"What's going on, why are there so many ...... who are soldiers?"

Vi cautiously poked her head out of the corner and waited for the troop carrier brigade to pass before dragging out of the shadows with heavy steps.

After hiding in a container for five days before arriving in the Night City, Jace Reagan said that he would send someone to pick her up, and arranged a hiding place and a false identity for her. But I don't know why, Wei never waited for the connector at the cargo terminal, but waited for the martial law army.

Seeing that the military was about to pull up the blockade, Wei knew that his identity could not withstand the investigation, so he had to slip away in advance.

Once the prosthetic authority is lost, this implanted body part is not a superhuman buff, but a simple burden. The human body needs to bear extra weight, and if it is hit hard, the leaking prosthetic oil engineering fluid will also injure itself.

So don't look at those company dogs, usually they have a high-end prosthetic body and a lot of scenery, but once they are fired, they will instantly become a waste person. It's not as good as a waste, and because of the daily work 'coffee', you will drink too much, become addicted to drugs, and become a walking dead.

Wei's situation has not reached the worst point, after all, she has not been in the company for a long time, and she is also equipped with ESPD's police system, and her rank is lower and she has not received a full-body transformation, and the brain plug was given by Kelman, a high-end cargo of the GEN Group, so she will not become a mentally retarded as soon as she is fired, and she has been recuperating in the transport ship for a few days, and she has recovered from the injury of a heavy blow to the abdomen, and she can gradually move freely.

However, this time, I really returned to my hometown in vain......

Wei sighed, looking at the pigeon cage slum in the distance, no way, from the port area in the southeast, to go to the industrial area in the northwest, you have to walk a diagonal, across the night capital, it is too far to go, and the territory of the Vortex Gang is safe, don't you do a gun to defend yourself, isn't it to send kidneys to others......

But it's quite close to the suburbs...... I can only lick my face and borrow some money from that guy......

Luckily, although Wei lost her citizenship and her prosthetic body was blocked, when she walked to the elevator entrance, there happened to be a thin woman dragging a large and heavy black plastic bag into the elevator.

No more stairs! Yes!

"Oh, I'll give you a hand."

Wei took the initiative to step forward and help her push the plastic bag into the elevator, wrapping her body in a broken blanket, and the woman who looked down on her face also nodded,

"Thank you."

Why does it stink, pick up the rags, or is it a problem with her olfactory implants.

"Which floor are you going to?"

"Oh forty-five, thank you."

"What a coincidence......"

The woman pressed the elevator.

"Do you live here too, haha, I'll help you, by the way, what's so heavy here?"

"Just some rubbish, thanks, I'm Maria."

"Wei, call me Wei."

The two dragged the big garbage bag all the way to the door of the apartment, and Wei Meng looked up and was stunned.

"Staying here?"

Maria looked at her and opened the apartment door,

"yes, come in and have a drink?"

Looking at the familiar scene in the apartment, Wei hesitated for a moment and nodded,

"Oh...... Okay, excuse me. ”

"Sit casually."

Maria dragged the large plastic bag into the toilet.

“……”

Wei hesitated, walked to the back of the sofa, and reached out to touch it. Touched a hole in the back of the sofa.

…… Sure enough, it was this sofa.

She reached out and pulled out a waterproof plastic bag from the hole, which contained several virtual currency data cards, access control cards, an external Super Dream headband, and a third-level civilian pistol, the collector's version of 'All Night', and Wei also breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the guy didn't throw the broken sofa with the emergency plan.

When playing games with the boss, the money collected is divided equally, but at that time, Wei didn't have a citizen account, so her virtual currency rewards were stored in the NFC card, this Mewtwo was also used before, and after swiping the cracked program, you can log in to general civilian devices for transactions. The pistol was given by that guy, what kind of ancestral ......

Whew, it's okay, luck hasn't gotten home yet.

"What do you want to drink?"

"Oh, water is fine, thank you."

Wei hurriedly put things away,

Maria also walked into the living room with two mugs.

"How's the black tea?"

"Wow Maria, you're good at enjoying life. Thank you. ”

Wei took the mug, hesitated and asked,

"Maria, you are ...... Do you share a house? I mean, do you have a boyfriend? ”

Maria shook her head and took a slow sip of black tea.

Wei Bi scribbled,

"What about you...... Know a previous tenant? Well, maybe it was earlier, just, the hair stood up like this, like a broom......"

Maria's tea-drinking action stopped,

"Broom...... Broom heads? ”

"Yes, yes, broom head." Wei looked at her expectantly, "That guy...... Not dead, right? ”

Maria was silent for a moment,

"Yes, it was the broom head who rented the house to me."

"Whew......" Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly frowned again, "Made, this dog thing is really not dead...... Tsk......"

Maria looked at her curiously,

"Wei, you're here for him? Don't you have his contact information? Shall I call him for you? ”

"Oh, no, no."

Vi smiled awkwardly,

"Actually, that guy dumped me, I also have self-esteem, okay, he didn't answer me and why did I get up.

Anyway, thank you for the black tea, that doesn't bother you, I'll take my leave first. ”

"You're welcome."

Maria nodded, watching her leave.

Vi left the apartment, put on her headband, entered the elevator, and checked the status of the pistol and the amount in the data card.

5331.6, well, it's also a huge amount of money in the Night Capital. Find a prosthetic doctor to dismantle all the ESPD implants and monetize, you should be able to exchange some fourth-level prostheses, and then go for cyberpunk.

Oh, but speaking of the prosthetic doctor, there seems to be one in this building, right?

"Lao Wei, Lao Wei? How? Isn't it? ”

Vi frowned at the locked garage and then at the empty parking lots and buildings.

Why is it so deserted......

I remember when I came here before, wasn't this building quite lively? Selling wontons, playing ball, taking drugs, making Mewtwo, operating vending machines, and people coming and going?

Why didn't anyone see it except Maria......

As he walked out of the building, suddenly a floating sports car rushed in, rolling up a strong wind, blowing sand and dust in his face.

"Phew! XXX！ Company Dogs! ”

Vi yelled angrily.

The sports car directly ignored the envy and jealousy of passers-by, went directly to the wing of the building, and opened the door.

Li Pan blinked, exited the video conference link with Panlong, stretched and sat up, jumped into the apartment from the window, and covered his nose as soon as he came in.

"! Something rotten! ”

"It's just some garbage."

Maria sat on the sofa, nodded at Li Pan, and pointed to the untouched black tea on the coffee table.

"Manager Li, do you want a drink?"

"What the hell! Boiled rotten? ”

Li Pan twisted his brows into a knot, staring at the filth in the mug with wide eyes.

Maria explained,

"It's a potion that boosts magic power, don't you try it, your talent is amazing, maybe you can awaken your magic talent."

"Damn, I have a lot of talent, don't want it, okay, who wants such a stinky talent!"

Li Pan refused to drink, took out two gold-inlaid wine saucers from his pocket and put them on the shelf, stacked them in a pile with the previous collection, and then took out a few magic books and handed them to Maria.

"Miss Maria, you're all proficient in demonic contracts, resurrection magic, abyss, hell, and whatever, right?"

Maria nodded, took the magic book and flipped through it, "I understand a little." ”

Li Pan took out another ancient book,

"What about yin-yang? Is the country of Yellow Springs or something, and the abyss of demons? ”

Maria looked at Li Pan,

"You want to ask about the afterlife? Is this a magical consultation? ”

"Sort of, I don't have that many silver keys,"

Li Pan took out a gold coin of Solomon and bombed it to her,

"How about paying with this?"

Maria picked up the gold coin and looked at it, nodded, stood up and took the divination ball, handed it to Li Pan to hold,

"You may be seated, and I'll show you."

"Oh? The world after death? ”

"In fact, there is no 'afterlife', and after death, there is nothing."

Maria unbuttoned her robe, revealing her zombie-like gray and rotting body, her fingers scooping through the air, pulling down a few of the webs she had prepared in the apartment, wrapping them around her fingertips, weaving cobweb-like knots like ropes over the divination ball.

So Li Pan saw that on the crystal ball, countless chaotic, marquee-like fragments of memory flashed. And Maria quietly explained,

"The so-called hell, the abyss, the yellow springs, and the alayya, in the words of science, are subspace, different dimensions, and the shadows of strings.

It is the collective subconscious of human beings, the brainwave resonance, the band channel formed, and the ripples set off in another dimension.

You can understand that place as a kind of interdimensional network, because it is the collective subconscious of the human population, everyone is in the process of surfing the Internet, on the Internet, in the subconscious of others, leaving their own imprints and information.

Magicians, onmyoji, are like hackers, who can access the information of the network through various worlds, rules of one kind and another, and all kinds of rituals.

Therefore, when the individual in this world dies, the 'person' who 'lives' in the consciousness of others does not die immediately. At this time, you can use various means to intercept the bits and pieces that he once left on the network, and then re-piece together a 'person'.

This is the most basic 'resurrection'.

In the past, human technology was not advanced enough, and this magic yin and yang technique or something was a miracle.

But now that science has been very developed, in a sense, through the memories archived on the cloud by QVN, and the profiling simulation of the individual's personality by the intelligent system, the cloned clones are more realistic, more realistic, and closer to the ontology than most of the people made by the 'resurrection magic'. ”

Li Pan frowned,

"So...... There is no resurrection, everyone has only one life, and the "resurrected" is only oneself in the eyes of others? And what's the deal with the 'filing cabinet'? ”

Maria nodded and shook her head,

"That's true for the vast majority of ordinary people, but like I said, the 'afterlife' over there is just a shadow, a ripple, and it is unilaterally affected by the 'real world', not the other way around.

You can't shatter the moon by smashing the reflection in the water, can you?

Therefore, there are also some 'resurrections', but in fact, 'healing', because the body itself is not really 'dead', so it only needs to collect some information and 'recover'.

But the resurrection of monsters, such as the 'Ark of the Covenant/Filing Cabinet', is something completely different, and it is a manifestation of rules that transcend the real world. The company believes that there is a higher dimensional being, a projection in the three-dimensional world.

It's as if the author can arbitrarily rewrite the endgame of the characters in the script, but for the people who live in the book, their lives can never go beyond the set script.

So although I have studied all kinds of civilizations, all kinds of planes, and many kinds of magic and witchcraft, so far, I have only seen a power that can match the contract of the dimension of the 'Ark of the Covenant'. ”

Is the Primordial God Law of the Blood Cult......

Maria looked at Li Pan,

"It's too mysterious to say things beyond the dimension, put it aside for a moment and return to your question, Huangquan and Hell, although they are not the same thing in other worlds, this 0791 is indeed a distorted world.

I also discovered that in addition to the ancient magic net of the old elves, there is also a completely different magic system that has been transformed, that is, the kind used by the onmyoji, which is called the power of the six reincarnations, the yin and yang retreat.

Although I am not an expert in yin-yang arts, I can also see that these two systems have been strangely grafted together. It is not impossible that the reflections of the 'afterlife', 'Yellow Springs' and 'Hell', or some other 'world' are intertwined. ”

Li Pan thought for a while,

"So, according to your metaphor, if the 'afterlife' is a kind of 'network', and the onmyoji and the magician are all 'hackers', then it is possible for them to skip the QVN's surveillance and connect with each other through this afterlife?"

Maria nodded,

"Yes, and it's not difficult at all, 'spiritism' is almost an entry-level magic in most magic, and it is the most basic to communicate with the 'afterlife'. It's just like network communication, it's not enough to use 'psychic', the other party has to respond to your call. ”

Li Pan touched his chin,

"yes, can that be positioned like a hacker? For example, if I give you a ghost, can you use spiritism or something like that to check her communication history and find out who she is contacting? Or if I give you a name, can you find out where he went after his resurrection and reincarnation? ”

Maria shook her head and explained,

"Hackers are just using an analogy, this is not a system at all, the world is unique, but when viewed from different angles, the sides that can be seen are different. The interference that can be carried out is also different.

The channeling of magicians is more focused on 'communication'. Onmyoji is more focused on 'control', but if you want to 'position', maybe it's more appropriate to find a psychic person. ”

"Oh, and you have psychic powers, too?"

Maria shook her head,

"Psionic energy is a very rare talent, and only 011 and the humans on the surrounding earth have a chance to give birth to psionic beings, so the company chose 011 as its base camp, which is basically a technology monopolized by the company."

Li Pan hesitated for a while, but still asked,

“…… Then do you know what the Black Pharaoh is? ”

Maria was silent for a moment,

"Yes, but I don't know the specifics. I have no talent, I've never met the Black Pharaoh. ”

Li Pan didn't give up, and took out another gold coin,

"What about the rumors? There must be gossip within the company, right? ”

Maria hesitated for a moment,

"Some say it's some kind of demon god, some say it's a monster, and some say it's ...... That's the shareholders of the board of directors. ”

“…… Shareholder?? ”

"I've only heard about it,"

Maria emphasized,

"There is a saying that he was the pharaoh of the original civilization of mankind, and then he has been in the history of mankind, immortal, and founded a company, and is still a member of the board of directors of the beginning of the world.

General Manager 0. ”

"Wow...... General Manager 0......"

Li Pan swallowed his saliva,

“…… Does he have a daughter? ”

Maria squinted at him.

"I'll just ask, I don't mean anything else."

Li Pan shrugged,

"Anyway, thank you, and open the windows to ventilate, what does Made's smell like......"

Seeing Li Pan climbing the window and about to jump out, Maria remembered,

"By the way, 0791, your girlfriend just came looking for you."

"Girlfriend? K？ ”

"No, it's called Wei ......"

"Vi?"

Which is Celeste...... Alas, with Made's memory, it seems that Lao Tzu really has little time......

Li Pan scratched his head,

"No matter, I'm going to serve recently, and if she has something to do, she will call me directly."

As soon as he jumped into the sports car and drove away, Maria also looked at the gold coins on the table inexplicably.

"What the hell is going on......

Well, Li Pan is actually here to verify.

Regarding the 'resurrection', 'Yellow Spring', 'Abyss' or something, he actually asked Ashiya Shiki, and for the sake of safety, he came to Maria to confirm it.

The two of them are basically the same, although from the perspective of the onmyoji and the magician, the emphasis is slightly different, but that's basically the case.

The kind of demon resurrection that the collector offers is actually a kind of fool. It's a world of difference from the reset of the company's filing cabinet.

According to Ashiya Shiki, he himself can casually catch a few ghosts from the 'Yellow Spring', throw them into the paper figures, and make them into a divine call.

But the kind of reset and elimination of the filing cabinet from the present world is really unheard of.

However, regarding Kiryu and Ya's means of resurrection by suicide, Ashiya Shiki gave an answer.

Hideaway. The method of reincarnation of ghouls

Onmyoji communicates the six realms of reincarnation, and longs to reach the ultimate realm, and has been studying those things of dead reincarnation. Especially cultivators who are in retreat, they must often step into the Yellow Spring to cultivate. In ancient times, the onmyoji also had to break through the six realms and complete all the cultivation before they could become the yin and yang head of the yin and yang liao.

Therefore, the Onmyoji does have the method of reincarnation, but the conditions are extremely harsh, and it needs to be combined with ritual herbs to enter the state of the living dead, and it cannot be left from the body for too long.

It's a pity that the more specific operation method of the Ashiya style is expensive, so I don't know. After all, as the concubine of the family, he was originally the character who was used, and the Ashiya family gave the sister-in-law alternative materials. Of course, this secret method will not be passed on to him, and now there is no one else in the Ashiya family who can use it.

However, according to Shikiki's statement, Kiryu or something, it must be a pseudonym, and this kind of secret art can only be used by families who practice Yin Retreat, and there must be no 'Kiryu family' among them.

Tsk, it seems that it is really difficult to catch that Kiryu out of the vast sea of people and kill him.

Well, it looks like he's going to have to leave Earth for a while, let these monkeys jump out, and catch them all again.

So Li Pan also quickly arranged the aftermath, and the matter of the black oil transaction was handed over to Panlong, and now Panlong's armed forces are three cruisers, twelve Nimitz excavators, a Red Moon captain machine, thirty-two veterans of VK-TU prosthetics and a bunch of drones.

Then it's a matter of buying a search cruiser, installing a PCC, and cultivating psionic energy......

Oh I almost forgot, I had to get the Holy Grail back to the company. Calculate the time, K's Holy Grail blood exchange is also finished, right?

So Li Pan drove directly to the hotel apartment,

"Yo K, how is it, is it cool, is it up again?"

There was no one in the apartment, only blood bags scattered all over the place, and a pool of blood that had been replaced.

And K and the Holy Grail, are gone.

Hiss...... Ahh This, this, this...... No, it won't......

Li Pan swallowed and foamed.

No way...... Could it be that you were tricked by K??? No, no, no, maybe someone else kidnapped him......

Li Pan hurriedly turned up the hotel monitoring to take a look.

It's really K, she's alone, she changed her blood and left with the Holy Grail......

Li Pan called K, but the other party did not respond, so he transferred Serena's coordinates again.

Tower of the Night parking lot.

Gan, it's really K who took away the Holy Grail......

But...... But why?

For one hundred and eighty trillion? Oh, that's a pretty normal reason......

But it always seems that something is wrong, right?

For money?

I don't think K is that kind of person, right? And she's not a company representative, just a night knight, and it's her job to reclaim the Holy Grail for the Night Clan, right? With the company's urine nature, can you really give a lot of reward?

Was it the Prince's order?

But the last time I went to save K, Prince Cornelius was on the scene, and he didn't say that he was going to fight with Li Pan to snatch the Holy Grail, why is it now...... Is it really this time to send him to Cygnus and take the opportunity to snatch the Holy Grail?

But......

Li Pan looked at the email notice he had just received, it was sent by the official of the Night Clan, saying that it was Prince Cornelius, who agreed to his application for a meeting, and gave Li Pan permission to visit the Tower of the Night for a limited time, and it was half an hour later.

…… What the hell is going on with Made??

Li Pan was confused, but he had to go to the Tower of Night anyway, so let's go directly.

Let's see what kind of medicine is sold in Ye's gourd.

It's a big deal to brush the Tower of Night again and snatch the Holy Grail back.

So Li Pan was familiar with Ruth, and he took the car directly to the Tower of Night,

What the hell, why don't there be any guards? Where are all the Blood Knights? Is this intended to trouble him??

But he's familiar with the way to the dungeon anyway......

So Li Pan walked in by himself, took the elevator to the top floor, and walked into the audience hall of the prince of the Ye family.

Then Li Pan was stunned.

K was standing at the elevator door, her face was covered in blood, she looked like she was being killed by some tiger and dragon, scratching her face and digging her belly with her claws, throwing dozens of blood marks, and her ribs and internal organs were cut off and cracked on the outside. His left hand was also torn off, and the whole person looked as if he had been hit by a big truck against the wall and run over more than a dozen times.

Seeing that it was Li Pan who came out of the elevator, K was also stunned and threw the thing in his right hand over.

It's the Holy Grail.

Then she reached into her waist and threw something over.

It's Serena's key card.

Li Pan squinted his eyes, tilted his head to look, and saw that behind K, there was a corpse, which was covered by a silver two-handed sword, with a charred broken arm on the hilt, and the blade of the sword passed through the heart and nailed the torso to the wall.

The corpse could not see its face, but it wore a golden crown on its head, a robe over its face, and a ring from the Cornelius family on its hand, and its whole body was shrouded in brilliant golden flames, which burned brightly.

"Dig ...... Special...... Hair ......"

Li Pan hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his arm and handed her wrist.

K spat out a mouthful of blood, shook his head, and said with difficulty,

"No...... Do you recognize a prosthetic doctor...... I just made a wish and became human again......"

(End of chapter)