Chapter 507: Multiple Murderers
Bryce was a little confused in the office.
Lane's office is a huge "secret room".
In the valley area, the sales departments and office buildings of each company are basically the same. Everyone is staring at each other and the mayor's office, not letting go of every clue, hoping to get information in time. Determine your opponent's movements.
Secondly, he purchased Arasaka's security services. Although it was not a personal defense, Arasaka's security team was around the office building and never left.
Furthermore, Military Technology has a distribution point opposite the building with 24-hour permanent agents.
Finally, Ryan is an important investor in the Network Monitoring Office in Night City. With his help, Network Monitoring has almost become the network support department of the NCPD, and its power in Night City is largely Bound to Ryan.
But this latest line of defense, network monitoring directly stated that no abnormalities were observed!
Colleagues kept setting up on-site analyzers, adjusting data, and using holographic modeling to analyze on-site conditions.
But the results were vague. They could only know that Ryan fell in front of the computer, and the computer burned down when the Flow AI broke out, and was then connected to a backup device by Ryan.
The backup device remains locked.
Bryce’s colleague shook his head——
“Our mysterious mayor is really interesting. The door was forcibly broken open by someone, and he left without saying a word, leaving it to us. Leave a mess.”
I have to say that Bryce understood his colleagues’ thoughts: Although Ryan introduced network monitoring and provided a lot of resources in the establishment of the Night City office, many Support, but he still has a lot of personal networks.
These private networks do not border on network surveillance and are very small, just like the network he used to send messages to Bryce.
It was a one-way sending line triggered purely by mechanical mode. The information would be sent to Bryce's personal terminal, and would even bypass the network surveillance software used to monitor the company's agents
On the personal terminal, the letter It is a normal prosthetic body deviation value report, which is the kind of deviation that can occur even after drinking a little alcohol.
The real information can only be decoded by the second person, so Bryce doesn't know what Ryan said to Lear.
This is very important information.
“I think Ryan was kidnapped.”
"Who did it? It can't be Peralez, right? He is the only one who has been here today."
During the time of speaking, colleagues had repaired the building's database, and the most recent person on the access list was Pera. Reis, the Speaker of the Night City Parliament, will compete with Ryan in the next election.
Peralez? No wonder the network supervisor didn't react at all.
Bryce was just about to confirm that it was Peralez who did it, but his colleague immediately reacted.
“Well, a camera spotted Ryan going out, and Arasaka let him go in his own car.
He must have been frightened. Maybe it was his personal bodyguard who broke in? Arasaka Ninja or something? ”
He understood that his colleagues would have this idea, but he didn’t think that the Internet Supervisory Committee would just dabble in it——
According to the characteristics of network supervision, even if Ryan has the habit of maintaining a secret network, they They should also take advantage of their position to find out who they are working with!
They should take the initiative to investigate!
Unless the company doesn’t care about the support Ryan can give them. support.
Bryce's mind was racing: Ryan's rescue line was single and hidden. He knew that Ryan must have been kidnapped!
But the company's attitude alerted him - the network supervisor didn't care about Ryan at all.
Also, even though Ryan is in the office next door, my colleagues in the network supervision department didn’t respond at all. This is too strange!
"What car?"
"Thrace Jefferson, it's his favorite car - I said it's okay? Okay, what's your mission? Why did you suddenly come back? ”
"The talks have collapsed." Bryce immediately adjusted his demeanor, "Ryan had an agreement with the mercenary before, and I was wondering if I could take advantage of it." It's really something a mercenary would do. If I were you, I would be prepared secondhand."
"You're right. ." Bryce walked to Ryan's computer desk without leaving a trace, "I should really be ready to use it second-hand." While his colleagues were busy taking back the equipment, Bryce immediately started tapping. The computer -
Lane locked the database containing the secret data, but did not lock the communication function.
At least for Bryce, there is no lock.
Just enough to allow him to bypass the company's monitoring.
[Recipient: Lille]
[Bryce: Ryan has disappeared, and the company’s attitude is a bit off. 】
[Bryce: At present, I can only know that the most recent access record of the building was left by Peralez, but there is only this one piece of information, and the others have been burned. 】
[Bryce: Arasaka let go of a Jefferson 388, the one you see on TV. ]
[Bryce: Damn it. It must be military technology, but Arasaka isn’t curious about what Peralez is doing here? 】
“Ryan has been kidnapped, there is still a chance.”
Mackinac was driving slowly on the road, but no matter how slow the car was, it would attract the attention of the company.
“Why?” V asked. "What why?"
V raised a finger, his head was running wildly, and finally gave up: "There are many reasons. Let me ask a simple question first, what will happen if Ryan is tied up or dead?"
“The new mayor will take office and the policies will change drastically.”
"What will it become?"
"Good question, that's why we have to do this." Lille thought for a while and decided to explain the impact directly, "Ryan is a balancer. And he's a great balancer, I don't deny that.
In particular, Military Technology and Arasaka are hung up by him, but from another perspective, if you are these two companies, do you think it is a good thing to be hung up on both sides by a small mayor of Night City and continue to invest resources to fight a protracted war? ?
And this kind of consumption consumes the company, but Night City benefits. ”
“Being beaten into a cesspit is also a benefit? ”
“At least I have money. "Liel quickly answered V's question while thinking about possible situations in the car, "And think about Atlanta.
Once Lane dies, the mayor will have to choose from Holt and Peralez. No matter which one he is, he will have a clear preference for one of the companies.
Holt is Arasaka's dog, while Peralez's main sponsor is military technology, and at least on the surface, he supports good relations with the new United States. ”
Hoot and Peralez are the tools Ryan uses to communicate with the company. Many times he does not need to speak, and these two people will make suggestions for the company.
This is balance.
This is the first level.
Jack seems to understand, but V understands.
"Why do you say that? I feel that both Holt and Peralez have reasons to kill Ryan?"
Liel nodded in approval. This is the key.
Lian is the kind of politician that companies hate the most - they sponsor politicians to let the politicians do things for them, not to let the politicians fool them into confusion and continue to fight a war of attrition!
Even if other conspiracies are not taken into consideration, whether it is Military Science or Arasaka, before their supporters come to power, they all have a common goal:
Ryan must step down.
Theoretically, they have a common goal, but in fact they are in a hostile relationship, and it is absolutely impossible for them to conspire to kill Ryan.
Unless the unexpected comes.
If all it takes is a push to kill him, everyone will do it.
Everyone did it.
That time is now!
"Okay." V raised a second finger, "Then why not just kill it? And kidnap it?"
"This is complicated. Maybe the mastermind behind the scenes wants to get some from Ryan. Something decisive to help his candidate win the election."
Jack, who didn't understand just now, slapped his head: "The information in Ryan's head must be worth a lot of money!"
"Yes! "This is true," Lear said, "but according to Bryce, I guess the man behind the scenes may have another idea."
The man behind the scenes wants to create an illusion.
This illusion is: everyone did it, but it didn’t.
Because it cannot withstand inspection, it needs to keep a low profile. It is an AI.
Based on such a rough calculation, too many people may have taken action against Ryan.
When there are multiple murderers, the difficulty of investigating the case will increase exponentially, and the entire case will become confusing.
All the current ideas are just speculations. Lille is not a great dancer and can deduce the ins and outs of things at once, but the goal remains unchanged.
It is usually difficult to find a Jefferson 388 on the street, but today is different -
There are almost no cars on the street, but they are all gangsters.
[Priest: Valentino saw the car. 】
“Hurry up”
V curled his lips: “When I think about rescuing shit like Ryan, I feel a little unhappy.”
"Then let me put it another way." Lear said, "We are going to decide the future of this city."
"This is interesting."
Jack in the back row said nothing. , hurriedly wrote a new chapter about this experience in his booklet——
[This is a bit over the top for you. 】
【But a top-notch mercenary must do a job in his life that can determine the future of the city. 】
[——Jack Wills, 2076.]
[Write down before doing such a big job. 】
(End of this chapter)