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

Chapter 212 The History of Another World

Feeding in cyberspace is an indescribable experience, like turning your body into a snail and slowly wriggling on top of other cyber life forms, secreting mucus to devour them.

In the mental contest between Saburo Arasaka and Lu Mingfei, the latter emerged victorious.

Although it was a clever trick, it was all within Lu Mingfei's expectations.

Relic is essentially a body containing two spirits, and the Little Devil can always freely enter and exit Lu Mingfei's spiritual world. Even if Sanlang can surpass Lu Mingfei, the Little Devil will not sit idly by.

Now it's time to appreciate the results.

Lu Mingfei's consciousness began to sink into a distant abyss.
[1915]

With the establishment of the Arasaka Corporation, amidst the shadow of war, this future behemoth began to be created, providing the empire with an army and allowing the company to gradually accumulate some capital.

Lu Mingfei knew this part of history, just as he had investigated it when he was at Kassel College.

Arasaka was a company that had been established for a long time, but at this point in time, it seemed to be just a family business, unknown and not worthy of being taken seriously by the mixed-race family.

In 1919, Saburo Arasaka was born. If the 'memories' before this were just vague words, then from this point onward, Lu Mingfei, who had consumed Saburo Relic, began to have a clear 'first-person perspective'.

He began to see the life of that emperor.

As a young man, Saburo Arasaka actively participated in Arasaka's work and fought in World War II. At the age of 23, he became a naval lieutenant and was one of the most accomplished pilots of his time.

In 1942, due to an accident, the plane was severely damaged, and Saburo, as a pilot, was unable to continue going to the front line as a soldier, so he was forced to start a business.

1945. As is well known.

Then, feeling ashamed, Saburo Arasaka should have committed seppuku like many Japanese 'samurai', but he changed his mind.

The reason is unknown.

Yes.

————————Listen carefully, all the information above was actually something Lu Mingfei could have found in Night City. Any hacker with good enough skills could have searched for it.

However, it was precisely because Lu Mingfei devoured Relic that he was able to know [why Saburo Arasaka decided to give up Zisha at the last moment].

Because he saw it.

On the battlefield, Saburo Arasaka's planes shot down more enemy troops than the limit that ordinary people could tolerate. Therefore, Saburo had doubts about his own existence and even about the people around him a long, long time ago.

Do you remember—the plane Lu Mingfei and Caesar were on, and why the captain and co-pilot, both retired military personnel, trusted Caesar so much?

—It's because he and Lu Mingfei showed off their Golden Eyes.

Because the captain and others had seen them in later wars, and because hybrids have never left the stage of history.

Arakawa is indeed not from a mixed-race family, but the gifted Saburo Arakawa begins to suspect that there is some truth hidden beneath this superficial world.

Saburo couldn't accept his defeat, but in the surface world, he was forced to watch the empire die because of a single setback.

But if we could do it all over again...

He longs to achieve a victory that belongs solely to him in the world of the "inner circle".

And so history began to change.

In 1960, Arasaka's father died, and the 41-year-old Arasaka succeeded him as the new emperor. He began to expand his power and continued to search for evidence about 'hybrids'.

It wasn't difficult. Anyone with the will to search could find it, even a Chinese high school student, let alone Saburo trying to make contact with his family's influence. He quickly discovered the concept of the mixed-race secret society, finding clues in his father's collection.

Let's go back to 1900. Japan was in the midst of the Meiji Restoration and was involved in that war of aggression that brought shame to the world.

War is a primitive form of violence that can unearth and expose many things that were previously hidden. At least back then, Arakasaka Susaki, who was also an officer, discovered the existence of hybrids, dragons, on the Chinese mainland.

At that time, the Dragon King was in a period of high frequency of resurgence, and the entire continent was in chaos, with wars breaking out one after another between its own kind and between other races.

After the war, Arakasaka Susui immediately began investigating the hybrids and learned of the existence of the Secret Party early on.

Also in 1900, the Château attempted to make contact with the European Secret Society.

Still in 1900, Meneke Cassel, the leader of the Secret Service at the time, sternly rejected Arakasaka's request for a rendezvous and humiliated him.

Therefore, he did not tell his son Saburo that Susui firmly believed that this kind of inner world existence was extremely exclusive, and that if Arasaka rashly made contact without power, he would only be swallowed up.

He left all the intelligence at home, and those records were accidentally discovered by Saburo when he was preparing to commit suicide.

By Saburo's time, the leader of the Secret Party had changed.

Hilbert named Angers.

In order not to repeat his father's failure, Saburo plans to expand Arasaka's power.

Arasaka Bank, Arasaka Security Department, until 1980, when the 61-year-old Arasaka gave birth to his first child, Arasaka Kei, and intended to make him his successor.

Then, in 1994, according to Night City's records, an unprecedented stock market crash should have occurred here, a massive economic disaster that could have even led to the disintegration of the United States.

Then, in 1995 and 1999, she gave birth to Arasaka Yorinobu and Hanako respectively. Yorinobu received an elite education, and at this time, even from Saburo's perspective, one could see Yorinobu's rebellious spirit.

In 2013, Ottkenen independently developed the then-unnamed Relic technology, and then Arasaka kidnapped Ottkenen.

In Arasaka's memory, Otcanen was an exceptionally outstanding hybrid.

As mentioned before, hybrids with extremely high bloodlines are not necessarily combat specialists; they may also be mentally enhanced types. Ottcanning and Bartmouth are examples of this; they are natural-born sages.

Therefore, Saburo must suppress them and completely master their techniques, naming them Soul Killers.

From 2040 to 2060, the Soul Killer was heavily developed and officially named Project Relic.

However, a problem arises here.

The death of Ottkenen, and the technology that Arasaka suddenly possessed.

The Soul Killer, a technology developed by Ultraman alone, was completed in 2013, but it wasn't until much later that Saburo Arasaka deemed it mature enough to be used in the 'immortality' project.

Decades.

Given the importance Saburo Arasaka placed on this technology, how could it have taken decades to evolve into Relic?
No one has ever been able to learn about this period of history from Saburo's own words.

But now, Lu Mingfei has seen it.

The "heaven" mentioned by Arasaka Yoriyuki, and the truth behind the slow development of the Arasaka Company.

Before telling this story, we need to understand a concept that exists only in the cyberpunk world and not in the dragon world.

[Corporate Wars]

(End of this chapter)