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Chapter 807: Fighting for Patience

 Seeing Regina again was somewhat unexpected for D.

“I didn’t expect to see you again.”

 “Accident?”

“More or less, after all, you lost contact with me after that, and you were in Europe at the time, so I didn’t expect you to come back to Night City.”

“After all, we have nowhere else to go.”

After taking D's tea, Regina sighed with emotion, and then she looked out the window.

"To be honest, I remember you said at the beginning that you didn't want to be the legend of Night City, but the king of Night City - and now it seems that you have really done it."

“Legends are worthless and meaningless.”

  D shook his head silently.

"Johnny Silverhand is still a figure in the eyes of the drunkards in the bar. No serious person takes him seriously. If you want to change all this, the enthusiasm of a terrorist will have no effect. Any change It all requires long-term, unremitting efforts and dedication - of course, I think those rock and roll lunatics who are addicted to drugs and alcohol cannot understand."

 “Now it seems that you did a good job indeed.”

Regina also agreed with this. Night City has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before, at least she has deeply realized this along the way. The NCPD is no longer just an accomplice or lackey of capital, but a job full of honor. The police officers on the streets are gentle and courteous to the citizens, and are not arrogant.

The messy graffiti on the walls has also been swept away. Originally, in Night City, those dim alleys were high-incidence areas for murders, and you could even see corpses when you walked in. But now, those places have been tidied up and neatly, and people can walk around the streets with peace of mind. Although the supplies here are not very rich, compared to the crude settlements in other places that are almost primitive. Said...this place is already very good.

 “I don’t know how you do it.”

"It's very simple to say. In order to control the people, capital must clearly divide classes, men and women, blacks and whites, Asians and Africans. As long as people are separated according to different classes, they can be easily provoked. Fight internally so that the stupid idiots don't notice the capitalists who manipulate them as they please. Even if someone notices, they don't have enough power to unite and resist."

  D Spread your hands.

"So the next step is very simple, forcefully break all this, let them return to their original identities, and confirm that they are all human beings. In order not to be destroyed, they must unite, and coupled with my strong rule, they can no longer carry out It will be better if they differentiate from each other over time. Human beings are creatures that are very adaptable to the environment. They can survive no matter what the situation is."

"I see."

Hearing this, Regina nodded, then she put down her tea cup and looked at the angel in front of her.

“So, even if they are ruled by an electronic demon, there will be no problem?”

Facing Regina’s question, D just curled his lips.

“Why, has this spread to the outside world?”

"Of course, some people even say that you are the first electronic demon in the world, and it was you who contributed to the collapse of the Black Wall and destroyed the world. You just want to completely rule mankind... There are similar rumors along our journey. Don’t listen too much.”

  “Understandable.”

D shrugged his shoulders. He was not surprised at all by this rumor. Especially after the emergence of the Electronic Demon, there have been rumors claiming that D is the first Electronic Demon. After all, from the appearance point of view, D is indeed very similar to the electronic demon. For example, it has no prosthetic body, has wings, and has parts that are not like humans. It can control powerful forces, and human attacks are ineffective against it.

Conspiracy theories are inevitable no matter where in this world, and the same is true in Night City.

 “Don’t you care?”

"not give a **** about."

Facing Regina’s curious inquiry, D chuckled.

"As long as you have enough power, these things are not worth mentioning. Taking a step back, even if I am really an electronic demon, who can do anything to me? Or, in this name, unite everyone, Want to overthrow or eliminate me? Unfortunately, they tried, but it didn't work."

 “You mean, from Taiping Prefecture...”

Regina was not stupid. In fact, she connected immediately after hearing this.

"That's right, those idiots from the Voodoo Gang claimed that I was not a messenger of God, but an electronic demon who came to Night City to confuse people's minds, so they called on the people to rise up against me. It's really ridiculous. Why should the gods have to do what they want? God is not an idol. He can be whatever the believers want him to be. Is that still called a god? He is extremely stupid. He has denied the real God for the sake of the imaginary God. Haha, what does the scripture say that God should be? This and that, you guys are just making things up in your own minds, so why should you expect gods to do what you think?"

 Speaking of this, D snorted softly. "If God does what you say, then who is the master of whom? If you really believe in God, then if God tells you to die, shouldn't you just die obediently? But in the end, you still say anything." Our gods will not treat their own believers like this. Good guy, you know the gods better than the gods themselves, right? In the end, I am not the one who needs to take action."

"Well………"

I have to say that after hearing D’s unhappy complaints, Regina had nothing to say for a moment. Although D’s words are a bit unreasonable, I have to admit that if God really exists, what she said still makes sense...

 “So you just killed them all?”

"Of course, since the other party said that they would rather break their bodies to overthrow the evil rule of the electronic demon, and deal with me in the name of their so-called **** who doesn't know where he is, I naturally wouldn't be polite, so I killed them all. After all, I left them all alone. It is also a disaster, and if you are injured, you will waste medical resources to treat it. It is better to just kill them and get rid of them. It can also save a lot of food and supplies. "

At the end of his speech, D's tone revealed a strong murderous intent, which made Regina tremble. But she coughed quickly and hurriedly changed the topic.

"So...where do you plan to lead Night City next?"

“It is no longer possible to completely eliminate electronic networks.”

  D sighed silently.

"Although I am unhappy, I have to admit that mankind must enter a new era, an era of coexistence with electronic demons. This is my next goal. Let mankind learn and adapt to coexist with electronic demons, and then become a leader in the new world again. Ruler… there’s only so much I can do.”

 “This is a very difficult task.”

“Yes, it may take many years, but it doesn’t matter, I have more time.”

 Speaking of this, D somewhat gritted his teeth.

 In fact, what D said is correct, regardless of whether D stays in this world for ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years. Since this is just an undetermined future, as long as this future disappears, the time consumed by D is equal to 0. It's like a century or two passing by in a video game, but in fact that's only the time in the game, and in reality you may only have played for a few hours.

Of course, characters in the game perceive the flow of time differently from players outside.

 So D was very unhappy.

 Very, very unhappy.

Originally Duanmuhuai wanted to fight a blitzkrieg, but unexpectedly the opponent made a move earlier than expected, turning the blitzkrieg into a long defensive battle. In this case, the strategic objectives also changed. In the case of blitzkrieg, Duanmuhuai only needs to find the culprit as quickly as possible and then kill him.

But the defensive war is different. The requirement of the defensive war is that one's own side must survive. Now the situation in the future has become that if D lets go, all human beings may become extinct, causing the incineration of humanity in the future. If you connect reality with the past, you will be completely paralyzed.

So D is very unhappy. This means that he is likely to waste nearly a hundred years in this world. What's more terrible is that this is to make this future "disappear" instead of letting it "exist"... It's just like playing It's just as depressing as a game save that has to be deleted in the end.

 You must also spend time playing.

 Thinking about this makes me even more depressed.

 “The future...can we humans really survive in such a long-term future?”

“I can only believe in the power of human beings to survive.”

Facing Regina’s question, D sighed silently, and then looked out the window at the night scene.

To be honest, Duanmu Huai somewhat admired the emperor in this regard. The reason why he did not choose the emperor's path of leading mankind forward is that Duanmu Huai really wanted to let the fittest survive within the human race. On the other hand, he was not like the emperor who could lead the construction of the human empire for hundreds of thousands of years. of patience.

This is also the reason why Duanmuhuai, as a high-end player, did not join a guild or establish his own guild, but just cheated.

 Because trading itself is like a task, with a beginning and an end. You know where it starts and where it ends. But if you are setting up a guild or joining a guild, then you never know where the future of this guild will be and what its end point will be. From this point of view, Duanmu Huai is actually quite impatient and cannot stand the long-term Time trouble.

If this world really wants him to stay for a hundred years, it will really cost him his life.

 I hope the world can give me some help.

Now this is the only thing Duanmuhuai can pray for.

 (End of this chapter)