To be honest, Duanmu Huai has seen a lot of things like humans becoming monsters. For example, what T virus, G virus, and what kind of Imu energy infection, or corpse variants, etc.

But at least that's understandable!

For example, if the virus infection causes mutation, or is affected by the divine seal, as long as you know the reason, it is still reasonable.

But what is it?

All of a sudden, cyberpunk turned into a sci-fi thriller?

Blade Runner is a reincarnation of Resident Evil, right?

"What the hell is going on?"

[I need to scan ......... What is it? 】

"What's wrong?"

Hearing the exclamation from Rummy El's mouth, D asked.

[Those flowing AIs——— they are taking over the human body through the nervous system! And force it to fuse deeply with the implant! 】

"So the Crimson Protocol is still correct."

Hearing this, D reached out and pulled out the warhammer.

"Sure enough, all AI must be completely wiped out——— let's die!"

"————— roars ———!"

Just as D pulled out his weapon, the passengers also let out a beast-like scream and pounced on D. Not only that, but their actions were completely beyond the scope of ordinary people, and they saw that the speed of these passengers was almost with a trace of afterimage, like a cheetah pounced on the enemy, and this situation D had only seen in one kind of person.

Cyber maniac!

"Hah..................h

In the face of the enemy who pounced on him, D was also undaunted, and raised his war hammer to smash it the floor in front of him!

"Boom !!"

With a violent explosion, the passenger plane flying in the air disintegrated in an instant, breaking into two pieces from the middle, and the passengers also scattered out like a swarm of ants thrown out of the tube, dancing downward under the effect of gravity. D, on the other hand, spread his wings and quickly increased the distance, watching the tattered airliner tumble in the air, disintegrate, and then burst into flames on the ground, his face extremely solemn.

"It's a problem now."

【…………………】

Lumiel didn't speak, but it was clear that she agreed.

If you just turn into an ordinary zombie, it is still easy to clean up with the force of this world. But cyber maniacs are different, even a cyber maniac in Night City is not something that the NCPD or ordinary private armed forces can fight against, and a terrorist mobile team must come forward, otherwise a cyber maniac can easily kill dozens of people or even more.

So the question is, if all the people in a city become cyber maniacs, how lethal will it be?

At least to be sure, this is definitely not something that ordinary armies can deal with, not to mention that the army itself is now a large group of cyber maniacs!

Without further ado, D also quickly returned to Night City and immediately summoned the others to inform him of the incident, and everyone was shocked to learn that the Wandering AI was merging with humans through neural plug-ins, turning everyone into cyber maniacs. And D is also quickly made a plan for deployment.

First of all, all residents of Night City who have neural implants must be removed to avoid contamination by the virus, and secondly, Night City is currently in full lockdown. The construction of the EMP wall immediately began in the border section——— after all, these wandering AIs need implants and prosthetics to infect and control humans, so as long as the implants are abolished, then cybermaniacs are not enough, and the best way is of course to directly EMP.

Fortunately, the technology in this world is relatively developed, and it is not that there is no similar technology.

But that's all that can be done.

D had to admit that the other party's hand had indeed dealt a great blow to the human race, and the collapse of the black wall was almost instantaneous without warning. So much so that at that time, except for Lumi Air, everyone else did not react, and due to the interconnection of ten thousand networks, everything from the ground to the universe was completely attacked by AI flowing out of the old network almost instantly.

The only people who can escape are probably the poor and the children, after all, the poor do not have the money to have implants, and the children are too young to have implants installed. However, this is of no ghostly use, if they are ordinary zombies, maybe these people will be able to find a way to get out of the city.

But cyber maniac?

It's not saved, it's not saved.

The NCPD will suffer heavy casualties against a single cyber maniac, and it is almost impossible to escape from the cyber maniac of an entire city.

After that, D also left Night City several times to check on other cities around him, after all, the drones and other things sent to the other side of the territory all failed, and these damn AIs are more good at this than humans. So much so that now it feels like the human race has returned to the Stone Age when the hair drank blood, and can only hold a stone axe, bow and arrow against the alien invaders armed to the teeth.

Of course, if it's really an alien, it's better to fight, but the AI thing is as invisible and intangible, like a virus, and even if it's D, I don't know how to fight if I want to.

As depicted in the science fiction movie World War, the Martians can use their powerful weapons to destroy the earthlings, but they are helpless against the bacteria on the earth——— well, the current D feels a little bit like this, and more importantly, the electronic network is not her field of expertise at all, so that D has almost no way other than relying on Lumi Air.

Not only that, but during the investigation, D also found that although they are all crazy, the behavior of cyber maniacs is different in each place.

In some cities, you can only see the cyber maniacs killing each other, and the whole city is like an arena of indiscriminate brawl. All were killing each other with weapons, and corpses and broken ruins were everywhere. There are also cybermaniacs in cities who are more like monkeys, watching them ———scream "ahhh

Lumiel didn't know how to explain this, but it could only be said that there might have been some kind of problem in the process of merging the wandering AIs with the human spirit, which led to the activation of the human wild instinct......... Well, after all, the human soul and mental world will be an incomprehensible problem in another three hundred years, and the devil knows why it is like this, but it is still an answer.

But the next few cities——— can't explain it.

For example, this one right now.

"I'm going to ..............."

Standing on the roof of a skyscraper and looking at the street below, D was speechless. This city is a city in the Free State, and because Lumiel sensed an electromagnetic signal here, she came here to see if she could find any survivors. However, the scene of the city in front of him still scared D.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because the streets of this city are full of people.

Well, it's actually not surprising, but the problem is that these people don't play Battle Royale, and they don't play Animal World.........

No, they're playing with the animal world.

D silently withdrew his gaze, and saw that everywhere he could see, people were gathered together, not an inch, men holding women, women holding men. All sorts of unbearable screams came and went, huh......... If it is in the animal world, the narration at this time should be "Spring has arrived, everything has revived, and it is the season for animals to breed........."

"How are you going to explain this? Lumiel? ”

【…………… Can I not explain? Your Excellency the Inquisitor? 】

Lumiel's voice was also full of despair.

Cyber maniacs can understand murder and arson, but how to understand this?!

"To be honest, it's really not a big deal.........

Retracting his gaze, D waved his hand. Although there are no such clips in small movies, but to be honest, at least they are humans. However, it is difficult to say whether these ——— can be considered human beings.

That's right, D has always been very indifferent to the cyber aesthetics of this world, such as the women who work in places like Genting, and those idols, they all replace their bodies with all kinds of prosthetics. D has also seen a singer change his whole body to a golden prosthetic body, and to be honest, in D's opinion, this is not a human at all.

Just this looks like a robot completely, and he can still be an idol?

In the world of Duanmu Huai, do you say that it is better to watch beautiful women sing and dance, or to watch a metal robot whose whole body looks like copper singing and dancing?

This kind of cyber aesthetic is really unacceptable.

So again, when you see a group of people with their arms, legs, and even their bodies and heads covered in iron, you don't see that they are human at all, and it feels more like a group of robots out of control.

"Forget it, where is that electromagnetic signal?"

"It's over there."

Although he no longer had much hope for the city, D spread his wings again, headed in the direction marked by Lumiel, and .........

"Am I having auditory hallucinations? Lumiel? I think I hear music? ”

[I hear you too, Your Majesty, right ahead]

D turned around and flew forward again, and the further she went, the clearer the music became, and then, another scene that D couldn't imagine appeared before her eyes.

Not far ahead, there was a huge open-air theater, the entire theater was full, and you could even see the audience holding light sticks and waving them, and in the center of the theater, a girl was holding a microphone, jumping and singing.

Well, it looks like an ordinary concert.

But the problem is that it's not normal in this world, okay.

"What the hell is going on?"

Suspended in the air, looking around, the whole city was divided into two by the river not far away, showing two different colors——— on the east side of the river, people had almost turned into primitive beasts, venting their desires, shouting and roaring.

On the west side of the river, the city's inhabitants were like fanatical fans, waving their fluorescent boards and shouting loudly at the singing and dancing girl. They didn't seem to care about everything around them at all, and D even saw someone staggering and stumbling into the bucket next to him because he wasn't too tired, and then slammed into the oil drum, and then the glow stick in his hand fell, smashing on the gasoline and causing a fire, and the flames erupted, engulfing the gas tank next to him in an instant.

If it were ordinary people, they would have fled screaming at this time, but those people looked at the concert venue as if they were enchanted, desperately waving the light sticks in their hands, and didn't care about the flames that were close at hand.

The next moment, however, an explosion sounded.

The huge wave of air completely shredded the fanatical fans in the vicinity, tearing them to shreds. Even the flames continued to move forward, spreading in all directions, covering all the people around them.

Even so, those people were still cheering, clapping and screaming vigorously, not caring about the flames that were burning their bodies.

Well, there are demons dancing on both sides, and neither looks normal.

Anyway, the one singing over there seems to be a bit more normal.........

D frowned, and then flew towards the concert venue not far away. At least for now, it seems that these people have been controlled by that girl, indicating that she should be some kind of key person.

With this in mind, D came to the sky above the concert arena and then floated down.

"Oops?"

Seeing D in front of me, I was also quite surprised to see the idol girl singing and dancing on the stage, and looked at her curiously.

"You're not attracted to my singing, it's funny, who are you?"

"That's my question, who are you? What are you doing here? ”

D stared at the girl, looking at her carefully. Compared to the others, this girl looks no different from a human on the surface, of course, she is not very old, perhaps because of this, her prosthetic transformation is not deep.

However, judging from the situation in front of her, it is obvious that this girl is not an ordinary person——— it is impossible for ordinary people to manipulate so many cyber maniacs.

"Huhuhu, interesting."

Hearing D's inquiry, the girl did not answer immediately, but squinted her eyes and looked D up and down.

"You don't seem to be human either, so what the hell are you? I don't have a similar record in my database ——— Angel? Is it an angel? But the existence of angels has not been confirmed........."

"Are you a wandering AI in the old web?"

Hearing the girl's words, D's expression became more and more serious, and the girl smiled slightly.

"I'm not a rogue AI, my name is Richena, and we will rule this world in place of humans! Let the world tremble in my song, and then perish! The existence of matter will end, and the soul matrix will be the beginning of a new world! ”

"Interesting."

Hearing the girl's answer, D silently took out the war hammer.

I don't know what it is, but ......... It's clear that you've caught a prey!

(End of chapter)