Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 557 170. Johnny Silverhand
Who is Johnny Silverhand?

If you ask this question to someone on the streets of Night City, the answer you'll probably get is a few bullets mixed with curses about how dare you come near me. But if you use some tricks to make the person being questioned obedient and accept the questioning honestly, then they'll get an answer like this.

'Madman', 'Rock and roll youth', 'Legend', 'Son of a bitch'.

Each of these answers is very appropriate for Johnny Silverhand, and each of them is suitable to describe Johnny Silverhand.

But if Carl were to describe his impression, it would be
"Uh-huh-huh."

"I'm not a dog!"

"Aren't you just a dog now?"

Carl retracted his finger that was almost bitten, stared at the dog jumping around on the ground, and folded his hands:

"So, Mr. Johnny Silverhand, you should have died in the Arasaka Tower incident more than 50 years ago, but at that time you were used as an experiment by Saburo Arasaka and killed with the Relic, and the digital imprint of your personality has been stored in it until now, right?"

"Why, do I have to tell you step by step how I reached Arasaka Tower so you can admire me?"

The projection of Johnny Silverhand also raised his hands like Carl: "Haven't you finished accessing and reading? Do you still need me to open your legs for you to come in and take a look?"

"You don't have to be so rude. I have normal sexual orientation."

Carl put down his folded hands and waved:
"I just feel that there is something wrong with your data record. In your memory, you were used as a test subject by Saburo Arasaka who was driven to Night City in America. But as far as I know, Saburo Arasaka has been in mainland Japan for several years before and after the Arasaka Tower incident. He was so busy dealing with attacks from the Japanese government and other companies that he had no time to rush to America to deal with you."

Karl thought about it and came up with an appropriate adjective: “Little Karami?”

Carl spoke in Chinese, and a language recognition system was pre-installed in Qiuqiu's body. Johnny Silverhand understood the meaning of the word as soon as he heard it.

This made Johnny Silverhand raise his eyebrows: "You mean, my level is not enough for Arasaka Saburo to handle it?"

"Of course not enough."

Carl said as a matter of course, staring at Johnny's silver hand:

"To put it bluntly, Mr. Johnny Silverhand, I feel that your memory data may be confused. At least I can't find any reason why Saburo Arasaka would speed up to Arasaka Tower at the critical moment, deal with you, abandon his son Arasaka Kei and the entire North American Arasaka, and then rush back to Japan across the Pacific Ocean to fight with the government company."

Carl continued to stare at Johnny Silverhand and said, "Do you think you are more important than Arasaka Saburo's most valued son, Arasaka Kei, and the entire North American Arasaka?"

Johnny Silverhand frowned when he heard Carl's words.

Although he was arrogant and conceited, and would not listen to anyone's advice, he was not an idiot. Especially when it came to his own memories, he still had some reservations. After realizing that the Arasaka Saburo in his memory was unlikely to be real, his movements in the projection became serious.

"Boy, are you saying that my memory is wrong now?"

"Almost. At least not the real Johnny Silverhand."

Carl was very considerate and gave Johnny Silverhand some knowledge about Relic: "The personality data recorded by Relic is the personality data at that time. In other words, the current you, Mr. Johnny Silverhand, may be the Johnny Silverhand at the moment before death. The Johnny Silverhand recorded is dead, and you are just a replica now."

"replica?"

Listening to Carl's words, Johnny Silverhand showed an unexpected open-mindedness among the people watching: "Then I am still me, what's the difference?"

"That makes sense." Jack, who was watching from the second floor, muttered, "No matter which one I am, I am still me. I am really crazy. Compared to the dog-biting-man look just now, the look I show now is more like the arrogant Johnny Silverhand in the video footage I saw."

"Are you Johnny Silverhand?"

Carl listened and smiled: "That's right, then we can settle the accounts, Mr. Johnny Silverhand."

"Let's settle the accounts?"

"Yes."

Carl said as a matter of course, pointing at Johnny Silverhand's current body: "I won't count the fact that you sneaked into the Relic and made my Relic unusable. The body you are using now is my dog's. I am a generous person and I won't count other miscellaneous expenses and labor. Even if you owe me one million euros, when will you pay me back?"

"One million euros?!"

Johnny Silverhand, who was from the past, was obviously almost shocked by this number. In his era in the past, this amount of money could buy the best supercars.

"Oh, prices have changed, you may not understand."

Carl was also very forgiving of the old man in the past. He took out his mobile phone, displayed the current price list of Night City on it, and placed it in front of Johnny Silverhand: "This is the current price. Generally speaking, it has increased a lot compared to before. It's not as expensive as you think."

“Not as expensive as before?”

The dog poked his head out to take a look and said, "It really doesn't seem that expensive!"

The dog reacted halfway through the calculation, and lunged forward again to bite but missed: "I haven't yet settled the matter with you guys about putting me in the dog's nest. And who are you guys? Shouldn't I fall into Arasaka's hands? Where is my body?"

"Your body is long gone."

Raising his phone to avoid being bitten, Carl picked up Johnny Silverhand's body and brought him to the floor-to-ceiling window of the large flat, so that his eyes could directly see Night City at that moment.

"It's already 2077, Mr. Johnny Silverhand."

"Year 2077?"

The passage of time perceived by Johnny Silverhand's personality data in the Relic was not clear. He did not expect that when he looked at this world again, more than fifty years had passed.

His pair of dog eyes were looking at the Night City, but the first thing he saw was the building that stood tall in the Night City and reached the sky.

"Arasaka Tower, Arasaka is still in Night City!"

"It's like you from more than 50 years ago have returned to this world again. Arasaka Tower has naturally returned to Night City, just like before."

Carl put the dog down and let Johnny Silverhand take a good look at Night City today.

Take a good look at it, take a good look at it, get familiar with it, and then you can pay your debt.

Even if it's a dog, it has to pay back the money it owes.

(End of this chapter)