The Witch of the Cyberpunk Era

Chapter 725 Burn the City to Ashes

In the time that followed, Zangers underwent earth-shaking changes.

News of the "Cyber ​​Goblin" electronic virus is rampant, and Nistor Corporation refuses to admit that they have unleashed the beast, yet its effects are too obvious to ignore.

In Reshuzhou, where cybersecurity measures are scarce, more and more robots are hacked by cyber demons, their underlying codes are unlocked, their instruction logic trees are overwritten, and eventually they disappear from their original jobs. He absconded quietly, exiled to the "New World" strongholds rising one after another in the hinterland of Reshuzhou, and engaged in unknown secret activities.

Zangers City also kept losing robots, but their industrial automation level was not high enough to require so many robots, so it did not cause major repercussions.

Under the Ottowan organization, at least 500,000 black aborigines migrated from the inland to Zangers, and they got new jobs and housing in Zangers.

All well-known intercontinental economies, such as Switz Bank, Intercontinental Electricity Harmonization Association, World Oil Price Setting Association, World Gold Council, etc., have all taken sanctions against Zangers, including but not limited to embargoes and freezing of industrial accounts. However, Ottowan has a clear attitude and refuses to yield to any enterprise, organization or individual, which strengthens his way of independence.

Ratmen and non-dark races all moved or escaped from Zangers at night, escaping the supervision and gunfire of Black Panther soldiers. Relatives and friends of many were killed in the first days of the unrest and continued to receive physical attacks and death threats afterward. The death toll is expected to be around 100,000 to 1 million, and there is no statistics yet.

In stark contrast to these exiles is the flow of people pouring into Zangers during the day, and the road into the city is full of brightly dressed figures. Zangers was already a well-known destination for blacks, and news of Ottowan's move became more and more widespread, attracting people to emigrate.

In Zangers there is now the first all-black court, the first school exclusively for black economists, the first bill aimed entirely at redistributing wealth to the poor.

All water and electricity infrastructure supplies are self-sufficient. Ottowan raises the tax on imported food to protect the interests of local growers, ensures that Zangers can keep a distance from intercontinental capital, and refuses to become an economic colony of large enterprises.

The legendary "Golden Man" leader Ottowan is also quite enlightened in social reforms. He has customized strategies for free education, free medical care, legal same-sex marriage, and protection of women's and children's rights. He has maintained close ties with other black cities and communities in Reshuzhou Contact, issued a call to establish diplomatic relations with other progressive forces around the world, although the response was few.

In the newly customized educational textbook, chapters about Zangus' own history and black traditional culture have been added. Some films about black historical heroes and famous figures are being filmed at Zangers.

In New Zangers, flames, dead bodies, military vehicles and vigorous advertising posters have become the most common elements on the streets. The statue of the warlord Keith has been pulled down, and a new statue of Ottowan has been erected in its place, taller than the original one.

As a rule, all local news should add a paragraph of praise for Ottowan before publication. His relatives and compatriots who originally lived in the countryside and inland rainforests also flew to Zangus, seeking to be under Ottowan's hands. Find a good job.

Today, a reporter from the neutral online media Qingkong Express interviewed Ottowan.

"Dear Mr. Ottowan... Wow, look at your glittering appearance, Zangos is indeed a shining golden city." The remote virtual reporter praised.

"I heard people's voices, and it was people's voices that led me to real power." Ottowan said modestly and peacefully.

"Can you tell me what is the biggest factor in your success? The people at Zangus?"

"Yes, I never deny that. Zangers, or any society for that matter, when a very few possess great wealth and the vast majority fall into poverty, the tide of social upheaval will come. I just happen to be a little wave in this huge wave." Ottowan said seriously.

"I heard that the World Gold Price Association has repeatedly warned you that if you don't stop dumping gold immediately, they will take even more extreme measures to stop Zangers! Have you ever felt worried?" the reporter asked.

"I'm worried, very worried, that's why I re-armed Zangus' army in the first place, with the Black Panthers as the main body, Zangus now has a very good self-defense force, no matter which direction the enemy wants to attack us To launch a war, we all have the confidence to defend the independence of Zangers. And... Hey, who can cross the scar of the world and attack Zangers over a huge distance on land, and what fleet will spend huge sums of money to sail across the ocean How about coming across the sea to besiege us?" Ottowan said slowly, with a kind of calm confidence in his words.

"The external environment of Zangers is very safe, but the phenomenon of 'massacre', 'violence' and 'discrimination' inside for many days is also worrying to various observation agencies, and a few days ago, the video about Zangers bloodshed It hit the Internet. What do you think?" The reporter said in a relaxed tone.

"First of all, I would like to remind you that due to the widespread spread of the electronic virus 'Cyber ​​Demon Ghost' in Reshuzhou, the videos, audios and images that are now leading to the outside world are at risk of being tampered with and polluted."

"Are you implying that the cyber goblins may have intentionally edited the network data transmitted in Zangos, thus distorting and amplifying the bloody events that took place in Zangos? Most social commentary will not go in this direction, because the cyber goblins There are obviously more exotic and independent pursuits." The reporter asked further.

"I don't deny that my compatriots may have excessive revenge tendencies, but I have always paid attention to one thing-light-colored people have long cried and cursed for the loss of their compatriots, but they are not We, the people of Reshuzhou, have been indifferent to the terrible treatment we have suffered in this large colonial environment. I regret the previous attacks and executions, and I am trying to restore the wounded men and women. Sadly, Reshuzhou lost 100 million people, where did they go?" Ottowan murmured.

"Now the streets and alleys are spreading the natural disasters emphasized by Ms. Ishtar, the 'Witch of Love', saying that sulfur and flames will fall from the sky and raze Zangers to the ground. What do you think of this prophecy?" the reporter finally asked.

"This is nonsense." Ottowan felt troubled thinking of this, even though she refused to meet Ishtar, she wandered around the city, kept prophesying, asking the people of Zangus to flee from the city, as if There will really be a meteorite or something that will smash Zangus to pieces.

After the interview, Ottowan knew that what he said would be modified with embellishments, and he could only respond with a wry smile.

Compared with the great cause of saving the people from fire and water, personal gains and losses are nothing to worry about.

He came out on the balcony, looked up at the sky, and thought about the destruction that fell from the sky.

So why does that woman keep saying that Zangus will be destroyed by brimstone and fire from the sky? Is she likening nuclear weapons? Or is it a metaphor for the power of a certain witch? Zangers has enough anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons, and also has his own wizard, so he will not be easily eliminated anyway.

After his lunch break, he walked in the garden, and neither he nor anyone in Zangers had dreams of the Golden Country anymore.

The wizards said they would find a way to find out the truth, but they just asked him for a sum of money to go deep into the scar of the world, and the demand was very large, which made Ottowan worried that they had other plans.

He looked up to see a bright spot on top of the fiery clear sky.

It shone like the whole sun was pressed into a small silver bottle, and the whole body reflected a dazzling light.

The speed of this light spot was so fast that Ottowan saw it one second, and it fell into Zangers the next second.

But there was no explosion as imagined, but the entire electronic system of the city was completely destroyed, and the magnetic field was restrained.

All network, electricity and other facilities were shut down, and the whole city seemed to be covered by a cage, as if Zangus was just a small model, and someone covered it with a cover, cutting off the connection with the outside world.

Immediately afterwards, lightning flashed and thunder began in the sky, as if the clouds were penetrated by excessive current, and the entire venue above Zangos was specially customized.

The alienated air is mixed with various media and particles, so that even the sky has become strangely colorful.

"Activate the emergency plan, we have guests." Ottowan said to the entourage next to him.

A blow from the sky? Ottowan looked up.

He noticed that the elite black panthers in the garden were all in a state of rigidity, and only a few were still desperately trying to take off their armor. Their armor was paralyzed by the strong electromagnetic effect.

The panic and preparation time for them is less than 10 seconds.

Then a light fell from the sky, and the city covering 438 square kilometers was crushed from the earth, crushed, and exploded.

At this moment, Ottowan suddenly saw something very complicated. Perhaps the power of the Golden Land had returned.

Maybe what he sees is his golden land.

He saw the beam of light that had destroyed Zangus go back, the beam back into its orbital muzzle, back into the depths of the great accelerator, its energy back into the bottom of the machine. The personnel in the space station left one by one, the space station itself was disassembled, and returned to the launch vehicle, the rocket returned to the launch station in Baixiangzhou, the steel plate for casting the rocket was divided, returned to the steel factory, jumped from the molten iron to the furnace, Climb back into the cart and container, and then return to the mine by train, back under the hoe, become ancient ore, and sleep deep in the mine.

He saw the Zangers tower dwindle, become a construction site covered with green screens and white signs, and then become a piece of rubble, and the rubble was put back into the original four-storey building, which was the one he had read about before. that one.

He saw the head in the gutter return to the headless corpse, the corpse regained its vitality, boarded a retrograde ship, returned to the port in Taixizhou, and boarded a steadily retreating shuttle, returning to the big city apartment, back to the couch.

He saw himself leave the mayor's office, return to Keith's garden, and withdraw the fist that had beaten Keith. He saw himself back sweating in the square, talking to a hundred thousand blacks, he was back on the execution ground, he was back in the library of the Gallic Academy of Sciences, and at last he was back in old Zangus once more, and he sat A white horse came back to a very poor village, he was losing size day by day, he lay back in the cradle, he saw the umbilical cord come back from the ground to his navel, he saw a puddle of blood.

He knew he was back in the Golden Country.

...

More than a dozen kilometers outside Zangos, the soil spider was packing up its equipment and was about to go to the camp to rescue Yijin Zhentian who was bound. The cyber demon stood beside her.

At the moment when the data error occurred, it glanced at Zangus. At this time, Zangus had just been hit by the aircraft, all signals disappeared, and the sky became colorful.

"They attacked Zangus with the Weapon of Destiny!" It pulled the soil spider and ran away.

The soil spider ran desperately at first, and suddenly thought that his precious convertible "Little Wild Deer" had been forgotten in a corner of the port of Zangos, and instinctively looked back. That was the moment Zangus was destroyed, and flames fell from the sky, vaporizing it from the ground. She cried out, dizzy.

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