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 Chapter 803 Cyber ​​Crisis?

To be honest, Duanmu Huai has seen a lot of things like humans turning into monsters. For example, T virus, G virus, Yim energy infection, or necromorphs and the like.

 But at least those are understandable!

For example, a virus infection leads to mutation, or it is affected by a divine seal. As long as the reason is known, it is still justified.

 But what is this?

Cyberpunk suddenly turned into a science fiction thriller?

Blade Runner is a remake of Resident Evil, right?

 “Lumi El, what is going on?”

  【I need to scan...what is this? 】

"What's wrong?"

 Hearing the exclamation from Lumière's mouth, D asked.

　　【Those circulating AIs - they are taking over the human body through the nervous system! And force it to deeply integrate with the implant! 】

“So the Scarlet Protocol is still correct.”

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

“Sure enough, all AI will be completely eliminated—go to hell!”

"---Roar--!"

At the same time that D took out his weapon, the passengers also shouted like wild beasts 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 there was almost an afterimage, as if they were rushing towards the enemy like cheetahs. This situation only happened to one kind of people. Saw it on me.

 Cyber ​​maniac!

"Aha………!"

Facing the enemy rushing towards him, D was not afraid. He raised his war hammer and smashed it hard against the floor in front of him!

 “Boom!!”

Accompanied by a violent explosion, the passenger plane flying in the air instantly disintegrated and was broken into two pieces in the middle. The passengers also scattered out like a group of ants thrown out of the pipe, dancing downwards under the influence of gravity. come down. D spread his wings and quickly increased the distance. He looked at the broken passenger plane rolling in the air, disintegrating, and then bursting into flames on the ground. His expression was extremely solemn.

 “This is going to be really troublesome.”

  【…………】

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

If they just turned into ordinary zombies, they would be easily eliminated with the force of this world. But cyber maniacs are different. Even a cyber maniac in Night City cannot be fought by the NCPD or ordinary private armed forces. The violent terrorist mobile team must come forward, otherwise a cyber maniac can easily kill him. There were dozens of people or more.

So the question is, if all the people in a city become cybermaniacs, how lethal will it be?

 At least it is certain that this is definitely not something that an ordinary army can deal with, let alone that the army itself might be a large group of cyber lunatics now!

Without further ado, D quickly returned to Night City and immediately summoned other people to inform them of the incident. After learning that the circulating AI was merging with humans through neural plug-ins, turning everyone into cyber lunatics, everyone was also quite concerned. Shock. And D also quickly made plans for deployment.

 First of all, all residents of Night City who have neural implants must be removed to avoid being contaminated by the virus. Secondly, Night City has now begun to be fully closed. Immediately start building an EMP wall at the border - after all, these wandering AIs require implants and prosthetics to infect and control humans, so as long as the implants are abolished, there is no basis for cyber madness. The best way Direct EMP of course.

 Fortunately, the technology in this world is relatively advanced, and it is not without similar technologies.

 However, this is all that can be done.

  D had to admit that the opponent's move had indeed dealt a huge blow to mankind. The collapse of the Black Wall happened without warning, almost in an instant. So much so that no one except Lumière responded at all, and due to the interconnection of the Internet, everything in human civilization from the ground to the universe was almost instantly completely captured by the AI ​​that came 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 of no use. If it were ordinary zombies, maybe these people could find a way to leave the city.

But cybermaniacs?

 It’s hopeless. It’s hopeless.

NCPD will suffer heavy casualties when dealing with a cybermaniac. It is almost impossible to escape from a whole city of cybermaniacs.

After that, D also left Night City several times and went to other surrounding cities to check the situation. After all, the drones and other things sent out all failed as soon as they reached the other side's territory. These **** AIs are better at this than humans. Many are good at it. So much so that it now feels to D that human beings have returned to the Stone Age, where they could only fight alien invaders armed to the teeth with stone axes, bows and arrows.

Of course, if it were really an alien, it would be easier to fight. However, AI is as invisible and intangible as a virus. Even if it is D, it doesn’t know how to fight it.

Just like what is described in the science fiction movie World War, the Martians can use their powerful weapons to wipe out the earthlings, but they are helpless against the bacteria on the earth - well, the current D feels a bit like this, and more importantly Electronic networks were not her area of ​​expertise at all, so D had almost no choice but to rely on Lumière.

Not only that, during the investigation, D also discovered that although they are all crazy, the behavior of cyber lunatics is different in each place.

 In some cities, D can only see those cyber lunatics killing each other, and the whole city is simply like an indiscriminate brawl arena. Everyone was killing each other with weapons, and the ground was littered with corpses and mangled ruins. There are also cybermaniacs in the city who are more like monkeys. Watching them scream "ahhhhhhhh" and then swinging on wires between high-rise buildings, there is another group below that looks like The carnivore cybermaniac got down on all fours and roared at the "Tarzans" above - it was like a scene from the animal world.

Lumière didn't know how to explain this. She could only say that some kind of problem might have occurred during the spiritual integration of the wandering AIs with humans, which resulted in the activation of humans' wild instincts... Well, after all The human soul and psychological world will still be incomprehensible problems in another three hundred years. The devil knows why it will become like this, but at least this can be regarded as an answer.

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

　　For example, this one right now.

 “I’m off to go……”

Standing on the roof of the skyscraper, looking at the street 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 in front of him still shocked D.

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

 Well, this is actually not surprising, but the problem is that these people do not play battle royale or animal world...

 No, they are playing in the animal world.

D silently withdrew his gaze and saw that wherever he could see, people were gathered together, naked, men hugging women, and women hugging men. All kinds of unbearable screams have risen, um ... if it is in the animal world, the narration at this time should be "spring is here, everything recovers, and the season of animal breeding ..." "How do you plan to explain This? Lumière?"

　　…………Can I not explain? Lord Judge? 】

 Lumière’s voice was also filled with despair.

  Cyber ​​lunatics, murderers, arsonists and psychopaths can all be understood, but how do we understand this? !

 “To be honest, this is really nothing to see...”

 Withdrawing his gaze, D waved his hand. Although it's not like there aren't scenes like this in short movies, to be honest, at least they're human beings. However, it is hard to say whether these can be considered human beings.

Yes, D has always been very indifferent to the cyber aesthetics of this world. For example, the women who work in places like Genting and those idols have all replaced their bodies with various prosthetics. . D has also seen a singer change his whole body into a golden prosthetic body. To be honest, in D's opinion, this is no longer a human being at all.

He looks like a complete robot, but he can still be an idol?

　　In the world of Duanmuhuai, would you rather watch beautiful women singing and dancing, or would you rather watch a metal robot whose whole body looks like copper singing and dancing?

This kind of cyber aesthetic is really unacceptable.

So similarly, when you see a group of people whose arms, legs, and even bodies and heads are covered with iron sheets, you can’t tell that they are human beings at all. It feels more like a group of robots out of control.

“Forget it, where is the electromagnetic signal?”

 “Right over there.”

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

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

　　【I heard it too, Mr. Judge, you are right in front】

D turned around and flew forward again. The further she moved forward, the clearer the music sounded. Then, another scene that D couldn't imagine appeared before her eyes.

Not far ahead, I saw a giant open-air theater. The entire theater was packed, and you could even see the audience holding up glow sticks and waving them. In the center of the theater, there was a girl jumping up and down with a microphone. of singing.

Hmm, it looks like an ordinary concert.

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

"What exactly is going on?"

D was suspended in the air and looked around. He 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 The beast, venting its desires to its fullest, shouting and roaring.

On the west side of the river, the city residents were like ardent fans, waving their fluorescent boards and cheering and screaming loudly at the singing and dancing girl. They didn't seem to care about anything around them at all. D even saw one person staggering into the barrel next to him, maybe because of excessive exhaustion, and then suddenly hit the oil barrel. Then the fluorescent stick in his hand fell down and smashed into the oil barrel. A fire broke out on the gasoline, and the flames burst out and instantly engulfed the nearby gas tank.

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, paying no attention to the flames that were so close.

 But 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.

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.

 In any case, the one singing over there seems to be a bit 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 the 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 are 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 - ordinary people cannot control so many cyber lunatics.

 “Huhuhu, interesting.”

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 Risena. 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."

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

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

 (End of this chapter)