Chapter 71 Arasaka Yorinobu!
Japan, Chiba Castle.
This abandoned city located behind the port of Tokyo Bay has a bunch of ecological buildings like huge cubes, and the domes covered with factories cover the city airtight.
Some ancient streets between the port and the city form a narrow, nameless area. This is Chiba City, known as the "Night City of the Far East"!
Renqing Street is the center of Chiba City.
In the most luxurious izakaya on Renqing Street, Yorinobu Arasaka and Xu Shiming, CEO of Kangtao Company, were sitting across from each other, chatting happily over drinks.
"Mr. Xu, it's really an honor for me, Arasaka Yorinobu, to have a good friend like you! Needless to say, I'll give you a toast!"
After finishing his words, Arasaka Yorinobu enthusiastically poured a glass of sake down his throat to show his inner gratitude.
"I'll leave the Steel Dragon Gang to you. Please be kind to my friends. Sooner or later, they will come in handy."
Since Arasaka Yorinobu, a filial son, declared against his father Saburo's company, he formed a Yakuza gang called the Steel Dragon in Tokyo to counter the atrocities of the Arasaka Company.
But unfortunately, under the clearing of Arasaka's security forces, members of the Steel Dragon Gang suffered heavy casualties, and as the leader of the Steel Dragon Gang, Arasaka Yorinobu had to bow to his father.
Just when Arasaka Yorinobu thought that his resistance to Arasaka Company was about to fail, Xu Shiming from Huaxia Kangtao Company found him.
This upright Chinese man with a Chinese character said he could accept the remaining members of the Steel Dragon Gang and provide them with the latest weapons, medicines, and prosthetic equipment.
"Don't worry, Mr. Lai Xuan, I will let them live in Kowloon Walled City first. You can take them away at any time if you want. You are still the boss of the Steel Dragon Gang."
Xu Shiming smiled slightly, looked at Arasaka Yorinobu intently and said.
He personally came to Chiba City to meet Arasaka Yorinobu, which was assigned by Li Ang. Otherwise, Xu Shiming would not be interested in chatting and drinking with a playboy.
"Mr. Lai Xuan, I think it's time for us to talk about business. My boss Li Ang wants to talk to you about cooperation."
As soon as Xu Shiming said these words, the drunken Arasaka Yorinobu suddenly woke up. He knew who Li Ang was!
The CEO of LA Company, the new major shareholder of Military Technology, a partner of the trauma team, and a new competitor that gives his father Saburo Arasaka a headache.
According to the words of Arasaka's senior personnel, LA Company's current threat to Arasaka is even greater than the military technology of the past few years!
"What? Is the boss of your Kangtao Company Mr. Li Ang!" Arasaka Yorinobu was very surprised. He didn't expect that Li Ang's hands would actually reach out to the Far East!
"Yes, including this meeting, Mr. Li Ang personally conducted it."
Xu Shiming looked at Arasaka Yorinobu, his expression as calm as before: "Mr. Yorinobu, only Li Ang can help you solve the dilemma you are facing now. You should talk to him."
Hearing this, Arasaka Yorinobu nodded thoughtfully. Since Li Ang is the most troublesome enemy of his father Saburo, he can indeed be put to good use.
‘It’s okay to listen to that guy first! ’
Thinking of this, Arasaka Yorinobu said that he could meet and talk with Li Ang.
Xu Shiming breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the other party was willing to talk to Li Ang, his trip would not be in vain.
Immediately, Xu Shiming put a synchronized behavior chip into his brain-computer slot.
After installing this chip, even Li Ang, who is far away in Night City, can control Xu Shiming's words and deeds through the chip.
This chip technology is somewhat similar to a "cyberbodies" that can remotely control other people to talk.
[Zi...connection successful! 】
As an electronic beep sounded, Xu Shiming's pupils turned blue, which meant that he had been controlled by Li Ang, and the next words and deeds were all done by Li Ang.
[Hello, Mr. Lai Xuan, I am Li Ang, the executive officer of LA Company. 】
When he saw "Xu Shiming" talking to him in another language style, Arasaka Yorinobu didn't find it strange at all. He had seen a lot of new things.
"Mr. Li Ang, it's rare that you have time to chat with a playboy like me."
Arasaka Yorinobu is not a fool. He knows that Li Ang must have an ulterior motive for going to great lengths to find him.
"Let's be honest, why did you ask Xu Shiming to come to me? Isn't it just to let my gang of boys do odd jobs in Kowloon Walled City?"
"With your generosity, Mr. Li Ang, you should support a larger gang to fight against my father's Arasaka Empire."
"The little miscellaneous fish from the Steel Dragon Gang are not enough to blast my father's aircraft carrier."
Facing the smart man Arasaka Yorinobu, Li Ang responded simply and neatly:
[I heard that you have obtained Arasaka's Relic chip and are going to take it back to the Night City branch and give it to Arasaka's engineers for optimization. 】
[Give me this chip. 】
‘Sure enough...another company comes for Relic chips! ’
Arasaka Yorinobu sneered in his heart. This AI soul killer is such a good treasure. Even Li Ang sent people here to curry favor with him just for this thing.
Since he chose to surrender to his father and returned to Arasaka Company, a group of corporate forces have rushed to woo him, trying to obtain the technology of AI soul killer.
Among them are the European Cyber Monitor, Zeta Technology from Night City, and the current LA Company.
The conditions given by the Cyber Monitor are the most attractive to Arasaka Yoriyuki. The transaction conditions given by this company are not money, but support from European forces!
If Arasaka Yoriyuki gives the Relic chip to the Cyber Monitor, he will get the support of various European consortiums to help him ascend to the position of the head of Arasaka Company.
The reason why Arasaka Yoriyuki is willing to surrender to his father Saburo is not because he is afraid of retreating, but because he intends to send this old thing to the west and make himself the new owner of Arasaka!
Real reforms often come from within. Since there is no way to attack from the outside with the Steel Dragon Gang, then we can start from the inside of the company to disintegrate the old ideological tumor.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Leon, I can't give you the Relic chip because you are the enemy of my Arasaka family, and I can't betray the family."
Arasaka Yoriyuki refused righteously.
In fact, he just had an opinion on his father Saburo's company management system. Arasaka Yorinobu never thought of overthrowing Arasaka Company. All he wanted to do was to make the company better.
In Arasaka Yorinobu's vision, once he became the person in charge of Arasaka Company, the first thing he would do was to pull Arasaka back to the path of healthy competition with other companies.
Instead of relying on the company's technology monopoly to make the whole society lifeless, the human world would be doomed sooner or later.
The company's institutional reform is what Arasaka Yorinobu really wants to do, not simply overthrowing his father Saburo's monopoly empire!
