Chapter 855 - 134: News from Afar

[Lille: This world has never been fair. Corporations have resources, equipment, and money, easily controlling everyone’s lifeline.]

[Lille: The unfairness brings pain, resentment, and makes people depressed, self-doubting, and lose motivation...]

[Lille: In the end, all it takes is a small price to buy superior entertainment services to temporarily erase these feelings, allowing you to experience joy no less than the wealthy—physically easy to reach, at least.]

[Lille: Before we depart, the most crucial thing you need to sort out is recognizing your desires...]

[Lille: If I see you wasting time watching those short videos every day, then forget it, go back to your rental room!]

Pfft!

Lille directly scrapped Elliot’s tablet!

Burned by the heat, Elliot painfully threw the tablet, but it crashed to the floor without attracting much attention from others:

The abandoned factory was now vastly heated.

Servers, communication antennas, generators... A significant amount of equipment was sent here, about to become the first website service node.

Elliot scratched his head: "But now I can’t do anything?"

According to Munemasa’s plan, out of the 400,000 start-up fund, 300,000 were used to purchase servers, the remaining 30,000 for prosthetic upgrades, and 70,000 kept for emergencies.

[Lille: Do you know? Learning skills is secondary now; the most important thing is your pig brain!]

[Lille: If you don’t know what you want and habitually use entertainment to numb yourself, skipping boring and painful times, you can never beat the company’s people!]

[Lille: You need to learn to recognize your desires, identify the enemy’s desires, and finally use your desires to engulf theirs!]

"I..." After being scolded, Elliot walked over to the server and sat down, "I just feel like I want to live a bit easier now."

Johnny’s hologram appeared beside Elliot:

[Johnny: Who doesn’t want to live easier? So you have to work harder to topple the corporation.]

"But I think I just want to marry a wife, live... uh, don’t Sevens only need to work 10 hours a day and have one and a half days off? I just want that kind of life."

[Johnny: Then work hard. You don’t think things you do in your spare time make life easier, do you? That ease is just an illusion.]

As a veteran in numbing himself with alcohol, women, drugs, and advanced entertainment tech, Johnny felt quite emotional when saying this.

Lille was rather surprised he could say that: After all, this rock star can boldly claim he wants Nekos.

[Johnny: Plus, Sevens aren’t so easy now; he’s just like you, any moment could be a death sentence.]

[Lille: We need to use the company’s desires to attack them. If you can’t control your own desires, you won’t win, you will die.]

"But... you said we’re all living for desires."

[Lille: Living for desires doesn’t mean dying for desires!]

[Lille: Every company’s ultimate goal is rising profits, and under the European Union’s framework, they can’t use absurd force.]

[Lille: This involves another group’s desires: Organizations like the EU enjoy watching people dance with their shackles on, showcasing market vitality without directly harming their interests.]

[Lille: You need to remember the core of this operation; I can’t remote control you indefinitely.]

"Big brother speaks sense."

Elliot nodded, not sure how much sunk in.

Bang!

A loud noise came from the front; the generator had started operating.

[Lille: The remaining time is yours to play with. I need to leave for a while.]

[Lille: Johnny, watch him, and also, get your tunes ready.]

Johnny patted Elliot’s shoulder, gave Lille a thumbs-up:

[Johnny: Don’t worry, I’ve long been itching for a ’Second Rock Boy Movement’.]

[Lille: Munemasa, get ready to go online.]

[Munemasa: Been waiting a long time.]

...

EU likes watching any non-native people dance with shackles; one, it’s entertaining, two, it’s compliance-filled.

The emergence of this worker forum will organize workers into a force, helping some corporations find legal loopholes to seize gains from others...

This forum will certainly receive focused monitoring from the European Barrier, so ultimately, it wouldn’t be much different from other online forums:

Within the European Barrier’s multiple local networks, there are also radical netizens, or else Elliot wouldn’t hold those radical ideas—

Mainly radical towards corporations.

Lille wants an unsuspecting development that moves towards uncontrollable directions even for the EU, naturally unhindered speech can’t be controlled.

This batch of components has been tampered with by Lille.

[Cross-dimensional Material Transmission: Cross-dimensional Information Component (Attached Chip)]

[Technology Points-200]

[Current Technology Points: 84800]

[Description: Using Cybertron Technology, a special chip encapsulated with a small amount of Holy Cabinet Energy, appears indistinguishable from substituted components, only activated when receiving paired dimensional information.]

[Used for information transmission, Holy Cabinet Energy consumption depends on data volume.]

[Cross-dimensional Production Line Activated: Cross-dimensional Signal Station]

[Description: Assistance from other worlds allows this network to communicate across dimensions, leveraging information processing equipment from other dimensions; this network remains undecryptable.]

Lille really wants to recreate the Hamburg King criminal network in Europe with this setup, but unfortunately, that’s impossible.

Despite Network Supervision not being able to decode how this network operates in Night City, they can certainly identify the same anomaly—

So this system primarily transfers certain communications to servers in other worlds for communication, avoiding European Barrier’s big data supervision, reducing the threat weight of this movement.

Nonetheless, Lille now has a way to avoid the European Barrier’s surveillance, thus... eagerly he began online activities:

EU reports on Night City aren’t scarce, only most are fragmented; piecing real truth from fragmented information requires the right network tools to crawl relevant data in numerous intertwined local networks.

These cross-local network "crawlers" are clearly focus targets of Network Supervision.

Now, they can’t monitor.

The real world vanished from Lille’s senses, replaced by a signal-composed world—

[Action Record: Still unable to decipher encrypted communications used by Night City Hamburg Criminal Group, applying for Moon Base assistance]

[Night City officials seemingly reached accord with Night City Hamburg Criminal Group...]

[Intelligence Feedback: Night City Hamburger King Criminal Group active at US-Mexico Border suspected in multiple corporate convoy hijacks.]

[Intelligence Confirmation: Night City Hamburg Criminal Group murdered Military Technology’s border commander in Mexico City]

[Military Technology found a special Mackinaw Pika at US-Mexico Border.]

[Rosalind Miles issues presidential order, suspected capturing of "King" and "Big Players", two criminal ringleaders...]

Lille’s pupils constricted—

Military Technology had no reason to disclose its target actions with EU, but presidential order?

Looks very real indeed, Military Technology seeking to reclaim Night City, Night City being a prime target!

[European Space Agency Intelligence: New America’s airborne fortress departed Air Force Base, moving towards the US-Mexico Border.]

[Reporting completed by EU agents stationed in Mexico.]

Though not suited for major online actions now, Lille still resolutely decided to directly attack this signal channel—

EU cannot trace attack origins, erroneous instructions would add complexity and chaos to the situation.

[EU Intelligence Department stationed in North America responds:]

[Disrupt New America’s capture of Hamburger King Criminal Group leaders.]

[Proceed with caution.]