AWB Chapter 160 Network Surveillance
Chapter 160 Network Surveillance
Arasaka Tower.
33rd Floor Counterintelligence Department.
Tang Yu ticked a B score on the electronic screen, put down the electronic tablet in his hand, and forwarded the processing results to the Arasaka Academy Council.
He had just completed his responsibilities as a social practice instructor at Arasaka College, marking each three-month practice report.
His score will become the basis for this group of fresh graduates to find a job, and will be entered into the personnel files of their future employment companies.
of course.
If you don't join the company, the social practice score is useless.
Another situation is that the family background is strong enough, and the rating is also not very useful.
Regarding the scoring results this time, Tang Yu upheld the principle of fairness and did not favor or suppress anyone.
He spoke entirely based on the content of the practice report. In order to identify whether there were any fraudulent practice reports, he also deliberately asked the front desk to contact several companies and asked the other company's personnel opinions, which was basically impartial.
The reason why Tang Yu did this was mainly because he found it troublesome.
as of now.
He has received greetings, invitations, gifts, transfers, etc. from parents of different students, all kinds of sugar-coated shells are endless.
The parents of these children studying at Arasaka Academy should not be underestimated in terms of status or influence. Basically, they are either rich or expensive, and they are extremely concerned about their children's studies.
Through various methods, Tang Yu's office address, the relationship between colleagues and superiors, and even his contact information were obtained.
Just now, the mother of a female student took the initiative to come to the office to meet, still in the name of sister Arthur Jenkins, the old boss, and it was not good to make Tang Yu disappear.
Not only was Tang Yu overwhelmed by the disturbance, but Arthur Jenkins, who had not yet returned from a business trip on a major case, received a lot of favors and asked him to come forward and say something nice to Tang Yu.
We all know that Tang Yu is not easy to speak in the company, so he shifted the firepower to Jenkins, and even a supernatural parent, a director of a large company, directly approached Michiko Arasaka, begging him to say something.
It was only then that Tang Yu discovered that the parents of this group of noble children did have unusual influence.
Faced with this situation, he either chooses to give high scores to all of the mud, or chooses to give as much as he deserves in a fair judgment.
Even if Tang Yu doesn't care and can avoid some unnecessary troubles, it's better to be less troublesome.
However, Tang Yu is also a little bit emotional. The children of these elite senior executives of these companies are indeed not bad in terms of literacy and learning ability.
Tang Yu scored according to the established scoring standards, and he could hardly find a bad one.
Except for the added moisture of a certain family background, but judging from various assessments and company evaluations, it is indeed an excellent batch.
It's no wonder that graduating from Arasaka Academy is eligible to apply for a job in a large company. Personal ability and education are placed here, and the school's signboard is strong enough.
Tang Yu awarded Katsuo Tanaka the highest score for this company's internship.
He carefully read Katsuo Tanaka's practice report, which recorded in detail the whole process of his joining the Arasaka R&D Department and participating in the Arasaka high-end prosthetic body R&D project.
From how to integrate into the team, understand the progress of the learning project, and finally put forward some innovative ideas for improvement, and overcome some problems, he fully demonstrated his quality in R&D technology.
The content of the report is detailed, the experimental parameters, time, and progress are completely matched, there is no possibility of falsified records, and the developed product is already in the final test stage, and it will not be long before it goes on the market.
Katsuo Tanaka is the only one with this kind of high-quality practice report.
Although he was able to participate in such a core project research and development during the internship period, it was mostly because of Tanaka's care, but it was also inseparable from Tanaka Katsuo's own efforts and accomplishments.
So Tang Yu gave Katsuo Tanaka a score of A+. With this score and his senior father in the R&D department, it is almost a sure thing to join Arasaka Tower.
As for David Martinez, Tang Yu also carefully read his practice report.
to be frank.
After reading it, he feels that it can only be regarded as average. The overall content of the practical report is detailed, and he has indeed done a lot of things in three months.
But what is incomparable with Katsuo Tanaka is that David basically did procedural work during his internship. Although he participated in several intelligence projects and promoted the progress of some cases, he did not complete it independently after all.
If it weren't for David's participation in some major cases, I'm afraid it would be barely enough to get an A-.
If you only do some procedural work as an intern in the company, no matter how hard you work, it will not reflect your own value.
Unlike R&D, an experiment can fail over and over again until it succeeds.
In the counterintelligence department, no one dared to hand over all the projects at hand to a rookie. If they failed, a large number of people would die, because there was often only one opportunity.
In fact, David’s internship in the Counterintelligence Department does not have an advantage. Most of the time, he can only drag dust behind the team leader or colleagues and collect leftovers.
Seeing David's practice report, Tang Yu felt that he might not be suitable for counterintelligence work, and perhaps it would be more suitable for him to go to the Special Operations Department.
Tang Yu obtained the talent "tenacity and unyielding" from David's life simulation, which shows that David's physical fitness is definitely different from ordinary people.
This kid hasn't installed combat implants so far, it's a waste of his talent.
However, if he can get the grade of A-, there is still a glimmer of hope for David to apply for Arasaka Company, provided that Tang Yu helps him operate.
More importantly, what is David's own thoughts.
After studying at Arasaka Academy for a few years, and now that he has been an intern for a while, he might change his mind.
Tang Yu plans to talk to him after a while to see his truest thoughts.
After completing the practical evaluation of Arasaka Company, there is still some time before the graduation ceremony of Arasaka Academy.
Tang Yu tapped the table with his index finger a few times, then contacted the front desk to call Kate, and asked her to go to the office to report the latest work trends in the ministry.
During the period when he went to the Arasaka Manor in Kyoto to attend the banquet, there was a lot of movement in the Ministry. Under Kate's command, the Ministry's special service team was dispatched quite frequently.
soon.
With a stern face, Kate entered the minister's office after going through the security scan.
She looked coldly at Deputy Fan's office area, but did not see Tang Yu's assistant, and then came to the principal's office.
Although a little reluctant, but out of workplace rules, I said hello.
"Mr. Tang, what can I do for you?"
Tang Yu said bluntly: "Some time ago, you presided over the work of the department and reported the recent developments."
Kate suppressed the displeasure in her heart and began to report to work according to Tang Yu's request.
She started with the daily work and mainly dealt with some procedural matters, and no accidents happened.
Then he reported on several cases that the Counterintelligence Department has been pursuing. There is not much progress so far, and the hidden agents are relatively smooth. Except for the loss of personnel on the military technology side, the dark lines of other companies are still stable.
The secret agents who lost military technology were all sent by Kate in the past to dig out the military-grade Swanweistan bottom material, and Aunt Mei cleaned them all up.
However, the hidden piles that Tang Yu had laid out earlier had never been activated, so no traces had been leaked.
He glanced at Kate, and found that she didn't seem to continue to delve into the deal of the Maelstrom Gang recently. This aroused his awareness. After all, it is impossible for a person like Kate to easily let go of any opportunity to bring down the enemy.
The workplace is like a battlefield, and different factions mean fighting on their own. One less competitor means more territory.
Seeing that Kate was dishonest, Tang Yu didn't say a word about mobilizing the special service team of the counterintelligence department, so he asked calmly.
"Recently, the Ministry's special service team has been out and mobilized a lot. Is there any special task?"
Kate was still expressionless, as if she had already prepared, so she said in a deep voice: "The Ministry has indeed had field activities recently, mainly because of instructions from the Arasaka high-level meeting."
"Currently Arasaka is cooperating with network surveillance to carry out a clean-up operation to arrest the hackers who sneaked into the black wall in the deep-diving cyberspace. The high-level meeting handed over this matter to me to take the lead."
No wonder Kate reported dishonestly. According to her, this is a private job entrusted to her by the board of directors.
Cooperating with network surveillance to arrest cyber hackers who crossed, smuggled, and destroyed the black wall is the content of the agreement that major companies must do to maintain the stability of the remaining cyberspace.
Major companies have thus obtained permission for network monitoring, and can establish subnets that belong exclusively to the company without damaging the public network.
The public network currently used by Night City is built by the network monitor. All online activities in the market will be supervised and managed by the network monitor.
Any attempt to sabotage the public network, sneak into the cyberspace and climb over the black wall without approval will be considered illegal.
In order to obtain benefits beyond the black wall, major companies choose to cooperate with network surveillance, and allow them to cross the black wall and enter the cyberspace of the old network to grab desired information without causing serious damage to the black wall.
Hackers from non-agreement companies will be attacked by network surveillance hackers if they dare to climb over the black wall.
This invisible cyber war has been going on in cyberspace.
There's nothing wrong with Kate's statement.
However, she used personnel from the counterintelligence department, so it was naturally necessary for Tang Yu to ask about the risk status and the results of the operation.
Facing the inquiries, Kate explained one by one, and even uploaded the arrest list, which was displayed on the holographic projection on the desk.
Tang Yu browsed casually and found that one of the arrested hackers was a member of the Voodoo Gang.
The Voodoo Gang are definitely notorious in Night City.
Maybe others don't know much about the Voodoo Gang, and they don't know what this group of dishonest, topsy-turvy, ruthless hackers gathered together to conspire.
But Tang Yu knows too well that this group of guys is a firm descendant of the gods, and they almost made a big mess at the beginning, causing some AI outside the black wall to flow into the human network world.
Fortunately, Tang Yu shot in time, killed the gang of lackeys, and prevented the arrival of Alt Cunningham.
Tang Yu glanced at the list and found nothing wrong, so he asked more questions.
"Have all the hackers caught have been sent to network surveillance?"
Kate's face froze, and she seemed to be hesitant, but she still told her honestly.
"No, the captured hackers have been sent to the R&D department."
R&D department?
Tang Yu felt that something was a little strange.
The hackers who died in the arrest operation also said that the surviving hackers are generally sent to the network for monitoring and handling according to the agreement.
Now it is sent to the R&D department instead, which means that there are projects or plans in the R&D department, and these cyber hackers who can dive deep need to be used.
Tang Yu didn't continue to ask. It is estimated that Kate would only say that she didn't know. After all, she followed the instructions of the board of directors. She would not tell the deeper secrets.
but.
Tang Yu roughly guessed what it was.
At that time, in the study of Arasaka Manor in Kyoto, Saburo Arasaka mentioned the restart of the cyberspace plan.
To continue doing things in cyberspace, there must be enough deep-diving hackers to carry out the task.
So catch these hackers with deep diving experience, control their bodies, or give some promises, so that they will be obedient and go to cyberspace to grab benefits for Arasaka.
The most popular among these wild deep dive hackers is Arasaka's core technology, Soul Killer.
To be able to realize the lifelong dream of these deep dive hackers, to upload digital consciousness to cyberspace and live forever.
But what they don't know is that being turned into a digital imprint by the soul killer will not enter the cyberspace, but will be imprisoned in Mikoshi, and continue to contribute surplus value to Arasaka's services.
The relic chip not only requires a large number of living specimens, but also requires a large number of digital imprints to perform test matching one by one.
A full-fledged deep-diving hacker who fits almost every aspect of Arasaka's research.
It takes a lot of money, manpower and financial resources to train an experienced deep dive hacker.
It is easier to catch a deep dive hacker.
Night City has the world's largest and most skilled cyber hacker group, which is exactly the human resource pool that Arasaka needs.
Is Arasaka Saburo's big moves against cyberspace really just to guard against AIs that are scurrying outside the black wall?He even specifically asked Tang Yu to investigate the matter.
No matter how you look at it, the motives are more than that.
perhaps.
The black wall really couldn't stand it anymore.
For so many years, major companies have continuously sent a large number of hackers to deep dive into cyberspace and enter the old network through various channels.
It not only created devastated loopholes, but also provided nutrients for the wandering AI in the old network.
In addition, the voodoo gang is behind the scenes, and the network monitoring is exhausted.
This war between human beings and roving AI is close at hand.
Tang Yu analyzed the reason why Arasaka Saburo attaches so much importance to cyberspace.
Because it is not the rebellious son Lai Xuan who can really affect his eternal life, but the "god" outside the black wall.
No wonder Arasaka Yoshinobu stole the relic biochip loaded with 'Johnny Silver Hand', he insisted on leaving Kyoto and traveled all the way to Night City.
You must know that Saburo Arasaka, who is a hundred years old, has never left Kyoto, and the city he hates the most is Night City.
It is enough to show that Saburo Arasaka is afraid of the "gods" outside the black wall.
Nuclear bombs can wipe out Night City, but they cannot quell the illusory cyberspace war.
It seems that what Saburo Arasaka explained must start from the Voodoo Gang, at least show him some results first.
After Kate finished her report, she still stood there, waiting for Tang Yu's instructions.
The reason why her attitude is so respectful today is entirely because on New Year's Eve, Tang Yu arrived at Arasaka Tower in Arasaka Saburo's exclusive floating car.
This incident immediately caused a sensation in the entire Arasaka Tower.
Even without Arasaka Saburo's instructions, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Tang Yu went to meet the highest helm of Arasaka and received attention.
So for Tang Yu's question about the counterintelligence department, Kate dared not hide anything, and did business.
If it involves other departments, she can report her ignorance according to the procedure.
at this time.
The front desk reported and the secretary of the special operations director came to report the matter.
Susan Abernathy?
Her secretary came to report something.
Recently, Susan Abernathy's suspension period has expired, and she hasn't heard anything from her after returning to Arasaka Tower.
So let Kate go out first, and then summon the secretary of the special operations director.
After receiving the security scan at the door, the female secretary walked into the minister's office, came to Tang Yu's office, and said respectfully.
"Mr. Tang, hello."
"Director Abernathy is going to hold the annual departmental meeting of the Special Operations Department. Is it convenient for you to attend the meeting now?"
This matter, the Special Operations Department has asked Tang Yu in advance, but it has been dealt with coldly.
Today, I specially came to invite you, which is considered to be enough face.
As the deputy director of the Special Operations Department, it is normal for Tang Yu to be invited to attend the ministerial meeting.
It’s just that when Susan Abernathy behaved so politely, it probably has something to do with her taking Saburo Arasaka’s exclusive floating vehicle back to Arasaka Tower.
Now when everyone sees him, they first show respect. With Saburo Arasaka's signboard on his head, he can basically walk sideways in the Arasaka Tower.
Tang Yu was too lazy to see Susan Abernathy's old face, so he refused: "Take a message to the director for me. I have other meetings next, so I won't attend the meeting. As for her request from the Special Operations Department , I have no objection here."
What he said was all the truth, and he will go to Arasaka Academy to attend the academy meeting. As a judge and mentor, he is absolutely important and must be there.
The female secretary didn't force her, she politely agreed after receiving the statement, turned around and left the office.
Tang Yu saw that it was getting late, and the college meeting was about to start, so he turned off the office system and was about to leave for Arasaka College.
Before he got up, he received a money transfer message.
The amount was not large, only thirteen hundred euros.
There are not many people who can transfer funds into Tang Yu's electronic account remotely, so he clicks to view.
It was found that the transfer and remittance party was V's son.
Tang Yu couldn't help laughing.
I didn't expect Mrs. V to get the first sum of money so soon.
When he delegated the authority to the owner of Rayfield, he also attached a car purchase agreement, which took effect immediately.
In the future, every amount of money remitted into the V sub-account will be directly transferred to Tang Yu's electronic account to repay the arrears.
It is equivalent to Tang Yu being the creditor and V the debtor.
soon.
Tang Yu received a request to add a contact.
He accepted the request without hesitation, and V's user portrait appeared on the contact interface.
【V: Thank you so much!They all turned on the automatic debt repayment function, saving me the trouble of remittance. 】
Tang Yu: "You're welcome, it should be, thirteen hundred euros, and we have to continue to work hard. (Smile)"
[V: I owe you a favor for this matter, I think you can be lenient, after all, you still have to pay the rent. 】
Tang Yu: "Don't worry, I've already bought the apartment you live in in the Watson super skyscraper H10. Of course, the money is also on you. As for the rent, I won't charge you. Work hard to pay off the mortgage, V Good luck, Miss Zi."
[V:.]
After bullying Mrs. V for a while, Tang Yu felt inexplicably in a good mood.
Tang Yu has asked Jack to deal with her failure to help Kirk steal the car, and Pepi can go to work as usual.
Tang Yu got up and left the leather chair, walked out of the office, and took the public elevator towards Arasaka Academy.
V just came out of the Wild Wolf Bar, and when he saw the message on the contact interface, he was speechless.
I just finally accepted a commission and completed the task to get the reward.
The amount had just been credited to the account, and it returned to zero in an instant, which made her both indignant and helpless.
V unceremoniously kicked the soda can in front of his feet, inexplicably having a strange idea-take a machine gun and shoot everyone in a suit to death on the side of the road.
"In Night City, only people in suits are the least human."
"If it goes on like this, when will it be the first time?"
She couldn't help but sigh a little, the pay for the jobs at the Wild Wolf Bar was too little.
I wanted to come back and make a good fortune, but I didn't expect this to happen. I didn't get the money, and I owed a lot of debts.
"If it doesn't work, I can only try my luck at Lizzie's Bar."
"After all, even the priest said that they have a lot of living money."
V didn't go to Lizi Bar to accept commissions before, mainly because he heard Tang Yu's recommendation and felt that it must be unreliable.
But now she wants money but no money, and fame but no fame. Except for the priest, she doesn't know a few decent middlemen at all. It is almost impossible to get a good job with more money.
By now.
V can only try his luck at the Lizzie Bar.
Seeming to have figured it out, she set off towards the public transport station.