"This isn't something we should get involved with, it'll cost us our heads!"
Reyes' tone was unusually urgent, even without being face to face, Lin Miao could imagine the other party pacing around the room nervously, running a hand through his hair.
"Any chance you can share a bit of inside information? Just a little would do."
"There's no damn inside information, let me tell you, Wagako, that old hag, definitely wants you dead, otherwise she'd have already pressed on this matter."
"Now you've got me even more interested, could that journalist have stumbled across Huang Ban Meizhi's illegitimate daughter?"
"It's a thousand times worse than that, it's the nastiest gutter of Night City, a corner of the world's rotten epitome. The middleman's identity can't protect you there; before you go down, it's just a money issue with Night City, but after you go down, the only concern between you and them is when you'll die."
The heavier Reyes' tone became, the more curious Lin Miao grew.
