Infinity, progress from Arasaka

What God does not take, is to be blamed.

There is nothing to be fussy about, or to worry about gains and losses. Just focus on the present, make the most of it, and give full play to your own talents, which is the respect for it.

This is her "God-given".

Didi…

Arriving at the company square, the broadcast voice sounded, and the black Arasaka bodyguard said: "Captain Vera, we have arrived at Arasaka Tower."

"Ah."

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Chapter 005 A Day in the Life of a Corporate Dog

Company Plaza, Arasaka Tower underground parking lot.

With a slight braking sound after noise reduction, the car with the security department's internal identification signal stopped steadily.

After passing the security check and saluting by the Arasaka guards and hacker agents at the entrance, Vera opened the car door and got out. After the vehicle was handed over, Vera led the two personal bodyguards assigned to her by the company and went straight to the executives' exclusive passage.

Arasaka is all about clear class distinctions and different paths for officers and soldiers.

Vera glanced at the nuclear explosion ruins of the old Arasaka Tower not far from the steel and glass curtain wall she passed by from a distance and no longer paid attention to it.

The part that was deliberately preserved during the reconstruction of Arasaka Tower was said to be a reminder of the shame. On the monument it is written: 2023, We should always remember.

I've seen it so many times, it's nothing new.

Entering the inner hall of the tower, fixed scanners, drones, surveillance radars and other equipment swept past her one after another. Vera could feel dozens of eyes focused on her in an instant, and then quickly moved away.

Arasaka Tower does not have any public facilities except for the reception area on the first floor which is open to the public. People walking around inside are either company employees or internal service personnel.

Ding--

2074/5/27，8/00。

After taking the special elevator to the floor where the Arasaka Security Department's office was located and clocking in, Vera immediately sent two bodyguards to put the briefcase in her office, and then walked slowly to the internal cafeteria, while projecting today's Night City briefing sent by the Arasaka Administrative Center onto the built-in artificial eye plug-in to read it.

I haven’t eaten yet.

Even though the Arasaka employee manual is so strict that it makes people want to be on duty 007/ all year round, that is only for grassroots employees.

After all, she is a mid-level manager in the Security Department, the largest department of Arasaka, and is about to be promoted to the next level. Not long ago, she successfully completed the security and stability maintenance order in Brasilia, and also took the initiative to help the company gain critical time in the cake of Rio's reconstruction.

In this world, the winner takes all!

The floor where the Arasaka Security Department offices are located, a regular cafeteria.

The waitress, who was wearing a light-colored uniform similar to that of a flight attendant, stepped forward immediately upon seeing Vera and bowed, "Good morning, Commander Vera Adelheid."

Sitting near the indoor ornamental plants, Vera used the artificial eye data to connect to the holographic TV that was being broadcasted by the signal source not far away and nodded: "Pasta set, the same as always."

"Okay, please wait a moment."

The waiter respectfully withdrew.

"Good morning, Night City! I am your old friend Stanley, yesterday's Dead Man's Lotto..."

After turning on the TV and listening to the passionate voice of a famous lottery host on Night City TV as background music and ordering a glass of ice water, Vera briefly glanced at the cafeteria.

The space is quite large, and diners have to sit quite far away from their tables, separated by a transparent glass curtain wall that has undergone a certain degree of blurring.

Those who can eat in the regular cafeteria are either senior staff with at least 10 years of service, or small leaders and middle-level cadres.

In the cyberpunk world, the more 'conventional' something is, the less conventional it is and the more expensive it is.

In this world where the land and ocean are severely polluted, the three meals a day of ordinary people have long been replaced by various artificial protein processed products and synthetic meat. Natural food, even genetically modified food, requires a huge price to enjoy.

While waiting for the meal, Vera saw many colleagues from the General Security Bureau who came here to dine one after another.

She is the deputy chief of security of the Special Assault Force, the most important unit in the Security Headquarters, and the captain of Team 6 (a hundred-man elite Arasaka heavy-armored soldier).

The General Security Bureau has a large organization, and naturally has other units, such as the 1st Mobile Team, which is similar to a garrison force, stationed in the company square, and has the following functions: guard of honor, explosives disposal team, and firearms countermeasures unit (to deal with large-scale shootings and firefights).

There are also the 2nd Mobile Team, the 3rd Mobile Team, the 4th Mobile Team, etc., which are in charge of the Blue Green Building, the Northern Industrial Park, the Arasaka Seaside Industrial Park, etc. They are not agents, but more like special police.

The biggest difference between the special assault force and the mobile team is this.

Special assault means that Vera's department needs to run field missions frequently, all over the world, to be able to strategically support other regional branches, to be able to conduct field operations, and at the same time to perform law and order maintenance services, riot control services, and national defense contracting. The level of armament configuration is very high.

"Ms. Russell. Congratulations. I believe that you will be able to remove the secondary word from the prefix soon."

The Security Department is not the Counterintelligence Department or the Intelligence Department. Although there are also a lot of old perverts, most of them are on the battlefield carrying guns and standing guard. The military atmosphere is stronger and the internal atmosphere is relatively better. In addition, Vera deliberately maintains that she is not so arrogant and proud in daily life, and her popularity is not bad.

At least it looks good on the surface.

Bullets have no eyes. Once you are on the front line, you have to fight back to back. No one wants to be tricked or shot while on a field mission.

"Thank you."

"In time, Captain Vera will surely surpass old Captain Fred."

"Haha, I appreciate your blessing. But we still have a long way to go. We are all in Arasaka, so let's support each other and make Arasaka great again. Let's encourage each other." Seeing an acquaintance talking casually, Vera stood up and raised her glass to greet him, using water instead of wine and drank it in one gulp.

This is probably one of the small disadvantages of taking over a job with cheap parents.

The security department is full of so-called uncles and seniors, my father's subordinates, colleagues, and superiors. When I climb over their heads in the future, I must maintain my dignity and be tough, but I must also give them the face they deserve.

Appropriately being approachable shows that you are one of us, so that you can perfectly digest the "political legacy" and use the resources of the security department at your fingertips.

"Let's encourage each other."

They were all smart people, and soon they dispersed in twos and threes, either leaving after eating or sitting down to order food.

"Commander Vera, this is the cream ice cream, tomato beef pasta, and curry chicken you ordered... Enjoy your meal."

Natural foods are available in the company's regular cafeteria, and Vera has no weight anxiety, so she naturally chooses to enjoy them. This amount of money is still affordable.

After eating and drinking her fill and refreshing her mouth with ice water, Vera happily paid and left.

The joy that comes from the heart when enjoying delicious food is probably the easiest happiness for humans to obtain, and it is also one of the ways to relieve stress. Anorexia is another matter.

After the meal, Vera seemed to be fuller in spirit and walked towards her office with the free coffee.

Apart from anything else, Arasaka's employee benefits seem to be pretty good among its peers.

High salaries, platinum packages for basic trauma teams for senior executives, combat uniforms and weapons for combat personnel, internal discounts for elite combat personnel to install combat prostheses, and free access to the latest prosthesis technology by fulfilling 20 years of loyalty obligations...

The tower's staff facilities include a regular mess hall, an administrative mess hall, a trauma center, stores, an equipment center, a recreation center, sleeping areas, and barracks.

In addition to the high pressure, there is almost no rest time and no retirement salary. Once fired, all savings, prostheses, and apartments will be confiscated.

come back to the office.

2074/5/27，8/30。

The grassroots staff of the security department had already arrived at their posts. After Vera had a brief exchange with her superiors in the General Security Bureau via video conference, she picked up the private briefcase on the office's reception table, opened it, and took out several separation chips that needed to be processed in the near future from the chip storage column inside.

start working.

Workingman mode, start!

[Brasilia Security and Stability Maintenance Service-Action Report]

【Learn the Arasaka spirit】

[Special Assault Force Team 6 - Operational Loss Description]

[Deficiencies of this action and improvement measures - Vera Adelheid Russell's self-reflection report]

[Second Edition of the Newcomer Training Assessment Report of the General Security Administration]

【Comprehensive evaluation of the 6 teams’ operations】

【Action Bonus Application】

……

Since Vera had just returned to Night City from a field mission and her promotion process had already begun, her area of ​​responsibility had not yet been determined. Therefore, the things she needed to deal with today were mostly various field reports and internal affairs of Team 6.

Among them, the [Comprehensive Assessment of 6 Teams' Operations] and [Application for Action Bonus] that Vera's subordinates are most concerned about are the top priorities.

The former is related to the soldiers' qualifications and performance evaluation, while the latter is related to the most practical money. It is very important.

time flies.

Vera, who had entered the state of a dedicated company dog, worked until the afternoon, ready to finish the word-deliberation game in one go.

"call..."

Pulling out the last separation chip and clicking to hand it in, Vera subconsciously moved her neck.

Vera took a sip of the cold coffee and was about to get up to go to the biotechnology research department to work part-time, to show her presence and maintain her image in front of the high branches she had climbed to, when, beep!

"Commander Vera. Your invitation."

The bodyguard's voice came from the microphone on the desk.

"Come in."

The automatic door of the office opened, the red scanning line of the fixed scanner flashed by, and the black bodyguard walked in.

Vera was slightly startled when she saw the invitation letter in the black bodyguard's hand.

"Paper invitations, who's throwing a party?"

The black bodyguard shook his head and said, "We've checked it, nothing abnormal." In front of Vera, he took out something that looked a bit like an iron and scanned the invitation letter twice.

Vera took the invitation, and the Arasaka clover logo immediately came into view.

Spread out——

"Arasaka Tower Academy sincerely invites outstanding graduates..." Vera muttered, "to attend the 2074 freshman entrance ceremony and give a speech..."

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Chapter 006 'Personality'

"Arasaka Tower Academy 2074 freshman entrance ceremony, are you going to give a speech?"

The invitation letter was placed on the table. Vera lit up a high-end ladies' cigarette with some complacency, tapping her fingers on the armrest of the chair from time to time.

She used to not smoke, but after the self-exhausting study experience at Arasaka Tower Academy and the high work pressure within Arasaka Corporation, she started smoking without realizing it. Maybe it was due to the influence of the environment.

drip.

A new email notification sounded on Vera's office terminal screen.

"Wow." After taking a glance, Vera chuckled.

These academic guys are quite ceremonial. Both paper and electronic invitations are available. Each invitation has a recipient. When the invitee opens the paper invitation, the chip inside is identified and the electronic invitation is sent.

Vera was invited to give a speech as an outstanding graduate and distinguished alumnus of Arasaka Tower.

To be more realistic, the purpose is to use Vera's personal experience to inspire and deceive those expendable people who join Arasaka with various wishes, those screws who will burn themselves as firewood to illuminate Arasaka.

The ceremony will be held in June...

"Interesting..." The timing was so accurate, they must have received accurate information, and their purpose was clear. They wanted to persuade her to appear in a new identity after her promotion, so as to increase the persuasiveness of the college's educational capabilities.

Vera raised her eyebrows slightly, as if thinking about something, and gladly accepted the invitation.

There's no harm in that, just show goodwill to each other and get what you need.

By clicking confirm on the terminal screen, Vera made it clear to the Arasaka Tower Academy administration that she would attend the 2074 freshman entrance ceremony.

Just drink chicken soup.

"call...."

Vera put the cigarette butt on her fingertips into the ashtray beside her, and white smoke came out. She moved her fingers gently. After her knuckles made a series of crisp sounds, she moved to her personal terminal again, went through the information and documents, and after making sure that there was nothing missed, she stood up, stretched her body, relaxed her neck, left her desk, and walked towards the wine cabinet on the concave wall on the left side of the office.

Vera opened the glass door and picked out a glass of tea-colored honey whiskey from the collections of Champagne Paradise, Château Piquet, and Kyoto Gekkeikan.