Players Invade Cyberpunk

"That's an interesting Demonic Puppet, great development potential. Did you make this?"

"Of course, because I'm the genius of the Uchiha family. But don't boost me up too much, I don't want to get conceited..."

"?"

Praised, Erzhizi originally wanted to engage in mutual flattery with the opponent but only realized after a moment of confusion.

To maximize the attack range, all hackers operate alone, so there are no allies nearby.

"Who are you!"

He intended to unleash the unfinished design 'Amaterasu' on the opponent, learned from Hu Lang, to devour the opponent's data and self-replicate, then take the chance to escape.

But before he could make a move, the data released by the opponent suppressed him in place, unable to break free.

Even until now, he couldn't see where the opponent was.

Erzhizi realized

It's an expert!

This person's strength is no less than mine.

"If you've got the guts, come out! What's the point of hiding like a coward?"

Erzhizi's style suddenly shifted to Hong Kong comics.

"Come out if you're brave! I'll make you eat shit!"

Seemingly influenced by his words, some data started gathering in front of him, but the final form wasn't human; it was a constantly changing complex digital pattern.

Erzhizi was incredibly surprised, what the heck is this thing?

If it were antivirus software, it wouldn't talk, nor have a fixed form, but why would a human give themselves such a weird image?

The pattern didn't bother with idle chatter, instead, it shot a data stream straight into Erzhizi's forehead.

"Since you disrupt the signal, I'll trace back using your original data. It might hurt a bit, but don't worry, humans must face death once, why not now?"

"You..."

Erzhizi still wanted to say more, but he could clearly sense the opponent's information rushing towards the machine room of Stone Ridge Mountain Office through the network.

Under normal circumstances, this means their IP address is exposed, the network link is two-way, players could attack Chaotic Blade Association's local network, and Chaotic Blade Association could attack the player's machine room.

But...

Stone Ridge Mountain Office's machine room has a small problem.

It's directly connected to the old internet.

As if he touched something terrifying, Strak lightning cut off its data connection, its form even became unstable, seemingly about to dissipate at any moment.

Strak was still shaken

Almost

Almost it crossed that line.

If it crossed that line and returned, it would definitely be torn apart by the Black Wall with the old internet imprint.

Even the data it cut off was immediately attacked by certain programs, Strak wasn't sure if it could escape once caught.

But how could this be possible?

All servers currently connected to the network are forcibly implanted with Black Wall protocol, building your own machine room won't avoid Black Wall connecting to the old internet.

It looked at the tightly controlled Erzhizi

"Who exactly sent you..."

Moon Goddess?

Lilith?

Wolf Father?

Adam?

Endless?

No

None of them... don't seem right

These people have no reason to act so high-profile in Night City, they dare not and cannot.

But Erzhizi was completely unable to answer it, didn't even hear it.

"..."

Bang—

Strak shattered the opponent's data body, sending Erzhizi to the afterlife.

Things were much more troublesome than it imagined, seems the affair of Chaotic Blade Association in Night City.

A stable, non-disruptive internal network old internet channel.

If this leaks out, not to mention Chaotic Blade Association, the fifth corporate war would immediately break out in Night City.

Throwing all of Chaotic Blade Association's one million people in would be mere cannon fodder.

But now it has obtained an explosive secret, if it can be utilized, the gains would be more than monopolizing a smuggling line.

Realizing this, Strak immediately assessed it couldn't stay here, planning to withdraw from the network, the attack on Stone Ridge Mountain would be postponed.

But, the entire Chaotic Blade Association's local network space suddenly fell into chaos.

The world began to overturn.

Invisible data became solidified, the network as if boiling oil poured with cold water erupted, massive structures arose, towering skyscrapers stood in the wilderness, the wild dust occupied by steel and concrete, dry rivers covered by highways.

The invisible world is forcibly becoming tangible.

And Strak was astonished to find it couldn't exit the network.

Its IP address was blocked.

Lucy sauntered out of a building, sucking a chocolate lollipop

"Took a bit of time, but it's not too late now, right."

Since the old internet machine room wasn't prepared with solidifying programs in advance, it took Lucy quite a while to upload them temporarily.

"Not sleeping late at night, firing all night at our site, and planning to leave just like that, you rascal, you're truly awful, huh?"

Already displeased being assigned to build the machine room in Stone Ridge Mountain town, Lucy couldn't let Strak off after being attacked.

"Ah!"

Lucy looked surprised at Strak

"You… human? No… AI? Also not right… what are you?"

To call it AI, it's too small, but doesn't resemble a human either…

And Strak saw Lucy as extremely dangerous, witnessing terrifying scenes in this woman's presence, the data behind her like a monstrous wave, perhaps one wave could crush it flat.

Lucy's question, it couldn't answer.

It is neither AI, nor human, or maybe both.

It is an experiment.

An experiment to fully mechanize human bodies.

But these didn't matter to Lucy anymore.

"Leave the rest to you, make sure not to kill this guy, I want to examine its data."

"Understood, Lucy mentor."

Behind her were players idling in Big Sur.

They looked at Strak like encountering an epic monster dropping top-tier equipment.