Chapter 22: Food and Clothing and Cannons
Is Lilith from Arasaka?
How is this possible?
Otherwise, in the previous time in the LTTE, they had to find someone to rescue them everywhere?
In the end, it was someone from the suspected company who helped......
Well?
Suspicious company?
Li Ji sits in his pickup truck, driven by AI Xiaosha, and rampages through Night City.
"The first is that there are a large number of cyber maniacs of unknown origin in the city."
"Then there was the Terrorist Mobile Squad that went out overnight."
"In the end, I ...... with the Arasaka fire outside the city."
This series of events is interlocking, and it's hard not to suspect that there is an undercurrent behind it......
"Leah, what do you think of Lilith?" Li Ji asked in the newsletter.
“…… She's a strong girl who emerges from the chaos of the junkyard and brings a group of people from the same background as her to work in Night City, and hates the company. So it definitely can't be her! ”
yes, it can't be her, so who could it be?
Thinking back to the cyber laborers who died at gunpoint, their indignant cries a few days ago are still vivid.
For no reason, Li Ji only felt like he was breathing a sigh in his chest, which was very uncomfortable.
Even though it was controlled by AI and the speed was at the limit of the whole process, it still took Li Ji and the others nearly half an hour to rush to the small factory near the medical hall.
And the battle is long over.
Outside the door were full of miserable people, many of whom Li Ji had seen.
They were once workers here, receiving the city's meagre wages and enduring the worst conditions in Night City.
Then, one day, they gathered outside the factory gate and demanded nothing more than a living salary.
Finally, on this ordinary night, they went to Huangquan with their friends.
Several people silently followed Li Ji's side, and Rebecca watched them enter the factory in the car.
The factory area has been reduced to ruins, and Li Ji found Lilith here.
She lay near a garbage dump, her fingers clenching the trigger in her hand, but no more bullets could be fired from the barrel.
Lilith is dead.
Li Ji looked at her corpse in silence, and then dialed Buck's father's phone.
After waiting for a long time, the other side was connected.
But neither of them spoke.
"You got it?" Li Ji asked.
"Help me bring her home, thanks." Buck's dad on the other end of the phone was hoarse, and the communication was cut off.
A strong man stumbled in from outside the factory, and when he saw Lilith's body, he fell to his knees with a thud and hid his face and wept.
Li Ji recognized him as the one who had quarreled with Lilith in the first place.
Kirby Holt, muscular, holding Lilith in his arms at the moment, his eyes hollow.
Li Ji stepped forward and asked expressionlessly, "Why are you wearing the uniform of Agent Arasaka?" ”
"Arasaka's uniform?"
Kirby repeated blankly, and then, as if realizing something, his face became contorted, and he tore the clothes off his body violently, and threw them into the distance.
"Arasaka's clothes? Arasaka's clothes! It turned out that it all started because of me......"
"I'll atone for you! Lilith! ”
With that, Kirby raised his pistol and shot straight at his temple.
However, his fingers froze in mid-air, and it was obviously a trigger that was close at hand, but he couldn't move anything.
"Even if you want to die, you have to finish your words before you die, now, I ask, you answer, understand?"
Seeing that he was about to commit suicide, Li Ji used the ability of his prosthetic eye to invade control of his neural chip and restrict his movements.
"Just ask, Mr. Li Ji."
After a futile struggle, Kirby sat down on the ground and said weakly.
"Last time you said someone from the suspected company gave you a large sum of money to find a mercenary to rescue Lilith?"
"Yes, but they asked me to post the assignment anonymously so that no one could know about it, and at the same time they came to me later and said they could equip and fund us."
I see, no wonder the Tigers' mission information is unknown.
"What's the matter with you, and them, with your uniforms and equipment?"
"After you rescued my eldest sister's head, she told me not to have any contact with those people, but recently, for some reason, there were many gang members among the troublemakers, and many of the brothers were seriously injured, so I was forced to contact the person again."
"And then he gave you the equipment, and you just used it?"
Kirby lowered his head and said slowly, "Yes! ”
"Don't you recognize that these equipment and clothes belong to Agent Arasaka?"
Kirby didn't speak, but there were faint bruises on his stiff fists.
Li Ji continued: "Or do you say, even if you recognize Arasaka, you still naively think that people have taken a fancy to you and want to go up to the chase to hug your thighs?" ”
"Nope! That's not true! ”
Kirby suddenly said excitedly: "The eldest sister has persuaded us not to believe in the company, but we ...... I still haven't been able to listen to her...... So it's all my fault! It's all my fault! ”
"Last question, where did you just go?"
Li Ji asked with an indifferent expression, and the three fingers behind him and Leah tightened the weapons in their hands.
"It was the eldest sister who asked me to go to my hometown over there at the garbage dump to deliver the supplies her father needed, which she had always sent before, but today she suddenly felt uneasy, saying that she felt that something was going to happen here, and she had to stay, so she let me go......"
After listening to Kirby's narration, Li Ji still felt that there was a deeper truth hidden in this matter, not that Kirby was lying, but all the contradictions came from one idea:
What is Arasaka?
Just to slaughter those innocent workers outside? But this is not Arasaka's territory, let alone the presence of a terrorist mobile team.
"Why was there a terrorist mobile team here? There's no reason they're here. ”
"It's a cyber maniac! Several of the brothers in the team suddenly went crazy, and I was still halfway there, listening to the people in the team. ”
Cyber maniac? Cybermania again? If that's the case, there is a reason for the appearance of the terrorist squad, but why did they fight with the security guards?
"After the people of the Terrorist Mobile Team arrived, they actually ignored everything around them and took civilians and us as targets!"
Everything is so natural, everything is so in accordance with the rules, but all this makes Li Ji's heart angry.
"Come with us, send Lilith home."
Looking at Kirby, who was not moving, Li Ji added another sentence: "Die now, Lilith will only laugh at your incompetence, and only by living can you have hope of revenge, even if it is very slim." ”
Hearing this, Kirby's eyes finally regained their brilliance, stood up silently, hugged Lilith across his chest, and followed Li Ji out of the door.
"Boss, there's a couple of floating cars coming over there in Night City."
"Well, let's go back to the infirmary first, and after settling Pila, I'll send Lilith home."
Li Ji, who was sitting in the car, looked back and saw several floating cars hovering above the factory in the sky, and then slowly fell.
"News 54, CNN, and radio channels, almost all the media have arrived."
Li Ji suddenly asked Leah in the communication, "How is the cyber psychosis that suddenly appeared in Night City?" ”
"It's been solved, the terrorist mobile team didn't come forward, what shot was military technology!"
Looking at the military technology cars that suddenly appeared on the periphery of the factory, Li Ji turned around and said lightly:
"Drive, let's go back!"
It's a fox, and its tail is always exposed.