Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 526 139. Four days later?
Before Mr. Johnson could figure out why this name was so familiar, there was a knock on the door of the detention room, followed by a report: "Chief, the city council sent an urgent order that needs your review."

"This guy is quite good at talking. He even calls the deputy director the director."

As Oliver muttered, Mr. Johnson ignored the boy who was born in Saint Domingo like him. Instead, he immediately put aside his thoughts and turned around and asked in confusion, "Emergency order, where is the director? Didn't he take a look at it?"

"The director has already reviewed it, and he wants you to review it as well."

You've already seen it, but you still ask to see it yourself?
Johnson was even more puzzled.

Although 80% or even more of the NCPD officers now basically follow Johnson's orders, the chief is still in a good position and has some of his close confidants who can command the police station.

In normal matters, Johnson would listen to him out of past friendship and the other party's status. But now, there is something that he has looked at and feels he cannot decide on, so he leaves it to me to decide?
Was there something wrong with the transport route and it was discovered by the city council?
If the gift from his subordinates would affect his income and be discovered, it would indeed make him feel urgent and he would need to review it himself.

But the entire route and the transportation personnel are all their own people. Is it possible for the city council to find out? And even if they do, will they dare to put such a matter involving a large number of people on the order?
There are many people in the city council who take bribes.

"Isn't this some kind of order that requires him to take the blame? Is he thinking of pushing it to me?"

After all, he was the deputy director, and Johnson was almost familiar with all the ways of struggle. After he realized in an instant that the order was unlikely to be related to the route, the next thing Johnson thought of was to take the blame.

He is too experienced in this. The reason why he wasted so many years and made so many contributions but was still a police officer was that he took too much blame, either actively or passively, from his superiors and subordinates.

But things are different now.

If you still want to take the blame at a time like this, isn't that a bit too much?

He took the blame when he was a patrolman, and if he still takes the blame now that he is the deputy chief, then wouldn't his position as deputy chief be in vain?

However, after Johnson asked Carl and the others to disguise their faces again, opened the detention room, and took the emergency order from the city council from the subordinate who rushed over, he found that he was wrong.

This matter really needs to be discussed carefully.

The directive from the city council was simple, consisting of only a few words.

'Lock down Watson's area.'

Such a simple sentence made Johnson frown.

Lock down Watson area?
There’s no plague, no large-scale gunfight, and no cyber-psychopaths causing trouble, and yet we’re starting a lockdown?
So many people died on Japan Street, and the terrorist squad was involved, but the people there were all eating and drinking as usual, and I didn't see them trying to seal off the area. Johnson hadn't heard of anything happening in Watson District recently, so why was it trying to seal off the area?
Sealing off Watson District is not as easy as expelling Taiping State and the Badlands from Night City. Watson District was built as another city center. Although it later became a rather dilapidated district in the city due to various factors, the number of people in it can be ranked among the top in Night City, and its economic output is second only to the city center, Heywood and Westbrook.
Well, although the current economic situation of Watson District is only slightly better than that of Saint Domingo which has not yet been expelled from Night City, this place is also considered one of the core urban areas. It is also close to the city center and Westbrook, which are two of the most prosperous areas in the city. If the city council wants to block it, it would be unreasonable if no riots occur.

Johnson felt a headache just thinking about street thugs taking advantage of the blockade to run around and create chaos, not to mention the reaction of the people in Watson District after the order was issued.

Especially at this time when Taiping State and the Badlands were kicked out of Night City not long ago, the Upper Watson District is going to be blocked again. What do people think?
Are you planning to kick Watson District out of Night City as well? People in Watson District are not human. Only the corporate dogs in the city center are considered human, right?

Johnson held his forehead. The instruction didn't explain why, so Johnson wanted to ask but had no place to ask.

What on earth is the city council thinking? The NCPD situation has only just improved and they’re already in trouble again. Do they think the city isn’t chaotic enough?
"Mr. Johnson, what's wrong?" Carl and the others saw Johnson holding his forehead. Carl came over and wanted to get some information. Johnson did not hide it from Carl. In the surprised eyes of the police officer, he directly handed the device in his hand to Carl.

The police officer blinked and stared at Carl, wondering who this young man was to Mr. Johnson. He was not wearing a police uniform and was so brazen as to take the city council's order and start reading it.

It can't be Mr. Johnson's illegitimate child. I've never heard of it.

Under the curious gaze of the police officer, Carl reviewed the information from the city council in the device.

"Lockdown of Watson District"

While muttering to himself, Carl also felt strange.

He lives in Watson District and hasn't heard of any major events happening recently. What happened?
"Mr. Johnson, what do you think?"

Naturally, he handed the information that was supposed to be kept secret in the police station to his other companions for review. As the police officer stared at him with wide eyes and disbelief, Carl said:

"Is the City Council planning to have Watson District leave Night City as well?"

“They shouldn’t dare to do that.”

Johnson said, "Now that former Mayor Lucius is dead and the current mayor hasn't been elected yet, everyone wants to win votes. Doing something like this at a time when not many people in the city will agree will only cause public outrage. Maybe there is some particularly urgent reason for the blockade."

"For a particularly urgent reason?"

For some reason, Carl suddenly thought of the instructions given to him by Saburo Arasaka when they were at the house of the Tiger Claw Gang member in a suit.

Waiting for him to come
Could it be that!
Carl understood.

Then when he turned to look at his other companions, he found that they were also looking at him.

Everyone, apparently, thought of that.

Karl turned his head back and looked at Johnson: "Mr. Johnson, when did the blockade start?"

"Let me see, the execution time is"

Johnson raised his eyebrows in surprise: "The lockdown will start in four days, with an indefinite time limit?! Is it so urgent?"

"Four days?"

Carl, already knows the time.

(End of this chapter)