Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 274 36. Weapon Template
"How's the chip read, T-BUG?"

Holding the last glass of orange juice taken out of the hovercraft, Carl stood next to T-BUG who was sitting on the sofa and looked at the data flow in the device in front of T-BUG.

As one of the only two people in the team who knew hacking knowledge, Carl's hacker expertise was obviously focused on combat intrusion. He also knew a little about these specialized chip cracking, but he was too lazy to spend the effort and just left it to T-BUG when he came back.

T-BUG had no complaints about going out to assist and coming back to crack the chip, but the chip's built-in defense ICE exceeded her expectations. After cracking it for a full ten minutes, she finally found some clues. After hearing Carl's words, she said:

"It's harder than I thought. I don't know what's hidden inside. The ICE defense for confidentiality is very complicated. It's designed to destroy both parties if someone cracks it. It directly destroys the data inside. Can you understand? An ICE defense is not to prevent cracking, but to damage internal information."

"Understandable."

Carl nodded: "So how long will it take?"

"five."

"five minutes?"

"Four."

"Oh."

Carl understood immediately.

It seems that it has been almost cracked. I will talk about its difficulty to show how powerful I am.

Come on.

"There's no need to show off like that, T-BUG. Everyone in our team knows that you're the best hacker in the entire Night City mercenary circle."

"If you don't tell me, how can you, a lazy guy, know how much effort I put in?"

T-BUG said this unhappily. Now, except for V who had just joined the team, everyone in the team knew Carl's character. He was incredibly lazy except for the necessary things. This kind of time-consuming and laborious work was thrown to her when he came back. It made her feel like Jack and Oliver helping Carl in the kitchen.

"Well, don't worry about it. Hey, V, Jack, Oliver, come and take a look. T-BUG has been cracked."

"You were interested in it, so you memorized it all the way and threw it to T-BUG to crack it when you got back?"

Jack said as he walked over with a piece of pizza in his mouth. A moment later, Oliver and V, who were also eating, came over. The three of them looked at the constantly changing data stream, but none of them could understand it.

"T-BUG, can you project the detailed information?"

Seeing the confusion on the three people's faces, Carl spoke, and T-BUG nodded and changed the display mode of the chip content.

After the picture and text were displayed in front of V and the other two, they finally understood what the contents of the chip were.

"This looks like an introduction to weapons?"

Jack stared at the samurai sword on the projection and said, "I remember the source of this chip is a Japanese company. Could it be some kind of product promotion chip?"

"I guess this might be a little more serious than you think, Jack."

After all, V is an expert in technology. He took a quick look at the content on the projection and realized that this was definitely not a promotional chip, but:

"This looks like a series of weapon manufacturing templates?" "Weapon manufacturing templates? This thing is incredible."

Oliver smacked his lips. "I remember this thing might be a chip from KENDACHI, which specializes in making melee weapons and special chips. We won't get KENDACHI's internal production template, will we? How much can this thing sell for?"

"I don't know how much it can be sold for, but this thing may not be as powerful as you think, Oliver. It's not a complete set, or at least not a complete set in this chip. I took a quick look and it seems to be just the templates for four weapons?"

V looked at it and said, "Neurotoxin knife, electric katana, serrated katana, and... thermal katana?"

"As expected of a Japanese company, four templates and three samurai swords."

After Carl solved the puzzle, he lost interest.

This is what the chip contains.
Carl thought there was something special.

Although KENDACHI's melee weapons are famous for their quality and sophistication, it would be great to get their manufacturing templates so that you can make the relevant weapons yourself, but where can you find the specialized equipment to make such weapons?

Making sophisticated weapons is not something that can be done casually with a template. Without the relevant equipment to make the parameters of various components meet, the things made will be fine for ordinary weapons. At worst, they will suddenly break and fall out of the hand during combat. But for a sophisticated weapon like this one, which uses both electric shock and thermal energy, it is likely that the holder will be killed as soon as it is damaged.

What's more, Carl doesn't need such weapons.

He already has a small knife and a single-molecule wire for close combat, and there is even a small knife under the night sky that can be used as an emergency weapon. Carrying too many weapons on him will affect his own actions.

Carl was not interested, but V and the others were very interested, especially V. After reading the relevant data of the samurai sword, his eyes lit up.

V originally wanted to install a close combat prosthesis, and was previously hesitating between the gorilla arm and the mantis blade. It was only because he considered the possible tolerance and adaptation problems after installing the Horizon that he did not make further modifications. But now that there is a weapon template that can be used right in front of him, how can he not be tempted.

V looked at his savings and felt that he had enough money to buy the relevant materials and make a hand.
V thought of the same thing as Carl, which was the limitations related to the equipment.

This kind of finely crafted product obviously cannot be made by hand, but what about the equipment? Is there a place in Night City that provides professional equipment where customers can forge their own knives?

"T-BUG, do you have any connections that can get in touch with the relevant factory?"

Oliver was very interested in the neurotoxin knife. As a sniper, having a personal knife would obviously provide a secondary guarantee of safety, so he asked T-BUG, who was doing better than any of them and was very successful in the mercenary world before joining the team in Night City.

"I'm a hacker, not a swordsmith."

As T-BUG spoke, he looked at Carl and gave him a suggestion: "We will only keep this thing for ourselves, so why not sell it and let those who are interested in buying it give us a few samples. Carl has a relationship with a Japanese company, right? Japanese companies know the most about samurai swords."

Hearing what T-BUG said, V and the other two looked at Carl, but what could Carl say while listening?

"Team vote, fair and square, you have four votes."

Carl said, taking out the chip inserted in the device: "Besides, this thing was originally picked up by V. Now if we sell it, we can share the money and get weapons. I have nothing to object to. It's just a matter of finding someone to sell it to."

Carl called the busy Mr. Kenichi Shiro. The reason he disturbed him again was that the only person he knew and could contact in that company was Mr. Kenichi Shiro.

"It's five votes now."

(End of this chapter)