Chapter 858! Ticket to the Moon
Chapter 858! Ticket to the Moon
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"I thought you wouldn't come to pick me up."
Hearing the footsteps behind her, Song Zhaomei said without turning her head.
"I had a drink with some friends, so I came late." Shen Ye explained casually, and then focused his eyes on Song Zhaomei's back. Due to the erosion of her body and mind by the power of the black wall, her whole body had undergone large-scale prosthetics and mechanical modifications, and she could only look "human" when viewed from the front.
But to be honest, in the DLC "Shadows of the Past", Song Zhaomei's face model is much better looking than most characters in the main game.
Therefore, Shen Ye really wanted to see what Song Zhaomei looked like in real life.
However, perhaps the boxing match was really exciting, or perhaps Song Zhaomei could finally relax, she was still watching the video with great interest and had no intention of turning around.
Shen Ye shrugged and didn't care. He pulled two chairs and sat down with Ciri. Then he said to Victor who was pouring coffee for them: "Old Victor, thank you for your help."
"I didn't do anything. She drove here by herself." Victor said with a smile.
"I mean, her staying here is causing you trouble and disturbing your rest."
"It's okay. I usually go to bed at two or three in the morning. And didn't you see that Misty's door is not closed? Basically, if she doesn't close the door, I won't close it either." Victor said indifferently.
"But I didn't see her when I came in."
Victor said with a smile: "Now that Jack is here, you can go to the small room next door to find her... maybe you can see some scenes that are not suitable for children."
"Forget it. If you ruin other people's good deeds, you will be struck by lightning..."
After chatting with Victor for a while, Song Zhaomei finally finished watching the video. She turned around and looked at Shen Ye, then said in a surprised tone: "You look much more handsome than in the photos and on the surveillance video."
"Many women have said this to me." Shen Ye said without any emotion. Then he looked at Song Zhaomei carefully and nodded: "You are also very beautiful."
Although there are traces of prosthetic implants on Song Zhaomei's face, the impact is not that big. What's more, the Polish CD Projekt Red must have put a lot of effort into her facial model. Plus, there is still a big difference between the game and reality... Anyway, it can be said that she is very beautiful.
However, the traces left by the prosthetic implants still affect the appearance...mainly because the technology is still too poor. If the artificial human technology from the NieR world was used, it would probably be much better.
Shen Ye had thought about it a long time ago. When he returned to the real world, he would take some time to take Qi Wei and Lucy to the Neil world to repair their whole bodies...
Thinking of this, Shen Ye asked Song Zhaomei: "You have escaped from the sea of suffering, what are you going to do next?"
"Didn't I tell you last time? I'll follow you!" Song Zhaomei said as a matter of course: "Where else can I go?"
So Shen Ye took Song Zhaomei back to the hotel.
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Several days passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Shen Ye arrived at the rooftop platform of the Dark Matter Club as promised. Arasaka Hanako, wearing a gorgeous kimono, was already waiting for him here.
"I heard that there was some unpleasantness between you and Arasaka Yorinobu yesterday?" Shen Ye asked directly, remembering the call Valerie made to him last night.
Arasaka Hanako, who was making tea, nodded and said, "Brother wanted to withdraw the Night City branch back to Japan, but I didn't agree. However..."
Arasaka Hanako paused, then continued: "But I agreed to his other request."
"What request?" Shen Ye asked knowingly.
"Raise the salaries and increase the vacation time for the company's employees." Arasaka Hanako said, then she handed Shen Ye tea while staring into his eyes.
Although she is the leader of the conservative "young faction" founded by Saburo Arasaka in the company's faction, as a character who attaches more importance to family stability, the conservative faction she leads is actually more neutral. This is also related to her own personality. She maintains a fragile family relationship between Saburo Arasaka and Yorinobu Arasaka.
Therefore, when Saburo Arasaka was already dead and there was no chance of resurrection, Hanako Arasaka still chose to compromise on some of Yorinobu Arasaka's demands.
In fact, Arasaka Hanako had to compromise. Although she had already decided that David would start as a middle-level manager in Arasaka after graduation, which indirectly meant that Shen Ye was supporting her, Shen Ye did not clearly express his support for her, and even revealed to her through Valerie his dissatisfaction with the current systems of all large companies, which led her to choose neutrality again.
I don't oppose all of it, but I don't support all of it either.
Shen Ye had already anticipated this result. After all, it was he who proposed the salary increase and more vacation time to Arasaka Yoriaki.
In fact, as early as the next day after he took Song Zhaomei back to the hotel, he went directly to find Arasaka Yorinobu. For no other reason, after thinking for most of the night, he decided to do something for this world before leaving, such as improving people's livelihood.
Of course, with his ability, he could use force to force major companies around the world to obey his orders, but that would kill many people and would take him a lot of time. But he didn't want to waste too much time in this world, so he had to choose an agent to help him carry out the task.
Arasaka Yorinobu... Well, actually he is not suitable, he is too radical, but there is really no other candidate. After all, the people in this world are not normal, and changing them is a very long process.
Moreover, he also had to worry about those big companies becoming desperate. If he suppressed them by force, they might want to perish with him, even though nuclear bombs were of no use to him...
Fortunately, Arasaka Yorinobu was still able to listen to what was said... probably because he was influenced by Shen Ye's force, and he could also accept the plan proposed by Shen Ye because he was dissatisfied with the operating system of large companies and the oppression of ordinary people by large companies.
So he accepted Shen Ye's suggestion and no longer carried out reforms in his own radical way, just as Arasaka Hanako said just now, to withdraw Arasaka's branch in Night City back to Japan, but to switch to another method, to improve the treatment of employees from within first, so that perhaps it would affect his company.
Of course, Shen Ye didn't know whether it would work or what the result would be. He decided to let Arasaka Yorinobu try it first. If it didn't work...
Then we can only use deus ex machina. The billions of androids in NieR’s world are not “vegetarians”…
After taking a sip of the tea handed to him by Arasaka Hanako and looking at the way she looked at him, Shen Ye smiled and said, "I'm just asking casually. You can discuss your company's affairs among yourselves. I won't interfere. However, I want to trouble you with something."
"Mr. Shen, please speak." Arasaka Hanako knelt in front of Shen Ye.
"Get me two tickets to the moon."
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(I was so worried. I was so busy in the afternoon that I couldn't even take a break. I didn't finish writing this chapter. So in order to eliminate my dissatisfaction, I decided to drink a little at night. So the second chapter will be later...)
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