Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 437 50. Cormac
Carl is not V. He actually does not have the habit of working overtime in his spare time. If there is a middleman who wants him to work during his rest time, then that person must be quite capable, or have a good relationship with him. For example, the priest and the old captain are in this group. Among them, Cormac is definitely not included. The reason why he suddenly had an idea today and accepted V's invitation was just because he thought of what the old captain said a few days ago.

When the old captain was drinking in the afterlife, he told Carl about a conspicuous female mercenary on the street, a person from the Coronado Farm near the Badlands. She was quite capable and it was expected that she would be qualified to join the mercenary circle in the afterlife soon.

That conspicuous mercenary had been working for Cormac, and Carl was a little curious about the mercenary who could work under Cormac, a famous mercenary consumer, so he just went to take a look at it during this job.

V was actually quite surprised that Carl was planning to come.

This kind of small job can be done by ordinary street mercenaries, and he is the only one in the entire team who is still doing it. Carl is surprisingly lazy when it comes to non-essential things. V was just asking casually, and he didn't expect Carl to be really interested in this kind of small job. However, V didn't care about it, and quickly replied to Cormac, saying that he and KK were willing to come.

In response to V's reply, both he and KK came, and Cormac gave a reply after nearly ten seconds.

"I'll add a remuneration that's sufficient to qualify you."

Obviously, Cormac was also very surprised that V brought KK to work together.

As a middleman, you can be greedy and use despicable means, but you still have the basic ability to judge your partners. Every middleman basically knows that KK only takes big jobs, and it is best not to bother him with jobs that he is not qualified for. Therefore, Cormack has never tried to contact the entire team to help him work. Every time he just chats privately with V who likes to do small jobs. It was really unexpected that KK could come today.

The job that Cormac gave V was not the kind of job that required real work. The mission said that something was coming from outside the city, and his mercenaries were responsible for picking it up, and asked V to keep an eye on it. In essence, it was more like a means of surveillance and prevention of accidents.

Monitor your mercenaries to prevent them from taking the goods and running away, and at the same time prevent them from losing the goods due to their lack of skills. Finally, V can take over.

If it is a middleman who has just entered the industry, he will definitely not understand why Cormac did this. Those middlemen who only intend to pay a sum of money will find a way to do the whole process for V, which is too young.

Because it would be very expensive to hire only V.

In the middleman business, everyone knows that the people in Carl's team are very expensive, but at the same time, they do a good job and the selection is two-way, and no middleman wants to be a fool like Faraday, so when they find V, the only person in Carl's team who will take small jobs, they will give a very high price even if it is just a small job.

If you pay too much, you won't make much money from some small jobs. Especially since Cormac always pays more every time in order to maintain his reputation as the only advantage of high pay. So, if he only hires V, he can only earn 20% to 30%, which is almost like working for nothing. At this time, how to control expenses becomes something that a middleman needs to consider.

Mercenaries only need to do their work and die, but the middlemen have to consider how to dispatch them and make money. In his long career as a middleman, Cormac has learned one thing: the workers do not have to be famous.

Having a prestigious mercenary ostensibly undertake the task, but actually only play a key responsible role, while leaving the hard and potentially life-threatening work to the grassroots mercenaries, this approach can satisfy all parties involved - it's a win-win-win situation.

First, those mercenaries of high reputation would be satisfied if they could be paid simply for supervising the work;

Secondly, the lower-level mercenaries can also receive generous rewards when they know that they have powerful mercenaries backing them up, which also makes them feel satisfied;
Finally, for Cormac, he only paid a large sum of money in the eyes of grassroots mercenaries and less than one-third of the regular mission fees of well-known mercenaries, and let those famous mercenaries act as a guarantee to complete a mission that would have required well-known mercenaries to perform personally, and he was satisfied with it.

If all three parties are satisfied, isn’t it a win-win situation?
As for what to do if an accident happens, Cormac will win big.

When a useless street-level mercenary dies, he can pay less money, and then a famous mercenary will take over the job. This means that he only spent one-third of the money to let the famous mercenary's mercenary do the job. In the end, he can still earn two-thirds of the full reward that was originally to be paid to the famous mercenary. Isn't this a big win?
Cormac was very generous and offered more compensation than ordinary middlemen, but his ability and ideas to make money were also greater than those of ordinary middlemen.

Everyone on the street knew that he was not much better than Faraday, but there was an endless stream of people willing to take his jobs. This was all due to Cormac's own methods.

Who can say that he did anything wrong, who can be dissatisfied with what he gave?
In Cormac's entire ordinary mission operation process, the only ones who will be sacrificed are the low-level mercenaries, and those lives that die are like stones falling into the sea, which will disappear immediately after causing a ripple. To Cormac, they are worthless.

If there is a mercenary who can become a famous mercenary through his treatment, then Cormac would not mind paying a little more to make him a person who can establish his reputation as a "talent recognizer" and give him the qualification to sit and receive money normally and work hard for one-third of the money at a critical moment. However, if during this process, the low-level mercenary who has not yet become a famous mercenary wants to be more greedy for the reward and is more disobedient, then...
Cormac looked at the euros that had been lost from his account due to KK's joining, thought about the female mercenary who was becoming increasingly disobedient in the team, and slightly narrowed his eyes, which already looked small due to his obesity.

He originally wanted to use some tricks and let her teammates deal with her, but if KK and V were here, maybe there would be a different way.

Want to do something big, want to get away from doing things on your own in private?

Then let’s survive from KK and V first.

(End of this chapter)