Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 185

Late at night, Company Square.

Colorful lights interweave into a neon night scene, and two large holographic carps, one blue and one gold, slowly wander in mid-air.

In the high-level office of the Military Science and Technology Building, Meredith held a cigarette between two fingers and quietly overlooked the night scene below, with cigarette butts and ash scattered around her feet.

She looked dignified, she was smoking one cigarette after another in her hand, and her mind was completely out of the dreamy neon night scene in front of her eyes.

Meredith's eyes looking down did not move at all, as if she had crossed layers of traffic discs and penetrated into the ground.

It's not in their interest that Miltech doesn't want to see a Night City completely free from New America's fallout.

Even though New America apparently agreed to the "independent" nature of Night City, Night City is still deeply bound to New America in terms of culture, economy, transportation, location, and network.

But now the situation has changed. Ye's company has proposed a new infrastructure plan, aiming to build an 'independent' network empire.

If this new infrastructure plan is really realized, Night City's global influence will be even higher than before.

It may be even more difficult for military technology to regain Night City.

therefore.

Regarding Ye's company's launch of the space matrix, how to obtain the necessary information to destroy it is not a small problem for her.

According to the past practice, perhaps it is time to mobilize the hidden piles buried in Ye's company, obtain the necessary information, and make a move after determining the action plan.

Even if it costs a few hidden stakes, as long as it can destroy Ye's company's matrix space activation, it will be worthwhile.

The news that can be received is that the people involved in the construction of the matrix space have all been trained in Ye's company's in-depth transformation, and there is no chance of making a hidden stake at all.

Moreover, after the matrix space is completed, it will be managed almost fully automatically, and no one will be required to go in and maintain it.

In other words.

Even if Military Technology wants to do matrix space security for Ye's company, it has no chance.

There are only two ways for Meredith to accomplish her goal.

One is to use force and directly find mercenaries to do dirty work, but the chance of success is hard to say, and there is a risk of leakage if the operation fails.

The second is to wait, and continue to collect intelligence during the waiting process to see if a solution can be found internally.

She has been thinking about this problem, hoping to find a feasible solution.

Why did Arasaka respond so positively to the new infrastructure plan? He was the first to agree to connect to the matrix space, and even a senior executive made a phone call with him.

Meredith is keenly aware that there is a taste of conspiracy in it, and the more diligent Arasaka is, the more it shows that there is another purpose behind it.

Maybe she wanted to complete the task assigned by her superiors this time, hoping that it might fall to Arasaka.

After military technology has climbed to this position today, Meredith knows that everything must not go wrong, otherwise it will affect her future career.

She could feel that it was not far from going further.

In any case, matrix space must be shut down.

Meredith intends to dig out more information about Arasaka, why she took the initiative to join Ye's company.

It's time to start the matrix space soon, and Ye's company should be out of business today.

Meredith snuffed out the cigarette butt in her hand, and was just about to turn around and leave, showing that the secretary had a special report.

She let the secretary come in, and she returned to the office and sat down, waiting for the situation report.

The secretary came in in a hurry, and said anxiously: "Director, there are two things that need to be reported to you in time, and they are about Ye's Company."

Meredith nodded, motioning for her to continue.

The secretary reported immediately.

"Arasaka Company and Ye's Company launched a new infrastructure project cooperation and agreed to access the matrix space. This is an order from Saburo Arasaka. According to reliable sources, this order is in an urgent state."

Saburo Arasaka?

Meredith's pupils shrank suddenly, and her expression became solemn.

According to this, Saburo Arasaka, who is far away in Kyoto, has also paid attention to the matter of Ye's company.

If Arasaka Saburo gave the order, it would be too abnormal.

Arasaka has been operating in Night City for so many years, but Saburo Arasaka still doesn't approve.

Saburo Arasaka hated this city, and it was already a rumor among the company's top executives.

With Saburo Arasaka's status, his eyes are on global affairs, so why would he pay attention to the construction of Night City in the next ten years.

Night City has become more 'independent', which may not be a good thing for Arasaka Corporation.

But relatively speaking, military technology is more uncomfortable than Arasaka.

Meredith didn't know whether Arasaka was under fire, or if he had left behind.

In short.

She judged with certainty that this matter was not worthy of an urgent order from Saburo Arasaka, unless there were more stories behind it that would affect Arasaka, and even Saburo Arasaka's rule.

Seeing that the superior was silent, the secretary waited for a while, and continued to report the second situation.

"The maglev tunnel of Yeshi Company in the suburbs has been attacked by unknown forces, and now we are asking for reinforcements."

"From the pictures sent back by the drone, it can be determined that the other party is from the homeless tribe, and the reason for the attack is unknown."

Meredith was a little surprised. At this juncture, she attacked Ye's company's suburban construction site.

She quickly asked her secretary to call up the screen, put the chip on the office and read it, and a scene of a chase in the wilderness at night was displayed in front of her eyes.

The video is not long. It is roughly that the construction site was attacked by a small group of people, and then the drones came out in full force, and everyone on the construction site chased them away in vehicles.

These armed drones are all equipped with military technology, and the smart security of the construction site is all in charge of the military technology, and the people from Ye's Company have certain command authority.

Meredith looked at the picture in front of her and quickly found a few questions, so she asked.

"I remember digging this tunnel for a long time, have you found out where the tunnel leads?"

The secretary replied in a deep voice: "I've checked it, and it leads to the underground of the company square, which is a main transportation route in Ye's company's new infrastructure plan."

A strange color flashed in Meredith's eyes, as if she realized that someone might be more eager to move the matrix space than her.

Also.

She found that the people from Ye's Company only focused on the modified off-road vehicle, but ignored other attack points.

"Who is sitting in this off-road vehicle, can you find it?"

The secretary immediately reported: "The drone can't distinguish the people in the car, but the clues of this car have been found."

"The actual owner of this car is named Panan Palmer, who comes from the Badlands Adekado family. He often runs the Badlands transportation line and will pick up some commissions at the Afterlife Bar."

After Meredith heard the information, she felt confident in her heart, so she stood up and gave the order.

"Call back to Ye's Company, we are now going to the badlands and wasteland to support, let Gilgeist prepare and take three special service teams to the field."

She glanced at the time and added again: "It's still early, let them play for a while, the secret service team will leave in 15 minutes."

"Let's go see the play first."

Camp Arcador.

In an army-green tent, Lucy stretched out her hand and slowly pulled the chain of the tent door, blocking out the night outside the wilderness.

Inside the tent, several electronic devices emitted strobe white light, and a pool filled with cold water and ice slag was placed beside it.

Tang Yu was standing in front of the electronic screen, debugging the necessary procedures before the deep dive. With the lessons learned from the last time, he added a few more insurances to increase Lucy's self-protection ability during the deep dive.

Lucy closed the curtain, looked back at Tang Yu who was busy, and then walked towards the water tank.

She raised her hand to unbutton her collar, and pulled out her two slender, white arms from the sleeves, and then she took off the clothes on her upper body along her shoulders.

Finally, he squatted down and fell to the ground together with his trousers and underwear.

Lucy raised her legs and stepped into the icy pool, resisting the biting cold without making a sound, not even frowning.

She held onto the edge of the water tank, and slowly lay face up in it. The ice water was floating and making a lot of splashing noises.

Lucy leaned her back against the edge of the bathtub, stared straight at the top of the tent, and murmured, "Don, I'm ready."

the other side.

Tang Yu debugged the program, walked over with the optical cable interface, skillfully lifted the bandage behind her head, and embedded the interface into it.

With a sound of mechanical click, the preparation for deep diving is completed.

"Be careful." Tang Yu urged seriously.

Lucy didn't close her eyes immediately, but asked in a deep voice, "It will go well this time, too."

She realized that the power behind the matrix space might be a powerful existence beyond her imagination.

Open the bow without turning back the arrow.

Once this action against the matrix space starts, it will inevitably fight to the end with the opponent.

The danger Tang Yu faces goes far beyond the Arasaka company.

She gradually discovered that everything Tang Yu did was playing with fire.

Tang Yu is not only playing chess with Arasaka Company, but also wrestling with major companies.

Even though he is regarded by others as a rising star in Arasakata's workplace, his future is bright.

But actually.

This is precisely the most dangerous moment for Tang Yu. The higher he climbs, the bigger the vortex he will be involved in, and a slight mistake may lead to disaster.

Arasaka, military technology, biotechnology, Kangtao, and now Ye's company.

Tang Yu has already stood on the cusp of the storm, facing the danger of being targeted and swallowed by these giant beasts at any time.

Lucy doesn't know why Tang Yu chose this path, and why, there are still many secrets hidden in his world.

Tang Yu thought that Lucy was worried about deep diving. Now that he has "weak electric control ability", he could also play a few percent of his hacker strength.

Even in cyberspace, he could still keep an eye on Lucy, so he smiled frankly.

"Don't worry, everything will go well." Tang Yu reached into the pool and held her wrist as usual.

Lucy was a little surprised. Looking at Tang Yu holding her hand, she felt a little warmth flowing into her body and mind.

"I wish you luck this time." After Lucy finished speaking, she closed her eyes gently, and then entered the cyberspace.

As soon as her data consciousness body took shape, she perceived the signal source in the blue ocean of data, which was the matrix space signal positioned by Mann's team.

Without hesitation, Lucy waved decisively and teleported towards the signal source.

Like traveling through the stars and deep space, the layer upon layer of code and data flow passed by, and the destination was found in an instant.

Lucy's expression tightened, and her heart sank when she saw the scene around her.

as predicted.

The matrix space is not a simple network server, but a secret entrance and exit to the cyberspace.

What made her feel even more chilly was that this passage was set outside the black wall.

now.

Lucy is standing under the black wall of the giant screen in cyberspace, looking at the dark abyss beyond the black wall through the signal transmitted by the signal source.

That was her nightmare, since she escaped from the Arasaka secret base, she has never set foot in the world beyond the black wall.

Lucy clenched her teeth, hesitating whether to go through the black wall and walk to the other end.

She knew all too well the dangers that existed there, and if she took this step, she would face the risk of not being able to return.

After years of growth and evolution, the savage AI is no longer what it used to be.

Not to mention the countless malicious programs and electronic viruses outside the black wall, which may destroy her data conscious body at any time.

but.

If she doesn't cross this black wall, she won't be able to obtain the information Tang Yu needs, and the efforts of Mann's team will be in vain.

Lucy clenched her fists, making a difficult choice.

Just when she was in a dilemma, a familiar voice suddenly came from her ear.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

When Lucy heard the words in her mind, her hesitant heart immediately became firm, her clenched fists loosened, and she smiled silently.

"Oh, it's crazy."

She raised her hand, and the blue streamer swayed, and ripples appeared on the black grid wall.

That is the program channel for network monitoring to pass through the black wall, and to a certain extent, it is a shuttle method approved by the black wall.

Although Lucy remembers Arasaka's crossing path, time has changed, and the method of network surveillance is more reliable.

After activating the shuttle channel, Lucy floated forward and touched the ripple.

In an instant, she seemed to have stepped into the mirror, and came to the endless dark old net.

In the perilous darkness, Lucy must remain vigilant at all times.

In order to avoid being targeted by the wandering AI, she set up a layer of covert protection program for herself to avoid causing abnormalities in the surrounding data flow.

After completing the supporting concealment program, she cautiously headed deeper into the darkness.

In the pitch-black old net, various lights can be seen flashing past from time to time, like lightning flashing across the void.

Occasionally, you can also see data clusters like human faces, wandering around like ghosts, making indescribable wailing.

Since most of the content on the old web was related to humans, these programs learned a lot of relevant knowledge and gradually developed towards a humanized image.

Lucy has long been accustomed to the scene in front of her, and proceeded cautiously all the way towards the signal source.

She broke through layers of barriers, tried her best to break through from weak points, and almost missed the AI ​​derived from malware several times.

finally.

Lucy bypassed the maze-like barriers, arrived at the destination, and saw the space matrix composed of blue codes.

She immediately pulled out a ray of light from her wrist, connected it into the space matrix, and started the program of scanning and screening its inner core.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the huge amount of data flow detection caused Lucy to fall into burning pain, and the nerve contacts of her brain were under high temperature load.

Suppressing the discomfort in her mind, she finally finished the screening.

The entrance and exit of this space matrix is ​​temporarily closed, and there is still a lack of a main program to operate effectively.

Lucy withdrew the light, ready to get up and return to the cyberspace within the black wall.

Sudden.

She noticed that there were several abnormal data streams coming towards her around her, and she immediately raised her hand to impose a firewall without caring about causing any movement.

A defensive halo covered Lucy's body, resisting the sudden attack of multiple malicious code spikes.

Fortunately, the firewall level is high enough, and Lucy's data consciousness body is not life-threatening.

She fixed her eyes and quickly discerned the shadow hiding in the darkness. The familiar figure made her pale.

Voodoo gang?
It was only then that Lucy discovered that the members of the Voodoo Gang, whose brains had been burned by Otto Cunningham before, reappeared in the old network in the form of AI.

They were not brain-burned, but soul killers were used to forcibly upload the data of their consciousness body into the cyberspace, and then flowed into the old network to avoid arrest by network surveillance.

Before Lucy could react, dense worms covered the firewall and began to penetrate into the mask little by little.

Oops!

Lucy just wanted to hurry up and escape, but found that the worm exploded in front of her eyes, directly shattering her firewall program.

Her data conscious body was exposed to danger without defense, and the strong signal fluctuations attracted malicious eyes from around.

A series of extremely aggressive procedural spikes came towards her. If they were hit, they would be disintegrated into data fragments on the spot, and they would never be able to return to the real world.

Between lightning and flint.

A light blue electric arc enveloped his whole body, resisting all incoming spikes.

All the data codes that touched the arc were instantly wiped out.

The data soul imprint of the voodoo gang wants to trap Lucy's consciousness with a virus that freezes the neural network.

But a strong blue electric arc was faintly accumulating energy centered on Lucy.

Suddenly.

It exploded in all directions like a thunderbolt, instantly washing away all debris, leaving only ashes of data fragments.

Lucy opened her eyes, her pupils fluttered, and she looked around in surprise, only to find that the surroundings were empty and there was no longer any figure.

Cleared?
Her eyes moved slightly, and she immediately seized the gap and dodged away from here, heading straight for the black wall, and successfully arrived inside the black wall.

Lucy let out a long breath, calmed down a little, and started the exit procedure.

Just as Lucy left in a flash.

A huge red figure arrived at the scene, stretching out his hand to suck in a remnant of electric arc.

She lightly touched the arc with her fingertips, and the flowing data codes instantly turned into electric sparks, collapsing together with the arc.

The red figure remained silent.

inside the tent.

Tang Yu squatted beside the water tank, holding Lucy's wrist tightly with one hand, and covering his head with the other, his face was a little pale.

The excessive use of the 'weak electric control energy' just now made him feel that his body was being emptied, and his whole body fell into a weak state, even a little blood overflowed from his nose.

Tang Yu endured the pain just now, and got through the call from V, saying that they were in trouble.

Mitch and Scorpion lost contact after entering the construction site. Mann's team has completed the task, but there is still no news.

V and Panan were also quick-tempered. After talking on the phone, they rushed to the construction site again, without giving Tang Yu any time to dissuade them.

After the two of them dealt with Ye's Company's pursuit, they immediately turned and rushed back to the tunnel site.

Tang Yu probably knew what happened. The Mann team definitely encountered an unexpected situation in the tunnel.

When he got the news of V, he wanted to go to the tunnel site. Seeing that Lucy was still in the deep dive, he had no choice but to suppress his eagerness. Everything would only be clear when Lucy came out.

Tang Yu was glad that he had stabilized his mentality. In the blink of an eye, he realized that Lucy was in danger.

In order to prevent her from getting into future troubles, Tang Yu directly invoked the maximum power 'weak current control energy', and used the previous hacking technology to help Lucy clear the obstacles and get out.

While overdrawing his physical strength, his other talent, 'Toughness and Unyielding', is rapidly starting to recover his physical strength.

Lucy in the pool slowly opened her eyes, and found that Tang Yu next to her was still holding her wrist tightly, but she looked a little embarrassed with her head buried.

Lucy reached out to unplug the connector on the back of his head, and quickly leaned over to check Tang Yu, and found that blood was overflowing from the tip of his nose, dripping on the dirt floor.

"What's wrong?!" Lucy asked anxiously.

Tang Yu raised his hand to wipe off the nosebleed, stood up, and explained: "I'm fine, did you find anything in cyberspace?"

Lucy's pupils moved slightly, thinking of Tang Yu's extremely weak appearance last time, guessing that this was the price of overusing mysterious abilities.

She faintly felt that this was a bad signal, so she couldn't help feeling worried, and asked, "Really?"

Done.

Lucy stood up from the bathtub, the ice cubes slipped from her delicate skin and fell back into the water tank with a plop.

Tang Yu nodded slightly, picked up the blanket that had been prepared, handed it to Lucy, and affirmed again: "Well, it's okay, the situation outside is urgent now, I have to go there, Mann and the others lost contact."

Lucy's heart trembled, and what she was worried about at first still happened.

Seeing Tang Yu's current state, isn't it dangerous to rush over, but if you don't stop the other party, then Mann and the others will be in greater danger.

Lucy no longer hesitated, and immediately explained.

"Don, this is a trap!"

"The matrix space has been activated, and the connection point in cyberspace is located on the old network beyond the black wall."

"Obviously, they want to use the matrix space as a carrier to help the wandering AI outside the black wall invade the human network world."

"But now they still need a main program, a channel AI program that exists like a black wall."

"Subnet Sea God."

Tang Yu frowned, which coincided with his previous thoughts, so they started to focus on V for this purpose.

If you want to harvest a channel program with the same functional attributes as the black wall, you can self-grow and update iteratively, build a new channel on the old network, and completely bypass the black wall.

At that time.

The forces behind Ye's Company have the final say on who can enter the human network world and incubate the wandering AIs in the old Internet world outside the black wall.

These AIs that flow into the human world can also use the huge network data of major companies to correspondingly incubate artificial intelligence.

At that time, even if the major companies leave Night City, there will be AI programs to fill their vacancies.

AI companies, AI cities, AI humans
Ye's company's ambition is as great as Saburo Arasaka's dream of immortality.

After Tang Yu listened carefully to what Lucy said, he would make a move this time no matter what.

Delaman is already waiting outside the tent, ready to go at any time.

He got up and walked to the tent, about to open the curtain, when a slender and cold palm stopped him.

Lucy held Tang Yu's wrist tightly, and fine drops of water stained his clothes.

Tang Yu turned his head in silence, but his mouth was blocked by the cold and gentle touch of the two, and the ice blue breath penetrated into the tip of his nose.

She held his face in both hands, closed her eyes tightly, and the corners of her eyes couldn't stop the sparkling tears.

Tang Yu looked at the silver-haired girl in front of him in amazement, feeling her coldness and warmth.

Don't be too long.

Lucy let go of Tang Yu's face, and murmured as she stared at the man in front of her with neon pupils.

"I'll accompany you."

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