Please call me Cyber ​​Demon King

However, this mask was the first special prop he had ever seen. Next time he came back, he would definitely learn the craft of making this mask from Urokodaki Sakonji.

Once you learn this craft, aside from anything else, you can at least give it as a gift, highlighting its special commemorative value as a handmade item.

"It's done."

After shaving off the last piece of flesh from the bone, Ke Ling wiped his hands on the Shadow Wolf.

He prepared several baskets specifically for storing meat, all of which was freshly hunted. He could freeze them immediately upon returning home and they would keep for several days, enough time to find buyers.

Selling meat like this shouldn't be considered borderline, right? 100% real meat, real meat dripping with blood!

Chapter 78 We're rich now!

"Returning to the past."

Holding several meat baskets tied together in one hand and carrying a wild boar that had been knocked unconscious in the other, Ke Ling immediately activated the time travel feature.

The pop-up message "[Back to the Past]" led to an option to select a world, and Ke Ling chose "Cyberpunk".

[Time travel complete]

Current World: Cyberpunk

Ke Ling vanished from the forest in a flash, arriving at a familiar cabin.

The meat basket had appeared, but the unconscious wild boar in their hands had disappeared and hadn't followed.

"So, living things won't work?"

Ke Ling sighed, not too disappointed, as it was within her expectations.

The small house was dimly lit. Ke Ling put down the meat basket, turned on the light, and drew back the curtains, bringing light to the otherwise lifeless dwelling.

Outside the window, the city of night remained unchanged, still shimmering with neon lights, weaving an unattainable dream for everyone.

"Network connection established, time calibrated."

Back in the cabin, Ke Ling's brain-computer interface, which had been offline for a long time, automatically reconnected to the network.

Hi, are you there?

"Ke Ling? Are you still alive, kid?"

"When you're in trouble, come to Wild Wolf."

The moment the network connection was established, Ke Ling received several messages from Sasha, V, and Jack Wells.

Ke Ling looked at the calls and saw that there were several missed calls from them, all made in the last two days.

He was only gone for about ten days this time. V and the others didn't contact him for the first few days, but they started to pay attention to him in the last two days.

After all, if someone is still alive, they should at least reply to a message after ten days or half a month, right? What's going on with them just going offline and losing contact?

"Yes, Ms. Cat Head, is there something you need?"

Ke Ling first sent a message to Sasa, then replied to V with "alive," and gave Jack Wells an "OK."

"Holy crap! You're still alive?!"

V was the first to reply. It was already past midnight, but this girl on the street was clearly still awake.

"You're the one who said that. I'm back in Night City, in my room."

Ke Ling rolled his eyes and told V that he had returned to Night City.

V didn't reply. Ke Ling put down the meat basket in his hand and was a little worried. There was definitely not enough room in his small refrigerator.

"We need to rent a large freezer."

Ke Ling made the decision, considering it an initial investment for "starting a business".

Getting a large freezer isn't difficult; as long as you can afford it, the building's rental department has all the appliances you want.

After putting down the meat basket, Ke Ling opened the door to go out, and then he smelled a familiar aroma.

Before the person at the door could knock, Ke Ling opened the door and was taken aback when he saw V.

V's hair was loose, her red hair smooth and silky, no longer styled all the way to one side as usual. She was wearing fluffy pajamas, which looked rather cute, quite different from her usual style.

"Damn! Did you just come back from a slaughterhouse?!"

However, this cuteness was indeed just an illusion, which was shattered the moment V opened his mouth.

After Ke Ling opened the door, V covered her mouth and nose with a look of disgust and took several steps back before standing still.

"You didn't dismember the body in the room, did you? No need for all that trouble, just find an alley and dump it there, the cleaners will take care of it."

V looked at Ke Ling with some suspicion, her small face scrunched up.

The stench of blood in the room was overwhelming, and Ke Ling was covered in blood.

"How could that be? I got a batch of real meat, and I just finished processing it."

Ke Ling opened the door, gesturing for V to come inside and take a look, telling her not to stand at the door shouting and making a scene, as it would be bad if the neighbors could hear.

V pinched her nose and went into the house. She came to the meat baskets and her eyes widened instantly.

You're saying this is all real meat?

V looked at Ke Ling with disbelief. She stopped pinching her nose because, in her mind, the smell of blood gradually turned into the smell of Euros.

Real meat, real meat dripping with blood.

Ke Ling gave a thumbs up, saying that this was definitely one of a kind in Night City.

Venison, wild boar meat, wolf meat, rabbit meat—these are all sorts of odds and ends, and Night City might not even have them.

"More real than the ones in the slaughterhouse?"

V laughed. "70% real meat, real meat dripping with blood" is the advertising slogan of the slaughterhouse.

But she was certain that the meat sold at the slaughterhouse was not real meat, or at least not any real meat at all; it was all synthetic meat.

"Don't compare this to that of insect meat. This is all-natural and pollution-free, understand?"

Ke Ling waved his hand. The Slaughterhouse is a sub-brand of Whole Foods Factory, which in turn depends on the biotechnology company.

In the field of synthetic meat, biotechnology companies are undoubtedly industry leaders, using earthworms, crickets, and various insects as raw materials, focusing on low cost.

Their protein farm, built on the badlands outside the city, is the source of most of Night City's meat and meat substitutes, providing protein for most of the city.

The "meat" sold by these brands under Whole Foods Factory mostly comes from protein farms owned by biotechnology companies.

"You've been gone for the past few days, haven't you? Did you go to some ecological reserve? Or some rich man's farm?"

V reached out and picked up a piece of meat to examine it. Although she had never eaten real meat, she had eaten synthetic meat before, and this was clearly not the same thing.

For example, take the popular "Easy Beef" product from Whole Foods Factory. Damn, whose beef is made into such thin, round strips? You'd think it was duck intestines if you didn't know better.

"You don't need to worry about that. I have the channels, and I can supply as many as you want. You and Jack can just contact the buyers."

Ke Ling gave a crooked smile, speaking with an air of dominance. He didn't need to do anything so dangerous; his meat was very safe to obtain, and the supply was stable.

"Don't worry, we won't have trouble selling this stuff. If you can really keep bringing back meat, we're going to be rich!"

Looking at these baskets of meat, V's prosthetic eye almost turned into the shape of a euro. This is a gold mine!

"I'll go rent a big freezer. You stay here and watch it; don't move."

Ke Ling shook his head, not looking at V's ignorant and greedy appearance anymore. He turned around and went out the door, preparing to rent a freezer to store the meat.

"We're rich! We're rich!"

V ignored Ke Ling and continued muttering to herself, looking every bit the money-grubber. She was already thinking about how much a piece of meat should cost.

This left Ke Ling somewhat dumbfounded; was the impact really that big?

It's quite funny, really. This world has so much high technology that it's astonishing, yet a piece of real meat has become a rare luxury.

This may be a true reflection of high technology and low living standards. A prosthetic body full of technology is not as rare or precious as a piece of ordinary real meat.

The next chapter will be later~~~

Chapter 79 Company Rules

Ke Ling went down to the first floor and arrived at the rental service department. Even at this time, the door was still open and someone was on duty.

"Rent a large freezer, this one, the largest size."

Ke Ling gave the room number and then directly selected the rental package, which was still a monthly fee.

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The man on duty was a middle-aged man with a scraggly beard, looking very unkempt, and with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

"Do you think I'm blind? Doesn't it say 200 on it?"

Ke Ling looked on incredulously. He pointed to the price list and said, "You can play these games with things that have clearly marked prices?"

"Just tell me if you want it or not?"

The middle-aged man flicked his cigarette ash, a smile on his face.

He didn't care what the man was going to do with it, but since he came out of the room covered in blood, he was probably in a hurry. How could he not rip him off?

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

Ke Ling laughed as well. He drew the knife from his back and slammed the blade against the table.

Don't you even consider who you're scamming? You think someone covered in blood in the middle of the night is someone to mess with?

"Don't try to play hard to me. Either pay up or leave."

However, the middle-aged man was not intimidated at all. At the same time that Ke Ling drew her knife, he had already pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Ke Ling.

Having done this for so many years, this middle-aged man is already an expert at it. Who are you trying to scare? Who hasn't killed a few people when they were young?

He'd encountered far too many threats—these poor bastards, and even those who wanted to get something for free without paying.

He can get kickbacks by raising prices, but he doesn't have the power to lower prices. If he lowers prices, he'll have to make up the difference himself. He'd have to be crazy to do that.