Cyberpunk: Raising the Corporate Dog

Jingxuan: "It can only mean that he did not rely on positioning equipment. He followed him all the way with his naked eyes..."

Several guns were pointed at him. The man who claimed to be Kudo Shota was very calm and raised his hands high:

"Everyone, relax. I was ordered by Arasaka Yorinobu to follow Takemura Goro all the way before I saw you. After he was stopped by the Uzumaki Gang, I continued to follow you here."

V held his forehead and asked: "Kudo, you have been promoted very quickly recently, and you are already out of Michiko's jurisdiction."

Everyone was surprised at first, but then it made sense. V was now a middle-level cadre in Arasaka.

Kudo: "Don't worry, I'm working for Yorinobu now. Not only will I not reveal your secrets, I will also help you. But the prerequisite is that you are willing to cooperate with us."

V signaled everyone to put down their weapons, and the weapons were slowly put away. Rebecca finally removed the gun.

Kudo seemed to be waiting for V to suggest changing the place to talk:

"It seems that you are planning to talk in front of these punk friends of yours? Aren't you worried about the risks?"

V: "It's a friendship that has passed n times. Just tell me the content."

Victor stood up and said, "I'll go out and you guys can talk."

No one stopped it, and it was impossible to stop it. Except for Victor, they were all mercenaries. Victor was a prosthetic doctor. He was just very nice and responsible to everyone, and there was no need to involve himself in such a big incident.

Think about the current situation, the burning of the Kanbi Building and the internal fighting in Arasaka.

Why does Victor want to know this?

After he left, Kudo Jiraiya walked into the house and leaned against the wall:

"My original mission was to come here to grab the relic chip, but V has already activated the chip, so the experiment has begun. Instead of grabbing it, I might as well cooperate with you."

Jingxuan is also very anxious about relic:

"Then what kind of cooperation law?"

Kudo: "Although there are already many advertisements for Relic on the market, Relic is actually still in an undeveloped stage. In other words, inserting this chip into the brain is very risky."

Jingxuan: "We have completed V's brain scan ourselves. Her consciousness is slowly being invaded by the digital personality Johnny Silverhand in Relic."

Kudo seems to have known the answer for a long time: "Of course, do you think that Johnny Silverhand was killed by Adam's Hammer? Or did he die in the nuclear explosion he detonated? Was Johnny Silverhand killed by Aso Miyuki with the Soul Killer? Killed and made into a digital personality.”

Jingxuan and V looked at each other in disbelief, and Brother Gou also had a solemn look on his face.

The three of them would never have guessed that Jingxuan's mother was the one who killed Johnny's silver hand with her own hands.

At the same time, Jingxuan really wanted to pursue the question, but Brother Gou said there was no rush. Since the other party proposed cooperation, they could talk about Aso Miyuki in detail later.

Seeing the shock on everyone's faces, Kudo took his expressiveness to another level:

"Ott Cunningham, Johnny's former girlfriend, developed Soul Killer, and then she died. Then Miyuki Aso took over the project, and Hanako Arasaka also participated for many years. Of course, the name of this project has always been Later, Anders Hermann led the project and renamed it relic. This is the history of the relic biochip."

Jingxuan couldn't bear it anymore:

"What about Miyuki Aso? Is she out of the relic project now?"

Kudo: "I don’t know what Miyuki Aso is doing. She is a key figure and we are also looking for her. Okay, I think I have explained it clearly enough to you. Now let’s talk about the cooperation content."

Jingxuan, V: "Okay."

Kudo raised his index finger: "First of all, V has to collect data for me regularly. Second, I won't expose V. V, you are now a popular person in front of Michiko. I don't care what your reasons are for stealing relic, you have to do it now One thing to make up for your mistake is to turn a deaf ear to Michiko and win over Michiko, the dove force in Arasaka, to be used by Yorinobu's hawk force."

Now Lucy and Rebecca didn't understand what Jingxuan, V, and Kudo said at all, and David didn't understand most of it either, but he was interested. Once he caught someone he could understand, he would interrupt:

"You yourself talked about doves and hawks. These two factions are completely opposite. How can you win over them?"

V was also full of doubts: "Yes, this kind of thing is not true in common sense."

Kudo raised his index finger: "No, no, no, this must be done, otherwise Night City may disappear from the map soon."

Everyone was silent.

Kudo continued: "Why do you think the Kujira came to Colorado Bay?"

David: "That nuclear aircraft carrier?"

Kudo smiled evilly: "Night City has been bombed by a nuclear bomb once before, right? What if it happens again? Okay, V, come with me and cooperate well with Yorinobu. You will be indispensable for prosperity and wealth in the future."

Brother Gou: "I have a question. When this guy was following and watching the game, his phone number was blown by your [communication short circuit]. Jingxuan, please add him as a friend now and call him in person. This is very dangerous." important."

Jingxuan trusted Brother Gou very much and complied.

Kudo: "No need to add friends. V and I have numbers and can contact us."

Jingxuan turned into blue eyes, and her tone was no longer one of discussion, but extremely aggressive:

"Let me ask you again, do you want to add me as a friend?" Kudo Shota subconsciously took a step back, his face looked slightly panicked, and he lost the calmness he had at the beginning:

"Does it matter whether you add friends or not? Um...what do you want to do?"

The figure of Brother Dog was like a ray of light. When no one present could see the action clearly, Kudo Shota's cervical vertebra was shattered and tilted to one side!

Brother Gou held his head down with one hand and hit it against the wall.

Then he got into the gap where he rebounded after colliding with the wall, that is, around his back, and strangled the Hijima man's neck with one hand.

Of course, he used Sianwistan. While everyone was stunned, Brother Gou dragged the body into the room and closed the door.

Brother Gou knew it was necessary to explain his behavior, so he did not return control to Jingxuan.

He called Victor back and said:

"This person said a lot, and I think most of it is true. A casual braggart can't say so many logically related things. But he wanted to take advantage of V's desire to get a promotion in Arasaka and deceive V away. Yes, Take V away without any conflict under the eyes of so many of us."

Victor was playing with his body, having taken out Kudo's personal loading phone.

Brother Gou smiled lightly when he saw it: "Huh, sure enough. For the sake of safety, let's pack up our things first and let's change places. Lao Weitou can go back first. I believe he doesn't want to get involved in this kind of thing."

Everyone helped Victor move his things, and he drove away. It was very simple for the remaining people to move to another place. There were already many shabby hotels in the North District.

After changing to a hotel, Brother Dog started to talk:

"You also saw that the loading phone of the guy named Kudo was disabled by my [communication short circuit], right David? Do you still remember when your loading phone broke?"

David: "Well, it broke when the katana bodyguard was chasing us."

Brother Dog: "So now, looking back, when Takemura Goro chased us, Kudo Shota also followed, and he was within the 500-meter effective range of my [communication short circuit], so his phone was also disabled. There is no need to digest what he provided first. complex information, you see his purpose, his purpose is to take V away, right?"

"Yes."

"V was taken away because the relic chip has been activated and cannot be forcibly pulled out, otherwise the chip may become useless. Of course, V may also die. So his core purpose is to take away the relic while it is intact. Excuse me, Is there any difference between this and the actions of Goro Takemura?"

Everyone's thoughts were clarified by Brother Gou, and V said:

"So Kudo and Takemura are from the same faction and both work for Saburo Arasaka. Takemura didn't know the conditions for relic activation, so he killed me without hesitation. Kudo overheard the current situation of relic, so he couldn't force it, and besides, he didn't This strength is achieved in front of so many of us."

Brother Dog: "Yes, his phone is broken. This is the North District. It's not easy to find someone. Moreover, he has to follow us closely. We can't bring in reinforcements yet. So if hard work doesn't work, let's use soft ones."

V: “That’s why I proposed [cooperation] and took me back to Arasaka effortlessly.”

"Yes, there is actually no problem at all for you to return to Arasaka. It's just that you can't let Arasaka know that you have Relic in your head, and you still bring it to Saburo Arasaka. In that case, you will be in danger."

After Brother Gou said this, he communicated with Jingxuan in his mind. This pause made everyone uncomfortable because they were all listening carefully to what he said.

Brother Gou looked at Jingxuan's pretty face and smiled awkwardly:

"Sorry, I was just thinking about how to make a fake anti-scanning program for V. After thinking about it, it's okay. As long as V is not censored by the physical interface connection in the future, it will not be exposed."

V: "The factional fighting within Arasaka is true, and Kudo is not lying about it. So after we left the Kanbi Building, it was also true that there was a fight within Arasaka. The building was burned down."

Brother Dog: "Well, this Kudo used to belong to Michiko's dove faction, right?"

V: "Yes, I have worked with him before on missions. Later he left Night City. As for who he works for, I don't know."

Brother Dog: "Okay, Kudo is dead, Arasaka won't know the whereabouts of Relic, it's safe for now."

Jingxuan in her mind: "Next, we can only study relic on our own, together with V." V's next sentence made everyone explode:

"Perhaps... I should make a further surrender directly to Michiko Arasaka regarding the relic."

Rebecca remained silent because she was too lazy to understand this kind of intrigue.

But even Rebecca knows that V’s behavior of throwing himself into a trap may cause V to disappear from the world:

"V, what are you doing? Is your brain damaged because of a strange chip inserted into your brain?"

Jingxuan didn't want this to happen, so Brother Gou gave up the control to Jingxuan: "Aren't you taking the initiative to put yourself in the tiger's mouth?"

First, Jingxuan really didn’t want anything to happen to V.

Second, if V is really disappeared by Arasaka like her mother, all the hard work she put in and risking her life time and time again will be in vain.

V looks very calm and doesn’t look crazy:

"You don't understand. I have an agreement with Michiko. She will protect me."

Jingxuan stood up and walked back and forth. Unable to suppress her emotions, her tone was very harsh:

"You have an agreement with Michiko? V, is there anything else that we don't know? Is there a script for you to help me get the relic this time? You are not actually helping me, right?"

V stood up, held Jingxuan's cheeks with his hands, and said quite sincerely:

"Jingxuan, can you believe me? This world is controlled by companies. We can't go around wreaking havoc like cyberpunks. That won't solve the problem. This kind of resistance is just a small fight. Only real intervention Only the company system can cure the root cause."

Rebecca and Lucy couldn't stand hearing it anymore, especially since Rebecca had already slapped the table:

"What are you talking about V? Are you serious? What's wrong with us cyberpunks? Are we making a small fuss? Aren't companies like this parasites? They should be overthrown!"

Lucy had suffered a lot from Arasaka, so she naturally agreed with Rebecca's point of view, but it was David who was in trouble:

"Lucy, Rebecca, Sister V, please don't quarrel between us. We can discuss anything. I also think it's not that we can't cooperate with the company..."

Lucy's emotions were triggered:

"What are you talking about David? I thought you knew me very well, but you actually talked about cooperating with the company!" After speaking, Lucy slammed the door angrily and walked out.

Rebecca: "I really misjudged you David!" After saying that, Rebecca chased Lucy out. David was also anxious and followed him out.

Brother Gou: "Jingxuan, don't get excited. V is already in the company system, and David is also ready to invest in this system. He will either join Arasaka or use technology. Their positions are different from those of you and me. Si, Rebecca is different.”

Jingxuan: "Do you mean that Johnny Relic will be handed over to others like this?"

Brother Dog: "The fight within the Arasaka family was irreconcilable, so the fight started, and it was obviously related to Johnny Relic. Have you ever thought about it, you yourself analyzed me, Brother Dog Relic, countless times, and as a result, you analyzed What is it? Although you are also an excellent hacker, even a layman like me knows that hackers also have many professional directions. It just so happens that you are not a neural network professional. "

Jingxuan: "Then I will continue to investigate Relic along with V and Michiko, right?"

Brother Dog: "What's the benefit of breaking up with V now? Will she listen to you? Everyone thinks they are right. You have to change other people's core values... That's not realistic. Besides, from the emotional aspect You don’t want to either, right? Continue to maintain a good relationship with V, dig into Relic’s secrets, and find your mother.”

At this time, externally, V was also constantly persuading Jingxuan, telling her that she would share all the information about Relic with her without reservation. Jingxuan was listening to Brother Gou's words at first, but now she has the energy to listen to V.

V: "Jingxuan, do you underestimate me too much? I will not betray you, and I will tell you everything about Michiko and I. My current life, Valerie, is all given to me by you and your mother. I will never forget it. I will definitely find out what happened to Aunt Miyuki, trust me."