Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 393 6. Biltmore Millennium Hotel
"We were on the territory of New America, which was even a semi-military training ground, to obtain the campaign documents of the presidential candidate. The more we understood this mission, the more we felt that we were sending ourselves to our deaths."

"Think on the bright side, Oliver. At least we got to see the sights of Los Angeles before we died."

Listening to the conversation between Oliver and Jack in the front of the car, Carl, who was sitting in the back seat, was thinking about the information he had obtained from the bar owner.

Carl asked about ten questions in total from beginning to end, and the price he paid was that all the team members who came to Los Angeles except him are now exhausted, and they have a general understanding of the internal situation of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is more like a large military camp than a city. Most of the people living in this city work in factories, and the rest either open shops serving the military and gang members, or join gangs. There are not many places that can serve outsiders. If we only count the luxurious residences, then there is only this one place in the entire city.

Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

This is a hotel that was built in 1922 and has a history of more than years. In the prosperous days of Los Angeles, it was known as the most photogenic hotel in the city. Countless Hollywood stories were set here, and even a former US president who was known for his love of laughter once stayed here.

At that time, the hotel was like a shining pearl in the City of Angels, Los Angeles, emitting dazzling light.

However, all this glory ended with the second Los Angeles riots and the subsequent division of the United States.

During the massive riot, this historic hotel was requisitioned by the police and became the last bastion of government force in the city to resist the riot.

However, as time went on, those greedy senior police officers were still addicted to pleasure, while the lower-level police officers became dissatisfied with the increasingly difficult situation and eventually joined the riots. With the help of internal personnel, this hotel, which once enjoyed a century-old reputation, ultimately failed to withstand the impact of the rioting crowd and was breached. The crowd then raged in it and completely destroyed the building.

In the following days, the controllers of the hotel kept changing, until the war of unification launched by the new United States reached Los Angeles, and the building was taken over by a knowledgeable military technology executive. While leading the gradual barracks transformation of Los Angeles, he did not forget to prepare places for himself and the leaders who would come to inspect the front lines. At that time, he fell in love with this hotel at first sight, which had a perfect structure even though it had been destroyed.

Under his authority, this abandoned hotel regained its vitality. With the continuous arrival of troops and the gradual increase in the importance of its location, the hotel became the base camp of military technology in Los Angeles. Every military technology personnel sent to Los Angeles would work in it.

Today, the renovated Millennium Biltmore Hotel not only welcomes guests from all over the world, but also shoulders the mission of demonstrating the strength of military technology to representatives of other companies.

Among these guests were diplomats from various countries. They came to visit the largest military training base recently established by the United States. Through their artificial eyes, they overlooked the struggles in the streets and observed the actual effectiveness of various weapon systems.

Carl: They're heading to the Biltmore Millennium Hotel now.

The street fight did not last long. The people on both sides were quite familiar with each other. This routine battle lasted only ten minutes before support personnel from both sides arrived. During the confrontation, the people controlled by the leaders of both sides slowly left, and then the street returned to calm.

Amid the mess of bullet shells and blood, Sky Hera drove steadily.

According to the bar owner, this kind of battle will break out several times a day in various places in the city, and those who perform well will be selected to join the new American army almost that night. From then on, they are no longer in the same class as their former companions and become the actual controllers of this city. Therefore, both the Gear Group and the Stone Gang are quite keen on fighting, but large-scale battles are not allowed because it may cause unnecessary casualties.

"You said they knew their fight was being treated as some kind of test? It sounded like a weapons test?"

V asked the question.

"Of course they know. Not only do they know, they know it very clearly. Just like accepting Arasaka transformation in Night City and exchanging high-risk experiments for the powerful Tiger Claw Gang, they actually know it because every company is doing this. It's just that Arasaka's scale in America is not as large as military technology. Maybe Arasaka also has some biological experiment sites in Japan."

Carl said that he had seen this kind of thing of using human lives as a testing tool before, and he had personally dealt with those testers, so it was nothing new. "Don't they think there's anything wrong with this? They have to fight just for the test?"

“They won’t feel wrong.”

Carl said calmly, thinking of the group of ACPA pilots he had dealt with personally. Each of them was a tool cultivated by military technology since childhood:
"They will only see that the companions who kill the most and the fastest, perform the best, and have the best adaptability to prosthetics will become the soldiers of the new United States and stand above them. Do you know why the test subjects are young people? Because young people who have not been educated and live in a special adjustment environment are quite easy to transform, and they still have enough energy and the possibility of fighting."

"But they don't know that in the front line of the killing, the so-called new American soldiers are just more useful tools."

Oliver held the steering wheel. "If the New American Army was really that good, Mann, Brown and the others wouldn't have left that place and gone to Night City. Even Night City is better than the New American Army. Now I understand why they are jealous of the people in Night City and also envy us. Compared to Night City, this place is even more of a hellhole."

"You can't compare which place is worse."

Jack smiled, took out a pair of sunglasses and put them on himself.

"We've arrived at the hotel. It's really luxurious. Although it doesn't look as good as the Blue Jade Mansion and the Sapphire Blue Mansion, it has its own unique features. Let's go, according to the roles that T-BUG has perfected for us. Now we are the bodyguards accompanying the young master."

"I don't know if the reservation status provided by T-BUG is reliable."

Oliver said, "She said she would use a small company's satellite as a relay to contact us, but she hasn't contacted us since then. It's really frightening."

"Don't worry about T-BUG's abilities. If I were asked to choose a hacker to trust in Night City, I would definitely choose T-BUG without hesitation."

V said with a smile, then put on his sunglasses and looked at Carl.

"How's it going, young master? Are your clothes ready?"

"It was fine just now."

Wearing the suit he brought back from the Sapphire Blue Party, Carl adjusted his collar:
"Then the renovation you mentioned can start showing up. I've checked all along the way. There's no surveillance. The surveillance footage of the camera at the outer bar shows us driving out of Los Angeles. Except for the satellite in the sky that our employer may be watching us, everything else has been secured."

"Safekeeping surprises you."

As Oliver spoke, a button similar to the one Carl had seen in Johnson's car popped up in the middle of the steering wheel, and as Oliver tapped it, Carl felt the outer shell of Hera's car begin to change.

The young master and his bodyguards can't drive a car of the tier of Sky Hera, so V and his team thought of this and made arrangements in advance when they were doing the Evilland transformation.

Although it was just a shell, when the Sky Hera appeared in the eyes of the reception staff of the Biltmore Millennium Hotel, it had become a modified car that could not be seen in its original form no matter how you looked at it.

(End of this chapter)