Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 133
"How are the preparations going?"

Lucius Lane was sitting in the black leather soft bag car, holding a speech script in his hand, chanting words, and he was preparing for the next speech.

Next year is the year of "big" and "election" in Night City, and he plans to give his official speech today.

And the speech location was chosen at the Company Plaza, the fifth floor of the Yuanpan Hub, where Kerry held his concert last night.

In the co-pilot seat, the mayor's secretary immediately reported: "Mayor, the podium has been set up, and the crowd, security, and promotional slogans are all in place."

"After the company riots ended last night, municipal sanitation staff have been arranged to clean up in time, and all damaged public facilities have been replaced with new ones."

When Lucius Lane heard the word "riot", a Sichuan character wrinkled on his fat forehead, his tone seemed a little displeased, and he reminded in a deep voice.

"Remember, the company square last night was not a riot, but a movement, a 'free', 'liberal', 'democratic' and 'righteous' movement."

The theme of his speech today is "self" and "freedom", and he wants to take advantage of the east wind of the riots in the company square to win a wave of votes.

Back then, Night City was about to face the trampling of metal wars, and there was a risk of the city being destroyed at any time.

Lucius Lane, as a member of Parliament, tried his best to contact the Arasaka family in order to fight against the menacing military technology.

finally.

Under the mutual checks and balances of the two companies, Night City survived the flames of war and preserved "independence", "independence", "self", "freedom", "system" and "degree".

With this feat, Lucius Lane was successfully elected as the new mayor of Night City, and won the titles of "Self", "Free", "City" and "Mayor".

With the passage of time, the previous merit bonus period has passed, and the people of Night City have more demands.

His approval rating continued to drop, and what was worse was that various scandals broke out one after another among the city councilors, councilors, and office workers, which caused the city's reputation in this night city to get worse and worse.

Especially some time ago, the content of the procurement agreement between NCPD and Military Technology was leaked, and a scandal broke out, which greatly affected the stock price of NCPD.

Everyone in Night City knows that the municipal budget has big loopholes, and it is still transferring benefits with military technology.

The "big" and "election" will come again next year. According to this situation, it will be even more difficult for Lucius Lane to continue to "be" and "elect" mayor.

Also.

Lucius Lane also has a strong competitor, and the momentum of "competition" and "election" is far beyond imagination.

Jefferson Perales.

Jefferson had worked as a lawyer and district attorney in Night City.

Now he is a member of the Night City Council, and with the support of various forces, he is ready to "compete" and "election" for the mayor of Night City.

With his poor background, high-quality abilities, sunny and handsome appearance, and the slogan of caring for the poor everywhere, he quickly gained a place in the political circle.

In the eyes of some Night City people, Jefferson dared to act and speak out, and vowed to change the root of the injustice in Night City, which was a bit like a knight of light.

and so.

In order to deal with this powerful opponent, Lucius Lane chose to draw out his hole cards - "自" and "自".

He firmly believes that as long as the "self" and "freedom" are consistently implemented, the vast majority of support will be obtained.

Because in the eyes of most people in Night City, what they desire is "freedom" and "freedom" compared to fairness.

After all, the word "fair" in Night City is itself a joke.

Lucius Lane looked at the time and found that there were only 10 minutes left before the press conference, so he ordered the staff to drive the motorcade into the disc hub of the company square.

A convoy of black business cars is slowly entering the disc hub of the company square.

The place where the convoy passed was almost one person per ten steps, and one post per hundred steps. NCPD invested a lot of police force to escort Lucius Lane.

After the convoy arrived at the designated destination, a bodyguard in black immediately stepped forward to open the door for it, and guarded the surrounding area at any time.

Lucius Lane stepped out of the car door and waved to the crowd gathered around the podium.

Thunderous applause and cheers erupted at the scene, warmly welcoming him.

Surrounded by everyone, Lucius Lane slowly walked up to the podium with his fat body.

Deputy Mayor Huot followed Lucius Lane, standing behind him, clapping his hands lightly.

Lucius Lane looked at the crowd below, and his mood suddenly became a little gloomy.

He found that the crowd in the audience was far from what he expected.

The quantity and quality of the audience is completely incomparable with that of Kerry's concert last night.

When Kerry held a concert, the five-layer disc was full of black and black stands.

And now.

Only the fifth floor was full of people, the fourth floor was loosely packed with people, and the first, second, and third floors were only scattered with crowds of onlookers.

The key is.

Lucius Lane knew that many of the people at the scene were nurses who paid for them, and they were not real supporters at all.

In order to better catch the heat, the childcare workers were specially made to wear worn-out denim clothes, pretending to be veterans or homeless people, in order to win the votes of these people.

He was cold in his heart and smiled on his face. No matter how many real supporters he had, he had to make the most of this scene.

Reporters from various media outlets were present. Cameras, large and small, were aimed at the podium, broadcasting images of Lucius Lane's speech to every electronic screen in Night City.

Lucius Lane faced the audience and said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long."

The voice just fell.

There were thunderous shouts and applause at the scene, and many people began to shout the titles of "Zi", "Yu", "Mayor" and "Mayor".

Lucius Lane paused for a moment, then helped the microphone and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, thank you, I love you."

"Of course I also love this city of 'freedom'."

"Night City."

The audience shouted again, and many people blushed.

He continued: "Last night, a big event happened in the company square. Believe our journalists, there are a lot of materials to write in these two days, and there is no need to worry about choosing topics."

There was laughter from the audience, matching the humor on the podium.

"A lot of people would chalk up last night's concert at Company Plaza to a riot, but I don't think so."

"On the contrary, I think last night was a movement that symbolizes 'freedom', 'liberty', 'democracy', like crazy people, listening to a crazy concert, doing some crazy things, just The last ones are the biotech companies.”

"But this fire, I don't think it was unfair to burn it."

"If you are willing to wait, the representatives of the biotech company will do some review here later. It is up to you to decide whether to listen to it or not. After all, this is your 'freedom', isn't it?"

There was another burst of applause from the audience.

Lucius Lane said bluntly: "I have always been extremely in favor of our rock boy Kerry holding a concert."

"Even if young people are no longer obsessed with rock and roll, and no longer pursue the former Samurai band, the meaning of rock and roll is indispensable to Night City."

"Because we are truly a city of 'freedom', this city needs a variety of voices to express their love for this city."

"Just like me, trying my best to maintain 'freedom', to express my love for you, and my love for Night City."

"I believe everyone understands that this 'freedom' is extremely important to each of us. This is the soul of Night City, and I will defend her to the death."

"So, in order to keep 'self' and 'by' going, I announce that I will run for the new mayor next year."

Arasaka Tower, Counterintelligence Department on the 33rd floor.

The floor-to-ceiling large screen in the minister's office is showing the scene of Lucius Lane's speech in the company square.

"Not bad."

Tang Yu picked up the teacup and took a sip of warm tea, and made a good comment on Lucius Lane's speech.

He had just finished dealing with his work matters, so he had some free time, and he took a look at Lucius Lane's attitude by the way.

After all, the riot in the company square last night was planned by him alone, and the attitude of the top management of Night City will also affect his plan.

If Lucius Lane wants to dig deeper into this matter, Tang Yu has to inoculate Kerry, Aunt Mei and others in advance.

In addition, Gloria and Mann's team also need to make some preventive arrangements to avoid involving them in this matter.

But now it seems.

Tang Yu heard from Lucius Lane's speech that the mayor no longer intends to pursue the matter.

in contrast.

Lucius Lane also wanted to take advantage of the riots in the company square to catch the enthusiasm of Kerry's concert, so as to get a wave of support for his 'campaign' and 'election'.

From the police force invested by NCPD last night, it can be seen that Lucius Lane has already made corresponding public relations preparations in advance.

have to say.

Lucius Lane looked fat and big-eared, but his mind was very flexible, and he came up with a good coup.

If the riot in the company square is pursued, there will be no winner, and it will be a dead end.

The main reason is that the riots in the company square seemed to be out of control, but in fact they only targeted biotechnology companies.

Due to the limited duration of the riot, it was difficult for the rioting crowd to maintain unity when the fanatical atmosphere dissipated, so only half of the floors of Biotechnology were burned.

The high-level and core facilities of biotechnology have not been too seriously affected.

The large-scale electronic short circuit only burned down some electrical appliances and office equipment.

Most of the important facilities have already installed voltage stabilizers. Even if there is a huge voltage fluctuation, it is difficult to cause the facilities to burn down.

Overall.

Biotechnology does have a large part of the loss, such as security, fire protection, property, real estate, office systems and other aspects, have suffered a lot of impact and damage.

But the fundamentals of biotech companies have not been shaken.

If the security force is not enough, you can increase the purchase from Kang Tao.

Office system corruption can allow corporate hackers to rebuild.

If the server is burned and lost, you can find other companies to purchase it.

As for the building being burnt to black and ruined, spending money to redecorate it, it will take less than a month to resume normal operation.

These problems can be solved with money, and they are not a problem for top giants like biotechnology.

The real headaches for biotechnology companies are probably the plummeting stock prices, the damage to the market reputation, and the multiple scandals of "painkillers" and "new antibiotic trials", which have triggered a wave of countermeasures in many places around the world.

Even though the biotechnology company knew that the riot was aimed at itself, they still had no choice but to try to calm the situation.

If we continue to vigorously pursue the incident of the riot, I am afraid it will cause more opposition.

Keeping things quiet and treating everything as if it never happened is the best result for biotech companies.

Biotech wants to keep things quiet, municipalities want to be voted on, and the rest of the major corporations are none of their business.

Naturally, it is impossible to publicly pursue responsibility for this riot. At most, various forces arranged secret agents to investigate.

Even if they did find some clues, they could only find two giant companies, Arasaka and Military Technology.

Tang Yu did use Arasaka resources to help Kerry solve the trouble of the concert.

Meredith did arrange for News 54 to expose some of the inside story about the painkiller program.

Unless the high-level executives of the two giant companies pay attention, outsiders will basically come to an end if they find out this clue.

At this point in Tang Yu's analysis, the basics of the matter are clear, and he has no interest in Lucius Lane's subsequent speeches.

The fat-headed and big-eared Lucius Lane, who ran the train with his mouth full of words during the speech, is a typical example of a hotelier.

Tang Yu also has a certain understanding of Lucius Lane, and has a good relationship with the company. He will indulge in sex at night when he has nothing to do. He enjoys those cruel and cold black super dreams in the secret running club of the Red Queen.

But this guy's life is not too long, and he will die suddenly next year for no apparent reason.

Lucius Lane's death was inseparably related to his deputy Huot.

As for the fate of the mayor this time, Tang Yu didn't care much about it.

He closed his eyes, sat back in front of the office, and was about to check the work at hand, and after confirming that there were no omissions, he planned to leave work.

suddenly.

A visit reminder was lit outside the main entrance of the office.

Sasha looked sideways and saw that the screen showed Kate visiting.

Kate was expressionless, standing in the aisle to accept the blue light scan.

Sasha then looked back at Tang Yu, waiting for his instruction whether to let Kate in.

Tang Yu sat on the big soft leather chair, waved his hand, and motioned for Kate to come in.

soon.

The stainless steel gate slowly opened to both sides.

Kate walked straight into the minister's office. The spacious and luxurious layout was as dark as ever.

When she passed by Sasha's office, she looked around from the corner of the eye, didn't say much, and continued to come to Tang Yu's desk.

Tang Yu looked at Kate, who was not kind to the visitor, with a calm expression, and he could see through what she was thinking at a glance.

Kate stood across the desk and asked coldly, "Deputy Minister Tang, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to act as the head of the counterintelligence department."

"So much work in the ministry has been put on hold, and you don't respond and deal with it. What do you mean?"

Tang Yu didn't mind Kate's offense, and emphasized that the deputy minister was just trying to explain that he was just an agent, not the real minister.

He signaled Sasha to bring over the results of the work matters, and said lightly: "I don't know which work you are talking about has not been handled well. Although your position is not qualified to check these contents, after all, you just came to the counterintelligence department. Some rules will be understood later.”

Sasha took the electronic tablet and put it on the desk, on which was the work of the minister.

Tang Yu made a 'please' gesture, indicating that Kate can see it if she wants to.

"If you have any good opinions, you can report them to me at any time. Of course, I don't necessarily have time."

Kate glanced at the electronic tablet and found that all the work items on it had been dealt with, except for her inquiry which had been deleted.

She suddenly felt a burst of unknown fire, and her expressionless face couldn't help twitching twice.

Kate now understood that the acting minister in front of her was trying to target her.

Before, it was an excuse for not coming to the company because of field work, and it was fine if he didn't reply to the message.

Sitting in the office today, Tang Yu also deleted her work matters, which was already public and did not give her face.

Kate's red eye prosthetics flickered, and she couldn't see any changes in her expression. She just said coldly: "You are responsible for the investigation results of the military-grade Sianweistan, right?"

Tang Yu was noncommittal and motioned her to continue.

"There are obvious problems with the results of this investigation. I have investigated the Uzumaki Gang, and they do not have the strength to attack the three Arasaka special forces."

"On the contrary, the people from the Maelstrom Gang lost dozens of people. This is very different from the report you wrote. Shouldn't you explain it clearly?"

Tang Yu had known for a long time that she would take advantage of this to make trouble, and held on to the problem of that night, because it was military technology personnel who killed the three Arasaka special service teams.

If she is really allowed to find evidence, and label Tang Yu as a non-reporter and a private collusion with military technology, he can be easily brought down.

Tang Yu didn't pay attention to Kate directly, but asked a question indifferently.

"Do you want to reopen the investigation?"

Kate will naturally not let go of this opportunity. The best result is that Tang Yu can't explain it, and then applies to the board of directors to initiate an investigation.

She can take measures against Tang Yu openly, and if she really digs out something, she must put him to death.

Kate hadn't had any problems with Tang Yu before, but she was in the Arasaka Laixuan faction, and her promotion to the deputy director of the counterintelligence department was arranged by Director Tanaka and Director Susan Abernathy.

As a thorn in their side, Tang Yu must pull it out to show her value.

Kate took the conversation and said in a cold voice: "Of course, if you can't explain this matter, I will apply to the board of directors to restart the investigation, and it is up to you not to cooperate."

Tang Yu nodded slightly, and encouraged: "Very good, you have an inquiring spirit."

"Then I'll tell you."

"My answer is what is written in the investigation report, there is no need to repeat it to you."

"You can now write an application report and restart the investigation in the name of the counterintelligence department, and it will be sent here for approval later."

Tang Yu was talking, and received a new visit reminder.

He checked the situation immediately and found that it was Michiko's two bodyguards who came to invite him upstairs to 'drink tea'.

Tang Yu immediately stood up, adjusted his coat a little, and prepared to go out.

"You go down first."

"I have something else to do."

"The report is finished and sent to my email."

"Sasha remember to keep an eye on it, in case I forget."

Sasha stood up quickly, nodded slightly to indicate receipt, and then watched Tang Yu walk towards the door.

The gate opens automatically.

At the invitation of Xiao Michiko's bodyguard, Tang Yu walked towards the public elevator.

Seeing that Tang Yu had left, Sasha looked at Kate who was standing still, and urged politely.

"Hello."

"When the restart investigation report is finished, it can be sent to Mr. Tang's work mailbox."

"I will confirm it as soon as possible and pass it on to Mr. Tang."

Kate stood there blankly, snorted coldly, then turned and left the minister's office.

Seeing Kate's angry look, Sasha made a face behind her.

"Old witch, do more mischief!"

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