Cyberpunk: 2075.
Chapter 293 55 Ambition, isn't it just a dream?
Chapter 293 55. Ambition, isn’t it just a dream?
After encountering Mann and his friends on the street, Carl and his two companions, who were originally supposed to walk to the Wild Wolf Bar, were invited by Mann and his friends to get in their car.
The area where Mann and his team were active and based was in the river valley area of Santo Domingo, right next to the Haywood Valley area where the Wild Wolf Bar where Carl and his team were going was located. They had just finished their work and were preparing to go back, so they could just give Carl and his team a ride.
Carl sat in the passenger seat next to Mann. He looked back at V, Oliver, and David who were sitting in the back seat, and then talked about Mann's carjacking on the street today:
"It seems that you are not making good progress."
"I didn't expect that company dog to be so brave."
Mann, who was controlling the vehicle, said, "I thought I had finally found an opportunity today to capture this person and interrogate him, but he blew himself up."
Looking at the road ahead, Mann said, "This job is not easy. Although I had expected it when I took the job, who could have expected that after several days, we are still stuck in the information collection stage. If it were you, you might have already completed it."
Listening to Mann's somewhat emotional words, Carl felt that Mann was exaggerating:
"Not really. We've encountered this before. Although we were just bystanders at the time, we didn't react quickly enough when the man blew himself up, and our car was almost affected by the explosion. In this case, there is no other good way to deal with this situation except to use electromagnetic pulses to interfere with the possible detonation program in his body."
"I guess I've learned a lesson today. Next time, I'll throw an EMP grenade at him before I say anything else to wake him up."
Mann stepped on the accelerator and drove the vehicle that could accommodate five people onto the road. "But no matter how difficult it is, after I finish this job, I should be considered a big shot."
"Big shot, that phrase sounds good."
Karl said, but suddenly said: "But if it was that guy Faraday who said it, I feel that it is more of a boast."
Carl's words made Mann pause slightly.
He looked ahead: "You know?"
"I guess so. But we are all mercenaries, I understand the details, and I won't ask, nor will I ask you for confirmation. But, Mann, be careful, Faraday is very greedy, and he may sell you out at any time. If something goes wrong, run away first. You can lose your reputation as a mercenary, but if you lose your life, you will lose everything."
"Coming from someone like you who has a 100% mission completion rate, it's a bit strange to hear that, but."
Mann sighed:
"I know, Carl. You may think that I was deceived and bewitched by Faraday, but I know exactly what he is thinking. This job is the only one I can take that can make me famous in the city.
Not everyone can be like you, Carl. My team has been doing nothing but trivial jobs until now, and I have been a mercenary for more than seven years. If I continue like this, I don’t know when I can reach the top of this industry. There are some things that I have to fight for, even if I know it is dangerous and may cost me my life. "
I want to become famous even if it means risking my life.
There are some pursuits in the mercenary business. Everyone wants to be Morgan Blackhand or Adam Hammer, but who can become the second Morgan Blackhand or Adam Hammer? No one knows, and one can only pursue it with hope and risk their lives.
Faced with Mann's sincere words, Carl fell silent.
It has been seven years. Mann used to be a soldier of the New America. During the Unification War (2069-2070), he left the New America and chose to pursue his ideals in Night City. He wanted to become a legend. He has been pursuing this for seven years and risked his life for seven years. Now, he has finally seen some improvement and can see hope. Can he give up risking his life and pursuing this hope just because he has experienced countless dangers in the past?
impossible.
It's like if someone told Carl that he is living a comfortable life now, and he can live comfortably with his current wealth until he dies, without having to take any more steps forward. Carl would not listen to such words.
If he had that kind of pursuit from the beginning, when Carl came to this world and got his first gun and encountered his first gunfight, he should not have raised it, but should have put his hands on his head and hid under the cover.
It's easy to be an ordinary person, run when you hear gunshots, and raise your hands and hand over your belongings when you are robbed, but that's not what mercenaries pursue. People always have to have some dreams in life. Some people live in peace, while others are destined to never give up their ambitions.
Ambition is just a dream, isn’t it?
Carl couldn't say or do anything to ask his friend Mann to give up his dream.
"Then you have to put my communication first in the program and lock it."
Carl said, "You risking your life or something, it has nothing to do with me, you gamble your life, it has nothing to do with me, but I still want to know about my friend's situation."
"Condition."
"I have to collect your body. Otherwise, when you die, you won't even have a grave. Wouldn't that be a pity for your body, which is heavier than others even if you burn it?"
Hearing Carl's words, Mann couldn't help but laugh:
"My body has been transformed into this state. I'm afraid that when it burns out, it will be just a lump of iron mixed with ashes. But what you said is true. If I want a friend to hold a funeral for me, I have to ask you, Carl. You can promise to hold a beautiful funeral for me. Maybe you can even launch my ashes into the sun to see the world."
What Mann thought about was the mission he and Carl did when they first met. He remembered what Team Brown had proposed, if everyone died together and there was no money to bury them in a cemetery, then they could just pick up the bones and bury them somewhere. He didn't care at the time, but he didn't want to end up like that now.
Even death has to be spectacular.
The vehicle arrived at the destination. Looking at Mann's smile, Carl got out of the car, then stopped at the door. He looked at David sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, thought for a while, leaned against the window, and asked David a random question.
"David, you run fast, don't you?"
Carl was thinking about what he had seen before, the speed after David started up Swanwestin.
"I can now catch up with a sports car in a short time."
David, who was chatting with Oliver and the new acquaintance V along the way and did not listen to the conversation between Carl and Mann in the front seat, answered confidently, and his words made Carl smile.
"Then, when it's time to run, run, David."
Leaving behind a sentence that David couldn't understand, Carl stood up and walked towards the Wild Wolf Bar.
"What does Carl mean by this?"
David looked at Mann in the front seat in confusion, but Mann didn't say anything and just started the car in silence.
Mann could understand what Carl said.
Mann was the captain of the team and also the one who rushed to the front of the team. If David needed to run, then he would have been there by then.
“When it’s time to run, run, David.”
After a moment of silence, Mann simply repeated what David still couldn't understand.
To notify the people who are going to collect the bodies, you have to run fast.
(End of this chapter)
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