19: Remember to clean up the battlefield, maybe there is a golden legend there

Fang Yun followed behind V and Toke. He hadn't even taken two steps when the System's notification sound suddenly rang out in his mind:

"Ding! Sufficient elements detected. <Plotline Character Quest: V's Rise to Power·First Ring> has been triggered."

[Quest Type]: Plotline Character Quest

[Quest Name]: V's Rise to Power·First Ring

[Quest Requirement]: Increase V's favorability to 60

[Quest Restriction·Time]: No upper limit

[Quest Restriction·Location]: None

[Quest Restriction·Other]: Ensure V's survival (If V dies, the quest is aborted)

[Quest Reward]: 500 System points, <Plugin: Infinite Magma 1.0>

[Quest Penalty]: None

"Ding! «Module: NPC» has been activated. Currently, the host can view NPC favorability through «Module: NPC»."

The suddenly triggered quest and the activation of the new module caused Fang Yun to unconsciously stop in his tracks.

Fang Yun raised an eyebrow and thought to himself:

"Awesome, V. As expected of the protagonist of the original 2077 plotline. Meeting you for the first time has 'given' me a big gift. Oh, no, it should be two big gifts."

After quickly understanding the relevant information about «Module: NPC» and <Plotline Character Quest: V's Rise to Power·First Ring>, Fang Yun reaffirmed his decision to stay by V's side. ...At least until he had reaped enough benefits, he wasn't planning on leaving.

"From the quest name alone, it's clear this quest is a multi-ring continuous quest. Since it's a multi-ring continuous quest, as the quest's 'ring number' continuously increases, the quest rewards will definitely also continuously increase."

"Compared to single quests, multi-ring continuous quests are naturally even less to be missed."

Although various thoughts were rapidly spinning in Fang Yun's mind, in the real world, only two or three seconds had just passed.

V noticed the footsteps behind him suddenly disappear and couldn't help but turn around in confusion.

Toke saw V's movement and also looked towards Fang Yun with V.

Seeing Fang Yun looking a bit spaced out, V asked in a puzzled tone:

"Fang Yun, let's go get the goods. Why aren't you following? Is something wrong?"

Fang Yun heard V's puzzled words and quickly snapped back to his senses.

Naturally, he couldn't tell V and the others about the System. Fang Yun's mind raced, and he came up with a good excuse.

"Uh, nothing. I just suddenly remembered, it seems we haven't cleaned up the battlefield yet."

"Since we killed those Nightwalkers, why don't we search them and see if there's anything we can sell for money?"

Fang Yun gave some examples:

"For example, weapons, chips, and so on."

V heard Fang Yun's reply, first froze for a moment, then scratched his head and said somewhat awkwardly:

"Fang Yun, you said before that you only recently decided to come to Night City to make a living, right?"

Fang Yun nodded, indicating that what V said was correct.

Seeing this, V showed an "as expected" expression and continued:

"You haven't been to Night City before, so you might not know much. These Nightwalkers who were chasing us aren't very strong, so the stuff on them is probably not worth much."

"I see your strength is quite high, so I thought you wouldn't care for the things on these Nightwalkers."

"Also, Toke and I have been delayed quite a bit with the delivery commission. Since we decided to complete the commission, it's naturally better to start delivering the goods again as soon as possible."

"So, neither of us mentioned cleaning up the battlefield."

V shrugged and showed a slightly teasing smile.

"I didn't expect that a strong person like you would even care for the petty change on these Nightwalkers."

Fang Yun smiled slightly.

"Just think of it as a little personal quirk of mine. If a battle ends and I can't clean up the battlefield and pick up some junk, I'll feel uncomfortable all over."

"Besides, isn't there an old saying? Without accumulating steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without accumulating small streams, one cannot form rivers and seas."

V and Toke had never heard this old saying before, but that didn't prevent them from understanding the meaning contained in Fang Yun's words.

V and Toke both nodded in deep agreement.

Toke said with a look of approval:

"Fang Yun, you're right. I also usually focus on accumulating bit by bit, which was how I was finally able to modify my beloved thunder with heavy armor plates."

"Thanks to the heavy armor plates I modified a few days ago, V and I weren't shot into sieves by the Nightwalkers' bullets."

Fang Yun also chuckled after hearing this and chimed in:

"See, wasn't I right? So, let's first clean up the battlefield and pick up some junk, and then go retrieve the goods. It won't be too late."

V and Toke exchanged glances and felt that since the commission had already been delayed for a while, delaying it a little longer wasn't a big deal.

Moreover, since Fang Yun wanted to clean up the battlefield, they couldn't just stand by and watch, or abandon Fang Yun to get the goods.

So, V and Toke also walked back and started picking up junk with Fang Yun.

Fang Yun glanced at the two unlucky guys he had blown into pieces. Although to normal people, these two piles of minced meat were somewhat difficult to accept, to Fang Yun, they were just slightly disgusting NPC corpses, like Zombie corpses after installing a realistic mod in MC.

So, Fang Yun put his hand into these two piles of minced meat without hesitation and began searching for chips that might not have been blown apart.

"For the people of this world, the things on these Nightwalkers might not be good stuff, but for me, who has the cyberpunk module, even a basic chip can turn into a heaven-defying item that can increase a person's cyberware capacity."

"After all, a normal person's cyberware capacity is innate and cannot be changed through acquired means, and the more cyberware installed, the more the cyberware capacity limit decreases."

Fang Yun continued to grope around while thinking.

"Haha, there are actually a few chips that weren't blown apart."

After searching for a long time, Fang Yun finally found 5 chips: 2 "First Order Chip: Cyberware Capacity Limit +1", 1 "First Order Chip: Shooting Accuracy +1%", and 2 "First Order Chip: Defense +1".

After thinking for a moment, Fang Yun put these 5 chips away for now. He didn't put them in his pocket but in his backpack.

"I'll use them when I've saved up more later, otherwise, increasing by just a little bit at a time isn't very exciting."

(PS: Vehicles like bicycles have 1 storage slot; vehicles like motorcycles have 2 storage slots; vehicles like sports cars, cars, hovercars, etc., have 3 storage slots; vehicles like trucks have 6 storage slots.

If it's "Heavy", the storage slots are doubled; if it's "Cargo", the storage slots are doubled.

Fang Yun had previously put some items from his person into the storage slots of the "thunder", so he currently has space on him to store chips.)