Night City is considered stable, but the situation outside has not gotten better, but is getting worse and worse.
With the completion of the WorldSat Network, the framework of the Internet has begun to take shape, which is a good thing.
But there is more bad news: the Taurus royal family of the eternal line was suddenly conquered; the Aegean country suffered a sharp decline in population after being hit by a wasting plague; California implemented self-government.
A strange virus in agriculture has attacked maple leaves, polar bears, and kangaroo country's wheat. The agriculture of these three countries has been destroyed, and Eagle Sauce has become the biggest suspect.
Although Eagle Sauce directly passed the blame to Xia Tu - because Xia Tu is also one of the only countries that has not been affected by crop plant diseases.
Xia Tu's strategy for this is to vigorously promote the new highly resistant wheat crops developed by the country's crop experts in the 1990s, and at the same time establish a biological research center to eliminate the plague that caused the food crisis.
Businesses began to pressure governments to acquire land and privileges. In retaliation, the new Aegean government threatened to nationalize corporate assets.
The first corporate-to-corporate war broke out in 2005. Orbital Space Corporation devoted its resources to protecting TWA and confronting EBM, which resulted in delays in the construction of the Crystal Palace Space Station, the rich man's paradise living area. However, Interestingly, not long after the confrontation, a red cyber army sneak attacked the networks of both sides and forcibly stopped the war.
In this war between enterprises, Xia Tu used national power to end the chaos in space. At the same time, he also announced the establishment of his own communication satellite plan - the "North Fighting System", which is ready to be officially launched in 2007. A navigation and communication satellite (M1).
The next year, in 2008, the Eagle Nation launched an attack on the Alliance's weapons platform, Mir XIII. The European Space Agency intervened in the conflict, leading to an orbital war between the Euros and the Eagles, and a few weeks later the Tycho colony on the moon used a mass projector to launch a mass projector towards Colorado Springs. City and other strategic locations around the world, forcing the Eagle Kingdom to cease the war.
However, this did not stop the world from paying full attention to "Jijing" in the summer - in August, Xiatu Country hosted the Jijing Olympics and became the first Asian country to top the gold medal list in Olympic history.
However, civilized sports culture still has not stopped the world from becoming more collapsed. Every corner of the world, except for the European Union, Xiatu, and the New Alliance, is either in a state of conflict or is falling into the outcome of conflict.
As Xie Yuan has independently unleashed his private army in Night City for three years to maintain the city's stability, other giant companies are also stepping up their efforts to establish their own private military forces.
And two or three years later, they each invested in their own territory in Night City, and a new giant joined the game wheel in Night City - Militech.
Founded in 1996 by Spaghetti Nation weapons designer Antonio Lucessi, the company, then known as Lucessi International Arms Technologies, was one of the bidders for the new U.S. Army Infantry Assault Weapons System contract.
In 1999, General Donal Lundy resigned as Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps and accepted the appointment as CEO of Armatech-Luccessi in New Hampshire. Together with Antonio Luccessi (the founder of the company), he laid a solid foundation for what would become the largest weapons manufacturing group in the world.
After a period of rapid development and expansion, the Militech Arms International name was discontinued and Militech Arms International was born.
However, unlike the situation where everyone thought that the two sides were incompatible, Military Technology, who had a background in Congress, did not have any conflicts with Metal Gear, who had a background in the Fourth Bureau Gang, after joining Night City to set up a branch.
In fact, the latter did not involve military technology, which made the audience who were eager to watch the show very disappointed.
Even in 2004, after the official collapse of the Fourth Bureau Gang, Military Technology Company still did not embarrass Metal Gear Company. They even signed a combat uniform supply agreement that year, but in return, Military Technology Company was also the second A large corporation with a garrison in Night City.
The third one with garrison power is the Arasaka Group. However, unlike the existing army that has already added metal gears and military technology, the Arasaka Group started from scratch, first recruiting mercenaries, and then building and training them step by step. systematic.
Xie Yuan has also had the idea of building a private army from scratch - but it is unrealistic. Xie Yuan does not have such huge economic strength and peripheral influence. Now he can only recruit people who are willing to join in the talent training system under Night City. candidate.
Moreover, Xie Yuan found that his every move was even imitated by others - every giant company around Night City had plans to establish a primary school/middle school/high school attached to XXX company.
At this time, Xie Yuancai realized that he had invisibly become the object of constant attention from various giant companies. He could no longer remain completely hidden in society as before.
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But this is just a "substitute" who will never be free again. In the blink of an eye, River, who changed his mind, has grown from a young boy in 1986 to... a middle-aged bald man - this is impossible.
He became more handsome and charming, especially his piercing black onyx eyes, and he was wearing a bartender's slim shirt, exuding a special kind of sexual attraction.
However, his brother Johnny Silverhand inherited this better. After Xie Yuan officially manipulated the "substitute" to enter the political stage of Night City in 2000, Johnny also embarked on the path of a modern poet-rock boy. .
His rebellion manifested itself in the form of a band called the Samurai. The Samurai Band consists of Johnny Silverhand, Kerry Eurodeen, Danny, Nancy/Bes Isis, and Henry. He and his band climbed to the top of the hit charts with incredible speed.
Unfortunately, Samurai's keyboard player Nancy was suffering from domestic violence at the time. Until one day, Nancy couldn't bear it and pushed her bad boyfriend out of the window, and she was imprisoned for it. Without her, the band disbanded in 2008.
But Johnny Silverhand was after all one of the most popular singers at the time. He planned to start a solo career and use his influence to continue to implement his anti-corporate and anti-government ideas. DBS Music Company tried its best to sign Silverhand. What started as threats later turned into blackmail. He actually wanted to force him to submit by exposing his identity as a rebel.
Because after the 1993 incident, Johnny felt unsatisfied and resolutely set out to Central America to help the fleeing veterans return to the country. Over time, he became a "rebel" in people's mouths and was promoted by the government as a villain, and he was The best of them all.
If Johnny's identity as a rebel is exposed, he will most likely be arrested by the government and even be disliked by the public.
However, Johnny Silverhand signed a contract with Universal Music and released an album titled SINS of Your Brothers. The album not only acknowledges his identity as a rebel but also exposes the horrific crimes committed by the government. The album was a huge success and changed the public's perception of rebels.
However, reputation belongs to reputation. Johnny's personal ethics are notoriously bad, including sex and drugs, bipolar disorder, lawlessness, and promiscuous relationships between men and women again and again. Of course, this also makes him a legendary rock kid.
After talking about Johnny, let’s go back to Ruifan (Xie Yuan) himself. When Colorado City, the predecessor of Night City, was just built, Xie Yuan laundered some personal funds and purchased a large area of real estate.
There are several big bars in Night City now: Suicide Squad (Central American style), Afterlife (Mercenary Agency), Metal Storm (dangerous heavy metal rock band, real estate belongs to Metal Gear), Night Owl (the most normal and organized bar ) and the owner of Atlantis, the largest bar in Night City, belongs to Xie Yuan.
The only ones with partial ownership rights are Death Lottery’s “Dance of Death” and a cyber hacker’s “Short Circuit”.
Atlantis is Xie Yuan's current residence, a classic "Fern Bar" (Editor: a high-end bar suitable for singles), known as "a gathering place for corporate people" and "mercenaries looking for jobs" The place".
Xie Yuan sometimes acts as a temporary bartender here, but most of the time Xie Yuan continues to perform the task of "mercenary".
Yes, Xie Yuan is a mercenary, but his ostensible occupation is still a bartender, even though he has barely worked any class in a month.
However, unlike the boring mercenary sitting on the seat waiting for the employment contract at the moment, Xie Yuan has always been called and approached on his own initiative, because the mask he wore outside Xie Yuan was nicknamed Vigilante (Vigilante). , referred to as "V".
Yes, this is Xie Yuan's current profession. Since 2000, he has been the strongest and most mysterious masked mercenary, ranking first on the Night City mercenary list for 13 consecutive years.
However, Xie Yuan's secret is not known to everyone. A young woman with a punk head who sits in the same position all year round knows this secret.
She was wearing a sequined jacket over a white T-shirt. She was in her twenties, but she was the best on the street, second only to the mercenary "V". She had been ranked second since 2008, and was actually the third. A mercenary.
Her name is Roger.
(End of chapter)
