Chapter 55 - 16: I’m Craving Their Body, I’m Noble_3
"Dreams? They are nothing but a luxury for adults now, something out of reach but worth pursuing." Faced with ridicule, Lin Miao flicked the cigarette on his fingertip towards Lucy’s forehead, hitting the mark.
As Lucy stared at him with bewildered resentment, Lin Miao’s gaze traveled past her to the other side of the river, crossing the municipal center and landing on the skyscrapers of the corporate plaza.
"I’m the kind of person who sticks to their word. One day, Huang Ban, Militech, EBM, Zeta... I’ll bring these guys down one by one, and build a new world on their corpses. Either become a legend or die in the gutter—that’s the survival rule in Night City. I’m just adapting to the life here."
This isn’t just something he’s doing; it’s what his players will do too. It’s an unsolvable puzzle.
As Lin Miao tries to climb higher, to survive, he attracts more and more players.
Here, besides him, there aren’t any laws to restrain this group of lunatics.
He can’t even fully control the players himself, because the fundamental permission to log into the game is always in the players’ hands.
They are a group of cold-blooded, rational yet passionate and hot-blooded weird spectators.
Players might slaughter the city from top to bottom for a useless decoration or achievement, or spend all their hard-earned coins on a pitiable NPC and run around for them.
And knowing what kind of education these people receive in reality, Lin Miao can well imagine how they would treat those large corporations in a free and open world, how they would treat this world. If he could stop these talents, it would be a miracle, especially since as the game operator and planner, a thinking living person, he wouldn’t possibly go against the players.
Better to ride the wave than fight upstream.