Chapter 47 Funeral
"Mr. Li, the strength of your prosthetic bone is close to the fifth-grade military alloy, and it needs to be cut with a molecular knife. We are just a branch, and the equipment we have is limited, so we cannot safely perform craniotomy and installation on you. Built-in interface.
But if you are in a hurry, I can customize a glove kit for you. This is an external frame used to install the ballistic coordinator, add two data reading slots, install your chip and ICE components, and then configure a Set up a subnet with a pair of AR glasses and you can read the chip data."
Oh! What a quack! 3D printing a glove and adding a pair of glasses will cost me 1998? And yours is basically a civilian-grade peripheral, not as good as CSI’s military products!
"As for the skin grafting plan, I have three specifications for you to choose from: junior, middle, and high. The primary level only performs basic tissue bundling on the dermal layer to stop bleeding, and then transplants the antibacterial bionic skin. The intermediate level adds fireproof coatings and insulating coatings on this basis
. Equipped with various specifications of subcutaneous ceramic bulletproof armor, it is the most cost-effective.
Advanced thermal energy converters, energy-concentrating capacitors, nano-material ultra-light bulletproof armor, optical camouflage, molecular-level bacterial strain immune customized leather, and a cosmetic surgery are included. VIP members of the store enjoy special benefits..."
"..."
Li Pan looked at the tablet he was handed over, "Only 9998!" "A shocking price of 99998!" "Oh my God, what a deal! Get it now! 999998!" "Three packages.
Well, you can't say that they are particularly cheating, after all, the cost of the surgery is also included.
"1998+9998 Thank you..."
So when Li Pan walked out of the prosthetic shop with skin transplants, gloves and glasses, the sun was dazzling again.
"Welcome to Chaos Technology Support, I am your intelligent assistant Fuxi, now linked to the public security system for you.
Citizen Li Pan, account cash 5.32, loan repayment 8291.43. Total liabilities 30XXXX.XX.
Your next debt The settlement will be due on the 15th of this month. Please keep your account with sufficient balance.
Your mental deviation value is normal. Thank you for using the public safety system. I wish you all the best."
Ah... my account has fallen below the new lower limit. Ah... well
, actually it is enough for the legal account to balance the books, and he may still have 5 million assets in the virtual currency black market. The second-hand brain plugs of the Oda family can be sold for twenty if they are cleaned. Tens of thousands of dollars in cash and a small gift from President Toudo. If it can be repaired, it can bring back some blood.
However, all these black money must rely on Shiba. Although she is a professional hacker, she is not a professional financial professional. She probably doesn't have to count on the repayment date this month. It seems that we still need to hurry up and start a wave of Shura sects. They will work as soon as Shiba finds the 'farm' and rely on their family's harvest to repay the loan this month.
By the way, this time Yuchai Financial sent a lot of money to Monster Company to "apologise", but it was all "overseas assets", so that Li Pan had no right to interfere, which meant that he had made himself bankrupt again. , and finally gave a lot of benefits to the general managers of other plane subsidiaries.
This was not because the other party was deliberately messing with him, it was just to compete for the title of Amhara executive officer. The Hashiba family almost went bankrupt and cashed out a large amount of their assets to win over the Ye clan and the Red Tengu. If you are so willing to spend money these days, you will naturally get help from Dao Duo, defeating the other four elders and becoming the final winner.
Anyway, the head office was very satisfied. Assets in other dimensions are also assets, so they rewarded Li Pan with a silver key. Okay... Oh my God... So what are we going to have for
dinner tonight...
I have been reporting for the whole day, and I can't get off work until now. Come for a skin grafting operation, Li Pan is starving to death now.
Although his internal injuries were healed, his energy was smooth, and his fighting power was invincible, he was still hungry.
After the third round of Jiuyin Refining, Li Pan was in a state of hunger all the time. Obviously, he took advantage of the guard to confront Ye Shi at the door during breakfast, and went to the canteen to eat all the food buckets. Unexpectedly, he couldn't hold it anymore after get off work.
He only had 5 yuan in his pocket, so he had to go to the food relief station if he wanted to eat...
Li Pan was searching online for which relief station would have the fastest queue when he suddenly received a text message from the pastor. It is said that the funeral is ready. If you have time, you can go there. If you can't make it, you can also use the Mewtwo live broadcast link to take a look.
A funeral? Well, there are actually no remains to say goodbye to. The holographic image of the Big Bear family is played and an artificial intelligence emotion simulation program is used to hold a farewell party.
After all, people are emotional creatures. Sometimes, even though it is useless to know that the opposite person is a projection simulated by a program, the living person still needs a chance to say goodbye to his sorrow.
Li Pan thought for a while and took the subway there. He didn't go into the church, but walked around in the yard outside. It didn't look like a funeral, but more like a family gathering in the Latino community. There were still people on the grass. An altar was set up and people sang and danced.
It is said to be a funeral, but it is actually closer to the Day of the Dead with Latino characteristics. In their culture, it seems that dead family and friends can eventually be reunited, and death is the destination of old life and the beginning of new life.
In addition to the classic home-brewed tequila and yerba mate, the table also displays a variety of corn soup, chocolate, bread, rice dumplings, hot sauce, pumpkins, and various sweets and desserts. Although it is an offering to the deceased, of course it is for the whole family. Enjoy, it seems that the bond of family can really connect the two worlds together, which is really optimistic.
But when he's hungry, someone treats him. Maybe the big bear is really blessing him in another world.
So Li Pan shrugged, shook hands with the pastor, chatted for a few words, and went to eat.
"Hey Amigo, are you that Li?"
As he was eating pumpkin pie, a big young man came up to talk to him,
"I am Juan, and Lena is my cousin."
Li Pan wiped the tablecloth and shook hands with him,
" Hello, oh, I heard the pastor mentioned that you have recently moved into the city? How is the Night City?"
Juan nodded,
"It's much better than in the wilderness. I don't know how long it will take to get the temporary residence permit. Thanks to Lai Na helped me transfer her old house to my mother, but it’s a pity...
Oh, I won’t mention it. Anyway, I heard about it, thank you. Oh, I don’t see how strong you are, and you have a lot of strength in your hands. , is it a prosthetic body?"
Li Pan looked him over. This young man was quite big. He must have been enhanced with hormones. He also looked at the calluses on his hands.
"Do you box?"
Juan said with a hearty laugh,
"To earn a fee for entering the city, I won't fight now. Those scavenging bastards outside will stab people with knives when they can't afford to lose. Wow! Almost! Poke me in the waist! Anyway, my mother plans to open a bar, so I will help her." "
The bar is good, and if we make some side dishes, the small restaurant can make money."
"That's not true! That's what I said too! A potato burrito sells for fifteen yuan in the Night City! Mommy! It's just a money grab!" "
That's not true, it's a money grab..."
Li Pan and Juan chatted for a while and drank two drinks. After a while, some gangsters from the Lovers' Gang invited him to drink. They seemed to want to get him to join the gang, and they obviously also took a fancy to Juan's size. Even if Being a doorkeeper can also be a deterrent. But this young man seems to have been pushed away. It seems that he has also seen the horrors in the black boxing arena. He also has a mother to support at home and does not want to live a life of bloodshed on the streets anymore.
He wanted to live a stable life, so Li Pan didn't want him to join the gang, so he took care of himself. After a while, an old man in formal clothes came to talk to him, but this was an Asian with silver hair, short and tall. Thin, standing in a military posture with a straight waist.
"Hello, Mr. Li."
"What, you're not from Lena's side, too, are you?"
Then the old man showed him his ID card.
"I'm from the Third Office."
"The Third Office? What the Third Office."
Li Pan was confused and took the other party's ID and took a look at it.
PUBLIC SECURITY AGENCY
THE THIRD INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT
The Third Investigation Division of the Public Safety Bureau
...WTF? really?
Then Fuxi spoke to him through the microphone in his glasses.
"You have now been linked to the public security system. The system confirms that the certificate is legal, authentic and valid.
For public security reasons, citizens are requested to cooperate and assist the Security Bureau agents in the investigation to the extent permitted by law."
Li Pan had no choice but to keep silent . Swallow the cake in the bag and hand the certificate back to the other party. Glancing around, I found that there were people coming and going around, but no one seemed to notice the old man, as if he was an invisible ghost.
Has the Internet Supervisor taken over the local authority... Maybe someone might break a cup as a warning, and several divisions suddenly descend from the orbit to catch him... So
he immediately followed the company's security bureau manual and reneged on it. ,
"Dear Special Commissioner of the Security Bureau, if you have a business proposal, please make an appointment with our company during working hours. Our company will respond within three working days. For arrests and searches, please present legal documents authorized by the Security Committee. For forced interrogations, please provide the public security system The recordings and photos were taken as backups. As the acting manager, I have the right to require the presence of cadres from the General Justice Department and above, and to entrust the company to appoint lawyers to provide legal assistance..." The old man from the Security Bureau was not surprised by his reaction and put away his certificate
. ,
"No, I'm not talking about business, I just want to ask you some personal questions. Our conversation has no legal effect. You have the right to remain silent, or you can use the system to record." "...I remained silent and started to enable the security system to record
. ."
Li Pan is feeling miserable, offending the security bureau to cancel your account, offending the company to delete your profile, these two thousand five hundred yuan are really hard to make money with special codes!
The old man had no expression on his face and sent a video via an anonymous link.
"Do you still remember this?"
Li Pan took a look. It was a surveillance video of the traffic system. The camera captured a group of bosozoku gangsters riding a bicycle. Motorcycles, swaggering through the city. He looked at it carefully and said, "Oh." He realized that this was really a private matter.
So he immediately turned off the recording function of the chip. Then he pointed at the military cadet who was beaten with a bruised nose and face, his feet were tied with iron chains, and he was tied to the back of a motorcycle and dragged along the road like a human broom.
"Yes, this is me."
The old man glanced at Li Pan and said,
"Why didn't you call the police?"
Damn, in what age do you still call the police? I just want to laugh. And why are you bringing this nonsense up now?
"Forgot."
The old man stared at him.
"Forgot?"
Seeing that the old man refused to give up, Li Pan scratched his head and thought for a while before speaking,
"Tsk, what, this is what you want to investigate?
Okay, I will cooperate and I will confess. I was in the military division at the time. When I was in the Engineering College, I applied for the Starfleet Petty Officer Candidate, and I came first in the written test. A few classmates, hehe, fellow countrymen, invited me to have a drink to celebrate. I was careless and got drunk. In the end, I was picked up by these gangsters and dragged all the way to the suburbs. Throw it in the trash.
When I came back, of course I was late for the interview and failed. In the end, the school gave me a punishment of leaving school without authorization, staying out at night, fighting outside the school, being disheveled, and defying the superior officer, and being placed on probation. Call the police
? Oh, man, it’s a military academy. What’s the point of calling the police? If I call the police, can I still get my diploma? Do I still need my citizenship rights? Yes,
I later settled the matter with these people, but the middleman’s clue was cut off. Of course I can guess who hired them. They originally wanted to buy my life. Unfortunately, it changed hands several times and only a few thousand dollars came into the hands of these little bastards. They didn’t have the guts to kill someone for this little money. , I just escaped with my life, so I didn’t kill them in the end. I just dragged them through and forgave them.
These are all in my file. This was before graduation. If the system thinks that I have violated the law, It's impossible to pass the citizen review, right?"
Seeing Li Pan's indifferent attitude, the old man was silent for a while,
"I see, I'm not investigating anything, I just came to attend Oso's funeral, seeing that you are an old friend. After that, I want to see if there is anything I can do to help you, since there is no trouble."
The other party sent an electronic business card. The name of the business card was Chen Tan, the manager of Chen's Insurance Consulting Company. Li Pan remembered that this name was not in his family's address book. It was probably the false identity of the security bureau agent who had a side job.
Hearing what the other party said, Li Pan was a little surprised for a moment,
"This...Uncle Chen, do you know Daxiong? Have you been rescued by my parents? In fact, they are medical soldiers, and it is their job to save people, okay? , you don’t have to be so polite.
Why, are you just trying to vent your anger for this junior? How about we find a place to have a drink?”
Chen Tan shook his head,
“Let’s do it another day, there is a chance.”
So he turned around and walked away expressionlessly. .
Li Pan was also baffled.
What the hell is this old man Chen? Even if it was a friendship between comrades, he could actually use the fake identity of the consulting company to meet him, right? Why is it necessary to directly display the Security Bureau's sign? And what does Li Pan's messy affairs in the military academy have to do with him?
For a moment, Li Pan was a little uneasy. After all, a department like the Security Bureau would never deal with legal citizens who have no power or authority. Even Li Pan searched the Internet for a long time, but no enthusiastic netizens knew about it. What does the Third Investigation Division of the Public Security Bureau do? In the end, he was warned by the search engine.
"Citizen Li Pan, why do you want to investigate the Security Bureau?" It's so straightforward...
Forget it, after all, the public network is right under people's noses. This kind of thing should probably be investigated by the deep network, so you can ask Shiba later.
So Li Pan stopped thinking nonsense and helped the pastor and the others clear up the dishes. After Wei Wei was half full, he staggered around like a drunkard and went back to the apartment while practicing the exercises.
In fact, this Nine Yin Magic Skill can kill people and breathe in. It is almost the same as killing monsters in the game to gain experience. Li Pan originally planned to upgrade a few gangs, but when he was contacted by Old Chen from the Security Bureau, he was afraid that there would be too much trouble in the past two days. Being targeted by the system, I dare not go out and cause trouble in this hot spot for the time being.
So he went back to the apartment to meditate, and nothing happened all night. Oh, it was not nothing. Huang Dahe came to see him once in the middle of the night, which shocked Li Pan. He thought it was the Dong Chuang incident, and this guy came to investigate.
As a result, he brought a Black Mewtwo, which he said was the pre-death echo of the cyberpsychosis that attacked the city center a few days ago and killed hundreds of people. The resources he found on the deep web were very refreshing and exciting. He asked Li Pan if he wanted it. It's only fifty bucks, but you need cash.
Wow, Li Pan said that what I have done in the past two days is much more exciting than Bibo's mental illness. Who wants this piece of junk? Besides, he really can't come up with fifty yuan now... Huang Dahe said "he didn't even have
fifty yuan." "I can't take it out, seriously can you do it?" His eyes stung, and Li Pan drove the boy away and went into meditation to practice the exercises.
I don’t know if it was true that he was thinking about things every day and dreaming about things at night. Li Pan actually dreamed that he was eating.
And they are literally delicacies from the mountains and seas, abalone, ginseng, wings and tripe, all kinds of big fish and meat, dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, many varieties that you have never seen before, like mutant monsters from the biohazard, some are steamed, some are grilled, and some are The red stew is placed in various bronze giant tripods and ceramic dinner plates, piled as high as a hill!
Darling, for a moment Li Pan thought he was doing... nonsense! Isn't this just a dream?
Since it was a dream, Li Pan was not polite. He rushed to the dining table and feasted on meat. He felt that he had never been so happy in his life.
But the tragedy is that dreams are just dreams after all. After waking up, Li Pan felt even hungrier, as if there was a millstone grinding his stomach. To be honest, if he continues like this, he doesn’t have to wait until the loan repayment day to go bankrupt, or his life will be lost...
"Hongdou Ni Private Marseille! You failed in the first official mission, and I bothered you to rescue me, which is an embarrassment to the company!" Please punish me!"
He probably came back to life after a day's rest and taking medicine. Kotaro was so full of energy early in the morning that he sat down and apologized.
But in the cafeteria downstairs, he was kicked out after only two cents of food. Li Pan was not energetic for the morning meeting. He waved his hands and said, "I won't do this next time. I'll take on a task myself. I'll go to the dungeon by the way and check it out.
" Find the Shura Society's stronghold and make amends. I won't care if you are caught again." "
Yes! Thank you for your generosity! I will definitely avenge my shame! I will never live up to your expectations!"
Then Rama Eighteen reported. ,
"As expected, virtual currencies have plummeted in the past two days, but don't worry, it must be a technical adjustment. Don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on the market. Although I'm stuck for a while, it will always rise back. Don't rush it, just wait. Wait!"
Seriously, can you do it...
But Li Pan really doesn't have professional economic talents under his command, and it is impossible for such talents to come to get your basic salary of 2,500 yuan, so you can only make do with an eighteen-eight-year-old boss. used.
"Just throw it away when you're freed."
Aqi over there also came with coffee to report,
"The sheets haven't opened their mouths until now."
"Well, keep beating, don't stop. Rama and I are out on the field."
casually After arranging something for the employees, Li Pan himself went to the fax machine to look through the task folder.
In fact, he also knew that the breakthrough from level two to level three this time was essentially due to swallowing a hair tie, so meditating, practicing dual cultivation, and killing people were still not as fast as directly beating monsters to level up. Maybe this is what the weirdo in green robe said, killing ghosts.
But Zhigui knew that the company's inventory could not be touched. Now he had not figured out how to explain to the company that the hair tie was lost. I had no choice but to start training with wild monsters.
(End of chapter)