[{"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-708":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},1152502,1495,"Chapter 702 - 673: The Hanged Man (Four)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-708",708,"\u003Cp>So this is what a ballistic missile breaking through an interception net sees?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille no longer had eyes, but the sensors on the missile allowed him to see some projections of reality in cyberspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The primary model adjustments and computations, Lille and Munemasa have already handled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a short-range ballistic missile. After entering the atmosphere, it will not \"bounce\" multiple times, but as long as the first bounce trajectory deviates from Arasaka Group’s missile prediction system, the speed of eight Mach is no longer something they can predict or intercept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the final stage, the missile’s speed decreased significantly, it still wasn’t something Kujira could intercept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The missile didn’t hit Kujira directly but struck its left side hull...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should be like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille didn’t see the moment of explosion because he still had more important things to do:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>David had broken into the Divine Chariot, and Lucy’s team had taken over the antenna, opening a hacking channel for Lille—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the missile descended, Lille would be able to dock with the Arasaka Tower’s signals on the missile...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a chance to slip into the Divine Chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the time was too short; he had to choose what to back up, what to repair...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Munemasa had no such requirement, it could immediately decide to just keep its core model, so it was the first to complete the leap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lille, slowly peeling away from the missile’s server, began to return from the Arasaka Tower’s view to the restless and chaotic cyber network of Night City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Wall followed him like a shadow, making his data transfer almost less than fifty percent fidelity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, Lille began to recall the past, started to traverse his \"database.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too distant events, he could no longer remember how he felt at that time, besides, he didn’t have such conditions back then to mobilize \"emotions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he remembered was the things after possessing negative energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered telling Martin stories of past lives, recalling his pain, emptiness, regret, anger...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had done crazy things, witnessed the world fall apart in flames of war, humanity’s future cut off by his own hands, countless fragments sliced across the sky, and the sky blazed fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he remembered his hopes for a new world, hoping Atlas could accomplish what he had dreamed of countless times: to stop the world’s descent before everything was irreparable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered the children in the city asking him innocent questions: curiosity, love, hope, and naivete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered countless students, researchers, engineers...people who supported him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at him, believed in him, admired him, as if they saw the future in him and were willing to work for him, originally thinking they were working for the future he promised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such gazes were not only in the Marvel World but also in Night City, people could not extricate themselves from the mud or indulged in the mud, but no matter what, in the end, people hoped he would not die...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he was the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expectations of countless people, as well as his expectations for them, were so vague and indescribable, yet so clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille suddenly had a slight realization and emotion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As someone about to die, he didn’t put his own little life in the highest priority, but was instead obsessed with doing these things...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely these complex experiences that kidnapped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a sense, this is just regret, strong regret, intense...nostalgia for beauty never had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion of this nuclear bomb was for these people, but in fact, it was also his foolish act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw specific people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Jack smiling all day, tense behind a wheelchair during missions, as if even if a nuclear bomb exploded in front of him, this big guy would still hold him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Jack would do such a thing; Lille thought Jack did almost die once protecting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jack, my best brother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw Maya, his mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered his mother’s care and worry for him, remembered a mother looking at her son about to die in a coma but still willing to give in mother’s love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maya was an ordinary mother, with a simple yet unique and intense love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only after witnessing how harsh this world is did we start to feel that this world can become gentle and beautiful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he saw V.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly wanted to see V, so he found the Mackinaw Floating Shadow, in the dim cyberspace, he saw this silly girl who dreams of buying a house and a sports car looking blankly at the floating shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too many memories surged forth...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw them singing and bragging together on a Bimong Armored Vehicle, crossing evil lands and deserts...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw them watching houses together in a super dream, cursing the houses they could never afford...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw V furiously drilling into his head...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But clearest of all, were the things that happened in Dog Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dear... what a stupid term of endearment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: Not done yet!! The nuclear bomb is about to explode! What are you doing!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Munemasa’s reminder, the inside of the nuclear bomb began to explode!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The primer compressed the reaction space, the concentration of nuclear fuel breached the threshold, and the chain reaction started!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buzz——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyberspace was trembling!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nuclear bomb had exploded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, a flash hundreds of times brighter than a thermo-baric bomb lit up from the coast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a series of sonic booms and meteor jumps, a sun appeared on the coast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in cyberspace, the nuclear electromagnetic pulse turned into a terrifying storm, even the Black Wall couldn’t withstand it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This storm was devouring everything!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the storm, Lille heard V’s final voice entering the floating shadow:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: Lille, are you in the car?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This storm was almost about to swallow everything of Lille, the AI-thought reminded him he should immediately, or should have long completed the data migration, but he had already developed human qualities—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this storm, he chose an extremely risky move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He controlled the electromagnetic signals, invaded V’s cyber modulator, through the cyber modulator, like a small octopus, made a series of imprints on V’s brain—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The imprint landed on V’s shoulders, upon her lips...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Cyberpunk Era, information devices no longer required two people in love to express their affection face-to-face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what is love? What is love in this era?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people like the ideal type sex dolls bought with money, some like to do crazy things under hormone enhancement, and some like the novelty brought by prosthetic augmentations and sensory enhancers, most are addicted to the direct stimulation of the brain by the Black Superdream...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True love is too rare, and pleasure is too easily obtained;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In regret, making up for remorse is firm, pursuing something never had yet looking left and right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille clearly realized... now, at this moment, he must say something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the furious cyberspace storm, everything Lille did was meaningless because the storm would devour everything—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words he wanted to say vanished immediately, like whispers dispersing in the storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Valerie...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrific sonic booms, flashing meteors, and the final dazzling sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V felt that someone had just hugged her, and then she didn’t even know if it was fragments, flames, or fine rain that touched her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one had kissed her, nor had anyone held her like a lover, so she couldn’t even come up with a reasonable guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only knew: there was no one in the floating shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>",1255,"2026-06-03T12:33:34.348Z","2026-06-03T12:33:41.179Z",1,"novelbin.me","071f6420a11982c53483f225d1568ca442c26c963f383e826fce4b6eb851cb3c","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-554","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-553",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]