"I haven't seen you on a mission for a long time recently?" But what Santiago thought was wrong was that Rogge was very familiar with the bartender Xie Yuan. "If we delay it for a while, Night City may not remember it.
is you."
"Roger~I..."
"Call me Rachel, this is what you promised. I found you," Rogge came over and looked at Xie Yuan with a deep gaze, "The real you."
"Rachel, you almost died because of this." Xie Yuan was still frightened when he thought of this. Rogge was so crazy at the time that when Xie Yuan transformed into "V" and prepared to rescue her, a flaw was revealed.
"But I got what I wanted, didn't I?" Rogge's eyes were full of tenderness, "I do great things at the expense of my own life. The most important thing is that you gave me a chance and I took it. That's enough.
Got it!"
"You!" Xie Yuan also couldn't help but patted Rogge's hand. A man in his thirties was helpless when a little girl took over.
Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, Rogge was still flirting with the bartender and was unavailable.
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That happened in 2009. After the Arasaka Group acquired paramilitary power, Xie Yuan proposed a new plan at the city council, which was also Xie Yuan's last proactive plan: the Sky Eye Plan.
Xie Yuanshi designed other plans: the city's ultra-low-price nutritional gel plan - to solve the problem of basic food and clothing; the expansion of public schools - to allow underage children to receive adequate education; the expansion of public hospitals and district hospitals in each district - to solve the problem of medical treatment
Issues include improving public health's epidemic prevention capabilities; the annual police and fire protection budgets must not be less than 95% of last year, and of course the increase must not be higher than 15% - to ensure urban public safety to the greatest extent.
For other things, Xie Yuan did not put forward any proposals at the Municipal Council, nor did he really want to make any proposals. After the last Sky Eye Plan, Xie Yuan did not want to interfere with the Municipal Council on the governance of Night City.
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After all, after a super city is formed, it will gradually evolve into a dystopian world of high technology and low life under the influence of cyberpunk... By then, with the solidification of classes, it will never be possible to successfully transform from top to bottom.
Only a revolution from bottom to top - after the contradictions have accumulated to an extreme point and burst out with the power to break all the shackles of the old world - can we welcome the arrival of a new world. Xie Yuan has already begun to set his sights on the future.
But it was this Sky Eye plan that almost caused Xie Yuan's "stand-in" to be killed.
In fact, Xie Yuan also knew that the Sky Eye Project was not in line with the "freedom" spirit advocated in Western culture, but it provided a relatively safe social environment for the public.
Having stayed in the chaotic streets of Night City for a long time, Xie Yuan also knows that those in the middle-level companies and gang members are really at risk, because in this society, there are unlimited backups in any position, and anyone can be replaced.
But ordinary residents are often the victims of these conflicts, so the one or two years during the gang war were also ordinary people who suffered unspeakably.
They receive the least social income, and they bear the most mental pressure: security pressure and survival pressure make them tightly suppressed, and they dare not express their anger.
The pressure of survival can be shared through entertainment. The recent emergence of a super dream, or a new way of entertainment can make them forget this, and the ultra-low-price nutritional gel program and the large-scale expansion of public hospitals, public colleges and technical schools
Establishment can relieve their survival and worries about the future.
As long as they have enough clothes, enough food, their bellies are full, and their spiritual desires are satisfied, they can work hard to temporarily accept the existing distribution system, and the goal of stabilizing society will be achieved.
Now there is only one requirement left that needs to be temporarily solved - security.
Night City has been left with a big problem of gangs since its establishment. Because Knight gradually established Colorado City by collecting a large amount of black gold investment from gangs, so once the returns did not meet expectations... he was kicked back and killed.
What a fart.
Knight is dead, but the gang has been growing and growing, and the Thug Gang has become a presence that almost dominates Night City. Fortunately, they have been allowed to grow by being indulged by major corporations, but they have nothing to do with themselves.
Behind the scenes, Xie Yuan secretly wiped out the gang overnight.
But the thugs fell and the gang war was forced to stop, but it does not mean that the gang's soil has been eradicated - this is inseparable from social culture and racial relations, but the biggest backer lies in the promotion of giant companies.
Many gangs are the mouthpieces and black gloves of some giant corporations. They can be suppressed but cannot be completely eliminated, because they represent the face of giant corporations... A slap on the butt of these gangs is a slap on the face of giant corporations.
Therefore, Xie Yuan has only one way to make the masses feel safe - to have all criminal behaviors recorded by cameras. Although there will definitely be privacy exposure, it will gradually increase the cost of crime and reduce crime incidents.
At the same time, it can also slightly increase the crime detection rate and make the police have a better reputation. As long as the safety of middle-level company employees and ordinary people can be guaranteed...or make them think that they are "protected", it will be a big victory.
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Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish, there is no rush, and Xie Yuan does not have the heart to clarify Yuyu, Haiyan and Heqing, but his conscience and position also force him to do something for Night City... The Sky Eye Plan is what he is preparing for
It's the last thing you can do if you don't care about Night City's life or death.
However, the resistance to this matter also made Xie Yuan a little scared - Xie Yuan is not a fool. In order to smoothly implement this bill, he has done a lot of negotiation and profit sharing with large companies such as Knight Company, ebm, Arasaka, and Military Technology.
Not only did the tree show affection and reason, but it also made settlements on many things, giving up many invisible rights in Night City in exchange to reach a consensus.
These powers are things that these giant companies want but cannot obtain in a short period of time. They are a super cornucopia that can attract crazy money. However, Xie Yuan gave them up at his word, and he was bold and at the same time astonishing.
However, when the bill was actually proposed, the backlash caused was enough to make people feel alarmed. Xie Yuan's brother Johnny was the first to loudly refute the Sky Eye Project bill at his own concert, and he promoted the objection every time.
The Sky Eye Project has rapidly become a hot topic in public opinion.
In this case, the mainstream media controlled by the giant companies have already been warned, so their comments are lukewarm and vague - Xie Yuan's Sky Eye Project actually benefits the giant companies in the end, so
They didn't exactly turn the stumbling block against it.
However, public opinion was still aroused, and a large number of people petitioned to oppose this plan, and even organized many demonstrations to oppose this matter... It is as if without surveillance, life would be much freer.
But the biggest opponents are a group of gangs that have gradually encroached on the service industry with the investment of giant companies and have slowly developed over the past few years.
The Brady Bunch, a family gang, the Red Chrome Legion, a fighting gang, the Metal Warriors, the carnival gang, the Piranhas, and the cult gangs The Inquisitors and The Liquidators all gathered together in secret to figure out how to completely disrupt this, which seemed to be detrimental to them.
plan of.
They decided to repeat the same trick they had used against Knight that year - assassinate John Ironface, the original architect and supporter of the Eye of the Sky project.
But it is unrealistic to implement this plan without being able to kill him with a single shot from a distance like Knight. John Ironface is notoriously cowardly and rarely appears in the public eye openly, and he never even goes to the balcony.
, don’t go on stage to give a speech.
To kill him, we must attack by force, and there is only one chance - next Monday, Xie Yuan needs to go to the city council to face the council members to state the necessity of this "Sky Eye Project", and he must appear in person.
If it passes, and given his prestige in the city council, it will definitely pass, then only a referendum will remain.
But the referendum is even more futile! Because Xie Yuan has paved the way for this plan before, and there are even rumors that John Ironface will stop serving as a consultant to the municipal government council and transfer it to other aspirants.
In other words, this was the last exchange request made by the president of Metal Gear Company, who had played a great role in pacifying the mob gang, before he gave up control of the Congress.
The big companies wouldn't risk John's displeasure by staying on as a consultant rather than supporting a plan that clearly benefited them—and they had the tools to get the public to agree to it.
So we could only attack John Ironface on his way to the city council that day. Success or failure depended on this!
However, the selection of candidates for the raid is a problem. First of all, you cannot arrange any members of the gang. Although the big company behind it is happy to see one of the players who shared the spoils withdraw, it will not tolerate it if it fails.
Mercenaries have to be recruited, and they can only tell who the real target is at the last moment.
But the selection is an issue worthy of discussion. You must not choose senior mercenaries...Old mercenaries will think about it, but new mercenaries who are eager to become famous will subconsciously skip this idea.
But if you only select new mercenaries, then why bother to consider doing this task? Escort John? Iron Mask's security specifications are equivalent to the presidential category, and there are even three Iron Mask stand-ins on three vehicles.
They need a Dingding character, the ability to kill with one strike, and even enough intelligence information.
The information was easy to obtain. It seemed that an employee of Metal Gear secretly sold a piece of information to Arasaka. Unfortunately, Arasaka lost this information in a gang bar and was obtained by gang members.
This is an intel on John Ironface's actual seat.
But the choice of assaulter...killing John in today's Night City? Iron Mask may even have as far-reaching impact as assassinating Caesar in Rome.
nte, also known as "v", handled the task, causing an uproar.
However, the person who made the suggestion was also very reasonable: nte was once hired by Metal Gear Company to assassinate everyone in the mob gang, but for the next eight years, he and Metal Gear basically had a parallel relationship, and there was no further contact.
Moreover, V also accepts difficult tasks from other companies and gangs, but the fees are very high, but he has a success rate that has never failed so far, and those who dare to place an order with him are basically willing to pay the money.
More importantly, every task will be kept confidential from the moment it is handed over to him, and there will be no worries about leaks... This can be regarded as a strong sign of his work over the past eight years.
Isn’t it just 1 million euros? As long as this John Ironface is brought down, new chaos will come soon, and the capital can be earned from anywhere!
As a result, River Lindsay (Xie Yuan himself) received the most outrageous but most remunerative employment contract since his debut as a mercenary: 1 million euros to assassinate the president of Metal Gear Company - John Ironface (Xie Yuan's combat stand-in)