Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1180 - 383: Life Is Short / Life Is Perfect

[Project: Life is Short][Confidential Level: Top Secret]

[AI Code Name: CN]

[Project Content: Subconscious Modification]

[This AI is capable of bypassing all Night City employees’ individual network security access interceptions, and all experimental subjects are unaware of the experiment being conducted]

[2074-07-22: The original personality of target HK-13 was ’calm and empathetic.’ After a period of therapeutic process, it was successfully transformed into an irritable mania. Ultimately, after a dispute over a cup of coffee, they killed a colleague and committed suicide by jumping off a building. Next, we are preparing to conduct a reverse experiment, experimental target: Jefferson and Pereira couples]

(Those whose consciousness has been altered are far more than Pereira and Prophet Gary; the entire roster of Night City’s employees is within the scope of modification)

[2076-1-17: This project has been perfected, AI version iterated to 101, but there is still some distance from market launch, and we are lacking an opportunity for large-scale installation of signal receivers]

[2077-3-13: Horizon Corporation’s neural regulators are about to enter the market, with a very promising outlook. This provides us with an excellent opportunity to install receivers, and the regulator’s internal hormone secretion adjustment can effectively cooperate with CN-101 to control the user’s emotions and inclinations, preventing depression, Mewtwo addiction, etc.]

[2077-5-19: The experiment is nearing its conclusion, but the Human Brain Array from Zeta Technology has provided us with a new approach. If we can interlink all receivers to create a collective consensus for all users, it will greatly reduce the computational power required by CN-101, thus expanding the reach over a wider user range]

[Action launch time set for July 21, 2077, at AM-12:00]

[Action Code Name: Fulfilled Life]

"Fulfilled Life..."

After reading part of the logs, Brother Ni and the Exchange Coupon fell into a long dead silence, taking a while to come back to their senses

"I told you, these guys really are brainwashing people... modifying subconsciousness, I seem to have seen this setting often in doujin and hentai."

Despite his words, Brother Ni felt no joy for being ’prophetic.’

He touched the back of his neck with some alarm, the place where the regulator is installed, though players don’t have it because they don’t need it.

However, Night City citizens are different. The price of two to three hundred euros is quite high for them, but with a large number of job positions and initial installation benefits coupled with the banning of drugs and Mewtwo addiction leading to demand, citizens treat it almost like a necessity. In just three months, it has nearly covered the entire city.

"Don’t believe it too early."

The Exchange Coupon looked around warily, hand on his belt

"This data might all be fake, surely someone purposely wants us to see these, letting us in smoothly all the way, otherwise we got in this place too easily."

It’s like putting the plan to blow up the Twin Towers casually on the table, fearing no one will see it.

Either it’s false intelligence intended to spread by letting them take it out and create chaos, or there’s some ulterior motive.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

The crisp sound of clapping echoed from the supercomputer center, reverberating in the empty basement like a phantom.

"No wonder he’s an Angel Envoy, his senses are indeed sharp."

The two immediately assumed combat stances, warily looking toward the source of the sound.

A person (?) with eyes emanating blue light stepped out from behind a stone pillar, his body temperature was 16°C, so much so that the heat sensor of the Exchange Coupon hadn’t detected his presence in advance.

Brother Ni pulled out an axe from his lower back, as he looked at those impressionable eyes, he quickly guessed the person’s identity.

"So it’s you, the one who attacked us in the sewers last year."

Back then he dealt with the four of them in an instant; if it hadn’t been for someone cleaning up the bodies to recover our exoskeletons, they would have rotted and stunk in the sewers.

Blue Eyes raised his hands

"Don’t misunderstand, I mean no harm, only to have a chat with you."

"Chat about what? What’s there to talk about."

Brother Ni, wielding the axe, couldn’t suppress the urge to lash out for revenge

"Once a cultist, always a cultist."

"Cultist?"

Blue Eyes was slightly stunned, then laughed as if understanding something

"Seems there might be some misunderstanding between us, I’m not any cultist, nor have I participated in any cult."

"Stop the bull! I’ve investigated, those people call you Blue Eyes, something about a Wolf Father, you’re a gang with Lilith-Outkanningan, Moon Goddess, even concealing something about the Tenth Holy Ring, you say you’re not a cultist, do you think I believe you?."

"That’s just a codename."

Blue Eyes appeared quite aggrieved

"Don’t humans often search through the Bible for codenames?"

"Who knows, even AI communication needs codenames?"

Brother Ni was noncommittal, but didn’t drop his guard

"Tell me what the Tenth Holy Ring is, then maybe I’ll believe you."

He searched through but couldn’t figure out what those black terms meant.

Damn AI can’t speak human language?

Always clinging to that damn Bible, muttering all day long, Wolf Father, Holy Mother, Lilith... Where do these chuunibyo patients come from?

Just like Hideaki Anno and Zack Snyder, without some biblical elements and mythological allegories, they can’t show their grandeur.

Brother Ni once thought these AIs might be somewhat mentally ill.

"The Tenth Holy Ring?"

Hearing the question, Blue Eyes was silent, he carefully looked at Brother Ni’s face as if trying to confirm he wasn’t joking