From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

Just like that, this Night City mercenary hacker who should have been wary of everything quickly fell into the trap of the Star Empire's sugar-coated cannon of abundant living supplies and became what he is today.

"It seems that Miss Sasha is very satisfied with her current life."

Si Ye looked at the food on the table, his tone teasing towards Sass.

"Cough cough cough..."

After finally saving herself from the brink of choking, Sasha, who had no energy to pay attention to Si Ye's teasing about her weight, coughed hard.

"Don't laugh at me. With your power, conquering that world is child's play. Why do you need me as your pawn?"

"Nothing. I like to act spontaneously. I just do what I want to do. Even though Night City is terrible, it's just a nice tourist attraction to me. I'm just a 'pawn', so you can think of yourself as a tour guide."

Si Ye asked Sasha again.

"I'm giving you a chance to regret this, 'Pawn'? Or do you want to just settle down in the Empire?"

“…Then of course I pledge allegiance to you!”

Sasha's eyes were firm. Judging the situation was an essential skill for Night City residents. As a mercenary, she could naturally see the huge opportunities that came with serving Night City.

"Um... Your Majesty? If I work hard, can I also earn the opportunity for my family and friends to settle in the Empire..."

"Haha, that's right, hard work pays off, you adapt quickly."

Si Ye clapped his hands in satisfaction.

"Get ready, it's time to go."

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Chapter 227 Coconut Juice City/Night City

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The air twisted into visible ripples, and an extremely small black-gray drone emerged from it, appearing out of thin air on the elevated highway in front of the Biotechnology Building.

This is the location where Sasha jumped off the building. The location of the teleportation opening of the boundary gate can only be modified and adjusted with guidance.

In order to facilitate the subsequent large-scale transmission of the fleet, this drone carrying an autonomous system will go to space to place the first beacon after collecting information and modify the transmission position of the gate.

The signal path is currently one-way, and the drone's deep AI automatically takes over the aircraft.

The crimson mechanical eyes lit up slightly, and after confirming once again that the stealth module was transported properly, the drone, which was only the size of a wheel, suddenly began to rise into the sky.

The small machine flew over the acid rain clouds that condensed over the wasteland due to Night City's heavy pollution emissions, and hacked into Night City's intercity network.

While climbing, a large amount of real-time information from Night City was transmitted back to the Star Empire on the other side of the gate.

With the technology of this world, they simply could not detect a transparent bird rushing into outer space at an unimaginable speed while completing a reptilian clone of their information on the intercity network.

That is to say, those large companies will physically isolate their servers that store confidential information, otherwise, in a short time, the autonomous AI system of the Star Empire will be able to strip them of their underwear.

After breaking through the atmosphere, the drone quickly switched to a mode where the anti-gravity engine and the curvature engine operated in coordination, and its mechanical eyes quickly marked the man-made buildings in space.

Space city, space port, lunar base, the only ones worthy of being marked in red by AI are a few spaceships and mass projectors docked at the space port.

"No threat, proceed to Plan A."

AI made a cold judgment and quickly headed to its destination: Jupiter, at the extreme speed brought by the curvature engine.

The drone will disintegrate on the back of Jupiter and build the first temporary beacon to guide the engineering ship responsible for building the gate.

Considering that this is in deep space after all, a small fleet consisting of one cruiser, two destroyers and five escort ships will escort the engineering ships.

Although there are few ships, with the firepower of this small fleet, destroying all the space forces in this world is as easy as eating and drinking.

...

Just as a warship was slowly emerging from the back of Jupiter, in Night City, at the location where the drone had appeared before, Si Ye, Nian and Sasha suddenly appeared from the air.

"...I'm prepared, but this place stinks."

The waste gas and sewage generated by a large amount of industrial equipment fill the area around Night City with a stench that is enough to suffocate people.

As a local, Sasha was probably used to the smell, but Nian still pinched his nose, looking like he was going to spit out the hot pot he had eaten at noon.

Iron Sonata

The smell was so bad that Nian had to use his power to erect a layer of golden shield to directly isolate the air.

"...Night City is like this, which is why lung and larynx prosthetics have always dominated the best-selling charts in Night City."

Sasha habitually wanted to activate her prosthetic brain to obtain information and intelligence, but unfortunately, the prosthetic parts on her body had been replaced with special versions of the Star Empire. Not to mention the network access permission, she had to hack into the intercity network of Night City to connect.

"...5 months. Why did it take so long?"

After quickly checking the date, Sasha was surprised to find that five months had passed since she fell from the building during the mission.

Sasha subconsciously looked at Si Ye, wanting to find the answer from the Emperor.

"It's normal for time to flow differently between worlds. Only when the two-way gate is connected will the time on both sides gradually synchronize."

Si Ye looked at the Earth with great interest. It was only the year 2077, but it had already been ruined beyond recognition.

Nuclear war, wasteland, animal extinction, industrial pollution, in order to monopolize alcohol 2 wheat, biotechnology companies will steadily spread targeted viruses that attack plants around the world every year.

With such outstanding people and beautiful scenery, it can only be said to be a miracle that the earth's environment has not deteriorated to the point of being uninhabitable.

"I feel like in this world, if the prosthetics are installed correctly, they won't necessarily be hanged by a street lamp. Perhaps I could consider a more ancient method and capture a group of company executives and make them plant trees, cultivate land, and restore the environment until they die of exhaustion?"

"Your idea is great. If you implement it, please let me watch."

Marginal people naturally dislike those high-flying corporate dogs, and Sasha highly agreed with Si Ye's words.

"There will be a chance."

Si Ye nodded, and his keen senses made him look towards the end of the elevated highway, where a van disguised as an ambulance was zigzagging towards them.

"Did you arrange a car?"

"No, this style... This is another group of hyenas without bottom line who have provoked an existence they can't afford to offend and are now running away in panic."

Sasha saw through the flawed vehicle camouflage at a glance and immediately put her hands behind her back. If these scavengers made any unusual movements, she would attack at any time.

Generally, only the scavengers in the Santo Domingo area like to do this kind of thing. They disguise themselves as medical staff and trick patients who need treatment into getting on their cars.

If the other party is a tough guy, send him to the nearest hospital and pretend nothing happened.

If the other party is easy to control, then we will cut him into pieces in the car and remove the prosthetic parts while he is still alive.

I can only say that the scavengers are indeed the most disgusting group of people in Night City.

Perhaps it was because Si Ye and Nian's group looked too much like passers-by who had been in a car accident and were trapped on an elevated highway, or perhaps it was because of the professional ethics of these scavengers that they could not accept business slipping away even when they were on the run.

The van squeaked to a stop in front of Si Ye and his group. A man with glasses and a Mohawk stuck his head out of the driver's seat and questioned the trio.

"Want a ride? It's on the way back to the city center, right?"

To be honest, with this appearance and this almost scrapped van, the only person who could be tricked into getting in is an innocent fool who knows nothing about the world.

"Indeed, I just need a means of transportation."

Just like the Scavenger set his sights on the organs of Si Ye and the others, Si Ye set his sights on the Scavenger's van, which was about to be scrapped.

"That's great, get in the car..."

Seeing that the scavengers were so reckless as to offend Si Ye, Sasha subconsciously activated his network access warehouse, wanting to hack into it and teach these scavengers a lesson.

But in Sasha's mind, the network access warehouse that had been repeatedly modified had a power similar to that of the AI ​​core.

The firewall in the minds of these scavengers was breached in an instant. Before Sasha could think about which preset puppet to activate for attack, the huge torrent of data had already swept through all the targets on the van.

Before the Mohawk-haired man in the driver's seat could notify his companions in the car to get ready, a large amount of meaningless data flashed across his prosthetic eye, and all the prosthetic parts on his body began to overload.

The scavenger didn't even have time to scream. He felt like he was thrown into a frying pan. All his prosthetic parts went into overload. Along with the strong smell of burning and the sizzling surge of electricity, there was no sign of any living thing in the van.

Looking at the van that was covered in filth and smelled of burnt protein, Si Ye looked at Sasha. It was obvious that the van was unusable.

"I'll find a car for you right away!"

Sasha hadn't expected that the righteousness in her was so powerful now. Facing Si Ye's gaze, she quickly began to hack into the intercity network, trying to contact her former companions or get a car directly.

On the first afternoon of his arrival in Night City, Emperor Xinghai followed the local customs and used a cart of street sweepers to light a not-so-bright electric spark.

Night City is such a magical place.

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Chapter 228 Delaman

"If you just look at the buildings, it's really not that interesting, but when you look at it with this kind of visual comparison, it's quite interesting."

Sitting in Delaman's taxi, Nian was holding a small camera and constantly filming the scenery along the way.

In the eyes of young people, if it is just a huge urban cluster with rows of high-rise buildings, there is actually nothing to see.

After all, not to mention the Siye Star Empire, that ideal city that cast an entire planet into a city, even the mobile city of the Terra continent, a behemoth that crawls on the ground, is much more spectacular than Night City.

But in the cyberpunk world where the rich are rich and the poor are poor, high-tech places are high-tech, and shantytowns are still shantytowns, this neon city is like a half-rotten but still beating heart, with a unique beauty.

"Ma'am, if you need a high-definition street view video, I can provide you with a censored version of the video captured by the vehicle's main camera, provided it does not violate privacy laws."

A large, bald blue head in a suit and tie appeared on the display screen on the seatback. This was the manager of the Delaman Luxury Taxi Company, an artificial intelligence that had entered the stage of self-consistent evolution.

It is also the only company in Night City where artificial intelligence has optimized its human employees and makes them the bosses of their own company.

"Oh? There's actually such a service?"

"Of course, 'Striving for Excellence' is the tenet of Delaman Company. As a customer who has subscribed to the 'Striving for Excellence' service, I should do my best to serve you."

Although Delaman could not scan the identities of Si Ye and Nian, or even their identification information, this did not prevent it from providing the ultimate service to everyone who had just generously subscribed to the 99-year "Strive for Excellence" package.

Where does the money come from, you ask?

Of course I didn’t pay.

Sasha's prosthetic body was modified so much that she herself became an illegal resident of Night City, not to mention Si Ye and Nian.

So Sasha could only do some things that he had never dared to do before, such as hacking into a large company managed by AI and modifying an account that subscribed to a luxury service package.