Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

For him, River, who always secretly violates the orders of his superiors and investigates some shady things, is undoubtedly not conducive to his partner.

But he never reported River, but kept a consistent silence.

It's like he treated River in silence, choosing to betray his conscience.

Harold Han is not a good guy, nor is he a big bad guy, just a small person who chooses to protect himself wisely and cooperate to protect himself.

River Ward was therefore unable to criticize him too much.

The death of Mayor Lucius Lane is full of mysteries.

From blocking news, handling the scene, to destroying evidence, all these decisions have nothing to do with Harold, he is just a tool.

If this matter really comes to light one day, those people will not hesitate to throw him out as a scapegoat and a victim to attract the attention of public opinion.

Then they continued to sit behind the scenes, popping champagne and celebrating the policy convenience that the loss of Mayor Lane would bring.

"Fuck."

Watching his partner leave, River didn't seem to be more relieved.

He planned to confront Harold face to face to give himself a reason.

But the fact is that after he got the answer, the depression and depression in his heart were not resolved, but became more...

Indescribable.

To put it bluntly, he seems to have been forcibly taken into Lao Ba's canteen now, and the executors are those NCPD executives who are pressing on his head.

An impenetrable net enveloped and controlled the entire department.

Especially after NCPD was listed and demutualized, it has become more and more like a profit-oriented enterprise.

"Ugh……"

River leaned against the fence, with the bay covered in thick fog in front of him, and Santo Domingo with no street view on the opposite side.

Fog.

I don't know why this word popped out of Luo Qi's head suddenly.

But the fog in Night City, for some reason, is much heavier, with a dark blue-green hue, which makes people feel a little suffocating.

The sun is about to rise to disperse the darkness of the night, but the fog is still like a necrosis, filling the streets and alleys of the city after dawn.

"What now?"

Seeing that River was a little depressed, V couldn't help asking.

Their investigation has become worthless in front of NCPD interest groups.

"I won't give up, I can't."

Although River sounded very tired, he was still determined, "Holt murdered Ryan and wanted to sit in his position, which is the most old-fashioned and outdated motive, and that's why I think it's believable."

"He also wiped his ass with NCPD."

Ok……

Listening to River's opinion, although Luo Qi didn't make a sound, he felt that this inference seemed a bit too simple.

Is it just Holt?

Was it really only him who planned the murder of the mayor on his own?

Before his death, Lane cut a large chunk of the NCPD's budget.

For NCPD, this is a pretty huge impact.

Ordinary policemen, such as detectives like River, or even the patrolmen in charge of the streets, are already in a state of serious shortage of equipment, manpower, and funds.At the same time, it will cost a lot of money to maintain elite departments such as SWAT, the violent terrorist mobile team, and the anti-riot force.

On this basis, enough oil and water must be left for these bureaucrats to exploit layer by layer.

Once funding is slashed, those who benefit from it will feel that their losses are much more serious than those at the bottom of the police.

Moreover, this decision was passed in the form of a bill, which means that if there are no accidents, it is likely to become a practice of the city council in the future.

Luo Qi couldn't understand Lucius Lane's operation——

Facing the ever-increasing crime rate, they chose the self-deception method of turning Pacific Island into an independent region, and then slashed the police funding.

Does he want to govern the environment?

This will undoubtedly involve a lot of political games. In addition to NCPD, the members of the city council and the companies behind them are all influencing these decisions.

In many cases, whether a bill or new regulation can be implemented depends on the competition between various forces based on their own positions.

If a decree will harm the interests of most companies, it will never be passed unless it is more necessary.

Game participants also make the rules of the game, which is Night City.

Lucius Lane is undoubtedly an important decision maker among the players, but at the same time he is also in a very dangerous position.

Luo Qi personally prefers, Wilton Holt, to act as a facade figure in a group.

If the mayor is not conducive to the development of the company, then they will join forces to remove him.

The trendy man who was able to use Arasaka to repel NUSA's military technology army was finally swept into the garbage dump of history.

"The water here is very deep, but the NCPD is definitely not clean." Luo Qi analyzed, "It's not just us, and it's not just Han and Huot. I'm afraid we have no way of knowing who is behind the scenes."

With no clue, no clues, and no direction, this big case full of fog is nothing but a case without a clue.

"I'm going to hand over the materials to the Department of Internal Affairs, enough for the higher-ups to re-investigate the case."

River's stubbornness caused headaches for both Luo Qi and V.

"It's fucking fucked up, I was talking about it before, huh?"

Luo Qi laughed angrily, stretched out his index finger and pointed at him, then felt a little helpless, "Yes, the evidence is sufficient, there are many problems, and it is enough to re-investigate the standard. But, that is in theory!"

"Even if your superior wants to investigate, what about his superior? There are also a bunch of NCPD bureaucrats headed by Jerry Folt. What do you use to fight them?"

Speaking of this, Luo Qi felt that his stomach hurt a little from anger.

"V, tell him about that note."

"Which note?" V was taken aback for a moment, he really knew quite a few notes.

"Anna."

Luo Qi said angrily.

"Oh, yes, Anna is just like you, pure and unbiased at all." V showed a suddenly realized expression, and then laughed mockingly, "I took a commission before, someone wanted to I made a note that was too deep, and the middleman was kinder, and asked me to go over and persuade her to go away, that's what happened."

"I forgot to mention that the ones who want to hire murderers are her colleagues and immediate superiors."

River watched them for a moment, then looked away as he exhaled.

This... is too frustrating.

"How is she now?" River still couldn't help asking.

V turned his head and glanced at Lucky, as if asking for advice.

Anna is now considered a member of their small team. Although there is still some way to go before she can be of help, she at least has the reliability of a life-and-death friend.

Rocky nodded.

He thinks that River is a good person, a tough guy who is hard to find with a lantern and a righteous person.

"I persuaded him to become a wanderer, but after the family disappeared, he returned to Night City to become a mercenary. Now he is one of us."

V said, "Anna Hamill, have you heard of it?"

River shook his head.

"Maybe it's from the branch office next door. Night City is so big, I know even one-tenth of it."

The number of police officers in Night City is at least in the five digits, and a tenth of them is a whopping 1000, which is indeed not a small number.

"You said, since when did NCPD become like this?"

Luo Qi sighed, using a tone that hated iron but not steel.

The NCPD had been outrageous enough when he came to Night City, but since the new director took over, things have gotten worse.

Regarding the ordinary police, it is more appropriate to ask River than to ask Melissa, because Melissa doesn't care too much about the affairs of these ordinary departments.

The Terrorist Mobile Squad is a Terrorist Mobile Squad, but its official name is the Supreme Force Tactics Department, and it has almost become irrelevant to the Night City Police Department.

In particular, the operation of NCPD restructuring really broke the backs of countless people.

"Lian wants to cut expenses, and the whole NCPD is actually very difficult to accept." River also sighed, "Everything is missing, everyone's eyes are almost green, and then they slashed because NCPD can't profit."

"Seven cops died in a cyberpsychotic attack in Bellevue the day before, and that guy privatized the NCPD the day after."

The resentment on River's face, even after so long, still can't let go.

"Seven...sorry, I hadn't joined the Terrorist Mobile Squad at that time."

Luo Qi can almost imagine that scene——

The police car parked hurriedly on the side of the road, a crazy cyber lunatic hacked and killed in the street, and the bloody police corpse was on the ground.

It wasn't the first time he had seen such a scene since he officially took up the post.

It's just that sometimes it's not the police, but civilians, or both, lying on the ground.

"The current police chief used to be the head of the Data Term sales department. This kind of person only cares about one thing, and that is money." River sighed when he introduced the inside information to them. , "The general colleagues were fired, you know, just like that, they were kicked out like this. Among them, there are many capable police officers, and there are also those whose family conditions are not good, and they are all supported by him alone."

"Patrols on the streets have also been withdrawn, everyone stop on duty, just work hard and issue tickets."

Is this the result of privatization?

Luo Qi shook his head, he didn't expect things to be so bad.

"You don't know, in just a few days, the crime rate has soared to a level that I can't accurately count. The number of calls to the police is about to explode, but there is not enough manpower to deal with it."

River rubbed the good eye with the knuckle of his thumb for several seconds, but Rocky saw no tears in it.

This man is a strong man.

"Half of the police is open, some of them have to be on duty, and some non-field work requires fixed manpower."

Luo Qi is also a not-so-serious policeman, so he naturally understands this logic, "The number of people who go out to work is at most one-third of the original number, not counting those who sit in the office and eat free food."

The Terrorist Mobile Team is so short of manpower that even Superintendent Melissa and Superintendent Master have to go to the police in person. People of the same status are in the NCPD.

"Not that much, less than half."

River smiled wryly, then moved his nose and mouth with a complicated expression.

The alleys were littered with dead bodies, and the sidewalks were stained with blood.

At the same time, the small suits in the company square were popping champagne to celebrate.

What are you celebrating?

Because the demand for private security services has increased by a thousand percent.

Chapter 250 The eighth strange animal helps friends increase!

River, you are the best NCPD detective I have ever seen, please take care of yourself.

Luo Qi's words seemed to be still echoing in his ears.

River started the car, nodded to Luo Qi and V who also waved goodbye to him outside the window, drove on the road, and gradually moved away from the high-speed service area in this valley area.

He had the evidence in his hands, but now there was a new problem that came with it——

This material is theoretically enough to allow the higher authorities to restart the investigation of Mayor Ryan's case, but it is not enough to expose enough problems.

In other words, even if the investigation is reopened, there will probably be no results.

But there has always been an almost stubborn power fermenting in his heart, making him want to submit this material, even if everyone from top to bottom will look on him coldly.

As for the top management of NCPD, those guys who may have abnormal connections with Ryan's death...

If he had done it before, no matter what the reason, he couldn't change his mind, but after being told that, he couldn't help but start thinking about a new method.

Where there is life, there is hope.

What he doesn't know is that this is Luo Qi's "philosophy of resistance".

It is unwise to blindly confront the company and the government. It is not yet the stage where people need to use their own blood to warn the world, and the company still has absolute dominance.