Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 30 Lu Mingfei: Am I a human being?

[I'm David Martinez. I think I have an appointment with your boss.]

Come in.

Once the mission began, reality went just as smoothly as planned.

It was 2076, and you still needed to ring the doorbell to enter someone else's house. After stating their origins and identities, the Whirlpool Gang let David and his group pass with curses.

A vortex helped the younger brother open the door, then signaled David and the others to follow.

The only people who broke into the factory were Lu Mingfei, David, and Rebecca.

Qiwei and Falco are responsible for external support.

David was in charge of the negotiations, Rebecca provided cover fire, and Lu Mingfei—

He was responsible for putting on airs, putting on a gangster-like look on his face, and trying hard not to appear timid.

The "all food" factory can be roughly translated as a 'whole food factory'. However, there is basically no sign of food production or storage in this Vortex Gang base. It is just an abandoned factory commonly seen in Night City.

The crisscrossing black pipes, the bright and terrifying red light paths, and the sporadic sounds made by metal colliding - the collision sounds came from the modified prosthetic bodies of the Vortex Gang.

Everyone passed through the tunnels inside the factory, the familiar containers, cold storage, debugging chassis, workshop assembly lines, and even speakers and mines, huh?
Mines? ! ?

Lu Mingfei looked carefully and found that it was actually a fragmentation mine sold by Military Technology.

"They bought military technology goods, and then dared to intercept other people's things?" Lu Mingfei was a little curious, and bent down to secretly whisper in Rebecca's ear and asked.

Military Technology is a well-known company, and if you want to intercept this kind of goods, it means taking action against the company - most people don't dare to do that. Not to mention the consequences of offending the company, the company's employees are not easy to mess with.

A high salary means a high level of prosthetic modification. In addition to being strong in themselves, they have basically purchased insurance for the [Trauma Team]. Once something happens, the Trauma Team will come and kill the Uzumaki Gang.

However, these lunatics dared to kidnap the company's employees, cut off their signals from the outside world to avoid the trauma team, and then forcibly deducted some profits from the company.

It's cruel, but also dirty, and most mercenaries know about this shit.

So Rebecca deliberately said, "Ha! God knows! These people are just brainless lunatics! Who knows, maybe this was stolen too!"

【! ! ! ! ! ! 】

Rebecca's undisguised sarcasm instantly made the little brother who led the way furious - this was literally the meaning, because his brain prosthesis was equipped with decorative springs, and the skin of his skull would bounce up directly when the movement was large.

Lu Mingfei looked at him, and the high-tech Qilusi artificial eye given by Lao Wei began to display the other party's name.

Brick

Sounds like a name that would lead to death from betrayal.

"What, do you have any objections?"

Rebecca grinned, her hand already on the kinetic rifle that was almost half her size and painted in cartoon colors.

【.】

As a younger brother of the Whirlpool Gang, Brick certainly didn't dare to fight Rebecca in a one-on-one fight. The two of them were not on the same level in terms of prosthetic transformation. Although Rebecca was just a loli, she was considered a top-notch fighter in the underworld. Because she dared to fight and fight hard, in many cases, not being afraid of death was a talent. If one was not only not afraid of death but also became crazier as the fight went on, then he would have the ticket to become a professional mercenary.

However, this is the territory of the Whirlpool Gang. In addition to the younger brothers, there are more than a dozen members here who are holding guns and ready to fight at any time. After hearing Rebecca's words, almost everyone focused their attention on the three of them.

I'm dying, dying, dying
In Lu Mingfei's [game perspective], the originally yellow icon turned orange, and the two sides were just one step away from fighting.

As the eldest, David sighed.

"Rebecca, calm down—and you, put your guns down, too."

I thought David was going to teach his own team members a lesson, but he turned around and started talking to the Whirlpool Gang.

"We've fought many battles before, and you should know that if a fight breaks out, there won't be any casualties on my side, and your food factory will need a new crew to man it."

Wow, so cruel!

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and felt that this was exactly the protagonist of the cool novel he had imagined, showing his dominance.

You're truly the boss! You've easily accomplished something we couldn't! Admirable! I'm completely impressed!

The tense atmosphere was overwhelmed by David's "presenting facts and reasoning" momentum. The Whirlpool Gang was angry and pouted, and finally had to lead the way in disgrace.

The second floor.

On the cushioned sofa in the corner of the floor sat a member of the Whirlpool Gang who perfectly fit Lu Mingfei's stereotype.

A thin and frail body, arms covered with needle marks, bluish skin, and the same facial prosthesis covering the entire body.

【Kemu Black】

[Faction: Whirlpool Gang]

[Reward: 4000]

It’s not cheap at all. The bounty in Cyberpunk is automatically added with a [10,000] at the end, and when brought into One Piece, it basically represents the person’s status in the underworld.

A bounty of 40 million, identified as a small boss.

"Hello, my name is Kem. I know why you are here, but is it necessary to make such a big fuss?" Kem's eyes were unfriendly, but his attitude had softened in his words.

Obviously, continuing to use the metaphor from One Piece, if Kum is the East China Sea fishman Arlong, then David - at least he is one of the emerging Seven Warlords of the Sea!
"Wakako asked us to come here. She said you have something here."

"I understand, I understand. But the underworld has its own rules, you know. I can't just give you something I found. After all, it's hard to say it's still someone else's property."

Judging from the tone, this person is about to start bargaining.

The voices of the Whirlpool Gang, which had become mechanical and rigid due to excessive transformation, sounded very uncomfortable. Rebecca sat on the sofa with her legs tucked in, looking dissatisfied, while Lu Mingfei stood aside, acting as a bodyguard obediently.

At first he could still pretend to be convincing, but after standing upright for a while he got tired. Not only was he tired, he also felt bored.

So the content of the negotiation went in one ear and out the other, and he began to look around for something to entertain himself, while praying that this mission would go smoothly without any accidents. After all, he was a pacifist.

As he looked, Lu Mingfei discovered another commonality among the Night City factories besides the containers.

[Camera] In this era, cameras are everywhere. Companies use them to monitor people's lives, and hackers treat them as free bubble wrap sold on the roadside. When they need to relieve stress, they hack into them and play with them.

Lu Mingfei just happened to need to decompress, and Lucy just happened to have learned how to hack in that training chip.

That's not difficult. There's no need to learn any computer language as Lu Mingfei imagined. No need to say "hello world" or stare at the error line and scratch your head.

It's more about 'feeling' than understanding.

It's more like a game, where you point your prosthetic eye at the electronics, click a button, and the rest is just 'instinct'.

Seeing that David was still arguing with the Vortex Gang, he tried to hack a camera for fun, just as if he was completing today's homework.

Eyes scan the camera, then focus.

The [Quick Hack] option quickly popped up in the artificial eye.

Lu Mingfei clicked to try. After all, he was a new hacker, so he didn't expect to succeed. Hacking was just like doing Sudoku, and he did it to kill time.

However.
Perhaps even Lu Mingfei himself didn't know what Lucy meant when she said, "Born to be a hacker."

How should I put it? Objectively speaking, most hackers' actions in cyberspace are equivalent to "swimming".

You need to constantly calculate the fatigue value of your muscles, the swinging posture of your body, avoid drowning, and pay attention to whether there is seaweed or other hacker "swimmers" in the dark sea of ​​data below your body to pull your swimming trunks.

But Lu Mingfei is different.

He's the equivalent of running.

Or to put it more exaggeratedly, it is equivalent to driving an electric scooter on land and competing with a swimmer in speed.

Even though Lu Mingfei was hesitant in many ways because he had never ridden an eDonkey, it could not change the fact that as long as he was willing to twist the accelerator, he would beat the other hackers.

Therefore, almost at the moment of confirming the hack, Lu Mingfei's brain came to a conclusion.

"Hey? Did you go in?"

Lu Mingfei whispered in surprise.

Using the irresponsible words of the protagonist in the notebook, "Ah, I accidentally slipped in," the loser glanced around in a panic.

He was worried that someone might start pointing a gun at him, but he realized that because he was so quick, no one noticed his little move.

Then continue?

The irresponsible protagonist of the book continued his game reluctantly.

(Oh, so the quick hack can also see other cameras' perspectives through the central system? Hey~~~)

(Wow, why is this Uzumaki gang member not working properly and playing with bees during class?)
(This is even worse, watching Black Mewtwo during class, it's unbearable, oh oh oh, put your pants on! Damn! My eyes!)

(Huh? What is this? Automatic antivirus software? Firewall? Never mind, just a little hack.)
This kid probably lost his mind after coming to Night City.

The stimulation he received from that night of scavenging was so great that he changed. He liked to shoot people in the head with a pistol and listen to exciting metal rock music. Now he has learned hacking skills and likes to hack into people under other people's noses. He is as excited as if he is having an affair with his sister-in-law under the quilt on his eldest brother's bed. This is just an example. Lu Mingfei is really a god of pure love.

Back to the point, Lu Mingfei didn't understand his hacking talent, but to him, the so-called "hacking" was inexplicably similar to StarCraft.

What are the similarities?

A string of data is like the smallest controllable unit in the game, and its function is to connect these units to achieve countless strategic results.

Although Lu Mingfei did not have a hacker-type operating system installed on his neural socket, he——————

When playing StarCraft, I was always the tough guy who used the red dot instead of the mouse.

(etc.)
At the same time, a strange idea came to him.

(Without the hacker operating system prosthesis, is the impact really that big?)
This is a question only beginners have, and the answer is obvious - of course it is big.

Even the legendary hackers, Spider Murphy or the Internet God Ricky Batmos would honestly install prosthetics, such as [Arasaka Type N], [Four-Phase Electric Ripple], [Military Technology Parallel Lines] and so on.

This is more common sense than a 'must do'.

This is done because hacker prostheses will increase the efficiency of the algorithm.

but.
Lu Mingfei is a weird guy. He just entered Night City this year. In 2076, he came up with the simplest idea.

——Anyway, the total amount of calculation remains unchanged. If the hacker prosthesis saves time by optimizing the algorithm, can't I use other methods to directly slow down time?

For example--

What if I use a Sianwestin to perform a quick hack?

That is equivalent to hacking in a space-time that is almost stopped.

Whimsical, but meaningless.

Normal people simply cannot do it, because first of all, the lack of a hacker operating system not only means that hacking into a simple camera will take several minutes, but the difficulty of deciphering some electronic protection systems is beyond the limits of the human brain.

unless
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That.
Is Lu Mingfei considered a human being?

(.)

The teenager frowned.

He looked at the internal data of the Vortex Gang, which had been completely hacked by him and even the transaction records had been dug out by him, and felt a little speechless.

(Am I even human?)

　[Currently available information]:
　　Some people say I change too little.

　　Make an excuse.

　　I don't know if you understand Qidian's recommendation process. Generally speaking, it takes three or four rounds. I'm in the first round now, and I've already reached nearly 100,000 words. It's actually a loss (
　　Of course, I also feel that the plot is progressing slowly. If this book has a future, I will make up for it by adding more chapters.

　　Old book friends should know that I have updated more than 400,000 words in a month (
　　

(End of this chapter)