[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-505":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152346,1495,"Chapter 505 - 476 The Crumbling Gravity","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-505",505,"\u003Cp>\"The foundation construction of Night City is basically contracted by the Ye Group; as everyone knows, they are a construction company that places a great emphasis on building quality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the explosion just now—we didn’t see a truck loaded with explosives, or a plane used for dropping bombs, or even a single tank, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is because the explosive used just now must have been nano-scale mixed explosives; we can tell from the power of the explosion, the size of the fireball, and the condition of the broken steel reinforcing bars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aluminum nano-sized particles and iron oxide nano-sized particles, when reacting under a perfect ratio in a short period of time, release energy rapidly and violently, and moreover, they are very small and concealed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, to tame this perfectly paired duo and to make them combine instantly at the right moment, exclusive secret techniques must be used, and the choice of high-energy adhesive determines the reliability and safety of the explosives...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is quite advanced technology—I’m not saying from which company these weapons come, but as far as I know, Arasaka Company holds quite a few patents in this area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Special episode of the Night City show ’Guns and Saddles’: ’Attacking Racing Boy’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the most popular equipment evaluation program in Night City, which prides itself on realism: when they recommend equipment, they use real case videos, like when a robber was split in half by a Mantis Blade, or when someone shot a burglar to death while they were sleeping at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But live on-site commentary like this is truly a first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, they have invited experts from various fields to comment on the various weapons that appeared during the riots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, scenes like this have been rare in the past decades—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if there’s real trouble on the streets, nobody knows to whom the fire might spread; in Night City, anything is possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today, strangely enough, everyone seemed to find it somewhat enjoyable—even though so many people died, so many facilities and equipment were destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the midst of the chaos, there emerged a bizarre sense of order...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another expert immediately retorted, \"It doesn’t necessarily have to be nano-explosives. It could also be traditional TNT mixed with RDX. Military Technology has a nano-scale proprietary catalyst, which only needs to be paired with some special metal powder to achieve the same effect of small volume, high explosion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now you’re just being argumentative...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem.\" The host interrupted the two, \"Gentlemen! Look at the TV, look! That big vehicle seems like it’s going to charge through!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s impossible... That’s not a Floating Car.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other expert nodded rarely, \"Indeed, I guess it’s trying to take the opposite direction and hide in Taiping State.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, it looked like an impossible task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken bridge would sag toward the center at the break, continuously tilting and breaking under the influence of gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So an initial 20 meters would keep expanding outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the jumping point, the bridge surface would maintain its original horizontality—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one could guarantee that this shaky bridge wouldn’t suddenly continue to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jump platform was welded on the spot by the technical experts from the Six Street Gang, made entirely of Armored Plates, with several heated spike piles hammered into the ground for support at the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the spikes were hammered in, the already unstable bridge surface shook again, causing even them to tremble with fear...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theoretically, it was possible to make the jump, and if calculated under ideal conditions, the speed required wasn’t as extreme as imagined; a speed of 200 kilometers per hour should be more than enough and far from reaching the legendary Mackinaw’s top speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, standing there, everyone was afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hurry it up, hurry it up!\" the sergeant shouted loudly from the car, like a harsh overseer, \"Once it’s done, we retreat; park the car behind the jump point! That thing weighs ten tons! Don’t slip!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three vehicles shakily parked side by side in front of the jump point, their handbrakes locked in place, and the drivers on top scrambled out frantically, running for their lives—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, on the vehicle, they could even clearly feel the ground shaking—the bridge was shaking!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss! It’s done!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sergeant nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Sergeant: It’s done.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The legendary Mackinaw’s top speed is about 350 kilometers per hour, but since the car body almost has no aerodynamic optimization, it requires a long distance for the later acceleration. That’s why Lille had gone the opposite way just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stretch of the elevated road was empty, very spacious...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car had driven nearly three thousand meters in the opposite direction, at one point even making the commentators and viewers think that this Mackinaw was going to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the real acceleration only starts now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mackinaw turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack and V were excited with some tension, their four-point harnesses securely fastening them to their seats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At such times, even if they absolutely trusted Lille, the physiological tension was still unbeatable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Da Mai: Engine ready, jump mode loading completed!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow...\" V tapped on the dashboard and jokingly said, \"Da Mai seems even more excited than us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe.\" Jack laughed, \"Why do I feel like everything we’re doing tonight is so... crazy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed crazy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bridge was blown up, taking a far longer route would be quite safe...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reasonably speaking, they did seem to always do some things that appeared unnecessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Definitely crazy.\" V also laughed, \"Which millionaire would play such a death-defying racing game with someone in debt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille’s mood was quite relaxed, he laughed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes life is all about the thrill, if he took a roundabout way today, wouldn’t it be embarrassing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had done many things that others considered meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Living is all about the thrill... hold tight!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The raging sound of the engine rose, even the drones in the sky could feel the roar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Vulture Engine’s maximum horsepower was 5,800!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pure 2—compressed hydrogen fuel exploded in the cylinder, producing a sound like an explosion that deafened, piercing through the ears of the trio!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tremendous power was entirely transformed into mechanical energy by the Vulture Engine, and the massive torque acted on the tires, which maximized their electrostatic systems!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without any slippage, the tires lifted a whole piece of turf in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car moved, the ground cracked open, and under such a power transmission system, the ground became extremely fragile, as if an explosion had occurred, and sparks flew!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An acceleration that surpassed floating cars!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ten-ton car, accelerating to a hundred kilometers per hour took only two seconds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car sprinted, leaving a huge crater at the starting point. The legendary Mackinaw violently accelerated over a distance of more than two thousand meters, ultimately breaking through to a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, directly hitting the jumping platform!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the horrified eyes of the audience, even though there was a lengthy guided ramp beforehand, this sturdy 45-degree explosion-proof armored jump ramp was still dented by the impact, its anchor piles broke directly, shifting slightly backward, and the huge force even caused the vehicles used for reinforcement behind it to deform and slide!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact was thunderous, the legendary Mackinaw lifted off the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The collision may have slowed the car down a bit, but from the air, a speed of nearly 300 kilometers per hour was more than enough to cross a distance of 43 meters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bridge surface exploded a second time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another explosion!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other end, the bridge exploded again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Steel bars bent and broke, and the whole bridge surface continued to droop downwards, bending...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The media experts’ real-time calculations of the landing spot marked a spot that had already been bent. Therefore, even if the Mackinaw did land on the other side of the bridge, it would still slide down following the drooping bridge surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complete sagging of the bridge was not fast, but for the vehicle, it was like an inescapable black hole...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not a floating car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn’t escape gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the spectators felt such heartache, such contempt for the ones who laid in ambush—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, people would do anything to survive, and they only revered those who lived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But most people preferred to see the defiant persist despite all odds, unstoppable as they pushed aside obstacles on their chosen path, thus commanding even greater respect for those who used sheer force to overcome cunning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that was the ideal self they envisioned: uncompromising, without regret, never conceding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regrettably, in reality, this disdain for schemes and plots vanished with the failure and fall of the challenger, turning into the final ideology where the victor is king.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They too had to compromise with reality, such as dismembering their own hand for a job and getting a loan for a pair with better functionality, even if it meant they could never feel the touch of another person again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survive, survive by any means necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was their inability to resist their own desires, their decision to chase after their desires with all their might, that led them to enter Dream City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And only those winners who would do anything had the chance to realize their ideals, even if these ideals were twisted and deformed under the pull of \"gravity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they were truly stubborn, then they would be like this magnificent armored vehicle:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could withstand bullets, rocket launchers, and even missiles, but when gravity and the road diverged, they ultimately could not withstand gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mackinaw slammed hard onto the already tilting bridge surface, even Jack and V held their breath...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would happen to them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the car was not captured by gravity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The powerful electrostatic adsorption system completely overloaded at this moment; currents exceeding the limit flowed over the biometric surfaces, almost burning them to a crisp!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tremendous force pulled at the legendary Mackinaw! Providing force beyond gravity, the tires compressed against the road surface, offering unexpected friction!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the bridge structure continued to collapse and fall behind them, the car rose, as if shaking off those pieces of concrete and steel that were already scrap...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, the steel rods broke, chunks of concrete fell, the bridge began to become vertical, and the Mackinaw’s speed started to decrease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn’t stop, nor was it captured by gravity, and then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then it shot off the road!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Physics is dead!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1761,"2026-06-03T12:33:29.771Z","2026-06-03T12:33:38.261Z",1,"novelbin.me","30f0bd61d0f1885f6d8b1d309537a366366552b3ff12e34e569886382066da04","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-506","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-504",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]