Chapter 3 - 1: Office and Player_3
After spending two hours intensely surfing the internet, he roughly understood what kind of world he was in.
A planet called Earth, yet also a world that seemed both real and unreal,
Quiet war
Hunger epidemic
Followed by four corporate wars, in the end, the god of the network, Bartmos, released the rabies virus before his death, crippling the entire early net and all company databases. Night City’s Huang Ban Tower was reduced to ruins in a nuclear explosion, and corporations, even some countries, began to experience economic collapse and extreme environmental degradation.
In this process, due to a worldwide weakening of nations caused by the polar cold war, new energy emerged. Through orchestrating one war after another, capital gradually replaced national governments, stepping to the forefront of the world and becoming the true power holders.
Biological weapons...
One company or country after another abandoned their bottom lines, fracturing the entire world. The environment continued to degrade, with large-scale extinction of animals and plants. Oceans were polluted by oil and chemical waste, the land was no longer suitable for farming or livestock, and in the decades of worsening environmental conditions, no one even attempted any restoration. Some food production companies even deliberately polluted the remaining civilian farmland to inflate company stock and grain prices.
Either sell the land to corporations or wait to starve.
The upper levels of the city belong to corporations, the lower levels belong to gangs and middlemen, the wilderness belongs to the Wanderers, and ordinary civilians serve as the lubricant with their flesh and blood, driving the entire city’s operation.