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Chapter 217 Night City Round Table Meeting

On the day of the crash, all major media outlets reported on Hot's scandals and the news that he was on the run. However, no media outlet pointed out that the flight Hot was on was shot down by a missile.

This also aroused speculation from others, especially the underground radio station.

Those people thought that perhaps Hott was secretly murdered because he assassinated Lucius.

But when they found out about Holt's so-called black materials and discovered that Holt had indeed done so many beastly things, conspiracy theorists suddenly had no room to survive.

After public opinion fermented, Lucius, who originally had an advantage in the election, saw his support rate increase by more than ten percentage points.

From this method, we can see that Lucius Lane is ruthless and has a unique vision. He is definitely a pure political creature.

I believe that Forte, who is hiding in the NCPD, is no longer safe and is in constant fear.

There have been too many big news in the past few days, including the assassinations of the Arasaka emperor and the mayor of Night City, and the plane crash of Deputy Mayor Holt who fled for fear of punishment. There are too many big scenes, and if the deputy director of the NCPD encounters another accident, public opinion will not be able to suppress it.

Therefore, Lucius Lane decided to give Fort a few more days of life.

After the two assassinations, Lucius Lane immediately held the Night City Roundtable.

It's called the Night City Round Table Meeting, but it's actually a company representative meeting. Everyone knows that the fate of Night City is not in the hands of the municipal government, but in the hands of the company. In order to conceal the truth, it was announced as a round table meeting.

The representatives of the major companies attending the meeting had different expressions. The military technology representative looked calm, while the representatives of the assassins, Arasaka and Yeshi Group, had more complicated expressions.

However, those gathered here are a group of old foxes. If they get together, they can write a book about Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Naturally, they will not reveal any flaws.

Huo Xiu also attended the meeting as a representative of Kang Tao. When he learned the inside story of the incident, he smiled secretly in his heart.

Arasaka is asking for trouble. His chairman was assassinated and he was caught in a storm of public opinion. Heard that his counterintelligence chief was attacked and seriously injured. Under such troubled circumstances, he planned to assassinate Lucius Lane. It was a bad move.

If you think about it carefully, it is inevitable. The plan to assassinate Lucius must have been premeditated long ago. It is like the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. If Lucius finds out later, it will be even worse.

It would be better to take a gamble and see if Lucius Lane can be killed, which can also relieve some of the pressure on Arasaka. Now it seems that without the support of the Counterintelligence Department, it is reasonable that the plan will fail.

Huo Xiu was not very interested in Arasaka, and that was over after he laughed. However, the Ye Group aroused his great interest.

Ling Luxian didn't tell Huo Xiu much about the shitty things that happened to the Ye's Group. Therefore, Huo Xiu knew nothing about the Ye's Group. He only knew that it was a local company in Night City that focused on urban planning.

Compared to several other giant companies, the number of employees and important members are almost transparent. But the Ye Group is different. No one knows about these, and even the financial reports are mysterious.

In fact, this is not a problem. As long as they don't make any big moves, they will naturally be ignored by these giant companies. What great prospects can a company that hides in a city have?

Things suddenly changed when Huo Xiu learned that the other company that attacked Lucius Lane was the Ye Group.

It was only after Ling Luxian reminded him that Huo Xiu realized that it was Ye’s who did this. As for other companies, they were probably still kept in the dark.

In particular, all the agents sent by Kang Tao to the Ye family were, without exception, cleared out by the Ye family group. I believe the intelligence personnel of several other giant companies all suffered the same result.

This is really scary when you think about it. Kang Tao doesn't dare to guarantee that there are no agents from other companies within his company, but Ye's Group can do it.

Not to mention that the Yeshi Group has a very high degree of control in Night City, and they are responsible for the city planning. Other companies have no idea what they have developed underground.

Now they are even participating in the municipal election. What on earth do they want to do?

The unknown is the most terrifying. The usually inconspicuous little Karami suddenly turned into a terrifying beast. Who can bear it?

Huo Xiu looked at those smiling tigers in the Ye Group and his vigilance increased several levels.

After all company representatives were seated, Lucius Lane officially began the round table meeting in Night City.

Lucius Lane took the lead and said, "I think it's time to solve the "security problem" of Night City."

Lucius Lane placed emphasis on the word "safety issues".

All the company representatives present had no objection. After all, Lucius himself and the chairman of Arasaka were assassinated, so the representatives of the major companies acquiesced to this.

The representative sent by Arasaka this time is Arthur Jenkins, although in the eyes of Arasaka Michiko, this guy is just a reckless man. However, in this situation, Jenkins is still quite useful.

Jenkins first said sarcastically: "When it comes to security issues, we have to ask our military technology representatives."

Meredith Stout felt very troubled. She had just been promoted to the position not long ago, and now she had to deal with such a mess. She even felt that she had been unlucky recently.

Stout looked at Jenkins' aggressive attitude, and it was obvious that Arasaka thought that it was military technology that attacked Saburo Arasaka.

Stout herself felt somewhat guilty, because she also believed that it was the military technology that attacked Saburo Arasaka. But in this situation, she could not admit it, nor could she give in.

So Stout asked another question, one that could deal a fatal blow to Arasaka.

Stout glanced at Jenkins with disdain, then said, "According to the investigation, the assassin who previously assassinated Mayor Ryan had prosthetics installed on his body, which were all Arasaka's cutting-edge technology, right? What does Representative Jenkins think about this?"

Jenkins's face turned ugly in an instant. He never thought that the other party would use this trick.

"Humph, judging it was done by us Arasaka based on the prosthetic alone is too hasty. If it was really done by Arasaka, they wouldn't be stupid enough to use Arasaka's own products.

If you can think of this, can't we? Excuse me, Meredith Stout, you are a former agent, why are you showing off here?

Everyone present here is an elite from each company. You, a guy born as a warrior, are not qualified to attend this meeting."

Jenkins pretended to be calm and said that in fact, if eyes could kill, he would have cut Stout into pieces many times.