Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 808 - 261: I’ll Help You Defy the World

Rebuilding Taiping Continent is actually a very troublesome matter. Many people don't want to tackle it even knowing how profitable it can be once completed.

Firstly, the smuggling hub in Dog Town can't be eliminated. Doing so would offend countless people, and you wouldn't even know how you'd die. Lin Miao was already encountering assassination attempts from Soviet Petrochemical and the Cubans as soon as he entered Dog Town, and it was only his tough luck that allowed him to survive. Anyone else would've been a rotting corpse by now.

Next is the economic dispute. Every building on Taiping Continent's land is owned by someone, whether or not it's an unfinished project. Legally, these companies hold the ownership of the land.

If you want to rebuild, you must sign a new contract with the party in charge. Otherwise, tampering with their properties or land is illegal. Even if you know exactly how the house should be built, the other party can still sue you and demand a lot of money.

They can even force you to pay up after a contract is signed.

Issues with material quality, construction techniques, project duration...

If they want to find faults, they could even find stones in the gaps between bricks.

This is why Kangtao and Huang Ban, despite having enough military strength to take down Dog Town, don't want to take over.

They're players in this game, and it's indeed not easy to use force to deal with those playing dirty tricks on big companies. Breaking the rules would only harm themselves.

Also, the refugee problem is the most troublesome. Taiping Continent houses hundreds of thousands of people, and less than one-tenth have legitimate rental contracts or property certificates.

Rebuilding Taiping Continent requires resettling these hundreds of thousands, and forced eviction would only cause further chaos in other districts, which companies do not want to see.

Now, this burden has finally landed on Lin Miao's shoulders.

And Lin Miao has been waiting for a month.

Waiting for an opportunity.

He learned from Song Zhaomei that there's a Little Beidou Laboratory with nuclear power underground in Taiping Continent, and that Hansen had already discovered it, using the reserves there to sell arms and equipment. Lin Miao resolved to use this opportunity to take over Taiping Continent.

For this, he pressed Hansen step by step.

He first gave an inaugural speech outside Taiping Continent, subtly pushing the narrative of the previous conflicts between the parties, even dragging Military Science and Kangtao into it.

All to create the illusion that the two companies planned to take Hansen's head and restart Taiping Continent.

The former had publicly expressed interest in Taiping Continent, while the latter was keen on Hansen's head, both having sufficient motives.

Then Lin Miao let players into Dog Town for a second round of pressure.

Though the players didn't clash massively with the Netherworld Dog, they did fiercely fight with the Cleaner, taking a whole afternoon to blow up the largest smuggling outpost and even eliminating two Soviet Petrochemical agents.

Since the players entered Dog Town, Hansen's airdrops have been intercepted eight out of ten times, forcing him to stop airdrop smuggling arms and switch to land transport.

Better to be embezzled by insiders than robbed by street madmen.

The pressure was indeed on Hansen.

However, Lin Miao wasn't ready to break relations with Hansen just yet, so he chose to enter Dog Town to meet and talk.

Lin Miao hoped the other side would have some sense and willingly give up the drug trade, and he could even help cleanse the Netherworld Dog, allowing them to continue operating the underground smuggling venues together.

Unfortunately, the other side didn't have the resolve to cut their losses and weren't willing to face off against the Cuba Drug Trafficking Group.

In Lin Miao's view, Hansen believed the Cubans or those supporting them would deal with Lin Miao.

Lin Miao didn't want the other side to rely on such wishful thinking. He wanted Hansen to be driven into a corner.

Thus, Lin Miao had the players infiltrated into the well-guarded Gemstone Cyan to set off fireworks.

To openly tell Hansen, no matter if I die, if you don't agree, you'll die.

In the end, a superficial agreement was reached, allowing Lin Miao's trucks access to Dog Town in exchange for helping Hansen transport materials unnoticed by other companies.

From beginning to end, Lin Miao never told Hansen he knew about Little Beidou.

Lin Miao even suspected how much Hansen knew about Little Beidou. Perhaps he only knew there was a Military Science facility underground that could uncover good stuff.

Thus, when Hansen chose to oppose Lin Miao, his demise became a matter of time.

Hansen's best outcome would be to find an opportunity to kill Lin Miao, and then be slaughtered by Kangtao and Military Science finding an excuse. The two companies would gleefully divide both parties' assets, receiving a fully intact Taiping Continent, and everyone would be happy.

For the remaining scenarios, no matter what Hansen chose, Lin Miao would pin the nuclear leak on him.

Yes,

Nuclear leak.

From the start, Lin Miao had no intention of solving Taiping Continent's issues through conventional means. It wasn't realistic, troublesome, and inefficient, which would take years that Lin Miao didn't want to waste.

So, he chose to stir things up using Little Beidou's independent reactor. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Now, the opportunity had come faster and greater than Lin Miao imagined.

The huge market sensation caused by the neural modulators gave Lin Miao ample funds and also focused the market's attention on him.

Moreover, Lin Miao didn't want Hansen to really whip up something major underground.

Robotic assembly line, human brain control...

Damn, he just casually mentioned it at first, never thinking Zeta Technology would actually take it seriously and dare to do it.

Lin Miao looked at the down-betting agreement he just signed with the Night City Bank Association. If he restarted more than 30 construction projects on Taiping Continent within a year, he would enjoy a low-interest loan of more than 2 billion Orokin. Otherwise, his neural modulator and water purification technology would be taken as collateral and become their property.