Great, we're doomed now!

After all, this is a city of "night," perfectly suited to "dreams."

After completing a small experiment, Ye Shou took Lucy to the garage downstairs, where they temporarily used the operating table as a workbench and installed the necessary equipment one by one.

Fortunately, the operating table he bought had a multi-functional interface and adapter, so he could install new components simply by removing the robotic arm and other parts.

Lucy was surprised to find that Ye Shou's house actually had a complete set of professional Mewtwo editing equipment:

A powerful computer, a calibrated headset, his guidance gloves, and a dedicated intelligent system.

Ye Shou skillfully inserted the memory into the card slot, replaced the reading device with one he brought from his hometown, and then selected the appropriate decoding mode on the computer—this step alone took a long time.

After all, when traveling abroad, you need to prepare a special transformer and charger because of different voltage standards, let alone the data exchange between two worlds and different eras.

Fortunately, the divergence between cyberpunk and the real world occurred in the 1990s, when information technology had already laid the foundation. The two worlds shared common underlying technologies, and what developed afterward was of the same origin, just in different versions.

What Ye Shou needs to do is very complicated. He needs to trace the technology back to its source, find a version that is "old" enough to be compatible with both worlds, and then find a suitable decoding software based on this version. The specific details are very complicated, and Ye Shou alone certainly cannot do it.

That's why he specifically brought this up when Lucy was around—Lucy is a genius hacker with extraordinary talent and intuition in this area.

With the help of the cyborg girl, Ye Shou spent about a morning adapting the software and hardware before actually starting the production of [Mewtwo].

At this moment, Lucy noticed something very unusual:

Ye Shou's dream-making skills are quite impressive!

Lucy initially thought he had only taught himself out of interest, since Ye Shou himself had said so, but after just a few glances, Lucy was certain that he had an almost professional level of skill!

The original footage of Mewtwo, which consists of the experiences of the people who filmed it, cannot be used directly.

They often contain a lot of fragmented memories and lingering thoughts, which can make users feel unspeakably uncomfortable and greatly affect the experience.

Optimizing data requires a lot of editing work. A single scene that is only a few minutes long sometimes needs to be performed, recorded, and replayed a dozen times, or even more.

Generally speaking, this is an extremely grueling job.

But even with such a tedious and demanding task, Ye Shou performed it with machine-like precision, producing remarkably high-quality results.

"When exactly did you learn that?"

Lucy asked in surprise, "I never knew you had this skill... It's no longer just a hobby, is it?"

"I just learned it casually."

While operating the device, Ye Shou humbly said, "It's just a minor strength."

"Oh my~" Lucy chuckled and sat down next to him, carefully observing his every move—after all, she was also very interested in what kind of Mewtwo Ye Shou was going to bring out.

I can't wait!

After working for most of the afternoon, Ye Shou finally managed to finish one. After transcribing the data into the new memory chip, he leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Okay...want to give it a try?"

"Uh-huh!"

If Lucy hadn't lacked the necessary prosthetic body, she might already be wagging her tail by now.

The prosthetic girl was quite decisive. After putting on the helmet, she lay down on the operating table without any hesitation, just like a patient waiting for surgery, which made Ye Shou feel strange.

……

Opening her eyes, Lucy suddenly sensed that something was different.

A strange, faint melancholy, like a veil, enveloped the world—Lucy was very familiar with this feeling; she had spent almost the entire first half of her life in this atmosphere.

Even though she desperately escaped that environment and eventually arrived in Night City, she never believed that she had truly gained freedom; she had only moved a little further away... Now, it brought back bad memories.

Wow~

Wow~

Wow~

"Hey!"

A huge, deep roar of waves accompanied by a chill swept over her. Lucy instinctively stepped back, but water splashed onto her face and half of her calves were washed away by the foam.

The ground beneath my feet was fine white sand, the rhythmic sound of waves filled my ears, and a slightly salty wind blew past me.

Looking out, the water gradually deepens from clear shallows to a deep, inky abyss.

Looking up, the azure sky seemed unreachable, and the ever-changing white clouds piled up like mountains, as if supporting towering city walls and palaces. A sense of how insignificant human beings are in the face of heaven and earth arose spontaneously, but this did not make people feel depressed. On the contrary, it felt as if they had merged into the world and earth and felt exhilarated!

—The sea!

"It's the sea..."

There seemed to be something hard between my toes. When I picked it up, it turned out to be a small seashell.

"...Heh! Hehe...Ha!"

Lucy was enveloped in immense happiness, an irresistible infectiousness that made her burst into joyful laughter, and she even wanted to run along the shore until she was exhausted—and she actually did.

Water splashed all over her, the incredibly real sensation making her forget where she was.

Suddenly, her vision blurred, and tears streamed down her face, but the girl's smile remained radiant.

She didn't know why she was crying, but she felt a surge of emotion, a sense of "it's so good to be alive today," so overwhelming that she almost forgot herself...

In reality, Ye Shou noticed that Lucy's eyeshadow had smudged and was running down her face like a tear. He reached out and gently wiped away a streak with his fingertip.

What Lucy is experiencing now is not a complete virtual reality, but something more in line with this world's definition of "Mewtwo"—it incorporates the emotions and feelings experienced by the user, which will automatically draw the user in.

This memory was retrieved and copied by Ye Shou from the medical machine [Medicuboid], and the scene was the patients' experience in virtual reality.

For the first time, a paralyzed patient stood up on their own; for the first time, a blind patient opened their eyes to see the world; for the first time, a person born deaf was frightened by the sound of ocean waves; for the first time, a person destined to live in a sterile environment came into contact with nature…

Modern doctors and researchers cannot fully analyze the data because there is a lot of gibberish that seems meaningless to them, like the noise in an old television set.

But having traversed two worlds and encountered Mewtwo, Leaf knew what it was, and it was exactly what Lucy was experiencing—

The joy of being human, gratitude for life, and the hope that ignites for the future...

And also, reconciliation with oneself!

Chapter 39: Let's call it [Blue Dream Group]!

[Fate Coin +1 (Lucy Kushinada)]

Ye Shou nodded in satisfaction, glanced at Lucy's peaceful and content sleeping face, and then leisurely sat down at the other end of the sofa, stretching out lazily.

The way to earn Destiny Coins in Cyberpunk is different from that in the main world.

Because fate has a set pattern, the more a protagonist is, the harder it is for them to break free from their original trajectory. He needs to do some "decisive" things in his hometown to truly change a character's life and reap a few coins.

For example, if SAO were destroyed, the fate of the victims who had spent two and a half years in a vegetative state due to the death game would be greatly changed.

However, Cyberpunk is a special case, perhaps because its prototype game has multiple endings and a high degree of freedom (chaos), or perhaps because the residents of Night City have a strong sense of agency.

In short, Ye Shou felt that the power of fate here was very "dispersed", and the acquisition of the Fate Coin was highly random.

For example, just letting Lucy experience Mewtwo has slightly changed her fate.

For example, when Ye Shou first arrived, he met Mann through Gloria. At that time, Lucy had not even joined the Cyberpunk team yet. Ye Shou thought he couldn't find the "female lead" and couldn't earn any more Destiny Coins.

He only wanted to build a relationship by having an intermediary hire Mann's team and assign them a few lucrative small missions, which were essentially just using money to gain reputation... and he inexplicably earned a Destiny Coin!

He didn't even know the cat-like girl named "Sasha" at the time; heaven knows how it changed her fate!

In short, this is Night City—chaotic and unpredictable.

...Even after waking up for a long time, Lucy was still very moved.

She, who is usually strong and unruly, became unusually calm, curled up in a corner of the sofa with her legs drawn up to her chest, tilting her head as if she was thinking about something, unable to let go for a long time.

Perhaps it wasn't just the magnificent sights seen in Mewtwo, but also the emotions that touched the soul, reminding us of some buried memories.

Ye Shou didn't speak to her or get up to see her off. Seeing that she was alright, he went back to work and began making the next memory chip.

Lucy stared blankly at his every move. If it weren't for the occasional movement of her eyes, she would look like a beautifully decadent wallpaper.

Once Ye Shou's work was temporarily finished, Lucy raised her head, her lips parted slightly but then closed again, and finally seemed to casually start a conversation.

"You're really skilled... Just how many Mewtwos have you made?"

"Me?" Ye Shou glanced back. "To be honest, I'm actually a novice. It took me a month just to learn the technique, and including practice, I only had three or four hands-on experiences."

"You're lying!"

Lucy clearly didn't believe her, a faint smile on her face: "A beginner can't get this kind of material, and their skills aren't that advanced... If you don't want to talk about it, then don't."

"Heh, think what you want." Ye Shou had just received the Destiny Coins and was very kind to Lucy, who had provided the reward.

He wasn't lying; he was indeed a novice who had only been in the industry for less than a month. But Lucy wasn't wrong either. Aside from practical experience, Ye Shou was already a top-notch dream weaver.

This came as a gift from a system card—

[System Card - Random]

[This topic: Cybertronian Psychosis]

—That doesn't spawn in the main world, but is a special system card that appears after arriving in Night City. The theme and dungeon fit it perfectly!

At that time, the system card in the main world hadn't expired yet, and Ye Shou could choose a talent from this special card again, enjoying two buffs at the same time, which made him extremely happy.

He assumed that the main world and the instance world were independent of each other, and that he could get a system card every month, so he was quite excited, thinking that he had found a trick to level up quickly.

However, after he completed the first cycle in the other world and the special system card disappeared, no matter how long he stayed, no additional system card appeared when he came back a second or third time!

Only then did he realize that the system cards in the dungeon world wouldn't refresh like in the main world; they would only appear once, and once missed, they would be gone forever!

He regretted it terribly!

Although the card didn't contain any talents he absolutely needed (most of them were related to cybernetic modifications), otherwise he wouldn't have left without buying any, he still couldn't help but regret it when he thought about how they would become unavailable.

Perhaps this is the bitter fruit of getting something for nothing...

The skills of the prosthetic doctor and the dream weaver were all accumulated in the first cycle. In addition, there were also the basic skills of being an electronic hacker (but without a brain-computer interface and an electronic brain, the efficiency was ridiculously low), so it was not a complete loss.

What time is it?

A faint iridescent light flickered in Lucy's prosthetic eye, and the girl sighed softly, pressing her hands together as she stood up from the sofa.

"The quest items have been delivered. Since there's nothing else, I'll be going now... Um, doctor?"

"what happened?"

"Thank you."