Night, Tokyo, Arasaka family mansion.
This is a mansion building full of Japanese classical style. The three-story inner and outer three-story wall design surrounds the building complex airtightly. Lantern-like neon lights are hung on the wall to emit light day and night. The luxurious wood and stone also cleanse the building of technological glitz.
The patrolling guards and robots did not miss any hidden corner of the residential complex. The seemingly majestic palace mansion had already blended into the night, looking extremely dark.
There is no so-called lively scene of bright lights here. The entire palace is extremely solemn and silent, like a palace where a caged bird is imprisoned. Only the subtle footsteps of the guards occasionally sound, like evil spirits wandering in the night. .
In a residence in this mansion, Arasaka Yorinobu was sitting on a chair in the bedroom, looking at the documents in front of him with a gloomy expression.
The room is bright and bright, and the white light shines on the data text on the display screen, forming a sharp contrast with the dead night outside.
The fluorescence of the screen also illuminated Arasaka Yorinobu's increasingly ugly face, giving it a slightly gloomy shadow.
For a long time, it seemed like the calm before the storm. The sudden outbreak came without warning.
The Arasaka heir suddenly became furious and slammed the paper-thin display screen on the table to the ground. The fragile display screen suddenly shattered into glass shards on the ground.
"Damn old man, an immortal living in his own virtual dream! Why are you dreaming of immortality! You should have gone to hell many years ago!" Yori Xuan did not hide his anger, like a hysterical man The face of a patient with hyperthyroidism even turned red with anger.
He paced back and forth among the glass fragments, looking gloomily at the blurred fragments falling on the ground reflecting the light. His eyes couldn't help but be dazzled by these fragments reflecting the light, and the annoyance in his heart gradually became more solid.
"rel2.0...that old immortal's latest secret research project, still dreaming of immortality, I will never let your project succeed!" He murmured to himself, expressing his thoughts without any concealment.
As the heir to the Arasaka family, Yorinobu Arasaka is Saburo's only remaining son after the death of his eldest brother.
As long as he is willing to succumb to Saburo's wishes, he can become a person inferior to ten thousand people in the Arasaka Company at any time.
However, starting in the 1920s, he was full of guilt for his family's criminal history, began to fight against his father, and tried to atone for his family's sins to the best of his ability.
All of the above doomed Arasaka Yorinobu to be unable to collude with his father.
And many years ago, when he was young and frivolous, he also tried to create an organization to resist the company, but in the end it still failed miserably.
A giant like Arasaka Corporation is no longer a force that can be overthrown by manpower alone.
Just like the nuclear bomb that was detonated at the Arasaka Tower in Night City, no matter how powerful it was, Arasaka Corporation has still returned to that city as an emperor, and its influence is far greater than before.
But after the nuclear explosion in the 1920s, Arasaka Yorinobu saw some hope.
If even a nuclear bomb can't destroy the company, why not turn yourself into one?
Since the unification war between companies ended in the 1920s, neither Arasaka nor Military Technology was a winner in that war. Both sides suffered heavy losses in that war. Many of Arasaka's foundations were even nationalized by the country.
Even Arasaka Yorinobu's eldest brother, the eldest son who inherited all the knowledge and will of Arasaka Saburo, lost his life in that war.
[An app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old book-chasing tool, used by all old bookworms.
As a result, decades have passed and Arasaka Company is still standing.
However, this war also made Arasaka Yorinobu completely realize
——A nuclear bomb cannot bring down a company, but a war between companies can make a company decline!
He had formed a gang in the past in an attempt to defeat the Arasaka Company from the outside, but it was doomed to be a futile effort.
But if you turn yourself into a "nuclear bomb" and control enough power within the company, until one day you start a corporate war again, maybe you can make the world realize that the company is not invincible!
He will make the world forget the fear caused by the company!
However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Since returning to the family, he has made concessions to his father within the company and won over other management to form his own faction. However, Arasaka Yorinobu found that his ideal is still far away, and there is no possibility of realizing it.
As long as Saburo Arasaka survives, his ideal will never be realized.
Now, the rel2.0 project has undoubtedly announced that his last hope is about to be dashed!
Although Arasaka Yorinobu still doesn't know the relevant content and details of this project because Saburo Arasaka deliberately concealed it, he is very convinced that this project is definitely related to "eternal life".
That old immortal thing still wants to continue to rule Arasaka forever so that the legacy he created can be passed down to generations to come!
"I will never let him succeed!"
Arasaka Yorinobu growled irritably, slamming his hands on the mahogany tabletop.
He had worked hard for so many years, enduring the disgust in his heart to compromise with his father, and now he found that his ideals and dreams were about to become worthless...
Impatience, anger and even despair...the negative emotions of disillusionment and disillusionment have already filled Yori Xuan's heart.
But despite being angry, Yorinobu also knew very well that there was not much time left for him now, and he must find an opportunity to completely break with his father, Saburo Arasaka!
However, having said that, recent events have disrupted his plans again...
Although you are the son of Saburo Arasaka, in order to avoid being monitored by his father, the bodyguard group around him has been disbanded long ago. The only remaining bodyguard is the top mercenary who surrendered to Arasaka in the past - Adam Hammer.
To be fair, Arasaka Yorinobu doesn't like this kind of iron-clad bodyguard, but he doesn't have many close confidants around him.
Adam Hammer is not only powerful, but he also does not belong to any faction within the company. The steel prosthetic body on his body needs maintenance from time to time. These factors destined that he cannot escape Arasaka's control.
All it takes is a little bit of work and the intervention of Saburo Arasaka is eliminated, and he is the best bodyguard candidate in Yorinobu's mind.
But what Yori Xuan never expected was that ten days ago, his bodyguard was just on a business trip to Night City, and he was killed by some bastard without even leaving any remains!
This accident completely disrupted Yori Xuan's plan.
There is no one around him who can take on the role of force. There is no way he can fight with Saburo Arasaka. He can only be a piece of meat to be slaughtered!
"It rained all night when the house leaked!" Arasaka Yorinobu sighed quietly.
Having lost a suitable bodyguard, he didn't know where to find a more suitable person to take charge of the force.
Gradually calming down from his anger, Yori Xuan took a deep breath and summoned the cleaning robot to clean up the debris on the ground.
Then, he continued to sit back on the table, forcing himself to remain calm, and began to think about the advantages of his side.
After fighting with his father for so many years, he understood that he could not compete head-on with Saburo Arasaka. The only thing he could do was to use a strange move.
The current person in charge of the rel2.0 project, Herman, happens to be a relatively familiar friend of his.
If rel2.0 really develops a finished product someday in the future, he will be very confident that he can steal the sample chip.
In this way, it is impossible to hide the theft from Saburo Arasaka, and he will definitely try to recover the samples to prevent the technology from being exposed to other companies.
But Saburo also knew very well that ordinary Arasaka envoys and agents could not suppress his son in terms of status, nor could they get the sample back from his son.
And Yorinobu only needs to keep one bodyguard with sufficient combat power. As a result, these agents have lost even the effective last resort of "violent means".
At that time, only Saburo himself could get the things back from Yorinobu... Maybe at that moment, it would be his chance!
But now the best bodyguard candidate is gone, and it is difficult for Yori Xuan to find a suitable candidate for a while.
Suddenly, Arasaka Yorinobu looked at a small chip placed on the table.
It was a small chip with an ordinary appearance, and it looked just like an ordinary text chip.
It was placed casually on the corner of the computer desk, under a pile of documents.
Yori Xuan is still very confident about the security and privacy issues in his room... If he can't guarantee even the most basic privacy and his every move is under the eyes of his father, then he can't talk about being with Saburo. Struggled.
Because of this, he dared to yell in the room to vent his negative emotions.
This chip was handed to him by an ordinary middle-level manager during an internal company meeting that he attended.
Lai Xuan felt very clear in his heart.
Although the manager had been emphasizing that Yorinobu accidentally dropped it to the ground, in fact Arasaka Yorinobu could tell at a glance that the other person must be a spy placed inside Arasaka by a certain company.
But with the idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", this kind of spy can hinder his own company. Yori Xuan is naturally happy to hear about this, and he is unlikely to report the other party.
And now, this chip handed to him by a certain company spy has suddenly become the key to Yori Xuan's solution.
He himself naturally knows that a spy who can sit in the management of Arasaka Company must be an extremely important talent no matter what, and when placed on the chess game, it is a chess piece that cannot be given up at will!
Such a precious spy should take the risk of being exposed at any time just to get this chip into his hands?
Even if he doesn't deal with his father, Saburo Arasaka, it's still a private matter within the family.
In order to gain his own power within the company, he has not yet expressed his thoughts of resisting Arasaka to anyone, nor has he stated his position as an "anti-Arasaka" party.
Therefore, Yorinobu was really surprised that this spy was willing to expose himself just to get the chip into his hands.
"Is it inevitable to borrow help from outside forces in the end?" Looking at the chip, Yori Xuan's expression was quite complicated.
All the crows in the world are as black as black.
There can be no companies in this world that are not stained by the mud. Behind the rise of every company must be an unknown and bloody history of fortune, and they can only develop by sucking blood.
Using the power of other companies to deal with Arasaka is no less than seeking the skin of a tiger in Yorinobu's mind.
However, now he really doesn't have much leverage.
After thinking hard for a long time, Yori Xuan sighed again. His mature face, no longer young and handsome, seemed to have aged several years. He looked at the chip with deep eyes and finally made a decision.
Reaching out and inserting the chip into a computer, Yori Xuan began to wait patiently for changes in the computer.
Soon, a string of blue text appeared on the computer screen:
【I can help you to make people forget their fear. 】
Seeing this paragraph of text, Yori Xuan's child shrank violently, and there was a touch of emotion in his heart for no reason.
"How can this be?!"
coincide? Or a conspiracy?
Why would the other party know that his wish is to let the whole world
People forget their fear of Arasaka?
Even his closest sister, Hanako Arasaka, has never known the reason why he was against his father Saburo. Even Saburo himself may not understand the cause and motivation of his "rebellion"!
Why, why did this guy express his ideal that he has persisted to this day in just one sentence!
Holding back his inner eagerness, Yori Xuan continued to look down.
[Mr. Lai Xuan, I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time, but unfortunately, judging from our respective positions, the opportunity to meet may have to be delayed for a while. Therefore, in order to get in touch with you, I have no choice but to make this decision. Please remember to burn this text chip after reading it]
[...You don’t need to worry or worry about how I learned about your ideals. You just need to understand that you and I are the same kind of people. I appreciate your awareness and belief that you have persisted for so many years]
[Maybe we can cooperate. The rel2.0 project will be an opportunity. When the finished product is developed, maybe it’s time for you to do it... When you successfully steal the rel2.0 chip prototype, you can Come to Night City, I will be waiting for your arrival in this city】
[Oh, by the way, please remember one thing. When you successfully get the rel2.0 chip prototype, remember to inject Johnny Silverhand’s data consciousness into it. This is very important. Please also remember live! 】
[As for the reason... When we actually meet, I will tell you all the truth]
【——Lin Mo/Mo Ying】
"Lin Mo, Mo Ying?" Lai Xuan murmured these two names in a low voice, inexplicably feeling that these two names were extremely familiar.
However, soon, an idea suddenly flashed in his head, and he remembered where he had seen this name.
"Isn't he the murderer who killed Adam Heavy Hammer! And this Mo Ying... was also the murderer who killed the CTO of Moore Technology half a year ago!" Yori Xuan murmured to himself in surprise: "They are the same person?"
Although he was still surprised, Yori Xuan reacted quickly and quickly pulled out the text chip. He then took out a reagent bottle from the drawer, uncorked the bottle and put the chip in it.
After a while, the chip quickly melted into the liquid in the reagent bottle.
The whole process can be said to be quite clean and tidy, which shows that Yori Xuan has often done this kind of thing of destroying "evidence".
Putting the reagent bottle back into the drawer, Yori Xuan continued to recall what he had just seen on the text chip.
"You know my ideals and my plans, and you still want to meet me..." Yori Xuan smiled calmly:
"Heh, I'm also looking forward to the day we meet...Mr. Lin Mo."
