With the expansion of Valentino, my little life has become more and more difficult. The NCPD has listed me as a dangerous person, but the arrest warrant has been delayed because I am still a mayoral candidate.
Newspapers should leave half their space for me, one quarter for scolding me, and one quarter for praising me.
No matter what, as an outstanding citizen of Night City and the future governor of a democratic city-state, I am now famous. Teacher Bian arranged a lecture tour for me, starting with Heywood.
Land is at a premium in Night City, and it was difficult to find an open place to give a speech. In the end, the first speech was scheduled to be held in Cannery Plaza in the Spring District west of Heywood. Behind me was the gray water of the Pacific Ocean, and in front of me was a crowd.
More than 30,000 people were standing on the streets, beside the railings, and on the overpasses.
In addition to the fellow folks of Heywood, there are also many citizens who came from all over Night City, including vagrants, peons, sex dolls, low-level company personnel, gangsters, Adecado tribe, all kinds of people.
, the reporters gathered around the newly erected podium, and the NCPD officers had to help maintain order even if they didn’t like me. Police cars surrounded me, and the leading police officer was named River, who was also an old friend.
I said hello to my old friends, not to mention Jack, Lao Wei, Judy, and Panan, but also introduced by Rong Hou, a member of the original martial arts band, as well as the mercenaries from the Afterlife Nightclub. Today’s speech, Lu
Zong Ping and several of his employees also came, but they did not listen to the whole thing. Teacher Bian Ning took some of his students to organize the speech, and he drafted the speech for me. I read it several times, and then reviewed it myself
Added some words.
Before the speech started, we even arranged a warm-up band. Otherwise, our grass-roots team was not serious. When I came on stage, the cheerful audience was booing and telling me to get out after I finished speaking. They still wanted to listen to the song.
So I said, "Friends of Night City, my hometown of Heywood, is going to have a mayor today!"
The booing became even louder.
"Night City is a sinful city. People can see its sins, but they pretend not to know, or they only dare to mutter a few words like crazy after drinking. This city should not be like this, this is freedom
A disaster, a disaster for democracy. Poor children should not be left without study, and young girls should not be forced to sell their bodies.
, men should not be allowed to make a living by robbing. Responsible police officers are dying, and bribery police officers are eating their brains fat. Politicians travel on floating cars, and the city subway has not been officially operational after so many years of construction. I am riding a bicycle today.
I came here on motorcycle. After I take office, the first thing I have to do is clean up the city's subway.
"It's not just the subway. After I take office, listen up, NCPD, listen up to the city council and companies, I'm going to clean out all those bad apples, I'm going to shut down all the cannibal industries, I'm going to make the medical
Take it back from corporations, I'm going to take back education, take back public health and food, and I will do it, and I must do it, and I will do what I say.
"Heywood has been very lively these two days. If you look at WNS News and Channel 56, you will know what is going on. These bad media, they are here, standing here majestically, recording my speech, but they
We will never fully report the facts. No
Someone knows the media better than me! These journalists are like greedy killer whales, tearing the truth into pieces, eating it and turning it into shit. Except for those of you who are here, who heard me speak, and saw me in person,
My friends, all the rest is seeing is fake news - Fake
news!
"I am using guns and bullets, and the blood of young people to cleanse the cancer of Night City. Everyone has heard about it. The Sixth Street Gang, these old-fashioned ghosts, want MAGA. You can join me and make Night City great.
What is it? What kind of bullshit American spirit is it? Is it Free State and NUSA (New America)?
?Is it the dead man Lucius (former mayor)? Not at all. Let me tell you, it is you who make Night City great. My friends, you are the veterans who have shed blood in the corporate war, and you are the ones who built the city.
Workers are the hard workers who build urban industries, they are writers, scientists, and rock boys!
"Corporations and city councils only suck blood. They treat us as commodities, put our labor on the market and price it, and then they can exploit us with peace of mind. Let's say, screw it!"
More than 30,000 people screamed "Fuck you."
"The voice is too low, friends."
So they blushed and yelled "Fuck you!!"
"The gangsters are all evil, the Scavengers are a group of despicable organ dealers, the Vortex Gang are evil reformed lunatics, the Tiger Claw Gang are maggots that lie on the bodies of sex dolls and suck blood, the Voodoo Gang are magic gangsters from Haiti, and the Animal Gang are
A practicing bandit, although Valentino looks cleaner on the surface, he is secretly a slut.
Of course, the Mox Gang are poor girls, but their ability to cause trouble is not small at all. The night in Night City does not belong to the people of Night City, this situation should be changed, and this is
I'm telling you, bosses, be prepared, because maybe you won't be able to see the sun tomorrow..."
A bullet hit me in the forehead.
But the bullet shattered on my forehead. Like a flower blooming, the broken metal shrapnel fell on the podium in front of me.
The crowd exclaimed. I held up the shrapnel.
It’s okay for them to attack me personally, but it’s not okay for these criminals to harm my constituents!
"You want to kill me! Then come on! Go crazy! Because I will defeat you! I will shoot you! That's it for today's rally. Friends, please stay calm. The kind and loyal Officer River and his
Reliable teammates will protect you, please spread out! I will go to Coronado Farm for my next speech, and I hope to see your kind faces there! Goodbye, bye, friends!"
After I finished saying this, Mr. Wolf's voice came from the earphones, "Sorry for letting them interrupt your speech."
"Is it solved?"
"yes."
"Sorry for your trouble."
I came down to talk to my friends. Teacher Bian Ning frowned angrily, and Lu Zongping comforted him, "It's not your fault."
"Any idea who did it?"
Teacher Bian explained, "One of the personnel responsible for defense had his nervous system modified by Blue Eyes. The one who attacks you is one of our own."
"Is this a case of jumping over the wall?"
Lu Zongping analyzed pointedly, "Maybe it's just a simple test. The key is to interrupt your speech. The power of words cannot be underestimated."
Jack came over and put his arm around my shoulders, "Holy crap! It's so cool V! The way you talk makes people's blood boil. Seriously, you are a born big shot! Damn it, I told you that you will make it! Look at it
These citizens, they are itching to hear what you said!"
Lao Wei also came over, "I can already guess tomorrow's headline, Immortal V, the defender of democracy who opened fire on the company."
I was so embarrassed by the praise, "Oh, come on, Lao Wei, what kind words can come out of their dog mouths? Let me say, tomorrow's headline should read like this: Audacious madman, the night of Night City falls
!Terrorist street kids ready to destroy the foundations of freedom!"
