Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 202 61. Car Modification
"My eyes are dirty."

This is what Oliver, who was sitting in the driver's seat, had been muttering all the way.

As the only one of the trio who couldn't resist his curiosity and read the entire philosophical text, Oliver was now a little dazed.

He never thought that the lethality of words could be greater than that of Mewtwo, and that they would be directly imprinted in his heart and cause harm to his soul.

"Who told you to keep looking at it even though you knew it was something you shouldn't look at? I saw you were quite engrossed in it just now. Could it be that you like that?"

"Go away, Jack, you're the one who likes to watch that, my sexual orientation is a normal woman."

Oliver retorted angrily, put his left hand on the steering wheel, and rubbed his eyes with his right hand while waiting for the traffic light: "I just feel polluted. I couldn't help but be curious about the subsequent development of this thing, so I finished watching it."

"In other words, the writing is actually pretty good?"

Leaning back in the chair, Carl looked out the window at the luxury cars passing by on the streets of the Civic Center and brought up a topic about cars:
"Come to think of it, we've been driving the Sky Hera for a while now, right? Are we really not going to get a four-seater, bulletproof car?"

"It's only been a little over a month. What do you mean by a while? Karl, you're just rich and you get bored easily. What's wrong with the Sky Hera? How can you change such a good car after driving it for such a short time?"

“Am I fickle?”

Regarding this car whose steering wheel he had never touched once, Carl tapped his cheek with his finger and thought for a while:

"I haven't even had a new one, so how can I say it's old? I was just wondering if you, Oliver, would like to drive a faster car. After all..."

Carl's eyes were still fixed outside the window, watching the vehicles passing them one by one. "In terms of speed, Sky Hera can't compare to those cars. If one day we have to chase someone, I wonder if we might not be able to catch up."

“I can’t catch up with anyone.”

After listening to Carl's words, Oliver thought about it and found that it was indeed true.

The performance of the Sky Hera is not particularly good. When Oliver was doing small tasks before, he wanted to crash into it directly to intercept other people's vehicles several times, but he let go of the accelerator and slowed down before the final impact, because if he crashed into it directly, the Sky Hera's body would not be able to withstand it.

"Then Carl, what car do you think has both high speed and high crash resistance?"

"I do not know."

Carl doesn't know much about cars, so what can he know?

But he did not have no solution:
"But I know that cars can be modified. I've ridden in the Enforcer driven by Mr. Johnson before. It's a police car modified from the Sky Hera. After the modification, it was fast and stable, and it collided directly without leaving any marks on the front of the vehicle. I was thinking, can we modify it in the same way?"

"Are you planning to change our Sky Hera into a law enforcer style?"

Jack rubbed his chin with his palm and said, "I think it's okay. On the streets, everyone knows that the NCPD police drive fast and fiercely. They stop people at any time. It's much more aggressive than getting out of the car and drawing guns."

"So we are going to contact Mr. Johnson and ask him how the law enforcers were transformed?"

Hearing what Oliver said, Carl shook his head:
"Although the NCPD police have modified the law enforcement officers, they are also upgraded versions that Skydome Company took after modifying most of the parts. Unless Johnson and his team are willing to take out the police cars and dismantle them part by part for us to study, I don't think it will work."

“So Karl, you mean that we should also commission the car company to make some customized models for us. The price won’t be low, right?”

Oliver thought about the little money he had just saved from completing the mission, and felt a little sad, but he didn't hesitate:

"Then let's ask the people at Sky Dome Company. They should have some connections with the middleman. We just happened to take over the old captain's job. He is a professional second-hand car dealer. We will find him after we finish the task. He will definitely understand." "In fact, there is a simpler way that doesn't cost much."

Carl felt that Oliver had forgotten something:
"Speaking of car modification, the people in the Badlands definitely know more about it. Have you forgotten V? V is still here. He is currently helping T-BUG with the bionic dog. When it's done, we'll pull Skyknocker away from the Badlands and let him take a look around Night City. I feel that the Rangers definitely know more than us."

“V?”

Oliver recalled that V recognized the type of his prosthetic eye after just two glances, and could accurately tell its model and modification type. Thinking about his identity as a wanderer, he felt that this might be possible.

Based on what we saw at the time, V and his friends were willing to go head-to-head with more than 50 people to explore the ghost camp at night just for 30,000 Euros, so the price they offered should be fair and cheap.

"Then after we finish the work at T-BUG, we will contact V and find time to go to the Badlands again. Anyway, we are not going on a mission this time, so it should be okay to drive Hera around the edge."

After deciding on the modifications to Hera, Sky Hera stopped.

"Target found."

Oliver stared at the large group of people standing in the chip bookstore outside the left window, and swept his eyes over the sturdy bodies of the group of people: "They really look like they are from the Animal Gang. Look at their physiques. Jack, you will never be able to catch up with them even if you use normal training methods."

"How can someone who takes drugs be the same as someone like me who only drinks protein powder?"

Jack didn't care much about it: "So what should we say now, just rush in and kill them all?"

"Shooting at night is too obvious. This is downtown. The NCPD may arrive in less than a minute."

Karl shook his head: "I remember Mr. Johnson was in the city center these days. We have to give Mr. Johnson some face. It's better not to just break in."

"Then I'll continue driving and park the car first."

Oliver stepped on the accelerator.

"These Animal Gang members are coming to the city center at night. Sooner or later, they will have to go back. Then we can catch up with them and find a place to do it."

"Remember that the leader must stay alive."

Carl said, "I still have to find out from him what the old captain wants. Where is the car he stole?"

"Prepare for the worst."

Jack arranged his guns and said, "I didn't see the car the old captain wanted among the vehicles parked in front of the store. The worst-case scenario is that he parked the car in the territory of the Animal Gang. After we deal with it, we have to go to Taipingzhou again."

"So, this job is worth 80,000 euros."

Carl didn't care.

Taipingzhou.

I haven't been there.

(End of this chapter)