath. She had smoky makeup on and looked gorgeous.

'So beautiful.'

This was the first thought that came to David's mind, and then he noticed the other party's somewhat unusual behavior.

She seemed to be intentionally approaching the company staff dressed in Arasaka Gakuen clothes on the subway.

"David?"

Oliver's puzzled voice made David, who was chasing the woman, subconsciously turn his head. What he saw next was Oliver with a look of strangeness on his face.

"We asked you if you had any dietary restrictions. Why were you so absent-minded?"

"Feel sorry."

David quickly apologized: "I was a little distracted just now."

"Are you looking at something?"

Oliver followed David's line of sight, but only saw a few company dogs wearing Arasaka uniforms. He seemed to understand something: "You are looking at them, right? After all, if nothing unexpected happens, you will also be employed there after graduation."

"I don't know how much Arasaka employees earn in a month."

Jack, who was standing nearby, also took a look at the office dogs who were talking over there: "I heard everything here. Even when I was riding the subway, they were discussing work. There was really no time to relax at all."

"I guess they are not that high. Judging from their appearance, they are probably just low-level employees."

Carl covered his stomach, he was a little hungry. In order to disguise himself, he ate very simple meals in the cafeteria of Arasaka Academy, just bread and synthetic milk. He ate like this in the morning and at noon. To be honest, he could not keep up with the consumption.

"What I'm more concerned about now is what to eat first. So David, do you have any dietary restrictions? I've already ordered takeout. When it's almost time for my house, the delivery robot will deliver the food to my door. We'll eat something first then."

"diet."

David thought for a moment and said, "I don't have any dietary restrictions."

"That's fine, what can I do? It was my first time ordering takeout and I realized that there are actually two different prices for manual and mechanical delivery. How come mechanical delivery is so much more expensive than manual delivery? It's almost as expensive as the food itself."

Carl's complaint received a response from Oliver, who reminded Carl: "Carl, please pay attention to the different terms signed for the two types of delivery. They are not responsible if there are problems with manual delivery of meals, but they will be responsible for mechanical transportation. In this regard, it is better to choose mechanical transportation. The price is a bit more expensive, but at least the time can be guaranteed."

"What kind of guarantee is that?"

"Even if the deliveryman is shot in the head on the way, another machine can still deliver the food on time when it is supposed to arrive."

"That is to say, if a person dies due to a problem, he will die and both the person and the goods will be lost. But if a machine dies, another machine will take over and continue to work, right?"

After thinking about it, I felt that this was fine. Carl was already very hungry and didn't want any accidents to happen, so I just paid a little more.

"Well, let's order some pizza first. No, pizza will make you feel full. Let's just order fried rice, which goes perfectly with meat, and then..."

Amid Carl's mumbling, David looked again in the direction he saw. The woman with pink and white hair had already moved through the crowd and appeared behind those Arasaka employees.

Afterwards, David saw the prosthetic eye of the pink-haired woman flash.

"Click."

He didn't hear any sound, but David saw a chip pop out from the chip access point on the back of the neck of several Arasaka employees.

David didn't recognize the chip that popped out of the Arasaka employee chip access port, but he saw the pink-haired woman skillfully hold the popped-out chip in her palm in mid-air.

'Thief.'

David immediately realized what the pink-haired woman was doing. She used hacking techniques to break into the company's employees, pry open the data gap on the other party's chip access port, and let the chip that was originally in it sense the ejection command and automatically eject, and then steal it away.

The lowest value of the chips on the company's employees is no less than 100 Euros, not to mention the Arasaka employees. Some chips related to firearms can be sold for thousands of Euros.
David watched the pink-haired woman stealing but said nothing.

Because this is Night City, this kind of thing is commonplace and there is really no need to worry about it, especially since the targets of the theft are company employees.

David just didn't quite expect that such a beautiful woman would do such a thing.

He turned his head and stopped looking at the woman.

When chatting with people, you can't always divert your attention to other places.

Just as he turned around, the pink-haired woman sensed David's last gaze. She glanced over and then noticed the Arasaka Academy uniform on David.

'Arasaka'

Her prosthetic eye flashed and scanned David, and saw the Arasaka Academy ID on him.

Identity confirmed.

Since you are from Arasaka.

The pink-haired woman slowly approached David, and all she could see was the back of the boy in the Arasaka Academy uniform.

There were quite a lot of people in the subway, and she noticed that the boy from Arasaka Academy seemed to be talking to someone, but due to the angle, she could only see the person standing directly opposite the boy from Arasaka Academy.

He was a young man who looked to be in his twenties, with blond hair and a small mustache. From his appearance, he did not look threatening.

It doesn't matter if there are threats.

The pink-haired woman is experienced, and she is confident that she can block the chip ejected by the boy by hiding it in the crowd. At most, it will only appear in front of the blond young man for a moment at the moment of ejection. It is unlikely that he will react in such a short time, and the other party might think he is just dazzled.

Even if he reacted and reminded the boy from Arasaka Academy in front of him, it was too late. That moment was enough for the pink-haired girl to blend into the crowd and disappear.

Today's environment for stealing is perfect.

The pink-haired woman's artificial eye flashed, and with her hacking ability, she quickly succeeded in cracking the chip access vulnerability of the Arasaka Academy boy who had his back to her.

"Click."

The pink-haired woman was muttering in her mind about the barely perceptible sound of the chip popping out. Just as she was about to reach out to grab the chip in mid-air, the chip was intercepted and grabbed by a hand in mid-air in advance.

The one holding the chip was the blond young man who the pink-haired woman thought would be unable to react. At this moment, he was staring at her with unusual calmness.

'Oops! ’

Just when the pink-haired woman was about to quickly withdraw and hide in the crowd, a real "click" sound was heard.

That was the sound of the gun safety being released.

One on the left and one in front, the two guns were already pressed against the pink-haired woman's temple and forehead respectively before she could pull back.

There are people on both sides.

The pink-haired woman froze.

"Thief?"

A somewhat unhappy voice came out from the mouth of the blond young man: "Today, I hate thieves."

(End of this chapter)