Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1179 - 382: Good and Evil, Who Decides? (Part 3)

"They remember all the bad things they’ve done and genuinely want to reform and live anew.""I asked them, what if the people they hurt before come back for revenge now...

Can you guess what they said?"

"What did they say?"

"They said that the responsibility for their crimes should be judged by the court, so they support the victims in suing them in court. As long as the judgment is reasonable, even if it’s the death penalty, they’re willing to accept it.

Their tone and attitude didn’t seem at all like they were preparing to hire slick lawyers to fight a lawsuit or playing tricks..."

The Exchange Coupon spoke in a solemn tone.

"In the movies, comics, and novels I used to watch, brainwashing was typically portrayed as a negative method used only by villains.

Either turning people into pure killing machines,

or wanting to replace the original owner’s identity and status.

As soon as the protagonist delivers a persuasive speech, or finds a way to restore their lost memories, the brainwashing would fail, and then everyone together defeats the villain BOSS.

Turning a person into a good person without erasing or altering memories... this is the first time I’ve seen it."

Brother Ni nodded in agreement.

He only speculated that thing was used for brainwashing, but didn’t expect it to work in this way. If the Exchange Coupon hadn’t discovered it in time, he wouldn’t have even noticed.

But what the Exchange Coupon said next sent a chill through him.

"When a good person is brainwashed and twisted into a villain, they definitely want to return to being good once they regain their memories. But when everyone has become a good person... would anyone really want to revert to being that villain?"

"I... I don’t know."

Brother Ni shook his head.

He initially was investigating that cult, but since then, the other side had vanished, and he only found this issue with the statue.

But if there really is a god in the world and everything written in the scriptures is true, and it could make everyone, including the religious followers themselves, genuinely turn towards goodness, would religion still be called superstition?

"Let’s investigate it first. Maybe there’s some untold conspiracy behind the brainwashing, or this technique might have some serious side effects."

Brother Ni’s hideout was established in an old gang’s arms cache built in the sewer, but the guns had been moved out, leaving only some of Brother Ni’s miscellaneous items and a workbench.

He took out a briefcase from a hidden compartment in the wall and opened it in front of the Exchange Coupon.

Inside were two disguise masks, the same model used by Aguirre.

Or rather, these were peeled off Aguirre’s face.

"Where did you get these?"

The Exchange Coupon was shocked. These were expensive, and by the looks of it, were full versions that had already received human data. Clearly, Brother Ni was well-prepared.

"V helped."

Brother Ni said proudly.

"After knowing about this, she pointed me to an NPC named Sandra Dorset, who is a second-level employee at Ye Corporation and a hacker.

This woman discovered that Ye Corporation was conducting a project to implant subconscious brainwashing, which was why she was hunted, but V saved her.

By using this favor, I talked my way into getting her to help me obtain her colleague’s data and work ID. Wearing this, we become employees of Ye Corporation."

V...

The Exchange Coupon knew this leading figure of Night City, whose personal combat strength was even stronger than Adam’s Hammer.

He just didn’t expect Brother Ni to have such connections with V.

With the internal information provided by Sandra, their infiltration naturally went smoothly.

By borrowing the identity, appearance, and uniforms of Ye’s Company employees, they passed the entrance security easily into Ye’s Corporation building.

The only concern was running into the original owners or someone who knew these two faces.

Therefore, Brother Ni and the Exchange Coupon kept a low profile throughout, advancing according to the location Sandra mentioned.

Ye Corporation’s infrastructure capability was very strong, as the entire infrastructure of Night City was done by their company. One could say they understood the underground structures better than the players.

The company’s underground floors were impressively deep, with at least 15 levels reaching a hundred meters in depth and covering a large area.

Only with the employee permissions provided by Sandra could they access the third underground level, but the CN-07 project found in the company’s database was on the 11th underground level.

"Pandora-chan, now’s the time to test your skills."

If possible, Brother Ni, who infiltrated the server, would prefer to seek help from the hacker gods Song Zhaomei and Lucy, as they could crush any firewall and forging access permissions would be a piece of cake.

Unfortunately, unless it was a cutscene in the task, players could barely request these two to take action.

He waited anxiously, afraid that Pandora might slip and be discovered, in which case they might not even get away.

"Done."

Pandora’s voice was like a heavenly melody, making Brother Ni ecstatic.

However, he found it a bit strange; it was too smooth.

"So fast?"

"Yeah, didn’t encounter ICE."

Even in Pandora’s calm voice, there was a hint of oddity.

But having reached here, they couldn’t go back, right?

So, with the obtained access, the two proceeded deeper, and quite smoothly.

Not only did they not see many people along the way, but they didn’t even encounter much security, just keeping an eye on patrolling robots and cameras was enough.

Underground level 11 was Ye Corporation’s supercomputer center, specialized in company management and AI learning. Numerous liquid nitrogen cooling system pipelines crisscrossed the walls, the deep red indicator lights gave the whole floor an eerie feeling.

It was eerily quiet here, not a single person in sight, only the lights of the servers and the mechanical ticking sound. The two had already sensed something was wrong but, at this stage, could only brace themselves to connect to the supercomputer system and search for related data of [CN-07].

To their surprise,

the CN-07 project had been marked as failed and abandoned by the Ye Corporation.

Instead, it was replaced by the CN-101 project.

Worrying about triggering system firewalls, they dared not download the data, but could only copy as they read.

The data they found showed that CN-101 was closely related to two technologies, and these were the breakthroughs that led Horizon Corporation’s subconscious implantation to significant progress.

One is the Human Brain Array.

One is the neural modulator.