Chapter 101 Airport

Even though they were hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, Lucius still had a smile on his face and talked to Leon in a friendly tone.

There was no way, because LA's influence in Night City was growing, and it was even on the verge of surpassing Arasaka, and had the opportunity to become the largest company in Night City!

And Lucius, the mayor, was a political figure to put it nicely, and a senior worker serving the executives of giant companies to put it bluntly.

Even though he was in the position of mayor, Lucius was still constrained by a lot. He had to be friendly every day and try to curry favor with top company dignitaries like Leon as much as possible.

"Mr. Mayor, I'm not calling you to talk about landmark buildings."

In fact, Leon didn't care about LA's landmark buildings at all. They were just decorations that looked good but were useless, just to make the company look good in Night City.

But the appearance is not created by decoration, but by hard power. If the company is unpopular and has no strength, it will be like Arasaka Tower, which was first blown up by military technology and then by Johnny Silverhand.

The current Arasaka Tower has been repaired, but it may be blown up again one day.

If Arasaka Company has space-based weapons on the moon and directly throws meteorites when it doesn't like military technology, there will be no military technology to nuke Arasaka Tower.

In the final analysis, strength is the only appearance of the company!

"So what do you want to talk to me about this time?"

After dealing with LA Company for such a long time, Lucius is really a little afraid of the unpredictable Leon, because he rarely guesses the other party's mind directly.

This is quite disadvantageous in the process of business negotiations and interest exchange.

For a moment, Lucius secretly wondered in his heart whether Leon wanted to ask him for a few pieces of land to build a factory again.

After all, LA Company has just reached an arms order with New America, and is in need of producing military weapons and the like.

"Before answering your question, why don't you guess where I am?" Leon smiled and deliberately kept Lucius in suspense.

"I heard that you took your company employees to the Crystal Palace on a Hermes Airlines plane. Tsk, Mr. Leon, I really envy you every day!"

Lucius touched his slightly swollen face, not envying the mandarin ducks or the immortals, but only envying the chaebols every day.

These rich people are nothing like him, the miserable mayor, who sits in the office every day with a worried face for work, busy all year round, and even goes to the Crystal Palace to spend money once.

"Yes, I'm on the Hermes now, so I'm calling you for the aviation matter."

Leon's words always touch Lucius's completely unexpected place. He thought the other party came for the arms order, but he didn't expect that this time it was for the aviation!

"Mr. Leon... Are you planning to build an aircraft manufacturing plant at LA?"

Since seeing the Ronin Titan of LA, Lucius was not surprised by any black technology Leon brought out. How difficult is it for him to build an aircraft?

What's more, there are more than just LA companies that want to build aircraft and deploy outer space. Arasaka, Su Petrochemical, and even Biotechnology all have their own exclusive technology bonus points in aviation.

But facing these potential competitors, ESA's Orbital Airlines said that they are all garbage!

There is no way, who lets Orbital Airlines almost control the whole of Africa, and the best rocket launch site in the world is in Africa.

Because a large part of Africa happens to be on the equator, when the rocket on the ground or the synchronous orbit satellite takes off, it can use the rotation of the earth to obtain a certain acceleration and save fuel.

In other words, every time Orbital Airlines launches an aircraft, it saves millions of euros in resource consumption compared to other companies!

As one rises and the other falls, Orbital Airlines firmly occupies the absolute dominant position in the layout of outer space.

"You are close to the answer. I plan to take over the unfinished airport and build an LA company's aviation base there."

Leon stopped beating around the bush with Lucius and directly explained the purpose of his trip. This was his next strategic idea, to get involved in outer space!

"You want to restart the airport?!"

Lucius' voice was full of astonishment and surprise. The airport is also one of the large unfinished buildings in Night City. This land was originally developed by Orbital Aviation and Ye's Company.

Originally, Orbital Aviation planned to use the influence of the airport to make the company's business card enter Night City, just like LA Company became a giant company in Night City with kinetic energy and technical weapons.

Ye's Company also hopes to use the cooperation with Orbital Aviation to extend the company's tentacles into the deep outer space, so as not to be left behind by giant companies such as Arasaka and Military Technology.

As a result, the development of things far exceeded the expectations of both companies!

When the airport was halfway through construction, the executives of Ye's Company suddenly put the strategic focus on AI artificial intelligence and the construction of the Night City subway.

As for the unfinished airport, it has been left to rot. Now, the unfinished airport has attracted a lot of vagrants and gangs.

Orbital Airlines, which was stabbed in the back, certainly couldn't just pay for the construction of the airport, while Ye's Company would get half of the airport's resources for free without doing anything.

After many days of fruitless negotiations between the two companies, Orbital Airlines put all the rights and interests of the airport up for sale at a low price, but Ye's Company remained indifferent to this.

Obviously, Ye's company's strategy for the layout of outer space is to just mess it up. They would rather offend the European Space Agency and anger Orbital Airlines than move a penny to build the airport.

And this is just the perfect opportunity for Li Ang to pick up a bargain!

"Yes, I have already negotiated with Orbital Airlines. They are willing to sell all the rights and interests of the airport to LA Company. Seeing that I am a shareholder of the trauma team, they even gave me a 20% discount."

When mentioning this, Li Ang couldn't help but chuckle. These European white masters were really scared by Ye's Company. The bigger the pie was, the more frustrated they are now.

If they had known that Night City was full of unfinished buildings, they might as well have invested the funds for building the airport into building a rocket launch site in other equatorial regions.

"Mr. Li Ang, I must remind you that it takes a lot of money to restart the airport, and do you know why Ye's company would rather leave it unfinished than to deal with Orbital Airlines?"

As the head of Night City Hall, Mayor Lucius actually knows more about the inside information between companies than many company executives!