It's night, Company Square.

The night breeze is exceptionally cool tonight, and the temperature in Night City seems to have plummeted several degrees tonight, or maybe it's a psychological effect...

The lights of the city have changed to a solemn and monotonous cold tone tonight, the company square has begun to ban the honking of vehicles, the speed of floating cars passing by the sky has been reduced, and the noisy commercial advertisements have ceased to be revealed... This kind of atmosphere that transforms the city from bustling and warm to dull and gloomy makes people feel cold from the heart.

As a place where employees of large companies must check in every day, and thanks to the working hours of "this is all good news", the company square is still bright and bright even at night on weekdays.

The street lamps on the side of the road, the billboards in the buildings, the holographic twin fish in the central circle of the square... These places that should have shone are now dark.

The city became darker, the stars and moon in the night sky became colder, and the moonlight poured on the ground like mercury, desolate and mournful.

In a high floor of the Arasaka Tower, a solemn and solemn memorial service was held here, and the guests were all big people with heads and faces in the city. Everyone's conversation was suppressed to the extreme, and only whispers echoed in the silent room.

However, despite the solemn atmosphere and the solemn expressions of the people at the memorial service, almost no one in the memorial service felt mourning for the deceased, except for a few members of Arasaka's immediate family.

"What a heartfelt performance... Everyone is a natural actor at this time, and some people wear a mask called sadness, but in fact, they may have already blossomed in their hearts. ”

On the second-floor platform of the venue, Lin Mo was dressed in the formal dress of Arasaka Company, with an ordinary ceremonial knife straddled his waist, standing beside Arasaka Lai Xuan, and couldn't help whispering:

"Seriously, is tonight's memorial service so grand? Although the person who died was Saburo Arasaka, I still didn't expect you to ask for the other company buildings in the company square to be lowered in brightness... Originally, I thought that the memorial service would be held in a low-key manner within the company, and then a few guests would be invited. ”

Arasaka Yorixuan's eyes looked directly at the many guests below, and said without looking back: "This is the meaning of the board of directors, and if tonight's memorial service is not held in a grand manner, Huazi may not come over." ”

"Has she arrived?" Lin Mo's gaze subconsciously searched among the guests.

However, before he could find the location of Arasaka Kako among the many guests, he was stunned to see a figure that was all too familiar in this life

- His sister, Xu Wanxue.

it... Lin Mo rarely complained wildly in his heart.

Why did she come too, didn't she say that these tedious tasks should be handed over to the company's public relations department?

You're the CTO of CTO's Night City Division, would you like to come to the memorial service in person?

Since today's arrangement is to come over to attend Saburo's memorial service, it is destined that there will not be much to happen on this day.

So much so that when I used the simulator to rehearse last night, the content of the simulated deeds only summarized the past in a few words about the process of tonight's memorial service, and did not write the process in detail.

Therefore, Lin Mo was also quite surprised that Xu Wanxue would appear here.

Although he was very confused in his heart at this time, it seemed to be some kind of mutual induction in the dark, and the moment Lin Mo's gaze fell on Xu Wanxue, she seemed to notice something, and suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of the second floor.

Xu Wanxue's gaze quickly changed from confusion to shock.

She moved her eyes up and down slightly, and her attention stayed on Lin Mo's body, as if to confirm whether she would recognize the wrong person.

Then, Lin Mo had no choice but to meet her gaze helplessly, nodded silently, stretched out his finger and made a "shhh" movement at his lips.

In fact, in the short time that Xu Wanxue noticed the abnormality and raised his head, with his reaction speed, he could completely move away from her sight.

But Lin Mo thought about it again, and suddenly found that he had nothing to escape.

Even if he is now wearing the uniform of Arasaka Company and standing next to Arasaka Yorixuan and acting like a bodyguard, with her sister's trust in him, she must think that he is on some kind of secret mission or something.

Sure enough, when she saw Lin Mo nodding at herself, Xu Wanxue immediately understood what he wanted to express.

She nodded to Lin Mo quietly in response, and then shifted her gaze and continued to participate in the memorial service as if she was fine.

"Is she your sister?" Lai Xuan also noticed the interaction between the two, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "I can see that she cares about you very much, and the two of you have a good relationship." ”

"Hmm." Lin Mo nodded noncommittally, jokingly: "But it's only now, I used to make her very uncomfortable, and I often stimulated him in some things... It's fine now, she's compromised. ”

"To be honest, I was surprised and envious." Lai Xuan said in a deep voice:

"I have learned about your past deeds, according to the psychology of normal people, you generally will not let your family members be marginalized, especially from your sister's point of view, this is even more unbelievable."

I think he did something similar at the beginning, it was the same night, his father took him to a room for a secret conversation, the content of the conversation is now incomprehensible, but most of it was brainwashing words related to the revitalization of Arasaka.

Then, he fled the family that night and showed his rebellion against his father with his actions.

No one understands him... Maybe there were, but in the end they all died at the hands of the Arasaka agents sent by his father.

Now, even his closest person, his sister Hanako Arasaka, has chosen to oppose him.

So now, seeing that Lin Mo can have such a relative who can understand him, Lai Xuan said that he is not envious, which is naturally a lie.

Lin Mo smiled lightly and said from the bottom of his heart:

"The greatest luck in my life may be to meet her."

He could see the complicated emotions in Lai Xuan's heart at the moment, but he couldn't think of anything to comfort the other party.

Lai Xuan wants to turn himself into a nuclear bomb, but if you put a nuclear bomb, you will always die.

So he chose to become a nuclear bomb within the Arasaka company.

So the people who will die in the future will only be the people of the Arasaka Company.

"Actually... I went to see it that day, and I didn't have permission to go into the secret room you told me, and it was Knight who helped me get in. Lai Xuan suddenly looked at Lin Mo and said:

"It's exactly the same as you said, there is a hidden service unit, and a certain personality data consciousness is stored at the bottom of the network, but if there is no key chip, that personality data consciousness will not awaken, let alone do anything, just an unknown data code."

"I don't know the true face of data consciousness yet, but I guess it can't be anyone else except the old immortal, and the room is exactly the same as that office, and almost every company branch will have one."

It was precisely because he saw these unknown secrets hidden within the company that Lai Xuan chose to fully believe Lin Mo's judgment.

After all, he couldn't think of more convincing evidence.

In a sense, this boy completely stripped off Saburo Arasaka's bottoms, and the old immortal hid his personality data so well, but he was still picked up by this boy by unknown means.

With such strong evidence, even if Lin Mo now said that it was not Lai Xuan himself who was standing in front of him, but a data personality pretended, maybe Lai Xuan himself would be suspicious that he was not a real person.

As for the fact that his sister Hanako Arasaka would betray him, what is this trivial matter?

The only thing Lai Xuan can do, of course, is to choose to believe.

Just as the two were chatting, a hostess at the venue suddenly trotted over silently, walked up to Lai Xuan's side and whispered a few words.

She didn't avoid Lin Mo at all, and the content of her words came to Lin Mo's ears word for word, simply put-Arasaka Huazi had arrived, and the floating car was parked on the upper helipad.

Lai Xuan waved his hand, asking Miss Etiquette to retreat for the time being, then turned his head to look at Lin Mo and said:

"My sister has arrived, I need to go up to receive her, do you want to come along?"

Lin Mo lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and finally seemed to think of something, shook his head and said:

"Not for the time being, I don't want to show my face in front of her yet, so let's use the camera to observe secretly."

Although he played Lai Xuan's bodyguard tonight, in fact, Lai Xuan didn't need his protection tonight.

Even if it is Arasaka Huazi's personal bodyguard and Takemura Goro's apprentice - Oda, it is impossible to turn his face with Lai Xuan in person without Huazi's instructions.

Lai Xuan nodded slightly, had no objection to Lin Mo's approach, and instead reminded:

"Knight is in a conference room on the upper level right now, there's no one else there, you can go over and talk to him."

Tonight's memorial service, in addition to politely "mourning" Saburo Arasaka, invited so many valuable bigwigs to come over, and Arasaka Company naturally arranged many secluded conference rooms for guests to rest and chat.

"I see." Lin Mo nodded.

The two parted, Lin Mo stood on the second floor and glanced at his sister, looking at her idleness at the memorial service, and she didn't encounter any trouble, so she was relieved.

He turned around and walked to the elevator room, and according to the position prompted by Lai Xuan, he came to a secluded conference room in the corner upstairs.

When he came to the door, he opened automatically before he could knock.

It's a small conference room with warm yellow lighting, a circular sofa that can accommodate six or seven people, and a TV hanging on the opposite wall.

Knight, whose eyes radiated blue light and an elegant and easy-looking face, sat on the sofa and gently stretched out his hand to Lin Mo and said:

"You may be seated."

"Are you too busy to come to the memorial service tonight?" Lin Mo picked up the glass kettle, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it in a big gulp.

Knight said unhurriedly:

"Watching the memorial service is just incidental, and my original intention was to take this opportunity to come over and have a few words with you."

Lin Mo sat on the sofa and asked relaxedly, "What do you want to talk about?" ”

"I've been spending some time thinking about your plan lately, and while I still can't understand all of your thoughts, I want to warn you of one omission in your plan, and that's if you're sure you want Johnny to choose military technology as your opponent?" Knight asked.

"The plan will never catch up with the changes, and no matter how good I am, I can't just make a 100% successful plan, so there is a high probability that some details of the plan will be changed in the future, but is there anything wrong with what you said?" Lin Mo said.

Knight looked serious: "There is a problem, and it is not a small problem. ”

Lin Mo didn't ask for the first time, but lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then seemed to think of the answer, and said uncertainly:

"Do you think Johnny's body might not be able to support him in this task?"

"Your analysis is not wrong." Knight was no longer surprised by Lin Mo's behavior of "predicting what others were about to say in advance", and he said very calmly:

"Each company building has a company intranet inside, and these networks are not under the jurisdiction of Ye's company, and there is no specific access permission, so we can't make Johnny link to these company subnets."

Lin Mo nodded clearly:

"Well, you're trying to say that if Johnny runs into these company buildings, he might not have run a few steps before he falls to the ground and disconnects, and then he stops beating?"

This is not difficult to analyze.

In Johnny's current existence, if you want to ask him what his biggest flaw is, it is undoubtedly "network signal".

However, this is also a way out of the question, after all, it is impossible for Lin Mo to find V to act as a "shared body" for Johnny to use.

Lin Mo continued:

"You can rest assured that regarding the access to the internal network of military technology, if I have the chance, I will try to break through their network data fortress alone, and then steal the access permission... The only thing I don't know about this method is that I can't guarantee that I'll be completely undetected. ”

Knight's eyes widened slightly, and he glanced at Lin Mo in surprise, but he was speechless for a while.

Breach your company's data fortress alone... And then steal what you want... The only thing that I can't guarantee is that I am worried that I will be discovered?

Underneath the light-hearted words is the boy's terrifying cyber hacking ability, and it's no wonder that he was able to solve the AI problem that has puzzled the company for decades.

Dare you still have seven in and seven out of the online world to get the head of the enemy general, and then you are not satisfied with this, and you are still thinking about "quietly Mimi" seven in and seven out to get the head of the enemy general?

However, Knight admits that the latter method is more difficult.

"Actually, I can offer a workaround." Eventually, Knight spoke up for his opinion.

"What's the solution?" Lin Mo asked curiously.

"Find a company ghost, and you have to be a company hacker with a high status, and let the other party help us in our operation." Knight said slowly.

Lin Mo smiled and glanced at Knight meaningfully:

"So, you've found the right person?"

Knight nodded, and said with a smile:

"Actually, I had contact with her before the two of us officially got in touch in the past, but I haven't talked to her yet."

"So you contacted her with the mindset of giving it a try? What's the matter, what's the difficulty with her, so she wants to negotiate terms with you? Lin Mo asked with a smile.

"As you said, she's been haunted by something for all these years, and this thing will kill her in the foreseeable future, and I happen to have clues to solve the problem on my side, and she must cooperate with me in order to survive."

Lin Mo suddenly became a little interested, and asked casually:

"Who is she?"

"You can call her a lark."