The moment Jack picked up the suitcase, real-time surveillance showed that Arasaka Yorinobu was back.
"Faster! Jack!"
There is a time difference here. Jack and I rushed back to the 42nd floor before Yori Xuan entered the elevator.
There is only one elevator leading to Yorinobu's suite, but after reaching the 42nd floor, there are other passages for us to reach the first floor.
Just as Jack and I took the elevator to the 42nd floor, my connection with the building's main network was suddenly disrupted. A new ice wall was being built, and an extremely fast internal scan was being carried out.
Then I had to exit the link, leaving only dozens of golems as backdoors.
There was dead silence in the elevator. I didn't want to talk because the bad premonition was getting stronger and stronger.
Just now when I was picking up the goods in Yori Xuan's suite, I looked at the sky outside the window. The advertisement voting in the distance seemed to be blurred by the rain.
The patter of raindrops fell on the glass exterior wall.
There are hover cars circling the building.
In Night City, what does the hover car represent?
A vehicle for big shots - of course it's possible; a vehicle for fast mobile troops - of course it's possible. A trouble that people can't avoid - absolutely.
It's still very quiet in the elevator now.
Yori Xuan was waiting for the elevator to arrive on the first floor, with Adam Hammer beside him.
Before cutting off the link, I noticed that all the staff in the hotel were busy.
Everything indicates something bad will happen.
Jack hugged the suitcase contentedly and sighed softly. He was probably already thinking about how to spend the money he got.
You don't understand the seriousness of the matter at all, Jack.
T-BUG broke the silence, "V, you should have noticed. Something happened unexpectedly."
"That's right, you should exit immediately to avoid getting yourself involved. Find a place to hide and wait until the limelight passes before you come out. Do you understand?"
"You...V, I don't know how you suddenly have such powerful skills. Maybe you have been hiding it from me, but, V, I have always believed..."
"Okay, I'll save it for later. I don't want to see you become a pile of burnt meat on the hacker's chair. Goodbye, honey."
"Take care V, and you too, Jack, we will see you again."
"There's no need to say it (in Spanish)! Take care!"
The elevator arrived, and Jack and I hurried back to the suite.
According to the plan, we can leave Chambi Building now with Shi Shiran’s suitcases, and Delamain’s special car will be waiting for us.
Yes, that's what we do too.
On the way down the elevator, Jack kept telling jokes.
I called Delamain, an AI never disappoints. However, the call didn't get through.
The elevator door opened.
Jack suddenly became quiet and fell silent.
There was no one in the huge lobby.
How could there be no one?!
I walked towards the door, just like the path I walked on when I came here, and there was no sound of my two footsteps at this moment.
Those golden ghost-like waiters disappeared, and those well-dressed top-notch people disappeared.
The far-reaching light shines, and it's a gloomy night with rain outside. The city's neon lights ripple at the gate, and the bright red luxurious floor.
——I heard a woman who couldn’t remember saying this.
"If I transcend nature, I will never use it again."
"Any natural object will take the shape of the body"
"I only ask the ancient Greek goldsmiths to use gilded gold"
“And the stunning gold-plated hammered shape.”
"To wake up the sleepy emperor"
"Or stay on the golden branches and sing loudly"
"Remember the past, today, or tomorrow's events"
"Sing to the ladies and princes of Byzantium"
Jack and I walked through the security gate and encountered a blockage at the main entrance.
Not any physical obstruction, not transparent glass, not the severe muzzle flash, not the projected warning line.
Jack and I simply couldn't move forward.
We have hit God's wall.
It's so real that I can't move forward.
But I can still wave my arms and run. The air no longer flows around me, and the raindrops still fall on my cheeks according to their inertia. When I turn around, half of Jack’s body is soaked, and I must be the same. He has no words and
Despite his frightened expression, he still maintained a happy and contented posture, without realizing at all that he was standing still.
Oh, I can't believe it.
I can't and don't want to believe it.
It’s just that reality seems to force me to believe it.
Not far away is the street of Night City, where Delamain's special car has stopped. He has no message and is just waiting there for Jack and I to sit down.
My prediction was good. The rain tonight was enough to make me soaked in water.
"Jack, are you listening?"
Jack said nothing.
Fuck you Jack, really, fuck you.
The rain in the sky continues, and the neon lights of the city never stop. The aerial vehicles cast spotlights between the clouds and high-rise buildings, as if there is a party that will never end. The drones cruise in the polluted and toxic sky,
Like a steel bird, it has not returned to its nest yet.
I tried to explore the wall of air in front of me - for a moment, I felt that it was actually an invisible cube with a collision volume. As long as I could climb over it, I could get out of the predicament smoothly. So I rolled up my trouser legs and let my calves slide.
The vector nozzle comes into contact with the air, takes off, jets out, and gets a reverse thrust in the air. At this moment, it directly breaks the natural human high jump record. I can jump up to six meters high.
I reached up and tried to touch the edge of this cube so that I could cling to it.
No, it has no edge, maybe it touches the sky. I can't get over this hurdle, just like at this moment, I can't rebel against my own destiny.
Jack was still giggling, as if he was going to tell me another joke.
Oh, then just tell me, I am no longer angry, and I will not be angry with anyone anymore. If you are willing to tell jokes, I am willing to laugh with you.
But Jack's lips just curled up and he cunningly kept silent.
I punched him in the face.
He staggered after being beaten by me and said "Hey!"
I punched him again, and he staggered again, the suitcase in his arms twitching funny, and he said "Hey!" in exactly the same tone.
Fuck you, Jack, really.
If one day, I find myself living in a virtual world, an artificial stage, with a group of qualified supporting actors, and a confident protagonist, then when I stand on the edge of the stage, it is dark under the stage.
There were many audience members whose faces I couldn't see clearly, so I couldn't fall off the stage.
Because that's not how the script was written.
In the script, tonight's stealing mission is going to go wrong. We are likely to be blocked in the room by Yori Xuan, and then become witnesses of a conspiracy. Then he starts to chase us. Jack is shot and killed. His gun
will appear in his mind - now I understand why, because he is not actually a living person. It is impossible for a living person to let a gun stick out of his head and whisper to me: Live, for
I.
Fuck you, Jack, really.
I always thought that we had a pure friendship. You told me that there was a chemical reaction between us. But in fact, you were just set to be my friend, right? You just wanted to be with a person named V.
Friend, and that person can look completely different from me, or even a different gender. Just like the red-haired man I saw in my dream.
That's why the man named Lu will tell me that fate is baring its fangs on me, that's why the wolf will tell me that free will is a necessary illusion, and that's why the bartender at Kanbi Building will say that I'm living the story too.
All of you who co-authored it know better than me, right?
Am I the only one who was kept in the dark about the co-authorship?
Is it funny to see me struggling here?
Is it funny to watch my performance?
Is it funny to look at my past, my ugly mentality, and my womanly skin?
