2077: V really knows how awesome he is

The bearded man's vision went black. What do you mean by "just stripping me of control"? You've reduced me to my original state!

Seeing his comrade being "attacked," the man in the red cloak with kidney deficiency immediately stepped forward to help. He raised his hand and released a red lightning bolt, which pounced on V like a ferocious giant snake.

"Magic?" V was slightly taken aback. He raised his hand and the projectile launching system popped out. A small missile accurately hit the lightning, and a white mist spread out. The dancing lightning was frozen on the spot. This incredible scene continued unabated, spreading rapidly along the lightning towards the cloaked man with kidney deficiency. He was terrified and kept casting spells to try to stop this terrifying counterattack.

Vera looked at V in surprise: "So you went to the Witcher world not just to find Ciri, but you also learned magic?"

V shook his head: "There is magic over there, but it's only more efficient in curses and divination than in science. There aren't many offensive spells. The strongest ones are only as powerful as ballistic missiles. Why would I learn that stuff?"

"Then what's with your freezing attack?"

“Frost,” V said matter-of-factly. “When C particles fold in space, they absorb energy, causing a rapid increase in entropy and resulting in heat death, achieving atomic-level freezing. I encapsulate it in a small missile, just like plasma missiles, thermal missiles, and chemical missiles. It belongs to the frost missile category. The principle is very simple, but it’s a bit troublesome to manufacture.”

Vera gasped, "I thought the white frost was only for use as an air conditioner to cool down machines."

"It's already amazing that you could think of these things with an intelligence level of 3."

While the two chatted casually, the cloaked man with kidney deficiency was extremely busy. Fortunately, he was quite skilled, and after a flurry of frantic spellcasting, he finally managed to stop the frost from spreading. However, he was also exhausted, especially from the cold, which caused severe frostbite on his arms. He sat on the ground shivering uncontrollably, and even his lips turned purple. He looked like he was even more kidney deficient.

Of course, the big purple-skinned guy wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by. He immediately launched an attack on the guy with kidney deficiency. The others tried to stop him, but none of them were a match for him. Just as he was about to throw a punch at the guy with kidney deficiency's head, Vera suddenly appeared in front of the big purple-skinned guy and unleashed a series of rapid punches with lightning speed, sending the big purple-skinned guy flying.

Wei looked at his fist and praised, "Your physique is really good, it feels like you're hitting a tire. But you should probably take less hormones, look at how your skin has turned purple from all that, you're almost not human anymore."

The scene fell silent. Spider, feigning weakness, said, "He is indeed not human; he is an alien."

"Aliens?" Vera exclaimed in surprise, "There really are aliens?!"

"What, haven't humans encountered aliens by 2171 yet?" the bearded man asked.

“Anyway, I haven’t heard anything about it on the news.” Vera then looked at V: “Have we ever encountered aliens?”

V shook his head: "No, human probes have not discovered any civilization within 50 light-years. The entire universe is deathly silent."

"This is impossible! There are clearly several alien civilizations within 50 light-years of Earth!" a man wearing an iron helmet shouted.

V shrugged: "I have no reason to lie to you."

The bearded man seemed to understand something: "It seems our universes are not the same, but parallel worlds under quantum superposition?"

“Not quite accurate, but it’s very close.” V looked at everyone: “In short, we are two lines that will never intersect. I’m sorry for accidentally entering your world, but since things have come to this, I can only try my best not to interfere with your normal history.” As she spoke, she tossed a syringe to the guy with kidney deficiency: “This is nano-repair fluid. One injection can heal any damage to the body. Those frostbite are no problem, and your kidney deficiency can also be cured.”

"I don't have kidney deficiency!" (Kidney Deficiency Guy)

V ignored him and turned to the burly man with purple skin, saying, "Don't blame Vera, I told her to do it, but with your physical strength, it shouldn't be a problem. I'm not interested in your fight with these people, but you can't take advantage of me injuring them. We'll be leaving soon, and then you can fight however you want; the outcome will depend entirely on your skills."

After saying this, V gestured for Vera to prepare to leave.

But the burly man with purple skin spoke up again: "Wait a minute."

Vera turned around: "You don't really want to fight us, do you?"

The burly man with purple skin shook his head, then looked at V with a very serious expression: "You said I was wrong, but I want to ask where I went wrong?"

V replied: "It's very simple. The resources of the universe can never be exhausted, just like a water strider can never drink all the water in a pond, even if the water strider grows from one to a million."

The purple-skinned hulking man said, “But my civilization was destroyed by the depletion of resources. Sleeping on an empty stomach, scavenging for scraps, children starving to the bone, adults killing each other for a bite to eat—I witnessed that tragedy and experienced that hell firsthand. I did nothing wrong!”

V asked, "Where's the food?"

The burly man with purple skin shook his head: "The land is barren, the water is polluted, and no plants can grow. This is a sign that resources have been depleted."

"Indeed, then why don't you move to other planets?"

"Although we found several habitable planets at the time, poverty and hunger had completely destroyed social order, and we simply could not organize an effective workforce to build colony ships."

"Assuming you build a spaceship, will your civilization still perish?"

Of course not!

"Isn't it clear now? It's not that the universe's resources are running out, but rather that your home planet's resources are running out."

"That's the problem. If we don't control our consumption, we'll face the same fate even if we find a new planet!"

"Then let's build another colony ship and head to a new habitable planet."

"Do you think of colony ships as toy boats that you can just build whenever you want?"

"Why can't we just build it? Isn't this the only way out for the entire race? Look at these remaining ruins. Your technological level is not low. Can't the entire race even build a single colony spaceship?"

The burly man with purple skin shook his head: "This is not a simple mathematical problem, nor can it be solved by continuously supplying materials and piling up workers. This is a social problem. The poverty and hunger at that time had already destroyed our social system. The poor and the rich hated each other, and even strangers were wary of each other. Everyone was like a frightened bird, only thinking about how to survive. It was simply impossible to carry out large-scale cooperation!"

V laughed: "You're right. Social problems have nothing to do with resources. That's the key to everything."

The burly man with purple skin was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"You think hunger and poverty are due to limited resources? No, aside from primitive agricultural societies, hunger and poverty in industrial societies have only one cause: unequal distribution of resources. I guarantee that even if your civilization were given entirely new resources, some would still be obese, some would starve, some would be rich, and some would be poor. Similarly, even if you wiped out half of the population, the remaining half would still suffer the same tragedy as you did, as long as the problem of unequal resource distribution persists. What do you think?"

The burly man with purple skin began to ponder, and the others followed suit. After a moment, the burly man with purple skin came to his senses, a hint of confusion appearing in his eyes: "Class is the crux of the problem; exploitation and oppression are the source of all suffering. But... what should I do?"

V said helplessly, "Come on, buddy, what you're looking for is the Infinity Stones. The six combined are the most powerful wish-granting machine in the entire universe. Why do something as pointless as 'killing half the population'? Just tell it what you need, and that's it."

The burly man with purple skin shuddered, as did the bearded man: "How do you know about the Infinity Stones?"

V replied, "I saw it in your Warframe's database."

The bearded man was even more surprised: "How could you hack into my system? I have the most advanced firewall in the world installed."

"The most advanced firewall you're talking about is something a high school student could write eight paragraphs of in one night in 2171."

Bearded man: "..."

V looked at everyone again: "I'm sorry for interfering with your battle. We'll leave now."

But the burly man with purple skin called out to the two of them again: "Wait a minute."

All eyes were on him.

He looked at V with a hint of respect: "Your words are very important to me. May I know your name?"

"V, just one V."

After a flash of white light, the visitor from another world disappeared.

The purple-skinned giant said, "I will abandon my original plan and will no longer use the Infinity Stones to wipe out half the population of the universe."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The bearded man regained control of his armor and transformed back into Iron Man: "Shall we continue fighting?"

The burly purple-skinned man shook his head: "You want to protect the world, and I want to protect the world too. We have no reason to fight. Our enemies should be those powerful and tyrannical individuals who monopolize resources. I want to use the Infinity Stones to make a wish to eliminate class distinctions and create a new world without exploitation and oppression, where everyone has food to eat and clothes to wear, where distribution is based on labor and need, and where everyone, regardless of status, can live in peace and prosperity! Would you be willing to give me the Time Stone then?"

Unwittingly, yet another world has turned in a different direction.

But neither V nor Vera knew this; they simply carried out their eighth time traveling through time as usual.

This time, they arrived in a technologically advanced city, where towering skyscrapers soared into the clouds, and various unmanned aircraft moved smoothly through a 32-story network of roads. At the four corners of the city stood four magnificent space elevators, their ends connecting to a silver-white space station, which, from the ground, looked like a giant palace inverted in the sky.

Vera was stunned by the sight and grabbed a man by the roadside, asking, "Brother, I've had too much to drink, can you tell me where this is?"

"Where the hell could this be? This is Night City, of course! You stupid idiot!"

Vera: "..."

Chapter 180 V Calendar 2077

Despite being called a stupid idiot, Vera felt unexpectedly warm.

She recalled the five-star wanted poster under the setting sun that day; it represented her lost youth.

"What year is it now?" Vera asked again.

The man was clearly getting impatient: "You think I'll just answer your questions? If I do, are you telling me to fuck you?"

Vera: "Okay."

The man was completely taken aback by this answer and asked, "Really?"

“Of course, she is the sex doll, and I am her boss.” Vera pointed to V, who was regaining her memories.

The man was taken aback: "Are all the products sold now of this high quality? No, how could there still be such products being sold now? Don't you have to pay taxes?"

Vera asked in surprise, "Why can't you pay taxes if you're selling yourself?"

"Nonsense, what taxes would you pay if you were selling yourself? New positions and sexual acts?"

Vera was increasingly confused. What did paying taxes have to do with sex positions? But her strength was that she didn't dwell on things she couldn't understand, so she got back to the point: "What year is it now?"

"I'm telling you, she just lets me play?"

"Correct."

"It is now the year 2077."

Vera was taken aback. The man stepped forward and said, "It's your turn to keep your promise."

"Okay, let's go to that alley over there."

"Good good!"

The man was impatient and stepped into the alley first. As soon as he turned around, he saw a fist that kept getting bigger.

Boom!

The man fell asleep immediately.

Street urchins' words are deceitful; if you believe them, you're doomed!

Vera skillfully used the clutter in the alley to cover the man. As soon as she finished doing this, V completed her memory update and regained consciousness.

Looking at the pair of feet in the garbage heap, V frowned: "Why are you fighting with the natives again?"

Vera pouted: "Isn't it all to protect you from being forced to drink too much?"

V: "???"

A moment later, V learned the situation from Vera.

"Is this Night City? Or is it 2077?" V looked at the towering space elevator: "Night City in 2077 doesn't have this kind of technology, and it's not this cold."

Putting the former aside, the temperature in this Night City is indeed problematic.

Geographically speaking, Night City's coldest temperature is around 10 degrees Celsius, so much so that artificial snowfall is needed using weather controllers to make it snow for Christmas. However, in this Night City, which has neither snow nor rain, and is located in the city center, the temperature is a staggering -23 degrees Celsius.

Either Richard Knight bought another city to build Night City, or the world experienced a major earthquake, with tectonic plate movements so violent that even Night City's latitude changed.

V felt that both possibilities were increasingly unlikely.

"Why think so much?" Vera said nonchalantly. "Just ask someone else, and that's it."

V thought it made sense and agreed to the proposal. They planned to find a bar or restaurant, but as soon as they reached the alley entrance, several dazzling beams of light enveloped them. With a piercing alarm, huge red warning boxes were projected onto the ground, and hundreds of police drones marked "NCPD" surrounded them, emitting monotonous mechanical voices: "Time smugglers detected, commencing enforcement!"

V and Vera were taken aback, never expecting to be discovered so soon after their arrival. Moreover, judging from the specific term "time smugglers," it was clear that this wasn't the first time the other party had encountered time travelers like them!

"Shall we do it?" Vera asked in a low voice.

"There's no need. We're not here to cause trouble. Surrender, and at worst you'll be deported..."

Before V could finish his sentence, the police drone gave the order: "Fire!"

Hundreds of drones immediately spewed out dazzling flames, and bullets formed a thick barrage that pressed down hard.

Vera instantly activated Sinweistein, and the Mantis Blade shot out, cleaving through the barrage of bullets. V also activated his hacking program immediately, throwing out a barrage of [Electromagnetic Short Circuits] that caused large numbers of police drones to explode.

"Hey, it looks like they're not sending us back to our hometown, they're sending us back to our hometown!" Vera complained bitterly.

It is obvious that the two hometowns are not the same hometown.

V made a quick decision: "Let's get out of here first."

The two began to retreat, hoping to shake off their pursuers and regroup, but the omnipresent surveillance cameras in the city made it difficult for them to escape. They ran through several streets, but instead of shaking off the police drones, their pursuers only multiplied. Countless police drones emerged from every intersection, a dark mass like a swarm of insects. The two took down one wave, and two more appeared; they took down two more, and four more surged forth. The endless stream reminded V of the AI ​​army during Ultraman's invasion.

"Damn it, what's going on with this Night City? Are drones free?!" Vera was also exasperated from being chased. "Why don't we just wipe them all out? I've never felt so frustrated in my life!"

V stopped and said, "I'll leave the drones to you and work on the AI ​​that controls them online."

Vera was taken aback: "You can access this city's network?"

V revealed another discovery: "Night City also uses nanonetworks."

Even Vera, with her Intelligence 3, noticed something was wrong, because Night City in 2077 didn't have a nanonetwork at all.

"Things are getting weirder and weirder," Vera muttered as a swarm of drones, numbering over two thousand, surrounded them, forming a large net.

"Target surrounded, begin clearing."

"Fuck you!" Vera activated S.A.S ...

V's expression tightened, and Vera broke out in a cold sweat: "The Terrorist Mobile Squad is eating way too well. This spaceship and mechs are clearly designed for space combat. We're just doing a time travel, have we broken any laws?"