As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 229 The Priest’s Job

[Kuala Lumpur·Pseudo Kowloon City: The prototype is the restored Kuala Lumpur City before the war, located in the territory of the New United States of America, 123 kilometers away from Night City]

[Most of the living people are yellow people, and they are now under the jurisdiction of "Military Technology", within the territory of the New United States of America]

[Percentage of demonization: 22% (5 percentage points higher than the world average)]

[Note: The areas where the six travelers are located are all areas where the Mirror Master has placed the largest number of monsters]

……

【Priest Line】

【Chapter One】

[Complete your job]

……

"Complete your job..."

"Is this the priest's job?"

Li Nuo clicked on the friends panel inexplicably.

[Unable to confirm teammate position]

[You need to pass the priest line]

[Unable to resonate with special friends]

[You need to pass the priest line]

"The system restricts that you must complete the personal line..."

Li Nuo opened his personal panel, and a row of messages appeared.

[In order to facilitate movement, a receiving electronic computer has been compulsorily installed, which will be automatically offset after the script ends]

[Please receive some signals to fully activate the electronic brain]

He had installed an electronic computer before, in the world of "Cyberpunk", but later he removed it because he was afraid of being hacked.

"Where's your cross?"

While Li Nuo was thinking about it, the man asked him.

cross……

Li Nuo remembered that when he first entered the script, he did have a cross in his hand. The panel of that thing was just an ordinary decoration and had no other use except to give the gay guy a sphincter.

Yes, literally, this thing is used.

The witcher's sense of smell is very powerful.

So he didn't want to pick it up.

"The cross is in my heart."

"How can a priest prove his faith without a cross..."

"God is within me."

"The company's regulations must..."

“The company is also on my mind.”

The man was speechless: "As you wish." He turned his head and said, "Follow me, Mr. Priest."

"Wait a minute." Li Nuo stopped him and said, "Can you give me my information?"

The man stopped, and the compound pupil above his right eye expanded with a circle of light: "Information? You should know this kind of thing better than anyone else."

Li Nuo touched his chest and said: "The cross, gods and companies have filled me up, and there is no room for myself."

The man didn't want to talk to him anymore, and the pupils of his compound eyes turned around.

The sound of electric current rushing through Li Nuo's mind sounded.

【Electronic brain activation】

[You can connect to the Internet. Considering that virus codes are circulating in the Internet, it is not recommended to use an electronic computer to open the Internet]

[Receiving personal information——]

He could see a message flashing before his eyes.

"Damn..."

A large list of information appears in front of you like a waterfall, with very little important content.

[My waist was cut at a black clinic in Night City. Later, when my kidneys were replaced, my home was destroyed by a bomb. After that, I became a complete useless person]

Li Nuo complained: "It's a bit miserable..."

[You want to be a sex doll, but you’re in the wrong place, become a priest]

[Later you were sent to Texas, where you became the Texas Hold’em Poker Champion]

[You have money and women overnight]

【You were only 16 years old at that time】

"I..." Li Nuo pursed his lips, his expression colorful.

The man frowned and thought to himself: He must be sick.

"Hey...priest..."

"Wait a minute, I'm really excited to watch."

The man was shocked, looking at his resume?

The light in front of Li Nuo's eyes was still flickering.

【However, your ambition is more than that】

[You want to return to Night City and find your waist]

[Your new kidney was also lost in Night City]

【You are completely useless】

Li Nuo: "I must be sick."

Man: "I think it's possible."

[Draging your broken body home, you vowed never to go to the damn Night City again, but the moment you entered the house, you saw your woman doing aerobics with the family’s mechanical dog...]

At this time, a broadcast was inserted into the electronic brain's receiving signal.

[You need to know the benefits of early morning sex. Sexual activity is a kind of aerobic exercise that can accelerate the heart rate and burn calories. The New Human Base in Kenya, Africa, said that since the popularization of early morning sex, the daily working hours of workers have increased. 12 hours increased to 20 hours, so...】

Li Nuo turned off the radio. Keep watching.

[Your woman told you that he was a man and took all your money]

[Your waist is gone, your money is gone, your woman...oh no, your man is gone, even the mechanical dog has been made into hot pot soup by you]

【You are desperate】

【You need salvation】

[You think of your previous job]

【You are a pastor】

[That day you returned to the small church that accepted you]

[Later the church was demolished, and you used Texas Hold'em poker and military technology to get a job from a demolition executive]

[Priest, also called online missionary]

[Later, the company discovered that you were a useless person because you did not have a large number of implants such as a waist, so you were sent to a poor city where no one cared about you]

[The Kowloon area is a weapons production area for military technology. In order to allow the people here to produce weapons with peace of mind, you, the priest, play a big role. They told you so, and you actually believed it]

[Recently, the demonization of humans (mutant cyberpsychosis) has become more and more serious around the world. Kowloon seems to be a hot spot. You bought an insurance and the beneficiary is your ex-girlfriend (boyfriend)]

[Today is your first day at work. You decided to stay calm and let this cursed city feel the glory of Jerusalem]

Li Nuo punched the wall: "There must be something wrong with my life!"

"You are indeed fucking sick!" The man changed his composure and yelled as if he had lost his composure: "Are you so obsessed with looking at your past? Who doesn't have a past that is unbearable to look back on?"

Li Nuo was shocked: "In the world of cyberpunk, there is still someone with potential for making complaints like you?"

The man sneered and gritted his teeth: "You don't look like a priest..."

"Well, I'm actually a painter." Li Nuo nodded and suddenly thought: "Yes, the story will be serialized next month..."

"Let's go quickly," the man urged.

"By the way, sir, what's your surname?" Li Nuo asked.

The man asked again with a strange expression: "Mr. Priest...didn't you read the information when you came?"

Li Nuo: "I said, my heart has been broken by crosses, gods and..."

"Nie Chuang." The other party obviously didn't want to hear any more: "Let's go, I'll talk to you on the way."

Li Nuo followed. The electronic computer has been activated and can now access the Internet at any time.

"I won't tell you any more nonsense. I work as a soldier in the military technology strike team."

Strike team... Li Nuo "clicked" the game library in his brain. In 2030, the military technology force that assisted Johnny Silverhand in nuclear blasting Arasaka Tower was a strike team.

Nie Chuang was still talking: "Now I am an ordinary guard in the military and police force. I am responsible for your safety in the pseudo-Kowloon City. That's all. That's all."

"Priest and knight?" Li Nuo asked.

Nie Chuang said: "Don't be so disgusting. It's just work. The pseudo-Kowloon City is too dangerous. The priests are all idiots. Every one of them will die. That's why we have to protect you personally. You have caught up with the welfare. We didn't have this kind of treatment before."

Li Nuo: "Tell me more about the danger."

Nie Chuang walked to the elevator, pressed the button, and the elevator door opened, taking him into the dim elevator that was filled with the smell of engine oil.

“A decade or so ago, an unlucky architect built a city imitating the Kowloon Walled City.”

Nie Chuang laughed:
  "There are dense buildings everywhere, dirty, crowded, and dark, which have nourished drug trafficking, gangs, murders, and robberies, and then there are gray industries, casinos, sex dolls, organ smuggling, chaotic security, and a sinful garbage city."

Li Nuo: "At first glance, I thought it was Night City."

Nie Chuang nodded: "Night City...well...at least the Night City before 2078 was much more chaotic than here. But the current Night City is the best place in the new fucking United States of America."

The Mirror Master changed Night City... Li Nuo had an extremely bad feeling. It was not as simple as it seemed. As the home of the Mirror, Night City must have hidden things.

"This is a no-nonsense zone. Gangs are mixed together. There are as many thieves and murderers as cockroaches hiding in the attic." Nie Chuang clicked the button to go to the lower floor, then leaned against the wall, and the elevator slowly went down. He spoke quickly He said unhurriedly: "Guys who can be killed by guns and bullets are not a danger. The real danger is... monsters that can appear at any time."

Nie Chuang took out a cigarette and handed it out. Li Nuo shook his head: "I won't smoke."

"Oh, anyone who doesn't smoke in this wretched place thinks it's too young." Nie Chuang lit up his cigarette and looked at the decreasing number of floors: "Since damn demonization has become the norm in life, I have been here all the time. Of the 22 priests, 12 were eaten by demons, 7 were given to God by bullets from street fights, and 2 became demons.”

"And another one?"

"I died of electric shock while playing with the electric airplane cup."

Ding--

"Let's go, we still have work to do next." Nie Chuang walked out of the elevator and looked sideways at Li Nuo, who looked unhappy. Nie Chuang comforted him: "Don't worry, we eliminated a group of demons a while ago. You can at least survive." Two months.”

Li Nuo shook his head: "No...it has nothing to do with this..."

The two of them walked in the narrow corridor, with bugs crawling on the moldy walls around them. There was a flash of thunder outside the window, and dark clouds covered the sunset. Before they walked out, drizzle fell from above.

"It's fucking raining again..." Nie Chuang cursed, took out a bottle of air spray, held it in his mouth and sprayed it.

Li Nuo followed, and Nie Chuang walked out of the decaying building that was full of strange smells.

Light rain hit his face, and the smell of rotting meat filled his nose.

It's cold outside.

The sky was filled with dark clouds and a heavy rain was brewing.

Raindrops passed through the eye-expanding projection and fell on the streets at the bottom of the city. The mist quickly spread, and the wind picked up the garbage and floated into the air.

Li Nuo reached out and grabbed an advertising sticker that flew by.

"Night City Tourism Announcement, Sunshine Coast has opened..."

"Hmm..." What Nie Chuang noticed was Li Nuo's reaction speed just now: "It's different from the rumors. I heard that you are missing a kidney and have no implant, but you are still agile."

Li Nuo was absent-minded.

He needs to complete his personal mission before he can leave the city.

According to the system prompts, there are great restrictions this time. Chabai and Marjie cannot be contacted. They need to act separately and discuss it together later.

He thought of Xing Kai.

I wonder if that Xing Kai is the Xing Kai Annabell is looking for.

Li Nuo pressed the brim of his felt hat, and the rain hit the outer clothing that was inconsistent with the highly saturated colors of the cyber world. He and Nie Chuang walked into the narrow alley of Kowloon City.

Tight alley.

The light curtain projected by the patrol aircraft above hit the wet wall tiles.

In the light curtain, the newsman's broadcast suppressed the noise in the alley.

[This is International News Channel 54: A large-scale strike demonstration broke out in the Netherlands. Some people claimed that poison gas released by large companies caused the appearance of demons. It is reported that Amsterdam was closed 48 hours ago. After 40 hours of clean-up work, all strikers have returned Arrive at work]

——Beep.

[President Miles’ driver recently attended the unveiling of Salt Lake City’s new super cathedral. This church has a total height of 243 meters and can accommodate [-] faithful believers. That’s almost three Mormon families]

[However, at the ribbon-cutting scene, the presidential driver’s sudden mutant cyberpsychosis destroyed the church]

[It is reported that this driver’s son will have to work for military technology for [-] years to pay off his debt because of his dead father’s actions]

——Beep.

[Just yesterday, 170 people were killed in a shooting in Kuala Lumpur. Politicians said it was a "massacre." But the locals call it "Ordinary Tuesday"]

——Beep.

boom!
  Someone fired at the light curtain.

"Fuck the news, I'm sleeping!"

"This is the normal state of life." Nie Chuang said.

Li Nuo nodded, pretending not to hear, and kept focusing on the things he saw around him.

Holographic advertisements are everywhere, crowded like neon signs on a mahjong table.

In a dark corner of the street, the lamp tubes of the "Yunxia Barber Club" diffused high-color-temperature purple light. The light covered the demon hunter's amber eyes, and Li Nuo glanced there subconsciously.

Two scantily attired women with obvious skin scars from implants were whispering at the door of the house.

"Another priest has arrived."

"Fuck, what kind of priest is this? He's the company's mouth trafficker."

"Shh...you don't want to die!"

Nie Chuang walked in front, looked sideways, and said to Li Nuo: "Kowloon is a very complicated place. You will understand it if you stay for a long time. But that has nothing to do with you."

Li Nuo said "hmm" and looked away from the purple light reflected by the lamp.

One of the two women seemed not to be human.

The hunter's genes don't lie to him.

I really want to make her into a decoction...

When he had this idea, his mind suddenly exploded, and he felt extremely alert.

Li Nuo turned his head sharply.

The non-human woman was left standing in the hazy rain and mist. Half of the woman's face flashed into a distorted shadow, and half of her face turned white with death makeup. The corners of her mouth were exaggeratedly grinned to the base of her ears, and her eyes were cold and cunning.

She seemed to be saying: "There is another priest who can eat it."

Li Nuo's eyes gradually became cold and stern: "It's not a priest." The demon hunter's eyes became greedy as if he had seen prey.

The woman seemed to feel fear, and half of her frightened face disappeared instantly, as if what she had just seen was just an illusion.

"Don't be stunned."

Under Nie Chuang's urging, Li Nuo marked the woman's location, took a deep breath, remembered the woman's scent, and then left.

"Tell me about the demon." Li Nuo said.

"You don't know?" Nie Chuang was confused.

"My heart has been..."

"I'll tell you." Nie Chuang didn't want to let Li Nuo continue, so he whispered: "Code infection, sudden alienation and demonization, tumors growing on the body, or a lot of disgusting organs, and then it's like cyberpsychosis They all attack humans as well, but some of them can disguise themselves, and one is a monster-like creature..."

"Is it strong?" Li Nuo interrupted.

"Strong." Nie Chuang said with lingering fear: "At the very least, a ten-man armed team must be dispatched to clean up. The more powerful ones can overturn the tank."

"The ancient gods influenced humans and the monsters sent to this world by "The Witcher"... That's probably it..." While Li Nuo was secretly complaining, someone beside him whistled at him.

He looked over and saw people who had modified their bodies gathered at the street corner.

"They are gang members. If you wear the company's badge, nothing will happen to you. If you do get beaten, just give them the money."

Nie Chuang comforted Li Nuo, who looked like a COS steampunk male idol.

Li Nuo stared at the bodies of the gang members and speculated on their combat effectiveness. They are all a very ordinary group of prosthetic body transformers.

The basis of human body modification is prosthetics, usually titanium metal skeletons, and active biological tissues, which can effectively enhance strength, durability, and flexibility. He heard Marjie muttering every day, and Li Nuo had long remembered it in his mind.

Everyone looked at Li Nuo like a fool, probably because he was the only one who didn't have a large number of implants.

[Work instructions are being transmitted——]

Nie Chuang: "Okay, see for yourself."

Li Nuo clasped his temples, a long list of tasks that made his brows tremble reflected in front of his eyes:
  [AM6:00, go to the church to make announcements]

[AM6:40, public confession in the Kowloon courtyard]

[AM6:50, accept citizens’ confessions]

[AM8:00, start parading through the streets to convey the company’s teachings]

[AM9:30, teach children (extra income available)]

[AM10:30~12:00, host wedding]

【AM......】

Li Nuo scanned down to the end.

【PM11:30, dinner】

"..."

[AM0:30, giving lectures to homeless people in the name of theology]

[AM1:35, supervising church construction]

【AM......】

Li Nuo asked with a dead eye: "Am I working [-] hours a day?"

"Just look at the job list." Nie Chuang paused, lowered his head, and continued a cigarette in the rain: "This poor place is so poor, a group of people who are about to starve to death need a bullshit belief."

"Then why do you need a priest?"

"There are too many demons, so you have to show off. In other places, there are at least four priests managing a church studio, but you are the only one in Kowloon." Nie Chuang took out his mobile phone. The paths in the pseudo-Kowloon City are complicated and you will get lost if you are not careful: "Well...that's almost it."

In front of them stood a dilapidated... building that could be called a church.

Li Nuo raised his hand and pointed at the building: "I said...my next job won't be..."

"Well, host the wedding." Nie Chuang said with a smile: "The most lucrative job, I will protect you throughout the process, remember to share one-third of my tip after the end."

Li Nuo glanced at his personal line mission in disbelief.

[Complete your job]

Could it be that he really had to work a round-the-clock shift? Li Nuo cursed and followed Nie Chuang into the so-called church.

inside the church.

Worn chairs were placed randomly.

The cold wind came in through the holes in the window.

The roof is leaking.

The water settled on the wooden floor that seemed to break if stepped on, covering the naturally growing weeds.

The most interesting thing is that there are cross-shaped neon lights hanging on the walls on both sides of the church.

The dilapidated and withered environment was brought to life by the flickering purple-red light.

A dozen people who were regarded as guests were sitting on the bench, looking at Li Nuo, whose head was covered with water stains.

"Priest. If you don't fucking come, the bride will drown."

Someone teased.

Then, soon there was dissatisfaction.

"A priest is carrying a coffin to conduct a wedding. Are you fucking crazy!"

"Shut up, you idiot." Nie Chuang made the place quiet with one sentence.

"Sorry, this is a box, not a coffin. It is useful to me and cannot be taken off." Li Nuo looked at the newlyweds standing at the end of the church. They were not wearing formal clothes, so they were just wearing white clothes.

"It's simple enough." Li Nuo said.

"This couple should have some feelings for each other before having a ceremonial ceremony. Most people don't have the spare money to hold a wedding." Nie Chuang pushed Li Nuo and handed him a chip: "Hurry up, I haven't eaten yet. Woolen cloth."

Li Nuo smoothly inserted the chip into the groove on the back of his head created by the system.

Information about the two newcomers appeared in my mind.

The groom, Jim, is a white-skinned middle-aged man, and the bride, Helena, is a black man.

They were all former military technology employees.

Jim is a prisoner who has been released from prison and has been deprived of the qualifications for employment in high-level positions. He has to live in the pseudo-Kowloon City and is currently a handyman in military technology.

He met his fiancée Helena in a nightclub and got married.

Helena is a regular employee of military technology, and her social status is very different from Jim's. However, her marriage forced her to live with her husband in the pseudo-Kowloon City.

Li Nuo was drinking tea from a teapot while summarizing the relationship between the two.

black and white.

L.

Sooner or later they will get divorced, or one of them will die.

Her husband Jim saw that Li Nuo kept drinking tea and had no intention of talking at all, so he couldn't help but urge: "Mr. Priest, do you want to consider officiating our wedding now?"

Helena pinched Jim and said coquettishly and angrily: "There's nothing wrong with staying in the church for a moment longer."

A dozen or so people in the audience were whistling and cheering.

In peace and joy, Li Nuo was looking for articles related to the wedding from his memory bank.

After all, to play his job as a priest well, he needs to be more serious.

He is very difficult.

Never married...inexperienced.

Li Nuo glanced down the field, and everyone stared at him drinking tea.

Nie Chuang frowned: "Where the hell did this amateur priest come from..."

Li Nuo's heart suddenly trembled.

He looked down at the ground.

A strange premonition, or a dangerous premonition, appeared...

A bearded man shouted: "Don't be in a daze, hurry up and host it! You're still waiting to drink!"

Before he finished speaking, a pool of blood splashed on the bearded face.

He looked sideways.

The head of the person next to me was being chewed in the mouth of another guest.

The guest tore off a piece of his brain, cracked his forehead, squeezed out a dozen squirming eyeballs, and crawled out of his mouth densely packed, pale hands.

He held his head open with his hands, held his eyeballs, and twisted them together like a twist.

In the blink of an eye, a huge brain covered with eyeballs hung on the guest's shoulder.

"Ah...ah——! Grass! Monster!"

"Damn it, he's mutated!"

Big Beard was hugged by it, and the fangs growing out from under his head bit into Big Beard's skull.

The others ran towards the door in panic.

Nie Chuang took out the alarm and pressed it, transmitting the signal to the cleaning department. There was only one thing he needed to do now.

Draw the gun.

Target the demon.

Let the priest, who is carrying a coffin board like a weakling and doesn't even have a combat implant, live as long as possible.

Nie Chuang pulled the trigger.

The bullets poured into the monster's huge head, making a "pop" sound like being sunk into mud, but it had no effect.

Nie Chuang's eyes were locked on Li Nuo at the end of the church behind the demon, and he shouted: "You idiot, jump out of the window and run away!"

boom……

A muffled sound.

Nie Chuang had no idea what was happening and was hit on the head.

His whole body hit the wall, and he sat in a puddle on the wooden floor in pain and unconsciousness.

In an instant, blood surged freely in the body, and the brain implant that suppressed fainting caused blood vessels to bulge on the skin.

"Here comes a powerful one..."

A shadow flashed before his eyes, and Nie Chuang saw that the demon's hands turned into long whips of flesh and blood.

The demon rotated around for a week, destroying the entire church ten meters deep indiscriminately.

In Nie Chuang's sight, splashing sawdust and falling rain mixed together, and two newlyweds hugged each other in the distance.

The man protected his fiancée.

In front of them, the golden fragments of [Quen's Seal] were like petals that sounded the prelude to a wedding.

The cane hit the floor.

The priest, carrying something like a coffin board, stepped over the two of them.

"I remembered the wedding prayer."

"What Cha Bai taught me... seems to be... May the Lord of Triss bless you two with peace and joy, and bless... Forget it, hosting a wedding is not suitable for me."

Li Nuo stepped through the water on the ground, splashing the neon light of the cross, and walked towards the demon unhurriedly.

On the head of the alienated demon, one eye after another turned towards Li Nuo.

【Priest Line】

【Chapter One】

[Complete your job]

Fingers outline the body of the staff, and the fire enchantment wraps the silver cane.

The red of the fire and the purple of neon illuminated his smile in a strange way.

"I've figured it out. The priest's job is to be a demon hunter."

……

[Mutant cyberpsychosis found in abandoned church]

[No one is allowed to approach this area, otherwise it will be regarded as a terrorist attack]

A large number of cruise aircraft appeared in the sky, shooting searchlights through the hazy rain and fog, lighting up the dim church.

Dense footsteps crossed the streets of pseudo-Kowloon City.

The cleanup troops who received the signal from Nie Chuang broke into the vicinity of the church with guns. They are the armed branch of military technology and specialize in cleaning up lunatic organizations that demonize cyberpsychosis.

Military Technology Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and military vehicles.

The soldiers were equipped with combat implants and carried high-power rifles. There were a total of fifteen people in the team. It crashed into the interior of the church.

All the guns were pointed at the priest sitting on the bench behind the blood on the ground.

Li Nuo used a nerve knife to cut up the monster's corpse, stuffed the cut eyeballs into his pocket, raised his face covered in blood, and stared at the muzzles of more than a dozen guns with his amber pupils.

The leader said vigilantly: "The new type...the body has not changed significantly after mutation, right?"

The captain's eyes fell on Nie Chuang, who was sitting in the corner.

"No...it's not..." Nie Chuang was in shock and couldn't form words: "He is the new priest..."

"The priest has mutated!?"

"No..." Li Nuo pointed to the floor like a bloody man: "Let me tell you something, you'd better leave first. I have some intuition that there is a powerful person down there..."

boom!
  The gun went off, and the soldier's bullet passed through the bench. Li Nuo had a premonition in advance and ducked his head, splattering sawdust on his body.

His eyes were fixed on the soldier who fired the gun.

[Don’t forget this is a killing script]

[The six travelers will face obstacles from various players]

【Player 5900】

[Guild players found]

[Guild players found]

Two consecutive beeps.

Then when his eyes were fixed on a certain soldier, there was another sound.

[Other corridor intruders have been discovered]

[Prompt player 5900: This player is above you in level. If you kill this player, you will get a large reward and the probability of inheriting some of his abilities]

Li Nuo: "What are you doing...gang rape?"

thump...

Cracks suddenly appeared in the ground.

Li Nuo looked at the eyes hidden behind the tactical helmet and said with trembling lips: "I said... there might be a scary thing underneath. How about now..."

Before the soldiers and players with guns could react, the ground suddenly collapsed!
  Everyone fell below the surface.

In less than three seconds, everything was pitch black.

When Li Nuo raised his head, a huge eyeball was right next to his face...

(End of this chapter)