Chapter 367: Son of Gold (Note 1)
Lille has indeed never heard of this thing. This thing sounds like an unknown street rumor.
But as we all know, the horror legends circulating on the streets are often adapted from real events, such as the Soul Killer in Arasaka.
So he decided to listen to what Bryce had to say.
Today, Europe is a place that attaches great importance to class, and in 2076, when technology is advanced, such a retro word as "noble" has become even more weighty.
If anything, perhaps Britain, one of Europe's big brothers, played an important role in the "revolution" of the last century.
To put it simply, Britain was severely divided at the beginning of the century because of corporate wars and financial crises, and was swept by the plague.
Such issues have triggered large-scale protests and even armed conflicts.
In order to solve these problems, the state agencies established an agency called the "Martial Law Bureau" to implement brutal suppression in the country, and soon killed all the rebels who planned to armed rebellion.
After that, the Martial Law Bureau reorganized the police force into a militarized police organization, using force and high-tech means to control and monitor citizens.
This kind of frightening monitoring and control even exceeds 100%, because they are also good at using the media, distorting facts, promoting specific content, and just showing opposition tendencies will be dealt with.
In other words, thought crimes will also be sentenced.
And this totalitarianism not only targeted civilians, but also targeted the royal family - they purged the royal family and executed King Charles.
After the execution, their unprovoked executions were publicized by the media as: the great Martial Law Bureau swept away the last vestiges of feudalism on British soil.
But in fact, the British royal family still has an heir overseas. They sent MI6 agents to hunt him down, but due to various reasons they failed to complete the task and let the heir go.
And the Martial Law Bureau doesn’t know yet.
Finally in 2016, those who secretly still had the intention to resist learned the news.
The royal flag was raised again, and the people who were suppressed by the Martial Law Bureau held up the flag of the Emperor to overthrow the Martial Law Bureau, return power to the British royal family, and restore the orthodox monarchy.
Queen Victoria II was crowned in Westminster Abbey. Some companies that helped the revolution, officials who defected to the martial law bureau and joined the justice side were awarded medals. A series of privatization laws were passed, and finally became today's British Empire.
The Martial Law Bureau disappeared, a new nobility emerged, and the old nobility was brought back by the people.
In popular perception, it was the return of the old nobility and the support of the new nobility that allowed them to defeat those damn martial law bureaus.
Bryce is very familiar with the history of his country, and the so-called Golden Son is something created by these old and new nobles.
When he said these things, his brows were frowning.
“In general, the new aristocracy is those companies of the new century, and the old aristocracy is those people who have owned land and other assets since ancient times.
There will be fights between aristocrats, But more often than not, the ancient method of marriage is used to unite these powers and assets through blood ties and become the ruler of the new era
These beloved, wealthy and powerful new-age aristocrats are the so-called golden sons.
But there is another theory, which is darker: there were two uprisings, the first time was suppressed by the Martial Law Bureau and controlled for sixteen years.
The second time, they achieved an overwhelming victory within a few months. In fact, it was because these new nobles were the companies and dignitaries who had previously supported the Martial Law Bureau, and even the top brass of the Martial Law Bureau itself.
They chose to divest and betray at the right time, resulting in a devastating defeat for the Martial Law Bureau.
In fact, these people whose hands were also stained with blood never accepted punishment. Instead, they became funny and kind-hearted nobles who were loved by everyone. ”
Therefore, in the entire bloody movement, the top people who made the real decisions had long since betrayed, and the dead were all the top soldiers below.
These high-level officials transformed into new aristocrats.
"Well, it does sound like an urban conspiracy theory, but I don't quite understand why you want me to do it."
Liel pointed to the wall. There was a lot of interference outside this house. device.
This interference will not violently shut down Bryce's prosthetic body, but will falsify information. In Bryce's work record, he is still interrogating Lucas.
This kind of technology requires being very good at network technology, having a certain understanding of network monitoring equipment, and having high-standard equipment.
Coincidentally, Lear has all these things: the crow microcontroller chip in his head is top-notch, the driver is for network monitoring, and he has already studied it thoroughly, and the high-standard jammer
< br>They are all treasures that the Uzumaki Gang snatched to squeeze the bottom of the box.
Bryce stopped what he was doing and said: "Because we are forbidden to talk about this internally, Internet Monitoring has a mental health counseling job.
The grapevine said: they may not be from the earth yet. Dominators, but definitely trying, they want everything
Ordinary people lose wealth, prestige, and even lives in corporate battles, but they only lose the company.
If you go to Europe, you will find that such comments are completely unacceptable negative news for the aristocrats. People admire and love these aristocrats very much. "
Liel scratched his head: Is this considered negative news and criticism? That is indeed outrageous.
". According to this, if someone scolded these nobles like they scolded Ryan for being a fried dough stick, "
"You can discuss it with your own people, but if you publish this kind of news on the Internet." Bryce scratched his neck, "This is not a legend, it is true, because I Did it.
Of course, the reason for the erasure will not be so clear, because there is no conspiracy theory term like "Golden Son" in the legal regulations. I initially thought they were common criminals, but it took me some time to discover what they had in common. "
After finishing speaking, Bryce looked at the broken sniper and said with a complicated expression:
"This man is a ruthless person. I am very curious about him now. Why do you want to do this, but there is no chance? ”
Is the Golden Son real? Even Bryce wants to know the truth.
If it is true, what does this man have to do with those people? Why would he kill the Golden Son and his son?
But that doesn't matter because he's dead.
Liel also looked at the sniper's body, a little silent - if they weren't on the battlefield, they might be able to talk.
But he quickly thought of a question: "Wait a minute, since the Golden Son is just a legend, how can you be sure that he killed a Golden Son?"
"As a network surveillance agent, in intelligence We always have some privileges," Bryce pointed to his head, "plus a little bit of doubt and a little bit of logical thinking.
Did you know that Royal Enfield Ordnance, Heckler & Koch, Beretta and Rheinmeitl are all members of the same group?
I know, and the weapons production of this group is twice that of Military Technology and Arasaka combined, but the public knows nothing about it.
I really can't confirm that this is true, but if it is true, I know at least a few Golden Sons.
Because of these discoveries, I was sent to a psychotherapy room for three full years of treatment. "
"Then how did you get out? ”
"I took the initiative to transfer to Night City to be responsible for the maintenance of the Black Wall. Why do you think I always spit on those idiots from the Voodoo Gang?"
"So you haven't come out yet."
< br>Bryce walked to the wall and looked at the paint on the wall. Crow——
This is the territory of the Sixth Street Gang. On it is painted 666 in the color of the American flag. Below the pattern is a line of small words:
“Second Amendment, protect your civil rights. ! ”
But what if people don’t even want to pick up weapons, but choose to surrender and sacrifice everything?
Bryce let out a long sigh and hammered his head hard.
After a moment of silence, he said to Lear: "Do you have any cigarettes?"
Lille does not smoke, but this place is one of the safe houses used by the Sixth Street Gang. The drawer There is a box inside.
"You're in luck - but your device should have some other encryption, right? Pay attention."
He took out the cigarette from the drawer and threw it to the network surveillance agent who always looked weak.
The firelight illuminated his cheeks. Now he didn't look like he was suffering from kidney deficiency. It should be said that he was indifferent.
Lille could see that this was a way to hide confusion.
The latter lit up a cigarette and said silently: "Before I came to Night City, I always thought this place was a cesspit, just to get rid of the endless ideological education and inspection.
But To be honest, it's not that bad here.
Give me another 20 seconds and I'll finish smoking this cigarette. ”
In fact, it didn’t even take 20 seconds. Bryce took a deep breath. In just one puff, the cigarette had burned to the butt, as if his inexplicable emotions were also burned away.
"Sometimes I find that I have adapted to life here, and I don't know which is more fucked up, these trivial things or the voodoo gang.
But after getting rid of the Voodoo Gang, I can at least see that the Black Wall is indeed more stable, and my efforts are paying off. I guess I still like it here better. "
Looking at his appearance, Lille said with interest: "I didn't expect that you are still an angry young man?
You know, there's a saying in Night City: No one leaves the city except in a body bag.
You are from Night City. You are already from Night City. "
Bryce was stunned for a moment and said weirdly: "Ryan also asked me to tell you this at the right time, which is strange
Since the situation is like this, we will Let’s talk about the second thing. ”
(Continue to annotate, I am quoting a short paragraph of the original setting here to give everyone a little more sense of substitution:)
(“They can work two to three working days a week, most of which can be done at any time. They only really have to go to work once or twice a month, usually to meet a non-European of their own level. meeting.")
("They do a lot of work behind the scenes.
They don't have this like others. Powerful people, they don't like to show off
They do show off their gold, but they don't like to let others know too much about them, their assets or their activities
This helps a lot with their PR when the public doesn't know who is to blame for recent ecological disasters
Instead, some local minions took on the responsibility and then retired early with a comfort package so the commoners would quiet down. "
——"European Resource Book")
(As we all know, the Ye Group, the most conscientious company in Night City, has a working week of 80 hours, excluding "mandatory overtime".)
(End of this chapter)