In Little Chinatown, Victor watched a boxing match in his clinic, and thanks to the news of the Ash Company cleaning up Taiping Continent, the number and intensity of gang fires in Night City have decreased, and even Victor's business has decreased.

However, Victor also doesn't care much about business, preferring to chat with friends, drink and watch boxing than surgery.

There was a knock on the door, it was already nine o'clock in the evening and it was raining outside, and only the gangsters who had been injured in the fire would knock on the door at such a time.

"Come in," Victor turned off the TV and walked to the operating chair, waiting for the patient to come in. But this time he miscalculated, it wasn't an injury, the person who knocked on the door was a Space Marine, Kyle Valen from the Iron Warriors.

Victor was visibly startled when the tall Kyle leaned into the room, but he quickly regained his composure, and the eagle emblem on Kyle's shoulder armor let him know that someone from the company was coming.

"Is there anything wrong, sir?" The big guy in front of him obviously didn't come to look for trouble, otherwise he wouldn't have knocked on the door, so Victor was quite calm.

"I want a copy of V's information after inserting the Relic chip." Karen didn't say much, he directly made his request.

"It's impossible, I'm not going to betray my friends and leave my clinic, right now!" Victor was already angry, Karen's demands had stepped on his bottom line, and he wouldn't do such a thing like those unconscionable gang scum in Night City.

"Don't worry, Dr. Victor, we just need to confirm V's current state, the erosion of the Relic chip on the body is uncontrollable, and she has an important place in our plans, we are sure of her condition." Karen explained very softly.

The chip on V's body is a problem for the Ash Expeditionary Force against Arasaka, and it is also a decoy to deal with AI, Horus can't guarantee that V can support it for as long as in the plot, if V can't resist Relic's erosion, then let the Mechanic Sect adjust her.

And Victor Victor, the legend of the City of the Eve and the best prosthetic doctor in the city, is also of great value to the Ashes Expeditionary Force, and he may be able to become a pharmacist or a technical sergeant.

Based on these two points, Karen patiently explained her purpose to him, and even told Victor about the threat of AI. After some words, Victor relented a little, but he still had some doubts.

"Then why don't you just go to V and tell him about your existence, if she also knows, you will be much easier to operate."

"Of course we want to do this, but V has been hacked by the AI, and they are watching her around the clock, and if we do it directly, it will startle the snake, and the arrangement against the AI will be ineffective. It's hard to get rid of AI without spreading the war all over the world. ”

"Invasion!" Karen's answer shocked Victor, who had already thoroughly examined her when Goro Takemura sent her over, but he had found no other intrusion other than the erosion of Relic's chip.

"The network technology of AI has exceeded your ability to detect, and only we can defeat this group of rebel AI in this world, which is also the mission of Ash." Karen looked at Victor seriously and said. "Moreover, we also have the ability to protect V as bait."

"Then how am I going to cooperate with you?" In the end, Victor chose to believe Karen's words, and although Victor was the best doctor in Night City, he had nothing to do about V's situation, so he could only try to see if he could save V.

Hearing that Victor was willing to cooperate, Karen took out a small box containing a chip.

"This neural chip is based on V's genes, and as long as it is equipped with V, it can counteract Relic's modification, and it is loaded with an independent detection program that can monitor the activity of the AI, and it can also block the monitoring for a short time." Karen handed the chip to Victor and admonished:

"Don't tell V until you put it on, and after you put it on, if you feel the need to start the blocking process and tell V the truth. You can contact me via the official communications of the Ash Corporation, goodbye, Victor. With that, Karen took V's test report and left.

Victor looked at the box in his hand and was stunned, this conversation tonight made him reacquaint himself with what had happened to V.

"You're almost retiring, but you still have this kind of thing, you're really worrying, V." Victor muttered to himself.

Taipingzhou, the Ash Training Ground, with the prosthetic technique taught by the machine, Jack was fully restored in just a few weeks, and he is now Kalekareda.

"When can I go see my mom and V?" Jack knocks over the training robot in front of him with a straight punch.

"You'll have to be patient, Jack, he's a dead man in their minds right now, and when the plan gets to the end, I promise you'll be able to act with V." Sergeant Zinon stood aside and replied to Jack that since Horus came from the cyberpunk world, as the head of security, Zinon was almost unemployed, and hundreds of interstellar marines were stationed at the base in Taipingzhou, and Zinon was not capable of coordinating so many fighters.

"I heard that V recently took down a company float car?" Jack asked as he stepped off the training table.

"Yes, he caught Herman from that floating car, and I read the briefing on the operation, and there are still some loopholes in what she did." Qi Nong commented.

"She's already good, I can't be that pretty if I change me," Jack was clearly maintaining V.

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While Miss V was running around trying to figure out how to solve Relic's problem, the Ash Company was not idle, and as the representative of Horus, Lorcan had been negotiating with Arasaka Yoshinobu and Kang Tao Company.

Arasaka Lai Xuan has decided to cooperate completely with the Ash Expeditionary Force, after continuous testing within the Arasaka Company, Lai Xuan found that due to party disputes, his own operating space is very limited, and he is only a representative of hawkish political forces, it is impossible to defeat Arasaka, and the introduction of the Ash Expeditionary Force is the best choice.

And Kang Tao Company, as the white glove of the Eastern countries, although their influence in Night City is not as high as that of Arasaka and Yong Technology, but it is also higher than that of Ash Company, which has not been established for ten years.

After using encrypted communication to contact China, Kangtao also chose to cooperate with the Ash Expeditionary Force, and after seeing the expeditionary force's war machine with his own eyes, Kangtao gave up on this path.

As for military technology, the Yankees are as tough as ever, demanding that Ash Inc. withdraw from Night City, which of course is impossible.

The size of this cake in Night City is limited, it turned out that Arasaka, Military Technology, and Kang Tao were eating it, and now Ash wants to add you. Although Arasaka did not respond, and Kang Tao did not object, military technology was obviously unwilling to share the cake.

So, the conflict between the established large companies and the new ones began.