Pirate Steel Frame

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Saburo Arasaka looked at Susan Abernathy and didn't say anything else. He knew in his heart that whether it was Susan Abernathy or Arthur Jenkins, in fact, they did not do badly, but the opponents they met were too strong. .

Arthur Jenkins has already taken responsibility for the failure of the matter, so there is no need to continue to let other people be responsible for it. Facts have proved that it is still a result of replacing others, and there is no need to replace all the old subordinates for this.

"Next we"

Arasaka Saburo had just opened his mouth, but he got stuck in the middle of the sentence, because he saw Villian, who was opposite him, outside the French windows of the huge meeting room.

Villian was suspended outside, then stretched out a hand, and his sharp claws cut the glass that should have been extremely hard, cutting out a square that people could pass through smoothly.

Saburo Arasaka was stunned, and so were the subordinates in the conference room, and after Goro Takemura raised his gun nervously, everyone turned their eyes to the window.

"Good evening."

Villian entered the meeting room, with a smile on his face, he greeted everyone.

Unfortunately, no one accepted his "goodwill", and all the participants stood up nervously. Because of the reason of the meeting, they had no weapons on them, so they could only keep backing away.

Only Goro Takemura and another bodyguard moved forward, and they blocked Saburo Arasaka decisively.

Saburo Arasaka's complexion was not very good-looking, this group of wastes is really embarrassing, usually domineering, facing the "terrorist" who came to kill him, he was scared to death.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you."

Villian stood calmly in front of the group of people in "Arasaka", turning a blind eye to the two guns pointed at him, but he wanted to see if Goro Takemura dared to do it.

"Take him down."

Takemura Goro didn't need to make a decision, Arasaka Saburo directly issued an order, and Villian killed here alone, they couldn't just surrender to Villian, right?

Villian goes deep alone, Saburo Arasaka thinks this is an opportunity.

"yes!"

Takemura Goro responded, and he signaled another bodyguard to hold the line first, and he was going to capture Villian by himself.

"Don't act rashly, or I will shoot."

The bodyguard issued a warning to Villian, and at the same time he actually fired a shot, which hit Villian's feet.

"I like your confidence."

Villian smiled, Takemura Goro is one of the strongest individuals in this world, but, so be it, their combat effectiveness is only for ordinary people.

Takemura Goro has a lot of implants, and they are all models that ordinary people can't afford. Of course, compared with Adam Heavy Hammer, he has fewer implants.

"Just grab it."

Takemura Goro said harsh words, but he didn't let down his vigilance. He was still approaching carefully, for fear that Villian would suddenly attack.

Then, Villian suddenly got into trouble, because his "knowledge-colored domineering" had already noticed that the security forces of "Arasaka Tower" had begun to gather towards him.

Obviously, the alarm has sounded, and they will be blocked in a moment.

"Crack."

Takemura Goro's eyes blurred, and the person in front of him has disappeared.

And in the back, the bodyguard holding the gun had already had his arm removed by Villian, and the gun in his hand was also in Villian's hands.

"The gun is good."

Villian commented, and then pointed the gun at Saburo Arasaka.

"stop!"

Takemura Goro roared, he was really in a hurry.

"boom!"

Villian fired a shot and hit Takemura Goro in front of him.

"Calm down, I told you that as long as we can get along, I won't kill you."

Villiam ignored Takemura Goro and looked at Arasaka Saburo again.

"I heard that you want to live forever?"

Villian smiled, but what he said made everyone dumbfounded.

The "RELIC Biochip" is not a strictly confidential project, but an important part of a flagship experimental project "Guarding Your Soul" publicly released by the "Arasaka Group".

This project is developed based on the concept of "personality transfer", which converts the data of the human nervous system into a digital imprint, and then stores it on the "RELIC biochip" as a conscious body.

The goal of the "Guarding Your Soul" project is to allow people to communicate with deceased relatives. Of course, only the wealthiest clients can currently enjoy it.

The personality consciousness of the "dead" is stored on the "RELIC biochip", and they live in another way, with numbers as the carrier. That is to say, in a practical sense, death is no longer the ultimate obstacle for human beings. .

This is an open project. However, even ordinary people can understand that the potential of "RELIC technology" is far more than that, not just for people to live in "biochips".

Of course there will be other follow-up development projects. "Arasaka" just hasn't been made public. Not many people in "Arasaka" even know the details. When it will be made public depends on when Saburo Arasaka comes back from the dead.

"What's the meaning?"

Saburo Arasaka looked at Villian expressionlessly, he was not afraid of Villian, after all he had experienced too many things, and the moments of life and death were countless.

"Isn't Anders Herman working on RELIC 2.0."

Villian continued, this time, Saburo Arasaka's expression also changed.

The "RELIC 2.0" that Anders Hellman is researching is a top secret among top secrets. Few people know the specifics, and he doesn't know how Villian learned about it.

"who are you?"

Arasaka Saburo squinted his eyes, the old man's face was already full of doubts, he was very suspicious of Villian's identity.

The young man in front of him has already touched his deepest secret, "RELIC 2.0", the means of his resurrection.

Different from "RELIC 1.0 guarding your soul", "RELIC 2.0" is not only used to store digital imprints capable of basic communication, but also an enhanced personality consciousness with independent functions, and can be implanted into a new organic host.

The "Johnny Silverhand" on "V" is the "RELIC 2.0 biochip", which is a prototype.

The prerequisite for activating "RELIC 2.0" is to terminate the host's biological functions. Only when the nerve activity is completely and irreversibly shut down can the imprint be retained and take over the body. Moreover, using an object on the verge of biological death as a host cannot activate "RELIC 2.0".

That is to say, the host must first be a living person, and then he has to die once, after which the "RELIC 2.0 biochip" will revive him.

According to Victor Victor, it is the chip that revives V, then slowly erodes V's body and will, and finally kills V completely, so that the consciousness in the chip occupies V's body, achieving the resurrection of the dove occupying the magpie's nest Effect.

Villian thinks this method of resurrection is meaningless. First of all, the resurrected Johnny Silverhand is not necessarily Johnny Silverhand. It can only be said to be an AI that is very similar to Johnny Silverhand. According to Ann Judging from Des Hellman's experimental data, the similarity is only 80 to 90%.

In Villian's view, V and Johnny Silverhand were dead long ago. Johnny Silverhand died under the "Soul Killer" and became a digital code living in a biochip.

As for V, he died in the hands of Dexter DeShawn, and the revived V was just a piece of code, a piece of "RELIC 2.0 biochip" used to occupy this body and weaken the rejection reaction. .

"Hasn't the research been successful yet?"

Villian made a guess. After all, Johnny Silverhand was just a prototype at that time, and Anders Hellman, the supervisor, didn't dare to say that it would definitely work.

".That's right."

Saburo Arasaka was silent for a moment, then nodded.

It was indeed unsuccessful. The current research and development progress of the "RELIC 2.0 biochip" based on "Soul Killer" v.2.311.8-B and RELIC 1.0 "Guarding Your Soul" has reached 90%, and it is only short of the final step.

In fact, the name of the "RELIC 2.0 biochip" is "Soul Killer 4.0", which is completely no problem, it is developed based on Otto Cunningham's "Soul Killer".

"Who told you to force the best hacker in Night City into a wandering AI? If she is still here, the research and development will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

Villian shook his head. If Otto Cunningham hadn't died, hadn't fled to the "cyber space" deep in the network, and hadn't been forced outside the "black wall", but had helped research in "Arasaka", then The "RELIC 2.0 biochip" is estimated to have been completed long ago, but there is no if in the world.

"He's paid for it."

Saburo Arasaka said, the "he" here refers to his son, who was the person in charge at the time, Kei Arasaka.

Otto Cunningham was arrested because of "Soul Killer", and Johnny Silverhand broke into the "Arasaka Tower" angrily to save people, but accidentally pulled Otto Cunningham's pipe.

This caused the final tragedy. Otto Cunningham could not come back at all and became a wandering AI. Johnny Silverhand "two hit the Arasaka Tower" directly blew up the "Arasaka Tower" and destroyed the "Night City". ", Arasaka Takashi also died because of this.

There is no winner here, but if the "RELIC 2.0 biochip" succeeds in the end, Saburo Arasaka will win, and the win will be numb, and he will continue to win.

"I have a simpler way of immortality here. Do you want to try it? You don't need to be a string of numbers, you don't need to take any risks, and you can use your own body as yourself to live forever, how about it?"

Villian smiled and threw a temptation at Saburo Arasaka.

Saburo Arasaka raised his head and stared at Villian firmly, as if he was considering and doubting the credibility of Villian's words.

"So what's the price?"

Saburo Arasaka asked, although he didn't really believe it, but he would not lose a piece of meat if he asked.

"The price, you will know immediately."

A grain of blood floated out of Villian's hand, and shot directly at Saburo Arasaka.

This scene made everyone extremely nervous, Takemura Goro directly rushed towards Villian, his eyes were tearing apart.

"boom!"

Villian kicked him out, and at this time, the door of the conference room was also blasted, and the security forces rushed in.

However, it was useless to rush in, because Saburo Arasaka was still in Villian's hands, so they could only point guns at Villian and help Takemura Goro up. The security forces were waiting for his instructions, and they didn't know what to do.

Looking at Saburo Arasaka, Goro Takemura gradually calmed down, because Saburo Arasaka was still alive and nothing happened.

"This price, can you accept it?"

Villian looked at Saburo Arasaka. At this time, the "ghost transformation" had already started to take effect, and Saburo Arasaka gradually understood the price.

"I can not accept!"

Arasaka Saburo looked at Villian, with humiliating anger in his eyes. Having been in charge of the "Arasaka Group" for so long, he almost represented the "one pole" of this world, equivalent to the emperor of a super empire. How could he possibly have such a status? Accept the result of this life in his hands.

"That's really a pity."

Villian shook his head. "Ghostization" can indeed control people's life and death, but it can't convince people. However, using the "Magic Eye of Enchantment" can't change the data recorded on the "chip". Like these company executives , is not so easy to control, otherwise hackers would have unified the world long ago.

Manipulating others and changing their minds are not impossible in this world, so it is natural to be prepared, especially for "Arasaka", various data backups and various memory storages are ways to deal with it.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to completely control Saburo Arasaka and make him obediently obey orders, and Villian did not think that simply relying on "eternal life" would be able to make Saburo Arasaka surrender.

"kill him!"

Saburo Arasaka couldn't take it anymore, he couldn't accept this kind of humiliation, and wanted him to bow down, how could it be possible? !

"But!"

Takemura Goro was in a hurry, but it was too dangerous to shoot like this.

"boom!"

Before Takemura Goro finished speaking, Saburo Arasaka had already exploded. Saburo Arasaka, who had dominated the world for more than 150 years, did not die at the hands of his son this time.

Villian said pity and regret on his lips, but he was merciless in his hands, and killed as soon as he said, simply and neatly.

"Master Saburo!!!"

Goro Takemura was stunned, and everyone was dumbfounded. This scene made it hard for them to accept that Saburo Arasaka died so easily.

"Puff!!!"

However, they don't need to continue to be surprised, Saburo Arasaka's blood condensed into sharp knives after the explosion, killing all the people present, leaving no one alive.

"Tsk, it's understandable. After all, it's Saburo Arasaka. If he was so easy to give in, I'd be suspicious."

Looking at the corpses all over the place, Villian didn't have any feelings or psychological burdens. Sentencing according to his standards, these people present all died dozens of times without being wronged. It was too easy to die like this.

"These old factions belonging to Saburo Arasaka are killed, who should we find to take power? Hanako Arasaka? Yoshinobu Arasaka? Michiko Arasaka?"

In the bloody conference hall, Villian was thinking about what to do, and this result was within his expectations.