Once they had left, I was wandering the halls, looking for something to do. Chad was walking by, and he came up to me. My phone rang and it was not a number that I knew. I answered it anyway. "What's cooking, good looking? You think I'd ignore you if you came to my town!?" the voice said. That made me do a double take. "Who is this?" I asked. "You don't know me, but I know you really well. My friends and I really want to meet you. I will send you the addresses." the voice said before hanging up the phone. I got a text from the number next. They were all in Micropolis. I sighed deeply. I had no clue what was going on, but I had to get to the bottom of this. Chad looked at me and asked what was wrong. I told him about the call and he looked concerned. "What are you going to do?" he asked. I looked at him. "We are going to go to Micropolis. We have to figure out who these people are and if they are a threat to us. It is very important." Chad nodded. We went to the cab depot and I let him drive a cab over to the first destination. When we got there, it was a simple 2 story turquoise house.
Going up to the door, we saw that the door was already open. I gave Chad a gun. He took it silently. We went inside together. I did not want Chad to be caught totally unawares. He was pretty weak and flimsy because of how he was made. It was not his fault and I did not hold it against him. Once we were inside, the door shut behind us and locked. We were not leaving here until we figure out what was going on. Going further, we saw the living room was occupied. Someone was using a very large rig apparatus for deep diving into the web facing away from us. I could tell that it was an NPC. The person took off the headset. "Oh. Syrios said you'd be here." a masculine voice said. I walked over and put the gun in his face. I said "Who the hell is Syrios!? We don't have all fucking day! Hurry up!" He began to panic. "Woah woah woah! I'm too young to die! Hold on now! No need to be hasty!" he said. I glared at him. "I got a random call today saying that people knew about me. That's a bit scary for me. Tell me what you know!" I yelled at him as I pushed the gun against his forehead. He broke down.
Crying was not going to get me to stop interrogating him. "Tell me what's going on or I'm putting a bullet between your fucking eyes!" I demanded. He was still upset and sniffled. At least the sobs were done with. He said "We run a small guild! We do some hacking and reprogramming. Syrios saw you when you were last in town and we did some netrunning on you. It seems you hand out with a lot of cyborgs. The Red Grind is one of the hottest spots to meet one. You can even fuck them for a cheap price!" he got out. The fact that the Red Grind was compromised was a problem. I would have to tell Paul and Brett about it. "How do people know about it!? We keep it under wraps." I asked. He flinched as I still had my gun in his face. "They don't get fully undressed, even in the backrooms for sex. That's already suspicious. And the rumor is that the service is inhuman. Those rumors spread on the net." he said. So it was just dweebs on the internet talking shit. No wonder neither the government nor the anti-cyborg syndicates have not been breaking down our doors. They were true though.
