Samsara Space: They're all begging me to heal them one more time.

The entire cyberspace fell into a deathly silence.

The originally volatile red and black data streams, having lost their owner's control, began to docilely hover around Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

He lowered his head and looked at his palm.

There, suspended, was an extremely complex rhomboid data core radiating a seven-colored light.

This is the ultimate spoils of war, condensed from all the original data remaining of Saburo.

It is also the final piece of the puzzle that is essential to obtaining the world's highest reward.

"Acquisition complete. Thank you to the Arakawa Group for their generous donation."

Zhang Yuan will store this core item in his storage space.

He raised his head, looked at the endless void of data above him, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"Well then, it's time to go back and check on my employees to see if they've been slacking off."

Swish!

Zhang Yuan's figure transformed into a dazzling golden light, soaring into the sky and tearing apart the dome of this cyberspace, heading back towards Night City in the outside world.

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Night City, a hidden safe house deep in the sewers.

The angelic retinue summoned by Tao Tao was quietly suspended in mid-air, illuminating this dark and damp space with its soft holy light.

Under the holy light, Zhang Yuan's slumbering body, which had been like a sculpture, suddenly trembled slightly.

Then, he slowly opened his eyes.

Beneath the golden fox mask, a glint of data-like light flashed in his deep eyes before quickly disappearing, returning to his usual gentle and rational calm.

"The boss is awake!" Tao Tao, who had been watching over him, was so excited she almost jumped up.

"Boss, you're finally back! I thought my perfect attendance bonus and year-end bonus were going to go down with you!"

"You're losing half a month's bonus because you just used the extremely unlucky term 'to be buried with someone' when referring to the company's senior management."

Zhang Yuan sat up and slowly adjusted the cuffs of his armor.

"Huh?!" Tao Tao's face fell instantly.

Just kidding.

Zhang Yuan smiled slightly, "Notify the others that we can close the net now."

Half an hour later, on the edge of the Badlands outside Night City.

With Li Mo's coordinates providing support, the members of the Heavenly Kingdom Armed Forces finally gathered together.

Ah Qiang's heavy thug armor was completely destroyed, and he was shirtless while Li Mo bandaged him up; Lin Qingyue had drunk a lot of high-level potions, but the backlash from the burning life still made her pale, and she was leaning against the off-road vehicle with her eyes closed, resting.

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief when they saw Zhang Yuan emerge from the darkness unharmed.

"It seems your 'negotiations' up there went smoothly." V ​​exhaled a puff of blue smoke and tossed a chip emitting a ghostly green light toward Zhang Yuan.

"It's alright. Although the other party is a deadbeat, they ultimately agreed to my asset liquidation plan on both physical and network levels."

Zhang Yuan caught the chip steadily, glanced at V and Johnny's disheveled appearance, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Well done. Using the Asura Path's percentage-based health reduction mechanism to wear down the Heavy Hammer was a brilliant cost management tactic."

"Cost management..."

Johnny Silverhand rolled his eyes. "I knew it. In the eyes of you charlatans, even risking your lives is a business."

Zhang Yuan ignored Johnny's complaints.

He slowly spread his hands and took a deep breath.

Om-!

Seven beams of light, each a different color, flew out from his storage space and his palm, hovering silently in front of his chest.

Pride, greed, wrath, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy.

The moment these seven original sin chips, which Saburo Arasaka regarded as the "stairway to godhood," came together, the entire sky of Night City seemed to resonate with an almost imperceptible force.

Zhang Yuan threw the "Sanlang Original Data Core" he brought back from cyberspace into the air.

"Let's merge."

Stab it--!

As if drawn by a fatal attraction, the seven chips instantly transformed into seven streams of pure data of different colors, frantically pouring into the rhombus-shaped core!

The intense light made everyone instinctively close their eyes.

When the light faded, only a palm-sized, flawless, multifaceted crystal core remained in mid-air, resembling a dazzling diamond.

It no longer exudes any evil or violent aura, but only the beauty of the absolute coldness and absolute rationality of the world's underlying rules.

[Hint: You have collected all seven Sin Chips and the Core Source.]

[Final fusion has been triggered!]

[You have obtained an A-grade artifact: Cloud Divine Authority Server (formerly known as: Pseudo-Electronic Godhood).]

Zhang Yuan held the crystal core in his hand, and a detailed attribute panel instantly unfolded on his retina.

【Cloud-based Divine Authority Server (Grade A Celestial Treasure)】

[Type]: Bound Cross-Border Core (Soul Bound to: Zhang Yuan)

[Quality: Legendary (Red Grade A)]

【Utility 1: Multi-dimensional Cross-border Base Station】: Break through the dimensional barriers of the Multiverse Train!

This server can act as a core hub, anchoring and connecting up to five different derivative worlds. (Currently anchored worlds: 1/5)

As long as you leave the faith imprint of [Heavenly Armed Forces] or establish agents in that world, the faith power (divine authority) and power profits they generate in the corresponding world will be automatically settled and transmitted to you every 30 natural days via the cloud, regardless of time and space distance.

【Utility 2 - Cyber ​​Transfer】: Consuming a huge amount of divine authority, you can convert physical resources (blueprints, technological creations) that have been anchored in the world into data streams and remotely send them to your private storage space.

[Note]: "God does not care about distance, because God has already completed the deployment in the cloud."

Upon seeing this notification, even Zhang Yuan, whose heart was usually calm and composed, couldn't help but feel a surge of ecstatic joy.

What is the highest level of capital?

It's not about you personally fighting to the death, but rather that even if you're lying in a compartment of the multiverse train drinking red wine, the workers in other dimensions are still continuously generating passive income for you!

The five cross-industry base station slots mean that he can build a vast business empire that spans the heavens in the future!

"V, Johnny."

Zhang Yuan put away the cloud server and turned to look at the two of them.

"When the sun rises tomorrow morning, Night City will no longer have Arahaka, and the vanguard of military technology will have been completely wiped out. This will be the moment when the greatest power vacuum has appeared since the city was founded."

V paused for a moment, vaguely guessing what Zhang Yuan was about to say.

"I have left a set of subsystem permissions at the bottom of the Divine Carriage, as well as the 2.0 diluted mass production formula of 'Holy Water', in your neural slots."

Zhang Yuan's tone carried the seductive and authoritative quality unique to those in power: "From today onwards, the Heavenly Kingdom Armed Forces (Night City Branch) are officially established. You are the highest-ranking regional executives here."

"Help me expand the company's business to every corner of Night City, and even the whole of New America."

"I want every mercenary in this city to be inseparable from our holy water; I want every breath they take to create value for the Heavenly Kingdom Armed Forces."

Johnny Silverhand looked at Zhang Yuan, his usually fearless face now bearing a complex expression.

After all, he was once an anarchist who didn't hesitate to use a nuclear bomb to destroy Arasaka Tower, just to fight against those high-ranking giant corporations.

"Zhang Yuan".

Johnny sighed, abandoning his usual nonchalant attitude, and his tone became unusually serious.

"You pulled me out of that broken chip and gave me back a living body. I, Johnny Silverhand, will remember this immense favor."

"If someone ever points a gun at your head, I'll cross half the globe to take a bullet for you."

At this point, he abruptly changed the subject and let out a cold laugh.

"However, one thing at a time."

Johnny gave Zhang Yuan the middle finger without any hesitation, "Fuck you, multinational conglomerate!"

"What I hate most in this life is a vampire in a suit. Even if you save my life, don't expect me to put on a suit and sit in a high-end office selling fake medicine for your multinational conglomerate."

With that, he turned around and casually tossed the iconic Mallorian pistol to V.

"Keep this junk for self-defense, V. This rotten city is yours now."

Johnny, with one hand in his pocket and his back to the crowd, casually waved. "I'm going to get a guitar and see if there's any real rock and roll left in this shitty new world."

"As for your capitalist games, I'm not playing along!"

Watching Johnny's stubborn yet carefree figure disappear into the distance, Zhang Yuan wasn't angry; he just pushed up his mask with a hint of regret.

"What a pity, we missed out on a top-performing salesperson with exceptional persuasive skills."

Zhang Yuan turned to V beside him, "So, Night City's sole agent, what's your decision?"

V caught the pistol, took a deep drag on his cigarette, and then stomped the cigarette butt out in the puddle.

"Johnny is a madman, but I have to survive, and I have to live like a legend."

V looked at Zhang Yuan, his eyes gleaming with the ambition and pragmatism typical of mercenaries. "Don't worry, boss. As long as your 'bonuses' and 'supplies' keep coming in, I'll set the rules for Night City from now on."

Zhang Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

At the very moment the contract was finalized—

A colossal train, emitting a faint blue glow and stretching as far as the eye could see, crushed through the void and slowly descended from the clouds, coming to rest on this desolate wasteland.

The 30-day survival period was prematurely triggered by the return mechanism after the blue team was wiped out and the main storyline reached its maximum completion rate.

"Let's go, it's time to pay the bill and go home."

Zhang Yuan turned around, his platinum cloak fluttering in the wind.

He didn't look back at the cyber city he had turned upside down. Instead, he led the exhausted Heavenly Army soldiers toward the slowly opening car door.