Chapter 79: Kang Tao's doubts

Footage of the battle is not hard to come by.

As long as the company is willing to invest resources internally, their cyber hackers will relentlessly dig up surveillance probe information in cyberspace that should be corrupted.

As long as the data exists, there's the possibility of recovery – that's what corporate cyber hackers do most of the time.

Either to restore the clues on the current network, or to try to recover the data from the old web era.

Lille knew there would be such a day, but he was ready to answer.

He directly took out the Ying Long: "You said this? It's really easy to use. ”

"That shipment was lost in Atlanta."

Lille spread his hands: "I don't care about this, if you want to buy it back, you can, but the street rules, buy things in the black market, don't talk about the origin." ”

"Which black market did you get it from?"

"No comment."

The people in the car frowned, they just said that they would cooperate, and now they are coming here?

Lille was quick to say, "But given our good working relationship, I can give you some cluesβ€”Dogtown." ”

β€œ... The conditions have changed, take out the gun, I want the data in it, otherwise I don't need to talk about it. ”

"You canβ€”don't try to do anything about it, or you'll suffer."

Lille generously handed over the gun.

He was not afraid at all.

All of the data in the gun is deleted and scrambled using cross-dimensional data channels.

Data can be restored, but when some of the data is computed and processed in another world, you can't find it even if you want to.

As a result, their hackers will scratch their heads like crazy, and no matter how they recover, the data will be distorted.

Lille's calmness was not what the man expected, but it was a possible scenario--

Maybe the gun was really picked up by Lille from that black market in Dogtown.

That's a big hassle – but everything has to wait until they go back and look into it before they can make a decision.

The bodyguard put the gun in the car, and then returned the gun to Lille, and the four of them were honest on Lille's side during the whole process.

V, the only one who knows the inside story, completely trusts Lille and doesn't feel a sense of urgency, and Jack and Chesson are completely unaware of Atlanta's affairs.

No problem - really no problem found at all.

β€œ... Okay, that's it, Cheson, right? Tomorrow I will send you the location of the pick-up point. ”

After speaking, the bodyguard next to the car opened the door and got into the car at the same time like a robot, and the car drove away.

But in the car, the person who had been in charge of speaking immediately made a phone call.

Call a cyber hacker in the cooling pool of the Conto, who is reconstructing the trio's path in cyberspace.

But it turned out to be...

β€œ... There seems to be some problem with the data we restored... But the earliest date can be traced back to the name Dennis Burger King was when Arasaka Gakuin began to re-emerge.

Enrolled in an A-level licensure course for adult education, technologist and prosthetician. ”

"Double A-grade?"

"Double A-class, other information is still being restored, but..."

But it was quite difficult, and they didn't dare to say it.

It's not just difficult, it's hell.

As an AI-powered company, Kangtao encountered an insurmountable obstacle in using similar technology to restore data!

"So you guys didn't find anything - anomalies only appear on them?"

"Not only that, but we've observed similar issues at multiple nodes in Santo Domingo, and perhaps elsewhere in Night City.

It's definitely new technology – the hacker is amazing, and he seems to be still diving deep. ”

That is, nothing.

The person in the car had a headache, but he didn't make any physical movements, but immediately made another call.

"Sir, there's no hard evidence linking these three to the things in Atlanta."

"What else?"

"The skinny boy who took the lead used Ying Long, and Atlanta had this gun in the cargo, and he claimed to have bought it from Dogtown."

"What about credibility?"

"I think... The kid was a bit smart, but not like the guy in Atlanta.

I originally thought that he would take advantage of the situation to climb up to us to be the middleman, but he didn't ask for that, and instead wanted a smart ammunition production line.

And he didn't do it himself, he got an arms dealer.

I agreed to this condition, and we could deepen our cooperation with the arms dealer, but in this way, he himself would actually benefit the least, and he would always be a mercenary.

If it was the one in Atlanta, he would have acted as his own middleman and had all the benefits in his hands. ”

It's the relationship that counts.

Even if it is Lille who is talking about this business now, but for another year or two, the benefits that Chessen will eat will be given by Kangtao.

In the event of a conflict of interest, it is not necessarily that Chessen will be on Lille's side.

It's not like a smart guy would do – if Atlanta's order wasn't made by military technology, it must have been done by someone who is extremely savvy.

That person ripped off the military science and technology, and so far the military technology has not revealed a single news, like a dumb loss;

He also pulled a team of hacker experts out of nowhere to put military science and technology together, and let him take advantage of all the benefits.

There's Atlanta -- how many networks do you have to pull to do that? How much information does it take to have this whole thing to have this effect?

But it's all based on speculation that it's a team of hackers, not a single person, that attacks military technology.

"Dogtown... Things are in trouble, I'll give you resources, continue to investigate, and if you think that the suspicion of that Burger King can't be eliminated, continue to follow him.

Things didn't go wrong with Sianweistein, did they? ”

"It's all in hand, and the data on James' side is a little distorted, but the data of the Chiyo 5 is even better than the theoretical value given by our engineers."

"Finally, there is good news, at least the R&D department can make progress."

......

"Get rich... Get rich..."

In the car, Cheson instantly turned into a money fan.

The three people in the car showed disgusted expressions.

Chesson only thought that the three didn't understand - but on second thought, he thought that Lille should understand.

Lille just said with a lack of interest: "Remember to send the dividends to my brothers on time, if I don't have any money, you can not transfer money to me, you have to remember this one day when we live." ”

"That's necessary - but how can you do that? That's Kangtao! ”

Kangtao, a top company from the East, is one of the top giants in Night City, covering almost every aspect of society, including robots, small arms, implanted prosthetics, and so on.

In fact, this company started with AI.

As early as the old network era, the CEO of Kangtao saw the opportunity and became the most advanced AI supplier in the old network era.

Speaking of which, the place where Kangtao started is the place where Marvel World XMSC is, and the two companies are quite similar.

As a unique giant enterprise in Asia, the CEO of Kangtao at the beginning of 21 years withstood the influence of the crazy expansion of Arasaka.

At the same time, Asian companies were either crushed and acquired by Arasaka, or were squeezed into other irrelevant areas by Arasaka, or became their downstream workers.

Until 2023, the fourth corporate war, Arasaka, was defeated by military technology, and the foresight of the CEO of Kangtao was verified - Arasaka would lose.

Unfortunately, Kangtao's chances of replacing Arasaka's position in one fell swoop were ruined by a hacker named Bartmoss.

In 2022, Buttermos triggered the Internet data crash, and the data he released was absorbed by Kangtao's AI on the Internet, and was absorbed by all the AI active on the network, resulting in a bad change in the AI.

The renegade AI began to attack its own creator frantically, and Kang Tao, who had been betting on it for a long time, naturally poured blood mold--

Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Kang Tao directly forcing Batmos to die, it was all done by Arasaka.

But this data collapse directly caused Kangtao's stock price to fall to the bottom, and the CEO couldn't bear the pressure and chose to commit suicide.

Then there was silence.

It wasn't until 2046 that a former army colonel surnamed Xu took over Kangtao, moved the company's headquarters, and completed the asset restructuring with the support of the government.

Not only that, the former colonel also used some methods to dig up the research results of Kang Tao in the old Internet era, and released the A-22B super smart pistol in 2050.

This pistol put an end to Kangtao's wasted years and broke Arasaka's monopoly in the field of smart weapons.

Although there is a grapevine that the intelligent aiming system of the super pistol comes entirely from the drawings of the old OEM Arasaka smart pistol "Yukimura", the cheap and solid characteristics still make the super pistol occupy a place in the low-end smart pistol.

After all, the person who bought the gun didn't really care whether he plagiarized or not, and Kang Tao himself was backed by a behemoth and didn't care if someone accused him of plagiarism.

Received feedback from the market, followed by an upgraded product - in 2058, Kangtao released the G-58 classic submachine gun.

In terms of appearance, this gun still has the shadow of the Arasaka "Shingen" smart submachine gun, but it is still the same sentence, cheap leather, and more reasonable and advanced in ergonomic design.

The classic submachine gun even squeezed out other competitors and became the exclusive firearm of the trauma team.

Finally, when Arasaka was defeated and comforted himself that he could focus on the high-end field of intelligent weapons, Kang Tao ended the history of relying on reverse research and development.

In the year 2069, they released their high-end smart weapon: the L69 Zhuo Smart Shotgun, which is also the first smart shotgun on the market.

How good is this gun? Even Arasaka's royal murderer, Adam Hammer, chose Kangtao's Zhuo style, and the Eight Star Gun was the murder weapon tailored for him in Kangtao's contract.

Of course, now Lille also has, not one, but four.

And then until today, in 2076, Arasaka still hasn't made a product that corresponds to Zhuo Shiki.

Kang Tao, who relied on the reversal of the East Mountain, completely defeated the Asian big brother Arasaka in the field of small arms, and was known as the three royal families of small arms along with Arasaka and Tsunami Military Industry.

So you can imagine how happy Cheson was when he was sure he had actually hugged the behemoth's thighs, even if it was just leg hair.

And Kang Tao also has a... It's not good for other companies, but Chessen is a feature that the downstream of the chain really likes.

That is, Kangtao likes to "borrow" the products of other companies, and then launch products with better designs and cheaper designs, and the products that are borrowed cannot be imitated.

In this way, the large market of Kangtao standard has become more and more broad, so that suppliers in all links of the industrial chain can obtain a more stable business environment.

At this point, Chessen was already fantasizing that one day Kang Tao would be able to defeat all his opponents...

In this way, even if it is just to make some bullets, he will not worry about eating and drinking for the rest of his life!

Looking at Chessen, who was going crazy in the back seat of the car, Lille sighed.

It was Jack the other day, and now it's Cheson.

Can you calm down?

Looking at Chesson dancing with his hands, Lille leaned one hand on the window and said with his face propped up: "So we are friends - I hope you will always be in the back seat of our seat as you are today." ”

It seems to be a casual sentence, but it hides Lille's reminder to Chessen.

"Don't worry--buddy, we were originally mixed up on the streets, otherwise we wouldn't have been laid off.

What does that old Eastern saying say? I'm away from home with friends..."

Lille did not answer, but said inwardly:

I hope you remember.

Perhaps he was too happy, and the Indian entertainment blood in Chessen's bones was suddenly stimulated, and he leaned in front of Lille and asked:

"By the way, I heard that Oriental people know martial arts, do you?"

Lille gave this guy a blank look, and Jack and V also showed caring eyes for the mentally retarded:

Brain-dead.

"I heard that cow urine is provided free of charge when I work in an Indian company, does it taste good?"

Cheson stopped talking.

Now it's the turn of the three of Learle to be suspicious:

You can't really drink it, do you?