Chapter 79 Kang Tao’s doubts

Video footage of the battle is not hard to come by.

As long as companies are willing to invest resources, their cyber hackers will persevere in cyberspace to dig out information from surveillance probes that should have been damaged.

As long as the data exists, there is a possibility of recovery - that's what corporate cyber hackers do most of the time.

Either to recover the clues on the current network, or to try to recover the data from the old network era.

Lille had known that such a day would come, but he was also prepared to answer.

He directly took out the Yinglong: "You said this? It's really useful."

"That shipment was lost in Atlanta."

Lille spread his hands: "I don't care about this. If you want to buy it back, you can, but the rules of the street are that if you buy something on the black market, you don't talk about its origin."

"Which black market did you get it from?"

"No comment."

The people in the car frowned. They just said they would cooperate, and now they are here?

Lear immediately said: "But considering our good cooperative relationship, I can tell you some clues - Dog Town."

"The conditions have changed. Take out the gun. I want the data inside, otherwise there will be no discussion."

"Okay - don't even think about tampering with it, otherwise you will suffer."

Lear handed the gun over generously.

He was not afraid at all.

All data in the gun was deleted and scrambled using interdimensional data channels.

You can try to recover the data, but when part of the data being used is calculated and processed in another world, you won't be able to find it even if you try hard to find it.

As a result, their hackers will be left scratching their heads like crazy. No matter how they restore it, the data will be distorted.

Lille's calmness was not what this person expected, but it was a possible situation——

Maybe Leal really got the gun from the black market in Dog Town.

This is a big problem - but everything will have to wait until they go back and study it before they can make a decision.

The bodyguard put the gun into the car, and then returned the gun to Lille. The four people on Lille's side were honest during the whole process.

V, the only one who knew the inside story, completely believed in Lille and did not feel any sense of urgency. Jack and Chesson were completely unaware of what was going on in Atlanta.

No problem - really no problem found at all.

"Okay, that's it, right Chess? I'll send you the location of the pickup point tomorrow."

After saying that, the bodyguards next to the car opened the doors and got in the car at the same time like robots, and the car sped away.

But in the car, the person who had been doing the talking immediately made a call.

The phone contacted the cyber hackers in the cooling pool of Kangtao Company - they were restoring the trio's activity route in cyberspace.

But the result is.

"There seem to be some issues with the data we restored. But the earliest the name Dennis Burger King can be traced back to was when Arasaka Academy began to be active again.

I took the adult education, technical specialist and prosthetist A-level license courses. "

"Double A-level?"

"Double A-level, other information is still being restored, but"

But it's quite difficult, they don't dare to say this.

Not only is it difficult, it is simply hellish.

Kangtao, a company that started out as an AI company, encountered insurmountable obstacles in using similar technology to restore data!

"So you didn't find anything - the anomaly only appeared in them?"

“Not only that, we also observed similar problems in multiple nodes in Santo Domingo, and maybe other places in Night City also have this problem.

This must be new technology - that hacker is very powerful, and he seems to be still deep diving. "

In other words, nothing was gained.

The person in the car had a headache, but he didn't make any physical movements and immediately made another call.

"Sir, there is no conclusive evidence linking these three people to what happened in Atlanta."

"anything else?"

"The skinny boy who took the lead used a Yinglong. Atlanta has this style of gun in its inventory. He claimed to have bought it from Dog Town."

"What about credibility?"

“I think that kid is kind of smart, but not like the guy from Atlanta.

I originally thought he would take advantage of the situation and find us as a middleman, but he did not ask for that. Instead, he wanted a smart ammunition production line.

And he didn't do it himself, he hired an arms dealer.

I agreed to this condition. We can deepen our cooperation with the arms dealer. However, in this way, he himself will benefit the least and will always be a mercenary.

If it were the guy from Atlanta, he would probably be the middleman himself and take all the benefits. "

Relationships are what matters.

Even though it was Lille who negotiated the deal now, in another year or two, the benefits Chessen would get would be from Kangtao.

If there is a conflict of interest, it is unlikely that Chesson will side with Lille.

It's not like something a smart person would do - if the Atlanta deal wasn't made by military technology, it must have been done by an extremely shrewd person.

That person brought military technology into the water. So far, military technology has not revealed any news, and it seems like he has suffered a dumb loss;

He also recruited a team of hacker experts from nowhere to display military technology, and all the benefits were taken by him.

This was Atlanta—how many connections did it take to do that? How much information do you need to know about this whole thing to achieve this effect?

But this is all based on the assumption that it was a team of hackers who attacked military technology, not one person.

"Dog Town. Things are in trouble. I will give you the resources to continue investigating. If you feel that the suspicion of Burger King cannot be eliminated, continue to pay attention to him.

Nothing went wrong with Sean Westan, right? "

"We've got everything. James's data is a little distorted, but the Qiandai 5's data is better than the theoretical value given by our engineers."

"Finally there is good news. At least the R\u0026D department can make progress."

"Get rich, get rich."

In the car, Chessen instantly turned into a money man.

The three people in the car all showed disgusted expressions.

Chesson just thought that these three people didn't understand - but after thinking about it, he felt that Lille should understand.

Lille just said with a lack of interest: "Remember to pay the dividends to your brothers on time. If I die one day, you don't have to transfer the money to me. You have to remember this for as long as we live."

"That's necessary - but why are you acting like this? That's Kang Tao!"

Kangtao, a top company from the East, is one of the top giants in Night City. Its fields include robots, small weapons, implanted prosthetics, etc. in almost every aspect of society.

In fact, this company started out as an AI company.

As early as the old network era, Kangtao's CEO saw the opportunity and became the most advanced AI supplier in the old network era.

Speaking of which, Kangtao started out at XMSC in the Marvel world, and the two companies are quite similar.

As a unique giant company in Asia, the CEO of Kangtao in the early 21st century withstood the influence of Arasaka’s crazy expansion.

At the same time, Asian companies were either defeated and acquired by Arasaka, or they were squeezed into other irrelevant fields by Arasaka, or they became their downstream workers.

Until 2023, Arasaka was defeated by military technology in the fourth corporate war, and Kangtao CEO's vision was verified - Arasaka would lose.

Unfortunately, Kontao's chance to replace Arasaka was ruined by a hacker named Bartmos.

In 2022, Bartmos caused an Internet data collapse. The data he released was absorbed by Kangtao's AI on the Internet and by all AI active on the Internet, causing bad mutations in the AI.

The rebellious AI began to attack its creator crazily. Among them, Kang Tao, who had bet on this for a long time, was naturally unlucky -

Strictly speaking, forcing Butmosus to death had nothing to do with Kontao, it was all Arasaka's doing.

But this data collapse directly caused Kangtao's stock price to fall to the bottom, and the CEO could not bear the pressure and committed suicide.

Then there was silence.

It was not until 2046 that a former army colonel named Xu took over Kangtao, moved the company headquarters, and completed the asset reorganization with the support of the government.

Not only that, the former colonel also used some methods to dig out the research results of Kangtao in the old network era, and released the A-22B super smart pistol in 2050.

This pistol ended Kang Tao's wasted years and broke Arasaka's monopoly in the field of smart weapons.

Although there are rumors that the smart aiming system of the Super pistol comes entirely from the old-era drawings of the Arasaka smart pistol "Yukimura", the cheap and sturdy features still allow the Super to occupy a place among low-end smart pistols.

After all, people who buy guns don’t care whether they plagiarize or not, and Kang Tao, who is backed by a giant, doesn’t care if someone accuses him of plagiarism.

After receiving market feedback, the next step was to upgrade the product - in 2058, Kangtao released the G-58 classic submachine gun.

In appearance, this gun still has the shadow of Arasaka's "Shingen" smart submachine gun, but again, it is cheap and sturdy, and its ergonomic design is more reasonable and advanced.

The classic submachine gun even edged out other competitors and became a specialized firearm for trauma teams.

Finally, when Arasaka was defeated steadily and comforted himself by saying that he could focus on the high-end field of smart weapons, Kangtao ended its history of relying on reverse engineering for research and development.

In 2069, they released their high-end smart weapon: the L69 Zhuo smart shotgun, which was also the first smart shotgun on the market.

How useful is this gun? Even Arasaka's royal killer, Adam Hammer, chose Kang Tao's Zhuo style. The Eight-Star Gun was the killing weapon tailor-made for him in Kang Tao's contract.

Of course, now Lille also has it, not just one, but four.

And until today, in 2076, Arasaka still has not produced a product corresponding to Zhuo Shi.

Kang Tao, who made a comeback by going against the grain, completely defeated the Asian big brother Arasaka in the field of small arms, and together with Arasaka and Tsunami Military Industry, they are known as the three major small arms companies.

So you can imagine how happy Chesson was when he was sure that he had really hugged the thigh of this giant creature - even if it was just leg hair.

Moreover, Kangtao also has a characteristic that is not good for other companies, but is very popular in the lower reaches of the industry chain like Chessen.

That is that Kangtao likes to "borrow" other companies' products and then launch products with better designs and cheaper prices. The borrowed products cannot compete with counterfeit products.

In this way, the large market for Kangtao standards will become broader, allowing suppliers in all aspects of the industry chain to obtain a more stable business environment.

At this moment, Chesson is already imagining that one day Kang Tao will be able to defeat all his opponents.

In this case, even if he just makes some bullets, he will have nothing to worry about for the rest of his life!

Looking at Chesson going crazy in the back seat of the car, Lear sighed.

A few days ago it was Jack, now it's Chesson.

Can you calm down a little?

Looking at Chesson dancing, Lille put one hand on the car window and said with a straight face: "This way we can be considered friends - I hope you can always sit in our back seat as normally as you do today. superior."

The seemingly casual words contained a reminder from Lille to Chessen.

"Don't worry - brother, we are just from the streets, otherwise we wouldn't be laid off.

What does that old Eastern saying say? When you go out, rely on your friends."

Lille did not answer, but said in his heart:

Hope you remember it.

Perhaps he was too happy, and the Indian entertainment blood in Chessen's bones suddenly aroused. He approached Lear and asked this sentence:

"By the way, I heard that people in the East know martial arts, do you know it?"

Lear rolled his eyes at this guy, and Jack and V also showed concern for the mentally retarded:

moron.

"I heard that cow urine is provided for free when I work in an Indian company. Does it taste good?"

Chesson stopped talking.

Now it was the turn of the three Lille people to be suspicious:

You won’t really drink it, right?