Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 863 - 279: Night City for Ordinary People (Part 2)

The entire classroom, from the teacher to the students, didn't look over. They continued with their lecturing and chatting, as if only these two were the odd ones out in the world.

"Mr. Agent... is a rogue AI that scary?"

Only after realizing that the agent in front of her wasn't some stern guy, but rather just a slightly older boy, Yoshida Saki started to slowly open up, curiously asking all sorts of questions, even forgetting she was in class.

The teacher asked her a question, and even if she said nothing, the story would continue to play out.

"That... it's alright..."

The street urchin thought for a moment.

Although the rogue AI in the game's setting seems very scary, like it could sit at a table with devils from hell.

Brother Ni and his team even found a cult associated with AI, but the other party cleaned up their tracks so thoroughly that they couldn't proceed with the investigation.

But in reality, it's the players constantly looking for trouble with the AIs, even going into the old net to hunt them down.

Even brainwashing them and then enslaving them to work.

Because the distance between the two sides was far enough, and they started fighting on sight, there was a lack of exchange of deeds. Therefore, as for the so-called evil of AI, players only felt that they were aggressive and nothing more.

From every angle, it seemed like the players were scarier.

But it's actually humans themselves...

"Speaking of, it still feels like the gangs are more dangerous."

"Like the Tiger Claw Gang, those guys smuggle people into Night City by the container load, often opening a crate to find it's full of corpses, deliberately ruining lives with drugs..."

Compared to AI, he could casually list a bunch of gang crimes, and compared to those guys, Sun Xiaochuan was practically a saint.

Tiger Claw Gang...

Yoshida Saki seemed to have heard a terrifying name, her lips immediately turned pale, and her hands and feet went cold, her panic-filled pupils reflecting boundless fear.

It seemed like at any moment, someone might rush out from the corner to grab her.

Seeing her like this, the street urchin knew Yoshida was scared by the Tiger Claw Gang's name, so he patted his chest and laughed,

"Don't worry, we've taken down the Tiger Claw Gang. Just a few hours ago, we took out their boss Ishiguro Juro and his lackeys, killed them dead."

The Tiger Claw Gang... taken down...

The fear-stricken Yoshida Saki seemed to hear something unbelievable, staring blankly at the agent in front of her.

The street urchin thought she might think he was bragging, so he reached out and pulled up the screenshots players posted on the forum for her to see,

"Don't believe me? Look here, this is Yunding, this is the Tiger Claw Gang's boss Ishiguro Juro, this is the Ronin Group's boss, Sato Rina, this is..."

Players were checking off names with heads in hand, and the street urchin read along.

"They're... all dead?"

"Of course, we're even planning to take over NCPD's security management to keep these gang members from being idle troublemakers all day long."

He didn't know how the dev team planned to design it, but the street urchin thought it wouldn't be worse than it is now.

So fast...

What is going on?

The street urchin suddenly found the lockdown was loosening, his accessible data volume rapidly increasing.

Just as he was in a fog, the lunch break ended.

The bright sky outside started to turn gray and wither, like a decaying oil painting, with the unseeable sun sprouting spots of rust, the corners covered in mildew. Those laughing and playing classmates and teachers twisted, turning into some black humanoid forms, constantly swaying, the entire Mewtwo space undergoing some drastic change. The girl's mundane daily life was plunging at an incredible speed into Hell.

"I want to change... I don't want to be ridiculed for being dull anymore..."

"Miss, you're so beautiful, are you a model or something? You're even prettier than those models in magazines."

"Yoshida, I like you."

"Like... really?"

"Take a sip... it's really good... you'll absolutely love it."

"Yoshida... don't you know? Everyone's using this."

Some inexplicable dialogues and images began flooding into the street urchin's... no... it should be Yoshida's head, only because they were sharing senses now, so he could hear them.

This change was beyond the street urchin's expectations, also not part of the players' plans.

Just as he was getting horrified, the Mewtwo's correction program quickly activated, returning the surrounding world to its previous normal state in an instant.

And with the help of the neuroregulator's hormones, Yoshida herself's negative emotions were wiped away...

Although there was no danger to life, the bizarre transformation still left him feeling uneasy, especially the malice from all directions, so disgusting it made the street urchin want to vomit.

"Just now... what was that?"

"Mr. Agent, are you okay?"

"No... it's nothing..."

But Yoshida herself seemed completely unaware of what had just happened, as if it all belonged to the street urchin's own hallucination.

Helpless, he could only seek help from others

"Pandora: What you saw should be the memories of the Mewtwo user herself. I've heard of similar situations; the NCPD's newly developed Mewtwo technology can even recreate images from subconscious dreams."

"Street Urchin: Really? That's absurd?"

But he quickly realized, it's a game, it can be set however, why bother worrying so much.

"But why do I feel like I'm having a split personality? This Yoshida Saki talking to me doesn't seem to be having a bad time at all."