There is an old saying that goes, there is only one road worth taking in Night City, and that is the road to afterlife.

As long as you are a mercenary, once you step through this threshold, everything in Night City will open up to you sooner or later.

As a bar and club, Next Life is no less than the heart of Night City's mercenary circle. All the famous top mercenaries and first-class middlemen will come here to relax or discuss an important business.

This place does the biggest business in Night City, and has the most zeros in contract compensation.

When you come here, you can see all kinds of big names, such as the legendary middleman Roger, the most outstanding broker in Night City Dexter Deshawn, and the guy who once drank with Morgan Blackhand...

Of course, everything is based on a prerequisite, which is that your reputation on the street must be loud enough.

Otherwise, even if you walk to the door of the afterlife, you will be turned away.

As the most legendary top mercenary in the past six months, Vincent is naturally qualified.

After receiving the news from Watson District middleman Regina Jones, he quickly gathered the team that night.

That's right, just as the old policeman said, after half a year of being a lone wolf, Vincent began to miss the days when he partnered with his good brother Jack Wilson.

So, in order to continue working with his good brothers, he specially formed a team.

As for the members of the team, naturally, he should choose those roles that he is familiar with.

Coincidentally, the current Night City is the year 2076, and the characters in the anime "Edgewalker" are still alive.

Vincent thought about it and simply went straight to Mann and recruited them using the famous title of Night City's Living King of Hell.

When they first met V, Mann and his team members were excited.

That cyber loli Rebecca even asked Vincent for an autograph in person.

But later, after hearing Vincent's request, Mann and his team began to hesitate.

After all, although V’s name is famous, he is a lone wolf, and once the team is incorporated, the position of the boss will change.

Lucy, Rebecca, Dolio, Qiwei, Pira, Falco...

These team members are used to Mann making the decisions, and they all agree with Mann as a leader.

At this time, someone suddenly jumped out and said, "Just make it up with me." Even if this person was the famous V, they would definitely not agree immediately.

Vincent put in a lot of effort to completely recruit this team.

Sharing the channels for obtaining prosthetics, customizing military-grade prosthetics, introducing them to the most powerful middlemen in Night City, taking them to the Afterlife bar to see the world, and defeating cyberpsychopaths in a one-on-one fight right in front of them...

He used all kinds of tricks such as giving them sweet treats and flexing his muscles, and only then did he succeed in conquering them.

Of course, to say that it has been conquered is a bit of a stretch.

It should be said that they all saw the bright prospects after joining Vincent's team, so the whole team jumped ship.

After dealing with Mann's team, Vincent set his sights on David Martinez, the protagonist of the anime "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker".

Although this guy is young, he has extraordinary physical talents and can withstand many powerful prosthetics in laboratories.

The most rare thing is that he is one of the few pure love fans in Night City, which allows his prosthetic body's endurance to reach a new level.

If you want to ask what the relationship is between the two, then I can only say that love is the highest level inhibitor in Night City...

In the original anime, David eventually died under Arasaka Tower and became the youngest legend of Night City.

Although his most legendary deed was just his death at the hands of Adam Hammer, which is completely incomparable to V's single-handed battle at Arasaka Tower, V is the protagonist of the game after all, the most special existence in Night City.

As long as he is eliminated, David in the later period is indeed one of the top mercenaries in Night City.

So, Vincent decided to recruit David as his younger brother in advance.

It just so happened that David's mother Gloria often traded illegal prosthetics with Mann, and Vincent used this connection to find David's family's contact information and home address.

But unfortunately, when Vincent came to him, David was already having his worst day.

His mother Gloria was seriously injured in a street gang fight, and he himself was bullied by his classmates. He is now extremely confused about the future and the world.

In the original book, David's mother was sent to an underground clinic at this time, but because they had no money, they could only choose the cheapest medical package.

Naturally, David's mother's life could not be saved and she was sent directly for cremation with the cheapest package.

When David returned to the clinic again, what he saw was a jar of cold ashes.

He didn't even get to see his mother for the last time, and was clearly arranged by this cyber society...

It was precisely because of this experience that David's ignorant anger and rebelliousness were aroused, leading him to the path of a marginal walker.

But in this world, the powerful and reliable Uncle V appeared in front of him in time.

As a time traveler who has watched the anime, Vincent feels that there is something fishy about the death of David's mother. He believes that the doctor might be in collusion with the scavenger, and after curing David's mother, he took the opportunity to sell her prosthetic body.

Thinking of this, Vincent kicked open the iron door without saying a word, and rushed into the clinic of the underground cyborg doctor with David.

Sure enough, the cyborg doctor was standing next to the operating table, bargaining with a group of scavengers over the phone.

David stood outside the operating room and heard the entire conversation between the cyborg doctor and the scavenger, and endless anger surged in his chest.

Seeing this scene, Vincent not only did not stop him, but also handed him a pistol.

David took it without hesitation and pointed it at the cyborg doctor's head through the glass.

Just as he was filled with anger and was about to pull the trigger, a trace of hesitation suddenly arose in his heart.

Vincent did not urge or persuade David with words. He just smiled and patted his shoulder, took the gun from his hand, and then raised it without looking up and decisively pulled the trigger.

“Bang!”

With a gunshot, the cyborg doctor was killed on the spot.

Vincent stuffed the pistol into David's arms, smiled and said you're welcome, then called Mann and others outside the door, took David's mother away from the operating table, and urgently sent her to the clinic of Victor, 'V's godfather'.

David stared blankly at Vincent's back as he walked out of the clinic into the sunshine, and an indescribable desire and impulse rose in his heart.

——He wants to be someone like V!

So, David dropped out of Arasaka Academy and joined Vincent's team.

To this day, he is still the little fan who adores Vincent the most in the team.

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In the evening, Night City begins to become restless.

In the lower Watson District, at the dim staircase leading to the Afterlife Bar, the roar of engines came from far away.

The two burly men in charge of security turned around, and Gao Gaoyi's eyes flashed with streams of data as he scanned the three expensive silver-gray Type 66 Avengers coming in front.

After the scan was completed, the two men looked at each other and regained their composure.

Soon, three silver-gray Avengers stopped at the door of the Afterlife Bar.

Vincent opened the car door and got out with the burly man in the passenger seat.

“Boom boom boom—”

Vincent knocked on the window of the car next to him. After the window was rolled down, he looked at his companion in the car and whispered:

"It's the same as before. Jack and I will go in, and you guys stay outside. If anything happens, get out of the car and take care of it immediately!"

Including Vincent and Jack Wilson, the team consists of nine people in total.

Unless you have a large truck, two cars will definitely not be able to fit it.

So generally speaking, Vincent, Jack and David are in one car, and Mann, Pyrrha, Rebecca and Dolio are in another.

Falco is a former homeless man with the best driving skills in the team. He usually rides in the same car with two hackers, Lucy and Qiwei.

At this time, sitting in the back seat of Mann's car were Rebecca and Pira, a pair of funny siblings.

Rebecca is a very rare cyberloli among mercenaries. Her whole body is highly prosthetic, her skin has been modified to light blue, and her eyes are colorful like anime characters.

At this moment, she was holding a lollipop in her mouth, with her hands behind her head and her legs on the passenger seat. She glanced at Vincent and Jack at the car window and said carelessly, "Boss, it's not that serious!"

"This is the afterlife, who dares to cause trouble here?"

Pyrrha beside him chuckled, put his arm around his sister's shoulder and said, "You don't know this, right? The boss isn't afraid of something happening to him in his next life, he's afraid of something happening to him in his next life!"

"Alright, you two!"

Mann glanced at them in the rearview mirror, then turned to Vincent and nodded.

"Don't worry, Boss."

"You are still reliable!"

Vincent patted Mann's shoulder with emotion, then turned and walked towards the entrance of the Afterlife Bar.

Jack smiled and bumped fists with Mann, then turned around and followed Vincent.

At the same time, David got out of the car and walked over quickly.

“Hey, hey, hey!” Vincent grabbed his arm and said unhappily, “Didn’t I tell you that I will go in with your brother Jack, and you stay outside to support us.”

"But……"

Before David could finish, Jack smiled and put his arm around David's shoulders, whispering, "Don't worry, there's still one person missing in Falco's car, you should go in and protect Lucy... This is an opportunity that the brothers have specially reserved for you, you must seize it!"

As he said this, Jack chuckled and winked at him.

David was a little embarrassed for a moment, and he stammered, "I, I don't have that intention towards her."

Jack patted David on the shoulder with his big hand and laughed, "Come on, you like Lucy, everyone can see it!"

"If you ask me, if you love someone, you should express it boldly. If you keep it hidden like this, if you die one day, won't you regret it for the rest of your life?"

David was stunned.

Vincent glared at Jack unhappily, then smiled and patted David on the shoulder: "Go."

After saying that, Vincent turned around, took a step forward, and walked up the stairs at the entrance of the Afterlife Bar with Jack.

David stared at the two men's backs in a daze, then looked back at the car Lucy was in, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and took a step forward.