[{"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-985":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},1152626,1495,"Chapter 979 - 26: Arasaka Yorinobu’s Dilemma (6,000-Word Double - ) _2","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-985",985,"\u003Cp>Then... to start over, to once again deny oneself, deny how naive such thoughts are, if you must do this, if you must be as ruthless as a company to destroy it, then you become its corporate dog...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille was speaking, and a program in his head reminded him that he should drink some water—any normal person would feel thirsty after talking so much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lille quickly dismissed that logic: he wasn’t a normal person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille pointed at Yorinobu’s head: \"...the human brain is a complex neural network system, and this system has a load limit. Endless thinking, brain-computer interface interactions, injections...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all affect the system’s load and capacity, and when it exceeds a certain extent, a person can go mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I were you, I wouldn’t think so much. If you’re happy your dad is dead, then laugh, I don’t care if it was his son or grandson who killed him. What you said doesn’t interest me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I think you’re about the same, you just want to kill him. As for being a hero to save the world...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frankly, your teacher wasn’t anything remarkable either. At least for you, he was no different from San Lang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former wanted Yorinobu to be a mole within the Arasaka Group to dismantle the giant corporation, save Japan, and save those in dire straits;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the latter wanted Yorinobu to be the manager of the Arasaka Group, helping the Arasaka Empire to continue indefinitely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yorinobu was very young, he was exposed to two totally different voices from two worlds, and he recognized the former’s \"noble\" ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he also knew the latter assured his life, allowing him to enjoy the finest sex, drugs, prosthetics, and education.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to be controlled by San Lang, yet inadvertently he was controlled by that earlier ideology...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a very young age, all of this determined that he was destined to live in contradiction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Essentially, it was only after his teacher died and he left the Arasaka Group that he lived his true life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, both his teacher’s thoughts and his father’s will forever influenced him, making him feel that choosing either side was a compromise and submission...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The experience of the Steel Dragon allowed his will to grow, maybe if Arasaka Saburo absorbed that group through some means, things would have been different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the habit of Arasaka was never to compromise, and after the Steel Dragon was completely wiped out by Arasaka, this blood feud was forged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yorinobu suddenly leaned towards his teacher’s teaching, yet there were contradictions within, the simplest being: the company destroys the warmth between people, leaving only calculations between father and son, yet he was asked to commit even more violent acts to end it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it, Lille also felt that Yorinobu’s life was doomed to be lived in contradiction: after all, he lived for decades, but only for a year or two was he himself and happy, while the rest of the time was spent in a state of contradiction, exhausted to the extreme on one hand, while indulging in the pleasure of money and status on the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original story, he was captured by a sex doll: Sex doll technology in Night City was very advanced. High-end sex dolls simulate a toy that understands and cares for the customer emotionally and fulfills all their needs physically...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making one feel truly enveloped in love...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But alas, waking up again one has to face the emptiness and confusion of using money and status to obtain such feelings, a repetitive cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This state is very complex, Yorinobu feels very uncomfortable, his mind is like a tangled mess, with no loose end to start unraveling, naturally unable to resolve it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, in Yorinobu’s cognition, what Lille was about to say next was very subtle and sudden:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop thinking about playing with sex dolls, whoring is a very weak behavior, even though it’s legal in most areas... it will soon become illegal in Night City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You know the human trafficking industry in Night City is very developed, especially before, you are quite familiar with the Tiger Claw Gang, and you know what’s going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t talk to you about theories and ideals, the profits from human trafficking come from the sale of human organs and tissues, forced body trade, forced labor, and illegal human experiments. The high profits attract speculators, and the beneficiaries are usually those with power and influence, clearly, the company and their dogs are among the major ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To control this phenomenon, on one hand, we must increase the strike force to raise the risk, and on the other hand, reduce the profit margin, if everyone thinks about whoring, the underground market can still develop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yorinobu was suddenly pulled back to reality from his fantasy, that decisiveness and self-pity were shattered in an instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the norm in this world: one second you’re talking grandly about human rights and liberation, the next you’re discussing where the best girls are at good prices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly talking about this felt like a fig leaf was being torn apart:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, talking about killing one’s own kin, that might genuinely be difficult, but whoring is indeed quite controllable...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the atmosphere became awkward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille continued: \"It’s hard enough to keep your own dick under control, and you’re still fantasizing about being some kind of perfect powerless savior?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you really have time to think so much, why not spend some on learning math, physics, chemistry? If not, I’ll give you some work, New America’s retaliation will come quickly, we have to be ready.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>V watched Yorinobu go from being reserved, to being open-hearted after drinking, to acting wildly, finally stunned, awkwardly scratching his head and then sitting properly, which was truly amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>",964,"2026-06-03T12:33:38.571Z","2026-06-03T12:33:48.023Z",1,"novelbin.me","921f0d52403d4df99b86772c5cc69d8fd10d0fc05e0a8cdc55795938cbc2b484","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-986","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-984",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]