Players Invade Cyberpunk

The originally somewhat humorous Strak looked at Lin Miao's expression and blurted out

"You?... Impossible!"

Then, the next second he realized, but it was too late.

Lin Miao had already reverted to his original expression; he was just bluffing randomly, not expecting to actually draw something out.

"Seems like you're not working with Blue Eyes, but you're probably related somehow. Who's your boss?"

"Let me guess, is it Lilith?"

"Who the hell are you? Do you think this tactic will get you anything?"

"Hmm... seems like it's her after all."

Lin Miao and Strak's faces were very close

"A strange cyborg troublemaker, conveniently showing up at this time to mess with me, even if dressed in Chaotic Blade Association's colors, you think I'm stupid?"

The most likely AI to trouble Lin Miao at this time is probably Lilith, who was disrupted by players on that night.

There's insufficient evidence against Blue Eyes, and lacks motive too; even if he wanted to drive Lin Miao out of Night City, he wouldn't do it in such a grand manner.

"Heh heh...."

Strak neither admitted nor denied, fully adopting a stance of 'say what you want'

"Since you know, why don't you let me go? After all, we are the same."

"Who says we're the same?"

Lin Miao stretched out his right hand and grabbed Strak's head, pressing hard

Strak's six eyes suddenly shot out intense red light, his full body sparked with electricity, seemingly enduring unbearable torture, his mouth crying out in agony

"Ah!!! Ah!!!"

"Lucy, can you read his memory? This level of modification should have data-ized the memory, right?"

"No, I've tried. Their memory hardware has special self-destruct programs, highly classified. If the access password is incorrect or the access IP is wrong, it immediately destroys all stored internal data."

"So you're useless now?"

Lin Miao wasn't angry; he had already acquired the information he wanted.

Players had provoked a powerful wandering AI named Lilith, and the AI had already come knocking, what an unexpected joy.

Bam!

Lin Miao pulled Strak's head clean off his neck, white modified blood and vertebrae, cables sprayed out.

"Heh.... Heh..."

Perhaps knowing that his death was imminent, Strak surprisingly suppressed the soul-piercing pain, his six eyes stared directly at Lin Miao

"It's useless, even if you kill me, everything will proceed according to Lilith's plan, the world collapse looms, you backward species will be completely exterminat..."

Lin Miao silently threw the head into the corner, Strak's six eyes flashed twice then completely extinguished.

He drew a few tissues to wipe his right hand

"Who do you think Lilith might be?"

Lucy glanced at him

"Who knows, maybe some powerful wandering AI, there were quite a few in the 20s, if it's existed in the old web until today, only heavens might know how powerful it's become."

"What do you think she's planning?"

"You tell me, probably just the clichéd scripts of destroying humanity, controlling the world directly, etc." Lucy suddenly looked at Lin Miao very seriously

"Are you still thinking of going to the old web then?"

"Go, how else to figure out what these guys want? Can't suddenly be blown up by AI while having hotpot and singing, days without wandering AIs are truly good days."

"Hotpot?"

Lucy hadn't heard the term before

"A cooking method, will take you to try it when there's a chance."

"Aren't you planning to go to Big Sur?"

Even Lucy could think of it, Chaotic Blade Association and Huang Ban have fought in both the city and Stone Ridge Mountain, there's no reason they wouldn't care about the farthest Big Sur.

"No rush, I still have a trial to attend, besides, I'm not indispensable, even if I go, it won't help."

"A trial? Who's suing you?"

"Huang Ban, accusing me of transporting illegal weapons into the city, wantonly causing destruction inside, endangering Night City's public safety."

"Ah?"

Lucy panicked instantly, after all, dealing with legal procedures wasn't her forte, it wasn't her familiar domain.

"What does it have to do with me?"

Lin Miao spread both hands

"I have permits for manufacturing and selling industrial robots, for weapon sales, all certifications are completed, having these things in the warehouse is normal, a group of mercenaries illegally broke into my warehouse, stole all my robots and arms supplies and illegally modified them, then held a battle in my office, blew up a lot of my property, I haven't even found a place to cry."

"If you ask me, the city council should kick out the incompetent NCPD and switch to a responsible police company, even if they don't compensate my losses, they should at least help catch those mercenaries."

City players hadn't signed any military protection contract with Lin Miao, they were just bar patrons, legally free people, having no commercial, military, or civil relationship with Lin Miao.

What trouble they caused has nothing to do with Lin Miao, if they broke the law, the city council should look for them, not Lin Miao, right?

"..."

Lucy was stunned

Can a person really be this shameless?

"Rest assured, those guys couldn't kill me with force, these tricks won't work either."

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"Um... hello? May I ask what's the matter?"

Arturo looked at the man who walked in and swallowed.

After all, those people caused another big scene the night before yesterday, in his mind he already tagged these mercenaries as untouchable, even though he knew these mercenaries would protect his safety, it was the same, who knows when they'd turn cyber-psychotic and chop up Arturo too.

"....."

The Red Killer looked at the skinny and dry black man in front of him, and couldn't help but hesitate, could this person really help?

He glanced at the large screen in front made of six monitors joined together, various programs flowing continuously, none of which he understood.

"What is this..."

"Ah! This, I'm editing a brain dance, the kind that cures depression, not the addictive contraband sold in the market, it's something truly world-changing."

Arturo lifted his skinny chest, seeming very proud.

"Cure... depression?"

The Red Killer knew about brain dances, many people in the city watch them until death from hunger, unwilling to turn them off, but he couldn't associate such fantasy with depression.

"Can I see?"

In the game, players can only use limited brain dances, restricted to those related to combat, other bar-sold ones they'd get black screen, most assumed the official didn't make related content.

Arturo was excited to have someone willing to be an experimenter

"Of course, I believe you'll be astonished!"

He hurriedly picked up the brain dance ring and handed it over, still boasting endlessly about his technology

"I don't dare say, but in the brain dance field, few can surpass me, as long as you give me a photo, I can recreate it in a brain dance, anything."

"Become a superhero, world collapse, gunfights, car chases, even jumping off buildings.... However, I'm no longer interested in doing those things."

Once the killer wore the brain dance, he asked

"Ready?"

"Yes, begin."

With the flash of light, the fiber optic cable connecting to the cyber eyes, the killer suddenly felt sea breeze on his face, unaware of the drastic change around him.

He stood on a soft beach, could even feel the gritty friction of sand on his toes, before him the blue waves kept crashing to the shore, leaving behind traces of foam that vanished.

"This is...."

Arturo's voice reached the killer's ears

"A clean ocean! You've never seen it right, it's data from over sixty years ago, I bet you've never seen this!"

"...."