The evening of the second day. An old Columbus V340-F freight truck came from the direction of Santo Domingo and parked near the entrance of the third building of the Jintingmu Plaza luxury apartment building. Among the buildings in this square, the five modern skyscrapers in the center are undoubtedly the most eye-catching. Their lines are rigid but full of technological beauty, and the dark exterior walls do not have too many decorations, perfectly displaying the luxury and restraint required by the upper class in Night City. It’s no wonder that this place has become the preferred residence for corporate people, and even several large companies have bought several floors there to use as apartments for their outstanding mid-level employees. Located in the center of the five skyscrapers is where the employees who work for Arasaka Company live. The architectural structure of the building is also very unique, with more than one sky bridge connecting the five buildings. In the company, most of them have their own place of residence here, ranging from outstanding middle-level employees to those in power who may be just one step away from the top. Li You's target this time is also one of these people. Arthur Jenkins, the head of the Counterintelligence Division of Arasaka Special Operations Section 3, has his luxury apartment on the top floor of this skyscraper. "Arthur Jenkins, 42 years old, has no children and does not like sports. He loves his work and often takes the initiative to work overtime and uses this as a standard to ask his subordinates to strive."
Li You, who was wrapped in a one-piece heavy light green overalls, was standing by the car at the moment, grinning while looking at the Jenkins information displayed on his mobile phone. "Jenkins, he smells so much like a company dog. Damn it, it gave me PTSD." He continued to look at the information behind him. "My favorite drink is bourbon. My usual car is RAYFIELD. The floating car parking space is at No. V3, Jintingmu Plaza East. The apartment number is K3-H5, Jintingmu Skyscraper." This number means that Jenkins' apartment is in the fifth apartment on the top floor of Building 3. Sasha's voice came from the earphones: "Li You, are you ready? We have cracked the security system on the lower floor of the building, and you can go in now." Sasha, Qiwei and Lucy are now sitting in a modified hacker-specific vehicle provided by Mr. Faraday, driven by Mann himself, waiting near the columbarium in the northeast of the square. The driver, Falco, drove another armed vehicle of Mann's team, with Dorio, Pyrrha, Rebecca, and Yuzu on guard. Mann had chosen this place because it had a good view and would not attract attention if he stayed there for a long time. At that time, he also joked: "Besides, if this operation fails, I can go in directly and book a seat for all of us. How convenient this is! Hahahaha!" Li You: "......" Stop putting a flag on your back! Are you going to change your career to sing Peking Opera? ? As for Li You, only Aiji acted with him. After all, Yuzi's figure was too conspicuous, and even if he wanted to pretend to be a cleaning staff, there were no work clothes suitable for him. The weather tonight was not good. It was raining continuously and the stars and the moon were not visible. Only the neon lights that continued to shine lit up the night sky, mixing with the raindrops and casting a large hazy halo in the mid-air. But for covert operations, this weather was just right. Li You and Ai Ji successively put on old, whitish, and even vaguely smelly work helmets and masks, covering most of their faces, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. He picked up the tool bag and Aggie pushed the maintenance truck to the entrance on the side of the building. There are four entrance doors on each side of the luxury apartment building, and there is a tropical landscape vat as a display in the middle of the door.
Unlike in the game, all doors are open at all times, but the identity recognition cameras and security gates are also in operation 24 hours a day, and a team of three security guards are on standby in real time. Fortunately, the security on the lower floor of the building is not that tight. With the underlying code of the security system provided by the entrusted customer, Sasha and the other three used the professional equipment on the hacker car to easily crack the internal network and steal Li You and Aiji. The temporary identity authentication information is uploaded. So, Li You and Aiji carried their bags and pushed their carts in a swaggering way, passed through the security gate under the eyes of the security guards and lobby employees, and found the maintenance passage according to Sasha's instructions in the communication. Things were going smoothly, but that was perfectly normal. Before Li You traveled through time, he knew a rule: a set of overalls and a ladder can allow you to enter basically all "no-go" areas. As long as you can hold your breath. "We're in." "Okay, now take the freight elevator in the maintenance channel and go up to the 19th floor." Sasha gave instructions in the communication, "From the 20th floor up, there is the area where Arasaka takes over the security system. The protection there is at least several times tighter than the lower floors, and Arasaka security guards have begun to patrol. "So you have to go to the server room on the 19th floor and connect the cracker I gave you to the host, so that we can find a way to enter the system in the upper area." Li You said that this process is quite familiar. In fact, if he just wants to get to the top, he has plenty of ways. The simplest thing is to imitate everyone's good neighbor Spider-Man and just climb up from the outer wall. Unfortunately, the mission requirement was to plant a virus program into Jenkins' computer without being discovered, so it was useless for him to climb up like that, and he would probably be discovered halfway up. ——But you can do this when you go to kill Faraday's family in the future. Li You and Aggie took the elevator to the 19th floor. According to the floor structure diagram they remembered before, they walked through the maintenance passage that was not in line with the beautiful appearance of the building and found the computer room. He was about to open the door when Aggie grabbed him and said, "Wait, there are people inside. One, two, three... a total of four people! Two in the main control room, one in the passage, and one next to the host." "Really a lot?" Li You was a little surprised, "Can you judge the number of prosthetic implants they have?" "... Or I bite you and turn you into a perceptive night demon, and then you try it yourself?" Aggie said with a straight face. "Okay, okay, I'm just asking." Li You picked up the call again: "Sasha? There is an unexpected situation. There are four employees in the server room. We have to deal with them." Sasha paused for a while before replying to him, "Got it, act quickly and don't give them a chance to sound the alarm. Also, don't kill them, there may be a life monitoring system." "Understood." Li You and Aggie squatted by the door and waited quietly. After only a moment, Aggie gently opened the door. "Do it." The two men sneaked into the machine room silently. Li You rushed out first and grabbed the neck of the employee who was supposed to be patrolling but was actually dozing off in the passage from behind. He squeezed hard and made him lose consciousness. Hiding this person in the corner of the passage, Li You and Aggie went to the control room again. Two employees here were chatting, and one of them was facing the door. This time they couldn't get around, but the other party happened to have only two people. Li You and Aggie looked at each other and nodded. The next moment, Li You suddenly pushed open the door of the control room! "What——"
The two employees turned their heads, but they only uttered half a word of "who" before they were attacked by Li You and the others, and their memories were erased with amnesia (physical) and knocked to the ground. As for the last employee who was checking the host, he heard a little strange noise, walked towards the control room with some suspicion, and called his companion's name, trying to figure out what happened. "…Peterson, Song Biao? Are you there?" No response. The maintenance worker swallowed his saliva, and just when he was in a dilemma, his head suddenly went dark. He subconsciously looked up, but saw a black shadow pressing down from the air! "Ah——!" The maintenance worker only had time to let out a short and slight scream before he was knocked down by Li You and fainted on the floor. "All solved. Sasha! Where is the cracker connected?" Li You asked into the headset. "Good job! The cracker is to be installed on the host. See the thing that looks like a refrigerator with red data streams on the surface? There is a small panel in the lower middle of it, and there is an interface next to the panel. Connect the cracker." Li You glanced and found the panel that Sasha mentioned, so he took out the cracker from the tool kit and installed it carefully. "Okay, next, insert the chip I gave you into the computer in the control room." Li You returned to the control room, where Edge was busy injecting trace amounts of virus into four employees to ensure that they would not wake up quickly, and then stuffed them into the cabinet and hid them. He found the computer in the control room and inserted the separation chip into it. The computer screen automatically lit up and the dark red data flashed continuously. Li You also saw the same personal mark as Sasha's caller avatar in the corner of the screen - a pink stick figure cat head, and couldn't help but smile. "It looks like it should be going well...right?" Sasha quickly answered his question: "We are trying to crack it. Arasaka's ICE is very thick. I'm afraid it won't be able to pass through it for a while. You have to wait." Li You pondered for a moment. He actually expected this situation. After all, in the main storyline, T-BUG wanted to pass through the ICE of the Blue Building of Arasaka Industry, but it took a full three and a half hours. The specific level of the three hackers in his team is unknown, but it is estimated that they are about the same as T-BUG. Even if the three work together, they may not be able to crack it quickly. However... Li You does have a way. He said to Sasha: "Sorry, I'll hang up for a while." "Ah? Wait, Li--" "Beep." After Li You hung up Sasha's call, he turned around and called Lucy again. "Huh? Li You? What are you doing? Why are you calling me..." "Lucy, you will be the main force and crack the ICE of the building's security system." Li You ignored Lucy's doubts and said. This made Lucy silent. "...What do you mean?" Time was running out, so Li You didn't waste words and said, "You had originally rejected our invitation, and you looked uninterested when we met in the next life, but when you knew we were dealing with the head of Arasaka's counterintelligence department, you immediately changed your mind. Why?" Without waiting for her to answer, Li You continued to talk, "I don't think you decided to join because you were afraid of Faraday's threat. You obviously have your own plans, and that should be related to Arasaka, right? You had other goals, right?" Lucy remained silent.
"Listen, I don't care what you want, but as long as it doesn't conflict with everyone's mission goals, I won't interfere, and I can even help." Li You spoke quickly, "Accordingly, since you are willing to take action , then I guess you should know Arasaka very well, otherwise you will die. " "Among the three of you, Sasha is the one who is mainly responsible for cracking, right? You exchange with her and hack into the system quickly. Time is of the essence. The faster you do it, the more time I have to help you achieve your goal." When he said this, Lucy no longer hesitated and answered concisely: "Deal." She immediately cut off the communication, and after a while, Sasha called. "Hello? Li You?" She said with a slightly dissatisfied tone, "You just talked to Lucy, right?" "Don't worry, I just talked to her about some serious business. How is the progress of your cracking over there?" Li You didn't explain much. "The progress... is pretty good. Lucy seems to be very familiar with Arasaka's ICE, and her cracking speed is much faster than mine." Sasha said helplessly, "At this rate, we should be able to get it done in about half an hour. " "Okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Li You sat down at the computer. He had indeed noticed Lucy's abnormality a long time ago and had been observing her. After all, Lucy's unknown secret is the ending that has been known to Li You for a long time. Based on this, many of her actions are not difficult to explain. She knew how to get around Arasaka's ICE, and this was information that Li You kept in mind. The reason why he didn't break the news in advance was because he might scare Lucy away, so he waited until she couldn't withdraw before showing off. Although it seems that the cracking speed has only been accelerated a little, but as Li You repeatedly emphasized, time is life! You see, in the main plot, if T-BUG could crack the security system of Kanbi Building in half an hour, V and Jack would have stolen the goods and left in the elevator without a trace, and there wouldn’t have been so much follow-up. tragedy. Taking into account his usual non-chief expression, Li You decided to push the cracking progress as fast as possible. Otherwise, when he and Aggie go up to plant a virus into Jenkins' computer, what if there is a scene like "Abernathy unexpectedly visits, conflicts with Jenkins, and Jenkins strangles him to death in anger"? It's a waste of time. He has nothing to be afraid of, but Sasha, Lucy, and Mann are in danger. If nothing else, with Faraday's style, he would not hesitate to abandon his troops to protect his commander and sell them to Arasaka. Lucy moved faster than expected. In less than twenty minutes, she had entered the security system on the upper floor of the building. "We're in! Li You, keep moving!" "clear." … Basically the same moment. On the 33rd floor of Arasaka Tower, in the office of Jenkins, the head of the Counterintelligence Department. "...Okay, I have received all your reports, and I did a good job in the field this time." Jenkins removed the separation chip from the back of his neck, turned to the person at the desk and said pleasantly. "You haven't been back to Night City for a long time. That's it for today. You go back to the apartment and have a good rest. I will find someone to finish the rest of the work." The man at the desk was not polite. He stood up and answered in a slightly low, hoarse, but still very pleasant voice:
"I see."
