Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 323 A big boss

"boom--!!"

A conspicuous red warning circle was projected on the ground, accompanied by a buzzing sound. The suddenly increased gravity pushed the soil down hard, leaving several deep circular pits.

What followed was the cry of the night wandering ghosts.

"My legs, my legs!!"

"Ah ah ah, let me go!"

"——Don't come over here!"

With just one round of gravity field coverage, the night wanderers stationed in this camp suffered heavy casualties, and their will to resist collapsed.

The remaining night ghosts all looked at the figure at the entrance of the garbage dump with a dark black mecha-type prosthetic body on their backs with fear on their faces.

The four limbs are huge mechanical arms, and the gravity generator buzzes behind him. The intimidating power of the prosthetic King Kong is unquestionable.

The surrounding Night Demons raised and waved their hands again, and the prosthetic Vajra Night Demon finally let out a wail, and with a "thud", it involuntarily hit the ground with its head, stopping all movements.

Unfortunately, it was too late. The prosthetic King Kong Night Demon let out a chaotic roar, raised his right arm, the aperture indicator light on it lit up, and the gravity field was suppressed again!
"boom--!!"

But at this moment, the Night Demon carrying the prosthetic King Kong suddenly paused, and then its body began to tremble slightly, and its two prosthetic eyes started to beat crazily!

"Roar--"

But at least their judgment was correct. The man who appeared in front of them and controlled the prosthetic King Kong was indeed a night demon.

The two unlucky guys smashed into the garbage pile nearby and stopped moving on the spot.

It looked at the night wandering ghost survivors who were begging for their lives, and gently raised its left arm, intending to point to the transport truck parked outside the exit.

The prosthetic Vajra Night Demon looked around uneasily, then raised his arms, wanting to take action first.

The surrounding night demons sensed something at the same time and turned their heads to look outside the garbage dump.

"…Queen."

But the problem is not big. More night demons have emerged from nowhere and plan to take the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon back. But just when they were approaching and about to lift it up, the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon suddenly opened his eyes again, and the indicators on both arms lit up instantly!
"Roar--!!"

The prosthetic King Kong Night Demon instantly felt as if he had been hit hard, his body trembled suddenly, and he let out a painful roar!
The red ring lights on its arms and back flickered on and off, and its chest heaved vigorously, trying to struggle but unable to control and resist.

This guy who single-handedly came to destroy the place has obvious physical characteristics. At first glance, he is a member of the "Night Devil". According to past experience, if you encounter a night demon but cannot defeat it, if you beg for mercy in time, you may still have a way to survive.

As for the wearer on it, only the torso is left of the original body, and it is full of stitching marks. The skin color is also different in different locations. It looks like... Frankenstein's monster.

They dispersed evenly, leaving a safe distance while encircling the prosthetic Vajra Night Demon in the middle.

"H-run quickly!"

The reason why it appears here is also for the collection of actual combat data.

“Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”

Aiji didn't mean to blame it, and said: "You have done a good job. This is a test, and some accidents are normal."

But to the Night Walkers, it doesn't matter whether the other person is a human or a monster. They just want to survive, so they beg for mercy one after another.

Several more deep pits were carved into the ground. In this wave of pursuit, all the night wandering ghosts were directly killed or injured.

The prosthetic Vajra Night Demon was still dissatisfied. He slammed his fists on the ground and looked around for prey.

Over there, their queen, Aggie, was walking steadily, with Yuzu following her, as if she was the strongest shield.

The remaining surrendered troops: "...!?"

She turned to the night demons around her: "Clean up the scene and let's go back."

The two night wandering ghosts standing in front of it were stunned. Before they could react, the thick mechanical arm of the prosthetic King Kong had already swung across and knocked them away!

At this moment, the movements of the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon suddenly stopped, and the blue light in his eyes dimmed instantly. He could no longer control his body. Even if he opened his mouth, he could only let out a silent roar.

Looking at the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon who was still struggling, Aiji narrowed his eyes slightly, but the blue light in his eyes became more and more dazzling, and finally turned into a flash of brilliance!
The prosthetic King Kong Night Demon was still struggling in vain, but at the next moment he stopped all resistance movements and looked at Aiji with the other Night Demons, his eyes regaining sanity and respect.

She looked at the situation here and said thoughtfully: "It seems that we still need to use a few more night demons as suppressors."

Objectively speaking, this is also true. But they naturally don't know how costly "survival" is.

The surrounding night demons were also frightened and wanted to escape, but most of them had no time to hide away and were about to suffer heavy losses.

The night demons bowed their heads in greeting, and then moved quickly. Yuzi directly stepped forward to rebel against King Kong and threw it into the carriage.

But it still took a step slower. Several artificial night demons around it raised their hands one after another, and the ring-shaped blue light in their eyes suddenly brightened!
"Roar--!!"

But then, several figures stood up around the garbage dump that was used as a base by the night wandering ghosts. With uniform clothing and similar prosthetic transformation styles, it is obvious that they are all members of the Night Demon.

So far, the operation of the prosthetic King Kong has been fine, and the night devil has been controlled very well.

However, as a result, these night demons were obviously exhausted. They were all panting and had no energy to do anything else for the time being.

As usual, those who want to surrender will be screened by the night demons, and only a few qualified ones will be left, and then sent back to the lair to be transformed into sentient night demons.

"—!!"

Among the night demons found by Joanne and others after repeated tests, it was the one that had the best resemblance to the prosthetic King Kong, so it was chosen as the bearer.

Yuzu also nodded: "They, the will, the physical strength, are not enough. We need more."

It didn't try to move the body of the prosthetic King Kong anymore, and just lowered its head to Aggie.

Not long after, the convoy of Night Demons pulled the prosthetic King Kong back to Stone Ridge Mountain.

They transported the prosthetic King Kong Night Demon to the lair through a secret passage dug outside the town that resembled a sewer mouth.

Here, Li You is communicating with "researchers" such as Joanne and Charles.

The previous prosthetic Vajra Night Demon was naturally their result.

After obtaining the prosthetic King Kong and Adam Hammer's full-body Dragon Knight prosthetic body, and adding Joanne, Li You assigned them the task, and after a period of research, they actually allowed them to tinker with it. Got something.

The installation of the prosthetic King Kong is not a big problem. After all, Li You also brought its special transport vehicle back before. It only needs to solve a few small problems to make it adapt to the Night Demon's body.

The crux of the problem is that the cost and burden placed on empathy and humanity by the prosthetic King Kong is indeed too heavy, and even the Night Demon cannot resist it.

However, compared to humans, night demons have a unique advantage in this regard, that is, they all have telepathic abilities.

Even ordinary night devils can have vague telepathy between similar people. After sensing the night devils, they can accurately transmit information through this method.

And under Aiji's spiritual connection, the night demons are able to communicate completely at the spiritual level.

Joanne herself became a sentient night demon and a cybernetic night demon, and she noticed this and thought she could take advantage of it.

After all, the essence of cyberpsychosis is that the prosthetic body erodes the body's nervous system excessively, causing physiological lesions in the implanted person, and then combined with their original potential symptoms to induce cyberpsychosis.

In other words, the prosthetic body is only the inducement and trigger after all, and the essence is still the mental instability of the implanter. Of course, too powerful a prosthetic body can also forcibly induce symptoms of cyberpsychosis because it is too corrosive, such as the prosthetic King Kong.

But in any case, cyberpsychosis is also a kind of mental illness, not something particularly illusory. In that case, why can't night demons who are born with telepathic abilities alleviate, suppress, or even eliminate their symptoms through mutual communication on the spiritual level? Woolen cloth?

After Joanne came up with the idea, she immediately started testing it and got the results she wanted.

Perceiving the spiritual communication between night demons can really suppress the onset of cyberpsychosis!

Of course, if a cybernetic night demon has cyberpsychosis, it will need the help of at least two companions to control the symptoms, but this attempt is effective, which is already a major discovery.

So Joanne immediately reported to Li You and Ai Ji, and after getting permission, she made a plan to test the prosthetic King Kong... which is today.

Although something went wrong in the end.

Aiji and Yuzi have returned here and told everyone about the process of this test. They also took out the videos and related data recorded with the prosthetic eyes of other night demons.

After Joanne and others studied the data, they finally came to the conclusion that the originally expected auxiliary team of six sentient night demons was indeed not enough. For safety reasons, it was best to double the number.

As a representative, Joanne reported to Li You and Aiji and concluded: "The mental burden of the prosthetic King Kong on the wearer is too great. Even if we all become night demons, we really don't have outstanding patience in this regard."

"And I'm ashamed to say that we have been studying this prosthetic King Kong for more than a month, but we still can't figure out how to control it accurately... so the test failed. I'm very sorry."

Li You didn't mind: "After all, this is a problem that Arasaka didn't solve when he was working on the project. It's unrealistic to expect you to solve it immediately."

"Thank you for your generosity." Joanne lowered her head and said, "It's great that the master is you."

Li You smiled and said nothing, while Charles and others beside Joanne looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Although Joanne was transformed into a night demon, just like other individuals who sensed night demons, Aggie did not like to control them tightly from body to heart like the Virgin. It would be better to say that she hated doing this.

So in normal times, she gave the Night Demons a considerable amount of autonomy. Basically, after assigning tasks, she would not interfere with anything else.

The Night Demons retain their past consciousness and have their own thoughts, but loyalty to the Queen is engraved in their bones and they will never betray her.

Beyond this, the personality of each person who perceives the Night Demon is consistent with his past self. Apart from anything else, the Sensing Night Demons who are from the Whirlpool Gang, the Night Walker Gang, and the Tiger Claw Gang will have disagreements from time to time due to different work styles... but in the end they can all be resolved smoothly. After all, the interests of the queen and the tribe come first.

The same goes for Charles and others. They looked at Joanne. She was actually very normal at ordinary times - she looked like a research director from a large company. She handles making plans, leading research teams, assigning tasks, and reporting work in an orderly manner. If you ignore her appearance, she is no different from ordinary people.

But when in front of Li You and Aiji, she will also show the loyalty of a night devil.

Whenever this happens, Charles and others will feel chills running down their backs, and are in awe of Li You and Aggie.

A method that can completely guarantee the original humanity, but also make the other party give up. This method has exceeded their imagination.

Charles, standing behind Joanne, coughed and reported on the progress of another project.

"...The dragon knight-type full-body prosthetic body has not been put into actual combat testing because the degree of prostheticization is too high and we are not clear about its specific side effects. Otherwise, the risk would be too great."

"We also need more data on it if we want to install and test it."

Li You nodded after hearing this: "I understand, I will go to the supplier and ask for one next time."

Although Charles was curious about who the supplier he was talking about was, he also knew that it was not his place to ask, so he quietly withdrew.

Joanne also went to study the prosthetic King Kong. In its original idea, the most ideal thing for the night demons as the backup team was not to come out and control the prosthetic King Kong when it got out of control, but to keep following the pros and cons. The Body King Kong maintains the link and helps it share the mental pressure so that it can continue to fight without problems.

Unfortunately, not everyone has the talent to sense the Night Demons and can maintain telepathy for a long time, so this is just a hypothesis.

However, Joanne, true to her researcher spirit, did not intend to give up. She also knows how much the combat effectiveness of the Night Demons will be improved once her vision is realized, so she must succeed!

Li You and Aiji didn't bother them anymore. They walked out of the "research room" here, looked at the situation of the lair, and then returned to the ground.

Today, the Night Demon's lair has been divided into three. In addition to the original Night Demon Cave underground here, Li You also set up a lair in the underground base of the Voodoo Gang.

The reason is also very simple, it is to better control the Voodoo Gang's sub-network "Poseidon" and their BBS data fortress.

Even though Li You knew a little about the setting of cyberspace in the context of cyberpunk, he also knew how valuable a local area network and data fortress were completely under his control, so he naturally couldn't let it go.

The leaders of the Voodoo Gang, Maman Bridget, Neptune, and several other elite hackers who were captured alive, have also joined the warm family of Night Demon. After undergoing prosthetic transformation on Stoneridge Mountain, They returned to the underground base in Taipingzhou and were responsible for hosting the subnet.

As a result, some of the most elite properties of the original Voodoo Gang have fallen into Li You's hands.

He also had to lament that the core value of the Night Devil's Lair could only be perfectly reflected in the expansion of its power.

There were no plans to inspect there today. Bridget and the others were assigned the task of contacting the Voodoo Gang members who had escaped before or who happened to be away through the subnet, and to catch them all.

Li You has not forgotten that in the game, even if V chooses to go to war with the Voodoo Gang in the underground base and kills all their top brass, the Voodoo Gang on the street is still like cockroaches, hiding in those dirty corners. No matter how hard you kill, you can't kill them cleanly.

He didn't intend to waste time on this group of pests, so he directly handed over the finishing task to the Night Demon Bridget and the others. All they have to do is contact the remnants, find their location, and then let the night demons go over to solve the problem.

This is a long-term task, so Li You is not in a hurry and just cleans up slowly.

Compared with this, the addition of Bridget and others and the acquisition of subnets are the biggest expansion of Li You's power.

In order to confuse others and just in case, Bridget still uses the old Voodoo Gang style of acting, just to safely separate herself from the "Night Stalker", so that it will be more convenient to do anything in the future.

Now, on the streets of Night City, Li You's reputation has reached a higher level. At the same time, the name "Night Devil" has also spread to the ears of major gangs, middlemen and even companies.

Everyone now knows that it turns out that the newly promoted quasi-legend, "Hunter" Li You, also has an organization or gang called Night Demon, with hundreds of people, and they are all very powerful in combat. The average gang member is not at all. their opponents.

And one night not long ago, they came out in full force and almost destroyed the Voodoo Gang. Even their lair was occupied.

Yes, now, the Night Demon has turned the Batty Hotel in Taipingzhou into his official base.

This originally one of Taipingzhou's landmark buildings changed hands, which was one of the reasons why this incident spread throughout the city.

Li You has already made a name for himself before, and now the name "Night Devil" is no longer limited to the bad land, but is known as a new gang force in Night City.

Most of the original industries and territories of the Voodoo Gang were also taken over by Night Demon, but those were basically illegal industries, and they were mainly data theft in cyberspace. This is how the Voodoo Gang made money.

Oh, yes, and sending extortion emails to innocent people...

In short, Li You is not very interested in these industries, but he can still accept the theft of data banks and accounts of those companies. At least it wasn't like the Tiger Claw Gang, which was all about flesh business, lending and debt collection, and even selling medicines, which he couldn't stand.

On the surface, although people don't know how much of the Voodoo Gang's legacy Li You has inherited, the mere fact that he occupies most of their sphere of influence is enough to cause a stir.

Of course, they were not just in awe, there were also other gangs who sensed the opportunity and felt that it was time to come to Taipingzhou to get involved and share some of the benefits.

Santo Domingo's Six Street Gang, Westbrook's Tiger Claw Gang, and Heywood's Valentino Gang all came over to join in the fun.

These large gangs have complex internal factions, and no one person has the final say. Just like the Valentino Gang, the middleman priest is only influential among them, but cannot decide everything. In the same way, Wakako's status in the Tiger Claw Gang is the same.

This time they came to take advantage of the situation, which was not the intention of the priest and Wakako. Therefore, Li You counterattacked unceremoniously against those who wanted to take advantage of the situation. The prosthetic Night Demon warriors were ready to attack at any time to kill those gangs who dared to reach out to Taiping Continent. They all fought back.

Because of this, there were constant gunshots on the streets of Taipingzhou in those days, which scared the NCPD away who originally thought about coming over to see what was going on.

As for the gangs, because Li You's counterattack was unceremonious, the gang bosses were frightened and angry, and they planned revenge. But before they could actually implement it, Li You took Yuzi and the cybernetic night demons to personally find the top leaders of these gangs and had a good exchange with them.

It is conceivable that after talking face-to-face with Li You, most of them finally gave up their plans to get involved in Taipingzhou territory, and obediently withdrew their one-third-acre land, admitting that "Night" Demon" took over the territory that originally belonged to the Voodoo Gang.

Of course, the specific exchange process is confidential. It is just the tacit agreement of the three major gangs to stop, which already explains everything.

So for a while, Li You's reputation skyrocketed again, and his street status rose rapidly. Now in the eyes of ordinary people, and even many mercenaries, he has long since left the ranks of mercenaries and has become a powerful man on the streets.

But although many people think so, Li You himself doesn't think so at all. He still runs around occasionally, attracting the attention of the mercenaries every time.

As his apprentices, the David duo and the Mann team, who are known to be very close to him, have also enjoyed star treatment recently. As long as they enter the next life, there will always be mercenaries surrounding them, as if they are chasing something.

David was so annoyed by this that he tried his best not to show up in the afterlife.

The same goes for Mann, Dorio and Rebecca. That is to say, Pyrrha feels it's very good to do this, so now she runs to the afterlife when she has nothing to do, and sits there all day long, doing nothing but drinking and blowing her pussy. Until finally Rebecca, who couldn't bear it anymore, came over, knocked him unconscious and dragged him home.

David's mother, Gloria, naturally also heard about the recent events and Li You's popularity. Although she was surprised, she was still worried about whether David would be affected in any bad way.

But what made her happy was that David was still the same David. He would take Lucy home every night and his attitude was the same as before, which made her feel relieved.

In short, after destroying the Voodoo Gang, Li You has been busy with chores for this period of time. Finally, he finally settled down and could rest today.

As a result, as soon as he returned to his apartment and sat down on the soft sofa, his cell phone rang again. Looking at the call information, it turned out to be Mr. Hands.

"...Hello?" Li You picked up helplessly.

"Li You, you are a big shot now." Mr. Hanz smiled there, "You are no longer interested in cooperating with a small middleman like me?"

"You're kidding." Li You rubbed his forehead, "Mr. Hands is one of the most famous middlemen in Night City. How many people want to cooperate with you but haven't had the chance yet."

"Haha, no matter what, congratulations to you. Now that your status has risen to this level, you are already a real boss. Today, my people are still discussing whether you can already be considered to have legendary status. "

Li You raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

"Yes. You see, in terms of strength, if you can compete with Adam Hammer, you are obviously qualified. In terms of power, your 'Night Demon' has also risen strongly."

Mr. Hands smiled and said, "The biggest problem now is your personal record. You haven't done anything truly earth-shattering yet, and... you haven't died yet."

Li You also smiled: "It seems that I am still far away from becoming a legend."

"Stop talking about this, you called me not just to congratulate me, right?"

Mr. Hands replied: "That's natural, and my time is valuable."

"So let's make a long story short. I have found what you wanted me to check before, and it is indeed underground in Dog Town. To be honest, I am curious as to why you know this."

Li You ignored him: "It is indeed there... Then you should have guessed what I am going to do next, right?"

"Yeah." Mr. Hands didn't give in. "I've already done the dog town resident identity verification for you, but if you want to bring your 'Night Stalker' in, you'll have to pay extra."

"Or, you can help me a little bit. After all, the Voodoo Gang's sub-network should also fall into your hands, right?"

"Oh? How can you be sure?" Li You asked.

Mr. Hands smiled and said: "I can't, but based on my understanding of you, you will never let something like this go."

Li You looked at him and raised the corner of his mouth: "It seems that you really understand me...Okay, I agree."

"Very good, let's talk about the details later. I hereby sincerely invite you to come and see me in my den. The invitation will be sent to your mailbox soon."

"Okay." Li You nodded, "I'll see you then."

Communication was immediately cut off.

Li You sat on the sofa and thought for a moment, considering what to talk about with Mr. Hands during this meeting.

However, at this moment, Aiji suddenly rushed out from the practice room upstairs, holding a piece of letter paper in his hand, and shouted to the person downstairs: "Li You!"

"... Something happened over there with Claire and Kara!"

Li You was stunned on the spot, and then stood up suddenly.

"what happened?"

(End of this chapter)