Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 681 - 221: Meat Processing

"Radiation sickness… nuclear leak… fission mineral detection records…"

Since the old network was opened to players, they often brought back some residual data from those instances. Most of it was junk data, like the clock-in data discovered before, or someone's incomplete website browsing history, generally worth very few Contribution Points, and genuinely valuable data was rare.

These items would be handed over to W for unified screening, filtering out useless data before categorizing and passing it to relevant specialists for identification, graded storage according to utilization value.

This time, the data the players brought back was rarely judged as C-grade confidential data, so Lucy took some time to look at it because Lin Miao was unavailable.

The videos and research records related to radiation sickness were disgusting, but she didn't know what they were meant for, so she grabbed Brunan who was just preparing to leave to ask him.

"This…"

Brunan was surprised that they managed to extract these things.

"I remember these records were stored in database number 13."

"Back then, we considered that the nuclear power stations worldwide were still primarily using second and third-generation fission reactors, and since a nuclear power station's lifespan could reach sixty to seventy years, if we wanted the fourth-generation nuclear reactors to promote quickly for our profit, we could only start from their technical disadvantages."

Lucy showed disdain: "Framing?"

"Cough… How could you call it framing, these things really did exist. In that era, nuclear weapons were rampant, nuclear issues were not trivial matters, and treating them cautiously was the appropriate attitude."

Brunan felt awkward because he hid certain facts.

As long as the nuclear bomb craftsmanship was adequate, the reaction was swift, leaving little radiation residue, and the same applied to nuclear power stations.

The problems mostly arose from equipment aging, worker mishandling, or poor management, unrelated to technology.

And dumping nuclear wastewater into the sea was a widespread practice, not considered severe dirt.

But what could he do, he was a tech personnel, and propaganda wasn't his responsibility.

"But it seems these data…"

Lucy initially wanted to say that these data were now useless but suddenly stopped.

"..."

After staying with Lin Miao for so long, she also started thinking about problems from different angles.

Back then, Brunan's company could use these issues to frame their peers.

Now, wouldn't other drinking water competitors use similar tricks against them?

When discussing that no limits means, corporations are quite vocal, morality is merely a toy in their hands.

Although Lin Miao and Gloria have implemented contingency plans in advance, after mixing for years on the streets of Night City and stealing a lot of Huang Ban's data, Lucy knew very well how dirty those people's methods were.

The so-called truth speaks for itself but doesn't exist; proving innocence, refuting rumors, and other means hold little significance when facing framing.

Because once the rumor was born, your losses began, and post-event measures could only reduce deficits but not completely eliminate them.

The best way to prevent enemies from hurting you on the streets fighting is to strike first before they can retaliate.

Besides, Lucy knows the agreement between Lin Miao and military tech; how could they develop light industry and continuously let them take the lead, while military tech just takes money without doing anything?

"Hehe."

Lucy's mouth crept into a peculiar smile, discomforting Brunan.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Lucy shook her head and asked

"Is this mineral survey data accurate?"

"These were data prepared to convince investors, basically precise positioning. Thorium-based reactors' largest advantage is that thorium deposits substantially exceed uranium's, and one ton of thorium generates comparable energy as 200 tons of uranium, with nuclear waste being less and decay periods shorter, and the major disadvantage, thorium salt's high corrosivity, is resolved with new material breakthroughs."

"Phew… I got it."

After making up her mind, Lucy told Brunan

"I will have them bring the found data for you to review, organize the useful ones, and occasionally publish some papers online. I trust it won't be long before you can continue hosting new reactor development."

In technical matters, Lucy didn't know much, but she could learn from Lin Miao and entrust the task to those knowledgeable.

As for the cyber life form in front of her, for various reasons, Lucy didn't want to return it to Prometheus Laboratory; who knows what it's thinking?

After sending Brunan away, Lucy chose to mimic Lin Miao's approach, assigning a new task to an unnamed Doni Vormirian journalist.

[Side quest: Major Exposure]

[Quest Background: Night City's food safety problem has always been a cloud lingering in the citizens' hearts, but those companies can cover up the sky with one hand, buy off media, capture reporters, threaten to kill anyone who dares to reveal the truth. However, I always believe in any era; there will be pioneers unafraid of sacrifice]

[Quest Introduction: Find ways to infiltrate those food, water company production sites and expose their illegal acts thoroughly with facts]

[Quest Reward:

(You will have the opportunity to publish a physical newspaper in Night City)]

"Huh?"

Previously reviewing a family incest manuscript submitted by a certain female player and verging on blindness, Brother Dao suddenly saw the system-issued task.