Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 78 56. New Identity

"how do you feel?"

Listening to Lao Wei's voice, Carl looked at his reflection in the mirror and tried to pull his face.

"No problem, it feels almost the same as my original face. It just looks a little strange."

The person who appeared in the mirror was a black-haired young man. Judging from his appearance, he was only slightly similar to the past Carl in his eyebrows and eyes. Overall, he looked more like
"Old Wei, I think Carl looks a lot like you now."

Jack looked at Carl's current face and then looked at Lao Wei: "Look at Carl as if he is your nephew."

"uh-huh?"

When Carl heard what Jack said, he took a closer look and found that the face template he chose really looked like Lao Wei.

"To construct a face mold, there must be some basis. The four faces I constructed were modified based on you and me. I originally thought that you, Carl, would choose the one that looked more like your own face, but after choosing and choosing, you finally chose my face template."

From what Lao Wei said, he was also quite surprised by Carl's choice.

"It's too much like me, so there's no point in lurking. But it's okay. It's better to look like your nephew, Old Wei, than Oliver or Jack's brother."

Rubbing his changed face, Karl stood up from the operating table:

"So what's next? The face that can avoid scanning is ready, but what about the identity?"

A changed face alone is obviously not enough. Without a proper identity, it would probably be discovered not long after entering Arasaka Academy.

"Don't worry, I've asked the priest to take care of this."

Jack handed over a chip and motioned for Carl to take a look at the contents.

"Father, why did you ask him for help?"

"The middleman has connections, and the priest is one of our own in Heywood. Carl, you said you wanted an identity, so of course I went to him as soon as possible. The priest didn't ask for details, but he quickly helped me get a legal and compliant identity. You just need to scan your face in, but you know, we have to do some work for the priest next time to repay him. KK is so famous, and now all the middlemen in the city want you to help them with their work."

"It doesn't matter if there are any tasks or not. If you owe someone a favor, you have to repay it. But this identity is fine. Is it reliable?"

"What are you talking about? He's the priest, the most powerful middleman in the whole of Heywood. This is something that an ordinary street middleman can do, so you can rest assured to leave it to the priest."

After Jack finished speaking, Oliver nodded and said, "Carl, how many people do you think die in Night City every day? How many people come here? The NCPD and the city government officials who only know how to embezzle money don't have the time to care about these messy population flows. Only the people at the border checkpoint will take a closer look at this kind of thing. If you are a homeless person, they won't even bother to look at it."

After Oliver finished speaking, he pointed at Carl's face and said, "Besides, don't even mention your changed identity. Your identity before the change was completely blank. Didn't you know that? Not long after we started working together, my sister was worried about you and checked your resume. It turned out that your record was completely blank. Even someone like you can survive in Night City. Are you afraid that your changed identity won't work?"

"I did get one thing from your words. Outsiders and wanderers have no human rights, right? The boss of Night City is the boss. But can this really be hidden from Arasaka?" "Don't worry, if you pay enough money, even if you don't have an identity, the people in Arasaka Academy can find you a formal identity. As long as you have money, everything will be fine. Besides, we are not applying for a job at Arasaka or Military Technology. It's just a school. Don't worry."

Listening to what Oliver and Jack said, Carl still felt that it was quite unreliable, but he had to admit that there was one thing in their words that was very correct and true.

That means you have paid enough money, and Arasaka Academy doesn't care who you are.

Arasaka Academy trains a large number of preparatory corporate dogs, and they have to eliminate a large number of them when they enter Arasaka. Only those with identity problems can't pass that stage, and if you don't have some connections, you can't even get to the interview stage. For an academy that can be used for profit, there is really no need to conduct such strict audits.

“It’s all business.”

Nowadays, identity is a business, interviews are a business, and even education is a business.

He is quite like a businessman. If you pay enough money, he will even sell the rope that hangs them up.

"When is the exact start date of school?"

"There is no specific start time. You can go as long as you pay the money. After verifying your identity, you can get a suit of Arasaka Academy uniform to go to school. Oh, you have to pay attention here. During this one-month trial period, you only have the right to use this uniform, and you have to return it when the time is up. If there is dirt or damage, you have to compensate for the price of the uniform according to the proportion of the damage."

Oliver was flipping through the news and found a reminder in the corner related to school uniforms. The font was only one-third the size of the other fonts around it.

"Price-fixed compensation, gosh, isn't the price fixed based on what they say? Compensation for the proportion of damage, who knows how they will do the damage."

Jack smacked his lips and then realized, "This isn't the trick for those ordinary people who want to experience Arasaka Academy for a month, is it?"

"Don't worry, it's 99% likely to be like this."

Oliver said, "Isn't it also marked that Arasaka Academy has the sole right to interpret the above terms?"

"I'm afraid that I'll have to pay several years of normal tuition fees for a month of trial study."

"Jack, do you think Arasaka Academy would be so kind? They've reduced the price and publicized it on the news headlines. It doesn't cost money to be on the news headlines. Look at this. They've made preferential policies for the poor and ordinary people, so that everyone can experience Arasaka's elite education. It's really disgusting to see."

“Does everyone who doesn’t have much money have to take that little money?”

"Eat bones, and there's still marrow that can be knocked out and eaten."

"You talk as if you've eaten real bones."

While listening to the conversation between Oliver and Jack about Arasaka Academy, Carl on the side had already inserted the chip to check the information of his new identity.

Seventeen years old, not yet an adult? It's only one year away from my current age of eighteen, and my name is.
Gaius?
(End of this chapter)