Chapter 7: Cybermaniacs
Night City.
Civic Center Company Square.
In the elevator room of the Arasaka Tower, an electronic screen is playing the life of Saburo Arasaka, the highest de facto helmsman of the Arasaka Company, and the black-and-white images show the texture of tape sheets from the last century.
"Saburo Arasaka was born in 1919 in Tokyo, Japan."
"His father founded Arasaka."
"The genealogy of the Arasaka family can even be traced back to the samurai era."
"Saburo Arasaka grew up in the Arasaka Manor, located on the outskirts of Tokyo."
"In his youth, he signed up for the old Navy Flying Squadron, became a pilot, and at the age of twenty-three he was already awarded the rank of captain in the Navy."
"With twenty confirmed victories in air battles, he will be remembered by future generations as the most brilliant pilot."
"But in 1942, during a regular mission, his plane was seriously damaged."
"However, despite being seriously injured and the plane malfunctioning, Saburo managed to return to the base against all odds..."
"After a short break, we'll continue to tell you about it."
Immediately after that, the electronic screen jumps to the cover page, and the Arasaka company logo appears.
“arasaka”
Tang Yu's gaze was straight ahead from beginning to end, and he could already hear the "great" life of Saburo Arasaka.
"It's no wonder that in the company, everyone privately respects you as the 'God of Arasaka'"
"I haven't stepped down after living for nearly one hundred and fifty years, and I still want to play the game of borrowing the corpse to return the soul"
"That's enough..."
"Poor Arasaka Yorinobu still doesn't know that he is about to become a vessel for his father's arrival"
Of course, these words are just Tang Yu's inner thoughts, whether it is the identity of a traverser or a reborn, it will be the biggest secret in his life.
And the time of his rebirth is a bit delicate, it was reborn in 2076, a year earlier than the last time he traveled through.
In other words, what happened in this year is very likely to change the situation in 2077.
While pondering.
The elevator had risen to the thirty-third floor of the Arasaka Tower, the gates opened automatically, and the floor display indicated that the Counterintelligence Department had arrived.
Tang Yu walked out of the elevator quickly, and the first thing he saw was a spacious lobby in dark silver and gray tones, with the 'arasaka' logo plated in the center of the wall.
On the black leather sofa in the hall, several employees of the counterintelligence department sat and discussed something.
An employee of a foreign counterintelligence department inadvertently spotted Tang Yu's figure and immediately stood up from the sofa to say hello.
"Don, good afternoon"
After several other foreign employees saw it, they also turned to look at Tang Yu and said hello.
Tang Yu nodded to them, didn't say anything, and continued to walk towards the left-hand side.
When passing by the front desk of the department, the reception staff took the initiative to stand up and said.
"Mr. Don, Mr. Jenkins is looking for you, he's in the office"
The direction pointed by the front desk is where the office of the Minister of Counterintelligence is located.
Tang Yu's leather shoes stepped on the soft wool carpet, and there was hardly a sound.
Soon.
Tang Yu came to Jenkins' office door, and the AI confirmed his identity and opened the glass door.
He stepped through the glass door and entered a silver-glowing hallway with a stainless steel gate at the other end.
The two electronic probes on the left and right sides of the gate emitted blue light waves, scanning back and forth on Tang Yu's body.
"Scanning"
"Visitor Authentication Completed and Passed"
The electronic gate opens automatically from the middle to the sides.
The full picture of the office of the head of the counterintelligence department was completely presented in front of Tang Yu's eyes.
Tang Yu walked into the office, and the black carpet with the Arasaka company logo under his feet was spread straight to the desk.
And it was Jenkins sitting at the desk, his eyes were red and he was talking to others, and when he saw Tang Yu coming in, he beckoned him to sit first.
Tang Yu came to the desk and waited, and the communicator carried in his left eye began to read some basic information about the man in front of him.
"Arthur Jenkins, 42 years old, childless, doesn't like sports, prefers drinks: bourbon // Counterintelligence has a new mission schedule..."
Tang Yu noticed that the huge floor-to-ceiling window display behind the desk was also playing a video as Jenkins was on the phone.
in the picture.
More than a dozen NCPD police officers with guns gathered in the company square were surrounding a strong blond man wearing sunglasses and shooting wildly.
But the blonde man was not afraid of the rain of bullets, and stood firmly on the square, revealing the ultimate weirdness and calmness.
A police officer shouted in shock: "It's a cyber maniac!" Call out to the Terror Squad! ”
Countless bullets exploded without injuring the blonde man, who was implanted with subcutaneous metal armor and had extremely strong bulletproof capabilities.
Just when the police officers relied on the police car to form a fence and attacked the cyber maniac with fierce fire, the cyber maniac began a terrifying counterattack.
The cyber maniac pointed two guns at the heads of the officers and pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
All the bullets hit the fragile head of the police officer, and the blood flowers exploded in an instant.
After killing four police officers in succession, the cybermaniac raised his right prosthetic arm cannon to bombard the police car, and the heavy automatic rifle bombarded wildly.
The police officers and police cars suddenly overturned on their backs, killing and wounding everywhere.
The cybermaniac poured out all the ammunition, and several police officers rushed forward and opened fire as soon as the reload ceasefired.
The cyber maniac popped out a sharp mantis knife in his right hand, killing the nearest police officer with a single slash.
Then the mantis knife also popped out of his knee, reaping the lives of the officers who charged forward.
The cyber maniac has no mercy, and his eyes hidden under sunglasses exude an eerie calmness.
After the cyber maniac finished dealing with the police officers in front of him, he looked at the police officers who were hiding behind the convoy and shooting.
The cybermaniac was suddenly stunned, and blue light came out of the spinal-like prosthesis behind him, and his whole body seemed to be running through an electric current to activate the nerves and muscles.
Sou!
The figure of the cyber madman suddenly disappeared in place.
The speed of action was as fast as a bolt of lightning, and the figure flickered by, dragging out heavy figures, and the frame rate of the picture could not keep up with his movement speed at all.
It was as if both the raindrops and the bullet casings were still.
In the blink of an eye.
The seven officers behind the convoy fell to the ground, with a large hole in the back of their heads.
"Bullet time?"
"This is installed with Silvistein, the model version is not low"
He frowned, realizing that something was wrong.
At this time.
Jenkins ended the phone call, the floor-to-ceiling window display screen turned off, and then switched to window mode, and the view of Night City outside the window was in full view.
Jenkins turned away from his desk and walked to the nearby wine cabinet to ease the stress of work.
"Tang, you're finally back, I know you're a little reluctant, but this is a decision made by the upper-level meeting, and I can't refuse even if I argue with reason."
Jenkins poured himself a glass of wine and sat comfortably on the couch to let out a sigh of relief.
Tang Yu directly mentioned the attack by the Animal Gang, but he didn't want to swallow this breath alone.
"On my way back to the office today, I was attacked by the Animal Gang."
Jenkins' originally slackened eyebrows when he heard the news wrinkled into a Sichuan character again.
"Who do you think did it?"
Tang Yu knew that Jenkins already had a guess in his heart.
"My route of action is absolutely secret, and it is absolutely impossible for the Animal Gang to infiltrate the Counterintelligence Department to obtain my information, after all, there are not many people in the company who know that I am back."
Jenkins nodded thoughtfully.
"Knowing that you are coming back today, apart from me, the only one who forcibly summoned you back to the company is Susan Abernathy, the director of special operations, who stinks watch"
"I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with her, after all, everyone in the company knows that you were pulled up by me."
"She doesn't dare to use the knife directly on me now, but she wants to find a breakthrough from you"
"Sooner or later, we'll have to settle this account with her!"