Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 191 Wake up! Someone is invading our world!
挲.
Consciousness began to reverse from its descent, as if useless gas was being forcibly stuffed into the alveoli, and then, accompanied by the discomfort and pain, began to rise.

then.

[Open your eyes, Lu Mingfei! Wake up! Someone is invading our world!]

"Don't suddenly say lines like that!"

Suddenly sitting up, Lu Mingfei opened his eyes with an instinctive grumble.

Then, after a brief moment of dizziness—I was shocked by what I saw before me.

This differs from the previous mechanical interpretation.

The final destination Lu Mingfei arrived at was that destroyed city.

A blood-red sky.

A collapsed city.

A black dragon hovering in the sky.

Lu Mingfei's brain began to organize his memories with barely adequate efficiency.

Enter the outside of the black wall.

Encountering all sorts of strange scenes.

Then I returned to Shilan Middle School.

With the help of my senior, moss and spiders, then
He grabbed his younger brother's hand, and then...
That's all for now.

Before I arrived in the cyber city, I was already in this illusion—had I traveled back in time again?

"No, not really."

Soon someone gave a negative answer.

Lu Mingfei looked toward the source of the sound and found that it was indeed the person he knew.

"Hahaha"

He couldn't help but grin.

"Hey bro, has anyone told you you haven't played in a long time?"

"There's nothing I can do, I'm trapped here~" Sure enough, in this ruin-like world, besides the whiteboard left by Lu Mingfei before he traveled through time, there was also the little devil who seemed to have been waiting for Lu Mingfei for a long time in front of the whiteboard—Lu Mingze.

He was still androgynous, so handsome it was irritating, and his expressions were overly dramatic.

"You know, breaking the power of words is troublesome, and I've already talked to you too much last time, so I'm almost out of energy."

Lu Mingze shrugged, and Lu Mingfei noticed what he meant by 'talking too much'.

As expected, Lu Mingze had to pay a price for revealing that information to him.

He wanted to continue asking questions on this topic, but Lu Mingze had already changed the subject.

"Compared to this, brother, do you know what the concept of being outside the black wall is?"

"I don't know, uh, maybe they're all Malays?"

Lu Mingfei scratched his head and started making anime/manga references.

"Unfortunately."

Lu Mingze shook his head.

"Sigh~ We'll have to wait a long time to see each other again, so I'll tell you all this anyway."

The boy held up one finger.

"Beyond the black wall lies a space filled with rich spiritual elements, therefore—"

"Unlike the material world, the spiritual world is closer to the essence of humanity. Quantum mechanics, um, brother, you probably haven't studied it, but let me explain it to you in a more two-dimensional way. Here, we are [overlapping possibilities], not fixed concepts. We are the superposition of countless pieces of information. Therefore, every scene you see and every period of time you experience is equivalent to an overload of information."

“A normal human hacker who enters this place will begin an endless cycle of ‘fracture and stitch.’ Those who can’t stand the process will go crazy like your sister Lucy, while those who can will evolve like Barthes.”

"The hallucinations you just experienced were based on a similar principle, but your situation is more complicated, brother."

"and--"

"Brother, are you able to handle the other side?"

Lu Mingze smiled.

However, Lu Mingfei discerned a different meaning from what was said earlier.

[Is the space beyond the black wall filled with spiritual elements?]

[In other words, the cyber world itself is also related to the spiritual element?] This seems to be different from the 'cyber purgatory created by Bartmos releasing a virus' recorded in history.

After all, how could an electronic virus cause this place to be filled with spiritual elements?
But Lu Mingze refused to talk about what happened after that.

"In short, what I want to tell you, brother, is that this process will help hybrids strengthen their [spirit]." Lu Mingze pointed to his temple. "Remember this, brother, you'll thank me later."

"Then, that's the end for the person who leaked the questions."

He reached his left hand behind his back and grabbed his right elbow, raising his hand with a rather girlish gesture to wave goodbye to Lu Mingfei.

Goodbye, brother.

"When will we meet again?"

The next moment, the world began to change.

Lu Mingfei ended this "journey" and plummeted downwards in one breath.

"Well!"

puff.

As if plunging into a deep lake, a feeling of being out of control and unable to breathe washed over him, but Lu Mingfei did not panic. Instead, he accepted the feeling of powerlessness, and soon his breathing returned to normal.

This is cyberspace.

Panic is the emotion that should never exist.

Imagine yourself as a free-spirited, arrogant monster like Bartholomew.

When Lu Mingfei opened his eyes, he checked his condition.

The hallucination has ended.

This is the deepest part of the data. Lu Mingfei can see his own hair floating upwards in the cyberspace, as if he has really entered the deep sea. The digital code floats upwards like bubbles, and scattered fragments of light swirl around him, making it look dreamlike and full of industrial fantasy.

And at this moment—

surrounded.

A quick glance revealed countless shimmering blue lights and shadows arranged and crowded before him, all looking toward Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei didn't know what those shimmering blue lights meant.

Because of Barthemos's rabies virus, military AI from all over the world has been released.

Every single one of these guys is an AI capable of wreaking havoc in Night City, and they are the same [users] I saw in the computer classroom in my illusion.

Lu Mingfei was now surrounded by this group of people.

There's no way to achieve this just by 'hiding' it.

Think about it: in this world, the Black Wall in cyberspace is literally a 'wall,' and outside the wall are all intelligent monsters. The monsters know they can't get through the wall, but they will definitely set up a series of traps and obstacles around it.

Even if Lu Mingfei is skilled enough to break through the trap, it's impossible not to trigger the AI's reaction mechanism—unless you're like the Voodoo Gang or Arasaka, sneaking in little by little each time, then using human lives to build up the defenses, hoping to gamble on your luck and get in.

Lu Mingfei had no choice.

He could only approach this group of 'residents' in such a crude and bold manner.

(The escape route has been determined.)
Lu Mingfei looked at all the AIs.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Lu Mingfei. I'm here to find a digital ghost named Ottcanin. Have you heard of him?"

If they disagree, they'll fight, or...

Lu Mingfei was prepared for this life-or-death trial; for his brothers, he was willing to take the risk.

But the next second—

Things took an unexpected turn.

The group of fluorescent blue lights swayed from side to side, and after a while, a rather slender blue sphere of light floated towards Lu Mingfei.

Then, after a string of gibberish, it was woven into a voice that Lu Mingfei could understand.

"Hello, Mr. Lu Mingfei."

"We've been waiting for you for a long time."

Then, the AI ​​all knelt down in unison, submitting to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei:
".ha?"

(End of this chapter)