The last ti Lille saw Blais was in Dog Town, where Blais gave up intercepting Lille, and Lille took the opportunity to block the network monitoring hardware and software surveillance on Blais in the chaos.
It seems this company dog didn’t let Lille down, as he switched to or customized locally produced equipnt in Night City and combined it with the knowledge he gained from Network Supervision and Night City, making him undoubtedly the perfect hacker for dealing with Network Supervision.
Although compared to monsters like Lille, Blais is nothing, but Lille is a monster that survived multiple direct encounters with the Black Wall in Cyberspace. How can humans compare to this level of cyber lifeform?
In the European Union, Blais is undoubtedly top tier.
Blais finally accepted the proposal—
But Lille was sure this kid wasn’t doing it just to uphold justice.
If Lille revealed his identity, Blais would definitely spill everything, but Lille hoped the eting could happen more naturally—
An online eting could hardly dispel Blais’s vigilance, while in reality, Elliot was constantly under the overt and covert surveillance of Network Supervision, so caution was essential.
With the hackers’ support on the side, the scene of the demonstration could beco even more chaotic...
In the end, it could always be pinned on a criminal.
[Lille: Elliot, imdiately contact Sevens to head to Bren.]
But then an unexpected situation arose: CINO unexpectedly announced that they had revived the whale they were riding.
The whale would serve as a symbol of victory for the Cyber Psychiatric Reform Committee to deploy—
Even with postage included.
...
[European Workers’ Forum (All workers are welco to enthusiastically submit information related to cyber psychiatric incidents to the committee)]
[Anonymous User #00234: That’s fucking aweso, the first ti I’ve seen soone ride a whale through the storm!]
[Anonymous User #01251: Just had to prove the company dog wrong! That ADL bastard went insane, spending the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital.]
[Anonymous User #05263: Brothers, our company has also been quite inhumane lately, several coworkers said they’ve been laid off, sothing feels off...]
[Anonymous User #02054: Wait, I have a question: where do you find work if you blow up the company? The overall environnt is already bad, the European Union stated they want to optimize the business environnt.]
[Anonymous User #02482: Our association has its own factories! Both in Bruges and Foxstone, server maintenance, and you can be prioritized for the Northern Construction Group’s intake, and there’s even exclusive prosthetics services contracted with them.]
[Anonymous User #02482: If sothing happens, the association backs you up, no need to worry about family getting caught up, with these conditions, who the hell would go to companies for work like a stupid kid?]
[Anonymous User #03562: It’s true, I’ve already received implanted prosthetics, they perform well, and the communication fee is discounted.]
[Anonymous User #05173: I went to the European Union’s administration hall today, they do have people handling these issues! We can march ourselves, I realized, companies don’t fear strikes, they fear us losing it...]
[Anonymous User #08954: In my opinion, this isn’t the core conflict, think carefully, how can companies be so powerful if it’s not the European Union not doing its job?]
[Anonymous User #07845: Indeed, the European Union just established a committee, and these companies don’t even dare to fart, we must grasp the main contradiction, this European Union keeps talking about public servants, but does nothing...]
[Anonymous User #08412: They are the "Golden Son," why do anything? If you want to talk about it, just reincarnate into a good family again.]
[Anonymous User #12052: Brothers! It’s ti to go to work!]
[Anonymous User #11572: That ADL and European Tunnel Company are trash companies, if they have guts, let them co to Bren and Hamburg! EBM is mighty here.]
...
"This truck is pretty nice..."
Elliot patted the big pickup.
Phantom laughed, "Night City imported Mackinaw Mammoth, Burger King used to drive this in and out of the city thrice!"
Clearly, it wasn’t so; during those tis, Mackinaw was under Thunder Company.
But for selling cars, a bit of embellishnt isn’t a problem, after all, the current Mackinaw is still from the then Mackinaw.
The autobahn in Germany is very smooth, with two unmanned lanes on the outermost side for autonomous transport vehicles, while the cars inside feel slow at 140 km/h.
The Mackinaw Mammoth has a top speed around 160 km/h, using special covers over the bodywork and cargo hold can increase speed further, now almost at 180 km/h, running on the slow lane.
Elliot had lost quite a bit of weight—a reason was the processor in his head devours fat, and he also went for body sculpting.
"Bren... my dad often told when I was a kid, study hard, find a job in a big company, live in a big city, big cities have more opportunities."
A high-performance sports car sped past them like the wind, while floating cars flew overhead nonstop.
"...Yet, with a car this fast, there’s still a desire for faster ones, human greed is truly infinite."
Sitting beside him, Alina curiously asked, "I thought you were an orphan like ..."
Elliot scratched his head awkwardly, "My dad divorced long ago, my biological mom falsely accused my dad of raping her and sent him to prison, later she didn’t care about either, I wandered for three years until my dad got out, paid mom child support while raising ."
"Ah?"
The non-European Union outsiders in the car were puzzled. Alina queried, "Wait, your dad raised you, and he still paid your mom child support?"
"No choice, when he went to jail, custody went to my mom, and suing again required lots of money. He thought might as well raise first.
Turns out he was farsighted, when I turned 18, completed my certification and prepared to find a job, he passed away, overall it was cheaper than filing a lawsuit."
Elliot smiled, but his smile had evident sorrow.
"What about your mom?"
"How should I know? I heard her spending got increasingly extravagant, and she ended up selling herself to a sex doll service company in Rotterdam... since she dumped on the street, I’ve never contacted her again."
After saying so, he bravely tapped Alina’s shoulder, "What about you? How did you end up doing this?"
"My family was growing ethanol-2, one year a cold wave ca, the wheat couldn’t survive, neither could the family, thankfully my physical fitness was decent, so I went to Su Petrochemical as a child soldier."
Alina spoke while opening a can, "Later... luckily, Polar Storm Twiki you heard about?
She exposed the Green Man project, causing large-scale turmoil in Su Federation and European Union lands, finally under multiple pressures...
It’s said mostly from European Union pressure, they stopped this project, but covert experintation continued until Interpol and European Space Agency agents intervened, halting the experints, and I was transferred to the legitimate army.
Further down, the military downsized, I went to Far East for work, eventually beca what I am now.
I say... such days seem endless, often reminisce childhood days with family on the farm, once I have money, I’d find a place to settle, spending life with my beloved, like my parents."
"Do you have soone in mind now?"
Alina smiled giving Elliot a glance, making his heart skip a beat, "I had almost forgotten about this idea, after all, there was once little hope?
Now there seems to be hope, as for the person... we’ll see."
"Guys! Sorry for interrupting your flirting!" Phantom craned his neck turning around, "We’re entering Bren’s industrial zone!"
The barren wasteland out the window gradually transford into various factories and solar and wind energy installations, sprawling across the land.
Drones swept across the sky, forming a dense protective network, so belonging to the European Union, others to companies—
Bren is an industrial city comparable in scale to Bruges, boasting strong industry, trade, and services.
A noteworthy difference is, a gigantic multinational corporation operates its core business here:
EBM’s large-scale production zone is located here.
This company differs from the previous European Tunnel Company and ADL...
It was the initiator of the first corporate war, and a super corporation daring to challenge the European Union at its establishnt.
And it’s inevitably the main adversary the Worker Association faces this ti.
[Network Supervision Log: EBM holds significant administrative power within the Hamburg Wall, European Union finds it hard to intervene, though their factories in Bren often experience personnel shifts.]
[Network Supervision Log: I can clearly tell you EBM has issues, but what to do next is up to you.]
Beep—
A deep alarm suddenly echoed across the sky, the sound striking at people’s hearts:
[Lille: Drone attack!]
Elliot’s pupils constricted sharply, "Drone!"
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