Night City maintained the urban environment
The companies saved on garbage disposal fees, cutting down on expenses. Isn’t that wonderful?
As for the deficit, that’s something he tells others. How could he possibly lose out? With technology on his side, that garbage is almost like high-quality raw materials to Lin Miao.
Two Euojin per ton, if you consider Night City’s daily thirty thousand tons, the maintenance fee is about sixty thousand daily, only one hundred and eighty a month. If he can get the city government and companies involved, it’s not too expensive.
But the problem is how can he believe Lin Miao’s claim of having the technology, rather than just taking the money and burying the collected garbage in a pit or piling it somewhere?
"I need to take people to do a site inspection before I can decide whether to propose this bill."
"I just have a small question for Mr. Lin."
"With your connection to military technology, such a project should not require you to seek us out."
Pereira looked at Lin Miao with great interest
"Seems like your relationship with military technology isn’t harmonious either."
Pereira thought military technology wouldn’t stoop so low as to use such a pretext to scam a million-dollar business monthly; that would simply tarnish their own reputation.
Lin Miao smiled but didn’t answer his question. With all the cameras and listening devices, it’s best not to say a word unnecessarily.
To avoid being exploited by those with ulterior motives.
On the other side of the wall, the agent in a blue uniform frowned.
He watched the man on the screen who had just looked straight at the camera.
This guy... from the moment he entered, he directly looked at the camera closest to him.
When their eyes met across the screen for an instant, he had a feeling of being completely seen through.
Knowing he had been exposed, the agent immediately contacted his superior
"The special target has discovered us, should we take emergency measures to evacuate the site?"
Back when Trauma Team had a conflict with Lin Miao, they were also observing.
In short, the hacking technique Lin Miao used to shut down Trauma Team wasn’t the power of AI, they were convinced.
This basically confirmed Lin Miao’s status as a rogue AI.
The other side of the communication was silent for a moment before slowly asking
"What was the target’s reaction?"
"No reaction, but he was evidently very wary during the conversation with target number one."
"...Understood, upload all the video records to me, temporarily suspend the modification action on target number one for a week, and withdraw from the target’s residence."
"Received... is it necessary to interfere with the special target’s plan?"
"The plan does not conflict with our goals, we can consider providing support."
Blue Eyes ended the communication with the agents, these agents were one of their creations.
Cyberpsychotics and criminals undergo personality modification, adjusted to become the kind of tools they need, then released into society to secretly expand the influence of rogue AIs in human society.
This plan has encountered almost no resistance so far, and with the integration of technology, they can now even remotely modify consciousness through special instruments.
Councilor Pereira is one of their modification targets, and a fairly important one at the moment.
Once he becomes the mayor of Night City, the plan’s implementation can be accelerated.
They no longer have time to wait. The next mayor of Night City is a must-win for Blue Eyes; otherwise, it might be too late.
At this moment, another communication request came
"Two cyberpsychotic modifications failed; they went berserk and killed the surgery doctors and guards, currently detained by agents."
"Dismantle the recoverable implants, incinerate the consciousness units, and discard them."
Blue Eyes showed no expression, but a hint of dissatisfaction could be heard in the tone. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ noveⅼfire.net
Consciousness modification is not 100% successful, failure is more common—otherwise, they wouldn’t have chosen to use subtle, long-term influence on Pereira.
A black-clad agent glanced at the two broken humanoids in the cage.
Their bionic skin burned away, with large mechanical modification components exposed and severely damaged.
Their degree of modification was astonishing, almost on par with Adam Smasher.
But they remained motionless, only the slight rise and fall of their chests proved they were alive.
Not everyone can accept modifications as extensive as Adam Smasher’s, turning into a cyberpsycho is more common.
If not for Blue Eyes’ modification body being burned by a system firewall last time, they wouldn’t be looking for the next one so soon.
The agent picked up the two bodies, ruthlessly throwing them into the modification chamber, letting the body doctors dismantle the combat implants.
If the modification fails, they can’t even be considered peers; they’re just worthless failures.
In just over ten minutes, they were disassembled into stumps, their heads aside, their breathing extremely weak, possibly ready to die at any moment.
After surgery, the black-clad agent told two orange-clad lowest-level agents
"Load them into the garbage truck and dump them, then select the next batch of test subjects, don’t fail again."
The orange-clad agents nodded indifferently, then roughly grabbed the ’corpses’ on the ground and turned to leave the operating room.
As for disposal, naturally, the floating garbage truck would carry them to the garbage hill to dump.
There, it was boundless, strewn with garbage, and aside from the homeless, hardly anyone visits; it’s the second-best location other than Tokyo Bay... oh no... Night City Bay.
And coincidentally, the floating garbage truck dragging the two ’corpses’ encountered a group of bandits who had long been eyeing the garbage hill.
"Brothers! The time has come to contribute to the managed democracy of Super Earth!"