From ship girl to machine god

"It's solved. Although they are indeed capable of fighting, they are only capable of fighting, not immortal." Qade Bird waved his hand carelessly and led them towards the bar.

Emerik at the door saw Qingniao bringing someone, and he made way for her without even asking.

Blue Bird took Jack and V into the afterlife. V didn't feel anything at all, but Jack on the side was very excited. If they hadn't been chased all the way, he would have cheered to celebrate that he finally entered the afterlife.

Sitting down in his usual box, Blue Bird asked V and Jack: "How did you get chased by Arasaka people? Did you get Buttermos' access module?"

"No, we were targeted in the city. We were caught up by them before we left the city. We have been running away since then and didn't even bother to go to the garbage dump." V collapsed on the sofa. Today Things really went up and down too fast for her, and it was too exciting.

Even the advanced prosthetics Arasaka specially prepared for counter-intelligence agents on her body could hardly control her excessively fluctuating emotions today and keep her calm enough.

On the other hand, Jack was making noises, as if he had just experienced such an exciting thing as being chased by Agent Arasaka. He was able to shout with a look of fear, but still bragging: "Agent Arasaka didn't do it either. How awesome it feels! Didn’t we escape smoothly? Next time we meet those corporate dogs, I will definitely beat them to pieces!”

As he said that, Jack showed off his fists that had not been modified by prosthetics, and they looked very powerful.

"Jack, shut up! If it hadn't been for Miss Bluebird's timely rescue, we would have been dead this time. Arasaka's special agent team is not that simple." As a former agent of the Arasaka Counter-Intelligence Department, V has a strong influence on the Arasaka special agent team. She was very familiar with combat capabilities, and she knew clearly that without Bluebird's timely rescue today, she and Jack would definitely be dead.

Qingniao didn't pay much attention to this. He just waved his hand and said: "The cooperation of that team of Arasaka agents is okay, but their tactical ideas are still a bit old-fashioned. What era are they in? They are still playing with cold weapons and melee combat." set.

Now is the era of smart weapons. Arasaka has enough technology to seize the high-end market in this regard, but he has not used it to properly arm his troops.

Although those Arasaka agents carry smart submachine guns, they still like to use the authentic ones that have a pulpy shooting feel. I really don’t know what they think.

You must know that Kangtao is much better than them in terms of smart weapons. They directly replaced all Kangtao soldiers with their own smart weapons. If I were facing a group of Kangtao soldiers today, It takes a few bullets to get high or low. "

"I have heard that Kang Tao's soldiers are mainly equipped with their Dian-style and Zhuo-style weapons. These two smart weapons are indeed better than Arasaka's Yukimura and Shingen in terms of performance and price." Because he himself Due to his job position, V has to deal with other companies a lot, so he naturally understands Kangtao's situation: "But it is said that the most valuable thing about their soldiers is the smart weapon, and Arasaka is better in this regard. "

"But you have to admit that they can quickly form an army and have a large amount of food. As for Arasaka...it's 2076 and they are still playing with samurai swords!" Qingniao shook his head and ordered a bottle at the bartender. After drinking, he changed the subject: "Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore, V, what are your plans in the future? Looking at Arasaka's attitude of chasing you, I guess this matter won't just be let go."

"Indeed, the company will not let a guy like me who has a lot of company secrets wander around the streets like this. Abernathy will definitely send killers again." V is very self-aware of her situation. After all, she herself This has been done before.

Only by cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots can future troubles be eliminated forever.

"Then how do you plan to solve this problem? Don't say that you have been in the company for so many years and haven't left yourself a backup plan." Jade Bird doesn't believe that V really has nothing after being kicked out of the company, so she is omitted from the game The year that I worked as a mercenary with Jack contained too much unknown information.

Perhaps it was in this information that was omitted from the game plot that V used the skills she had accumulated over the years in the company to solve the problem of being hunted.

But this may also truly consume all of V, leaving her to start from scratch with Jack.

Otherwise, even if the savings in the bank will be frozen, V should have some preparations for emergencies.

Now, there is no doubt the answer to this question.

"I've been kicked out of the company, so what can I do? I just have some favors that I can use." V was not willing to talk about this topic, but said that he could solve the problem.

Qingniao did not ask further questions, nodded and said: "It's basically safe in the next life. You can deal with the follow-up problems with peace of mind. As for what happens after that, it's up to you. I can help you once or twice, but I can't help you for the rest of your life." .”

"Thank you. Thank you very much for helping us. I owe you." After being helped and saved again and again by Jade Bird, V also accepted Jade Bird's favor.

Chapter 118 Abernathy’s Discovery

Blue Bird is not in a hurry to recruit V and Jack to join its team. After all, they are different from David.

David is just an ordinary student. He has neither wealth nor scheming, and lacks the experience gained from struggling in society.

Such a person doesn't need to put any thought into it. You only need to show him kindness to make him feel grateful. At the worst, it will make him feel good.

Let him realize the cruelty of society, experience some setbacks, and establish his own authority. It doesn't take much effort to make him a loyal subordinate.

But V is different.

She has already entered the society and has been in the society for many years. Step by step, she has climbed from a street kid at the bottom of society to a high-level position in the company that most people may not be able to match in their lifetime.

Regardless of scheming or ability, V is far superior to ordinary people.

This time, V's performance in front of Jade Bird was completely substandard. It was also because she experienced the ups and downs of life too quickly in a short period of time, and her mentality did not adjust at once.

However, even so, V still maintained a considerable degree of defensiveness when facing Jade Bird. Whether it was verbal temptation or psychological resistance, V showed his distrust of Jade Bird.

In this case, Jade Bird wants to recruit V and Jack, and good brother Jack may be happy to accept it because of Jade Bird's famous name and his lack of scheming.

But V will definitely find various reasons to refuse, and lose trust in Jade Bird, completely destroying the weak relationship between the two parties.

Even if V accepts Jade Bird's invitation considering various factors, it will only be a temporary compromise, and V will not stay under Jade Bird's command for a long time.

Once she adapts to the current situation again and the situation stabilizes, she will inevitably choose to leave Jade Bird's command and fly solo, and may even take Jack with her.

Therefore, if you want to recruit V, you not only need to establish a good relationship of mutual trust, but also need a good time.

Although the current V is at the lowest point in her life, it is also the time when she is most wary. If you want to recruit V under such circumstances, unless the blue bird is playing the Harem Golden Finger, it is almost enough to just sleep in it.

However, although it is not suitable for recruitment, for Blue Bird, if it can make V remember that he owes him a favor, then his work this time will not be in vain. The rest is nothing more than to build a relationship between the two parties, increase the favorability level and build trust. , let V put down his guard against himself and recruit the future V Zhentian.

This kind of thing cannot be rushed, and there is no need to be anxious. There is still a year left before the plot begins. During this period, as long as you pay attention to building a good relationship with Jack, this good brother will naturally lead V and gradually move towards the blue bird. Get closer and finally join the Cyberpunk team.

So things on V's side have come to an end for a short time, and Qingniao believes that she can handle the matter of being chased.

As for the next step, they should concentrate on dealing with David's side of the matter, fish out the piece of scrap metal Adam Hammer, and then hammer him into slag.

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At this time, outside the city where Aotori had fought with Arasaka agents, several cars with Arasaka logos were parked around the scene. A large group of people wearing Arasaka uniforms were cleaning up the scene, removing those who had been beaten into parts all over the floor. Agent Arasaka collected and reassembled the corpses, and at the same time sorted out the data that could be recovered from these prosthetics in order to analyze what happened to them that led to them being beaten into this ghostly state.

Among these busy Arasaka employees, Arasaka Counter-Intelligence Director Abernathy, the person who sent people to hunt down V, was frowning at everything in front of him, his good mood having been ruined by having settled his rival. It's a mess, and now all that's left is dissatisfaction with the incompetence of his subordinates and worry about the leakage of company intelligence.

In Abernathy's original plan, there was no idea of ​​killing V.

Although V is her competitor's right-hand man, V is also an important member of the Arasaka Counterintelligence Department. He is an employee of the company rather than a private soldier of his competitor.

According to Arasaka's rules, as long as Abernathy kills her competitor, V, as a company employee, will not resist her, but will instead work for her under the company's rules.

But V's former boss directly dragged V into the water and forced her to expose Abernathy's dirty information, which forced Abernathy to deal with V.

Although it is a pity for Abernathy to kill the most capable and capable second-in-command in the department he is in charge of, it is also something that must be done in order to consolidate his position and power.

However, what Abernathy didn't expect was that she took advantage of her position to set up a trap to kill V, but the pursuit of an entire team of Arasaka agents resulted in the entire team being annihilated.

This is greater than the company's previous losses in the Frankfurt incident. You must know that in the Frankfurt incident, Arasaka only lost three agents, but now a whole team of nine people died.

Five ordinary combat agents doesn't matter. Arasaka's security force is the largest in the world. The Arasaka school and training camp in Hokkaido, Japan, trains a large number of new people every year to add to the security force. Although supplementing a few combat agents is troublesome, it is not. thing.

But the losses of two Arasaka ninjas, a hacker who can follow the agent team on missions, and an elite sniper are not so easy to make up for.

Arasaka ninjas are no ordinary big-head soldiers. In addition to receiving rigorous training from an early age and training with a very high elimination rate, they also need to go through an extremely cruel process of prosthetic transformation in order to cultivate a qualified The Arasaka ninja.

As for qualified hackers and snipers, they are more difficult to train than ninjas. Even though Arasaka has completely controlled the entire Japan and is screening based on the entire population of Japan, the number of qualified agents trained is still scarce.

Therefore, the loss of an entire team of agents is also a very painful loss for Abernathy, the counterintelligence director.

You must know that even the Night City Arasaka branch, which is the North American headquarters, only has a few teams of elite agents. One team was lost at once. This loss was enough to make Abernathy accountable to the Japanese headquarters.

So now she must figure out why her team of agents failed. Otherwise, even though the ESA massacre was blamed on the heads of her competitors, the matter is not over yet!

If the Japanese headquarters were to count the two things together, Abernathy would still lose her head even if she was the CEO of the Night City branch, not to mention just a counterintelligence director.

Fortunately, at this moment, one of her subordinates shouted to her: "Director, we have discovered something!"

Chapter 119 Top Master

"This is..." Abernathy hurriedly followed the sound, and his subordinates also handed a data pad to Abernathy.

The so-called discovery was an unusually blurry video, which seemed to have been subject to severe electromagnetic interference during the filming. The snowflake-filled picture quality looked like something from the last century.

However, even if the picture quality is blurry, it can still be seen that the video captured a scene of several Arasaka agents fighting against a mosaic.

"Why is the picture quality so blurry?" Abernathy asked his subordinates, frowning and watching the video several times before adding: "The most elite agent team of the Arasaka Group is five combat agents and two transformation agents. A ninja is actually being played for fun in the middle of a battle. If we tell anyone about it, the entire Arasaka Group will be disgraced!"

"Sorry, Director! This is a picture extracted from the prosthetic body implanted in the hacker who died in the battle. It seems that it was affected by strong interference and can only take such a blurry picture! We will repair it through post-processing methods later. Yes!" When Abernathy said this, the subordinate's whole skin tightened immediately. It seemed that he was afraid of being criticized by Abernathy. He quickly added: "These agents have special battlefield recorders, hackers and The sniper also had Mewtwo shooting equipment on him just in case. None of the battlefield recorders captured anything in these devices. However, the Mewtwo shooting equipment on the hacker and the sniper probably recorded something, but this part of the data must be recorded. Their bodies can only be retrieved after they are transported back.”

After hearing what his men said, Abernathy nodded slightly and said nothing more.

Although what he just said was very serious, Abernathy's previously tense heart relaxed.

After all, if her mistake resulted in the loss of a team of elite agents, then her position as Director of Arasaka Counterintelligence would be over.

But if this team of agents encounters a killer sent by a competitor, the situation will be completely different.

The latter means that her job as counterintelligence director becomes more important, and the company will value her more.

You must know that the combat effectiveness of Arasaka agents is accompanied by bloody battles between Arasaka Company and its competitors. The combat effectiveness of an entire team of Arasaka agents is worthy of trust no matter what the occasion.

However, now such a team of trustworthy combat power is completely manipulated by others. Even the hackers who installed various top-level prosthetics circulated within the company can only take pictures that are not even as clear as the home DV of the last century. picture.

These outrageous situations can only mean one thing, and that is that these Arasaka agents have encountered an enemy they cannot defeat, so that they are so manipulated by their opponents.

Abernathy had never encountered this kind of situation in her life, but she knew that some people did have such outrageous fighting ability.

For example, the bodyguards around Saburo Arasaka, the controller of the Arasaka Group, and his two children can do the same thing.

Especially Goro Takemura, who is the chief guard of the entire Arasaka Empire. Although Abernathy has only met him a few times, he can definitely say that this person can still defeat a whole team of Arasaka agents even if he turns off his prosthetic body. Under siege, he retreated wholeheartedly.

Most of these top beings have been famous for a long time. For example, the bodyguard around Arasaka Yorinobu, the current heir to the Arasaka Empire, is Adam Hammer, the legendary mercenary of Night City during the Fourth Corporate War half a century ago.

However, even this legendary figure who has been famous for a long time was transformed into a monster with more than 90% of his body made up of prosthetics with the support of Arasaka Company's strong technological strength. He is still ranked below Goro Takemura within the company. Can be a bodyguard for Arasaka Yorinobu.

Oda, the bodyguard of Hanako Arasaka, another important figure in the Arasaka Empire, was trained by Goro Takemura. One can only imagine how terrifying this top bodyguard leader in the Arasaka Empire is.

Therefore, Abernathy is not surprised that someone can do such a thing, but those who can do such a thing are all top-level combatants of major companies, and if not, at least they are experimental products created by major companies that have spent a lot of money.

Obviously, as the director of counterintelligence, Abernathy's thinking has shifted to the direction that the company's competitors are causing trouble, and she also intends to lead the matter in this direction, because only in this way, her counterintelligence The Director of Intelligence would not usher in a purge of the company headquarters because of this incident.

And considering that such a top combat power is in Night City, she must do this to attract enough attention from the company headquarters, so as to obtain support from the company headquarters.

Otherwise, the counter-intelligence department she had just been purged due to the Frankfurt incident and the ESA massacre would not be enough to kill them all.

Only masters of the same level can deal with this kind of top-level combat power. This is a fact recognized by major companies.

After all, without the use of large-scale weapons or regular troops, a small group of security forces and ordinary defensive weapons are just decorations against this kind of guy, and even elite agents will not be much better.

Thinking of this, Abernathy ordered to the men on the side: "Do everything possible to repair and restore the images captured in this video. Even if you cannot break the shielding and protection of the other party, you must at least find out who the other party is! Also! The extraction of data about Mewtwo must be fast! Find the best Mewtwo editor to analyze these data, I want to know what happened to them!"

"Yes, Director!" The subordinates were startled by Abernathy's stern tone and hurriedly replied loudly.

Looking at his busy men, Abernathy nodded with satisfaction, took out an exquisite cigarette case from his body, took out a women's cigarette from it and started smoking.

The spiked women's cigarettes quickly soothed Abernathy's nerves, but they did not relieve her psychological stress.

At this time, Abernathy couldn't help but sigh. If V hadn't taken advantage of her, she would never have kicked V, a smart and capable person like V, out of the company and sent people to hunt him down.

However, judging from the current situation, it seems that V is not simple. Someone actually sent out a top expert of this level to save her. It is very likely that the second-in-command of the counter-intelligence department who was just kicked out of the company has already caught up with her. Next time, there is even a possibility that she is an undercover agent sent by a rival company...

Thinking of this, Abernathy couldn't help but look more serious. Although her idea was somewhat unlikely, doing counterintelligence work itself determined that they could not think about problems like ordinary people, and could only turn everything into conspiracy theories. Think about it.

Just because of the intimidation of the top master, Abernathy decided to slow down the pursuit of V and wait for the headquarters' support to arrive before deciding how to act.