Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1257: Chapter 407: It’s You! Hideki Hino! (Part 3)

"What’s the matter?"

"San Lang just left the Kujira."

Zhuchun felt a sense of foreboding, as he was not by Huang Ban Sanlang’s side, and if anything went wrong

"Where did San Lang go?"

"The Horizon Corporation’s aquaculture base on the Taiping Continent."

The ninja replied

"Because news came from Huangban Tower that Lord Lai Xuan was fishing at the base, San Lang went ahead."

"Horizon Corporation?"

Suddenly, Zhuchun remembered the identities of those people he saw in the data, and his heart clenched.

He quickly tossed the data chip in his hand to the ninja.

"This could be a trap! I need to protect San Lang, and also find the people on this chip and eliminate them."

"Yes!"

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[There’s still something I don’t understand]

After dealing with his private matters, Lin Miao sat, looking serene, in the hovercar with Lucy, flying towards the Taiping Continent.

Along the way, Richard Knight couldn’t help but ask questions. He had been immersed in the DEMO version of Heart of the Horizon, reviewing data, and growing more alarmed with each look.

"Say what you have to say."

[How did you manage this? Since the creation of Night City, the lower classes have been in chaos, uneducable, brutal, foolish, short-sighted. Even when someone stands up to organize a strike or march, they’re quickly betrayed by their kind for trivial gains]

[However, since you came, within just two years, they’ve willingly sided and trusted you, a stark contrast to those I knew before. You couldn’t have gathered them so quickly and built this extensive public knowledge domain to resolve conflicts]

This gave Richard Knight the impression that the opponent controlled the brainwashing machine.

"You’re absolutely right."

Lin Miao rested on Lucy’s soft thighs with closed eyes, answering Richard’s questions

"The so-called lower classes are indeed stingy, foolish, short-sighted; they’re the world’s best at lying and being stubborn, stirred into conflict with mere words and small gains."

Time and again, history has proven this with peasant uprisings; their short-sightedness leads leaders to vie for power, causing chaos and dissolution just when rebellions have gained momentum, paving ways for kings.

"Seeing their kind wounded, they’ll pounce, biting and devouring; seeing soldiers injured, they want to kill and seize weapons and exoskeletons; hiding money at home but claiming poverty to avoid taxes, they scheme tirelessly over petty gains, even at the cost of their own dignity..."

"But who pushed them to this brink?"

Lin Miao fiercely questioned Richard Knight in his mind

"It’s you!"

"Food corporations, for money, destroyed stable food and water sources, selling off land for Chun Er wheat, using any means against farm owners to monopolize land."

"Pharmaceutical companies, for money, tested drugs on these poor souls, harvested organs to sell, priced medications sky-high, compelling them towards painkillers, drugs, exoskeleton installations to alleviate suffering!"

"Military corporations, for money, sparked wars, forcing people into conflict with strangers on distant land, massacring whole villages, using nuclear bombs, gas, leaving countless dead in their wake?"

"You shattered their peaceful lives, pushed them to a deadly abyss, working around the clock, forced into prostitution, killing dissenters, drowning them in lifetime debts, leaving only raw calculations between people!"

"What can they do? How else can they survive but to fight for scraps of survival resources you barely let slip through your fingers?

A society breeds its people, now from above, you call them shortsighted. Isn’t it laughable?"

Richard Knight fell silent.

Of course, Richard knew these things, but didn’t know how to solve them.

In his view, survival of the fittest in a market economy was normal; there’d always be losers.

Richard was amazed at how the other managed to unify such a disparate crowd; judging by the recent data, fearing Horizon Corporation’s mere call to arms might change Night City’s name.

Lin Miao’s tone gradually softened.

"In your eyes, they’re weak, ignorant, and helpless, needing salvation. Though you want to help, insurmountable barriers remain. But in fact, they carry unimaginable power themselves; I only discovered it."

"You’ve seen my company’s grassroots management software, right?"

[Yes, I have. A... remarkably intriguing task system with perspectives we never imagined]

Lin Miao opened more permissions for the software to him.

This was a simple open-source management software developed by Lucy for Lin Miao, modeled on the task hall of agencies.

Not only limited to players accepting tasks, anyone can do so.

Initially used only on Republic Street East, it later expanded across all areas except the company’s plaza, digitally modeling the city in three-dimensions, accurate to each floor, household

Monitoring with Sky Eye, integrating networks and IoT across people, properties, laws, water, electricity, and gas, allowing users to apply for task sheets on the software

From road maintenance and police security management

To whether trash bins were full and illegal parking

All city issues could be reported on the software, individual issues could be paid for, partially subsidized by Horizon Corporation, qualifying users saw issues and applied to solve them, major issues had local committees discuss solutions online

Here, nearly everything in Night City can be checked, including international commodity prices, factory prices, considerably reducing corporate management costs.

Genuinely connecting all residents and small to medium companies of the city, rather than past isolated individuals.

No money or job?

Go to Horizon Corporation, they’re always short of people.

Need medical care but no money?

Go to Horizon Corporation, healthcare for employees and their families is affordable, allowing repayment through future wages.

Want to study?

Go to Horizon Corporation, employee children’s schools even have AI teachers.

From necessities to medical care to entertainment and work, all covered

It calls itself a company, but it bears no connection to the notion of a company.

The lowly class abandoned by corporates has wholly established another orderly society under Horizon Corporation, each contributing to this orderly society.

How many professional workers abandoned by corporations are at Night City’s base?

Countless!

And Horizon earns and spends within its own system; not a penny leaves home.

Those corporations can’t complain, since outwardly Lin Miao only started a company, albeit with expansive control and coverage, capturing their discarded lower market.

What?

You have a complaint?

Should we fight? Win, and you can take the market share.

"Now you know why? Because they see a future within us, willingly contributing their strength and kindness."

"Unlike you, only seeking to scrape the last drop of oil from them!"

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