Chapter 442: Conversation on the Rooftop
I don't know when the wind blowing to the top of the building became more noisy.
Even if a person stands still, the manic wind blows the hair to sway and dance.
"When did you change your new clothes, I remember that you should have nothing in your pocket."
Lin Mo pressed his hair to prevent the night wind from blowing him into a "Sailman", and at the same time looked at Johnny who walked over with a smile on his face, paying attention to the suit on his body.
He still remembered that when he picked up Johnny and came to the Kambi Mansion today, the other party was still wearing that simple black bulletproof vest.
Johnny glanced down at his dress, and a sneer tugged at the corner of his mouth:
"I borrowed it from Arasaka Laixuan, he has a lot of these formal clothes, like his big young master, a lot of clothes have not been taken out since they were bought, but I wear them quite well."
Lai Xuan's clothes?
Lin Mo looked at Johnny's outfit and commented:
"It looks very handsome, it suits you very well, and it's a little less dog-like and a little more human-like."
"Heh, you kid really can't spit out ivory in his mouth," it seems that he is in a particularly good mood tonight, even if he is teased by Lin Mo like this, Johnny is not angry at all, but also jokes back.
"Just kidding." Lin Mo smiled and said indifferently:
"I just think you used to be more bohemian, but now you dress so seriously and formally, it's a little unaccustomed."
"After all, if you want to attend the funeral, it's still a big man funeral, you have to dress more grandly, as one of the funeral personnel, I can't hang around with a big baby naked." Johnny said in a low tone:
"And that old dog, it's time to lie down and never wake up... I can't believe that more than 50 years later, I can still witness this moment with my own eyes..."
"It seems that Lai Xuan has already explained what he said to you, but it's a pity, I originally thought that I wouldn't give you spoilers, so I could take a look at the shocked expression on your face when the time comes." Lin Mo said regretfully.
Johnny turned his head to look at Lin Mo, looking at the other party with that inconsequential expression, as if he was not at all surprised or strange about what was about to happen next.
He couldn't help but say with some emotion:
"I admire your kid's mentality a little, it's all this time, and you still want to see my jokes?"
"The opportunity is rare, you must see it, and I have long been mentally prepared for this day." Lin Mo put his hands into the pockets of his jacket and looked at the tarmac on the side with a calm face.
Tonight will be a special day – the day Saburo Arasaka arrives in Night City.
As he expected, Saburo Arasaka attaches more importance to the RELIC2.0 prototype chip than anyone can imagine.
Arasaka Lai Xuan thought that the "chip theft" could be concealed for at least two or three days.
But now it seems that it took less than a day for Saburo Arasaka to notice that something was wrong, and on this night he decided to rush to Night City and strictly ordered Arasaka Yorinobu to stay at the hotel and wait for him honestly.
This is an inescapable confrontation and a great opportunity not to be missed.
Last night in the afterlife bar, Lin Mo had already predicted in advance what was going to happen tonight through the Mewtwo Simulator, so he was quite calm now.
After pondering for a while, Lin Mo asked again:
"Did Lai Xuan tell you anything? Now it's just the two of us here, and if there's anything you can't say to his face, you can say it right now. ”
He came to the roof of the building to make a phone call just now, firstly to find a quiet place, and secondly, to let Lai Xuan and Johnny spend some time together.
The two men have both embraced the ideals of rebellion against the company for the past 50 years, and although they have taken different paths, they have the same original intentions, and there must be many common topics.
Johnny pondered for a moment, silently took out a cigarette from his body, and lit it carefully.
In the midst of a cloud of mist, he replied:
"We talked about some things from the past, not much, but enough, he is the same kind of person as me, and I admire him."
"That's all we talked about?" Lin Mo asked.
He thought the two of them would want to talk all night.
"Otherwise, do we have to hold a symposium below and invite reporters from all walks of life to come and listen to the story of the struggle of the two of us?" Johnny scoffed:
"It's better to write another book, and it's called The Struggle of Two Losers."
Lin Mo sighed a little regretfully.
He had expected to hear some interesting gossip.
"Okay, then apart from these, does he have any plans to tell you about tonight," Lin Mo asked again.
Johnny took a drag on his cigarette, thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes." ”
"Is he trying to kill his old father with his own hands?" Lin Mo looked indifferent.
Johnny froze in place and opened his eyes wide, looking at Lin Mo with a look of shock.
After a long silence, he asked in a low tone, "How do you know?" ”
"When two tigers fight, one will be injured... Arasaka Yoshinobu has no way out now, he escaped from the cage on the Tokyo side and came to the city, and now another tiger is still chasing him, the only thing he can do is not need to guess. Lin Mo said casually.
This is not difficult to guess, and even for Lin Mo, Lai Xuan's next move is completely an open-book question.
In the game, he will have a finish with his father on the top floor of the building.
Johnny narrowed his eyes and said with a little jealousy:
"Sometimes, I doubt you'll eavesdrop on other people's conversations."
Although he already knew that the night might not be peaceful, it would also be a funeral, and the old dog of capital who would have died in the last century would be lying in the coffin - because the people who stayed here would not let him leave alive.
But in what way the old dog died and how he lay in the coffin, there are no suitable answers to these questions, but Lin Mo told the truth in one word.
"Huh." Lin Mo smiled, not bothering to explain this.
"However, although Lai Xuan is ready, what will we do when the time comes?" Johnny calmly analyzed:
"Saburo Arasaka's personal bodyguard, the possible negative impact after killing him, and who should be responsible for this murder?"
In the conversation with Lai Xuan downstairs just now, he also learned some information about Saburo Arasaka's personal bodyguard.
Goro Takemura, Saburo Arasaka's closest personal bodyguard, the high-end prosthetic body implanted in his body can be called terrifying, and his strength is unfathomable, and this person is still loyal to Saburo, and there is almost no possibility of rebellion.
When the time comes, as soon as Arasaka Saburo dies, it will be absolutely impossible for this bodyguard to give up.
The other is the impact that Saburo's death will have on Arasaka Company, as well as the crime of murder - in order to stabilize and control the situation of Arasaka Company in the future, Lai Xuan cannot bear the crime head-on, which requires finding a scapegoat.
"Relax, I will deal with these problems, not to mention me, Lai Xuan should also be prepared accordingly." Lin Mo smiled and said lightly:
"You don't think that Lai Xuan decided to kill his father as soon as his brain was hot, right... I guess he had been planning this in his head for an unknown number of days and nights. ”
"It's one thing to have a brain, it's another thing to be able to do it!" Johnny paced back and forth with his hands in his pockets and began to think about tonight's actions.
He couldn't help but think about it.
Sitting on the "throne" for more than a century, Saburo Arasaka, who has faint signs of becoming a lifelong producer, and the old dog of the company that he hates to the bone, so many factors add up enough to make him cautious, instead of being a fool like before.
"Do you remember who I was tonight?" Lin Mo asked suddenly.
"Remember, Arasaka Laixuan's newly recruited personal bodyguards and the elite mercenaries of the afterlife bar are all covers you made for tonight." Johnny snorted coldly: "Even if that old dog is anxious about his lost chip, it is impossible to hit it headlong into the basin." ”
After all, Saburo Arasaka is also an old fox who has lived for more than a century, and even if it is just an extremely hasty trip tonight, it is impossible for him not to do a good job of security.
The next foreseeable thing is that when Saburo Arasaka is about to come to the Kambi Building, almost all the identity information of the guests on and off the building will be obtained in advance by the top hackers of the Arasaka Company.
They will exclude all suspicious people like the most perceptive hounds, keeping everyone away from the Tavernier suite.
In addition, the security system of the hotel building will also be under the control of Arasaka Company, and the moment Arasaka Saburo's feet step on the hotel building, Arasaka's elite commando team will surround the hotel and provide him with the most secure protection.
It's a pity that in the plot of the game, even Saburo himself didn't expect his son to do something to him.
Therefore, in order to ensure that San Lang could arrive at the Kambi Mansion with confidence, Lin Mo also temporarily replaced his identity with Lai Xuan's bodyguard.
Even the cyber security system of the entire Kambi Building has long been installed by Knight with a back door to ensure that Saburo Arasaka will not be suspicious.
Lin Mo smiled and said:
"My strength is not enough, but I am still competent enough to deal with Saburo's bodyguard, as long as this bodyguard is there, Lai Xuan's personal safety is not a problem, and as far as I know, the bodyguard named Goro Takemura is quite stupid and loyal, as soon as Saburo Arasaka dies, he has no backbone, and he may not dare to do anything to Lai Xuan."
"How good is your intelligence channel?" Johnny questioned, "How do you make sure that guy doesn't choose to do it." ”
"No need to make sure, even if he makes a move, I can easily deal with him... But I don't want to do it as a last resort. Lin Mo said meaningfully.
Goro Takemura, a supporting character with a comic temperament in the game, in addition to being absolutely loyal to the Arasaka company, he is also a good person.
It's a pity that the positions are different, if it is really time to draw a knife against each other, Lin Mo will not be soft for the sake of the memories in the game.
As for Lin Mo's confident remarks, Johnny rarely did not refute it.
After all, Rogge has said before that this kid's strength is by no means as "immature" as he seems on the surface, and even the Night City Legend Maker - Adam's Hammer was folded in his hand, and no matter how high the prosthetic level of that bodyguard is, it is impossible to be higher than Adam's Hammer.
He threw the cigarette butt that was about to finish smoking in his hand everywhere, but before the cigarette butt hit the ground, a gust of wind drifted over, and in an instant, Lin Mo had already appeared beside him.
"Let's dispose of the cigarette butts properly, this is where the floating car stops, don't show the clues." Lin Mo threw the cigarette butt back into Johnny's hand
Johnny took the cigarette butt, although he felt that Lin Mo was making a bit of a fuss, but he couldn't refute it, so he had to take a little loss and walk to the roof wall and throw the cigarette butt to the edge of the wall outside.
"Since you're ready for conflict, why don't you get rid of Saburo's old dog by the way?" Johnny turned his head and leaned against the wall near the staircase to look at Lin Mo:
"Don't you feel the sense of accomplishment that makes such a big man die in despair at your own hands? I went back to the afterlife bar this morning and asked Rogge about your experience, didn't he kill a big man with his own hands before, and caused a nuclear explosion for this, isn't this kind of thing handy for you? ”
"Because it doesn't do me any good." Lin Mo said flatly.
Johnny was stunned, his brow furrowed.
"Why?" He asked.
In his impression, killing Saburo Arasaka and destroying the rule of large corporations are the same thing, so why bother with personal gains and losses in order to achieve the goal.
The "achievement", "fame" and "significance" that comes with accomplishing this alone are worth a myriad of benefits.
Lin Mo did not shy away from saying at all:
"It's very simple, if I kill Saburo, the good thing I will bring is that I am useless, and even the murder charge will be turned into a handle and fall into your hands; And letting Lai Xuan take action, he doesn't have this concern, and it will even make our cooperation go further, because he can't bear the handle of killing his father. ”
Johnny:......
After being silent for a while, he had to sigh: "You really don't want to suffer a little loss..."
When it comes to this, Lin Mo doesn't have any scruples about him, and he can even tell him this idea of "not conducive to teamwork", which shows that Lin Mo really doesn't care.
Sometimes, Johnny is also very curious, he can't see through what Lin Mo is thinking, saying that he is a selfless saint, but he is obsessed with every benefit; said that he pursued profits, but he did not reveal what he wanted.
"But every one of you gets what you want, don't you?" Lin Mo said softly:
"Originally, there was nothing to do with you tonight, but I think San Lang's funeral is a little too unsatisfactory without you, so I called you over, which can be regarded as fulfilling your wishes."
"Then I really thank you." Johnny doesn't have a good airway.
But this sentence, he is indeed sincere.
Who wouldn't want to witness the fall of a generation of capital giants?
Bang bang...
At this moment, a sound of banging on the glass suddenly sounded, interrupting the conversation between the two.
At the top of the staircase, Lai Xuan appeared there, one hand resting on the glass door.
"Are you both done talking? Time is running out, Saburo is almost here, and it is time for you two to get back to your places. ”
"It's a mistake for someone to talk to you without paying attention." Johnny shook his head.
"Let's go." Lin Mo nodded at Lai Xuan.