Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1193 - 387: They Charged Forward Shouting About Bonds and Friendship and Whatnot_2

"I’m afraid we can’t do it."The exoskeleton doctor said with difficulty.

"Right now, the surveillance network across the city has been cut off by some unknown signal, and the streets are full of those modified bodies....."

He didn’t finish his sentence, and Huang Ban Lai Xuan didn’t push further.

After all, he couldn’t force his subordinates to charge out to their deaths.

So Huang Ban Lai Xuan pointed to the flames in the distance at Haywood and asked,

"What’s going on with them? Are they from a company or a gang?"

"Horizon Mercenaries."

The exoskeleton doctor answered the question without a second thought.

Whenever there’s a significant commotion in Night City, it’s bound to be linked to Horizon Mercenaries.

Yet Huang Ban Lai Xuan, new to the place, didn’t have a real sense of these guys’ destructive power. He’d previously regarded their actions merely as corporate power struggles, not paying them much mind.

Just as he was contemplating how to break the stalemate, Huang Ban Lai Xuan caught a glimpse of something unexpected from the corner of his eye.

"Is that...."

His pupils trembled fiercely, and he was frozen in place.

The curiosity piqued the exoskeleton doctor, who then also moved to the bedside to look outside. What they saw was.... the border between Santo Domingo and the Stone Ridge Mountain Industrial Zone.

Countless headlights formed a glimmering band of light in the pitch-black night, stretching all the way from Santo Domingo to the peak of Stone Ridge Mountain, like a road ascending to the heavens.

And it wasn’t just the Stone Ridge Mountain Industrial Zone; the Taiping Continent Development Zone, too—these plots on the outskirts of Night City—were bathed in light even as the rest of Night City lay dark.

That was a stream of people,

and an innumerable one at that.

The light Huang Ban Lai Xuan saw was formed by the converged lighting of countless construction vehicles, private cars, doorframe robots, and multifunctional transport platforms, with fully armed workers and security forces on these vehicles.

Steamed Bun stood atop a truck, holding a megaphone, shouting to the workers around him.

"Everyone be careful; once we enter the city, those who can shoot, grab a weapon and follow behind us and the machine units. Those who can’t, handle logistics, help with ammo delivery and treating the wounded. It’s okay to be scared; just wait for us to return in the dorms."

When the workers in the industrial zone learned what was happening inside the city, the Henan people immediately mobilized the idle players, gathered the zone’s workers, and informed them of everything.

No hiding, no way to hide.

Those players currently in Night City didn’t have enough strength to contend against the Ye family’s overwhelming number of modified bodies, and the Stone Ridge Mountain Industrial Zone was still the place with the lowest average combat level for players.

But there was no time to wait for reinforcements from Cuba and the whole of America.

They needed a stronger force, and that force was right before their eyes.

The people of Night City were straightforward; here, you might not know anything else, but you had to know how to shoot.

When the workers learned a corporation wanted to completely control the minds of Night City’s residents, their first reaction was disbelief, until Steamed Bun broadcasted the ongoing happenings in Night City on the big screen, forcing them to believe it.

And there was only one response from the workers.

To take up arms and defend the hard-won life they had now.

Working here wasn’t exactly easy, but the monthly evaluations, collective decisions, and transparent profits gave the workers a strong sense of belonging to the group.

Furthermore, Horizon Corporation had promised to cover all medical expenses and provide high death benefits, removing worries about the future.

Thus, Steamed Bun’s call was met with a tumultuous response, with people raising their guns and shouting loudly,

"Defend our Night City! Give those damned robots a taste of their own medicine!"

"After all, it’s up to us; you can’t rely on those corporations and NCPD!"

"Every brick and tile of this city was built by us from the ruins of a nuclear explosion. We won’t let anyone take it away from us!"

"I told you those computers were haunted, but they didn’t believe me."

"It’s not ghosts; it’s rogue AI, out-of-control artificial intelligence, do you get it?"

"What’s the difference, anyway? I’m going to bash those tin cans and take them for a keepsake."

The crowd surged into Night City, high in morale, determined to destroy all those damned brainwashing devices.

"How incredible."

Steamed Bun was amazed by the people’s fighting spirit.

"With so many people, it’s enough to take down those corporations together, isn’t it?"

The workers from Stone Ridge Mountain added up to at least hundreds of thousands and with many arms factories in the industrial zone, they armed thousands of militia with guns and bulletproof vests in a short time. If not for fears of losing control over too large a group, the number might swell to tens of thousands.

"That’s why we need to be cautious."

The Henan person was apprehensive about this, worrying about other matters more than the brainwashing machines inside the city.

"We must ensure each branch’s workers’ committees and AI maintain order among the militia groups. We absolutely can’t let it evolve into a full-blown riot, or our future will be doomed."

The power of the masses is immense, but equally uncontrollable, especially in Night City, a city of crime enduring for decades.

Order had just started taking shape in people’s minds, but the restrained criminal desires still lurked, watching for any chance. Blue Eyes’s worries were not without reason.

If this action spirals out of control, it will lead to irreparable consequences.

Horizon Corporation is walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff; one wrong step and there’ll be no burial ground to come to rest in.