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"Feel sorry……"

David responded in a low voice, lowering his head in embarrassment.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. After a while, the female executive leaned lightly on the door frame, stared at David who was still standing outside the door, and raised her chin with a smile.

"Come in and talk about your research."

"Yes."

David walked past her, sat on the soft leather sofa, and put a chip on the coffee table.

"That's all my research on the 'Edge Enhancement System' should get me a high score in the academy. Of course, if it's useful to you..."

"High score?"

Bramwell sat down opposite David, with the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, as if he was amused by this sentence.

"Little guy, you don't know how much profit the research you made can bring...Have you tested it?"

"not yet."

David shook his head, lowered his eyes, and didn't meet her eyes.

"I called you as soon as I finished it, and this kind of memory related to the brain is difficult to test with the college's equipment, and there are no corresponding conditions."

"Um--"

The female executive nodded quite casually.

"That's true. Implants related to the brain must go to Arasaka Tower, where there is the most comprehensive prosthetic laboratory."

"Is that so?"

Raising his head slightly in surprise, David showed his uneasiness appropriately.

"Isn't it impossible to test..."

He had just said this when he suddenly heard a burst of chatter and laughter. Looking up, a boy with a full head of blond hair appeared in the courtyard and was walking towards the gate of the villa.

Volume 82: Chapter 81 Chapter [-]: Arasaka Tower

Bramwell's son, Perkins, David's classmate from Arasaka Academy, is back.

At the beginning, he didn't notice any difference in the building compared to before. With a smile on his face, he kept joking and joking with the communication partner in his brain, and stepped into the glass door on the first floor of the villa.

"Mom, I want to buy a new set of memory chips!"

As soon as he entered the door, he hung up the communication in his brain, shouted at the top of his voice, and then kept scanning his eyes, looking for the location of his mother.

Then, on the sofa in the reception area, two people sitting opposite each other appeared in Perkins' sight.

His eyes froze for a moment, showing a look of bewilderment, surprise and so on.

"Go back to the house first, Mom has something to do here."

Bramwell connected the chip that David put on the table into the brain computer, looked at his son casually, and chuckled lightly.

"oh oh……"

After being there for two or three seconds, Perkins' slightly short-circuited brain restarted.

As if wanting to confirm his identity, he stared at David for a few moments, and then he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly said with a complicated expression.

"David Martinez, we're classmates, right?"

What does it mean……

David was a little confused by his question, but he reacted immediately.

Perkins is reminding, even warning himself, I regard you as a classmate, so don't you want to be my father?

He was speechless for a while, feeling like he couldn't laugh or cry.

How chaotic is the female executive of the Arasaka company in her daily life to make her son have such associations?

"Of course it is, Perkins."

David raised his head and looked back with calm eyes.

Although Bramwell's appearance and temperament are very good, he has no idea about this at all, and he is not interested in it no matter from the consideration of emotion or profit.

Besides, he is a member of Arasaka's management, and the gap in status and wealth is too great. Even if there is a relationship that surpasses the superior and the subordinate, it is probably because the other party wants to support him or even subtly regulate himself... Uh, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes.

Seeing that Perkins' expression relaxed a little, and he walked towards the elevator in the building, David let out a breath and threw all the messy thoughts out of his head.

"I remember, you and Perkins are in the same class?"

When his son walked away, Bramwell also looked away and chuckled twice.

"Yes."

"You can also keep in touch with each other in normal times. You are both young people. I think you can definitely become friends."

Bramwell said casually.

Is this cultivating a team for his son?

While thinking about it, David figured out the meaning behind the female executive's words, but he had no reason to refuse, so he nodded solemnly.

"Well, I communicated with the laboratory of Arasaka Tower and applied for a test quota."

At this moment, Bramwell pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly spoke.

"Let's go, let's go now and see if the actual performance of your research results is as good as the data."

She pulled the chip out of the brain and smiled at David.

Huh - it worked.

David breathed a sigh of relief.

This is exactly the plan he had in mind, to gain the attention of female executives by showing his worth, and then look for an opportunity to enter Arasaka Tower in a normal way.

In the worst case, it might take a few tries, but luckily I got it right the first time.

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At the same time, the abandoned small building in Watson District.

In the living room, some empty food packaging boxes were scattered on the floor, and the members of the mercenary team were standing or sitting with serious expressions on their faces.

"So, what should we do?"

Dorio spoke first and broke the silence.

Since 'moon' and Faraday left one after another, there was no reply, and they fell into anxious waiting.

"It won't work like this."

On the stairs, Rebecca sat there with her small face in her hands, frowning tightly together.

"We've been treated as dispensable by middlemen, and what's worse, employers seem to think so too."

"What should I do?"

Pila spread her hands and said in a low and slow voice.

"In terms of the importance and initiative to complete the task, we are completely inferior to moon, and it is true."

"But it's very troublesome to go on like this!" From the voice, Rebecca was very annoyed now.

"Whether it's price reduction or replacement...it's not impossible."

"Then what do you think we should do, grab a gun and rush into the Arasaka Tower?"

"If you want to die, you can kill yourself directly, there is no need to be so troublesome."

"you……"

"okay."

Mann sighed heavily, interrupting the quarrel between the siblings.

"Rebecca is right about one thing, we can't just wait."

He glanced at his team members, paused, and then spoke after deliberating.

"Something has to be done that more or less reflects our value."

"But if we don't communicate with Moon, will it affect his plan?"

Dorio looked sideways at Mann, hesitated for a moment, and added another sentence.

"In any case, the hope of completing the task lies with the moon."

"That's right, so we have to be more cautious."

Mann nodded, with a helpless expression.

"Let's go to the area around Arasaka Tower to investigate first. It's just a test on the outside. Our appearance and identity have not been exposed. There should be no danger in doing some light investigation... In short, it's the same sentence, we need to do something, not in the Just wait."

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Civic center, company square, spacious and clean ring road.

The 'Sword of the Lady of the Lake' stopped slowly, and then the doors on both sides were raised, and Bramwell and David stepped out from the rear seat and the co-pilot position successively.

Raising his head, the towering black building stood in front of him, like a giant beast overlooking the world, bringing an indescribable sense of oppression.

David followed behind Bramwell, walked past several security guards and guard robots, and stepped into the main entrance of Arasaka Tower.

Next is a small waiting area where you need to undergo a security check before you can enter.

Standing in front of the door, green rays of light streaked across from top to bottom, scanning David's whole body up and down.

Not to mention carrying weapons, under this kind of precision inspection, even any prosthetic bodies and chips installed in the body can be found, unless it is shielded by technical means.

David naturally didn't bring anything. After a short wait, the inspection was over. He passed through the door decorated with golden lines and squares, and stood in the empty hall on the first floor of Arasaka Tower.

Volume 83: Chapter 82 Chapter [-]: Testing

Looking up, the walls in all directions are based on black, dotted with white and blue geometric patterns with a strong sense of composition.

There are also white lines laid on the ground, forming a huge Arasaka company logo, and extending around, it looks like some kind of complicated circuit diagram.

Just like the impression given to people by this arms empire that has mastered huge wealth, technology, and political capital, every place in Arasaka Tower reveals a strong sense of technological beauty and endless pressure.

This is an aesthetic called new militarism, which gradually emerged after the corporate war. It is unassuming but full of majesty, with a cold and sharp elegance. Arasaka Corporation is one of the representatives of this aesthetic.

Walking in the lobby, David suddenly had some strange feelings in his heart.

As for Arasaka Tower, I used to play a lot in the game in my previous life, but this is the first time after crossing.

Moreover, he came in as a key training subject of Arasaka Academy, not as an experimental subject with a "high degree of tolerance to prosthetic body" to enter the field of vision of Arasaka Company.

How should I put it, there is a feeling that fate has been completely rewritten?

While thinking about it, he had already walked into the elevator led by Bramwell, and continued to rise under the light of the light blue light.

As the tallest building in Night City, the Arasaka Tower has a total of hundreds of floors, of which the area below the 35th floor is mostly for ordinary employees.

Low-level security department, counterintelligence department, employee medical center, floating car garage...

The notes on the elevator LCD screen kept changing, and finally stopped at the 54th floor - the atrium.

"Follow me, don't walk around."

Bramwell winked at David and walked out of the elevator first.

The decoration style here is the same as that of the lobby on the first floor, but there are some more Japanese-style dry landscape-style potted plants, long rows of chairs, and images in holographic projection mode, scrolling and playing news.

Walking along the corridor, no one can be seen along the way, and occasionally a few Arasaka employees appear in a hurry.

Ten minutes later, Bramwell finally stopped in front of a silver-gray metal gate.

She tapped twice on the touch screen next to the door, then whispered.

"Baptiste, it's me, the test that I just said."

As soon as the voice fell, the words 'permission confirmed' flashed on the touch screen, and the door slowly opened.

Standing in the doorway is a middle-aged black male wearing a bright blue work coat instead of the usual uniform or suit.

The man nodded at Bramwell, and then his eyes fell on David.