Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 694 - 223: Future Player Activation Methods - Part 2

So, he reached new agreements with several other companies.

Military technology and Kangtao, along with the Ye family, can each build their own water purification plants, while Horizon Corporation provides ready-made supramolecular filter membranes and Shiva bacteria strains. Moreover, Horizon Corporation will hold a 10% stake in the water plant.

Of course, not now.

The latter, Lin Miao, would not release it so easily; the newly acquired biological laboratory of ERO is working on modifying the bacteria strain, limiting the division times of the released bacteria, so each water plant needs to transport new strains from Lin Miao every six months.

As for whether the other party can break through the cultivation of this strain, it's not within Lin Miao's consideration.

It's not that he has any confidence in it, but because he knows this thing can't be covered for long. Once the water business grows big, holding it in his own hands is both a treasure trove and a death sentence. It's better to let everyone share the responsibility; the more people share, the smaller his risk is.

Biotechnology has also survived by relying on the low-cost export of emasculated wheat seeds from the European Community, sharing profits with the entire European Community. Otherwise, with the profits from Chun Er wheat, it would have been devoured by the United States and the Soviet Union long ago.

Moreover, some things are only useful when there are more of them.

So, in New America and California, numerous water sources have begun constructing new water plants. At the same time, military technology is continuously acquiring and modifying the original water plant companies in New America. Within an observable timeframe, the current disputes are still at the Basic stage; they will inevitably intensify in the future, possibly even sparking a new hot war.

As for Huang Ban, a long-standing rival of military technology, they have not joined the fight at this juncture.

First, because after suffering a blow in the Watson District, she wanted to lie low for a while. Second, she wanted to watch the situation escalate. It was most beneficial to have other companies fall out with New America, to incite a medium-scale war, and propagate the threat of New America so that Huang Ban could take the opportunity to expand their influence into more Free States.

Meanwhile, as the water battleground heats up, the lower-tier vendors in Night City are worried.

Because they can no longer sell water and meat, and restaurant businesses have taken a nosedive.

If there was only one category in trouble, they could easily replace it. The problem is now nearly the entire food industry has collectively gone bust, leaving them with nothing to switch to.

Usually, those mercenaries who like to come here and order a few skewers, buying a bottle of beer, now get nauseated just looking at the skewers.

Even if eating these skewers could make them sick, they wouldn't care much about their lives. But damn, the images are just too disgusting. Just seeing these things makes them sick to the stomach. How can they even begin to open their mouths?

Eat the meat?

Or eat shit?

And what Gloria did in response was.

Acquisition

But not the acquisition of these vendors' stores, but rather their water, buying all the water in the store at bottom price.

Hey, local friend, your cabinets are empty.

Isn't that a coincidence?

Our company just so happens to have a few new beverage options ready for market, and I think they fit perfectly with your cabinets.

If you don't trust other companies' water, surely you can trust Horizon Corporation's water?

There is no lack of technology and hard work. After all, there are no orchards left to bring you fresh juice. All concentrated juices are chemically blended, with limited flavors like grape and orange. But prior to this, this was how all market beverages were made, so no one should mock each other.

Some sell, some refuse, but Gloria didn't resort to forceful threats; she didn't believe anyone would turn away money.

A few days later, Lin Miao returned from Europe, bringing with him a newly registered trademark.

"Roman" Natural Water. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

His assault on Night City's water market came wave after wave. However, Lin Miao did not use the typical viral marketing strategies employed by companies in the past, no large-scale immersive projections to flood everyone's eyes.

He simply opened a live broadcast channel online, where Gloria would bring ERO's doctors to spend an hour each day discussing the diseases caused by various water pollutants, teaching people how to identify potential contamination sources in their drinking water, all without ever mentioning a competitor's product.

I didn't say anything; I was just stating facts.

It's your users identifying your problems, not me.

What?

Are you going to cross states to arrest a doctor for speaking the truth?

Oh, I'm so scared~~

Night City's law enforcement is quite poor, be careful, and don't walk alone at night.

If you manage to walk out of Night City with all your limbs intact, it means you abide by the law.

Those methods companies dare to use, don't you think Lin Miao would dare too?

Not only would he dare, but he would also use them more ruthlessly.

On January 13, 2076, Horizon's logistics convoy was attacked by a large number of unidentified mercenary squads, and the driver and security players were killed on the spot.

The next day, Continental Foods Corporation's Night City branch was surrounded by a large group of friendly citizens. By the time the NCPD arrived, the group's director and many top managers had vanished, with over half the security force dead or injured.

All that nonsense about "don't touch the high-level" or "the law doesn't apply to the elites" doesn't fly. If you come looking for trouble, expect to be smacked upside the head.

It's hilarious that the prelude to the first corporate war ended with Orbital Aviation using 'decapitation tactics' to capture EBM's CEO alive, and that was it.

Throughout four corporate wars, not one of the genuine culprits died. It was all about traditional martial arts, rich with martial ethics, striving to stop at just the right point. Even in the fiercest fourth corporate war, it only used a small nuclear bomb to destroy a Huangban Tower, killing Huang Ban Sanlang's son, without the decisiveness of the Soviet Union nuking the Middle East back in the day to ensure mutual destruction.