Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 106 Be Yourself (thanks to ADKiss)

Arasaka Tower.

Tang Yu took the public elevator back to the 33rd floor.

"It's finally over"

He abruptly stayed in Michiko's office for most of the day, and only returned to the department at this point. If he hadn't made an appointment with David for lunch, he would have planned to go home directly.

In any case, we must find out the truth about the special assistant Sasha, and go to Lao Wei as soon as possible.

"The 33th floor is here."

Hearing the elevator prompt, Tang Yu stepped out and came to the lobby of the Counter Intelligence Department.

The front desk immediately stood up and reminded that there were visitors waiting. Tang Yu waved his hand to indicate that he was not free today.

When he passed the office area, he immediately felt a strange gaze, and then looked sideways.

He noticed that the colleagues in the office area all looked away, and continued to work pretendingly.

Obviously, after I was invited away by Michiko's bodyguards, this group of subordinates who are free to gossip must have had a heated discussion about something.

It is not the first time that Tang Yu knows about their little Jiujiu. The most important thing in the counterintelligence department is intelligence.

Any trouble in the company, as long as the counterintelligence department is willing, they can find a way to find out what is worthy of their gossip, even what color and style Susan Abernathy is wearing today.

The core of the intelligence department is information exchange. In layman's terms, it is a gathering place for gossip, where you can hear a lot of strange content.

The ethos of the department cannot be reversed by Tang Yu alone, and he also acquiesced in the gossip of his subordinates, mixing the true and the false to better conceal people's eyes and ears.

After Tang Yu scanned them around, he continued to walk towards his office.

After Tang Yu left, the colleagues in the office area raised their heads again, looked in the direction Tang Yu left, and confirmed that Tang Yu had gone far, and then they all breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately started whispering.

David also saw Tang Yu who had returned to the ministry, and thought that he should be able to invite him to lunch later, if nothing else disturbed him.

He found that the colleagues around him began to gossip and discuss again. He felt that he was not hungry anymore, so he quickly listened to their chat and gossip. Listening is an important ability for intelligence collection.

"Do you know that the meeting has actually been over for a while, and just now other departments sent news back, saying that the board of directors had a lot of quarrels this time."

"Didn't our Boss Tang be invited by the superiors this morning? Since the meeting is over, why did it take so long to come back?"

"It's the same as last time, except that two bodyguards have been changed. Is it really the relationship we guessed?"

"Impossible, they all have husbands, so they don't get along with Boss Tang at all."

"Age and relationship are not a problem. You can even change your job. There is nothing you can't do with your husband. Besides, you have seen a few women who are strong, but men who are weak can last forever."

"It's true, I haven't heard from her husband for a long time, but to be honest, apart from her high status, there is really nothing that can match Boss Tang."

"I also agree with this. The original face is still noble, otherwise why do those rich and powerful spend so much time on maintaining it?"

When David heard them chatting, he felt like he had opened the door to a new world.

Can this be discussed casually?

Is this something he, David, can listen to casually?

Under the bullshit rhetoric of his colleagues, David, who had never even held a girl's hand, felt extremely embarrassed and shy.

However, David held back his blushing, and still tried his best to hear the result. Could it be that Mr. Tang really communicated with higher-ups, or was it some kind of unspeakable relationship?

"But it's not good to get too close to her. After all, that person really came from Kyoto. Who knows how the wind will change."

"That's true. To be honest, Boss Tang has a cold temper, but he usually manages us less. Although it is not good, he is much better than other department heads."

"That's right, don't think about it. This is a company. If the supervisor really treats me well, I'm probably scared to death. Who knows what kind of errands he has arranged for you."

"The case of Carter Smith, oh, it's just his bad luck. After so many years of suffering, he was killed. Otherwise, there will still be some chances if we wait."

Hearing them talk about Carter Smith, David couldn't help but think of Tang Yu who met Tang Yu at the subway station when he was going to school that morning, and he asked if he was ready.

David had already heard about Carter Smith's incident. After all, this incident was a big one, and everyone in the Counterintelligence Department knew it.

Carter Smith, as the deputy head of the counterintelligence department, is a G4 employee of Arasaka Company.

Compared with Harry, the leader of the investigation department that David knew, he was only half a level lower, and he could be regarded as the middle-level backbone of the department.

Carter Smith was a single mother, very old, who died on the same day.

To be honest, this incident left a deep impression on David.

He had thought about it carefully.

If one day, I joined Arasaka Company, spent my youth, and finally climbed to a small middle level.

At that time, my mother will be old, and I will be exhausted. When the wind and rain swirl, how will I keep everything I care about.

This is somewhat of a dilemma.

David felt more and more that joining the company was not what he wanted, but he didn't know where to go.

If he really stepped into the society to break through, what kind of fame can he make, and Gloria has spent a lot of effort to get him to where he is today, and he can't back down no matter what.

Just when David was thinking about something in a daze, he suddenly received a message from Tang Yu asking him to go to the office.

David's heart tightened, and he stood up quickly, ignoring to clean up the workbench, and walked quickly towards Tang Yu's office.

Katsuo Tanaka was sitting in the living room, feeling bored, so he had to watch some TV programs through his prosthetic eye.

He had already received the news from the R&D department that the meeting of the board of directors was over, but he waited and waited until the master came back.

The mood became less and less annoying, so I turned off the show and was about to go to the front desk to ask. Just when I looked up, I saw Tang Yu passing straight in front, and the other person had already strode past in a daze.

Katsuo Tanaka hadn't had time to say hello yet, and the other party didn't seem to see him at all.

He originally wanted to swear a few words, but he thought about those two slaps and his father's teaching, so he endured it.

There is an old saying in the East that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and he, Katsuo Tanaka, has the patience to wait until the day he rises.

Katsuo Tanaka thought for a while, and simply went to knock on the office door.

His father, Tanaka, is also a company executive. The elders he has been in contact with since he was a child are basically senior executives of major companies, and they are from Kyoto, so he doesn't think much of Tang Yu's identity.

Even if Tang Yu is the deputy minister of the double department, he still can't handle his father's adult rank. If he hadn't been stuck in the neck after graduation, Katsuo Tanaka would never come to admit his mistake.

Katsuo Tanaka walked to the front desk with his hands in his pockets and asked where Tang Yu's office was.

The front desk staff told him that Tang Yu was not free now and asked him to come again next time.

Katsuo Tanaka suddenly became furious. He clearly saw Tang Yu coming back just now, so why didn't he have time? Didn't he still stay in the office? !
"You just need to tell me where the office is, understand?"

He didn't pay attention to the front desk of these departments at all, and he didn't need the consent of the front desk to find Tang Yu.

The front desk looked up at him, then continued to work, ignoring Katsuo Tanaka.

He was really angry. Ever since he was a child, has he ever suffered such aggrieved things?

Katsuo Tanaka even felt that Tang Yu was his natural enemy nemesis, every time something related to Tang Yu, he was deflated!
He just wanted to have a seizure, but he held back and decided to go find it himself, and learn about the situation of the counterintelligence department by the way.

It’s not hard to guess the deputy minister’s office. If you can’t, ask your acquaintances in the R&D department, and you can naturally know where Tang Yu works. It’s just that he doesn’t want too many people to know that he came to the counterintelligence department. It’s a bit embarrassing to come and apologize.

Katsuo Tanaka walked into the office area and started wandering around the counterintelligence department, causing many colleagues to look sideways, as if they knew him.

Katsuo Tanaka felt a little weird, like being surrounded by exotic animals.

what happened?

Does the counterintelligence department also know that my father is Mr. Tanaka?

Katsuo Tanaka was puzzled, and continued to walk in the office area with some guilt, but his pace was much faster.

Sudden.

He noticed David running over behind him, and immediately came up with an idea.

This kid is an intern in the counterintelligence department, so he should know where the deputy minister's office is.

So I wanted to stop David, and asked in a very arrogant manner: "David Martinez, I'm asking you about Mr. Tang's office."

"do not know!"

David was not in the mood to talk to Katsuo Tanaka, and he didn't know what he was doing in the counterintelligence department, so he wandered here for a long time.

David could see that the reason why the colleagues around him looked sideways at Katsuo Tanaka was because everyone knew about his slap.

When he registered his account at the front desk, the news spread among the colleagues in the counterintelligence department, so he cast a strange look at Katsuo Tanaka.

It's just that Katsuo Tanaka himself is still in the dark and doesn't know anything.

David ran over quickly and disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

Katsuo Tanaka was furious, feeling as if the entire counterintelligence department was playing tricks on him, it was embarrassing.

He stood in place, clenched his fists in his trouser pockets, and the blue streamer of the prosthetic body on his body turned around, looking quite angry.

With a cold face, he walked back to the front desk again, and asked coldly.

"I'll ask you again, where is your deputy minister's office!"

The front desk looked up at Katsuo Tanaka, feeling baffled. There were too many high-level executives in the company who wanted to see Tang Yu. An intern who didn't even have a formal employee number dared to come here to show his face and lost his sentence on the spot.

"I'm not telling you that you're not free, remember to make an appointment next time, you know, Mr. Tang is very busy."

When Katsuo Tanaka heard this, the veins on his forehead were about to burst. He gritted his teeth and kept telling himself to calm down.

But the feeling of being offended by his subordinates really made him angry.

Although he hasn't joined the company yet, as long as he graduates and joins the job, his status will definitely not be comparable to these front desks.

If you commit the following offense, you really don't understand the rules!
Katsuo Tanaka just pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket and held it up high. The Kuaiarm series chip was operating, and the Blu-ray was overflowing.

Sudden.

The front desk stood up, nodded towards the distance and said, "Hi, Mr. Tang."

Katsuo Tanaka's heart skipped a beat, and his raised hand suddenly froze.

After counting interest.

Katsuo Tanaka twisted his neck stiffly, looked at the situation behind him, and gasped suddenly.

He didn't know when Tang Yu had come behind him, looking at him lightly, as if waiting for his next move.

Katsuo Tanaka put away his hands in embarrassment, with a rather ugly look on his face, forced a smile on his face, was at a loss for a while, completely forgot the purpose of the original apology, and was worried about being slapped again.

Under Tang Yu's indifferent gaze, Katsuo Tanaka lowered his head guiltyly, not daring to raise his head to meet that gaze.

Beads of sweat appeared on Katsuo Tanaka's forehead, the anger in his heart was gone, and there was only remorse in his heart.

"Why is it like this again"

Thinking of his father's teachings, he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and couldn't cause more trouble, so he could only tuck his throat and stammered.

"I, I just wanted to pat the table."

"Yeah, I just feel a little bit."

Katsuo Tanaka was so guilty that he couldn't even speak clearly. You must know that Tang Yu, the King of Hades, slapped his ears regardless of the occasion.

He also learned that about Susan Abernathy, he didn't even give face to the director, let alone himself.

Katsuo Tanaka wanted to explain something, but immediately thought that he was here to apologize, but when he tried to look up, he found that there was no one in front of him.

He quickly looked towards the public elevator and found that Tang Yu was already standing there waiting for the elevator.

But what surprised Katsuo Tanaka even more was that David Martinez was still standing beside Tang Yu!

Apparently the two were waiting for the elevator together.

Katsuo Tanaka was completely dumbfounded.

what's the situation? !

I kindly apologized, but Mr. Tang said that he was not available, but why did David Martinez follow him?

In a trance, Katsuo Tanaka seemed to hear the word 'eat'.

They want to eat together?
Katsuo Tanaka thought it was vertigo and tinnitus, and after blinking his prosthetic eye, he confirmed again.

It was indeed Mr. Tang and David Martinez. They had already walked into the elevator and left the counterintelligence department on the 33rd floor.

Katsuo Tanaka suddenly felt his mentality burst, and countless questions, humiliation, aggrieved, unwillingness, etc. were in a mess in his heart, and he was completely numb.

He just stood there in a daze for a long time, watching the two of them leave.

The public elevator stopped at the first floor of the Arasaka Tower lobby.

Tang Yu strode out of the barren tower, and David followed closely behind. The two left the company square and walked towards the valley area, planning to find a tea restaurant for lunch.

David was a little curious about Katsuo Tanaka, so he asked first.

"Mr. Tang, did inviting you to dinner delay your work? Katsuo Tanaka seemed to have something important to ask you just now."

Tang Yu glanced at David, always felt that he was a little dumbfounded, and said with a smile: "Katsuo Tanaka is an intern like you, if you can find me for something important, it's nothing more than an apology."

David nodded in agreement. In terms of his usual academic performance, Katsuo Tanaka is not as good as him, and it is impossible to do core technical work in the R&D department, but Katsuo Tanaka's father is also a senior executive of the company after all, and he has an influence on Tang Yu after all. .

"The main reason is that Katsuo Tanaka is a person who holds grudges. If he gets slapped twice, he will probably hold grudges in his heart. I used to avoid him."

Tang Yu knew that David was telling the truth. In the Sims, even if David was seriously injured in a car accident and lost Gloria, he just endured everything numbly and never thought of revenge on anyone.

David is kind, but it doesn't mean he has no bottom line and temper. It's just that he cares about too many things, and the psychological pressure is indeed too great at a young age.

Instead, Tang Yu spoke to comfort the kind young man beside him.

"You know too little about human nature. After receiving two slaps, Katsuo Tanaka knew today that I treated him well."

David immediately looked up at Tang Yu, his eyes full of puzzlement and doubt. Katsuo Tanaka lost face again today, and with his character, he might not let it go.

"Why? I used to avoid him a lot, but he got worse instead."

Tang Yu explained lightly: "Because I didn't slap him for the third time today, he will appreciate my kindness."

"Whether it's in Night City or in the company, as long as you are ruthless, they will be afraid of you. When you smile at them someday, they will think that today is a good day."

David seemed to have realized something, nodded thoughtfully, savoring these words in his mind, after all, it was rare for Tang Yu to talk to him.

Tang Yu saw that he was thinking deeply, lest he think about it, and patched up what he just said.

"The truth is this, but it also varies from person to person, for example, it doesn't apply to you."

"Katsuo Tanaka is a son of the rich and powerful, whether it is background resources or status, few of your peers can overwhelm him."

"If you fight hard with him, not only will you be unable to suppress it, but you will even ask for trouble."

"In life, you don't really need other people's advice."

"Some people live for their own ideas, some people live for other people's ideas, and the only thing to follow is the heart."

"No one can guarantee that your life in Night City will be wonderful enough, and your life will be free and easy enough, but you live according to your heart, at least in this fucking city, aren't you happy?"

David stared at Tang Yu intently, as if trying to absorb the meaning of every word.

He recalled that in the past 17 years, this was the first time someone had such a heart-to-heart talk with him.

Gloria was too busy with work to care about his thoughts and feelings, and it took all her energy to send him to Arasaka Academy.

The classmates and teachers in the academy were all cold, not only did no one make friends with him, but even powerful children like Katsuo Tanaka bullied him, no one would stand up for him.

It can be said.

David has been walking alone since he had the impression of life, walking on the road called 'growth'.

Just so muddle-headed, I spent a childhood with no memory, and entered a more gray youth.

His heart is soft, but it has already been scarred, he can only feel wronged and suppress himself, so that the situation around him doesn't look so bad.

Just to make life passable, he has exhausted all his strength.

Therefore, David likes to watch Mewtwo, experience those wonderful and interesting lives, and fall in love with the excitement of those bloody battles.

He was a boy, a boy who was only 17 years old.

When you are young, you can't have youth.

It's time to dream, but can't have a dream.

In a trance, David felt blurry in front of his eyes, as if covered by a layer of mist, and he couldn't even see the road in front of him clearly.

He didn't know where this inexplicable feeling of sadness came from. It was obviously not caring and comforting, but it was better than caring and comforting.

Just like walking along the way, I have already gritted my teeth and endured it, and tried hard to get used to passing through the thorns. The lonely and sensitive heart is gradually depressed and numb, and gradually plunged into darkness.

For the first time, light came in.

David walked, tears falling, weeping silently.

Tang Yu hugged David's shoulders fiercely, patted him twice, and said.

"Little brother, come here."

"Don't care about Katsuo Tanaka, don't care about the idiot Night City, and don't care about other people's eyes."

"Even if you live for the people you care about, don't forget."

"be yourself."

　Instant Noodles: "Boss ADkiss is really a super super senior funder. He helped Instant Noodles hit the new book list and score! Johnny must be very grateful!"

　　Johnny: "Instant noodles, trust me, we can survive without money!"

　　Wife: "Nonsense, you don't need to eat, you must thank the boss of ADkiss, I wish you a fortune every year!"

　　Johnny: "Okay, what do you want to do. Anyway, you don't listen to me, I went to bed, shit, I didn't sleep."

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　　Thanks to the support of the big boss of ADkiss, I really got to know him after publishing a book, and weeping in the storm.

　　PS: There will be no more updates tonight, I feel more and more distressed about my David, I am in tears when I write, woo woo woo
　　Thank you for the support of the following big bosses, just writing a book, and you are disqualified in the world. Boss, he squandered the money for two more cigarettes, so proud!
　　Wilhelm Huang15.00
　　Disqualification in the world o31.00
　　
　
(End of this chapter)