Chapter 97 - 93 Efficient Burger King

Moore Technology was a very hot company in the prosthetics market.

Many of this company’s businesses overlapped with biotechnology, including pharmaceuticals, cloning animals, deep customization of cyber prosthetics, and so on.

But relatively speaking, the scale of Moore Technology was somewhat smaller.

Due to its lower profitability and smaller scale, Moore Technology had no choice but to pour all its resources into its areas of expertise to survive better.

Deep tissue integration, titanium alloy skulls, spinal replacements...

For prosthetic implants, they were all high-risk implants.

"...To reduce the exaggerated immune response, Moore... One obvious method is to combine cloned tissue with the prosthetic to reduce rejection.

Moore Technology has done a lot of experimentation in this area, so they are also specialized in DNA experimental equipment."

700,000 to buy second-hand equipment, but the included courses were still quite valuable—Arasaka’s adult skill training did not include this kind of content.

Martin was halfway through talking when he saw Lille scratching his head non-stop and curiously asked, "Why have you been scratching your head since you came in?"

"It’s nothing, the network froze when I was borrowing money, and my head hurts a bit.

So, for a functional jailbreak, you only need to overwrite these parts of the code?"

"The last step, change the wiring, externally connect to a higher-spec power source to burn out the safety valve in the device at once, but this operation will let the sales department get the news.

DNA experiments are strictly regulated, so now you know why I wouldn’t do this."

"Can’t an interferer interfere with it?"

"It can, but Moore Technology will continuously track this signal. Devices that haven’t been used for a long time and aren’t scrapped will be marked, and the asset recovery team will investigate.

Of course, the asset recovery team’s combat strength isn’t particularly strong, but I suggest you avoid them—as soon as there is confirmed tech leakage, the company can apply for network monitoring to assist."

This example shows that the true tone of the Cyberpunk World isn’t limitless chaos.

It’s actually a specialty of Night City—so Night City is also advertised as a Free City, a dreamer’s heaven.

However, in reality, even Night City, which seems more free on the surface, doesn’t have many secrets once network monitoring is invoked.

Network monitoring doesn’t intervene mostly because hackers and edgerunners’ actions generally involve corporate conflicts and are tacitly approved struggles.

This set of high-tech equipment was the same—once evidence showed that the device hijacking wasn’t authorized by the higher-ups, agents would start executing their "security contracts" and fulfill their duties.

However, Lille was naturally resistant to network monitoring’s trace-back, not to mention if done beautifully, people at Moore Technology wouldn’t even get the news.

Because Martin was also deceived.

Lille clapped his hands lightly, "No problem, this isn’t an issue."

This demeanor, however, gave Martin the wrong signal: "So you can just go directly to the biotech people, why come to me?"

"Well... It’s a bit complicated."

Martin’s prosthetic eye equipment flashed with data, he said, "Usually, they check and verify the equipment before Thursday, then uniformly scrap high-control level devices on Thursday afternoon.

The scrapping location is at Night City’s waste disposal plant, I have some data here, you can take a look—burn after reading.

Once you’re ready to receive, I’ll schedule the scrapping, any other questions?"

Lille immediately used the cross-dimension data channel to receive the data—in this way, the Cyberpunk World didn’t even have a recipient for the data, making it impossible to trace.

"That’s it—happy cooperation, Doctor, maybe we can cooperate again in the future."

"Oh right," Martin suddenly remembered something, and said, "That attenuation model you wrote earlier, I’d suggest not showing off your knowledge like that again.

As long as you know the attenuation rule, you can deduce your own DNA information from the model, and you don’t want to be targeted from a genetic level, right?"

Lille was startled for a moment—he roughly understood what was going on.

Dr. Conners’ attenuation model was improved from Richard Parker and his wife, and Richard Parker had hidden the fact that the experiment started with his own DNA.

This was also why Conners’ attenuation model could never enter the low-risk stage.

Lille thought for a moment: "Then can you deduce the attenuation rule from individuals where multiple attenuation models have already been effective?"

Martin shrugged: "Of course you can—otherwise, how do you think the company got this technology?"

Martin’s relaxed tone contained a harsh truth: the company had perfected the cross-species DNA modification theory through large-scale human experiments.

How many people became test subjects in the process?

"This time, there really isn’t any problem."

Lille secretly sighed and left the clinic.

The Noble Logistics truck was still parked outside, waiting for Martin to have them unload the remaining goods.

Lille’s sharp eyes noticed a large number of medical crates inside.

From the electronic tags on top, it could be seen that they contained the same potent α-neuro-suppressant.

This kid claimed working at Moore Technology was too stifling, but it was probably discovering a business opportunity that prompted him to take the plunge into running a business.

...

The three of them carried Murphy straight onto the Mackinaw, the guy even fell asleep staring at the moon—he probably felt a lot better.

The car started, and the three of them resumed their face-to-face online chat.

V: "So, where’s our moneymaker job? Why did you borrow so much money?"

Lille: "Signed up for a small class, bought a treasure map."

Lille: "Moore Technology will scrap a batch of high-tech regulated equipment on Thursday afternoon, find a buyer to take those things."

Jack: "Rob the company’s goods? That’s a tough job, plus they’re regulated equipment and high-tech."

Lille: "Right, but we can definitely make a lot. I have the transport routes, but doing this in the city is too dangerous, we’ll wait for an opportunity."

This was a backup plan.

Actually, Old V had already bought the pet equipment to observe DNA for Lille, all Lille needed was to jailbreak the device—

A plain functional jailbreak wasn’t a high-tech job.

Fortunately, Lille was cautious—if he had acted impulsively and not spent that 700,000, the whole crew would have been doomed.

This had to be done with the soon-to-be-scrapped equipment, otherwise, both Old V and Martin wouldn’t be able to speak clearly.

V: "So now? Are we waiting for Murphy to find a reporter tomorrow for a big scoop?"

Lille: "No, we’ll go straight to kidnap his boss, Diana Kuno, calculating the time, if she’s smart, she should be almost losing her mind by now."

Jack: "Brothers, it’s thrilling working with you, if it’s not robbing corporate high-tech, it’s kidnapping corporate management."

V: "Trust me, it’s not the most thrilling yet."

V: "What about this unlucky Murphy?"

Lille: "We still have Mr. Faraday, the best fixer in Saint Domingo, he wants information, Murphy just happens to have it, let him deal with Faraday himself."

V: "So we’re selling him out."

Lille: "Strictly speaking, we’re giving him a good way out, after all, we’re mercenaries, and he didn’t pay us."

Lille: "If no objections, I’ll call Faraday to have him pick Murphy up."

Jack, V: "No objections."

...

Faraday, a big shot in Saint Domingo, had a bit of a headache recently.

Back then, if Mann’s team had honestly investigated, biotechnology wouldn’t have caught that infiltrating hacker, and everything would still be in the dark.

If Arasaka had sent the commission, he’d still secretly investigate this matter, everything would be much simpler.

Investigating the Nightingale Project, this job wasn’t easy, he even thought of giving up.

As for inviting Burger King’s team, that was just because he received another message from Kantao to test and observe Burger King’s hacker.

Now, Burger King was freelancing, he didn’t know what the kid was up to.

Giving up the commission directly, he still thought Burger King might actually pull it off?

As for continuing to use Mann’s team to investigate Nightingale Project...

Let’s put it this way, if it weren’t for the Burger King team, he would have given up on this commission already.

Faraday was a proud man, he hadn’t realized that he was somewhat hooked already.

Beep—

Incoming call: Burger King.

Faraday chose to connect immediately.

Lille: "Faraday, there’s progress, I have a guy named Brandon Murphy, a biotechnologist."

Lille: "He’s in touch with a wanderer tribe person—seems like a biotech experiment, the people died and died pretty horribly."

Lille: "This might be closely related to what you’re investigating—he now wants to meet a reporter who’s been investigating biotechnology. Maybe they can match intel and get new information."

Faraday was quite surprised.

This...

The commission had only been out for less than a day?

Faraday: "Not bad, Burger King. Does biotechnology know about this?"

Lille: "They know he left his post—definitely, I can’t guarantee anything else, but biotech killing people, they probably won’t call the cops, you know."

But actually, biotech’s reaction largely reflected whether Murphy was valuable.

Faraday made a decisive decision: "Where is he?"

"You name a place."

"Brandon Street Whole Foods Burger, Mann will meet the person there."