Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 335 97. Thinking, Maybe
"It's been a while since we last met, Blanca."

Standing on the street, Carl looked at the cars that slowly stopped in front of him with their windows lowered, and said hello to Blanca in the car: "Why did you change cars? I remember seeing you driving the Villefort Curtis V5000 Courage before."

"It's been a long time, Carl."

Blanca rolled her eyes at Carl, who hadn't seen her for a long time and only exchanged a few pleasantries before he started to care about his car. "Besides, what was my position then? What is my position now? The car must match my position, just like clothes and jewelry, you know."

"I don't quite understand."

"So you're fussing about my car?"

"I was just assessing whether the car would attract attention."

Carl looked at the Herrera Outlaw GTS driven by Blanca. In his impression, it seemed that his friend Masi also drove this car.

Blanca, who didn't know what Carl was thinking, looked at Carl's eyes scanning his car up and down and asked, "So how is the evaluation going now?"

"It should be OK."

Carl walked to the other side of Herrera's GTS without any hesitation, opened the door and sat in the passenger seat: "Where do you live now?"

"Um?!"

Unexpectedly, Carl, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked Blanca where she lived now. Blanca was stunned by the words and was a little stunned at first.

Then, she quickly reacted and said, well, according to Karl's personality.
"Charter Hill, what? Are you planning to come to my house for a visit?"

"I'll go there when I have time."

Carl said, "But you actually live in Charter Hill? I thought that according to your current situation, you would have to live in North Oak. Isn't a villa good?"

"It's troublesome at work."

"North Oak and Charter Hill aren't that far apart."

"A little time can determine success or failure."

Listening to Blanca's matter-of-fact words, Carl could only say.
"You must have worked too much overtime and lost your mind."

Blanca did not deny this. After starting the car, she looked at Karl and asked, "Where are you going?"

"You know I want you to give me a ride?"

"If I still can't understand what you mean by this point, then I don't want to work in the company anymore."

There was one more thing Blanca didn't say, which was that she really no longer had any positive expectations for Carl in some aspects.

Instead of expecting this guy to take action in that direction, it is better to wait for a new American president to fall from the sky.

"Then let's go to Charter Hill." "The place where you are doing this time won't be very close to where I am."

Blanca stepped on the accelerator.

"I don't know, but it might be very close. You can just drop me off there when the time comes. Oh, you'd better leave me your address. If anything goes wrong, I can run to your place to avoid the limelight."

"Need you to stay out of the spotlight?"

Blanca frowned. What Carl and the others did yesterday had spread everywhere. She even heard about it halfway on her way back to Night City. Even a ruthless character like Adam Hammer was forced to stop by Carl and the others. Who wanted Carl to hide from the limelight?

"Could it be that Adam is so angry with the hammer that he wants to take revenge? Do you need me to arrange a way out for you?"

Blanca's words became more serious. "If you really run into trouble, you can come to me. I'll arrange a position for you. Even if Arasaka wants to cause trouble for you, it won't be that easy with our military technology."

"As expected of someone who is the biggest enemy of Arasaka, the military technology guy, he has the confidence to say this."

Carl thanked Blanca for her kindness. "Thank you, but you're overthinking it. It's just a job that requires me to hide my identity. It might attract the NCPD and the trauma team. The worst-case scenario is that the Terrorist Squad will come. It's not easy to hide my identity when fighting with them, so I thought I'd hide with you."

"Isn't it Arasaka?"

After understanding that it was only Carl who took the job, Blanca, who had just become serious, relaxed again in an instant:

"Then come on over, whether it's the NCPD or the Terrorist Squad, we have people behind them funding them. They are not qualified to search my place."

People in military technology are always the vanguard against Arasaka, but since they are not Arasaka, there is nothing to worry about.

"You really have inherited the fine tradition of military technology."

No wonder Blanka can keep getting promoted in Militech. As for Arasaka, that is the absolute political correctness within Militech. No matter how many mistakes you make, as long as you can cause trouble for Arasaka, Militech will give you a promotion.

I wonder if there are any companies on the market that are as competitive as Militech and Arasaka.
Thinking of this, Carl suddenly realized something.

Everyone knows that Arasaka and Military Technology are in direct conflict with each other, but what would happen if one day, Arasaka and Military Technology suddenly reached a cooperation?
This is not without precedent. After Arasaka Kei died, the Arasaka forces in the Americas, led by Arasaka Michiko, reached a cooperation with the president of New America. Behind New America stood Michiko. That incident directly led to the growth of Michiko as the representative of New America, the third largest faction in Arasaka. The doves who sought cooperation with Michiko and hoped to seize the highest power in Arasaka. If there were people like Michiko in Michiko, they would also want to cooperate with Arasaka in turn.
What would happen if both sides succeeded in coming to power and then worked together to form a joint company of Arasaka and Military Technology?
In the current market environment, everyone is aware of the hostile relationship between Militech and Arasaka. Therefore, other companies within the sphere of influence of these two giants usually only choose to stand on one side. No one has ever considered establishing a third-party force between these two giants to confront them.

If these two companies suddenly unite when other companies are still choosing to support Arasaka or Militech, will those companies that are accustomed to supporting one camp to obtain their own interests be able to redraw their lines and form a new opposing force to face this alliance?

Can loose alliances really prevent the United Corporation from monopolizing these areas in a timely manner?
Military technology and Arasaka have been enemies since World War II, but in this era, in the face of interests, are there really eternal enemies?
"We're here. Where do you want to get off?"

While Carl was deep in thought, Blanca's words interrupted his thoughts, and Carl chose to put them aside for the time being.

'What I can think of, others can definitely think of too. It's scary to think about it, but it's not that easy to do. The doves on the Arasaka side are only the third largest faction, with the least supporters, not to mention that Arasaka Saburo is still alive;
As for military technology, let alone, the new American president they support has just launched a war of unification that almost broke out into an all-out war with Arasaka. There is not even a shadow of doves among them, not to mention the hostile relationship between the two sides for so many years. Even if they want to seek cooperation, it will never be so easy.'

Carl calmed down, looked at the street at night and spoke:

"Just put me between those two flower beds, and I'll do it."

(End of this chapter)