It's late at night, even though it's late at night, this city called "Night City" is still full of lights, bright and moving, and the twinkling city lights declare "Night" to the surroundings.
On the top floor of the Cyanbi Building, in the Tavernier Suite, tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Next to the luxurious bed in the suite, Lin Mo sat calmly on a chair, calmly and patiently telling the "patient" on the bed what had happened in recent days, as well as the Night City in the fifty years since the 1920s.
A sea of changes.
Finally, when Lin Mo told Johnny Silverhand the cause and effect of the entire plan, as well as the ins and outs of all events related to him... Lin Mo closed his mouth silently, picked up the drink on the side and moistened his mouth and tongue.
The three people standing beside the bed tacitly agreed to give Johnny Silverhand enough time to think and wait for him to recover from the explosion of so much information.
...Nuclear explosion, destruction, reconstruction, unification war, Night City's independence, Arasaka Corporation's return to Night City... Fifty years of changes are like an unchanging dream.
He has been sleeping in the data space for so long, being treated as a "digital figure" and allowed to be manipulated by Arasaka Company. He never imagined that he could return to reality, and he never regretted his decision.
The moment he closed his eyes in the past, he believed that what he did was meaningful.
However, when he woke up from his dream, he was shocked to find:
Don't talk about the whole world, even Night City is still like a bird.
Big companies still dominate the top, and the crime rate in the city remains high. The civilians at the bottom, company employees, and gang members are like insects, fighting each other just to get a little bit of profit.
As for whether Lin Mo added fuel to this information and whether he deliberately discredited Night City, Johnny Silverhand still believed that he would not do so.
Because everything this kid said is so fucking true, it doesn’t look like deliberately fabricated false information at all.
[This fucking world, the explosion was not thorough enough at the beginning!] Johnny Silverhand couldn't help but cursed secretly in his heart.
After summing up the events that had happened over the years, he slowly turned his head, lying on the bed and looked at the three people beside the bed with a rather contemptuous look, and began to think about the suggestions and plans the other party had just put forward.
To be fair, if they weren't very familiar with each other, he would really want to say "awesome" to this little kid.
No matter what the success rate of this crazy plan was, just because of this crazy energy, this fearless spirit of not fearing life and death, Johnny Silverhand suddenly felt that this little kid looked a lot more pleasing to the eye.
[Oh, burn the city, shoot a Mewtwo movie to wake up the world... If this kind of plan is really implemented, you are really a fucking talent, but your brain is a bit bad]
Looking at Lin Mo's handsome face, Johnny Silverhand shook his head like a sneer.
With his character, even if he liked the plan very much, he would not have the urge to agree to it as soon as his brain gets excited.
After all, he was awakened by others now, and all the information he came into contact with was from others. The sources of information were really limited, and he could not give 100% trust.
Although he is now meat on someone's chopping block, unable to speak or get out of bed, and whether he lives or dies depends on the other person's will, this is not a reason to give in.
If he abandons his dignity and works for his life for the sake of freedom, he might as well go back to being an "electronic figure".
"So you mean you don't want to?" Lin Mo asked calmly, without any surprise at all.
Johnny Silver stretched out his hand and silently pointed at his throat.
The meaning of this action is very obvious. He is indicating that he cannot speak at all now.
"Let's enable his voice permission. I've finished saying what I need to say, and it's time for our friend to speak." Lin Mo waved his hand to the side.
Nate nodded, and immediately operated the instrument a few times, and soon transferred the code key to Johnny Silverhand's body, activating the sound-producing function of his body.
"Fuck, I'm almost suffocated!" Feeling that he could speak, Johnny Silverhand let out a series of "beautiful" curses as soon as he opened his mouth.
Later, he also felt that he could not only speak, but also move his body.
It seems that these people have lifted their physical restrictions.
So, after getting used to this new body, Johnny Silverhand put his hands behind his head, half leaned on the bed, and called Lin Mo unceremoniously:
"Do you have any cigarettes? Give me one quickly! I haven't tasted cigarettes in decades."
Looking at Johnny's rather eager face, Lin Mo smiled softly, feeling an inexplicable familiar feeling.
"If you want to smoke, you can only go out and buy it. I'm not old enough to smoke, and Mr. Yori Xuan doesn't have the habit of smoking. As for Knight, you can't expect an AI to master the ability to smoke.
Bar?"
"Damn, I don't need you to talk, I'm leaving right now." Johnny Silver raised the quilt that was covering him with his silver hand.
He didn't seem to have any attachment to this place, and he stood up from the bed and was about to get out of bed without giving any face to the three "saviors".
Since he had just come into contact with his new body, he seemed unable to control his body's center of gravity, his movements were slightly sluggish, and he showed signs of faltering just standing on the floor, like a drunken homeless man.
Lin Mo didn't stop him and stepped aside with a smile, allowing Johnny Silverhand to pass by him.
Seeing that Lin Mo didn't make any move, neither Lai Xuan nor Knight had any intention of stopping him.
The three of them just watched quietly as Johnny Silverhand staggered towards the exit of the suite, as if they were watching a giant panda crawling towards their bamboo.
Are these three Shabis going to let me go like this?
However, just when Johnny Silverhand had doubts in his heart and just walked to the elevator, he just took a step towards the elevator. His whole body felt as if he was electrocuted. His body suddenly tightened like a bowstring, and he stood straight towards the elevator.
The floor fell.
And the blue light in his eyes that exuded azure light began to dim and then brighten, flickering constantly.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, Mr. Silverhand. In fact, your data consciousness is still in the relic2.0 chip, which is connected to the local area network of this suite. If you leave the scope of this room, once the network is interrupted,
You may be about to return to cyberspace."
Lin Mo had a malicious smile on his face and walked quietly to Johnny Silverhand:
"To put it simply, we have transferred a lot of your own biological programs to this body based on the parameters stored on the relic2.0 chip. Now you can use this body just like controlling a game character, but if the network connection is disconnected,
If you open it, then you can only go back to sleep."
"What...what do you want...!" Johnny Silverhand said intermittently, struggling to crawl towards the suite.
As he gradually returned to the house, he could gradually feel that his control over his body became more and more acute, and the control of his body returned to his control step by step.
Lin Mo spread his hands and pretended to be innocent:
"It's nothing, I just forgot to remind you. Now that you know the truth, I also have the corresponding equipment here to help you gain true freedom."
Johnny Silver leaned behind a sofa with one leg straight and the other bent, assuming a very arrogant posture, and said with a sneer:
"Hey, stop talking nonsense and tell me your conditions quickly. I can't even shit like you."
"Conditions?" Lin Mo shook his head: "I don't need any conditions. I can give you the instrument for free. To be honest, I didn't expect you not to agree to my invitation. I have already prepared it for you."
Be prepared to say no.”
"Hey, this is pie in the sky. I, Johnny Silverhand, have been unlucky for so long, and today is the end of a long drought?" Johnny Silverhand said in a strange tone.
"This plan requires you to devote yourself wholeheartedly. We need your truest emotions. If you don't agree, then you are worthless to me. And with your character, you would agree to a stranger's offer when we first met.
The plan is really unrealistic," Lin Mo said.
Johnny Silverhand still looks like that:
"So? Since you know my temperament so well, why do you have to put so much effort into saving my data consciousness?"
Lin Mo smiled and explained calmly:
"Stealing the Relic 2.0 chip was part of the plan. Since the prototype chip has been stolen, we have to enter the data imprint. Looking at all the imprints stored in the Arasaka company database, except for you, no one else
All worthless."
"Strictly speaking, we just picked out the tall ones among the short ones, and picked you out of the pile of cow dung."
Johnny Yinshou twitched the corners of his mouth, but in the end he didn't care about this little friction with Lin Mo. Instead, he simply stretched out his hand:
"Bring that thing over here."
"You are really not polite at all." Lin Mo sighed, turned around and waved to Knight.
Soon, Knight grabbed a strange object on the table and walked over, handing it to Johnny.
"The network signal amplifier is an external device often used by network surveillance agents. We have improved it so that you can access the public network of Night City at any time. As long as you don't get into the sewers or run into private network places, you can basically use it.
You can control this body."
Looking at this device, Johnny Silverhand was surprised that the appearance of this thing turned out to be a rather cool pair of sunglasses.
He held it in his hand, looked at it for a while, and then tentatively put the "sunglasses" on his head.
The temples of the "sunglasses" seemed to be equipped with hidden data plugs, which fit his body perfectly.
Almost as soon as he put on his sunglasses, Johnny Silverhand felt that the stagnation lingering in him disappeared.
If just now his body was as clumsy as an old man's, now he seems to be several decades younger.
"Awesome." Johnny Silverhand looked at this pair of sunglasses with surprise, inexplicably feeling that this thing suited his temperament.
It seems like these three guys are quite attentive.
I just don’t know what the appearance of this body is like. I’ll have to go find a mirror and take a look later.
Bang bang... The sound of clapping nearby interrupted Johnny's thoughts and attracted his attention.
Lin Mo retracted his palms, put his hands in his pockets, and said casually:
"Since we haven't reached a consensus yet, let's stop talking tonight. This is my phone number. If you change your mind or run into trouble, you can call me at any time."
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes lit up slightly with blue light, and a number message was transmitted to Silver Hand's brain processor.
"You're just going to let me go like this?" Johnny Silverhand frowned, still not believing that Lin Mo let him go so easily.
"What? You want me to call the security guard to kick you out?" Lin Mo walked to the glass table in the living room, picked up the expensive champagne, poured a glass of it, and took a sip.
Johnny Silverhand stared at Lin Mo for a long time, and finally put on his sunglasses and walked to the elevator without looking back.
"Mr. Silverhand, I look forward to the next time we meet. By then, I believe you will change your mind."
As soon as he entered the elevator, Johnny Silverhand heard words coming from behind him.
He turned around silently and saw Lin Mo raising his wine glass and toasting to him from a distance.
He pressed the elevator button and the elevator door slowly closed.