As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 118 The King
[Big Mike: Hey, friends!There is something I want to talk to you about.Remember Busan, South Korea? 】

[Perhaps you still remember that that place was in the news. In 2022, it was still a city of 400 million people... and it was also the most tragic battlefield of the fourth corporate war.Just one year later, it became a city of 400 million ghosts, and everyone died... The cause of death was infection with an unknown disease, which developed very quickly and could kill people within a few days. 】

[No matter what the disease was, the Koreans finally got it under control, and even today, that ghost town is still under lockdown.is this real? 】

【magnetic--】

[This is News 54]

[Military Technology Company has once again been elected as the best employer in Night City. This is the second consecutive year that they have won the title. 】

[This award is due to the many employee benefits provided by the company, such as five days of paid annual leave per person per year, unlimited access to stimulant drug supplies, and large subsidies for the purchase of implants. etc.In addition to enviable benefits, 30.00% of military technology employees also received the company's promise to provide retirement benefits. 】

[In other news, NCPD’s law enforcement authority has been enhanced again. According to new regulations, police can target the suspect’s limbs when firing warning shots, which will improve personal safety during law enforcement. 】

[Due to severe budget cuts, the Network Technology Office recently announced that it will officially disband and go home. 】

【magnetic--】

[Good afternoon, City in the Sky! 】

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

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

[However, Huangban Company is currently considering whether to adopt the Sky City plan. 】

[As for the reason... You should already know that Arasaka Tower was attacked by an unknown person, and then Adam's Hammer is still missing. Of course, there is also the Kabukicho fire that was suspected of being committed by aliens. 】

[In short, Arasaka may want to consider postponing the Sky Castle plan to 2077 this time. 】

[I don’t know everyone...]

[beep]

"Fuck! Someone turned off the TV!"

"Don't read these nonsense news. Military technology has exhausted two of our relatives to death. This is the best employer."

"Damn it, that's because you've never been to Huangban."

"What? Do you have an opinion?"

"Damn... Judging from the complexion of the boy, he must be from the Voodoo Gang, right? Ah... By the way, the Voodoo Gang is gone."

boom!
There was a fight inside the restaurant, with bullets shattering windows and shelves, something that is not uncommon in Night City.

"Sorry, there's a fight going on downstairs, so your ham sandwich and milkshake might be a little late," the waiter said, stroking the old robotic arm.

"It doesn't matter." Mirror Master smiled and waved his hand.

"Okay." Before the waiter left, she turned around and glanced at the strangely dressed old man with a strange look: "Sir... I suggest you, if you want to walk around Watson District, you'd better not wear homeless clothes. At least you Get yourself some...normal clothes."

Mirror Master looked at the shabby coat on his body and nodded: "Sorry, I will pay attention."

The waiter turned around and left, muttering in a low voice: "You're quite polite, bastard... Where did you come from, this stupid old man."

Mirror Master looked out the window.

Buildings made of reinforced concrete cover the sky, floating vehicles fly above the sky, and the roads are full of people, so densely packed that it’s like looking at a swarm of ants.

"Sorry, can I sit here with you?"

Mirror Master heard a man talking to him and looked over. He saw a man with a ponytail, eyebrow-cut bangs and "beautiful" facial features.

He is a yellow man.

But in Night City, race is no longer so important.

"Feel free to sit down."

The man sat down, picked up the sandwich from the tray, put it into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, and then said: "This city is crazy. When I came here just now, a bastard bumped into me, and he even asked me to pay for it." .”

Mirror Master looked at him and smiled: "Then what?"

"I put two of his friends in his mouth," the man said.

"Sir, you are very humorous." Since Mirror Master came to this world, he has not been able to fully adapt to it because of its weak magic power. Although he can see some people's thoughts and memories, most people have undergone prosthetic transformations. , so the embarrassment comes. He cannot see the thinking and memory of some special people.

You can't expect a mage to absorb magic from a robot;
For example, the man in front of me.

"Sir, what do you call me?" the man asked: "There are very few people in Night City who have not undergone prosthetic transformation. Even homeless people need to have prosthetic limbs more or less. You are not from here, are you?"

"I came from a long way away," said the Mirror Master.

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

"Heh..." Master Mirror said, "A friend sent me here, but I don't plan to go back in the short term."

"Is it because I saw something newer?" The man took a sip of beer and said, "Country people will inevitably linger when they see a big city, but the dangers in the city are not superficial. It may be much scarier here than in your hometown."

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

The man said: "Of course, after all, neither you nor I use 'f*ck', 'bastard', 'bastard', um, probably the same type of curse words, and neither you nor I carry a gun, nor do we have any I have modified my body, ah... Speaking of modification, I would like to change my brain somewhere, I heard that Ye's Group is an expert here."

Mirror Master frowned slightly.

He said...he had never had any physical modifications.

The man asked at this time: "Can I ask your name?"

"Ronald Omdis."

"Haha..." The man dusted off the crumbs on his hands: "What a strange name, but he feels more like a good person than Gunter O'Dimm."

Snapped.

Mirror Master clapped his hands.

Everything around him became quiet.

The man sits there.

Then Pupil looked at Mirror Master and said: "If you need me to cooperate with you in acting, I will pretend to be still."

Mirror Master: "Incredible..."

"You are not able to stop time, but you use the ability of higher dimensions to slow down the speed of time. From the perspective of low-latitude life, it seems to be still. Let me explain it another way. When we watch TV and need to pause, we just need to press The remote control, because the TV is 'controlled', but does the TV have its own fixed rules and time standards... Well, who knows." The man's mouth raised, and he squinted his eyes to show a kind but incomprehensible smile. Meaning: "Tell me, am I right, Mirror Master?"

"May I ask who you are sir?"

The man pointed to the roof: "Hey, you can take a guess."

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

"I've said it all, just take a guess." The man smiled: "Mirror Master, you haven't used your brain to think about problems for a long time, right? I'll give you a chance."

Mirror Master's eyes began to darken as he revealed the sign of the devil's true form and said slowly: "Sir, I suggest you not to consume my patience."

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

When Master Mirror heard this, his eyes turned back to a 'human' look, and he said, "Is this an exchange of interests?"

He had realized that the person sitting opposite him at least belonged to the same high latitude as himself, and he was no longer just asking for it blindly.

The man said, "Would you like to hear a story?"

Mirror Master: "All ears."

The man said: "A king manages dozens or hundreds of cities and villages. It is impossible for a king to know what is happening in each area. For example... the door of Widow Li's house was unlocked tonight. Did Xiao Wang drink again? Too much trouble.”

"It seems that your hometown is very interesting." Mirror Master smiled.

The man continued nonchalantly: "The king cannot detect these trivial things, but once something strange or shocking happens in a country, for example, a person who can please the king appears in a village located on the border of the country. If there are interesting clowns or talents, these anecdotes will naturally reach the king's ears." "I think it's because this country is not big enough." Mirror Master commented with interest.

The man nodded and said: "Indeed, the size and ambition of a country are related to ambition. It just so happens that my ambition is a bit... weak."

Mirror Master: "That's not obvious."

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

The man bent down and put his chin in his hand, curled his lips and smiled, "If it was the emperor of Nilfgaard, I think he should ask the soldiers to 'invite' that person over, or ask someone to observe that interesting guy first, but no Coincidentally... this king is a loner. He has no army, no retainers, and no so-called family. He can only stay alone in the castle and spend hundreds of years, relying on himself for all the news. The people don’t even know the true identity of the king, and no one has seen the king himself. Even the lonely castle, no one can see it. He lives his life as a rumor, and he can’t To read people’s memories, you can only rely on your own legs to verify the authenticity of the anecdotes.”

After a moment of silence, Mirror Master said: "It's really a weird story, Your Majesty the King."

"No need to salute~"

"Ha~" Master Mirror laughed, and then asked: "If Mr. Li Nuo is your citizen, then who am I?"

The man pondered and said: "The tallest and most prosperous thousand-year-old tree in the village, or the most ferocious beast on the border."

"What a wonderful metaphor." Mirror Master sighed: "Aren't you going to tell me your identity in a more direct way?"

"I've told you," the man said. "King, emperor, god, human, lower creatures, higher dimensions, witness, neighborhood jerk, capitalist, employee dog, anything can be used as a title for me."

"king……"

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

"So, you want to know Li Nuo's story?" Mirror Master asked.

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

Not too long, not too short. After more than ten minutes, the Mirror Master finished speaking. The man held his chin and smacked his mouth.

"Thank you for your explanation, Mirror Master, but you lack a story line in this world." The man said.

Mirror Master said: "Prosthetics and electronic brains hinder my ability to absorb memories. I can foresee stories that will happen in the future. For example, a year later there will be a woman named Valerie (V) who destroys I went to Arasaka Tower and embarked on a legendary road, but the world has not changed, and Arasaka still exists many years later. But again, this place is completely different from the world I live in, so I can't find any traces of Li Nuo .”

The man said: "Actually, it's the same. You have to thank Li Nuo, who you call your friend."

"How to say?"

"Assuming that he sent you to a world with a destiny corrector (Final Fantasy 7), your so-called high-latitude life form would no longer be so strange." 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. In some worlds, someone with a long knife can kill the 'god'. This is in "The Witcher" The world cannot believe it.”

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

Mirror Master felt the other party's temptation and said: "You are right about one thing, it is indeed more interesting here."

The man continued: "Of course, the 'Ancient God' you have painstakingly studied can turn people into madmen, but look, in this city alone, the streets are full of madmen, and being frightened by spiritual vision is like being transformed by a prosthetic body. , in the world of witchers and Yharnam, it is something that people fear but yearn for, but in the City of Night, it turns into a madman? Haha... All the people raised here are madmen!"

Mirror Master laughed: "Your idea is very interesting, but there is still an essential gap."

"That's right, the difference lies in whether there are some people who are standing in high places, dominating the flow of the world in the name of the company, and brainwashing people all over the world to be crazy." The man began to speak like a speech. : "Water sources, land, people's livelihood, everything has been taken away by companies. This is normal in any era, but companies have plunged the world into a state of madness, making people's thinking no different from lunacy, ha... they are simply It’s exactly the same as the ancient god you have been studying.”

Mirror Master was silent.

If he is the so-called king.

What will the country he leads... look like?
But there's one thing the Mirror Master agrees with.

The ending given to the world by the company, and the ending given to the city by the ancient gods, are both madmen creating walking corpses.

But the former is even scarier.

Because he will not let the world be destroyed, and things that are not destroyed symbolize the possibility of no new life.

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

"Oh~ do you want to watch my show?" 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 and around the world, companies such as Huangban, Kangtao and Military Technology are still the bottom. The 'devil' incarnate in your eyes."

demon……

Mirror Master's pupils shrank slightly.

The man said: "You know what I'm going to say, let the world see the real devil."

"What is your purpose?" asked the Mirror Master.

"Create interesting scripts and stories to create an amusement park where travelers from other worlds can come and 'play'," the man said.

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

The man nodded: "Well, there is no problem in explaining it this way."

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

"The more chaotic the world, the higher the probability of travelers from other worlds appearing. If you are interested in them, that's what you can get." The man paused and said, "Other than that, with your power, I I don’t think I can give you anything, after all, you are already invincible in this world.”

Mirror Master: "Huh...I suddenly became interested."

"But I have to remind you not to provoke aliens casually. Some aliens...forget it, let's stop here." The man stood up, lowered his head and said: "That's it, I'm leaving first, right? , let me remind you, there were cockroaches in the sandwich you ordered, that’s why it didn’t arrive for a long time.”

Mirror Master said: "Wait a minute, you have told me what I should do... In this way, there will be problems with the development of many things."

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

"Then what are you going to do?" Mirror Master smiled: "Delete my memory? Keep my interest in this place?"

"At least I will keep your idea of ​​making you no longer want to return to the world of "The Witcher". That is my original intention. As for what you will do...actually, wherever you are, there will be chaos, right?"

"So, you want to delete my memory?" Master Mirror laughed and looked at the man like a joke. He is the supreme being in the world, and even people from other worlds cannot control his thinking.

This is the common thought of those in high positions.

"Do you still remember that I just pointed upward 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."

Snapped……

The man snapped his fingers.

Mirror Master's vision went dark.

After returning to consciousness, he forgot about the man he had just seen, and the bustling crowd was still moving on the street.

Downstairs there was the sound of gunfire.

This damn city still retains its violence and madness.

The mirror master, Ronald Omdis, walked out of the restaurant. The old man walked on the street filled with people, and the sound of mechanical electronic music and the roar of cars filled his ears from time to time.

No one noticed the man's appearance slowly changing.

Even he himself was wondering why he no longer wanted to return to that world.

He glanced around.

On the roof of the building, a huge word "Huangban" hangs on it.

People in this world think of corporations as demonic beings who take things from you but keep you alive.

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

They can control everyone's thinking, control the economy and the direction of war.

But today.

A real evil descends on cyberpunk.

In this world, change has begun.

(End of this chapter)