Chapter 169: All About Ideology, All About Business!

"Okay, since everyone here is a compassionate peace lover, I will stop this war as you wish."

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

Hasn't LA always been the biggest supporter of New America? Why doesn't Leon seem to care about the outcome of the Metal War?

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

As long as this Metal War continues, LA can continue to make money, which can maximize Leon's interests.

However, there is also a possibility that Leon 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 cessation of the war can make it easier for Leon to promote the construction and application of polymers in North America.

Just as everyone in the European Community was talking about it, Leon's next words once again caused a loud exclamation from the crowd. He connected the picture of Dog Town to the screen in front of the executives of various companies.

Then, Leon slowly said:

"There was an emergency in Dog Town, Night City. The Sky One airship crashed. President Miles Rosalind's life and death are unknown. In order to take charge of the overall situation, I decided to replace the new president."

When seeing the real-time video of the Sky One wreckage from Dog Town, there was a burst of surprise in the conference hall of the European Community.

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

Died in an airship crash with 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 collectively chose to remain silent. They knew very well what the real reason for the crash of the Sky One airship was.

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

But when they heard that Leon was going to support the new president, they realized that the person who really controlled this war was always Leon alone!

The main reason why Miles launched this war was to gain a firm grip and more power, and merit is one of the ways to gain power.

War is the continuation of politics, so Miles chose to cooperate with Leon, but she didn't know that Leon had used this war to tie her to a dilemma.

If Miles doesn't want to be controlled by LA and the New American Congressmen, she must rely on this war to grasp the power in her hands and deal with various forces.

But this power game war full of various forces is actually carried out under the rules set by Leon.

The weapons of the rebels are provided by Kangtao, the equipment of the New American troops is provided by LA, and even the executives of Military Technology have been almost bought by Leon.

Since LA took half of the shares of Military Technology, every decision of Miles has actually been made under Leon's eyes.

Including the members of the New American Congress, they have long been infiltrated by Leon like a sieve.

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

On the chessboard set by LA Company, Miles, the arrogant and ambitious man, was just a pawn.

If she wanted to jump out of the restrictions of LA Company and Congress, she had to keep winning.

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

Or, while he had taken over the whole of North America and was in power, he would unite with European companies to impose restrictions on LA Company to check and balance Li Ang.

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

They instructed the rebels in Dog Town to collude with Song Zhaomei to launch a backstab against Miles, but in fact, the person who benefited the most was Li Ang's LA Company!

At this moment, the European consortium bosses who suddenly realized the truth instantly regretted and slapped their legs and cursed.

In this game of snipe and clam fighting, Leon became the last laugher!

They became the most ridiculous clowns.

Here, Knapp heard the chaotic voices coming from the headset, and for a while he couldn't figure out what happened, which made these European financiers so angry that they broke their defense and cursed.

After a while, these company bosses directly hung up the voice connection with Knapp and handed over the affairs here to him.

Obviously, they have been mentally exploded by the impeccable Leon. Since they are destined to lose miserably, they will start on the spot.

They know very well that if they want to do something else to Leon, the final result will be completely meaningless and self-humiliating behavior for them.

Most of the companies in the European Community have been able to survive for a hundred years in fierce corporate wars. In many cases, they don't rely on stubbornness and fighting to the death with the strong side.

Instead, they rely on compromise, actively join the other side, and become 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.

Most giant companies are actually run jointly by the boss and multiple shareholder members, and shareholders value profits and the development of the company.

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

[Mr. Li Ang, thank you for your outstanding contributions to world peace. On behalf of the consortium of European Community countries, 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 and bosses behind him, he could finally surrender to Leon boldly.

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

At first, Knapp wanted the bosses to use a space-based weapon mass projector to negotiate with Li Ang to see if they could bargain for some rights.

But when he learned that Li Ang could control the black wall and the transcendent AI Europa, he gave up this idea in an instant.

After all, as long as Li Ang is willing, he can put the entire European region into the predicament of disconnecting the Internet at any time. Anyone who dares to connect to the Internet privately will be burned by the black wall in minutes.

In the cyber world, losing the Internet is no different than returning to the primitive century. The gap between ourselves and the enemy is too great, and any resistance is like a foolish and futile act.

"Okay, everyone is welcome to join the winner's camp."

Li Ang nodded expressionlessly. There was really no need to be happy about this kind of crushing situation.

Next, let the representatives of the European Community sign an agreement, and all matters regarding the transfer of shares of companies in various countries will be left to the professionals of the LA company.

For Li Ang, his strategic goal has been successfully achieved, and it is now just a matter of time to achieve 100% progress in LA Company's monopoly on the cyber world.

It will take at least half a month to complete the complete disintegration of the European Community, the establishment of a new LA Alliance headed by LA companies, and the collection of shares of companies in various countries.

During this period, Li Ang decided to first organize an Astartes army cultivated from clones + gene seeds, with an initial staff size of 3,000.

With the current size of LA Company, it is completely possible to secretly organize a powerful interstellar warrior in a certain region of North America.

When the monopoly of the cyber world reaches 100% and the next world is opened, these warriors will ride on the huge Infinity ship and start the interstellar expedition of the LA Empire!

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Night City, Taipingzhou, Dog Town.

The crash of the Sky One airship put the entire Dog Town on full alert. Kurt Hansen's Ghost Dog soldiers were currently searching everywhere for traces of Miles.

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

Three hours ago, when the Kongtian-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, Li De, a loyal old dog, was quite obedient. He not only brought his old partner Alex here, but also provided her with a good place to stay.

However, what is a little surprising is that the missing Song Zhaomei found a mercenary V from nowhere and rescued Miles himself before Li De arrived.

At this moment, Miles and Li De were taking turns questioning V, trying to figure out which force V belonged to.

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

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

"Did she already know that Kongtian-1 would be shot down, so she called you here in advance to save people?"

At this moment, the disgraced Miles was staring at V intently.

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

Looking at V who was full of doubts, Miles had to wonder if V was also involved in the destruction of Kongtian No. 1.

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

He learned this trick from Johnny.

"Uh! I don't know what's going on with Song Zhaomei. She said she had a way to help me cure my illness, and said I would come here to wait for her after I figured it out."

"In addition, I am indeed working in LA Company now, but I believe you can also see that I am not a company executive."

"Besides, have you ever seen any executive risk his life to do field work here in Dog Town?"

The few truths spoken by V are quite confusing. At least Miles and Li De, who were thinking about V's words, did not find any obvious logical loopholes.

However, for the sake of caution, Miles still glanced at Li De, hinting that the other party had noticed something was wrong.

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

It was only then that Miles completely let down his guard against V and reluctantly regarded V as half one of his own.

Now that V has been involved in this incident, he can't let him just watch from the sidelines. He must let V be used for his own purposes.

Soon, Li De, who had thought of his words, took the initiative to step forward and pat V on the shoulder. He first praised V's good behavior in rescuing the president, trying to increase V's favor with him.

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

"V, in fact, we are all corporate agents working for LA Company. Usually, we can only work silently. No one cares even if we die."

"But if you join the United Intelligence Bureau and become a glorious New America agent, then your spirit of dedication to the country will be immortal."

"Everyone has to die. As long as your and my sacrifice is valuable, then we will die for a good cause!"

Before V officially decided to join the United Intelligence Bureau, Li De began to show V his set of values ​​of sacrificing his life for the country.

Li De did know V's true identity and knew that he was working for LA Company now.

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

In essence, he was just a tool who worked hard for LA Company.

Since we were all working hard for big people, it would be better to work for New America.

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

Isn't this much better than being a pure company dog?

[This guy's nonsense is exactly the same as those bastard officers I saw in the army. When you need your life, he talks about dedication, and when you are done, he kicks you out like a stray dog. ]

[All he says is ideology, and all he thinks is business. ]

Johnny Silverhand, who couldn't bear it any more, appeared and complained to V in front of him.

[In my opinion, you should just kill all these people. Anyway, they are not your opponents. Killing people requires a reason, but killing these evil bastards does not require one. ]

What Johnny said makes sense, but V dare not act rashly. It's not that V is worried about being infamous for killing the president.

But he is afraid that his reckless behavior will affect Leon's layout.

After all, he is now an agent of LA Company, and he must follow Leon's instructions to do things.

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

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

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

Since the spiritual pursuit of Naxu doesn't work for V, then use actual benefits to attract V to work for you.

Miles and Reed play the good cop and the bad cop respectively. They don't believe that they can't take down V.

Seeing that Miles can be so calm and unfazed in making big promises to V, Johnny rolled his eyes and said he was speechless.

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

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

"This..."

Although V wanted to reveal his identity to Miles and refuse to join her Joint Intelligence Bureau to become a worthless agent, his reason told him that he couldn't do that.

But if he really joined Miles' Joint Intelligence Bureau, how would he explain the situation to Li Ang?

If Li Ang became suspicious of him, wouldn't it 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 forced him to betray LA Company and do something dishonest, he probably wouldn't have the final say.

It's not easy to be a double agent, at least V didn't have the intention at all.

Just when V was about to refuse Miles with the reason of "being used to freedom and laziness", Li Ang's voice suddenly rang in his mind.

[V, accept Miles' invitation, and from now on, all your actions will follow my instructions. 】

【Don't worry about the conversation between you and me being overheard. You can communicate with me with your heart. 】

Leon was talking to V remotely through the AI ​​White Queen in V's mind.

Leon could have done this long before, but he had to give V a process to adapt to joining LA Company.

That's why he didn't rush to upgrade the function of AI White Queen, so as not to cause V to distrust the company.

After hearing Leon'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 Leon: 'Yes! '

After confirming that Leon could maintain smooth communication with him, V nodded boldly and said to Miles:

"Okay, I am willing to join your Joint Intelligence Bureau and be loyal to 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 and ridiculous gesture of suicide with a gun to V.

Obviously, Johnny was mocking every soldier who worked hard for the new America, and would only end up dying in disgrace.

"Very good! Welcome to join us, V."

Miles smiled with satisfaction. She was more and more impressed by her own perfect brainwashing and pie-in-the-sky skills. In just a few minutes, she could make a stranger work hard for her.

This is the true leadership temperament!

Just as Miles was about to ask V to follow him and take an oath of allegiance to New America, Alex, who was not far away, suddenly shouted in surprise:

"It's done! This radio works!"

After fiddling with the radio for a long time, Alex finally fixed an old radio device found in the ruins.

Now they are trapped in the unfinished building in Dog Town and cannot contact the outside world through electronic devices for the time being, so they can only use the radio to obtain information from the outside world for the time being.

After tomorrow morning, Reed will go out to bring the electronic equipment that Miles needs, so that she can give orders to the New America troops outside and the agents of the United Intelligence Agency.