From Gotham to Night City, my notoriety is known to everyone

Leo stood at the entrance of the alley, feeling terrible.

Why is my V so big?

Looking around, the alley was littered with large and small bags of garbage, as well as homeless people's open-air homes. Maybe it was due to the time, the alley was now empty and quiet.

The problem is that the distance from the entrance to the exit over there is about two hundred meters. Unless V runs as fast as he can, he shouldn't have walked that far.

Does she live near here?

Or is it hidden?

Leo walked into the alley in confusion and turned around with his feet as the axis. The only place nearby where he could hide was a large trash can.

His brain suddenly went blank, and the slight pain made him a little confused.

[Warning…Warning…Multiple brain hormone secretions are abnormally elevated…]

The biological monitoring sent an error report, but failed to wake up Leo who was distracted.

In his mind, the desire to find V grew uncontrollably—finally, he covered his nose in a trance and opened the lid of the trash can: "...V?"

The various types of garbage in the trash can remained silent.

A slightly sour smell permeated the air.

It's normal - you can't expect a pile of garbage to speak without eating poisonous mushrooms.

V is obviously not in the trash can, so could she... be in the sewer?

Leo saw another manhole cover, lowered his head to study it, and knocked on the door politely.

Boom boom boom—"V?"

Click.

The response came... but not from below, but from somewhere diagonally behind, in the unfriendly manner of a loaded pistol.

"Don't move. Turn around slowly and put your hands where I can see them."

A female voice came from the room, which sounded a bit ruffian.

"If you move around, I don't mind making a big hole in your head to give your already broken brain some air."

It’s V!

Leo shuddered suddenly and regained consciousness instantly.

Although she didn't speak Chinese, he would never mistake her voice and tone!

The "bad habits" he developed from living in a peaceful era began to control his body, making him subconsciously want to make the French sign and bow to the strong man who possessed the instrument of equality for all beings.

But Leo restrained himself - his character is a middleman, and a middleman has to be awesome and cannot be manipulated by others!

Let's take a gamble...If V had heard what he just said, she probably wouldn't have just shot someone who knew her.

Leo's bet was right. He let his hands hang naturally and turned around with a calm expression.

V didn't shoot.

Moving his eyes upwards, he saw V aiming a gun at him on a makeshift staircase outside a house.

She looks really pretty when she slightly squints her eyes and purses her lips...

Leo was distracted for a moment, and the newly installed operating system misinterpreted his brain waves, directly turning on the prosthetic eye scanning mode and aiming it at V's pretty face with a six-fold optical zoom.

Unfortunately, this also caused his prosthetic eye to light up.

With his eyes able to see even the slightest changes in his facial expressions, V showed an angry look: "What are you doing! Are you looking for death? Do you think your hacking operation can be faster than my bullets!?"

At that moment, Leo felt the real murderous intent.

The street girl V is obviously not a good person, she really wants to kill now!

Hey!

Screwed up - say something, say something fast!

At the juncture,

Leo blurted out: "You must be the famous V!"

These words were like a magic that froze V's anger and murderous intent for a moment.

"You know me... who are you?"

"Leonardo Dicaprio, Leo for short." Leo quickly turned off the scanner and took the opportunity to speak to quickly adjust his mood. "Nice to meet you, Miss V!"

"Oh, is it so?"

From the beginning, the light in V's eyes had never dimmed, and it was obvious that he had been scanning him.

"You don't have any combat prosthesis, nor do you carry any weapons. You don't look very clear-headed, but you are very rich... Interesting. I'm sure I don't know anyone like you, but your eyes - are very wrong."

V aimed the gun with one hand, supported the railing with the other hand, and jumped down from the second floor lightly.

The midday sun seemed to have covered her with a golden robe, making her like a holy angel descending from the sky.

Leo opened his eyes wide and subconsciously opened his hands, trying to catch her.

This is how the two people’s first physical contact happened!

Unfortunately... instead of a warm hug or kiss, what greeted him was a merciless elbow from V that knocked him into the corner on the spot.

She chased him again, holding the gun against his abdomen with her right hand and squeezing his chest with her left arm, forcing him against the wall.

"Don't move, let me see you."

Leo pretended to be calm and looked at her.

Then he discovered: what V meant by "take a look" was really just a look.

She looked him straight in the eyes, and the expression on her face became increasingly strange.

"You know me... No, you are very familiar with me."

"With familiarity comes admiration and trust... and it seems like you even like me a little bit?"

"Fuck, what the hell did you take to mess up your brain like this - going crazy over a stranger?"

V said a few words to himself, then hesitantly let go of him.

But he still didn't put down the gun in his hand. He just adjusted the muzzle and aimed at a less lethal position.

"From the first glance at you in the Wild Wolf Bar, I could tell that something was wrong with your eyes. I didn't expect that a weakling like you would dare to chase me out.

Speak, I'll give you three sentences - either convince me, or take off your clothes and hand over the ransom, and I will generously let you go! "

The imagined warm and romantic reunion quickly turned into a naked robbery, and the little thoughts in Leo's heart were somewhat extinguished by V's "fierce" tone.

Three sentences...

enough!

Look how he made V risk his life for him with just three sentences!

“I’m a newcomer in the middle.”

"Looking for bodyguards and mercenaries."

"It's a business that makes a lot of money, do you want to do it?"

V had to admit that he hesitated for a moment.

This handsome man or boy in front of me is obviously rich. This high-end bulletproof suit alone can fetch two or three thousand yuan on the black market.

But he was rummaging through the trash can and knocking on the manhole cover just now... he didn't look like a normal person.

还有他看自己的眼神，太他妈的怪了——见色起意的人她见过不少，也揍过不少，但要说是一见钟情，也不应该有这么复杂的情感。

That look... was just like that of old partners or lovers who had experienced life and death and met again.

She felt a little numb when she saw it...

Nobody: Chapter 22: A Wake-up Call (Two in One)

V was born in a poor single-parent family and has been hanging out on the streets since he was a teenager. He thinks he has seen all kinds of bad people.

Those who are on drugs, those who cannot distinguish between reality and the internet, all kinds of cyber-psychopaths...

But this was the first time she had seen someone like Leo, whose every ounce of personality was totally out of place in Night City.

One of the rules of street survival is: stay away from everything unusual.

"You're lucky today. I won't steal Wild Wolf's customers."

After saying the harsh words, V took two steps back with the gun in hand, ready to leave.

Seeing that she was about to leave, Leo became anxious: "Don't you want to know what the job is?"

V raised his eyebrows. "You don't even have a bodyguard around you, and you don't have vigilance or common sense. You're the middleman? I advise you to go home and stay out of the streets."

Leo felt that she was absolutely right. He really wanted to go home and never come to a hellhole like Night City again.

But the gap between ideal and reality is always so torturous.

He had to do something to keep the gold medal fighter.

He closed his eyes tightly and sweared in his heart: V - you forced me to do this!

[You are transferring money to an unknown account, please confirm that it is you who is doing this. ]

【confirm. 】

[Transfer amount 3500 euros, waiting for the other party's confirmation...]

V: "?"

No, what the hell? Just throw money at it! ?

For a moment she felt insulted and wanted to shoot the man in the foot.

But the next moment, she had to admit that this amount of money was more than her own account balance...

"What do you mean!"

The voice and appearance are both fierce——

It's impossible... Her voice was a little vague.

The offensive and defensive situation reversed, and now it was Leo's turn to laugh.

"I need a bodyguard. The basic daily salary is 1000 Euros, paid weekly. If there is a dangerous situation or there is something else I need you to do, the price will be increased depending on the situation.

This is the deposit for the first week.”

V was caught in a dilemma - on the one hand, she always felt that there was something wrong with the man in front of her, and it was best to stay away from him. On the other hand, she had just returned to Night City and was short of money, so this money was really a bit... well, it was too tempting.

1000 a day, 7000 a week, 30000 euros a month. Even the corporate types would scramble for this monthly salary.

The question is - can pie really fall from the sky?

"Bodyguard...you're paying me this much to be your bodyguard?" She sneered loudly, "Do you think I'm stupid? With this money, why don't you go find the best in your next life? Why do you come to a street urchin like me..."

"Is your bodyguard a serious one? He's not the type who has to go to bed with you in the middle of the night, is he?"

"Not really. The whole package at Genting is only 500. What on earth are you planning?"

Combined with his extremely strange look, V realized for the first time that money really can be hot!

Seeing that she refused to give in, Leo labeled the street girl V in his mind: amazing intuition, but a little difficult to deal with.

But if the other party hesitates, it means she really needs money.

"I'm new here, and I'm going to be in Heywood. Locals like you are much more useful than the older brothers in my next life. Anyway, this is the price, so why not do it?"

"……grass."

V couldn't help but swear.

[The transfer was successful, and 3500 euros were debited from your personal account. ]

The power of the saying "When you take a favor, you owe it to yourself" instantly took effect. V sighed and put the gun down, no longer pointing it at his employer.

"I'll state in advance that if you make any excessive demands or if I feel insulted, I'll beat you up and leave... and don't expect me to return your deposit."

"Don't worry, I'm too busy right now to think about it."