In the current world, Mikoshi can be considered one of the most advanced servers, but there is still that buzzing noise in the computer room, like mosquitoes flying in the invisible darkness.
But Johnny couldn't hear these sounds. At this time, his consciousness had turned into a bunch of little blue people made of numbers, appearing in an empty and unfamiliar hall.
This hall is also composed of flowing numbers. It is divided into upper and lower floors. The layout is a bit like an ancient theater. The second floor is a semi-open box.
He was sure that he had no memory of this place, but he had a different feeling in his heart. It seemed that he had a different sense of familiarity with everything here.
With this question in mind, he took a few steps, reached out and touched the blue digital coffee table, and then tried to touch his face.
Whether it is an object or oneself, there is real tactile feedback, but to be more precise, the main feeling is that these things are bone-chilling, as if the blue in this world means the color of thousands of years of ice.
"Do you feel familiar?" A woman's figure appeared next to him. Her whole body was also made of blue numbers, but her face was clearer and no different from the real person in the outside world: "I heard Deathstroke say that you used to Being locked up in this local area network, every 0 and 1 here may be related to you."
The personality consciousness that enters the cyberspace is to mobilize the digital structure here. She is right in saying that.
"You are Deathstroke's hacker, right?" Johnny took a few steps. After he entered here, without the stimulation of adrenaline, he seemed a lot calmer: "But don't talk about the topic of 0 and 1, in my case In those days, it was a gay word."
"Is there such a thing? Haha, okay." Lark seemed to have returned to her own home. She seemed to be very familiar with everything here. She found a sofa and sat down, crossing her legs gracefully: "But I He's not Deathstroke's hacker. He and I only have a transactional relationship. To be precise, I didn't even know his name not long ago."
"Well, as expected, he gave me the feeling of a soldier returning from a cruel battlefield. This kind of person will either become a psychopath who is always ready to open fire on the crowd, or he will become a mystic who doesn't believe in anyone. .”
Johnny took a deep breath. Even though he was just a pile of data and didn't even have lungs, he still felt like he was breathing in:
"I can feel that he is hiding a lot of things from me, but that has nothing to do with me. I just want Ultra back, and that's the deal."
Johnny was not a mercenary. After he was discharged from the army, he played in a band and quickly became famous. Of course, he didn't have to do the knife-tip licking blood business to make a living.
But people who hang out in Night City basically know the working model of mercenaries, that is, as long as the money is received, no one will care about what secrets the employer has.
As a sword for others, you must have the consciousness to be a sword. People who are driven by interests do not need to think too much, otherwise they are asking for trouble.
What? The target you want to kill is a good man, but he is still very pitiful. The old mother at home is sick and there are still children to raise?
So does knowing this have an impact on the mission? When you will starve to death if you don't kill others.
People can be soft-hearted, but capital will not be soft-hearted. You also need money to pay rent, to buy food and medicine, to buy electricity, and to buy all kinds of information.
Living in such a society, the social tool called money will automatically flow and drain everyone dry.
Some people may say, ah, if I lie down at home, I won’t be squeezed out of profits?
No, because while you are lying down, the deposit and loan interest rates of banks or institutions are changing under the control of large companies, and the degree of inflation is also changing. Even if you lie flat for a whole day without spending a penny, you can Before you know it, you still lose money.
So, to pity the goals in business? It's meaningless, it's just that you know more. After the task is completed, you make money, and you have had a good meal, you will feel a little guilty for the victim, because it was the other person's death that bought your life.
But are there really such soft-hearted mercenaries? The guilt will disappear sooner or later. There are many poor people in Night City. You can pity them once or twice, but what about after hundreds of times?
Numbness is inevitable. By that time, you will get used to not asking about your employer and target's business anymore, because nothing can be changed.
"My situation is similar. He saved me. As a condition of the deal, I need to help him handle today's affairs." Lark and Johnny had not communicated before, but she had been listening on the communication channel, but she felt that Silver Hand was not As crazy and weird as the legend says.
Rock stars are notorious for being weird, shooting guns at fans on stage, something Johnny Silverhand once did.
This is considered good. Lark checked on the Internet. In the last century, there were rock singers who defecated on stage in front of thousands of people.
The logic of his behavior is also very abstract, because he feels that society is unfair and a piece of shit, but he is unable to fight, so he wants to show the symbol of the essence of society to everyone.
"Our situations seem to be somewhat similar, but I have to say that I still owe him a favor, because apart from him, I'm afraid no one can resurrect this guy like me."
Silver Hand shook his hair, and his sunglasses also came in for some reason. He raised his hand to put them on:
"Okay, let's get down to business. What should I do next? There doesn't seem to be a door here."
It is surrounded by walls made of flowing blue numbers. It is safe, but without doors and windows, it feels like a box.
"This is a cyberspace I built in Mikoshi. It is a relatively safe place. After all, you need to meet a wandering AI next. It is more beneficial for us to control the environment. At least I can eject you urgently at certain moments. .”
When it comes to business, Lark will never let her hair down. She has a strong say when it comes to the Internet. She still sat on the sofa and explained:
"I have heard about Ultra. She has not been idle for so many years. Once the people killed by the Soul Killer enter the shrine, she will find a way to secretly abduct them into the ghost realm she established, and then kill them. Analyze and annex it, and become a part of yourself. And you are her lover, this is simply the most sour bait. I think no madman can refuse to eat the person he loves, right?"
As a former Secret Service agent, Lark knows too many perverted characters, but in terms of danger, none of them can compare to the rogue AI. In this era, a crazy flesh and blood body is definitely not as good as a string of crazy numbers.