Chapter 928 Current Night City (V)
Once, Lil and his gang ran wildly on this street and rushed into Arroyo, but now they just passed by Arroyo.
Looking from a distance, Lil seemed to still see Jack controlling the heavy machine gun behind the cargo box that day, followed by a large group of Valentino gang members.
Now Valentino no longer competes with the Six Street Gang for territory. Obviously, their respective territories are rich enough and they also need to concentrate on development.
This is good news. At least they don’t have to see Night City as it is when they come back——
But Heywood is the last stop. Now Lil is in Westbrook, the territory of the Tiger Claw Gang.
This used to be the most prosperous service industry distribution center in Night City, and it also had the largest open-air black market in Night City.
Now the black market is not black anymore. The Kabuki District sells things openly. Although it was similar in the past, the tax collection is now fair and aboveboard.
The scale of the market has not expanded, but there are many more legitimate goods with traceable origins.
"The City Hall has invested in a large shopping mall project, hoping to formalize Westbrook and turn it into a global prosthetics market.
Since you went on vacation to Europe, the serum, immunosuppressants and human lizard prosthetics production lines that were used before are no longer usable, but fortunately the production lines had learned to make second-generation prosthetics before that.
Fiona got a lot of inspiration from the Animal Gang and can produce entry-level third-generation prosthetics to a certain extent, but they are not selling very well--
Jack and I have seen those prosthetics, and to be honest, I think they are a bit disappointing. They are basically one level more expensive than the same level prosthetics, and there is nothing special about them."
V continued to briefly introduce the current situation of Westbrook to Lille. In general, it was a shopping mall before, where you could buy prosthetics, Mewtwo, food, drinks, medicines, and other manual services. It is the same now, but the proportion of goods has changed, mainly local goods.
However, the cost of local industrial products is actually very high, because the materials need to be shipped from other places, and the freight is added to the cost.
Obviously, the Night City Hall has made great efforts, at least it has paid for itself and controlled the prices of goods of local enterprises. However, once the outside world continues to raise prices, this self-destructive subsidy method will be difficult to sustain, because Night City essentially does not have those things and will only be manipulated.
Independence has a price, especially if you want to fight for some power for local people after independence, you must modify the previous company-first regulations. Companies will not indulge you. If you don't let us make money, there will naturally be places for us to make money. The trade volume of Night City has actually decreased significantly.
The trade volume has decreased, but the old policy of bombing the Arasaka aircraft carrier, repelling military technology, and welcoming refugees has attracted people from all over the world to come here, only considering the political situation. This is actually very bad. People hate refugees for a reason.
[Illuminati: Before social productivity continues to increase, you need to reject refugees. If necessary, I suggest you take the same measures as the European Community. ]
[Illuminati: Night City has no possibility of developing resource industries, food, minerals. Without these, industry is just empty talk. When the European Community and the New United States come to their senses, they don't even need to use any high-tech killers to deal with you. 】
The refugee problem is very, very difficult to deal with.
From a realistic perspective, in a country with scarce resources and a country with soaring unemployment rates, the citizens will not talk to you about internationalism. They only know that the refugees pouring in are also people, and they will compete with them for jobs. If they can't get them, they will definitely make trouble, and social security will only spiral downward.
When building society, those refugees did not participate, so why should we provide conditions for you?
But from an ideal perspective, this world has destroyed the so-called national borders. The economic system and social conditions of the new United States and the European Community will be different, but ordinary people are struggling to survive in difficult situations. Those refugees are also displaced to a large extent because of the crazy monopoly wars of giants.
When companies occupy Congress, giants replace committees, and interests intersect and combine with each other through marriage and other means, occupy national resources, overdraw national credit, start wars, and destroy the ecology, these city citizens did not object, which is why they did not become refugees.
Refugees did not participate in building the country of city citizens, but the interest groups of city citizens destroyed the homes of refugees. In the end, everyone rolled in different quagmires and resisted each other.
The Illuminati's thinking is typically based on social order and survival, and he did the same in the European Community.
Not far away, Lil saw a few homeless people looking at the dazzling array of clothes, prosthetics, guns and cars in front of the cupboard. There were four adults with two children about seven or eight years old.
Their lips were dry, their clothes were torn and smelly, the cables of their prosthetics were exposed, and the exposed parts of their bodies were all scarred.
It was difficult to tell whether they were the parents of the children, but they were very kind when their rough hands stroked the children's heads.
There seemed to be stars in the children's eyes: "Wow, I have never seen so many good things. Big cities are amazing. I want to buy a Mackinac in the future!"
"Haha, you have to climb up to get on the car. You should eat more and grow up!"
"But I can't eat enough every meal! I want to go to work with you, but you won't let me."
These words made the adults silent.
Lil retracted his gaze: "This is inevitable. Night City is a city that can be manipulated by the outside world at will."
“.Those homeless people are quite honest. It’s much cheaper to find someone to work for you now. It used to cost 50 euros to buy a head, but now it’s only 5 euros.”
“But it’s not so chaotic here. It seems that the famous V is working?”
As soon as Lil finished speaking, V nodded proudly. That made Lil feel that if she had a tail, her tail would be up to the sky now.
Jack quickly stretched out his hand and waved between Lil and V, indicating that he was also working!
“But the problem of homeless people is still quite serious. The sergeant and Saul have quarreled in the city hall several times. It seems that the Tiger Claw Gang and the Mox Gang are going to quarrel now.”
V looked at the homeless people on the road. Before she met Lil, she also thought that homeless people were dangerous locusts.
But after more contact, she felt that these people were similar to her before. They were all people who looked up to their dreams. The difference was that she always felt that she could succeed, while the homeless people were just focused on living.
He stretched himself lazily: "But the Tiger Claws and the Moxes have always quarreled every day. Alas, it's about sex dolls. Sometimes they even want subsidies for sex doll chips."
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Lille felt a little strange: "What was the result?"
"Ryan and Peralez were more reluctant to talk about this topic, but it didn't work out. You know, this industry is no longer viable after we destroyed the Tiger Claw Gang's lair.
There are also traditional entertainment industries such as stimulating Mewtwo and taking drugs. I feel that Peralez looks down on these things, while Ryan thinks they are okay, but they think you definitely don't support them--
However, they also think that without these industries, the unemployment rate will soar. In short, there will be no work to do, what should these people do?"
Lille felt more and more strange, but this time it was directed at V: "Why did you think of so many things at once?"
V rolled his eyes: "Do you really think I'm a fool? I heard that Europeans will indiscriminately massacre unexamined refugees. Can't we be like them?"
"That's actually the truth, and the actual situation is worse than you think. Of course, we are different from them."
European refugees are no longer just being denied entry to European barriers, but have been exaggerated as a flood and beast. Those refugees who were allowed in did not reach heaven, but were used as scapegoats.
All the ideas of the Illuminati are based on meeting the requirements of the Central Executive Committee and continuing the society. People are not the primary goal, let alone refugees, who can of course be sacrificed on a large scale.
But then again, even if people are the primary goal, it does not mean that no one can die
"Watson District looks like a cyborg factory?"
"Yes." V nodded, "The advanced cyborg experimental production park, Fiona has a high say there. Of course, it's only technical."
If V and Jack hadn't endorsed her, that woman would not have been able to live well in front of the Whirlpool Gang.
"By the way," V added, "The Whirlpool Gang is now run by Joestar and his mother."
Lille thought it was natural: it can be imagined that most of the cyborg drives in Night City are now handled by Joestar's mother. As a human being who has been eroded by AI and even has no entity, the lethality should not be too great
But what he didn't expect was that Joestar's mother could actually hold on to this day.
"Really... I don't know what to say, just go to the next life."