The Creators: From Night City

"Lady first."

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Maiko Maeda is a woman and she likes women.

She was wearing a half-new kitsch outfit, with thick indigo lipstick on, and had just finished work, wet all over, when she was dragged to the dressing room by Evelyn Parker, where she met someone who shouldn't be there.

Jiang Bing was playing with a pink samurai sword.

"This cocktail stick is specially made by me. Be careful, it's very sharp." Maiko Maeda is indeed a person who can do big things. She quickly calmed down when faced with Jiang Bing's sudden visit.

"I heard from Evelyn that it was Judy who asked you to find me?" The other party didn't care at all that Jiang Bing was leaning on the side with a samurai sword in his hand. He sat by the dressing table as if no one was around and began to tidy himself up.

"Also, you'd better hurry up, I might have to go to work soon."

"It's not on time." Jiang Bing held up the pink samurai sword and kept turning it as if he was holding an Ultraman transformation device.

"I need you to contact the sex dolls working here and have them stay in their rooms. Otherwise, if a fight breaks out, I won't be responsible if they get accidentally injured."

The other person's hands that were drawing eyebrows and eyes stopped.

"Are you crazy? Don't you know there are at least a dozen Tiger Claw Gang members downstairs?"

"Do I look like a lunatic to you?"

Maeda Maiko's eyes kept darting around Jiang Bing, and she finally asked with narrowed eyes, "What exactly is Judy going to do?"

"Tell me where the office of 'Wooden Man' is?"

In the face of the other party's surprised and doubtful gaze, Jiang Bing did not answer, but pulled out the sword from his cane.

Evelyn Parker's words echoed in Maiko Maeda's mind, and she soon realized that this was a good opportunity. She chose to take a gamble, since there wasn't much risk anyway.

"Go out, turn left, walk to the end, and there's an office at the second corner."

"For Judy's sake, you'd better do as I say."

"Also, the knife is nice. Let me borrow it first."

It was like seeing a straight wooden stick on the roadside. Boss Jiang kicked open the door of the dressing room with his knife in his left hand and sword in his right hand, ready to start a killing spree and test the quality of the knife.

The Tiger Claw Gang really values ​​Genting, the golden goose that lays eggs, and there are security guards in almost every corner of the club.

As Jiang Bing walked out of the door with two cold weapons in his hand, he was discovered by the Tiger Claw Gang. The other party's artificial eyes flashed and they were about to sound the alarm.

Before he could send half of the message and even take out the gun in his arms, the burly man was beheaded by Jiang Bing with a single blow.

Boss Jiang, who had entered the working state, followed the path pointed out by Maida Maiko and rushed forward, killing all the gods and Buddhas that stood in his way.

It took just over ten seconds to find the wooden man's office.

He kicked the door open and saw the wooden man in the room molesting a sex doll in the name of work. He was stunned by Jiang Bing's sudden attack.

"who?"

What answered him was a pink monomolecular katana.

The pinker the equipment, the more brutal the attack.

Chapter 333 Mindless and unhappy

The knife was as smooth as a butcher cutting up an ox, and it cut the wooden man into two pieces diagonally without any hesitation, while the sex doll in his arms was completely unharmed.

With just a glance, the disheveled sex doll squatted obediently in the corner, covering his mouth and watching silently as Jiang Bing inserted the cracking device into the wooden man's computer.

As the reading was completed, Qiwei's message arrived simultaneously.

【Qiwei: Boss, I'm coming in. 】

Jiang Bing: Pack all the information. Don't miss any data.

【Qiwei: I understand.】

[Jiang Bing: Did Vincent succeed?]

Qiwei: We've already broken in and are exchanging fire with Sato Hiromi's guards. However, we're no match for them. I believe we'll be defeated soon...

Qiwei paused halfway through her words.

[Qiwei: We've got it, Boss. Vincent's invading puppet has just finished uploading.]

[Jiang Bing: Have Vincent search carefully so he doesn't miss any data.]

【Qiwei: I understand.】

Genting’s special service relies on reading guests’ data and generating corresponding sex doll virtual personalities.

But Arasaka will not miss this good way to collect customers' private information.

Most of the customers who come to Genting for consumption are wealthy people, high-ranking corporate dogs, social elites, celebrities and politicians. Their behavioral data is a valuable asset to any company.

Through this method, Arasaka can indirectly steal the behavioral characteristics of a large number of social elites, including middle and senior management of rival companies.

In the data age, data is king.

With this data, Arasaka can create an accurate profile of the target; the aggregated data can reveal group behavior patterns; it can be used to feed the Soul Killer to increase its lethality; or by tracking a large number of individual behaviors over a long period of time, it can predict user needs or social trends.

In market competition, a large amount of data represents the formation of a moat through data accumulation, squeezing out small and medium-sized competitors; if the patterns of user behavior are mastered, it is even possible to manipulate the market or consumer choices.

Not to mention the more serious panoramic data social monitoring, group manipulation, identity theft, behavior monitoring, political trend manipulation, and precise positioning in cyberspace, which can achieve targeted online assassinations.

It can be said that in the era of big data, as long as there are enough data samples in hand, to a certain extent, one can invisibly control everyone's words and deeds, and even predict the future in disguise.

This was also one of the main reasons why Arasaka Corporation chose to withdraw from North America after Arasaka Tower was "nuclear-destroyed".

With the destruction of Arasaka Tower, the data storage center inside was also lost, and a large amount of customer information and collected behavioral data were lost. Even if Arasaka stubbornly stayed in Night City, after falling from the throne of data hegemony, its control over this land was weakened to the extreme.

The returning Arasaka rebuilt the Arasaka Tower in the city center and established a data storage facility with stricter security [Shinyo].

Cloudtop is just one of the countless data catchers they have scattered across Night City.

Genting's security has all reacted and gradually gathered towards the office of the "Wooden Man".

Jiang Bing walked out of the office, wielding his two weapons and leaving afterimages. He blocked the incoming bullets and faced the enemies that were about to fill the corridor. He walked towards them slowly.

……

The battle started abruptly and ended just as hastily.

A dozen people were no match for Jiang Bing. He swung his two weapons six or seven times, and all those who dared to hold guns in Yunding fell to the ground.

Maiko Maeda was indeed very aware of the situation and kept the sex dolls under control so that no trouble occurred.

Jiang Bing threw a metal business card with the word "Anti-Entropy" on it and said, "You will be in charge of Yunding from now on. Call this number and someone will naturally connect you with the relevant matters."

"Don't worry about retaliation from the Tiger Claw Gang. They've already sold it to Anti-Entropy."

Maiko Maeda's eyes flickered, but she still took the business card quickly, as if she was taking over a step forward.

"Your knife." Jiang Bing returned the knife and rejected the other party's offer to give him the knife.

Apart from being pink all over, there is nothing special about this knife. In comparison, Boss Jiang still prefers to use the works he makes himself.

The increasingly powerful "craftsmen" are no longer used to the things produced on the assembly lines of other factories. The quality is too poor, cough.

After taking the stick left in the dressing room, Jiang Bing was about to turn back the way he came, but Evelyn Parker came up to him on her own.

"Mr. Sabul, you said you had a job for me before. Is that still valid?"

This woman is very similar to Maiko Maeda in some ways. There is a glimmer of desire to climb up in her eyes. Her mind is full of desire to stand out and change the status quo. She is willing to pay the price and work hard for it.

Jiang Bing shook out a business card like a magic trick and handed it to the other party.

"Contact her and someone will connect you."

………………

Max Seta and Jun Kazukami are the backbone of the Tiger Claw gang's pro-corporate faction. They can basically be considered as dogs of the Arasaka family.

But sometimes there's nothing wrong with being a dog. A little leftovers that slip through Arasaka's fingers can feed the two of them.

However, people always keep dogs for a purpose, whether it is to guard the house, hunt in the mountains, herd sheep, or track.

They both need to work for Arasaka, and do the dirty work.

"Hey, I'll do it!"

Mark Seta was scolded like a grandson and kept apologizing. After he finally dealt with Abernathy's accountability on the other end of the phone, he collapsed on the soft sofa.

"Who do you want us to deal with this time?" His good friend Jun Panshang, who was in cahoots with him, asked while drinking a glass of whiskey.

"Someone named Tanaka in Arasaka's R&D department."

"This woman is increasingly treating us like dehumanizing people. She even asked us to find someone to follow her competitors. She didn't even consider that we shouldn't mess with someone she's afraid of."

"This isn't really a dirty job. She asked us to follow Tanaka mainly to search for suspicious individuals who have appeared around him recently. According to her, military technology has been targeting him recently, and they might take action."

"They're using us as cannon fodder. They might as well target her competitors. If the affairs of two big companies are mixed up, it could easily result in loss of life." Pan Shangjun complained.

"Heh, we have no choice. I'll go arrange the personnel, and you find two people who are familiar with Arasaka Academy to help Tanaka's son who is currently in school."

The two were arranging their work when a call came in.

"Master Kasu, why did you call us so suddenly? I remember the gang's meeting wasn't even scheduled yet, right?"

Chapter 334 Memory Dive

Facing Kasu Daiki, the nominal leader of the Tiger Claw Gang, although Mark Seta complimented him perfunctorily, there was no trace of respect in his words.

"Seta-kun, how are you?" Kasu Daiki didn't care about the other party's tone. Instead, he glanced at the environment behind Seta Markus calmly.

"If you have something to say, please speak frankly, Lord Kasu."

"Regarding my previous proposal to add a new underground casino in Charter Hill, I wonder what you two think of it?"

Seta Marks gave a forced smile and said, "We naturally support the president's decision, but we're just worried that others will object. We're stuck in the middle, and it's difficult for us to do anything."

"Is Mr. Bankao with you? Does he have the same idea?"

"Of course, President, I agree with Seta-kun."

It's nothing more than an excuse.

Kasu Daiki didn't care at all, as if he believed it. The original intention of his call was not to find out the truth, but just to confirm that the two of them were at home together.

"Then I won't bother you anymore." Kasu Daiki easily gave up on trying to persuade them, and before hanging up, he left a meaningful "I hope you have fun."

After hanging up the phone, the two seemed a little confused.

Pan Shangrun admired the vast scenery outside the window and couldn't help but laugh. "Did he come here to call just to make himself bored?"

"Don't worry about him. This dog raised by an old woman will soon be kicked out of the position of president."

Max Seta also poured a glass of wine. Just as he brought it to his lips, a shrill alarm sounded in his ears. It was an early warning issued after the security system was breached.

Before he could react, metal shutters were lowered on the windows, sealing them off.

The specially designed protective door also has a bulletproof rolling shutter.

"What's going on? Is someone attacking?!" Just as Jun Banshang stood up, the sound of the warning machine gun firing was heard at the door.

This made the two of them look at each other in bewilderment. Even if there were attackers breaking in, the speed of advancement was too fast.

However, although the two were shocked, one of them pulled out a gun, and the other stood up at the same time and went to the weapon display rack in the corner to get his knife.

Just as Seta Markshito walked to the sword rack and before he could reach out to take his beloved samurai sword "Claw Sharp" from the rack, the wall next to him suddenly exploded.

A figure rushed into the room, maintaining a collision posture amidst the debris. Before the two could react, he reached out and picked up Max Seta. With a flick of his hand, he broke the man's spine, turning him into a high-level paraplegic. Then he inserted a special signal-shielding puppet chip into the man's brain-computer chip slot, and the capture work in the cyber age was completed.

Jiang Bing was about to move forward with the Seta Marksman holding a dead chicken, but the fat Jun Ban Shang simply pulled the trigger and covered the attacker with bullets, completely ignoring whether his 'good brother' was in the other's hand and whether this action would cause accidental injury.

"What a fake brotherhood." Jiang Bing left behind several afterimages, dodged the bullets, threw the burden in his hand to the ground, disappeared on the spot with a bang as the starting gun sound, and used a flying kick to hang the heavy-tonnage Jun Ban Shang on the wall as a finishing ceremony.

Jiang Bing's kick broke at least ten of the opponent's ribs, and was accompanied by a shattered chest and a small number of internal organs ruptured. Fortunately, the opponent had undergone life-sustaining prosthetics, so he did not vomit three liters of blood and die on the spot.

Of course, this also saved Jiang Bing the trouble of rescue. The old cyber doctor squatted beside the dying patient and found out with a touch that the patient had at least installed a secondary heart, a recycling system, and a second blood center. These were three expensive prosthetic modifications that had strong life-saving capabilities but had little significance in enhancing combat power.

Similarly, high paraplegia massage, plus a signal shielding chip to complete the cyber bundling, the two goods information traded with Okada Wakako have been purchased.

Jiang Bing waited on the sofa for several minutes before the security system was unlocked. The person who pushed the door open was Vincent, holding two blood-stained mantis knives.

He has made a lot of money recently, and with the support of the [Anti-Entropy] arsenal, and the successful joining of Aurora, he has added a lot of things to his body, and a large number of prosthetic modifications have made his body look more muscular.

Vincent put the knife back into his arm and reported to Jiang Bing: "Boss, everything outside has been taken care of. We have taken full control of this place."