Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Today is an important day for the fresh graduates of Arasaka Academy.

The college assembly has not yet started, and the auditorium is already full of Arasaka students.

They have all completed a three-month company internship and submitted an internship report to the college.

Today is the day when their practical results are released. After getting the score, they can use it as a basis for applying, and each starts looking for companies to submit their resumes to participate in the application.

Many students happily talked about their internship experience in the company, and asked each other about their situation from time to time.

"Hey, I'm afraid I'm not good at scoring the practice report this time, and I feel like I haven't done anything for three months."

"Don't make a fuss, you've already been an intern at Ye's Company, and you even went to the construction site to participate in the front-line construction, so the quality of your practice is not higher than anyone else?"

"I'm the worst one. I didn't go to a big company, and I didn't do any big projects. I heard that Mr. Tang, the mentor of the judges, is very strict. Many parents of students approached him to intercede, but all of them were rejected."

"Isn't that right? The grades are too affecting for students to apply for a job after graduation. My mother asked Mr. Tang's office to go to Mr. Tang's office with the help of Arasaka's upper management. She was still rejected. This time, I really can only resign myself to fate."

Everyone couldn't help but frown, as if they had predicted their poor grades in advance.

Sudden.

Someone asked David who was sitting next to him curiously.

"David, which company did you intern for?"

David's little heart skipped a beat suddenly, and he seemed a little at a loss as to what to do in the face of the students' curiosity.

If you tell them the truth, it is estimated that it will cause a very exaggerated reaction.

to be frank.

He doesn't like this feeling of being paid attention to, and hopes that his classmates can ignore him.

But when the practice report scores are announced later, it is impossible to hide which company I went to for an internship.

David sat on the original seat, and couldn't help looking at the main seat on the stage. There were still two vacant seats, which should be for the judges' tutor and the principal of the college.

Mr. Tang hasn't come yet.

David hesitated for a while, so he could only speak softly.

"I'm an intern at Arasaka Company."

Arasaka internship?

The students who heard this suddenly opened their eyes wide, and looked at David in disbelief, with extremely exaggerated expressions as if they had heard something shocking.

"Is it true? David, you are an intern at Arasaka Company!"

"It's too dangling, how did you do it, I didn't expect you, David, to hide your secrets."

"Oh, I'll go. This classmate has been with me for more than two years. I really misjudged him. I didn't expect you to have such a relationship."

"That's right, Katsuo Tanaka is because his father is a high-ranking officer in Arasaka, what about you?"

The surprised and exaggerated expressions and comments of the surrounding students quickly attracted a lot of attention and attention.

David's three-month internship at Arasaka Company spread like wildfire.

David saw his classmates whispering to each other, glanced at him from the corner of his eye from time to time, curled his lips helplessly, and was too embarrassed to laugh alone.

I had expected this kind of reaction from my classmates, but I still couldn't help feeling weird.

Obviously, as the person involved, he sat here openly, but the students still gathered around and discussed him in whispers.

Some people showed surprise, some people showed envy, more suspicion and jealousy, and these eyes were not very friendly.

David knows.

What they really care about is how an unknown poor boy suddenly came to the Arasaka company as an intern.

The secret hidden in it, like sweet blood, has attracted countless sharks to swim excitedly.

They don't care what the truth is, what matters is that there is a gossip that can be used to chew their tongues.

David only talked about the internship at Arasaka Company, but did not mention the internship department and Tang Yu's recommendation. He didn't want to expand this matter.

In fact, he is also looking forward to the upcoming report. After all, he has been an intern in the counterintelligence department for three months, which can be regarded as hard work.

The overtime hours are definitely not less than that of regular employees, and his colleagues around him have good evaluations of him.

If he can get a good score, then his chances of applying to Arasaka Company will be much higher.

at this time.

Katsuo Tanaka, who was sitting in the front row, remained calm, quietly waiting for the start of the college meeting.

With the lessons from last time, he behaved a lot more calmly this time, and he didn't make irresponsible remarks with the people around him.

The two attendants next to him failed to enter the Arasaka company for internship, but they also knew the reason, and they couldn't blame Tanaka Katsuo.

In addition, Katsuo Tanaka's father is still in power, so it is always right to flatter him.

But to the surprise of the two followers, Katsuo Tanaka's attitude seemed a little cold. They were wondering how to start the conversation, and suddenly learned from the students in the back row that David was also an intern at Arasaka Company.

They hurriedly approached Katsuo Tanaka, and said with a look of surprise.

"Katsuo, did you know? That kid David is also an intern at Arasaka Company! He can enter Arasaka just because of him? Are you kidding me!"

"Yeah, could it be that this kid changed his luck? How could a poor boy from a single-parent family have something to do with entering Arasaka Company? Could it be her mother?"

"Noisy!" Katsuo Tanaka yelled, interrupting the conversation between the two, his eyes fell on the head of the stage, and he muttered: "David is indeed an intern at Arasaka Company, but this is not something you can discuss. He is not as simple as what you see, think about it with your stupid brains, can it be that simple to get an internship in Arasaka Company?"

Katsuo Tanaka didn't want the two little followers to hurt him by talking nonsense, lest it be him who was unlucky like last time.

He knew that David entered the anti-intelligence department of Arasaka Company, following the path of Tang Yu.

Gossip David is gossiping Tang Yu, which is why he was slapped in the first place.

As for the relationship between David and Tang Yu, Katsuo Tanaka did not know, nor could he find any useful information.

I just learned from my father that David had a car accident before, and it was Tang Yu, a senior executive of Arasaka Company, who saved him.

Katsuo Tanaka knew that he had offended Tang Yu invisibly, so he didn't have any hope for the results of this practice report. Anyway, he didn't rely on this score to apply for the job.

After graduating and working a little bit, joining Arasaka's R&D department is a certainty, so there is no need to make extra troubles for it.

Just as Katsuo Tanaka was thinking, at the gate of the auditorium, Tang Yu was surrounded by a group of senior officials from Arasaka Academy, and walked in talking and laughing.

This time the Arasaka Academy Conference was a grand occasion, and it was even more grand than the last time. Many members of the academy council attended, and Katsuo Tanaka's father was also present.

When Katsuo Tanaka saw his father, he quickly sat upright and stopped talking to the two followers around him.

His eyes were extremely round, full of disbelief.

As the head of the R&D department and a member of the college council, his father would accompany Tang Yu to the Arasaka College Conference. Isn't this clearly showing Tang Yu's support?

He never expected that his father, who has always been strong, has become Tang Yu's foil at this moment, and he feels very uncomfortable.

The degree to which Tang Yu is so popular in the Arasaka Tower can no longer be described as big red and big purple.

The students in the audience immediately quieted down. It was the first time they saw so many high-level executives from Arasaka Company and Arasaka Academy attending the meeting.

On the main stage of the auditorium.

As Tang Yu took the main seat, other Arasaka high-level and college high-level officials also took their seats, facing the students in the audience.

A strong sense of oppression permeated every student's heart, and everyone sat upright and dared not make the slightest movement.

soon.

The principal of Arasaka Academy presided over the meeting, briefly introduced some basic information into the microphone, and then began to announce the students' practical assessment results.

The names and scores of the students are announced one by one, which is enough to show that Arasaka Academy attaches great importance to the graduates.

One is because the family background of these students is extraordinary, either rich or noble, at least they should do enough to show the parents behind the students.

The second is because the graduates also represent the brand name of Arasaka Academy. Graduating from Arasaka Academy is not only a diploma, but also a symbol of honor.

As the principal announces the scoring results item by item.

Many students showed overjoyed expressions, but they didn't expect the scores to be quite good.

in fact.

There are standards for scoring scores, and they are not scored completely according to Tang Yu's personal intentions. The scores must be approved by the college council.

Generally speaking, the scoring results can still truly reflect the actual situation of the students' practice.

When the principal of the college announced the grades scored by Katsuo Tanaka, all the students were stunned.

Katsuo Tanaka scored an A+ in his practice report.

This year's highest.

Katsuo Tanaka was stunned when he saw this result.

Looking at the grading announced by the holographic projection on the stage, the column of grades reads A+ impressively.

That's right.

He found that he really got the highest score in the game.

what happened?

Katsuo Tanaka stared blankly at the judges' seat, staring straight at Tang Yu, unable to believe that this result was given by Tang Yu.

But the results don't lie.

In his eyes, Tang Yu was sitting on the seat, and he didn't show anything special, and he still looked indifferent.

Didn't Tang Yu care about those things from the beginning?
He thought of the two slaps he received and the harsh words he said.

Tanaka Katsuo was silent.

Only then did I realize that I really thought too much.

In his view now, Tang Yu is a real big shot, a big shot at the same level as his father, or even slightly higher.

Katsuo Tanaka couldn't help but be overjoyed, this time he finally took a sigh of relief.

Katsuo Tanaka suddenly had an epiphany, suppressed his excitement, and tried his best to calm down.

"correct."

"If you want to become a real big shot, you should take a long-term view, care about the right and wrong in front of you, and you will never become a big shot!"

Tanaka on the main stage glanced at Katsuo Tanaka below the stage, seeing that he had calmed down a bit and was not as frivolous as before, so he felt a little relieved.

The principal continued to announce the scores, and it was David Martinez's turn.

"A-"

When David heard this score, he was also stunned. He never expected to get this score.

During his internship in the counterintelligence department, he may be really not suitable for intelligence work. He has hardly been affirmed and praised by Tang Yu. He always thought that he did a poor job and could only make up for it through hard work.

Now that I can get an A- grade, it is enough to show that Tang Yu still has affirmation and praise for him.

With this score, David can also take it back to compete with Gloria. After all, this score is considered to be at the top of the same level.

Although he is not as powerful as Katsuo Tanaka, he has also proved his strength and is no worse than other students.

Soon.

After the results of all the students were announced one by one, the principal routinely asked Tang Yu to speak a few words before entering the final stage of the meeting.

The main emphasis is on the final graduation ceremony, and during this period, you can freely submit your resume to find a company to apply for.

In order not to affect the graduation employment rate of Arasaka Academy, all students are required to get the company's employment notice before the graduation ceremony.

After the meeting.

Tang Yu left the college auditorium with the support of a group of company and college executives.

After dealing with the college affairs, he decided to go to Saburo Arasaka's office to see what the restarted cyberspace plan contained, which was worth Kate's hiding.

Arasaka Saburo opened up the office authority for him, which is not available to anyone in the entire Arasaka Tower.

Tang Yu did not return to the department office as usual, but took the public elevator and activated the authority to let the elevator go directly to the top of the building.

soon.

The elevator has arrived.

Tang Yu stepped out of the elevator, passed through two stainless steel gates, and came to the office gate, and then walked outside to the floating car parking garage dedicated to the Arasaka family.

This is not the first time he has come here, the last time he arrived at Arasaka Tower in Arasaka Saburo's exclusive floating car, he passed the office gate.

After accepting the identity security scanning authentication, the gate automatically slides open to both sides, and the layout of the entire office comes into view.

Walking into the gate is like returning to Arasaka Manor.

The whole office is built according to the three-story attic, with a classic cherry blossom style wooden structure, cornices and gladiators, which are antique.

In the middle of the attic hall, the Arasaka family crest on a red background hangs on the front wall, and the surrounding rockery and green plants embellish the scenery.

Saburo Arasaka's office is located on the third floor of the attic, and Tang Yu went straight into the hall and climbed the wooden steps.

Traveling unimpeded all the way, Tang Yu entered the office of Saburo Arasaka.

Tang Yu stood in front of an oversized laminated marble desk and looked around the office.

To know.

After the rebuilding of Arasaka Tower in Night City, Saburo Arasaka never came here once.

This also means that Tang Yu is the first person to come to this office.

As the core secret place of Arasaka Tower, Arasaka Saburo's office has the authority to inspect the entire Arasaka Tower. Whoever sits here can exercise part of Arasaka Saburo's authority.

After Tang Yu looked at it, he sat straight on the leather chair in the office and started the smart office system.

He lightly tapped on the desktop, and the holographic projection appeared on the table immediately. After logging into the Arasaka system from Saburo Arasaka's office, he could see a lot of things, even browsing the situation in Mikoto.

However, Tang Yu knew that his every move in this office would be secretly recorded, so he did not check the information at will, but retrieved the content about the cyberspace plan.

The holographic projection transformation immediately displays related content items.

Tang Yu browsed roughly, but found nothing special.

It is nothing more than Arasaka's arrangement of a large number of deep-diving hackers to enter the cyberspace and escape beyond the black wall to dig out useful information and data on the old Internet.

The old web is the crystallization of nearly all the wisdom of all human beings, and the wide coverage of information elements is like a rich mine of infinite value.

Technology, weapons, information, technology, even video music, etc., everything can find clues from the old network beyond the black wall.

Major companies have invested huge manpower, material and financial resources to explore the old network, in order to obtain those treasures that have been buried for a long time.

However, the old network outside the black wall hides a lot of murderous intentions, and countless malicious programs, attack software, and electronic viruses are flooded in it. If deep-diving hackers are not careful, they will be attacked from unknown sources.

Those who are lucky enough to be able to withdraw in time will become vegetative or cyber lunatic with damaged brain nerves.

Those who are less lucky will directly burn their whole brains into twists, smoke from their seven orifices, and die beyond death.

Not to mention the roving AI outside the black wall, which is like a natural enemy to deep-diving hackers.

Tang Yu continued to browse the content of the plan, and suddenly discovered some trends in the R&D department.

The hackers captured by Kate's counterintelligence agents were not sent to the network for surveillance as required by the agreement, but were provided to the R&D department.

The R&D department uses these hackers to conduct deep dives and enter the old network of cyberspace to mine information and data.

Tang Yu clicked to view the excavation content, which involved the development of many high-end combat implants and weapons, including the high-end weapons prepared for Adam Hammer.

These combat implants are all in the research and development stage. It has to be said that Tanaka has a lot of projects in his hands. No wonder the deep-dive hackers need to be arrested. The number of gaps is indeed huge.

Sudden.

One of the projects caught Tang Yu's attention.

[High-end prosthetic body research and development project that can be mass-produced]

Click to view its contents.

【Prosthetic Big Ghost】(Completed)
【Prosthetic King Kong】(Test)

[Prosthetic Thunder] (Core)

Seeing that the prosthetic body 'Big Ghost' was also in the research and development project, Tang Yu immediately thought that when Adam Heavy Hammer was still semi-cyberized decades ago, the exoskeleton prosthetic body he wore was the 'Big Ghost'.

It may be due to the nuclear explosion of Arasaka Tower in the night city and the impact of the Internet crash, some data of the prosthetic body 'Ogre' was lost, so the R&D department was required to be included in the R&D project.

The re-engraving research of the prosthetic body 'Ogre' has been completed. After all, it is the equipment developed by Arasaka, so it is not difficult to re-develop it.

But the problem is that the prosthetic body 'Great Ghost' seems to have only been successfully used by Adam Hammer. It is unknown whether other people can wear it and withstand it.

Listed as a high-end prosthetic body research and development project that can be mass-produced, it can be seen that Arasaka's purpose was to manufacture tens of thousands of Adam's hammers.

But the reality is that not everyone has the talent of Adam Hammer.

Tang Yu casually browsed the Prosthetic King Kong and Prosthetic Thunder.

The Prosthetic King Kong has been successfully developed and has entered the experimental stage. From the performance point of view, it is almost an enhanced version of the big ghost, but the quality requirements for the main body of the implant have been lowered a lot.

The difficulty lies not in batch research and development, but in the inability to select suitable matching objects.

In Tang Yu's impression, the first candidate who can compete with Adam's hammer in the body is naturally V.

Tang Yu also checked the research and development of the prosthetic Thunder, which is the only core among many projects.

Judging from the drawings, parameters, and models, this prosthetic body design is more exquisite and powerful, and it is a kind of external armor on the whole.

No matter from which point of view, the prosthetic Thunder is more suitable for popularization.

But the crux of the matter is.

The overall structural design of this prosthetic armor is precise, and various functions are complete and powerful. It has almost strict requirements on the main body's brain, nerves, and physical fitness.

Anyone who wears and uses it once will truly experience the feeling of being roasted from the inside out.

This information is of no use to Tang Yu at the moment.

He clicked on the list of hackers captured by Arasaka again, compared it with the one Kate sent him, and confirmed that there was no discrepancy, and there was no concealment or deception.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

The more honest Kate is on the surface, the more ghosts are hiding behind the scenes.

Tang Yu suddenly discovered that there is also a list library in the R&D department, which is the list of deep-diving hackers of Arasaka Company.

Unlike the hackers captured by the outside world, these deep-dive hackers were all trained by Arasaka Company, and they were very high in terms of hacking skills and loyalty.

Click to view.

【Smail】(Death)

【Molan】(Death)

【Tucker】(at large)
【Jock】(Death)

Tang Yu glanced casually, and found that most of the deep-diving hackers in the list are dead, some are at large, and a small part continue to work in Arasaka Company.

It can be seen how bad the situation of the old network outside the black wall of cyberspace is, it is basically close to death.

When Tang Yu saw the list directory, he also compiled an additional list, which is a list of deep-diving hackers who have been found to be at large and are active in Night City.

The hackers captured by the Anti-Intelligence Department of the Arasaka Tower in Night City were all based on this list.

He clicked in, and saw an unexpected scene, a familiar name and avatar stood out.

【Lucy】(on the run)
Is she also the fugitive deep dive hacker of Arasaka Corporation?

A proper senior mining lady.

Tang Yu suddenly fell into contemplation, and the bits and pieces of dealing with Lucy emerged in his mind.

The first time I met Lucy was on the subway. At that time, she was stealing the chip of the staff of the Arasaka company, and she also stole it from herself.

So the reason why she stole the chip was to investigate the movement of Arasaka and find some clues about her file.

It's also possible that it's just revenge against the Arasaka Corporation, but this possibility is too low.

Tang Yu remembered the silver-haired girl, and her words and deeds revealed deep fear of Arasaka.

Just like when he first learned of his identity, the evaluation he gave was "extremely dangerous".

Tang Yu stared at the file about Lucy on the holographic projection, thinking silently in his heart that there were many doubts in this matter.

The reason why Lucy stayed away from Mann's team during this period and stopped running at night was probably because she had sensed the movements of Agent Arasaka, and someone was secretly investigating her.

So she chose to hide temporarily, so as not to be caught by Arasaka and affect the safety of people around her.

Only then did he remember that when he was chatting with the silver-haired girl that night, she said that this place was hell and wanted to fly away.

For her, the place where there is Arasaka is hell.

She chose to hide in Night City, most likely because Arasaka's influence here is not too exaggerated, and it can provide her with a place of shelter.

But now that Arasaka has restarted the cyberspace plan, Lucy is on the arrest list again, and it may not be so easy to escape this time.

So how did Kate find out about Lucy?
According to her temperament, she should be very cautious, and after so many years, both appearance and biological signs have changed, but she is still being targeted by Arasaka, which is a bit too coincidental.

Tang Yu searched, but found no clues.

After a moment of contemplation.

He suddenly thought of Kate's office system, so he entered the information network of the Counterintelligence Department and checked Kate's personal database.

as predicted.

A video is in front of you.

See this scenario.

A cold light flashed in Tang Yu's eyes.

Because the main content of the video is about Lucy stealing the Arasaka employee's chip on the subway, all her actions were recorded by the camera, and even the scene of her stealing Tang Yu's portable communicator was included.

Tang Yu watched the video coldly, which recorded the situation in detail.

He took the subway to work, and the silver-haired girl locked her eyes on him after successfully stealing a few Arasaka employee chips.

Then the silver-haired girl made a move, stole his communicator, and was caught on the spot.

Then the subway security and passengers stepped forward to arrest, and finally Tang Yu let the silver-haired girl go.

Video so far.

From this video, it's easy to infer some things, especially with ulterior motives.

He checked the storage and transmission records of this video, which has been encrypted and stored by Kate.

It is estimated that Kate did not expect that 'Saburo Arasaka' would check her personal database.

Tang Yu tapped the table with his index finger, thinking about how to deal with this video.

Deleting it will inevitably alert Kate, and even Saburo Arasaka's attention, making Lucy's situation even more dangerous.

Kate wants to use this video to attack him, and it is estimated that she is waiting to close the net now and catch Lucy to dig out information about herself.

But the reality is that Lucy really doesn't know much.

If Kate was caught and sent to the R&D department, not to mention digging Tang Yu-related information from her, just entering the old network to continue mining would be basically equivalent to declaring death.

With Tang Yu's breath, she is destined to be involved in this disturbance.

If Lucy wants to get out of this vortex, it is absolutely useless to escape. The real way out is only Tang Yu.

Just as Tang Yu was thinking about how to arrange the chess game, he received a letter.

Click to view.

[Lucy: Are you free tonight? 】

[Tang Yu: Waiting for you at Pier No. [-] in the Gulf, I will give you a ride. 】

【Lucy: Well. Thank you. 】