Late at night, the slightly cool wind from the auxiliary plane gently blew through the huge cyberpunk city on the ninth level of Baator Hell, bringing a touch of refreshing to the bustling and noisy streets.
However, as a typical night city, there is no obvious difference between day and night here.
Because whether you are a local resident or a visitor from outside, it only takes a short time to be deeply attracted by the colorful lights that are almost light pollution, 3D projections, deafening music, and various special service places that are only open at night.
, ultimately disrupting all of his original biological clock.
Especially sleep, which is a very important way of rest in the eyes of mortals, is almost non-existent in the huge cyberpunk city.
People will use drugs, biomodification technology, electronic brains, or upload their consciousness to the online virtual world to escape this waste of time.
Only spellcasters will calm down and rest for eight hours when they need to restore their spell power, while priests will pray to the gods they serve at specific times to obtain magical spells.
Yes, you are not mistaken.
Due to the widespread application of extremely advanced genetic technology, neurotechnology, artificial limbs and internal organ technology, people here no longer regard sleep as a necessity in daily life, but instead regard it as a burden that reduces the quality of life.
As for the potential damage that not sleeping can cause to your body and even your brain…
Sorry, no one cares about it long ago.
After all, in this world of magic and divine arts, it only takes a few gold coins to completely repair it in a few minutes or even seconds.
Can't afford the high price of magic?
It doesn't matter!
There are also relatively cheap industrial assembly line products available.
Anyway, body parts and other things can be replaced with new ones if they are broken, even the brain, which is the carrier of consciousness, is no exception.
As long as a small part of the sleep time saved is used to work and earn money, it will definitely be more than enough to pay for the replacement of body parts and reconstructive surgery.
Therefore, on the streets of huge cyberpunk cities, the most common ones are various body modifications and prosthetics.
Among them, there are ordinary people who have to install it out of functional needs in life, and there are also mercenaries, adventurers, and gang members who install combat modules simply to increase their strength and combat effectiveness.
Some of the more extreme and crazy ones even regard the body as a symbol of fragility, mechanizing and electronicizing all parts and even the brain, achieving a certain degree of ascension.
But these people have no idea that the reason they were able to complete the complete transformation at such a cheap price was actually because their souls had been sent to the torture chamber to be squeezed into energy during the operation.
And their so-called "ascension" is actually similar to the Necron in the Warhammer universe. It is just a virtual personality formed by copied memories. Its essence is not as good as the construct golem.
At least a real elemental creature soul will be stuffed into the construct.
In addition, souls from different planes, time and space, and universes gathering here will inevitably bring their culture, habits, food, cooking methods and customs, and then collide with the locally born aboriginal people - the Baatezu devils.
The integration eventually formed many very abstract social environments and hidden rules.
Even neighboring communities feel like they span two completely different worlds.
Compared with the giant cyberpunk city, even the largest immigrant country on earth looks so united.
At least the residents living in the latter land are all humans, and there is no reproductive isolation.
But the former is a large-scale racial division based on genes alone. There are more than a million species of intelligent creatures, and many of them are unrelenting enemies.
For any ruler, this can definitely be regarded as sitting on a huge powder keg. Once conflicts are ignited, it will inevitably lead to violent turmoil, disasters, and even wars and massacres.
But the incredible thing is that there has never been any kind of riot in the huge cyberpunk city since its establishment.
On the contrary, the overt and covert fights between gangs, mercenaries, adventurers, politicians, big companies and big consortiums in the underground world have never stopped.
On several occasions, underground wars involving more than 100,000 people broke out with the acquiescence of the city hall and the lord's palace to resolve the irreconcilable conflicts between the two parties in the simplest, most direct and brutal way.
Therefore, in many cases, the succubus queen Mecanshut, who manages on behalf of Zuo Si, does not need to specifically harvest souls.
Just the daily population "loss" of this huge city is enough to maintain the operation of the entire level.
This is why only souls who have reached the ninth level do not experience tension and anxiety, and it is rare to hear of anyone being captured and thrown into a torture chamber to squeeze energy.
Because in their eyes, all those people who evaporated or disappeared are within a relatively "reasonable" range.
It's like ordinary people see a guy who eats, drinks, whores and gambles every day without having a serious job, and also borrows a large sum of money that he can't repay, and suddenly disappears one day. Under normal circumstances, they won't be surprised, let alone
Have any mood swings.
Because such a bad lifestyle is enough for everyone who knows him to understand that there is absolutely no way he will end well.
Even if one day the body is found dumped in a smelly ditch, it is reasonable.
Due to psychological expectations, people tend to treat things that originally seem very scary with a normal mind, and then gradually adapt to such a social environment.
This is also the reason why the crime and murder rates in many countries and regions remain high, but local residents can still live calmly.
Zuo Si took advantage of this ubiquitous mass psychology and established a mechanism called "entrapment" to screen out those evil enough souls.
As for those who are not depraved and evil enough, they can continue to enjoy life until their desires continue to grow and they cannot withstand the temptation and start trying those things called "taboos".
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this moment, Hawkeye Clint Barton is standing on the balcony on the top floor of a hotel building, looking down at the spectacular night scene in the distance,
Holding the bottle, he raised his head and took a sip, and then complained in a tired voice: "Damn it! If I continue to stay in this place for another year or two, I don't know if I can leave alive."
"Relax, your nerves have been too tense recently."
Black Widow is sitting on the sofa playing with the mobile terminal in her hand. She is comprehensively evaluating and scoring the people who have been interviewed recently, and then deciding who can be hired and who cannot.
As the leaders of the "specialized talent" introduction plan, they are the only two people in the Avengers who have been ordered to stay permanently.
"Relax?
Are you joking?
The temptations, traps and dangers here are simply too numerous to count, and you will fall into them if you are not careful.
During the interview this afternoon alone, three guys tried to use psychological suggestion, charm and mind control on me.
Add to that the fact that there were about twenty women trying to take off their clothes in the room, and over thirty men suggesting that they could meet my special needs in some way, and it was driving me fucking crazy.
Especially last time I accidentally drank a glass of spiked wine in a bar, and ended up feeling like a bull in heat and almost being drained alive by a group of succubi."
Hawkeye had obviously endured too much mental pressure, and his emotions started to break down when he mentioned the recent encounters.
Because he was mentally unable to adapt to the sudden fall from top agent and superhero to the bottom of the food chain.
Many spellcasters and creatures born with spell-like abilities can manipulate them at any time if they wish.
In contrast, the Black Widow, who had long ago forgotten about dignity and relied on her body and beauty to engage in assassinations and steal intelligence, was obviously much better. She asked with a nonchalant look: "So what?
Don't forget, the place we are in now is a safe zone, and no one dares to do anything too extreme.
Otherwise law enforcement agencies will put a bounty on their heads.
As for those temptations and traps, as long as you calm down and treat them as a spice in life, it will be a kind of relaxation and enjoyment.
At least in terms of endurance and the ultimate sensory stimulation brought by magic, some races do have advantages, don't they?"
"Don't you also..."
Eagle Eye seemed to realize something, and turned around suddenly to stare at Natasha, who was lying on the sofa wearing a black translucent pajamas, revealing a good figure, with expressions of shock and disbelief on her face.
Black Widow smiled and held up more than a thousand contact information on her mobile terminal, and responded meaningfully: "That's right. Although at the beginning I just wanted to get more useful information out of them, but time passed.
Over time, I discovered that this is indeed a good way to spend time. And you can also collect information at the same time, so why not do it?"
"Oh my God! You are a madman!"
Hawkeye finally understood why his partner would always disappear for several hours inexplicably, and when he came back he looked very tired and sluggish.
But when I woke up, I was extraordinarily radiant, and exuded a strong hormonal scent from head to toe.
It turned out that he was out looking for someone to fool around with.
Maybe it’s not just one at a time, but two or even more.
"No need to make a fuss.
You should know very well that these are tacitly approved and even encouraged by the People's Federation.
By collecting more information, we can fully understand the city and what kind of place Baator Hell is.
The most important thing is that we need to establish an intelligence channel to be informed of major events that are happening or will happen in a timely manner.
Otherwise we will never be able to truly squeeze into this system and become a crucial member."
As she spoke, Black Widow picked up the medicine placed on the table and put it into her mouth.
He sighed softly: "It's incredible!"
To be continued...