The Death Knell

Behind the door is a very spacious room, about the size of a football field. There is a deep pit in the center. There are some things similar to capacitors stored below, and there is a bridge over the pit.

You can reach a pillar through the bridge deck. This pillar is the body of the mikoshi, or the interactive control interface, because everything in this machine room is actually part of the mikoshi.

In addition to the road leading directly to the gate, there are also many chassis with black surfaces but dim red light placed on the roadside. These are servers, which store a large amount of Arasaka's confidential data.

By the way, Su Ming somewhat doesn't understand. The Arasaka Group's hometown is in Japan, so why are so many valuable intelligence materials and technological inventions in this branch of Night City?

This is like Tony's Stark Industries, which is headquartered in New York, but stores many of the products it produces in its Indian branch.

But these are all trivial details. Maybe the origin of this story is set like this. Maybe the City of Night is more convenient for the shrine to collect imprints? Who knows.

Anyway, Johnny is the most proactive now. He has already run to the edge of the pit and stepped on the Japanese-style bridge, as if he was about to embrace the mikoshi, even if he was unconscious not long ago. A piece of data that exists in it.

"This is the mikoshi." Xili rubbed her nose, and she looked up at the sky. The huge pillar was dozens of meters high, and it was it that supported the underground space: "It seems quite ordinary. Um."

Because except for the building itself, everything here does not have the advanced technological sense beyond imagination. At least this thing does not look as impressive as the ‘star torch’ used for heating in Contrasia.

"I actually like underground buildings." After confirming that there were no enemies in this hall, Rogge put away his weapons and visited the surrounding environment: "This feeling of stagnant air and the smell of hot dust, I very familiar."

"Maybe this place used to be called Arasaka Computer Room, but from now on, I declare that it will be called LBW Plaza, and everything here is mine." Deathstroke said something that no one understood, and went to check the nearby server box with a smile.

These things have to be packed up and taken away later. Check the quality and workmanship first. Is that okay?

"Whatever you want, but you better not be too busy telling jokes first." Shirley pointed to the figure lying on the pillar in front of him: "Let's take a look at Johnny. He doesn't seem to even know how to activate the shrine. Now it’s like a monkey climbing a tree.”

In fact, the mikoshi is turned on all year round. If someone is killed by the soul killer, the personality imprint will be uploaded to its local area network, so now this thing is just in a dormant state.

But no matter what state he is in, Johnny is almost as illiterate. Being absent from the technologically advanced world environment for more than fifty years is equivalent to being knocked back to the primitive state.

It's like a person died in 1970, and if you resurrected him in 2020, he would probably have a hard time understanding what a smartphone is.

There was no other way. Su Ming could only ask Rogge and Shirley to keep an eye on the door. Even though it was impossible for anyone to follow them, they had to be careful. He took out a data cable from his pocket, walked quickly towards Johnny, and started the formal work.

"Stop rubbing it, this machine is not a vending machine. You can spit out drinks after just a few kicks." Deathstroke patted Johnny on the shoulder, handed the thing in his hand over, and pointed behind his ear: "This body of yours is After the human-computer interaction interface is installed, you pull out the chip inside and connect this line."

Johnny did as he was told, he wanted to see Ultra now, and he would believe whatever Deathstroke said.

But after pulling out the legacy chip, he said in disgust: "So I was locked in here before? Turned into a string of numbers?"

"To be precise, you were imprisoned in the mikoshi before, and Saburo Arasaka moved you out a few days ago."

Seeing Johnny kicking the chip away, Su Ming leaned against the pillar and replied:

"You are already lucky. The old turtle used a soul killer to kill you. If he had been lazy and shot you or stabbed you, I might not be able to revive you even if I want to."

That being said, it can definitely be resurrected, but even if it requires some troublesome means, it's hard to explain to Johnny.

What soul, what origin, what timeline, etc., Su Ming was not going to tell this guy.

"You're right, haha, I really have to thank that bastard." Johnny plugged one end of the data cable into the behind-the-ear interface and shook his head uncomfortably: "Japanese devils have always liked to stab him with knives. People who don’t like to use guns are like idiots.”

There is a gang in Night City called the Tiger Claw Gang. Most of its main members are Japanese. While other gangs are shooting at each other on the streets with laser guns and rocket launchers, they are the only ones wielding samurai swords to kill people.

gun? They also have them, but they don’t use them, hey, they just play with them.

"Did you see that jack? Plug the other end of the data cable into it."

After lighting up a cigarette again, Su Ming pointed to the console of the Mikoshi. There was a small interface there, which was very inconspicuous, but looking at the shape, you could tell that it was closely connected to the legacy chip:

"When you are connected to the system, my hacker will send you into the cyberspace composed of this Arasaka LAN, and then you can make a lot of noise in it, or even laugh and cry. I believe Otto will be very happy. Find you quickly."

"I don't understand, but I will do as you say." Johnny was very straightforward. He inserted the other end of the thread and nodded to Deathstroke: "I just need to convince her to help you, right?"

"Yes, but it's not for nothing." Su Ming gave a tempting condition: "I can prepare a new body for her, resurrect her like you, and also save her from the crazy wandering AI. Return to normal personality imprint."

"That means she can still remember me, right?" Johnny took a deep breath. He was ready for the last question.

"She always remembers you." Su Ming patted Silver Hand's back encouragingly, then took a step back: "Lark, throw our bait into the sea."

As soon as the order came out, Johnny's body suddenly became stiff. This was a manifestation of the personality consciousness being connected to the network. If it were changed to a world with other backgrounds, this could probably be said to be a form of out-of-body experience?

The next step is to wait. Although he has arranged it through Mandala, Otto is still quite suspicious. It will take some time to wait for her to take the bait.

But it doesn't matter. The underground facilities here have been cleared. No one will come here in a short time. After all, the existence of the shrine itself is not known to all cats and dogs.

Saburo Arasaka is dead, Hanako Arasaka is not in Night City, Yorinobu Arasaka and Goro Takemura must go to the police station to assist in the investigation, so no one knows the existence of this place.