The Creators: From Night City

According to preliminary estimates, this month's expenditure will be two to three million.

The resources brought back from the world of Tomb Raider are still basically in the stage of finding monetization channels, and the best-developed business line is still Rebecca's organic meat smuggling.

The second is talent. Gloria now has to take on multiple roles and barely keeps the company running.

However, if [Anti-Entropy] wants to expand, it will inevitably need to recruit a large number of professional talents.

With Duke, agricultural talents are available, but positions in channel sales, warehouse management, logistics and transportation, financial cashier, and those specifically dealing with the government are still vacant.

[Anti-Entropy] is not even a shell company now, it is just a vibrant gang operating without a license.

Fortunately, such dynamic gangs are everywhere in Night City, and according to Jiang Bing's plan for the early development of [Anti-Entropy], he has no intention of doing anything illegal.

So this is not a problem.

After accumulating the first pot of gold, if there is any legal business that needs to be carried out, it is not too late to put on a formal company vest at that time.

Anyway, the entire wholly-owned subsidiary doesn't require much effort.

Large companies such as Arasaka, military technology, and petrochemicals have all done this.

XOMA, a subsidiary of Petrochemical Holdings, specializes in researching biological weapons that are despised by the public.

But the public doesn’t know.

Therefore, in terms of international public opinion, the situation has emerged that XOMA is bad and the Petrochemical Group is good.

The petrochemical group also controls most of the world's arable land and is the world's largest agricultural product and food sales company.

However, in Night City, the petrochemical food business is not going smoothly. The lowest-level synthetic meat business is occupied by the Vortex Gang's whole food factory. Their main products are synthetic dairy products made from soybeans and protein, vegetables and fruits from hydroponic greenhouses, and some hydroponic meat business. However, given the nature of the Vortex Gang, it is unknown whether there will be human meat buns among them.

This only accounts for a small part of Night City's food market, and the rest of the market is controlled by biotechnology.

The vast protein factories entrenched in the southernmost part of the Badlands provide meat and meat substitutes to most of Night City.

The only difference is that the raw materials chosen by Biotechnology are crickets and earthworms that can be farmed on a large scale.

Whether it's the "beef" ramen at the Kabuki District Market, Westbrook's lamb kebabs, or Haywood's hamburgers, they all come from this farm.

These bugs and earthworms are ground into a paste and then go through a series of processes to make synthetic meat embryos, which can then be packaged and sold.

Downstream companies then inject various pigments and MSG into the synthetic meat embryos based on actual needs, creating a wide variety of foods on the market.

But at least it's better than the stuff from Whole Foods factories. At least it's real meat, even if it's a bit more expensive.

As for high-end organic food, most of the formal ones are imported from major global grain producing areas such as Canada and Australia. The informal ones either use their ingenuity to be self-sufficient, or smuggle it through various channels.

This has led to a diverse and mixed market for organic meat.

In Jiang Bing's plan, [Anti-Entropy] will first enter Night City's huge commercial market from this area, draw strength, and slowly grow and develop. Once it has the ability to protect itself, it will gradually expand its business scope to armaments, manufacturing, and biotechnology.

Anyway, as long as Jiang Bing is given enough time and resources, it is inevitable that [Anti-Entropy] will come from behind and win.

However, the bad news brought by Gloria in the afternoon made Jiang Bing witness the simple and unpretentious business tactics of Night City.

Rebecca is missing and Pyrrha is seriously injured.

Chapter 58 Scene Restoration

Gloria drove Jiang Bing and David all the way to the location given in Mann's information.

River Valley District Seaside Boulevard.

The incident was urgent and Mann had no time to send the seriously injured Pila to Jiang Bing, so he had to take him to the prosthetic doctor he had often worked with before.

When Jiang Bing arrived at the scene, he did not rush to ask what happened. Instead, he first examined the surgical process of the unlicensed black doctor and then simply asked him to step down and let him take over.

The black doctor, waving two robotic arms, wanted to argue at first, but then Jiang Bing hit the nail on the head with a few words, and he was immediately speechless.

The good thing about science and engineering is that if you are good, you are good, and if you are good, you are good.

Since leaving the base, Jiang Bing's face has been as calm as water, with no other expression visible at all.

He just quickly performed surgery on the unconscious Pira, and then listened to Gloria asking Mann about the whole thing.

Mann didn't know the details of what happened.

Earlier, he was hanging out at the 'Big Barrel' bar he often frequented, and while he was drunk and still feeling confident, he suddenly received a message from Pira asking for help.

In the text message, Pira mentioned that she was attacked by unknown forces at home. She asked Mann to immediately confirm Rebecca's current situation and emphasized that she should not go to her house. Finally, she attached her current address and never replied again.

After receiving the text message, Mann drove to the address in the text message without delay.

On the way, Mann kept trying to contact Rebecca, but he didn't get any response after calling all the way.

When he arrived at the address, he didn't see Pila. Finally, Mann walked a long way along the road and found Pila's car, which had been hit on the curb near the pinewood intersection.

When Mann opened the car door, Pila, who was in the driver's seat, was shot in the back, his legs were broken, his seat was soaked with blood, and he was dying.

While listening to Mann's account of what happened, Jiang Bing removed several bullets from Pila's chest and abdomen, and then methodically completed the steps of stopping bleeding, disinfecting, and suturing.

However, Pila's legs were covered in blood and broken bones, so there was no need for any treatment. Jiang Bing had no choice but to amputate them first.

Fortunately, with the current level of technology, Pila is still unable to use a wheelchair. She only needs to install two prosthetic legs in the future, which will not affect her normal movements at all.

It can even become more flexible than before.

As the artificial plasma was slowly injected into Pila's body, Jiang Bing glanced at the data on the instrument beside him and ended the operation under the respectful gaze of the black doctor.

Pyrrha's life was saved.

Next, the most urgent task is to find Rebecca!

Mann was finally left behind to look after Pira. With Jiang Bing and David around, the group was not short of fighting power.

What's more, [Power-Wind Lord] is still installed in the carriage.

The three of them got in the car, picked up Lucy on Charter Street, and drove all the way to Pyrrha and Rebecca's house.

Under Lucy's surprised gaze, Jiang Bing changed his usual dressing style this time. He wore a suit with a coat and a jazz hat decorated with a laurel wreath. After getting out of the car, he pulled out a slightly thick and long walking stick from the car and leaned on it in his hand.

Lucy led the way, Jiang Bing took the lead, and the four of them climbed the stairs to the floor where the brother and sister's apartment was located.

As soon as they went upstairs, they saw the blown-open iron door lying in the corridor. Through the door frame, they could see the messy apartment.

Jiang Bing leaned on his walking stick quietly, with a solemn expression and said nothing.

The remaining three people drew their guns, but under his influence, they did not dare to move for a while.

“There’s no one left.”

Jiang Bing pointed his cane to the inner room and said, "David, go check if the organic meat in the freezer is still there."

Although he was puzzled as to why Jiang Bing was so certain that this room was the one Rebecca used to store organic meat, David still nodded and went into the room to verify the situation.

Jiang Bing walked to a computer desk, looked at the bullet holes on the screen, then looked at the bloodstains and strange bullet scratches around him, and easily reconstructed the scene.

"A group of people blew open the door, and then shot Pyrrha in front of the computer without hesitation."

Kicking the metal cabinet riddled with bullet holes, Jiang Bing continued his analysis.

"Pyrrha hid behind a cabinet at first, but one of the attackers was armed with a smart weapon, and a few bullets bypassed the cabinet and nearly hit him."

Jiang Bing looked back at the bullet hole at the door.

"Then Pyrrha launched a counterattack, and the two sides fell into a stalemate."

Afterwards, Jiang Bing walked to the window that had been knocked open, leaned over and looked down, and sure enough, he saw a large pool of blood on the ground below.

"Then, Pyrrha took the initiative to break the deadlock and escaped by breaking through the window at the cost of being shot three times in the back."

Jiang Bing tapped the ground with his metal cane and gave his evaluation.

"There's something strange here."

David came out of the inner room, somewhat surprised.

"Boss, you're right. This is really where Rebecca keeps her organic meat, and the freezer is indeed empty."

"Rebecca can't possibly distribute all this organic meat in such a short time," Gloria concluded.

As the little Loli's direct superior, Gloria has been responsible for business coordination with Rebecca and has a clear understanding of her organic meat sales during this period.

"The attackers took all the organic meat away. They must have come for these things." Gloria was very sure.

Lucy's eyes lit up as she suddenly spoke to the three of them, "Everyone, I've discovered something. I just hacked into all the surveillance cameras near this building, but all the recent records have been erased."

"Also, I checked the logs of the communication base station near this building. Besides having been accessed before, I also found signs of being blocked. In other words, when they launched the attack, they blocked all external communications of the entire building beforehand."

Lucy crossed her arms and offered her own assessment. "There must be a very sophisticated hacker among them, and he's in the team."

Smart weapons, hackers, and Pyrrha and Rebecca attacking almost simultaneously all indicate that this group of attackers is quite powerful, well-planned, and numerous.

At least it wasn't something a small group did in a fit of rage or by taking a risk.

Jiang Bing went out first, and everyone followed him downstairs.

"They might not be coming for these freezers of organic meat, but they might be trying to find the supplier of this meat."

"That's us."

Mrs. Martinez exercised her good judgment as a go-between.

"It seems that Rebecca was kidnapped by them while she was delivering a product. No wonder they were able to follow the clues and find her here."

Standing where Pila landed, Jiang Bing looked at the two bloody marks left on the ground as Pila dragged his broken legs and desperately crawled forward.

The four followed the blood trail for more than ten meters until they reached a parking space, where they suddenly disappeared.

Apparently, Pira got into the car from here and drove away from the pursuit.

Chapter 59 Tit for tat

At this point, what happened is very clear.

After being attacked, Pira quickly realized that Rebecca's recent organic meat business had attracted the attention of others.

After discovering that the signal was blocked, he made a prompt decision and jumped out of the window to escape while being shot at. He did this in order to get out of the signal blocking area as quickly as possible and alert Rebecca to the danger.

Of course, if he had fallen to his death on the spot, the large pool of blood on the ground would have been enough to serve as a clear reminder to Rebecca when she returned home.

The attackers had never anticipated this counterintuitive plan, which allowed Pira to escape death and break out of the siege.

However, Pyrrha's plans were in vain.

When he drove out of the shielded area, he contacted Rebecca immediately.

However, when she found that there was no response to the communication, she realized that she must have been attacked, so she contacted Mann and informed him of the situation, which led to the following events.

Jiang Bing looked up, examining the window that was nearly twenty meters high, then looked down at the bloodstains on the ground, and gave the highest praise that could be given between men with full admiration.

"He's a man."

"Rebecca, are you still alive?" Lucy asked this question that weighed heavily on everyone's heart.

Gloria consoled him, "They're making such a big fuss about this organic meat smuggling ring, so they're definitely going to have to get specific information out of her. They probably won't kill her until they know all that."

But Jiang Bing knew clearly in his heart that there was no such thing as a smuggling line. He did not even go through the border checkpoint of Night City. He directly used the [key] to import the goods from another world.

Not to mention Rebecca, even Gloria didn't know where the goods came from.

But the attackers didn't realize that in their eyes, this amount of organic meat could only have been smuggled in from the heavily guarded border by Jiang Bing using some means, or perhaps produced and sold by himself.

The metal cane hit the ground with a dull thud, like a judge striking the gavel in his final verdict, temporarily ending the conversation.

"You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you're dead."

Jiang Bing gave the answer.

In the car on the way back.

"Gloria, find a way to contact other middlemen and ask them if they have any information about this matter. You can pay them for the information."

Mrs. Martinez nodded, and her artificial eye lit up, obviously entering working mode.

Looking at the time, Jiang Bing estimated that Pila should be waking up soon, so he urged David to speed up.

Sure enough, not long after returning to the Black Clinic, Pyrrha slowly woke up.

After hearing everyone's judgment, Pyrrha's face was full of worry and she couldn't hide it at all. If her legs hadn't been broken, she would have wanted to get up immediately to look for Rebecca.

"Who did Rebecca deliver the goods to when she went out last time?" Jiang Bing asked Pyrrha carefully.

"She never told me that." Pyrrha's face was full of regret.