Chapter 101 Airport

Even though they were hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, Lucius still had a smile on his face and spoke to Leon in a friendly tone.

There is no way around it. LA Company’s influence in Night City is growing, and it even has the potential to surpass Arasaka and become the largest company in Night City!

Mayor Lucius, to put it nicely, is a political big shot; to put it bluntly, he is just a high-level worker serving the executives of giant companies.

Even though he sat in the position of mayor, Lucius was still greatly constrained. He had to be nice and polite every day and try to curry favor with as many top corporate executives like Leon as possible.

"Mr. Mayor, I'm not calling you to discuss any landmark buildings."

In fact, Leon didn't care about the landmark building of the LA company at all. It was just a decoration that looked good but was useless. It just made the company look a bit impressive in Night City.

But appearance is not created by decoration, but by hard power. If the company is unpopular and has no strength, it will be like Arasaka Tower, which was first blown up by military technology and then by Johnny Silverhand.

The Arasaka Tower has been repaired now, but there’s no telling if it might be blown up again one day.

If Arasaka Corporation had space-based weapons on the moon and simply dropped meteorites if they didn't like the military technology, then there would be no such thing as military technology using a nuclear bomb to destroy Arasaka Tower.

After all, strength is the only thing that matters to a company!
"So what do you want to talk to me about this time?"

After dealing with LA company for such a long time, Lucius was really a little afraid of the unpredictable Leon, because he could rarely guess the other party's thoughts directly.

This is quite disadvantageous in business negotiations and exchange of interests.

For a moment, Lucius secretly wondered in his heart whether Leon wanted to ask him for some land to build a factory again.

After all, LA Company had just reached an arms order with New America and was in need of producing military weapons and the like.

"Before I answer your question, why don't you guess where I am?" Leon smiled and deliberately kept Lucius in suspense.

"I heard that you took your company employees to the Crystal Palace on a Hermes Airlines plane. Tsk tsk, Mr. Leon, I really envy you every day!"

Lucius touched his slightly swollen face. He didn't envy the mandarin ducks or the immortals, but only envied the tycoons for their every day.

These rich people are nothing like him, the miserable mayor, who sits in the office every day, worried about work. He is busy all year round and even feels reluctant to go to the Crystal Palace to spend money.

"Yes, I am on the Hermes right now, so I am calling you about the flight."

Leon's words always touch upon something that Lucius would never expect. He thought the other party came for an arms order, but he didn't expect that this time it was for an aircraft!

"Mr. Li Ang...is your LA company planning to build an aircraft manufacturing plant?"

Ever since he had seen LA's Ronin Titan, Lucius was no longer surprised by any new technology Leon came up with. It was not difficult for him to build an airplane.

What's more, LA is not the only giant company that wants to build aircraft and deploy in outer space. Arasaka, Su Petrochemical, and even Biotech all have their own exclusive technical bonus points in aviation.

But facing these potential competitors, ESA's Orbital Aerospace said that every one of them is garbage! There is no way, because Orbital Aerospace almost controls the entire Africa, and the best rocket launch site in the world is in Africa.

Because a large part of Africa is right on the equator, when a rocket on the ground or a synchronous orbit satellite takes off, it can use the rotation of the earth to obtain a certain acceleration and save more fuel.

In other words, every time Orbital Airlines launches an aircraft, it saves millions of euros in resource consumption compared to other companies!
As a result, Orbital Aviation Corporation has firmly established itself as the absolute dominant force in the layout of outer space.

"Your guess is pretty close. I plan to take over the unfinished airport and build an aviation base for LA Corporation there."

Le Ang stopped beating around the bush with Lucius and directly stated the purpose of his trip. This was his next strategic idea, to get involved in outer space!

"You want to restart the air port?!"

Lucius' voice was filled with astonishment and surprise. The airport was also one of the large unfinished buildings in Night City. This piece of land was originally an area jointly developed by Orbital Aviation and Night's Corporation.

Originally, Orbital Aerospace was planning to leverage the influence of the airport to get its name card into Night City, just like LA Company relied on kinetic energy and technological weapons to become a giant corporate force in Night City.

Ye's company also hopes to extend its reach into the deep outer space through cooperation with Orbital Aerospace, so as to avoid being left behind by giant companies such as Arasaka and Military Technology.

As a result, the development of the situation far exceeded the expectations of both companies!

Just when the airport was halfway built, the executives of Ye's Company suddenly shifted their strategic focus to AI and the construction of the Night City subway.

As for the unfinished airport, it has been left rotting on the side. Now, the unfinished airport has attracted a lot of vagrants and gang forces.

Orbital Airlines, which had been stabbed in the back, certainly couldn't possibly continue to build the airport at its own expense, while Ye's Company got half of the airport's resources for free without doing anything.

After many days of fruitless negotiations between the two companies, Orbital Aviation angrily put all of its interests in the airport up for sale at a low price, but Ye's Company remained indifferent.

Obviously, Ye's company's strategy for deploying in outer space is to just give up where it is. They would rather offend ESA and anger Orbital Aviation than move an inch to build an airport.

And this is a perfect opportunity for Li Ang to pick up a bargain!

"Yes, I have already negotiated with Orbital Aviation. They are willing to sell all the rights and interests of the airport to LA Company. Since I am a shareholder of the trauma team, they even gave me a 20% discount."

When mentioning this matter, Li Ang couldn't help but chuckle. These white European masters were really scared by the Ye's Company. The bigger the pie they had drawn, the more frustrated they are now.

If they had known that Night City was full of unfinished buildings, they might as well have invested the funds for building the airport into building a rocket launch site in other equatorial regions.

"Mr. Li Ang, I must remind you that it will take a lot of money to restart the airport. And do you know why Ye's company would rather let it fail than to deal with Orbital Airlines?"

As the head of Night City's City Hall, Mayor Lucius actually knows more about inside information between companies than many company executives!

(End of this chapter)