Players Invade Cyberpunk

Basically, heading east on the Evil Land Highway into the city, it won't take long to reach the place.

It's a small abandoned factory, not very large, roughly one hectare, with a concrete office building, two warehouses with color steel tiles, and a factory, but no staff dormitory.

This place has been deserted for a long time. The color steel tiles on the warehouses are worn and rusted, looking like they would crumble at a touch.

San Domingo's factories are built and torn down, and small factories like this one are countless, taken over by bosses, half-repaired, bankrupt, and abandoned with no one to manage.

But if you want to grab a bargain and take over the factory cheaply, you're likely to run into debt collection teams from banks and loan sharks; they'll tell you that if you take over the factory, you also have to take on its previous debts, which is a sum ordinary people can't afford.

And these issues, if you don't scrutinize them when signing the contract, no one will absolutely tell you about them.

Lin Miao managed to find a relatively clean factory with fewer shady histories through the connection with the old captain.

The rent is six hundred thousand for half a year, already a quite cheap land price for Night City, and the reason for the low price is simple.

This place can't be leased out.

Because it's too close to the city edge and the border of various forces, it's completely chaotic.

The previous owner couldn't stand the frequent visits from various gangs, mercenaries, and smuggling crews, went bankrupt and shut down, and only now someone has taken over.

But Lin Miao doesn't care; in his view, chaos is good.

Only when it's chaotic do players have things to do; only when it's chaotic will the players' activities not attract too much attention.

The chaos here, in his view, is less troublesome than the cobwebs during cleaning; Lin Miao is quite afraid of little bugs.

But the good news is there are no spiders here, as these little critters have long gone extinct in Night City, leaving only cockroaches; even mosquitoes didn't survive the biological apocalypse.

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Biological apocalypse

In theory, the biological extinction disaster triggered by humans a century ago is nearing an ice age.

Nowadays, the price of a live panda is more than ten times higher than Lin Miao's worth.

This is a magical era where 1KG of chicken meat can sell for 400 Eurogold.

Cooking it would make the price jump tenfold; otherwise, Lucy wouldn't have to pay over twenty-five hundred for a creamy animal dessert.

Back to the main topic.

Lin Miao now has three strongholds: the Stone Ridge Mountain town, the tunnel, and this abandoned factory.

Currently, the number of players is 49, which is evidently insufficient to cover the three areas, so he plans to issue two batches of slots in the 0.4 version to expand this number to 100.

The agency is treated as a beginner's village; newcomers familiarize themselves with the worldview around the agency, find trouble with the Chaotic Blade Association, hone skill levels, confirm future career paths, push through instances and collect trash, whatever, there are plenty of tasks for them.

Lin Miao plans to temporarily convert the Stone Ridge Mountain tunnel into a factory and warehouse, as it's more concealed, with more available warehouses.

However, the environment there isn't suitable for large-scale industrial production, inevitably requiring all factories to be relocated to Santo Domingo or Watson District in the future.

Veteran players who've mastered the process and some combat skills can transition to this factory inside Night City.

Lin Miao intends to use this factory as a forward base for veteran players advancing into Night City.

Assign tasks like label smuggling, assembling components, and logistics escort, while having Lucy and Gloria manage the place to ease his managerial burden.

Smuggling can avoid tariffs, significantly boosting profits.

Meanwhile, after the first batch of cheap exoskeletons enters the market, imitators will surely arise; their creations may not necessarily be superior to Lin Miao's, but creative works will sprout like mushrooms after rain.

Night City is teeming with capable individuals, with countless hidden talents among the masses; relying solely on Mann, a cricket mechanical engineering master's degree holder, to compete with these people is nothing short of wishful thinking.

Therefore, as a Night City corporate dog, one must have the corporate dog's awareness.

Before others react, you must quickly seize the market and dump cheap exoskeletons.

When imitations start appearing, go directly knocking on doors, recruit capable engineers to form a design team not only to serve players but also to design new products.

As for those without ability or belonging to other gangs or small companies selling counterfeit goods, who ignore warnings.

That's the time to strike hard against piracy.

Meanwhile, cultivate a sufficient number of aftersales staff to eclipse competitors with service (limited to small companies).

To ensure the system's operation, relying solely on players is not enough; recruiting must begin.

However, although Lin Miao is not morally squeamish, he certainly wouldn't want people like Wolseck who mix long-term in gray areas and have completely abandoned morality and self-restraint.

If everyone is accepted, the company would certainly become foul and shady.

Just like now, with dust and trash all over the place.

He's directing temporary cleaners to sweep the factory. After being abandoned for so long, it's terribly dirty, not just litter, some people even snuck in to relieve themselves, and they even dug up a corpse from a nook, its artificial body dismantled, leaving only decayed white bones; who knows when it's from.

Those color steel tile sheds must also be dismantled and recycled as scrap iron.

Cleaners are cheap, after all, it's not technical work, loads of people available on the street, fifty Euro a day, plenty willing to work.

It's just because he's busy taking over the factory that he didn't go onsite during trading, merely bickering with the salesperson and the original factory owner has already consumed most of his energy; these people are really unwilling to spare even a penny, even trying to trap him in the contract.

If he weren't a civilized man, he would truly drown them all in the toilet.

Nevertheless, he asked ​​Mann and the others to stay nearby, in case of any disturbance, they would immediately charge in to rescue; Lin Miao recognizes their efficiency, especially with Lucy sneaking behind, safety is assured.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong in the end; although the players took risky moves, they managed to complete the deal without direct conflict with the Sixth Street Gang, leaving a strong impression on the other side; it was truly beyond expectations.