Chapter 56: Night City (10) (1st update + 2nd update + 400 thunders) [VIP]
After Shi Zhou replied with a 1 in the group, there was no more news. Guan Hongyan knew that she had started running after seeing it, so she put down her watch with peace of mind.
Behind him were mechanical guards that he had never seen before. Guan Hongyan looked back while running and found that the paint jobs of these guards were particularly different.
They look unlike the machines in Night City. Although the mechanical guards in Night City are very fierce when catching wanted criminals and will kill everyone on the spot most of the time, their outlines are generally rounded, and the corners and protrusions of each interface are polished very smoothly, and the edges of the machines are smooth assembly lines.
However, these mechanical guards are different. Their edges and corners are very sharp, and every corner flashes a sharp light. They look out of tune with the mechanical style of Night City and more like some special robots.
There are many reasons to prove that this kind of robot is different from the common machines in Night City. The sound of their weapons is not similar to that of common machines. The opening method of their suspension chamber is scissor door instead of the sliding cover of the scavenger. Their paint is not similar to the paint texture in Night City. There are many more reasons like this...
Guan Hongyan thought as she pulled Zhang Pei, who was already somewhat exhausted, and said, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay," Zhang Pei closed his eyes, "Sister Guan, what's going on? Did Sister Shi tell you?"
"She's running too," Guan Hongyan said helplessly, "I guess she'll come over once the waiting stops."
When Shi Zhou came to see her, he told her that there was a chance that they would have to hide for five days in this project, which would consume a lot of physical energy. She had been prepared to deal with all the guards for five days, but she didn't expect that Isaac would appear among the team members and change everyone's ID, saving them all the pain of fleeing.
But before they could be happy for long, disasters came again. There were clones all over the streets and they were chased by unknown special robots that were crazy about killing. In the end, they returned to the essence of running and fitness in Night City.
The Night City Marathon lives up to its reputation.
Whenever she needed to run, she became particularly jealous of Isaac.
The recorder holding the notebook ran very fast. Fortunately, they were a group of exploration team members with physical strength or physical supplements from the foundation mall, otherwise they really couldn't keep up with him. Guan Hongyan followed him for a long time, looking back, he didn't get rid of many of the special robots, and his eyes went dark.
Shi Zhou was right, machines would not get tired, but we, the exploration team members, would. If they continued like this, everyone’s physical strength would be exhausted by them.
She was just thinking about these questions when she noticed a familiar person running towards her from a fork in the road not far away, along with the familiar clicking sound of a special robot operating.
Speak of the devil, here comes Shi Zhou who had separated from them.
Bai Jinshu, who was standing on the balance bike, discovered Shi Zhou earlier than them. Behind Shi Zhou, there were a bunch of special robots chasing her. Maybe it was because the clones who commanded them to break through the defense line and enter the company to replace the company's people were all Shi Zhou's clones, there were so many special robots behind Shi Zhou that the number of special robots chasing her alone was several times more than the number chasing all of them.
Seeing Shi Zhou's figure, Li Jue, who had been running so hard that his eyes were dizzy, subconsciously called out "Sister Shi Zhou!"
The recorder who was running in front turned around and shouted, "Wow, it's you!"
It was strange, he ran so fast without even breathing hard, and his tone was still so lively when he spoke, not at all like everyone else who looked exhausted from running.
"I knew you were not dead!" He was full of indignation. "I just saw you in the crowd directing them to break through the defense line! That's too much!"
Shi Zhou: ...
"That's not me," she tried to explain.
Shi Zhou didn't expect that he would run into other members of the exploration team.
It was too late to turn to another road now. There was a main road with no forks ahead. She knew a lot of small roads and alleys, but in the case of being chased on a large scale, the main road naturally had a greater advantage over those robots that could float and fly.
The recorder was filled with anger, and he obviously didn’t take Shi Zhou’s words to heart: “Why is it that you are always the one responsible for every mistake? Are you the one secretly planning to destroy the law and order in Night City? I’m going to record you…”
"Wait," he glanced suspiciously at Shi Zhou, "Where's the wanted warrant on you?"
Clearly, those "Shizhou" people just now were all wanted, so why isn't this one on him?
"I've already said that's not me," Shi Zhou knew that this was the result of Bai Jinshu's ID change, "I'm innocent."
She said this sincerely. What the clones did had nothing to do with her. If she really wanted Night City to be destroyed, how could she come in so many times?
"I don't believe it," the recorder rolled his eyes in disdain. "You must have found some way to avoid inspection this time, otherwise how could you be numbered the same as those who calibrate time..."
He suddenly realized.
"Your codes are the same!" The recorder was shocked and waved his notebook while running, "You are in the same group!"
All members of the exploration team paused, feeling a sense of guilt that was bound to come.
"How did you change the number?"
Everyone's guilty gazes dispersed.
Recorder: “That’s too much!”
He tried to make Bai Jinshu, who was closest to him, feel guilty through his eyes: "You are actually a wanted criminal, no wonder you don't know anything! You kept asking me one question after another to deceive me! I remembered a lot of wrong information!"
Bai Jin said: "So I suggest you practice your ability to identify next time."
His face was full of cheap sincerity and a fake smile: "After all, it was you who said at the beginning that our job was to calibrate the time."
If he hadn't provided the ideas, he would have had to use all his brain cells to write it himself.
"But how did I know you were wanted persons at that time!" The recorder widened his eyes.
These two wanted men riding the strange-wheeled vehicle even had one smiling in a very hypocritical manner while the other was indifferent and undisguised.
Thinking about how long he had talked to him before, he was almost mad: "I need to call someone! I really need to call someone!"
Bai Jinshu was standing on the balance bike, a whole head taller than the recorder. He smiled condescendingly and said, "Then you go ahead and do it."
"There are guards chasing behind us. Come here to die."
Recorder: !!!
Yes! Those are the guards chasing him. If he calls for help, wouldn't he be killed by these strange guards who are crazy about killing?
Moreover, it seemed like these guards would kill him too, which meant that not only could he not mobilize people to kill these wanted criminals, but he also had to run away with a group of wanted criminals!!!
Recorder: "...Don't underestimate Xiaobai, I can really shake people!"
Lu Changfeng said sarcastically, "If you can shake it, just do it. We are all grasshoppers tied to the same rope these days. Forget about shaking us. If you run a step slower, you will die."
It sounds more like they have kidnapped the police chief.
The fat guy Lu Changfeng is now very skilled in the art of kidnapping others. It is hard not to suspect that it was because of the example taught by She Mochu when he kidnapped the doctor in the previous project, so this is all She Mochu's doing.
Bai Jinshu stood on the balance bike with a nonchalant look on his face, putting all the blame on his previous account.
"What is a grasshopper?" The recorder was puzzled. "Write it down... No, this is not another thing you made up to trick me! What is a grasshopper?"
Guan Hongyan, who was standing nearby, thought the recorder's angry look was really funny, and couldn't help but add quietly: "An animal that's just as noisy as you."
Finally, there was someone who felt the same way as she did.
This feeling of being choked to death by Isaac!
Is this not a human being if he doesn't finish off the enemy?
Recorder: ...
"I don't want to talk to you anymore!"
"Oh my god, you still have time to talk, I am almost out of breath," Lu Changfeng sighed beside him, "Stop shouting and run quickly, don't you want to die?"
The barrage was full of joy:
[I am so pitiful. Another person was choked to death by Isaac’s words.]
【Double Isaac's gaze.jpg】
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[Sister Yan'er has also learned bad things. What do you mean by an animal that is as noisy as you? Hahahaha]
【Changfen and Guan Hongyan are gradually becoming popular. 】
[It's bad. Isaac has spread the virus from person to person among the exploration team.]
[It’s over. I can’t clear myself of this now. Before, I could say that the wanted person was wrongly accused, but now you guys have directly kidnapped the director hhhhhh]
[The Dog Lovers Association strongly condemns this! ]
[The Love Condemnation Association strongly calls for dog punishment! 】
[How can you be so bad! You even lied to a child! Really! Condemn! Strongly condemn hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha]
[If you didn’t have so many words above, I would have believed that you were really condemning. ]
The barrage of comments flew everywhere, and several people who were running away in Night City also ran away very fast.
The recorder ran in front while gritting his teeth, vowing to draw a line between himself and these wanted criminals who were disrupting the law and order of Night City, without realizing that he was leading the way for everyone else.
Anyone who has run knows that leading is the most tiring, while following behind is actually easier.
Bai Jinshu stood leisurely on the balance bike, craned his neck to look back. According to Shi Zhou, these mechanical guards would not feel tired. Sure enough, the guards following behind them were still the same as before. There was no telling when they would stop chasing them.
He can't chase them for the remaining two and a half days. Even if he can endure it, the other team members can't.
At this moment, Bai Jinshu heard Lu Changfeng's strange voice coming from the front: "Hey, run! Why are you stopping here? Run!"
He turned his head and saw that not far away, the recorder who was originally running in the front had now stopped and was standing inside the dividing line of the block, with Lu Changfeng standing next to him, looking confused.
The recorder turned his head and said, "Don't talk to wanted criminals."
"What are you doing? Do you really want to die?" Lu Changfeng was puzzled. He pulled his arm and tried to continue running down. "Let's go?"
"No," the recorder was pulled by his arm. He ran forward a few steps but stopped. Under Lu Changfeng's anxious eyes, he hesitated for a moment and replied, "I can't go anymore. I can't leave this area."
"Ah?" Lu Changfeng didn't understand, "Can't you go anywhere?"
"You are the same as those people in the company?" He was stunned. "You... you can only move around in this area. What's the difference between you and them who can't leave their workstations? What will happen if you leave?"
The recorder thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he will die..."
Bai Jinshu walked over on his balance bike and asked, "What's wrong?"
"He said he would die if he left here!" Lu Changfeng quickly turned to his brother Isaac and said, "No wonder Sister Shi Zhou said he only appeared in this area!"
“Brother Isaac,” he scratched his head and looked at the special robots that were still some distance away from him, “Can you change his ID and let him run away? Otherwise, he’s just waiting to die here…”
Although most people in Night City will die, there is a difference between a death they are unable to intervene in and a death they are left to die.
"So it's you who's changing your ID..." The recorder was stumped for a moment, "I need to write it down!"
"It's time to calm down," Shi Zhou said mercilessly, "Isaac, how about it, can you change it?"
She also wondered if Isaac could do that.
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "When I change your ID, I am not changing your genes. Instead, I am changing our numbers in the database. What I am changing is how we are viewed by others, not our true state."
Therefore, if the trait of dying upon leaving this area belongs to a job like a recorder, then it will be useless no matter how he changes his ID.
Because he changed the external appearance, not the essence.
"You want to save me?" the recorder asked in surprise.
"Nonsense," Guan Hongyan rolled her eyes and continued to talk to Isaac, "What should he do? There are pursuers behind him. Is he just going to wait for death here?"
Even though they had only known each other for a few hours, she couldn't bear to watch him die. "Shi Zhou, is there any way to escape capture? How did you do it before?"
"Our most effective method before was to divert the trouble away," Shi Zhou also frowned, "but now all the clones have been killed by them..."
Before, most of the time they would take advantage of the guards chasing and intercepting the clones to find a chance to escape.
"What else? Is there no other way?"
"Or we can just cooperate and kill them head-on." She raised her chin and motioned everyone to look at the huge number of pursuers behind them. "The six of us who go in and kill them head-on will just be food. Previously, the ones we killed head-on were large groups of more than 20 or 30 people, and they were all high-end explorers."
It’s not like it is now, where there is a minimum of six people in a team, oh, now it’s seven, only seven people, and there are only five who can be called high-end explorers.
How can we possibly win this?
"And maybe it's because Isaac's identity ID has expired," Shi Zhou frowned, "otherwise why are we being chased this time?"
"No," Bai Jinshu said beside him, "I changed the permanent ID."
How can there be a time limit?
Before the few of them could explain themselves, the special robots in the distance were getting closer and closer.
The recorder who said he couldn't leave here flipped through his notebook in confusion, and then said to everyone as if he had made up his mind: "You... are really not bad people?"
Guan Hongyan held her forehead with her hand: "We never said we were bad guys. We have no idea why we are wanted, and we don't know why our clones would destroy Night City. We are also investigating these things."
Now that it has come to this, it doesn’t matter whether I say this or not.
As long as the existence of the Foundation is not exposed.
"Will you investigate this thoroughly?" the recorder turned around and asked for confirmation.
"Yes," Shi Zhou nodded, "I...I will not give up the investigation of Night City."
"Tsk, I didn't ask you," the recorder curled his lips, "Okay, then run away."
"What about you?" Lu Changfeng was at a loss.
"I'll die if I go out, and I'll die if I stay here," the recorder curled his lips. "Since you want to find out why the error occurred, you have to promise me to find the root cause of the error in Night City!"
"Otherwise, even if I don't know how to call people, other colleagues will come to arrest you when they see the increase in mistakes! By then, changing your ID will be useless, and everyone in Night City will assume that the clone and you are the same person!"
Zhang Pei was speechless for a moment.
The joy of the barrage more than ten minutes ago is gone:
[Wait, what happened? Why is he going to die? ]
[Xiu——Dog——]
[Hey, hey, hey, Lu Changfeng, help me! Lu Changfeng, help me! ]
[Uhhhh what's going on, isn't this the police chief? What's wrong with Night City's basic guards? Why are they killing people indiscriminately?! ]
On the screen, the recorder rushed towards the special robot holding his notebook. Isaac stood on the balance car and looked at his back for a few seconds. He pulled the corner of his mouth, and it was hard to tell whether his expression was disdain or nostalgia: "What are you looking at? Let's go."
"Brother Isaac," Lu Changfeng was still a little dazed, "Are we just leaving like this?"
Isaac put his hands in his pockets and glanced at him: "So you want to be buried with him?"
The special robot behind him made the sound of its weapons charging.
Lu Changfeng shuddered: "No, no, it would be a big loss if we sacrifice one of them."
This voice also woke up the other few people who were still in a daze. Everyone suppressed their melancholy in their hearts and ran forward, counting the time in their minds.
Three seconds.
Five seconds.
Ten seconds.
Even though we've only known each other for a few hours, it's still a shame to run away and let others cover you...
"Eh?" The recorder's confused voice came from behind, "You guys don't attack me!"
【！ ！ ！】
[What's going on? Adjust the camera! ]
As they ran and looked back, they found that behind them, a dense swarm of special robots bypassed the recorder like Moses parting the sea and continued to chase them, leaving the recorder standing there in a daze, posing in the first move of military boxing ready to fight.
This special robot actually only chases them and not the recorder!!!
The recorder standing there also noticed this. He woke up from the heroic sacrifice just now, opened his mouth, and said in great despair: "Then I...then why should I run!"
If I had known earlier, he wouldn't have had to run at all!
He just needs to stand where he is, right?
Why on earth would he run with these people...
The recorder thought blankly for a long time, and finally remembered that it was Lu Changfeng who first grabbed his arm and shouted "Run!", and then he ran away with the group of wanted criminals in a daze.
From the beginning to the end... from the beginning to the end, these guards were heading towards them!
It's none of his business at all!!!
Lu Changfeng also felt very confused.
So...the guards were coming towards them in the first place, right?
The recorder stood at the edge of the area, watching his companions who had just been running together being chased everywhere, and couldn't help but shouting: "Do you have a grudge against these people?"
Otherwise, why would they chase them instead of himself? Their IDs had been changed and even he didn't recognize them. Logically, all the guards should not be able to recognize them, but these strange guards recognized them in this way.
"I don't know!" This time it was Lu Changfeng who said this. Lu Changfeng ran and shouted, "Now that you are not being chased, are you just going to watch the fun?"
Won't you come and help them?
"Well, what else?" The recorder followed them as they ran further and further away, his voice becoming more and more confident, "I'm so weak, I'm just a clerk, how can I help you! What if I beat them and become their enemy, and they beat me too!"
Lu Changfeng: ...
"Ouch!" A laser brushed past his heel, and he ran and jumped to the side of his brother Isaac, earning a look of disgust from Huai Jiamu.
Although the recorder's voluntary sacrifice did not buy them time, the fact that the recorder did not die in the end still made the team's atmosphere much better.
Guan Hongyan looked at Shi Zhou as she ran: "There is no other way! I remember I told you several things before?!"
"Another option is to pretend to be dead," Shi Zhou said hastily, "but we can't use this method now!"
"Playing dead can only be used when there are fewer guards and there is no strenuous exercise," she said, taking a deep breath after every few words. It was obvious that she had been physically exhausted by the long-term fast running. "The principle of playing dead is to stop moving, pretend that you have lost your vital signs, and try to stop your heartbeat as much as possible and keep your body calm."
She took a deep breath. "Let's not talk about the fact that we have so many pursuers behind us. Just thinking about whether we can pretend to be dead and make our heartbeat disappear can be achieved by buying a miracle. It's expensive but it definitely works. The problem is that we've all been running like this now. It's impossible for us to stay still."
After a rapid exercise, people cannot actually stop immediately.
Generally speaking, even after the shortest 100-meter sprint, athletes still need to jog for a short distance after crossing the finish line to provide a certain buffering effect on the internal organs and protect the heart and the intestines in the abdominal cavity.
Otherwise, if you stop suddenly after rapid exercise, the intestinal tract in the abdominal cavity will produce acute twisting due to inertia, and severe cases may even cause symptoms of intestinal torsion, or thrombosis and myocardial infarction.
Not to mention these consequences, just talking about the physiological reactions, if the heartbeat is suddenly and forcibly stopped after strenuous exercise, even if there is a miracle that can temporarily maintain the vital signs of the team members, they will not be able to stay completely still.
"We have to be quiet even if we can't," Guan Hongyan gritted her teeth and held Zhang Pei, "These two are almost dying. If we keep running, we will also die. I don't know how tired these robots behind us are. If we keep running like this, do we have to run until midnight the day after tomorrow to log out?"
"If we keep running at this rate, Isaac will be the only one left alive among the six of us," she said bluntly, "Why buy a miracle? Hurry up."
Bai Jinshu shrugged beside him.
"This." Shi Zhou pushed a miracle into the group.
Zhang Pei and Li Jue didn't even bother to check how many points they had. They clicked the button to buy the items with their eyes going dark, and then immediately collapsed to the ground, not moving at all.
"I don't know if you guys are Bodhisattvas or Buddhas, and the great Marx and Engels, if they are passing by now, please bless me, Lu Changfeng." Lu Changfeng muttered quickly in a low voice, and fell to the ground quickly.
Guan Hongyan twitched her lips: "This is really like being dead..."
She also quickly used this miracle. The moment her heart stopped beating, she felt that her body was about to be torn into two halves. One half was the physical ability that had completely calmed down, and the other half was the inertia generated by the intense exercise she had just experienced, which made her involuntarily want to breathe deeply to take in more oxygen.
Guan Hongyan stared straight ahead to suppress the urge, and forced herself to take small sips of air.
It is difficult for people who have not been trained to do this. The team members who chose to pretend to be dead all had hideous faces, and only Lu Changfeng had a relatively calm expression. The others lying on the ground were no longer pretending to be dead, they were really dead.
The death was still very hideous.
Bai Jinshu silently bent down and arranged them, covering their faces which were most exposed, and then sat cross-legged next to them with his chin in his hands.
Isaac's body is made entirely of machines. He has no heartbeat and no vital signs. The rise and fall of his chest and the frequency of his breathing are all designed for simulation. He can stop breathing at any time if he wants.
And Huaijiamu...
Huai Jiamu disdained simulation and was so frank that he almost had "there is definitely something wrong with me" written on his face. If not for the technological superstition that everyone here had towards Isaac and his human alliance, these people would have noticed something was wrong with him long ago.
As soon as the two of them sat down, a huge army of special robots came behind them.
Perhaps it was really Lu Changfeng's not-so-pious prayers that worked. These robots actually did not pay too much attention to them. Instead, they turned around and walked forward in a mighty manner. When the back of the last robot disappeared, Guan Hongyan suddenly jumped up from the ground, gasping for breath.
Her voice now sounded like a bellows. It seemed that she had really held her breath too hard while pretending to be dead on the ground. She took a deep breath of air in revenge for a long time before she recovered.
Li Jue also sat up from the ground, coughing heart-wrenchingly, and Zhang Pei didn't look much better.
Shi Zhou was probably used to the effects of this kind of miracle, so his reaction was not as big as theirs. Strangely, Lu Changfeng, who was using it for the first time, was also fine. This could only be attributed to individual differences.
After the team members finished resting, everyone had time to ask, "Sister Shi Zhou, what is this?"
"I don't know." Shi Zhou rarely showed confusion on questions about Night City. "This exploration is too strange. The three natural disasters appeared at the same time, and we encountered pursuers that we had never seen before. Why is this happening?"
“Have you ever thought about this,” everyone looked up at the source of the sound. There were two Isaacs, one sitting cross-legged on the ground, and the other with his long legs hanging loosely in front of him, not caring at all that he was wearing a suit that looked very expensive, “This natural disaster is actually chasing us.”
"Chasing us?" Shi Zhou objected subconsciously, "Impossible, the areas of natural disasters were fixed before."
"Think about it again," Isaac said, not getting angry at being interrupted in his speculation. "What did the so-called police chief say?"
Without waiting for everyone to recall, he continued, "He said that in Night City, everyone assumes that the replicants are the same person as us."
"Now Shizhou, think about it again," he said, "when you came here before, were there copies of you at the locations where natural disasters occurred?"
"Right..." Shi Zhou frowned, "But our clones will be everywhere in the later stages. The area where the natural disaster occurred is very wide, so it's normal to have one or two among them, right?"
"No," Isaac shook his head and denied it calmly, "This natural disaster changes according to us, or according to the concentration of replicants."
The first disaster occurred in the area where they landed.
They did not witness the first and second disasters with their own eyes, so they have no reference value.
The second first disaster occurred after their clones suddenly appeared.
The second second disaster appeared after they gathered in the police station. After the disaster, this strange special robot appeared and chased them until they pretended to be dead.
"You mean the first and second disasters are actually accompanied by the third disaster!" Shi Zhou also thought of it.
"Not accurate," Isaac's voice remained calm. "If you ask me, I would think that the third disaster does not seem like a natural disaster."
Everyone's eyes widened.
"When you summarized the natural disasters, you included the fact that all the people had clones in the disasters. This was actually creating useless interference for yourself," he said mercilessly. "Rather than saying that the third natural disaster is a natural disaster, it's better to say that the third natural disaster is like pointing out our direction for the previous two disasters, so that these natural disasters can lock on us."
"If I were to summarize," he clasped his hands together, "I would classify this special robot incident as the third natural disaster, because from the root cause, mechanical riots, chemical leaks, and special machines are the three types of disasters that are large-scale and highly lethal and are aimed at us."
What Isaac said made sense, and the exploration team members fell into deep thought.
If the original third natural disaster is understood as a signpost, everything will be much easier to understand. The first and second natural disasters were intended to eliminate them, and the more replicators there are in a place, the more likely it is that these natural disasters will occur.
"I still don't understand," Shi Zhou said, "If the natural disaster followed the replicants, then why can we summarize the rules? The replicants' replication obviously has no rules."
"Think about it another way," Isaac said in a light voice, "Why can't it be that something happened this time that interrupted the regular operation of the natural disaster?"
"You mean you changed our IDs?" Shi Zhou understood what he wanted to say, "Because you changed our IDs, the guards couldn't catch us, so the first and second disasters went from being regular to being disorderly, just to force us out?"
"No," Guan Hongyan also spoke up, "Isaac, didn't you say that the first and second disasters were not under the control of the central control AI? You said it came from the outside world, so how could it be coordinated with the guards? They are not in the same network."
“But I feel like you’re right.”
She rubbed her hair irritably: "I feel like there is an answer on the tip of my tongue, but I can't say it."
Shi Zhou nodded in agreement: "I have experienced this inexplicable familiarity seven or eight times. Every time I feel like I am about to touch that edge, but every time I can't. I know very clearly that there is only one core underlying rule left in Night City that can reveal all the answers, but I just can't break through that layer of window paper."
"A sense of familiarity," Bai Jinshu suddenly looked up, "What are you familiar with?"
He remembered the inexplicable sense of familiarity he had when he hacked into the central control AI. It was this sense of familiarity that made him feel that replacing the AI here was not a good choice, but rather waiting and seeing what would happen was the best way.
"I'm familiar with everything," Shi Zhou curled his lips, "To be honest, the first time I entered this dungeon, I felt like I was back home."
"What about you?" Bai Jinshu turned to look at the others, and they shook their heads.
It seemed that only he and Shi Zhou felt this inexplicable familiarity, perhaps because there was some unknown commonality between them.
"I can't stand it anymore," Guan Hongyan said, leaning back and saying, "I really hate that I'm not living thousands of years later. If I were living in Isaac's time, I would give myself an external brain and then enter the unknown space."
"Your genes are not good," Bai Jinshu said with a smile, "You haven't undergone the genetic modification of the Alliance's newborns."
"What exactly is gene editing? Drinking medicine?" Guan Hongyan asked blankly while lying on the ground. "Great Master Isaac, do you think I still have a chance in the Foundation Mall?"
Doesn't the Foundation store have everything? Even starships, but the points required are sky-high. It doesn't make sense that there are no gene-editing drugs, right?
"It's not medicine. It's too late now," Bai Jinshu explained casually under everyone's increasingly curious gazes. "To change the genes, I will replace a section of the newborn's DNA with an artificial sequence before it is ready to be conceived in the incubator. This will replace all problematic genetic factors before birth and create cells that are more suitable for mechanical prostheses."
He didn't notice the sudden widening of everyone's eyes when they heard the words "I will be in charge of the change", but suddenly frowned.
He felt that the window paper was right in front of him, and he seemed to catch a glimpse of the skylight behind the paper window.
A sense of familiarity... This inexplicable sense of familiarity...
Tracing back from the previous sentence -
Isaac is the highest intelligent machine in the interstellar era, coordinating everything related to data in that era, including replacing the DNA sequence of all interstellar newborns.
This was a very small matter, at least for Isaac. He used more of his computing power on the continuation of the Human Federation, the wars against other planets, and the coordination of all resources. He didn't even need to devote one billionth of his attention to such a trivial matter to complete it.
But in every sense, the DNA of every interstellar person has passed through his hands. He is very familiar with the place, so it is very easy for him to tamper with it.
That familiar feeling comes from Isaac, who is less than one billionth of the person, and the feeling he gets every time he changes the DNA of a newborn.
Bai Jinshu was suddenly enlightened.
He looked up at the thick night sky above Night City.
Everyone followed his lead and looked up in confusion.
The camera in the live broadcast room also looked up.
The investors who were watching also looked up in confusion.
Above the colorful neon lights of Night City, the sky is still deep and dark as ink.
Central control AI is DNA.
How could he not realize that the central control AI is DNA.
Everyone heard Isaac's calm voice: "I know."
His next words were, “I know where this is.”
All comments will stop here.
On the screen in the live broadcast room without a single comment, everyone saw Isaac say: "Night City is inside the human body."
He slowly lowered his head and looked around at everyone at an angle that a human neck could never reach: "We are cancer cells."
The author has something to say:
Yes, Night City is a working cell! Because there is no light source in the human body, it is always night!
Someone actually guessed it in chapter 54. I'm shocked. The first person to guess the core mechanism will be given a big red envelope. However, for the reading experience of later readers, please don't comment spoilers before this chapter when you read it for the second time.
All the speculations and analyses about the first two chapters of Cells at Work! in the comments are highlighted. If you are interested, you can check out everyone's speculations. Most of them are correct, but some speculations are wrong. I am very happy to see that everyone has deduced the answer before my plot! I am a foreshadowing control and I feel very satisfied when I see such comments when writing puzzle-solving themes!
The information I looked up when making the outline, including the plot design notes, are all on @月渡寒塘不糖. Those who are interested can also go and see which specific plot corresponds to which mechanism of the immune system. However, Han Tang is not a professional medical student, so there may be some bugs. Every plot, every character, machine, location and number in the dungeon were all verified by me and my medical student friend Yanyan based on the characteristics of the immune system, and then converted one by one. Maybe after the last sentence of this chapter, you will suddenly understand it, and after reading my notes, you will feel that you understand everything in Night City 23333
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