Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1200 - 390: Smart Poor People Become Reimu Hakurei

The sudden incident in Night City is bound to be difficult to cover up, especially the city-wide combat events. Even though the majority of locals subconsciously returned home to sleep, outsiders like Huang Ban Lai Xuan were less affected or unaffected.Despite AI agents controlling these people’s movement range, under the intervention of Horizon Mercenaries, they witnessed the combat scenes between Horizon Mercenaries and numerous Modified Bodies within the city, with the most impact on foreign guests at Ganbi Mansion.

Compared to this, the smugglers in Taiping Continent’s Dog Town hardly noticed the event.

To prevent the event from escalating, Lin Miao must divert the world’s attention away from this little incident in Night City.

The previously withheld weapons finally came in handy now—the Mewtwo captured during the Cuba War.

Regarding the Cuba War, which is under global attention, a city turmoil without many casualties is obviously not impressive enough.

Europe is naturally the main focus of Lin Miao’s work in the global publicity arena.

Paris, France

This world-renowned city, once the center of the European Renaissance, is no longer the old city of white bricks and red tiles, filled with century-old buildings.

As the leading country in the EU and the main speaker of the Pan-African Alliance, the origin of aristocratic air, France’s Old Money aristocrats highly value the city they live in. Therefore, this time-tempered city underwent the largest redesign in history.

The requirements of the Old Money folks are simple.

The gentlemen are kind-hearted, so in their view, there should be no sight of the poor nor trash.

For the super-city-centric year of 2077, this is naturally difficult to achieve, prompting city designers to divide the city into Upper and Lower City Districts. All poor people and workers are driven into the sunless underground Lower City District.

The Lower City District never sees daylight, only high-pollution factories, waste accumulation zones, synthetic food factories, and housing the size of mouse cages. The air here is turbid and full of the stench of chemical waste, and without installing respiratory Exoskeletons, one can fall ill at any time.

The Upper City District replicates the late 19th-century Paris, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Hôtel des Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe...

The bright and clean classical city is enveloped by an invisible barrier, shielding from the gray haze of the outer suburbs, with the azure Seine River flowing through the city like a jade belt.

Those salaried aristocrats drive their private cars on the streets, pouring all their time and energy into 16 hours of work daily, hoping they won’t be kicked into the unfathomable hell below due to unemployment.

Many times, they do not understand the significance of their work, busy purely for the appearance of being busy.

Luxuriously dressed aristocratic ladies and gentlemen ride expensive floating luxury cars in the sky, heading to the city center’s separately designated, hundred-meter-high luxury building area to attend endless banquets, living a life seemingly like fairy-tale princes and princesses.

Yet, in reality, human enjoyment is just that; no matter how luxurious it gets, it’s merely so-so. Under the impact of emerging live streaming and short video entertainment software, entertainment methods other than Mewtwo are quickly discarded by young aristocrats.

As for what ordinary people think about hunting, horseback riding, ballrooms, opera houses...

Don’t be ridiculous; that’s merely the wishful thinking of ordinary people. Aristocrats only use these for showing off; who would regard them as entertainment?

Does anyone seriously think opera is more entertaining than Mewtwo?

Henry Orleans, the second son of the family, since he wasn’t favored by his father, is more keen on tinkering with Mewtwo and claims it as artistic creation.

But insiders all know this guy is merely creating narratives.

However, he enjoys it immensely and actively collects popular Mewtwo.

Horizon Corporation now uploads its Mewtwo onto the Voice of the Horizon; as long as one pays for membership, they can download it for free, but their encryption is tough, with no hacker able to crack it in the market.

They mostly focus on educational purposes, lacking interest, with only war-themed content attracting users.

Just like usual, Henry opened Voice of the Horizon after taking drugs, mindlessly browsing, initially thinking he’d close it quickly as usual, but two new Mewtwo in the Mewtwo tab surged in popularity.

[Dragon Squad]

[Air Hunters]

In less than a day since going live, the downloads exceeded 150,000.

As for Night City’s chaos?

No one cares about that distant garbage city; this is Parisian confidence.

Henry barely gathered his spirit and contacted his childhood friend in the channel.

"Abel, look, these new Mewtwo from Cuba seem quite awesome."

But his friend’s avatar showed he was already in a Mewtwo, not bothered to respond.

"Alright, damn guy..."

Henry quickly found his Super Dream Headband thrown on the floor last night, put it on, chose to download Dragon Squad, muttering.

"Let me see what tricks you’re up to now."

As the blinding light faded, a string of subtitles appeared in view.