[{"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-792":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},1152833,1495,"Chapter 786 - 65: Chatty Elliot (Part 1)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-792",792,"\u003Cp>All of Foxstone’s industries are based on the Eurotunnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cityscape here is far different from Night City:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night City is a city without barriers, meaning that as long as you have the courage to board a \"little boat,\" this city won’t inquire about your background, identity, gender, race, sexual orientation...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as you can reach there, Night City can accommodate everyone from thieves to the President of New America and the CEO of the Arasaka Group, everyone can find something to do here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, another reality is that several percent of those who go to Night City to pursue their dreams end up losing their kidneys after landing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But anyway, Europe is a completely different place—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"European Barrier\" is a super-powerful social control system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This system relies on a powerful network of information devices, recording everyone who contributes to society, matching their names, biological information, skills they learned, and every piece of information while issuing a standardized ID, entered into the network, becoming a citizen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those without this ID are illegal immigrants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although compared to the rise of Arasaka in Asia and the split of Mei Country, Europe, especially the European Union, remains relatively stable, maintaining its position as a leader, yet this place has also experienced a lot of upheavals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Britain has gone through two political upheavals comparable to coups; pandemics spread across Europe; ecological degradation and rising sea levels have submerged large parts of some countries; and the wars that have always been there...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The European Union is the most powerful organizational entity in this world, but Europe is not Heaven; people living in Hell always fantasize about the existence of Heaven, and the European Union is the best object of that fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive number of refugees flock here from all directions, hoping to bask in the light of the affluent world, stepping into Heaven...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this world’s European Union, facing the massive influx of refugees, the uncertainty they bring, their response is: The European Union never compromises!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They choose to respond to illegal refugees with steel and gunpowder, the slaughter zone is born as a result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The operation of the system ultimately relies on material, affecting the material world, so the \"European Barrier\" isn’t just the name of a system but also the name of a gigantic engineering project, it’s truly physical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foxstone, located at the Anglo-French border, along the coast, is a very special... EU border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, you can see the high walls of the slaughter zone from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounds like a sort of border wall, but it’s actually far more formidable than the military technology border wall in Northern California:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unmanned mecha, military drones, military helicopters are always on standby, in areas tens of kilometers beyond the EU border, slaughter is legal, and even rewarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Night City, major companies hypocritically maintain surface harmony but privately fund and hire various mercenaries and gangs to engage in firefights;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, Europeans choose to place the violence factor on outsiders: those lowly, vile, pathetic refugees entering the EU only become a scourge on society, in that case, why not provide those societal violent elements an outlet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the border wall, the land is scrubbed by polluted seawater, and no green plants can grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Evil Land in North America is a hell with yellow sand everywhere, here is hell of seawater and sludge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Luckily I don’t have to live inside...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot sits in the elevator, enjoying the warm sunshine—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This elevator can view the exterior, just enough to overlook the border wall, seeing the tragic situation in the slaughter zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: Way to comfort yourself, I see things aren’t much better inside your walls.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the walls, that is on the Foxstone side, the situation hasn’t actually improved much either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Night City is by the sea, adjacent to Evil Land, and sometimes there are sandstorms, most of the time the cityscape still looks nice, after all, it’s a developing big city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city also has large ecological parks, though they’re full of homeless people and the Animal Gang, it smells odd...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at least there’s an ecological park where you can see green plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foxstone, this city’s abrupt climate no longer supports the growth of green plants, and the positioning of the city also decided that policymakers wouldn’t establish an ecological area here:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coastal cities have a high probability of being continuously affected by worsening environments, being swallowed by the sea, wealthy people won’t stay here permanently, only a large number of workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The function of this city is to transport goods and information, allowing people living in safe areas to enjoy high-quality communication and logistics services.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the cityscape... roads are hard paved, street lamps are perfect, surfaces of high-rise buildings are repeatedly painted, if viewed from above, it’s like a child’s rusted city toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No cityscape to speak of, the sea breeze blows, strange odors and industrial black smoke from the city squeeze into your nose, inhaled into the lungs...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Respiratory System: Auxiliary filtration device activated.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current air quality: PM2.5: 186μg\u002Fm³, NO₂ concentration: 124 ppb, CO: 5.3 ppm]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Please change filters regularly.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Thank you for using the Prosthetics free air detection service, you are our free user, now inserting an ad from Moore Technology.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[If you don’t want to see this ad, please check the \"No personalized ads\" option (but you will still see random ads)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At least I don’t have to share life and death with a bunch of lunatics slaughtering refugees for money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: Oh, you’re a refugee protectionist? So kind?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot smirked: \"Refugees only cause trouble! Accepting refugees will only increase crime rates, lower employment rates, hinder social advancement...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just think... slaughter is terrifying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: Really pretentious.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is humanism!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two ideology-spouting guys verbally spar, Munemasa was uninterested, just frantically, cautiously trying to access the network, absorbing more information from Elliot’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille wasn’t interested in commenting too much either, he was more concerned about how to proceed with his next step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Check sports news.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right, the young Matt... You guys can really get him? This kid is amazing, reportedly he grew up in war zones, lived in an environment similar to the slaughter zone, not playing, he had to kill...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Messages say he will arrive in Europe at the end of the month, playing for the youth team of the Brest club in the Ligue 1... but considering his calm yet ruthless playing style, audiences very much want to see him immediately join the first team matches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people want to see blood, but I guess most people want to see a genius elevated to the heavens fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Europeans aren’t friendly to natives from Night City...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Racial discrimination is a phenomenon existing in many worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this world, racial boundaries aren’t distinct, naturally making pure racial discrimination difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, economic strength differences due to regions have become more extreme—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such a safe society, Night City in the eyes of the majority of European citizens is purely a cesspool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ones willing to risk their lives to \"pursue dreams and freedom\" are, after all, minorities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While discrimination has more complex causes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t actually discriminate against people from Night City, and I think many people from Night City have a very formidable vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Matt, actually I’ve been paying attention to him long before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if letting an outsider overshadow our people...well that’s bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If letting citizens see Night City can produce international superstars...anyway, in the long run, it’s certainly bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1256,"2026-06-03T12:33:36.099Z","2026-06-03T12:33:42.185Z",1,"novelbin.me","74806110c9684afd8e2e9f23d57da86729a7fa7d39a38b22eddc74512614a65d","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-793","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-791",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]