Players Invade Cyberpunk
Chapter 986 - 317: A Curious Day at the Museum (Part 2)
"Hard to say, let's check another place first."
[Gettysburg Emancipation Proclamation]
[Boston Tea Party]
[Lincoln Assassination]
They switched through several scenes in succession. Strangely, regardless of the scene's violence, everything was depicted in Lego form, which made both of them start to notice something was off. So Madao asked the tour guide program,
"Can the Lego transformation be undone, back to normal scenes?"
However, the previously enthusiastic tour guide program now answered in an icy tone,
[Invalid command]
And in the theater of Lincoln's assassination, all the Lego figures turned to look at Madao, even the Lincoln whose chest had been blown wide open revived.
Their faces uniformly transformed into angry expressions, sharp-teethed, and resembled face-changing from traditional magic tricks.
Lincoln furiously asked,
"You don't like Lego? How dare you dislike Lego!"
Even a fool should realize that something was wrong now.
Even the scene-switching button turned gray.
Madao nudged closer to Street Lurker,
"Any suggestions?"
Street Lurker wanted to break through the Lego transformation's program control to restore normalcy, but their previous harmless perception of the Lego program made them lower their guard, leading to deep data form distortion that couldn't be quickly undone.
"Dammit!"
Street Lurker calculated that it would take about an hour to reshape their data forms to normalcy, so he used data flow to force open a gap in the exhibition hall.
"Run!"
As they slipped through the gap, overwhelming red beams rained down on them.
"biubiubiu——"
"biubiubiu——"
On the other side of the gap was the scene of the Pearl Harbor attack, in a black-and-white world, with Japanese planes continuously diving and bombing from the sky, while the damaged USS Arizona burned fiercely in the harbor.
With a loud boom, the forward ammunition depot exploded, and the fiery blast formed a mushroom cloud, tearing the steel ship apart.
Sailors engulfed by flames and smoke could only try jumping into the sea to save themselves, making the whole scene feel like a black-and-white silent film from the 50s.
But something strange appeared. Apart from the swimming rescue sailors, the sea was filled with countless Lego figures who seemed to be among the sailors too.
Even some of the turbulent seawater became Lego-fied, and the Lego scene was slowly expanding to invade the normal world.
The merging of these two art styles looked bizarre to the extreme.
This time, Street Lurker finally understood the situation.
The Lego program had somehow awakened into an AI, and was transforming the entire museum's data fortress via programming.
And as soon as they entered the [Pearl Harbor Attack], those Lego sailors swimming in the water suddenly pulled out their guns and fired at Street Lurker.
The Lego sailors' marksmanship was typically poor, with most beams hitting empty ground. The floor hit by beams didn't get damaged, but slowly became Lego-fied, and those programs lacked self-awareness, incapable of resistance.
And real sailors accidentally hit would start convulsing and eventually become Lego-fied, joining in the hunt for them.
"WDF?!"
Because of their appearance, it seemed the entire Lego program rioted, and the rate of invasion hastened severalfold.
Street Lurker tried to catch a beam and, upon being hit by the red laser, felt no stinging sensation or damage, only a deepening degree of Lego-fication.
It felt like a continually deepening DEBUFF; if Street Lurker had preset a firewall, the impact from such an attack would've been negligible.
But Street Lurker didn't want to tangle with them, so he grabbed Madao for another escape. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
This time, they seemingly stumbled into an art piece with a unique style.
Here, noses were noses and eyes were eyes, but the features grew in disarray, limbs were in discordant twists, and the overall picture felt deeply uncomfortable.
Pablo Picasso's abstract painting "Guernica"
And the fully activated Lego program was following closely for the chase, featuring Lego Lincoln, Lego sailors, Lego North and South Army, basically all sorts of figures.
"biubiubiu——"
Abstract horses and bulls in the painting were transformed into Lego horses and Lego bulls upon being hit.
Seeing this, Madao made a sarcastic comment,
"Honestly, I've never been able to appreciate abstract art; I think the Lego looks much more pleasing than before."
Street Lurker gritted his teeth in frustration,
"Pleasing? Better start running!"
They kept jumping and fleeing across the museum's major exhibition halls,
from Martin Luther King's speech scene to World War II victory's "The Kiss".
From Vietnam War protest marches to Armstrong's lunar landing.
They seemed to jump along the timeline, reaching one historical focus point after another.
This event was supposed to be something legendary, but the atmosphere got completely ruined by those Lego figures chasing behind.
"biubiubiu——"
Also, the Lego pursuing factions were growing more luxurious with each timeline jump, featuring Lego Lincoln, Lego Kennedy, Lego Roosevelt, Lego MacArthur...
An all-star United States roster, unmatched in grandeur worldwide, resembling a chaotic scene paired with Lego.
Currently, they had countless things to say internally.
Soon, they reached the final exhibition hall,
"American Apocalypse"
The content revolved around 2018, when the once-powerful United States began to disintegrate, with dozens of states declaring independence successively, marking the founding day of New America.
The White House's flag was completely lowered, and the unsinkable Stars and Stripes became a thing of the past.