Chapter 263 Good Morning and Evening, Night City!

Chapter 263 Good morning... good evening, Night City!

The loud and harsh music mixed with the advertisements echoed in his ears.

The first thing that made Li You realize that he had completed the journey was the volume bombing on the TV behind him.

"Hey, you! That's right, I'm talking about you!"

"How is it, are you satisfied?"

"..."

Accompanied by the familiar advertisements, Li You opened his eyes.

The first thing that appeared in front of him was a spacious metal overpass. The middle section of the overpass was transparent tempered glass, and the vehicles passing by on the road below could be seen.

The sky was dark, people were coming and going around him, and the sound of car horns came to his ears. He stood by the isolation pile at this end of the overpass and looked at the entrance of the tall skyscraper opposite.

Li You subconsciously raised his head and his eyes followed the black matte exterior wall of the building all the way up. But due to the limitations of human physiological structure, even with his eyesight and tilting his head to the maximum angle, he could only barely see the white sign on the top of the building.

It was a typical Japanese-style family crest mark, with a three-pronged tree similar to the shape of the letter Ψ.

Li You was no stranger to this emblem. It was the family crest of Arasaka and also the logo of Arasaka Corporation.

So it was self-evident which world he was in now.

Cyberpunk 2077, Night City!

The moment he realized this, Li You subconsciously tutted.

"Why is it this world this time?"

The system prompt sounded at the right time.

[Ding! ]

[Congratulations! ]

[You have successfully entered the game world, and your current location is: Company Square. ]

[After completing the first contact, rewards will be drawn. ]

"Okay, okay."

Since he was here, he just pinched his nose and accepted it.

Don't get me wrong, he didn't hate the game Cyberpunk 2077. On the contrary, he liked it very much. He played it for a long time and studied the basic world view of Cyberpunk.

But it is precisely because of this that if he had to choose a game world that he least wanted to travel through, Cyberpunk would definitely be the alternative.

If he were still an ordinary person, this place would probably be ranked first.

The reason is that Night City, a ghost place in the Cyberpunk world view, is really rotten from every angle.

"Alas."

Li You looked at the sky and instinctively took out his pocket watch from his clothes, intending to adjust the time.

Unexpectedly, his action attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Li You immediately came to his senses: This is Night City! Cyberpunk's world view!

The time background of Cyberpunk is set in 2077 AD, the near future. The direction of technological development in this world is different from the reality before Li You traveled through time, and it has made great achievements in combining the human body with machinery.

In this world, various mechanical artificial implants are widely popular and accepted by the public. People use various implants to replace their original limbs, hands, feet, organs, and even facial features. There are many types and functions.

Even for the most basic transformation, residents will install brain-computer interfaces and personal terminals, which can make people's brains take on the functions of mobile devices - this is the standard configuration of almost everyone in the cyberpunk world.

Although communication tools such as mobile phones are still used in this world due to security and other considerations, it is rare to see such retro pocket watches.

In this world, the guy who likes to take out a pocket watch to check the time is either a top boss with real status, that's called style; or those crazy performance artists.

Obviously, Li You's appearance does not look like the former, so several passers-by around him quietly stay away from him.

Performance artists are not scary, but what if that guy has cyber psychosis?

Li You certainly noticed the reactions of the people around him, but he remained calm and just put the pocket watch back into his pocket very naturally.

To be honest, Li You's clothes are actually out of tune with this world.

Fortunately, Night City is a place that values ​​individuality after all. His kind is regarded as strange costumes and performance art by others at most, and it does not attract too much attention.

Another reason why Li You does not want to come to this world is also related to the problem just mentioned.

The popularity of brain-computer interfaces in this world is basically equivalent to that of smartphones before crossing, no, it should be said that it is even more.

In this world, from money transactions to identity authentication, most of people's food, clothing, housing and transportation are completed by personal terminals. And Li You is a pure meat person, in other words, in Night City, he is an illegal resident.

"… If I can't get an identity certificate or cash, I will probably have to sleep on the street tonight."

Li You recalled the settings of the currency system in the introduction to the cyberpunk world view that he had read, but he could not find much useful information for a while.

In order to adapt to the player's game process, the currency and price system in the game is different from the actual world view settings, and can only be used as a reference, and the setting collection does not mention the currency system.

Li You had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​"getting some cash" and decided to find a place to hide first and wait until the main task was triggered.

He was a flesh man, a "genuine product", standing in front of the Arasaka Tower, the building of Arasaka Corporation, which was the symbol and core of Night City, late at night. He was somewhat too conspicuous.

Li You turned around and first walked along the spacious stairs to the center of the company square. This is the Memorial Park. In fact, the major companies that dominate Night City build their headquarters buildings around the park.

For example, the branch building of Arasaka Corporation's archrival, MILITECH, is located directly opposite Arasaka Tower.

As for the left and right sides, they are occupied by buildings of other large companies, such as PETROCHEM, BIOTECHNICA, and KANG TAO from the great Eastern country.

In the world view of cyberpunk, the actual power of these multinational companies is stronger than that of most countries in the world, and they are the ones who dominate the direction of the world.

By the way, there is no need to have a natural affinity for Kangtao. After all, in this world view, although Kangtao's behavior may be a little better than other companies, the essence is still the same.

In the sky above the Memorial Park, holographic images of two giant koi, one red and one blue, rotate day and night, surrounding the center of the park, swimming in the air, and are lifelike.

The circular road in the park is lined with green plants, and the lights are on all night long. From time to time, floating vehicles fly over the square.

Some of the people coming and going were dressed in suits and looked serious, while others were bohemian and looked like refugees.

If you look carefully, you can see that most people have one or two traces of prosthetic modifications. Some are eyes - there are prosthetic seams on the face, some are fingers, and of course there are also arms or legs that have been replaced with mechanical ones. people.

Among such a crowd, it was difficult for Li You to blend in. He doesn't fit in with these people.

Fortunately, he has no plans to integrate for the time being. After briefly identifying the direction, Li You decided to squat in the nearest super skyscraper for a night to check the situation.

There are many super skyscrapers with the same architectural style in Night City, which are basically used as residential apartments. They are one of the places where middle- and lower-class citizens gather, and they will not be very conspicuous there.

Li You walked along the stairs to the ground floor of the Company Plaza, and followed the crosswalk on the street to find a way to the bottom of the viaduct.

When he first came to the new world, he still planned to be a good, law-abiding citizen. After searching around, he found that there were no sidewalks around here. ?

Do you have to force me to cross the road? ?

How did you get so many people here without a crosswalk? Can’t everyone go back and forth by floating car?

Li You was complaining in his mind about the unreasonable map design of the Polish Jackass game, when he suddenly heard an explosion above his head!

"——!!"

The explosion was not obvious. It came from high above the head, but Li You, who was already experienced, immediately caught the noise and looked up.

He was standing across the road in front of the biotechnology building. When he looked up, he saw a bright light flashing through a window on the top floor of the building on the side with the biotechnology logo.

"Is that...a flashbang?"

Li You's mind instantly went through the game plots of the Cyberpunk series, the animated series Edgewalker, and related derivative works, and then he instantly locked on one of them.

He was suddenly startled, and without caring about anything else, he grabbed a passerby and asked, "What year is it now? Tell me!"

The person he suddenly caught was a middle-aged woman wearing casual clothes. Judging from her face, she seemed to be of Asian descent - but in Night City, as long as you have money, you can change your entire face if you want, but that's not the case. It cannot be judged simply.

The middle-aged woman was trembling with fear, and the passers-by around her also covered their eyes, fearing to avoid her. Fortunately, this lady's psychological quality was quite good, and she answered tremblingly:

"Now...it's January 2076. Do you have any questions?"

January 1976…

Li You's suspicion was confirmed. He let go of his hand and said "I'm sorry". Then he didn't care about the burden of being a five-star good citizen, and rushed onto the roadway and ran to the viaduct ahead!

Above the head, accompanied by the roar of the engine, an armed aerial vehicle painted with the words "biotechnology" flew outside the building, and its searchlights were directed at the location where the explosion had just occurred.

"Sure enough... it should be too late!"

Li You ran to the viaduct in a few strides. He looked up, and his extraordinary vision allowed him to immediately locate a broken glass window on the outside of the building!

There was a loud "boom", and a far more violent explosion occurred outside the building than before. In the flames of the explosion, Li You saw a petite figure falling powerlessly like a fallen leaf.

"Yuzu! Catch that person!"

Li You instantly set the summoning position, and Yuzi's figure appeared directly from mid-air, just in time to fall together with the fallen person.

Yuzu reached out and took the man into her arms, then turned around. Thick and sharp tentacles shot out from her right hand and pierced directly into the outer wall of the biotechnology building. Then they tightened and hung him up, greatly slowing him down. The tendency of falling.

Yuzi just slid down the outer wall of the building, and finally used her strength to jump back to the viaduct and came to Li You's side.

Li You stepped forward and looked at the person Yuzi was holding.

It was a girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a reflective black tight-fitting hacker suit, a pink and white short jacket, and a black ear-length short hair that seemed to be specially customized and somewhat shaped like a cat. Ear hacker glasses.

Of course, the most important thing is that although she has lost consciousness, she is still breathing and has only one gunshot wound on the side of her leg.

Li You breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that this person has been saved.

He knows this girl. Her name is Sasha Yakovleva, and she is a network hacker.

The hacker here does not refer to the hacker in the real world, but a profession in the cyberpunk world view, a specialized technician.

As for the identity of the girl... let's put it this way, if you have watched the derivative animation of the cyberpunk world view, "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker", then you can understand her identity.

This girl named Sasha is a hacker in the mercenary team that the protagonist joins in the Edgewalker animation.

She appeared in the official MV of the ending song "Let You Down" released by the Edgewalker animation producer, which can be regarded as an independent prequel to the animation.

It tells the story of this girl named Sasha going to carry out a commission related to biotechnology, and she also fell to her death during this mission.

After that, Qi Wei, the hacker in the Edgewalker animation, joined Sasha's original team as a replacement, and Qi Wei also introduced Lucy, the heroine of the animation.

If we follow the plot of the MV, then the captain of this team, Mann, should be on the way, and Sasha should be handed over to him next.

But Li You looked up and saw that the biotechnology hovercraft was descending rapidly and searching around. And farther away, the patrol cars of the Night City Police Department-NCPD were already honking and began to gather here.

"It seems that you can only follow me!"

Li You glanced and saw a black car slowly passing by, which looked very familiar.

"The car model is Thracian Jefferson, a mid-range car... an old-fashioned car!"

Li You's eyes lit up: "It's you!"

He took two steps forward, violently opened the car door, and directly pulled the terrified middle-aged man in the driver's seat down, and sat on it himself.

"Steering wheel, accelerator, clutch, brake... No problem! Yuzu, put her up! You go back first!"

Yuzu flexibly opened the car door, put Sasha on the back seat, and fastened her seat belt with her tentacles. Then Li You took him back to the companion space - there was no way, Yuzu really couldn't sit.

Instead, Li You summoned Edge and put him on the co-pilot.

Aiji was still confused by the sudden situation, and Li You threw her two guns and a gas mask while starting the car: "If something that looks like a police car catches up, just blow up their tires!"

[Ding! ]

[The first contact has been completed. ]

[Final confirmation - your main task in this world is: ]

[Become a true legend in Night City! ]

[Good luck! ]

[Ding! ]

[Contact with the residents of this world has been completed, the system is being updated, and the new world rewards will be drawn soon. ]

[Drawing...Drawing completed. 】

【Please choose one of the items you have drawn as your reward. 】

The continuous system prompts echoed in his ears, but Li You had no time to distract himself.

Fortunately, Aggie was already used to such emergencies. She didn't ask any more questions. She immediately put on a gas mask that could assist aiming and picked up the shotgun thrown by Li You.

While Li You was preparing to run away, the siren of the NCPD was getting closer and closer.

He immediately stepped on the accelerator and drove out!

Cyberpunk World, Chapter 1.

Because the world view is huge, it takes a lot of time to check the information, so the update is late, sorry Orz

Then I would like to note here: Regarding the time when Sasha's story in the MV took place, the author did not find the accurate setting (including the specific timeline of the Edgewalker), so it is simple and rough here, and it is placed in January 1976. If there is an official setting, please point it out.

The author will try to post the relevant pictures of Sasha later.