Chapter 141 A Song of Ice and Fire?
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"I don’t want to be a legend. Sorry, but I have to refuse. I need to find a few people first and settle some scores!"
"Oh? You stubborn girl, you’ve got quite a fighting spirit, haven’t you!"
"How about this!" Lucas paced for a few steps. "I’ll give you a reward, and you help me do something. How about it?"
The famous V would never refuse a little petty profit.
"What reward?" V asked warily. "Can you bring my dead companions back to life?"
"Child, I am your savior, but I am not your God. Go to a temple if you want to make a wish! Or go to the streets and find those unreliable monks!" Lucas shook his head.
This kid, how infuriating!
"I’m not interested in money."
"But you need to survive. Do you think you have a choice?"
Lucas said, "Let me summarize it simply. The chip in your head contains a complete personality. It’s a small experiment by Saburo Arasaka... Speaking of which..."
"V, can I ask you something?" V frowned, signaling for Lucas to continue.
"Are you an idiot?"
V: "???"
I haven’t even been cursing you out again!
"Stop stuffing everything into your brain, alright? You look exactly like those idiots who find braindances on the side of the road and just shove them into their heads to read!" Lucas said.
V’s face darkened.
What could she do? The chip’s integrity was fading, and this thing was a matter of life and death for her and Jackie.
"In short, the personality stored on that chip will sooner or later occupy your brain. It’s only a matter of time before it pushes your consciousness out of this body."
"In other words, your soul has already entered a countdown."
V’s pupils constricted sharply.
"You can choose not to believe me, but you will soon feel the pain. There are only a few places in the world that can treat you, but you might not be able to afford the price!"
"But I can!"
"My power has already exceeded your understanding!"
Lucas’s tone was extremely confident.
Super-speed Healing, child!
He curled his finger; Johnny Silverhand was not a problem at all.
"In my world, there are many highly technologically advanced civilizations. Not only can they strengthen your cyberware and grant you power far beyond this world, but they can also extract that personality separately..."
"Don’t you want to climb to the top of this city?"
"You’re a Corpo, aren’t you, V? Street rats don’t look as refined as you! Although, you still have that stench of synthetic meat on you!"
V said nothing, her gaze looking as if she were staring at an idiot.
"I want you to help me rule this world, and all you need to pay is to offer your loyalty!"
"Do we have a deal, V?"
Lucas didn’t care what V was thinking.
V was very arrogant right now, but she would sooner or later give up everything to find a way to cure herself.
V stared at him intently, then suddenly scoffed.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" She retorted unceremoniously. "Which rogue AI escaped from behind the Blackwall are you? Spouting nonsense and selling pipe dreams, huh?"
"I used to be a Corpo, holding plenty of leverage in my hands. If I wanted to join an elite group, do you think other corporations wouldn’t come to poach me?"
"Go f*** yourself! I’ve had enough of your empty promises!"
Lucas was in no rush.
He wasn’t a person who held grudges; V had cursed him 33 times with her little mouth, using 45 swear words. He would settle the score based on the letter count later.
"Don’t believe me, huh? Then let me open your eyes!"
Lucas grabbed V, flashed away, and returned to the side of that trash mountain.
He fired a blast of Omega Beams at the miles-long landfill.
"BOOM!!"
Wherever that beam swept, the massive mountain of trash, along with the land beneath it, was instantly vaporized and leveled.
When the dust settled, only a bottomless, massive crater remained where the hill had once been.
V stared blankly at the crater and swallowed hard.
"Bark? Bark again!!"
"Dare to bark again?"
"Speak!"
Lucas hooked V’s chin and pinched the female V’s cheek!
The female V looked stunned.
That kind of power... it had completely exceeded her cognition.
What kind of cyberware could shoot energy beams of this level from one’s eyeballs?
And what kind of body could withstand cyberware of this level without suffering from cyberpsychosis?
Lucas threw V onto the ground and looked down at her from above.
"If you want to live, you have no choice but to believe me."
"Go on, climb to the highest position in this city. You should still have enough time. Let’s meet at the peak!"
"If you can’t do it, then let your broken body turn into raging fire!"
"A nobody, or famous throughout the world?"
Lucas released a few vials of green serum from his fingertips.
"The reward is advanced. Go take control of Arasaka and those other big corporations. I will return to reap the harvest. By then, I hope you can satisfy me!"
As his voice fell, Lucas’s figure vanished.
He had been dragged away by System again.
V sat blankly on the ground, looking at the massive crater before her, and then at the vials by her feet. In a daze, she had the illusion of having had a dream.
...
Lucas stepped into the spacetime turbulence once again.
[System Prompt: To avoid detection by higher-dimensional deities, the Host must reside in other worlds.]
[During this period, you need to conquer minor worlds and accumulate enough energy to restart the shuttle, return to the original world, or continue collecting weapon modules.]
Lucas raised an eyebrow. "What about my two lairs? The Boys universe and the invincible universe, are they still in time-stop?"
[For any world where the Conquest progress is over half, the Host can freely control its time flow.]
Two lines of data appeared on the light screen.
[The Boys Universe]
[Strategy Progress: 67%]
[Conquest Progress: 72%]
...
[invincible Universe]
[Strategy Progress: 52%]
[Conquest Progress: 52%]
...
Lucas nodded. "Then that’s no problem!"
Before he finished speaking, he was thrown by the turbulence into a brand-new world.
This world looked like the medieval era.
The city walls were mottled, the dirt roads were incredibly muddy, and there was even feces on the road.
Holy crap!
Is there no public morality, pooping on the road?
If you need to take a dump, go to the latrine!
The moment Lucas arrived, he keenly sensed several obscure wills anxiously probing him, seemingly analyzing who this uninvited guest was a follower of.
I’m your daddy!
Lucas gestured with a middle finger toward the void.
He sensed that will in the extreme north, so he chased after it first.
Lucas’s super-vision instantly spanned the void, precisely locking onto that bitterly cold and desolate land in the far north of the continent.
At the end of the north, a wall towering into the clouds stood tall, built from millennial ice and giant stones, standing majestically for thousands of years.
On top of the wall, several figures draped in black cloaks were struggling to patrol in the wind and snow.
Lucas recognized them at a glance.
The Night’s Watch.
That’s the flavor!
This is the world of A Song of Ice and Fire.
He swept with his super-vision. On the road north, Jon Snow was traveling through wind and rain, heading toward the Night’s Watch, assuming Snow hadn’t joined the Night’s Watch yet.
Then the dragon eggs hadn’t hatched yet!
Good opportunity!
He’d just get a few dragons out and enjoy the experience of riding a dragon himself.
Wonder what kind of evolutionary path there would be if he injected a dragon with Compound V.
Too bad it’s not anime, otherwise evolving into a dragon-kin or a dragon-girl maid would be quite fun!