Lier felt a headache coming on: major events that could affect the state of the world and its direction were unfolding in the Marvel Universe, and over here in Night City...
Well, major events affecting Night City's situation were unfolding too.
The presidential election and the mayoral task and election had both landed at the same time.
And now there was a huge problem: now that they knew the source of the Unstable Energy outbreak was connected to High-Energy Concentrated Petroleum, Roxxon would inevitably increase production of it as the situation escalated.
Suppose-just suppose-the so-called Unstable Energy outbreak was a side effect of producing High-Energy Concentrated Petroleum.
Then that would mean the time Lier's main consciousness could remain in any given world would grow shorter and shorter, and become less and less controllable!
For example, V had just called him, but in the other world, his phone was ringing off the hook too!
First of all, regardless of what greater conflicts this result might cause, this time it was still a victory for the Atlas Group.
Somalia was stable now, and Africa had also established a firm foothold. They just had to wait a few days for the rescue team to get the people out.
As for the radioactive dust near the deposits, the workers could simply wear heavily protective Exoskeletons, or even mine the minerals by remotely controlling engineering robots in Tanzania.
As for the radioactive waste, it would no longer be a problem once the SCFR Reactor started up:
This kind of reactor needed no nuclear-waste processing as long as it kept running. The nuclear waste would remain at a low level inside the waste-recycling module.
As Lier gathered his things to head out, he began using his other self to contact Secretary of State Barnes through a