Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 301 63. Mercenary Job Change
"Why do I feel like you seem to be unhappy every day, Mr. Kenichi Shiro?"

After getting out of the car, Carl showed a big smile to Kenichi Shiro: "Isn't it a party today? Can't you be happy?"

"This is not something you, a security guard, should say."

Kenichi Shiro said coldly: "Losing vigilance due to the atmosphere of the banquet is the first step towards the collapse of the ant nest."

"That's true, but if you keep your nerves tense, they will eventually break."

While Carl was chatting with the cold-faced Kenichi Shiro, V carefully asked Jack and Oliver about Kenichi Shiro's identity:
"Who is this company dog ​​who looks like he can fight? He was the one who met us last time. Could it be that what we discussed while drinking before is true? Is Karl, who acts like a young master, really the illegitimate son of some company executive?"

"Don't think too much. He's just Carl's boss for another part-time job as a dangerous girl. He's the one who assigned Carl the mission we discussed when Carl went to Arasaka Tower last time. His name is Kenichi Shiro. His other identity is indeed a senior executive of Arasaka Corporation."

Oliver actually didn't know much about Kenichi Shiro. It was better to say that except for Carl, the rest of the team only knew Kenichi Shiro by recognizing his face and knowing his identity. They were also very curious about why Carl was so familiar with Kenichi Shiro.

Even though Kenichi Shiro looks like he has a cold face, according to the other four people in the team's perception of the nature of corporate dogs, those arrogant corporate dogs do not look down on people with squinted eyes and treat others like dogs. Instead, just talking with a cold face is considered an excellent attitude, even a little too cordial.

"Come with me first."

After chatting with Carl for a few words, Kenichi Shiro glanced at the hovercraft driving into the parking lot, turned around and walked in front.

Kenichi Shiro was quite dissatisfied with the arrival of Carl's team.

He had not originally planned to call Carl and the others over for this incident, because he trusted his subordinates' current protection capabilities. However, because of the previous experience, Chiyome, who was not confident in his so-called protection capabilities, privately issued a commission to Carl and the others. After Kenichi Shiro realized that his disciple had called Carl and the others, the matter had been settled, and Miss Haruko also agreed. Kenichi Shiro had to arrange Carl and the others into the guards.

Today's banquet was specially held to appease those employees who were affected by the recent internal review. In the arrangement of this banquet, participants are allowed to bring a small number of family members and bodyguards. As for those special personnel, Kenichi Shiro is confident that he can control the situation well. In this case, the arrival of Carl and others is a variable in Kenichi Shiro's eyes.

At that time, Karl came and cooperated with Adam to use a heavy hammer to purge the rebels in Arasaka Tower. Today, Karl also came to this party that was supposed to be for comforting people and making empty promises. What does this mean? Is he going to purge them again? Then didn’t our previous purge go to waste?

Considering that the remaining middle and senior management of Arasaka, who were already like frightened birds, might think about this matter, Kenichi Shiro chose to personally greet Carl and others and took them to a place inside to prepare for advance preparation.

"This banquet is divided into four levels."

In the specially decorated room, Kenichi Shiro began to explain to the four members of Carl's team:

"Ordinary employees are naturally not eligible to attend the banquet, but in order to stabilize people's hearts, they will be given an annual leave of any day in the next year. Except for the personnel in the security-related departments, the other employees with positions above department heads will be allowed to attend this banquet. There are four banquet floors, and each floor will entertain people with different positions. You are responsible for the highest level."

Kenichi Shiro said this and pressed a few times on the wall of the storage room next to the landing floor.

"Stand firm."

As noises were heard in various places in this narrow room, Kenichi Shiro reminded the other four people in the room. Then Carl saw that the door they walked in began to slowly close. They began to rise with the movement they could feel under their feet. It turned out to be an elevator disguised as a storage room. This was probably used by senior people who needed to quickly reach the parking floor in some emergency. Arasaka Tower was really like the magic tower in the tower climbing game, with traps and messy ways of moving everywhere.

While Carl was complaining in his heart, the rising storage room soon stopped at one floor and the door reopened. At Kenichi Shiro's signal, several people stepped out. After everyone left the room, Carl looked back at the storage room they came out of and found that the door of the storage room automatically closed after the people walked out, and it was tightly fitted with the surrounding walls. It didn't look like there was an elevator room here at all.

"follow me."

Following Kenichi Shiro's voice, Carl and his companions looked at the corridor they came to and found that the layout of this corridor was quite interesting. There were no traces of doors or corners in the entire corridor. It looked like an uninhabited corridor that appeared out of nowhere on the floor of Arasaka Tower.

"Is this a transit station?"

With such doubts, Carl asked Kenichi Shiro: "Could this place be a hidden transfer station on some floor? Mr. Kenichi Shiro, is it okay for us to know about this?"

"Do you think there are similar places in the buildings of Military Technology and other companies? Let me tell you straight, Military Technology copied our design drawings."

In the face of Carl's doubts, Kenichi Shiro simply replied with this sentence calmly, and just this one sentence made Carl understand.

So, every company has its own "little secret" that other companies know.

He understood it, but Carl didn't quite believe the second half of Kenichi Shiro's sentence. Compared with the possibility that the military technology was copied from you, Carl felt that it was more reasonable that the two spies jointly developed and created it.

Walking forward in the corridor, they soon arrived at another wall. They saw Kenichi Shiro pressing something on the smooth wall, and a door opened. There was a row of wardrobes placed against the wall, which looked like a dressing room, but the size of the room was almost as big as a standard basketball court.

"What is this place?"

"locker room."

Kenichi Shiro responded to Carl's question and calmly instructed the four security guards, "Go change your clothes. You can't show up in public, at least not with Carl's face. You all have to wear Arasaka uniforms."

"Arasaka's uniforms."

This thing.

Carl gave his companion a look, and after a basic check, he obediently began to change his outer clothes according to Kenichi Shiro's request. The way he changed clothes, and he was able to quickly adjust even the details, made Kenichi Shiro frown.

Is it my own illusion?
Kenichi Shiro stared at Carl, thinking to himself.

"Why does it feel like this guy has worn Arasaka's combat uniform before? He's so skilled?"

(End of this chapter)