Newport City, the story world of Ghost in the Shell, is a highly prosperous East Asian city.

Compared with arriving from a busy airport, you can only get a quick glimpse in the air. If a visitor approaches from the sea, he will be immediately shocked by the steel jungle full of skyscrapers, dazzling street neon lights, and colorful signboards with Chinese characters.

However, when you go deep into the neighborhood and see with your own eyes, behind the shiny skyscrapers, there are narrow back streets filled with nauseating electronic light, piled with prosthetic garbage, damp and depressing, like ugly scars, and the people who survive in them are like

Human beings have become an incurable acne in this city, which will bring about another deeper and subversive impact.

The old dwellings are surrounded by colorful advertising signs; the narrow alleyways covered by skyscrapers can only look up to the last ray of sky. Living people who have long been castrated by life are walking buried in the filth, their eyes are dull, their bodies are numb, and they completely ignore the revealing clothes in the windows.

The posing robot sex doll.

Slums are often the red light district, which is what most people remember as Newport City.

However, when ae86 dragged two long wheel tracks and drove into Xingang City through time and space, Wu Chen was shocked by what he saw.

This is the ruins of a destroyed city.

There are ruins of skyscrapers with broken sides and riddled with holes everywhere. The remaining parts are still relatively intact, and the dead bodies are piled up like mountains. Many can't escape, and the corpses hanging in the windows hug each other, spreading to the ground, and blending into a larger pile of corpses.

.Without exception, these corpses had received varying degrees of competition during their lifetimes.

Bo transformation. Then collective death, like melted candles, countless corpses merged into one. Exposed wires, nerve bundles, subcutaneous tissue, bionic organs, polymer materials, were stewed into a pot of porridge. It was also like a solidified magma belt, once upon a time

Along the narrow back street, it flows freely and engulfs everything.

The in-vehicle brain quickly scanned the surroundings and found that among the melted corpses everywhere, not a single one was intact. All of them were torn and bruised, with hideous faces and half corpses in different postures, as if the lower body was trapped in magma, and the living dead struggling desperately were frozen in death.

At that moment, it seemed that the dead in the entire city were fused together. Upstairs, downstairs, and on the streets, there were fused corpses everywhere.

Eyes full of corpses.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of roasted electronic copies and burnt human flesh. "Master, the remains are connected to each other to form a huge prosthetic circuit. Because the prosthetic body is still charged, the human tissue attached to it has not decayed.

Instead, it turned into dried meat.”

Looking around the melted and then solidified city through the holographic window, Wu Chen was extremely shocked: "You are saying that these remaining prosthetic bodies derived from human remains have merged with each other to form a giant... circuit."

"That's right, Master." The in-vehicle brain suddenly enlarged the screen.

At the center of the cross street, a faint light shone through the gap between a large pile of corpses. Soon, a prosthetic eye emerged from the depths of the corpse pile. Following closely, there were countless prosthetic eyes, like hermit crabs looking for food.

A group of corpses emerged from the pile of corpses like a tide and spread out in all directions.

"Oh my god..." It seems that the brain is also infected by trypophobia: "Human beings have died, but they are still 'alive'."

As the owners of prosthetic eyes, human beings are like plastic models that melt at high temperatures. After cooling, they merge with each other and are doomed to die. However, the prosthetic bodies they carry are still stubbornly on standby. For example, prosthetic eyes, prosthetic hands, etc. are relatively flexible.

The organs can actually leave the broken body and... look for food on their own?

The strange situation made Wu Chen's scalp numb and his bones felt extremely cold.

The brain has named the fused prosthetic remains: "Cyborg complexes (plexes)".

What's even more terrifying is that the remains of the prosthetic body are still charged. The prosthetic body remains are fused together to form a circuit, covering the entire city.

"Master, complete the commission as soon as possible." Enter the shooting location designated by the client into the navigation, and the brain will fuzzy calculate the best plan.

"Act." Wu Chen ordered.

"Yes!" The four female warriors quickly got out of the car, opened the smart trailer at the rear of the car, and took off the transformed motorcycle.

"Armored maneuver." Wu Chen ordered again.

"clear."

Armored mobility is an armored form between armored riding and armored flying. The female warrior wears armor and rides on the rear wheels, driving upright. Similar to a unicycle, it can maneuver quickly on the road. The front wheels detach themselves and become

A wheeled unmanned vehicle is formed to carry out investigation first.

The armored mobile form takes into account both movement and combat. It is called "Arcee Roller Skating" by Zhi Nao. It is the common posture used by the three Arcee sisters in battle.

Four female armored warriors guard ae86 from the front, rear, left, and right, carefully avoiding the cyborg complexes all over the street, and quickly maneuver toward the entrusted destination.

The four wheeled unmanned vehicles that set out first have sent back the terrain along the way in real time and stored it in the newly created data entry of AIAI for big data calculation.

"Master, the state of the cyborg complex is like human brain waves in deep sleep." As we go deeper into the city, our brain gains more and more.

"You mean, the giant circuit composed of cyborg complexes is like a sleeping brain?" Wu Chen understood.

"Yes, Master." Intelligent Brain explained in more depth: "Even though the prosthetic body can store and analyze digital information, it does not have 'autonomous authority'. The human user implanted in the prosthetic body must input commands before they can be passively executed.

"

Recalling what he saw along the way, Wu Chen suddenly realized: "This is the original intention of Ghost in the Shell. Connecting each other. Fusion into one."

"Connection." Zhinao understood it more deeply than Wu Chen: "It's like the insertion of bodies between humans, ultimately for the connection of souls."

"Very impressive." Wu Chen had no way to refute.

"Therefore, the way human beings reproduce is destined to desire deep connections with each other from the beginning of their birth." The divergent thinking of the intelligent brain seems out of place. Or it may have a deeper meaning.

"The description is very vivid." Wu Chen smiled knowingly, and by the way, the hellish experience in front of him was slightly relieved.

"Master, following the 'Cyborg Complex Belt', there are very weak light signal pulses. It's like slowly flowing 'digital blood'." The intelligent brain locally amplifies the energy structure in the complex belt. Which strips are buried

Within the complex body, the intertwined data fibers transport pulse signals slowly and slightly. It is like the blood vessels covering the entire city, still working weakly.

"This is a city of living zombies." Wu Chen understood: "All human corpses, mechanical creations, intelligent terminals, and even the ruins of skyscrapers, together form a cyber zombie city. Or it can be said to be an 'urban living zombie'. The entire city

The city turned into a giant cyber zombie. In this way..."

"What to do?" Zhinao has always liked the conversation with Wu Chen.

"Fight against death or continue memory." After saying these words, Wu Chen's heart was inevitably touched.

"You're trying your best not to be forgotten, right?" Zhinao understood.

"Yes." Wu Chen nodded lightly.

Driving out of an underpass tunnel, my vision suddenly opened up. In the circular stadium surrounded by skyscrapers, the target was quietly crawling on the collapsed pillars. A faint light was swimming in the half-open and half-closed prosthetic eyes.

However, Wu Chen didn't know how to describe what he saw from the front window of ae86.

I racked my brains and couldn't even name it.

Because Wu Chen never lacked imagination, he couldn't find any memory related to it.
Chapter completed!