Cyberpunk: 2075

"The Kujira, or rather the Whale, is parked in Coronado Bay. It is Arasaka's super aircraft carrier. I never thought I would have the opportunity to come to a place like this."

Sitting in the float vehicle belonging to Kenichi Shiro, Oliver looked at the approaching super aircraft carrier, then turned to look at Carl: "Since the team was formed, I have really seen more and more things."

"It's probably because you only stayed in Santo Domingo before and never came out."

Jack sat calmly, but looking at the Kujira anchored at Arasaka Port, some excitement appeared on his face involuntarily.

As a mercenary with a strong interest in awesome weapons, it is undoubtedly a particularly exciting thing to be able to observe a super aircraft carrier so closely, and even board it soon, even if Jack wants to control himself , his body was also trembling with excitement uncontrollably.

Being on a super aircraft carrier, who can refuse this?

"I don't know what kind of technology is needed to build such an aircraft carrier, and how long it will take to build."

Looking at the super aircraft carrier with a catamaran structure, V counted and found that it has three staggered decks with different lengths. The advantage of this deck is that it can perform launch and recovery tasks independently, even if one layer is damaged. It will not affect other layers, and V happened to have seen similar structures in previous ship construction structures.

It was an introduction to a somewhat old historical ship that he bought after coming to Night City. Among them was an aircraft carrier with a similar structure to this super aircraft carrier. V remembered that its name was...

"Akagi."

Is the design used by Arasaka still leaning towards the ancient design? In the video introduction that V saw, due to the problem of the take-off and landing efficiency of carrier-based aircraft, the three-stage deck has long been out of fashion in the world. Now the aircraft carrier adopts are basically straight-through decks.

In comparison, Oliver was more concerned about going to new places, Jack was concerned about the awesome weapons, and V was concerned about the structure of the Kujira. Carl, who was also looking at the super aircraft carrier like them, was recalling in his mind the history and history related to this aircraft carrier. material.

According to the information Carl reviewed, this aircraft carrier arrived in Night City on June 12, 2070. Its arrival forced the new American army that originally planned to invade Night City to retreat, effectively ending the new United States' unification war. Maintaining the independence of Night City.

Miles, the president of the new United States, is worried that Arasaka's intervention will escalate the conflict in the Unification War and may trigger the fifth corporate war.

Therefore, she had to choose to negotiate with Arasaka. Subsequently, she signed the "Unification Treaty" with the Free State Alliance supported by Arasaka, nominally announcing the end of the Unification War. Since then, this super aircraft carrier has been serving as Arasaka's guarantee. Anchored in Coronado Bay,

Until today.

If Arasaka Tower symbolizes Arasaka's hand reaching North America again, then the existence of the Kujira is Arasaka's clenched fist. Anyone who sees it has to worry about what happens when the fist comes. consequences.

Under the guidance of the soldiers on the Kujira, the aerial vehicle whose identification code passed slowly descended, and the originally locked automatic aerial cannon also began to turn its muzzle.

"It feels a bit like a cannon hitting mosquitoes. Are aerial vehicles so careful?"

Oliver watched the turret deflect and breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was a little confused about the defenses on the Kujira: "The firepower of an aerial vehicle cannot cause any damage to this super aircraft carrier, let alone this one." The aerial vehicles don’t even carry any lethal firepower.”

"Perhaps he recalled the kamikaze attack he had done and was afraid of being attacked by a bomb-laden flying vehicle."

Among the people present, only Kenichi Shiro understood the words of hell that Karl said, but he glanced at Karl but said nothing.

Let this kid be embarrassed if no one answers his question. He dares to say anything. Who doesn't know that Saburo Arasaka would have been a member of the kamikaze team if he didn't have a lot of time back then.

"The Kujira has been strengthened and is not afraid of ordinary suicide bombings. Even the aerial vehicle filled with bombs is inferior in quantity."

Kenichi Shiro didn't pick up Karl's words from hell, but someone did.

Not only did she catch it, she even chuckled: "What the soldiers are even more afraid of is that the aerial vehicle may carry a nuclear bomb, just like the nuclear explosion in 2023. They don't want to repeat yesterday."

"hiss...."

Listening to these familiar voices and words, Karl took a deep breath. He was obviously the one who spoke the words of hell first, but now he felt a little embarrassed: "You shouldn't be telling me this, right? Haruko...:"

"is that so?"

Among Chiyome's escorts, Haruko, who was waiting for Carl and Kenichi Shiro at the landing point of the aerial vehicle, touched her cheek with her finger, tilted her head and thought for a moment before reacting.

She was so small that she covered her mouth: "Yes, in that incident...

Although Haruko's grandfather, Arasaka Kei, did not die in the Arasaka Tower nuclear explosion, in general he died in a related incident. Haruko was a bit too filial to accept Carl's words of hell.

Although Kei Arasaka died more than thirty years before Haruko was born, and to Haruko he was just a stranger whose name she had heard.

But they are still related by blood, so it's not easy to talk about related matters.

"I shouldn't say this, but you Arasaka family are a little too relaxed about blood relations."

Carl got out of the car and nodded to Chiyome. After waiting for a response, he looked at Haruko: "But I have to apologize. Anyway, I still said something that was disrespectful to life."

Carl was also a little distressed about his mental state in recent days. He felt that he was getting more and more integrated into Night City.

"I respect my mother very much, but if I have to respect relatives I haven't met... maybe I have to get used to it a little."

Haruko said very honestly. After saying hello to Kenichi Shiro who was walking down, she stretched out her hand to Carl: "Let's go.

Uncle is waiting for us, and mother will be here soon."

Looking at Haruko's hand stretched out in front of him, Carl didn't react at first, but after feeling the gaze of Mr. Kenichi Shiro,

he suddenly reacted.

By the way, I came here today as my own identity, not as a guard, but as...

Haruko's friend.

Carl took Haruko's hand.

To be honest, he rarely holds his friends’ hands, because after junior high school, he has been a bit dogmatic and believes that only women or family members would hold hands when walking, but his friends all reach out their hands...,

It seems that in Western etiquette, men have to hold hands and lead women?

I don’t quite understand.

But Mr. Kenichi Shiro seems to be staring at me, why?

Didn’t I follow his eye hints and politely hold hands and lead?