Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 307 69. Biotechnology technology?

"This looks really miserable."

Oliver squatted on the ground, staring at the bloody flesh on the ground through his helmet, and asked Jack beside him: "Does this look like what we encountered before?"

"The explosion I saw was followed by fire. I didn't see it clearly. You should ask V about that. He should have seen some debris when he rushed in to grab the weapons."

Jack looked at the Arasaka employees who were separated and controlled in different places in the banquet hall on this floor after being managed. He glanced at the various bloody and fleshy foods on the table next to him and said with a click of the tongue: "What a waste! I saw a lot of delicious food."

"It's not as good as the one upstairs. They're all synthetic foods. At most, the ingredients are better. They're not much different from the restaurants in the city center."

When Oliver stood at the door, he more or less took a few glances into the banquet hall. Compared with the food in the banquet hall on the fourth floor, the food served to the employees in the banquet hall on the lowest floor was just so-so.

“It’s really quite different.”

V, who seemed to be chewing something, walked towards the two of them. "I took some kebabs that were not touched by the door and ate them. I didn't feel anything before, but today after eating the food in the banquet hall on the fourth floor, I found that the contrast between the two sides is quite obvious. The kebabs downstairs are not only not fragrant at all, but also smell like plastic box sawdust."

"You really did eat secretly when you were upstairs. I told you why you were hiding in the corner with your head down when I watched from the door."

Oliver shook his head, not caring too much. He stood up, pointed at the marks on the ground and asked, "Are you familiar with this place? When we encountered an explosion on the road before, were the marks left similar to this?"

"The explosion should be no different. They all spread from the inside out."

Having said this, V squatted down and began to examine carefully. However, before starting, he put on the gloves that came with his combat uniform to avoid getting any blood on his fingers, which would affect his eating later.

"Did you see anything?"

Jack stood by with his hands folded. V had also recently installed a prosthetic eye made by Kirusi. Among the three people present, he was the only one who had not undergone much modification on the prosthetic eye. In this job, he was only responsible for the duties of a thug.

"It spread from the inside out. Judging from the traces left by the explosion, the blood on the lower limbs is very even, which means they were hit later. In other words, the center of the explosion should be around the chest and abdomen."

V made his judgment, and his words were responded by Kenichi Shiro who walked slowly over: "Indeed."

Kenichi Shiro said this with a calm expression: "According to the slow-motion footage shown on the surveillance camera, the bomb is located between his stomach and small intestine."

"Between the stomach and small intestine?"

Oliver frowned slightly, his voice carrying a hint of worry. "That place was scanned almost immediately, but he was able to hide from the detection system at the door. It's incredible. It's not easy to place a bomb of that magnitude between the stomach and the small intestine while shielding it from all detection."

"You mean, one layer of scanning is useless?" "That's exactly what I mean."

Oliver was completely outspoken. He and Kenichi Shiro knew each other, but it was just an employer-mercenary relationship, so there was nothing to worry about in their conversation:
"To put it bluntly, the scan of the first floor banquet hall that you guys set up is garbage."

Kenichi Shiro's expression did not change at all after being told this. He just asked a simple question: "Did you check the inspection procedure at the door just now?"

"The biometric monitoring and identification connection used, plus thermal scanning and other steps, I don't know every detail, but I have seen the general procedures when I came here."

"Then do you have a way to put a bomb of this magnitude in the same location and block the scan?"

"It's no problem to put it in the same place. This kind of surgery is not difficult. I might not have been able to do it a few months ago, but now I can complete the relevant surgery in half an hour. However, the discomfort caused by the compression of the stomach will be very obvious. It is not safe to store the bomb if it is discovered by others.
If it were me, I would choose to remove part of the stomach and use the bomb as a filler to replace that part of the stomach. If it is to be shielded, I would have to have specialized personnel to coordinate and modify the bomb shell in advance. At the very least, the surface should be covered with a biological layer to behave like the stomach wall."

As he was speaking, Oliver suddenly stopped talking.

He looked at Kenichi Shiro, who already understood something, and said the name of a company: "Biotechnology."

V also understood what Oliver meant. As a member of the team with considerable technical knowledge, although he was not proficient in the "bioengineering technology" of biotechnology, he still had a certain basic understanding. So, he said:
"If bioengineering technology is involved, it is indeed possible to make the bomb wrapped in flesh and blood perfectly integrated with the human body, as if it were a part of the body. Even without the need for stomach or small intestine removal surgery, the bomb can coexist harmoniously with human tissue and will not cause any discomfort to the carrier."

"That is to say, regardless of whether biotechnology is involved in this matter, at least in its use, did the people who installed bombs in the bodies of employees use biotechnology technology?"

Kenichi Shiro stared at the meat paste on the ground, his expression remained unchanged.

Biotechnology is a top company in the field of human body research. If it is the technology of this company, it is easy to understand why the scan on the first floor of Arasaka Banquet Hall is useless, because the technology and protection level on both sides are completely unequal. Compared in this way, it is not an exaggeration to call the detection on the first floor of Arasaka Banquet Hall rubbish.

But why biotechnology?
Arasaka's arch-enemy in the company is actually just a military technology company. Although there are often conflicts with other companies, they are able to maintain harmonious communication and product trading with each other. What Kenichi Shiro is thinking about is the possible situations implied by the appearance of biotechnology in this incident.

Did Biotech expose its spies inside Arasaka? Or did the people who used Biotech technology secretly want to stir up discord and struggle between the two companies? Or was this some kind of provocation by Biotech against Arasaka?
When Kenichi Shiro was about to investigate carefully, the lights in the banquet hall on his floor suddenly went out.

There's a power outage?!

how is this possible.

This is the center of Arasaka in the entire Americas. Among all the Arasaka Towers around the world, its importance is second only to the Night City Arasaka Tower on the main island. Not to mention the backup power supply, even the power supply for the tower floors has several points, ensuring that a single disconnection will not affect the entire floor. And now there is a power outage?
It is definitely impossible that this is a normal power outage such as circuit overload. There is only one possibility for such a consistent power outage on the entire floor.

The center that controls the power supply has been hacked!
(End of this chapter)