Chapter 71 Arasaka Yorinobu!

Chiba City, Japan.

This abandoned city, located behind the port of Tokyo Bay, has a cluster of ecological buildings like huge cubes, and the domes of factories cover the city tightly.

Some ancient streets between the port and the city form a narrow nameless area. This is Chiba City, known as the "Night City of the Far East"!
And Ninsei Street is the center of Chiba City.

In the most luxurious izakaya on Renqing Street, Arasaka Yorinobu and Kanto Corporation's CEO Xu Shiming were sitting opposite each other, drinking and chatting happily.

"Mr. Xu, it is my honor to have a good friend like you! No need to say more, I toast you a glass!"

After he finished speaking, Arasaka Yorinobu excitedly poured a glass of sake into his throat to express his inner gratitude.

"I'm leaving the Steel Dragon Gang to you. Please be sure to treat my friends well. Sooner or later, they will be of use to you."

Ever since the filial son Arasaka Yorinobu announced his opposition to his father Saburo's company, he formed a Yakuza gang called Steel Dragon in Tokyo to counter the atrocities of Arasaka Company.

But unfortunately, under the crackdown by the Arasaka Security Force, members of the Steel Dragon Gang suffered heavy casualties, and Arasaka Yorinobu, the boss of the Steel Dragon Gang, had to bow to his father.

Just when Arasaka Yorinobu thought that his action against Arasaka Corporation was about to fail, Xu Shiming from Huaxia Kangtao Company found him.

This square-faced, righteous Chinese man said that he could accept the remaining members of the Steel Dragon Gang and provide them with the latest weapons, medicines, and prosthetic equipment.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lai Xuan. I will let them live in Kowloon Walled City first. You can take them away anytime you want. You are still the boss of the Steel Dragon Gang."

Xu Shiming smiled slightly, looked at Arasaka Yorinobu intently and said.

He came to Chiba Castle in person to meet Arasaka Yorinobu because he was assigned by Li Ang. Otherwise, Xu Shiming would not be interested in chatting and drinking with a playboy.

"Mr. Lai Xuan, I think it's time for us to talk about some serious business. My boss, Li Ang, wants to talk to you about cooperation."

As soon as Xu Shiming said this, the drunk Arasaka Yoriyuki immediately sobered up. He knew who Li Ang was!

The CEO of LA Corporation, the new major shareholder of Military Technology, a partner of the Trauma Team, and a new competitor that is giving his father Saburo Arasaka a headache.

According to Arasaka's top management, the current threat LA poses to Arasaka is even greater than the military technology of the past few years!

"What? The boss of your Kangtao company is Mr. Leon!" Arasaka Yorinobu was very surprised. He didn't expect that Leon's hand would reach to the Far East!

"Yes, including this meeting, which was also personally organized by Mr. Li Ang."

Xu Shiming looked at Arasaka Yoriyuki, his expression as calm as before: "Mr. Yoriyuki, the dilemma you are facing now can only be solved by Li Ang. You should talk to him."

Hearing this, Arasaka Yoshinobu nodded thoughtfully. Since Leon was the most troublesome enemy for his father Saburo, he could indeed be put to good use.

"It might be a good idea to listen to that guy first!"

Thinking of this, Arasaka Yorinobu said that he could meet and talk with Leon.

Xu Shiming breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the other party was willing to talk to Li Ang, his trip would not be in vain.

Immediately, Xu Shiming placed a synchronized behavior chip into his brain-computer slot.

After installing this chip, even Leon, who is far away in Night City, can control Xu Shiming's words and deeds through the chip. This chip technology is a bit like "cyber possession", which can remotely control other people to talk.

【Zizi...Connection successful!】

Along with the sound of an electronic prompt, Xu Shiming's pupils turned blue, which meant that he had been controlled by Li Ang, and all his subsequent words and actions were caused by Li Ang.

[Hello, Mr. Lai Xuan, I am Li Ang, the manager of LA Company.]

When seeing the "Xu Shiming" in front of him talking to him in a different language style, Arasaka Yorinobu didn't find it strange. He had seen a lot of new things.

"Mr. Li Ang, it's rare that you have time to chat with a playboy like me."

Arasaka Yorinobu is not a fool. He knows that Leon went to so much trouble to find him, he must have other intentions.

"Tell me the truth, why did you ask Xu Shiming to come to me? You didn't just want my little brothers to do odd jobs in Kowloon Walled City, did you?"

"With your generosity, Mr. Leon, you should at least support a bigger gang to fight against my father's Arasaka Empire."

"The Steel Dragon Gang's small fry are not even enough to be hit by a single shot from my father's aircraft carrier."

Facing the smart man Arasaka Yorinobu, Leon responded very straightforwardly:

[I heard that you have obtained the Arasaka Relic chip and are going to take it back to the Night City branch and give it to Arasaka engineers for optimization.]

【Give me this chip. 】

"As expected... Another company coming for the Relic chip!"

Arasaka Yorinobu sneered in his heart. This AI soul killer was such a treasure that even Leon sent someone to curry favor with him just for this thing.

Ever since he chose to surrender to his father and returned to Arasaka Corporation, a group of corporate forces have been scrambling to win him over, trying to obtain the AI ​​soul killer technology.

Among them are network surveillance from Europe, Zeta Technology from Night City, and the current LA company.

The conditions offered by the Internet Monitor at the moment are what most appeal to Arasaka Yorinobu. The transaction conditions offered by this company are not money, but support from European forces!
If Arasaka Yorinobu handed over the Relic chip to the network monitor, he would get the support of various European financial groups to help him become the head of Arasaka Corporation.

The reason why Arasaka Yorinobu was willing to surrender to his father Saburo was not because he was afraid of retreating, but because he planned to send this old man to heaven and make himself the new master of Arasaka!

Real reform often comes from within. Since it is impossible to attack from the outside with the Steel Dragon Gang, then we should start from within the company to dismantle the old ideological tumor.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Leon, I can't give you the Relic chip because you are the enemy of my Arasaka family. I can't betray my family."

Arasaka Yoriyoshi refused sternly.

In fact, he just had opinions about his father Saburo's company management system. Arasaka Yorinobu never thought of overthrowing Arasaka Corporation. All he wanted to do was to make the company better.

In Arasaka Yorinobu's vision, once he became the head of Arasaka Corporation, the first thing he would do was to bring Arasaka back to the path of healthy competition with other companies.

Instead of relying on corporate technological monopoly to bring the entire society to a standstill, the human world will be doomed sooner or later.

The company's institutional reform is what Arasaka Yorinobu really wants to do, rather than simply overthrowing his father Saburo's monopoly empire!
(End of this chapter)