Chapter 622 City Hall Staff Meeting
[Contact: Burger King]
[Ryan: How do I know how Scavenger got the name of humanitarian aid? His company is registered in Europe The deck company uses Euros, so I have no control over it. ]
[Ryan: Besides, boss, don’t you think about it, I might cut off Hansen’s escape route? First of all, I couldn't deal with the scavenger, and secondly, Hansen still had heavy weapons on hand, so I really didn't dare to do anything. 】
[Lian: You are right. 】
The NCPD has been dispatched to the outside of Dog Town, so Burger King must be right.
Lane sometimes felt like he was dreaming: In less than a week, less than a week after Burger King entered the city, the NCPD flag was raised again in Taiping Prefecture.
To be precise, the NCPD sign went up the day after the nuclear explosion.
Don’t worry about who is working at the NCPD Taiping Prefecture Branch now. In short, they are beaten. The locals who used to be fierce and vicious seem to have become rats in the gutter. Wherever the Burger King NCPD goes, they will Wherever they dispersed, let alone resist, they didn't even dare to show their faces.
Even Ryan, who is familiar with the temper of Night City, was shocked by this:
Damn it, evil people will be punished by evil people.
"Our NCPD has rounded up Dog Town, you all know this."
Ending the call, Ryan picked up a cigar.
There were only four people in the office, him, Peralez, NCPD Director Coleridge, and Terrorist Mobile Team Commander Max Hammerman.
NCPD Director Coleridge seemed to the outside world to be a scheming and taciturn guy. At this moment, he was the first to raise his hand: "Mayor, the Taiping Prefecture Branch is not under my control. I can end the discussion. ”
"Haha." Ryan blew out a smoke ring, "You don't have to speak, but you have to listen."
Night City is an independent city, but its armed forces only have the NCPD and the Terrorist Mobile Team, not the army.
To put it bluntly, the highest-level NCPD operators and violent terrorist mobile teams are considered armed police, but they are definitely still far from the kind of troops that can sneak out to fight.
Something happened, but it will definitely break at the first touch - Coleridge looked sad, but there was nothing he could do, he had to listen to the mayor.
Max Hammer Man smiled half-heartedly: "Well, the NCPD expanded overnight and spent a large amount of money on outsourced personnel. They are all locals in Night City. Ryan, I am only responsible for cyberpsychosis and abnormal conditions in the city. , don’t think that I will help you fight the war, I have no political leanings.”
Strictly speaking, the Terrorist Mobile Team and local gangs have been enemies for decades.
Hammer Man is a super old man who has lived for nearly a hundred years. He seems to speak normally without stuttering, but in fact there is a big problem in his head. Of course, Ryan does not put his hope in him.
“Huh——” After taking another puff of cigarette, Ryan said, “It’s okay, you don’t have to worry about this. I just pulled you over to attend the meeting as a matter of routine.”
Peralez Said: "The Ye's Group has reacted very much. They have recently reduced their contact with us. In the worst case, they may choose Huot."
"This is a problem. I can't contact Huot." , he is either dead, or he may have been talking to Arasaka Saburo in Arasaka’s VIP room.”
"What should we do?"
"I don't know." Ryan shrugged.
Not just the Ye Group, all companies have reduced their contacts and interviews with them. Politicians are very sensitive to changes in attitudes. Both Peralez and Ryan can feel the company's influence on Night City. Attitudes, attitudes toward their "Burger King" regime have changed dramatically.
A few days ago, they were very excited about the restart of the Taiping Prefecture development plan. Now seeing those outsourced gang members in Taiping Prefecture whose temperament has been exposed for dozens of miles, everyone can detect Ryan and Peralez. There seems to be a ghost.
However, neither Ryan nor Peralez can look back: the former was assassinated by the company in a tacit understanding, and it would be useless if he told the outside world; the latter was brainwashed by the company's hidden AI, and no one would know if he told the outside world. letter. After a moment of silence, Ryan pretended to be relaxed and said: "But we are really free now. Let's increase the company's taxes tomorrow."
Peralez's eyes darkened: "What are you talking about now?"
"Isn't this what we can do now? Find them something to do, and we'll decide whether or not they pay. , I guess they will pay the money silently and be our meal."
The hammer man suddenly smiled, sat in the wheelchair and left the room, and no one stopped him.
"Terrorist Mobile Team, the old guys are still alive and well, and we have to continue to have headaches
Peralez, I plan to allocate some money to transport humanitarian supplies to Dog Town, and send them there in the name of NCPD. You can take care of it. If others do it, I'm afraid the money will be wasted. "
Coleridge scratched his head in embarrassment, and Ryan said to him again: "I'm not being sarcastic, you yourself understand the virtues of the NCPD. If something goes wrong with this batch of supplies, you will definitely die. I I'm saving you.
NCPD has been undergoing normal rectification recently, and there are no major projects. "
"Okay mayor, you have the final say. "
"I have the final say. Haha. "Ryan shook his head, "Okay, let's just send money to the big brother and be done with it. There's nothing else we can do anyway. ”
Peralez was hesitant to speak, and seemed to be having a heated exchange about whether he should speak or not. On the one hand, he did have a problem, but on the other hand, he was afraid that this idea was actually secretly adjusted by the Ye Group.
He even had a very scary thought: Maybe there are people here who want to mind control him?
This illusion and fear tortured him every day like a psychological trauma.
But after thinking about it for a long time, and thinking about what Lille said to him, he still said: "Do you think this is safe for those citizens? I mean, no one wants to be involved in the war, and no one wants to The city hall pays for it
I mean, don’t you think it’s a bit undemocratic, well, I don’t know how to put it.”
Ryan smiled, a little disdainfully: "Citizens of Night City? Brother, I know you want to save all sentient beings, but if they really pursue freedom and ideals.
Oh, I'll just say it. Well, we kind of climb up from the bottom They are the real citizens of Night City, and the others are just wastes who have fallen into the world accidentally.
If you want to realize your ideal, you must first become stronger, and you must first make up your mind to become stronger. If you can’t even do it, just do it halfway through What about pornography, gambling and drugs, and then complaining about capital and the world? I just think this kind of person is a bit ridiculous, a pure daydreamer."
Peralez frowned: "Not everyone is like you. We are so lucky.”
“Yes.” Ryan shrugged, “Yes, but unfairness can be seen everywhere. This world is unfair. People who are willing to fall because of this should not talk about ideals and a harmonious world. They can’t save themselves. .
You have to know that although Night City is a place where violent crimes occur frequently, it is not shootings that cause the most deaths. "
Ryan finished smoking the cigar, and the lung implant began to alarm due to this ultra-high-speed smoking method.
".The biggest problem in this city, this world, and its people is not The external force is too strong, which makes them not free. Instead, too many people choose self-indulgence and sinking, which leads to being controlled by the strong.
There are no aliens oppressing people, so the collapse of society is spontaneous and inward. Brother: The world order has become what it is today. It is people who ask for it, not because there is no powerful saint to save them. Now Do you know why I looked down on you before? ”
Peralez sat there in a daze: He was once full of ideals and thought he could save the City of Night, but the city became like this because of the lack of people to save it.
"Then you are saying that the world deserves to get worse?"
"That's not why I say that the world is really complicated. I am also quite complicated. I think that maybe at a certain point, some contradictions will always appear. Very complicated. Strong people put an end to the reverse collapse, turn the world from a downward trend to an upward trend, and ignite the good side of people's hearts.
But first - the first thing to be ignited should be resolute resistance. Will, rather than a large amount of relief funds for the weak, to be spread out unconditionally
You know, it’s not that I haven’t had the idea of helping all sentient beings before. I have always expected people to beat the municipal government with their awesomeness. Asking me to increase the relief fund to protect people's lives, I swear, if there is such a person, I will start to discuss it, but nothing like this has happened.
Or call the municipal service to ask for increased security. It's never the people you think need to be saved, so it won't be them you protect.
Okay, let's get to work. We resigned citizens don't have any objections to the decision. If they have any objections, they go to the municipal council and tell them face to face.
I have to leave too, our immediate boss has also assigned me a task"
(End of this chapter)