After Mercer finished speaking, Johnny Silverhand scoffed disdainfully, "I never asked anyone to save me."
As he spoke, he was getting familiar with his limbs, "Are you guys going to Rebirth? Then take me along, I need to meet with Rogue and see what the current situation is."
Mercer just nodded casually at this, "Then kill some time yourself. After we have dinner, we'll take you to Rebirth.
This robot is equipped with basic brain-computer interface functions, you can get familiar with it, make phone calls, browse videos online, no problem. The rest, you figure it out on your own."
After speaking, Mercer actually turned around and left. The others, except for Jack, who stayed friendly, offered to show Silverhand around Dog Town and explain the current situation in Night City to him.
The rest quickly tidied up, ready to go have dinner, change clothes, and wait for a night out at Rebirth.
Dinner at Mercer's home was still settled with the four of them together: Rebecca, Lucy, and V. Because they had been together for so long, they were already used to living like family.
Even though the relationship with Mercer had changed at this moment, leading to some awkwardness and complexity in their hearts, their feelings for each other didn't suddenly dissipate.
V prepared a big Chinese meal today, and at the table, Rebecca ate sweetly while curiously asking, "How do you plan to handle the company stuff? Forming a gang like in Dog Town, we can help with that, but really transitioning to a company..."
She thought for a moment, then just chuckled, "Then I guess I'd just have to freeload off you!"
"There won't be too much change. The Netherworld Dog will be directly integrated into the company structure, and you'll likely be given a position like operations leader or task force captain. You can go to work if you want or just slack off if you don't want to go, same as now."
Mercer said while eating, turning to look at V and Lucy, "As for V, my thought is to keep V as my bodyguard, like Takemura or Arasaka Saburo's role, handling some important field assignments."
V didn't mind, replying nonchalantly, "I'm not interested in doing anything else, just pay me more."
"Of course... As for Lucy, just take a departmental head position in the network tech department. Anyway, most network work will be handled by Venus later, so the work pressure won't be too heavy."
After Mercer spoke, Lucy had no objections, just nodded and said softly, "So it's similar to my current work, mainly responsible for debugging servers and other hardware and software?"
"Right, later it might involve checking operations like the Sky Net System."
At this point, Mercer got interested, and shared his vision for the company with them, "In the future, the company will prioritize unmanned equipment, network services, and intelligence data analysis as our main operational goals.
We will expand our technological advantage in unmanned equipment as much as possible to capture the market.
Additionally, we should have our own cyberware development department and weapons development department, these will also become one of our main revenue pillars for the company..."
"Alright, don't talk about these things during dinner..." V interrupted Mercer, giving him a discontented look, "Don't bring work to the dining table."
"Okay~" Mercer elongated his tone, then under V's gaze, winked at her and changed the topic, "In short, we first make money, expand the market, accumulate strength, and prepare for company wars to come...
Apart from company matters, actually, what I most want to change first is this city."
Sitting at the dining table, Mercer turned his head to see the scenery outside the window, Dog Town and Taiping Prefecture.
The scenery outside the window was still somewhat dilapidated, even though this was already the most luxurious place in Dog Town.
He never forgot why he initially named his squad Fire Seed.
Before, he was just forced by livelihood, merely to solve the immediate crisis, busying himself so much that Mercer had no time to care about other things.
But now, Mercer finally got rid of the fear of crisis that always followed him like a shadow. Finally, he can slow down and slowly change this city.
The first step...
Let's start with this small Dog Town and this small Taiping Prefecture.