Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 595 9. Good Omen

There are still three days until the float festival.

At this time, Arasaka Corporation was busy arranging and preparing the environment and defense of Japan Street. It was also at this time that Carl and Johnny Silverhand came to the construction site opposite the Arasaka Industrial Park, standing on the roof of the unfinished building, overlooking the huge Arasaka Industrial Park across the street.

Carl and his team planned to sneak into the float on the day of the float festival, but to do this, they obviously couldn't be unprepared.

Not to mention the agents, snipers and hackers lurking along the way, the powerful defense program of the float itself is enough to pose a huge obstacle. In order to successfully invade the float and transform it so that it can accommodate people smoothly on the day of the festival, they must take action in advance and implant a virus into the float system before the festival to weaken its defense.

The production site of the float happens to be located inside the Arasaka Industrial Park - this is also the reason why Carl and Johnny Silverhand came here today.

Before sneaking into the float, they need to complete a small warm-up - sneak into the Arasaka Industrial Park first.

"Of course, you can also regard this as a small test for you, Mr. Johnny Silverhand." Standing on the roof, Carl felt the wind blowing by his side, turned his head and said to Johnny Silverhand: "The famous Johnny Silverhand, can't be so incapable of sneaking in alone to complete the virus implantation?"

These words, which were somewhat teasing and provocative, were obviously very effective on Johnny Silverhand. After standing on a high place and carefully observing the terrain of the Arasaka Industrial Park, he said "Just wait and see" and jumped down from the building of the construction site, running towards the Arasaka Industrial Park with incredible agility.

Judging from his movements, he was becoming more and more adaptable to that body. It was not known whether it was the effect of the chip or that Johnny Silverhand was good at blending into the environment. Carl had already seen some of the shadow of the past "Qiuqiu" in his movements.

In the past, with the continuous transformation of the team members, "Qiuqiu" has possessed top-notch hacking and combat capabilities. Even when facing a well-equipped corporate security force, it can easily win. This kind of security force is equipped with military technology and is of the same level as Arasaka. Even on the streets, there are not many afterlife mercenaries who can reach this level.

Now that Johnny Silverhand has this ability and can fully utilize it, a mere Arasaka Industrial Park is naturally not a problem for him.

Carl watched the black and white figure disappear from his sight, then found a random place on the rooftop to sit down. He took out his spare phone from his pocket and turned on the latest news.

On the screen, Arasakase Nobuyuki appeared in the picture, and he seemed to be holding a press conference:

"I am about to make an important decision, which is to double the number of guards in Night City. In President Miles's view, my actions violate the Alvin Agreement and are a provocation against the New America and military technology. So I want to ask, what about assassinating my father? Isn't this a provocation-"

Arasakase Nobuo was passionately denouncing military technology on TV, but the picture was suddenly cut off.

Carl glanced at the channel displayed on the screen of his mobile phone - News Channel 54. As everyone knows, behind News Channel 54 is Military Technology. They are almost the mouthpiece of Military Technology, speaking specifically for it. The appearance of Arasakase Nobuyuki on this channel was obviously a deliberate arrangement by Military Technology.

It seemed that they hoped to seize the high ground of public opinion by having Arasakase Nobuo announce an increase in the number of guards, and accuse him of violating the Alvin Agreement. However, they obviously did not expect that not long after the live broadcast, Arasakase Nobuo mentioned the death of Saburo Arasaka, so they had to switch channels urgently.

It seems that even now, the insiders of Militech have not figured out which faction killed Saburo Arasaka, and they are still investigating each other. Before they figure out the whole thing, they have no intention of directly confronting Arasaka and starting a new corporate war.

So the current situation is that Arasaka, under the leadership of Arasaka Nobuo, is becoming more and more powerful because of the death of Saburo, while the military technology is caught in an internal strife and is searching for the traitor?
Probably after sorting out the situation through the news and his own understanding and the missions he had participated in, Carl closed his phone and turned to look at the stairs leading to the rooftop. He heard some strange noises.

As Carl watched, an animal that was quite rare in Night City appeared in front of Carl. It was a cat, or more precisely, a Canadian Sphynx cat.

After the Night City Bird Act, the first things to disappear in Night City were the birds, then the dogs, and finally only a few and scattered cats were left in this big city.

Carl had seen cats several times. For example, there was a cat next to Lao Wei's clinic. Misty often went to feed it. She even considered adopting it for a while, but he didn't expect to see a cat today when he came to the almost abandoned construction site.

Looking at the hairless cat that was stretching in the stairwell, climbing up a stone railing and lying there, staring at him fearlessly, Carl thought for a moment, took out an octopus pancake-flavored energy bar from his pocket, tore it open, squeezed out a little of the contents, and shook it towards the hairless cat, motioning for it to come over and eat.

This octopus pancake-flavored energy bar was something Carl had taken from V's car some time ago after he had eaten it once. The purpose was to keep it as a souvenir, because energy bars that taste so bad are rare, so Carl took some for some strange purpose. Now, seeing a cat, he wanted to see if it would eat such a disgusting thing.

Perhaps it was because it smelled the scent. This hairless cat was really not afraid of people. After looking at Carl, it stretched its body and jumped down from the guardrail, walked in front of Carl, sniffed the energy bar, and licked it with its tongue.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.
Still licking.

"It seems to be my problem. Even cats can get used to eating it."

Carl simply squeezed out all the energy bar and put it on the ground. He let the cat lick him and stood up. He looked towards the industrial park. In the park, Carl vaguely saw a black and white figure moving around. Judging from his trajectory, everything seemed to be going well.

"Cats and dogs, I used to be so used to seeing them that I thought they were troublesome when I saw wild ones. But nowadays, I can hardly see even a single wild one. Sometimes I think about how quickly things like the environment change."

As the wind blew, Carl noticed from the corner of his eye that the hairless cat had finished eating an energy bar and was walking towards him, rubbing against his trouser leg.

"Do you want me to adopt you? But I'm too lazy to raise animals, so don't count on it."

After Carl said this, he found that he seemed to have overthought, because the hairless cat seemed to have just rubbed against him to express gratitude or something, and then left Carl. Finally, it walked to the stairs, looked at Carl, and then disappeared down the stairs.

Cats rub against people to leave their scent for easy identification. Carl has heard of this knowledge.
So you want to be able to recognize me in the future?

You can't just think that next time you see it, you can come over to eat and drink for free. How can this unpalatable energy bar make it so satisfied?
As Karl thought about it, he thought of another aspect.

In ancient Egypt, cats were considered sacred animals, symbolizing protection and prosperity, and a cat coming to the door was usually interpreted as a good omen, indicating that good luck was coming. So does this mean good luck is coming?

good sign.

(End of this chapter)