Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

No one knows what the actual day will be like, and it is even more difficult to make accurate judgments on the subsequent development.

But he still imagined the situation at that time, and then brought Night City into it.

A shiver.

"I hope it doesn't happen in Night City, although I know it's hard."

Luo Qi smiled wryly, "Since the fourth corporate war, when Arasaka and Military Technology joined the war, corporate wars are not just fighting between companies."

They burned the flames of war all over the world, and even used nuclear bombs to turn countless people's homes and themselves into a piece of white ground.

"Why do you ask this?" Luo Qi looked at Melissa.

"I just want to get a responsible answer." Melissa's tone became a little weird, not like her usual, "It's weird that your mind is with ordinary people."

"How weird?" Luo Qi felt that there was nothing wrong with this kind of thinking.

"It's out of place in this city, but I think it's not bad."

Melissa nodded, "The Terrorist Mobile Team has recruited a lot of people, saying that meritocracy, and that it's okay for the average person to be a cyberpsychotic reserve."

She took a step forward and looked directly into Luo Qi's eyes.

"But only the right person can stand in an important position."

Chapter 170 VII Company War

After Melissa left, Luo Qi did not start training immediately, but sat silently for a while.

She said she was "the right person" for the "important position".

The Terrorist Mobile Squad is already a completely independent department in fact and in name, neither under the control of the Night City government nor under the jurisdiction of the NCPD.

In fact, even the NCPD itself has changed, and is no longer the original law enforcement department.

In 2076, the Night City Police Department, also known as NCPD, announced its privatization.

What did you say is privatized! ?

This is most people's first reaction when they hear the news.

The police are national public officials who maintain national security and social order, exercise police powers, and perform police duties in police agencies.

Then this thing not only turned the police into contract employees, but even the entire police department became a public company.

God.

Counting on an organization of this nature to protect the safety of the people is like counting on capital that is only thinking about making money and making more money to fully fulfill their obligations and social responsibilities.

However, one obvious change is that when NCPD's reputation and social image are hit, their stock prices will fall; on the contrary, when they do a few great things for the first time, stock investors will regain confidence.

It's no wonder Mailash and her superiors care so much about the Creators Organization.

What kind of terrorist organization is this? This is the chief culprit for hitting their stock price!

However, Luo Qi is more willing to believe, and the facts have proved time and again, that in the face of cases that will affect the reputation of NCPD, they will choose to use their power to suppress rather than resolve them, after all, it is often thankless work.

In other words, once the reputation is too bad, it is obviously unworkable to expect to change into a "good person" in the future. It is better to have a bite of meat and let it go.

Imagine that one day the Terrorist Mobile Squad adopts extremely gentle law enforcement methods and is determined not to cause any innocent civilian casualties. Then the civilians will only doubt their professional ability to deal with cyber psychosis instead of singing praises to them.

In terms of reputation, the violent terrorist mobile team is also terrible.

Luo Qi held his forehead.

But no matter what, it must have been a great and difficult achievement for Max Hammerman to lead the violent terrorist mobile team to slowly develop into an independent Supreme Force Tactical Department.In the subsequent development, if a group of half-lunatics who only know "fighting, killing, killing" were allowed to play freely, this department would probably have collapsed long ago.

At this time, what Melissa called "the right person" is needed to stand in an "important position" and lead everyone to continue to work hard for the order of the city and its own development.

This has requirements for those "leaders" who are at the top of the highest military tactics department——

Unswervingly maintain order and implement the law, have a forward-looking vision and the ability to make big decisions, the determination to treat criminals equally and the ruthlessness that would rather kill the wrong than let them go...

Night City isn't the backyard of a neighborhood, it's a fucking criminal's paradise.

If you want to kill violent terrorists, you have to be more violent than them.

Thinking of this, Luo Qi was suddenly moved by Melissa's appreciation of him.

"She's worried about the next corporate war, the fifth..."

Once a war of that level occurs, Night City, where supercapital giants gather, will undoubtedly repeat the mistakes of 2023.It's just that the Arasaka Tower was bombed last time, so I don't know what it will be bombed next time.

"Corporate War...Corporate War..."

Luo Qi muttered to himself, then stood up suddenly.

"I'm going to have to look at the historical records."

The terrorist mobile team does not have a library, but there are a large number of electronic documents stored in the database, and there may be some parts he needs.

He doesn't need the kind of books that are sold on the Internet or in bookstores. Most of those books are edited by interested people from various forces, who have more or less embellished or even reversed black and white and tampered with the timeline of history.

They may represent the forces of all parties, or may be mixed with a lot of personal feelings, with one purpose or another to confuse the public and cover up the truth.

And in the official database, he can find data that faithfully and objectively records everything.

The good news is that he has access to the database.

The bad news is, he can't see the classified part.

For example, at a certain time many years ago, what role did a certain company play behind the scenes, and what kind of agreement was reached with so-and-so.

It is completely different from the scene in front of the stage.

But Luo Qi doesn't need to be so detailed, he just needs to understand the general situation.

Most importantly, for some reason, he didn't want Melissa to know the purpose of his consulting history.

That is to figure out the true face of the world dominated by capital.

In Night City, you can fight against a lot of things.

Against capital, against dictatorship, against tyranny, against dumping, against entertainment, against prosthetic bodies, against drug abuse, against environmental pollution...you can even oppose the mayor's teeth with a leaf that hasn't been picked clean.

Even if it's against it, it's useless.

You can oppose everything, but you cannot oppose the god, founder and ruler of this world——

Capitals, or their actual form: megacorporations.

If they knew that Luo Qi had a red and dedicated heart hidden in his heart, and possessed a lot of history and ability to fight against capital, they might not be able to "exterminate alien parties" overnight.

A witness who contacted Max, Esteban Ramirez, wanted to report the atrocities in Arasaka and had evidence in hand, so he was sent to a special service team under Arasaka's legal department, and all the innocent people in a large circle around Homeless bum fucked up.

Franz K, a righteous reporter who published a lot of news criticizing Moore Technology, a prosthetic body manufacturing giant, pointed out: Compared with other similar products, Moore Technology's prosthetic body will accelerate the pathological changes of cyber psychosis after being implanted in the human body.But soon, the Swiss giant's public relations and legal teams also responded quickly-Franz, who reported the news, was convicted of defamation by the speed of light and began a happy 10-year prison life.

Thinking about it this way, it would be hell if the Creator organization had been able to roam around Night City for so long without someone backing them up.

Luo Qi thought silently, opened the database interface, and the team members' accounts were automatically associated and verified, and successfully entered the main page.

Enter the keyword - "corporate war".

Immediately afterward, his heads-up display was filled with texts everywhere.

Since the 21st century, there have been four large-scale wars dominated by corporate capital around the world, named "Corporate Wars".

The first corporate war mainly took place between Orbital Air (OA) and Euro Business Machines (EBM), spanning from August 2004 to February 8.

Just looking at the names of these two companies, you can tell that they have monopolized endlessly in their respective industries.

Initially, EBM intended to leverage the acquisition of "Trans World Airlines (Trans World Airlines, TWA)".This company, which was established as early as 1925, seems not to adapt to the development of the times, and has gradually changed from a well-known giant to a model of business failure.

But OA was also interested in the company's plates (especially their routes and supporting facilities), so they bribed the CEO, which made EBM's excited acquisition plan go to waste.

And EBM obviously didn't intend to let it go, so they found terrorists and part-time mercenaries, kidnapped OA's business negotiation team, and then they went to TWA to negotiate the acquisition first.

Unfortunately, the kidnapping failed, so everyone knew about EBM's plan.

Zeta Technology, which was in development at the time, was the second-tier super enterprise that sold octants for a lot of money. It was recruited by OA eager for revenge and launched a large-scale attack on EBM on the Internet.But it turned out to be a pity. The still immature Zeta Technology was like Italy, which was wooed by Germany in World War II. It was easily beaten up by EBM and directly declared that it would not be able to recover.

After that, EBM launched its own counterattack—both physically and technologically.

Terrorist attacks, cyber wars, illegal plagiarism, capital strife, and even direct employment of troops from third world countries to wage vicious wars with each other all over the world.

During this period there were two main battles.

In the first game, OA and EBM sent space commandos to each other to occupy each other's space station. Those who didn't know it thought they were fighting APEX.Both sides of the conflict were condemned by the European Space Agency, which asked the two companies not to fight each other in Low Earth Orbiting (LEO).

Because there is already enough space junk in low orbit, their battle has produced more deadly mega-junk.

And it also takes up precious and few tracks, and the cleaning cost is a lot of money.

So the two sides began to shoot missiles at each other to attack each other's high-orbit satellites.

Really Nima is off the charts.

The second, this major battle, ended the first corporate war.

Commandos hired by the OA directly attacked and breached the compound of EBM CEO Ulf Grünwald.

It is true that the king is captured first when the thief is captured.

Luo Qi watched and shook his head again and again, quite a bit like looking at historical materials and seeing a mouthful of old blood spit out.

I understand the reasoning, but your ending is a bit too hasty.

This war is the first large-scale war since the Cold War.

The first corporate war provided a precedent for other companies—the use of large-scale military warfare against commercial rivals was a viable option.

Yes, that's right, it's that outrageous.

After the world was smothered by two companies, Orbital Aviation and European Business Machines, other companies thought not to learn from it, but to "me too".

Other companies followed suit and frequently launched large-scale conflicts with other companies in terms of resources and business prospects. However, because the scope of influence was not large, they were not classified as the second corporate war, but as a part of the first corporate war. Continuation, with a series of subsequent effects on the world.

It's like the relationship between an earthquake and aftershocks.

look!Both of them can fight so fiercely, we want to fight too!

So a group of companies that dislike each other started a global real-time online mutual hammering.

The winning airlines have grown and become more integrated than ever before.

Then the airfare more than doubled.

This is what ordinary people get from the war.

That's what ordinary people get out of this war.

In 2008, when the aftermath of the first corporate war had not subsided, the second corporate war broke out.The two parties involved in the war are-

"Soviet Oil (SovOil, full name: Soviet World Oil Industries, Soviet World Oil Industries Group)".

as well as,

"Peteochem (full name: Petrochemical products and agribusiness, petrochemical products and agribusiness group)".

In 2006, Su | Union Petroleum began to produce the famous "CHOOH2", an alcohol-based fuel most commonly used to power vehicles. Petra Petrochemicals, a major producer of CHOOH2, has offered to supply Soviet with newer technology that would allow Soviet to drill, pump and manufacture other fuels from Siberia's untapped oil resources.

But their condition is that Petra Petrochemical obtains the right to drill part of the Soviet Union's oil.

In the face of huge interests, both parties agreed.

However, just before the signing of the relationship documents between the two partners, So|Soviet Petroleum engineers announced that they had developed new drilling technology, so the deal was not necessary.

Su | Union Petroleum canceled the signing of the agreement at the last moment. This was simply a face-to-face slap in the face. The estrangement and dissatisfaction between the two companies was left at this time.

In the second year, in 2007, when many companies were busy imitating OA and EBM and fighting each other, the two companies simultaneously began to expand capital and business to the South China Sea.

The situation became tense and eventually led to a formal second corporate war.

China in 2007 was different from the world I lived in.

To be more...weaker.

Because of imperialist capital, the war of tearing the nation's wounds has been ruthlessly continued.

Luo Qi can imagine the sad look of two petrochemical companies from world powers vying for each other in the South China Sea, while his family can only sit beside them.

Like 1840, and the sorrow that lasted for more than a hundred years after that.

Luo Qi raised his head, temporarily turned off the image on the head-up display, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes.After a long time, he let out a breath slowly.

Throughout the ages, the ups and downs have changed, but this is the case.