Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 364 126. Heading to Dog Town
"Dog Town. I was thinking about going there a few days ago. Today I have the chance."

Sitting in the driver's seat, driving the modified Hera through the roads of Taiping Province, Oliver, who had a day off yesterday, was in a good mood: "It's really time."

"I don't know if I can make it in time, but I know the reward this time is quite generous, so I have to work hard."

T-BUG's voice came from the communication. Even now, when she mentioned the reward for this job, there was an indescribable sense of shock in her words: "Six hundred thousand euros per person. I have never taken such a big order."

"It's only five months' salary for Brown and his colleagues now."

Carl didn't think the price was exaggerated. Brown and his men were now Kerry's bodyguards, earning 120,000 euros a month. This trip cost 600,000 euros per person, which was Brown's five-month salary. If this number was compared with Carl's current monthly salary from the dangerous girl,
“I’m not shocked by the money.”

T-BUG used her voice through the ball: "Of course my savings are much higher than this number, but this is a one-time job, 600,000 per person, and the five of us together make 3 million, right? I have never received a job that pays 3 million euros at once."

"Correction, it should be 2.4 million. My 600,000 was exchanged for a single molecule line."

Carl pulled out a piece of the silver-colored monomolecular wire in the car and said, "I think this prosthesis is worth more than 600,000 yuan."

"It's worth more than that." T-BUG's tone became more serious when he heard Carl mention his single molecule wire: "Have you really studied the single molecule wire you are using now? The molecule wire you are using now is made of the best information transmission material, and you only need one gram of this material."

"I know."

Carl interrupted T-BUG and said, "I still remember the surprised look on Old Wei's face."

"How can I not be surprised? I only heard from Oliver and Jack that you had a good relationship with the young lady of Arasaka before. I always thought they were just bragging and that your relationship was at most that of an employer and an employee. But now look at it. Could it be that you are really friends?"

"if not?"

"Damn it, Karl, you're not really some rich kid, is your background really made up?"

Listening to the communication, even T-BUG rarely used vulgar words. V, who was sitting next to Carl in the car, interrupted the conversation because he was concerned about something else:

"Alright, alright, let's put this matter of remuneration aside. We have received the full amount of money this time, so we have to work hard. I am from outside, and I have only heard a little about Dog Town from other tribes. I know that it is not a place for serious people to go. Who of you can tell me what kind of place is this Dog Town we are about to go to?"

V was the most persistent person in the team in doing his job well after receiving the money. As V asked about Dogtown, Oliver, a local of Night City, gave a brief and formal explanation. "In short, during the Unification War, a colonel from the New United States who came from a military technology background, named Kurt Hansen, attacked Night City under the order of his superiors, and later took over a piece of land in the southernmost part of Night City, which is the Pacific Continent.
As a result, at the end of the Unification War, due to Arasaka's interference, Night City became a special independent city-state. Militech did not want to cause a second conflict with Arasaka, so it simply abandoned Hansen and his men and treated them as abandoned pawns;
None of Hansen's group was willing to lay down their weapons and surrender to Arasaka, nor were they willing to go back and continue to work for the New America that betrayed them, so they relied on the unique geographical location of Dog Town and Hansen's own ability to engage in arms smuggling and trading, and established Dog Town as an independent kingdom. "

"It sounds like another unethical thing done by a big company."

After listening to Oliver's popular science, who is more familiar with the affairs of the New America due to family reasons, V expressed his own thoughts.

"As for the morality of the company, we can't really expect those high-ranking presidents or CEOs to care about these once loyal soldiers, right?"

Jack, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said, "Hansen, who was abandoned, is now doing very well and has a great reputation. He is almost the king of this independent kingdom. I heard that in Dog Town, all the company employees have to look up to him."

"Do all the company staff have to look at his face?"

Karl raised his eyebrows slightly: "Dog Town is not that big, no matter how powerful Hansen is, he won't have many people under him. Can the company tolerate that?"

"When a group of sharks surround a marlin, the marlin can always gain temporary safety. This is because no shark is willing to expose its weaknesses during hunting. If it is exposed, then the target will become two."

"Is it the shark in The Old Man and the Sea that was eaten by the sharks because of his injury?"

Carl understood what Jack meant. To put it simply, this place is needed by every company, a place for an intermediary to do business. They can take this place, but after paying a price, they may not be able to gain benefits worthy of the price in the competition among other companies, and if losses are caused, they may be bitten by other companies. Therefore, under the watchful eyes of the sharks, the marlin is temporarily at peace.

"For the company, everything has to be in line with profit. Now it seems that this is indeed the case."

Carl had seen the checkpoint into Dogtown getting closer and closer, and at this moment, he thought of a very appropriate description of Kurt Hansen:
"Speaking of which, do you think that what Kurt Hansen is doing now is a bit like a middleman, but unlike the middleman who acts as a mercenary agent, Kurt Hansen is doing his own business while setting up some private businesses for the companies?"

"Hanzi, the biggest middleman in Taiping Prefecture, may not like Hansen too much. People in the same business are enemies. I just don't know if Hansen thinks highly of Hanzi. There is still a gap between the two sides' business."

Oliver smiled and slowed down the car after hearing Carl's interesting description.

Before entering the checkpoint of Dog Town, a group of people dressed in green, military-like uniforms, were signaling them to stop the car and walking towards them.

(End of this chapter)