In the decades following the defeat of the Company's war, Earth-0791 gradually recovered from the chaos of the occupation forces.

In order to return to the multiverse civilization order dominated by the public security system, a number of economic recovery policies led by The Night Konzern, the 'Night Konzern Enterprise Group', have further widened the gap between the rich and the poor in 0791 on Earth while redividing interests and promoting rapid economic growth.

After the defeat of the war, the former zaibatsu TAKAMAGAHARA Corporation and 'Takamagahara Shoji' were forced to go bankrupt and reorganized, and the outflow of technology and weapons due to the unemployment of the company's employees, the crime rate in the slums skyrocketed.

The local extremist armed forces, which advocated the use of force to overthrow the rule of the Ye Clan, quickly rose to the fore, and their strength quickly surpassed that of the dimensional security forces, which had lost their deterrent power due to excessive losses in the war, thus causing serious social unrest.

In view of this, in order to avoid the turmoil of Earth 0791 from brewing a new chain of hatred, balance the power of the vested interests of the victors of the war, and avoid the situation from getting out of control further and inducing a new multiverse corporate war.

With the special approval of the Earth 0 Public Safety Committee, it was decided to establish a special mobile police force limited to the 0791 plane of the Earth, with independent authority and battlefield command rights, equipped with reinforced armored suits, battlefield drones and heavy weapons, and authorized to use five-level military technology, directly under the command of the 0791 Public Security Bureau, and the unit code name CERBERUS.

That was about twenty years ago.

……

The young man walked through the corridor of the filthy apartment Pigeon Building, crossed the bankrupts, addicts, and homeless people lying on the ground, walked past the cyber maniacs who wore holographic glasses, watched illegal Mewtwo, and snapped while holding vending machines, probably trying to put cheap alcohol out of the door, walked to the door of the elevator hall on the forty-fifth floor, and the control board was dismantled, so he had to lean over to look at the surveillance camera.

Yellow, yellow, red, blue, yellow, yellow, yellow, red, blue, yellow.

Neon lights flickered on the iris, and then the unwavering electronic sound of the public safety system sounded in his ears after the interpretation of the young man's intracranial implant chip, and at the same time, the flickering pale blue electronic light was projected on his retina like a floater.

"Citizen Li Pan, account cash 1147.95, current loan repayment 3379.38. Total liabilities are 25XXXX.XX.

Your next debt will be settled on the 15th of this month, please keep your account fully balanced.

Your mental deviation is 15 percentage points above the middle of the system. Please visit a qualified mental health counselor as soon as possible, issue a valid mental health certificate, and upload a backup of the security system update.

Thank you for using the public safety system and I wish you all the best. ”

After completing the iris scan and confirming the identity of the tenant, the elevator door slowly opened.

"Made, the spiritual appraisal has been installed in the apartment subnet, so it's easy to fix the door......"

Li Pan was so impatient that he pulled his collar, carefully squeezed into the elevator, faced the dirty glass window full of graffiti and stains, sorted out the cheap formal clothes he rented, and while wearing a tie, he raised his neck, and cast his eyes over the pigeon cages in the slums that were lined up with zero times, and landed on the huge alloy jungle that stood between the sea and the sky, like a saber straight into the clouds, the artificial island of the Night City.

Yes, Night City, but it is not the Night City of 2077, but a huge metropolitan area called Earth 0791, which is not located in North America, but stands in the center of the old archipelago that was sunk by volcanic eruptions and nuclear wars, and has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.

Decades ago, symbolized by the dismemberment of the wolf pack by the dismemberment of the chaebol 'Takamagahara' who ruled the thirteenth new Tokyo Metropolitan City, the new owner of Earth 0791 was replaced by the 'Yashi' conglomerate, so this new night capital rose from the ground on the wreckage of the largest city on Earth 0791, sucking the blood and rotting flesh of the losers.

And Li Pan, a traverser with no system, no background, no superpowers, and mediocre body appearance and IQ, from the ordinary earth, to this world where the level of science and technology and the gap between the rich and the poor far exceed the former, it is naturally difficult to get ahead.

But no matter what, Li Pan's cards haven't rotted yet, at least now he hasn't indulged in the dream of illegal online games of alcohol and drugs like those homeless people at the door. Instead, he insisted on struggling in the quagmire of this cruel reality, relying on the interest-free loan of the war orphans' grant, working in the dark, completing his studies at the Military Engineering College with difficulty, successfully graduating, registering as a reservist engineer, implanting a second-level civilian chip in his brain, and obtaining a legal citizenship that can access the public network.

Of course, this is just the minimum ticket to normal social life.

Just look at the account just now, you know, after graduation, Li Pan will have to be self-reliant, to repay the orphan's pension 200,000 interest-free loans, he must find a way to make a living in this night city with an unemployment rate of 45 percent, otherwise what awaits him is that his credit card will burst, and he can't even go back to the door of this slum apartment, so he can only receive relief money on the street and beg, relying on relief money and picking up garbage to live a miserable life.

"Sorry! I'm sorry! Wait a minute, wait a minute! ”

Hearing the woman's urgent call, Li Pan subconsciously stretched out his left hand and blocked the elevator door that the monster's huge mouth seemed to click and close.

Stuck in the crack of the door is a mature woman with beautiful orange-red hair braided into a ponytail, it can be seen that if she is ten years younger, she will be a rare beauty, even if the eye bags are very heavy now, the hair is a little messy, obviously in a hurry to go out and have no time to put on makeup, her expression is even more tired, but she can still catch a glimpse of her past charm.

Li Pan saw that her face was quite familiar, and he looked at the light green uniform of the medical staff.

"You also live on this floor? NCHC Medical & Health Center? ”

"Thank you, thank you! You're Lee, I'm almost unrecognizable when I shave my head, I'm Orange. ”

Li Pan remembered,

"Oh, you're Yamato's mother, I heard you always work the night shift."

Li Pan recognized it, this woman is in the building, her son Huang Dahe often plays ball together in the open-air parking lot, that kid is much smarter than Li Pan, it is said that he was admitted to a private college directly under the Ye's company, and he got a scholarship, and he was a genius in the slums. After graduating, it was a direct subordinate of the Ye family, a serious company dog, and there was a way to make money.

Orange smiled wryly, pointing to the urgent news in the elevator,

"Yes, I'm working overtime urgently, and the three-headed dog and the red dog are fighting again. I heard that the seventh-level hypergravity ray cannon was used, and half of the block was bombed into ruins. ”

Li Pan noticed that because the speaker in the elevator had long been broken, and the projection screen was flashing with bloody and violent gunfight pictures, he thought it was another bad blood movie advertisement.

Since the end of the corporate war, the old king of this world, the chaebol Takamahara was forced to go bankrupt and reorganize, and the mercenaries and gangster groups under the security department of the old company and the chaebol were naturally unwilling to fail, and fell from the ruler to the bottom, so a large number of company remnants joined the underworld, and some of these radicals formed the extremist organization 'Red Tengu', which is commonly known as the Red Inu, trying to use force to expel outsiders from another world, the Night Group Company.

In the face of the annoying attacks of these local gangs and criminals and terrorists, Ye's company decisively chose to call the police.

What's the matter, people are legitimate monopoly businessmen, okay, Gao Tianyuan's inheritance was won by Zhengda Guangming.

As a result, under the arbitration of the Earth 0 Public Safety Committee, the 0791 Branch of the Public Security System was authorized to form an independent armed force, the CERBERUS Three-Headed Dog, a mobile police force, which was specifically responsible for brutally eliminating and suppressing these ignorant wild dogs.

And Akainu is naturally not a vegetarian, so the bloody 'dog fight' that has continued and escalated over the years is the daily highlight of Night City.

Looking at the long list of deaths rolling in the news, Li Pan couldn't help but be speechless.

"It's miserable, wow, there are 453 dead and injured taxpayers with social security information, good guys, the prize pool of the Dead Man's Lotto is going to double again, oh I mean you're busy now......"

"Well, isn't it, probably the chips are all melted on the floor, and it is estimated that they will have to be shoveled down with a shovel to be recycled, and this will have to be cleaned up until tomorrow......"

In fact, NCHC, Night City Medical Center, this so-called public health care system, a more appropriate adjective is a morgue. After all, since the company war, 0791's financial system has collapsed, the medical insurance account has long been bankrupt, and if you get sick, you can only rely on various expensive aristocratic hospitals and private medical insurance. Or the unreliable underground black market clinics, where the NCHC is only responsible for collecting and washing the ground.

"By the way, oranges, can you NCHC still do mood testing? I've been looking for a job lately and my mental health certificate needs to be renewed. ”

When Orange heard that the fierce-looking young man in front of him actually had to do regular psychological evaluations, he couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously took a step back.

Li Pan didn't care, after all, this was also a normal reaction when he heard that the people around him had cyber psychotic potential, so he calmly rolled up the sleeves of his plaid shirt and showed her his left arm.

"The garbage dump was broken when I was working in the black, and the boss still had a bad conscience, although he didn't settle my salary and fired me, but he paid me a prosthetic prosthesis removed from a disabled veteran.

If it's illegal, you don't have a registration number, you can't connect to the secure network, and you have to update it manually. ”

Orange looked at the metallic prosthesis, rusty, and knew that it was not a high-end military insert, it was probably just a junk dismantled from the garbage dump, it might just be the lowest level of technology, assisted prosthetics for the disabled, and the other party probably wouldn't have screwed her head off, so he put down his heart and said to Li Pan,

"As long as it is implanted with a prosthesis, how much immunosuppressants will be used, not to mention that it is not a specially customized part, there must be a rejection reaction, if you have the conditions, you can try to inject hibernation mixture, which can stabilize the mental deviation value in a short time.

In addition, I advise you not to use the NCHC public health consulting services, just the queue has to wait until five years later, I will give you a private communication link, it is my friend, they recently opened a mental health maintenance, if you want to open a certificate, find them, the price is fair, and you know, whether you are sick or not, you can give you a certificate. ”

"Oh, thank you! Great help! ”

exchanged contact information with Orange and added friends, and the elevator also fell from the forty-eighth floor to the first floor all the way, and the two of them broke the elevator door and squeezed out. Because Li Pan's interview was in the city, Orange drove him to the subway station to separate.

"The executives of the Night Corporation are all vampires! Yes! A real vampire! Not to scare you! Their prosthetic body is a cyborg coordinated with genes! Level 6 Technology! These bastards call themselves Bloodline! Stay young forever by sucking human blood!! Do you know how many people have gone missing in Midtown? Buy some silver bullets, silly beeps! ”

Li Pan walked past the subway entrance with an expressionless face and shouted at the maniac, and he couldn't say that he was a madman, after all, he was telling the truth, and the company in this world was not an organization of hundreds or thousands of people. It would be more appropriately called the super-capitalist Conglomerate conglomerate that monopolizes the infinite heavens across the multiverse.

They, the company, monopolize all the resources of a few, dozens, or even hundreds of parallel universes and earths with huge capital, the real overlords of the infinite heavens.

And there is more than one such overlord, there are many, and this earth 0791 once belonged to a chaebol called Takamagahara. Just one of the countless assets in the hands of the big chaebol.

Of course, it is obvious that in order to compete for interests, a war will also break out between the corporate chaebols, and Takamagahara was defeated in the last war and went bankrupt and reorganized, so the surface asset of Earth 0791 was divided into the Night Company of other planes.

So yes, the executives of the Night Company are indeed demons from another world, vampires. In the dimensional universe where their home base is located, these people are some kind of cyborg who have been transformed into vampires, the Bloods.

And now that the Night Company has come to Earth 0791, there are still so many unfriendly wild dogs in the local area, barking wildly all the time trying to tear their throats, and the executives of the Night Company have naturally brought vampire prosthetic technology, using the familiar enhanced human prosthetic body to descend to protect themselves.

However, these gossip will not be reported by the NCHK Night City Broadcasting Association, and you can only hear it from the mouths of these homeless people on the streets, and most of them are sent by yakuza organizations affiliated with Akatengu.

And these red dogs, the remnants of the old generation, also make no secret of the fact that they are remnants of the genus from Takamagahara, samurai retainers loyal to the head of the family, and dogs of the chaebol. Constantly stirring up revolts among the lower classes of the poor, and launching attacks at every turn against the Night Company.

This kind of struggle between large companies, even those legendary cyberpunk mercenaries will not participate indiscriminately, it is purely an act of seeking death.

"Hey the yellow monkey! What's the size of your shoes, huh! Look at it! ”

"Look at you!"

"Grass mud horse yellow skin monkey, you are looking for ...... death"

"Bang!"

"Ahh He killed Charles! ”

"Ahh Cyber Psycho! ”

"Ahh Lao Tzu's formal attire! ”

With a shake of his hand, he smashed the fools who had nothing to do, scared away a group of gangsters who were addicted to drugs and guns, emptied a carriage, Li Pan found a clean place to sit down, wiped the blood splashed on the cuffs, and called the 'private mental health system' introduced to him by the orange by the way.

"Crooked, baa."

The voice of the teenager came from the opposite side, and there was no avatar projection, probably using identity disguise, eighty percent is not a legitimate guy, but it doesn't matter.

"Is it Oak Tree Mental Health Counseling Service? I was introduced by Orange, you can issue a mental health certificate, right? ”

"Roar, no problem, five hundred yuan a month without bargaining."

This price is fair, Li Pan himself asked a few of them, and the ruthless one can kill you for 3,000, but ......

"Can it really be certified for a safety system? I'm looking for a job. ”

"Ann, ah, ah, take the credit card, I guarantee that you are as smooth as diarrhea."

Oh, can the other party not accept cash and postpone the payment until next month, Li Pan thinks it is acceptable, after all, he really killed him, and he will not be able to return the money next month.

Although it is very dangerous to use this kind of private link to identify your mental state, maybe the other party is some kind of indiscriminate electronic hacker, and the crime of stealing citizen ID is light, and it is possible to take the opportunity to load a puppet, leave a backdoor, or directly burn your brain and hack your account.

But Li Pan is not afraid, he is so poor that he can feel at ease, this is the so-called price of poverty, there is no choice. After all, he used to be accommodating with the school doctor, but now that he has graduated, the old channel can't be used, and he really needs to find a stable partner to provide regular mental certificates, otherwise theoretically he can only dismantle the prosthetic limb and wait for the mental stability.

Oh, can a crippled be mentally stable in the City of Night?

"Alright, let's take it in."

"Oh, a few K-yes."

So thirty seconds later, Li Pan received an update and confirmation of the psychiatric appraisal report from the public system.

Blue blue blue blue

the groove, really a few handfuls are as smooth as a strain.

There is zero fluctuation in psychiatric evaluation, and probably in the eyes of the public safety system, only a vegetative person can be more emotionally stable than him.