From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

They launched some time ago, and a satellite that just passed by Saturn was turned into a fireball by a fighter jet that could travel at sub-light speed in space.

What is this? ESA or High Rider?

How to report this emergency back to the company in the current situation where communication is blocked has become a major concern for the employees of these deep space exploration companies, but fortunately, they will not have to think about it soon.

The various detection equipment of the space station were like blind. A giant ship as long as 2.6 kilometers passed by the observation window of the space station in broad daylight, but they did not receive any signal at all.

Fortunately, the Empire's cruiser was just passing by, and the ones who were truly responsible for them were the frigates that arrived later. One of the frigates broke away from the formation and used a tractor beam to pull the space station, which was saved from being turned into a fireball because of its human life reactions, and dragged it into the cargo ship that arrived later.

Not a new corporate war, but an alien invasion?

The employees of the Deep Space Exploration Company in the space station were almost scared to death, or rather, according to the alarm prompts on the space suits in the cabin, they were already scared to death.

However, nothing will be done to them at the moment. The main purpose of the fleet is to completely control the solar system and prevent the mentally unstable humans in this world from doing anything fancy.

Compared to the sparsely populated space station on Mars, the moon in the cyberpunk world is the highlight.

The European Space Agency, and the former ESA employees, who now occupy a large number of lunar facilities, are the rulers of the moon and the space near the earth.

The outpost blocked the communication signal, and the European Space Agency and the High Knights, who were already suspicious of each other, had suddenly encountered communication problems and had engaged in a round of small-scale internal fighting.

They all believed that the interruption of communication was a signal that the other side wanted to completely eradicate them. The mass projectors of both sides were already aimed at each other. It only took a misfire to cause a large amount of helium-3 to light up one light bulb after another in space.

However, when the fleet emerged from the shadow of Mars, ESA and the High Knights stopped their confrontation in an atmosphere of shock and embarrassment, and began to hurriedly study and think about how to deal with this suddenly appeared unknown fleet.

"This is European Space Agency Spaceport 317-H. I am the highest officer here. I request that the opposing fleet immediately inform us of their origins and purpose."

The communication equipment was jammed into pieces, and the spaceport manager had to use short-frequency communication to make calls as a last resort. The ESA spacecraft docked on both sides of the spaceport were undergoing rapid preparations, ready to escape at any time.

But what responded to the spaceport manager were two emotionless high-energy rays. The two spacecraft that had not yet been fully repaired were directly cut in two. The nuclear power reactor pipelines were damaged and quickly overheated, and two dazzling balls of light rose on both sides of the spaceport.

“Fight back! Fight back!!!”

The spaceport's posture shifted when the spacecraft exploded close to it, and the docking port was torn to pieces by the explosion. Fortunately, the emergency management system was still working. After sacrificing some less important employees, the airtight gate fell, and the red warning light finally reduced the frequency of its sounding.

Seeing the Imperial Fleet launch an attack, the mass projectors of the surrounding space stations and spaceports changed their targets. Although in a battle on a cosmic scale, attacking a freely movable space battleship and attacking a lunar colony or space station are of very different difficulty, the executives of the European Space Agency obviously did not want to be fat meat to be slaughtered, and resolutely chose to launch all missiles.

The activation of the mass projector requires a large amount of electricity. The central part of the spaceport was severely damaged due to the explosion and collision of the spacecraft, and the energy supply was already insufficient. After the mass projector on the wing completed the launch, the entire spaceport command room instantly fell into darkness.

Fortunately, this was only a temporary power outage caused by insufficient energy supply. While the spaceport employees were panicking and scrambling for spacesuits, the surrounding life support systems were gradually restarting. The lights that came back on gave the executives in the command room a reassurance.

"Hurry and check out the attack!!!"

In the eyes of civilizations without shield technology, the bigger the space battleships used for combat, the better. This is because excessive size will lead to a series of problems such as bulkiness, difficulty in steering, complicated energy systems, etc., and it will also make it easier to become a target in battle.

Therefore, the executives of the spaceport simply believed that the Imperial fleet had taken the advantage by launching a surprise attack without any moral principles. Once the helium-3 bomb launched by the mass projector hit the opponent's huge warship, it would only disintegrate faster.

But the premise of all this is that the Imperial fleet really has no shields, just as they thought.

The helium-3 bomb exploded, forming dazzling incandescent fireballs in the universe. But before the executives of the spaceport could cheer, the Imperial battleship that had smashed the fireballs appeared before them intact, with the azure grid shield looming on the surface of the ship, as if mocking their ignorance.

"Varied…"

The enemy actually dared to fight back, and the destroyer, which was forming a joint shield with the cruiser, silently threw out two huge sleeves.

The sleeve was activated after traveling silently for a while, and thousands of small swarm missiles inside ignited at the same time, completely covering the spaceport and completely turning it into a piece of meaningless space junk.

When the High Knights saw the dire situation of ESA, they decisively abandoned the space station on the back of the moon and evacuated to the colony on the moon, hoping to rely on this magnificent space city for defense.

But their actions were meaningless except for causing the frigate's disruptor guns and lasers to fire a few more times. All the mass projectors were paralyzed, and the marines dispatched with the ship landed on the lunar colony and began to suppress and control this space city with a large population.

"Drink!!!"

A group of cyborgs known as combat knights chose to launch an attack when the Marines entered the lunar colony. Equipped with thermal blades, single-molecule cutters, and large-caliber electromagnetic weapons, these combat knights with a cyborg modification degree of more than 54% are the most powerful combat force of the high knights except for the mass projector.

However, Nekomata's electromagnetic projectile was completely worn out by the rigid shield, and the structure of the single-molecule cutter was broken in the collision with the shield.

The funniest thing was the combat knight who used a thermal blade. He overclocked his prosthetic body and activated Sian Westin to chop hard, but the blade only shattered on the Marine's shield. The high-speed rebounding blade spun under the influence of the reaction force and pierced into its owner's eye socket.

"Number [3. Cyber] World Space Force has completed the suppression and is awaiting further instructions..."

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Chapter 238 Relic Chip

Because the Star Empire warships subsequently released a large number of simulated and camouflaged signals, the large companies and federations on Earth have not yet noticed the changes in space. They have all focused their attention on the increasingly fierce war between the Terracotta Warriors and the Cyborgs in Night City.

I don’t know which movie Nian drew inspiration from, but she modified her terracotta warriors so that even if they were blown to pieces by the artillery fire of the manticore and the demon lizard, they would still continue to move by dragging their broken bodies.

Even after reaching its limit, it will merge with the surrounding fragments to form a larger terracotta warrior.

This enemy that was almost violating the laws of physics made the Arasaka Corporation completely panic. They no longer cared about Arasaka Yorinobu's life or death. Although the large companies involved in this battle wanted to give up and escape, the terracotta warriors were heading towards the company square, and their determination not to give up until the company square was flattened forced the companies to bite the bullet and invest more and more troops.

Under such circumstances, Si Ye flew to the Ganbi Building with Huang Ban Lai Xuan openly without even alerting anyone.

"Is this the Relic? Nanotechnology, biomaterials, and advanced applications of alcohol. Tsk tsk, this thing doesn't look like something you guys could come up with."

Standing in the luxurious room where Arasaka Yorinobu strangled Arasaka Saburo with his own hands in the original plot, Si Ye scanned the Relic chip in his hand.

This type of biochip capable of imprinting human thought models first appeared around 2013 and can basically be regarded as a supporting device for the "Soul Killer" software.

Johnny Silverhand's girlfriend, Otto Cunningham, was the developer and first experimental subject of this system. Arasaka kidnapped her in order to perfect this system.

In the end, although Johnny gathered people to break into the deserted tower and try to save people, Ultra was still killed by the soul killer, and his consciousness model escaped into the old network behind the black wall and became a wandering AI with a personality model.

But the appearance of this technology was too abrupt, and combined with the huge data cache area behind the black wall, Si Ye suddenly felt that this was more like a trap set for humans by those AIs that had awakened consciousness early.

After all, except for the first version, the subsequent versions will not directly kill the user by becoming a soul killer. The best evidence is that in the original plot, after Arasaka Yorinobu's failure, he was possessed by Arasaka Saburo. The controller of the Arasaka Group left a backup of consciousness for himself early on, just to take over his son's young body one day.

Although Arasaka Yorinobu is actually 80 years old, compared to Arasaka Saburo's body that is barely maintaining its shape due to the war, he is obviously still young and strong.

"Cough, cough, ugh!"

Si Ye had actually restrained his strength and flew, but for Arasaka Yorinobu, who was not given much care, it was no less than the experience of racing in a hovercar without any protection.

Now, this Arasaka prince was lying on the expensive handmade carpet in a very ungraceful manner, vomiting out the little food left in his stomach.

"Alright, it's time for us to go to the afterlife."

Holding the chip in his hand, Si Ye stood in front of Lai Xuan.

Johnny Silverhand was a stubborn ass, and reasoning with him was of little use. However, these thought models were made of paper, and Si Ye, fearing that Grey Wind would intervene, simply crushed them.

So before using force, he planned to let the other party's acquaintance, the queen of the next life, the middleman: Rogge give it a try. It doesn't cost anything to try anyway.

"Ugh! Wait a minute, let me... huh, let me slow down."

After all, he was still the tough guy who was able to mobilize the entire Tokyo area's biker gang to fight against Arasaka when he was young. Although Arasaka Yorinobu was vomiting all over the place, he still held his stomach and forced himself to stand up.

"I just want to ask one question, one..."

"Just ask."

Arasaka Yorinobu was quite cooperative, so Si Ye didn't mind giving him any preferential treatment.

"Huh, what you said earlier in Dark Matter, 'Give me a chance,' is that true?"

After being carried all the way, Arasaka Yorinobu no longer believed that Si Ye could be controlled by any company. If Kang Tao had such ability, he should have unified Asia long ago.

As long as the possibility of other companies intervening is ruled out, Arasaka Yorinobu doesn't care whether Si Ye is an alien or something else. He just wants to know whether what Si Ye said before, that he would have the opportunity to realize his dream, is true.

"You want all companies to collapse, and I don't really need companies to exist in this world. Isn't this just a coincidence?"

The Relic danced at Si Ye's fingertips. Under the rule of the Star Sea Empire, there was no need for such eyesores as giant corporations. Their fate had been decided when Si Ye arrived in this world.

“What would the world be like then?”

Arasaka Yorinobu stared at Si Ye closely, wanting to get an answer.

"Let me think about it. The human political system has a lot of problems that need to be corrected. Welfare benefits will be deducted half a level. Pollution is serious and environmental transformation and ecological restoration are needed, so we deduct another half a level."

Mentioning this, Si Ye stroked his chin and began to calculate the treatment of the cyberpunk world after it was completely controlled according to the charter of the pan-human community.

"Level 3 treatment, no autonomy. Probably everyone will work ten to twelve hours a day, have one or two days off a week, and have plenty of food and water."

"…So you're really an alien?"

Arasaka Yorinobu was born in a high tower, but he is the only one who does not eat meat. He knows what kind of life the lower class people live in this world controlled by a company.

For many people, from birth to death, the cleanest water they drink is breast milk, and the most natural food is also breast milk. If they don't live on the streets and fight on the edge of knives, then the best life for a person is to install all kinds of industrial prostheses that are extremely oppressive to the mind in a factory, and work until the body collapses with all kinds of enhancers.

Therefore, the conditions that Si Ye mentioned made Arasaka Yoriyuki a little dazed. There must be no company or political system on this planet that can provide such treatment. Yoriyuki could only think that Si Ye was really an alien.

"As I said, you will know my identity later. All you need to know is that I always do what I say."

"…Then what do you need me to do…"

Facing Lai Xuan's question, Si Ye showed him the Relic in his hand.

"You know what this thing does, right?"

"...I only know that this chip can record a person's thoughts. In this way, it can achieve a disguised form of immortality."

Lai Xuan obviously only knew part of it. It was obvious that Saburo Arasaka had concealed the fact that this chip could be used to possess other people's bodies very well.

"Being stored as data doesn't qualify as immortality. The main function of this chip is to allow the consciousness contained within to take over another's body, giving it a new, vibrant body. This seems to be what Arasaka Saburo is pursuing."

Arasaka Yorinobu's pupils suddenly shrank, and he wanted to say something, but Si Ye interrupted him and continued:

"But this kind of possession, or the change in brain structure, often leads to significant rejection. This rejection is usually reduced only when it comes to blood relatives. Arasaka Saburo obviously wouldn't want to be a woman. As his last living son, you are very important to him."

"...This is exactly what that old guy would do... He kept me around for this reason... So that's the reason..."

Lai Xuan was silent for a long time, with a fierce look in his eyes. He suddenly bowed 90 degrees and shouted in a street-like manner.

"Hey! If you can destroy this company, my life will be yours!"

"Oh, then get ready, it's time to go to the afterlife."

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Chapter 239: Afterlife - Rogge

"There seems to be a big movement in the city."

Qiwei disconnected the link that assisted Sasha in logging into the intercity network and shared information with her companions in the team channel.

"Big commotion? How big?"

Pyrrha's unruly voice echoed in the channel. Without his sister Rebecca to restrain him, he began to let himself go.