Chapter 800 Shock

When everyone was shocked by what the Arasaka Group had done, the news of Night City spread throughout the world as quickly as possible, surprising everyone - indeed, the Arasaka Group tried to implant everyone into It's surprising that everyone turns into a cybermaniac who obeys orders, but in fact, with Arasaka's urine, no one is surprised at all that it does such a thing.

At most, it's like "Holy shit, Arasaka actually intends to do this."

After all, the Arasaka Group has always been notorious, and everyone believed it when it said it would blow up the earth.

However, a man ruled Night City and declared that he would confiscate all company assets - this directly shocked other places.

And soon, the situation quickly changed.

Religious organizations in various places responded quickly - yes, even if humans enter the universe, this thing that appeared from the primitive era will still not become extinct.

Soon, a group of religious figures with titles such as "bishop" or "priest" appeared on the media screen, lashing out at corporate greed and sin. In fact, this has become a commonplace topic. Many religious institutions have been accusing companies of promoting nihilistic hedonism and holding them responsible for the moral corruption of the world.

Of course, the company has no interest in such trivial accusations. After all, they have made the money, and being scolded by a few psychotic religious fanatics will not change anything. Besides, in this era, as long as you have money, you can install very powerful prosthetics, which can turn an ordinary person with no physical strength into a top master in an instant. So you don't have to worry about what harm those religious lunatics can do to you.

But things are different now.

Because an angel appeared.

That’s right, angel!

Everything D did was broadcast live at the time. After that, the whole process went viral on the Internet. A girl with unparalleled beauty, as well as pure and flawless white wings, and even bullets and gunpowder could not hurt her. The powerful force that caused the slightest harm made many religious believers cry bitterly. They believed that this was the dawn of divine arrival. The great god finally could not stand the depravity of his people and planned to bring order to the chaos!

For a time, many people gathered in front of the company to protest, and the companies were also panicked.

After the Fourth Corporate War, the power of corporations has begun to be restricted in some major countries, but they can still do whatever they want in most places. Even in some places, companies and local governments are entangled.

Take Night City as an example. Arasaka Group is undoubtedly the world's number one corporate boss. Why can military technology compete with it in Night City? The reason is very simple. Because there is a close relationship between military technology and the new US government, it dares to confront Arasaka in Night City. After all, his hometown is right next to him. If it gets angry, it will directly pull out a team to kill you. Not impossible.

So this is why in Night City, Arasaka and Military Technology are openly fighting each other. Even if other companies hate Arasaka, they can only make small stumbling blocks secretly because they are beyond their reach.

But at the end of the day, even so, in most countries, companies still hold a strong position vis-à-vis the state. Many times, it is the government that needs to work with companies, not the other way around. For companies, buying off politicians so that they can promote policies that benefit them is also a very cost-effective investment.

This is why they have been bragging about democracy and freedom, because only in this way can leaders be voted out, and once voting is needed, there is room for capital to intervene and play. They control the media, intelligence, and everything. In the hands of the company, they can easily eliminate those they don't like and then promote those they like.

But now, they are anxious.

They are really anxious!

If one person does this, then the company has 10,000 ways to discredit them, such as dictatorship, tyrant, despotism, etc., and describe the other person as a heinous villain, so that they can avoid other people from having similar thoughts.

However, the enemy that appeared in front of them this time was not a human, but an angel!

So here comes the problem.

They accuse each other of being authoritarian and dictatorial. The believers say that God created our world and everything. It is natural for God to rule us, and we are willing to go through fire and water for God's will without hesitation!

So the capitalists suddenly became anxious.

This is a double-edged sword, and now it is starting to work against them. After all, politicians come to power through elections, so when the people at the bottom are unanimously opposed to something, even if they have a lot of money in their pockets, they will not dare to promote policies that are beneficial to the company. After all, it is certain that this It can definitely cause unimaginable disasters.

What's more, the government and companies are never of the same mind. If given the opportunity, they will naturally want to seize the assets and power of these companies - no qualified politician will allow this kind of capital thing to ride on him Shitting and peeing on the head.

The company knew this very well, so they immediately panicked.

The videos and news about the Blue Azure Building were everywhere. They simply couldn't stop it, not to mention the Arasaka Group's soul chip, which made things worse. For a time, almost all governments began to hold meetings to discuss how to limit corporate power and prevent similar things from happening to the Arasaka Group. After all, most of these implants and prostheses were made by companies. Even politicians don't want to be controlled and become puppets, right?

As for the Arasaka Group, it was directly divided up by various countries. After all, you have done such a big villain thing as controlling humans. If you want witnesses and physical evidence, you have physical evidence. Isn't it a natural thing to deal with you?

Of course, the reason why governments dared to do this was because the chairman of the Arasaka Group was dead, the heir was dead, and even Arasaka Saburo's daughter Arasaka Hanako was found dead in her apartment that night because her ICE overclocked and exploded her brain. For a time, the Arasaka Group was leaderless and in chaos. The people below were either fighting for power or running away with the money. Once a world giant, it was about to end.

And Night City was naturally the core of all this. Especially the videos of the bodies of the company's senior executives hanging on the street lights made many people feel cold. Of course, it's not that no one has doubted this, thinking that this is too cruel and uncivilized - it doesn't matter. No one will listen to the wailing of a loser.

In the next few days, many reporters from all over the world went to Night City to see what the city is like now.

In their opinion, such a city must be in constant conflict and war.

However, the facts exceeded the expectations of these reporters.

When they came to Night City, they saw a clean, tidy and vibrant city. The streets of the city were so clean that there was not even a piece of paper. Most people were working hard. As for street robberies and shootings, they were completely extinct.

In the face of the interviews of reporters, most of the residents of Night City praised it. Although the order to surrender the guns in Night City did make them very dissatisfied, the public security of the entire Night City was much better because of it. After the arrest or execution of the senior executives of the NCPD who colluded with the company's senior executives, the remaining police officers also began to work hard to do their jobs. It can be said that except for those unlucky people who were hanged on the street lights, everyone else seemed to be doing well.

Of course, the attitudes of the company executives were completely different. When facing the interviews of reporters, they denounced D as a tyrant, believing that she trampled on the concept of freedom and democracy, and also said that Night City had lost the glory of the Free City and became the back garden of the dictator. Such a city could not meet their business needs. They would leave the city and completely withdraw from the business to avoid the tyrant plundering their hard-earned property...

Experts from various countries also gave comments on this, and most of these experts believed that Night City would not be able to support it for long. In their view, the reason why Night City could prosper was because companies were doing business here. But now, Night City's unfriendly attitude towards companies and enterprises will make them suffer. Even if Night City has confiscated a large number of company assets, no other company dares to do business with Night City.

In this case, Night City itself lacks resources, so there is only one way to go.

"I have to say, although these experts' butts are crooked, they are not wrong."

Watching the expert comments on TV, D chuckled. She certainly understood the problem of Night City. The prosperity of Night City is indeed based on a free and open economic policy. This is actually a bit similar to the Cayman Islands. It is a small island, but it accommodates all the world's well-known Fortune 500 companies and is the world's fourth largest financial center. Is it because of its good geographical location?

Of course it is because it can avoid taxes and launder money!

Just like Swiss banks, why do rich people deposit their money in Swiss banks? Isn't it because Swiss banks are independent and keep customer information completely confidential?

Once this advantage is lost, these places will be finished.

The same is true for Night City. In the past, companies were willing to do business here because it was the world of capital. They could do whatever they wanted here, and even do some inhumane experiments. Experiments like Arasaka's soul chip are not uncommon in Night City, because it is an independent city-state and is not bound by any national laws. So what is illegal in other places can be done in Night City.

So these companies will come to Night City to invest and start businesses.

Now that Night City does not allow them to do whatever they want, these companies will naturally stop losses and run away.

After all, they have seen the fate of the Arasaka Group. If they don't run away, they may be the next one.

However, D doesn't care about this little thing, and the reason is very simple.

On the one hand, although the company left, Night City was not shunned. On the contrary, for many religious believers, with their appearance, Night City seems to have become a kind of religious holy place. The fact is that according to the recent data, many religious believers have tried to go to Night City for pilgrimage these days - but Night City does not intend to welcome a large number of foreign population at present, and is in a semi-closed state.

As for the other side, it is even simpler.

The company can run away, can't I come up with new business?

At this time, the communication sound rang in D's ears.

"Sir, the agreed reporter has arrived."

"Let her in."

"Yes."

D turned around and sat back on the chair. Then he saw the door open, and then a female reporter walked in, followed by a photographer.

The moment they saw D in front of them, their steps were stagnant, and an expression of disbelief and confusion appeared on their faces. D certainly knew what was going on—after all, his 99 points of charm were real... Well, how should I put it, this damn charm that has nowhere to go.

"Please sit down."

D looked at the two and snapped his fingers. At this moment, they seemed to have come back to their senses from a trance, and hurriedly sat on the chairs obediently, obedient like elementary school students—of course, this was also the influence of D's charm, just like Duanmu Huai himself had a large-scale aura of fear aura, D also had a similar "temptation aura", and people who saw D within a certain range would pass a round of will identification, and those who failed the will identification would enter the charm state, and the charm state was almost permanent and could not be eliminated.

Of course, in the game, the main thing is that the initial favorability is high, which makes it easy to attract NPCs to post hidden tasks and get more generous rewards.

But in reality...

"Hello, I am Sandra, a reporter from News Channel 54..."

Sandra looked at the girl in front of her and was very nervous. Although there were no fully armed security guards here and the other party seemed very gentle, just looking at the girl in front of her, Sandra felt ashamed of herself, as if compared with this holy and perfect existence, she was like a tainted defect. Even if she didn't say anything, just standing here was enough to highlight all the ugliness and defects of others.

"Don't be so nervous, Miss Sandra."

D chuckled and looked at the female reporter in front of him.

"Just call me D, so can the interview start?"

"Of course..."

D's voice was like a clear spring, soothing Sandra's trembling heart. She took a deep breath, then came back to her senses, looked at D again, and regained a bit of calmness.

"Then......"

After calming down, Sandra resumed her duties as a reporter and asked D many questions, such as the future plans and ideas of Night City, and what kind of reforms D planned to make within Night City, which were issues of concern to the citizens of Night City.

In the face of these questions, D also answered them one by one. Until the end of the interview, Sandra stared at D and asked the last question.

"Do you know that the new US President Miles has publicly requested that Night City be re-incorporated into the New United States?"

"I have heard of it."

D nodded. She certainly understood what this meant. After the last war, due to the intervention of the Arasaka Group, the war between the New United States and the Free State stopped, and the two sides reached a nominal unification, and Night City became an independent city-state because of Arasaka.

And now, with Arasaka finished and Night City falling into its own hands, the New United States obviously wants to take back Night City and completely unify the entire North America.

"So, what do you think of President Miles's request?"

"Opinion?"

Hearing Sandra's question, D smiled slightly.

"New America is not worthy of my concern. Night City is my city, and this will not change. If Miles foolishly wants to occupy this city, then I will let her know... The consequences of this matter are something that New America cannot afford."