The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

This is also why she was able to move out of that hellhole in Watson District so quickly.

As for the house, it was Jack who helped to find it. As an old hand in Heywood, he was very familiar with this place.

"Come to think of it, I remember that guy called David, his former boss also opened a weapons store near Heywood, right?"

"Manyin and the others... are about the same, but they are a bit far from me. They are probably near Westbrook in the Lijing District."

Lin Qiao pretended to recall the past.

After being captured and brought back to Arasaka, Sasha, or Lin Qiao, gave them two choices because of their past acquaintance.

One is to join Arasaka and live the life of a worker with five social insurances and one housing fund from now on.

The second is to let them go and grant them some freedom.

Judging from the results, those who really had no good feelings towards the company naturally chose to leave... Of course, it was not without cost.

Erasing memory was one thing, but a series of unequal treaties were also signed.

This includes opening a store specializing in selling Arasaka brand weapons.

At a time when the conflict between the Six Street Gang and the Valentino Gang is becoming increasingly fierce, it is still quite profitable to open a weapons store with genuine Arasaka authorization.

——At least that’s what it looks like on the surface.

To be honest, it is actually an intelligence station of Arasaka, and also a bait for fishing.

At least if another time traveler wants to find out how the two vampires under his command lost contact and what happened that night, then there is a high probability that he will go to find Mainin and his companions who were involved...

However, Main and his team certainly don't know about the above.

They thought they were just running an ordinary weapons store, and at most they were just hard-working workers who had to hand over the profits to Arasaka every month.

They didn't know that they were being monitored, and Lin Qiao wouldn't let them know.

And not everyone works in a weapons shop.

People like David, whose Sian Westin was retained, Qiwei, whose hacker components were not removed, as well as the driver Falco and Rebecca, who did not have much need for prosthetics, are still working as mercenaries.

They also collaborated with V and Jack not long ago, and after a few interactions, the two groups got to know each other.

[…It is reported that all the residents of a remote town in Ohio were frozen to death overnight. There are rumors that this is military technology using local people to experiment with new weapons, which has caused strong dissatisfaction]

[New America and Military Technology have launched a joint investigation into this and confirmed that it is a rumor. ]

[The reason for this phenomenon is that some parts of Ohio have experienced extremely abnormal weather. Please take precautions against the cold. ]

[Next, we invite the famous climatologist...]

"Tsk, military technology... the company only knows how to make excuses like this."

Just when Lin Qiao was still thinking about how to deal with Lai Xuan's problem, the news on TV made V snort coldly and then simply turned off the TV.

News Channel 54, Military Technology and the New America has a dog, and it's okay to let it meow when necessary.

Chapter 365: The Doomed Rebellion

Just as Lin Qiao expected, Arasaka Yorinobu did use some tricks.

Almost at dawn, he arrived in Night City on a special plane.

——Calculating the time, he boarded the plane probably as soon as Lin Qiao got the news that he was coming.

And this guy wasn't here for vacation at all as he said.

As a hawkish leader within the Arasaka Corporation, and under the control of Lin Qiao in recent years, Arasaka Saburo has deliberately indulged him and even partially supported him secretly.

Due to various factors, this rich second-generation man, who is seen as the most rebellious by the world, is more than just what he seems.

Even though his every move was closely monitored, he still managed to cultivate an armed force loyal to him within Arasaka - and accompanied them to Night City.

That is, in Arasaka Tower, it was the early hours of the morning when most of the employees had not yet arrived for work.

This private guard directly under Arasaka Yorinobu launched a raid here.

The security inside was caught off guard because they didn't expect to be attacked by their own people.

In addition, the other party is the next generation successor of the Arasaka family, which makes the Counterintelligence Department and the Security Department, who reacted later, a little nervous.

It's basically the same as dealing with a rebellion by a prince in ancient times.

They must be caught.

But they have no say in matters of life and death.

It would be better to say that if they really started fighting and hurt the other party, the consequences for them would not be too good... Not to mention that they were caught off guard and had no ability to resist.

In less than half an hour, Arasaka Yorinobu's personal guards had already taken control of the entire Arasaka Tower...

Except for the very bottom who hold the highest level of confidentiality.

After sending a message to all employees who did not come to work, telling them to take a week's paid leave, Arasaka Yorinobu stood in the office of the Counterintelligence Department with a serious expression.

The words "Data Lost" were displayed on several screens in front of me.

In addition, in the structural diagram showing the main structure of Arasaka Tower, the lowest part has also turned red.

That is the location of the special operations team directly under Saburo Arasaka.

After realizing that Arasaka Tower was under attack, the people inside immediately cut off all contact with the outside world... in the physical sense.

The elevator and the passage leading to this floor were directly blown up, and the members of the counterintelligence department who were originally on duty here deleted all relevant data at the first opportunity.

Moreover, the high-power circuits and network cables at the bottom layer are all independent, so it is unrealistic to surround and kill them in a short period of time.

Several hackers in cyber uniforms were lying on hacker chairs, with a long thick wire tube connected to the back of their heads and connected to the computer in front of them.

"How is the data recovery going?"

As time passed, Lai Xuan couldn't help but ask out loud.

"I'm sorry, Lord Lai Xuan, due to time constraints, we only had time to restore a small part of the data."

"One part... pull it out first and take a look."

"Yes."

Soon, several emails and a series of other reports were turned out and displayed on the big screen.

Staring at the data reports that kept being called up, Arasaka Yorinobu frowned.

Regardless of the content of the various orders, two entities are frequently mentioned in these emails and reports - BloodRiot and Chimera's Box.

The former should be someone's code name.

The latter is probably some kind of item... some mysterious item that is being analyzed by Arasaka and sealed in the lowest level of Arasaka Tower.

Then that was all the information he got.

But there is no doubt that the existence of these two is Arasaka's top secret.

It was so confidential that the only person in the entire Arasaka who had the right to interfere and inquire about this project was his good father, Saburo Arasaka.

'It seems I'm in the right place.'

The combination of various factors allowed Arasaka Yorinobu to confirm his guess again.

There is indeed something unknown but vital hidden here.

Then what he has to do is destroy what's inside.

In this way, even if his revolution fails in the future, after losing the leader Saburo Arasaka in the future, given the structural level of Arasaka, it is only a matter of time before civil strife or even disintegration breaks out.

Tread...tread...

At this moment, heavy footsteps were heard from outside.

A terrifying figure, whose entire body was made of metal except for half of its face, appeared at the door, like a dark cloud condensed into substance.

No.

Rather than describing it as a person, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a completely transformed war machine.

Adam Hammer, the strongest mercenary under Arasaka, is now Arasaka Yorinobu's personal bodyguard.

But to a certain extent, he was actually tricked by Lai Xuan.

After all, Lai Xuan knew very well what consequences would be brought about by what he was about to do.

Despite being known as the world's most brutal killing machine, he still had to face the pursuit of the behemoth Arasaka... To be honest, he didn't want to die yet.

But by the time he realized what was happening, he had already boarded the pirate ship and couldn't get off. He could only accompany Lai Xuan all the way to the end.

At this moment, he walked in dragging a struggling woman in his hand - Susan Abernathy, director of the special operations team.

Judging from her almost half-naked state, she must have been dragged out by Adam Hammer while she was sleeping.

"I brought you the person you wanted."

Throwing Abernathy to the ground, Adam Hammer said unhappily in an electronic voice, then turned and left.

Not paying attention to his attitude, Arasaka Yorinobu looked at Abernathy who was struggling to get up from the ground.

He said in a tone that brooked no refusal: "Tell me, what are BloodRiot and Chimera? Also, how can we get to the bottom level here."

He really didn't believe that they could destroy the passage connecting to the upper level so decisively without any preparation.

However, Abernathy obviously has his own opinion on this point.

He took a deep breath and advised earnestly, "Listen to me, Lord Lai Xuan, before that guy gets here, you still have time to stop now..."

It is true that Lai Xuan's guard team is quite powerful, and they have Adam Hammer, who is the strongest individual fighter in Arasaka... but as I said, that is only on the surface.

If we really have to wait for the ancestor we usually worship to come back, I'm afraid there won't even be room for resistance.

If Arasaka Yorinobu had not arrived at the right time and happened to catch Sasha, who was originally responsible for staying behind to watch the house, not at home, he would probably have been captured by now.

At least in Abernathy's view, the rebellion from the heir of the Arasaka family was over before it even began.

The only thing that lay ahead of her was what happened after the end.

Judging from the way a moody alien usually behaves, Arasaka Yorinobu's fate is likely to be disastrous.

In that case, Lin Qiao himself might not have any problem, after all, Arasaka Saburo is fearless in his favoritism, but the same cannot be said for them, the working people.

So Abernathy had to think about himself to avoid being blamed.

"Tell me, what are BloodRiot and the Chimera Box? I don't want to say it a third time, Abernathy."

He ignored Abernathy's warning. If he was a good boy who would listen to others, then he, Arasaka Yorinobu, would never have thought of overthrowing Arasaka from the beginning.

But Abernathy remained silent in response.

A trace of disappointment and helplessness flashed in Lai Xuan's eyes.

Although waiting for hackers to recover data is one solution, and jammers can also be deployed, that would take too long.

Too late and things will change.

He signaled to his subordinates beside him that in order to get the answer as soon as possible and destroy Saburo Arasaka's ambition of immortality, he had no choice but to use violent means.

If it wasn't really too late, he would have wanted to follow Johnny Silverhand's example and blow up the Arasaka Tower with a nuclear bomb.

But just when the two men were about to drag Abernathy away, a strange voice suddenly sounded in the room.

"I don't mind if someone compliments me on my handsomeness, but if someone acts as a paparazzi, then it's a bit of a headache."

"who!?"

A heavily armored figure with gold and red as the main colors and covered in the shape of a spider appeared in the room.

The strange appearance and extremely abrupt appearance instantly made everyone present nervous.

In the blink of an eye, several guns were pointed at the intruder.

"Blood Riot?"

"correct answer!"

Lin Qiao clapped her hands as if the guns pointed at her around her did not exist.

Chapter 366 Waiting and Hope

Due to the lack of received scheduled contact signals, and the fact that his own clone disguised the Chimera Box, he also received the news that Arasaka Tower was attacked.