2077: V really knows how awesome he is

"Lancelot, didn't I cripple him?" V tilted his head: "Never mind, I'll just do it again."

“Wait a minute,” Alex suddenly spoke up, standing up as she said, “Let me do it. I think I can win this time.”

“No, leave it to me.” Li De also stood up: “I won’t fail again.”

Song Zhaomei spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva: "Leave it to me, I'll burn his metal head into a pool of molten iron."

The cybernetic body crashed down from the sky with a thud. David gritted his teeth and said, "No, please let me fight him one-on-one!"

Even Kurt Hansen shouted, "Everyone step back and let me do it. I'm going to crush this bastard's balls with my own hands!"

Xu Ling slapped Kurt Hansen across the face: "Shut the fuck up!"

The atmosphere suddenly became more relaxed.

Because of V's return, the team's fighting spirit was reignited... no, they became even stronger.

“I understand how you feel, but please leave it to me now. This is my way of making up for leaving you all behind,” V said earnestly. “Please give me this opportunity.”

The group exchanged glances; the answer was obvious.

Kurt Hansen yelled, "Go, V! Beat him up, including me! Remember to smash his balls! You absolutely have to smash his balls!"

Xu Ling slapped Kurt Hansen across the face again: "Shut the fuck up!"

Lancelot walked forward with a grim expression. V took out a remote control from his pocket, pressed it, and the electric motorcycle beeped twice to lock. Then he strode forward to meet him.

The two sized each other up for a while, then V smiled dismissively and beckoned, "Come on, let me see what you've improved."

Lancelot charged forward and threw a punch, while V countered with a punch of his own. The two exchanged rapid punches, their fists colliding with a deafening bang that made everyone cover their ears.

The Night City control center was also closely monitoring the battle, and was shocked to see the ground shattered by the enormous torque, unable to believe that this was the result of two humans fighting hand-to-hand.

But Lancelot is probably no longer human; his entire body, except for his brain, has been replaced with machinery. In a barrage of rapid punches, he suddenly unleashed a whip kick, which V dodged backward, grabbing his ankle and slamming him to the ground.

"Tsk!" Kurt Hansen shouted in dissatisfaction, "Blow it up! What a great opportunity to blow it up just now!"

Xu Ling slapped: "Shut up!"

Lancelot couldn't believe that he had been defeated by V again. He had suffered so much, he had given up so much, so why? Why was V still above him? Why was V so strong?

He yelled and kicked V back with a series of kicks, then used the momentum to flip himself up. He used his prosthetic body at full power and threw a series of heavy punches. V raised his hands for a solid defense, but Lancelot suddenly changed his punches to grabs, grabbed V's wrists and threw him off the cliff.

V adjusted her posture in mid-air, her feet first touching the rock face, and landed steadily on the rock wall with a Tifa squat.

"Hmm, interesting, but not much."

Lancelot was furious and launched a series of attacks. As soon as V looked up, he saw Lancelot's iron fist rushing towards him.

"I can even shoot through a tank!"

Lancelot punched down, shattering the rocks and sending earth and stones flying, but V had already vanished.

He was still looking around, scanning for V's whereabouts, but V had already used the falling rocks in the sky as cover, constantly dodging and weaving, closing in on Lancelot from behind, bursting out of the smoke, and striking Lancelot hard in the waist with a bent elbow!

"puff!"

A spray of engine oil and parts came out of Lancelot's mouth and nose. His body folded into a "<" shape in the air. With a crisp crack, he realized that V had broken his original spine last time and his mechanical spine had been broken this time. Nothing had changed. He might be able to rule the world without V, but with V's return, he could only obediently be trampled underfoot.

Lancelot lay in the mud, beating himself senseless.

Ultraman said in his mind, "Run! Your win rate has dropped to 4%, you're no match for V!"

These words were like a sharp knife, piercing Lancelot's already wounded heart. His face contorted in rage, and he roared fiercely, "No! I will never run away! I am the strongest, and I will kill V with my own hands!"

Then V stepped on his face.

V's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he pulled a dagger from his lower back and stabbed it towards Lancelot's eye socket.

If someone survives with a huge hole in their chest, then their brain must be damaged.

V's experience comes from the tireless efforts of tens of millions of players. As long as you dare to show your health bar, even if you are a god, V will kill you!

Its mere steel body couldn't possibly shake V in the slightest.

As the dagger was about to strike, Lancelot was terrified, realizing that V truly didn't waste words when he killed. All dignity and will vanished under the threat of death. Just moments before he had been resolutely shouting, "I will never run away!" But now he cried out without hesitation, "Ultraman, save me!"

With a bang, the fusion battery inside Lancelot's body overloaded and exploded. The shockwave sent V flying. When she got up again, she saw that Lancelot's head had detached from his body, flames spewing from his neck, and he flew into the sky like a small drone to escape.

V was stunned for a second. Even with the experience of millions of players, she had never seen such an ingenious way of escaping before. However, she quickly came to her senses, took out the key to the electric motorcycle and was about to chase after her when Song Zhaomei suddenly screamed and clutched her head in pain.

Fearing that the AI ​​had launched a network intrusion, V had no choice but to abandon the pursuit and stay behind to protect everyone.

At that moment, Sasha's voice came through the communicator, urgently saying, "V, just now, the Moon's mass accelerator restarted and destroyed an artificial satellite on Earth called 'Black Knight'."

"Let them destroy it, as long as it doesn't hit the Earth."

But J was terrified upon hearing this, and said in a trembling voice, his face filled with fear, "The Black Wall's server... is on that satellite!"

Chapter 111 Let's Run Wild on the Moon

V's return should have been a cause for celebration, but harsh reality has denied people that opportunity.

The Blackwall server was composed of the brains of 19 super hackers. To ensure its security, it was placed on a man-made satellite called "Black Knight" from the beginning, silently protecting humanity for decades, until it was brought down by a rock.

V and his crew returned to Night City, where Meredith Stock, who was in charge of the American campaign, and Joanne Koch, who was in charge of the European campaign, had been waiting online for some time.

Inside the meeting room, the long-separated friends had no time for pleasantries and immediately got to the point.

"How is the situation now?" V asked the two.

"There are no reports of any AI riots yet, but our network throughput is increasing rapidly. Those ghosts have definitely gotten in, but we don't know why they're holding back."

"What about humanity's defense capabilities?" V asked again.

“Military ICE can withstand the intrusion of mobile AI for a period of time, but civilian ICE has many more problems and has almost no ability to resist mobile AI.” Meredith Stock shrugged.

Joanne Koch continued, "However, we can temporarily shut down civilian networks. Although some artificial organs require an internet connection to function properly, medical experts and advanced hackers have written hacking scripts to ensure that these artificial organs can work offline."

V nodded. She knew that artificial organs needed to be connected to the internet so that patients could be charged continuously. It was a very legitimate business, but there were also hackers who made cracked versions to make a profit. For example, her artificial kidney had been cracked.

In the past, V would never have agreed to distribute cracked software to the public on a large scale, but now that the company's bigwigs have fled to Mars, the company is practically defunct, and there is no longer any obstacle to the public using pirated software.

"So, the disappearance of the Black Wall won't cause a catastrophic disaster for humanity in the short term, right?"

"Yes, for now, but if this drags on, humanity will definitely be in big trouble."

V looked at J and asked, "Can the black wall be repaired?"

J shook his head in frustration: "No."

"Why? Wasn't the Great Firewall built by the internet censors? Now that this one is broken, we can just build another one. If we need brains, there are plenty of religious fanatics. Don't even mention 19 brains, I'll get you 19 tons of brains."

"It's true that the Black Wall was established by the internet surveillance system, but its design theory was compiled by a group of super hackers, including Bartmouth and Spider Murphy. Initially, the blueprints were left behind, but as the Black Wall was successfully activated and humanity was out of danger, the internet surveillance company gradually became corrupt, and some of the Black Wall's blueprints were lost due to improper storage. Originally, there were 15 chips, but now only 9 remain, and no one can understand them anymore."

How could you lose something so important? Are you kidding me?!

The crowd fell silent for a moment, except for Meredith Stock, who patted J on the shoulder and said, "I understand you."

"Alright, we can't count on the Black Wall now." V stroked his chin. "But the most troublesome thing right now isn't the roaming AIs."

Xu Ling pointed out incisively, "It's the moon's mass accelerator."

“That’s right. If that thing can throw stones at satellites, it can also throw stones at the Earth. Although we don’t know why Lancelot didn’t throw them, just because it doesn’t throw them now doesn’t mean it won’t throw them in the future. We can’t put our hopes on luck.”

"What are you going to do?"

"Go to the moon and destroy the mass accelerator."

"Okay, we'll assemble the troops and arrange the spaceships right away."

"No way." Xu Ling objected immediately: "Attack while the moon is crossing the river. The moon's air defense system is not just for show. Sending a large force there will only make us sitting ducks."

"Then what should we do? Go around to the far side of the moon and land there?"

"It's too slow. It won't achieve the effect of surprise. If it turns into a protracted war, it will be disadvantageous for us, and we may be completely wiped out."

"Damn, now it's a double bind. V, what do you say? Is it the classic missionary position, frontal penetration, or the rear-entry position, anal penetration?"

V did not answer immediately, but closed his eyes to think.

Then she remembered a reader's comment.

[Mingyue Dongyun: V's strength always lies in one-on-one combat; I feel she's better suited to operating from the shadows.]

V has the answer.

"Neither a direct assault nor anal sex." She opened her eyes: "For the opening slutty party, I'm going to fuck them all by myself!"

Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.

The dark silver mass accelerator is shaped like a straight line, resembling a bridge built on a mountain. However, its "barrel" is a full twelve kilometers long, with multiple energized coils neatly arranged inside. It exudes a cold, technological feel, like a steel dragon coiled in the mountains.

V, dressed in the heteromorphic suit, enters the pipe, where a metal pedal pops out from below, securing her firmly to the track.

In the control room, Nakamura Kayo said nervously, "President V, the alternating magnetic field will apply continuous thrust to you. You will glide rapidly inside the vacuum tube. In order to overcome Earth's gravity, the initial velocity must reach at least the first cosmic velocity, which is 7.9 kilometers per second. To meet the needs of the operation, you actually need to reach 12 kilometers per second, which is Mach 35. Can your body really withstand it?"

“My physical condition has been fully disclosed. You all know I’m not human, so there’s no need to judge me by human standards.” V chuckled. “To be honest, I don’t know if I can hold on, but I’ll just do my job and leave the rest to that stupid jellyfish.”

That's right, V has revealed his secret.

Surprisingly, no one was too surprised.

Perhaps because V has already created one miracle after another, everyone has long been accustomed to her "inhuman" abilities.

As for V claiming to be an AI—if there's a human like Lancelot who fights for AI, then why can't there be an AI like V who fights for humanity?

In a world where humanity has been pushed to the brink, Nakamura Kayo has witnessed a good-for-nothing drug addict who stood up to protect innocent children only to be torn to pieces by a religious fanatic, and she has also seen a seemingly respectable and successful gentleman push his own parents into a fire pit just to survive.

Identity is merely a social illusion, and status is only a one-sided judgment. Humanity has come a long way not because of weak bodies, but because of strong spirit and mind.

What V is doesn't matter, as long as V is V, that's enough!

Kayo Nakamura pressed the button and once again uttered those heartfelt words:

"President V, please bring hope back to earth!!!"

With a whoosh, the nuclear fusion reaction began to supply power to the high-capacity capacitor array, instantly releasing a huge amount of electrical energy.

A deep blue current filled the entire track, and V instantly started gliding. She went faster and faster, sparks and lightning all the way, first reaching the first cosmic velocity, then Mach 25, Mach 30, and finally reaching the predetermined Mach 35. With a bang, she shot into the sky from the human cannon, smashed through the clouds and disappeared on the horizon.

Meredith Stock and others watched V leave online.

"Let's go." The blonde, slicked-back-haired woman stubbed out her cigarette. "V has its battlefield, and we have ours."

Although she didn't know why the AI ​​remained inactive after destroying the Black Wall, Xu Ling didn't intend to let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip by. She would take over command of the battlefields in the Americas and Europe and use this opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Supreme Human Council entrenched in these two places.

Perhaps some of them were initially coerced, but after half a year of war, there were no innocent people left. To put it bluntly, even the hands of a child in the Supreme Human Council are stained with bloody sins. To pity them would be to betray those who have always upheld goodness. The only mercy Xu Ling could offer was to send them all to meet the King of Hell without leaving a single one alive, so that they would not be separated from their families.

"Can we win?" Meredith Stock asked.

"Just a bunch of chickens and dogs." Xu Ling said calmly, as if she were going on a picnic: "We're guaranteed to win."

"What if we don't win?"

"Then I will never touch a drop of alcohol again!"

Meredith Stock was both amused and exasperated. This little girl, you clearly can't touch a drop of alcohol right now.

Joanne Koch had always had a question: she was busy fighting before, but now that someone tall was at the front, she finally had the energy to satisfy her curiosity.

"I've always wanted to ask, let's not even talk about Africa, which was blasted to pieces by 14 meteorites. The Supreme Human Council didn't want to get involved in that mess, so it didn't extend its reach there. Why is it that the Supreme Human Council can't infiltrate Asia either, especially the Chinese? Not only are they not brainwashed by them, but they even actively report the Supreme Human Council's spies. Why is that?"

Xu Ling pouted: "Because they don't give out synthetic eggs when they're proselytizing."

Joanne Koch: ? ? ?

Meredith Stock: ? ? ?

They don't understand what faith has to do with synthesized eggs.

However, in other regions, faith has nothing to do with synthesized eggs. In Asia, and in China, the strength of faith is always directly proportional to the number of synthesized eggs given away for free!

If you don't give eggs when you're preaching, what's the point of preaching at all?

Xu Ling launched a final mobilization call to the armies of all humanity via the internet:

"Forward, Tactic 3! Destroy the Supreme Council, and humanity will surely triumph!"

The battle on Earth is raging fiercely, and V in the universe is also undergoing a test.

Gravity and pressure were constantly tormenting her body, causing her to stop breathing, her heart to contract, and blood to seep from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, and her physiological indicators to begin to decline rapidly.

Giant jellyfish: "V, you're messing around!"