From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

Si Ye sniffed and smelled a strong aroma of alcohol from Muirses.

If Si Ye hadn't been able to distinguish between Muirseth's real body and his clone, he would have thought it was just a clone created by Muirseth when he was drunk.

"No, I just drank some with Kristen."

Muirseth seemed to have a slight tongue twister, which made her tone even more charming and lovely. She gestured with her fingers to the universe, indicating to Si Ye that she had only drunk a little.

"Miaomiao is a water elf, she won't get drunk, hiccup~"

Muirseth, who had just said that she would not get drunk, burped. Although she quickly covered her mouth, her face quickly turned red when she thought of being seen by Si Ye in this embarrassing situation.

"...Can elves get drunk?"

"You should ask Precious. She deals more with those elves."

After hearing Friston's answer, the doctor subconsciously touched the data panel in his pocket. Unfortunately, this was the star world, and Priss's signal could not be transmitted, and the data panel did not respond.

"Alright, alright, I'm glad to know you're happy, Muir Seth. Please take a seat."

Si Ye gestured for Muir Seth to take a seat, then raised the wine glass in front of him.

"I, Si Ye, as the ruler of the Xinghai Empire and as a friend, welcome you all to the Xinghai Empire. Drinks are in the air!"

With toasts and banquets, the Star Sea Empire officially welcomed friends from other worlds, taking the first important step towards the great vision of "upgrading dimensions".

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Chapter 224 Sasha

pain!

pain?

Before her consciousness faded, the pain of falling and being shot continued to spread in Sasha's mind. She still remembered the feeling of her life gradually fading away.

But at this moment, he no longer felt any pain in his body. Sasha even felt that his condition was better than before. The mental pressure brought by long-term use of the Internet access warehouse prosthesis seemed to have disappeared, and his mind was clear.

Did her teammates come and rescue her later?

"…Hospital?"

Sasha struggled to open his eyes, and after seeing the surrounding environment clearly, his mood immediately became heavy.

The first thing that caught my eye was a bright white light bulb. Beneath it was a very advanced-looking treatment bed. The surrounding area was unusually neat and clean gray-white walls. Blue light strips flickered at the seams of the walls, but there was no sign of anyone.

In Night City, the completely privatized medical system equates regular medical care with sky-high prices.

Such a clean and tidy environment, and the injuries on my body seemed to have been completely healed.

Sasha began to wonder if he had fallen into the hands of some company and was about to become a test subject.

"hiss..."

He subconsciously wanted to activate his prosthetic eye and network access port to scan the surroundings, but then he felt a sharp pain behind his head and the prosthetic failed to activate.

Sasha subconsciously lifted her hair and touched it backwards, and the interface between the back of her head and her neck disappeared.

"what?"

Sasha, unconvinced, groped the skin on the back of his neck, trying to find the interface blocked by the simulated skin.

But even though Sasha felt that his nails had broken his skin, he still found nothing.

As a hacker, the inability to use the network access warehouse made her lose all sense of security.

"Are you awake? Here are your clothes..."

The gray-white wall on the side was silently opened, and medical staff came in pushing a cart. On the cart were clothes that Sasha was familiar with.

"Are you experiencing any other physical abnormalities, such as dizziness, blurred vision, or tinnitus..."

Sasha listened to the medical staff's words and secretly observed them, trying to find some information from them.

But unfortunately, the medical staff didn't have anything familiar to Sasha, which made her even more panicked.

There was no way, fortunately the medical staff were quite kind, so Sasha spoke up.

"...You saved me? I don't have advanced medical insurance...I might not be able to afford the treatment."

In Night City, medical treatment and surgery are always paid first and then treated, even for patients who are critically ill. There is no such thing as treatment first and payment later.

So if you don't have money, the best way is to just fight it out. If you fight it out, you'll end up with a lot of illnesses and a life worse than death. If you fail, you might as well just die.

Some companies do use some means to make people take on debts that are difficult to repay, and then force them to sign more contracts if they cannot repay the debts. Ultimately, they turn their targets into puppets whose lives do not even belong to them, until the company squeezes out every last bit of value from them.

After Sasha explained that he had no money, he was prepared for the medical staff in front of him to change their expressions instantly.

If the other party took out a human experiment contract or a contract to sell his body, Sasha would be ready to fight to the death.

"Little girl, your mental state is truly interesting. Being unable to pay for medical treatment can cause such emotional fluctuations. I'm beginning to be interested in your experience. I wonder if I can apply for permission to view it with my authority."

The medical staff spread out their hands, using this harmless gesture to ease Sasha's anxiety.

"I'm just a doctor, responsible for curing illnesses and saving lives. It's not my business whether I charge or not. Now you really need to get up, because the great Emperor wants to see you."

The medical staff moved the cart closer to the bed and left the room without giving Sasha any further explanation.

"Your Majesty the Emperor?"

Looking at the wall closing again, Sasha became even more confused.

Although in Night City, Arasaka Corporation's CEO and executive officer Saburo Arasaka does have the nickname of Night City's local emperor, those big companies usually behave very humblely to the outside world, and no one would really use the title of emperor to act in public.

Could it be some top middleman who cooperates with the company?

The more Sasha thought about it, the more confused she became, but since she was under someone else's roof, she could only take things one step at a time.

Regardless of whether there was surveillance in the room, Sasha simply unbuttoned his hospital gown and started changing clothes.

"It's weird."

It was still the same pink jacket and black tights outfit, but Sasha always felt something was wrong.

The material of the clothes seemed to have become more comfortable, and she could guarantee that she must have been hit by the biotech security robot in the end, but now the clothes on her body were intact.

"I made another one exactly like the pattern? Could it be that some big boss has taken a fancy to me?"

Cats generally have very unconventional thoughts. Sasha, who likes to use a cat head as his avatar, also has some cat attributes and a very unconventional mind.

Knowing that any further thought would only scare himself, Sasha mustered up the courage to walk towards the wall in the direction the medical staff had just left.

Like a sensor door, the wall silently opened, revealing a corridor with many passages extending in all directions at the back. Medical staff were holding a tablet-like panel, seemingly checking some information.

"I...Okay, where should I go?"

The huge corridor still did not have anything familiar to Sasha, but the aroma of food coming from nowhere made Sasha swallow subconsciously.

"Hungry? But you have to go to see His Majesty now. If you have nothing else to do later, you can come find me again and I will treat you to a meal."

The medical staff put away the data panel in his hand and took out a handful of energy bars from his pocket to replenish his energy.

"Just be careful first and don't make a fool of yourself in front of His Majesty. I don't think he would mind it, though."

The medical staff called Sasha to follow. Sasha, whose hunger was aroused by the aroma of food, felt as if his stomach was about to be burned by stomach acid. He hurriedly tore open the packaging of the energy bar whose manufacturer was unknown and stuffed the whole thing into his mouth.

"Well!!!"

The rich aroma of cereals filled his mouth, causing Sasha, who was used to eating synthetic food and had a tongue poisoned by artificial flavors, to open his eyes wide.

Due to various reasons such as environmental degradation, soil pollution, and corporate monopoly, natural ingredients in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 are an extremely expensive luxury.

And because of the large-scale cultivation of ethanol-2 wheat around the world, whole wheat bread has become a rare commodity comparable to real meat.

Is it technology and hard work? Sasha felt that she could still distinguish them. In other words, the medical staff leading the way gave her several mission rewards casually, which might not be something she could afford.

Sasha felt like he was being corrupted and his resolute will was being worn away. Was this the kind of delicacy that those corporate dogs and the upper class ate every day?

"Where are we going...???"

Sasha couldn't hold back her thoughts and wanted to ask the medical staff some questions, but as they passed through another gate, a row of impractical viewing portholes appeared in front of Sasha.

Outside the porthole, the pale blue planet dotted the vast expanse of space like a jewel, turning all Sasha's words into one simple sentence:

“Боже мой! (Oh my God!)”

Chapter 225 Two choices

When Miss Sasha, whose worldview was greatly shocked, arrived at the office of the so-called "Supreme Emperor" under the guidance of her servants, she happened to hear bursts of commotion coming from the office.

"Let me go! I'm not drunk. I still want to chat with the boss. Let me go."

The office door suddenly opened, and two women came out of the office, tugging at each other.

A cute woman with flaxen hair and pointed ears exuded a strong aroma of wine, while a woman with silver hair and red horns on her head was dragging the other person out of the room with a grin on her face.

"You are drunk, drunk, come on, I will take you to find a room to rest."

The power of the giant beast was not something the water elf could resist. Even though Muir Seth was drunk and had let himself go, he could only look helplessly at Si Ye in the office, and then was dragged farther and farther away by Nian.

About 30 minutes ago, the two men were still admiring each other at the banquet, as if they wanted to form an unbreakable alliance.

But the drunken little devil Muirseth got carried away and came up with a little trick to get rid of Nian and eat all the food by himself, and then the unbreakable alliance between the two was instantly shattered into pieces.

Apparently Si Ye had not yet made Nian accept the situation where two monks had to carry water for food, so Si Ye, who was sitting on the chair, could only watch Nian and Muir Seth wrestling away, feeling both amused and helpless.

"Your Majesty, the lady who was vomited out of the number [3·Cyber] portal has awakened. You told her to come see you when she wakes up. Now she is outside the door."

"Let her in."

Sasha Yakovleva walked in with a slightly mechanical and stiff gait. This hacker lady, who only appeared in the animation MV promotional video and quickly fell to her death, seemed to be full of fear of Si Ye.

Sasha was indeed very afraid of Si Ye. When she first arrived in this space city on a spaceship, her shallow astronomical knowledge kept reminding her that there were no two Earths in the solar system.

So Sasha had no idea what kind of hands she had fallen into now. Facing the power that controlled such a huge space city and warships, it was a great heart for her, a small marginal mercenary, to not be unable to walk.

"Sasha Yakovleva, a Night City mercenary, has a sister named Stella Ramos who works for the NCPD (Night City Police Department)."

For people who live in Night City, showing enough pressure is a prerequisite for reaching a negotiation, so Si Ye opened a wave of boxes as usual.

"The reason for your injury was that while hacking into a biotech company to steal data, you stumbled upon a report about your mother's [safe] painkillers causing neurodegeneration. This experience led you to plan to send this information to News Channel 54 for exposure, but ultimately, you chose to escape by jumping from a building when attacked by security robots."