I'm not a cyberpsycho

In the decades following the defeat of the Corporate War, Earth 0791 gradually recovered from the chaos of the occupation forces' rule.

In order to return to the civilized order of the multiverse dominated by the public safety system, a number of economic recovery policies led by The Night Konzern and the 'Ye Enterprise Group' have re-divided interests and promoted rapid economic growth. The gap between the rich and the poor in Earth 0791 has further widened.

After the defeat of the war, the old tycoon TAKAMAGAHARA Corporation and Takamagahara Corporation were forced to go bankrupt and liquidated, split and reorganized. The loss of technology and weapons caused by the unemployment of company employees caused the crime rate in slums to surge rapidly.

The local extremist armed forces that advocated the use of force to overthrow the rule of Ye's company quickly rose up, and their strength quickly exceeded that of the plane security forces that had lost their deterrence due to excessive losses in the war, thus causing serious social unrest.

In view of this, in order to prevent the turmoil of Earth 0791 from brewing a new chain of hatred, balance and restrict the power of vested interests of the victors of the war, and prevent the situation from getting further out of control and triggering a new multiverse corporate war.

With the special approval of the Earth 0 Public Safety Committee, it was decided to establish a special maneuver that is limited to the Earth 0791 plane, retains independent authority and battlefield command rights, is equipped with reinforced armor suits, battlefield drones and heavy weapons, and is authorized to use fifth-level military technology. The police force is directly under the command of the 0791 Public Security Bureau, and the force code is CERBERUS.

This was probably twenty years ago.

…

The young man wore his newly shaved head and walked through the corridor of the filthy Pigeon Tower apartment. He stepped over the bankrupts, drug addicts, and homeless people lying on the floor. He also walked past those who wore holographic glasses and watched illegal Mewtwo. The cybermaniac, who was hugging the vending machine and trying to push cheap alcoholic drinks out, walked to the door of the elevator room on the 45th floor. The control panel was removed, so he had to go over and look at the surveillance camera.

Yellow yellow red blue yellow yellow red blue yellow.

Neon lights flickered on the irises, and then the smooth electronic sound of the public safety system sounded in the young man's ears after being interpreted by the chip implanted in his skull. At the same time, the flashing blue electronic light projected on the surface like floaters. On his retina.

"Citizen Li Pan, the cash in the account is 1147.95, and the current loan repayment is 3379.38. The total liabilities are 25XXXX.XX.

Your next debt will be due for settlement on the 15th of this month. Please keep your account with sufficient balance.

Your mental deviation value exceeds the system median by 15 percentage points. Please visit a qualified mental health counselor as soon as possible, issue a valid mental health certificate, and upload a security system update backup.

Thank you for using Public Safety Systems and I wish you the best. "

After completing the iris scan and confirming the identity of the tenant, the elevator door slowly opened.

"Made, the mental evaluation has been installed in the apartment subnet, so we should repair the door..."

Li Pan was so impatient that he pulled his collar and carefully squeezed into the elevator. Facing the dirty glass window covered with graffiti and stains, he arranged his rented cheap formal clothes. While straightening his tie, he raised his neck and cast his gaze across The pigeon cages in the slums were scattered and fell towards the huge alloy jungle that stood between the sea and the sky in the far distance, like a saber thrust into the clouds, the artificial island of Night City.

Yes, Night City, but it is not the Night City of 2077, but a huge urban area in a parallel universe called Earth 0791. The geographical location is not even in North America, but stands in the old city that was sunk by volcanic eruptions and nuclear wars. In the central area of ​​the archipelago, the ruins of the Thirteenth New Tokyo Metropolitan Area have gone through several times of destruction, reconstruction, destruction, reconstruction, and destruction.

Decades ago, the chaebol 'Takamagahara Shoji' that ruled the 13th New Tokyo was dismembered by wolves as a symbol. The corporate war came to an end, and the new owner of Earth 0791 was replaced by the 'Yashi' corporate group. So this A new night city rises from the remains of the largest city on Earth 0791, sucking the blood and carrion of the defeated.

And Li Pan, a time traveler with no system, no background, no superpowers, and an average figure, appearance, and IQ, traveled from the ordinary earth and was reborn into a world where the level of technology and the gap between rich and poor are far beyond the former. , it is naturally difficult to get ahead.

But no matter what, Li Pan's cards are not bad yet, at least now he is not like the homeless people at the door, addicted to the dream weaved by alcohol, drugs and illegal online games. Instead, he persisted in struggling in the quagmire of this cruel reality. He relied on the interest-free loan from the War Orphans Grant and worked illegally. He completed his studies at the Military Engineering College with difficulty, successfully graduated, registered as a reserve engineer, and had an implanted II in his brain. level civilian chip, and obtained a legal citizenship that can access the public network.

Of course, this is just the minimum ticket to enter normal social life.

Looking at the account just now, we can see that after graduation, Li Pan will have to be self-reliant and repay the interest-free loan of 200,000 for the orphan pension. He must find a way to make a living in Night City, where the unemployment rate is as high as 45%. Otherwise, what awaits him is that his credit card is maxed out, and he cannot even return to the door of the apartment in the slums. He will have to live a miserable life on the street, collecting relief funds and begging, relying on relief funds and picking up garbage.

"Sorry! Sorry! Wait a minute, wait for me!"

Hearing the woman's urgent cry, Li Pan subconsciously stretched out his left hand and stopped the monster's steel giant mouth from closing the elevator door like a click.

What slipped in through the crack in the door was a mature woman with beautiful orange-red hair tied into a ponytail. It could be seen that if she were ten years younger, she would be a rare beauty. Even though she now has heavy bags under her eyes and her hair is a bit messy, it is obvious that She was in a hurry to go out and didn't have time to put on makeup, so she looked even more tired, but she could still get a glimpse of her old charm.

Li Pan saw that her face looked familiar, and he saw the doctor's light green uniform.

"You live on this floor too? NCHC Medical Health Center?"

"Thank you, thank you! You are Li Ba. You can hardly recognize me after shaving your head. I am Cheng Zi."

Li Pan remembered,

"Oh, you are Yamato's mother, I heard you always work the night shift."

Li Pan recognized this woman. Her son Huang Dahe often played basketball with her in the open parking lot. That boy was much smarter than Li Pan. It was said that he was admitted to a private college directly under Ye's company and received a scholarship from a slum. The genius is a question writer. After he graduates, he will be a serious company dog ​​directly under the Ye family, with a promising future.

Cheng Zi smiled bitterly and pointed to the emergency news in the elevator.

"Yeah, emergency overtime, the three-headed dog and Akainu are fighting again. I heard that a seven-level super-gravity ray cannon was used, and half the block was bombed into rubble."

Only then did Li Pan notice that because the speakers in the elevator were broken, and the projection screen flashed scenes of bloody and explosive gun battles, he thought it was another advertisement for a bad plasma movie.

Since the end of the corporate war, the old king of this world, the chaebol Takamagahara, was forced to go bankrupt and reorganize. Naturally, the security department of the old company and the mercenaries and gangster groups under the chaebol were unwilling to fail. They were reduced from rulers to the bottom, so a large number of company remnants joined the underworld. , some of the radicals formed the extremist organization 'Akai Tengu', also commonly known as Akainu, trying to use force to expel outsiders from the other world, the Ye Group.

Faced with the annoying harassment from local gangs and criminal terrorists, Ye's company decisively chose to call the police.

Why, they are a legal monopoly businessman, and Gao Tianyuan's legacy was won with integrity.

Therefore, under the arbitration of the Earth 0 Public Safety Committee, the Public Security System Branch 0791 was authorized to form an independent armed force, the mobile police force CERBERUS three-headed dogs, specifically responsible for brutally suppressing these ignorant wild dogs.

Naturally, Akainu is not a vegetarian, so the bloody dog ​​fights that have continued and escalated over the years have become the daily highlight of Night City.

Looking at the long death list on the news, Li Pan couldn't help but be speechless.

"It's so miserable. Wow, 453 taxpayers with social security information have been killed or injured. Good guys, the prize pool of the Dead Man Lotto is about to double again. Oh, I mean you are very busy now. …”

"Oh, isn't it? The chips are probably melted on the floor. They probably have to be shoveled down with a shovel before they can be recovered. This will have to be cleaned up until tomorrow..."

In fact, NCHC, Night City Medical Center, this so-called public medical system, is more appropriately described as a morgue. After all, since the corporate war, 0791's financial system has collapsed, and the medical insurance account has long been bankrupt. If you get sick, you can only rely on various expensive aristocratic hospitals and private medical insurance. Or there are unreliable underground black market clinics, and NCHC is only responsible for collecting corpses and washing the ground.

"By the way, Orange, can your NCHC still do mood assessments? I've been looking for a job recently, and my mental health certificate needs to be updated."

When Chengzi heard that the short-haired young man with a fierce look in front of him actually wanted to undergo regular psychological evaluation, he couldn't help but be stunned and subconsciously took a step back.

Li Pan didn't care. After all, this was a normal reaction to hearing that someone around him had the potential for cyberpsychosis. He calmly rolled up the sleeves of his plaid shirt and showed his left arm to her.

"It broke while doing illegal work in the garbage dump. The boss still had some sense of conscience. Although he didn't pay me my salary and fired me, he compensated me for the prosthetic limbs that were removed from the body of a disabled veteran.

It's illegal. If you don't have a registration number, you can't connect to a secure network, so you have to update it manually. "

Orange looked at the metal-colored prosthesis, which was stained with rust. He knew that it was not a high-end military insert. It was probably just junk that had been dismantled from the garbage dump. It might just be the lowest level of technology, an auxiliary prosthetic for the disabled, and the other party probably didn't do it either. He would twist her head off, so he felt relieved and said to Li Pan,

"As long as the prosthesis is implanted, immunosuppressants will be used to some extent, not to mention that if it is not a specially customized part, there will definitely be a rejection reaction. If possible, you can try injecting hibernation mixture, which can stabilize the mental deviation value in a short period of time.

In addition, I advise you not to use the NCHC public medical health consultation service. You will have to wait in line for five years. I will give you a private communication link. It is a friend of mine. They have recently opened a mental health maintenance service. If you want to If you want to get a certificate, go to them. The price is quite reasonable, and you know, they can issue a certificate for you regardless of whether you are sick or not. "

"Oh, thank you! It helped a lot!"

After exchanging contact information with Chengzi and adding friends, the elevator creaked all the way from the 48th floor to the first floor. The two of them had difficulty opening the elevator door and squeezing out. Because Li Pan's interview was in the city, Cheng Zi drove him to the subway station to say goodbye.

"The executives of Night Company are all vampires! Yes! Real vampires! I'm not trying to scare you! Their prosthetics are genetically coordinated biochemicals! Level 6 technology! These bastards call themselves vampires! They live forever by sucking human blood. Stay young!! Do you know how many street girls in Zhongcheng have disappeared? Buy some silver bullets, you idiots!"

Even if Li Pan walked past the subway entrance with a blank expression, holding a sign and shouting, he could not be called a lunatic. After all, he was telling the truth. Companies in this world are not organizations with hundreds or thousands of people. A more appropriate name should be called the super-capitalist conglomerate conglomerate that monopolizes the infinite heavens across the multiverse.

They, the company, use their huge capital to monopolize all the resources of several, dozens, or even hundreds of parallel universes and earths, the real overlords of these infinite heavens.

There is not just one such overlord, there are many. Earth 0791 once belonged to a chaebol named Takamagahara. It's just one of the countless assets in the hands of big chaebols.

Of course, it is obvious that in order to compete for profits, wars will also break out between corporate chaebols. Gao Tianyuan was defeated in the last war and went bankrupt and reorganized. Therefore, the assets of Earth 0791 were divided among the Night Company in other planes.

So yes, the executives of Night Company are indeed devils from another world, vampires. In the universe where their base camp is located, these people are some kind of biochemical people who have been transformed into vampires, vampires.

Now that the Night Company has come to Earth 0791, there are still so many unfriendly wild dogs in the local area, barking and trying to tear their throats apart. The executives of the Night Company naturally also brought vampire prosthetic technology, using familiar The enhanced human prosthetic body comes to protect yourself.

However, these gossips will not be reported by the NCHK Night City Broadcasting Association. If you want to listen, you can only hear it from the mouths of homeless people on the streets, and most of them are sent by the gang organizations affiliated with the Red Tengu.

And these Akainu, remnants of the old generation, made no secret of the fact that they were remnants of Takamagahara, samurai retainers loyal to their masters, and dogs of the chaebol. He constantly incites riots among the poor at the lower levels, and frequently launches attacks against the Night Company.

Even the legendary cyberpunk mercenaries will not participate in this kind of struggle between large companies. It is purely an act of seeking death.

"Hey, yellow-skinned monkey! What size are your shoes, eh! What are you looking at!"

"Look at you!"

"Grass Mud Horse Yellow Skin Monkey, you are looking for death..."

"boom!"

"Ah! He killed Charles!"

"Ah! Cyberpsychosis!"

"Ah! My formal attire!"

With a flick of his hand, he smashed the idiot who was high and was looking for trouble, scared away a group of gangsters who took drugs and had sex, and emptied a carriage. Li Pan found a clean place to sit down, and wiped the blood spattered on his sleeves. Call Orange to introduce him to the 'Private Mental Health System'.

"Wai, what's the matter?"

The young man's voice came from the opposite side, and there was no avatar projection. He was probably using an identity disguise. He was probably not a legitimate guy, but it didn't matter.

"Is it the Mental Health Consulting Service Company under the Oak Tree? I was introduced by Cheng Zi. You can issue a mental health certificate, right?"

"Hey, no problem, no bargaining for five hundred yuan a month."

This price is fair. Li Pan asked a few companies himself, and a more ruthless person could kill you for three thousand, but...

"Can I really pass the security system certification? I'm looking for a job."

"Okay, okay, just use your credit card. I guarantee you'll be as smooth as having diarrhea."

Oh, can the other party not accept cash and postpone the payment until next month? Li Pan thinks it is acceptable. After all, if he really cheated him, he will not be able to get the money back next month.

Although it is very dangerous to use this kind of private link to identify the mental state, the other party may be some low-level electronic hacker. The crime of stealing a citizen's ID is a minor one. If you take the opportunity to load a golem, leave a backdoor, or burn it directly. It's possible that your account is hacked.

But Li Pan is not afraid. He feels at ease when he is poor. This is the so-called price of poverty. There is no choice. After all, he could find the school doctor to be accommodating in the past, but now that he has graduated and the old channels can no longer be used, he really needs to find a stable partner to provide regular mental certification. Otherwise, in theory, he can only remove the prosthetic limb and wait for his mental stability.

Oh, can a disabled person be mentally stable in the City of Night?

"Okay, come in."

"Oh, a few K's."

So thirty seconds later, Li Pan received the updated confirmation of the mental evaluation report from the public system.

blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue

Damn it, these handfuls are as smooth as diarrhea.

There is zero fluctuation in the mental evaluation. In the eyes of the public security system, the only person who can be more emotionally stable than him is a vegetative person.