"First of all, you must stop the research and development of brain memory tampering technology and promise never to use this technology in the future." Lin Mo spoke calmly and stared directly at Knight:
"The most precious thing that human beings can have is the unpredictable and unique free will. Only this can give birth to characters such as V, Silverhand and David in today's world. It may be
Blinded by numbness, but as long as people can still awaken, then it is a precious thing."
"I will not pursue the research and test subjects you did in the past, but from now on, I will not allow you to continue to use or improve this technology!"
"No problem." Nate nodded and agreed almost immediately.
Lin Mo nodded and continued:
"Secondly, you must keep your promise and build Night City into an ideal city; thirdly, always respect human free will; fourthly, guard the foundation of Night City and don't think about expanding outwards...
"
"I can agree to all your conditions." Knight smiled: "But if I violate any of them, how will you react?"
"I will come back to settle the score with you in person." Lin Mo said.
Knight's eyes narrowed and he said with slight emotion: "Are you really going to leave this city?"
"It depends on the situation. If everyone is very capable and doesn't need my help, then I can retire peacefully..." Lin Mo said vaguely and perfunctorily.
"They are trustworthy." Knight acknowledged: "From now on, in the history of this city, all of your names will inevitably be mentioned."
"Forget it, I have no interest in leaving a name in history. Rather than this, you should be more concerned about how Night City will deal with itself internationally in the future." Lin Mo reminded.
Despite such a big trick, only Ye's Company and a few companies in the Kangtao family were not attacked by "thugs". Those large international companies that were regarded as "taken advantage of" and extorted gold coins would never give up easily.
Lin Mo wanted to know what method Knight had to deal with the revenge of these big companies.
Knight smiled and said confidently:
"This problem is actually not difficult to solve. Now that Night City lacks everything, and there are many Chinese companies headed by Kang Tao as allies, in the future when Li De takes office as the new president of the United States, we can still get support from the White House.
Support, in this case, there is no need to worry about the sanctions of those big companies."
"Even if those big international companies want to completely break up, we can still go to Xinmei and declare to the outside world that Night City is part of Xinmei and an independent city that the Xinmei government cannot interfere with. In this way, Night City will be in name only
It is the land of Xinmei, and it is protected by Xinmei, but it can still maintain its independence..."
"Not a bad idea." Lin Mo nodded in approval.
If Knight's operation is followed, I'm afraid there really won't be anything wrong with it.
Today's New America is no longer the superpower it once was. Due to factors such as war, more than a dozen states have become independent long ago.
The "Unification War" that occurred seven or eight years ago was a war planned by the former president of the United States, Myers, in his delusion to restore the country's greatness.
Now that Myers has abdicated, as expected, Reed will be the next president.
If we take this opportunity to declare that Night City is part of New America, while maintaining independence, Li De can gain a lot of "political achievements" and satisfy his "patriotism", I am afraid it will not be too late for him to be happy.
Once this is done, even if those large companies want to settle their accounts later, they must risk a "foreign war."
"I can see that you are well prepared for this day." Lin Mo looked at Knight with a faint look.
"I still know the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace and taking precautions." Knight smiled warmly.
Lin Mo sighed, exhaling a mouthful of water vapor with his warm breath in the cold rainy night. He turned his head and looked at the square in the distance, realizing that the time was almost up.
On the square, Kerry's singing still echoed in the area. He had a prosthetic singing voice implanted. If he wanted to, he could even sing until daylight.
The tall building in the distance was hidden in the misty heavy rain and darkness, but the fire caused by the internal explosion was like a beacon in the darkness, gradually burning in the silvery night sky, and the sounds of violence and music were mixed together.
The passionate melody still echoed in the air, but Lin Mo knew very well that this melody would not last long.
When everything is over, this accompaniment should also end.
"I'll leave the rest of the finishing work to you. I'm going to go down and take a shower. It feels uncomfortable after being soaked in the rain for so long."
Although he didn't do anything, Lin Mo felt inexplicably tired for some reason.
In fact, with his current strength, as long as he is willing, he can choose a company building as a challenge like V.
It's just that he didn't do this. After all, he had done similar things before, and repeating it again would only cause more trouble.
He has already fought the battles that need to be fought, leaving the rest to those who are destined to become the sun and stars.
Besides, he was going to meet someone tonight.
Watching his retreating figure, Knight said nothing. It wasn't until Lin Mo disappeared on the rooftop that he moved his eyes back and turned to look at the square.
...
Returning to the Kangtao Company building, he took the elevator to Xu Wanxue's office floor. Lin Mo went straight to the room prepared for him.
The hostesses and service staff I met on the road saw him coming and saluted him one after another.
As the waiters next to the chief technology officer, their daily work is the same as that of waiters in a hotel. They have always been working on this floor, so they naturally know that the boy in front of them has a high status.
Lin Mo nodded and signaled one by one until he returned to the room.
After washing up, he leaned on the sofa in the room, turned his head and glanced sideways at a set of hacker base station equipment temporarily arranged in the corner.
"Before we meet, let's temporarily upgrade our trump card." Lin Mo muttered to himself and took out the Mewtwo simulator.
It was still early now, and according to his usual habits, he would predict tomorrow's experience later.
But now, he had to confirm whether there would be any accidents the next day.
After a while, all the simulation contents were listed.
The result was not what he expected. Nothing happened the next day. Basically, everyone was celebrating the joy of victory and welcoming the new year that had already arrived.
Some relatively trivial things.
"My journey in this world... seems to be coming to an end." Lin Mo couldn't help but smile softly as if he thought of something.
He shook his head, temporarily putting these thoughts behind him, and turned to open the long-lost properties page:
[The current character attributes are as follows: physical body 12, reaction 18, technology 5, intelligence 18, calmness 8]
A fairly balanced panel, except for the technical attributes that have never been touched, he almost has all five attributes.
In fact, after he defeated Adam's Hammer, he rarely wasted attribute points on attributes that improved combat power, so much so that even now, the [Reaction] attribute has not broken through to 20.
After all, he now rarely encounters situations where he can take action seriously. The further back he goes, the harder it will be to encounter enemies "worthy of fighting", and it will become more and more difficult to obtain attribute points.
It is better to maintain the current combat power and retain a certain amount of room for growth.
For this reason, he used to put all the attribute points he had saved into [Intelligence].
The remaining physical body and calmness attributes were just due to the increase in the number of big scenes he experienced. He naturally improved without wasting any extra attribute points.
Tonight, he completed the most grand event in history. For this, the simulator gave him 2 attribute points and 2 expertise points at once.
Without any worries, Lin Mo directly added 2 attribute points to [Intelligence], and then used the expertise points on the newly unlocked intelligence expertise.