I'm not a cyberpsycho

After getting off work, Li Pan took a car to the Regan family's villa for a banquet.

Fortunately, he does have a clue now. According to the information revealed by Vajira, there was an old guy named Francis Regan who was an insider of the ‘Whisperer’ project during the war.

Li Pan planned to find this person first, and then try to use his spiritual power to question him.

Yes, Li Pan also tried his spiritual ability in the past few days. It was useful, but not very useful.

Simple and clear instructions, such as "sit", "stop", "roll", etc. are indeed quite easy to use.

But things like "suicide", "drain all the blood and store it in the freezer", "transfer the money in your account to me" and "do you know the Whisperer" are either clearly against the other party's wishes, or the instructions are vague, or the definition cannot be clearly completed. , or a request that requires thinking and thinking before answering, the other party will have a certain probability of resisting and ignoring it.

How to describe it, it's like talking to a low-smart car from prehistoric times. You said a lot there: "Turn on the air conditioner, adjust it to 24 degrees, turn on the seat ventilation, turn on the seat heating, turn on the stereo, play Bobo Ji, and navigate to the 4S store." Heap, it was down for a long time, and the reply "the window is open" to you is just as speechless...

Maybe it's because his spiritual power is not enough, but anyway, let's try it first. If that doesn't work, then consider violent means.

The Reagan family lives in a wealthy community in the heart of the city. There are private security companies on duty outside the community. There are also luxury shopping malls, luxury stores, apartments, restaurants and private villas in the community.

At this time, there were even more cars and horses in front of the high-rise compound of the Regan family, dignitaries from the government and business circles were coming and going, and NCPA armed police and security bureau agents were everywhere. Ye's and Three-Headed Dog's troops were also mobilized to maintain public order.

Not only the NCPA and the Security Bureau, but also the municipal administration, tax bureau, banks, and even Gao Tianyuan had many people coming! What about Honda Kubo, representatives of the Hashiba family, various Chinese landowners, aristocrats and Tenryu people, all of whom sent congratulatory gifts.

Darling, it’s just an engagement for my niece, a ceremony and a meal. It’s not really a formal wedding. How can so many central government officials and local tycoons come to the wedding?

But the Regan family are not giants like the Sacco family, nor are they even tribunes? Could it be that these people are all the connections accumulated by nine generations of his family? It's too exaggerated...

Tsk tsk, then this row of noodles is really full, and with such a big fanfare, I guess the energy of the Ito family is not small.

But Li Pan doesn't care whether Jin Yaoyan is married to a cat or a dog. Anyway, Ito Ryoma will definitely die. If today's negotiations have no practical effect, just use the juicer on him first.

With the invitation letter personally signed by Police Director Richard Regan, Li Pan naturally had unimpeded access to the Regan family villa.

His plan tonight was to focus on observing the old men and women at the banquet, find Francis Regan, ask about what happened back then, leave after asking, find a place to catch a few ghosts to eat, and then continue to refine the Blood God Son.

However, this person is actually difficult to find. After all, he does not have internal authority of the Security Bureau. The identity information of this group of important personnel cannot be searched at all. Moreover, 'old' is a relative concept. Technically speaking, of course, there is no such thing as old or not these days. of.

Plastic surgery, reincarnation, prosthetic body replacement, any technique to change the appearance can be done, and even if that doesn't work, there are various beauty essences to restore youth. And twenty years have passed, maybe this Frankie has changed his identity long ago, and is so sexy that it is not impossible to be reincarnated as a beautiful girl.

But Li Pan is not without a chance. Again, not everyone has that kind of money and enjoys that level of service.

With the Reagan family having been in the NCPA system for nine generations, it is not easy to maintain the current situation. Richard occupies the position of police director, and I don’t know how many people are watching behind him. I’m afraid it’s really difficult. Dare to be too greedy, the family assets are estimated to be a few hundred million or more than a billion at most.

Spend 10 billion to reincarnate a person? Just kidding, most corporate dogs can’t move even after seeing 100 million.

Although people like the NCPA and the Security Bureau can use the security system to gain great power for a while, in the final analysis, they live on wages. You may have a house, a car, high-end implants, a million-dollar annual salary, and no debt, but that's it.

They have no real ‘assets’.

This world, and the countless worlds in the heavens, are all owned by the company.

Everything has long been divided up by the major shareholders and directors.

So if you look at it from the perspective of the masters of the heavens, all other people, such as the 14 billion in 0791 and the 8 billion in 016, to put it bluntly, are nothing more than cockroaches and a group of parasites that scurry into their own houses. .

The domineering 'powerful people' in the Night City, the so-called defenders of the order of the committee, are just slightly larger beneficial insects, spiders, geckos, small bees and the like among these parasites.

So from the perspective of the sanctity of private property, if people haven’t cleaned out the bugs in the house and have made some garbage dumps available for you to live in, isn’t that a very kind person?

Have a heart of awe! Gratitude! Thank you!

Ahem, I'm going too far. In short, these beneficial insects are very smart and understand their identity and class very well, so as soon as Li Pan appeared, he was surrounded by this group of fawning guys. One after another came to exchange business cards, shake hands and make friends, and wink.

Yes, in the eyes of big guys like Peterson, Kelman, and Sacco, Li Pan may be just a jumping bug, but at least he is an oversized one who can jump in the face and scare the owner. Screaming cockroaches.

So he is the overlord among insects!

But they are still insects...

"Manager Li, I have admired you for a long time, I have admired you for a long time, Paul Rhodes."

"Oh, Mr. Mayor, nice to meet you."

Today was for personal matters, and unlike Li Pan, most people had to rest in addition to going to work, writing reports, and doing experiments, so I didn’t bring the social tool of the priest.

So Li Pan, who was not good at sociability, was immediately surrounded and trapped by a group of insects. They were exchanging business cards, making toasts, and shaking hands. Li Pan couldn't beat them all to death, so he could only nod his head, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, ah, hello, hello, hello."

But at least one or two of these bugs were known to Li Pan.

Paul Rhodes, currently the director of the Night City Administration, is well-informed and likes to be hung up and spanked. Just the guy who played Truth or Dare at the nightclub last time.

He noticed that because the mayor was standing beside him, the crazy bees and butterflies that came up to rub against him while twerking and shaking their breasts were all driven away by the security guards. They did not dare to come up to touch him one by one. Li Pan was also happy and relaxed, so he just grabbed Paul. M Rhodes, while looking for something to talk to him about, continued to observe the audience.

"Congratulations on your promotion. By the way, I wonder if there are any clues about the former mayor's case."

Paul Rhodes was also a discerning man. When he saw that Li Pan still remembered him and seemed to want to have a chat, he readily accepted it.

"Oh, Mayor Ryan, yes, it's a pity, it's a pity. Ryan is a good person. He dedicated his whole life for the development of Night City. It is really regrettable and sad to suffer this misfortune. I really can't figure out who has enmity with him. , maybe it’s just plain bad luck.

Of course, the mayor was killed, and as his successor, I am also cooperating with the NCPA Investigation Section 1 to assist them in investigating Ryan's social and work circles to see if there are any suspects. Maybe there will be a conclusion soon. "

"Oh? So Irene is now in charge of this case?"

"No, it's Rainsaburo Sugishita from the 1st Section of the Police Department who is under investigation. But I heard that he is a capable detective promoted from the front line. He has been engaged in criminal investigation for at least 20 years and is an experienced veteran police officer.

As for the Reagan police officer, how can I put it, she is capable and has the character of the Reagan family, and she is just engaged, so she is not free. "

Good guy, have you been working in the search class for 20 years or is the police department just making up for it? And he was promoted from the front line? So before you get promoted to the police department, you probably have to wear the police uniform for ten years, right? He was able to survive for thirty years at the starting line of graduation, which is quite impressive in every sense of the word...

Li Pan nodded,

"Oh, so when they encounter such troublesome things like fish being unavailable and fishy, ​​they suddenly want to get married and hold a banquet, so they try their best to stay away, right?"

Paul smiled, took a sip of champagne, and gave him a 'you know what' look.

Li Pan scanned the whole place, but at first glance, among the people in police uniforms, there seemed to be no one whose age and appearance matched that of 'Francis Regan', so he rolled his eyes and asked directly,

"Mr. Mayor, are you familiar with the Reagan family? Can you give me a general introduction? All of them are present today?"

Paul said, "You carried one of tonight's protagonists into the nightclub, so aren't you more familiar with me than me?" ’ look in his eyes and said with a smile,

"Of course not all of them, but most of them are here. But their family does have a lot of people, and I heard that they still retain the belief tradition of having many children and being blessed in ancient times.

Well, I don’t need to say more about Director Richard. He is the head of the current Reagan family and the eldest son of former police superintendent Henry. He also has two younger brothers. Frank works as a police inspector in Kansai Port and Langley works in security. bureau.

The most outstanding next generation of the Reagan family are Richard's two sons, Daniel and James, and tonight's heroine, Frank's second daughter Irene. They are all NCPA police officers who hold important positions. In the security system sequence, they are official civil servants and first-class police inspectors. And if you are young and promising, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to police superintendent in the future.

There are some other young people, distant relatives of uncles and nephews, but they are a little inferior compared to them. They are all from the police superintendent's department, so let's ignore them. "

Li Pan squinted his eyes. It would be too exaggerated to ignore him from the police level...

Li Pan asked curiously, "Who is the one talking to the police chief now? His nose and chin look similar. Illegitimate child?"

Paul also looked at the tall brown-haired young man.

"The superintendent of the ESPD is also a Regen. He is a relative from Europa. I'm not familiar with Europa, but the Regen family is originally the descendant of reincarnated space people. The parliament sent them to manage the NCPA. , I must have relatives and backers over there."

"I see, but why haven't I seen those older generations? Is that Superintendent Henry gone? Judging from the time, the person responsible for rebuilding the post-war NCPA system is Police Superintendent Henry Regan, right? He should also have many Are the family brothers helping me?"

"I don't know this..."

Paul looked at Li Pan and whispered,

"But I heard that many people who participated in the war suffered from battlefield syndrome. All of these people are being treated in sanatoriums on Europa. Maybe their health conditions are not convenient for interstellar travel or QVN connection."

"That's it, thank you..."

In other words, it has been twenty years, no matter how powerful the family is, the ‘older generation’ involved are still under house arrest by the committee and are firmly under their control.

Tsk, isn’t that the clue is broken again? If you really don’t give him any chance, can’t you match him with some stupider opponents? Mader...

Come on, let’s just squeeze the juice... oh...

"By the way, Mr. Mayor, let me ask one more question, who is Ryoma Ito? His family is also in the Security Bureau system? But he shouldn't be worthy of Irene's family background, right?"

Since Wo Canmei and Li Pan really have a feud, Uncle Chen had actually sent his files over a long time ago.

But Li Pan wanted to use him for fishing, and he was very busy and never had time to deal with it. But now that I think about it carefully, I realize that it is a bit unusual.

Judging from the files, Ito Ryoma is really nothing. His father, Ito Takamori, was just a cadre in charge of personnel in the Security Bureau, with a deputy director level salary, and he is about to retire now, and his resume is not particularly eye-catching. , let alone any core personnel of the Security Bureau.

After all, if Ryoma Ito really had a family background, he wouldn't have been able to arrange it directly. He wouldn't have had to come to the Military Engineering Academy to compete with Li Pan for a job opportunity, right?

And considering that the two of them are from the same term, he has been in the job for four or five years, and he has not been promoted to a high position now. He is just a special agent. The files were also retrieved by Uncle Chen casually. This shows that there is actually no particularly powerful person behind the scenes, right?

But Erin Regan was different. Whether it was her family background or her abilities, she had already passed the NCPA Search Class I and became a first-level police inspector. If he were placed in the Security Bureau, he would at least be the deputy director of the Investigation Division, not to mention that he might be promoted to police supervisor in the future.

So why is Ryoma Ito so high up? This isn’t a wife-in-law, right? Why do so many people come to support it? Are they really all here to curry favor with Regan? It doesn’t seem to be the case...

Paul gave him a look like, "I thought you really wouldn't ask."

"The Ito family is in decline now, but it was quite powerful before the war. Ito Ryoma's grandfather was Ryan's predecessor. In the City of Night, when it was still known as the Thirteenth New Tokyo, he served as the governor of Tokyo and directly Responsible to Lord Oda.

Before that, their family was a well-known figure in Tokyo. They had been in the secretarial system for a long time. Every few generations, they would hold the important position of governor, even the first, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc. Ten and Thirteenth New Tokyo were all planned and constructed by their family. "

Oh, what the fuck... I've been working on this for a long time and he's the new mayor of Tokyo during the Takamagahara era...

Well, because when it comes to Takamagahara, what Li Pan does is of the level of Oda, Tokugawa, etc. In the final analysis, the governor of Tokyo is just a retainer in charge of internal affairs, and this Ito is a local surname, so he really doesn’t have much Notice……

Oh, no wonder, no wonder, that makes sense.

The war has won and lost, and Tokyo has become the city of night. Former officials like the Ito family, no matter how powerful they were in the past, cannot escape the fate of being liquidated. Even if they save their lives, they are now completely out of power and beaten. After entering the cold palace, if you want to get a job as a civil servant, you have to choose a hard-working college student like Li Pan.

But now the situation seems to have changed again. Seeing that Gao Tianyuan is now making a comeback, the Ito family has naturally returned to the spotlight of power again.

And this family's accumulation in the local area extends far beyond nine generations. The power of their connections and political resources are probably more profound than those of the Reagan family!

No wonder they want to get married, this time it’s clear that Reigen is at the bride’s house...

This family's political sense is really keen. Whenever there is a disturbance in the west, they start laying lines on the front bridge and preparing to pave the road...

Li Pan rolled his eyes and had an idea.

Yes, that’s just right. Although the clues to the Regen family have been cut off, since the Ito family has so many connections, they can be squeezed out and investigated! By the way, I can also get my revenge!

So Li Pan rolled his eyes, crossed the crowd with a smile, pricked the palm of his hand with his fingertips, drew a line of blood, walked straight towards a middle-aged and prosperous man, and stretched out his hand.

"Hey, isn't this His Excellency Ito Takamori? What a coincidence. By the way, do you still remember me?"

"you are……"

Yes, this guy is the examiner Li Pan met back then, Ito Takamori from the Human Resources Department of the Security Bureau. Of course he also attended his son's engagement ceremony.

Excellent! The people from the Security Bureau are no worse than eighteen, so mark him with a talisman first, and then give his whole family to him when no one is around...

"Manager Li! It's great to have you here. I'm waiting for you!"

Unexpectedly, Richard Regan, who was talking to the brown-haired young man at the side just now, suddenly changed his face, grabbed Li Pan's hand, and pulled him to his side enthusiastically.

Not only Ito Takamori, but also Li Pan was speechless for a while.

You must be a police chief after all! Is it worth turning on the accelerator to shake his hand? ?

Even the brown-haired young man saw the police director's flash technique for the first time. He was stunned for a while and had to say goodbye and leave.

"Uh, I didn't bother you, did I?"

"It's okay, it's okay. Jace asked me to move him somewhere. Young people can't wait to get ahead. In fact, it's good to practice more at the lower levels. Don't worry about him."

Richard Regen smiled and pulled Li Pan toward the back room.

"It's great that you can come. My little girl is waiting for you. She is recovering from her injuries and doesn't want to interact with too many people. She is in the backyard.

Angela is quick-tempered and a little impulsive, but has a good heart. Young people are around each other, and if they find something to talk about in common, things will heat up quickly. "

Li Pan, "..."

After all, it was not time to fall out, so Li Pan couldn't throw the NCPA police director away, so he had to let him drag him to the backyard.

The backyard of Reagan's house is an artificial lake in this wealthy community, as well as a pier and beach. The scenery is indeed quite good. Angela Regan was sitting alone on a bench by the lake, with a bandage wrapped around her neck.

Richard gave Li Pan two bottles of cold beer and gave him a thumbs up! effort! Get her! gesture.

Li Pan felt his scalp numb when he was stared at by the old man's expectant eyes, so he had to hand over the beer.

"Hey, Legian Police Department. Are you feeling better?"

Angela took the beer,

"Thank you...who are you?"

"..."

Li Pan turned to look at a police chief who quickly hid in the house.

Angela also saw it, so she had to sigh and make way for her.

"Forget it, whatever, please sit down..."

Li Pan stood beside her, looking at the calm lake.

"Why haven't I seen your sister?"

"Oh, she's not back yet. They have to go to Ye's hotel several times today. They will first go to Ye's hotel to meet with important officials from the political and business circles, and then go to Kabuki Street to meet with those 'United Society' consortiums. The Chinese have a drink and then come back home to get together with their own people in the bureau."

Yes, then it seems to be an official announcement. But it’s the Ye clan and the United Society, Ito, no, Yamada Reika’s energy is not small...

Li Pan looked at her and took a sip of wine...water...

"Don't you seem very happy? Don't worry, your father dotes on you so much, he will definitely help you find a son-in-law who is far better than Ryoma Ito."

Angela was silent for a while, then turned to look at Li Pan again,

"I remember you. I saw you once in front of the hospital during the Dongcheng Club case two months ago."

Li Pan applauded,

"Wow, you have a really good memory. The police department is indeed one of the elites of the NCPA!

I think with your extraordinary ability, you will be put into great use. Maybe in two months, you will be promoted to police officer! "

Angela didn't care about Li Pan's cynicism, turned her head and took a sip of beer.

"No, I plan to resign."

Li Pan looked at her inexplicably,

"Resign? Are you afraid? Because you almost got your neck wiped this time?"

"A little bit..." Angela looked at the lake, "But... mainly I think... being a police superintendent is useless."

Li Pan raised his eyebrows,

"It's useless? There are 20 police chiefs and police supervisors in the entire 0791 Earth. It's useless?"

Angela shook her head and fell silent.

Li Panhan, please don't. Once you resign, don't let the old man think that I said something!

So Li Pan looked around and saw no one around, cleared his throat and adjusted his tone.

"What's going on? Let's talk about it."

Angela was silent for a while and then spoke,

"Last month, I was patrolling the streets and came across a case. It was a dispute between two gangs, probably over money or drugs. Someone opened fire on the street and killed someone."

Li Pan was puzzled, "Oh, does it sound like just daily life in the Night City?"

Angela nodded.

"Yeah, it's a daily routine, so no one in the team bothered to take care of it. I was the only one who investigated for a week and finally caught the main culprit.

That gangster, he was only fourteen years old. He had a paralyzed mother and three younger sisters to support at home. They were all illegal immigrants. He really had no money, so he accepted the reward from the gang and took 5,000 yuan to become a gunman.

Although it was very pitiful, I still took him back to the prison, but because he was underage and the person who died was not a citizen, I was sentenced to intentional injury, fined 1,500, imprisoned for three years, and had prison management fees of 10,000. Two thousand yuan..."

Li Pan waited for a while, and then Angela took a deep breath and said it in one breath,

"...I helped him with some cushion, and then I went to my brother to help his family apply for the emergency relief fund. When I sent it to his house... When I went to his house...

Huh... I heard that enemies came to the door and threw Molotov cocktails. No one escaped at night...

So I went to catch the arsonist again... I caught him. He was only nine years old, and he didn't even have a reward. I asked him why, and he said it was his brother who died. I asked him why he set the fire, and he said he couldn't afford it. gun……

...Fake, it's not that I haven't seen dead people or bad things like this, but...but I suddenly felt...Fake..."

Angela sat quietly for a while, and suddenly collapsed in an instant, as if she was hit by great sadness. She covered her face, and big tears rolled down her face as if they were broken.

"Fake... what a rubbish thing this is... what a rubbish thing this is... it will never end... it will never end... Fake... Fake..."

Li Pan sighed, sat down next to her, drank a drink, and threw the bottle into the lake.

"Welcome to the City of Night."