Cyberpunk: 2075

"Would you like a can, Carl?"

Sitting in a private room of the Afterlife Bar, Blanca drank her drink slowly, and when she saw Carl coming over, she pointed at the unopened Stupid Monkey on the table.

"Forget about the Stupid Monkey. I just feel that the high fructose corn syrup drink is too sweet."

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Carl sat down on the sofa casually, looked at the drinks placed on the table in front of Blanca, and picked one of them.

"I'll just drink sweet tea."

This drink tastes like iced black tea, which is rare for Carl in Night City. He can feel the familiar taste of his hometown.

Watching Carl open the sweet tea and drink it, Blanca continued to drink the drink in her hand. Only after she finished the drink did she seem to relax, leaning on the sofa, showing a lazy posture.

"You've become famous in the city recently."

"I know. My friend told me when I just woke up."

Carl didn't quite understand why his employer said all this nonsense. He came to take the task, not to chat. Wouldn't it be better to do it the same as before? Tell him how much the reward is, where to go, and what to solve, and then he will do it. The employer will pay him. It's easy, clear and simple.

"Then do you know who the driver of ACPA is?"

Driver?

Carl had to admit that he was very interested in Blanca's topic.

"Do you know about it?"

"How could I not know? Why do you think I have time to wait for you leisurely with a drink today? I got a promotion to fill the position of management involved in this incident."

"Is this really done by your military technology?"

"Sure enough, you seem to have guessed it..."

Blanca was not surprised. After all, there are only a few companies that can quietly integrate ACPA into Night City.

However, Blanca still needs to correct Carl's words:

"But don't blame me for this. I didn't know about this before. I didn't have the courage to touch the eldest lady of the Arasaka family. This incident was done by a group of people who were dissatisfied with Arasaka Michiko and the young people in Arasaka."

"Young people?"

Carl frowned slightly. He remembered that Arasaka Haruko said this was a trial. Could it be that this young people was the accident this time?

After all, according to Arasaka Haruko's attitude, the emergence of ACPA was obviously beyond her expectations, and the only one who could hide it from her, the eldest lady of Arasaka, was her own people in Arasaka.

"Do you know Arasaka Nobuyuki?"

"Arasaka Nobuyuki..."

Carl thought about it briefly, and the information about him appeared in his mind.

[Arasaka Nobuyuki]: The heir of the Arasaka Group, the youngest and only living son of Arasaka Saburo, the head of the Arasaka Group.

"I know the heir of the famous Arasaka Group."

"The young group in the Arasaka Group led by him is called the Hawks by the people in the group. Their style of doing things is extremely aggressive. The philosophy they pursue is to get more benefits by provoking disputes, and they are particularly keen to provoke conflicts between Arasaka and military technology. Do you understand this?"

Listening to Blanca's words, Carl nodded slightly: "I understand."

The matter is already quite clear and simple.

"Do they want to use the death of Arasaka Haruko to provoke a conflict between Arasaka and military technology?"

"To be precise, the person they are targeting is not the eldest daughter of the Arasaka family, but her mother, Arasaka Michiko."

Michiko Arasaka is the daughter of Arasaka Kei, the brother of Arasaka Nobuyuki, and a Japanese-American. In terms of identity, she was born and raised in the United States and identifies herself more as an American. Although she later returned to the Arasaka family, she is also a pro-military technology person in the Arasaka Group, which obviously offended the young and vigorous faction, and a group of people in military technology who also wanted to provoke disputes.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If you think along this line of thought, this puzzling thing can be solved.

Arasaka's leader Saburo Arasaka doubted Haruko Arasaka's bloodline because she was the child of his mother Michiko and a pure American. Then, for some unknown reason, Haruko Arasaka accepted a kind of "Bushido" style pure bloodline test conducted by Saburo Arasaka. During this process, some people in Arasaka and military technology who were interested in Arasaka Michiko made some tricks and arranged the ACPA, a killer weapon, to come in.

Then, I got beaten up.

Damn, what's this?

Blanca saw that Carl understood the situation and said, "The reason why I told you all this in detail is because this matter still needs some finishing touches for you to deal with... Let's go back to the question at the beginning, which was a bit off topic. You asked me too much. Do you know who the driver is?"

"Now I know that he is from your military technology."

"Then you need to know more now... His code name is 10, and his real name was erased when he joined the military technology. He is the best driver trained by our company in the past few years."

"So?"

"What I mean is that there are a group of pilots who are not as good as him, but are equally outstanding. And these people are deeply humiliated by the death of Zero. They can't go to Adam Hammer because Adam Hammer is now employed by Arasaka. So in order to wash away this shame, they are targeting you."

"Targeted me?"

Why do I have a sense of déjà vu of 'If I can't beat Adam Hammer, can I beat you, a street mercenary?'

"If they're targeting me, just target me. Anyway, they can't bring in an ACPA."

"That's probably unlikely. This one alone has caused Arasaka and our company to shirk responsibility and blame each other, but the exoskeleton is still within the permitted range."

Exoskeleton...

"These guys have nothing to do. Do they have to come and die? Doesn't Military Technology have any mission?"

"The technical department staff in Military Technology are very interested in their actual combat data... The supervisor over there is willing to use you as a test subject and wants to compare ACPA and exoskeleton."

Blanca said, showing a smile: "That's why I came to you, Carl, I plan to cooperate with you to get rid of these ACPA elites."

"What's the reason?"

Carl stared at Blanca's smile: "I remember you said just now that you are now a manager in this area?"

"These people are subordinates of the last manager who has sunk to the sea. I don't trust them."

In other words, if they are trustworthy, then the people who will deal with Carl this time will be Blanca's men.

"Sure enough, you are a qualified company dog."

"Then, cooperation?"

"I can cooperate... but I need to be paid. You are taking advantage of this matter. You only need to provide information and wait for me to do things, but I have to risk my life."

"This is also saving yourself, isn't it... But I knew you would say that."

Blanca already knew Carl's personality, she stretched out two fingers.

"I can use my authority to help you get two military technology prostheses without backdoors, how about it."

"Happy cooperation."

Carl shook Blanca's hand without hesitation.