[{"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-872":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},1152931,1495,"Chapter 866 - 145: Acquaintance","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-872",872,"\u003Cp>\"A cyberpsychosis incident occurred in Bruges.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Recently, there has been a frequent occurrence of cyberpsychosis incidents, and the European Union has established a special committee to address such incidents, aiming to maintain the stability and sustainable development of the European Union.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A commissioner arrived in Bruges a day prior and held gathering activities in cooperation with the local police, encouraging local residents to actively report such incidents.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"During the gathering and parade that day, a public relations officer from ADL Corporation lost control and used illegal violence against the gathering, and was apprehended by the Bruges police on the spot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The European Union is always a servant of the public, and the temporary office of the special committee is located at..., any citizen with relevant information can contact the person in charge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do not fear any illegal violence, the European Union will always be your support.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CINO Company Headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a corporation with a scale no less than mega multinational companies like Arasaka Company or Military Technology, CINO’s industries are also unimaginably vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as an instigator of the Fourth Corporate War, they reaped substantial benefits: the IHAG company, which had served as a spark, was once called the \"Orbital Aviation Company on the ground\", and after reaching an agreement with OTEC, CINO also gained the ability to conduct near-Earth orbit business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, within CINO’s proprietary communications satellite in near-Earth orbit, the board is using it to carry out discussions—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CINO is a French enterprise, but the most important meetings are absolutely conducted online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if someone observed from Cyberspace, they would find that only by setting meetings on a near-Earth satellite could they escape the giant walls covering the European Union.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #001: I heard the company sponsored this event.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: Sponsorship might not be entirely accurate, they actively sought out Foxstone’s farm.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: The International Partner Network Company had shut down most business routes, so they thought of riding whales.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #002: But I recall our BW project’s efficiency is not that high, the latest reports show that even the best performance struggles to ignore storms for forced marches.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: The report you saw is somewhat outdated, recent research already allows BW to advance in a storm.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: However, maintaining such efficiency is indeed impossible, and the farm in Bruges exhibited more strange phenomena.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meeting began playing footage of the whale docking that day—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The footage starts from the moment a humpback whale entered the periphery of the farming area: as a special industry, the whale farm is a privately owned and heavily guarded area by the enterprise, though submarines and warships were not suited to appear in near-shore areas, and their operational costs are high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there are unique guards here: dolphins equipped with sentry chips, and region-blocking biological weapons—the latter being sharks genetically engineered to attack submarines if needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These sentinel dolphins are equipped with various detection devices, with low-frequency antennas even as long as their bodies, allowing them to clearly detect creatures in the area and calculate their movement status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the information sent back by the sentinel dolphins, this humpback whale reached a terrifying sprint speed of 110 km\u002Fh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dolphins in the footage reacted extremely quickly, avoiding a collision with the humpback whale, but those region-blocking biological weapons weren’t so lucky:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The programs in their chips would attack if they detected any target illegally entering the region...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But attacking a humpback whale like this could result in something worse than attacking a submarine: after all, submarines don’t need to twist and turn to move, such a large creature moving at such speed, each swing of its tail fin exerted unimaginable force, not to mention some sharks getting struck head-on...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result of a head-on collision was only one: a body smashed to smithereens, internal gases and water exploding outward with the fragments, forming a red blossom in the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awe filled the minds of the board members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such impact force, never mind a submarine, even large ships would have a hard time withstanding such a blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though occupying the orbit and outer space is the real advantage now, the ocean still remains a rich resource field, and who wouldn’t want to drive away those AIs if they could return to the ocean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the CEO’s follow-up report left them somewhat undecided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: A civilian transport humpback whale shouldn’t have such mobility capabilities, the endurance and explosive figures of this whale have surpassed the group’s best whale pod—OTEC can’t achieve such excellence.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #003: What about the test report?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: The whale’s recorded chip suffered extensive damage, supposedly caused by the storm damaging the cabin.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: This whale did not slow down after approaching the coast, but collided with the harbor, the bioweapon harbor in Bruges thus almost collapsed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #001: What about the fish?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: Not dead, critically injured, genetic testing revealed no anomalies, but... current test results simply do not support its performance in the ocean.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #002: Hmm... it’s impossible that it’s a \"worker whale\" with a dream in its heart, right?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CEO: The current opinion from the R&D department is: this whale no longer holds research value, I suggest we keep it alive, as an asset for the PR department to use in civilian venues.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The board members fell silent collectively for a while, the CEO felt a significant increase in pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #003: Alright... you never run out of little tricks, it’s approved, you may go offline now.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The CEO’s image faded from the conference room, leaving only the three board members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #001: An incredible feat, it seems the pressure might exceed the threshold, we should start preparing as well.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #002: I see CINO here being quite savvy, which means there will be less to worry about on this side.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Board Member #003: That’s good, the Cabinet Council seems to support this worker activity, we should engage more with this \"special committee.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ping!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As glasses clinked, Elliot lifted a high glass for the first time, feeling himself suddenly rise in status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Sevens was a civil servant, he seemed adept at making money, at the moment a group of them were drinking... pure water at the Bruges office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Riding whales is a brilliant idea!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elliot laughed: \"That wasn’t what you said before, you said we were asking for trouble!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I take it back—I must take it back!\" Sevens patted Elliot on the shoulder, his face flushed red from drinking lots of alcohol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, they had truly arrived at the main battlefield!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bruges would be their starting point towards a grand goal! From here, they would travel all the way to Berlin and achieve unimaginable feats!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang bang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door was knocked, and with a wave of their hands, the two signaled the people outside to enter—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newcomers were the ones who had helped the workers flee the city that day, a man and a woman, in a big pickup...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were clearly media.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing them, Lille was quite surprised:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these were familiar faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: I didn’t expect to feel comforted seeing familiar faces from Night City in Europe...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Munemasa: A fascinating connection.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1204,"2026-06-03T12:33:37.306Z","2026-06-03T12:33:42.185Z",1,"novelbin.me","2dccea3d94199dad96d57b6c0b4f935dbf9ca9569f512d9eed581fc859e205cc","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-873","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-871",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]