This is indeed an acquaintance.
Night City once saw a bunch of European rcenaries co in, among them were these two guys...
One of them codenad Phantom, and the other Iron Hand. The first ti they t, they were responsible for protecting Yoshida Kurosaki, letting that Superdream Dealer escape from David’s grasp.
But later their car was blown up by V and Jack, and they’ve been stuck in Night City ever since, even helped Lille a little in Dog Town. Although it wasn’t much, they had so contact.
As for the reward, what they wanted was: they wanted to record everything.
Clearly, these two guys were pretending to be rcenaries, but were actually dia people...
[Johnny: Legends are never short of reckless dia people, looks like you’ve got your little followers too.]
[Lille: That was 50 years ago, dia people daring to do this now are just asking for trouble... But they’re doing better than I expected.]
Even in a free place like Night City, free dia people are just a label, a persona.
So are pure good citizens, believe anything labeled as official news without question. This group makes up the majority in the European Union, they only watch dia reports like XBC, preferably endorsed by royalty.
But Night City is the opposite, or rather another group of people is growing significantly.
In the hidden corners of the public network, anything labeled "exclusive news" or "unofficial history" will draw in a crowd who firmly believe in conspiracy theories, feeling they have grasped the truth of the world when they read these ssages, understanding the principles by which the world operates.
years ago, the internet was a playground for various hackers, with intricate network structures as hard to trace and decipher as a heap of ssy code. But since entering the new era, any network setup can hardly avoid the Black Wall—
After experiencing near-collapse disasters, no one is willing to gamble their life on whether a roaming AI will sneak into their network.
Avoiding the Black Wall ans you can’t circumvent network supervision; unable to bypass network supervision ans you can hardly avoid mainstream opinion controllers to publish sothing they dislike unless another opinion controller supports you to attack another.
This is the sa in Night City: channels like News 54 and WNS would have been dood long ago without the support of Military Technology and Arasaka.
The situation is even more severe in Europe; it’s impossible to operate true free dia successfully...
Where would the poor get the money to support these dia people in pursuing the truth? The poor can’t afford to pursue the truth.
With Lille’s warning about the situation of dia people flashing through his mind, seeing the two enter, Elliot quickly stood up:
"Gentlen, I really must thank you, if it weren’t for you leading the way in the city, it would’ve been real trouble this ti. What should I call you?"
Phantom flopped down onto the sofa and casually grabbed a synthetic patty from the table:
"I’m Phantom, he’s Iron Hand. We’re here to shoot a film—free dia people."
Hearing this na, both Elliot and Sevens were taken aback.
But Elliot’s reaction was much bigger!
"You’re... You’re the executive producers of ’The Mysterious Burger King’!"
Now not only was he stunned, everyone in the room, both physical and non-physical, had at least a second of reaction ti, except for him and Lille.
[Film title: "The Mysterious Burger King"]
[Producer: Anonymous free dia people: Northern Storm Studio (Digital Anti-counterfeiting ID)]
[Producers: Phantom, Iron Hand]
[Synopsis: North Arica’s legendary Burger King triggers a bloody storm in Night City, with the whole world paying attention to what legend the rcenary with the strange na will leave behind...
At this mont, no one expected that this strange-nad rcenary gang would beco a large cri syndicate feared across North Arica in the future.]
[This docuntary will bring you up close to the enigmatic Burger King, allowing you to delve deeper into this oddly nad yet formidable organization.]
[Is it a joke, or a legend; is it the terrifying leader that makes Night City tremble, or a symbol with deeper aning to Night City?]
[This epic of violence, ambition, and humanity will be brought to you by Northern Storm Studio.]
It was ntioned before that Elliot was extrely concerned with Night City affairs, and like everyone who likes to express their opinions online, he paid attention to the free Night City, collecting many mysterious discs—
This was one of them and was among the few Superdream films that mostly used first-person perspective.
"I’m your... No, I’m a fan of Burger King!"
"Uh..." Phantom glanced at his partner and tossed a breezy smile, "Then you should know why I’m here. We are here to docunt these major events because people need sothing stimulating these days, sothing... that looks promising to excite their nerves.
Our studio doesn’t bother with low-level films, this is high-class taste!"
[Johnny: That Burger King they’re talking about...]
[Munemasa: It’s him!]
Lille appeared beside Elliot with no expression, pinching his shoulder:
[Lille: Stick to business, no nonsense.]
"Indeed... I’d like to know who you represent? I an..."
Sevens promptly picked up the conversation: "Do you have a permit and broadcasting license from the cultural managent departnt?"
"Of course we have."
Under Phantom’s direction, Iron Hand showed a string of laser codes.
"Since we can be considered colleagues now, I might as well not hide it, the Northern Construction Group saw your potential and hopes we can increase the influence..."
Sevens nodded beside him, about to speak after confirming the code online when Elliot abruptly interrupted:
"Impossible, the Northern Construction Group is a dirt-poor civil engineering company, they don’t have the money or power to do this."
Sevens was left speechless, feeling anxious inside: Buddy, are you born talking this harshly?
But Phantom reacted completely differently than he expected.
"Haha, your little mouth is sweet as hell, for a second I thought we were in Night City.
If I were the PR of Northern Construction Group, I’d be pulling the plug right now, but... your guess is not wrong. The sponsorship indeed isn’t decided by Northern Construction Group.
However, I’m just a lowly worker..."
"What’s there to hide?"
With Lille’s thinking, and how he usually hinted at what attitude he should have, Elliot was getting more adept at controlling his body and words over ti.
He raised his hand, shrugging his shoulders, as if it was truly nothing to hide: "We’re partners, the benefits will eventually go to the company behind the scenes. Those behind the scenes will surely know who actually funded you.
We indeed can know or not know, but we’re colleagues now.
I’m just a broke worker, with my head on the pants belt trying to make a way out. You know well, and if you hide anything, don’t bla for being wary of you."
After listening, Phantom thought for a while: "Alright... what you say makes sense, it’s Jilafa Company behind sponsoring us."
Jilafa Company, one of the top companies inside the Su Federation.
In Europe, there’s only one kind of company that can be called a big company: where internal senior managent personnel can interchange positions with senior administrative positions...
And they can even secure and predetermine positions related to democratic decision-making.
However, in the Su Federation, there is only Su Petrochemical. Half a tier below that is a company like Jilafa Industry.
Unlike Su Petrochemical, a super corporation where senior managent personnel repeatedly switch between administrative agencies and the company, Jilafa beca a giant enterprise purely because it could make a lot of money with its control over a large amount of advanced technology:
Almost every construction group company globally needs to use Jilafa Industry’s engineering machinery when doing projects, else they’d be rcilessly ousted from the market.
With this in mind, Lille realized that even in Night City, Adkaduo had rented Jilafa machines to repair buildings.
If there are no surprises, the large construction project in Taiping State after Night City would also provide Jilafa with many orders.
It seems Jilafa has been planning sothing big for a while, far more actively than they appear on the surface.
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