While everyone was shocked by what the Arasaka Group had done, the news of Night City spread throughout the world as quickly as possible, and it surprised everyone——— indeed, it was surprising that the Arasaka Group was trying to turn everyone into a submissive cybermaniac through implants, but in fact, with Arasaka's urine nature, it was not surprising at all that it did such a thing.

At most, it's the extent that "I really plan to do this with this hairy Arsaka".

After all, the Arasaka Group has always been notorious, and it says that it is going to blow up the earth, and everyone believes it.

However, the fact that one man rules Night City and declares that he wants to confiscate all of the company's assets directly shocks the rest of the world——— which directly shocks the rest of the world.

Soon, things quickly changed.

Religious organizations everywhere reacted quickly——— yes, even if humans went to the universe, this kind of thing that appeared from primitive times would still not be extinct.

Soon, a group of religious institutions with titles such as "bishop" or "priest" appeared on the media screen, lashing out at the greed and sin of corporations, which in fact was a cliché. Many religious institutions have been accusing corporations of nihilistic hedonism, believing that they are responsible for the moral corruption of the world.

Of course, the company has no interest in such innocuous accusations, after all, they make the money, and being scolded by a few neurotic religious fanatics will not change anything. In this day and age, as long as you have money, you can install a very powerful prosthetic, and in an instant, you can turn an ordinary person who is powerless into a top master. So you don't have to worry about what those religious lunatics can do to you.

But now the situation is different.

for the angel appeared.

That's right, angels!

Everything D did was also broadcast live at the time, and after that, the whole process went crazy on the Internet, a girl with incomparable beauty, and pure and flawless white wings, and the powerful power that even bullets and gunpowder could not cause the slightest damage to her, which made many religious believers weep bitterly, they thought that this was the dawn of the divine coming, and the great god could not bear the degradation of his people, and was going to set things right!

For a while, many people gathered at the door of the company and began to protest, and the company also panicked.

In the aftermath of the Fourth Corporate War, the power of corporations has begun to be limited in some large countries, but they are still free to do whatever they want in most places. Even in some places, companies and local regimes are entangled.

Take Night City as an example, the Arasaka Group is undoubtedly the world's No. 1 company and corporate leader, so why should military technology compete with it in Night City? The reason is very simple, because of the great relationship between military technology and the new U.S. government, so it dares to scare Arasaka in front of Night City, after all, people's hometowns are next to it, and it is not impossible to pull out a team to kill you if you are in a hurry.

So that's why in Night City, Arasaka and Military Technology are fighting on the surface, and other companies even hate Arasaka, but because they can't reach it, they can only make a small stumbling block secretly.

But at the end of the day, even so, in most countries, corporations are strong relative to regimes. A lot of times, it's the government that needs to work with the company, not the other way around. And it's also a very cost-effective investment for companies to buy off politicians so they can push policies that benefit them.

This is also the reason why they have been boasting about democracy and freedom, because only in this way will they vote for leaders, and once they need to vote, then there is room for capital to intervene and play, they control the media, intelligence, everything is in the hands of the company, they can easily erase those they don't like, and then praise the people they like.

Now, however, they are in a hurry.

They are really in a hurry!

If one person does this, then the company has a thousand ways to discredit them, what dictatorship, tyrant, autocracy, etc., to portray the other person as a heinous villain, so that they can avoid others from thinking similarly.

However, this time the enemy who appeared before them was not a human, but an angel!

So here's the problem.

They accuse the other side of tyranny, and believers say that God created our world and everything, and that God rules us as a matter of course, and that we are willing to go to great lengths for God's will!

So the capitalists were in a hurry.

This is a double-edged sword, and now the reverse is starting to turn against them. Politicians come to power after all, so when the people at the bottom are unanimously opposed to something, they don't dare to pursue policies that favor the company, even if they have a lot of money in their pockets, after all, it is certain that it can bring unimaginable disasters.

What's more, the government and companies are never of the same mind, if there is an opportunity, they naturally want to seize the assets and power of these companies——— and no qualified politician will allow this kind of capital to ride on their heads and and pee.

The company was well aware of this, so they panicked.

The videos and news of the Cambi Mansion are everywhere, and they can't stop all of this at all, not to mention the Arasaka Group's soul chip, which is even worse. For a while, almost all governments began to meet to discuss how to limit the power of companies and prevent things like the Arasaka Group from happening——— after all, most of these implants and prosthetics are made by companies, and even politicians don't want to be controlled and become puppets, right?

As for the Arasaka Group, it was directly divided by various countries, after all, you have done everything to control such a big villain as human beings, and you want people to witness, there are witnesses, and there are physical evidence, so isn't it a logical thing to clean you up?

Of course, the reason why governments dare to do this is because the chairman of the Arasaka Group is dead, and the heir is dead, and even Arasaka Saburo's daughter Hanako Arasaka was found to have overclocked and died in her apartment that night. For a time, the Arasaka Group was leaderless, and a group of chaos was chaotic. The following will either fight for power and profit, or run away with money. Once a world giant, it seems to be over.

And Night City, naturally, is at the heart of it all. In particular, the video of the bodies of those high-ranking company officials being hung on street lamps has made many people feel chills in their hearts. Of course, it's not that no one doubts this, thinking that it's too cruel and not civilized enough——— and people don't bird you at all, who will listen to the wailing of the defeated dog.

Over the next few days, a number of journalists from around the world traveled to Night City to see what was going on in the city.

In their minds, such a city must be in constant strife and war at present.

However, the truth was beyond the expectations of these journalists.

When they came to Night City, what they saw was a clean, tidy, and vibrant city. The streets of the city are clean without even a single piece of paper, most people are working hard, and street robberies and shootings are completely extinct.

In the face of interviews with reporters, most of the residents of Night City are also full of praise for this, although Night City's gun surrender order does make them very unhappy, but because of this, the entire Night City is much better. After the arrest or execution of NCPD's top executives who had colluded with senior company officials, the remaining police officers began to do their jobs. Suffice it to say, everyone seems to be doing well, except for the unlucky ones who were hanged from their street lamps.

Of course, the attitude of the top executives of the company was completely different, and in the face of interviews with reporters, they denounced D as a tyrant, believing that she trampled on the ideals of freedom and democracy, and also said that Night City has lost the glory of the free city and has become the back garden of dictators, so that such a city cannot meet their business needs, they will leave the city and withdraw from business altogether, so as not to plunder their hard-earned property.........

In this regard, experts from various countries have also given comments, and most of these experts believe that Night City may not be able to support it for long if it continues like this, and in their opinion, the reason why Night City can prosper is because companies do business here. But now, Night City's unfriendly attitude towards the company's business will make them suffer, and even though Night City has confiscated a large amount of company assets, no other company will dare to do business with Night City.

In this case, Night City is not resourceful of its own, so there is only a dead end in the future.

"I have to say that although the butts of these experts are crooked, they are not wrong."

Looking at the expert comments on TV, D chuckled, of course she understood what was wrong with Night City. Night City's prosperity was indeed built on a free and open economic policy. This is actually a bit similar to the Cayman Islands, a small island, but it houses all the world's well-known Fortune 500 companies, the world's fourth largest financial center, is it because of its good geographical location?

Of course, because it can avoid taxes and launder money!

Just like Swiss banks, why do rich people keep their money in Swiss banks, isn't it because Swiss banks are independent and keep customer information completely confidential?

Once this advantage is lost, then these places are doomed.

The same is true of Night City, in the past, companies were willing to do business here, just because this is the world of capital, they can do whatever they want here, and even do some inhumane experiments——— similar to Arasaka's soul chip This kind of experiment, there are many in Night City, because this is an independent city-state, not bound by the laws of any country, so if you do illegal things in other places, you can do it in Night City.

That's why these companies come to Night City to invest and do business.

And now that Night City doesn't allow them to do whatever they want, then these companies naturally stop their losses and run away in time.

After all, they have all seen the fate of the Arasaka Group, and if they don't run anymore, they are afraid that it will be their turn next.

But D doesn't care about this little thing, for the simple reason that it's simple.

On the one hand, although the company is gone, Night City has not been shunned because of this, on the contrary, for many religious believers, with their appearance, Night City seems to have become a place similar to a religious shrine. The fact is that according to the recently obtained data, many religious believers are trying to make a pilgrimage to the Night City these days——— but at the moment the Night City does not intend to welcome a large number of outsiders and is in a semi-closed state.

On the other hand, it's even simpler.

The company will run away, can't it get new business on its own?

Just then, the sound of communication in D's ears rang.

"My lord, the appointed reporter has arrived."

"Let her in."

"Yes."

D turned around and sat back in his chair, then saw the door open, and a female reporter walked in, followed by a photographer.

The moment they saw D in front of them, their steps were stagnant, and an unbelievable expression and blankness appeared on their faces. Of course, D knows what's going on——— after all his 99-point charm is real......... Well, how to put it, this damn charm that has nowhere to put it.

"You may be seated."

D looked at the two of them and snapped his fingers. At this moment, they seemed to have come back to their senses from a certain trance, and hurriedly sat on the chair obediently, obedient like elementary school students——— which is of course also the influence of D's charm, just like Duanmu Huai itself has a large-scale aura of fear aura, D also has a similar "temptation aura", people who see D within a certain range will pass a round of will identification, and if the will identification fails, they will enter a state of charm, and the state of charm is almost permanent and cannot be eliminated.

Of course, the main reflection in the game is that the initial favorability is high, and it is easy to attract NPCs to release hidden quests and obtain more generous rewards.

But in reality.........

"Hello, I'm Sandora, a reporter for News 54........."

Sandora looked at the girl in front of her, very nervous, although there were no heavily armed security guards here, and the other party seemed very gentle, but just looking at the girl in front of her, Sandora had a feeling of self-shame, as if compared to this incomparably holy, perfect existence, she was like a defiled mutilation. Even if she didn't say anything, just standing here was enough to bring out the ugliness and flaws of everything else.

"Don't be so nervous, Miss Sandora."

D chuckled and looked at the female reporter in front of him.

"It's okay to call me D, so can the interview begin?"

"Of course........."

D's voice was like a clear spring, soothing Sandora's trembling and restless heart, she took a deep breath, and then came back to her senses, looked at D again, and regained a trace of composure.

"So ..............."

After calming down, Sandora also resumed her duties as a reporter, asking D a lot of questions, such as the future plans and assumptions of Night City, and what kind of reforms D plans to carry out within Night City.

Faced with these questions, D also answered them one by one, until the interview was about to end, and Sandora stared at D and asked one last question.

"Did you know that the new President of the United States, Miles, has publicly demanded that Night City be reincorporated into the new United States?"

"I've heard of it."

D nodded, of course she understood what this thing meant, after the end of the last war, because of the intervention of the Arasaka group, the war between the new United States and the Free State stopped, and the two sides reached a nominal unity, and Night City became an independent city-state because of Arasaka.

And now, with the end of Arasaka and Night City falling into its own hands, the new America obviously wants to reclaim Night City and completely dominate the whole of North America.

"So, what do you think of President Myers' request?"

"Opinion?"

Hearing Sandora's inquiry, D smiled slightly.

"It's not worth my attention to the new America, Night City is my city, that's not going to change, if Miles is stupid enough to try to take over the city, then I'll make her understand......... The consequences of this incident cannot be afforded by the new United States. ”

(End of chapter)