Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 873 - 282: We Claim Nothing Happened (3)

Capitalism is built on the foundation of the sanctity and inviolability of personal property, so you naturally cannot stop them from protecting their assets from loss.

Capital can take risks, but the risks are based on profit rather than rescue.

More surprisingly, more than one company had discovered signs of the nuclear leak, but they all maintained an extraordinary silence.

Because, if they didn't keep silent and chose to expose the issue, the entire Night City capital market would plunge into a frenzy of turmoil. The nuclear shadow from half a century ago has not yet dissipated. Even if they claimed that they found a solution and were working on resolving the matter, they couldn't prevent the fast capital flight and devaluation of Night City's assets, which would also lead to a city-wide riot.

Besides the biggest ones like Huang Ban and military technology, which European company or wealthy individual doesn't hold some real estate or stocks in Night City?

So, if anyone is going to flee, the bosses should be the first to do so.

Clearly, there was no consultation between them, yet they unanimously reached a tacit understanding—to sell off all their assets in Night City and simultaneously block any related information.

As a result, the propaganda machine of Night City started roaring into action.

"Did you hear? Tonight, you can see a faint glow over the ocean outside the Taiping Continent. It's a natural light refraction phenomenon, similar to the aurora borealis, a once-in-a-century occurrence. The last time it appeared was back in 1984..."

"Haha, I think it looks more like the astigmatism you see without properly cleaning your artificial eye. I suggest you take out your eyeball and wash it together with your grandma's dentures in a jar. Speaking of artificial eyes, I must recommend this model from Cyprus to you all..."

"Instead of the supposed aurora borealis, I think we should pay more attention to what's happening in Dog Town. Kurt Hansen, the colonel of Dog Town, is he headed for ruin under the pressure of newcomers? Tune in to Night City Midnight Radio. At midnight tonight, I will head into Dog Town to bring you the live battle situation."

All related personnel were given a gag order, prohibiting the spread of information, even to their parents and friends at home. Even the middle and lower-level employees of military technology were unaware of this matter.

Some of the transactional contracts that previously hindered you suddenly became very smooth. All the steps had been cleared. Those bank employees were called up to work overnight shifts, achieving in one day what they couldn't in a week before under these circumstances.

Horizon Corporation was the most lively among them, Lin Miao was still in the hospital receiving treatment, and yet the phone was exploding with calls.

A large number of multinational corporate entities wanted to sell their real estate in the Taiping Continent to him at a low price, even willing to take a loss, while probing Lin Miao's reaction to gauge if he knew about the nuclear leak.

In their words, since it's just sitting there attracting maggots, now they see your people in Dog Town hitting Hansen, the chief culprit for halting Taiping Continent's development. They feel they must lend support somehow.

Their words were full of high-sounding reasons and flowery rhetoric. If Lin Miao wasn't the initiator, he might have truly been deceived by this group of people.

Agree? 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

How could he agree? It's a buyer's market now, BOY.

I know nothing about the nuclear radiation situation, but do you know how many enterprises and groups are pitching their land to me, claiming their Feng Shui is excellent?

The price you're offering is so high, and I only have so much money on hand, plus the reconstruction costs are so demanding, it's really a bit challenging.

Many times, the expense required to complete a half-baked project is much greater than the cost of demolishing it and rebuilding.

Not to mention the nonsensical bureaucracy, transitions, and other issues, they could essentially cause most people to go bald.

Not to mention the half-collapsed skyscrapers in Dog Town, each one more troublesome than the next.

Therefore, Lin Miao must acquire full development rights over Dog Town and even the Taiping Continent, instead of wasting his energy on bureaucratic bickering.

To accomplish this, those companies and groups that won the development rights must willingly transfer them to him fully.

The best way is to destroy the commercial value of that area completely.

At least, it must look like it's on the verge of being destroyed.

And with Neon Calamity Island as a precedent, Lin Miao doesn't believe the companies in Night City could, like the Soviet Red Army, use their lives to block a nuclear leak.

Even augmented humans wouldn't be capable of it.

Because in such high radiation scenarios, flesh and blood are far more durable than electronic components.

The former can last a few hours, while the latter expires instantly upon being hit by high-energy particles.

So, time is on his side.

The longer it drags on, the more asset prices will plummet, allowing him to buy more land with less money, thereby claiming the ecological position after Night City's reconstruction.

However, something completely unforeseen occurred to Lin Miao.

He's not the only smart one.

Ye Corporation also started reclaiming those lands sold at low prices.

But Lin Miao didn't have time to dwell on this matter, nor did he have the leisure to probe whether Blue Eyes had discovered anything, because something bigger had happened.

The Chimera blasted through the walls Hansen built, a large number of Hellhounds rushed out of Dog Town and headed straight for the city center.

It's not that the players didn't want to stop it, mainly that the firepower of the two Chimeras exceeded the limits of their equipment, and the items capable of breaking defenses were all in Stone Ridge Mountain, unable to be brought in due to Night City's weapon prohibition.

Initially, it was a three-way chaos, but suddenly it turned into a robot versus player battle while the Netherworld Dog Team withdrew directly.

The Hellhounds stopped attacking the Netherworld Dog Team, allowing them to withdraw into the Gem Cyan Hotel for defense.

The two parties had obviously reached a secret agreement unknown to Lin Miao.

What surprised him even more was that a New America agent named Solomon Lid had emerged. Although Lin Miao knew there were quite a few agent insiders working in his company, one who climbed from the depths of Little Beidou, blew up the server room, and then intended to eliminate Hansen alone was definitely no small fry.

"Lucy, inform Kasper that this radiation operation must last at least three days, but the maritime radiation limit cannot exceed 10 roentgens."