Revolution, Cyber ​​Magical Girl!

The prosthetic eye flickered with a faint red light. The moment Lu Chaoge read the document, his thoughts seemed to be pulled into an endless black space.

The sudden change startled Lu Chaoge at first, but he quickly realized that this must be the scene that Metis had simulated based on his memory.

What kind of civilizational information might be left here?

Can one see the 'existence' that belongs to one's own world?

With this question in mind, Lu Chaoge stepped into the darkness.

A faint light flickered in the boundless darkness. As Lu Chaoge stepped in, the light became slightly clearer, as if it had transformed into a curtain in the darkness.

There were no images or sounds on the screen, only a line of text.

Absolutism: In any doctrine, a certain viewpoint must be absolutely correct or absolutely wrong.

Lu Chaoge's gaze faltered slightly, as if he didn't understand why he would see this, and what kind of civilization information this was.

But he quickly realized that this was indeed information from a civilization that did not belong to this era.

Because in this world right now, there is only one ideology.

That is capitalism.

Lu Chaoge continued walking, and a second light appeared not far away.

[Constructivism: The behavior of any social being is constrained or altered by conventional social traditions, social customs, and personal identity; therefore, reality and our understanding of reality are both man-made and subjective.]

Lu Chaoge paused for a moment, then continued walking towards other places.

Egalitarianism: The principle of sharing all social wealth equally and treating everyone the same.

Existentialism: The meaning of human existence cannot be answered through rational thought.

Idealism: In human cognition, our understanding and perception of objects are independent of their actual existence.

As Lu Chaoge continued to move forward, he saw many different ideologies and collected a great deal of information about civilizations.

[Rational Humanism]

Anti-Messianicism

Dionysism

Atheism

Heroism in Pursuit of Light

Existential Choiceism

Altruism in Harmony

Humanistic Enlightenment

Religious Existentialism

Stoic Existentialism

Lu Chaoge was either familiar with this information or completely unaware of it.

But he kept walking, without stopping, as if searching for something in this dark, boundless space.

His steps grew heavier, his breathing became more rapid, and for the first time, a hint of anxiety appeared on his face.

As another faint light appeared, Lu Chaoge quickly walked to the front of the light screen.

His eyes held a certain expectation; he wanted to see everything familiar from his memory, everything he knew, accepted, recognized, persisted in, and even acted upon.

The text on the light screen gradually appeared, one word after another lighting up.

【Master Kangmi...】

beep—

With a warning from the nervous system in my mind, the light screen in front of me vanished in an instant, and the void space collapsed completely.

The prosthetic eye in the left eye now emitted a red message, symbolizing some kind of warning.

[Dear user, according to local laws and regulations, the content you are thinking cannot be displayed in your brain.]

Lu Chaoge sat on the ground, staring blankly at the message.

This was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing.

Absurd, utterly absurd!

The company's prosthetic body restricts even his thinking!

A gasp of surprise rang out from inside the room.

"Damn it, what did you do? Why are there so many FBI surveillance reports coming in from the internet?!"

Without hesitation, Metis immediately began overclocking.

The psychic magical girl was using almost all her strength at this moment, with countless virtual screens spreading out around her like a domain, almost filling the entire room.

The information flow in the girl's eyes flashed wildly to the extreme, her body became scalding hot, and white smoke even came out of her head.

Lu Chaoge wasn't a hacker, but he understood that at that moment, Metis was fighting against his opponent across millions of miles on the internet.

Is it possible for a mere idea to attract the attention of the Federal Security Service?

Is this some kind of unspeakable taboo that will be subject to forced censorship?

It seemed like a long time had passed, but in reality only five minutes had elapsed before Metis shakily collapsed.

"Ice, ice..."

Hearing the girl's weak cries, Lu Chaoge quickly picked her up and put her in the refrigerator, turning on the rapid cooling mode.

The extreme cold enveloped the girl in a layer of frost. After a while, Metis emerged shakily, tilting her head and glaring angrily at Lu Chaoge.

"What exactly were you thinking about—no, don't tell me, I don't want to hear it, it involves the National Security Bureau's oversight!"

"Those are the ones you sent me. Don't you know what's in them?"

"I only looked at a few, and they were all outdated philosophical concepts. I just sent you the packaged information directly. Now that you've said that, I don't dare to look at them anymore."

Lu Chaoge didn't say anything more; he stood there for a long time.

The magical girl in front of him was still chattering and complaining, making the small apartment room noisy, but he seemed not to hear anything.

The complaints and noise inside the room disappeared as the door closed. Lu Chaoge stood on the abandoned rooftop, surrounded by piles of garbage that smelled rotten and pungent.

He lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and then threw it on the ground.

"Am I being monitored?" he muttered to himself.

"No, Master. The company doesn't have such sophisticated methods. The thoughts in the minds of people all over the world constitute an extremely large amount of data, and they cannot process these information flows." Floating by, it appeared.

After listening to Fu Fu's words, Lu Chaoge pondered for a moment and nodded.

If her thoughts were monitored, her identity as a magical girl would have been exposed long ago.

"But..." Lu Chaoge abruptly stopped speaking, rephrasing her words, "Why was my thinking monitored, and even attracted the attention of the National Security Bureau?"

Cyber, a seasoned veteran, then gave his answer: "Because you installed the company's nervous system, Master. The company's nervous system often sets up some core security terms to prevent employees from having any adverse thoughts."

As he spoke, Fu Fu lay down on the ground, picked up a cigarette from his paw and put it in his mouth, and continued, "Normally, corporate dogs don't think about those kinds of issues, but you're different, Master. Your thoughts have deviated from the company's rules, so it triggered an alarm, and it's the highest level of risk."

Highest risk level...

Lu Chaoge was somewhat confused and asked, "What about magical girls? Don't they monitor thoughts related to magical girls?"

"They can't regulate it. Magical girls have long been integrated into this world and have become a kind of ACG cultural symbol. Various derivative works, doujinshi, and movies are everywhere. There are millions, if not tens of millions, of people who are obsessed with magical girls every day. How can they regulate it?" Fu Fu said, then tilted his head as if he had thought of something.

"Besides, magical girls aren't important."

"Magical girls aren't important? Then why is the company capturing magical girls everywhere?" Lu Chaoge's doubts deepened.

"Hmm, let me think about it. It's probably because magical girls aren't considered a big threat. After all, even the strongest former Iris-sama didn't really overthrow the company. Plus, the 'veteran' in the Magical Girl Association still has a little bit of political power, so there's no need to regulate them."

Fu Fu exhaled a smoke ring and continued, "There are many more harmful things, those are the things that can truly shake the foundation of the company."

"What is that?"

"Machine crisis, AI uprising, financial crisis, alien invasion... that's all Fu Fu knows. She doesn't know anything else."

Alien invasion...

Although it sounds ridiculous, could this be considered an alien civilization...? No, I can't think about it.

Lu Chaoge shook his head, no longer thinking about those questions.

He leaned on the railing, gazing at the underground city, its lights blurring the lines between day and night.

The dazzling lights numbed time, and people continued to come and go on the streets. A dilapidated, huge fan hung in the "sky," its filthy blades turning erratically, supplying the underground city with stale air.

A homeless man at the end of the alley let out a laugh that sounded like a wailing yet also like a blissful, decadent laugh. In the distance, the booming of an explosion could be heard—the daily firefight in the underground city. On the street, someone was robbing someone, and screams and cries could be heard. Inside an apartment building, people were arguing.

Lu Chaoge thought she had already integrated into this world, or rather, accepted its rules.

He has become indifferent to everything, and even became a mercenary to make money, trampling on life.

But now he realizes that he has not integrated into this world at all, because he doesn't get along with it. Everything he believes in is completely opposite to the underlying logic of this world.

The robbery on the street seemed to be coming to an end. His prosthetic eye in his left eye allowed him to clearly see the figures even from a distance and hear their angry and embarrassed voices.

"Give me back my beta, you beast! You even steal beta! This is money I earned through hard work!"

"Who told you to switch to such a high-end piss? I've already sold my dick to pay off my debts. Now that I've installed your piss, I can also make money by taking clients!"

These words, which were truly hellish, made Lu Chaoge, who had been silent, burst into laughter.

That's Lori, Rod's sister, and she seems to be being harassed right now.

Perhaps it was because she was rich, perhaps because she was Rhodes' sister, perhaps because she was a prostitute; in any case, after robbing the dungeon, those people wanted to start a new one.

"This world is rotten," Lu Chaoge said, shaking his head.

Floating onto Lu Chaoge's shoulder, its red-glowing eyes followed its master as they gazed at the chaotic underground city.

Lu Chaoge's words touched it, but not for any other reason.

It is a veteran of cybernetic technology, and many magical girls have said the same thing throughout its long history.

This world is rotten.

Some magical girls harbored hope and wanted to change the world, but in the end, they burned to ashes.

Some, however, are gradually corrupted and degraded in this silt, losing hope and everything.

Until the appearance of Magical Girl Iris—

"This world is rotten." The girl then uttered the exact same words as Lu Chaoge today.

"Master, let's go change this world!" Fu Fu had said this countless times.

Later, she actually did it, though it was only a fleeting moment on the scale of human time, and although the magical girl's life became even more difficult afterward.

But the company actually compromised at the time; the arrogant capital bowed its self-important head before the magical girl.

The red light in his eyes flickered slightly, and he spoke, uttering the words he had spoken to countless magical girls.

"Master, let's go and change this world!"

Lu Chaoge did not respond, but simply snatched the cigarette back from Fu Fu's mouth and put it in his own mouth.

The revolver at his waist gleamed with a cold light, and he held it in his hand, aiming it at the distant street.

"Change it, change it, change it! It's already rotten to this extent, so no matter what we do, we can still move up, right?"

boom--

The revolver's muzzle erupted with scorching flames, and the magic-powered bullets pierced the darkness, carrying an unstoppable, seemingly all-consuming power as they hurtled into the long night of the dungeon.

The robber who was installing the β had his head blown into eight pieces, and screams of terror rang out, but silence quickly returned.

Exhaled smoke and words drifted across the dilapidated and desolate rooftop.

"I'm going to fucking destroy this world!"