The lousy warrior was overjoyed upon hearing this.
"So, does that an if I die enough tis, I might randomly get a handso and manly face like the big bosses?"
Everyone was stunned for a mont, then overjoyed.
"Whoa, isn’t this just like save scumming? Makes sense, huh."
Sotis Lin Miao had to admire these players’ imagination. It was true that appearance was randomly generated, but the existing data could be regenerated, and he was purely worried about resurrected players being recognized by familiar NPCs, which would be hard to explain.
Couldn’t just say they’re twins, right? Otherwise, there would be way too many twins here.
Later on, there’d be triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets.....
Even a fool would know sothing’s not right.
Once the veteran players were resurrected, they were ready for the auction they’d been eagerly anticipating. But they were only auctioning off relatively rare gear, no need to bother with the common gray cybernetics, which could be bought at base price.
This ti, it wasn’t the players enjoying it themselves, but W representing the agency.
Players gathered in the hall, over twenty people filled up the sofa. New players didn’t have points to bid, but that didn’t stop them from gathering around to join in the fun and check out what cybernetic enhancents were about.
After completing the solar power electrification, the projection function of the command table in the hall was also activated.
The table emitted a shimring blue light, projecting a transparent dual-arm cybernetic limb in front of everyone, accompanied by W’s chanical female voice narration.
[Mantis Blade (Green), Combat-style deep cybernetic modification, blade made of high-temperature alloy, engineering plastic sub-fra, excellent strength, motor-driven, cutting force can be amplified to 4KN]
[Special Note: Equipping Mantis Blade requires replacing the entire arm. Skin, muscle, blood vessels, nerves, and bones all undergo high-intensity modifications. Non-player units equipping it may experience immune system rejection, and equipping multiple high-power cybernetics may result in insufficient bioenergy, necessitating additional reinforced core batteries]
[Starting bid 1500, each bid increase no less than 50]
WOW!!!
The mont the item appeared, players exclaid in astonishnt, each of them crowding around the table eager to get a closer look at the details of the cybernetic limb.
"Oh my god, this thing is just too cool, isn’t it?"
"Like Kazi’s arm blade, right? High-temperature alloy should be really tough."
"The details are so realistic, the blade and motor joints even have aging traces."
"Are those red parts bionic muscles? Why didn’t our previous prosthetics have them?"
"They did, but they were called leg-enhanced tendons, you just didn’t look closely."
"They’re selling it for fifteen hundred here, wouldn’t it go for seven or eight thousand if it hit the shelves?"
"Seven or eight thousand? That’s practically the price of two cars."
Players marveled at its design and intricate modeling, as well as its price.
But in reality, this was already the lowest version of a second-hand Mantis Blade. The top-grade items sold in big company cybernetic stores used tungsten-based alloys, elastic tal wire muscles, powered purely by batteries, and could slice through 50mm armor plating in one stroke.
Of course, that kind of price definitely starts in the six figures.
So players were eager to try, while others were indifferent.
For example, Natural Curl wasn’t too impressed with this thing, after all, he had killed the original owner, and if he had extra money, he’d rather make a more useful knife or prosthetic.
But Mantou next to him nudged Natural Curl’s waist with her elbow and whispered
"Buy it."
Natural Curl looked at Mantou, a bit puzzled, "Huh?"
Seeing the Wildman already started bidding in front, Mantou urged anxiously
"Oh co on! I said buy it quickly, whatever the price I’ll pay you in cash or pay you back later."
After saying that, she whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear
"This might help with that main storyline quest. If it doesn’t work out, I can find soone to help, and after it’s done, we split seventy-thirty. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll grind to pay you back."
Main storyline quest...
The new players had been clamoring about it in the back carriage for a long ti, but Natural Curl didn’t pay it any mind, since it didn’t have anything to do with a martial arts school graduate like him.
Brother Ni even cheerfully submitted his design for a recurve compound crossbow, but unfortunately, Lin Miao only hesitated for a mont before rejecting it.
You can’t deny that if actually made, it would indeed be useful and quite powerful, but in Night City gangs, there wouldn’t be much of a market. They’d only buy guns, so it wasn’t worth the investnt.
In no ti, the thing was bid up to 1800.
"Let’s get this straight, I’ve only got 2200 contribution points, if you can’t make it work, even if I have to forge iron, you have to pay back!"
Faced with the urging, Natural Curl reluctantly bid "1900."
He knew full well this thing would most likely end up being disassembled by Mantou if she got it, and if nothing ca of it, he’d be broke.
"Alright, alright, if I can’t pull it off I’ll ask my old dad for help, is that enough?"
Seeing that it was Natural Curl bidding, the others exchanged glances and gave up the idea of competing further.
After all, it was he who carried back their bodies, otherwise those cybernetics would have been a bust, so they might as well do him a favor.
W waited for 15 seconds, when no one else bid, the item fell into Natural Curl’s pocket, and he heaved a sigh of relief, at least he still had 300 points left, enough to exchange for so money or cybernetics.
[Deep Dive Interface (Green): Hacker deep modified cybernetic, essential for entering cyberspace, micron-level neural network connection, 3 implantable plugin slots]
[Special Note: When entering deep dive mode, external perception is blocked, the brain operates at high load, and body temperature increases rapidly, requiring optional equipping of condensation liquid pipeline cybernetic or external water cooling equipnt, substantially increasing network computing while also significantly raising the risk of network attacks, potentially even getting lost in cyberspace]
[Starting bid 1800, each bid increase no less than 50]
"1800!"
Just as W finished speaking, a voice rang out from the crowd, calm yet delicate and soft.
Everyone turned to look around, you looked at , I looked at you, but couldn’t find who was bidding.
Until a petite figure was lifted up by Mantou, then everyone saw the person’s face.
It turned out it was Pandora, who couldn’t squeeze into the crowd and couldn’t see over their heads.
"1800!"
Seemingly afraid others wouldn’t hear, she reiterated.
However, nobody competed with her for hacker equipnt.
Yesterday, Lucy’s outstanding performance had made hackers the center of attention, and everyone was hoping to raise Pandora as their ace.
Compared to the gear, Pandora’s small stature was the real charm.
[Brick Fly (Green): Night Wanderer leader Paul Jones’ modified weapon, originally a Saratoga kinetic submachine gun, magazine capacity 85, .45 caliber]
[Special Note: After modification, the gun’s firing rate and recoil reached a staggering level, without sufficient financial ans or arm strength, choose cautiously]
[Expected 1500, each bid increase no less than 50]
What?
Financial ans?
And it’s BOSS equipnt?
How could Brother Xun stand for that?
He directly outbid everyone with a strong offer of 1700!
There were a few more green-grade cybernetic gear items available afterward, but their starting prices were around 1200, clearly a notch below the earlier ones, but veteran players who had extra cash didn’t hesitate to scoop them up, causing the new players to be green with envy.
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