After the great war, subtle changes began to unfold. The involvement of players and Lin Miao nudged the originally ’legitimate’ course of Night City toward the path of a runaway wild horse.
ERO, near death in competition with Trauma Team, with no way to heaven nor door to earth, about to be chased down by the bank for debt collection, suddenly experienced a shift.
Military Science established a restructuring team to station at ERO, continued to issue loans, took over all debts from other banks, and ousted the Night City Government, Ye Group, Biotechnology, and other shareholders, letting Lin Miao take all the shares.
This move is akin to the suddenly favored by the emperor in the court.
It brought ERO, which was already in the delisting process, back to life, whereas Trauma Team’s stock was short-sold, losing a substantial amount.
In the end, the funding source of this small medical company became Lin Miao 51 and Military Science 49, with the latter only responsible for providing money, not engaging in management.
There’s even a rumor circulating that Military Science is preparing for another strike on Night City.
And this battle was not a loss for Lin Miao.
Even though the Wildman ultimately didn’t survive, dying from internal bleeding during the heat of battle between Lin Miao and Trauma Team, it wasn’t much of a problem; whether it was him or other dead players, this battle can be said to have been thrilling.
Great game experience.
Especially witnessing the powerful performance of the advanced Power Armor, even dying at the enemy’s hands was worth it.
But outsiders saw this battle as mutually devastating, with a mass of mercenaries fallen, heaven knows how much money and sacrifice was made to assemble such a batch of daredevils.
While on the other side, six hover cars crashed one after another, nearly a hundred Trauma Team members plus one Power Armor, along with the life of one regional manager.
It was the largest conflict in Night City in recent years.
And the outcome of the matter was very dramatic; the Trauma Team has already rallied everyone they could, including NCPD, Anti-Terrorism Squad, their armed forces, more than enough to take down one ’cyber psycho’.
But no one expected that the unrelated Military Technology came knocking, their armed forces amassed on the road, and arranged a special vehicle to pick up Lin Miao.
A Night Wanderer drinking away in a bar saw this scene, immediately slapped his thigh, indignantly declaring to his companions.
"What did I say? You didn’t believe it, this bunch is the same people beating us, using us to test equipment from the Military Technology disguised company!"
Corporate dogs are a bunch of insidious, cunning bastards, beasts, parasites, born in their birth!
As for the outcome of this incident, it remained delicate, nobody spoke, no opinions were expressed, even the news channel 54 kept silent, maintaining silence.
As if nothing happened at all.
Only the unwashed blood and remnants of explosives on the street informed passersby of the events that occurred here a day ago.
"What does Military Technology mean?"
Lucy held her breath as she watched from a distance, if Military Science hadn’t come, she would’ve joined the fray herself.
Faced with this giant equal to Huang Ban, Lucy doesn’t want to deal with them at her core, but what can she do when Lin Miao comes off their vehicle?
Military Science’s top response is fairly swift, as companies in this world aren’t as decadent and systematically bloated as most players think. As long as their own interests aren’t harmed, they actually quite endorse technological progress.
To a certain extent, they are akin to technocrats.
No reason to have no reaction upon seeing the new Power Armor Lin Miao brought out, especially when Lin Miao actively showed goodwill, just offending Trauma Team—what does it matter.
Not that they’d probe who’s ranking where on Military Technology’s turf.
Sitting on the couch, Lin Miao took off his shirt, his robust body covered in bruises from strain; this thing moving was simply lethal, he could barely stand it.
"They want to acquire Horizon Corporation completely for eighty million, and promised me a CEO position, but I didn’t agree."
Lucy was very worried about this.
"But I’ve heard Military Technology might forcibly acquire some small companies through assassination and bribery, if..."
She never skimped on her utmost malice towards these big corporations.
"They can’t buy anyone."
With the system’s help, Lin Miao hardly needs so-called middle management, just people to work, all the players’ financial flow is one-way transparent to Lin Miao.
Moreover, who can they buy?
They would only see you as a sheep sent to be slaughtered, seeing how much more they can extort.
Otherwise, just the punctual regularity of showing up each day would be unbearable for them—how could they agree with Military Technology, thinking Lin Miao is blind?
"But I still have to visit Military Technology Mansion tomorrow, and talk about the follow-up cooperation; I’ll leave managing fellow citizens to you."
"Ah... I know." Lucy thought of those guys’ jumps and felt a headache, heaven knows how Lin Miao manages them "You better be careful."
Don’t mind the player’s heavy casualties, just offline for six hours, those twenty modification pods still support those players creating bodies; once the load returns, another brave hero rises.
[0.5 New Version—Preview of "City of No Night"]
Players jokingly waiting on the homepage due to sudden death, didn’t wait for their resurrection timer to hit zero but rather awaited new version content posted by Lin Miao after a day of exhaustion.