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

【Understood, execute immediately.】

[By the way, you sorted out my computer data. Is there any information about Cyberpunk: Edgewalker in it? ]

[Yes, I will send it to you right away. Please allow me to remind you again that the real world you are facing is far more complicated than a ten-episode TV series. Please do not rely too much on one-sided "plots".]

[I know. I will be careful.]

While waiting for the results, Leo closed his eyes and watched the clip about Sasha in "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker".

This tragic girl was the first victim of Mann's team. She died in a biotechnology company building while trying to find the truth behind her mother's death.

Compared with Qiwei and Lucy, this Mao girl, who was of Soviet nationality as her name indicated, left a very good impression on Leo.

After a while, Chunbai sent a number and informed that Sasha was still working alone.

Leo perked up and opened his eyes.

It looks like Mann’s team is still in its early stages, and he still has plenty of time to get involved in the “Edgewalker” plot.

After organizing his words, he raised his chin towards V and said, "I'll open it to the public and let you see the ability of a middleman."

"Okay, let me broaden my horizons."

V pulled a bar stool on wheels from the bar and sat next to him.

Leo took a few deep breaths, adjusted his mood, and called Sasha.

"Wu-hum-hum-"

The phone rang a few times and was successfully connected.

Sasha's avatar appeared in the upper left corner of the field of vision, a cartoon-style cat-eared girl.

The strange thing is that after the call was connected, there was no sound from the other end. Only by listening carefully could one hear faint breathing sounds.

[Father, she is tracking back and has been intercepted by me.]

Leo nodded calmly: He is cautious enough, but it is normal for a hacker working alone to be a little alert.

Since the other party didn't speak, it was a good opportunity for him to take the initiative.

"Sasha Yakovleva, nice to meet you. You can call me L. I'm a new middleman."

There was silence for a few seconds, and then a cartoon synthesized voice in the style of the second dimension responded:

"How did you get this number? I don't remember you being a middleman in Night City."

"As a middleman, you must have some special information channels. And I just got here not long ago, so you probably haven't heard of me."

"Hmm... Never mind. It's not important. Do you have a job to do for me?"

"I guess so. I'm new here and I'm planning to form an elite team. I just happen to be in need of a hacker."

"Heh, another one trying to recruit me to join the group. I didn't know I was so popular."

Leo wasn't sure if this was true or an excuse, but considering the current timeline, Sasha was indeed about to join Mann's Edgewalker team.

While he was thinking, Sasha said quickly, "I'm willing to take the job if there's work to do. Forget about recruiting people. I don't trust a middleman I've never heard of."

Leo frowned and saw V next to him making a sarcastic face as if to say "I knew you can't do it".

"Don't be so quick to refuse. The person who approached you before was Mann, right?"

"Huh!?" Her voice rose noticeably, and she was obviously surprised. "How... did you know?"

"How can you be a middleman if you don't know anything?"

Leo rejected this difficult question with a rhetorical question, and then launched a high-speed divine speech:

“Mann, a former underground boxer, later joined the New America’s special operations forces. After serving for two years, he retired and came to Night City, hoping to escape the control of the New America.

Well... he's a good fighter, and he has some conscience, I might work with him in the future."

"But let's talk about our business first. If you join Mann's Edgewalker Squad, at best you will just get in and become an elite mercenary. But it will be different if you join me. Not only will I have money, I will also set up a company. You can get a formal job that everyone will envy."

There was silence on the phone for a long time.

Sasha wasn't particularly attracted by the proposal, she was just wondering: How did the other party know that Mann was inviting her to join in this?

The two parties had just been in contact for a few days, and she was still investigating intelligence and considering the pros and cons, but an inexplicable middleman directly revealed everything.

Could it be that someone in Mann's team leaked the information?

Otherwise, how could their private meetings and conversations be known to outsiders...

Then there was this guy who called himself L. The hackers on his side were quite capable and foolproof. His several attempts at hacking were all easily resolved and he couldn't find any trace of him at all.

She thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Don't you have a powerful hacker over there? Why are you looking for me?"

"I'm very busy. Do you expect me to accompany the team on missions every day?"

"..."

Sasha was silent again.

Leo was afraid that the other party would hang up the phone, so he threw out a trump card:

"Joining my team, you'll get a base salary of 3 yuan per month, and you'll get bonuses for completing missions. Isn't that much better than joining the Edgewalker team?

If that's not enough, I'll give you a piece of information about the death of your mother, Galina Valieva."

"What... bang——"

There was the sound of a chair falling to the ground, the sound of its wheels spinning idle, and a sweet cry of pain.

"Who the hell are you? What do you know?!"

Her voice became excited.

"Ms. Sasha, there's a small problem with your voice changer." Leo kindly reminded her, confident of victory.

"Stop talking nonsense! What do you know?!"

The more excited and frantic she was, the happier Leo was: "I know a lot of things, such as the life-saving drug Securicine that you gave her personally. That drug..."

He suddenly stopped talking at this point.

Sasha really took the bait: "What's wrong with that medicine!? Tell me now!!"

Leo changed the subject: "I have something to do tomorrow, so I may not be able to take care of you. How about this, I know you are also in Night City, let's meet the day after tomorrow to talk. Wait for my news on the specific time and place, that's it. I'm hanging up now."

Click.

The phone was hung up, completely silencing the anxious voice on the other end.

[Chunbai, can you erase our number so she can't call back? ]

[No problem, your phone number has been encrypted by me long ago, just in case.]

[Very good, let's do this, leave her alone for two days and put some pressure on her.]

Just after he finished communicating with Junbai, he heard V's questioning: "The person on the other end sounds like a young girl. You deliberately only said half of the sentence. Isn't this bullying?"

Leo smiled slightly: "If I don't put some pressure on her, how could she be willing to join a team formed by strangers?"

V didn't know what to say, and his eyes subconsciously turned to the screen, which showed a list of less than ten hackers - Sasha Yakovleva was undoubtedly among them.

“How do you know her past? Even the cause of her mother’s death and the last medicine she gave her?

And there's Mann, I seem to have heard this name somewhere before.

Logically speaking, these should be secrets that only the parties involved know. How did you know them?"

Countless question marks appeared above V's head. For the first time, he felt that he couldn't understand Leo in front of him.

I originally thought he was just a rich and willful tycoon, but now he has revealed a mysterious side...

Nobody: Chapter 43: The Happiness of Tuntun Rat

"As a middleman, you must have some special information channels."

Leo repeated his old trick and didn't intend to explain the problem.

V's curiosity was aroused, and he kept asking, "Tell me, what's wrong with the medicine? Is there a problem?"

"Use your invincible intuition to think about it. Isn't the answer obvious?"

Leo closed the hacker list and opened the browser.

"Anquanling is a problematic drug with serious side effects. She used it as a life-saving drug, but it aggravated her mother's condition and led to her death."

"Damn, it's so dark all of a sudden..."

V shook his head violently, and his good mood was gone in an instant.

But this is Night City, there are no fairy tales here, only fucked up ghost stories...

After a while, she leaned over the table and watched Leo look up information.

"Are you sure you can convince her to join us with this information? She doesn't sound very old, do you think she has hacking skills?"

Leo turned his head and looked at her. "The intelligence is just a lead. The real information is in the biotechnology building. If she wants to know the truth, she has to cooperate with us. As for her technology, she used to work in [Dangerous Girl]."

"Dangerous girl... Oh, I remember, that two-dimensional detective agency. It is said that it is full of beautiful girls and has super sophisticated equipment."

"Yes."

Leo shrugged and found the video he wanted.

"Look at this V. We're going here tomorrow."

V looked over——

Those magnificent super-buildings, the flying cars shuttling back and forth, and the brilliantly lit and extremely gorgeous circular plaza together constitute the core landmark of Night City, a Feng Shui treasure land that has been featured most frequently on TV.

Company Square!

"We...are going here?" V's voice sounded a little vague.

"To be precise, we're going to Arasaka Academy."

Leo paused the video and the screen stayed on a black building with the Arasaka logo on it, which gave it a high-tech feel.

"Arasaka Academy..."

What emerged in V's eyes was not admiration or longing, but confusion.

"I feel like this place doesn't suit a street guy like me."

"Don't talk about you. I feel uncomfortable just looking at you. But I'm going to learn the art of tumbling and get a more formal identity. Even if I don't like it, I have to endure it. Alas..."

Leo deliberately let out a sigh that sounded like he deserved a beating, which successfully relieved V's discomfort.

“Pretentious…”

She stood up with a look of disgust and walked towards her room.

Why are you running away?

Leo was puzzled: "Where are you going?"

"Pick the right clothes. You can't let those company dogs look down on you." V said without turning his head.

Okay, Leo understood, it was the women's love of beauty that was restless.

After waiting for a while, V came out wearing new clothes.

Leo originally just glanced at her casually, but then his expression changed and he stared at her intently.

"What's wrong? This is my favorite outfit."

V looked down and didn't think anything was wrong.

Leo nodded blankly, "No, I just think... it suits you very well."

Look carefully -

V's overall outfit is mainly black.

He wore a tight black sleeveless shirt on the upper body and a high-tech jacket on the outside. There were complex mechanical devices on the shoulders, and the patterns on the inside could even glow.

The lower body is black tight leather pants with some protective gear on the knees and legs.

With the addition of a dark red multifunctional belt around the waist, the cyberpunk style is fully brought to the fore, making it extremely cool.

More importantly - this seems to be the outfit that V wears in the official setting.