Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 574 187. Wilkie-Laguerre

"I haven't seen you for a few hours, Li De. Why do you look different again?"

At the address provided by Reed, Carl finally waited for him. At this time, Reed had turned into a black man with a similar appearance to the original one.

"In order to avoid being tracked, I forged a new identity."

Li De explained briefly, and then his eyes fell on Carl's face: "This face of yours is..."

"It's recorded in your intelligence, right? This is what I looked like when I was at Arasaka Academy, with some minor modifications."

Carl continued, "The identity registration information and camera arrangement of that face have been left at the hotel. If everything goes well, I can go back and use that identity later. After one night, I will be able to leave Dog Town smoothly through the gate tomorrow."

“Things might not go so smoothly.”

Li De remembered that Carl left the hotel with a young girl, but according to what Carl said now...

'Didn't he take out the man who might have exposed him?'

Li De kept this in mind and continued, "I don't have the means to contact the hacker. If you want to finish the mission as soon as possible and get back to the hotel, then we have to speed up our actions."

"There's no way to contact him, so you have to come in person? I see. I was wondering why you need two people to do something that you can do alone."

The hacker that Reed was looking for was a member of the Voodoo Gang, and Carl happened to have some minor grudge against the Voodoo Gang.

Therefore, when Reed suggested that Carl come with him, Carl was confused. Now after hearing what Reed said, he understood that it was because he had no means of contact and could only go to "invite" people in person.

"So, is that hacker reliable? Can you really get him to help you?"

"He owes us, the Intelligence Bureau." Li De answered briefly and then led the way.

The group of hackers who split from the Voodoo Gang were based not far from the meeting place agreed upon by Reed and Carl.

But in order to avoid being noticed by the Hellhound on the road, Reed and Carl chose some remote alleys and covered paths to move forward. Although the speed was not fast, after walking for about five minutes, they successfully arrived at their destination - a place that looked a little dark from the outside.

Looking at the dark blue door in front of him, which seemed eerie under the illumination of the voodoo pattern with lights installed, Carl had to say that his stereotype of the voodoo gang had deepened.

No matter it is the voodoo gang of the past or the group of breakaway members who broke away from the voodoo gang, the locations they choose are more sinister than the others, and there are those weird and scary voodoo patterns. If they were placed in some amusement parks, they could be considered half a haunted house.

“This place used to be a spa.”

Li De introduced this place to Carl: "But it was not completed at the end, so it was abandoned. Later, a group of Haitians occupied it."

"Another typical unfinished building in Taiping State. Should I get used to this?"

While Reed and Carl were chatting, they opened the door of the spa. With the slight creaking sound of the iron door, the two of them walked into the shop which seemed even darker inside.

"Don't mention it, the security is quite tight."

When Carl entered the spa, he looked through the windows made of iron bars at the door and saw the deeper layout.

"Surveillance cameras and sentries. Oh, these guys are well-equipped. Didn't they split from the Voodoo Gang? Why do I feel like their equipment is much better than the Voodoo Gang's?"

"In Dog Town, you can't survive without good equipment. Even the scavengers are the best fighters in the city." "That's true."

After taking a quick look, Carl asked in the communication channel with Li De: "So which hacker are we looking for? Can we see it here?"

"Wilkie Laguerre, that's his name. Of course, people on the street call him 'Slide'. It's not hard to find him because his occipital lobe was injured. He can't see anything without the network cable. Even the artificial eye can't save him. We can find him somewhere connected to the Internet."

"I'm not familiar with the name Wilkie Laguerre, but I have heard of the name Slide. The Voodoo Gang wanted to use us as a doormat and sent us to deal with him. But he is actually a blind man?"

Carl found it quite novel: "It seems that his hacking skills are really good."

It's very simple reasoning.

The Voodoo Gang is not a good organization, and Slide was able to lead a group of members to split from the Voodoo Gang. If this blind man did not have good hacking skills, he would have been killed by the Voodoo Gang long ago. He would not have had to wait until Carl and his team dealt with the Voodoo Gang before he received the task of cleaning out Slide from the Voodoo Gang.

"A traitor to the Voodoo Gang. He became an insider after killing someone. He is a scumbag among scumbags. For such a person to be alive, he must have some skills."

Li De agreed with what Carl said about Slide being very capable: "And his ability is the reason why we came to him. There are only a few people in the whole Dog Town who can help us, and he is definitely the most capable one."

"He's your insider. I was wondering how you could have the evidence that would link you to a Voodoo Gang traitor. Your CIA has really wide reach. So what should we do next? Just reveal our identities and go find the slider. If it was that easy, you wouldn't be peeking in here with me, right?"

Karl's words made Li De nod slightly: "He is a habitual criminal with no bottom line. If you want him to do something, you may have to use some tricks after meeting him."

"That is to say, before I meet him, I'm not sure whether he will help me or not."

This is easy to understand.

Even if the United Intelligence Bureau has evidence in its hands and the person is an insider of the United Intelligence Bureau, there will always be some people who will not shed tears before the coffin arrives.

"So, as long as we can see the slider, you can solve the problem, right?"

Carl checked Reed's request again.

Hearing the slight change in Carl's tone, Reed nodded subconsciously.

"That's good."

That's it.

Isn't it just going into the lair of the Voodoo Gang separatists to look for someone? The same old routine.

Carl's appearance changed in front of Reed.

And that appearance is
"Bah."

The door connecting the front to the back of the spa was kicked open, and as the surveillance cameras and the Voodoo Gang splinter members turned their attention to that place, a man walked out of the opened door.

"I have something to do with Slide, go and inform him."

The person who came was very polite, just like KK, a guest visiting the house.

(End of this chapter)