Cyberpunk: 2075

Chapter 518 131. Similar Aspirations

"You're on the news, Carl."

"Yeah, I expected that."

Carl nodded to Jack, and then stared at the TV projection screen in Tavernier's suite on the 100th floor of the Blue Green Building: "What happened in the morning was reported at noon, quite fast."

"Didn't you delete the footage he filmed?"

Arasaka Nobuyuki looked at the performance on the screen, secretly surprised by Carl's strength, and asked Carl with some curiosity: "I thought mercenaries like you would pay attention to your privacy."

"Mercenaries, pay attention to privacy, this doesn't sound right, Mr. Nobuyuki, you've been in the company for too long, and on the streets now, the information of mercenaries has never been a secret;

As long as there is If you become famous, the middlemen will have your information in their hands, and they will wait for you to do some thankless work. "

Carl said while looking at the sky in the first-person perspective on the screen:

"And I also looked through his information;

Although he is not a good person, he has helped small companies cover up many secrets and obeyed the orders of large companies, but he also took the initiative to submit reports on industrial pollution in Santo Domingo and child kidnapping in the city center;

Although these were not approved by the higher-ups, he did it anyway. In this case, I don't mind his filming. "

'Because the other party has done some good things within his ability and out of his profession, which may not be from the heart, are you willing to ignore it?'

Listening to Carl's words, Arasaka Nobuyuki thought of the core business of Arasaka Company for some reason.

Arasaka Corporation provides security services to dignitaries and important groups. Their security services often provide protection while obtaining intelligence about the person or group. In other words, this business, which is nominally security but actually intelligence collection and utilization, is the main business of Arasaka Corporation and the capital of Arasaka Corporation's long-term existence.

Arasaka Corporation often uses secrets in intelligence to threaten others and force them to work for it.

Among these people, there are many mercenaries who have leaked secrets.

Compared with those mercenaries who are willing to work for Arasaka until death for their own dark secrets, Carl is different even as a mercenary.

Do mercenaries not pay attention to privacy? In fact, it is not the case, but they have not yet exposed the most core secrets.

Once they reveal the real secrets, then under the scrutiny of senior personnel, all their reasons for doing things and the purpose of their actions are within the expectations of senior personnel.

In the memory of Arasaka Nobuyuki, there was an example of the result of the exposure of the most core secrets of mercenaries.

The legendary lone wolf Satan had always been an enemy of Arasaka, and Arasaka did not understand why this mercenary was always attacking their business.

After in-depth digging, the core secret of Satan was placed on the table of the company's top management-a female relative of Satan had been violated by someone in the Arasaka family. In order to retaliate, Satan regarded the destruction of everything in Arasaka as his most important goal.

After knowing this, Arasaka often used this to attract Satan and almost killed this legendary mercenary several times, but failed repeatedly because the other party received the assistance of military technology.

Military technology obtained this information, and because of Satan's secret, it also controlled Satan. They used Satan, who had hatred, to attack Arasaka and continued to profit from the activities of this legend.

After the secret of this legendary mercenary was exposed, he became a prop for the two companies to wrestle with each other, which is the importance of secrets.

'Shackles. ’

Arasakase Nobuyuki thought of a sentence that Saburo Arasaka, the father he hated and despised, often said.

‘Everyone has shackles that bind them, and secrets are very suitable to be such shackles. ’

The reason why Carl does not value secrets is that there is no secret shackle that cannot be told to him, or does he have a real secret that has not been known to others?

A mercenary, even the battles and cyborgs he showed are not secrets, so what secrets does he have?

Some hidden family members, or underground lovers, or origins?

Arasakase Nobuyuki thought, but suddenly realized that his thoughts had gone in the direction of exploring Carl's secrets and controlling him, and that was exactly what Saburo Arasaka, who he hated the most and absolutely did not want to become, was used to.

Arasakase Nobuyuki was sure that at the moment he was thinking, he had the idea of ​​using secrets to control Carl and make him work for him.

‘You have been in the company for too long. ’

Carl's previous words lingered in Arasakase Nobuyuki's mind.

The passion in Arasakase Nobuo's heart never faded, and his will became more and more firm after years of polishing, but his actions and thoughts gradually deviated from the past and leaned towards the company in the company affairs over the years.

When did it start?

Was it when he realized that he couldn't overthrow the company from the bottom, and he couldn't solve the company by cooperating with the people above, and he could only go back to the company and destroy the company from above?

Was it when he thought that he could only control the company himself, and then perish with all the companies to overthrow them?

Only a company can defeat a company. When did this impression sink into my mind? Did I start using Saburo's methods just because of this idea?

Arasaka Nobuyuki looked at Carl. He thought of the Iron Lotus he and others had formed, and the Iron Dragon he founded. These two were organizations he and his like-minded partners had formed to overthrow the company.

Like-minded.

Not coercion or inducement, not forced, but comrades who came together to resist out of the same will, the same ideas, and the same desire to change the world.

Like-minded, comrades.

My ambition has never changed.

And my will has never changed.

I am not Saburo Arasaka, and I will never become Saburo Arasaka.

If I really need this young man and Carl's help, then what I have to do is definitely not coercion or inducement, nor can it be to explore his secrets.

What I need to do is to believe in him.

Believe in this young man who still has goodwill towards the world and others, and the sunshine that pierces the darkness.

"By the way, Mr. Nobuaki, what do you want to eat for lunch? It's almost lunch time, so we should eat something."

Carl's voice interrupted Nobuaki Arasaka's thoughts.

"Let's have something that office dogs like me usually eat."

Nobuaki Arasaka's words were calm and steady.

"Then we'll make street food for you. Is noodles okay?"

Nobuaki Arasaka is an office dog?

Aren't they just street people?

Street people are happy to eat a mouthful of noodles.