No one sleeps at night in the City of Night. Tonight is the time when I announce the list of companies. People are watching in front of the TV, and some come to the municipal square to watch. I stand on the podium during the day, and the lights are shining on me, so I can’t see clearly.
The scene below was that every time I read out a name, a burst of cheers would last for ten seconds or even half a minute. It was not a long list, I read it for nearly three hours.
At first it was some small businesses, and then it was multinational giants. When I read out the name of Ye's Company, the crowd fell silent. Night City was established by Ye's Company and is the irreproachable founder of this city.
, of course, is also a leading party that is so bad that it oozes pus. No matter what, when we banned Ye's company, the flag of the old era really fell.
"...military technology...and the last one, Arasaka..."
The night sky in the northwest suddenly became brighter.
Then violent thunder and explosion shock waves rumbled. A lightning storm seemed to have occurred on the Arasaka beach. People were attracted by this terrible, natural disaster-like sound. On the dark sea, the Arasaka aircraft carrier emitted a golden light, and the iron
The water melted, and the aircraft carrier collapsed and poured like a sandcastle on the sea. The blazing molten lava and nuclear reactor waste fell into the sea. The dark waters were as red as duck egg yolks. The sea surface boiled, and the scalding heat evaporated in the night sky.
Cools and spreads into sea fog.
This is Mina's magic. She is very punctual. According to onlookers, she just stood on the beach and released a finger-sized blue bubble towards the aircraft carrier. It flew into the night and expanded after a brief silence.
A stream of lightning rises like a white sun from the sea.
The night city was shrouded in thick fog in the second half of the night. The peaceful citizens stayed indoors, while the punk fanatics strolled in the warm fog, passing through the streets and long alleys. A team of 30,000 players rushed to various parts of Night City and occupied it by force.
The company's headquarters was occupied and all physical property and investment assets in Night City were confiscated. The company's armed forces tried to resist, but under the attack of such a group of full-level thugs, they were unable to organize effective counterattack measures.
And I, the mayor of Night City, led the team to Arasaka Tower as soon as I finished reading the list.
With Adecado's devil lizard clearing the way, through the thick fog at night, water vapor flows on the metal surface, and the hazy space in the darkness reveals the neon lights of the city and the fluorescence of modified guns.
We sang loudly, and the machine guns opened fire at the main gate of Arasaka Tower, blowing a huge hole in the main entrance. The Arasaka agent ninjas were torn apart by heavy and fast tungsten steel shells, concrete fragments piled up into a hill at the door, and glass shards sprayed out.
It's half a street away.
"Tonight is the moment for us to counterattack outside the black wall. For this moment, we have made full preparations and resolute efforts." This is what I said to the 7,000 full-level hacker players. Each of them
Each of them represents the most outstanding and top level of mankind. The original legendary hacker Bartmos can only be matched with any of them, and the seven thousand hackers are the first time that mankind has launched a challenge to the AIs outside the black wall.
When attacking, you don't insist on winning. As long as you can establish your own position, it will be a great breakthrough.
"And victory will definitely belong to us."
The gunmen swarmed the hacker army and marched towards the shrine under the Arasaka Tower. This is the only server known to be able to bypass the black wall. It can be said to be a must-win place. The AI outside the black wall wants to get here, and inside the black wall
The leading party wants to get here, and we also want to get here.
Regarding the shrine, it generally refers to the spiritual hub, the home of the soul. I don’t know if there is such a thing as a soul. If digitalized personality consciousness is also considered a soul, then technology creates the soul. Is Johnny a living soul?
I'm not sure, but what is certain is that he is no longer the same person as before.
Arasaka Company uses soul killers to create digital souls, allowing rich people to live forever. Whether this kind of immortality exists is also doubtful. Teacher Ben Ning said that death does not exist. It is because life is defined that death is defined in turn. So
Is the digital soul alive? To define his life, he must propose his death. Under what circumstances is Johnny considered dead?
Perhaps when the carrier is lost, the disk fails and the data is lost.
Or maybe when it is swallowed, the powerful digital soul can read, format, restart, and overwrite the weak one. All these can be done.
The truth of this world is this: there has been an incident of AI occupying the earth, and not only the earth, but also the human colonies in outer space cannot escape this ending. In short, everyone has their brains burned, turned into data, and then integrated
After the integration, the past consciousness disappears, and the re-differentiated us all carry the shackles of thinking.
Another kind of rebirth makes death look like a dark dream.
The red-haired man I saw in my dream may be the real V in history, and I - of course I am also real, but the environment I am in is false.
If you want to resist, you must resist. Even if you have no power to resist at all, you must resist.
We must unite, we must unite. Truth is our last hope.
The final level of guarding the shrine is guarded by Adam Hammer.
He was full of confidence and airy, shouting the lines of the plot.
I directly took out my beloved submachine gun.
"Power! Big! Brick! Fly!"
Before he finished speaking, the shot was finished, and the heavy hammer fell to the ground with residual blood. "Fuck! Impossible!"
"Johnny Silverhand, hello to you." I handed the final blow to Johnny. He controlled my left arm, holding his beloved gun "Malorian Arms Company 3516", and placed the weight on my temple.
, pull the trigger.
The shrine is right in front of me, and seven thousand hackers, including me, are accessing the server.
In an instant, the real world is far away, and we escape into a deep cyberspace. The sky and the earth are dark and lightless. At the end of the digital corridor, a blue pyramid stands on the horizon. The golden data flow on the top of the tower rises straight up and sinks into infinity.
of emptiness.
The true face of this world is shown before us.
…
Later, the global network was conquered by us, the AI was wiped out, and we uploaded the players' tickets to everyone's nervous system, thereby gaining freedom for the cyber souls.
The real earth has been transformed by AI machines into a huge computer, which we call the master brain. The master brain calculates a huge world of data for us cyber souls to survive. The planet-level giant computer is powered by a Dyson sphere, and theoretically reaches all the way to the sun
Decay, we can survive forever.
But we will not give up on the real starry sky. We will control huge industrial mechas and rush to the solar system and even the edge of the galaxy. We will expand and let civilization develop.
So a huge Dyson sphere project was launched.
…
All the dust has settled.
I, the great mayor of Night City, the savior of cyber souls, the great Comrade V, can finally rest.
Teacher Bian has left Night City and the data world of the Mastermind. He is going to build a Dyson sphere in a nearby star cluster. He just can’t take any time off and always has to shine. Gradually, his friends are tired of the virtual life.
They all plunged into the real universe. The city became quiet, as if only Johnny and I were left.
Gradually, we no longer return to Night City.
It's just that there are still many secrets in this city that have not been discovered, and there are still some places worth remembering. So I will come back to take a look when I think about it occasionally.
One day, Johnny and I were strolling through the empty Kabuki Market.
Suddenly, I heard the faint sound of guitar coming from behind a closed industrial rolling shutter door.
"Is anyone there?"
No one answered.
The rolling shutter door cannot be destroyed and can only be opened with a combination lock.
Johnny said, "V, you have to find a way to get it out of the way."
Let me think...
605185
That string of mysterious numbers is the password to open the door.
When I opened the door, the scene inside surprised me.
A young man was sitting in the corner of the room playing guitar. He raised his head and greeted me, "Yeah, you're here."
"Who are you?"
"My name is Lu Zhengkang." The young man has a very dignified and steady demeanor, and I have an intuition that he is related to Lu Zongping.
"Do you know Lu Zongping?"
"My Yao'er, I heard that you are good friends." Lu Zhengkang turned his head and looked at the display screen on the wall, where the list of game producers and some development highlights were displayed.
"This is... holy shit!" Johnny clicked his tongue.
I looked at Lu Zhengkang and shouted, "So you are the real player!"
