Chapter 83 The Reappearance of Cyber Disease

Looking at the cage-like Night City, Lucy spoke slowly.

The building with the Arasaka Corporation logo appeared in her memory. The cold steel building brought a suffocating sense of oppression, making people almost breathless.

It turned out that when she was a child, she was a cyber hacker who was kept and transformed by Arasaka Corporation's branches in other countries.

There were 12 other cyber hackers like Lucy, and only the 13 of them passed the Arasaka cyber hacker test.

In the memory scene in the comics, the young Lucy stood among the 13 children with a stubborn and firm look in her eyes.

And at this time, Arasaka Corporation instilled in them the idea that "they will one day become top cyber hackers and serve the most powerful company in the world."

In this way, for this illusory dream, Lucy and her companions have been undergoing various difficult training and tests.

However, after such difficult training and tests, they were not assigned to work in any department of Arasaka Corporation.

Instead, they were taken to a dark underground facility and forced to dive deep.

The goal of the deep infiltration is...

"They sent us to the old network."

Lucy said softly.

"The old network is..."

David said, "Is it the old network domain that collapsed about half a century ago?"

"Yes."

Lucy said, "It was defeated by the most powerful network hacker in history, the founder of the puppet, the ancestor and legend of hackers-Laki Batmos."

"The legendary wanted criminal who hacked 78% of the world's networks."

David also said with emotion.

When Zhou Wenwei saw this, his eyes lit up.

He suddenly became curious about what kind of legendary person Lucy said, the most powerful network hacker in history, the ancestor and legend of hackers-Laki Batmos.

After all, this title is probably equivalent to Zhang Zhenren and Bodhidharma in Jin Yong's works in the world of cyberpunk.

What a curious legendary strongman.

And it was because this ancestor of hackers defeated the old network domain that the networks of each region were isolated into regional networks.

So at this time, those collapsed old domains have become forbidden areas with huge hidden dangers.

There are basically a lot of illegal malware and extremely aggressive AI artificial intelligence left in the old domain.

Hackers can use their consciousness to explore this dangerous area, but when they want to obtain data, they will be attacked rudely by these software and AI.

But...

The huge hidden danger often means that there may be extremely precious treasures in it.

What if there are valuable technologies left by powerful national institutions and laboratories in this extremely dangerous old domain?

With this idea in mind, Arasaka Company specially trained Lucy and others to explore the old domain.

However, the result is...

Lucy and her companions may face danger at any time, get lost in this collapsed old domain, or be ambushed and attacked by malware and AI here.

The long-term deep infiltration in the old domain directly led to the death of many of Lucy's companions.

But the people of Arasaka Company don't care. After all, the meaning of Lucy and others being trained is to explore the old domain.

As for dying because of exploring the old domain, they don't care at all.

Essentially, Lucy is consumable in their eyes. Once this batch dies, they can just train another batch.

"Asshole!"

Zhou Wenwei couldn't help cursing when he saw this plot, "These capital companies are really damned, and this world is really rotten!"

The cyberpunk world is indeed a desperate world.

In fact, such a world may not be the most desperate. In some worlds, even humans are enslaved slaves, slaughtered at will like livestock.

At least humans in the cyberpunk world can still "live".

But the cyberpunk world is mainly close to the real world, and it is very likely to become "reality".

It's like your friend said he would give you 100 million, you would probably just laugh it off and treat him as a fool.

Because you know he can't give you 100 million.

But if your friend said he would treat you to a meal, you would feel very happy before he even treated you.

Because this is likely to be true.

False emotions and real emotions have completely different values.

So when a world like cyberpunk is closer to reality, some people will really find it a bit scary.

Lucy and David are in such a desperate world.

When Lucy and her remaining companions knew that Arasaka's guarantee was a blank check, they finally decided to resist.

They used the knowledge taught by Arasaka to kill the people guarding them.

Then Lucy and her remaining companions kept running away while being hunted.

In the end, it seemed that only Lucy escaped from Arasaka and wandered until she came to Night City and settled down in this city.

After hearing all this, Zhou Wenwei was also sad about Lucy's past.

But that was all in the past, and Lucy met David now.

She and David will definitely live happily together from now on.

But at this moment...

David, who was talking to Lucy, suddenly trembled uncontrollably with his left prosthesis...

"That hand..."

Lucy found something unusual.

However, David grabbed his trembling left hand with his right prosthetic and said casually, "It's nothing, it will be fine in a while."

The comic fans who saw this scene were shocked.

David...

This... is it?

"You haven't changed at all..."

Lucy said worriedly, "I have always lived for other people's dreams."

The scenes of David's memories came, and the scenes of Mann's life passed one after another.

This made the memories of death attack the comic fans again.

Lucy snuggled up to David at this time. She stroked David's trembling prosthetic and said, "Now I am no longer afraid of myself, but now I am afraid that one day... you will..."

David looked at Lucy's worried eyes and held Lucy in his arms.

However, at this moment, Lucy's prosthetic eye flashed with electricity.

The picture suddenly turned to a scene of information, and a voice seemed to be talking to some big shot.

"Yes... I can recover most of the data, but the data of one experimenter seems to be seriously damaged..."

"At present, the data of this data seems to be very likely to be deliberately destroyed..."

"But there is no record left on ICE. The hacker who can do this is definitely not that simple."

"I don't think Tanaka would actively delete this data. It should be destroyed when he was kidnapped..."

"Yes... I will try my best to recover the data and then back it up..."

A thin hacker appeared on the screen, and after he finished talking to the big shot, he was suddenly attacked in reality.

It can be seen that this hacker is definitely a very powerful hacker.

However, when facing the attacker, he was powerless and the system was paralyzed in a direct encounter.

And the one who appeared on the screen was... Lucy!

But at this moment, her eyes were emitting red light, and she looked coldly and ruthlessly at the hacker who directly destroyed the system in front of her.

Like a witch!

"End of this episode".

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