Cyberpunk: 2075

"In the territory of the new United States, which is even half a military training ground, to obtain the campaign documents of presidential candidates, the more we understand this task, the more we feel that we are risking our lives."

"Looking at the bright side Oliver, at least we came to Los Angeles to see the sights before we died."

Listening to the chat between Oliver and Jack in the front of the car, Carl, who was sitting in the back seat, was thinking about the information he had obtained from the bar owner.

Karl asked almost ten questions in total from beginning to end, and the price he paid was that all the team members who came to Los Angeles except him were now exhausted, and they also had a rough understanding of the internal situation in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is a city rather than a large military camp. Most of the people living in this city have gone to work in factories, while the remaining people have either opened shops serving the military and gang members, or have joined gangs. Among them, there are not many places that can serve outsiders. If we only count luxury residences, then there is only such a place in the entire city.

Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

This is a hotel built in 1922 and has a history of more than 100 years. In Los Angeles's past prosperous days, it was known as the most photogenic hotel in the city. It was the setting for countless Hollywood stories, and even a former U.S. president known for his love of laughter stayed here.

At that time, the hotel was like a shining pearl in the City of Angels, Los Angeles, exuding dazzling light.

However, all this glory ended with the second Los Angeles riots and the subsequent division of the United States.

During that massive riot, the historic hotel was commandeered by the police and became the city's last bastion of government power against the riots.

However, as time passed, the greedy senior police officers were still addicted to pleasure, while the lower-level police officers were dissatisfied with the increasingly difficult predicament and eventually joined the ranks of the riots. With the help of internal personnel, this former police station The hotel, which has enjoyed a century-old reputation, finally failed to withstand the impact of the rioting crowd and was breached. The crowd then wreaked havoc inside and completely destroyed the building.

In the following days, the hotel's owners continued to change. It was not until the unification war of the new United States arrived in Los Angeles that the building was taken over by a knowledgeable military technology executive. While leading the gradual military transformation of Los Angeles, , and did not forget to prepare a place for himself and the leaders who would come to the front line to inspect. At that time, he fell in love with this hotel at a glance, which had a perfect structure even if it encountered damage.

Under his authority, this abandoned hotel was revitalized. As troops continued to arrive and the importance of the location gradually increased, the hotel became the base camp of military technology in Los Angeles. Every soldier dispatched to Los Angeles Military scientific and technological personnel will work there.

Today, the renovated and rebuilt Millennium Biltmore Hotel not only welcomes guests from all over the world, but also shoulders the mission of demonstrating the strength of military technology to representatives of other companies.

Among these guests were many diplomats from various countries. They came to visit this largest military training base recently established by the United States. Through their condescending prosthetic eyes, they overlooked the struggle in the streets and observed the actual operation of various weapon systems. efficacy.

Carl They are now heading to the Biltmore Millennium Hotel.

The street melee did not last long and ended. The personnel on both sides were very familiar with each other. This daily battle only lasted ten minutes before the support personnel from both sides arrived. During the confrontation between the personnel, they were controlled by the leaders of both sides. The people slowly left, and then the street returned to calm.

In the mess of bullet casings and blood on the ground, the Sky Hera drove smoothly.

According to the bar owner, such battles will break out several times a day and are distributed in various places in the city. Those who perform well will be selected to join the new American army almost that night, and will never be separated from their former companions. Another class has become the actual controller of the city, so both the Gear Group and the Stone Gang are very keen on fighting, but large-scale fighting is not allowed because it may cause unnecessary casualties.

"You said they know that their battle is being treated as some kind of test? It sounds like a weapons test?"

V asked this question.

"Of course they know, they not only know, they also know very clearly, just like they accepted Arasaka's transformation in Night City and exchanged high-risk experiments for their powerful Tiger Claw Gang. They actually know it, because every company This is what they are doing, but Arasaka is not as big as military technology in America. Maybe Arasaka also has some kind of biological experiment site in Japan. "

Karl said that he had seen this kind of thing like using human life as a testing tool before, and he even personally dealt with the testers. It was not unusual.

"Then don't they think there's something wrong with this, that they're going to fight just because of a test?"

"They won't feel wrong."

Karl said calmly, thinking of the group of ACPA pilots he had personally dealt with. Each of them was a tool cultivated by military technology since childhood:

"They will only see that the companions who kill the most, fastest, perform best, and have the best adaptability of the prosthetic body will become the soldiers of the new United States. Standing above them, do you know why the test personnel are young people, because there are no After education, young people living in special adjustment environments can be easily transformed, and they still have enough energy and the possibility of fighting. "

"But they don't know that the so-called new American soldiers on the front line are just easier-to-use tools."

Oliver held the steering wheel: "If the treatment in the new American army was really so good, Mann, Brown and the others wouldn't have left that place and went to Night City. Even Night City is better than the new American army. .... Now I understand why they are jealous of the people in Night City, and even envious of us. Compared to Night City, this place is even more of a ghost place.”

"How can one compare the two places to see which one is worse?"

Jack smiled, took out a pair of sunglasses and put them on himself.

"We've arrived at the hotel. It's really luxurious. Although it doesn't look as good as the Clamp Building and Sapphire Blue, it's still unique... Let's go and follow the T-BUG

Give us a perfect identity. Now we are the bodyguards accompanying the young master.

"I don't know if the booking identity provided by T-BUG is reliable."

Oliver said: "She said she would use a small company's satellite as a relay to contact us, but she has not contacted us again, which is really worrying."

"Don't worry about T-BUG's ability. If I were asked to choose a hacker to trust in Night City, I would definitely choose T-BUG without hesitation.

BUG. "

V said with a smile, then put on his sunglasses, and then looked at Karl.

"How are you, young master, are your clothes ready?"

"It was just fine."

Wearing the suit he wore when he attended the Gemstone Green Banquet, Karl moved his collar:

"Then the transformation you are talking about can start to show up. I have watched it all the way. There is no surveillance. The surveillance picture left by the camera in the peripheral bar is that we drove out of Los Angeles. Except for the employer's star on the ceiling. I don’t know if there are any satellites watching us, and everything has been ensured.”

"Keeping surprises you."

As Oliver said, a button similar to the one in the middle of the steering wheel that Carl had seen on Jensen's car popped out. As Oliver took the picture, Carl felt that Hera's car shell began to change.

The eldest young master and his bodyguards can't drive a car of Sky Hera's caliber. When doing the transformation of bad soil, V and others thought of this and made arrangements in advance.

Although it was just a shell, when Sky Hera appeared in the eyes of the greeter at the Biltmore Millennium Hotel, it had already turned into a modified car whose base shape could not be seen no matter how you looked at it.