From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 274 "Too lazy to persuade surrender" The top of the th Integrated Branch Building

On the surface of Eredana C, at the "Recruit Camp" on the outskirts of Costia City.

The Freedom Liberation rebels who came to support had already been dealt with by Maggie Shaw alone.

At this moment, she was sitting on the wing of a Pelican to rest, looking up at the blue sky illuminated by the light of the stars.

And from time to time, there would be flashes of blue-green light from high-energy light beams and faint flames from exploding ships in the sky.

These scenes only lasted for a moment before returning to a brief moment of tranquility.
"Forehead"

"It hurts."

However, all around her could be heard the cries of the rebels suffering from broken limbs and arms.

Looking around, most of the rebels' arms and legs were broken and twisted by brute force, leaving them lying on the sand, unable to move.

Some rebels coughed up blood and were in a trance, and it seemed that their internal organs had suffered varying degrees of damage.

Some of them were completely dead and became corpses.

There was no way. Even if Maggie tried to control the strength, for an ordinary person, it was equivalent to experiencing a serious car accident.

Losing hands and feet may lead to disability, but at least life is saved, although internal organs are damaged.
We can only leave it to fate.

Now, Mike and Leon, carrying medical kits, are providing simple treatment to the rebels who are coughing up blood, and then manually setting bones for those with broken hands and feet.

Not only are they proficient in all kinds of vehicles and electronic equipment, they are also good at battlefield medical treatment.

After all, usually, if an investigator is injured while on a mission, he or she has to deal with it on his or her own.

Before the company's fleet arrived at the Eridana galaxy, the two of them had already rescued many rebels who were "beaten" by Maggie.

Leon, Mike and Maggie supported some of the rebels' "rebellious" spirit in their hearts, so they tried their best to avoid killing them within their ability.

As for whether the rebels will harbor resentment in the future, this is not within their consideration because the company will be responsible for handling it.

Secondly, these are all "populations", one of the important resources that the company values.

There might be high-quality soldiers among the prisoners. Moreover, the company's biological department developed a "lie detector" with an accuracy of nearly 100% several years ago based on consciousness transmission technology.

In conjunction with some of the prosthetic technology of the Zero-Nine Universe (Cyberpunk), if the company wants to "control people's minds", it will be a question of whether it wants to or not.

What's more, their boss also has alternative "mind reading" and "manipulation skills" that outsiders have no way of knowing.

On the other hand, the ODSTs, who are mostly veterans, are too lazy to take a long-term view.

If you raise your hands in surrender, then for the sake of your compatriots, at most your hands and feet will be temporarily disabled.

After the battle, ODST will also provide the best medical services.

But if "you" choose to fight back, then the ODST won't even waste time shouting for surrender and will just shoot you dead.

This also enables them to have an extremely efficient task completion rate.

Swish-swish-!
Suddenly, a meteor shower fell from the sky.

This instantly caught the attention of Lyon and the other two.

"Good fellow," Mike said as he looked at the "shooting stars" of varying sizes, which were the wreckage of old battleships:

"This Liberation Army is really known for its radicalism. It dares to confront the company fleet head-on."

"Melissa gave them the opportunity to surrender. It was the path they chose themselves."

Lyon shrugged, showing no sympathy for liberation.

Moreover, after witnessing the hijacking process on the Neptune, he increasingly felt that humans seemed to be "far superior" to all intelligent races in terms of internal strife.

From his perspective, the only way to make humans abandon civil strife seems to be absolute and unique "power" and extreme external exclusion, especially exclusion of alien groups with different ideologies and values.

The most important thing is that there must be a single "person" at the top to ensure that such a regime can function normally and efficiently.

Otherwise, it will eventually fall into the dust of history, just like the human regimes in many universes, which are extremely powerful and clean inside in the initial stage, but become "bloated" and "corrupt and smelly" in the middle and late stages, breeding the so-called powerful and wealthy.

"Agent Monadi (Mike)." At this time, Melissa's indifferent voice came through their headset communication:

"The company successfully suppressed the Freedom Fleet and captured one of the targets of this operation. The Nova-class nuclear bomb is now the company's property.

Next, the company will take charge of the orbital control. Currently, the 7rd Combat Battalion of the 3th Orbital Assault Regiment, which has arrived here with the fleet, will be deployed to your area soon.

Additionally, Agent Monadi, your immediate supervisor, wishes to communicate directly with you."

Melissa transferred the call after she finished speaking, and then Ada's words came:

"Kennedy, Monadi, and Xiao, your three missions will be to assist the company's fleet and ground forces to quickly resolve the potential threat of free liberation and make the Eridana system our stronghold.

At the same time, the Engineering Department will also build an Ark teleporter on the surface, and then the Gray Judge will be teleported to the Eridana system."

"Okay, Director." Mike responded and asked:
"By the way, how's the situation over at Redfield?"

"They are progressing smoothly without any unexpected problems. If the flight is not delayed, they will arrive at the Earth in this universe in 48 hours." Ada did not hide anything and said:

“And according to Aya Brea, the chief commander of the Arbiter’s operations and director of the Supernatural Phenomenon Control Department, there may be extremely threatening supernatural phenomena on Earth 08.

That's why they planned to relocate their deployment to Eridana C, which was closer to Earth 08.

If necessary, you may also accompany the Inquisitor to deal with so-called supernatural phenomena, understand?"

"clear."

"Very good. The rest of the matter is up to you to decide."

After Ada gave her last words of advice, she cut off the communication.

Moreover, while Mike and Ada were talking, there was another dense "meteor shower" in the sky.

By the time the call was over, the "Meteor Shower", which was the ODST's individual airdrop pod, had already broken through the atmosphere and was heading straight towards the recruit camp where they were.

Boom—boom—!
When they were only about a thousand meters away from the ground, the individual airdrop pods started a phased buffer and fell inside and outside the recruit camp one after another.

Click! Click!
The hatch popped open. A group of "Hell Paratroopers" left the airdrop chamber and quickly took up a favorable position, ready to completely control the new barracks that Maggie had breached alone.

When Lyon and his companions saw friendly forces arriving at the scene, they were finally able to relax and take a break. After all, the three of them had not been able to get a good night's sleep for 36 hours.

As for the passengers and crew of the Neptune, they were also able to be released from prison.
By the way, when Lyon and his men were busy fighting the Liberation Army rebels, they didn't have the time or energy to take care of the hostages.

In other words, the passengers and crew members have also been hungry for a long time.

4 month 14 day.

The Cyberpunk 2077 universe.

The rising sun in the early morning brings the "infamous" Night City into the dawn.

More than a month has passed since the ninth space gate was opened on March 2002, 3 in the main universe.

The front-line base located on the southeast side of Night City also removed its optical camouflage awning, and its size is more than three times that of a month ago.

The Engineering Department used local ready-made resources to begin providing ammunition, weapons and other supplies to the Royal Capital Knights, Night Owl Commandos, and ordinary armed members from Terrala.

In addition, two Paris-class and four Feddes-class ships, as well as a Heroic-class super-heavy cruiser, were assembled and welded for Dorn, the Primarch responsible for integrating the Cyberpunk universe.

Although the crew members are a group of "newcomers" with no actual combat experience, all of them are the company's reserve forces and have received a year-long special training. In theory, they are capable of low-intensity "naval battles".

As for the two orbital assault regiments that were originally trained in the "Edge of Tomorrow" universe, they were deployed to the front-line base in Night City according to the command of their commander-in-chief, Miles Quaritch from the "Avatar" universe.

Before the fleet took off, all the ODSTs were "stuffed" into the ships and rushed to low-Earth orbit together.

At the same time, Jack Krauser, the commander-in-chief of the emergency response, will be on standby at the AECS in the main universe and will be dispatched to Night City one after another to ensure that Dorne does not have to worry about insufficient troops when carrying out the unified war.

Of course, as the governor of Terra, Dorn is also dispatching more armed security and elven soldiers to join in the integration matters.

At present, the total number of AECS, ODST and other infantry, armored and air units gathered in the Cyberpunk universe has exceeded 300,000.

As for the western coastline where Night City is located, as well as the central and northern parts of America, they have all become Atlas' "assets".

The east and south are still fighting hard, and South America has become a "base" for military technology.

When facing a common enemy, especially one that seriously infringes on the interests of capital, the giant companies in the Cyberpunk universe have demonstrated "unprecedented" unity.

Arasaka sent secret troops to try to infiltrate Atlas's jurisdiction and indirectly provide assistance for military technology.

In response to this, Dorn directly ordered two Fides frigates to carry out a saturation bombing on Arasaka's headquarters using electromagnetic main guns and plasma secondary guns.

By the way, "conventional" metal hydrogen missile bombings were carried out on Arasaka's factories, branches and important facilities on the island country.

The reason why Dorn did not care about the casualties among the civilians on the island was that the people of the island had already, under the influence of Saburo Arasaka, engraved the idea of ​​militarism into their bones.

Therefore, when the integration progress reaches the island country, the company will forcibly intervene and ask the Biological Department to provide all-round assistance to completely eradicate these abnormal and extreme ideas from their minds.

And the artificial intelligence led by Serin, plus the first mass-produced synthetic humans, are the key to Atlas' ability to ensure low casualties among its troops.

After all, in "Cyberpunk" where the Internet and prosthetic technology are prevalent, these "species" created by humans have brought their functions to the extreme.

At this moment, Dorn was leading his direct Royal Capital Knights and the Night Owl Commandos in South America to encircle and suppress the last main force of military technology.

As for Night City and the surrounding areas, Dorne's elf confidant Aoi is responsible for the ongoing security battle and ensuring the safety of the front-line base.

Aerial view.

Night City is generally still the same as it was before the space gate was opened.

However, the Fifth Corporate War, which was initiated by Arasaka and then united with a group of gangs suppressed by Atlas and the siege launched by the Free Mercenaries, caused a large number of buildings and streets in Night City to suffer varying degrees of damage.

At present, Hextech robots that look like spiders are shuttling between cities, assisting the engineering department and local workers in carrying out post-war repairs and reconstruction work.

at the same time--

“The positions open today have been updated and are available to all residents on public screens and the company’s official website.”

"Residents who have completed yesterday's quota are requested to go to our community office as soon as possible to collect your salary."

At the same time, Atlas' official broadcasts could be heard in every street and neighborhood.

Due to the outbreak of war, Atlas cleared the gangs and completely replaced the NCPD (Night City Police Department) from the inside out, and many other factors.
This makes the already extremely low employment rate even more difficult to look at.

Based on the rich experience accumulated from rebuilding New Paris in "Edge of Tomorrow" and New Los Angeles in "Doom", Atlas began to reconstruct the order in Night City.

The first step is to issue "vouchers" or "credit points" that can be used in the local area network and in real-life transactions to replace the euro in Cyberpunk.

Of course, at the time of issuance, Atlas will purchase and recycle all euros from Night City residents according to the local universe's market conditions.

After that, a large number of jobs will be provided to enable people to become self-reliant.

As for drug addicts and those who have completely depraved themselves, Atlas will expel them from Night City and place them in gated communities in the suburbs.

Atlas will provide the most basic meals and shelter. With the existing resources, it is more than enough to support these people.

But apart from food and accommodation, there are no other compensation and benefits, and don't even think about medical services.

Even if they are determined to pick up their lives again, Atlas will still have a set of rigorous tests to identify the true and false among these guys.

It is true that Atlas’s philosophy is “for humanity”, but that does not mean it has to become a complete “nanny”.

Since Atlas provides an excellent environment, human beings should be self-reliant and work hard to get rich.

Finally, there is the original Arasaka Tower.

Ever since Atlas became the true ruler of Night City, this iconic building has become the branch building with the red and white "Λ" logo.

at this time.

Two large airships painted black were landing one after another on the helipad on top of the building.

When the cabin door opened, a group of young people slowly walked out of the cabin.

Among them are David Martinez, who was a security trainee, and Rebecca and Lucy from the Mann Group.

(End of this chapter)