Chapter 41 Arasaka Academy Station is here

The next stop is Arasaka Academy.

According to the annual report provided by the magazine "Night City Insight", Arasaka Academy ranked first among Night City educational institutions for the fourth consecutive time.

The magazine’s education experts believe that Arasaka Academy’s infrastructure education is unparalleled in Night City, and this is recognized from any angle.

"Nonsense, other public schools may encounter school shootings in a few days."

V complained mercilessly.

Yes, Night City is a free big city. Adults have the freedom to shoot large and small guns anywhere on the street, and minors also have the freedom. Moreover, there is an extra battlefield map, which is the campus.

The only reason why this matter has not been brought up separately is that in the night, minors have the same rights as adults, so there is no difference in the calculation of shooting cases.

Leal is holding a journal review from an independent media. It is obvious that the author's attitude towards Arasaka Academy is critical.

The follow-up focused on issues such as the high dropout rate and depression incidence rate at Arasaka College.

Then the next article is an advertisement recommending a certain college sponsored by the military science and technology.

"This is not a compliment to Arasaka. The second half of the report is blaming the college for its high dropout rate and high levels of depression and even suicide.

Tsk tsk, to be honest, the Academic Affairs Office encourages comparison of grades, just learn some skills and be done with it. "

V didn’t quite understand Lille’s behavior: “I said, why don’t you go do more work with us when you have this time? What’s the use of spending money to get a graduation certificate?

Maybe there will be new clues? "

"Your cultural level is too low. It's difficult for me to explain to you."

"Haha, you have a high level of education and you don't even have an education record, so you have the nerve to say that."

"Two customers, you have arrived at the destination of this service: Arasaka Academy. The destination is on your right."

Following the driverless taxi Draman's prompt, the two of them had arrived at the gate of Arasaka Academy.

As an affiliated college of the most powerful company in Night City, its location is also quite good, with the Municipal Council next to it.

Education has become even more extreme in the world of 2077. For example, in intermediate schools like Arasaka Academy, parents who do not have high salaries from super companies have to incur lifelong debts to provide for their children to attend.

However, this is only the intermediate education stage. Higher-level diplomas, such as the law diploma of the famous Askaga-Berkeley University, have an education cost of at least 270W.

But is it worth it?

The answer is that in the eyes of the top management, this thing is very important, but in the eyes of the bottom level, it is better to go out and work early.

Askaga-Berkeley University's law department is full of talents, and they basically serve as politicians in major forces, and some of them serve as legal specialists and consultants in companies.

For example, the current candidates for mayor of Night City, the Peralez couple, came from the law department of this school and know how to make use of this kind of connections.

Those at the bottom cannot afford to study, nor can they join that circle, so naturally they cannot imagine the benefits of academic qualifications.

Most poor parents send their children to Arasaka Academy because they only imagine that just studying can change their destiny.

Of course, Lille couldn't afford that kind of diploma.

V, for one, is the type who doesn’t understand anything at all. She said to Lear: “Okay, you can go take the exam by yourself. Jack and I will go to the Wild Wolf Bar for a drink and call if you need anything.”

"I understand - do you really think of me as a weakling with no power to restrain a chicken?"

Leal pointed to his head - now he had installed a golem in the access cabin, and the prosthetic body was getting hot.

After getting a bargain from the Kabuki District, Lear planned to develop the golem himself. This was just an emergency.

"Don't be robbed by the gangsters again, crying and asking your sister V to find a place for you - let's go, Lao De, to the Wild Wolf Bar."

After watching V leave, Lear looked at the time, took another immunosuppressive pill, and walked into Arasaka Academy leisurely.

Continuing education is different from full-time education. It is prepared for young people who have dropped out of school, that is, adult education.

And legally, this continuing education college does not actually belong to Arasaka College. It is another investment by Arasaka in education. It happens to be near Arasaka College for easy publicity.

It mainly focuses on technical training, and the solution chosen by Lille is teaching + assessment. This kind of teaching does not include detailed real-life training or AI customized courses, which is relatively rough.

But the advantage is that it is cheap, and if Lille passes the post-education skills certification test, part of the tuition fee can be reduced——

Sounds amazing, right? The company will actually cough up the money?

But this test is not simple. It is a real social certification, such as Lao Wei’s Class A prosthetic doctor license.

In fact, there may not be even one out of 10,000 people who pass the test. It is also necessary for the company to reserve such talents.

Even if they don't use this part of talent, it is still necessary to attract and squeeze the talent pool of other competitors, so this is actually a strategic expenditure.

If you pass the test and are willing to obey the work assignments of the college, you can continue to have tuition exemptions.

However, continuing education also requires passing an entrance test - no company is interested in mentally retarded people.

The College of Continuing Education is next to the gate. It is very ordinary compared to the center of the college in the distance, and is separated from the interior of the college.

Passing through the tall buildings and approaching the college area, you can better appreciate the grandeur of the company buildings, and the large green spaces make people realize their uniqueness -

Yes, the buildings here are not high, but such extravagant usage must be in line with the surrounding companies.

This gives people the illusion that the company building and Arasaka Academy are like adults and children standing together.

When you look at this pair of adults and children, you always feel that the children will grow up to look like adults.

When adults and children stand together, no one cares about what the child is like.

Some children actually enjoy this feeling, like the little kid who walked out of Arasaka Academy at this moment, his nostrils are about to reach the sky.

Those who don’t know think they have already graduated and earn an annual salary of one million.

Lille looked at the children who didn't even have to look at him and thought: Heng Heng went to Arasaka to be a senior executive and that was employment, and going to Arasaka's factory to tighten screws was also employment.

Don't let me see you when I rob Arasaka - Leal thought again: Oh, in fact, it is best not to let yourself see it when you are an executive.

But he suddenly felt that when he was a good student in the past, people in society might have had the same expression.

How do students know which part of society they will be in the future?

On Arasaka Tower? Biotech farm? Or the prosthetic workers on the assembly line in the Orbital City?

But now - they enjoy the top education, they are the children enjoying the protection of the company.

"Mr. Dennis Burger King, please enter Examination Room 3 for the test."

The announcer called out Lille's pseudonym.

Soon Lille also felt the gap between ideal and reality.

[Some people claim that Si'an Westan is actually a kind of ancient magic that uses energy fields to form time distortion areas. Is this right or wrong? Please briefly explain the reasons and briefly describe the working principle of Siannwestein. 】

Who would believe this statement?

Lear was surprised in his heart: Indeed, the technologies in different worlds look incredible to each other.

However, the speed of light in Cyberpunk 2077 is still the upper limit, and time is not easily distorted.

Since he had such a thing on his spine, Lille naturally answered it smoothly.

The next ones should be more normal. Most of the simple ones are technical knowledge that can be found on the Internet, such as the two signal transmission mechanisms in the human body-electrical signals and biological signals.

The more difficult part is the theoretical model of bioelectric signals, the detailed explanation of the conversion mechanism of digital signals and biological signals, etc.

Lille is applying for A-level medical license and A-level technical expert assessment and training courses, so there are also design questions such as the chemical formula for the synthesis of alcohol 2 and the independent design of a usable alcohol 2 generator.

They are all relatively basic - if the person signing up for the course wants to pass these two types of A-level licenses.

Before coming here, Lille had supplemented this knowledge with Lao Wei'e. With prosthetics to assist his memory and his own understanding ability accumulated over two lifetimes, he could answer the questions without any pause.

However, as he finished answering all the technical assessment questions, the question maker paused.

Then he asked intriguing questions.

[Arasaka Corporation is the world’s top comprehensive company. Do you want to join Arasaka Corporation? 】

Lear's answer is "No, I have other plans for my life, but living in Night City, learning to deal with Arasaka is a must."

It sounds like a compliment, but it's actually true.

[Do you resist choosing Arasaka’s services? 】

Leal thought for a while and then filled in: "On the contrary, if Arasaka can provide the services I want, I will be happy to buy them, just like this educational product."

[Suppose you want to become a non-staff member of Arasaka Company, how would you plan your career and spend a good life? 】

"Non-staff staff"?

This should be a question similar to that used for psychological profiling. By asking the subject relevant questions, a psychological portrait of a certain aspect can be made.

First of all, what this word refers to is not clear.

The electrician who works hard every day to manage cables in Westbrook District also meets the requirements, as does the hacker who occasionally helps the company do dirty work in Taiping Prefecture, mercenaries, and killers.

Which one the subject chooses will naturally reveal his subconscious tendencies.

And the first thing he thought of was actually the middleman——

If so, the answer is: build a good relationship with Arasaka, open up the capital chain, use money and means to control the locals, and brutally suppress all competitors.

This was intended to be the only channel of communication between both the local and the upper classes.

Secondly, it is necessary to create a confrontational situation between the two. This is the basis for the existence of middlemen. Helping companies find people, helping locals be company dogs, and even licking NCPD all depend on the situation.

At the same time, keep your distance from Arasaka.

Revealing the risk of possible job-hopping when necessary makes Arasaka's management afraid to entrust tasks with high confidentiality requirements to itself.

In this way, it is not easy to face the cruel choice of death or being recruited, and you can hold your own life in your hands as much as possible.

Companies may change, and people at the bottom may die, but the only thing that remains unchanged is the barrier between the two classes.

He can handle sharp confrontations with ease, remain calm and independent, and not be implicated by any party, but at the same time earn the interests of both parties.

When it comes to enmity, he is like a cockroach that is hard to stomp to the company, but to the people at the bottom he is a big shot with hands and eyes as wide as the sky.

This is Night City’s fence-sitter—the middleman.

Thinking of this, Lille began to answer the questions:

"Only idiots can do this job."