Chapter 917 - 196 Upgrade

"No... this still doesn’t make sense... what does this have to do with Harlin Eck?"

Sevens didn’t understand; he asked almost instinctively.

"Because Harlin Eck’s daughter is a victim. Damiano de Visconti’s greatest hobby, along with their criminal methods, is to use his expensive sports car to lure immature boys and girls in the former East Germany region.

You can see that those kids are easily influenced by the outside world, blinded by money."

Graham turned to bring up a timeline guide on the screen in the conference room:

"Harlin Eck indeed wasn’t reassigned. His daughter was attracted by Damiano de Visconti—a girl who wants to attach herself to powerful men is always easily deceived.

She was tricked into joining a European Union-approved biological experiment project, volunteering as a test subject. However, in charge, Damiano de Visconti just sold them to a brothel...

Harlin Eck wanted to find him, to find his daughter, and was eventually dealt with, with his body never being found.

It is because of this corrupt guy that Network Supervision did not update the data on the European Barrier in time...

So do you know how terrifying corruption is? Our unshakable order is being eaten away by these people bit by bit—"

"A brothel?" Elliot couldn’t make sense of it. He hesitated for a moment but decided to speak bluntly, "Forgive my straightforwardness, this brothel seems to serve... rather unusual clientele.

By this reasoning, Harlin Eck’s daughter may more likely be voluntary, right? Also, regional prostitution within the European Union is legal; why wouldn’t they go to a legal place, instead of..."

instead of doing it in Berlin, the sacred European Union capital where prostitution is illegal?

Does that even add up?

Graham pointed at an illustration on the screen: "Because this illegal brothel has many minors, and in countries and regions that allow legal transactions, they don’t support minors engaging in this industry.

Secondly, these people who like to trample on the dignity of the law enjoy the pleasure of corrupting order more than sexual pleasure; their preferences are twisted."

After speaking, a brief silence fell upon the conference hall, as everyone needed time to digest the content.

So Damiano de Visconti getting eliminated was well-deserved, this was tied to a very... special case.

One point to note is that this brothel set up in Berlin and those legal brothels in more "open" regions, as well as the ones in Night City run legally by Jotaro, are quite different.

This place doesn’t take money; only those who reach a certain level of power can get in to play, ordinary people can forget about it.

The scale is not large, but nobody can come out of there alive.

Sevens was the first to speak: "...I want to know what that project was for? The one Visconti used to cover up criminal activities."

Graham replied: "Congenital diseases, including radiation, genetic defects, and maternal defects causing various diseases’ cures, and the DNA bank expansion that accompanies all biological projects.

I’m saying all this because the attacker who induced the explosion could be the same person who was threatening to initiate a cyber-psychosis attack within the IEC, I hope this doesn’t interfere with your judgment...

Don’t forget, our job is still to bring out that criminal—"

Graham paused until both Sevens and Elliot looked up at him, then he continued:

"He disrupted the investigation progress, so now Interpol can only close the net in advance. Don’t think this is punishing evil and promoting good; this is illegal behavior.

Visconti’s corrupt actions will affect his entire family, Interpol and Network Supervision have made a move, justice will eventually come.

I need you to immediately, promptly, quickly find the hidden terrorist. The fact that he can do such things in Berlin is unacceptable.

Everything in the European Union is planned and orderly progressed, be aware not to let these matters interfere with the big policy."

The conference room screen changed to another content, concerning the reorganization and redevelopment of space by the IEC.

"The Earth has become scarred due to the greedy wars between corporations and capitalists, and now the New America controlled by Military Technology will also return to space:

We received news that New America plans to allocate funds to Military Technology to reestablish the Space Army...

And this project is likely to get support from EBM: this will make the world situation more chaotic.

Think about it, every time humanity plans to achieve something, endless disputes will arise, which will eventually trap us on Earth.

Comfort the workers of the IEC, and also comfort the workers of the entire European Union. Tell them the truth, and then control that damned terrorist, the grand plan must not be interfered with."

New America had once established a Space Army and even had disputes with the European Union, eventually the European Space Agency used a mass launcher on the Moon, directly hitting the Space Army headquarters in Washington.

This largely established Europe’s dominance on Earth until EBM revealed an orbital-wide EMP device.

Obviously, the European Union indeed let EBM suffer a great loss, but EBM won’t sit idly by: they can certainly support a new force in secret to occupy outer space, to counterbalance the European Union.

Arasaka is a mess itself, and New America, gradually reviving under President Miles’ leadership, is clearly a better choice.

The world has settled in the old wound of the Internet collapse for fifty years, and now everything has come alive.

The fat man wearing a helmet in Foxstone, "browsing the web freely," is like a butterfly flapping its wings...

Eventually, a storm is about to arrive.

Boom!

Outside the window, the sky filled with dark clouds flashed with lightning, and the thunder was deafening.

"Everyone involved in this matter will be judged, so that’s not what we need to worry about.

The Executive Committee has decided that the Special Cyber-Psychosis Rectification Committee will soon be formally upgraded to the European Union General Worker Association, responsible for overseeing all workers within the European Union. The previously useless labor-management departments and labor efficiency special departments will be integrated, becoming your subordinate units.

But all this must happen after you help the European Union through this crisis and cooperate with the IEC in completing the transition.

You will work with the European Space Agency to oversee future space resource development plans—essentially all industrial production activities within the European Union."

"Now..."

The screen in front of Graham changed once more, becoming filled with numerous slogans:

[Devotion is Freedom, Sacrifice is Glory!]

[Every Drop of Sweat is the Fuel for Society’s Progress!]

[You are the Backbone of the System, Maintain its Stability!]

[Bleeding Hands Forge the Future of Steel!]

"We need to unite, we need a unified mind to guide our fellow citizens on how they should think."

"This... this is the highest expectation of the Central Executive Committee for you all."