Arasaka Tower.

Thirty-third floor counterintelligence department.

Tang Yu checked a B grade on the electronic screen, put down the electronic tablet in his hand, and then forwarded the processing results to the Arasaka Academy Board of Directors.

He had just completed his responsibilities as a social practice instructor at Arasaka College, grading each three-month practice report.

His ratings will become the basis for this group of fresh graduates to find jobs and be entered into the personnel files of their future companies.

certainly.

If you don't join the company, the social practice score is of little use.

Another situation is that if the family background is strong enough, the ratings will also have no effect.

Regarding the scoring results this time, Tang Yu adhered to the principle of fairness and did not favor or suppress anyone.

He relied entirely on the content of the practice report. In order to detect whether there was any fraud in the internship report, he also asked the front desk to contact several companies and asked them about their opinions on the company's personnel. He was basically impartial.

The main reason why Tang Yu did this was 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 bullets.

The parents of these children studying at Arasaka Academy should not be underestimated in terms of status and power. They are basically either rich or noble, and are extremely concerned about their children's studies.

Through various means, I obtained Tang Yu's office address, colleagues' superior and subordinate relationships, and even his contact information.

Just now, the mother of a female student took the initiative to come to the office to meet her, in the name of the sister of her old boss Arthur Jenkins, which made it uncomfortable for Tang Yu not to see her.

Not only was Tang Yu unbearable, but Arthur Jenkins, who had yet to return from a business trip to handle a big case, received a lot of favors and asked for his help to put in some kind words for Tang Yu.

Everyone knew that Tang Yu was not easy to talk to in the company, so they shifted their focus to Jenkins. There was even a parent with great powers and a director of a large company who went directly to Michiko Arasaka and asked her to show some kindness.

Only then did Tang Yu discover that the parents of these aristocratic children indeed had unusual influence.

Faced with this situation, he could either choose to give high scores to everyone, or choose to give fair judgment as to how much should be given.

Even if Tang Yu doesn't care, it would still be good to avoid unnecessary troubles and be less entangled in trivial matters.

However, Tang Yu also felt a little emotional that the children of these company elites are indeed not bad in terms of quality and learning ability.

Tang Yu scored according to the established scoring standards and could hardly find a bad one.

Apart from the fact that there is a certain bonus from family background, judging from various aspects of assessment and company evaluation, they are indeed considered an outstanding batch.

It’s no wonder that those who graduate from Arasaka Academy are eligible to apply for jobs in large companies. Personal abilities and academic qualifications are shown here, and the academy’s brand name is strong enough.

The highest score for the company's internship this time was awarded by Tang Yu to Tanaka Katsuo.

He carefully read Tanaka Katsuo's practice report, which detailed the entire process of his joining the Arasaka R&D Department and participating in the Arasaka high-end prosthetic R&D project.

From how to integrate into the team, to understand the progress of the learning project, and finally to innovatively propose some improvement ideas and overcome several problems, he fully demonstrated his literacy in R&D technology.

The content of the report is detailed, and the experimental parameters, time, and progress are completely matched. There is no possibility of fraud. Moreover, the products developed are already in the final testing stage and will not be long before they are launched.

This kind of high-quality practice report is the only one by Tanaka Katsuo.

Although he was able to participate in such core project research and development during his internship, it was mostly due to Tanaka's care, but it was also inseparable from Tanaka Katsuo's own hard work and quality.

Therefore, Tang Yu gave Tanaka Katsuo an A+ rating. With this score and his father, a senior executive in the R&D department, joining Arasaka Tower was almost a certainty.

As for David Martinez, Tang Yu also carefully read his practice report.

to be honest.

After reading it, he felt that it could only be regarded as average. The overall content of the practical report was detailed and he had indeed accomplished a lot in three months.

But what is incomparable to Tanaka Katsuo 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 the fact that David had been involved in some major cases, I'm afraid even getting an A- would be barely enough.

If you only do some procedural work during your internship in a company, no matter how much you work and how hard you work, your own value will not be reflected.

Unlike R&D, an experiment can fail and be repeated over and over again until it succeeds.

In the counterintelligence department, no one dares to hand over all the projects at hand to a newbie. Otherwise, a large number of people will die, because the opportunity is often only once.

David actually had no advantage as an intern in the Counter-Intelligence Department. Most of the time he could only follow the team leader or colleagues and pick up leftovers.

After seeing David's practice report, Tang Yu felt that he might not be suitable for counter-intelligence work. Perhaps going to the Special Operations Department would be more suitable for him.

Tang Yu gained the talent of 'tenacity' from David's life simulation, which shows that David's physical fitness is absolutely different from ordinary people.

This kid has never installed a combat implant so far, which is indeed a waste of his talent.

However, if he can get an A- grade, there is still a glimmer of hope for David to apply for Arasaka Company, provided that Tang Yu helps him with the operation.

More importantly, what is David's own thoughts?

After studying at Arasaka Academy for several years and now interning for a period of time, he may very well change his mind.

Tang Yu plans to have a chat with him later to see what his truest thoughts are.

It will be some time before the Arasaka College graduation ceremony is held to complete the practical evaluation of Arasaka Company.

Tang Yu tapped the table with his index finger a few times, then contacted the front desk to call Kate and asked her to come to the office to report on the recent work trends in the department.

During the time when he was attending a banquet at Arasaka Manor in Kyoto, there was a lot of commotion in the Ministry. Under Kate's command, the Ministry's special service team was dispatched quite frequently.

soon.

Kate kept a cold face and entered the minister's office after going through the security scan.

She glanced coldly at the deputy office area, not seeing Tang Yu's assistant, and then came to the main office.

Although I was a little reluctant, I still said hello out of workplace rules.

"Mr. Tang, what do you want from me?"

Tang Yu said bluntly: "Some time ago, you took charge of the work of the department and reported on the recent trends."

Kate suppressed her displeasure and began to report on her work as requested by Tang Yu.

She first introduced her daily work, mainly handling some procedural matters, and no unexpected situations occurred.

Then he reported on several cases that the Counter-Intelligence Department has been pursuing. There has not been much progress so far, and the agents have been hiding relatively smoothly. Except for the loss of personnel at Military Technology, the hidden lines of other companies are still stable.

The lost agents on the military technology side were all newly sent by Kate to dig up military-grade Sian Westan materials, and they were all eliminated by Aunt May.

The hidden stakes that Tang Yu laid out earlier have never been activated, so the traces have not been leaked yet.

He glanced at Kate and found that she seemed to have stopped delving into the Maelstrom Gang deal recently, which aroused some awareness in him. After all, a person like Kate would not easily let go of any opportunity to defeat the enemy.

The workplace is like a battlefield. Different factions mean fighting on their own. If you have one less competitor, you can grab more territory.

Tang Yu saw that Kate was dishonest and didn't mention anything about mobilizing the special service team of the Counterintelligence Department, so he asked calmly.

"Recently, the ministry's special service team has been mobilized a lot. Are there any special tasks?"

Kate remained expressionless and seemed to have been prepared, so she said in a deep voice: "The ministry did have field activities recently, mainly due to instructions from the Arasaka high-level meeting."

"Currently, Arasaka Company is cooperating with network surveillance to carry out clean-up operations to arrest hackers who infiltrate deep into cyberspace and sneak into the black wall. The high-level meeting assigned me to take the lead in this matter."

No wonder Kate didn't report it honestly. According to her, this was a private job assigned to her by the board of directors.

Cooperating with network surveillance to catch cyber hackers who have climbed over, smuggled in, and destroyed black walls is an agreement that major companies must fulfill in order to maintain the stability of the remaining cyberspace.

Major companies thus obtain permission from network surveillance and can establish subnets unique to the company without damaging the public network.

The public network currently used by Night City is built by Network Supervision. All network activities in the market will be supervised and managed by Network Supervision.

Any attempt to disrupt public networks and sneak into cyberspace without permission to climb over the black wall will be considered illegal.

In order to obtain benefits beyond the black wall, major companies choose to cooperate with network surveillance. Without causing serious damage to the black wall, they are allowed to cross the black wall, enter the cyberspace of the old network, and seize the desired information.

However, if hackers from non-protocol companies dare to climb over the black wall, they will be attacked by network surveillance hackers.

This invisible cyber war has been going on in cyberspace.

I can't fault Kate's statement.

However, she used counter-intelligence personnel, so Tang Yu naturally had to ask about the risk status and the results of the operation.

In the face of questioning, Kate explained everything one by one, even uploading the arrest list and displaying it on the holographic projection on her desk.

Tang Yu browsed through it casually and found that one of the arrested hackers was a member of the Voodoo Gang.

The Voodoo Gang is absolutely notorious in Night City.

Maybe others don't know much about the Voodoo Gang, and they don't know what this group of dishonest, confusing, cruel and ruthless hackers have gathered together to plot.

But Tang Yu knew very well that these guys were staunch deity sects, and they almost caused a big mistake, causing some AI outside the black wall to flow into the human online world.

Fortunately, Tang Yu took action in time, killed these lackeys, and prevented the arrival of Otter Cunningham.

Tang Yu looked at the list and didn't find any problems, so he asked more questions.

“Have these hackers been sent to the network supervision department for processing?”

Kate's face was frozen, and she seemed a little hesitant, but she still explained honestly.

"No, the captured hacker has been sent to the R&D department."

R&D department?

Tang Yu felt that something was a little strange.

The hacker who died during the arrest said that hackers who survived were generally sent to network surveillance for processing according to the agreement.

Now it is sent to the R&D department instead, which means that the R&D department has projects or plans that require the use of these deep-diving cyber hackers.

Tang Yu did not continue to ask. If he asked Kate, he would probably just say "I don't know." After all, she was following the instructions of the board of directors. She would not tell the deeper secrets.
To be continued...