From ship girl to machine god

"It's not interesting, I'm just curious about what kind of person would choose to go to Arasaka School, work in a company as a dog in the future, or be the kind of dog that will be thrown away after use." Qingniao leaned on Lucy's arms. , still looking lazy, but her question pierced David's heart.

But at this time, David was just a good boy who listened to his mother. Although he did resent his experience in school, he didn't consider anything else.

So he shook his head and said: "I haven't thought about this, and even if the future of the company is very bad, will the future be bright if I become a mercenary like you?"

David is familiar with and understands Night City, and he clearly knows that people like him who come from the bottom of society usually have little choice.

Just like himself, if his mother hadn't worked day and night and sent him to Arasaka School with a meager salary, then the most likely thing for David now would be to join a gang in the streets or do something else. to earn a living by doing less legal jobs.

If he was lucky, David might be able to support himself and live to be 50 or [-] years old without any illness or disaster. He might even be able to find a wife and have a few children.

But this is already the best ending. It is more likely that he will die inexplicably someday.

So from David's own perspective, studying at Arasaka School and joining Arasaka Company after graduation is almost the only way out for him or people like him at the bottom of Night City.

The reason why it is said to be almost unique is because Arasaka is not the only giant company in Night City.

Of course, working as mercenaries like Mann and others is also a way, but for ordinary people, this may not be considered an industry with a bright future.

After all, working as a dog or social animal in the company means your life and income are stable.

Although you will encounter various workplace problems within the company and be thrown out to take the blame or simply be exterminated, but if you are not so desperate to climb up, staying in the middle and lower levels may be a little bit harder and tiring, but you can still be stable. The prerequisite for surviving until retirement is that you can live that long.

As for whether you can survive that long in Night City?This is very much a matter of personal luck.

So for David, he doesn't like Arasaka School, and he also knows that the boss he will face when he joins Arasaka Company in the future is still likely to be the person who bullied him in the school, but this is at least a stable future that can be seen with the naked eye.

Compared to precarious mercenaries or street boys, this is already a very good life.

However, Jade Bird shook his head and said: "The company's greed is endless. They will try every means to squeeze out the last bit of your use value, and then kick you away if you are no longer useful.

You don’t think the company is a charity, right?After working hard for the company for decades, can I really get retirement benefits when I get old?

Don’t be stupid. Even for Military Technology, which ranks first in welfare benefits in Night City, only 34% of the company’s employees are promised pensions. Guess how many of them can actually get them? pension? "

What Jade Bird said is true. In the Night City in the second half of the 21st century, major companies have already abandoned the bottom line of morality and law. In other words, they are the makers of the rules here.

As for the law?Come on, write him a new one.

Western universal values ​​have long been completely torn to pieces, and everything has become simple, direct and crude.

In fact, it is not just Night City, but the entire United States, Europe, and even the Soviet Union that has not collapsed.

When playing the game before time travel, Qingniao once dug into the plot of Night City. There was a piece of information that impressed her very much. A coal mine in the Soviet Union collapsed. The coal miners relied on the hibernation prostheses installed in advance to survive for more than ten days until they were rescued. .

This should be a good thing and deserves praise.

Because at least they did a good job in ensuring the safety of workers. They installed hibernation prostheses on these coal miners and actively carried out rescue operations afterwards.

If this were placed in Night City, let alone the hibernating prosthetic body, the company would not rescue it at all afterwards.

Are you kidding? Who will bear the losses caused by the coal mine being shut down for more than ten days?A few miners are not worth so much money at all. If they die, they can just recruit a few more miners. At most, the company will provide some pensions.

For this reason, it is very likely that the company will directly deduct the money due to illegal operations, and the miners' families may even be asked to pay compensation and be saddled with heavy debts.

But there are only so many places for people in the Soviet Union, because after these coal miners were rescued and sent to the hospital for examination to confirm that there were no abnormalities, they were immediately sent back to the coal mines to continue working.

Therefore, the world of cyberpunk is a world of comparison, but the comparison is not so much about who is worse.

In fact, there are worse places than Night City, and that's the orbital habitation station in the sky and the moon.

The moon that Lucy longed to go to in the original anime plot was actually not the beautiful home she expected to start a new life, but a hell where workers were brutally suppressed, exploited and oppressed due to the riots of the orbiting space station workers.

It was a literal hell, and all workers had no freedom at all and were treated like prisoners and slaves.

So from this perspective, Night City is really not that bad, and being a corporate dog is not that bad either.

However, when Qingniao faced David's rhetorical question, she just smiled: "Being a company dog ​​means being exploited by the company, being a mercenary means fighting for your life with your head in your hands, and being a street kid who joins a gang is a path to darkness. In today's world, In this world, who is better than whom?

Maybe you haven't considered this yet, but fate will let you make a choice, because it will always kick you in the back when you are unlucky. "

Hearing what Qingniao said, David wanted to refute, but he didn't know where to start.

In the end, he could only give up arguing with Qingniao, turned around and left the Afterlife Bar.

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David's departure did not free him from Blue Bird's surveillance, but Blue Bird did not have time to deal with his affairs for the time being, and just let Mann and his people continue to monitor him.

And she herself was waiting for Alpha and Sasha and what they were going to bring back.

The two people came back a little slower than Qade Bird expected, and they came back together with people from military technology.

"Vislow? I didn't expect you to come in person." Qingniao looked at Weislow, who was still wearing a neat suit today, his face still expressionless, showing no emotion or anger: "What? This batch of dirty information is very good for you. Do you like it?"

Perhaps because he was going to pick someone up, Wislow brought two military technology security personnel with him today, and they were not the ones in suits he had brought with him before, but were wearing camouflage combat uniforms and were fully armed. There are also many military technology combatants equipped with combat prosthetics.

Qingniao glanced slightly and saw that they were on the same level as the former lieutenant of military technology who died in the anime plot.

It is equipped with a set of combat prosthetics with Sean Westan and Korenchikov as the core. The combat is one level weaker than Alpha before receiving the blue bird transformation, but the strength is acceptable, and the advantage is that it can be mass-produced.

It is a relatively backbone combat force in the military technology army and is also the core part of the military technology army. It is usually used as the captain of the tactical team.

Being able to bring two such bodyguards is enough to show that Vislow's status has been rising during this period, and it also shows that he attaches great importance to this matter.

At least he brought enough power to go to war with biotechnology to meet Sasha and Alpha.

Faced with Qingniao's inquiry, Wislow just shrugged and said: "Who told you that the things you dug out have such value? To be honest, if biotechnology knew that you dug up these black materials, they would do whatever it takes. I’ll kill you to get back this dirty information.”

As Vislow spoke, he sat down in the box, while the two security guards he brought stood at the door of the box with their backs to the box.

Qingniao didn't care, just looked at Sasha and stretched out his hand to her.

Seeing this, Sasha quickly took out a chip and put it in Qingniao's hand.

Plugging the chip into the data board, Jade Bird briefly browsed it and confirmed that the data stored on the chip was the one he had downloaded. Then he pulled out the chip and threw it to Wislow.

When Wislow saw this, he didn't hesitate. He directly inserted the chip into the interface on the back of his head and started reading it.

Seeing how reckless he was, Qingniao couldn't help but say something more: "You just plug it into your own head like this? Are you not afraid that there are some encryption measures in this chip that will directly burn your brain?"

Weislow didn't care too much about this. He smiled and said casually: "If Miss Bluebird wants to kill me, you probably don't need to go to such trouble, right? You can steal this level of black information from biotechnology." , I don’t believe you can’t solve the encryption measures on this.”

"You're quite generous." Qingniao didn't say much and directly asked the topic: "How useful can this thing be? Is it enough to kill biotechnology?"

Of course, Qingniao knew that this level of black information could not kill biotechnology, but this did not prevent him from asking.

"Although it is very heavy black material, it is still a bit difficult to kill biotechnology." Of course, Wislow did not take this seriously. Furthermore, killing biotechnology would not be in line with military technology. Interests.

So after briefly browsing the black materials, he said to Qingniao: "These black materials are very valuable, but they need to be brewed to play their maximum role, but there is no problem in letting biotechnology suffer a big loss. , I just don’t know, Miss Qingniao, do you have any special requirements for this?”

Facing Weislow's inquiry, Qingniao glanced at Sasha, thought for a while and said: "I don't want to see the death of patients due to side effects of biotechnology in the medical field again."

"It's simple. Then we can let Biotechnology divest this business. Whether it is an acquisition or dissolution, it is an acceptable result." Weislow estimated the weight of the black material in his hand and felt that Biotechnology was not It is very likely that he will be locked in the field of medicine and military technology.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for biotech to give up its business segment.

Even if the operation is not good, the fifth corporate war will begin.

But now that Jade Bird has obtained the core black material of biotechnology, things are different.

With these black materials in the hands of hackers or mercenaries, it is certainly impossible to threaten biotechnology. That will only make biotechnology pursue them at all costs.

Even if some smaller companies get this black material, it will lead to full retaliation from biotechnology until they can recycle the black material and eliminate all hidden dangers.

But if it falls into the hands of a large company like Military Technology, it will become a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of biotechnology.

If biotechnology does not accept the conditions offered by military technology, it will really shake the foundation of the entire biotechnology and cause them to suffer huge losses. It will also shake the foundation of biotechnology and make it fall from the position of a first-class giant. Fall and become a second- or third-rate enterprise.

This is undoubtedly unacceptable to biotechnology shareholders.

Therefore, Wislow is confident enough to fulfill the request made by Blue Bird.

As for how to deal with these assets after acquiring the biotechnology pharmaceutical sector business, it depends on what effect Jade Bird wants to achieve.

As Weislow said, acquisition, reorganization or on-the-spot disbandment are all trivial matters for military technology that can benefit greatly from this incident.

"After you get it, it's up to you to take over, reorganize it into a new pharmaceutical company, and make some serious drugs to treat diseases and save people." Qingniao considered the pros and cons of this matter, and after thinking about it carefully, decided to decide how much to contribute to the world. Make a small contribution: "Although I don't ask you to do charity, at least the medicine will stop killing people due to side effects. I think it should be a good deal to earn a little less and gain a good reputation."

"This is not a problem. I will explain it to the company later." Weislow carefully recorded Jade Bird's request. After agreeing, he did not forget to ask: "Does Miss Jade Bird have any other requests?"

Blue Bird wanted to say no, but suddenly he remembered old Morgan's friends who were engaged in guerrillas in Mexico, so he asked Vislow: "There is really one thing that may trouble you. Can your military technology help train guerrillas?"

Chapter 1 Military Cooperation

In terms of personal combat effectiveness, Jade Bird believes that old Morgan's old friends will not disappoint.

But if we talk about regular military operations or acts of war, it will be difficult for the Mexican guerrillas to make the Blue Bird trust their combat effectiveness.

This does not mean that these people's fighting will is not good, or that their equipment is backward. Although these two problems exist objectively, in Jade Bird's view, they are easy to solve.

Moreover, in this era when companies control everything, they can stand up against corporate rule and join the guerrillas. The fighting will and belief of these guerrillas are worthy of trust and can withstand the test.

Of course, the vast majority of them may simply be motivated by hatred rather than a higher ideological consciousness.

But this is enough. At least they have the courage and determination to fight against the company.

As for the backwardness of weapons and equipment, this is a matter of benevolence and wisdom.

Compared with the company's regular security forces and combat troops, the weapons and equipment of the guerrillas may indeed be inferior.

After all, in all guerrilla activities in history, if it were not for the assistance of external forces, it would be difficult for the guerrillas to be better equipped than the regular army.

With that equipment, how can you fight guerrillas?Wouldn't it be nice to have a direct decisive battle?

As for solving this problem, it is simple for Qingniao, and this is what she is preparing to do now, persuading military technology to provide weapons and military training support for this guerrilla group.

The reason for doing this is actually, as mentioned before, the guerrilla members should be good at individual combat capabilities.

After all, if you don't have the ability to eat, you won't be able to survive the company's encirclement and targeting.

It's just that guerrillas are usually mostly stragglers. They gather together for a relatively simple purpose and work towards a common goal.

But usually, the cohesion of the guerrillas is not good, and they also lack sufficient military literacy.

Even a legendary old mercenary like Old Morgan, if you ask him to lead a small team, he can train this team into top elites, even rivaling the special forces of some countries.

However, if you ask him to train an army of a certain size and equipped with all types of arms, it will be really difficult.

The modern army has already developed into a very large and complex military system. Even if it is just an ordinary battalion-level unit, it is no longer possible for everyone to wind up their guns and just shout "give it to me" when fighting.

In fact, even in the era of queuing to be shot, the army could not fight with guns.

How to make the soldiers lined up to be shot advance in a neat horizontal line at a certain rhythm on the battlefield, and still maintain the formation under enemy artillery fire and bullets is not a simple matter.