[{"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-837":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},1152728,1495,"Chapter 831 - 109: The Machine Soul Is Unhappy (Haha, guess what? I didn’t sleep!)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-837",837,"\u003Cp>Ding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same sound of metal striking metal; every day in Latovia is busy, just like in another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, during normal times, Latovia’s industry rotates around the clock 24 hours a day, each production line staffed by three shifts of workers taking turns, and essentially there are no real rest days:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For adults, there’s no full day available for play, idleness, and sleep; if you insist, there are indeed four days a month used for virtual lessons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even with such high-intensity operation, some things cannot be surpassed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adults lacking in innate nutrition and education have lower physiological intelligence than average after decades of running about, and comprehensive intelligence is even harder to improve; even with prosthetics and behavior chips aiding work, there’s still a large number of high-end jobs that cannot be performed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the European Union’s estimation of Latovia, Latovia isn’t lacking in people; however, compared to Lille’s expectation for this country and the world, Latovia is very short on people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Education and training will continue to advance, but Lille once coordinated production across dimensions between workers in Night City and New York. Theoretically, this production could fill manpower gaps and systematically reduce system errors, improving production efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It so happens that he also needs to return to Night City, but to return to Night City one must rely on large-scale communication arrays, and using large-scale communication arrays inevitably encounters surveillance or even pursuit by the European Union...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because of this idea of \"returning to Night City,\" he might end up fighting a battle locally in Europe and with the European Union.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: You’re the craziest lunatic I’ve ever seen; for the sake of seeing your girl, you’re actually plotting to overturn the old order of the European Union in your mind.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: I used to think imagining revenge against society for these things was already top-tier madness, but now I find yours kind of insane...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud noise echoed through the sky; Foxstone’s morning, the operating sound of industrial machinery can wake any sleeping person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one needed to be woken up; this border city isn’t wealthy nor attractive, but city planning exists:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The loud noise likely wouldn’t penetrate the area where European Union officials and enterprise offices are located further inland; it merely reverberates within worker apartments, and here, no one sleeps in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are all hardworking European Union workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weekly working hours vary annually between 120 to 140 hours; shift systems don’t involve alternating rest and work but transferring workers between high-load and low-load positions based on physiological and psychological conditions, with wages decreasing accordingly from high to low...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here exists a curious paradox:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When your wages are high, you’re inevitably undertaking high-load work; over time, you’ll eventually be overwhelmed by the heavy load, starting to buy medication and medical implants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as you begin buying medication and medical implants, your work performance rating will be lowered, thus transferred to lower-load work, with decreasing wages to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet with declining wages, the medical services and implants bought on installment can’t be paid off; the best workers can barely break even, but from a long-term perspective, such high-load will only worsen physical conditions, inevitably entering the next tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No money for medical services, body condition deteriorates, work capability rating decreases, workload decreases, wages decrease, eventually quietly being optimized away at the lowest rung...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: I call it the burning of pain; from blooming brightly to being unable to shine or produce heat, people are consumed like fuel.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: Ember scattered next to the fire, blown away by the wind...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: Is this why you’re unfocused, drifting off in class?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot controlled the air hammer, striking the cast piece with a straight face while replying in his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: Yes, I’m really exhausted, it’s not that I don’t want to learn your Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, modulation calculations and whatever elliptical hole calculations...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: It’s elliptic curve encryption! If you don’t understand these basics, you can’t manage complex signal processing and transformation processes; it’s essential learning!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: But aren’t you AI? Things on the network can be handled by you, right...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Munemasa had a perfect CPU installed in a perfect machine body running normally, then at this moment the CPU would be overclocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was furious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why are there such foolish humans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Johnny: Ahem, let me clarify that our average human level isn’t as high as his; for example, I don’t know what fly-leaf transformation you were talking about earlier.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille didn’t say anything: although Johnny’s latter words sounded dumb, Johnny was sincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot may not understand these basic mathematical and physics knowledge, but within the forging in hand and occasional \"neuro-metallurgy\" tasks, his performance is actually quite good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He can nearly reach a \"good\" level, and further advancement leads to excellent performance, qualifying for transfer to the fine assembly task group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This indicates Elliot’s industrial foundation is quite solid; his mind isn’t just filled with old net porn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, this part of \"industrial foundation\" knowledge, in Munemasa’s eyes, is completely like... to make a comparison, it’s like arithmetic in mathematics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: Being too serious with work will land you in high-load groups as expendables; I just do some forging ordinarily, aim for excellent performance when feeling good, and dabble in simple neuro-metallurgy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Elliot: This is the way to survive, fighting with those guys for the monthly model worker status, I’d probably have died of overwork already...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it! Cyberpsycho!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A frightened shout rang out, with the hammer in Elliot’s hand tossed aside as he bolted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The workshop he worked in was a basic forging workshop, part of a huge assembly line, and the sound came from next door—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next door, next door was the basic steel manufacturing line!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The production line was filled with red-hot steel, and Elliot, well-versed in safety production accident protocols, had long thought about what kind of accident might happen—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of red-hot steel bars soared like dragons, instantly sweeping off the semi-open door panels separating two workshops and a group of terrified fleeing workers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Elliot’s fearful eyes, the whip-like red-hot steel bars furiously lashed at over 120 kilometers per hour, carrying sparks and arcs from friction with the factory walls, fiercely swinging towards his face—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carbon-based beings—not to mention carbon-based beings—even if Adam Hammer were hit, he’d be split into two Adam Hammers on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of kilograms of long steel bars shooting out at 120 kilometers per hour at the tips will soften due to hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius high temperatures, resembling braids producing a whip-effect at the ends, speed exponentially increasing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kinetic energy of the flying metal steel bars can even compare to some small missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot felt time slow down—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whereas for Munemasa, Lille, and Johnny, they truly saw every detail clearly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, the ends of the steel bars began to fracture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the ends of the steel bars, the red-hot steel bars could no longer remain intact under such immense kinetic energy, with a metal fragment nearly flying over Elliot’s head, piercing through the wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Hahaha! Machine Soul displeased, needs to kill enough people to continue working!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1196,"2026-06-03T12:33:36.383Z","2026-06-03T12:33:42.158Z",1,"novelbin.me","ba658d94de5b28ecab5cc16d7a87b6d3fc05f1f91a1f162e01f07a1308079fde","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-838","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-836",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]