Arasaka Tower.

Counterintelligence Department on the 33rd floor.

The entire department was silent, and the employees sat at their desks, curiously peeking at the front desk.

I saw a group of company executives in high-end suits and uniforms, standing together, as if waiting for something.

Standing at the center of the crowd was Conti, a member of the board of directors of the Arasaka Tower.

Next to her stood not only Arthur Jenkins, the head of counterintelligence, but also Susan Abernathy, a director-level executive.

Other than that.

The main persons in charge of the personnel department and the public relations department came to the scene and stood at the front desk to talk and laugh.

The staff of the Counterintelligence Department were quite puzzled and did not know what had happened today, but when they saw such a luxurious lineup, they knew that things were by no means simple.

At this time, the attention of the entire department was focused on the group of company executives, and the employees in the office area chatted quietly.

The short-haired girl pretended to tap on the keyboard, turned her prosthetic eyes, and launched an intelligence group chat.

"Did anything big happen last night? Why did the bigwigs all come to the Counterintelligence Department this morning, and the middle level of the department went into Donald's office to talk. ”

"I didn't hear about it last night, but the top management of Arasaka Tower was changed a while ago, and it is said that it was replaced by the crown prince."

"Yes, but a few days ago, I heard from a colleague in the finance department that they asked for approval of large project funds, and the approver has not changed."

"The prince has just arrived in Night City, and he hasn't had a good time yet, and he will definitely not come to Arasaka Tower to report for a while, and now this has been transferred to the assistant director."

"There's something like that, but does it have anything to do with this morning?"

Sister Feng smoothed the wavy curls and asked patiently.

"With such a big battle today, have you seen Boss Tang?"

Sisters: "No. ”

Sister Feng asked again: "Since Boss Tang came this morning, he has been sitting in the office, and he hasn't appeared yet, haven't you made something yet?" ”

"You mean, the main owner of this matter is Boss Tang, is it a high promotion?"

Sister Feng nodded slightly: "Nine times out of ten, it is really a capable lone wolf, everyone likes to use it, Donald Donald's reputation for not forming gangs, the entire Arasaka Pagoda has spread, it is impossible for the prince not to know, this is being won over in advance." ”

Everyone agrees with this statement, and the ministry knows that Tang Yu has risen all the way, and in just over two years, he has climbed to this point, which is indeed one in ten thousand.

Now if you go one step further, there will be no doubt that it will be a high-level minister.

Another female colleague in a short skirt and uniform was puzzled: "But Lao Zhan didn't move, so where did Donald go when he was promoted?" ”

This kind of high-level personnel intelligence will not be able to give a definite answer until the dust falls.

Sister Feng shrugged helplessly: "I'll know later." ”

At the front desk.

Susan Ebnerthy was full of smiles on her face, and when she saw Jenkins's proud appearance, she talked and laughed with a few people around her, and kept praising Tang Yu's ability, and she felt a little disgusted in her heart.

"Heh, it's like you're promoted, and the people you've promoted have climbed as tall as you, and they even have a smile on their faces." ’

She couldn't help but think what she really thought in her heart, and said with a fake smile: "Mr. Jenkins, I have to say that you are really quite blessed, it seems that since you arrived at the Arasaka Tower in Night City, everyone who has dealt with you has improved a lot. ”

Jenkins' smile froze, a clear hint of his incompetence.

He worked with Susan Abernathy at the Arasaka headquarters in Kyoto, and together they served as ministers at the Arasaka Tower in Night City.

Two years later, Susan Abernasee is already the director, and Tang Yu, who he personally brought up, is about to be promoted to a ministerial-level senior level, but he is still standing still.

When everyone heard Susan Abernathy's wonderful praise, they all nodded their heads and praised Jenkins for some reason.

Susan Abernathy then made a mistake and teasingly asked the person in charge of the personnel department next to him: "Mr. Jenkins, as such a capable talent, you should not ignore the personnel work, and strive for more superiors." ”

The person in charge of the personnel department made a face and said yes again and again.

Jenkins forced a smile and said: "Director Abnacy is right, we are sitting in this position, we can't take too much care of our feathers, we must contribute more talents to the company, and do a good job of educating and guiding our subordinates before they make mistakes." ”

"Actually, Director Abnacy should thank Tang Yu a lot, during the time you were at home on vacation, Tang Ke managed the Special Operations Department in an orderly manner."

Susan Abernathan heard the sarcasm in his words, and used the topic to ridicule her, even if she was a director-level executive, the person she promoted overturned and was implicated, causing her to have to 'take a vacation'.

And for the so-called Tang Yu's well-organized management, it is even more nonsense, he has not even been to the report.

Manage?

Isn't this saying that the Special Operations Department has her and is not like her, and compares her to a person in charge who has no effect.

She gritted her teeth, suppressed the anger in her heart, sniffled, and ignored Jenkins.

Conti, who had been silent, was already surprised to hear the verbal attack between the main leaders of the two departments.

It is a well-known thing that the two powerful departments are at odds with each other, and the struggle between the departments is itself a kind of balanced management.

From her level, this contradiction is not only normal, but also necessary.

The Arasaka Tower is divided into three factions today, and they stand on each other's feet, and none of them is indispensable.

The helmsman at the helm of the Kyoto manor was in control of the situation through this means, and no one could hide his eyes.

If the doves are too strong, the hawks need to be strengthened to suppress them.

Seven years after the reconstruction of the Arasaka Tower in Night City, the Arasaka Company was too soft on military technology, which was to gain a foothold and seek stability.

Right now.

Arasaka has regained its former influence and has the strength to wrestle with military technology, so naturally it will no longer adopt the doveish way of domination.

Conti sees this very clearly, and the weakness of Michiko's director is temporary.

Even if Arasaka Yoshishin takes office in person, he can't shake Michiko's status in the slightest.

In the long run, Michiko is most likely to work for the Night City Arasaka Tower for a long time, and investing in her is the future to invest in.

The crowd waited for a moment.

A tall figure walked from the office area, which quickly attracted the attention of the employees of the counterintelligence department.

They all stopped what they were doing and set their eyes on Tang Yu, and their doubts were gradually replaced by conviction.

When he saw all the high-level leaders welcoming Tang Yu, he could guess the outcome of the matter.

Tang Yu is indeed promoted, and he is about to leave the Counterintelligence Department and go to other departments.

The backbone and staff of the ministry were full of surprise, although they had already seen the momentum of Tang Yu's take-off, they didn't expect this moment to come so suddenly.

There are no inseparable feelings, after all, Tang Yu has not been in the ministry for a long time.

It's more of a regret that I feel that such a 'good' deputy minister will leave when he says he will leave.

After Tang Yu came back from the front line of the field, he didn't care about them, which made many people feel that the pressure on going to work was much less.

Now that Tang Yu has been promoted and gone, the new deputy minister who comes again, if he is similar to Kate, must not give them a few more fires.

Seeing Tang Yu tidying up in the office, Jenkins took the initiative to greet him and led him to introduce him to everyone.

"This is Director Conti, entrusted by the Board of Directors to send you to your post."

The two briefly shook hands.

Conti smiled at this time: "Congratulations, I hope you will continue to work hard in your new position, Director Michiko specially explained that I will take a good look at your performance." ”

In front of everyone, she expressed her intentions very bluntly and labeled Tang Yu as dove, which sounded more like Michiko arranged Tang Yu's promotion before the transfer.

Tang Yu smiled and said nothing, this promotion was not as beautiful as it seemed to him on the surface.

Tang Yu had met several other director-level and ministerial-level high-level executives and exchanged pleasantries with each other.

Except for a few more polite words with his old boss Arthur Jenkins, his performance was treated equally.

Tang Yu has just finished dealing with the work at hand, and if he needs to follow up continuously, he will be handed over to the relevant middle level in the ministry.

The crowd walked to the public elevator and set off for the other office floors.

Conti led a group of company executives to send Tang Yu to the front desk of the public relations department, stopped, smiled and said some words, and then shook hands and said goodbye.

Susan Abernathan looked up at the department sign, smiled meaningfully, and left.

The person in charge of the personnel department confirmed the entry procedures with the front desk, and everything was handled properly, so everyone left one by one.

Until Arthur Jenkins, who stayed in the end, he sighed with some emotion: "I didn't expect us to become the same level so soon, knowing that you are not simple, there will definitely be a place for you in the Arasaka Tower in the future." ”

Tang Yu seemed calm, and now he, a lone wolf in the limelight, left the Counterintelligence Department, which was a good thing for Jenkins.

Arthur Jenkins has not seen any promotion for the time being, and Tang Yu is too fast.

One hand can't suppress the deputy, and it's taboo in any workplace.

The loss is that Tang Yu usually shows no intention of fighting for power and power, and he has not made small moves in private, which made Jenkins feel reassured.

And the remaining three points of uneasiness, with Tang Yugao's promotion to the public relations department, also sank back to his heart.

Tang Yu knew that after leaving the Counterintelligence Department, he would have fewer opportunities to deal with Jenkins, and he also said a few words of mutual encouragement.

Since everyone congratulates him on his 'ascension', then he is considered a high ascension.

After sending Jenkins away, Tang Yu walked into the public relations department.

The office layout here is about the same as that of the counterintelligence department, except that it occupies a small floor area and is shared with the other two departments.

Under the respectful guidance of the front desk, Tang Yu walked into the newly arranged minister's office and activated the identification access control system.

In the minister's office, Tang Yu had no waves in his heart, just because it was similar to the minister's office of the Ministry of Counterintelligence.

The size and decoration of the minister's office are clearly stipulated by Arasaka, and the personalized adjustment can only be made to a limited extent.

In the entire office area of the Public Relations Department, Tang Yu's minister's office will account for one-third.

This is the treatment of the superiors, at this level, the treatment is a rigid standard, not like the bottom workers, who can only be crowded into a small square to work.

In the office, some of Tang Yu's personal belongings were moved intact, including the long knife sent by the high-level of the Tiger Claw Gang.

Tang Yu walked to the spacious office desk, sat on the new office chair, and called up his personal employment information.

【Tang Yu】

[Date and time: 2077]

[Employee number: NC77]

[Employee level: M10]

[Department position: Director of Public Relations]

[Message: Your new position has been generated, and it has been entered into the Arasaka company's job system. 】

Looking at the job information in front of him, Tang Yu couldn't help but feel a little helpless, and could only sigh that Arasaka Laixuan's actions were really fast enough.

This matter must not be done by Michiko, in addition to looking at people, the selection of chess pieces should also consider the status of the chess pieces.

Although he was only a deputy minister before, he also held two important departments of real power, and he exerted a lot of energy.

Without these two authorities, Tang Yu wants to make a big difference for Komichiko or Arasaka Saburo, and the difficulty will increase a lot.

The Public Relations Department does not have its own field staff, and its responsibilities are more soft.

This is not conducive to Tang Yu giving full play to the characteristics of a lone wolf, and the style of special affairs and quick things is difficult to work.

After the two broke up unhappily in Kerry Villa, Lai Xuan adopted the method of 'bright rise and dark tone' and began to gradually dissipate Tang Yu's power.

On the bright side, Tang Yu is 'promoted'.

This promotion not only contains Arasaka's affirmation of his performance, but also includes the reward of doing a good job of Saburo's personal errand.

Therefore, the outside world's opinion of Tang Yu's 'high ascension' will become more and more firm, believing that he is the favorite of the Arasaka family.

First won the favor of Michiko Ko and got the double deputy minister.

Then he got the weight of Saburo Arasaka and took the ladder to the higher levels.

Now even Arasaka Yoritomu has arrived in Night City, and he wants to win over this lone wolf.

Tang Yu's current situation can be said to have been pushed to the cusp, and overnight it has become a hot topic of discussion among everyone in Arasaka Tower.

He couldn't be clearer about Lai Xuan's thoughts, and this kind of overhead of rising and falling was more effective than sending people to carry out assassination activities.

Tang Yu didn't care about these small actions, it didn't matter to him which department he went to, it was nothing more than doing the same thing in another place.

He has too many cards to play, the company has some high-level authority in Saburo Arasaka's office, and in private there is Gloria's intelligence network, Mann's hiring team, and good helpers V, Jack, and so on.

What really worries him is David, who remains in the Special Operations Department.

After being promoted to the Department of Public Relations, although he was entrusted with the work of the Counterintelligence Department and the Special Operations Department, he still took this matter to heart.

Tensions between the two companies, Arasaka and Military Technology, have been in a targeted response to the recent attack by the Military Division.

The upper echelons decided to launch a new round of secret raids on military science and technology transport convoys, with the Special Operations Department taking the lead and taking the lead, and the requirement was to give the other side a certain degree of blow, and at the same time not to expose the details.

Susan Abernathy launched a special operations department mobilization for this purpose, and many people were arranged to participate in the operation, including David Martinez.

Tang Yu believes that whether she did it intentionally or not, the danger of David's participation in this mission is not low.

A newcomer who has just joined the company, who has not yet undergone systematic military training, rashly participates in regular armed conflicts, and has a great chance of death.

He already knew some of the details of the operation, which was basically led by Arasaka and secretly organized multiple teams to carry out the attack.

In order to cover up Arasaka's movements, he will also use the power of gang members to arrange mercenaries to participate in the middlemen of Night City.

The composition of the action is more complicated, David participated in the company's actual combat operation for the first time, if he didn't ask, it was very likely that a small mistake would lead to irreparable consequences, and his growth still needed to go step by step.

The only one who can help David in his cruel company career is Tang Yu.

And he had a hunch that the operation had something to do with his promotion to the post of public relations minister.

With such a big move, military technology will definitely suspect Arasaka.

At that time, the two sides will start negotiations, and he, as the head of public relations, will inevitably face the anger of military technology on the front line.

Tang Yu must protect the interests of the Arasaka Company and be able to calm things down, otherwise what awaits him will be more serious consequences.

Once the impression of outstanding ability is shattered and the attention of the members of the Arasaka family is lost, the malicious intent in the Arasaka Tower will become even stronger.

Tang Yu called up Gloria's contact information, this matter needs to be communicated clearly with Gloria, and arrange for the Mann team to make comprehensive arrangements.

Not tonight.