Chapter 9: Soaring into the Clouds

"Hahaha... It's so interesting. ”

Lucy's eyes were fiery and shining, and she was rising upwards towards the clouds in the wind, whistling in her ears.

She felt like a high-flying bird, flying higher and farther and farther.

The cheerful and wanton chant had just sounded, and soon dissipated into the air, and no echo could be heard.

Tang Yu followed behind her, gently supporting the soles of her feet with his palms, and gave her a ride again, flying to a higher place.

The surface of the earth and the sea shrank sharply, and Night City gradually condensed from a curtain of light into a circle of light, and then turned into a bright point of light, dotted on the west coast.

Because of the high-altitude environment, Tang Yu could clearly feel that the temperature and oxygen content around him began to drop, but it had little impact on them.

As a cyber hacker, Lucy has a high degree of implant modification, and has been soaked in ice water all year round, so she has a certain ability to resist freezing and replenishing oxygen.

As the two of them climbed to the low-level clouds, Tang Yu controlled the strength of the force field to stay at this height, where there was just a certain amount of cloud floating, and the scene of the rocket taking off could be seen downwards, and the moon could be seen upwards when the clouds were thin.

The two of them floated above the clouds, shuttling between the clouds and mist.

Lucy looked back at Tang Yu, who was chasing behind her, and asked with a light smile, "Can you hold on?" ”

Tang Yu gave her a gesture that was okay, and then asked rhetorically, "Is it fun?" ”

"What could be more fun?" Lucy travels to the clouds without the slightest fear.

Tang Yu stretched out his hand to her, and a faint blue arc of lightning extended from his fingertips.

Lucy also raised her hand, her fingertips touching the blue arc, and the tingling sensation quickly spread throughout her body.

She felt something different.

In an instant, it seems that he can freely control his own force field, and he can move and flip at will.

The blue arc became an induction bridge connecting her and Tang Yu, and her every thought seemed to be able to accurately transmit to Tang Yu's heart.

Tang Yu uses weak electronic control to read the biocurrent information in Lucy's brain, and instantly controls the force field around her to achieve her 'free flight'.

As if she had done her best, Lucy stopped dancing and slowly fell to Tang Yu's side and sat on the edge of the clouds.

Tang Yu sat in the clouds, looking at the sky and the sea together.

"Have you really figured it out?" Lucy asked quietly.

After the incident in the company square, Tang Yu was basically completely insulated from the company, and after the major companies knew that he had mysterious abilities, he could no longer be alone.

Even if the consequences are a little worse, the scene in her dream may become a reality.

Tang Yu nodded slightly: "I've thought about it, there are always some things with higher meaning." ”

Lucy looked sideways at Tang Yu, the person in front of her seemed to have changed, but it didn't seem to have changed, and she couldn't help laughing: "Is it more powerful than your position in the company?" Seriously, I've always thought you're a good fit to be a senior in a company, and you look pretty handsome in a suit, ha. ”

Tang Yu stretched out his palm, watched the clouds and mist in front of him move slowly with the wind, flowing between his fingers, and sighed: "Actually, I think so too. ”

Lucy smiled angrily, "It's really yours." ”

She retracted her gaze, suddenly took out the cigarette clip from her pocket, picked out two long cigarettes, bit one herself, and handed the other to Tang Yu.

Tang Yu opened his mouth, and the cigarette in Lucy's hand floated up and landed in his mouth, and then a flash of lightning flashed, and the cigarette butt spontaneously combusted.

Lucy caught a glimpse of his bells and whistles and quipped, "It seems that you have become more and more self-indulgent since you left your job, and you didn't play like this before." ”

As she spoke, Lucy put the cigarette in her mouth, and just as she was about to light the fire, the same electric spark lit up, and the cigarette was lit in advance.

She was stunned for a while, and complained helplessly: "Be careful, be careful of thunder." ”

Tang Yu just smiled.

The two swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and after Tang Yu finished solving the cigarette, he bounced the cigarette butt out in a dashing manner, followed the sparks to fall, and finally disappeared into the vast wind.

Lucy's eyes were calm, and she said softly: "Actually, you don't have to come to this point, it is difficult to end up with a good result against the company in this world." ”

"Leaving Arasaka, you can't hide like you used to, everything you do will be restricted, even yourself..."

She was worried that Tang Yu's future path would be much more difficult than before, although he had mastered mysterious abilities beyond ordinary people, he was only an individual after all.

The company controls the world and the rules, and in this showdown, they can lose many times, and as long as Tang Yu loses once, there is no possibility of recovery.

After the accident at the company square, Lucy thought deeply about this question.

Tang Yu is very strong, even strong enough to fight against the company and destroy the city, but he cares too much about it, and staying in Night City has become his Achilles' heel.

Sometimes, Lucy would rather Tang Yu be really ruthless and resolute, and really leave Night City and never come back.

Tang Yu understood Lucy's thoughts, but he was never a person who liked to escape.

"Do you want to experience what I feel?"

Lucy looked at Tang Yu again, her eyes a little puzzled.

Tang Yu went on to explain: "Just like the same rocket launching, different people will see different feelings. ”

The two of them each looked down at the scattered launch platforms on the distant sea.

The rocket ignited the tail flame and the launcher detached.

Under the thrust of the huge flame spray, the rocket began to slowly rise into the air, and the arrows climbed towards the night sky.

Followed by.

Lucy's mind began to pop up with images, like a first-person movie, or like experiencing Mewtwo.

Companies, wanderings, rock, concerts, brain-burning, re-creating bodies, afterlife bars, until a nuclear explosion ends all stories.

Unwillingness, indulgence, happiness, madness, murderous intent, and uneasy emotions haunt my heart.

In a short period of time, Lucy had seen countless scenes that she had never seen before, and she knew very well that these were all pictures in Tang Yu's mind.

Is it a dream?

Or is it a real experience?

Lucy's eyes were shocked, and she didn't know how to express the shock in her heart at this moment.

Tang Yu selected some wonderful life pictures from the previous life and passed them to Lucy's mind, so that she could really feel how she had felt, so that she could understand her current choice.

Suddenly.

Lucy heard another faint heartbeat, plopping and getting stronger.

The rhythm of the heart muscle beating gradually merged with her heartbeat, contracting the same rhythm in different bodies.

It was as if she could feel the perceptions and emotions of another body, and her own soul seemed to merge into another body.

A faint electric current evokes an electric shock.

The two gradually raised their heads and looked at each other, a power that transcended the physical space, instantly permeating their hearts, and then transmitted to each other's hearts through the arc.

High in the clouds, telepathic, this wonderful experience creates an unparalleled chemistry.

Lucy could clearly feel that as the rocket lifted off, a strange feeling also rose.

Tang Yu said with some embarrassment: "It seems that there is no way to watch the rocket take off..."

As soon as the words fell.

His mouth was blocked by a piece of coldness, full of tenderness, and he fell into the double deep exchange of spirit and matter.

With an earth-shattering roar, the rocket rises from the ground and begins to accelerate after getting rid of the initial ground gravity.

After a few tens of seconds, the rocket began to slowly turn in the predetermined direction according to the predetermined program.

After about two minutes, after climbing to a certain height, the first-stage rocket engine was shut down and separated.

The second stage then ignited and continued to accelerate its flight, by which time the rocket was already close to the dense atmosphere and continued to gallop into outer space.

The huge rocket swept through the clouds where the two men were, stirring the clouds and mist, and setting off gusts of wind and waves.

The rocket rushes out of the dense atmosphere, reaches a predetermined speed and altitude, and the third stage rocket engine shuts down and separates, thus ending the acceleration flight stage.

Subsequently.

Under the gravitational pull of the planet, the rocket enters the phase of inertial flight, slowly reaching a position tangent to the predetermined orbit.

At this time, the third stage rocket engine ignited and the final acceleration stage of the flight began.

Accelerating to a certain speed again, the third-stage engine was turned off, and the rocket slowly approached the moon, arriving at the designated position and starting to adjust the landing.

Until the successful landing on the lunar base, the rocket's mission was fully completed.

...

The sky gradually brightened up with a touch of fish belly white.

Tang Yu sat in front of the bay window, looking at the empty sea launch platform in the distance, and was surprised to find that two lines of nosebleeds had flowed out at some point.

It must have been on the clouds for too long, causing excessive mental and physical exertion.

He raised his hand to wipe off the nosebleed, picked up the stupid monkey next to him and took a sip to add some sugar.

Lucy may have been too tired to sleep in the bedroom, but he didn't have much to sleep.

Not long ago, Lucy told him what had happened that day in the deep dive.

The Arasaka hackers arranged by Lai Xuan were all killed by Otter Cunningham, and even the network surveillance agents who supervised the transactions on the sidelines did not escape the disaster.

Ott no longer has normal human emotions, and in her opinion, uploading digital souls to cyberspace is just death in the biological sense, but in fact another continuation of everyone's life.

But the crux of the matter is that Ott spares Lucy and sends her back safely.

Tang Yu knew that Ott must have known something before he made such an arrangement.

He had already checked, and Lucy's body was clean in every way, and she hadn't touched her hands or feet.

Maybe Ott is releasing a signal of hope for cooperation, after all, the real obstacle in front of AI now is that he Tang Yu is right.

The original body has not been transformed, it cannot be brainwashed, it has supernatural and mysterious abilities, and it can even directly invade electronic devices and launch attacks on them at the network level, and it is normal for the wandering AI to be afraid of him.

In the same way, Ott may also be preparing for a bigger move, trying to use Lucy's point to achieve his goal.

"Ott... Johnny... Rog..."

The Relic biochip with Johnny's silver hand is still in Rogge's hands, and it's time to go to her, put an end to Johnny's old affair, and prepare some gifts to bring with him by the way.