The Creators: From Night City

His action also caused the four armed men behind the leader of the internal monitoring team to raise their guns.

Chapter 464 Meeting in the Ward

"Wait, wait, man, you've already fired them, so there's no need to kill them all."

"How about we each take a step back, you take your Yangguan Road, and we take ours. Otherwise, someone present here will end up lying here, and that won't look good." Jack's words were sharp but with a subtle edge.

"I advise you to get out of the way immediately. If you dare to stop Arasaka from handling the company's internal affairs, I can order you to be killed at any time. It's as easy as killing a homeless person on the street." Faced with Jack's threat, the other party still chose not to give up.

With one pistol against four rifles, and Valerie as a burden, Jack was also very panicked at the moment, but he had seen all kinds of storms and waves, so he still pretended to be calm in the panic and negotiated with the other party without changing his expression.

"This is not Arasaka's territory, so don't show off your big company's power to me. I'm from Anti-Entropy. Believe it or not, you dare to shoot. This is equivalent to provoking a war between the two companies. If this incident gets out, I'm not sure whether I will live or die. Every one of you will definitely not be able to walk out of Night City alive." Jack used the tiger skin as a banner.

It was unknown whether the other party was intimidated by Jack's attitude of burning himself together with his partner, or persuaded by his words. After the artificial eye behind the sunglasses flashed at Jack's face a few times, his attitude strangely softened.

"Leave Ricker to us, and this matter ends here."

Hearing the other party say this, Jack immediately understood in his mind that Valerie was most likely investigating something she shouldn't have, and was privately prosecuted by the upper echelons of Arasaka.

Perhaps because of the notoriety of [Anti-Entropy], after handing over Ricker, Arasaka's internal monitoring team really didn't care about the duo. They stuffed the unconscious Ricker into the car, turned the car around and drove away.

It wasn't until the taillights of the second car turned the corner that Jack breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly turned back to check on Valerie, who was lying on the ground.

"V, what's wrong with you?"

"Those bastards took all my property, Jack. They kicked me out of Arasaka and locked up all my prosthetics. I... I feel... I can't breathe now." Valerie was gasping for breath, looking extremely weak.

"I told you that you shouldn't work for Arasaka. Look, your life is in Arasaka's hands. He only needs to think about it and the airlock in your stomach will suffocate you to death." Jack scolded the other party.

"Is this the right time to talk about this? I didn't expect the company to be so ruthless."

"That's right. Looking at your condition, you could die at any time. You need a reliable prosthetics doctor to take out those time bombs in your stomach." Jack stepped forward and tried to help her up, but found that Valerie didn't even have the strength to stand, so he simply picked her up horizontally and ran towards the car.

"Luckily I'm here. I know a very reliable prosthetics doctor. He's not far away, in Little Chinatown. Otherwise, you'd have to explain everything you said today. I told you not to sell everything to the company. Arasaka is no different from the devil."

"I'm already miserable enough, Jack, stop scolding me." Valerie gasped with difficulty.

"Okay, okay, okay. Also, don't let anyone know that I hugged you, or Misty will be jealous." Seeing that his friend was in a very low mood, Jack immediately started a joke, trying to ease the atmosphere.

"what……"

While the two were on their way to seek medical treatment, Michiko Arasaka of Arasaka Real Estate was overjoyed.

"You mean, an employee of the Arasaka Counterintelligence Unit secretly contacted a mid-level employee friend from Anti-Entropy to secretly investigate his boss, and they almost found the truth?"

Lingyin Selina couldn't help laughing at this moment.

"For Mr. Sabul's sake, I have instructed my men to let them go and only fired the counterintelligence employee from the company."

Michiko Arasaka reviewed the freshly released action report and had no objection to the handling of Rei's situation. "Her superior isn't being honest either. We need to find a way to deal with him. There's been a lot of talk among the higher-ups lately. Let's find a reason to transfer him."

"Also, please contact Mr. Sabul for me. Be sure to inform him of such interesting things, and also contact him to wrap up this matter."

Michiko Arasaka thought about it and stopped Selina Zero's actions again.

"Forget it, I'll just contact them myself. After all, this kind of thing doesn't happen every day."

………………

Cold, shaking.

Valerie opened her eyes with some difficulty. The first thing she saw was the concrete ceiling. The next thing she felt was that she was lying on a metal bed, being pushed forward.

"Where am I?"

"You're awake." Jack leaned over. "You're in Lao Wei's prosthetic clinic. They just had surgery and removed a lot of bits and pieces from your body. Be careful and don't move around."

"Would you like some water? Lao Wei said you could drink some nutrient solution to replenish your nutrition so that your wounds can heal faster and you can get rid of your miserable status as a patient."

"I'm not in the mood, Jack. I just lost everything: money, house, job, status, everything. Nothing could be more tragic than this." Valerie collapsed on the bed, looking gloomy.

The bed was led along a recently opened portal to the new ward next to Lao Wei's prosthetics clinic. Because it became a strategic cooperation point for [Anti-Entropy], his clinic had to expand two more rooms as wards.

Jack pushed the bed forward and replied rather embarrassedly, "Actually, there is."

Valerie turned her gaze weakly towards him.

Jack chuckled, his face showing uncontrollable embarrassment, "My boss wants to see you."

"Your boss, the boss of Anti-Entropy?" Valerie struggled to raise her head and asked in confusion, "Why does he want to see me?"

The bed stopped moving, and a strange voice came from above her head: "Because I am the bartender you have been looking for."

It was difficult for Valerie to describe her feelings at the moment, but she stubbornly struggled to turn around, regardless of how much pain this action would bring her, and she had to see clearly the culprit who caused her to lose her job.

Unexpectedly, the person who spoke was a young man with a gentle expression.

He was leaning on a cane, wearing a suit of mixed red, black and blue, standing quietly inside the ward. He was neither ostentatious nor reserved. He had neither the ruthlessness of a veteran in the battlefield nor the superiority of having been in charge of life and death for a long time.

"Valerie, or V, I don't know whether to praise your efficiency or say you're unlucky, but if you hadn't found a partner like Jack, this wouldn't have ended well."

"I'm just unlucky." Valerie said self-deprecatingly with enlightenment.

Jiang Bing nodded, his face full of praise, "That's not wrong."

Chapter 465 There is strength in numbers

"Mr. Sabul, I didn't expect that [Anti-Entropy] would dare to interfere in Arasaka's affairs." Although Valerie was very weak, her brain was not affected.

"There are many things you wouldn't expect, just like you wouldn't have thought that this assassination was organized by someone inside Arasaka."

Valerie laughed bitterly twice and accidentally pulled the knife wound on her chest, and her laughter instantly turned into a painful groan.

"Ever since I was kicked out of Arasaka without any clear explanation, I knew it must have been someone high up in Arasaka who was behind this."

Jack echoed, "These upper-class people, they have nothing to do all day and just do these petty things."

He wanted to curse a few more times, but when he saw his boss's half-smile, he quickly stopped talking, lowered his head and pretended to be a grandson.

Jiang Bing tapped the ground with his cane and slowly walked to Valerie.

"So~"

"I am willing to join [Anti-Entropy]." Valerie interrupted Jiang Bing's chanting.

"Oh?" Boss Jiang raised his eyebrows and didn't bother asking how you came to this conclusion.

"You're smarter than I thought, Valerie. But it's okay this way. At least the huge price I paid to keep you was not in vain."

Jiang Bing reached out and held her wrist under the other person's puzzled gaze.

"The internal circulation prosthetic components are almost gone. The frontal cortex prosthetic components are still there, but they're all locked. These are high-end prosthetic components for hackers. I didn't realize you have any skills in cybersecurity."

Now that she had surrendered, Valerie naturally seized every opportunity to demonstrate her worth. "I'm a graduate of Arasaka University with a double degree in Cyber ​​and Criminal Interpersonal Studies, Boss."

"He's also a top student."

To be honest, up to now, Anti-Entropy has not had many highly educated people from local universities. The ones with the highest education are the three lesbians in the medical department. Together with Valerie, there are more females than males in the highly educated talents.

Of course, the sorceresses of Aretuza cannot be lumped together because of their different educational backgrounds.

"Jack, drive our new recruit, Valerie, to the medical department at Base 6. They've recently developed a new product that's perfect for her injuries. Have Aurora install a new prosthetic for her while she's at it, so she can get back to work as quickly as possible."

Jiang Bing brought back a lot of good things from the Monster Hunter World. The healing potions made from various plant extracts rich in life energy were extremely effective. For injuries like Valerie's that had just been drained of her body, it was like a miracle cure, with immediate results.

Jiang Bing and Gloria had already made plans for Valerie's work arrangements - the Minister of Night City Intelligence Department.

Her joining can just make up for one of the shortcomings of [Anti-Entropy] - intelligence, especially intelligence on Arasaka and military technology. If you want to unify Night City, these two big companies are unavoidable targets.

After all, no one is more suitable for this position than the second-in-command who just resigned from the Arasaka Counterintelligence Team. Of course, since Valerie is the only one in this department, she will surely understand.

"No hay problema (No problem), Boss." Jack readily agreed and pushed Valerie's bed to go out. As a veteran employee of [Anti-Entropy], he knew very well the capabilities of the medical department, a melting pot of science and magic and funding.

The medical department has the world's top doctors, herbalists, alchemists, and mages, and possesses unique and precious materials from several worlds. Although it is still lacking in some top medical sub-sectors compared to major companies, it is far ahead in the fields of restoring the disabled, curing diseases, prosthetic modification, and genetic improvement.

Far ahead!

"I want to know what price you paid to save me from Arasaka."

Jiang Bing had already walked to the door, but was still stopped by the other party's questions.

He looked at the other person's painful expression and stubborn eyes and could only give the answer helplessly.

"My face."

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The Watson District of Night City is an old industrial area. Because it is close to the oil fields in the north and the old port in the west, it was once prosperous for a period of time.

However, with the end of the "Oil War", ethanol-2 replaced gasoline on a large scale, and most of the soil in the north of the city was destroyed. In addition, Night City continued to reclaim land to the southeast, and a large number of manufacturing and industries moved south, resulting in this area becoming the sunset area of ​​Night City.

But as the saying goes, even a rotten ship still has three pounds of nails. Companies such as Kejing Logistics, Tianguo Medical, and Ocean Freight Warehousing Division, which require large warehouses, are still entrenched here, barely keeping this sparsely populated old heavy industrial area alive.

It was against this backdrop that the great Lord Jiang Bing arrived at his loyal automobile factory on a sunny afternoon.

Of course, it is abandoned.

Not only is it abandoned, but the Vortex Gang is also causing trouble here.

This is normal. After all, the Watson District is first the Watson District of the Whirlpool Gang, and then the Watson District of Night City.

Jiang Bing used to think that this statement was correct, until he had his own factory in the eastern industrial zone of Watson District, and then he realized that this statement was simply outrageous.

The Watson zone must first be the [anti-entropy] Watson zone.

Mr. Blue Eyes said that this car factory originally belonged to a local enterprise in Night City - Lingji, but because their products were too rubbish, they were poorly managed and soon went bankrupt. The assets were nationalized and the factory was handed over to the Vortex Gang.

But this doesn't make sense.

Jiang Bing tried for the third time to reason with the Vortex Gang thug who was guarding the factory.

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm telling you, this is the territory of the Vortex Gang." A gang member with a modified panel that looked like a Cthulhu clan, with four pairs of compound eyes, took a puff of the tobacco in his mouth. While they were talking, smoke came out of the holes on each other's face.

Jiang Bing knew that this was the result of not planning the sealing of the space properly when the panel was modified. This situation actually complemented the Vortex Gang who relied on me to make random changes.

"You little bastard, I don't care whether you stole it, robbed it, or got it by selling hooks. It's useless for you to say that this is yours. You want a man to move out? I tell you, it's impossible!" The other party pointed at the graffiti of the Vortex Gang logo on the wall, arrogantly declaring his sovereignty.

It was a spider evolved from a human skull. It looked twisted and dark, which made people feel sick.

This is also the reason why the Uzumaki Gang adopted this image as their 'external image'.

Jiang Bing twitched his nose and easily identified that the tobacco the other party was smoking was also supplied by him.

"It doesn't mean whoever speaks louder is right." Jiang Bing fanned the smoke in front of him.

"It's not just some random smears of crow. It's not like peeing at the base of the wall is considered marking territory." Jiang Bing, who was alone and wanted to take a break from his busy schedule to count his property, said something unconvincing.

After all, the other side has more people.

Chapter 466: Fate Meets Thousands of Miles Away

"You want to die, kid?" Several Whirlpool Gang leaders raised their guns.

The leader was holding a uniform rifle, and the muzzle was so close that it almost touched Jiang Bing's nose. He could even smell the rust on the gun.

It seems that the other party really wants to reach a consensus with him.

But this matter was not negotiable. Jiang Bing was not very interested in the vehicle manufacturing business, but he was very interested in the location of this piece of land.

Taiping State and Coronado Farm have both been infiltrated by [Anti-Entropy]. The city center is full of hills and is the forbidden area of ​​large companies, making it difficult to infiltrate in a short period of time. However, the northern industrial zone, which is almost a wilderness, has not yet raised the flag of [Anti-Entropy].

This made Mr. Jiang, the master of coloring, very itchy.

"Boss, I think this kid has delicate skin and tender flesh. Why don't we catch him and modify him properly? He will definitely be a great material." A younger brother whose nose was modified to look like a table tennis racket and whose eyebrows were changed into LED light lines spoke up.

"I want to try to equip him with three big steel cannons." The others were also encouraged and looked at Jiang Bing with ill intentions.

Jiang Bing sighed and slowly rolled up his sleeves, revealing his neat, well-proportioned, and even somewhat white fingers.

He clenched his five fingers into a fist and placed it in front of the other person.

"Do you know what this is?"

"Fist!" Jiang Bing asked himself and answered.

When faced with unruly people, he could only strike back with heavy blows. This was the daily routine in Night City that he was accustomed to.

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V was a little confused because he saw another V. Florence was also confused. She didn't expect that she would see the lovely girl on the plane again in the medical room of Anti-Entropy.

And the other party looked half dead.