Chapter 810 Time Flies

Time flies like an arrow, time flies like a shuttle.

"Huh..."

When the girl opened her eyes again, she saw the familiar ceiling.

"Good morning, Lord Inquisitor."

As the sound rang out, D saw a purple-haired girl with a side ponytail on the right side of her hair standing there, watching him quietly.

"Ugh...Good morning, Lumière."

As he spoke, D yawned, then sat up and began to change clothes.

Sixty years have passed since that conversation with Regina.

These sixty years have not been too difficult for D. In the first twenty years, she has been leading the army of Night City to expand its territory, repel those electronic demons, and take back the lost cities of mankind. Then he used this as a base to develop and successfully defeated ten powerful electronic demons known as the Ten Heroes of Disaster. Under the leadership of D, humanity, which was on the verge of extinction, once again stood up and relied on the demon summoning program called "PERSONA" to defeat the army of electronic demons that posed a threat to the human world.

As for those cyber maniacs? Well... D had no intention of sending troops to fight, but just let them fend for themselves. In fact, as D expected, most of the cyber lunatics destroyed themselves directly without support for a few years. This is actually normal, because cybermaniacs are only mentally disordered, but they are still alive and need to eat, drink, and repair their prosthetics. However, a mentally disturbed lunatic full of gender aggression would obviously not be able to survive for too long without food.

Therefore, D's approach is to put aside the cities full of cybermaniacs, and then concentrate on dealing with the electronic demons. When the electronic demons are dealt with and turned around, those cybermaniacs will either die of thirst, starvation or infection—— After all, they are just madmen, not zombies, and the virus is still effective on them.

So you see, there is no need to fight, just collect the corpse.

Then…………D died.

Well, at least that's what the world thinks.

The reason is simple. When D led an army to attack the Supreme Disaster Hero, one of the Ten Disaster Heroes, the opponent showed great power, so D had to die with him... Well, that's how others saw it.

Of course, this is not the case for D. In fact, this is just a play she performed.

The reason why D is acting like this is very simple. After killing the top ten scourges, she discovered that the damn culprit--hadn't even appeared yet!

Just kidding, generally speaking, after defeating the Four Heavenly Kings in this situation, isn't it time for the final BOSS to appear in person?

As a result, your final boss actually got cold feet and didn't play according to the routine?

There was no other way, so D had an idea and staged an END where the supreme disaster hero tried to drag himself into the water before he died, and then they both went on the road. In order to use this method to deceive the final BOSS and make him become careless and die.

As for how D knew that the boss was not dead in the end, it was too simple - the task was still pending and not yet completed!

Originally, D thought that once he knew that he was dead, the BOSS behind the scenes would immediately come out to cause trouble. However, he didn't expect that this girl got the essence of it, and it never appeared after that.

So D is also angry, isn't he just Gou? Let's see who is more stubborn.

So another forty years passed.

Of course, there have been many changes in these forty years.

The first is technology. Due to the impact of the Doomsday, the network that humans originally relied on completely collapsed. However, due to the emergence of demon summoning programs, a brand new network based on the electronic world was developed. Regarding implants, humans are also Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years. Now a law has been issued that prohibits the installation of implants unless people with physical diseases.

In the past, this order might not have been implemented well. After all, many people had denounced the dangers of implants in the past, but there were still many people who changed their clothes. After all, implants are very convenient and can be installed in just a moment. Become stronger. This is one of the reasons why implants in the past eventually became an everyday household item in thousands of households.

Just like a gun, if everyone else has a gun but you don't have a gun, isn't it you who will suffer the loss? So even if you don’t like it, you still have to be talented.

But now, there is no need to worry about this problem, because the people who originally relied on implants to gain combat effectiveness have been eliminated from the stage of history, and they are replaced by another group of people.

Demon Summoner.

That's right, now the Demon Summoner has replaced the original implanted superman like Adam's Hammer and has become the top existence of the new pyramid. After all, for electronic demons, ordinary human attack methods have no effect on them, so those prosthetics are naturally eliminated from the array of weapons and return to their original value as medical supplies.

Of course, becoming a demon summoner is not an easy task. When D was originally designed, it was designed that those things that looked like mobile phones were actually special demon summoners. Only certified people can activate the demon summoning program and then sign a contract with the electronic demons to drive them.

Secondly, electronic demons themselves also have their own likes and dislikes, which means that if ordinary people want to sign a contract with them, it depends on whether they are willing or not. If they are not, they will catch you.

So signing a contract with a cyber demon is still dangerous, and it is not as simple as throwing a Master Ball at one in the bushes like Pokémon.

More importantly, in principle, a person can only drive one cyber demon, so once you sign a contract, it is basically impossible to make a contract with another cyber demon. Therefore, it depends on your luck. If you summon a very powerful cyber demon at the beginning, you will naturally walk sideways.

But if you summon a weak chicken————well, okay, in most cases, you will be bound to this weak chicken for life.

Of course, even the weakest cyber demon is stronger than a human.

The current situation in the world is that the cyber demon army that appeared on Doomsday and once ravaged the earth has been almost wiped out with the elimination of the Ten Disasters. Most of the cyber madmen in large and medium-sized cities have basically died and returned to the hands of humans. A new generation has also been born, and unlike their ancestors who have implants all over their bodies, they have restored their original human posture.

However, this does not mean that there is no danger in this world. Too many humans died on Doomsday. Even if the survivors can reproduce now, it will probably take one or two generations to barely restore a certain number of people. At least so far, humans are still in a situation where there are too many people and too few monks. Many organizations and forces can choose a city as their home and start to reproduce again.

In those abandoned cities that have been completely abandoned or that humans have not taken care of for at least a hundred years, electronic demons are still rampant, and there are even reports of remaining cyber lunatics coming and going. Of course, for humans who now have the same power, those remaining electronic demons can no longer pose a big threat to them.

So this is a bit like the continent of Faerun—it is safe in the place where human civilization is located, but when you step into the wilderness, jungle or abandoned city where there are few people, be prepared to face the attacks of messy monsters such as electronic demons.

In terms of international relations, humans are currently in a state similar to a global alliance, and the formation of this state is also related to D—she led the army of Night City to attack electronic demons everywhere and recapture local cities. But these cities can't run away, and Night City is not likely to send so many people to occupy a city. A modern metropolis can easily accommodate millions of people, and sending tens of thousands of people in will only make a small difference.

So in general, in this case, they will let the local residents come back to manage the city, and then sign a covenant with Night City, providing Night City with the materials, personnel and equipment they can provide in exchange for Night City's protection.

This eventually formed a global alliance system centered on Night City.

Of course, this system is still functioning normally, but there have been some differences. Some independent cities don't like to be interfered and controlled too deeply by Night City, and want to get out of this system, but it is unlikely to be done in a short time, but it may not be in the future.

But... well, this is not D's business.

After all, she is dead.

In terms of technology, humans have also made other developments. Perhaps the impact of Doomsday is too far-reaching, so that human technology has once again embarked on the stupid, big, black and rough steam road - transformed from cyberpunk to steampunk.

At least in this way, there should be no more worries about the interference of the Internet on electronic products... Well, maybe?

In the past few decades, D naturally stayed away from Night City and wandered around, especially in places where she was not known. Basically, she would live in each place for ten years and then move away. Anyway, the current household registration level in this world is not perfect, so moving is also an easy thing for D.

Basically, every time she went to a place, D would open an office, which was mainly responsible for investigating or mediating disputes between electronic demons and humans.

As D had said to Regina before, electronic demons have been completely integrated into human life. They will use their abilities to serve humans, and humans will ensure that their existence will not threaten themselves.

For example, after Doomsday, humans are in a state of more men than women. It is not enough for everyone to reproduce, so naturally there is no place to relieve their anger. What should we do at this time?

Alas, the Nightmare Clan came out.

These Nightmares will open restaurants like Genting or Big Bird in human cities, and then attract those young men to go in, and then let them have an endless dream. In this way, men are satisfied, and nightmares also successfully obtain male essence through these dreams to maintain their existence. It can be said that everyone is happy and win-win.

It has become the norm for electronic demons to live with humans in most cities, so of course there will be friction between the two sides. There are even cases where electronic demons kill people. Since the number of humans is still limited, there are not enough people to maintain law and order, so some mercenaries or detectives will be hired to help solve the problem.

And these mercenaries and detectives are basically veterans of D's previous war of recovery. Only they are qualified to hold demon summoners and demon summoning programs, and they are experienced in combat and can deal with those electronic demons that have violated the law.

In addition, there is another change, that is about robots.

There are too few humans at present, so automation and robots are a must. Before, everyone might have thought twice about it, but now, the world is a bit broken - anyway, my website has been blown up. , AI is all over the streets, and we are not afraid of AI uprising robots, so we started research on robots again, and divided them into work-type robots and home-type robots. The former is mainly responsible for various factory operations with three heads and six arms, while the latter Mainly responsible for driving or taking care of others like a servant, serving as a secretary-like occupation.

Of course, the latter naturally has to look like a human being.

This is how Lumi-El was created. After the humanoid robot technology in this world matured, D specially ordered a Lumi-El robot, and then used his own terminal to transmit Lumi-El into it. , which can be regarded as allowing Lumière in this world to have a body.

As for whether someone might have evil intentions towards the robot, D is not worried.

Just kidding, Lumière's current body is 1.4 meters tall and weighs nearly 200 kilograms. It's full of iron lumps. Most people can't even lift it up if they want to be hugged by a princess. If you throw it on the bed, it will collapse immediately.

Those who think about this are real warriors. It would be more practical to go to the Nightmare Restaurant.

After Lumière has a body, it will be much easier to assist D. After all, D is better at fighting with force and not good at thinking and guessing. On the contrary, Lumière is very good at this. Lumière also expressed that she was used to this - when she and Eclair were partnered before, she was responsible for using the brain and Eclair was responsible for the hands.

It's the same now, Lumiere is responsible for using the brain, and D is responsible for the hands.

Of course, to the outside world, Lumière is just a work robot that serves as D’s assistant.

Originally, D thought that forty years would be difficult, but she didn't expect that forty years would pass by in such a flash. Since D doesn't age, she usually looks at other people's situations. If the people around her start to get older, then she should get out of the way. At least for now, D thinks that her mood is still very relaxed, and she is not at all as expected after staying in this world for forty years. Hardship and dissatisfaction.

However, it's better to kill that idiot as soon as possible.

"By the way, Lumière, do you have any commissions today?"

After changing clothes and washing up, D walked out of the bedroom and asked.

"There is a message that seems to be a request from a customer."

"Okay, I get it now."