When Lin Miao walked out of the Ye Corporation building, the door to the Blue Eyes office opened once again, and a burly man wearing a mask walked in, sat on the sofa, and said,
"It seems your negotiation failed. You offended so many people, made so many compromises, and yet you couldn’t bring him over to our side."
His pupils were very peculiar, two pupils in one eyeball, reflecting two infinity loops.
Originally, they planned to lure Lin Miao to the Red Queen Underground Club, expose the shady dealings of the company and the world’s upper echelon in Night City to him, thereby making Lin Miao utterly disappointed with human society and choose to side with them.
Even if it didn’t work, the exposure’s consequences would prompt Night City’s upper management to launch a crusade against Horizon Corporation, forcing him to their side.
But they didn’t anticipate that Lin Miao would drag them down. Not only was the substitute caught, but Lin Miao used a pair of prosthetic eyes in the club to pull him out from within, and dumped a heap of blame on Blue Eyes.
Just thinking about the troubles to come was already enough to be a headache.
"Difficulty is expected, after all, it’s him."
Blue Eyes sat in front of his desk, not showing too much of a discouraged expression, instead looking as if it was to be expected.
"If we can get his full support, let alone a biotechnology, even if the entire European Community turns against us, we can still have some chances of winning."
"This matter wasn’t meant to be accomplished in one go. If it generates some inclination, it’s not too much of a loss."
"Besides, if he hadn’t started targeting the Voodoo Gang, fearing preconceptions, I wouldn’t have sent someone to spill this matter."
The most important thing in this world is first impressions. Blue Eyes knew his methods had already caused Lin Miao to feel bad, and if the Voodoo Gang and Taiping Continent matters went awry, and the other party’s impression of AI dropped to the bottom, then there would be no time to act later.
And rather than elevating oneself, it’s better to tarnish others.
As long as the other party’s evaluation drops below oneself, there’s room to maneuver.
Just didn’t expect that the other party called out his identity... was he too obvious in his display?
"But since things are , we can temporarily pause any infiltration into the Crystal Palace."
"That guy is Richard Knight? The founder of Night City? He has turned into a rogue AI, continuously brainwashing the city council, attempting to regain control over Night City?"
Lucy, who was listening to the conversation on the channel, was almost going crazy with confusion.
Lin Miao could understand, after all, if one day someone told you he was Qin Shihuang, that he hadn’t actually died, ate the Immortal Pill, successfully achieved immortality, and is now preparing for civil service exams to re-establish Great Qin, you too would feel like you were losing it.
"I was just bluffing him, didn’t expect he’d admit it."
"How did you guess he was related to Ye Corporation? Clearly, I didn’t see any data tags from Ye Corporation in my data monitoring attempts."
"The Pereira couple became city council members with the support of Ye Group. If anything goes wrong with his head, naturally the biggest suspect is Ye Group."
"And guess what color the night sky is?"
"The night sky is mostly blue under the light’s refraction." ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI~Fire.net
"So I just thought I’d bluff Mr. Blue Eyes and see if he had any connection with Richard Knight (Night), turns out he tacitly agreed."
"Ugh...." Lucy, sitting in the car and covering her face, said, "I’m starting to regret getting involved with you."
"Biotechnology established a cult stronghold underground using abandoned infants and human trafficking, satisfying the depraved desires of high officials and executives, the founder of Night City transformed into a rogue AI to brainwash the upper echelon, attempting to retake the city.... What is all of this...."
"The true face of this world is like a Cthulhu, and you’ve just lifted the edge of its veil, there’s more to show you later, you’ll get used to it."
The things the players didn’t see, Lin Miao saw it all, and saying he had no fire in him was a lie, even if the people in biotechnology didn’t blow up the ancient castle, he was ready to turn this place into ashes. With two plasma clips in hand, plus some other explosives severing the main structure, blowing up the entire castle shouldn’t be a problem.
But so many lives inside, gone just like that, nearly a thousand scattered ’blood bags,’ ’playthings,’ ’reserve food’ all perished in the final explosion, while the culprits only lost a sum of money, escaping unscathed.....
But some things he didn’t want Blue Eyes to notice, so he didn’t show them.
As for the matter of AI rebellion being entirely humanity’s fault, he wasn’t a party involved, so it’s best not to comment.
[Brother Ni: You’re saying you guys found a big dungeon, then five of you went in, watched a cult group orgy and cannibalism ritual, got discovered, barely escaped with the help of an NPC, and afterward the ancient castle exploded, losing the entrance too]
[Super Balloon Truth Department: Yeah, on the way back we also ran into a bunch of foot soldiers, but we took them down, and brought out eight sets of equipment, went to the shop for appraisal, crazy expensive, a gun alone costs thousands of euros]
[Wildman: Damn, what kind of crazy luck do newcomers have nowadays? The best thing we find in the trash mountain is two white prosthetics. You scavenged for two people, fine, but hitting on such a top-tier dungeon! We’re still in Taiping Continent inhaling sewage stink.]