Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 461 74. News from Network Monitoring

"what--"

Yawning, Karl walked out of the room while looking at his phone. He stood on the second floor and looked down at the first floor, only to find that no one was there.

Time: eight o'clock.

Looking at the closed doors on both sides, Carl understood the reason.

Yesterday was the traditional Mexican festival Day of the Dead. Jack and his friends stayed up so late that they are still sleeping now.

Walking downstairs slowly, Carl looked at the messages. The latest one was a commission from the priest.

The content is probably to get a briefcase containing documents from a corporate dog and deliver it to him.

Carl took a look at the outline of the task and felt that this job did not require so many people, so he posted it to the team channel first, waiting to see if anyone in the team was interested in doing it.

Then the commissions sent by the old captain and other middlemen were also sent out.

There aren't many commissions now that require the entire team to step out. Plus, everyone in the team is very wealthy now, so as long as they don't buy luxury goods like luxury cars, it's basically enough, so now they just pick and choose the tasks they want to do.

After sending out some tasks that V should be particularly interested in, Carl looked at the message again.

There weren't as many people sending messages as there were task middlemen, just a few of them. Upon closer inspection, it was Brown who sent a photo of himself in Morocco, saying that Kerry was on tour there now.

I remember when I was chatting privately with Kerry, Kerry complained that according to the arrangement of his stupid agent, this was the last stop of the tour, and he would have to arrange rumors that Kerry had exhausted his talent and was depressed at home to keep up the heat. I don't really understand this aspect of things.

Even rock stars can't have everything their way.

After responding to Brown's photo with a thumbs-up, Carl took a look at Blanca's message.

She was recently promoted, and her subordinate named Meredith was also promoted. Now he seems to be the director of military technology. I remember that Blanca told Carl to pay attention to Meredith during the mission. Now it seems that Meredith was promoted smoothly. Did she pass Blanca's loyalty test?
I guess Blanca has some evidence in his hands.

Carl didn't care much about matters involving the company's internal affairs.

It's a good thing that a friend gets promoted. But to Carl's surprise, Blanca's promotion is a bit slow.

If you think about it carefully, every time Blanca got promoted, she either framed someone else and put the blame on them, or eliminated her competitors and superiors. If it was Arasaka, she would have been promoted to the sky long ago. She has been struggling for so long, but now she has just reached the level of director, and is qualified to sit in at the local conference table. Considering the time she has been working for military technology since she became an adult, it feels just like that.

The Arasaka system is still the best. A capable person can climb to the position of section chief very quickly, and then find an opportunity to get rid of the person above him to become a department manager. After spending another half a year to get rid of the person above him again, he can climb to the position of director, just like speedrunner.

Carl thought about V. If V was a company employee, with his diligence and ability, he would probably be able to pass all the way along this route.

It takes only one year from entry level to sitting at the conference table in Arasaka Tower. Just thinking about it makes me feel good.

However, if we count the Arasaka system, the one who got promoted the fastest in this regard is Adam Heavy Hammer.

Adam Heavy Hammer really made a quick rise, from being a mercenary sponsor in Arasaka to being the security director of Arasaka Tower in just one order.

The head of the security department of Arasaka Tower may sound like just a supervisor, but if you think about what Arasaka's main job is, you can understand the importance of this position.

One of his main jobs is to be the security director of a security company. If promotion in Arasaka Tower is considered a tower climbing game, then Adam Hammer is like growing wings directly from the door and flying directly to the top of the tower. Because he has a lot of "acquaintances" in Arasaka, Carl now has a general impression of Adam Hammer's position as the security director.

To put it in simple terms, even though he is just a security director, he is close to the "Emperor" and has the power to decide and veto anything related to the security of Arasaka Tower. Only the master of Arasaka Tower has the real power of command. He has the power of life and death over everyone below the master of Arasaka Tower, and even the vice president like Mr. Kenichi Shiro is included.

As long as he doesn't attack the owner, the position of Adam's hammer is the only right of interpretation, although the range is only within the Arasaka Tower.

'Execute first and report to the emperor later'?
As Carl was thinking, this idea came to him. He remembered that it was a eunuch who said this. Thinking carefully, Adam Heavy Hammer's mechanical body was quite suitable.

I'll send this joke to Mr. Kenichi Shiro later so he can laugh too.

After reading the messages sent by his friends, Carl's eyes stayed on Haruko's chat box.

Haruko said two days ago that on the main island, Arasaka Nobuo and Arasaka Saburo had another unpleasant argument, and they almost fought when they met. It seemed that Arasaka Saburo was so angry that he went straight back to his mansion in Kyoto, unwilling to meet his unfilial son.

I don't know what the situation is like for Mr. Arasakaze Nobuyuki.

Carl had a very good personal opinion of this former employer who was so generous and easy to talk to. At least, he was much better than that old immortal Saburo Arasaka.

It would be better if the old man just died of anger.

To Carl, who knew about Saburo Arasaka's past, Saburo Arasaka was a complete remnant of militarism.

We have lived long enough to survive until now.

News from friends often carries some intelligence, and Carl treasures the things that his friends would say in passing during the chat. But now it seems that Night City has been quite peaceful recently.

Just as Karl was thinking this, a message came from an account with which he had exchanged account numbers but had never communicated.

"Mr. KK, do you remember who I am? Are you and your team available recently? If so, please reply before 6pm on the day of the message."

This message is.
I looked at my notes.

Network monitoring?

Carl still has an impression of the only network monitor he has ever encountered in real life and who left an account.

That person is eloquent and easy to talk to.

Carl almost watched a western movie with him, but V and the others moved too quickly and the movie ended at the beginning.

'There's a lot of money to be made in Internet monitoring.'

Thinking about this saying circulating in the bodyguard and mercenary circles, Carl replied.

"I remember that you have people from the Animal Gang protecting you on a long-term basis, right?"

(End of this chapter)