As we walked we could feel the cool yet somehow hot wind blow on our faces, from the corner of my eye I can see Aqua trying to hide her disgust at the various smells that the wind is carrying.
According to her, this world was hanging at the edge when we arrived, and even if she is doing her best to deal with the problems it has there's no way of knowing if she can bring it back before the situation gets any worse.
Night City is supposed to be a place that's independent of every government and because in this world corporations control everything, one would imagine that it would be a place where everything is well maintained and looks practically new.
Anyone that imagines this is wrong.
The streets are broken everywhere, a person can turn in one direction or another and they will see trash and abandoned cars wherever they look.
The only clean and well-maintained areas of the city are where the rich live and even there I wouldn't even think about calling it safe.
If it's not someone that's working for a corporation that's doing something they shouldn't, it's someone they hired that's killing or- manipulating or blackmailing someone to do something that they normally wouldn't.
When we first managed to get our apartment and I bought the wrist computer and tablet, I began to look through the internet so that I could find out what happened.
Aqua for her part connected to the heavens and from what she said there used to be gods in this world, just like there were gods in my world.
Just like the ones in my world, the gods stayed out of the everyday lives of people and only kept things working, but something happened and something forced the gods to flee.
What I found out wasn't anything good either, most if not all of the world is in ruins and there are almost no animals left and those that are left are so rare that people are willing to pay millions for them.
According to Aqua, she had already taken care of that problem.
Worms and insects that ate away plastic and helped decompose all of the chemicals that ruined the world were being born and when they died they would help feed whatever animals were left so that the next generation would be stronger than those that gave birth to them.
But it would be years before anyone would see anything change, she even said that there were a lot of seeds that were still alive but that none of them would begin to grow until the ground was ready.
It's hard to believe but with all of the amazing technology and familiar architecture, this world this city is an odd mixture of our earth and Erise's world.
Aloud explosions makes us look up to the freeway and I pull Aqua aside, as I pull her away from the falling car she drops her crate of water, and as we both land on the ground we see what looks like an eighteen-wheeler burning.
The two of us watch as one of the flying ambulances that belong to the trauma team flies down and checks on someone that landed on one of the abandoned cars.
I don't know about Aqua but I didn't notice that someone had landed on the car until the paramedics showed u.
"She's not one of our policyholders, leave her." I hear the paramedic say before they fly back up to the freeway before stopping and flying away.
I watch as Aqua runs toward the person's body while completely ignoring the burning truck.
'Kazuma it's Gloria!" Aqua screamed and she begins to heal Gloria's injuries.
Because there are cameras everywhere, whenever Aqua or I use one of our skills we either make the screen on the wrist computer or the screen of the tablet begin to change colors, that way if anyone records us or sees us they just think that we have some sort of implant that lets us do what we do.
"That's enough, the guy that hired us is a doctor so let's get her there so no one asks any questions." I say to Aqua as I look around thankfully I don't see anyone, but that doesn't mean that there aren't cameras or drones watching.
I watch as Aqua picks up and empties all of the water bottles that she dropped when I pulled her.
As a rule, we both make sure that everyone that buys them from us either drinks them in front of us or the person\ persons that buy them from that person drinks them in front of us.
Because of what the water inside those bottles can do, if a single one gets to someone that works for a corporation it would end up putting a huge target on our backs, one that we will never be able to escape from.
I hand my create to Aqua before I pick up Gloria's unconscious body and we begin to run towards the doctor's location.
the doctor's office inside what looks like an old theater building.
The man opens the door before we are even able to knock on it.
He stares at us and miles.
"This makes things easier for me" he says to us as he points at one of the empty beds.
I lay Gloria down and turn to look at the doctor, but before we can ask anything the man points at a giant crate that's on the floor.
"Open it." he says to me and I watch as Aqua opens it.
as the lid on the crate opens I notice that there's a sleeping woman inside.
"Here's the deal, I fix your friend free of charge, no implants but I get her stable and make sure she lives."
'In exchange you take her." he says to us.
'What?" I ask the doctor.
"Long story short, this girl exposed the reason my little brother died, the corpos brought her back after she died."
'I found her before they were going to make her pay for what she did, but they are getting closer and I can't hide her anymore."
"I fix your friend, you deal with her."
"She has no memory of who or what she was, but I managed to teach her everything she needs to know and she still has all of her implants," he says to us.
I look at Aqua before I turn to look at Gloria, and back at the sleeping woman.
'She was the merchandise you want us to move isn't she?" I ask the doctor.
'The job was for you guys to take her and open the crate in some alley, and hopefully, she would start over, but here's an opportunity for all of us."
"You two take her under your wings and fix your friend and before you say that I'm asking too much."
'I'll even find the three of you some jobs, can't say that they will be safe but is anything in this city safe." he says to us.
'Deal." Aqua says to the doctor and as much as I want to say no, we owe Gloria a lot, it was her that helped us get the apartment and our IDs.
"Deal." I said to the doctor who walks up to the sleeping woman and injects something into her.
We watch as she lets out a mall moan before she opens her eyes
