[Big Mike: Hey, friends! There's something I'd like to talk to you about. Remember Busan, South Korea? 】

[Maybe you remember, that place was on the news, and in 2022, it was still a city of four million people...... It was also the most tragic battlefield of the Fourth Company War. Just a year later, it was a city of four million ghosts, all dead...... The cause of death was an unknown disease, and the onset was extremely fast, and it could kill within a few days. 】

[No matter what the disease was, the Koreans finally controlled it, and even today, the ghost town is still under lockdown. Is this true? 】

【Magnetic——】

[Here is news 54]

[Military tech companies have once again been voted Night City's Best Employer, for the second year in a row.] 】

[The award is due to the company's many employee benefits, such as five days of paid annual leave per person per year, unlimited access to stimulant drug supplies, and substantial subsidies for the purchase of implants.] In addition to enviable benefits, 34 percent of military tech employees have received a company pension commitment. 】

[In another news, the law enforcement authority of the NCPD has been improved again, and according to the new regulations, the police can target the limbs of suspects when shooting warning shots, which will improve the personal safety situation when enforcing the law.] 】

[Due to the sharp reduction in the budget, the Network Technology Office recently announced that it will be officially disbanded and go home. 】

【Magnetic——】

[Good afternoon, Castle in the Sky!] 】

[At the beginning of 2076, when the Araba Company decided to change the name of Night City to "Sky City", many people protested. 】

[The most interesting thing is that some of these protesters turned out to be cyberpsychotic because they were too radical.] 】

[However, in the near future, the company is considering whether to adopt the plan of Sky City. 】

[As for the reason...... As you may already know, Arasaka Tower was attacked by a nobody, and then Adam's hammer is still missing, and of course, there is the Kabukicho fire that is suspected of being committed by aliens. 】

[In short, this time Arasaka may have to consider postponing the plan for Sky Castle until 2077.] 】

[I don't know ...... you]

【Beep】

"Grass! Who turned off the TV! ”

"Don't look at these nonsense news, military technology has exhausted our two relatives to death, and this is still the best employer."

"Damn, you haven't been to the barren board."

"What? Do you have an opinion? ”

"Damn...... Looking at the skin color of the boy, it can't be the Voodoo Gang, right? Yes...... By the way, the Voodoo Gang is gone. ”

Bang!

A brawl ensues in a restaurant, with bullets shattering windows and shelves, a common occurrence in Night City.

"Sorry, there's a fight going on downstairs, so your ham sandwich and milkshake may be coming up a little later." The waiter said as he touched the old mechanical arm.

"It's okay." Master Mirror smiled and waved his hand.

"Okay." Before the waiter left, she glanced back at the strangely dressed old man with a strange gaze: "Sir...... I suggest that if you want to walk around Watson, it's best not to wear wanderer's clothes, but at least get yourself a ...... Normal clothes. ”

The Mirror Master looked at the shabby coat on his body and nodded, "I'm sorry, I'll pay attention." ”

The waiter turned his head to leave and muttered, "It's quite polite, grass...... Where did you come from, stupid old man. ”

The mirror master looked out the window.

Buildings made of reinforced concrete cover the sky, floating cars fly above the sky, and the roads are full of people, like watching a swarm of ants.

"I'm sorry, can I sit with you?"

When the mirror master heard a man talking to him, he looked over to see that it was a man with a ponytail, eyebrows and bangs, and "beautiful" facial features.

It's a yellow man.

But in Night City, race doesn't matter that much anymore.

"Feel free, please be seated."

The man sat down, picked up the sandwich from the tray and put it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed, and said, "This city is crazy, I was just over and a bastard hit me, and he even made me lose money." ”

The Mirror Master looked at him and smiled, "And then?" ”

"I shoved two of his friends into his mouth," the man said. ”

"Sir has a great sense of humor." Since the mirror master came to this world, because the magic of the world is thin, so he can't fully adapt, although he can see the thinking and memory of some people, but because most people have done prosthetic transformation, so the embarrassment comes, he can't see the thinking memory for some special people.

You can't expect a mage to absorb magic from a robot,

For example, the man in front of you.

"What do you call me, sir?" The man asked, "There are very few people who haven't had a prosthetic transformation in Night City, and even wanderers need to have a prosthetic leg more or less, aren't you from here?" ”

"I'm coming from far away." Master Mirror said.

"Oh? How did you get here? The man asked.

"Heh......," said the Master Mirror, "a friend sent me here, but I don't plan to go back anytime soon." ”

"Is it because you've seen something new?" The man took a sip of beer and said, "Countrymen will not forget to return to the big city, but the danger of the city is not on the surface, and it may be much more terrible than your hometown." ”

Master Mirror said, "It seems that you are not from here either. ”

The man said, "Of course, after all, neither you nor I have 'fucking', 'grass', 'jerk', well, that's probably the kind of swear words, and neither you nor I have a gun, nor have we modified our bodies, ah...... Speaking of transformation, I would like to change my brain, and I heard that the Yeshi Group is an expert here. ”

The Mirror Master frowned slightly.

He said...... He has not done any physical modifications.

The man asked, "Can I ask your name?" ”

"Ronald Omdis."

"Haha......" the man dusted off the crumbs from his hands, "It's a strange name, but it feels more like a good guy than the name Günt Odim." ”

Syllable.

The Mirror Master clapped his palm.

Everything was quiet.

The man sat there.

Then the pupil looked at the mirror master and said, "If you need me to act with you, I will pretend to be fixed." ”

Master of Mirrors: "Incredible ......"

"You don't stand still in time, but you use the ability of higher dimensions to slow down the speed of time, which seems to be static in the eyes of life at lower latitudes, I will explain it another way, when we watch TV, we need to pause and press the remote control, because TV is 'dominated', but does TV have its own fixed laws and time benchmarks...... Well, who knows. The corners of the man's mouth curled, and he squinted his eyes to show a kind but not strange smile: "You say, am I right, Master Mirror?" ”

"Who is Sir?"

The man pointed to the roof: "Na~ You can guess it." ”

The Mirror Master looked at him with interest and said with a smile, "A traveler from another world, or a so-called god?" ”

"It's all said, guess what." The man smiled: "Master Mirror, you haven't used your brain to think about problems for a long time, have you?" I'll give you a chance. ”

The Mirror Master's eyes began to darken, and he revealed the sign of the demon's body, and said slowly, "Sir, I suggest that you don't consume my patience. ”

"Don't be angry~" The man waved his hand and said, "That's right, I have two things I want to talk to you about, the first thing is about the one who sent you here...... Your so-called 'friend'. ”

When the Mirror Master heard this, his eyes changed back to the appearance of a 'human', and he said, "Is this an exchange of interests?" ”

He had realized that the person sitting across from him was at least a high-latitude existence with him, and he no longer just blindly demanded it.

The man said, "Do you want to hear a story?" ”

Master Mirror: "Listen up. ”

The man said, "A king, who governs dozens or hundreds of cities and villages, it is impossible for the king to know what is happening in every district, such as ...... Widow Li's door lock is not locked tonight, is Xiao Wang drinking too much and making trouble again? ”

"Looks like your hometown is interesting." Master Mirror laughed.

The man continued, unconcernedly: "The king cannot detect these trivial things, but once something strange or shocking happens in a country, such as an interesting clown or talent who can please the king in a village located on the border of the country, these anecdotes will naturally reach the king's ears. ”

"I think it's because the country isn't big enough." The Mirror Master commented with interest.

The man nodded and said, "Indeed, the size of the country and the heart are related to ambition, and it just so happens that my ambition is a bit ...... Weak. ”

Master Mirror: "I don't see it. ”

"Back to our story." The man continued: "The king knows the interesting person, what should he do next? ”

The man bent over his cheek with one hand and smiled, "If it was the Emperor of Nifgaard, I think it would have been a soldier to 'invite' that person over, or someone to observe that interesting guy first, but unfortunately...... This king is a lonely man, he has no army, no retainers, no so-called family, he can only stay alone in the castle, spend hundreds of years and hundreds of years, all the rumors rely on their own senses to detect and experience, the people do not even know the king's true identity, let alone anyone has seen the king himself, even the lonely castle, no one can see, he has lived himself as a rumor, he can not read the memories of the people, he can only rely on his own legs to verify the authenticity of the anecdote. ”

After a moment of silence, the Master of Mirrors spoke, "What a strange story, Your Majesty. ”

"No need to salute~"

"Ha~" Master Mirror laughed, and then asked, "If Mr. Li Nuo is your national, then what am I?" ”

The man pondered and said, "The tallest and most vigorous Chitose tree in the village, or the fiercest beast on the borderline. ”

"Wonderful parables." The Mirror Master sighed, "Aren't you going to tell me your identity in a more direct way?" ”

"I've told you about it." The man said, "King, Emperor, God, Human, Lower Beings, High Dimensional Space, Witnesses, Neighborhood Bastards, Capitalists, Staff Dogs, everything can be used as my title." ”

"King's ......"

"I'm bound by certain rules and can only say so much, it's your turn, Master Mirror."

"So, you want to know the story of Li Nuo?" Master Mirror asked.

"Of course, I'll give you something in return." The man said.

Not long, not short, ten minutes later, the mirror master finished speaking, and the man pinched his chin and smashed his mouth.

"Thank you for the explanation, Master Mirror, but you're missing a storyline in this world." The man said.

Master Mirror said: "Prosthetics, electronic brains, these things hinder my access to memories, and I can have a premonition of stories that will happen in the future, such as a woman named Valerie (V) a year later, who destroyed the Arasaka Tower and embarked on a legendary path, but the world has not changed, and Araba will still exist after many years." But again, this place is completely different from the world I live in, so I can't find any trace of Li Nuo. ”

The man said, "Actually, it's the same, you have to thank Li Nuo, that is, your friend." ”

"How?"

"Suppose he sends you to a world with a Destiny Modifier (Final Fantasy 7), and your so-called high-latitude lifeforms are no longer a rare thing." The man picked up the beer glass, took a sip and said, "Let's put it this way, the dimensions of the world are different, you happen to be in a low-latitude world, and in some worlds, someone with a long knife can kill the 'god', which is unbelievable in the world of The Witcher." ”

Then the man paused and said in an aggravated tone: "But in cyberpunk, in this more interesting world, you are still a 'god' with endless power and cannot be challenged. ”

The Mirror Master felt the other party's bewitchment and said, "You are right about one thing, this place is indeed more interesting. ”

The man continued: "Of course, the 'old gods' you painstakingly studied are designed to make people crazy, but you see, this city alone is full of crazy people, and the spiritual vision that is feared by people is like a prosthetic transformation, in the witcher world and Yanan are things that people fear but yearn for, but in Night City, become crazy? Scold...... It's all crazy here! ”

The Mirror Master laughed: "Your idea is very interesting, but the gap in essence still exists. ”

"That's right, the gap lies in whether there are some people who are standing on high places, who are dominating the flow of the world in the name of the company, and are brainwashing people all over the world to be crazy." The man began to speak like a speech: "Water, land, people's livelihood, everything is taken away by the company, which is normal in any era, but the company has plunged the world into a state of madness, making people's thinking no different from a nervous disorder, ha...... They're exactly like the Old Gods you've been studying. ”

The Master of Mirrors was silent.

If he is the so-called king.

The country he ruled...... What will it look like?

But there is one thing that the mirror master agrees with.

The ending of the company to the world, and the ending of the old gods to the city, are both madmen who create the walking dead.

But the former is even more terrifying.

Because he will not let the world be destroyed, what is not destroyed, symbolizes the possibility of no new life.

"I'm not trying to trick you." The man said, "I just want to see a show." ”

"Oh~ watch my play?" The Mirror Master smiled.

"Yes." The man nodded: "Aliens have brought the beginning of change to this world, but no one can deny that in Night City, in the world, companies such as Araban, Kangtao and Military Technology are still the embodiment of 'demons' in the eyes of the people at the bottom. ”

Demon......

The Mirror Master's pupils shrank slightly.

The man said, "You know what I'm going to say, show the world the real devil." ”

"What is your purpose?" Master Mirror asked.

"Create an interesting scripted story that allows a group of otherworldly travelers to come and 'play' in an amusement park." The man said.

Master Mirror analyzed: "You need a pusher to create a world that is already chaotic and does not develop according to the original path, right? ”

The man nodded: "Well, there is no problem with this explanation. ”

Master Mirror asked, "So, what do I get?" ”

"The more chaotic the world, the higher the probability of Otherworldly Travelers appearing, and if you're interested in them, that's what you can get." The man paused for a moment and said, "Other than that, with your strength, I don't think I can give you anything, after all, you are already invincible in this world." ”

Master Mirror: "Huh...... I suddenly became a little interested. ”

"But I have to warn you, don't mess with aliens, there are some aliens...... Forget it, that's it. The man stood up, bowed his head and said, "That's it, I'll go first, by the way, I remind you that there are cockroaches in the sandwich you called, so I haven't delivered it for a long time." ”

The Mirror Master said, "Wait, you've told me what I should do...... In this way, there will be no problems with the development of many things. ”

The man touched his chin in silence, and after a few seconds said, "Yes, but I won't let this happen." ”

"So what are you going to do?" Master Mirror smiled: "Erase my memory? Reserve my thoughts on what I'm interested in here? ”

"At least I'll keep you thinking of making you want to go back to the world of The Witcher, that's what I meant in the first place, as for what you'll do...... Actually, where you are, there will be chaos, isn't it? ”

"So, you're going to erase my memory?" The Mirror Master laughed and looked at the man as if he were joking, he was the supreme being of the world, and even people from other worlds could not control his thoughts.

This is the usual thinking of those in high positions.

"Remember when I pointed up and asked you to guess the riddle?" The man paused here and said, word by word, "The answer is that I am far above you, Mr. Big Tree in the village." ”

Syllable......

The man snapped his fingers.

The mirror master's eyes darkened.

When he came back to consciousness, he forgot about the man he had just seen, and the bustling crowd was still scurrying down the street.

Downstairs was the sound of gunshots.

The damn city still retains its violence and madness.

Master of Mirrors, Ronald Omdis, walked out of the restaurant, the old man walking down the crowded street, with the sound of mechanical and electronic music and the roar of cars ringing in his ears from time to time.

No one noticed that the man's appearance was slowly changing.

Even he wondered why he didn't want to go back to that world anymore.

He glanced around.

On the roof of the building, the word "barren board" hangs on it.

The people of this world think that corporations are demonic beings who plunder your things but keep you alive.

The company considers itself to be the master of the cyber world.

They can control everyone's mind, the economy and the war.

But today.

The real demon descends cyberpunk.

In this world, change has begun.

(End of chapter)