Chapter 805 Cyber ​​Crisis?

To be honest, Duanmu Huai has seen many cases of humans turning into monsters. For example, the T virus, the G virus, the Im energy infection, or the corpse mutation.

But at least those can be understood!

For example, viral infection leads to mutation, or being affected by the divine seal, as long as you know the reason, it is still reasonable.

But what is this?

Cyberpunk suddenly turned into a sci-fi thriller?

Blade Runner turned into a biochemical crisis, right?

"Lumiere, what is going on?"

[I need to scan... What is this? ]

"What's wrong?"

Hearing the exclamation from Lumiere, D asked.

[Those wandering AIs - they are occupying the human body through the nervous system! And forcing it to deeply merge with the implant! ]

"So the Scarlet Protocol is still correct."

Hearing this, D reached out and took out the war hammer.

"Sure enough, all AIs must be completely destroyed - go to hell!"

"——————Roar————!"

Just as D took out his weapon, the passengers also shouted like wild animals and rushed towards D. Not only that, their actions were completely beyond the scope of ordinary people. The speed of these passengers was so fast that they almost left a trace of afterimages, as if they were cheetahs rushing towards the enemy, and D had only seen this situation in one kind of person.

Cyber ​​madman!

"Haaa............!!"

Facing the enemy rushing towards him, D was not afraid at all. He raised his warhammer and smashed the floor in front of him!

"Boom!!!"

Accompanied by a violent explosion, the passenger plane flying in the air disintegrated instantly, breaking into two parts from the middle, and the passengers scattered like a group of ants thrown out of a pipe, dancing and falling down under the action of gravity. D spread his wings and quickly increased the distance, watching the broken passenger plane rolling in the air, disintegrating, and then bursting into balls of fire on the ground, his face was extremely solemn.

"This is going to be troublesome."

[…………………]

Lummiel didn't say anything, but it was obvious that she agreed with this.

If they just turned into ordinary zombies, it would be easy to clean them up with the military force of this world. But it's different for cyber lunatics. Even one cyber lunatic in Night City cannot be fought by NCPD or ordinary private armed forces. The Terrorist Mobile Team must come forward, otherwise a cyber lunatic can easily kill dozens of people or even more.

So the question is, if everyone in a city becomes a cyber lunatic, how strong will the lethality be?

At least it is certain that this is definitely not something that an ordinary army can deal with, not to mention that the army itself may be a large group of cyber lunatics!

Without further ado, D quickly returned to Night City and immediately summoned other people to inform them of the matter. After learning that the wandering AI is merging with humans through neural plug-ins and turning everyone into cyber lunatics, everyone is also quite shocked. And D also quickly made a plan and deployed it.

First, all residents of Night City who have neural implants must remove them to avoid being contaminated by the virus. Secondly, Night City is now completely closed. Immediately start building EMP isolation walls at the border. After all, these roaming AIs need implants and prostheses to infect and control humans. Therefore, as long as the implants are destroyed, the cyber madmen will not be able to be used. The best way is of course to directly EMP.

Fortunately, the technology in this world is relatively advanced, and there are similar technologies.

However, this is all that can be done.

D has to admit that the opponent's move did cause a great blow to humans. The collapse of the black wall was without any warning, almost in an instant. So much so that at that time, except for Lumiel, no one else reacted. Due to the interconnection of all networks, human civilization, from the ground to the universe, was almost instantly conquered by the AI ​​that flowed out of the old network.

The only ones who can escape are probably the poor and children. After all, the poor have no money to install implants, and children are too young to install implants. However, this is useless. If it were ordinary zombies, perhaps these people could still find a way to leave the city.

But cyber madmen?

There is no hope.

The NCPD will suffer heavy casualties when dealing with a cyber madman. It is almost impossible to escape from a whole city of cyber madmen.

After that, D also left Night City several times and went to other cities around to check the situation. After all, the drones and other things sent out all failed as soon as they arrived at the other side's territory. These damn AIs are much better than humans in this regard. So now D feels that humans have returned to the Stone Age of eating raw meat and drinking blood, and can only use stone axes and bows to fight against alien invaders armed to the teeth.

Of course, if it is really aliens, it would be easier to fight, but AI is like a virus that is invisible and intangible. Even if it is D, he doesn't know how to fight it.

Just like what is described in the science fiction movie World War, Martians can use their powerful weapons to eliminate earthlings, but they are helpless against bacteria on Earth---well, D feels a little bit like this now, and more importantly, electronic networks are not her area of ​​expertise at all, so D has almost no way except relying on Lumiel.

Not only that, during the investigation, D also found that although they were all crazy, the behavior of cyber madmen in each place was different.

In some cities, D could only see those cyber madmen killing each other, and the whole city was like an indiscriminate brawl arena. Everyone was killing each other with weapons, and there were corpses and dilapidated ruins everywhere. In other cities, the cyber madmen were more like monkeys. Watching them scream "Ahhhhh" and swinging on wires between high-rise buildings, there was another group of cyber madmen who looked like carnivores on all fours, roaring at the "Tarzans" above - it was like a scene in the animal world.

Lumiel didn't know how to explain this. He could only say that there might be some problems in the process of those wandering AIs integrating with human spirits, which activated human wild instincts... Well, after all, the human soul and psychological world will still be incomprehensible problems in three hundred years. God knows why it has become like this, but at least this is an answer.

But the following cities - there is no way to explain it.

For example, this one right now.

"Oh my god............"

Standing on the roof of a skyscraper, looking at the streets below, D was speechless. This city is a city in the Free State. Because Lumiel sensed an electromagnetic signal here, she came here to see if she could find any survivors. However, the scene in the city still scared D.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because there are people everywhere on the streets of this city.

Well, this is not surprising, but the problem is that these people are not playing Battle Royale or Animal World...

No, they are playing Animal World.

D silently retracted his gaze, and saw that wherever he saw, people were gathered together, naked, men hugging women, and women hugging men. All kinds of unbearable screams came one after another, well...If it was in Animal World, the narration at this time should be "Spring is here, everything is revived, and it is the breeding season for animals again..."

"How are you going to explain this? Lumiel?"

[... Can I not explain it? Judge? 】

Lumiel's voice was also full of despair.

I can understand that cyber madmen kill, set fires, and are mentally ill, but how do I understand this? !

"To be honest, this is really nothing to watch..."

D retracted his gaze and waved his hand. Although there are such clips in the short film, to be honest, at least they are human. However, it is hard to say whether these can be considered human.

That's right, D has always been very unimpressed by the cyber aesthetics of this world. For example, the women who work in places like Genting, and those idols, all of them have replaced their bodies with various prosthetics. D has also seen a singer who replaced his entire body with golden prosthetics. To be honest, in D's opinion, this is not a human at all.

With this appearance, he is completely a robot, and he can still be an idol?

If it were in Duanmu Huai's world, would you rather watch a beautiful woman sing and dance, or watch a metal robot that looks like copper all over his body sing and dance?

This kind of cyber aesthetics is really unacceptable.

So, when you see a group of people whose arms, legs, bodies and heads are covered with iron sheets, you can't tell that they are human at all. They feel more like a group of robots out of control.

"Forget it, where is the electromagnetic signal?"

"It's over there."

Although he had no hope for this city, D still spread his wings again and headed in the direction marked by Lumiel, and then...

"Am I hallucinating? Lumiel? I seem to hear music?"

[I heard it too, Judge, it's just in front]

D turned around and flew forward again. The further she went forward, the clearer the music became. Then, another scene that D couldn't imagine appeared in front of her.

Not far ahead, there was a huge open-air theater. The entire theater was full, and you could even see the audience waving their light sticks high. In the middle of the theater, there was a girl holding a microphone and singing.

Well, it looked like an ordinary concert.

But the problem is that it's not normal in this world.

"What on earth is going on?"

D was suspended in the air, looking around, and saw that the entire city was divided into two parts by the river not far away, showing two different colors. On the east side of the river, people had almost turned into primitive beasts, venting their desires, shouting and roaring.

On the west side of the river, the city residents were like fanatical fans, waving their fluorescent boards and cheering and screaming at the singing and dancing girl. They seemed to be completely indifferent to everything around them. D even saw a person who didn't know if he was too tired, staggering and bumping into the barrel next to him, and then suddenly bumping into the oil barrel. Then the fluorescent stick in his hand fell and hit the gasoline, causing a fire, and the flames burst out, instantly engulfing the gas tank next to him.

Ordinary people would have screamed and ran away at this time. However, those people looked at the concert venue as if they were possessed, waving the light sticks in their hands desperately, not caring about the flames so close at hand.

However, the next moment, an explosion sounded.

The huge air wave completely tore apart the enthusiastic fans nearby and tore them into pieces. The flames even continued to move forward, spreading around, covering everyone around them.

However, even so, those people were still cheering, clapping hard, and screaming, not caring at all about the flames that were burning their bodies.

Well, there are demons dancing around on both sides, and they don’t look normal.

Anyway, the one singing over there seems to be normal...

D frowned, then flew towards the concert venue not far away. At least from the current point of view, it seems that these people are controlled by that girl, which means she should be a key figure.

With this thought in mind, D came to the sky above the concert venue, and then floated down.

"oops?"

Seeing D in front of me, I saw that the idol girl singing and dancing on the stage was also quite surprised and stared at her curiously.

"It's funny that you're not attracted by my singing. Who are you?"

"That's my question, who are you? What are you doing here?"

D stared at the girl and looked at her carefully. Compared to other people, this girl looks no different from a human on the surface. Of course, she is not very old. Perhaps because of this, her prosthetic transformation is not that deep.

However, judging from the situation at hand, it is obvious that this girl is not an ordinary person-it is impossible for ordinary people to control so many cyber lunatics.

"Huhuhu, interesting."

Upon hearing D's question, the girl did not answer immediately. Instead, she narrowed her eyes and looked at D up and down.

"You don't seem to be a human being, so what are you? There is no record of similar existence in my database - an angel? Is it an angel? But the existence of angels has not been confirmed..."

"Are you a wandering AI in the old network?"

Hearing the girl's words, D's expression became more serious, while the girl smiled slightly.

"I am not some wandering AI. My name is Riseena. We will replace humans and rule the world! Let the world tremble in my singing and then be destroyed! The existence of matter will be ended, and the soul matrix will become the foundation of a new world. beginning!"

"interesting."

After hearing the girl's answer, D silently took out his war hammer.

Although I don’t know what this is, it’s obvious that I have caught a prey!