In the current world, Kamikoshi is one of the most advanced servers, but there is still that buzzing noise in the computer room, like mosquitoes flying in the invisible darkness.However, Johnny couldn't hear the voices, and his consciousness had changed to a small blue figure made of numbers, appearing in an empty and unfamiliar hall.The hall is also composed of flowing numbers, divided into two floors, a bit like an old theater, and a semi-open box on the second floor.He was sure he had no memories of this place, but he had a different feeling in his heart, as if he had a different kind of familiarity with everything here.With this question in mind, he took a few steps, reached out and touched the blue digital coffee table, and tried to touch his own face.Whether it is an object or oneself, there is a real tactile feedback, but to be precise, the main feeling is that these things are cold and piercing, as if the blue in this world means the color of ten thousand years of ice."
Does it sound familiar?"
A woman's figure appeared beside him, also made up of blue numbers, but her face was clearer, no different from the real person in the outside world: "I heard Death Knell say that you have been locked up in this LAN before, and every 0 and 1 here may be related to you." ”The personality consciousness body that enters the cyberspace is to mobilize the digital composition here, and she is right to say so."
You're the Death Knell hacker, aren't you?"
Johnny walked a few steps, and after he entered here, without the adrenaline rush, he seemed a lot calmer: "But let's not talk about the topic of 0 and 1, in my time, this was talking about." ”"Is there such a saying?
Oh, okay. ”As if she had returned to her home, she seemed very familiar with everything here, she found a sofa to sit down, and gracefully crossed Erlang's legs: "But I'm not a hacker of the death knell, I'm only in a trading relationship with him, to be exact, I didn't even know his name not long ago." ”"Well, as expected, he gave me the impression of a soldier returning from a brutal battlefield, a man who would either become a psychopath who would open fire on the crowd at every turn, or a mystic who no one believed in."
Johnny took a deep breath, and even though he was just a bunch of stats now, and he didn't even have lungs, he still had the feeling of inhaling: "I can feel that he has a lot of things to hide from me, but that's what I do, I just want Ott back, and that's the deal." ”Johnny wasn't a mercenary, he played in a band after he left the army, and then quickly became famous, and of course he didn't have to do that bloody business when he had food.But the people in Night City basically know the mercenary's work model, that is, as long as the money arrives, no one will care about what secrets the employer has.As someone else's knife, then you must have the consciousness of being a knife, and people who are driven by interests don't need to think too much, otherwise they are asking for trouble.What?
The target you want to kill is a good person, he is still very pitiful, the old mother of the family is sick, and there are children to raise?
So knowing that these will have an impact on the task?
At a time when you starve to death if you don't kill others.People can be soft-hearted, but capital will not be soft-hearted, and you yourself need money to pay rent, money to buy food and medicine, money to buy electricity, and money to buy all kinds of information.Living in such a society, a social tool called money automatically flows and drains everyone.Some people may say, ah, then if I lie flat at home, will I not be squeezed out of profits?
No, because when you are lying down, the deposit and loan interest rates of banks or institutions are changed under the manipulation of large companies, and the degree of inflation is also changing.So go to the target in the poor business?
There is no point, it's just that you know a lot, after the task is completed, you have earned money, and after you have eaten and drunk, you will feel a little guilty about the victim, because it is the other party's death that has been exchanged for your life.But is there really such a soft-hearted mercenary?
Sooner or later, the guilt will disappear, there are so many poor people in Night City, you can pity once or twice, but what about hundreds of times?
Numbness is inevitable, and by that time, you'll get used to never asking about employers and goals anymore, because nothing will change."
I'm in a similar situation, he saved me, and as a condition of the deal, I need to help him get things done today."
The lark and Johnny hadn't communicated before, but she had been listening to it on the communication channel, and she didn't think that the Silver Hand was as crazy and grotesque as the legend suggested.Rock stars are notoriously weird, such as shooting fans with guns on stage, which is what Johnny Silverhand once did.This is all good, lark checked on the Internet, in the last century, there were rock singers who defecated on the stage in front of thousands of people.The logic of his behavior is also very abstract, because he feels that social injustice is just a piece of, but he is powerless to fight, so he wants to show the symbol of the essence of society to everyone."
Our situation seems to be a bit similar, but I have to say that I still owe him a favor, because I'm afraid no one can resurrect me except him."
Silver shook his hair, and his sunglasses followed him for some reason, and he raised his hand to put them on: "Okay, let's get down to business, what should I do next?"
There doesn't even seem to be a door here. ”The walls are surrounded by flowing blue numbers, and it is safe and secure, but without doors and windows, it is like a box."
This is a cyberspace I built in the Divine Opinion, which is a relatively safe place, after all, you need to meet with a wandering AI next, and it is more beneficial for us to grasp the environment, at least I can urgently eject you at some moments."
Seriously, larks don't drop the chain, speaking of the Internet, she has a lot of power, still sitting on the sofa and explaining: "I've heard of Ott, she hasn't been idle for so many years, and the person who was killed by the soul killer, once she enters the gods, she will find a way to secretly abduct it into the ghost domain she established, and then analyze and annex it and become a part of herself."
And you're her lover, it's the most sour bait, I don't think any madman can refuse to eat the person he loves, right?
”As a former Secret Service agent, the lark knows too many perverted characters, but if you talk about the degree of danger, none of them can compare to the rampant AI, in this era, crazy flesh and blood is definitely not as good as a string of crazy numbers.