Players Invade Cyberpunk

"What do I want to do..."

Watching Clint sink into a low mood, the crimson killer didn't continue speaking and got up to leave.

This was their judgment about this era, and Clint became the first target of their transformation project, which could be said to have some experimental nature as well.

But mere words were obviously not enough.

Lin Miao, listening intently from a distance, heard the entire conversation between the two without missing a word. After pondering for a moment, he gave Lucy a look, who smartly headed towards the basement.

Ding—

The crimson killer's mailbox received a new email.

[Mission Hint: You seem to be searching for something, and the company's braindance editor Arturo might have what you need. Go find out.]

A thing that can destroy the human spirit also has the power to reshape it.

Braindance is undoubtedly a great invention with immeasurable potential.

If the productive potential of this era could be unleashed, it would be a power beyond imagination. If the productive potential over there is 1, then here it's at least 50. What's an agriculture-related position?

The crimson killer frowned at the email.

What... does this mean?

He realized he had somehow triggered this thing.

Oh, right, the killer just remembered that he had accepted a mission released by Lucy's mentor. He re-examined the omnipresent robots and cameras around him.

"....."

So, someone has been watching all along.

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Among all the captives, Strak was undoubtedly the most unique one.

In Cyberspace, he was beaten powerless by players and hackers, forced to continuously invoke the server's computing power to strengthen the data fortress, hoping not to be quickly breached.

But complete failure was just a matter of time; in the final moments, Lucy didn't kill him but captured him alive and sealed him, moving his body back to the office's basement together.

When Lin Miao entered the basement, Lucy was preparing to reconnect Strak's consciousness with his body.

"What number is this already?"

"The first one."

"? Isn't he an AI?"

"He is, but also isn't."

"Stop beating around the bush, you know I don't understand this stuff. Get to the point."

"What do you think is the limit of a person's cyber enhancement?"

As Lucy asked, she simultaneously accessed Strak's data lock, preparing to enable his consciousness to return to his body.

"I suppose that's about it." Lin Miao said, pointing at Strak.

"Leaving half a brain, everything else turned into cyber enhancements, just like a sex doll."

Generally, lifestyle-oriented enhancements have lesser impact on the body compared to combat-oriented enhancements, allowing more to be installed. But someone like Adam Heavy Hammer with full combat enhancements is the only one.

"Correct." Lucy was typing on the keyboard, with a slightly unnatural tone.

"But apart from the neural limits, extensive installation of cyber enhancements and behavior chips will subtly change one's personality, which is very pronounced in sex dolls."

Lin Miao didn't know about this.

"Behavior chips allow the user's body and consciousness to be taken over by the chip, performing actions they wouldn't usually or aren't familiar with. During this process, the user remains calm without any emotional fluctuations, operating with precision, and afterwards, they don't even have related memory; events did happen but they remember nothing."

"It's almost as if another person is controlling their body to talk, chat, even make love."

"This situation causes a psychological split in chip users, potentially leading to drastic personality changes or even personality dissociation. The more enhancements installed, the faster this occurrence, possibly switching to another persona with high frequency until their original personality is entirely replaced."

"Cyber psychosis?"

"Similar, but different. The similarity is neither the company nor the government acknowledges the existence of these two conditions."

"So... "

Lin Miao looked at Strak, this guy had undergone extensive modifications all over his body, at very high levels.

"Such individuals have a significant advantage in Cyberspace combat, able to abandon their original flesh at any time. In some sense, they're already no different from robots, just weaker than ordinarily created AI."

Buzz—

"Ah... ah..."

The program reconnected, Strak's body reacted as if stimulated, starting to shake involuntarily. His six eyes spun like gyroscopes, lasting over ten seconds before calming down.

With consciousness returning to his body, Strak's six eyes quickly focused on the people in front of him.

He spoke in a slow tone, even having the mood to joke.

"Oh~ Look who's here, Horizon Corporation's boss, Huang Ban's thorn in the side. Didn't expect you wouldn't just kill me. What, aren't you afraid I'll spill your little secrets?"

"Having the ability to open stable channels to the old net, not sure if you're gutsy or just reckless."

"You don't need a living dead to say that, Strak, right?"

Lin Miao initially thought about hitting him a few times with a Physics Holy Sword while asking, but felt that tactic was too low; after all, he didn't have a sworn enemy to confront, and the person isn't some tycoon's adopted heir.

"What do you want to ask? I can tell you anything, guarantee no holding back, but can't promise it's true."

Suddenly, Lin Miao's eyes glowed with a blue light, his entire demeanor changed drastically, resembling a lofty ruler, unhurried and calm.

"Who sent you here?"

"What?"