Finishing the lower city?

I loaded from a older save, and went to the gun dealer at the bottom of the Hung Hua Hotel. He didn't have a pistol I could buy, so I bought a machine pistol. Then when I got to where the hacker was, I found a machine pistol in one of the pods! Damn, wasted some money. Anyway, when the time came I gave him the machine pistol. I hope that turns into a benefit for me later!

After dying a few more times, I was able to get out of the Alice Gardens building. On the way out, I was able to get a pistol and I used the armor-piercing mod on it. That gun does a ton of damage! Pretty sweet. I have too many weapons and not enough inventory space :(


At this point I can go to the TYM shuttle to move on, but I decided to finish up the side quests before that. I'm not sure if I will be coming back to this part of China after I get into the TYM building.


First I did the quest for Malik. I went to the limb clinic and found the guy. He met me outside and gave me the report I needed. Then the guy said I am suppose to pay 1000 for it! Malik never said I was going to have to pay, so I refused to give him any money. The dude said "you'll regret this!" so I am curious if that will hurt me later.


Next I had to go to the apartment of the guy we are investigating. I found the clues of the baseball bat, the computer, and the old clock. Malik sent me to The Hive to find the guy, hoping we could get him to confess to me while trying to bribe my silence. I had a few conversation options and was able to complete the quest that way. What happens if I choose the wrong options? Or does it just keep me there until I say the right thing? I am looking forward to beating this game and playing it again.


After Lee confesses to killing his girlfriend, Malik is able to hack the big display screens on the front of The Hive. Now they show pictures of Lee and show that he is a murderer. I think Malik is hoping someone will just kill Lee. Pretty awesome. Malik is a total badass.


While in The Hive, I talked to the bartender on the lower level. He had a side quest available, but I decided not to take it. I'm kinda bored with this part of town. Also, there are a lot of security guards everywhere in the city, so it won't be easy to get things done now. I should have talked to him earlier and done his quest then. I was trying to hack into a storage shed outside the Alice Gardens and the cops started shooting at me! This city has too much heat, so I'm not going to start anything new.


The last quest was to find the kidnapped prostitute. I was hoping that some option would come up by now so that I wouldn't have to pay 2000 to that one guy on the roof of the hotel. I broke down and looked at the strategy guide on GameFAQs to see if I had missed anything. It said I had to pay the guy or get the persuasion augmentation. I didn't have the Aug, so I will have to pay the guy. Luckly, the guide said I can just knock him out after paying and get my money back off his body. Sweet! I didn't even think of that! So that's what I did.


The info from the guy lead to me a storage locker guarded by three gangsters. I had some trouble taking these guys out. I tried to use my tranq gun to put them to sleep from a distance, but I couldn't get anything to hit. My tranq gun back in Detroit had some king of aiming mod, but this one is just standard. So I ended up just getting into a firefight with these guys. My revolver has a lazer sight, so I moved a box over to the area for cover and just shot them all.


After freeing the girl, a second quest became available. I have to kill the pimp who runs the hotel. I find his apartment and knock him out. The quest is completed by dropping his body off the roof so it looks like he committed suicide. I was moving the fridge in his apartment, looking for extra items, and I accidentally dropped it on the guy! He died and I lost the quest! Hahaha. So I had to load a save and do it over again. I finished the quest and got paid 2000 for the hit. Not bad. I now have enough to buy a praxis kit at the LIMB clinic. I'll do that and then get on the shuttle.