MTL - The Witch of the Cyberpunk Era-Chapter 9 blood fire

Xu Yang slowly recalled the history, and the **** past between the witch and the company came to mind.

"There have been three wars between the company and the witch," Xu Yang said. "The history before these three wars has been sealed. I don't know what happened before."

"That is, there is a gap. After I was in a coma and before the war, no one knows this part of history."

"Yes, our history book starts with the Industrial Revolution, and it was written in one stroke before, summed up as 'the age of magic and the activity of ancient creatures'. The so-called industrial revolution is a huge technological progress. With the development of science, Major companies have emerged one after another, and areas such as Xintaixizhou, Tequila, and Hepingzhou have also been discovered.”

"What is that?"

"A large area of ​​land, before the development of shipbuilding, those areas were blocked by the ocean."

"The sea? It's scary. The noble gods come from the sea."

"It is said that the witches at that time did have a kind of reverence for the sea, so only human beings can muster the courage to travel across the ocean, emigrate in large numbers, and obtain resources from the New World. The company was the first to trade spices, capture and sell slaves on the uncivilized continent. Gradually, The company's economy is prosperous, technology is becoming more and more developed, and the technical level is higher."

"Relying on 'technology' to change the face of the world... Most of the things I see when I open my eyes are so strange, I have never seen them before."

"That's it. Now that the technology has advanced, the company has the confidence to compete with the witch for sphere of influence. Conflicts of various scales continue to break out. At that time, the witch council was still very powerful, and the world was divided into two areas. Most of them were reviewed by the witch. It will be controlled, and a few are landed across oceans by emerging companies. Some people live in the shadow of the Witch Council, and some simply flee to a distant place to seek protection from the company.”

Speaking of this, Xu Yang couldn't help but walk out, looking at the darkness outside the shuttle.

After the quarry was destroyed by electromagnetic shock waves, there was no light everywhere, nothing could be seen, and nothing else could be seen to investigate, as if this deep underground pit had been completely forgotten.

"what are you worried about?"

"Chase, but they don't look like they're here yet."

"Go on," Farosa pressed, "Go on."

"The result of a series of competitions is the outbreak of the Witch War. In the first war, the company used ironclad ships and artillery, and in the second time, it used armored vehicles and aircraft carriers, which are the most exotic weapons of war, but none of them can defeat the witch. ."

"Because the council can change reality," Farosa said, "there's always one or two seats reserved on the council, which are given to reality manipulators."

"Yes, with the failure of the two wars, the company realized that it must nurture its own witches to win. As the victors of the two wars, the witches' revenge directly killed nearly one billion people, slaughtered their heads, almost Half of humanity was wiped from the earth."

"It sounds like humans are too weak."

"Weak, beaten, reflective, and then comes the turning point. The witch's slaughter led to an unprecedented wave of revanchism, and people gathered under the leadership of the extremist leader Gillen Secco. Gillen was first a speculator, then a big one. Loved by some people, he first defeated the opponents in the civil war, and then took the initiative to take the lead, semi-forced to let the companies abandon their former hatreds, and finally formed a company alliance."

"The company also has witches."

"And the use of witches is more effective. Farosa, a witch who can promote the rapid growth of plants, can only be a royal gardener under the council, but in the hands of the company, she has become a good helper for agricultural progress. After a few days The work of breeding and selection can be completed within a year, and high-quality and high-yield crops that can feed tens of millions of people can be cultivated. There are many similar examples.”

"At our time, witches who like to help humans were very useless."

"So your time has passed. Before the Third Witch War, on the one hand, Gillen tried to attract those witches who were not welcome in the council. On the other hand, Gillen carefully educates and controls the witches born in his own territory, so that when they grow up, they are more identified with the company here, rather than the council on the other side of the sea."

"How can the council sit still?"

"With the invention of electricity and the Internet, the company's strength has become stronger and stronger. Of course, they did not sit idly by and thought of many means to limit the company's development. They not only used force to blackmail, but also used magic to destroy many of the company's technological achievements, constantly attacking and plundering. Lun also gave in everything, even disbanding most of the army, sinking many fleets, showing his harmless side in exchange for a moment of respite, and then... Gillen concentrated the power of major companies and secretly cultivated a reality manipulation of their own. The author, Eve Anark, is perhaps the most gifted reality-altering talent ever, and is said to be able to speak his mind."

"She serves the company like that?"

"Under Gillen's idea, a control chip was inserted into her head. This is the original application of human augmentation technology." Xu Yang raised his right hand and showed Farosa the scorched metal marks on it.

"You too…"

"All implants are derived from this earliest control chip. It is better to call it human control technology than human enhancement technology."

"and then?"

"Giron pretended to negotiate with the witches in exchange for a long-term peace, so he held a world conference and gathered many outstanding witches and company representatives. On that day, under the coercion of Gillen, Eve said something that changed the course of history. : 'All witches lose their magic', and then the company slaughtered all the witches who showed up at the meeting, and they were powerless to fight back."

"…"

"Finding that the killing was so easy, the company marched smoothly, searching everywhere, slaughtering and cleaning a large number of witches. The third witch war broke out suddenly, and soon came to an end, without encountering any decent resistance."

"…"

"There are no witches left in many lands, all of them were killed, and no witches survived. People's anger was vented like this. Countless witches were lynched, murdered and executed by the most cruel means. The slaves also rose up in succession, took revenge on the witch slave owner, and completely vented their grievances by the most insane means. Even the witches who were usually kind to people were killed in the tide of hunting witches. However, the magic power of reality manipulators also has When it dissipated, 14 days later, the witches' magic was all back, but by then they had already suffered the heaviest massacre, systematic extermination."

"…"

"That's it, this is what happened in the three wars, and since then the company has started mass surveillance, brainwashing, and control of witches, forcing them to serve themselves, and the company has grown by leaps and bounds in the century after the war! Until now. That's how the world is. From the era of witches to the era of the company. And about the previous history, no matter how high-level the archives are unclear, your era has become fragments and delusions in the records, and no one knows."

"If I see that Eve Anark, I'm going to kill her."

"She died a long time ago and suffered for 140 years. After that, she didn't say a word, and was asked by Gillen to spend the rest of her life in an airtight biological cabin."

"Deserving it... What does the current 'witch' look like in your eyes?"

"It's hard to say. They have their own abilities, work for the company, and are more constrained than humans. But I've never heard of the 'miracle' you just performed, not even during the Witch Wars' Miracle'."

"Miracle is the power that God has given us, and it is actually one of the two important weapons of witches. It turns out that, if the current witch cannot use miracles, it means that God no longer favors witches, ah, this is also the reason for everyone's failure, if God Humans can really reverse dominance without help. Oh, the great gods I worship should have devoured humans the moment they touched the sea."

"God? I heard that there were indeed many churches scattered around the world, but in the previous Witch Wars, the company planned to demolish them, and now there is not a single one left."

"This way of cutting grass and rooting..." Farosa said coldly, "Do you know that the power of witches comes from God?"

"I seem to have heard that there were countless powerful witches in ancient times, and they were even worshipped as gods."

"Yes, but that's just the vain imagination of human beings. The real God, whose power is unassailable. Including the company you're talking about now, everything can't exceed God's arrangement... God told me so. The strong among us, The authoritarian 'Witch Council' used to think that gathering the most powerful witches would be able to give orders, but now they have encountered such a shameful thing. Hey, I am really relieved that their demise. But this is only temporary, God has left , so people can take advantage of the emptiness to enter, if the gods can return, all tricks will be invisible."

"Since entering the company era, there are not many witches who can reach the power of the previous era, and they are all under the monitoring of the company alliance."

"I should have lost the source of my power," Farosa whispered. "Without the church, I can't ask God for help and get back my lost power."

Looking at her hands, Xu Yang knew that she was in a low mood because she could no longer use her powerful magic.

"A bigger change is yet to come - as I said, most modern witches work in companies."

"You've been talking about companies, companies, what exactly is a company?"

"The so-called company refers to the huge groups that control the world, and this shuttle is also a company product."

"I don't understand."

How long does it take to make her understand the various principles of modern society? Xu Yang felt helpless.

"I want to turn you into a modern witch." Xu Yang said.

"what?"

"It means that it can keep up with the times, do you want to hear it?"

"you say."

"A company is an organization that conducts business activities. This organization is getting bigger and bigger and more terrifying to us. The company controls everyone's time, defines everyone's value, and provides everyone with a home to live in. , In the workplace, this was originally good, but gradually, your existence is no longer something you can decide by yourself. You have become a cell of the giant monster of the company, and the life and death of a cell has an impact on the entire monster itself. It's meaningless. With that, you don't know what's the use of living, or you're only useful when you work for the company, and once you leave the company, you can't live."

"In short, people are no longer people."

"Yes, this is the problem. You learn quickly. People gradually forget their own pursuits and regard the company's mission as the highest meaning."

"The witch who works in the company is no longer a witch?"

"Their situation is the same as that of human beings, and in some senses is worse than human beings. Since fertility is under general monitoring, once a witch is born or shows her power, it will be detected by the company, and will be quickly recycled and distributed by various companies. Powerful companies have the most witches. We humans still have the opportunity to leave the company and go to work in the company when we are adults. The witches are linked to the company from birth to death. The company fears that they will get out of control, and the control of them is a hundred times stronger than that of humans. "

"Disgusting world," Farosa said. "Oh, wouldn't the 'Company' hunt and kill Witch Babies in large numbers? I'd do it if I were to kill them all and chop them up as soon as they appeared. Fragments."

"Why is your thinking so extreme, collecting babies or something..."

"I just said it casually." Farosa showed a cute smile.

"...There are also specific reasons. First of all, in the previous Witch War, many witches were born on the side of the company and served the company. After the three wars, they continued to rise due to the problem of standing in line, occupying the decision-making level in some companies, and now there are also some giant enterprises. Entrepreneurs run by witches, such as the Scarlet Transformation Company in the Sunset area, are now managed by a witch who has a PhD in biological sciences, specializing in how to develop implants that torture employees, insert them into your body, and monitor your thoughts at this time. Whether it is to serve the company or to be distracted.”

"Sounds like a badass, I like it."

"A witch with high power like her, to a certain extent, maintains the bottom line of the witch's living conditions. And even if some companies do this, other companies will secretly leave witches to enhance their power. After all, witches are special existences that can change the course of history. ."

"Okay, after hearing that I was in a coma, the fate of my compatriots is so miserable, I need time to digest it." Farosa pondered by the window.

Xu Yang could feel that the witch's so-called "miracle" temporarily suspended his life so that he would not die. But those damaged implants are still in Xu Yang's body.

Sooner or later they will continue to collapse and consume his life completely.

Must get out of here quickly and find a place where the implants can be repaired.

Xu Yang walked to the console of the shuttle and issued an order.

"Go to the exit of Aizu Underground City. If possible, stop at a prosthetic clinic at No. 26 Highland or Katagi Ward."

"Warning: The aircraft has been locked without the correct biometric verification for a long time." The artificial intelligence of the shuttle responded, "Visitors do not have the right to control the flight route of this aircraft. Please pass biometric verification or show relevant documents."

By the way, this guy is a product of Black Fire Innovation. It is impossible to control it by just listening to the company personnel and those mercenaries.

Damn! If there was a digital mind, it would have cracked this thing long ago.

It's a pity that now I'm similar to normal people without implants, and even worse. Normal people just don't have implants. I have a pile of burnt and unstable implants that will explode at some point.

The power of electromagnetic pulses...it's terrifying. Especially the products used by large enterprises can completely break through most electromagnetic protection systems, and even the guy Mateo was instantly destroyed.

Xu Yang sighed secretly.

He walked out of the cabin door and looked out. The surroundings were pitch black, and there was no light at all. The fire on Mateo's body was extinguished by itself, giving off the stench of charred machinery and artificial leather.

If you want to pass fingerprint verification, you have to find a mercenary's finger in this darkness, but that is too difficult.

Moreover, the shuttle is equipped with artificial intelligence. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is not a fixed program. It can distinguish between life and death, and the fingers of the dead will definitely not pass the verification.

"Ah..." Xu Yang walked to Bacchus' body, but couldn't look away for a long time.

"What are you doing?" Farosa came out.

"You killed a poor person." Xu Yang looked at the ink in his blood, "She has her own pursuits."

"I've killed too many people in my life, and there are still several pieces next to me." Farosa pointed to the corpses of other mercenaries who were killed in the darkness, "Why do you prefer one over the other? Why don't you care about their lives or lives."

"She calls herself 'Bacchus', a witch, your kind."

"Death is the only way for us, I just help speed it up."

"You almost died yourself."

"Isn't this saved by you? Living is everything, and living can point to the dead."

Now Farosa has found a few spare mercenary clothes to wear, and they look a bit nondescript. Those mercenary coats and camouflage pants can't cover her plump figure at all.

Still like a monster, should sleep in the coffin.

"You never thought about controlling your power?"

"I like to watch people's heads explode, is it my fault?"

"...What did I save?"

"I'm a good boy, you have done a good deed, future historians will write legends for my story, you will occupy the main space in the first few chapters." Farosa poked Bacchus' meat, "don't look at her If it becomes like this, I can save her."

"how?"

"The law of recovery in the heyday can restore things to the state they were 7 days ago." Farosa said, "that is, it can turn rotten meat back into a big living person. If you miss this guy, help me get back my strength as soon as possible. ."