Chapter 11: Cyber Psychosis

"It just gives me a very familiar feeling, a feeling I've felt in cyber psychosis." Ryan said lightly, as if he was telling a very ordinary thing.

"Cyberpsychotic?!"

Kia almost exclaimed, and Catherine looked at Ryan as well.

Cyberpsychosis is a nightmare for everyone in Night City, when the use of prosthetics reaches a certain level, the user's spirit will be in a state of dissociation, and eventually the soul will be lost, turning into a murderous walking corpse; Interestingly, even if the prosthetic body does not reach its limit, if the spirit suffers a huge shock, there is a chance that it will become cyberpsychotic.

"So we're dangerous?" Kia asked.

"At present, he is still in a stable state, and I can't say whether he will become cyberpsychotic or not." Ryan replied.

Ryan did not give a clear proof that the so-called cyber psychosis was only based on feelings; Ryan did encounter several cyber psychopaths, and although he did not fight them, their aura and mental state were firmly remembered by Ryan; Generally speaking, these cyberpsychoses have suffered a major mental blow.

However, current technology cannot prevent and detect cyberpsychosis in advance, and there may only be signs for a short time on the eve of the onset, but by then it will be too late.

Talking about cyber psychosis, the atmosphere suddenly cooled down, and everyone was silent.

David had just found out through Arasaka who wanted to buy Catherine's life and sent the message to Ryan.

Ryan clicked on the information and looked, as expected, it was a senior executive of an entertainment company in Night City, and the interesting thing is that this entertainment company is a subsidiary of the Arasaka Group, and the show has earned enough eyeballs by being vulgar and obscene, and there are countless such programs in Night City, and people are very buying it and enjoying it, but the turnover has dropped a lot recently.

There was another sentence sent along with the information.

"Don't try to do anything stupid! He has a deep background behind Arasaka, and his company is under the Arasaka News Management, and they are all family, so you can let the people from the Operations Department try to get in touch with it! ”

"I won't."

Ryan replied, and when he was done, he exited the message screen.

Qi Ya seemed to feel that the atmosphere was a little oppressive, so she opened her mouth to propose.

"Didn't you say yesterday that I was going to invite you to eat sugar gourds? I just have some materials at home, so I'll make you some?"

Ryan suddenly recalled in his mind that Qi Ya invited him to eat steamed buns and ran away from the bill yesterday, so he didn't speak, just looked at Qi Ya.

Qi Ya also seems to know what Ryan is thinking, words can't match actions, the cost of a sugar gourd is only about one euro, and it is indeed a bit expensive to sell steamed buns for ten euros, as for why ten euros have to be escaped, because Qi Ya has not enough money.

Kia got up and went to prepare the materials. Catherine just sat on the couch with her hands on her knees, looking like she was thinking about something, and Ryan asked Catherine when she saw Kia's busy appearance.

"Why does your sister like to eat sugar gourds so much?"

“......”

Ryan was only silent in response, and he didn't bother to ask about Lliy's signature on Catherine's dress.

Kia was afraid that Ryan and Catherine would be bored, so she turned on the TV for them.

The TV, on the wall directly across from the couch, seemed to be a little old and didn't look like a product of the Fourth Corporate War.

"Yoshinobu Arasaka recently signed a new New Grain Act, which aims to protect the stable ...... of Night City's food market."

On TV, a female news anchor is broadcasting the latest news, and the letters AN in red letters in bold in the lower right corner of the news page are particularly eye-catching.

News from the Arasaka Group! It is also the direct head office of that entertainment company.

"After this bill is implemented, the price of food in Night City will increase a lot! Damn the Arasaka Group. Qi Ya complained casually.

How many 10,000 citizens are there in Night City? That's seven million! How many companies, gangs, and other Night City specialists can be accounted for? Half a million? Or a million?

With only a few thousand members of a gang and at least 90 percent of the people of Night City from all walks of life, do law-abiding Night City citizens really have a way to live?

No one knows for sure, but what is known is that for gangs and corporations, the ordinary people of Night City are like livestock, and who can protect them? NCPD? Or are you a gang member who collects protection money every day? Will your parents punish themselves for stepping on a rat to death?

Night City isn't just a paradise for cyberpunks, it's a place for millions of people to live.

Ryan knew an organization that they hated Arasaka more than anyone else, and his first mission was to capture those people in Night City, and if they resisted, kill them on the spot.

Those people fled quickly! What Lane remembers most is a man and a woman; The woman took the initiative to stay and cut off for them, and the ending was obviously easily killed by Ryan, but the man who could have escaped ran back, holding the woman's body and crying, he said while crying that he wanted to avenge the woman, but he was easily subdued by Ryan.

Ryan didn't kill him.

The sugar gourd is ready.

Qi Ya brought it to the table, and in order to make the syrup solidify quickly, Qi Ya also put it in the refrigerator to ice it.

Ryan picked one up and ate it, the syrup on the outside was cold, and it was still a little hot in his mouth.

But the taste is still good, and it seems that the woman in front of her is very good at making food.

"I'm going to go to the afterlife nightclub at night." Kia opened the topic.

Tonight is the time for Ryan and Ruth to meet; At that time, everyone in Ruth's team should be there, and Catherine and Kia are no exception, but they didn't expect that in three days, Ryan had already lived in Kia's house.

"I'm going to the orphanage in the afternoon, how do you two arrange it?" Kia said.

Catherine would love to come with Kia, but she didn't know when the killer would come...... Ryan didn't tell her everything.

Just tell her to stay at home, she will investigate the information of the killer, and then if they come to the door, she will take care of them all, and if they don't come, Ryan will go to them.

Kia's identity is Catherine's sister who doesn't have a good relationship in the eyes of the killer, while Ryan's identity is Catherine's cousin who doesn't have a good relationship; Anyway, Catherine is usually cold to everyone and doesn't speak...... Ryan wasn't very worried about Kia's safety, and the killer wouldn't do anything more than that.

"Let's go there and wait first."

Ryan replied that he didn't really want to go to the afterlife, but just to leave Catherine there, which should be one of the safest places outside of the Arasaka Tower, right? No one will want to kill in the next life, so that Catherine herself is safe in the next life, the single combat effectiveness of the network hacker is not strong, but there will be someone to protect her in the next life.

Go and see someone again, and by the way, solve Catherine's danger.