Watch Dogs - The Book

Hope is a sad thing

"Pawnee. Soda pop and apple pie. Yeah, this small-town charm is bullshit. Most of it is refugees from the city. Still hiding from something. I used to bring Jacks and Lena here once in a while to fish. We never caught a single one, they never seemed to care. Yeah, some of my best memories are from here. And my worst. Ray's last known signal came from that marina. It's too easy to expect he's there. But It's a start." I said to myself.
I hacked the computer and traced Kenny's signal.
"Kenny bounced through a ctOS center. Looks like he's still in the game. That would explain why he chose Pawnee- he's sticking to Blume in their own backyard." I said to myself, heading towards the ctOS tower.
"Sattelite dishes. This looks like an abandoned ctOS station. The power's still up. Kenny must have piggy-backed all of this."
I got in and underground through a tunnel and hacked the main server there. I intercepted a recording in which what it seemed to be Raymond Kenny talking to another guy that owned a bar called "Jedediah's Bar". They both laughed hard and Kenny seemed to be drunk.
" So Jed is the owner of Jedediah's Bar. I hope I catch the man sober." I said to myself ,heading towards there.
I entered the bar and saw Jed.
"I was hoping you could help me. I'm looking for Ray Kenny." I asked.
"Never heared of him." said Jed.
"Hope is a sad thing." said a man in his 50s, looking kind of strong, that stayed at a nearby table alone drinking something.
"What are you drinking?" I asked.
Jed came with two glasses and a bottle and put the drink in both glasses.
"Pay the man. $100. Cash." said the older guy.
"Well I'm not a cash kind of guy." I said.
"This is going on your tab." said Jed towards him.
I had a seat and asked that guy:
"What do you know about Raymond Kenny.."
"Drink." said the guy, pointing towards the bottle.
We had a couple of glasses.
"What did you say that name was again?" asked the guy.
"Raymond Ken.." I said, but in a second he punched me hard in the face and I fell on the phone. Then he just took me and pushed me through the window and I fell outside.
"You're going to pay for that, T-Bone!" said Jed.
I tried to get up, but I couldn't finish because that guy kicked me again.
"You owe the man a hundred dollars." said the guy, pointing towards the broken window.
I tried to punch him but he managed to defend and hit me again. I pushed him hard and took my telescopic baton. Just when I thought I imobilized him, saying "Hello, Ray.", he took out his electric pistol and electrocuted me, falling unconscious.

I woke up in his room. I sae him watching me. In the background there was a news report about me at the TV.
" Now that the introductions are out of the way.." I said.
"Listen to me, pal. I'm warning you. Your being here puts me on the goddamned map." turned Raymond towards me, firmly.
"I have some information."
"Well ain't you special."
"The problem is I can't decrypt it. So I came to the source." I continued.
"Shit. Then you *have* put me on the goddamn map." said Raymond, nervous.
"We've been careful."
"We? You better give me a reson. Because that isn't making us the best of friends." said Raymond, pointing towards the TV. The news read "Aiden Pearce wanted."
"Someone ordered a hit on me. It cost my niece her life. But whatever is in those files will lead me to them. I'm going to find him with or without yoy. But with you would be a hell a lot easier."
"Let's play make a deal. You think I'm in this dust bowl because of the ambiance? Ever since them bastards from Blume terminated me, I've been trying to find a way back in. All I need is someone to drop some spyware inside their network." said Raymond.
"If it were that easy you'd have done it long time ago."
"Hey, if it was fucking hard I would have done it a long time ago. It's impossible for me to even get at the perimeter without setting their alarm off. The place has my biometric profile. I got fillings in my head that sing to their security team direct."
"I can help you with that. But afterwards... You're going to come with me to Chicago."