"Why would they target me? This doesn't make sense..."

"Because you have entered the underwater city and came out alive, because you have seen the remains of the members of Team 776 with your own eyes and obtained their former equipment..." said Zofia.

"Why do I feel... as if the whole world already knows about this?" Ke Lan felt a headache and reached out his hand to press his forehead hard.

"Ha, I found that... you look pretty cute when you get frustrated."

"There are no surveillance devices in your room, right? I even suspect that our current conversation has been leaked..." Ke Lan's eyes subconsciously glanced towards the corner of the ceiling.

"Don't worry about that. I just checked it before you came in." Zofia said, and suddenly brought over a laptop computer placed aside, and her slender fingers began typing quickly on the keyboard.

"Huh? What are you doing?" Ke Lan was a little curious, but out of courtesy, he did not lean over to peek at what was on the screen.

"Since you've been targeted by the Arasaka Group, you shouldn't mind being targeted by more people, right? I remember that you Chinese people seem to have a proverb, 'Too many lice won't itch,' right?" Zofia turned the notebook over, and Ke Lan saw the homepage of the Soma Group on the screen at a glance... and the message in bold red at the top.

"Ms. Zofia Soma, the second heir to the Soma Group, has been engaged to Mr. Ke Lan, the group's special consultant, today. The specific date of the engagement will be announced soon."

Although only three seconds had passed since the post was published, the number of clicks had exceeded 200,000, and the popularity on the entire network had directly climbed into the top ten, and was about to break into the top five.

If Lao Gou and the others saw this news, their eyes would probably fall out... Ke Lan could even imagine what kind of faces those guys would show to him after he returned...

"You..." Ke Lan opened her mouth slightly, looked at the screen, then looked at the beautiful woman behind the screen, and after a long while she managed to utter a word: "Are you a gangster?"

"If I'm a gangster, then what are you? A good girl bullied by a gangster?" Zofia suddenly reached out her hand and tapped Ke Lan's head hard. "Don't you think the king might not keep his promise? What if the princess secretly got married to the warrior before he went to war?"

"But...an engagement is something that can be revoked, right?" Ke Lan rubbed his forehead and said.

"So what do you want? Do you want me to give birth to a child for you first?"

"...Is it right here?" Ke Lan couldn't help but glance at the exquisite big bed next to her... Well, the bedding seemed to be made of silk...

"What are you thinking about?!" Another blow to the head. Sofia seemed to be addicted to this childish behavior.

"You said it yourself..." Ke Lan felt a little aggrieved.

"... Let's... change the subject first." Sofia glared at Ke Lan, exhaled deeply, and then opened another web page.

Ke Lan quickly glanced at the webpage. This was the homepage of the Arasaka Group.

Unlike Mitsui and Mitsubishi, which were already giants in the Old Era, the Arasaka Group is an emerging force that has gradually developed during the Ark's long journey. In the 158th year of the New Era, Arasaka Corporation was just a small technology company that produced VR equipment and computer chips, but by the 405th year, in less than three hundred years, it had become a super group that could compete with Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

Moreover, it is said that during the rise of the Arasaka Group, both Mitsui and Mitsubishi suffered considerable "losses". So even though these three groups are all controlled by Japanese people, the relationship between them is extremely bad... In the areas where their influence borders, fights between violent gangs often occur.

As for the main businesses of the Arasaka Group, in addition to the manufacturing industry when it started, it also includes banking, law and security services. In addition, it also covers nearly one-third of the sex industry on the entire Ark. At its peak, the number of young girls working in the nightclubs under the Arasaka Group once exceeded 10,000.

"These are not the point. The point is here..." Zofia's fingers slid lightly on the touchpad a few times and entered a sub-webpage called "Arasaka Samurai Club".

"If we want to take action against the Arasaka Group, we must start from here."

"Samurai Club? Is there something wrong with this place?" Ke Lan glanced at Zofia. Although he had not yet decided whether to agree to this woman's request, he decided to listen to her first. Even if he chose to give up in the end, it would be good to get more information.

"On the surface, this is just a gathering place for fans of old-era Bushido culture, but in fact, it is a secret intelligence organization within the Arasaka Group. This organization has another name - 'Six Samurai'."

"Six Warriors?" Ke Lan felt that the word seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen or heard it.

"Yes, the spy named Yui is a member of the Six Samurai... and the leaders of this organization are six biochemically modified warriors with extremely strong powers."

"Biochemically modified warrior..." Ke Lan tapped the coffee table lightly with his index finger. Speaking of this, he suddenly recalled the knife marks he had seen in the corridor of the base's main control building, and Asano Akira's evaluation of the knife user... So, could this person be one of the six biochemically modified warriors?

"Among these six biochemically modified warriors, is there anyone who is good at using long swords? We found traces of this weapon in the mining base."

"Naga sword? Do you mean the samurai sword? If it is used as the main weapon, there are two people among the Six Samurai..."

"Well... the sword that man used should be one that is nearly two meters long... If I remember correctly, the Japanese seem to call this kind of samurai sword a 'Nodachi'..." Ke Lan said, trying to recall the details that he had mentioned in the previous conversation with Asano Akira.

"If it is confirmed that the weapon used is the 'Nodachi', then the target can be basically confirmed. It is the biochemical warrior called 'Iro' among the Six Samurai. The transformation level is level eight, and more than 90% of the tissues and organs in the body have been replaced with cyber-type reinforced parts. He uses a Nodachi called 'Bizen Nagashune Nagami'... Just like the hunter named Asano Akira among you, this sword is also made entirely of Nino alloy. As for his famous skill, it is called 'Swallow Return'. Although relevant information is missing, it is speculated that it may be an extremely fast sword-drawing technique." Zofia spoke very quickly. When she was serious, she seemed like a completely different person.

Eighth level of transformation... No wonder Asano Akira said that the other party was extremely powerful. You have to know that the success rate of a seventh-level transformation operation is only 20%, and a level-eight cyborg must at least undergo multiple transformation operations with a lower success rate based on the seventh level... Even if I say so, it is not an exaggeration: every level-eight cyborg who walks off the operating table alive is made up of countless corpses of failures.

But compared to the eighth-level transformation level, Ke Lan was more concerned about something else.

"Since you said that the Arasaka Group is colluding with that heretical sect...then are there any seeds of corrosion in the bodies of these guys called the 'Six Samurai'?"

[The prototype of the PS Arasaka Corporation comes from the Polish game "Cyberpunk 2077" by CD Projekt Red, and the prototype of the Six Samurai comes from the Six Samurai card set in the card game Yu-Gi-Oh series. The prototype of "Six Samurai-Iro" is the famous swordsman Sasaki Kojiro in the Japanese Warring States Period. 】