[{"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-597":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},1152588,1495,"Chapter 591 - 562 Next Stop","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-597",597,"\u003Cp>[Lucy: What is the Moon really like? Why did they get involved here?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back, Lucy asked Lille a question she had been wanting to ask, because this big brother... gave off a feeling that he knew everything and had been through every level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gangs, NCPD, corporations... all had been directly attacked by them, not once did this mysterious big brother show a hint of cowardice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he didn’t have the naivety of a street kid; if he was crazy, it always seemed tempered with a sense of ease—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, all this was based on the fact that they still didn’t know about last night’s nuclear bomb explosion in Night City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, whether it was courage, knowledge, or ability, the aura that Lille exhibited was definitely not something a simple street thug could possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: It’s normal, the Moon only has oxygen, water, and concrete that don’t need to be imported, but production still relies on a lot of equipment, and the equipment requires energy supplies...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: All in all, the situation with space colonization is very complicated, you can simply understand it as them being very poor—very, very poor, they need to import materials from Earth, otherwise, they can’t maintain basic operations.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Can’t leave Earth, they will try to influence the ground, and Night City, well, it has orbital airline’s Moon flights, so it’s normal for them to monitor the situation here.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Alright, it’s nothing to do with you guys for now, report back to the network surveillance folks—and oh, hide the part about my involvement. Just say you picked up a copy of the report from the ground.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Transfer: +5000 Euros]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering that this job was mainly for network surveillance and didn’t involve a shootout, 5000 Euros wasn’t a small amount, not to mention the commission from network surveillance that hadn’t been collected yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David was already longing for the Moon ticket that was within reach—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just tourism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kid had a completely different idea from Lucy; the latter was holding onto the thought of forsaking everything, abandoning the company, Night City, and her past experiences to start anew in an unknown place far away—that’s why she wanted to go to the Moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, she was like the naive young people who thought they could arrive on the Moon with a tourist ticket, enter on a tourist visa and then stay there illegally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To some extent, Lille’s words burst her bubble: the Moon was not an idyllic and independent utopia, but a place that had to trade with Earth and, in some ways, needed to strengthen its ties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freedom? Starting over? Nonexistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she was pondering this, David suddenly spoke up excitedly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lucy, with this, I’m only 50,000 Euros short now, how about you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\" Lucy checked her account balance, in truth if she sold the stuff at hand and put together a thousand or eight hundred, she could already make the trip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were the old her, she’d probably take a flight next week; she couldn’t stand to stay in this damn Night City for a second longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now... it didn’t feel so urgent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m still a bit short,\" Lucy said after lighting up a cigarette, \"Not in a hurry, to be honest besides the orbital airline’s ads, I’ve hardly heard anything about the condition on the Moon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the back seat, Qi Wei stuck something on her head and popped her head forward from the back: \"Sounds even more like Night City, I would do some thorough investigation before I went if I were you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you looked at it from another angle, wasn’t Night City also the \"Moon\" in some people’s hearts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great Internet collapse turned all networks into local ones, with the authorization and ability for ultra-long-distance communications mostly in the hands of the large corporations, or rather, those with money and power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the outside world, Night City is also seen as a city of dreams, but in truth, its public safety situation could be considered rock bottom internationally, yet because of Night City’s unique geographical location and historical background, it has some capital and can broadcast a lot of immigration ads every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality... this place can’t be said to be bad, but it’s definitely not as good as advertised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Wei also lit a cigarette and continued in a tone of someone who had been through it all: \"However, those who are tricked into coming to Night City can’t leave, you know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes I think maybe it’s not that Night City is that good, but setting foot in Night City is like stepping onto the path of pursuing dreams; this path, this feeling, truly makes it hard for some to give up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car was filled with smoke, each person lost in their own thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of which, Lucy felt that her mindset had changed a bit too quick: previously, she definitely wouldn’t have been able to stand someone lecturing her with this crap, I just want to go to the Moon, none of you have been there, you don’t understand at all, what right do you have to judge?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe it was because the person speaking carried too much weight, Lucy felt that Lille really had been there, subconsciously taking his words as the truth, the perspective of a true \"been there, done that\" person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only David, while driving, raised his fist, still filled with yearning: \"How do you know if you don’t go, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Drive your car.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation on the Moon was far from something that could be explained by Lille in just a few words, but to sum it up, it really was very poor, and if it weren’t for aiding the development on the ground, the value of the Moon colonies would be quite limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So in this world, the reason people explored the Moon and ultimately established the colonies there has always been just one:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not some kind of tourist destination at all.\" Lille continued as he walked, \"The main reason the European Union sponsored the European Space Agency to build the Moon colonies was, from the start, to turn it into a base for expanding control, the first link in the entire system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This base can be armed with weapons to deter ground forces, and can act as the command center for the construction of a near-Earth orbit system...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is a near-Earth orbit system?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V asked sincerely, and Jack, knowing V would ask, had kept silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lilton was here, pointing out to the two of them the components he needed to move—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three were now moving items in the Voodoo Gang’s small warehouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the hint, the two of them each took down items from the shelves, and Lille continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...you can simply think of it as a device to control the sky; imagine one day corporations placing a huge lid over everyone’s heads.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we wouldn’t be able to see the sky?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Generally, there’s no need to go as far as preventing people from seeing the sky, but it’s definitely possible to decide who can’t see it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille looked around, picked up a piece of broken aluminum foil, covered it over a rubber band, and then inserted a wire into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hit whoever you want to hit, just like that—specifically, they could make meteors fall precisely on some people’s heads.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon opening the foil, the rubber band was already punctured by the wire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As human technology developed, the range of development would expand along with the territory controlled by military forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From land to sea, from sea to sky, from the sky to... outer space beyond the atmosphere, and even to other planets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s quite interesting.\" Carrying a box of parts, V said with interest, \"It’s surprising that Orbital Aerospace would take people on a tour of their evil plan base.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not new, just like military technology is also shown off to people with their war machines; they even sell their main war machines.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complexity of the Cyberpunk World’s society lies right here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There haven’t been any trade wars here; theoretically speaking, most companies won’t challenge the free trade system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is an age where capable people seek to control others, not truly focusing on destroying others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The goods were loaded into trucks; all the useful items of the Voodoo Gang were moved out, and it must be said that the moving efficiency of the muscled men of the Animal Gang was indeed high; all that was left in the building after this round was trash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brigitte and Placid, the two top hands of the Voodoo Gang, were tied to hacker chairs, their still-living minions lying around them, each with a look of bewilderment in their eyes...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brigitte’s head kept flashing with electrical light; she was becoming desperate: \"We can work for you! There’s no need to be so extreme! We... we don’t really have any grudge, right?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Lille walked over to her: \"You’ve done plenty on the net, and in this round of chaos, if I weren’t tough enough, I would have been played to death long ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But... but that was work! We held no personal grudge... If the Voodoo Gang is finished, Taiping State... Taiping State will be taken over by corporations, will be...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille reached out to grab the cables behind Brigitte, to make one final check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It will be taken over by many, but definitely not the corporations you imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re right, we have no personal grudge: but you need to make room for my little brothers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, blame... why is there always business grievance between us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goodbye, ranyon (scouring cloth).\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In despair, Brigitte’s world turned dark and blurry with the surge of electricity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Batty Hotel, all the devices that Voodoo Gang had hoarded for years were activated—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High-frequency and high-energy chaotic signals would sweep across Taiping State, appearing on detection devices like a small sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the time, the company’s agents and the forces pursuing them were already on their way, this location being their first stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon the news of the Voodoo Gang’s demise would spread throughout Night City, with new powers scrambling to fill the void here...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A local development group, a mix of old crime figures, would fill the void here under the subsidies and support of Night City Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Batty Hotel exploded a second time, the firelight reflecting off the slowly departing convoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While their influence had peaked, Night City was no longer suitable for them to appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the next stop...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dog Town.\u003C\u002Fp>",1767,"2026-06-03T12:33:32.470Z","2026-06-03T12:33:39.371Z",1,"novelbin.me","fc54a0915ccf305075b3aca90bc3ee00aa358f6c3bf770c67670e77b843c1b1b","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-598","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-596",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]