Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 499 112. Not much
It was not difficult to disguise themselves once their identities were confirmed. Except for V who picked and chose a loose-fitting piece of clothing that could be worn by both men and women with a conflicted look on his face, it was quite easy for other team members to pretend to be members of Mann's team. Even Oliver, who disguised himself as Pyrrha, a modified person with a prosthetic hand, only installed a device on the outside of his hand.

That is to say, Team Carl and Team Mann are familiar with each other, and both sides are very clear about each other's appearance and attire, otherwise there might be omissions in their disguise. After the disguise, it is difficult for ordinary people to notice any difference in the appearance of Team Carl unless they are acquaintances.

As for the Voodoo Gang, which would use hacking methods to investigate mercenaries in advance, Carl also asked Andy and others to change their whereabouts information in the NCPD. Unless the Voodoo Gang hacked into the NCPD database and searched the database changes in detail, the superficial information that the Voodoo Gang could find would only be that Mann's team had just completed a job recently and was now vacant - and this was exactly the fact.

Of course, if the Voodoo Gang dared to look through the NCPD database in detail, then Carl and his team might not even need to take action on this mission.

The reason is simple.

Because of his acquaintances in the NCPD, Mr. Johnson used his authority to put the information about Carl and other mercenary teams into the database of candidates for the Terrorist Squad. In other words, if the Voodoo Gang wants to look through the information about Mann and others in the NCPD in detail, they will inevitably find information related to the Terrorist Squad.

There might be people in this city who dare to take action against the Terrorist Mobile Squad, but the Voodoo Gang obviously does not have that ability.

Those lunatics don't care about the impact. If they are really provoked, clearing out the Haitian gathering place is nothing impossible for them. Cyberpsychopaths don't care about hurting innocent people.

This is a big stage for violence and terrorism, come if you have the courage.

After confirming that there would be no problem in tracking the whereabouts of the person, there was only one problem left for Carl and his team.

How to get the Voodoo Gang to select them and assign them tasks.

Even if you want to get close to the Voodoo Gang's doormat, you have to have connections.

If Taiping State wants to choose someone familiar with the Voodoo Gang.
"We need a middleman who can keep secrets and has a way to connect us with the Voodoo Gang."

Carl said, "Hanz, or Dexter Deshawn?"

"Dexter DeShawn fled Night City last time because he messed up the Voodoo Gang's business. He was afraid that the Voodoo Gang would cause trouble for him if he returned to Night City, so we took the job of escorting him."

V said, "Even though he used to be the most powerful middleman in Taiping Prefecture, Hanz is still the more famous one now. Let's find Hanz."

"Too."

It is indeed not a good idea to find a middleman who has done bad things for the Voodoo Gang to act as a connection with them and then take on the Voodoo Gang's work.

But if you look for Hanz.
Carl thought about Mr. Hands's shrewd mind. It was not so easy to deceive this middleman who came from a corporate background.

According to his brain, it shouldn't be difficult to guess what the KK team wants to do.
But no problem.

"Mr. Hands, I think you should be a little interested in the Taiping State territory that was vacated after the Voodoo Gang's chaos."

"Is it a place where Haitians gather and there is no money to be made? But if that's what you said, Carl, then I'm very interested."

After answering the phone, Mr. Hands' words were still so calm and steady, as if nothing could cause his mood to fluctuate in the slightest, but Karl could still hear that Mr. Hands was interested.

If this kind of middleman really thought there was no profit in the deal, he wouldn't have continued talking, and he wouldn't have shown any interest just because the person he was communicating with was Carl.

None of these street middlemen are fools. Regardless of whether they are really interested or not, it is their habit to put pressure verbally first.

Carl didn't care about what Mr. Hands said. He just briefly explained his needs. "So, Carl, you plan to use the identity of the Mann team to let me help you take on the Voodoo Gang's work?"

"That's pretty much it."

"Ah."

Hearing Carl's affirmative words, Hands laughed from the other end of the phone: "Maman-Bridget is not someone who is easy to negotiate with. If this job is leaked, I will be in big trouble from the Voodoo Gang. KK, you really put me in a difficult position."

"There will be no more Voodoo Gang."

Carl's reply was so bland, so bland that Mr. Hands's words, which were intended to raise the price, were interrupted before he could finish.

"If there are any remaining Voodoo Gang members after this job, I will clean them up myself and finish them off."

The task given to Carl by the Internet Monitor is to target the boss of the Voodoo Gang, which is nothing wrong with that, but after completing the task, whether or not to clean up the Voodoo Gang is up to the KK team themselves.

The Voodoo Gang is a gang with 50-250 official members.

This number is not too many.

It’s not difficult to solve all of them.

The deceased mayor Lucius Lane gave up Taiping State, but there are many ambitious people in this place. Even for the NCPD, this is a place that can be used to station additional personnel and store secret items.

In this place, the existence of the Voodoo Gang is like maggots in a wound. Before you can cure the wound, you have to get rid of them first.

Carl doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.

Listening to Carl's plain words, Hanz was silent for a long time.

Obviously, he didn't expect KK to say something like this, but.
Perhaps these are the words KK should say.

"Then it seems I have no reason to refuse."

Hands regained his composure. He said with a smile, "I will try to help you make connections. I am very satisfied with the benefits. The departure of the Voodoo Gang can indeed bring me a lot of benefits, but..."

In the end, Hands made a request: "I need any Voodoo gang members who know that I am a matchmaker to die."

Obviously, Hands still values ​​his reputation, and Carl's response to this request is:

"I'll vouch for you."

Mr. Hands' efficiency was indeed outstanding, and Carl received the news that evening.

"You are lucky. I was thinking of doing something that the Voodoo Gang could not handle, so that they would have to hire outsiders to help. But they just happened to need a doormat. I recommend you to go there. Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, the Quiet Bible Church on Sloane Street. The contact person will be waiting for you there."

(End of this chapter)