Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

【YAIBA】

Luo Qi's first reaction was to read it as "salt", and then he realized that this thing means "sword" in Japanese.

Dirty buildings and dilapidated streets are also synonymous with "garbage".

This kind of old building, which is only a dozen stories high and was generally built decades ago, actually has no advantages.

Because they still belong to the "bottom building".

As the name suggests, in Night City, a city where the vertical space distribution is larger than the horizontal space distribution, this is the lowest-end building.

Look up.

Those gorgeous high-rise buildings deprived of sunlight and high above are where the so-called upper class people live.

But the stronghold here also has an advantage, that is, it is low-key and inconspicuous.

After getting out of the car and turning in from the alley on the side of the building, the three of them were blocked by the tightly closed iron gate.

Luo Qi groped for a while before finding the small button on the wall.

Take the elevator all the way up to the 13th floor.

This number is not so friendly to religions that believe in God, but since everyone here is not religious, it doesn't matter that much.

"Ha, half-abandoned building, hidden location, in some respects, you and Regina are somewhat similar."

The elevator moved very slowly, and Luo Qi took advantage of this boring time to chat with Max.

"People who used to tell the truth don't have to hide like this." Max shook his head lightly, "Is this your first time here?"

"Not when I met Regina, but it is indeed my first time visiting this place."

Roach said.

He has cooperated with Regina many times, and because he believes in each other's character and is compatible with each other, he quickly became a reliable partner.

But Luo Qi had never been to this stronghold before, because it was unnecessary, that's all.

He stomped his feet on the ground, slightly pushing away the garbage accumulated in the corner of the elevator.

Not to mention the air leaks from all sides of the elevator, it is also broken, tattered and dirty, which really fits the style of this building very well.

The elevator door opens.

Luo Qi's fine hairs burst in an instant.

Two military technology Aegis security machine gun turrets aimed at the elevator less than five meters away.

As long as he shoots, even a god can't dodge the bullets that hit his face like a torrential rain.

"It's okay, I won't shoot. You have already entered the system, come in."

It was Regina's voice.

With her opening, the two machine guns entered the standby mode with their muzzles drooping.

"Good guy, I almost didn't scare me to death." Luo Qi held his chest and let himself go. "This guy is used to get rid of Mawei, and the effect is really good."

Suzi walked by, showing a lot calmer than Luo Qi, at first glance, he looked like a ruthless person who was used to the hail of bullets.

She stretched out her hand to touch the turret a few times, and looked up and down: "Aegis-X2, the latest model, and the fire control software is probably the top."

"As expected of a knowledgeable person." Regina's voice came from the radio, "Come in, I'm by the window."

Luo Qi and Max checked their eyes and walked to the innermost room.

This place is said to be a stronghold, but in terms of mess and neglect, it is definitely the most undisciplined middleman stronghold in All-Night City.

Even the priest who is friendly to the people, although there are not many high-tech products in the stronghold, the bar is dressed in a very romantic way.

After all, a good environment is an important background board when talking, which can subconsciously influence customers to judge the intermediary.

A lot of electronic equipment, a lot of intelligence files and auxiliary devices.

This is Luo Qi's first impression of this place.

In the main hall near the southeast side of this huge suite, Regina was standing on the edge of a glass exterior wall with a width of six or seven meters, with her arms crossed, quietly looking at the scenery below.

There is only one black brother with communication equipment, and a brother in work clothes squatting in the corner tossing the electric box.They are all Regina's partners and younger brothers, and no one else.

The entire stronghold was empty and very quiet.

This is Regina's style, and Rocky is used to it.

"Glad you brought him alive, thank you."

Seeing Max who reluctantly walked into the room and behind Luo Qi, Regina showed a half-smile expression on her face.

Luo Qi waved his hand, indicating that this was just a matter of little effort.

If the entrustment is completed, the first sentence you open your mouth is about remuneration, which only shows that you are not familiar with the middleman, and the relationship is still at the superficial level of money transactions.

A guy like Luo Qi who sits down carelessly, opens a bottle of drink and drinks it, looks like an old fritters.

Regina began to "tit for tat" with Max, which was nothing more than a half-riddle and half-rhetorical questioning like in a movie scene.

Luo Qi didn't see anything, he just saw two former comrades in arms greeting each other in their own way.

Compared to this, he was more interested in the scenery outside the window.

This is the northern part of the Kabuki District, with a floor-to-ceiling glass exterior facing the Japanese Street in Westbrook.

The spacious and flat sea-crossing bridge, like a wealthy King's Avenue, leads all the way to the high-rise area of ​​Japan Street.

The colorful vertical advertisements and the buildings with a large number of glass curtain walls have added colorful light pollution to the city under the sun.

And next to such a picture of Night City, as long as you turn the angle of view a little bit by ten or twenty degrees, and look down, you can find a dusty and gloomy settlement.

Oh, it turned out to be a ghetto.

That's fine.

Different from the glamorous buildings, these settlements covered by industrial pipelines, external machines, and illegally built sheds are like the disease of the city, filling every corner that cannot be illuminated.

Suzi knew that Luo Qi had this habit.

Although she was also very curious why he looked at the city carefully every day as if he had come to Night City for the first time.

But Suzi could see the light in his eyes.

It is neither contempt from aloofness, nor sorrow of worrying about the country and the people, nor is it pretending to be deep...

It's like not belonging to this world, trying to understand this city of dreams.

But everyone didn't know, there was no other reason, Luo Qi was just feeling novel about everything in this city.

After all, in the original world, during the Second World War, the Japanese Empire did not have an air force pilot named Saburo Arasaka, nor did it have a Soviet Union that forced the United States to split.

"In any case, at least stay here now, and it won't be too late to leave after the wind blows."

Regina said to Max.

"Well, I hope you are as good as he said."

Max acquiesced to what Regina said, and still insisted on that unique stubbornness. When he said this, he glanced at Luo Qi.

You two quarrel as soon as you quarrel, what are you doing with me?

Luo Qi rolled his eyes a little, took a sip of his drink, and then stuffed the half-full bottle into Suzi's hand.

"Trouble you, Lucky." Regina nodded at him, and then asked, "Are you interested in doing some more work? This time it's a big ticket, and it's long-term. Don't worry, I won't treat you badly. police officer."

"What job? Tell me about it."

Luo Qi smiled helplessly. The guys in the middle are all clairvoyant and ear-sounding monsters. It wasn't long before he joined the Terrorist Mobile Squad, and the whole Night City knew about it.

"Old-fashioned, no different from being a reporter."

Regina joked of her own, "Information can be a weapon, or it can be a commodity, and someone bids, so we get to make money."

"Asuka pie, have you heard of it?"

Asuka pie?

Rocky looked puzzled.

I have heard of the taro pie.

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Seeing Luo Qi's confused face, Regina showed such an expression.

"It seems that you really don't know." Regina paused, "In Night City, not many people know this name."

"ARASAKA, KIROSHI, FUYUTSUKI, KENDACHI, TSUNAMI..."

Regina snapped her fingers and said.

"Of the top [-] companies in Night City, Japan alone accounts for five of them. Although these multinational financial giants are all wealthy, they may not be a good thing for their home country."

Luo Qi listened to these irrelevant words, thought for a while in silence, and then was startled.

He raised his eyes to Regina.

"You mean this Asuka faction is not in the same group as Arasaka?"

His mind was running fast.

Although there are differences in nature between transnational capital and local capital, there is absolutely no need to distinguish them.

Because in 2077, when the level of international trade is quite high, even if a company does not have too many overseas bases, their products must be sold all over the world.

So who would "difference with each other and not conspire" with transnational capitals like Arasaka?

"The Japanese imperial family." Regina nodded to his conjecture, "and those imperial relatives of the royalist party."

Asuka pie.

Luo Qi silently repeated the name in his heart.

The history of this world is very different from the original.

Although the Japanese Empire, as an Axis power, was defeated in World War II, capital transformed rapidly after the war, and took advantage of the reshuffled international situation to rapidly grow into one financial giant after another.

Among them are the new manufacturing companies founded by Arasaka Saburo's father, Arasaka Sansai; and the Japanese local capital transformed from the former aristocratic landlords.

Either complete Westernization, or the combination of Japan and the West, in the wave of economic reconstruction after the war, Japan has become a nation standing on the cusp of the times.

So even if the emperor changed from the apex of a country's power to a mascot because of World War II, the old forces under him have re-formed a new force amid historical legacy and development and changes.

That's Birdie.

This is information that can be found on the Internet, and Regina doesn't mind spending a little more time introducing it to Luo Qi.

It's just that in Night City, people at best know what Japanese companies are, and they don't know anything about their origins and their grievances and hatreds in the country.

"The Asuka faction's strength is unquestionable. Don't look like Arasaka can cover the sky with one hand, and the descendants of those old people from the last century are not bad." Regina shook her head, as if sighing.

"So they don't think about overseas markets?"

Rocky asked curiously.

If a group wants to become bigger and better, and achieve world-class standards, it is very difficult to rely solely on the Japanese domestic market.

"Of course not, it's just that their focus is not on the United States," Regina explained, "or rather, not on the West Coast but on the East Coast."

Night City is a coastal city located in California on the west coast. It is under the control of the Free State, and there is the Republic of Texas to the east.

As for the east coast, together with a large area of ​​the central region, it is all under the control of the new United States of America.

"Arasaka is fighting against military technology, but the Asuka faction chooses to cooperate with NUSA. Have they forgotten what happened in World War II?"

Luo Qi couldn't help frowning.

"This is political struggle, cooperation is not forever, it is just a way to achieve political goals."

Regina explained.

Luo Qi nodded, he understood the truth.

"That is to say, if Arasaka chooses to cooperate with military technology, then Asuka will do the opposite?"

"That's it."

Regina confirmed his thoughts.