Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 77 55. Behavioral Characteristics Synchronous Face Plate
'The nerve endings have integrated.'

"Zizzi."

Carl opened his eyes again at the slight sound, and then he saw Jack, Oliver, and Old Wei who were looking at him with concern beside the operating table.

It looks like the operation is over.

"How's it going? Is everything ok?"

Jack wanted to touch Karl's face, but he retracted his hand halfway: "It looks like you are no different from before."

"The behavioral characteristics synchronization face plate has not been activated yet."

After Victor glanced at Karl, he refocused his attention on the screen next to the operating table:

"I've taken a closer look at this technology and found that it can not only change the face, but also the voice. It seems that some processing was done when the voice was produced. It is obviously not installed on the neck, but it can do this. Things developed by military technology are really not simple. Wait a moment, Carl, I will set up a few sets of fine-tuned facial shapes for you, and then store them."

“Is this easy to operate?”

Oliver was a little worried that Carl's face might be damaged.

"It's very simple."

Lao Wei spoke in a relaxed tone: "I'm not going to ask Carl to imitate someone or pretend to be someone. That might require adjusting the behavioral characteristics of the person he's pretending to be. What I want to do is just make minor adjustments to Carl's face. It's equivalent to a minor plastic surgery. Do you understand? It's just a facial prosthetic self-change surgery."

"Can I get my face back, Lao Wei?"

Carl pressed his face and found that the feeling of touching it was no different from pressing his own face.

“Of course, you don’t have any messy prosthetics added to your face, not even bionic skin. If you had that thing, I would have to help you peel it off and glue it back. The original body has many advantages;
When you don't need this prosthesis anymore, I can just perform a small operation to remove it for you. It will just be a little painful, after all, the connection of some neural ports... well, you know, but speaking of it, didn't Oliver tell you all about it?"

"I'm worried that he's not a professional. You're the one who can be trusted in this area, Old Wei. Listen, this prosthesis seems to be better than I imagined?"

"It's almost like wearing a mask, but it's much better than those prosthetics that replace human organs."

"That puts my mind at ease."

"But if we talk about aftereffects, it's not completely absent."

Just when Carl, who was listening, had just relaxed, Old Wei suddenly said this with a serious face, and it was this sentence that made Carl, Jack and Oliver nervous.

Then, in front of the three nervous people, the seriousness on Lao Wei's face immediately turned into a smile.

"Your face is always covered with prosthetics. When you take it off, it may become very pale because of not seeing the sun for a long time. Don't go out at night and be mistaken for a vampire."

Hearing Lao Wei say this with a smile, the three people were so shocked that they almost gave him the middle finger in response. "Tsk, even if there really is a vampire hunter, I will kill him."

Carl rubbed his face again, feeling that there was indeed no difference, and looked at the screen that Lao Wei was controlling: "Lao Wei, my face needs to be adjusted anyway, so help me make it handsome."

"You already look good, Carl, and you're still thinking about having an even more handsome face." Hearing this, Oliver complained speechlessly, "You're not going to the academy to pick up girls, why do you need a more handsome face? Are you going to use your face to charm them and get information in bed? Aren't you just like the 'public lover' Lance Locke?"

"Your face is already very recognizable in Arasaka."

Victor said as he pulled down the preset eyes of Carl on the screen: "If they are too good-looking, it will attract too much attention and that won't be good. I'll adjust them down for you."

"Is it because I'm too handsome?"

"Look at how proud you are."

Jack laughed at the side: "I think that if you don't want to be a mercenary anymore, Carl, you can try to be a star. Who knows, you can be very popular with your face and nonsense."

"You mean those celebrities who have a lot of prosthetics, regard transformation as fashion, and walk around in their own messy clothes. Forget it, I don't plan to transform myself into an Adam Hammer in the entertainment industry."

"Are you referring to Lizzie Weisz? I've heard that girl's songs a few times. You know what, it was quite shocking to watch them in Mewtwo."

Oliver interrupted from the side, and he obviously knew who the Adam Hammer of the entertainment industry that Carl mentioned was.

[Licki Weisz]: The leading lady of Licki Weisz and the Post-Dwarves, and also the only human member of the band. She once performed suicide on the concert stage and was actually dead for an hour until the trauma team came and replaced her entire body with a prosthesis, bringing her back to life. The performance she performed with her new body after she came back to life is hailed as one of the greatest performances in history.

"There are a lot of inside stories in her show, for example, the one hour was actually the rescue time. The trauma team arrived at the scene within a minute and replaced the body with a pre-prepared prosthesis. I heard that it was Lizzie Weisz who signed the agreement in advance and it had to be executed on the spot. Anyway, according to my experience in this area, the probability of rescuing a person who has been dead for an hour is not much higher than a space shuttle falling from the sky with the new president of the United States on board."

Lao Wei's interruption made Carl, Oliver, and Jack look at him in surprise.

"what happened?"

While busy with the work at hand, Lao Wei looked at the three people strangely, not quite understanding why they were looking at him in such surprise.

After a short silence, Oliver said in disbelief, "Old Wei, you actually know this. I usually only watch boxing matches when I see you, and you keep playing them over and over again. I thought you didn't know anything about celebrities."

"She is one of the most famous singers and pop stars in Night City. It's hard not to know her. I don't know how many patients talked to me about her while they were having surgery. There were good and bad things about her. I've heard a lot about her, so I remember them. You don't think I'm some old antique, do you?"

As Lao Wei spoke, he stopped what he was doing and turned the screen next to the operating table to face Carl and the other two.

"Take a look. There are four preset faces. Karl, pick one that you like and try it out first."

(End of this chapter)