"I haven't seen you on a mission for a long time recently?" But what Santiago thought was wrong was that Rogge was very familiar with the bartender Xie Yuan. "If we delay it for a while, Night City may not remember it. is you."
"Roger~I..."
"Call me Rachel. This is what you promised. I found you." Rogge came over and looked at Xie Yuan with his deep eyes. "The real you."
"Rachel, you almost died because of this." Xie Yuan was still frightened when he thought of this. Rogge was so crazy at the time that when Xie Yuan transformed into "V" and prepared to rescue her, a flaw was revealed.
"But I got what I wanted, didn't I?" Rogge's eyes were full of tenderness, "I do great things at the expense of my own life. The most important thing is that you gave me a chance and I took it. That's enough. Got it!"
"You!" Xie Yuan was also dumbfounded and patted Rogge's hand gently. A man in his thirties was helpless when a little girl took over.
Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, Rogge was still flirting with the bartender and was unavailable.
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That happened in 2009. After the Arasaka Group acquired paramilitary power, Xie Yuan proposed a new plan at the city council, which was also Xie Yuan's last proactive plan: the Sky Eye Plan.
Xie Yuanshi designed other plans: the city's ultra-low-price nutritional gel plan - to solve the problem of basic food and clothing; the expansion of public schools - to allow underage children to receive adequate education; the expansion of public hospitals and district hospitals in each district - to solve the problem of medical treatment to improve the public health's epidemic prevention capabilities; the annual police and fire budget should not be less than 95% of last year's, and of course the increase should not be higher than 15% - to ensure urban public safety to the maximum extent.
For other things, Xie Yuan did not have any proposals at the city council, nor did he want to make any proposals. After the last Sky Eye Plan, Xie Yuan did not want to interfere with the city council's governance of Night City. .
After all, after a super city is formed, it will gradually evolve into a dystopian world of high technology and low life under the influence of cyberpunk... By then, with the solidification of classes, it will never be possible to successfully change from top to bottom.
Only revolution from the bottom up - after the contradictions have accumulated to an extreme, the power to break all the shackles of the old world will burst out, can we welcome the arrival of a new world. Xie Yuan has already begun to set his sights on the future.
But it was this Sky Eye plan that almost caused Xie Yuan's "stand-in" to be killed.
In fact, Xie Yuan also knew that the Sky Eye Project was not in line with the "freedom" spirit advocated in Western culture, but for the public, it provided a relatively safe social environment.
Having stayed in the chaotic streets of Night City for a long time, Xie Yuan also knows that the real dangers are the middle-level people in the company and gang members, because this society can have unlimited backup in any position, and anyone can be replaced.
But ordinary residents are often the victims of these conflicts, so it is also ordinary people who suffered unspeakably during the gang wars for one or two years.
They receive the least social income, and they bear the most mental pressure: security pressure and survival pressure make them tightly suppressed, and they dare not express their anger.
The pressure of survival can be shared through entertainment. The recent emergence of a super dream, or a new way of entertainment can make them forget this, and the ultra-low-price nutritional gel program and the large-scale expansion of public hospitals, public colleges and technical schools Building can relieve their survival and worries about the future.
As long as they have enough clothes, enough food, their bellies are full, and their spiritual desires are satisfied, they can work hard to temporarily accept the existing distribution system, and the goal of stabilizing society will be achieved.
Now there is only one requirement left that needs to be temporarily solved - security.
Night City has been left with a big problem of gangs since its establishment, because Knight gradually established Colorado City by collecting a large amount of black gold investment from gangs, so once the returns did not meet expectations... he was backlashed. Burp.
Knight is dead, but the gang has been growing and growing, and the Thug Gang has become a presence that almost dominates Night City. Fortunately, they had grown up being indulged by major giant companies, but they had no backing, and they were secretly wiped out by Xie Yuan overnight.
But the thugs fell and the gang war was forced to stop, but it does not mean that the gang's soil has been eradicated - this is inseparable from social culture and racial relations, but the biggest backer lies in the promotion of giant companies.
Many gangs are the mouthpieces and black gloves of some giant corporations. They can be suppressed but cannot be completely eliminated, because they represent the face of giant corporations... Slapping the butts of these gangs is a slap in the face of giant corporations.
Therefore, Xie Yuan has only one way to make the masses feel safe - to have all criminal behaviors recorded by cameras. Although there will definitely be privacy exposure, it can gradually increase the cost of crime and reduce crime incidents.
At the same time, it can also slightly increase the crime detection rate and make the police have a better reputation. As long as the safety of middle-level company employees and ordinary people can be guaranteed...or make them think that they are "protected", it will be a big victory. .
Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish, there is no rush, and Xie Yuan does not have the heart to clarify Yuyu, Haiyan and Heqing, but his conscience and position also force him to do something for the City of Night... The Sky Eye Plan is what he is preparing for It's the last thing you can do if you don't care about Night City's life or death.
However, the resistance to this matter also made Xie Yuan a little frightened - Xie Yuan is not a fool. In order to smoothly implement this bill, he has done a lot of negotiation and profit sharing with large companies such as Knight Company, EBM, Arasaka, and Military Technology.
Not only did the tree show affection and reason, but it also made settlements on many things, giving up many invisible rights in Night City in exchange to reach a consensus.
These powers are things that these giant companies want but cannot obtain in a short period of time. They are a super cornucopia that can attract crazy money. However, Xie Yuan gave them up at his word, and he was bold and shocking at the same time.
However, when the bill was actually proposed, the backlash caused was enough to make people feel alarmed. Xie Yuan's brother Johnny was the first to loudly refute the Sky Eye Project bill at his own concert, and he promoted the counterattack every time. The Sky Eye Project has rapidly become a hot topic in public opinion.
In this case, the mainstream media controlled by the giant companies have already been warned, so their comments are lukewarm and vague - Xie Yuan's Sky Eye Project actually benefits the giant companies in the end, so They didn't completely turn Tiaozi against it.
However, public opinion was still stirred up, and a large number of people petitioned to oppose this plan, and even organized many demonstrations to oppose this matter... It is as if without surveillance, life would be much freer.
But the biggest opponents are still a group of gangs that have gradually encroached on the service industry with the investment of giant companies and have slowly developed over the past few years.
The Brady Bunch, a family gang, the Red Chrome Legion, a fighting gang, the Metal Warriors, the carnival gang, the Piranhas, and the cult gangs The Inquisitors and The Liquidators all gathered together in secret to figure out how to completely mess up this thing that seemed to be bad for them. plan of.
They decided to repeat the same trick they had used against Knight that year - assassinate John Ironface, the original architect and supporter of the Sky Eye project.
But it is unrealistic to implement this plan without being able to kill him with a single shot from a distance like Knight. John Ironface is notoriously cowardly and rarely appears in the public eye openly, and he never even goes to the balcony. , don’t go on stage to give a speech.
To kill him, we must attack by force, and there is only one chance - next Monday, Xie Yuan needs to go to the city council to face the council members to state the necessity of this "Sky Eye Project", and he must appear in person.
If it passes - and given his authority on the city council it will - then only a referendum will remain.
But the referendum is even worse! Because Xie Yuan had paved the way for this plan with a lot of popularity before, there were even rumors that John Ironface would stop serving as a consultant to the municipal government council and transfer it to other aspiring people.
In other words, this was the last exchange request made by the president of Metal Gear Company, who had played a great role in pacifying the mob gang, before relinquishing control of the council.
"The Great Luo of All Worlds"
The big companies wouldn't risk John's displeasure by staying on as a consultant without backing a plan that clearly benefited them—and they had the tools to get the public to agree to it.
So we could only attack John Ironface on his way to the city council that day. Success or failure depended on this!
However, there is a problem with the selection of people for the raid. First of all, you cannot arrange any members of the gang. Although the big company behind it is happy to see one of the players who shared the spoils withdraw, it will not tolerate it if it fails.
Mercenaries had to be recruited, and they could only tell who the real target was at the last minute.
But the selection is a question worth discussing. You must not choose senior mercenaries...Old mercenaries will think about it, but new mercenaries who are eager to become famous will subconsciously skip this idea.
But if you just select new mercenaries, then why bother considering doing this task? The security specifications for escorting John Iron Mask were equivalent to those of the President, and there were even three stand-ins wearing Iron Masks in three cars.
They need a Dingding figure, the ability to kill with one strike, and even enough intelligence information.
The information was easy to get. An employee of Metal Gear seemed to have secretly sold a piece of information to Arasaka. Unfortunately, Arasaka lost the information in a gang bar and was obtained by gang members.
This is a piece of information about John Ironface's real seat.
But the choice of assaulter...killing John Ironface in today's Night City may even have as far-reaching impact as assassinating Caesar in Rome.
Someone suddenly suggested asking Vigilante, also known as "V", to handle the task, which caused an uproar.
However, the person who made the suggestion was also very reasonable: Although Vigilante was once hired by Metal Gear to assassinate everyone in the Mob Gang, for the next eight years, he and Metal Gear basically had a parallel relationship, and there was no further contact.
Moreover, V also accepts difficult tasks from other companies and gangs, but the fees are very high, but he has a success rate that has never failed so far, and those who dare to place an order with him are basically willing to pay the money.
More importantly, every task will be kept confidential from the moment it is handed over to him, and there will be no worries about leaks... which can be regarded as a strong sign of his behavior in the past eight years.
Isn't it just 1 million euros? As long as this John Ironface is brought down, new chaos will come soon, and the capital can be earned from anywhere!
As a result, River Lindsay (Xie Yuan himself) received the most outrageous but most remunerative employment contract since his debut as a mercenary: 1 million euros to assassinate the president of Metal Gear Company - John Ironface (Xie Yuan's combat stand-in) ).
Xie Yuan had a question mark on his face: "???"
Do I kill myself? ! !
