Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 161 Arasaka Yorinobu's Phone Call

To know the truth about this world, Lu Mingfei believes he needs to climb to the top.

In the neon-lit city, the tallest building stands frozen in time.

The clover logo is so obvious.

【Arakasa Tower】

Even amidst wind and rain, even after the intrusion incident involving Lu Mingfei and David, Arakawa remains steadfast because technology is their foundation. As long as Arakawa continues to produce works and control the market, no one can easily bring them down.

At least the scandals involving prosthetic bodies are not enough.

Adam's Hammer is another example. He's supposed to be a legend, but frankly, he's just a mercenary, someone who dies on the roadside and that's it.

In the eyes of the company, mercenaries are nothing, unless they are willing to expand their own power, accumulate capital, and then become part of the company.

Lu Mingfei has no interest in becoming a company.

But now he must reach the pinnacle of this world to provide shelter for David and the others.
He had to move on.

Before leaving Night City, Lu Mingfei's last memory was of talking to Roger about the investigation mission involving 'Arasaka Yorinobu'.

Upon returning, Lu Mingfei immediately asked Rogge for more details about the mission to consider whether he should accept it—and upon reading them, he discovered something quite unusual.

First, to understand Arasaka Yorinobu, you must first understand Arasaka Company.
The Arasaka Group originated in Japan and is a global giant security conglomerate.

That's right, Arasaka's main focus is actually security.

In addition, it also involves some banks and light and heavy industrial manufacturing. As a huge multinational corporation, Arasaka Corporation has more financial power than any other single company and uses subversive strategies such as spam texting, doxing, extortion and bribery to influence the world around them.

He specializes in providing security contracting services and sells Japanese products in North America. Despite his notorious reputation, Arasaka's work ethic and dedication are unparalleled in the industry.

Historically
According to Night City's records, Arasaka was founded at the beginning of the 20th century and was originally a manufacturing company.

The founder was Sansai Arasaka. Of course, although the founder Sansai had a considerable business mind, it was far from enough to develop Arasaka into a successful company. If you had to say, it was just a mid-sized enterprise in the country.

It was similar to what Lu Mingfei had seen in Angers.

However, after Sansai's death in 1960, Saburo Arasaka took over control of the company and began a series of far-reaching reforms.

It expanded its services to include advanced security and banking, becoming a global corporation.

The most serious defeat recorded by Arasaka was during the Fourth Corporate War, when he was severely damaged by his old rival, the Military Technology Company, which directly blew up Arasaka Tower. This incident was almost a gathering of legends - Johnny Silverhand, Morgan Blackhand, Rogue, Old Snake, Spider Murphy, Adam Hammer, all of them were involved.

Then, which is now.

Today, Arasaka is split into three conflicting organizations.

The conservative "Pheasant" group led by Hanako Arakasaka.

Michiko Arakawa leads the pro-American "Dove" group, which is allied with the US government.

And the "Hawk" group, a rebel group led by Arasaka Yorinobu, son of Arasaka Saburo.

Three pillars.

All three are constrained by the current de facto leader of Arasaka, the immortal old man who has lived for a century—Saburo Arasaka.

Lu Mingfei's main focus was naturally on Sanlang and Lai Xuan.

There hasn't been any significant information about either of them in recent years, especially Lai Xuan. Since he took over his share of the power, there haven't been any unique development projects. Instead, there's been a lot of gossip about him all over the world.

A very typical playboy.

His rebellious childhood and dissolute youth left everyone with an impression of frivolity. No one thought he would threaten their position, and Saburo Arasaka was even more disappointed in his son.

This guy, after taking the finished product of Arasaka's highest-level experimental project, fled to Night City.

If one wants to obtain information about Arasaka Yorinobu and Relic, it means offending this young master, or even being dragged into the chaotic situation of the Arasaka triumvirate.

Let's storm the Arasaka Tower and kill that guy! We'll kill his son and daughter too! We'll be kings!

Rebecca's words were still echoing in his mind.

Although the words are rough but the meaning is sound, there are still some rough parts that need to be revised.

That is, 'not all of Saburo Arasaka's children are in Arasaka Tower.' While simply killing Saburo Arasaka's family would quickly plunge Arasaka into chaos, it wouldn't necessarily destroy the empire outright.

I want to kill Arasaka completely.
That would require cooperation from both inside and outside.

That's right, sandwich cheese between two buns to completely destroy it from within!

Arasaka Yorinobu is clearly not the right person to be a 'backup agent'. Although he had rebelled against Arasaka in his early years, people tend to think that it was just a childish mentality caused by his older brother's oppression.

So, what exactly should be done?
Lu Mingfei thought for a while.

Then, I gave up thinking.

Although he had just been speculating about his relationship with Lu Mingze in his dream, engaging in a seemingly logical and insightful discussion, it was simply because Lu Mingfei was an engineering student and liked to list options and information, then combine and summarize them.

That doesn't count as reasoning at all; it's just a simple 'listing'.

Among the people Lu Mingfei knew, there were two exceptional talents in terms of intelligence and logical reasoning.

One is Caesar. Although he is not outstanding in combat power, Caesar's leadership and logical reasoning ability are terrifying. If he systematically learns hacking skills, Lu Mingfei even suspects that he will instantly surpass Su Enxi, reach the level of Finger and Lu Mingfei, and even surpass everyone else.

And the other person, that is...
"So, because it's a mission related to Arasaka, you're asking me, someone connected to Arasaka, for help?"

Wild Wolf Bar.

The rusty metal door frame was inlaid with cracked glass, and exposed neon tubes crisscrossed overhead, while holographic advertisements projected half-blurred beer logos through bullet holes in the wall.

This is the place where Lu Mingfei's team talks most often, besides Jack's mother and Lai Sheng.

Although it's called a conversation, the steps are actually quite similar.

[First, Lu Mingfei, having accepted the mission, went to the bar and texted Jack and V.]

[The second step is for Lu Mingfei to ask V, "V, what do you think?"]

[Step 3: V remains silent, then Jack says "Fuck him!" to lighten the mood.]

Such as now.

“Arasaka is a very dangerous organization. Although I did fairly well in the counterintelligence department at the time, the competition was actually terrifying, and I was under a lot of pressure.” The blue-haired beauty said with her arms crossed, “No big shots ever came to Night City during my tenure. Let alone intelligence, I never even met Arasaka Yoriyuki.”

"If you're trying to use my connections, I'm sorry, but people who have left the company are not qualified to contact the company."

There's no way around it; after all, this is Arasaka, a strictly hierarchical prison where information other than gossip doesn't circulate.

and so--

"However, I do have some gossip."

That's right, information other than gossip doesn't circulate, which means gossip circulates very quickly.

V casually remarked, "It's said that even after returning to Arasaka's inner circle, Arasaka Yorinobu's attitude towards Saburo was very bad. This is supported by evidence that someone saw Johnny Silverhand's promotional photos in Arasaka Yorinobu's office, so it's rumored that he's a fan of Johnny Silverhand."

Johnny Silverhand is a legend who participated in the demolition of Arasaka Tower. Hanging his promotional photo is clearly just to annoy his own father.

Such a person remains shrouded in mystery.

His behavior was frivolous and dismissive; treating him as a playboy seemed to be the best approach.

But why?

Lu Mingfei's intuition told him that he couldn't draw such a conclusion so easily.

While everyone remained silent—

【Didi Didi】

A communication request came through Lu Mingfei's brain-computer interface.

That was an unfamiliar signal.

Notes, Contact Person
[Arasaka Yorinobu]

(End of this chapter)