Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 731 - 235: Merchants Are All Out for Profit—If He Doesn’t Want Money, What Else Could He Want? He’s Not Going to Blow Up Night City, Is He?
When the rush hits, don't you forget everything.
"Tell Dao Jie to organize a bunch of junkies, and tell them there's no more follow-up drugs. If they want them, go find Horizon Corporation. That company has taken all the drugs, surely planning to jack up the price and squeeze every bit of value out of them."
"Also, those Mercenaries don't get to decide if they use drugs or not. Find a way to inject them with a few doses, make them go into withdrawal in front of others. I don't need to teach you that; just keep it clean."
"By the way, I want to invite the newly appointed district chief over here afterward, make the arrangements."
The company has always been cost-conscious. Those vampires never do unprofitable business; only interests drive them.
Drug prohibition.
These two words are undoubtedly science fiction in today's society, because what is a drug is not up to you to decide.
In terms of addiction, the food, drinks, drugs, and prosthetics in Night City all have addictive ingredients to some extent. How do you define this range?
There are quite a few that can cause hallucinations.
Moreover, half of the city's people are using drugs. What can you ban when everyone takes a few hits out of boredom on the streets?
Therefore, Hansen scoffs at Lin Miao's actions, definitely just the precursor to Horizon Corporation launching its drug monopoly.
They're all businessmen; can they change their nature?
"You want to see him?" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Gago is a bit nervous. He thought Hansen wanted him to find an opportunity to kidnap Lin Miao and send him to Dog Town.
"Colonel, that's not a good idea. Right now, everyone in Night City thinks you two are going to fight sooner or later. If you make a move, it might be troublesome. I don't think his subordinates are easy to deal with."
Surely Lin Miao is the soul of Horizon Corporation. If he dies, Horizon Corporation will definitely be finished, but before it goes down, those crazed Mercenaries and Hackers might just blow up Dog Town.
Then, even if the Netherworld Dog defeats those Mercenaries, it will be severely weakened, and those groups that have long coveted Dog Town will undoubtedly target them. Gago doesn't want his prosperity to vanish into thin air.
"Just invite him over for a meal, nothing more."
Hansen is starting to suspect if Gago's head has been corrupted by Yuri and Lindel's bunch. Why resort to brute force at the mention of this?
"Schedule the time after Dao Jie has handled the matter. I'm quite curious to see how Boss Lin plans to deal with those junkies."
After saying this, Hansen's face showed a meaningful smile. He actually quite hoped those junkies would be beaten dead by Lin Miao on the street, which would ruin the guy's reputation and also give him a proper warning.
Everyone is here to make money; who doesn't like those ink-scented Orokin?
If that person is willing to cooperate, there's no reason they can't happily earn money together. Surely no one has a grudge against money?
Why run a company if not for making money?
Blow up Night City?
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Pain!
What pain!
Raphael feels every bone in her body creaking, every cell screaming and tearing, and the pain of her internal organs grinding against each other drives her nearly insane.
Raphael, sweating profusely, even feels like she's close to death, her will crumbling along with her body.
Ever since that company entered Taiping Continent, the drug dealers who used to be everywhere in the streets are becoming rarer, and their goods more expensive. In just a week, the prices have surged more than twentyfold, emptying Raphael of all her money in just a few days.
Now, without any money or drugs, Raphael can only curl up in a corner of an unfinished building, enduring the nearly unbearable withdrawal symptoms with other homeless people.
At this moment, they have no desire to eat or drink, with only one thought in their minds.
Just one hit, just one hit, as long as they can take one more hit, they're willing to die for it.
Poison
is the bone-crunching bug. Those who sell you drugs have only one thought, to drag you deeper into the abyss, forcing you to spend your last penny in the process, being squeezed dry of all usable value, becoming the dregs of society, no longer even owning your own life.
Poison
is also a means for some to control their subordinates, be it employees, Sex Dolls, thugs, or minions. Whoever is controlled by drugs no longer holds their own life or death.
This thing is more effective than any sense of brotherhood.
In the darkness, a figure steps into the gathering place of the homeless, holding out a bottle of spray that tantalizes the souls of the people before him.
"Do you want it?"
One by one, the homeless rise from the ground on their skeletal arms, their faces gaunt, bodies frail, like skeletons ready to crumble at any moment, yet bursting with astonishing strength and speed, scrambling to the stranger, reaching out emaciated arms, expressions as sacred as if the person before them were the descending savior Jesus.
They are even more devout than the most fanatic Christians.
"Want, want it so much."
"Please, give me a hit, I'll do anything you want."
"I still have a wife, I still have a daughter, just give me a hit, and I'll give them all to you."
It's hard to imagine these people were on the verge of death just now, but Dao Jie is accustomed to it. He's seen too many junkies, this is nothing.
Despite their pleas, he has no intention of dropping the spray but says instead
"If you want it, that can be arranged, but you must do something for me..."
Before he finishes speaking, someone interrupts to agree.
"Forget one thing, even if it's ten, a hundred things, we can do it! Just give me that stuff!"
If not for the group of juniors behind Dao Jie, these homeless might have rushed to snatch it.
He shakes the 'Black Lace' in his hand, looking down at the junkies
"Do you know who made you suffer so much?"
"It's Horizon Corporation."
