Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 407 20. Kujira
"The Kujira, or rather, the Whale, is anchored in Coronado Bay. It's a supercarrier belonging to Arasaka. I never thought I would have the opportunity to come to such a place."

Sitting in Kenichi Shiro's hovercraft, Oliver looked at the approaching supercarrier and turned to look at Carl: "Since the formation of the team, I have really seen more and more things."

"Is it because you have only stayed in Saint Domingo and never come out?"

Jack sat quietly, but looking at the Kujira anchored at the Arasaka port, some excitement appeared on his face involuntarily.

As a mercenary with a keen interest in awesome weapons, being able to observe a supercarrier so closely and even board it soon was undoubtedly a very exciting thing. Even if Jack wanted to control himself, his body was shaking uncontrollably with excitement.

Who can refuse to board a super aircraft carrier?

"I don't know what kind of technology is needed to build such an aircraft carrier, and how long it will take to build."

Looking at the catamaran-structured super aircraft carrier, V counted and found that it had three decks of different lengths and staggered. The advantage of this type of deck is that the launching and recovery operations can be carried out independently, and even if one layer is damaged, it will not affect the other layers. V happened to have seen a similar structure in the construction of past ships.

It was a video introducing an old historical ship that he bought after coming to Night City. In it, there was an aircraft carrier with a structure similar to this super aircraft carrier. V remembered the name was.
'Akagi. '

Is the design used by Arasaka still this ancient design? In the video introduction that V saw, due to the problem of take-off and landing efficiency of carrier-based aircraft, the three-section deck is no longer popular in the world. Now the aircraft carriers basically use straight-through decks.

Compared to Oliver who was concerned about going to new places, Jack who was concerned about the awesome weapons, and V who was concerned about the structure of the Kujira, Carl, who was looking at the super aircraft carrier like them, was recalling the history and information about the aircraft carrier in his mind.

According to the information Carl had read, the aircraft carrier arrived in Night City on June 2070, 6. Its arrival forced the New American army that had originally planned to invade Night City to retreat, effectively ending the New American unification war and maintaining the independence of Night City.

The President of the New United States, Miles, was worried that Arasaka's intervention would lead to an escalation of conflict in the Unification War and possibly trigger the Fifth Corporate War, so he had to choose to negotiate with Arasaka. Subsequently, she signed the "Unification Treaty" with the Free State Alliance supported by Arasaka, nominally announcing the end of the Unification War. Since then, this super aircraft carrier has been serving as a guarantee for Arasaka, anchored in Coronado Bay until today.

If Arasaka Tower symbolizes that Arasaka's hand has reached out to North America again, then the existence of the Kujira is Arasaka's clenched fist. Anyone who sees it has to consider the consequences of this punch.

Under the guidance of the soldiers on the Kujira, the floating vehicle that passed the identification code slowly descended, and the automatic naval gun that was originally locked also began to turn its muzzle.

"It feels a bit like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Do hovercrafts have to be so defensive?"

Oliver watched the turret deflect and breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he was a little confused about the defenses on the Kujira: "The firepower of a hovercraft can't cause any damage to this super aircraft carrier, not to mention that this hovercraft doesn't even have any lethal firepower."

"Maybe he was remembering his experience as a kamikaze pilot and was afraid of an attack from a flying vehicle loaded with bombs."

Among the people present, only Kenichi Shiro understood the hellish words that Carl said, but he glanced at Carl and said nothing.

Let this kid be embarrassed without anyone to respond. He dares to say anything. Everyone knows that if Saburo Arasaka had not been short of time, he should have been a member of the Kamikaze Special Attack Force.

"The Kujira has been reinforced and is not afraid of ordinary suicide bombings. Even a floating vehicle loaded with bombs is a little short of the quantity." Kenichi Shiro did not respond to Carl's hellish words, but someone else did.

Not only did she answer, she even chuckled: "What the soldiers are more afraid of is that the floating vehicle may be carrying a nuclear bomb, just like the nuclear explosion in 2023. They don't want yesterday to happen again."

"hiss"

Hearing this familiar voice and words, Carl took a deep breath. He was the one who spoke the words of hell first, but now he felt a little embarrassed: "You shouldn't be the one to say this to me, Haruko."

"Is that right?"

Haruko, who was waiting for Carl and Kenichi Shiro at the landing place of the hovercraft under the escort of Chiyome, put her finger on her cheek, tilted her head and thought for a moment before reacting.

She covered her mouth and said, "Yes, during that incident."

Haruko's grandfather, Kei Arasaka, did not die in the nuclear explosion of Arasaka Tower, but generally speaking, he died in a related incident. It was a bit too filial for Haruko to follow up on Carl's words of hell.

Although Arasaka Kei died more than 30 years before Haruko was born, and was just a stranger whose name Haruko had heard of, they were still related by blood, so it was not easy to talk about related things.

"I shouldn't be the one to say this, but you Arasaka family are a little too relaxed about blood relations."

Carl got out of the car and nodded to Chiyome. After waiting for a response, he looked at Haruko: "But I have to apologize too. No matter what, I still said something that was disrespectful to life."

Carl was also somewhat troubled by his mental state in recent days, wondering if he was becoming more and more integrated into Night City.

"I respect my mother very much, but it may take some getting used to for me to respect relatives I have never met."

Haruko spoke very honestly, and after greeting Kenichi Shiro who was walking down, she held out her hand to Carl: "Let's go, Uncle is waiting for us, and Mother will be here soon."

Seeing Haruko's hand stretched out in front of him, Carl didn't react at first, but after feeling the gaze of Mr. Kenichi Shiro, he suddenly reacted.

By the way, I came here today in my own capacity, not as a guard, but as a...
Haruko's friend.

Carl took Haruko's hand.

To be honest, he rarely holds his friends' hands because after junior high school, he became a bit dogmatic and believed that only women or family members would hold hands when walking, but his friends all reached out.
It seems that in Western etiquette, men have to hold hands and guide women?
Don't quite understand.

But Mr. Kenichi Shiro seemed to be still staring at me. Why?
Hadn't I followed his eye contact and politely led him by the hand?
(End of this chapter)