Just as Xu Shi had expected, although Lin Wenhua knew it might be a trap set for him, after weighing his options, he still accepted the task of leading the chip's development.
The old man's current predicament was not limited to Serpent Coil. The fatal part was that his connections and resources outside had become useless as well.
Take Governor Yue Chizheng at City Hall, for example. The little old man had once been on good terms with him. With Yue backing him up from the outside, many things had been much easier to accomplish.
But things had been off lately. Forget asking him for favors—even inviting Yue Chizheng out for a meal or drinks was met with avoidance. He dodged him like he was the plague.
Lin Wenhua knew this was surely because Xu Shi had recently been in the spotlight. He had single-handedly pushed forward the acceptance of The Forgotten, bringing enormous benefits to the entire city. At a time like this, Yue Chizheng would not do something like that just because of him unless he had gone senile.
What he did not know was that the more important reason was that Xu Shi had met Yue privately and shown him something.
Naturally, it was the material he had obtained from Disgu—those shameful special preferences of Night City's major bosses.
Governor Yue Chizheng was among them.
"Governor Yue, you wouldn't want people to find out that you like little girls and pull out their teeth, would you?"
That was what Chairman Xu had said at the time.
Of course, he had not looked through those data bricks purely for entertainment. There were plenty of other ways to amuse himself. His real purpose had been to screen them and pick out valuable political and business figures. That way, he