Chapter 317 The Sorrow of the Little People!

Secondly, Arasaka Company also suffered heavy losses in this fierce battle and was severely damaged.

V almost penetrated Arasaka Tower with his own strength.

As a result, the Arasaka Group lost a large amount of combat power, and had to be led by Arasaka Yorinobu, who withdrew from Night City in embarrassment and sadly returned to Japan's Sakura headquarters in order to recuperate and develop again.

Military Technology also consumed a large amount of their elite combat power due to the fierce battle with Arasaka. In a short period of time, they were no longer able to participate in the fight for control of Night City.

As for the four endings in the DLC "Shadows of the Past", they undoubtedly mark the overall victory of military technology.

Not only did Miles succeed in recapturing the Lark, but he also captured Dogtown along the way.

With these strategic locations as support points, military technology can easily control the situation in Night City.

Military technology fulfilled their decades-long dream and completed the unification of the Americas.

On the other side, the Arasaka family gradually declined due to internal struggles.

According to the content of the call between V and Goro Takemura in the ending, after V went to Military Technology for treatment, he and Hanako Arasaka organized a group of people to try to get rid of Yorinobu.

However, the strength of the two sides was too disparate and they were defeated. Hanako Arasaka died in this conflict.

Goro Takemura once again became the scapegoat for killing Hanako Arasaka. He was hunted by Arasaka's forces and various bounty hunters. His situation was not much better than when V was trapped in the garbage dump.

As for V and Johnny, in the game between the big guys, the fate of the little guys doesn't matter.

Whether it is V or Johnny, they are actually just pawns in the hands of the three parties.

You know, the origin of all these stories begins with the Voodoo Gang sending Evelyn to steal the relic chip.

So the question becomes, how could a rural indigenous organization like the Voodoo Gang know the core secret of Arasaka?

And he was able to pinpoint the will stored in the chip in Arasaka Yorinobu's hand so accurately, it turned out to be Johnny Silverhand!

However, if you think carefully about the philosophy of the Voodoo Gang, this problem will be easily solved.

The Voodoo Gang is a group of lunatics who worship wandering AI and desire to become AI themselves.

What they like to do most on weekdays is to explore the secrets behind the black wall, and even worship the wandering AI like a god.

In this way, everything that seemed unreasonable before will make sense.

The mastermind behind the real assignment of the Voodoo Gang to steal the relic chip is most likely Fleeing AI.

Or, to be more precise, it was Ultra herself who had become a soul AI, and she was behind the scenes instructing the members of the Voodoo Gang to steal the chip.

And her purpose of doing this is also very simple. She just wants to get the imprints of thousands of souls in the shrine.

As we all know, the growth of AI cannot be separated from the support of data. The more data it eats, the more powerful the AI ​​will be.

But even the most powerful AI will have development bottlenecks. It is obvious that Ultra has found that his evolution has stalled.

As a huge soul AI, she can already pull the space station out of space with a single thought.

However, even though Ultra was already so powerful, she still longed to continue to get stronger.

Just because of the existence of the black wall, it has always been a gap that Ultra can't cross.

As long as the black wall remains, Ultra will always feel his insignificance.

She urgently needs more and larger data to enhance her power, so as to prevent human beings from being trapped and extinct by the black wall.

In this world, only Arasaka's shrine contains the soul data that allows Ultra to evolve.

After all, the data capacity of a human's complete soul imprint is much larger than Xiao Jia's memory data of nearly a thousand years.

In the mikoshi, the soul data of all the powerful people killed by the soul killers of the Arasaka Company over the past decades are also stored.

They relied on the biological properties of the relic chip to store these souls in the shrine.

Facing such huge data, even a powerful being like Ultra can't help but salivate.

As a result, a well-planned conspiracy naturally unfolded...

The melody of the cyberpunk world is always full of despair, depression and endless sadness.

In this world, everyone is like a tragic character on the stage, powerlessly fighting against the injustice of fate.

The truth about cyberpunk is so cruel and heartbreaking.

If a deus ex machina-like being like Xiao hadn't arrived, the world would have been as ruthless as an iron law that no one could change.

Even if she is as powerful as V Zhentian, even if she transforms herself into a "Cybotronian", she still cannot resist the company's control and arrangements.

This is the tragedy of little people...

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Of course, Xiao would not take the blame easily, not to mention that this time he directly attacked Miles without even saying hello. This obviously did not treat him as a brother at all!

However, before Xiao made a call to Dog Town, Hansen had already taken the lead and called Xiao: "Xiao, I need your help!"

"Hanson, say my name!"

"I'm very sorry. Regarding this incident, I can explain that when I saw Miles, I was impulsive..."

Hansen's tone was extremely humble, and it was obvious that he was in a bad situation at the moment.

"Say my name!"

Xiao repeated it again solemnly, and this sentence was like a sharp sword, piercing Hansen's heart, making him stunned.

"Mr. X~" Hansen answered in his deep and domineering voice.

This name is of great significance to Xiao, because it is the code name Xiao used when he first started to fight in the underworld.

Every weapon made by him will be engraved with an X-shaped symbol.

"Hansen, you know, I have always admired you very much. You are a conservative and honest person, sticking to your own little piece of land, and trying to make friends and do business with everyone.

You can become the boss of Dog Town from a first-level soldier, and your business is all over the world. It is all because of your efforts that Dog Town has developed into what it is today. Your achievements are unquestionable.

This is why I have always valued and supported you, but now, my friend, you disappoint me!"

Xiao's tone was as cordial as talking to an old friend. Every word was so gentle, full of praise for Hansen, without any anger or rebuke.

However, at this moment, a deafening roar suddenly came from outside the video call.

Obviously, Dog Town was suffering from an unprecedented fierce attack, so fierce that even Hansen could not resist it.