Game world survival starts from Resident Evil 2

While Lai Xuan was taking action, Li You was looking at the sea.

He was standing on the coast of Arasaka Beach with Yuzu and Edge, looking far away.

Although it was cloudy today, Li You's eyesight was good enough to see the distant scene clearly.

From where he stood, he could see the small island where the Night City Airport was located in the middle of the bay. Two moon rockets were quietly parked on the island, pointing straight to the sky.

And on the sea surface, which was almost the last vertex of the regular triangle with the airport and Li You's position, was the aircraft carrier belonging to Arasaka - Kujira, also known as the White Whale.

Li You, like other players, was familiar with this name.

After all, when the game was first launched, while waiting on the loading interface, you could hear the female host of the "Intelligence Talk" program, Ruth Zheng, talking about this nuclear-powered carrier.

What? Don't remember? It's okay, Li You doesn't remember it very clearly, at worst, just listen to it again.

"…Hello everyone, welcome to continue watching my show. You all know the Arasaka aircraft carrier in the Night City port, right? It's called the 'Kujira', or the White Whale."

"The guys in the company think that this ship is not safe to park in Japan..."

Li You simply listened for a while and then turned off the radio program.

After all, it was just a radio program for the public, and the only information he could hear was public information, which was actually useless. It would be better for him to take a closer look.

This White Whale was the transportation that Saburo Arasaka took to come to Night City this time.

Yes, the emperor of Arasaka just went out and took a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it was the kind with a nuclear missile launcher.

Of course, this was not entirely because he was extravagant or insecure. Players can find an encrypted data record in his hovercraft in the game, and this record mentioned that if the relic could not be retrieved this time, Saburo Arasaka would not mind razing Night City to the ground.

So the arrival of the Kujira was more of a trump card for Saburo.

As for whether it was the aircraft carrier that Arasaka came to Night City at the end of the Unification War and forced Military Technology and New America to stop the unification process, Li You was not sure.

But whether it was or not, it did not affect the heavyweight status of the Kujira.

According to Li You's visual observation, it was several kilometers long, and the displacement was impossible to estimate. Its hull adopted a very retro three-stage flight deck, which was obviously to suit Saburo Arasaka's preferences, and the Arasaka logo was engraved on the black hull.

"Will Arasaka Hanako... be on it?"

Li You looked at the Kujira from afar and thought in his heart.

Arasaka's Tokyo headquarters strictly blocked the news of Saburo's travel until the Kujira arrived near the bay of Night City, and the people on the ship finally notified the branch here.

So even Lai Xuan didn't know whether his sister, Arasaka Hanako, came with Saburo.

For Saburo and Lai Xuan, Hanako was undoubtedly a key role. Her attitude and decision also affect Lai Xuan's ending in a sense.

In the game, it was after she was abducted at the festival to commemorate Saburo and took this opportunity to communicate with V that V's story led to the final chapter.

Whether the player chooses to cooperate with her or not, he must meet her in the end to learn the location of the mikoshi from her. So meeting Huazi became the "last task" in the game.

And for the same reason, Cyberpunk 2077 is also called "Huazi Wait".

Li You stood here looking at the sea, one was thinking whether to be specially prepared for this aircraft carrier loaded with nuclear bombs and Arasaka Huazi who might be waiting on it.

Secondly, it was also because this place was very close to the Blue Green Building. As long as the link between the Night Demons was used, others could understand what happened even if they were not at the scene.

So at this time, Li You was still staring at the Kujira in a daze, and Edge had already spoken: "...They started."

Li You came back to his senses after hearing this: "Is Saburo Arasaka... dead?"

Age nodded: "At least his body is dead, V is recording the scene."

Li You turned his head and saw that the area around the Blue Building not far away suddenly became lively.

Arasaka drones of all sizes were rotating around the top of the building to search, and a little further away, the floating car of the trauma team was also coming.

Li You took out his mobile phone and turned on the news station, and sure enough, he saw that all major media outlets were blown up.

"...According to the latest news, Saburo Arasaka, President and CEO of Arasaka Corporation, came to Night City today and met with his family at the Blue Building on the Arasaka coast."

"However, during this process, Saburo Arasaka and his son Yoriaki Arasaka were attacked by unknown persons, and it is said that one of them was seriously injured. The specific information is not clear at the moment, and this station will continue to follow up on the report..."

Look at another station, this is directly live news.

"…Hello everyone, I am now not far from the Arasaka Blue Building. From this angle, you can see that the top floor of the building is surrounded by drones, and the trauma team has also sent their hovercraft to this place."

"But the Arasaka family has not yet issued an official statement, and the Blue Building has been completely blocked, so we have no way of knowing... Wait, what is that!!"

The camera lens suddenly turned, zoomed in quickly, and focused on the top floor of the building.

On the top floor of the building, the warning lights on a large number of patrolling drones suddenly flashed wildly, and then the intelligent machine guns on them began to shoot continuously!

In the middle, two vague figures jumped down from the edge of the building and slid down along the tilted glass outer wall!

The drones chased them closely, and the two men took out grenades and threw them down, blowing up the lower half of the glass wall, allowing themselves to fall into the gap, and the pursuit of the drone group was interrupted.

The journalists were also very excited: "Dear friends, did you see it! The battle that just happened on the building!"

"Don't go away, this station..."

Li You cut off the live broadcast again.

"It seems that the plan was implemented smoothly."

Of course, these two suspected killers who deliberately appeared at this time and made such a big noise were the Night Demons that Li You and Lai Xuan had arranged long ago.

Although as long as Arasaka Saburo's physical body died, Lai Xuan theoretically didn't need to worry too much, he only needed to immediately mobilize his hawkish forces to try to seize power.

However, the two of them also intend to drag Military Technology into the water, so they have to arrange it a little bit.

Of course, the blame for Saburo Arasaka's murder should be put on Military Technology! What a good opportunity!

Obviously, even Lai Xuan in the original game obviously thought so.

Because there is no V who "accidentally" entered the crime scene to help attract attention this time, Li You and Lai Xuan arranged another actor to reproduce the original development. The key role of "assassination" will be played by another enthusiastic employee-Goro Takemura.

Yes, after all, V's role has changed now, so Takemura can only take on the responsibility of "assassinating Saburo Arasaka" alone.

Anyway, he was also the one who took the blame for Hanako's death in the tower ending. Takemura is professional at this job, so don't worry.

Li You and Lai Xuan had planned it long ago. Lai Xuan will declare at the emergency Arasaka board meeting that Goro Takemura was bribed by Military Technology and attacked him and Saburo together with the killers they sent. Saburo was stabbed in the back by his personal bodyguard and died on the spot.

As for himself, he was spared because of the protection of "Heavy Hammer" and his special operations team members.

As for Takemura and another killer, they took the opportunity to escape and disappeared.

Taking this opportunity, Lai Xuan will point the spearhead directly at Military Technology and mobilize the factions in the company that are loyal to him to start seizing power in Arasaka as quickly as possible.

There are two other factions within Arasaka. The leader of the dove faction is his niece, Arasaka Michiko, who is close to Military Technology and New America, but at this time she will definitely not oppose it. At most, she will jump out and say that it is not certain that it was done by Military Technology.

As for the Shan Ji faction led by his sister Huazi, they are a group of conservatives who are loyal to Saburo's ideas. Now that Saburo himself is gone, this group of people is in chaos, which just gives Lai Xuan an opportunity.

This kind of internal power struggle in the company, Li You can't intervene. He is good at killing people, but he is really not familiar with company politics.

So the next plan can only be completed by Lai Xuan, and at most with V who follows him. Li You waited quietly to see if there was any emergency, and then decided how to deal with it.

"Let's go, let's go back first." Li You said, "This place is still too close to the Blue Green Building, don't let us get involved later."

Li You took the two people on the Merrimack and was about to leave when he heard Yuzu remind him:

"... Li You, there is a hovercraft."

Li You was stunned at first, but when he looked in the direction Yuzu pointed, he realized that what he was talking about was a hovercraft that had just taken off from the Kujira.

The vector engine of the hovercraft spurted out flames and flew towards the direction of Arasaka Tower.

Li You stared at the floating car that was going away, and his brows couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Is it Arasaka Hanako on it? If so, what is she doing at Arasaka Tower?

"... Let's go, let's make all emergency preparations."

Watching the hovercraft go away and no longer visible, Li You started the car and drove towards Taipingzhou.

...

In the underground base of Taipingzhou Chapel.

Li You sat on a chair, watching the cybernetic night demons led by Bridget lying on hacker chairs, diving deep and carrying out important tasks.

And Li You was talking to Lai Xuan.

More than two hours had passed since the incident at the Blue Green Building. During this period, V called once and told Li You that Lai Xuan would soon convene a board meeting and she would also participate, and then hung up.

Li You also asked her at that time whether Arasaka Hanako had appeared in Arasaka Tower, but got a negative answer.

So Li You called Lai Xuan again and asked him to contact Hanako, but even Lai Xuan couldn't get through to Hanako's phone. Hanako seemed to have suddenly lost contact.

This little accident gave Li You a not-so-good premonition in his heart.

"...Do you think Hanako might have gone to the mikoshi?"

On the other end of the communication, Lai Xuan's tone was a bit complicated.

His eldest brother, Arasaka Kei, was born to Saburo's ex-wife and had a grudge against him, but Hanako and he had the same mother and the best relationship.

When she was young, Hanako liked Yoshinobu very much. Fifty years ago, she helped to ease the relationship between Yoshinobu and Saburo and let Yoshinobu return to the family.

Being able to mediate the conflict between the two most important men in the Arasaka family, Hanako's importance goes without saying. But in essence, Hanako's life was actually controlled by Saburo.

Yorinobu does not want to commit fratricide with his biological sister, which can be seen from several endings of the game. But if necessary, he will also let people deal with this "problem" for him.

Li You naturally told Lai Xuan about the floating car he saw, and Lai Xuan was also wary - he knew the story of the devil's ending.

But if things really get to that point, there will be no way for it to end peacefully.

In fact, Li You was also curious before. Did Lai Xuanzang in the game know that Arasaka Saburo's consciousness was stored in the shrine? But think about it carefully, if he knew in advance, he would definitely not let Saburo continue to exist.

Just like their plans today.

Yori Xuan hesitated for a moment and finally made up his mind: "...If that is really Hanako, and she is really going to activate Saburo's imprint, then...just follow the backup plan!"

Li You was also a little surprised: "A backup plan? Are you sure?"

Yori Xuan's tone became firm again: "If this is really the worst case scenario, then there is no time left for us to use gentle means to destroy Saburo's consciousness. We can only attack with all our strength!"

Li You is not someone who will be indecisive on such important matters. Since Lai Xuan has made up his mind, he will naturally not say any more.

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

Communication was cut off, and Yori Xuan's board of directors was about to be held. If Hanako and Saburo wanted to take action, they should have done so at the meeting.

As for Li You, he has to do his own thing well.

He turned his eyes and looked at the hacker chair closest to him. Sasha was lying on it, with light flowing under the information goggles on his head.

On the other side, Lucy was soaking in the ice bath, also diving deep, while David stood by holding a towel and clothes.

After a moment, Sasha moved, raised his hand to take off his mask, sat up, and let out a sigh of relief.

Li You handed over a bottle of water: "Thank you for your hard work."

Sasha immediately took it with a smile, took a big sip, and then said: "The mission is accomplished. The system of 'that' has been adjusted."

Li You also had a smile on his face: "Well done!"

On the other side, Lucy also stood up from the ice bath. David quickly put a towel on her and helped her out.

Lucy didn't shy away from it. She simply wiped it with a towel, wrapped it around her body, and said, "I've finished it here, but unfortunately, there's no good news."

"Bridget and the others have completed the positioning process. As long as they plug in your chip, it will be able to run. But if the person they are looking for is really what you said, that is... that kind of thing, then no matter how many layers of protection we build It’s all useless, she can still turn our brains into mushy paste just by thinking about it.”

"Really..." Li You was not disappointed. It would be better to say that he had no hope at the beginning.

"So." Lucy took a sip from the water glass David handed her, "If you really plan to contact that person, then I won't get involved. The existence outside the black wall is so terrifying, you don't even know how terrifying it is. …”

Lucy suddenly fell silent and took another big gulp of ice water to regain her composure.

"In short, that's it. You can ask Bridget for more details. They are also experienced in seeking death."

Li You knew about Lucy's psychological trauma, so he naturally didn't ask further questions. He just nodded: "Okay, thank you for your hard work. David, take her to rest." David agreed and helped Lucy to rest. Go to the room.

Sasha watched them leave, and suddenly asked Li You: "In the end, we have to...do it with real swords and guns, right?"

Li You looked at her: "Huh?"

Sasha said: "Although I don't know what you are planning specifically, I can feel that you want to do something big that can change this city... much more seriously than my original nonsense."

"But that's why I can't help but think, can we really..."

Li You suddenly interrupted her: "Don't think too much."

He raised his hand, gently touched Sasha's hair, and said, "Do you remember what I said? I won't get into trouble easily. As long as I'm fine, I will also protect you who came to help me. "

"So don't worry, go and have a good rest. If you really want to use that thing in the passage, you'll have to work hard."

Li You said so, and Sasha stopped asking any more questions. She grabbed Li You's hand, closed her eyes and waited for a moment, then stood up: "Waiting for your news!"

She left immediately.

Li You took another look at the Night Demons who were still diving deeply, paused, and pulled out a pistol from his waist.

It was a wide, dark silver pistol, equipped with a camera and a sight. It looked like a typical HJKE-11 Yukimura produced by Arasaka, a smart pistol.

Li You pressed the unlock button on the gun, and the miniature camera on the side flashed and projected an image of a character.

With curly black hair, big sunglasses, combat uniform and silver arms, there was no doubt that that was Johnny, except... he had a three-headed body shape at this time.

- Johnny Silverhand, but a big-headed kid.

Of course, it goes without saying that although the image has become the Q version, its inner essence is still Johnny's imprinted consciousness.

As for Johnny's new image, it was also chosen by Li You. He felt that this way Johnny would appear less worthy of being beaten.

At this time, Johnny's Q-version villain folded his arms, still looking like I am the best in the world, but his expression was rarely serious.

He looked at Li You and asked: "...What are you and Arasaka Yorinobu planning?"

Li You said: "Finally calm down, are you willing to have a good talk with me?"

Johnny tutted heavily: "I have calmed down a long time ago! But you put me in this broken gun and walked around without letting me talk! Is this the attitude of wanting to talk!?"

"That's because you have a loud voice and like to talk nonsense." Li You replied calmly, "You yell at everyone you meet. I want to put you back and continue listening to gay fried eggs."

Even Johnny couldn't help but pause when he heard the name, and then said: "...Fuck, don't, I'm tired of that stuff."

"But compared to this, you fucking answer the question. What do you want to do?"

Li You said: "You have seen everything here, and you have heard my communication with Lai Xuan. Do you still want to ask me what I want to do?"

Johnny was speechless for a while.

Hermann, who received the development task, acted quickly. He adjusted the Yukimura smart pistol produced by Arasaka, and then installed a module connected to the relic chip.

According to him, Arasaka had already studied intelligent pistols equipped with weak AI, so he only needed to make a slight modification to complete the task.

Then Li You took out Johnny Relic, who was almost vomiting after being tortured by the gay fried egg, inserted it into the gun, and put it on himself.

Similarly, the chip was in an activated state, and Herman also installed related hardware, so Johnny could hear the outside world in the gun.

But if Li You didn't unlock it, he couldn't speak out, which made Johnny feel suffocated.

But soon, what he heard in the gun and what he occasionally saw through the camera made him not care so much.

Lai Xuan... killed Saburo Arasaka?

What's going on! ?

Johnny looked at Li You with a serious face: "Mercenary, I heard everything you said, so I roughly know what happened."

"But what I need is for you to tell me what plan you and Lai Xuan have, what you want to achieve, and how you want to do it.

"I also know what you and your hackers are thinking. You want to pass through the black wall and contact Ultra, right? If you want to do that, you need my help.

"Tell me what your plan is, and I'll help you talk to Ultra."

Li You and Q version Johnny looked at each other for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay."

...

76th floor of Arasaka Tower, rainforest landscape conference hall.

This floor is a tropical rainforest landscape restored by Arasaka Corporation with the latest technology. It is very natural and is also a special venue for the company's board of directors meeting.

At this time, in the conference area, Lai Xuan sat at the main seat at the end of the long table, with his arms clasped and supported on the table.

"Heavy Hammer" and the cybernetic Night Demons surrounded him, and next to him, V, who was wearing a suit, was holding a tablet and playing the records she made on the scene of the Blue Blue Building.

"... As you can see, this is all the clues we found. The military technology is vicious, and the top floor suite of the building has almost become a battlefield."

In front of many Arasaka bosses, V still looked calm and talked freely.

If it was before, in such an occasion, she would definitely be restrained if she didn't say she was nervous. After all, this level of meeting, not to mention her boss Jenkins, even Jenkins' immediate superior, Abernathy, the director of Arasaka Special Operations, is not qualified to participate in normal times.

However, V's perspective and concept are very different now. Even when facing these Arasaka directors, she thinks they are just a group of people, no difference.

So she talked freely and showed all the materials prepared in advance one by one.

"…As Lord Arasaka Yorinobu himself said, this attack was launched by Goro Takemura, who was originally the personal bodyguard of Lord Arasaka Saburo, who was an insider in the company.

"He and the assassin lurking in the dark launched a sudden attack at the same time, and Lord Saburo was caught off guard and was killed by him. Lord Yorinobu narrowly escaped because he had his own guards, but he also suffered some minor injuries, but fortunately he was not seriously injured.

"Afterwards, we also investigated Takemura Goro and found that he had long been dissatisfied with Saburo-sama, so he secretly conspired with Military Technology and took on the task of assassinating Saburo-sama... The evidence is all here."

So far, V has shown all the content, and then he took the tablet and quietly retreated behind Lai Xuan's chair, standing on the left and right of "Heavy Hammer".

And Lai Xuan put his hands down and placed them on the table, with a serious look: "Everyone, you have seen it. Military Technology has done everything to attack us Arasaka, and even bribed my father's personal bodyguard to carry out the assassination. It's simply crazy!"

"Arasaka cannot tolerate such provocations and attacks, so I announce that I will take over as CEO of Arasaka Company and publicly hold Military Technology accountable!"

Looking at his righteous appearance, the other directors did not respond loudly, but looked at each other.

Too suspicious.

Although on the surface, the evidence V brought out was very complete, but upon closer inspection, there were indeed many loopholes.

Apart from other things, many people know Goro Takemura. This man's mind is basically full of Arasaka Saburo. He said he would cooperate with military technology to assassinate Saburo? These directors feel that the possibility of doing such a thing is greater than that of Takemura.

Besides, how long has it been since then? How come the counterintelligence department of your Night City branch has already found out the secret transactions of Takemura belonging to the Tokyo headquarters?

In short, if you really think about it, Lai Xuan and V's statements are full of loopholes and are only reasonable on the surface.

More directors immediately suspected Yori Xuan himself.

But no one spoke, and in fact, this kind of evidence was enough.

In any case, Saburo Arasaka himself has died, and he died suddenly. Since he did not leave any last words, it is logical for Yorinobu Arasaka to take over as CEO.

As long as what Yori Xuan does next is in the interests of these directors, they will support him.

As for Yori Xuan pointing the finger at military technology, in the eyes of the directors, it is just a passing blame.

So at this moment, the directors were all silent, thinking about how to safeguard their own interests.

But at this moment.

An alarm suddenly sounded on the entire 76th floor. Teams of heavily armed Arasaka agents rushed in from the entrance. They surrounded the entire board of directors, including Yorinobu and the surrounding Night Demons, and pointed their guns at everyone mercilessly. .

The directors were shocked at that time, and some even raised eyebrows and asked Lai Xuan: "What's going on? What do you want to do?"

Yori Xuan ignored this idiot at all, but looked at the surrounding troops solemnly.

Sure enough...are you here?

In the huge space of an entire floor, an old but majestic voice suddenly sounded. The voice progressed layer by layer, and finally reverberated in the building like a tsunami, as if the voice of God descended from the sky.

"...Yi Xuan, you are still too anxious."

That voice was familiar to everyone present.

Saburo Arasaka.

The hidden camera on the floor casts a red light, and lines outline the huge head of Saburo Arasaka in mid-air. He was suspended in the hall, his blood-red eyes looking down at everyone below.

"...You are just a bunch of brats. Letting you sit here is really an insult to the name of Arasaka."

All the directors were frightened. Unlike the devil ending, the way Saburo Arasaka appeared at this time was really shocking.

Saburo Arasaka is best at inspiring fear in others, something Yorinobu also admits. But at this time, he appeared in this way not to shock the board of directors, because there was no need to deal with this group of people.

Saburo Arasaka's target is very clear, only Yorinobu himself.

Yori Xuan raised his head and looked at Saburo's head in mid-air. He first closed his eyes hard, then opened them again.

"...You left me with no choice."

Hearing this, the head of Saburo in the air also condensed his eyes!

The next moment, "Hammer" and V behind Yori Xuan raised their guns at the same time and pulled the trigger!

"Bang bang——!!"

The two of them were aiming at nothing else but the hidden cameras in the hall. They shot them to pieces and smashed them all to pieces.

And the huge head of Saburo Arasaka gradually disappeared into the air.

At the end, Saburo Arasaka looked at Yorinobu and left a sentence:

"...Then come on, Yori Xuan, let me see your trump card."

His image then completely dissipated.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding Arasaka agents immediately wanted to launch an attack, but before they could move, a large number of Night Demons suddenly rushed out of the surrounding jungle, drowning them like a tide!

"What's this--!?"

“Free to fire, free to fire—ah!!”

"Let me go, ahhhh!!"

The battle was short and brutal, and ended with the Arasaka agents being wiped out without even firing a few shots.

The board of directors was frightened, including Michiko Arasaka, who huddled under the table and shivered.

Yori Xuan stood up, his voice still calm: "Everyone! There are my opponents in the company who are trying to surrender and admit defeat. They dare not hold military technology accountable. For this reason, they even forged the image of my father. I absolutely Unacceptable!”

"Please follow my secret troops down to rest. After I deal with these traitors, we will have another meeting."

How dare board members say anything? He could only be held up by the night demons and left the venue.

After they left, Lai Xuan looked at V, who nodded and dialed Li You's number.

"... Something happened, Saburo Arasaka declared war!"

——Underground in Taipingzhou, Li You, who had closed his eyes to rest, suddenly opened his eyes.

Listening to V's report in the earphones, he suddenly grinned.

"I knew it was impossible to defeat Saburo Arasaka without fighting the boss battle."

He stood up and said to the night demons and hackers in front of him:

"Everyone, prepare for action!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Understood!"