Hearing Mann say this, Faraday found it difficult to say anything more, only letting out a cold snort and preparing to leave.
Just as he was about to step out of the private room, he was stopped by Rebecca's curses.
"Get lost, you lapdog of Military Technology."
The current Rebecca was no longer a mercenary who relied on middlemen for work.
She wouldn't tolerate Faraday like Mann did.
She had long been displeased with this arrogant middleman.
It was just that she used to be a mascot in the team, with little influence.
Even with her fiery temper, she didn't dare offend the middleman who gave them commissions.
But times were different now. Rebecca wasn't afraid of Faraday anymore, so she naturally had to unleash all the curses she had held back before.
Hearing Rebecca curse at him, Faraday couldn't help but stop.
His four eyes stared intently at Rebecca, seemingly angered by her offense.
And when Rebecca saw that Faraday dared to glare at her, her temper immediately flared up.
"What are you looking at, you four-eyed old geezer? Was I wrong to curse at you?"
Hearing Rebecca get more and more heated with her curses, even Faraday, who always acted calm and elegant, was about to lose control of his expression.
Faraday's eye twitched slightly, but in the end, he couldn't force out a single word.
As the saying goes, information is the price of a middleman's business.
As one of the most famous middlemen in Night City, Faraday naturally held a lot of information in his hands.
He naturally knew that Rebecca was no longer a member of Maine's team.
Otherwise, he would have exploded the moment Rebecca cursed at him the first time.
No mercenary in Night City dared to speak to him like that.
Which of those mercenaries didn't grovel before him, expecting him to bestow commissions upon them?
But unfortunately, Rebecca was not a mercenary, and Faraday was well aware of this.
The current Rebecca was with Ascension Technology, and had a close relationship with Ascension Technology's upper management.
This piece of information he knew.
If middlemen were the ones who bestowed rewards upon mercenaries and kept them fed,
then the relationship between middlemen and corporations was similar, except the middleman was the one waiting for the reward.
Corporations were the true masters of this city, and no one ever questioned the truth of this statement.
Although he didn't know how Rebecca had climbed to this level of connection, she was undoubtedly someone Faraday couldn't afford to offend now.
Don't let Ascension Technology seem like a newly established company; in reality, its influence in Night City was not small.
Now, thanks to its powerful effects and the strong promotion by Arasaka and Ascension Technology, Power Excitement Agent could be said to be sweeping across all of Night City.
The mercenary industry, the military security industry, company employees, entertainment venues – all the scenes you can imagine,
or even the unseen dark alleys on the streets, you could see the presence of Power Excitement Agent.
Of course, this was only what ordinary citizens could see.
As a middleman in Night City, Faraday also knew more information about Ascension Technology.
It wasn't just the mysterious agent it produced that made major corporations flock to it; it also had deep cooperation with Arasaka.
According to what Faraday knew, all the mercenaries who accepted commissions to deal with Ascension Technology,
ultimately never appeared in people's sight again, all meeting untimely deaths.
This was the reason Faraday dared not speak up when faced with Rebecca's insults.
Ascension Technology was far from as simple as imagined.
It was precisely because of this that their roles were now reversed, and Rebecca had become someone who could step on Faraday.
In the end, Faraday said nothing more, only enduring his anger and leaving amidst Rebecca's curses.
"Rebecca, that's enough. Why did you stop me from taking this commission? Do you know if there's a problem with it?"
Mann saw Faraday leave and Rebecca stop her cursing, and only then did he speak up to ask.
Rebecca's cursing at Faraday just now made Mann sweat profusely; if this were in the past, it would have been unthinkable.
Of course, he wouldn't do such a thing now either.
After all, he was only famous now, not yet a legend of Night City.
Before becoming a living legend of Night City, the relationship between mercenaries and middlemen would likely not change much.
Seeing Mann ask, Rebecca could only explain the reason.
After all, she wasn't considered a member of the team now, and making others give up a commission they had secured wasn't a good thing to do.
...
Let's go back to when Mann accessed the chip given by Faraday.
Rebecca, who was sitting nearby, originally didn't plan to interfere with Mann and their work.
But just as Mann was looking at the information on the chip and considering whether to take the commission, information popped up in front of Rebecca.
The content on it was exactly the same as the content on the chip Mann had accessed.
It was obvious this was Lisandra's doing.
Looking at the commission information before her, Rebecca couldn't help but complain to Lisandra in her mind.
"Lisandra, do you know this is impolite behavior?"
The fact that Lisandra could get the content from the chip clearly meant she had discreetly hacked into Mann's system.
As Mann's friend, Rebecca naturally didn't want Lisandra to do this.
But what responded to Rebecca was Lisandra's emotionless voice.
"For me, there is no politeness or impoliteness, only what should be done and what should not be done.
Faraday, as a middleman, has close ties with Military Technology.
Most of the commissions he releases are related to Military Technology, and there's a high probability they are actions targeting Arasaka or Ascension Technology.
My mission is to ensure the safety of Ascension Technology, so I should collect this information."
Hearing Lisandra say this, Rebecca could only reluctantly accept and then looked at Faraday's commission request.
She was also a little curious about what kind of big deal this was.
As Rebecca watched, Lisandra also analyzed the content of the commission.
"Robbing Arasaka's armed transport team. According to analysis, the goods Arasaka is escorting are highly likely to be their latest developed Cyberpunk suit, Cyberpunk."
Lisandra, as the cornerstone of Ascension Technology's Counterintelligence, had almost all information converging into her database, making her the intelligence hub of the entire Ascension Technology.
As for the information about Cyberpunk, Luoqi told Lisandra about it with the purpose of having her pay attention to events related to Cyberpunk.
At the same time, Luoqi also informed Lisandra about possible situations involving Cyberpunk.
Combining other information and the current time point, Lisandra easily analyzed that the goods Arasaka was transporting were likely Cyberpunk.
"What is Cyberpunk?" A big question mark flashed in Rebecca's small head.
"A Cyberpunk suit developed by Arasaka, it is an extremely terrifying battlefield weapon."
Lisandra explained to Rebecca, then continued to analyze.
"If the analysis is correct and the goods transported by the Arasaka forces are Cyberpunk, then such an unreasonable route and relaxed defenses likely mean this is an Arasaka trap.
And Military Technology also understands this point, which is why they chose to have Faraday recruit mercenaries to probe."
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