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Chapter 336 Saburo Arasaka’s declaration of war!
While Yori Xuan was taking action, Li You was looking at the sea.

He just took Yuzu and Aggie with him, standing on the shore of Arasaka Beach and looking at it from a distance.

Although it was cloudy today, Li You's eyesight was good enough and he was able to see the distant scenes clearly.

From where he stood, he could see the small island in the center of the bay where the Night City Airport was located. Two moon landing rockets were parked quietly on the island, pointing straight into the sky.

And on the sea, almost at the last vertex of an equilateral triangle, where the airport and Li You are located, is anchored the aircraft carrier belonging to Arasaka - the Kujira, also known as the Beluga.

Li You, like other players, is no stranger to this name.

After all, in the earliest days of the game, while waiting on the loading interface, you could hear Ruth Zheng, the female host of the "Intelligence Talk" program, talking about this nuclear-powered mothership.

What? Can not remember? It's okay, Li You can't remember it clearly, so he'll have to listen to it again.

"...Hello everyone, welcome to continue watching my show. You all know the Arasaka aircraft carrier in the port of Night City, right? It's called the Kujira, which is the White Whale."

"The guys in the company feel uneasy about this ship docking in Japan..."

Li You interrupted the live broadcast again.

Therefore, the arrival of the Kujira is more of a trump card for Saburo.

Of course, this is not entirely because he is extravagant or insecure. Players can find an encrypted data record in his floating car in the game, and this record mentions that if the relic cannot be retrieved this time, Saburo Arasaka will not mind razing Night City to the ground.

Because there was no V who "accidentally entered" the crime scene to help attract attention this time, Li You and Yori Xuan arranged additional actors to reproduce the original development. The key role of "assassination" will be played by another enthusiastic employee-Goro Takemura.

So even Yorinobu didn't know whether his sister, Hanako Arasaka, came with Saburo.

Outside the top floor of the building, the warning lights on a large number of patrolling drones suddenly flashed wildly, and then the smart machine guns mounted on them began to fire continuously!
And among them, two vague figures jumped down from the edge of the building and slid down the sloping glass exterior wall!
The drones were in hot pursuit, and the two men took out grenades and threw them downwards, blowing up the lower half of the glass wall and allowing themselves to fall through the gap. The pursuit of the drones was interrupted.

So at this time, Li You was still looking at the Kujira in a daze, and Aiji had already spoken: "...They took action."

The camera lens suddenly turned and quickly zoomed in, focusing on the top floor of the building.

Li You stood here looking at the sea, one of which was thinking about whether to take special precautions against this aircraft carrier loaded with nuclear bombs and Hanako Arasaka who might be waiting on it.

Secondly, it is also because this place is very close to the Kanbi Building. As long as the link between the Night Demon is used, others can still understand what happened even though they are not at the scene.

But whether it is or not, it does not affect the heavyweight status of the Kujira.

"...according to the latest news, the president and CEO of Arasaka Corporation, Saburo Arasaka, came to Night City today and met his family at the Kanbi Building located on the Arasaka waterfront."

Li You came to his senses after hearing this: "Arasaka Saburo...is he dead?"

As for whether it was the aircraft carrier that Arasaka came to Night City at the end of the Unification War and forced Military Technology and New America to stop unifying, Li You didn't know.

"Arasaka Hanako...will you be up there?"

Of course, these two suspected killers who deliberately appeared at this time and made such a big fuss were the night demons Li You and Yori Xuan had arranged to pretend to be.

"But the Arasaka family has not yet issued an official statement, and the Kanbi Building has been completely sealed off. We have no way of knowing...wait, what is that!!"

And it is also for this reason that Cyberpunk 2077 is also called "Hua Zi Waiting Again".

"Don't go away, this station..."

Arasaka's Tokyo headquarters strictly blocked Saburo's travel information. It wasn't until the Kujira arrived near the bay of Night City that the people on the ship finally notified the branch here.

In the game, it was after she was kidnapped at a ceremony to commemorate Saburo and took the opportunity to communicate with V that the story of V reached the final chapter.

Looking at another station, this is directly live news.

No matter whether the player chooses to cooperate with her or not, they have to meet her in the end to learn the location of the shrine from her. So meeting Hua Zi has become the "last mission" in the game.

However, the two of them also planned to bring military technology into the water, so they had to arrange it a little bit.

Li You simply listened to it for a while and then turned off the radio program.

According to Li You's visual inspection, it is several kilometers long, and its displacement cannot be estimated. The hull adopts a very retro three-section flight deck, which is obviously to meet the preferences of Saburo Arasaka. The dark hull is engraved with the Arasaka logo.

The news reporter was also very excited: "Dear friends, have you seen it! The battle that just happened on the building!"

For Saburo and Yorinobu, Hanako is undoubtedly a key role. Her attitude and decisions also affect Yori Nobu's ending to a certain extent.

Aggie nodded: "At least his body is dead, and V is recording the scene."

"However, during this process, Saburo Arasaka and his son Yorinobu Arasaka were attacked by unknown persons. It is said that one of them was seriously injured. The specific information is not yet clear, and this station will continue to follow up the report..."

Li You turned around and looked around, and could see that the area around the Cangbi Building not far away suddenly became lively.

Of course the blame for Saburo Arasaka's murder must be attributed to Military Technology! What a great opportunity!
It's obvious that even Yorinobu in the original game obviously thinks so.

Various large and small Arasaka drones were rotating back and forth around the top of the building to search. A little further away, the aerial vehicle of the trauma team was also arriving.

"Looks like the plan went well."

After all, it was just a radio program for the public, and all he could hear was public information. It was actually useless. He might as well take a second look at it himself.

This White Whale is the... vehicle that Saburo Arasaka took to come to Night City this time.

Li You took out his mobile phone and turned on the news channel. Sure enough, he saw that all the major media outlets were bombarded.

Yes, the emperor of Arasaka just went out and boarded a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the kind with a nuclear bomb launcher.

"...Hello viewers, I am currently located not far from the Kanbi Building in Arasaka. From this angle, you can see that the top floor of the building is surrounded by drones, and the trauma team has also sent out their floating drones. The car arrived here.”

Although in theory, as long as Saburo Arasaka dies physically, Yorinobu no longer needs to worry too much, and he only needs to immediately mobilize his hawkish forces to try to seize power.

Li Youyuan looked at the Kujira and thought in his heart.

Yes, after all, V's role has changed now, so Takemura can only shoulder the important task of "assassinating Saburo Arasaka" alone.

Anyway, in the ending of the tower, he was also responsible for Hua Zi's death. Zhucun was professional in this job, so don't worry.

Li You and Lai Xuan had already planned it. At the emergency Arasaka board meeting, Yori Nobukai claimed that Goro Takemura had been bribed by military technology and attacked him and Saburo together with the killers they sent. Saburo, who was stabbed in the back by his bodyguard, died on the spot.

He himself was spared because of the protection of "Hammer" and his members of the Special Operations Team.

As for Takemura and the other killer, they took the opportunity to flee and disappeared without a trace.

Taking this opportunity, Yorinobu will target military technology and mobilize the factions loyal to him in the company to begin seizing Arasaka's power as quickly as possible.

There are two other factions within Arasaka. The leader of the dove faction is his niece, Michiko Arasaka. She is close to military technology and the new United States, but at this time she is determined not to object. At most, she will jump out and say that it cannot be confirmed that military technology is responsible.

As for the Pheasant Faction led by his sister Hanako, they are a group of conservatives loyal to Saburo's ideals. Now that Saburo himself is gone, this group of people is in chaos, which just gives Yorinobu a chance.

Li You can't get involved in this kind of power struggle within the company. He's okay at killing people, but he's really unfamiliar with corporate politics.

Therefore, the next step of the plan can only be completed by Yorinobu, and at most V who follows him. Li You waited quietly to see if there was any emergency before deciding how to deal with it.

"Let's go, let's go back first." Li Youyou said, "This place is still too close to the Chambi Building. Don't get us involved for a while."

Li You took the two of them into the Merrimack and was about to set off when he heard Yuzi reminding:
"...Li You, there is an aerial vehicle."

Li You was stunned at first, but after looking in the direction Yuzi pointed, he realized that he was actually talking about a floating vehicle that had just taken off from the Kujira.

The vector engine of the aerial vehicle spurted out flames and flew towards Arasaka Tower.

Li You stared at the floating car going away, and his brows could not help but frown slightly.

Then... could it be Hanako Arasaka? If so, what was she doing at Arasaka Tower?

"...Let's go, let's make all emergency preparations."

Watching the floating car go away and no longer be seen, Li You started the car and drove towards Taipingzhou.

……

In the underground base of Taipingzhou Chapel.

Li You sat on a chair and watched the prosthetic night demons headed by Bridget lying on hacker chairs, conducting deep dives and performing important tasks.

As for Li You, he was talking to Lai Xuan.

More than two hours had passed since the Kanbi Building incident. During this period, V sent a communication, telling Li You that Yori Xuan would hold a board meeting soon and that she would also participate, and then hung up.

Li You also asked her at that time whether Hanako Arasaka had appeared at Arasaka Tower, but received a negative answer.

So Li You then called Lai Xuan and asked him to contact Hua Zi, but even Lai Xuan couldn't get through Hua Zi's phone number. Hua Zi seemed to have suddenly lost contact.

This little accident gave Li You a not-so-good premonition.

"...Do you think Hua Zi might have gone to the shrine?"

On the other end of the communication, Yori Xuan's tone was a little complicated.

His eldest brother Kei Arasaka was born to Saburo's ex-wife and had a grudge against him, but Hanako and he were both mothers and had the best relationship.

Hanako once liked Yori Xuan very much when she was young. Fifty years ago, she helped ease the relationship between Yori Xuan and Saburo and allowed Yori Xuan to return to the family.

It goes without saying that Hanako is important in being able to mediate the conflict between the two most important men in the Arasaka family. But in essence, Hua Zi's life was actually controlled by Saburo.

Yorinobu does not want to commit fratricide with his biological sister, which can be seen from several endings of the game. But if necessary, he will also let people deal with this "problem" for him.

Li You naturally told Lai Xuan about the floating car he saw, and Lai Xuan was also wary - he knew the story of the devil's ending.

But if things really get to that point, there will be no way for it to end peacefully.

In fact, Li You was also curious before. Did Lai Xuanzang in the game know that Arasaka Saburo's consciousness was stored in the shrine? But think about it carefully, if he knew in advance, he would definitely not let Saburo continue to exist.

Just like their plans today.

Yori Xuan hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind: "...If that is really Hanako, and she is really going to activate Saburo's imprint, then...just follow the backup plan!"

Li You was also a little surprised: "A backup plan? Are you sure?"

Yori Xuan's tone became firm again: "If this is really the worst case scenario, then there is no time left for us to use gentle means to destroy Saburo's consciousness. We can only attack with all our strength!"

Li You is not someone who will be indecisive on such important matters. Since Lai Xuan has made up his mind, he will naturally not say any more.

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

Communication was cut off, and Yori Xuan's board of directors was about to be held. If Hanako and Saburo wanted to take action, they should have done so at the meeting.

As for Li You, he has to do his own thing.

He turned his eyes and looked at the hacker chair closest to him. Sasha was lying on it, with light flowing under the information goggles on his head.

On the other side, Lucy was soaking in the ice bath, also diving deep, while David stood by holding a towel and clothes.

After a moment, Sasha moved, raised his hand to take off his mask, sat up, and let out a sigh of relief.

Li You handed over a bottle of water: "Thank you for your hard work."

Sasha immediately took it with a smile, took a big sip, and then said: "The mission is accomplished. The system of 'that' has been adjusted."

Li You also had a smile on his face: "Well done!"

On the other side, Lucy also stood up from the ice bath. David quickly put a towel on her and helped her out.

Lucy didn't shy away from it. She simply wiped it with a towel, wrapped it around her body, and said, "I've finished it here, but unfortunately, there's no good news."

"Bridget and the others have completed the positioning process. As long as they plug in your chip, it will run. But if the person they are looking for is really what you said, that is... that kind of thing, then no matter how many layers of protection we build It’s all useless, she can still turn our brains into mushy paste just by thinking about it.”

"Really..." Li You was not disappointed. It would be better to say that he had no hope at the beginning.

"So." Lucy took a sip from the water glass David handed her. "If you really plan to contact that person, then I won't get involved. The existence outside the black wall is so terrifying, you don't even know how terrifying it is." …”

Lucy suddenly fell silent and took another big gulp of ice water to regain her composure.

"In short, that's it. You can ask Bridget for more details. They are also experienced in seeking death."

Li You knew about Lucy's psychological trauma, so he naturally didn't ask any further questions. He just nodded and said, "Okay, you've worked hard too. David, take her to rest." David agreed and helped Lucy walk to the lounge.

Sasha watched them leave, and suddenly asked Li You: "In the end, we have to...do it with real swords and guns, right?"

Li You looked at her: "Huh?"

Sasha said: "Although I don't know what you are planning specifically, I can feel that you want to do something big that can change this city... much more seriously than my original nonsense."

"But that's why I can't help but think, can we really..."

Li You suddenly interrupted her: "Don't think too much."

He raised his hand, gently touched Sasha's hair, and said, "Do you remember what I said? I won't get into trouble easily. As long as I'm fine, I will also protect you who came to help me. "

"So don't worry, go and have a good rest. If you really want to use that thing in the passage, you'll have to work hard."

Li You said so, and Sasha stopped asking any more questions. She grabbed Li You's hand, closed her eyes and waited for a moment, then stood up: "Waiting for your news!"

She left immediately.

Li You took another look at the Night Demons who were still diving deeply, paused, and pulled out a pistol from his waist.

It was a wide, dark silver pistol, equipped with a camera and a sight. It looked like a typical HJKE-11 Yukimura produced by Arasaka, a smart pistol.

Li You pressed the unlock button on the gun, and the miniature camera on the side flashed and projected an image of a character.

With curly black hair, big sunglasses, combat uniform and silver arms, there was no doubt that that was Johnny, except... he had a three-headed body shape at this time.

- Johnny Silverhand, but a big-headed kid.

Of course, it goes without saying that although the image has become the Q version, its inner essence is still Johnny's imprinted consciousness.

As for Johnny's new image, it was also chosen by Li You. He felt that this way Johnny would appear less deserving of beatings.

At this time, Johnny's Q-version villain folded his arms, still looking like I am the best in the world, but his expression was rarely serious.

He looked at Li You and asked: "...What are you and Arasaka Yorinobu planning?"

Li Youyou: "You have finally calmed down. Are you willing to have a good talk with me?"

Johnny clicked his tongue loudly: "I've calmed down a long time ago! But you put me in this broken gun and carry it around, and you didn't let me talk! Is this the attitude of wanting to talk!?"

"Isn't that because you have a loud voice and like to talk nonsense." Li You replied calmly, "You yell at everyone you meet, and I want to put you back and continue listening to gay omelettes."

Even Johnny couldn't help but pause when he heard the name, and then said: "...Fuck, no, I've had enough of that stuff."

"But instead of that, answer my fucking questions. What do you want to do?"

Li Youyou: "You have seen everything here, and you have heard the exchange between me and Lai Xuan. Do you still want to ask me what I want to do?"

Johnny was also speechless for a moment.

Herman, who received the development task, acted quickly. He made adjustments to the Yukimura smart pistol produced by Arasaka, and then installed the module connected to the relic chip.

According to him, Arasaka had already studied a smart pistol equipped with weak AI, so he only needed to make slight modifications to complete the task.

Then Li You took out Johnny Relic, who had been tortured to the point of vomiting by the gay omelette, inserted it into the gun, and put it on himself.

Likewise, the chip is in an active state, and Herman has installed the relevant hardware, so Johnny can hear outside sounds while in the gun.

It's just that if Li You doesn't unlock it, he won't be able to speak, which will stifle Johnny.

But soon, what he heard in the gun and occasionally saw through the camera made him not care so much anymore.

Yori announced that he...killed Saburo Arasaka?
What's the matter! ?
Johnny looked at Li You with a serious expression: "Mercenary, I heard everything you said, so I probably know what happened."

"But what I need is for you to tell me what plans you and Yori Xuan have, what you want to achieve, and how you want to do it.

"I also know what you and your hackers are thinking. You want to get through the black wall and contact Ultra, right? If you want to do that, you need my help.

"Tell me what your plan is, and I'll help you talk to Otto."

Li You and Q version Johnny looked at each other for a moment, and then finally nodded: "Okay."

……

Arasaka Tower 76th floor, rainforest landscape conference hall.

This floor is a tropical rainforest landscape restored by Arasaka Company using the latest technology. It is very natural and is also a dedicated venue for the company's board of directors meetings.

At this time, in the conference area, Yori Nobu was sitting on the main seat at the end of the long table, with his arms folded and resting on the table.

"Heavy Hammer" and the prosthetic night demons were surrounding him, and beside him, V, dressed in a suit, was holding a tablet and playing the recording she made at the Kanbi Building.

"...As you can see, these are all the clues we have found. The military technology is so cruel that the top floor suite of the building has almost become a battlefield."

In front of many Arasaka bosses, V still looked calm and talked freely.

If it were before, on this occasion, she would definitely still be reserved, not to mention nervous. After all, in a meeting of this level, not to mention her boss Jenkins, even Jenkins' immediate boss, Arasaka Special Operations Director Abernathy, would not be eligible to participate.

However, today's V's vision and concepts are completely different. Even when facing these Arasaka directors, he feels that they are just a group of people and there is no difference.

So she talked freely and presented all the information she had prepared in advance.

"...As Lord Arasaka Yorinobu himself said, this attack was launched by Takemura Goro, an internal agent in the company who was originally Lord Arasaka Saburo's personal bodyguard.

"He launched a sudden attack at the same time as the killer lurking in the dark. Master Saburo was caught off guard and was killed by him. And Master Yorinobu narrowly escaped because he had his own bodyguard, but he also suffered some minor injuries. Fortunately, he was not injured. Big deal.

"Afterwards, we also investigated Goro Takemura and found that he had long been dissatisfied with Lord Saburo, so he secretly conspired with Military Technology to take over the mission of assassinating Lord Saburo... The evidence is all here."

So far, V showed everything, then took the tablet and quietly retreated behind Yorinobu's chair, standing to the left and right of "Hammer".

Yori Xuan put his hands down on the table, with a serious look on his face: "Everyone, you have all seen it. In order to attack us Arasaka, military technology has done everything possible, and even bribed his father's personal bodyguards to carry out assassinations. It is simply crazy!"

"Arasaka cannot tolerate such provocations and attacks, so I announce that I will take over as CEO of Arasaka Corporation and hold Military Technology to public accountability!"

Seeing his righteous speech, the other directors did not respond loudly, but looked at each other in confusion.

So suspicious.

Although on the surface, the evidence presented by V is very complete, upon closer inspection, there are actually quite a few loopholes.

Apart from anything else, many people know Goro Takemura. This man basically has Saburo Arasaka in his mind. Did he say that he would cooperate with military technology to assassinate Saburo? These directors felt that they were more likely to do such a thing than Takemura.

Besides, how long has it been since then? How come your Night City branch’s counter-intelligence department has already clearly investigated Takemura’s secret transactions belonging to the Tokyo headquarters?
In short, if you really think about it, Yori Xuan and V's speeches are full of loopholes and are only superficially reasonable.

More directors immediately suspected Yori Xuan himself.

But no one spoke, and in fact, this kind of evidence was enough.

In any case, Saburo Arasaka himself has died, and he died suddenly. Since he did not leave any last words, it is logical for Yorinobu Arasaka to take over as CEO.

As long as what Yori Xuan does next is in the interests of these directors, they will support him.

As for Yori Xuan pointing the finger at military technology, in the eyes of the directors, it is just a passing blame.

So at this moment, the directors were all silent, thinking about how to safeguard their own interests.

But at this moment.

An alarm suddenly sounded on the entire 76th floor. Teams of heavily armed Arasaka agents rushed in from the entrance. They surrounded the entire board of directors, including Yorinobu and the surrounding Night Demons, and pointed their guns at everyone mercilessly. .

The directors were shocked at that time, and some even raised eyebrows and asked Lai Xuan: "What's going on? What do you want to do?"

Yori Xuan ignored this idiot at all, but looked at the surrounding troops solemnly.

Sure enough...are you here?

In the huge space of an entire floor, an old but majestic voice suddenly sounded. The voice progressed layer by layer, and finally reverberated in the building like a tsunami, as if the voice of God descended from the sky.

"...Yi Xuan, you are still too anxious."

That voice was familiar to everyone present.

Saburo Arasaka.

The hidden camera on the floor casts a red light, and lines outline the huge head of Saburo Arasaka in mid-air. He was suspended in the hall, his blood-red eyes looking down at everyone below.

"...You are just a bunch of brats. Letting you sit here is really an insult to the name of Arasaka."

All the directors were frightened. Unlike the devil ending, the way Saburo Arasaka appeared at this time was really shocking.

Saburo Arasaka is best at inspiring fear in others, something Yorinobu also admits. But at this time, he appeared in this way not to shock the board of directors, because there was no need to deal with this group of people.

Saburo Arasaka's target is very clear, only Yorinobu himself.

Yori Xuan raised his head and looked at Saburo's head in mid-air. He first closed his eyes hard, then opened them again.

"...You left me with no choice."

Hearing this, the head of Saburo in the air also condensed his eyes!
The next moment, "Hammer" and V behind Yori Xuan raised their guns at the same time and pulled the trigger!

"Bang bang——!!"

The two of them were aiming at nothing else but the hidden cameras in the hall. They shot them to pieces and smashed them all to pieces.

And the huge head of Saburo Arasaka gradually disappeared into the air.

At the end, Saburo Arasaka looked at Yorinobu and left a sentence:

"...Then come on, Yori Xuan, let me see your trump card."

His image then completely dissipated.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding Arasaka agents immediately wanted to launch an attack, but before they could move, a large number of Night Demons suddenly rushed out of the surrounding jungle, drowning them like a tide!

"What's this--!?"

“Free to fire, free to fire—ah!!”

"Let me go, ahhhh!!"

The battle was short and brutal, and ended with the Arasaka agents being wiped out without even firing a few shots.

The board of directors was frightened, including Michiko Arasaka, who huddled under the table and shivered.

Yori Xuan stood up, his voice still calm: "Everyone! There are my opponents in the company who are trying to surrender and are afraid to hold military technology accountable. For this reason, they even forged the image of my father. I absolutely unacceptable!"

"Please follow my secret troops down to rest. After I deal with these traitors, we will have another meeting."

How dare the board members say anything? He could only be held up by the night demons and left the venue.

After they left, Lai Xuan looked at V, who nodded and dialed Li You's number.

"... Something happened, Saburo Arasaka declared war!"

——Underground in Taipingzhou, Li You, who had closed his eyes to rest, suddenly opened his eyes.

Listening to V's report in the earphones, he suddenly grinned.

"I knew it was impossible to defeat Saburo Arasaka without fighting the boss battle."

He stood up and said to the night demons and hackers in front of him:

"Everyone, prepare for action!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Understood!"

(End of this chapter)