“Let’s get down to business, Mann. What’s the mission this time?”
Jiang Heng, playing with Rebecca’s hair, asked Mann.
Mann, upon hearing this, became serious and slowly said, “Our target this time is Biotech!”
Silence before the storm, and then everyone was stunned.
Biotech, that’s a behemoth! It was unexpected that the mission target would be Biotech.
Naturally, everyone wouldn’t think that the mission was to go work for Biotech. Whenever a mercenary mission involved a company, it usually meant sabotage.
Of course, rescue missions were an exception, because many company executives’ children were kidnapped, and they would also hire mercenaries to help rescue those rich kids.
But clearly, judging from Mann’s expression, this mission was definitely not as simple as rescuing a rich kid.
However, even so, Jiang Heng remained unfazed. He was not afraid of companies even shortly after transmigrating, and he was even less afraid now.
Jiang Heng’s current strength was not just a little bit better than when he first transmigrated.
It could be said that now Jiang Heng, even without relying on the “Bullet Time” skill, was like a humanoid Gundam.
“Tell me more about it,” Jiang Heng said again.
Mann didn’t beat around the bush, directly saying, “Alright, our objective this time is to steal some documents from Biotech!”
Biotech is the most authoritative company in the food and pharmaceutical industries. For example, the immunosuppressants people use most now are from Biotech.
In addition, many pharmaceutical production and synthesis technologies for treating diseases are also controlled by Biotech. It can be said that in terms of certain pharmaceuticals, Biotech has already formed a complete monopoly.
The pharmaceutical industry is inherently a lucrative one, let alone when it forms a monopoly.
It goes without saying that Biotech’s protection of these patented technologies must be extremely strict. After all, it’s a big company, its network defenses are not comparable to gangs.
Of course, the Voodoo Boys might be an exception, as they are a special gang. They have many top hackers, and they even built their own data fortress.
But no matter what, Biotech’s ICE (Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics, similar to a firewall) is definitely hard to break.
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After hearing the mission content, Jiang Heng also understood that Mann was mainly counting on Lucy, who had excellent hacking skills, not himself.
Qiwei alone might not be able to break through Biotech’s ICE and get the documents in a short time, so Lucy needed to help.
Then, Mann continued, “To ensure we can quickly crack Biotech’s ICE, I’ve also invited a hacker friend. Qiwei, Lucy, and her, the three of them working together can absolutely guarantee success. Our job is to protect the three of them.”
Jiang Heng didn’t expect Mann to be so thoughtful. He not only invited himself and Lucy but also found another hacker.
However, Jiang Heng was curious about who this hacker that Mann found was.
“Is your friend reliable?” Jiang Heng asked.
“Don’t worry, absolutely reliable. Her skills are no worse than Qiwei’s,” Mann said confidently.
Just as they were talking, a girl walked into the Afterlife bar.
“Sasha, over here!” Mann, who was about to continue explaining the mission, saw the girl and immediately waved.
The girl turned around upon hearing the call, immediately revealing a beautiful smile, and then quickly walked towards the booth.
But when Jiang Heng saw the girl, he was stunned. He couldn’t believe that the helper Mann mentioned was actually her!
The girl was very cute, with short black hair and large eyes, looking somewhat playful and adorable. And she was wearing pink and black tight-fitting clothes, revealing a pretty good figure.
She was a girl as cute as a cat.
So who was this girl?
Her name was Sasha Yakovleva. She did not appear in the game’s plot, nor in the main animation, but was the protagonist of a stand-alone prequel animation MV, “Let-You-Down”, from “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners”.
Sasha was a hacker. In the MV, she was a former hacker member of Mann’s team, joining before Qiwei.
However, during a mission targeting Biotech, Sasha accidentally discovered the truth about the medicine her mother was taking, and she decided to send the information to N54 News to help expose it.
For this, Sasha, without hesitation, sneaked into Biotech alone and successfully obtained the information. However, although she got the cure, she fell from a high place and died.
When she died, Sasha had a smile on her face because she had gotten the information and sent it to N54 News. She felt like she had succeeded and even if she died, she died honorably.
Unfortunately, Sasha was too naive. Almost all the television stations in Night City were mouthpieces for big companies.
The medicine Sasha stole information about was actually a joint project between Arasaka and Biotech, and N54 News was a loyal supporter of Arasaka and the New United States of America.
If this information was released, not only Biotech, but Arasaka would also be affected. So, how could N54 News, as Arasaka’s mouthpiece, betray its master?
Therefore, Sasha’s death had no impact on Biotech at all.
Her death was a microcosm of Night City’s tragedy.
ps: Thanks to cwk.. for the generous tip, I didn't notice it before, I didn’t expect to have a tip from a big shot, thank you, thank you.