Cyberpunk: 2075

It's not surprising that Mr. Kenichi Shiro is missing. He is proficient in ninjutsu and can easily disappear. Carl is not surprised, but Mr. Kenichi Shiro, who is a senior staff member and the person in charge of the banquet security personnel, is missing. It is very strange.

Today's Mr. Kenichi Shiro has become the vice president of Night City Arasaka Tower. If a vice president does not attend the entire banquet hall in this kind of banquet and withdraws halfway, it will more or less cause unnecessary thoughts in some interested people.

For example, I wonder if this vice president does not support Miss Haruko, the current interim executive director of Night City.

In the eyes of most Arasaka staff, Mr. Kenichi Shiro was, after all, the person sent by Mrs. Michiko to Miss Haruko, and his allegiance should be to Mrs. Michiko. Miss Haruko was only chosen because of that blood relationship. I just got help from Mr. Kenichi Shiro.

But this is different from Kenichi Shiro's plan. The plan he wants is to let people recognize Haruko's existence, slowly let Haruko stand on her own from Michiko, develop her own personnel and factions, and then find opportunities to become an independent The identity absorbs the faction in charge of Michiko,

After all, in this era where life span can be continuously extended, even if there is a sedentary emperor, the prince still has to control a little bit of his own power, just like Saburo and his eldest son Jing in the past...,

If Mr. Kenichi Shiro didn't do this on purpose, then something happened and he had to temporarily leave the banquet floor to deal with it personally.

Karl was waiting for the information about Kenichi Shiro in the communication. After receiving the money, he had to work hard. As a mercenary, he was quite particular about this. He had already received 150,000 euros without any deposit. The full amount was paid. , Karl more or less has to respond to this reward.

But he waited and waited, but did not receive any communication message from Kenichi Shiro. Instead, he saw V making a move.

V informed Carl of his movements in the team: "The man named Kenichi Shiro asked me to go downstairs to the banquet hall to handle things. I went there as the captain.

After V's words were posted in the communication, Oliver's message also popped up in the channel: "You asked me to go down too, I have to go there too, oh, and Jack, there seems to be only the two of us at the door. You have to go down if you are called."

No, are you all going?

Karl looked a little confused when he saw V, who had already finished dinner and midnight snacks, took the hot coin held by the waiter next to him, wiped his mouth, and walked out of the banquet hall.

Mr. Kenichi Shiro asked you all to go downstairs to deal with things. What do you mean by leaving me alone upstairs?

Didn’t they all get paid to do the work? ． .Although I'm quite happy to be lazy, but maybe something will happen downstairs, so it's better to be on the safer side with more people, right?

In a daze, Kenichi Shiro finally thought of Karl and sent him a message to dispel his doubts.

You were paying attention to Miss Haruko's safety upstairs, but there was an explosion downstairs. Among the middle-level employees at the banquet on the first floor, a section chief of the Counterintelligence Department was chatting well with the people next to him. Suddenly, his whole body exploded, and with it Several colleagues around me went down together. I had to deal with this urgent matter and see who dared to cause trouble today. He actually blocked the inspection of the banquet on the first floor and sent in such a dangerous person.

Mr. Kenichi Shiro's anger can also be felt from the message. It seems that he is really angry about this sudden incident.

If you think about it, you can understand that although the inspection procedures on the first floor are ordinary compared to those on the other three floors, compared with the inspections at ordinary times,

It can't be more rigorous, and even a person with risk factors can be admitted in this way. This not only shows that there must be something wrong with the inspection below, but also shows that the inspection in this area is no longer trustworthy. .

When a cockroach is discovered, the cockroaches in the home are often no longer able to hide. If you can send an explosive person in in the banquet hall on the first floor, does that mean that you can also send people in in the banquet hall on the fourth floor?

Carl understood Kenichi Shiro's thoughts.

Safety is not absolute, it is absolutely unsafe. Now every banquet hall is untrustworthy. Now Kenichi Shiro sees everyone inside as a mole. He must immediately start the explosion from the floor where the explosion occurred. He is willing to investigate as soon as possible. Find out who is behind the scenes and solve the matter. While handling the matter, he leaves the safety of Haruko to Karl.

"The reason why Jack, Oliver, and V were allowed to go down is because they are outsiders, and the entire activities in Arasaka Tower are under the surveillance of Mr. Kenichi Shiro. Is it more credible now?"

Karl, who understood this, leaned slightly towards Haruko and Maki.

Although Haruko is protected by Chiyome, with her here, even if there is an explosion, she can escape with Haruko as soon as possible, but Maki may not be able to get help, or in other words, Chiyome with Haruko's priority, unless Haruko orders, Otherwise, it would be impossible to evacuate with Mashi at a dangerous moment. If an explosion does occur, Haruko obviously does not have the speed to issue an emergency order. In that case, Karl's friends will be in danger.

Even though he was watching, he couldn't let his friend get involved in something inexplicable and die.

After moving a little distance to ensure that he could get close as soon as possible, Karl stopped.

Then he thought about the bombing.

The first time Carl saw a person explode was when he broke into the Big Bird Bar and faced the former ACPA trainee. However, that explosion was at most a backup plan left by military technology, and in the end, only his head was blown off:

According to Mr. Kenichi Shiro's information, the counterintelligence officer should have exploded all over his body, and this kind of bomb placed in the body in advance,

will affect the surrounding things when it explodes...

Carl thought of what T-BUG said at the time.

'Rampant AI?

At that time, I said not to think too much, don't worry about it if it's not involved, but now it seems that it is involved.

Then...:.If it is really a roving AI, what is its purpose?

It seems that all the targets are company employees, but basically they explode when the company employee is captured and is about to expose some information. But now they are attending the banquet, why did this happen again?

Is there something inside, or is this just something done by both parties? What made the chief of the counterintelligence department explode today was not the roving AI as speculated, but simply the means of military technology and other companies...

But this doesn't make sense. It takes a lot of effort to kill the chief of the counterintelligence department. Which chief has such a big face?

If it is not involved, Carl can ignore it, but if it is involved and aroused his interest, Carl will care to the end.

While thinking, he fell into deep thought.