Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 675 - 216: What’s With That Look on Your Face and in Your Eyes!

A power outage in Santo Domingo is no longer a topic worth discussing; it's like a monthly visitor.

Either a hacker attack hits the electric grid company, or the old nuclear fission reactor breaks down by itself.

An unstable power system means that every outage causes significant economic losses to this industrial area. Ideally, the best choice would be to conduct a major overhaul and maintenance on that reactor, integrating Santo Domingo's grid system with the other districts. Then, even if the reactor fails, the whole district wouldn't experience another power outage.

But here's where the problem lies.

The electric grid system of Night City has inherited the Neon style quite well.

Santo Domingo's grid is equipped with American military technology, using a 60Hz frequency reactor, while the other districts purchased Huang Ban's 55Hz frequency equipment, making direct grid connection impossible.

Exaggeratedly speaking, Santo Domingo's household appliances won't work in the Watson District.

Your plug doesn't match, can't stick it in.JPG

Just like the Kantou and Kansai regions' dual electric grids can't be shared.

This essentially showcases the division of territorial control by military science and Huang Ban in this city.

So what should be done?

Mediation

Who should go? 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Who has the ability to go?

Replacing the transmission equipment in either Santo Domingo or other districts

Who will pay for this?

And will they follow military science or Huang Ban?

As for constructing a converter station

Santo Domingo is an industrial district, with electricity consumption higher than all other districts combined, nearly a hundred billion kilowatt-hours a year, with equally high costs...

Without unified jurisdiction by a big government, no company is willing to pay for this, so it remains in a mess. What can you do?

As such, whether factories or families in Santo Domingo, everyone prepares backup generators to prevent economic losses from outages.

As the 'local' company in Santo Domingo, Horizon Corporation has every reason to conduct a technical assessment, sending a team to the reactor site for an on-site inspection.

Meanwhile, employees of the power company, who initially thought it was just an easy task to quickly deal with tourists, showing them around, are now sweating profusely.

Even though the other party's face is covered by a mechanical mask, the technical director accompanying him can still feel the disdainful gaze beneath the mask.

Just this?

Is this all you got?

Hidden behind the mask, Brunan spared no regard for the other's feelings, constantly picking faults since entering.

"Ha, it's just a small modular helium-cooled reactor. If you switched to a third-generation light water reactor, I suppose I'd see you glowing green from miles away at night."

"It's 2076 now. Why are you still using technology from 2014? Can't you move with the times?"

All the way, he pointed fingers, disparaging the entire nuclear plant from safety to practicality, leaving the technical director unable to lift his head.

Even knowing the other party is here to find faults, there's nothing to be done. Mechanical engineering isn't humanities; you can't talk your way through it. Technically inferior, they can only concede.

"This... there's really no way around it. All companies' technical reserves suffered severe losses in the network crash, many critical technologies are under others' control, and the cost of updating is unacceptable, so it can only be maintained like this."

The technical director says this like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water; after all, their power company is known throughout Night City for being a mess, so let it be.

If you're so capable, why don't you do it yourself?

"I heard you guys have a few core component patents with Jilafa?"

"Yes, after dealing with the government, Soviet Petrochemical outperformed other companies in nuclear technology. Plus, they have paper archives for many documents, making their technical heritage the most complete."

"But they charge too much in patent fees, and our company's profit can't accommodate their pricing, which would mean years of working for nothing."

"Moreover, using their critical technology requires changing the control system and paying an annual technology usage fee..."

The more complex the technology, the more blueprints there are.

The design blueprints for a large transport aircraft can fill a big warehouse, let alone something as complex as a nuclear reactor that is much more complicated, with hard drives worth their weight in gold.

Paper archives also involve risks of loss, maintenance, duplication, among other issues, far less convenient than electronic archives.

The result is that cloud storage for convenience led to trouble, with countless companies' technologies, developed with hundreds of billions of Orokin, being lost instantly.

With a tone of helplessness, the technical director spoke, as these issues were beyond his interference, blaming the troublemaker easily.

"Eh..."

On this point, Brunan could relate.

The director suddenly thought

"Hey, sir, seeing that your nuclear engineering research exceeds mine, why not work for our company? I'm sure the boss would be willing to offer you a satisfying salary, guaranteed to be higher than your current pay."

To him, a high-level nuclear engineering talent like this, in a robot-focused company like Horizon, is a waste, and he even bluntly tries to recruit him.

"Uh..."

"Ahem..."

Brunan was about to say something when he heard a soft cough from Lucy behind him and quickly declined.

"Better not. It's just a hobby of mine, casual research, not fit for the spotlight."

No matter how eagerly invited, Brunan evaded using different excuses.