Cyberpunk: 2075

Arasaka Tower.

Karl couldn't understand the depressing feeling until he actually stood at its feet and looked up at it.

The building reaches into the sky, overlooking the entire Night City. At the top, the Arasaka logo stands above everything.

Karl looked at the Arasaka sign, turned around, and looked at the building opposite Arasaka Tower.

That is also a towering building, and all the signs on the building that is "tit-for-tat" with Arasaka Tower are...

Military technology.

Two giants in Night City.

Carl was stopped by security in Arasaka uniforms when he was still 200 meters away from Arasaka Tower. On this conference day, when participants of the Arasaka Conference basically arrived by aerospace vehicles, they were always a little worried about aerospace vehicles. The senior security personnel came in ordinary vehicles, and it was the responsibility of these security guards to screen the authenticity of the people on the ground and ensure the safety of those senior personnel. They would not let outsiders get close to Arasaka Tower today.

If it's like what happened in 2023, and a madman carrying a bomb comes out and yesterday happens again, then Arasaka's power in the Americas will suffer a serious blow.

"Please stop."

The Arasaka personnel were still familiar with Carl's face, which had already spread throughout the circle of security personnel. When the personnel responsible for the inspection stepped forward with a slightly nervous grip on the weapon with the safety unlocked, the other personnel had already vaguely aimed their guns. Find out where Carl is.

Now the famous KK among the mercenaries in Night City, although he did not come with his team, one person is enough to threaten the security of the company. They must first determine the other party's intention to come.

Karl listened to the Arasaka staff and stopped honestly.

He was on an escort mission today, not to break into Arasaka Tower. He had better follow the rules and procedures.

After seeing Karl stop and nod to himself, the Arasaka security guard in charge of the inspection was obviously relieved.

Fortunately, Karl didn't seem to be here to stir up trouble. Otherwise, if no one else knew today, he would probably die here.

The Arasaka security personnel first conducted a basic scan on Carl, and after confirming that he did not carry anything large under his clothes, they signaled Carl to wait and began to report to the people above.

"Mercenary K appears outside the security line at the door. Security officer 4752 has contacted him. Please give instructions."

"Zizi.:.."

Amidst the small sound of electricity after the communication was connected, the security supervisor issued instructions:

"Mercenary KK, please ask him to wait. Today, the higher-ups announced that mercenaries will come. Let me see if KK is on the list. Has his identity been confirmed?"

The security guard listened to the boss's words in the communication, and scanned Karl again with his specially adjusted prosthetic eyes.

Then he replied in the communication: "The appearance and characteristics have been confirmed, but the possibility of disguise cannot be ruled out. Necessary access checks must be done."

"Access check...: Confirmed. His name is on the list of trusted outsiders this time. Let him in, and I will do another check on him in the second alert."

"yes."

After receiving approval from his superior, the security officer in charge of communication immediately made way for Karl and signaled that he could pass.

It's great that I don't need to deal with the conversation with the mercenary KK anymore.

After Karl glanced at him and let him go, he continued to look at the security personnel who were looking at the people passing by outside.

Without saying anything, he walked out of the way.

After walking a hundred meters, three people wearing Arasaka black and red suits came over.

"Please confirm your identity a second time."

Their tone was quite polite, but in terms of action, the three of them had formed a triangle and surrounded Karl in the middle. In this way, even if Karl wanted to attack suddenly and attack someone from one angle, people from the other two places could also attack at the same time. Take action.

"Is there anything I need to do to confirm?"

Karl looked at the men in suits in front of him and didn't mind their alert actions: "Second scan?"

"No, we have special equipment."

The person in a suit facing Karl took out a device that looked somewhat similar to the fingerprint lock in Karl's memory and placed it in front of Karl: "You just need to press your fingerprint to confirm."

"Can't fingerprints be faked?"

"That's true."

The man in the suit stared at Karl: "This is specially prepared for you, because your arm prosthesis has been specially adjusted to only transform the arm without the need for a matching model. It is also unique within the company. We Just make sure that the finger information matches the recorded information.”

I see.

When Lao Wei first checked Karl's arm and confirmed that there were no backdoors left in it, Karl was surprised, because even in a prosthetic arm, it would be difficult and easy to remove some control backdoors.

But for things like recording feedback, it really doesn’t make sense for the company not to keep any collected data. Is it because it’s specially made?

Thinking about it this way, did your investment in me start from then on? "

Karl's thoughts changed, but his fingers were placed on the device held by the man in the suit.

"Confirming identity, please wait."

Amidst the electronic sounds emitted by the device, Karl watched as his fingers made ripples on the water-like surface of the device.

It didn’t take Carl long to press it. From the time Carl touched it to the time the suited personnel signaled Carl to move away, only two seconds had passed, and the model of the prosthesis had been confirmed.

“The name of the prosthesis is ‘KK’, model confirmed.”

The suited personnel bowed and stepped back: “Welcome, Mr. Kenichi Shiro, whom you are going to protect, is already waiting on the first floor.”

The protector of Mr. Kenichi Shiro?

Carl listened to the suited personnel’s words, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.

Protecting who?

Me, the protector, Mr. Kenichi Shiro?

Is this true?

But the next moment, Carl also figured it out.

Haruko already has a guard, that is Chiyo. It is obviously not suitable to bring too many guards to a high-level meeting, so his identity, when Haruko’s guard position is occupied, can only be Mr. Kenichi Shiro’s guard.

After all, no matter how strong Mr. Kenichi Shiro is, he is indeed a high-level staff of Arasaka, and it is reasonable to bring a guard.

It’s just a feeling..

Carl took a step.

‘There is always a strange sense of absurdity. ’

If there really is someone who wants to assassinate Mr. Kenichi Shiro, and after breaking through himself, he thinks he can easily take down Mr. Kenichi Shiro, but ends up finding out that Mr. Kenichi Shiro has activated Sian Westin...

That scene would be very interesting.