Chapter 64 Pie in the sky is not as good as equal exchange

"Let's wait until next time. Lucy is still waiting for me in the car."

Li Ang shook his head and declined. Apart from taking care of important tasks in the company, he had been accompanying Lucy to watch the Mewtwo videotape on the Moon. Fortunately, his body could still handle it.

"Okay, it seems I'm not the only one who has fallen in love!" Misty teased Leon with a smirk on her face.

Soon, after waving goodbye to Leon, Misty began to examine the chip in her hand carefully. She was in the psychic hut all day and couldn't go anywhere, so this thing seemed a bit useless to her.

The only benefit may be that when you are sick, you can go to a medical center to get free treatment and have most of your medical expenses reimbursed.

"What a pity. I don't like fighting. I might as well give it to Jack."

Misty muttered quietly.

"Baby, fight with whoever you want. If you have any trouble, come to me to settle it."

At some point, Jack Wells arrived at the bar of the psychic cabin. He gave Misty an ambiguous look and said, "Miss me, baby."

Misty responded in her mind, "I've been thinking about it," but verbally she said, "No, you come to my place twice in three days. You come here more often than the customers who come to me for divination."

"Hey! That's because I think about you every day."

Jack expressed his love to Misty very openly, and then curled his lips at the annoying light bulb V and said, "Come in, V. Misty and I have a private chat. I'll be waiting for you outside."

V was too lazy to watch the two of them showing affection in front of him. After saying hello to Misty, he walked straight into Victor's prosthetic clinic.

Lao Wei's clinic is no different from before. It is still located at the back door of Misty's psychic house. The walls are still covered with graffiti, plastic garbage, and some unknown electronic limbs.

Of course, those useless prosthetic limbs were replaced from the guests. Victor would not be like those bastards in the scavengers who were obsessed with prosthetic devices on people.

"Hey! Lao Wei, what are you busy with?"

When V walked into the room, he happened to see Victor fiddling with his boxing video tape. It seemed that his arrival happened to coincide with Victor's break time.

"V, it's you. How have you been recently?" Victor greeted regular customers as usual.

"Overall, it's not bad. After all, with Jack, you, and Misty here, I live a happy life every day. But I came here today because I want to trouble you."

After chatting with Victor for a while, V directly explained his purpose to the other party and told Victor that he was suspected of being infected with a neural virus.

"Neural virus? That's not common."

Victor was a little surprised. Nowadays, most people would conduct self-examinations, and conventional anti-virus software would have been able to completely eliminate non-lethal common neural viruses.

What's more, Sandra Dorsett, who was rescued by V, is not an ordinary person. She is a member of the Night Company and a platinum member of the trauma team.

For an upper-class corporate dog like this, the possibility of being infected with the neurovirus is almost zero, let alone transmitting the virus to V.

I'm afraid there is another reason!
"V, are you sure you haven't eaten anything wrong recently, or connected to some illegal Black Mewtwo? You need to think about this carefully."

Victor asked again just to be cautious.

"Will not."

V shook his head and said with certainty: "I have had this strange reaction since I finished this job. I can guarantee that it is the problem of that woman." "Of course, it may not be a neurological virus. If it is something else, I can't handle it alone, so I can only trouble you."

After hearing this, Victor already had a rough idea in his mind. He guessed what V was infected with, but he couldn't be 100% sure without a thorough scan and examination.

"V, lie down first. I'll give you a thorough checkup. You'll be fine with me here."

"Thank you, Old Wei."

After saying that, V obediently lay down on the operating table, allowing Victor to connect to the computer device using the cable on his wrist.

"I'm using the latest self-checking system from LA. Their antivirus software is military grade. Not to mention neural viruses, even AI can detect them."

Victor was typing away on the keyboard while chatting with V to relax himself.

"Old V, what is your impression of LA company, or what do you think of Mr. Li Ang?" V asked curiously.

Although he gets along with Jack Wells, Misty, and Victor like old friends, V has actually only been in Night City for less than three months.

As for the extent of his knowledge of this city, V could even be said to know nothing about it. After all, he had spent the first half of his life as a wanderer making a living in the bad land outside the city.

"LA Company? It's a pretty good weapons company. Although the guns they made have killed many people, you can see that the new Watson District was built with 'gunfire and hail of bullets'."

"Half a year ago, Watson's unemployment rate was quite high, and there were wandering warriors and hungry mercenaries everywhere. Now LA has driven these people to the factory, providing them with food, accommodation, two days off a week, and even paying for the medical insurance of the trauma team."

At this point, Victor seemed to remember something funny and burst out laughing.

"I heard that many Arasaka office workers couldn't stand the pressure of work and went to the LA company's assembly line to screw in screws. He said that this is the job people should do."

V couldn't help but shook his head with laughter. He had heard that the employees of Arasaka, Petrochemical, and Military Technology drank coffee and took drugs 24 hours a day to stay energized.

The purpose is to keep themselves at their posts all the time, working day and night, and working until they are exhausted, before letting the employees go and replacing them with another one.

In the eyes of most companies, employees are like screws that never stop working. Once they can no longer create value, they should be discarded and replaced with something else.

But employees are also human beings and they also need rest.

"Old Wei, from what you said, it seems that LA Company is a business started by a big philanthropist? Is it really that exaggerated?"

V asked half-jokingly.

Victor just shook his head after hearing this. "No, V, LA is not doing charity. It just gives employees the rights and fairness they deserve, that's all."

"In other words, this company treats its employees as human beings, but this alone makes it much better than any company you've ever seen in Night City."

"For ordinary people, the dream of getting rich overnight or having a pie in the sky is not as good as a genuine exchange of equal value."

“Do as much work as you are paid, rather than doing the same heavy work as cattle and horses while receiving only enough money to feed ants.”

"V, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)