Although it is not that he has never accepted ordinary gifts, when he left Night City, in order to arrange follow-up plans and hope that his teammates could grow, he also asked David and Lu in the name of "gifts"
West, Jack and the others gave themselves a gift.
Then, he could hand over the things he had prepared to each of them in the name of "return gift".
But in the serious atmosphere of the conversation between the two of them, the word "gift" suddenly came out, and the sudden turn of conversation gave him an inexplicable sense of déjà vu in a gang deal.
After the elders of both parties finished talking about the business, they began to use some small gifts that were not on the table to enhance the "relationship".
It's just that those gifts are often related to "violence", "money", and "pornography", but the "gifts" Knight is talking about now obviously have nothing to do with these vulgar things.
After all, one second they were still talking about Taipingzhou, but the next second they changed the topic to this aspect...
In a very short period of time, Lin Mo's brain was running rapidly, and he began to think about why Knight would choose to say such a thing at this time.
It didn't take long to think, and at least Knight didn't have to wait too long. Lin Mo quickly thought of something.
Speaking of which, it seems like this is the first time he showed off his hacking skills in front of Knight, right?
And Knight's identity is an AI. Could the gift he mentioned be related to hackers?
"What is the reason why you chose to ask me this question at this time?" Lin Mo did not answer directly. After a brief shock, he quickly regained his composure and asked and answered himself:
"I guess it has something to do with what happened in cyberspace just now?"
Knight held the steering wheel and turned his head to look at Lin Mo in surprise, as if he didn't expect the other party to react so quickly.
"There is some connection..." he said softly.
Lin Mo nodded clearly, while thinking about what Nate might say next, he asked calmly:
"I don't like people hiding things from me. If you have anything to say, just say it. Regarding this gift, I need to know the cause and effect, rather than just giving it to me casually and forgetting it."
"Then you are embarrassing me. Do you want me to write an argumentative essay on why Nate gave Lin Mo a gift?" The corners of Nate's mouth raised slightly, and his blue eyes were still looking straight ahead.
the way:
"If we really had to explain it, it might take a long time."
Lin Mo lowered his gaze, glanced at the display screen in the car, reached out and clicked on it a few times to display the navigation screen.
"We still have a while to drive, which should be enough time for you to explain clearly," he said.
For this trip, Knight also made some special efforts to cover up his physical limitations. The car in front of him looked like an ordinary civilian car from the outside.
But in fact, the entire frame of this car is made of extremely strong bulletproof materials, which is enough to ensure the safety of people sitting in the car.
Although for Lin Mo, these are unnecessary measures.
But considering his fragile body, Knight must be fully prepared.
In addition, he also placed some equipment to enhance the network signal in the trunk of the car to ensure that he would not suddenly "cut off the Internet" while driving, resulting in a not-so-good scene.
Since these measures inevitably increase the weight of the car, it also means that the car does not travel very fast.
Knight glanced at the navigation screen in the car but didn't say anything. He also realized that if he didn't explain clearly, Lin Mo might not accept the gift.
He sighed, put on a helpless look, and joked:
"It seems that I have to write this argumentative essay."
Then, under Lin Mo's gaze, Knight straightened his expression and said seriously:
"Actually, I have been observing you for a long time before I came into contact with you. I believe you also know this."
"Um."
"So, like your teammates, I have always been very aware of your personal strength. When you broke into the Moore Technology Building alone and killed Luo Yin with your own hands, although this feat was beyond my expectation, your combat power
It didn’t exceed my expectations..."
"It is precisely because of your amazing performance that the people over there are very interested in you, because we have been looking for a person like you, and then invest in and cooperate with him..."
"However, although you are strong, at the beginning, you did not meet our requirements in some aspects."
"Heh." Lin Mo smiled and immediately understood what "certain aspects" Knight was talking about.
"You mean that my hacking skills were not very good, so I seemed to have lost some value in your eyes at that time, right?" He asked teasingly.
"Yes." Knight replied honestly:
"In the past, we had imagined that in a place like Night City, in such a chaotic environment, a person with extremely high fighting talent would definitely appear in the future. This person could be a prosthetic body with very high talent.
Like Adam Hammer; or he can be unrivaled in hacking technology, like Buttermos in the past..."
"Without exception, if people like this grow up in Night City, they will inevitably become 'legends'. We can also choose this time to contact them and reach cooperation..."
"But before you appeared, we never thought that there would be someone who could compete with a company based on individual strength in reality... Even if you broke into the Moore Technology Building with the help of the people around you, this is not
I can’t hide your excellence.”
Having said this, Knight couldn't help but pause, and glanced at Lin Mo with his blue fluorescent eyes rather complicatedly, and after a while he said quietly:
"To be honest, Lin Mo, you are really not as strong as a human being. You obviously don't have a high level of cybernetic transformation, but you succeeded in killing Adam Hammer..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Facing the mountain of praises, Lin Mo seemed quite calm.
However, Knight's explanation also answered a question for him.
No wonder that in the ending options at the end of the game, only by choosing the sun ending and becoming a legend in the next life, V will be invited to cooperate by Mr. Blue Eyes.
It seems that they only value legendary figures with "cooperation potential".
He looked back at Knight's solemn face and said with a smile:
"So after all that, your gift is just to compliment me?"
Knight shook his head: "No, in fact we have been preparing this gift for many years, thinking of giving it to legends who may appear in the future to improve their strength."
"What gift are you talking about?" Lin Mo frowned, feeling a sense of déjà vu in his heart for no apparent reason.
Hackers, legends with super talents, accidental gifts...all these factors are mixed together, and they all seem to be vaguely pointing to a certain truth.
"I want to call this gift the 'miracle of the freezer.'" Knight revealed the answer unhurriedly:
"This is a bequest from a legendary hacker. He died in the 1920s and his body was abandoned in a freezer... For various reasons, his body ended up in our hands."
Lin Mo raised his eyebrows, with a rare look of shock in his eyes.
"Buttmoss's body?" Almost as soon as Knight finished speaking, he couldn't hide the shock in his heart and quickly said the correct answer.
"That's right." Nate nodded and immediately explained without giving Lin Mo time to think:
"There are different rumors about the death of this legendary hacker, both in Night City and around the world, but he died in Night City after all. As the founder of this city, our Ye Company happens to be in control of the rumors.
The truth..."
Lin Mo rarely opened his eyes wide and assumed a posture of listening carefully. He looked sideways at Knight with a slight frown, waiting for his next words.
Knight said clearly:
"...This truth is actually very simple to explain. When the corporate war between the two major companies Arasaka and Military Technology reached its end, in addition to the nuclear explosion that resounded on the top floor of Arasaka Tower, in cyberspace, there were also
There is an unknown war going on."
"This war is fierce, but few people know it, because the war takes place in cyberspace, and the force being attacked is Arasaka. They have formed an anti-hacker army to strictly guard against their own network data barriers... But they
There is only one opponent."
"As for the result... Even though Arasaka Company tried its best to hide it afterwards, our people still found some information at the time. During that war, Buttermos single-handedly defeated Arasaka's hackers.
The army finally successfully entered Arasaka's data fortress."
"But we don't know what happened after that..." Knight's expression became a little solemn:
"Because after Bartmos himself entered the Data Fortress, he completely lost his presence in cyberspace. No one knows what he did inside, and no one knows what he encountered inside... Anyway,
Since then, Butmosus has not been seen again."
"And his mysterious disappearance in cyberspace also caused all his own protection programs to fail, which ultimately exposed his location information. Arasaka Company immediately organized a commando team and rushed to the building where his physical body was located.
..”
"As for what happened in the building, we don't know yet. We only know that the building was eventually destroyed by cluster bombs and turned into a ruin, just like the Night City that became riddled with holes after the war."
"Finally, our Ye Company also took on the task of rebuilding the city after the end of the company war. Because of the damage to the building, we had a legitimate reason to intervene in the rebuilding of the building and successfully found the
Got a freezer.”
Lin Mo looked at Nate solemnly, spoke slowly, and took over Nate's words:
"That's the freezer containing Butmoss himself..."