Lille hadn't really heard of it, it sounded like a lot of street rumor.

But as we all know, the horror legends that circulate on the streets are often based on real events, such as Arasaka's soul killer.

So he decided to listen to what Bryce had to say.

Today, Europe is a place where class is extremely important, and in the year 2076, when technology is advanced, the retro word "aristocracy" has become more weighty.

If anything, perhaps Britain, one of the big European brothers, played an important role in the "revolution" of the last century.

To put it simply, Britain was deeply divided at the beginning of the century because of corporate wars and financial crises, and it was swept away by the plague.

Such issues have led to mass protests and even armed conflicts.

In order to solve these problems, the state organs set up a body called the "Martial Law Bureau" to carry out brutal repression in the country, and soon all the rebels who were planning to rebel were killed.

Since then, the Martial Law Bureau has reorganized the police force into a militarized police force that uses force and high-tech means to control and monitor the population.

This frightening surveillance and regulation is even more than 100%, because they are also good at using the media, distorting facts, promoting specific content, and just showing a tendency to oppose it, they will be dealt with.

That is, thought crimes will also be sentenced.

And this totalitarianism was not just against the common people, but also against the royal family, who carried out a purge and executed King Charles.

After the execution, their unprovoked execution was publicized by the media as the last vestiges of feudalism in British soil.

But in fact, the British royal family still has an heir overseas, and they sent MI6 agents to hunt them down, but for various reasons they did not complete the task and let the heir go.

And the Martial Law Bureau does not know yet.

Eventually, in 2016, the people who still had the secret intention of rebelling learned of it.

The royal flag was raised again, and the people suppressed by the Martial Law Bureau carried the Emperor's banner to overthrow the martial law, regain power and return power to the British Crown, and restore the orthodox monarchy.

Queen Victoria II was crowned at Westminster Abbey, honored some of the companies that had helped the revolution, defected to martial law, joined the righteous side, and passed a series of privatization decrees that eventually became the British Empire today.

Martial law disappeared, a new aristocracy was created, and the old aristocracy was brought back by the people.

In the public's perception, it was the return of the old aristocracy and the support of the new aristocracy that allowed them to beat away those damn martial law situations.

Bryce is a master of his country's history, and the so-called sons of gold are the stuff of these old and new aristocrats.

His brow furrowed as he said these things.

"In general, the new aristocracy is the corporations of the new century, and the old aristocracy is those who have owned land and other assets since ancient times.

There will be fights between the aristocracy, but more often than not, these powers and assets will be united by blood through marriage, and they will become the rulers of the new era.

These beloved, rich and powerful new-age aristocrats are the so-called sons of gold.

But there is another argument that is darker: there were two uprisings, the first of which was suppressed by martial law and controlled for sixteen years.

The second time, however, was a landslide victory within a few months, in fact because these new aristocrats were the companies and magnates that had previously supported the Martial Law Bureau, and even the top echelons of the Martial Law Bureau itself.

They chose divestment and betrayal at the right time, leading to the defeat of the Martial Law Bureau.

In fact, these people, who also had blood on their hands, never accepted punishment, but became loved, funny and kind aristocrats. ”

Therefore, in the whole bloody movement, the top of the real decision-making has long been betrayed, and the big soldiers below have died.

These high-ranking people were transformed into new aristocrats.

"Well, it does sound like an urban conspiracy theory, but I don't quite understand why you're letting me"

Lille pointed to the wall, where there were a large number of jamming devices on the outside of the house.

Instead of violently shutting down Bryce's prosthesis, this interference falsifies information, and in Bryce's work logs, he is still interrogating Lucas.

This kind of technology must be very good at network technology, have a certain understanding of network monitoring equipment, and have high-standard equipment.

Coincidentally, Lille has all these things: the crow microcontrol chip in his head is top-notch, the driver is network monitoring, and he has long studied it thoroughly, a high-spec jammer

It's all the whirlpool gang that snatched the treasure at the bottom of the box.

Bryce stopped what he was doing and said, "Because we don't talk about this internally, there is a mental health counseling job in the online monitor.

The grapevine all says: they may not be the rulers of the earth yet, but they are definitely trying, and they want everything.

Ordinary people lose their wealth, prestige, and even their lives in corporate struggles, but they only lose their companies.

If you go to Europe, you will find that such comments are completely unacceptable negative news for the aristocracy, and people adore and love these nobles. ”

Lille scratches his head: Is this also negative news and criticism? That's outrageous enough.

"So, if someone scolds these nobles like they scold Ryan for that fritter"

"You can discuss it with your own people, but if you post this kind of message on the Internet." Bryce scratched his neck, "This is not a legend, it's true, because I did it."

Of course, the reason for the erasure will not be so clear, because the law does not contain the conspiracy theory term 'son of gold'.

I thought they were ordinary criminals at first, but it took me some time to discover what they had in common. ”

After Bryce finished speaking, he looked at the broken sniper and said with a complicated expression:

"This man is a ruthless man, and I wonder why he did this vote now, but I don't have that chance."

Is the Children of Gold real? Even Bryce wants to know the truth.

If it is true, what does this man have to do with those people? Why did he kill the Son of Gold and his son?

But that doesn't matter, because he's dead.

Lille also looked at the sniper's corpse, a little silent - if it weren't for the battlefield, maybe they would have been able to talk.

However, he quickly thought of a question: "Wait a minute, since the Son of Gold is just a legend, how can you be sure that he killed a Son of Gold?" ”

"As cyber surveillance agents, we've always had some privileges when it comes to intelligence." Bryce pointed to his head, "Plus a little skepticism, a little bit of logical thinking."

Did you know that Royal Enfield Ordnance, Heckler Koch, Beretta and Rheinmetre are all members of the same group?

I know, and this group produces twice as many weapons as military technology and Arasaka combined, but the public doesn't know anything about it.

I can't really be sure it's true, but if it is, I know at least a few sons of gold.

Because of this, I was sent to the psychotherapy unit for three full years. ”

"And how did you get out?"

"I volunteered to be transferred to Night City to be in charge of the maintenance of the Black Wall, why do you think I keep spraying feces at the Voodoo gang?"

"So you haven't come out yet."

Bryce walked over to the wall and looked at the graffiti on the wall—

This is the territory of the Six Street Gang, with an American flag color 666 painted on it, and a line of small print below the pattern:

"Second Amendment, Defend Your Civil Rights!"

But what if people don't even want to pick up their weapons, but choose to bow down and give everything?

Bryce let out a long sigh and hammered his head hard.

After a moment of silence he said to Lille, "Is there any smoke?" ”

Lille doesn't smoke, but this place is one of the former safe houses used by the Six Street Gang, and there is a box in the drawer.

"You're in luck – but your device should have some other encryption, right? Watch the time. ”

He took the cigarette out of the drawer and tossed it to the cyber surveillance agent, who always looked like he was kidney-deficient.

The light of the fire shone on his cheeks, and now he did not look kidney-deficient, but rather indifferent.

Lille could see that this was a way to hide his confusion.

The latter lit a cigarette and said silently, "Before I came to Night City, I always thought that this was a dung pit, just to get rid of the endless ideological education and investigation.

But honestly here too. It's not that bad.

Give me another 20 seconds and I'll finish this cigarette. ”

In fact, it didn't take 20 seconds, Bryce took a deep breath, just one puff, and the cigarette had already burned to the butt, as if even his inexplicable emotions were burned out.

"Sometimes I find myself adjusting to life here, and I don't know which is more fucked up, the hanging stuff or the voodoo gang.

But with the Voodoo Gang, I can at least see that the black wall is indeed a lot more stable, and the hard work pays off, and I guess I still prefer it here. ”

Lille looked at him like this and said with interest: "I didn't think you were still an angry young man?

Did you know that there's a famous saying in Night City: no one will leave the city unless they're in a body bag?

You're a Night Cityer, and you're already a Night City. ”

Bryce was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Ryan also asked me to relay this sentence to you at the right time, it's strange."

Since that's the case, let's talk about the second thing. ”

(Continue to annotate, I quote a short paragraph of the original setting here to let you add a little sense of substitution :)

("They can work two to three working days a week, most of which can be done at any time.") They only really need to go to work once or twice a month, usually for meetings with a non-European who is on their level. ”）

("They do a lot of work behind the scenes.")

They are not like other people who have this kind of power, they don't like to show off.

They do show off their gold, but they don't like to let others know too much about them, their assets, or their activities.

When the public doesn't know who is to blame for the recent ecological disaster, it helps their PR a lot.

Instead, some local minions took on the responsibilities and retired early with a comfortable package so that the commoners would be quiet. ”

- European Resources Book)

(Night City's most conscientious group, as we all know, work 80 hours a week, not counting "mandatory overtime.") ）

(End of chapter)