Chapter 169: All he talks about is ideology, but all he thinks about is business!

"Well, since everyone here is a kind-hearted peace-loving person, I will follow your wishes and stop this war."

Leon's indifferent reaction to Miles puzzled all the European company executives and their financial backers behind the scenes.

Hasn't LA Company always been the biggest supporter of New America? Why does Leon seem to not care about the outcome of the Metal War at all?

For companies that sell arms and weapons, the longer the war lasts, the better for the company's profits.

As long as this metal war continues, LA company will continue to make money, which will maximize the benefits for Le Ang.

However, there is also a possibility that Li Ang intends to transform the company's core business into the practical application of polymers, such as polymer control mechanical devices, research and development of plants, etc.

The end of the war will make it easier for Li Ang to promote the construction applications of polymers in North America.

Just as everyone in the European Community was discussing their own issues, Leon's next words once again caused loud exclamations from the crowd. He connected the images of Dog Town to the screens in front of the executives of various companies.

Then, Li Ang slowly said:
"There was an emergency in Dogtown, Night City. The Sky One airship crashed. The life and death of President Miles Rosalind is unknown. In order to take charge of the overall situation, I decided to replace him with a new president."

When people saw the real-time video of the wreckage of the Aerospace-1 from Dog Town, there was a burst of surprised exclamations in the conference hall of the European Community.

Many people expressed surprise. Did Miles, this ambitious war fanatic, really die just like that?

Died in an airship crash under unknown circumstances? This feels full of conspiracy no matter how you look at it!
At this moment, the bosses of the giant companies who were the initiators of the crash collectively chose to remain silent. They knew very well the real reason for the crash of the Kongtian-1 airship.

At first they thought that as long as they killed Miles, they could stop the war to unify North America.

But when they heard that Li Ang was planning to support the new president to take office, they realized that the person who really controlled this war was Li Ang alone!

The main reason Miles started this war was to gain firm control and more power, and merit was one of the ways to gain power.

War is the continuation of politics, so Miles chose to cooperate with Leon, not knowing that Leon had used this war to tie her up in a dilemma.

If Miles wants to avoid being controlled by LA Corporation and the new American congressmen, he must rely on this war to seize the power in his hands and deal with various forces.

But this power game war involving various forces was actually carried out within the rules set by Li Ang.

The weapons of the rebels were provided by Kangtao Company, the equipment of the New American Forces was provided by LA Company, and even the senior executives within Military Technology were almost completely bribed by Leon.

Ever since LA acquired half of the shares of Military Technology, every decision made by Miles was actually carried out under Leon's nose.

Including the members of the new American Congress, they had already been infiltrated by Leon like a sieve.

The powerful people sitting in various high positions have had a dog leash engraved with "LA Company" put around their necks early on.

On the chessboard set up by the LA company, Miles, the domineering and ambitious man, is just a pawn.

If she wants to break out of the restrictions of LA companies and Congress, she must keep winning.

Or Miles would launch the war machine endlessly, and after unifying North America, continue to march south to control Central America.

Or, while he has taken over all of North America and is extremely powerful, he could unite with companies from various European countries to impose restrictions on LA company in order to check and balance Leon.

But the European consortiums only saw the first possibility and did not expect that Miles might be their potential partner.

They instigated the rebels in Dog Town and colluded with Song Zhaomei to launch a backstab attack on Miles. In fact, the person who benefited the most was Li Ang's LA company!

At this moment, the European consortium bosses suddenly realized the truth and instantly slapped their thighs and cursed in regret.

In this situation of two parties fighting each other, Li Ang turned out to be the one who had the last laugh!

They became the most ridiculous clowns.

Here, Knapp heard the chaotic voices coming from the headset, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what had happened to make these European financiers so angry that they broke down and cursed.

After a while, the company bosses hung up the voice connection with Knapp and left all matters here to him.

Obviously, they were already frustrated by the impeccable Le Ang. Since they were destined to lose miserably, they might as well just fight on the spot.

They knew very well that if they tried to do anything else to Li Ang, the end result would be completely meaningless and self-humiliating for them.

The reason why most companies in the European Community have been able to survive for a hundred years in the fierce corporate wars is often not because they are stubborn and fight to the death with the powerful side.

Instead, it depends on making compromises, actively joining the other side, and becoming a part of the winner.

After all, executives of giant companies like Li Ang who hold 100% of the shares and control LA companies are extremely rare.

In most of the giant companies, the business is actually run jointly by the boss and multiple shareholders, and the shareholders focus on profits and company development.

Therefore, even if the boss who is the founder of the company wants to perish together with his competitors, his shareholders will not agree.

[Mr. Li Ang, thank you for your outstanding contribution to world peace. On behalf of the European Community consortium, I would like to express to you that we voluntarily join the LA Alliance! ]

Knapp finally breathed a sigh of relief. Without the pressure from the financial backers behind him, he could finally surrender to Leon with confidence.

There is no way, if you can't beat it, you just can't beat it.

At first, Knapp wanted the bosses to use the space-based weapons mass projector to negotiate with Leon with force to see if they could bargain for some rights.

But when he learned that Leon was able to control the black wall and the transcendental AI Europa, he instantly dismissed the idea.

After all, as long as Leon is willing, he can cut off the Internet access in the entire European region at any time. Anyone who dares to connect to the Internet privately will have his brains burned by the black wall in minutes.

In the cyber world, losing the Internet is no different from returning to the primitive age. The gap between the enemy and us is too big, and any resistance seems like a stupid and futile act.

"Well, everyone, welcome to join the winners."

Li Ang nodded expressionlessly. There was really no need to be happy about dealing with such a crushing situation.

Next, the representatives of the European Community will sign the agreement, and the matters concerning the transfer of shares of companies in various countries will be entirely handed over to the professionals of LA.

As for Leon, his strategic goal has been successfully achieved. It is only a matter of time before LA company realizes 100% monopoly of the cyber world.

It would take at least half a month to completely disintegrate the European Community, establish the new LA Alliance headed by LA Company, and confiscate the shares of companies in various countries.

During this period, Leon decided to reorganize an Astartes Legion bred from clones + gene seeds, with an initial personnel size of 3,000 people.

With the current size of LA, it is entirely possible to secretly organize a powerful team of space warriors in a certain area of ​​North America.

When the monopoly of the cyber world reaches 100% and the next world is opened, these warriors will board the huge Infinity battleship and start the LA Empire's interstellar expedition!
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Night City, Pacific Island, Dogtown.

The crash of the Sky-Sky No. 1 airship put the entire Dog Town into a state of full alert. Kurt Hansen's Hellhound soldiers were now searching everywhere for Miles.

In the ruins of an unfinished building somewhere, V, Solomon Reed, and Alex, two CIA agents, were vigilantly observing the situation around them.

Three hours ago, when the Sky-Sky No. 1 airship was about to crash into the Dog Town area and Song Zhaomei suddenly disappeared, Miles immediately notified Li De to come to the rescue.

Fortunately, Reed, the loyal old dog, was quite obedient. He not only brought his old partner Alex over, but also provided her with a good place to live.

However, what was somewhat surprising was that the missing Song Zhaomei actually found a mercenary V from somewhere and rescued Miles before Li De arrived.

At this moment, Miles and Reed were taking turns interrogating V, trying to figure out which force V belonged to.

"So, you are from LA Company, and you just came to Dog Town to carry out a secret mission."

"But what I can't understand is why Song Zhaomei suddenly found you and asked you to come here."

"Could it be that she already knew that the Skyspace One would be shot down, so she called you here in advance to rescue people?" At this moment, the dusty Miles was staring at V intently.

Even now that she is surrounded by the rebels in Dog Town, she still maintains a strong aura.

Looking at V, who was full of suspicious points, Miles couldn't help but wonder whether V was also involved in the destruction of Skyspace-1.

Facing the questions from Miles and Reed, V showed extremely stable psychological quality this time. He chose to tell the truth, but only half the truth.

He learned this trick from Johnny.

"Uh! I don't know what's going on with Song Zhaomei. She said she has a way to cure my illness and told me to wait for her here when I figure it out."

"Also, I do work for a company in LA now, but I believe you can see that I am not a company executive."

"Besides, have you ever seen any executive who would risk his life to come to Dog Town for field work?"

The truths that V said were quite confusing. At least Miles and Reed, who were thinking about what V said, did not find any obvious logical loopholes.

However, to be cautious, Miles still glanced at Reed, suggesting that the other party might have noticed anything wrong.

But Li De just shook his head, indicating that he didn't hear anything wrong.

It was not until this time that Miles completely let down his guard against V and reluctantly treated V as half of his own.

Since V has been involved in this incident, he can't just stand there and watch. He must make use of V for his own benefit.

Soon, Li De, who had thought of what to say, took the initiative to walk up and pat V on the shoulder. He first praised V for his good behavior in rescuing the president, trying to increase V's favorability towards him.

Then, Li De began to get close to V by claiming that he was also a spy from LA company.

"V, we are all agents working for the LA company. We can only work silently. No one will care even if we die."

"But if you join the JIA and become a glorious New American agent, your dedication to your country will live forever."

"Everyone has to die. As long as your and my sacrifice is valuable, then it is a worthy death!"

Before V officially decided to join the JIA, Reed began to show V his values ​​of sacrificing one's life for the country.

Li De does know V's true identity and is also aware that he is now working for LA company.

But what he didn't know was that there was a special relationship between V and Li Ang. Until now, Li De still thought that V was just a more senior company agent.

In essence, he is just a tool working hard for the LA company.

Since we are all working for the big guys, we might as well work for the new America.

After all, even if you die for your country, you can still get a tombstone and medal for free.

Isn't this much better than being a mere corporate dog?

[This guy talks a lot of bullshit, just like the bastard officers I met in the army, who talk about dedication when they need your life, and kick you out like a stray dog ​​when they are done.]

【All he talks about is ideology, but all he thinks about is business. 】

Johnny Silverhand, who could no longer bear it, showed up and complained to V in front of him.

[In my opinion, you should just kill all of them. They are no match for you anyway. Killing people requires a reason, but killing these evil bastards does not require one.]

What Johnny said makes sense, but V doesn't dare to act rashly. It's not that V is worried about being branded as the person who killed the president.

But he was afraid that his reckless behavior would affect Li Ang's plan.

After all, he is now an agent of LA company and must follow Leon's instructions.

Seeing that V seemed to be still hesitating, Miles, who was a little impatient, decided to personally persuade V to join the Joint Intelligence Bureau:

"V, now is the right time for you to make achievements. The army of New America is just outside Night City and can occupy this city at any time. Soon we will occupy the whole of North America!"

"You join the Joint Intelligence Bureau now and take the initiative to become a part of us. I can guarantee that the rewards and honors you will receive in the future will definitely exceed your imagination."

Since empty spiritual pursuits don't work on V, then use actual benefits to attract V to work for you.

Miles and Reed played the good guy and the bad guy respectively, and they just didn't believe that they couldn't take down V.

Seeing that Miles could make promises to V so calmly without blushing or getting nervous, Johnny rolled his eyes in speechlessness.

This bitch obviously needs cannon fodder to work for her, so she lowered her status and took the initiative to recruit V as a company agent.

If it were any other time, Miles wouldn't even bother to look at V, let alone talk to him.

"This……"

Although V wanted to reveal his identity to Miles and refuse to join her CIA to become a worthless agent, his reason told him that he could never do that.

But if he really joined Miles's Intelligence Bureau, how would he explain the situation to Leon?

If this causes Li Ang to become suspicious of me, it would be more trouble than gain!
V was afraid that once he entered the Joint Intelligence Bureau, he would be trapped like Song Zhaomei.

If these people really force me to betray the LA company and do something disloyal, I'm afraid I won't have the final say.

It's not easy to be a double agent, at least V has no intention of doing so.

Just when V was about to reject Miles with the reason that he was "used to being free and lazy", Leon's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

[V, accept Miles' invitation. From now on, all your actions will follow my instructions.]

[Don’t worry about others hearing our conversation. You can communicate with me through your heart.]

Leon was having a remote conversation with V through the AI ​​White Queen in V's mind.

Li Ang could have done this long ago, but he had to give V some time to adapt to joining the LA company.

That's why there's no rush to upgrade the AI ​​White Queen's functions, so as not to cause V to distrust the company.

After hearing Li Ang's instructions, V, who was in a dilemma, suddenly had a backbone. He tried his best to suppress his inner excitement and secretly responded to Li Ang: "Yes!"

After confirming that Leon could communicate with him smoothly, V nodded confidently and said to Miles:
"Okay, I am willing to join your Joint Intelligence Bureau and be loyal to the new America and become a glorious national agent."

Although V had obtained Leon's permission when he said this, Johnny Silverhand on the side couldn't help but make a funny suicide gesture to V.

Obviously, Johnny is mocking every soldier who fights for the new America, only to end up dying in humiliation.

"Very good! Welcome aboard, V."

Miles smiled with satisfaction. She was increasingly impressed by her own brainwashing and empty promise-making skills, which she had perfected. In just a few minutes, she could make a stranger work for her.

This is what true leadership looks like!

Just as Miles was about to ask V to follow him and take an oath of allegiance to the new America, Alex, who was not far away, suddenly shouted in surprise:
"It's done! This radio works!"

After tinkering with the radio for a long time, Alex finally repaired an old radio device he found in the ruins.

Now trapped in an unfinished building in Dog Town, they are temporarily unable to contact the outside world through electronic devices, so they can only use the radio to obtain information from the outside world.

It will not be until tomorrow morning that Reed will go out and bring the electronic equipment that Miles needs, so that she can give orders to the New American troops outside and the CIA agents.

(End of this chapter)