Players Invade Cyberpunk

Because at least in Night City, multiple giant corporations are competing with each other, giving those at the bottom a chance to catch their breath amidst the slaughter. However, in today’s Chiba, there is only one giant corporation named Huang Ban.

This city is three-dimensional.

The towering black skyscrapers completely block out all sunlight, combined with countless hovercars weaving between the buildings, no natural light can reach the building’s base, leaving it in perpetual darkness, illuminated only by cheap and overused neon lights.

Additionally, after 1994, the global economy collapsed, and as one of the most developed countries at the time, Japan welcomed a wave of refugees from across the world.

These tens of millions of refugees were irresponsibly dumped into Chiba by Japan’s conquest and then left unchecked, eventually forming the world’s largest slum.

Hundreds of thousands of people live in the hundred-square-kilometer city base.

The toxic substances and pollution caused by the genetic medical industry are discharged through pipelines along with wastewater from the upper layers, without any treatment, directly into Chiba’s rivers and bays.

This became an everlasting wound in the genes of the city’s poor, countless genetic diseases, countless pollution syndromes, and back then, Zhuchun was just one of the many dying people here, but because he was lucky to be a "clean child" with unpolluted genes, he was able to enter Huang Ban for nurturing.

Santo Domingo?

In terms of pollution, it can’t even compare to a strand of Chiba’s hair.

People living here might never see the sun in their lifetime.

But it doesn’t matter.

Because in Chiba, there is only one sun, that cold, emotionless, black sun.

The tallest building in Chiba Castle, a kilometer-high skyscraper, is the manifestation of the black sun’s will.

And beneath this Huangban Tower, just like the basement of every corporate skyscraper in Chiba, there are bio-gene research institutes where all human natural bodily diseases are a thing of the past.

And in the deepest part of Huang Ban’s research institute, in the highest secrecy level Oracle sub-project underground experimental area, stands a whole row of cultivation pods filled with a faint green bubbling liquid, in which twelve aged Huang Ban Sanlang float.

They are surrounded in the center by a large mainframe computer connected to the true Oracle server in space.

"Only I can forever sustain Japan’s gradual prosperity, so I must be Huang Ban’s eternal emperor, becoming the world’s eternal ruler."

This is Huang Ban Sanlang’s personal creed.

For this purpose, he had his men kidnap the legendary hacker of Night City, Outkanning, and had Dong Shirou establish the Digital Life Project in an attempt to let his old, nearing-the-end life endure forever.

However, as early as 2020, Huang Ban Sanlang could no longer walk normally and had to rely on a wheelchair and nurses for support.

But the true relic2.0 only truly realized a breakthrough around 2076, capable of perfect transplantation onto the flesh, during which countless test subjects died.

The intervening 56 years could definitely not be endured by a dying person.

Therefore, Huang Ban Sanlang had early transformed himself into a personality imprint using the Soul Killer.

Clones dying too quickly?

No problem.

Just clone more, and each time a clone is about to die, return to the Oracle to re-upload and backup his memory, update the imprint, and then inject it into the next clone.

And Huang Ban Sanlang even specially tampered with the memories, making each ’Huang Ban Sanlang’ walking out of there believe they were the first and the only one.

Until the technology is truly perfected, Huang Ban Sanlang would achieve true immortality, becoming the sole ruler on the throne of this world.

Hence, even within the Oracle, Huang Ban Sanlang is the absolute king, with other personality imprints mostly compressed and stored in a very small area.

An endless array of numbers and codes form the old face that haunts the nightmares of millions of residents in Chiba, floating in the digital space and is so terrifying.

"Nano-biological signal interrupted, Subject 47 deceased in Night City."

"Dead?"

The data body of Huang Ban Sanlang experienced a slight strange fluctuation.

This is the first unexpected death of an external body in decades.

One must know that over these 160 years, there have been countless assassination attempts on Huang Ban Sanlang, yet not once have they succeeded.

"Was it a security lapse...?"

Even for Huang Ban Sanlang’s data body, it would be hard to predict that the one who killed him was Huang Ban Lai Xuan.

Now, for him, it is a bit of a troublesome situation.

Because the body was lost outside, it is impossible to know what Subject 47 encountered on the way to Night City, and the missing memories could lead to hidden dangers.

If it cannot be handled in time, it might evolve into a disaster.

However....

The data body of Huang Ban Sanlang showed a trace of a smile.

Because the development of relic2.0 has been completed, so there is no need to start a new Subject 48, as long as his men insert the relic into Lai Xuan’s head, he can obtain a new, young body.

Then it will be Lai Xuan’s son, grandson, generations carrying on Huang Ban’s glory!

At the thought of him soon completing an unprecedented evolution of the globe, Huang Ban Sanlang couldn’t help but hum a little song of Jade Fragment.

"I am the champion, enemy is the rogue~~ Heaven and earth do not tolerate rebel forces~~

Enemy general is a great one~~ An unparalleled hero in heaven and earth~~

A strong general has no weak soldiers~~ All are valiant and resolute warriors~~

Though brave enough to shock ghosts and gods~~ Raising troops to rebel is not tolerated by heaven~~

Never have the rebels seen glory and riches~~"

This is the sword-raising song of the Japanese Army during World War II, and also the parade march of the Neon Army. San Lang particularly loves this song because it represents an unshakeable class distinction.

The tune reverberated in cyberspace, momentarily filled with the atmosphere of Showa.

Just as he was singing with gusto, an inexplicable mighty force surged into the Oracle.

"Still singing, are you! Coming to collect you!"

Immersed in the beautiful dream of eternal life, Huang Ban Sanlang was disturbed and became furious.

"Who is it!"

The other party did not answer, only a gigantic hand reached out, compared to which, Huang Ban Sanlang’s personal imprint was so tiny, easily grabbed by the opponent.

"I’m your father! Now I’m going to transform you into a dwarf late tree and throw you into a club to be trampled by thousands!"