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V sat in a cramped netrunner chair in Kabuki, the air thick with the smell of scorched circuit boards and stale synth-coffee. They had just slotted a "black market" language module—a custom Codex-grade translation layer—promised to decode encrypted Arasaka transmissions from the old Soviet sub-nets. cyberpunk 2077 language packcodex
Jax blinked. "What the hell?"