"How could it be possible...ah haha..."

"Stop quibbling, David." Bai Xing continued to sit on David and said, "My nose can analyze the pheromones in the smell to determine the status of the owner of the smell."

"The information just now tells me that you are clearly lying!"

"What...what! Do you actually have this kind of ability?" David was suddenly surprised.

"Humph, that's right! So hurry up and recruit them truthfully!"

"Okay, okay, I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it. But Brother Bai, um... can you get up first?"

After Bai Xing got up, David also climbed up using the floor.

"Actually... I went to Arasaka Academy today... first..."

"Tell the important point!"

"I went to Arasaka School to take revenge, and then I helped a sister earn some extra money!"

Bai Xing squinted his eyes at David and found that David looked serious. After asking for some details, he said:

"So you spent the whole day running around with a woman you didn't know, right?"

"Uh...is...that's it?"

"David." Bai Xing pulled up a chair and sat down, "This is the City of Night. If you just run around with people like this, something will happen sooner or later."

"Brother Bai, don't worry, now that I have Sianwistan, there won't be anything -"

"You're wrong. Si'an Westan is indeed very powerful, but it cannot make you invincible. You must know that in some organizations, almost everyone has this kind of thing."

"I promised your mother that I would take care of you."

"My mother...? How could she..." David lowered his head. He could not imagine that kind of scene, where his mother asked Bai Xing, a mercenary, to take good care of him.

From his impression, he should just let Shirahoshi find him and take him back to study at Arasaka Academy.

"Don't be surprised. There is no mother in the world who doesn't worry about her children. Your mother just figured it out."

"Well, you'd better tell me about that woman. Did she do anything to you? Is there any suspicious behavior?"

"You must know that the things you are wearing are not cheap."

"No, no, no!" David shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, then patted his chest and assured, "She didn't do anything. I can feel it. She won't be that kind of person."

David kept defending the encounter while unintentionally adding many details.

"That's okay." Bai Xing breathed a sigh of relief, but David's description sounded—why did it become more and more familiar the more he heard it?

A little bit like someone in his team.

"Is this fate..." Bai Xing sighed at the scheduled encounter between the male protagonist and the female protagonist.

"What fate?" David wondered.

"It's nothing, just a little emotional." Bai Xing shook his head, "Let's get down to business."

"David, how much do you know about the mercenary business?"

"Honestly... I don't seem to understand it at all..." David touched the back of his head and laughed twice embarrassedly.

“Expected.”

Bai Xing was not surprised at all by David's answer, so he was not angry and instead patiently explained to David.

"Listen, David, this is what we do..."

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After listening to Bai Xing's long speech, David couldn't help but yawn.

"Hey, Brother Bai, do you also have a team?" He asked Bai Xing.

"Of course." Hearing David's question, Bai Xing smiled rarely today, "Those are a group of guys worth entrusting their support to."

"Well, Brother Bai, can you recommend me?"

"You -" Bai Xing deliberately prolonged the ending. Looking at David's nervous expression, Bai Xing was no longer teasing him, "Okay, actually I wanted you to join."

"After a few days, we will have a big job waiting to be done."

"What big job?" David asked curiously.

"Hijack a train, a company train."

This incident immediately ignited the excitement in David's heart.

He stammered quickly: "I, I, I -"

"I know you want to go. As a complete new recruit, if you can complete such a commission when you debut, many middlemen with rich resources will definitely know the name David Martinez."

"And at the same time, I also know that you urgently need a high-quality transcript to prove to your mother."

"But -" Bai Xing suddenly changed the subject, "It is precisely because you are a newcomer that I cannot just tie my life and that of my companions to you on a rope."

"Oh...that's it..." David was immediately discouraged. He could understand what Bai Xing meant. There was nothing wrong with it. If he wanted to blame it, he could only blame himself for not being qualified.

"Don't be discouraged, David." Bai Xing said with a smile, "So, in the next time -"

"I will give you special training."

David looked at Bai Xing's smile and nodded. He always felt that there was some evil intention in that smile...

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At 4 o'clock in the morning, in the super skyscraper h4 in Santo Domingo, David returned home because it was too late, just like his mother before, he fell directly on the sofa, soaked in some softness and fell asleep directly.

After a while, David fell asleep with a happy face. From the drool flowing from the corner of his mouth, it could be seen that he must have had the best dream.

"Lucy...hehe...Lucy..."

But this sweet dream is destined to be broken by an uninvited guest.

Bang!

The window in the living room suddenly burst open, and a vigorous figure rushed in from the window.

The loud noise instantly woke David up, and before he could react, a touch of coldness touched his temple.

"You are already dead."

As the figure pulled the trigger, various lights flickered in the muzzle of the gun, and many even overflowed from the gaps in the components of the gun.

This is followed by a piece of weird music.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp—"

"What's the name of dad's father... What's the name of dad's mother... What's the name of dad's mother... What's the name of dad's mother..."

David glanced at the time and turned his head to look at the so-called attacker speechlessly.

"Brother Bai... If I read correctly, it's only four o'clock in the morning, and my house has a door..."

"Oh, the person who really wants to attack you doesn't care what time it is or whether you can go through the main entrance." Bai Xing threw away the toy gun in his hand and said to David.

"Your awareness of vigilance is still too low."

"But I want to repair the windows! I need money!"

"Ahem, isn't it just a window? I'll reimburse you later." Bai Xing threw the yellow jacket David usually wore on him, "Put on your clothes and let's go out for training."

At this point, the streets are still empty, and the entire Night City is lifeless. It's time for the prosperity to rest.

Bai Xing and David jogged along the route, which was the first step of training in the past few days.

"Brother Bai, why is it so early today?" After several days of training, David's endurance has improved a lot than before, and he still has time to ask Bai Xing questions while running.

"Because we have special arrangements today."

"Special arrangement?"

"That's right." Bai Xing glanced at David behind him with his peripheral vision and nodded secretly. His face looked normal and his breathing was steady. He was much better than when he first started training.

At that time, David had only run a small distance, and he was as tired as a dead dog.

"This is your final test." Bai Xing continued.

"If you can overcome it, I will take you to meet my companions."

"Don't let me down, David."

"Well, I will definitely pass it. Brother Bai, don't worry." David said confidently.

"It's best that way. By the way, you will be pleasantly surprised when you see them." Bai Xing winked at him.

"Surprise? What surprise?"

"It's a surprise, do you think I would just tell you?"

"Okay, we're here."

The two stopped at the foot of an overpass.

Bai Xing turned around to face David. He stretched out his hand and hooked David, saying:

"Come on, come at me."

"Well..." David stood still and said with a strange expression, "The final test that Brother Bai said is not for me to beat Brother Bai, right?"

"Of course not. You are overthinking it. This is still the second stage of our daily training, just like before."

"Huh... that's good..." David breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. If he really beat Brother Bai, he would probably never pass the test in this life.

In these days of sparring with Brother Bai, David fully realized what is the gap between people.

"Then...I'm going to do it!" David looked at Bai Xing seriously.


Chapter completed!