Mercer grabbed V's hand that was pressing on his neck, surrendering before his eyes rolled back: "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!"
Only then did V let go, her face still flushed: "Hurry up and forget about it! Best if you delete all data related to me from your brain! Stop overthinking, you hear?"
"I'm not overthinking... okay, okay, I'll never bring it up again, I promise."
After Mercer finished speaking, V got up from the chair still blushing: "I'm going out for a drink, do you want anything?"
"Coke, iced coke, small one, no Sirius, thank you." Mercer finished speaking, and V left quickly, almost in a rush.
Old Wei arrived late, brushing past her with a teasing comment: "What made her blush so much? What kind of doctor are you?"
"She suspects I'm using my Prosthetic Eye to take pictures... People with intelligence at level 6 just don't get it, they can't comprehend what max-level intelligence means, do I need to take pictures if I want to remember a scene?"
Mercer joked, Victor laughed a bit, but his expression turned serious: "Are you really going to install the remaining stuff?"
"Let's do it, get it over with, I probably won't have time to come back for a while."
Mercer spoke directly, with a determined expression: "You can see it yourself, the previous installations didn't affect me at all... since that's the case, let's go all the way."
"...Hope you don't regret it." Victor sighed.
"Don't forget that I'm also familiar with prosthetic surgery, don't worry, I know what the consequences will be," Mercer said, and Old Wei didn't say much more.
When V came in, Mercer took the coke from her and had a sip: "V, go sit with Qiwei at Misty's place."
"Alright, all mysterious... Old Wei, is he really ugly?" V looked at Old Wei, itching with curiosity.
Wanna see!
Damn, I've shown him everything, and yet I don't even know what he looks like?
It's unfair, unfair!
"Uh, from my personal point of view, he should be considered good-looking." Victor spoke the truth, Mercer's face is youthful but his features are mostly settled, once he loses his childishness, he would definitely be a handsome guy.
"Damn, why are you being so evasive..." V muttered.
Mercer laughed: "How about this, once we finish the biotechnology job, I'll take my mask off in front of you guys, how about that?"
"Do you mean it?" V got excited.
"I mean it." Mercer nodded.
V happily walked out of the clinic, pulling Qiwei who was smoking at the door, and went to Misty's place.
Mercer turned his head and talked to Old Wei: "Old Wei, how much did those two spend?"
"Let me calculate..." Old Wei gave a number: "For those two girls and the surgery fees, just give me 180,000 Euros."
"You're not really making any money off me." Mercer felt a bit ashamed, he had seen Old Wei's purchase prices, and he hadn't made a single penny from prosthetics.
"Alright, I know you're just starting to form a team and need money everywhere." Victor chuckled: "Once you're successful in the future and things are on track, make sure to continue providing me with business."
"Rest assured, Old Wei." Mercer promised: "I can't completely take over your work either."
"Understood, it's just that some girls plan to handle their full-body surgeries themselves, right?" Victor suppressed his laughter: "What's up with you and V? Do you really like her?"
"I've got some feelings, but to say like... it's not that serious, how to put it, just go with the flow."
After Mercer finished speaking, Old Wei shook his head: "In your line of work, I think you should be more proactive, quick and decisive, or you'll be left with regrets... except your face indeed has a bit of a disadvantage."
"I'm a genuine eighteen-year-old! What's wrong with having a youthful face?" Mercer confidently declared.
"Come on, eighteen..." Old Wei scoffed.
"Even if the King of Heaven comes, I'm eighteen, it's written in Night City's registry."
Mercer wasn't ashamed at all.
"Alright, alright, eighteen it is." Old Wei had his equipment ready, his expression turned serious: "The Network Access Vault and Synaptic Accelerator are fine, but with the heat dissipation modification... you'll have to get used to being mechanized.
Then your entire chest cavity will be mechanically structured, with only some skin, some blood vessels being real.
If you want to revert it, that would be troublesome, needing major surgery, reshaping your bones, flesh, and blood vessels.
I've studied it, that thing places quite a burden on your heart, given your small frame, I'm afraid your athletic ability might decrease quite a bit afterward."
"Come on, I'll switch in a secondary heart if necessary, and add the Muscle Enhancement Module on hard," Mercer said indifferently.
"You do need to add some Muscle Enhancement Modules, else your small frame can't house such large heat dissipation, and looking at the design of this heat dissipation, I doubt your original lungs can withstand it, you'll have to replace them with synthetic ones sooner or later."
Old Wei sighed: "That's the surgical plan... take a look, you'll have to remove your entire shoulder and neck, along with the back of your skull...
Then enhance your shoulder, neck, spine with Muscle Enhancement Modules and titanium skeleton, expand your frame and install, your whole person will look a size bigger.
The heat dissipation has to be linked into your heart, lungs... lastly, you'll have to inject coolant.
Otherwise, dissipating heat directly through your bloodstream, the efficiency of heat dissipation would hardly reach the preset indicators of this heat dissipation, unless you want to slightly move your brain, and have to crank up the power of the heat dissipation to the max."
Mercer read through it, and without hesitation, nodded: "Just do it like this, coolant... I've brought an injection anyways, according to the manual, one shot is enough for several months.