Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 411 24. Test Location
"Mrs. Michiko."

Kenichi Shiro, Takemura Goro and Chiyome all bowed to the arrival of Arasaka Michiko. As a formal member of the Arasaka family and as "house servants" in a sense, they had to show appropriate respect.

In a sense, Michiko Arasaka can be regarded as a third party in the struggle within Arasaka. Although conflicts may arise in certain power struggles, on the scene, people on both sides will show respect to her.

This is true even for Goro Takemura, who represents Saburo Arasaka's wishes, even though Saburo Arasaka has never liked this granddaughter.

"Michiko."

Arasaka Nobuo remained seated despite the arrival of his niece. As the person with the highest status and seniority present, he did not need to bow to Arasaka Michiko like the others. A nod of greeting was his greeting as an uncle to his niece.

"Mother."

Haruko Arasaka stood up and bowed slightly to welcome Michiko Arasaka.

In the Japanese education that Haruko Arasaka received, a daughter naturally had to show respect to her mother, even if Michiko Arasaka didn't care about it at all.

"Haruko."

Arasaka Michiko nodded slightly to signal Haruko to sit down, then walked to the side of Arasaka Nobuyuki: "Nobuyuki."

Without any polite address, not even calling him uncle, Michiko Arasaka chose to call Nobuaki Se directly by his name.

This is not to say that the relationship between the two is bad. There is still some basic family friendship between Arasaka Michiko and Arasaka Nobuo. At the very least, it is much more real and reliable than the family friendship between Arasaka Nobuo and Arasaka Saburo. It's just that Michiko Arasaka is used to calling Arasaka Nobuo that.

Both sides are leaders of a major faction within Arasaka, so it is natural that they would not show too much humility just because of a generational issue. This is as natural as Arasaka Nobuobu would not call Arasaka Saburo father.

As Arasaka Michiko sat down, Adam Hammer stood calmly aside, but Carl noticed something.

Mr. Kenichi Shiro's father, Kenichi Saburo, did not protect Michiko Arasaka.

Carl saw it last time, but this time the person next to Arasaka Michiko turned into Adam Hammer, and no one knew why.

"Now that everyone is here, we can start."

After the hatch was closed again, Arasaka Nobuyuki looked at Arasaka Michiko and said, "You have brought all the personnel here, right?"

"We have arranged to go to the testing location."

'Testing location, personnel?'

Listening to the conversation between Arasaka Nobuo and Arasaka Michiko, Carl thought in his heart, it turns out that this time it is not just a simple transfer of personnel, but some kind of test needs to be conducted.

However, no one knows why the test was not conducted at Arasaka Tower but on this super aircraft carrier.

After the three members of the Arasaka family sat down, the entire cabin suddenly became dark, and just when Carl was thinking whether he was attacked, a wall of the lounge opened up, revealing a large screen.

Screen?

There is a projection screen in the lounge.
Seems normal.

However, it feels like watching a movie. When everything around is dark, there is only one screen lit in a large space.

Carl looked around, and finally found a fixed chair next to where Adam was standing with the hammer, sat down, and looked at the screen with some anticipation.

He hasn't seen a movie since he came to this world. The last time he went to Taiping Prefecture and met the network monitor, he had a chance to watch one together, but V and the others solved the problem too quickly and it was over in a flash, so he missed out on watching the movie.

Although Carl guessed that what would be shown on the screen in a moment would probably be a live test broadcast of a certain scene, he didn't mind watching it as a documentary film in this atmosphere.

Adam Heavy Hammer could see clearly in the dark. He noticed Carl sitting down next to him. He wanted to open his mouth and make the usual sarcastic remarks to Carl, but Arasaka Michiko was there. After thinking about it, he remained silent and ignored Carl who sat down next to where he was standing.

After Carl sat down, a picture appeared on the screen. The scene in the picture was a white empty space similar to a laboratory. There were more than a dozen combatants in Arasaka uniforms and several officers who looked fully armed standing in the space. In the middle of them, there was a glass cover that isolated other things around it. In the glass cover, the person Carl had met once was among them.

The strange blue-eyed man in a suit who I met at the Arasaka party might be a wandering AI.

Perhaps because he had not taken care of himself for a long time, his hair was a little messy and his face was a little greasy, but his appearance was not affected by the mess at all. The pair of prosthetic eyes with blue light seemed energetic and revealed a sense of spirit.

"Everything today, including what you see and hear next, must not be leaked."

The members of Carl's team all received a warning from Kenichi Shiro.

"Don't worry, we mercenaries know the rules." Carl replied, and he knew in his heart that this showed that Kenichi Shiro had a certain degree of trust in them.

Not only could ordinary mercenary teams not receive such missions, they were also not qualified to sit in while performing escort missions. However, Kenichi Shiro allowed them to enjoy the same spectator treatment as the Arasaka soldiers in the laboratory. This was undoubtedly a sign of trust in their mercenary credibility, and Carl naturally had to give a positive response to this.

Although they were involved in many secret matters like Arasaka, including military technology.

Carl now really understands more and more why the company would let legends like Morgan Blackhand and Adam Hammer take up important positions or provide important support. Their own abilities are one thing, and the company secrets they are involved in are also slowly binding them to a certain extent. Moreover, this binding is irreversible and irreversible. Before they know it, they have become one.

“Boom boom.”

While Carl was answering Kenichi Shiro, the blue-eyed man reached out his hand and gently tapped the inside of the glass cover. The tapping sound was transmitted through the sound broadcast on the screen to the ears of everyone in the rest cabin.

The blue-eyed man seemed to know that someone was watching him. After clapping twice, he stopped, stood up straight, and then performed a perfect bow.

"It's our first time. No, it should be said that it's our first time meeting you, everyone from Arasaka."

After he finished correcting himself with these words, his bent body straightened up almost horizontally, and then his eyes were fixed on the surveillance camera without moving, as if he could see the scene in the lounge through the surveillance camera in the laboratory from there.

Everyone in the lounge was a little frightened by this kind of behavior, even Carl.

His mouth opened slightly in surprise.

What surprised Carl was not the fact that the blue-eyed man was speaking to them through the surveillance camera, but something else.

"These days are really amazing. I am really an old-fashioned person. Even AI knows how to behave like a dog and salute people. What else can't it do?"

(End of this chapter)