Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 530 143. Blue Light
What it's like to be a wanderer.

Just look at V.

V is a typical wanderer, with good skills, sincere and enthusiastic, and he will treat you as his own once he has a good relationship with you. He is an absolute wanderer template. And if you follow his example to fight against the four mercenaries who are registered as wanderers, you can see their flaws one after another.

"Why choose to be a wanderer when there are so many other identities to choose from?"

V ate the fries brought by Claire:
"At least camouflage the hands and make the skin look a little dusty. That kind of fine prosthetic body needs top-notch maintenance. It can't stand the dust in the badlands. It looks shiny to me. That model is probably very expensive. It can buy supplies for the tribe for a long time. I don't know which tribe would be so generous."

Even Adecardo, who is now on the edge of Night City and has started a smuggling trade business with NCPD and the Six Street Gang, and is considered to have some money, is not even one-tenth as well equipped as these registered "wanderers". It is absurd to think that the arrogant tribes with such wanderers will be disbanded, and the capable people will not be able to make it and have to run to Night City to be mercenaries.

"It is now certain that their identities are definitely disguised."

Jack was eating salt and pepper fries. "So, there's no need for us to investigate just out of curiosity. Everyone in this city has secrets. A group of foreign mercenaries with a special purpose shouldn't be considered strange. Besides..."

Jack glanced at Yori and said, "Let's go around, right?"

"I am glad to."

Yori said, and glanced at the four people again: "I'm curious too."

"Why are you curious about Yori?"

Jack was a little speechless. Could it be that he was the most stable person in the entire team?

"No, I actually just received a message."

Yori sent over the message he received from his subordinates.

'Attention Mil-Tech Agents.'

'Military technology?'

In the team chat, Jack said, "Why are they getting involved too?"

"It's better to talk about Arasaka. Military technology is as clear as if they know their own business, just like Arasaka knows military technology."

Yori obviously knows all about Arasaka and Militech, but he was also very surprised by the arrival of Militech:

"But it's strange. I took action only when the time was right. I don't know why they were able to mobilize forces to Night City when the military technology and New America should have been fighting each other."

“Military technology and the new American internal struggle?”

Oliver is very familiar with the relevant matters: "Don't they often fight each other over the division of interests? Is there anything special recently that requires a fight?"

“New American presidential election.”

Yori said something that surprised the rest of the team:

"In previous years, even if the election was a foregone conclusion, both sides would have used all means to fight until the very last moment before the presidential election results came out, or even until the day the president officially took office. According to the timeline, it should be during this period, so why is military technology still involved?"

Presidential election, no suspense, entanglement
"We may know something about this."

V hinted to Yori with some hesitation: "After all, we have taken on a lot of work." "We have taken on a lot of work"

Yori understood.

It turned out that Carl's team did something that unbalanced the internal fighting forces that were still in a tangle, allowing one of the sides to withdraw its hands and reach out to Arasaka.

"It looks like they are planning to do something."

Carl glanced at Yori. If there was anything happening in Night City recently that required military technology to do something, then that was obviously Yori's other identity. He didn't know if it was directed at him.

However, Arasakase Nobuyuki had been to Night City before. Why didn't they target him that time, but are ready to make a move this time? Or are they targeting not Arasakase Nobuyuki, but another person named Arasaka?

Wouldn't this cause the fifth corporate war?
Or, could it be that these people are from the military technology field, but are there third-party forces involved?
Third party forces.
Carl thought of someone.

No, or to be more precise, it's not a 'person'.

When Carl and Arasakase Nobuo met for the first time, a blue-eyed man in a suit, whose body was obviously taken over by a roaming AI through a controlled prosthesis, was taken back to Japan to meet Saburo Arasaka. Later in Night City, a person who was originally scheduled to meet Arasakase Nobuo was killed by a robot that tried hard to imitate humans and even abandoned the advantages of machinery. If it weren't for Carl and the others, it would be Arasakase Nobuo who should have died in that meeting.

Think further ahead.

On the day of the Arasaka banquet, a group of people controlled by AI had blue light flashing in their eyes.

Carl turned his head.

But he didn't see Dexter DeShawn and the four 'newcomers'.

Carl didn't take long to think. Dexter DeShawn didn't go far. His fat and huge body and brown skin were not difficult to find in the afterlife with faint green light.

After a quick search, Carl found their traces.

They were walking towards the inner part of the Next Life. Apparently a box had become vacant, and they were going to have their detailed discussion in a more confidential place.

Carl looked at the person with a single molecular line who was walking at the end, and the other person seemed to have noticed Carl's gaze and turned his head away.

She was a woman with blue pupils. Judging from her appearance, she was pretty, but when Carl looked into those eyes, all he felt was coldness and dead silence.

It was as if those eyes were just the surface, just a layer of skin, and there was something real underneath, watching him.

Carl has always liked looking into people's eyes, because when he looks into people's eyes, he always feels like he is looking into a person's soul, but these eyes...
Is there a soul underneath?
Soul is a rather magical word, and in layman's terms, Carl could also call that feeling 'humanity'.

And now, he couldn't feel the humanity.

The two people just looked at each other, and the woman with blue pupils looked away.

And the moment he looked away, Carl saw something that seemed not unexpected, yet seemed unexpected.

A flash of blue light flashed by like a meteor streaking across the sky in broad daylight.

It is inconspicuous, but so conspicuous in the eyes of those who notice it.

(End of this chapter)