Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 263 Morning...Good evening, Night City!

Loud and harsh music, mixed with advertising slogans echoed in my ears.

The first thing that made Li You realize that he had completed the time travel was the loud sound on the TV behind him.

"Hey, you! Yes, I'm talking about you!"

"How's it going? Are you happy with your life?"

"..."

Accompanied by the familiar advertising slogan, Li You opened his eyes.

The first thing that appears in front of you is a spacious overpass made of metal. The middle section of the overpass is made of transparent tempered glass, and you can see the vehicles passing by on the road below.

The sky was dark, people were coming and going, and the sound of car horns could be heard in my ears. He stood by the isolation pile at the end of the overpass and looked at the entrance of the tall skyscraper directly opposite.

Li You subconsciously raised his head and looked up along the black matte exterior wall of the building. But limited by human physiological structure, even with his eyesight and raising his head to the maximum angle, he could only barely see the white lighted sign on the top of the building.

It was a typical Japanese-style family logo, and the pattern was a three-forked tree similar to the shape of Ψ.

Li You is no stranger to this emblem. It is the family emblem of Arasaka, and it is also the logo of Arasaka Company.

So it's self-evident which world he is in now.

Cyberpunk 2077, Night City!

The moment he realized this, Li You subconsciously clicked his tongue.

"Why is it this world this time?"

The system prompt sounds at the right time.

【Ding! 】

【congratulations! 】

[You have successfully entered the game world, and your current location is: Company Square. 】

[After completing the first contact, a reward draw will be conducted. 】

"Go, go, go."

Even though it was here, he just pinched his nose and acknowledged it.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that he hates the game Cyberpunk 2077. On the contrary, he quite likes it. He plays it for a long time and has also studied the basic world view of Cyberpunk.

But precisely because of this, if he had to choose a game world that he least wanted to travel to, cyberpunk would definitely be his choice.

If he was still an ordinary person, this place would probably be ranked number one.

There is no other reason. Night City, a ghost place in the cyberpunk worldview, is really terrible, from every angle.

"Ugh."

Li You looked at the sky and instinctively took out his pocket watch from his clothes, intending to adjust the time.

Unexpectedly, his action attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Li You immediately came to his senses: This is the City of Night! Cyberpunk world view!

The time background of cyberpunk is set in 2077 AD, a near future era. The development direction of science and technology in this world is different from the reality before Li You traveled through time, and has made great achievements in combining the human body with machinery.

In this world, various mechanical artificial implants are widely popular and accepted by the public. People use various types of implants to replace their original limbs, hands, feet, organs, and even facial features. There are many types and functions.

Even with the most low-level transformation, residents will install brain-computer interfaces and personal terminals, allowing people's brains to assume the functions of mobile devices - this is standard equipment for almost everyone in the cyberpunk world.

Although communication tools such as mobile phones are still used in this world due to safety and other considerations, it is rare to see such extremely retro pocket watches.

In this world, the guy who likes to take out his pocket watch to tell the time is either a top boss with real status, which is called style; or he is one of those crazy performance artists.

Obviously, Li You's appearance looked nothing like the former, so several passers-by calmly stayed away from him.

Performance artists are not scary, but what if that guy also has cyberpsychosis?

Of course, Li You noticed the reactions of the people around him, but he remained calm and just put the watch back into his pocket very naturally.

If anything, Li You's clothes actually look out of place in this world.

But fortunately, Night City is a place that pays attention to individuality after all. People like him will be regarded as fancy clothes and performance art by others, and they will not attract too much attention.

Another reason why Li You doesn't want to come to this world is also related to the issue just mentioned.

The popularity of brain-computer interfaces in this world is basically equivalent to smartphones before time travel. No, it should be said that it is even more popular.

In this world, from money transactions to identity authentication, most of people's basic necessities of life are completed by personal terminals. And Li You is a pure meat man. In other words, in the City of Night, he is a gangster.

"...If I can't get ID or cash, I'll probably have to sleep on the street tonight."

Li You recalled the introduction to the cyberpunk worldview he had read about the setting of the monetary system, but could not find much useful information at the moment.

In order to adapt to the player's game progress, the currency and price systems in the game are often different from the actual world view settings and can only be used as a reference. The currency system is not mentioned in the setting set.

Li You had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​"getting some cash" and decided to find a place to avoid until the main mission was triggered.

He is a meat man, an "original product", and at night, standing in front of the Arasaka Tower, which is the symbol and core of Night City - the Arasaka Company Building - is still a bit too conspicuous.

Li You turned around and first walked along the spacious stairs to the center of the company square. This is the Memorial Park. In fact, the major companies that dominate Night City build their headquarters buildings around the park.

For example, the branch building of Arasaka Corporation's archrival, MILITECH, is located directly opposite Arasaka Tower.

As for the left and right sides, they are occupied by buildings of other large companies, such as PETROCHEM, BIOTECHNICA, and KANG TAO from the great Eastern country.

In the world view of cyberpunk, the actual power of these multinational companies is stronger than that of most countries in the world, and they are the ones who dominate the direction of the world.

By the way, there is no need to have a natural affection for Kangtao. After all, in this world view, although Kangtao's behavior may be a little better than other companies, the essence is still the same.

In the sky above the Memorial Park, holographic images of two giant koi, one red and one blue, rotate day and night, surrounding the center of the park, swimming in the air, and are lifelike.

The circular road in the park is lined with green plants, and the lights are on all night long. From time to time, floating vehicles fly over the square.

Some of the people coming and going were dressed in suits and looked serious, while others were bohemian and looked like refugees.

If you look closely, you can see that most people have one or two traces of prosthetic modifications. Some are eyes - there are prosthetic seams on the face, some are fingers, and of course there are also arms or legs that have been replaced with mechanical ones. people.

Among such a crowd, it was difficult for Li You to blend in. He doesn't fit in with these people.

Fortunately, he has no plans to integrate for the time being. After briefly identifying the direction, Li You decided to squat in the nearest super skyscraper for a night to check the situation.

Night City has many super skyscrapers with the same architectural style, which are basically used as residential apartments. They are one of the places where middle- and lower-class citizens gather, and they will not be very conspicuous there.

Li You walked along the stairs to the ground floor of the Company Plaza, and followed the crosswalk on the street to find a way to the bottom of the viaduct.

When he first came to the new world, he still planned to be a good, law-abiding citizen. As a result, he searched around and found that there were no sidewalks around here. ?

Do you have to force me to cross the road? ?

How did you get so many people here without a crosswalk? Can’t everyone go back and forth by floating car?

Li You was complaining in his mind about the unreasonable map design of the Polish Jackass game, when he suddenly heard an explosion above his head!

"—!!"

The explosion was not obvious. It came from high above the head, but Li You, who was already experienced, immediately caught the noise and looked up.

He was standing across the road in front of the biotechnology building. When he looked up, he saw a bright light flashing through a window on the top floor of the building, on the side with the biotechnology logo.

"Is that...a flashbang?"

Li You's mind instantly went through the game plots of the Cyberpunk series, the animated series Edgewalker, and related derivative works, and then he instantly locked on one of them.

He was suddenly startled, and without caring about anything else, he grabbed a passerby and asked, "What year is it now? Tell me!"

The person he suddenly caught was a middle-aged woman wearing casual clothes. Judging from her face, she seemed to be of Asian descent - but in the City of Night, as long as you have money, you can change your whole face if you want, but that's okay. It cannot be judged simply.

The middle-aged woman was trembling with fear, and the passers-by around her also covered their eyes, fearing to avoid her. Fortunately, this lady's psychological quality was quite good, and she answered tremblingly:

"Now...it's January 2076. Do you have any questions?"

October 76...

Li You's suspicion was confirmed. He let go of his hand, said "Sorry", and then, regardless of the burden of being a five-star good citizen, he rushed onto the roadway and ran to the viaduct ahead!

Above the head, accompanied by the roar of the engine, an armed aerospace vehicle painted with the words biotechnology flew outside the building, and its searchlights were directed at the location where the explosion had just occurred.

"Sure enough...it should be too late!"

Li You ran to the viaduct in a few strides. He looked up, and his extraordinary vision allowed him to immediately locate a broken glass window on the outside of the building!

There was a loud "boom", and a far more violent explosion occurred outside the building than before. In the flames of the explosion, Li You saw a petite figure falling powerlessly like a fallen leaf.

"Yuzu! Catch that person!"

Li You instantly set the summoning position, and Yuzi's figure appeared directly from mid-air, just in time to fall together with the fallen person.

Yuzu reached out and took the man into her arms, then turned around. Thick and sharp tentacles shot out from her right hand and pierced directly into the outer wall of the biotechnology building. Then they tightened and hung him up, greatly slowing him down. The tendency of falling.

Yuzi just slid down the outer wall of the building, and finally used her strength to jump back to the viaduct and came to Li You's side.

Li You stepped forward and looked at the person Yuzi was holding.

It was a girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was wearing a reflective black tight-fitting hacker suit, a pink and white short jacket, and a black ear-length short hair that seemed to be specially customized and somewhat shaped like a cat. Ear hacker glasses.

Of course, the most important thing is that although she lost consciousness, she is still breathing, and there is only a gunshot wound on the side of her leg.

Li You breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this man had been saved.

He knew this girl, her name was Sasha Yakovleva, and she was a network hacker.

The hackers here do not refer to hackers in the real world, but to a profession and specialized technicians in the cyberpunk worldview.

As for the girl's identity... let's put it this way, if you have watched the derivative anime of the cyberpunk worldview, "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker", then you can understand her identity.

This girl named Sasha is a hacker in the mercenary team that the protagonist joins in the Edgewalker animation.

She appeared in the official MV for the ending song "Let You Down" released by the producer of Edgewalker Animation, which can also be regarded as an independent small prequel to the animation.

What it tells is the story of a girl named Sasha who went to perform a biotechnology-related commission, and she also fell and died during this mission.

After that, Qiwei, the hacker from the Edgewalker animation, joined Sasha's original team as a substitute, and Qiwei also introduced Lucy, the heroine of the animation.

If we follow the plot of the MV, then the leader of this team, Mann, should already be on his way, and then we should just hand Sasha over to him.

But Li You looked up and saw that the biotechnology aerial vehicle was descending rapidly and searching around. Further away, the patrol cars of the Night City Police Department - NCPD also sounded their sirens and began to gather here.

"It seems you have no choice but to come with me!"

Li You glanced around and saw a black car slowly passing by. It looked familiar.

"The model is a Thracian Jefferson, a mid-range car...an old-fashioned car!"

Li You's eyes lit up: "It's you!"

He stepped forward in two steps, violently opened the car door, pulled the frightened middle-aged man out of the driver's seat, and sat on it himself.

"Steering wheel, accelerator, clutch, brake... no problem! Yuzi, put her up! You go back first!"

Yuzi flexibly opened the car door, put Sasha on the back seat, and fastened her seat belt with her tentacles. Then Li You took him back to his companion space - there was no way, Yuzi couldn't sit down.

Instead, Li You summoned Aiji and placed him on the co-pilot.

Ai Ji was still confused by the sudden situation. Li You started the car and threw two guns and a gas mask to her: "If anything that looks like a police car catches up, blow out their tires!"

【Ding! 】

[First contact has been completed. 】

[Final confirmation——Your main mission in this world is:]

【Become a true legend of Night City! 】

【Good luck! 】

【Ding! 】

[Contact with the residents of this world has been completed, the system is being updated, and new world rewards will be drawn soon. 】

[Extraction in progress...extraction completed. 】

[Please choose one item from the drawn items as your reward. 】

Continuous system prompts echoed in his ears, but Li You had no time to be distracted.

Fortunately, Aiji was already used to such emergencies, so she didn't ask any questions. She immediately put on a gas mask that could assist aiming and picked up the shotgun thrown by Li You.

While Li You was preparing to run away, the NCPD's whistle was getting closer and closer.

He immediately stepped on the accelerator and drove out!

　Cyberpunk world, Chapter 1.

　　Because the world view is huge, it takes a lot of time to check the information, so the update is late, sorry Orz

　　Then make a note here: Regarding the time when the story of Sasha in the MV took place, the author did not find an accurate setting (including the specific timeline of Edgewalker), so here is a simple and crude one, putting it in January 76. , if there is an official setting, please point it out.

　　The author will try to post the relevant pictures of Sasha for a while.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)