Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 201 60. Johnny?

"Tell me about the matter."

Carl sat on the sofa in the box and looked at the old captain who was also sitting there: "Whether it's a commission or you want to establish a basic cooperative relationship, you can tell me."

"Of course it's a commission. I can't invite you all here just to keep in touch with me, right?"

The old captain blinked his eyes and said, "That would be a loss of face for you guys."

"Don't you need a trial or test or something?"

Oliver laughed when he heard the old captain's words. I don't know which middleman he was thinking of: "I thought every middleman in Saint Domingo liked to get to know the situation in advance."

"That's not necessary."

As he said this, the old captain raised his glass of wine and gestured to the three people. After they refused, he continued, "Since I have come to you, it means I trust you. I don't need any tests. Only people without vision and ability would do that."

It felt like a certain middleman was mocked.

"Then tell me about it."

It must be said that the old captain's attitude of trust was indeed very refreshing, which made Jack, who rarely spoke during the mission discussion, say:
"What kind of job is it? Don't tell us that you need to take thousands of Euros to break into a big company and snatch someone away. We all know that kind of job, and only fools would do it."

"Don't worry, we are all knowledgeable people and we won't do such a thing."

The old captain took out something that looked like a projector and placed it on the glass table in the middle of the box.

"Let's talk about money first, then the matter. I won't say any nonsense. I need you to kill a gang member for 80,000 euros. Can you do it?"

Eighty thousand euros.
To be honest, this amount of money is incredibly generous for a middleman who is working together for the first time. Even an experienced middleman would have to think twice before offering this amount of money to Carl and others.

For Faraday and Carl's first collaboration, the commission was 6,000 euros, the lowest, followed by Wakako's 30,000 euros and the priest's 60,000 euros.

When it came to giving a large sum of money, the old captain did not lie and directly gave the highest amount in the middleman's initial commission.

It’s almost three times the 30,000 euros that Carl gave to V.

But everyone knows that if someone is willing to pay such a large amount of money on the first meeting, then this job will definitely not be easy.

"Get rid of the gang members."

Hearing this, Oliver remembered where the old captain was active: "People from the Sixth Street Gang?"

"I'm not going to provoke the Sixth Street Gang right now, but I was stood up on a job and the mercenaries I hired with great difficulty were killed. My business has just started and someone is coming to attack it. I have to save face, right?"

The old captain said, giving the name of the gang: "They are from the Animal Gang."

"The Animal Gang?"

As Carl listened to this gang, which he had rarely come into contact with since coming to Night City, information about the Animal Gang flashed through his mind.

[Animal Gang]: A radical street gang rampant in the western part of Pacific Island. They never use traditional prosthetics, but instead rely on huge amounts of testosterone, growth hormone and other animal supplements to strengthen their bodies. The gang has 2500-3000 members.

NCPD Gang Threat Level Assessment: High
This gang likes to use all kinds of supplements and crude prostheses to strengthen themselves. Carl's impression of them is that they take on the task of watching over many bars in Night City. Overall, this gang can actually be regarded as a street security group.

"If it's someone from the Animal Gang, then this job can be done."

Carl nodded, accepting the task on behalf of the team.

"Well, tell me more about it." "Okay."

Hearing Carl's affirmative answer, the old captain couldn't help but smile, as if he had seen that the job had been completed.

He pressed a built-in button on the projector, and a small mechanical lens rose in the middle of the projector, projecting a human figure.

"Johnny Shouyin, 32 years old this year."

"Wait a minute, what did you say?"

Hearing this name, Oliver couldn't help but interrupt the old captain's words. He slapped his ears with his palms, and then as if he had heard it wrongly, "Johnny Silverhand?!"

"Johnny-Shouyin."

The old captain corrected his words and said:
"I know you would mistake him for the rock star from half a century ago. No, his former name was Rick. Later, when he was young, he listened to Johnny Silverhand's songs and liked his look, so he changed his name and dressed like Johnny Silverhand. He is considered a big shot in the circle of people imitating Johnny Silverhand in Night City."

“Just a copycat?”

"How else can we do that? It's impossible for Johnny Silverhand, who has been dead for almost half a century, to crawl out of hell and keep nagging us?"

The old captain said, "Anyway, that was two years ago. Two years ago, he joined the Animal Gang, trained very hard every day, and gave himself hormones very hard. Now, except for the silver hand that was installed to imitate the original hand that was cut off, he doesn't look like Johnny Silverhand at all."

As he spoke, the old captain pointed at the projected image, which looked like a burly man wearing sunglasses.

"Anyway, I have another client who is also a fan of Johnny Silverhand. He wanted to sell a car, and we made an appointment with this guy to have me act as the middleman to make the deal. But he stood us up, called me over, and killed the mercenary who was guarding the car. He drove away without paying a penny. Do you think this is tolerable? Of course not."

The old captain spread his hands:

"If other people find out about this, where will my face be, right? So I have to save it no matter what. Whether it's for my used car dealership business or for this newly started middleman business, he has to die. Of course, if you can drive the car back, that would be even better. If you want to buy a car in the future, I can give you a 20% discount."

"I almost understand."

Carl nodded.

It's a simple job, just go and rip someone off, then drive back, the reward is 80,000 Euros.

"So, do you have any information about where he is, Taiping Prefecture?"

The Animal Gang’s territory is Taiping Prefecture.

"No, in the city center."

The old captain said: "He has a fixed habit every night, which is to take a group of his men to the Chip Bookstore to buy books."

"A strong man like this, reading a book?"

"You can't discriminate based on appearance."

As the old captain spoke, he took out a chip, gestured to the three people, and inserted it into the slot of the projector. After that, the projected object changed and turned into paragraphs of text floating in the light.

"This is what I recently learned about his favorite books."

Carl looked at the book, and its title was
"The Little Secret Between Johnny Silverhand and Kerry"

(End of this chapter)