Cyberpunk starts with signing in for the legendary mantis knife

The next morning, Ali went to Arasaka Academy as usual. David did not wear school uniform today, but the familiar yellow jacket in the anime.

In David's words, his family was out of money again, and the washing machine broke down halfway through washing his school uniform, so he had no choice but to wear the jacket.

Then poor David was punished by the virtual teacher to write an 800-word self-reflection according to the"not wearing school uniform" rule, and Ali asked him with a smile if he needed help.

Then, as a stubborn person with a strong self-esteem, even though David wanted to ask Ali for help in his heart, he still said on the surface that he didn't need Ali, and he could handle it himself.

Of course, this little episode in school passed in a flash, and soon it was time to go home. Ali went to the place where Lucy in the anime ran to exercise as usual, but unfortunately Ali did not meet Lucy. Ali even doubted whether the current Lucy had come to Night City, or whether she knew Qiwei, because Qiwei introduced Lucy to join the Mann team.

It's not like Lucy couldn't find a job in Night City and starved to death because of saving Sasha. Of course, this is a joke. Lucy is a high-level hacker who ran away from the Arasaka branch in another city. She won't starve to death.

It's just that without the protection of Mann's team, she might not dare to show up, but hide for fear of being caught by Arasaka.

After Ali finished running 16 kilometers, he returned home with regret for not seeing Lucy. He wanted to continue his learning journey. After returning home, Ali continued to open the company's internal explanation. The position of the minister where the female V was located was the watershed between the senior and middle-level employees in the company, and the manager level to be discussed next was the level below the minister.

The manager level was regarded as the middle and senior leaders in the company. If the managers below the minister level wanted to succeed, they must always be one step ahead of their colleagues at the same level.

If they want to become a ministerial-level executive, they must not only get a letter of recommendation from the ministerial-level direct superior, but also find a way to kill the superior who gave them the letter of recommendation. The process of getting promoted is very perverted and entangled.

In order to achieve this goal, mid- and high-level company employees have to play despicable games and use every opportunity to achieve their goals.

Because ambitious people will always use their own means to kill others, they will cooperate with guys on the street, buy information from middlemen, hire killers and netwalkers to do dirty work, bribe unethical police, collude with reporters, and other means to wipe out their competitors in the workplace.

It is a common company method to hire cyberpunks to do dirty work, just like the Arasaka manager who hired Faraday in Edgewalker, and various company jobs released in the next life, but most of them are just one-time employment relationships. There are only company V and Jack Wells, who are not only considered employment relationships, but also close friends.

In short, compared with the formal employees, although most low-level employees live very hard and hard, and they feel isolated from the world because of their constant work, they can at least live a stable life, unlike the formal employees in the company who are full of intrigues and may be killed on the streets of Night City if they are not careful.

Of course, the above situation is well known to the real"dominant" class of the company, because for an efficient company, all people and things are tools or weapons for them to achieve their goals.

In short, the company is in good order, the bottom-level employees live a"low risk, low return" life, the middle-level employees live a"medium risk, medium return" life, and the senior employees live a"high risk, high return" life.

Of course, most of them will withdraw from the competition sooner or later, because they will die from long-term use of stimulants and excessive stress, or be eaten by bigger and more hungry"sharks". In short, as long as they do not climb up to the"dominant" corporate class, even high-level ministers like Female V will have to live on thin ice. They may be chatting and laughing in the last second, and they may die on the street in the next second.

"The"Juggernauts" are at the top of the corporate pyramid, and they are the real assholes: board members, CEOs, company owners, and their blood relatives, such as Saburo Arasaka, Yorinobu Arasaka, and Hanako.

These people are the ruling members of the modern world. Most of them have inherited their positions from their families, but some have built their own alliances after decades of hard work, planning, pulling strings, and consolidating power.

These guys’ positions are relatively stable, but far from secure, as young and ambitious promotions are waiting for their slightest misstep.

Still, coups at the top of such business empires are relatively rare, and the stakes of the game at this level of power are quite high, so most"Juggernauts" will not risk starting an internal war easily.

Bad timing An attempt to overthrow the company could weaken the strength of their own company, and the company would quickly collapse. Let me tell you, this is what the supreme guys fear the most. The company is their life, more important than their blood. Almost every CEO will sacrifice anyone and anything in their personal life to ensure the prosperity of the company.

Especially the management of the company, which is occupied by the most cunning and ruthless people, who are ready to sacrifice anyone and anything to maintain their leading position.

The main threat to any giant company is always other giant companies. On the way to the top of the food chain, these companies will work together fanatically to overcome the opposition of domestic and foreign governments. They will also turn against each other coldly, just like the Fourth Corporate War, military technology They struck hard at Arasaka Corporation, but even though giant corporations were hit hard, they were able to recover quickly all over the world.

In places without strong governments, such as Night City, competition between companies has become fierce, and they regard each other as their most deadly enemies.

Every field, including weapons, pharmaceuticals, cyber components, bioengineering, mechanization, construction and food industries are eternal war zones for companies, and only the strongest guys can survive.

On this battlefield, there are no rules to speak of. The company's foreign policy is as cruel and ruthless as its internal system. In order to maintain their position and make their competitors surrender, these guys will do everything they can: from bribery, extortion, kidnapping to manipulating the global market, and even starting a revolution.

In order to confront competitors in a more personal way... To deal with rivals, companies hire outside mercenaries to take care of business. These well-trained, but usually disposable, mercenaries cover all types of dirty work: assassinations, industrial sabotage, espionage, kidnapping company officials and experts... and any dirty business you can name.

So in Night City, only the stupidest, bravest or most desperate people will choose to be enemies with the company, and those who dare to fight the company and achieve good results will be praised as legends by the rest of the cyberpunks.

Legends may shine for a while, but they can't stand the passage of time until a new star surpasses them and replaces them, until they are abandoned by the ever-changing tastes of fans.

In fact, those so-called legends may just become people's after-dinner talk.

Ali turned off the recording chip. After these days of understanding, he found that the water in Night City is much deeper than what is shown in the game, especially the huge steel torrent that keeps rotating like the company. The so-called minister like the female V is just a slightly larger screw to keep the company's machinery running. Being in the company will never be free.

After reading the internal information of the company, Ali fell into thinking, should he help V escape the shackles of the company, or help V consolidate her position in the company.