Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 395 8. Cress

"Hey, can you hear me, Carl, V, Jack, Oliver?"

"I can hear you."

Sitting on the sofa in a suite covering more than 400 square meters, Carl raised his head slightly to look at the night view outside the French window, and answered T-BUG who was calling them on the communication: "I can hear you clearly, T-BUG, did you successfully climb onto the satellite?"

"It took some effort. How are things going over there?"

"I have successfully checked in according to the identity you arranged."

Jack half-reclines on the sofa by the window and stretches himself: "Sister, the Italian noble identity you arranged for Carl is quite useful. You didn't see the performance of the person at the front desk. I can only say that I have never seen anyone so humble in my life."

"It's useful, right? I told you I can do the job with confidence."

T-BUG's voice on the comms revealed a sense of pride: "This is an identity that I carefully selected and arranged. Except for the name, the entire identity is almost the same as that of a person with the same status."

"So it's an applied identity, which means that this identity really exists?"

Oliver checked his pistol and was very interested in what T-BUG said: "There really is an Italian nobleman."

"That's about right, but this identity can't be maintained for too long. Although the hotel will not conduct a detailed investigation on every guest - after all, no guest wants to be investigated thoroughly after staying in the hotel for one night, but over time, due to the presence of the real owner, it will be revealed to some extent;
I will arrange for you that the reason for your arrival, which will be known to the hotel 'accidentally' later, is to 'secretly' investigate the actual combat effects of military technology equipment for the family in order to prepare for the procurement of weapons for the private estate;
You have about three days to find the residence of the presidential candidate and the location where the propaganda documents are stored."

Listening to T-BUG's words, V had a question: "Can't you come in and help us locate the suite, T-BUG? Wouldn't it be faster to investigate this way?"

"No, I don't have the architectural diagram of this hotel. I don't know where the hotel management and monitoring are. If I rashly try to access it, it might alert the hackers in the hotel. That would be difficult to deal with. Hackers using military technology are all very troublesome."

"Would it cause some unnecessary alarm?"

Carl asked.

"It's okay to cause unnecessary alarm. What I'm worried about is that the hacker is too sensitive and will immediately block the hotel for investigation. Your identities won't stand up to scrutiny. If you're exposed, you won't be able to explain yourself. Let's not talk about whether you can get rid of all the military technology personnel in the hotel and get away. Even if you leave the hotel, it's still the territory of the military technology outside. You can't get away with the Hera you're driving."

"There are nearly 60,000 reservists out there."

Jack clicked his tongue a few times and said, "I'm afraid we were put on the wanted list as soon as we ran out."

"When that happens, it will really be a desperate situation."

Oliver also nodded. It would be fine in Night City, but in a military technology territory where he was unfamiliar with the place and the only people he would meet were from the military technology industry, he really couldn't run away. Oliver was confident in his driving skills, but he wasn't confident enough to escape by speeding through the city's firepower.

"That means we have to be careful."

Carl nodded and asked T-BUG a question at last: "T-BUG, do the three days you mentioned start from tomorrow?"

"Count today as three days."

"Then the matter is clear."

After a brief pause, Karl made a decision:

"I just heard from the front desk that there is a bar on the first floor of this hotel, a gym on the second floor, a lounge on the third floor, and a restaurant on the fourth floor. Wait a minute, you three will choose one person to be my bodyguard and go to the same floor with me. The other two will go to other floors to collect intelligence. We will try to get a general understanding of the hotel tomorrow, and then start the action tomorrow night. The sooner the better." "Is it okay for us to split up?"

Oliver was a little puzzled: "The bodyguard left the young master to wander around?"

"Don't just think of yourselves as bodyguards. Although T-BUG has assigned you the identity of bodyguards of Young Master Roma, there is a more useful name for people who can follow Young Master from Rome to New America, called confidants. We are here to observe the actual combat situation of military technology weapons, so it is natural to let confidants help us with things."

Karl raised his eyebrows slightly: "You guys do the work, the young master is here to enjoy life, so I'm going to the restaurant, you guys all do your job well, if you do a good job, I'll give you some fries as a reward."

"Come on, young master, you should go to the bar and pick up girls."

Oliver smiled and said, "That's how we do it, right? Gather intelligence, find the right place, find a way to get in, get the information and leave?"

"I will try my best to help you plan the fastest route to evacuate this city. Please be careful with your actions."

T-BUG said solemnly, "Maybe I should come to Los Angeles with you this time."

"Come on girl, the four of us are already crowded enough in Hera, and if you're added in, Carl will start to complain again. He might even hate riding in a four-seater car again this time."

Jack said with a smile, telling T-BUG not to worry about it.

Five people squeeze into the car?

Of course, this is not the case. The reason why Jack and his team did not allow T-BUG to accompany the car is actually very simple: there is no mobile hacking equipment in the car. Even if T-BUG follows, her hacking skills without the help of equipment may not be as effective as her remote help.

Moreover, T-BUG's personal combat ability, to put it nicely, has unlimited potential. To put it bluntly, if she doesn't rely on hacking, which takes a certain amount of time, she will find it difficult to deal with even the NCPD police on the street.

That's right, those NCPD policemen whose combat effectiveness is only slightly higher than that of scavengers and non-gang thugs. Jack and his men are really worried about letting T-BUG, who has such combat effectiveness, join them.

It's not that they dislike T-BUG for being a drag or anything, but if they let the T-BUG, which doesn't have many combat prostheses installed, follow the car and if it gets hit by a stray bullet, Jack and his friends might lose a friend.

In combat, casualties caused by stray bullets are often no less than those caused by direct fire. In some areas, stray bullets are the mainstream cause of death.

"Then let's start the action in a moment."

While Carl, as the captain, was determining the course of action, in a suite on a higher floor than the room where Carl and his team were, an obese man had just finished communicating with his subordinates.

If this man appeared in the sight of the new American people, I am afraid that few people would not recognize him.

The reason is simple.

His name is Thomas Kress.

And his cousin was named Elizabeth Kress.

A new American president who was elected nine times.

(End of this chapter)