Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1325: Chapter 430: Turbulent Winds and Clouds (Part 2)

When the battlefield is laid out truly before everyone, when your friends and family really leave this world forever because of it, you will never like this thing.

Especially if they are buried in a foreign land thousands of miles away, winning has nothing to do with one’s own interests.

The majority of them probably don’t even know where Cuba is.

Thus, anti-war sentiments began to swiftly spread in the hearts of the common people in the UK, France, and Germany, fueled by stories from the POW camp.

They may not dare to protest out loud, and they may not dare to oppose the government, but if things are not handled properly or do not end quickly, a breakdown is only a matter of time. Public grievances are not accumulated in just one or two days.

Just like the French Revolution didn’t break out because the French were having a bad year.

And the progress bar is just one third of the way through here.

The canteen battle didn’t include any Cubans, and was smaller in scale than the previous fight, but there were many new faces.

What broke down the defenses of the European commoners was that these POWs captured by Horizon Corporation were actually eating better than they were!

The French also enjoyed the fact that Brits had casualties, each wishing to kick William once more, venting all the frustration from the first half of the series.

With twists and turns, it wasn’t surprising that Horizon Corporation’s doctors were willing to treat William, and the soldiers’ grumblings about medical treatment were quite relatable.

Humanitarianism, something the European Community often uses to beautify itself in literary works, boasting about being the beacon of democracy, is not surprising anymore.

But then something that shattered everyone’s defenses happened.

The resident gave William a bill.

This kind of thing generally doesn’t appear on camera in movies. Huge medical bills are a taboo in the Medical Community; if anyone dares to openly mention it, they’re done for, so you rarely see those bill details in films and TV shows.

"800? A cardiac surgery only cost 800? What does my 150,000 bill mean then?!"

"Acting! It must be an act! Horizon Corporation is paying off the POWs to cooperate with this play!"

"It might just be a propaganda campaign, that bill is just a prop or a line, why get so excited?"

The online world was in a frenzy over this matter.

Only the citizens of Night City knew how inexpensive the ERO-provided healthcare system for Horizon employees was. Many illnesses that would have meant certain death two years ago could now be treated with a few cents’ worth of medication.

But is that the end of it?

NO! NO! NO!

As one explosive revelation after another was dropped, leaving people dizzy, the plot seemed to wrap up here, but at the end of the film, they added an Easter egg link.

Clicking in, it directly jumped to another newly created user channel, with the username [Frontline Reporter], which had just uploaded a ton of interview videos.

The reporter was a Frenchman, speaking fluent French, introducing how they applied to land at Pig Bay on the frontline, got attacked by British soldiers, and withdrew to the POW camp with the help of Horizon’s troops.

The freshly uploaded videos not only include the full process of the resident removing the equipment from William during the surgery but also a lot of interviews with POWs and their guards.

This blast had an even more astonishing effect than the last time. Last time, it was only European soldiers being captured; this time, it exposed the Brits for backstabbing the French on the battlefield and added a "sky-high medical bill," shattering the inexplicable confidence of the European lower class, crucially, this documentary was shot by the French!

The number of protesters gathered outside various armed companies only grew.

British Prime Minister John Pearson was furious over network surveillance during a video conference.

"I don’t care what method you use, ban this software immediately for me!"

Curtis, the CEO of the world’s strongest network software company, also the world’s top hacker, absentmindedly replied,

"Sir, I’m afraid we cannot do that."

"What?"

Johnson could not believe this statement; it’s important to know that the Black Wall, maintaining the security of the cyberspace world now, was built by Curtis and ten legendary hackers. Even during Bartmos’s time, he had praised him highly.

It’s impossible in this world to have a network security problem that this black hacker can’t solve.

Curtis shrugged,

"We looked into it before, and we found that their information transmission channel changes extremely quickly, IP addresses switch more than a million times per second, and those signals are uploaded from different satellites."

Johnson didn’t quite understand.

"What do you mean?"

"It means that they might have mastered backdoors to all the European Space Agency’s satellites, to completely cut off the software’s signal, we would have to inspect each satellite and base station one by one, and it might take years to clear."

"Pfft!!!"

Johnson couldn’t hold back an old mouthful of blood.

What does it mean that all the European Space Agency’s satellite backdoors have been breached?

"Why wasn’t any alarm raised about this before!?"

"Satellite network security work doesn’t fall under network surveillance. This has always been the responsibility of the European Space Agency."

"Then go breach Horizon Corporation’s firewall!"

"Prime Minister, are you sure you want me to do that?"

Curtis said meaningfully,

"If other companies learn that network surveillance and each country’s network security issues might close to us directly, the resulting losses... I’m afraid won’t be small."

Abuse of power results in a trust crisis, who knows if you’ll have the Britons use network surveillance to attack them for some gain.

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