Chapter 423 Profit (One More Update)
[Little Octopus: Big brother, today three universities in New York have suspended classes and marched. They are still contacting students and faculty from other schools. ]
[Little Octopus: Roxon may find a way to persuade some state governments to send out the National Guard to suppress the riots. ]
[Lille: We can provide free assistance to all peaceful people, so that they can feel free to make trouble. ]
[Little Octopus: Okay, by the way, big brother, the power plant drawings have been finalized, do you want to take another look? ]
[Lille: No need, help me watch Brick's human experiments, we have to get the second generation of prosthesis online as soon as possible. ]
[Lille: Personnel expansion. ]
[Little Octopus: Summary of the United States: 367 retired soldiers have been converted to cyborg warriors, 1,347 people will complete implantation surgery in the next seven days, and the increase in the next month is estimated to be 120%~160%;
14,523 qualified workers, 35,535 people are being trained, 135,264 people will complete implantation surgery in the next seven days, and the increase in the next month is estimated to be 300%~340%. 】
【Little Octopus: Summary of Night City: 441 OCT domain users; 1333 inter-dimensional workers. 】
"Mano, after hearing what you said, I feel that these Japanese are pretty miserable."
After leaving the door, the three chatted in the elevator.
Jack began to sigh: "The first fight I had was with the Japanese."
"How did it start?" V asked with interest.
"The guy said that he bought a genuine Arasaka tablet and showed it off to us, looking down on the second-hand goods we bought from the street stalls.
What else. Anyway, he was quite pretentious. No one paid attention to him, but he kept rubbing against us."
"Then I don't blame him for the fight."
Jack shrugged: "But he bought it with a loan shark. Later, the loan shark came to his house and took away one of his kidneys. Then he disappeared. I don't know if he was kidnapped by the scavenger and the remaining kidney was cut off.
If he had been with us, maybe the scavenger would not have been able to take a fancy to him."
"Ha, what about his loan sharks?" V sneered, "What a coincidence, my first fight was also with the Tiger Claws, I guess it was with the Tiger Claws.
At that time, I was hanging out on the streets, and there was a moron who had spoken to me twice and kept inviting me to drink. Fortunately, I was smart and found out that he had borrowed money from the Tiger Claws online and planned to kidnap me as a sex doll.
If I hadn't had a gun at that time, I would have shot him directly - but I guess he called those Tiger Claws and couldn't see me, so they would have opened his asshole long ago."
V said and looked at the silent Lille: "In fact, Mox also came to me and said that I would lose a lot if I didn't work in this business with my face."
But Lille was still thinking about other problems.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
Snap!
V slapped Lille on the head: "Why are you so stupid again!"
Lille rubbed his head and said helplessly: "I didn't have such a wonderful childhood as you."
V looked outside the point as if nothing had happened: "So what do you think of my face?"
"It's pretty good. It's true that I'll lose a lot if I don't do this business - I'm talking about the mercenary business."
V's eyes widened: "Wait, do mercenaries still look at faces?!"
"It still looks." Lille answered slowly while processing data, somewhat without thinking.
He was thinking that if V didn't have this face in Atlanta, he really couldn't think of a trick all of a sudden.
It's just that the brain is a little overloaded, and I don't understand what this means.
In addition to reviewing some data, Lille was also thinking about a question:
He can continue to track down the Brain Demon Gang now, but he has been hanging by Muramasa, and he doesn't know when he will be caught.
Didi -
An NCPD pickup truck drove through the street, and the Centaur mecha in the cargo compartment went into hibernation. Through the gaps in the mecha parts, you can see that the operator on it is very tired.
The current Night City is much more chaotic than the previous Night City.
The three stood at the door of the skyscraper, watching the police cars rushing to the next place, and watching the residents on the street who were anxious and cursing in a low voice.
Jack suddenly asked a question: "Mano, do you think we did these things wrong?"
Lille glanced at Jack: "Why? Doubt yourself?"
Jack thought for a while and continued, "We almost destroyed every gang. I also think they are too much. That's it, why are the streets more chaotic?"
Every gang was destroyed, and serious problems occurred in the area.
The Sixth Street Gang was destroyed, and the traitors emerged. Because of the civil war, the locals could not do business;
The Tiger Claw Gang was destroyed, and all kinds of monsters appeared in Westbrook. There were constant gun battles on the streets. People dared not go out at night, and the shops had no business. All industries were in decline.
The Whirlpool Gang was destroyed, and there was a huge gap in the technology transactions of the entire Night City.
Lil smiled and asked back: "Valentino, we didn't destroy them either. Didn't they have a traitor because they wanted to get promoted?"
"That's right."
"If we don't intervene, yes, they may not weaken, and the streets won't be so chaotic.
The Six Street Gang will continue to help Biotech distribute vaccines. He makes this money, and people won't find the problem in the river. Many people will still die inexplicably.
The Tiger Claw Gang will continue to engage in dirty business with the deputy mayor, and Jotaro will continue to kidnap innocent passers-by.
Royce of the Whirlpool Gang will be in power. They will directly capture people from the street to modify their prostheses and help people shoot Black Super Dream.
Valentino, a person who does not conform to the values of your gang will take power. Slowly, it will become someone you don't recognize-a lackey in the deputy mayor's office. It's only a matter of time before it becomes another Tiger Claw Gang.
If we don't beat them up, they will be beaten up by another thing. Do you know what it is?"
Jack shook his head, and V waited curiously for Lear to reveal the answer.
"It's profit, it's money. The root of all these problems is that they gradually abandon the concept when the gang was founded and pursue more money endlessly.
As they expand, they begin to discover how important profit is to maintaining an organic community within society.
Profits will break the ties that link these gangs: family ties, friendships, dreams, honor, ethnic ties, community ties.
Ultimately they are connected only by profits and are essentially attached to the most profitable collectives in the world.
These guys who are emerging now are only because there are people sponsoring them, and their operating profits are higher than those of these weakening gangs in the short term.
But with our intervention, everything is different. "
"They've changed." V concluded.
Lille looked at V in surprise: "That's pretty much what it means. The summary is quite accurate."
Jack scratched his head: "When you say that, we seem to be a stumbling block that always stands in their way of making money."
"That's true." Lille shrugged, "Our relationship is not maintained solely by money, so sooner or later, like these unlucky gang bosses, we will be squeezed out by these guys who are chasing higher profits. in the corner.
Then they are either crushed or assimilated. "
"It sounds scary. It feels like I'm against the world."
“It’s quite scary, but these gangs are putting the cart before the horse, and those who pursue profits can only become puppets of profits.
do you remember? They were built with absolutely no money to make, and no one is born with everything.
It’s more like they chose to become puppets after struggling for a while. "
"Tsk." V curled his lips, "I'm going to object to this. It's not like there are no people who are born rich."
Lille smiled: "That's right, but the rich people you want have, the rich people have played the things you want to play, and the rich people have done what you want.
So you do nothing? Are you just lying on the ground? Do you want to do these things, or do you want to be rich?
If it were me, I would want to do these things, whether they have been done by rich people or not.
But they have to pray that their assets don't get in my way, otherwise their end may not be good. "
"Oh." V also laughed, "It sounds like a gangster, but I like it."
The NCPD convoy in front passed, the red light turned green, and the two walked down the stairs and prepared to cross the road.
Jack chewed on Leal's words and stayed there for a long time watching the green light.
It wasn't until V and Lear turned to look at him that he realized what he was doing. He ran over at a trot and hugged Lear:
"Hey, mano, I've told you a long time ago that you are doing big things, and what you just said is really not bad!
I'm going to put it in a manual, and it's going to be like this: 'When I'm doing something, other people better pray not to get in the way',
what do you think."
[Little Octopus: Brother, I think what you say makes sense, so what is our goal? What is the purpose of doing these things? 】
[Little Octopus: (._.) I humbly ask for advice. 】
[Lear: But those at the top of the food chain who really make big money are not guided by pure profits, but by their ambitious goals that surpass other groups and individuals, and their excellent execution capabilities. 】
[Lille: Fools pursue profits, while strong men determine profits. 】
[Lille: Mobilize your thoughts and prepare for battle. 】