Arasaka Company is very strong, but not invincible. They have a lot of technology, and the combat effectiveness of their security forces is also very strong, but they cannot control all coastlines, let alone the seabed.
You can avoid the company's blockade by taking a submarine.
The chaos in Arasaka Company gradually subsided, and the unorganized fans' attack could not last long. Once one-tenth of the number of casualties occurred, the fans would disperse.
Johnny Silverhand encountered an opponent who was unable to fight, Adam Hammer. He used the combat skills he learned in the army to fight, but was easily defeated by Adam Hammer, and was finally shot to death by Adam Hammer.
There are no living legends in Night City.
"Where are the Nine Lessons?" Although a serious enemy has been killed, there is still another goal that has not yet been achieved.
"Still searching, but they seem to have left Night City."
Saburo Arasaka was silent for a while and said: "It seems that we still underestimate them. We will continue to maintain the blockade and wait for news from the island country before making the next step." If the ninth class returns to the country, there will be no need to block it.
"yes."
"Tear out the soul of Johnny Silverhand and we will have a lot of time to play slowly." Saburo Arasaka said cruelly.
At this time, Section 9 had already entered the submarine.
"What's going on with this submarine?" Togusa couldn't help but ask Duran.
The submarine is very advanced, operates fully automatically, and does not have a crew. The interior is spacious, passengers can live comfortably, and there is even a gym, just like an undersea villa. Such a luxurious submarine, at first glance, is not prepared for the military. Because the island country
Resources are limited, and military equipment is developing in the direction of thin skin and exquisiteness. This is true whether it is tanks, combat technology, or automobiles. What stands out is thin skin and economy.
The island country's submarine design concept is also the same, but the submarine that Section 9 is now riding is obviously different. The waste of space is extremely serious, and there are too many facilities that can be abandoned.
"This is a submarine prepared for the special operations team. It was originally prepared for you." Duran said.
"Does Ninth Class have such funds?" Kusanagi Motoko knows very well that Ninth Class's funds are very stretched. On weekdays, even when applying for activity funds, the section chief will search and search, and maintaining smart tanks can save money.
In terms of saving money, how can it be possible to prepare a submarine when parts and lubricants are quite ordinary commodities?
"Because Class Nine will perform more tasks in the future, such as fighting big monsters," Duran said.
"Big monster? What is that?" Everyone looked at each other, obviously they had never heard of such a thing.
Dulan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will take you to see the monster later."
The depth of the submarine continued to deepen, and soon it came to the underwater world. There was an underwater city at an altitude of minus 4,000 meters, and there were many ruins about monsters in it.
"Is this an undersea ruin? Is it the legendary Atlantis?" Motoko Kusanagi looked at the ruins on the ocean floor and couldn't help but said, "Is there really an ancient civilization?"
Everyone also looked at each other, asking them to deal with high-tech criminals, nine lessons are very handy. Let them do archeology, it is not within the scope of their expertise.
"Yes, there are people from the universe, people from the future, people from other worlds and people with super powers in this world. The people from Atlantis are super ancient civilizations." Duran also opened his mouth and shattered everyone's three views.
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"I've never heard of such a thing, is it true?" Togusa couldn't help but say. Their job is to catch criminals, no matter whether the criminal exists or does not exist, or whether it is fictitious
The concept and the written program are all understandable.
But the emergence of a super-ancient civilization is too much and cannot be understood at all.
"Have you never thought about whether human beings are not alone in the universe, and whether human beings are the first batch of intelligent life on earth? Now that I have an answer for you, shouldn't you be happy?"
Togusa said: "I have never been curious. To be honest, this is not something to be happy about, but a bit scary. Because our cognition has been shattered and there are too many uncontrollable things. This is not fun at all.
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Du Lan smiled and said: "If you don't understand, then slowly understand it and I will take you to see it."
Togusa couldn't help but ask: "So who are you?"
"I am the one who brings answers, the one who opens up new doubts, the one who awakens, the guide, and the mentor of life." Duran proudly told others that his greatest hobby is to be a teacher.
"..." Everyone was speechless.
Togusa said: "We don't understand your explanation at all. You should be more specific. Are you an alien, a person from the future, a person from another world or a person with super powers?"
"A little bit of everything." Duran said: "Actually, it doesn't matter who I am, what's important is that mankind is standing on a huge dividing line. You all know the Axial Age, right?"
Togusa nodded, this was what he had recently learned from reading, and said: "About three thousand years ago, there was a great explosion of ideas in various civilizations around the world. It is called the Axial Age by some scholars, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient India, the Middle East, and the East.
Major civilizations on the Eurasian continent broke out at that time. It can be said to be an incredible era full of mysteries."
"Yes, but the old Axial Age has passed, and the new Axial Age is coming." Duran said: "The explosion of ideas is due to the development of productivity and the support of a large number of people who are out of work. The second reason is that
The emergence of classes, those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others. In the old axial age, various classes wanted to compete for their own interests, so various ideas were put forward.
Thinking is also a kind of fighting. With the birth of neural chips, the separation of body and soul, and the emergence of artificial intelligence, there will be new classes and new lives creating their own ideological systems and competing for their own interests. New
The explosion of productive forces and the emergence of new classes means that the earth will enter a new round of the Axial Age. Are you ready?"
No one could prepare at all. After all, no one was prepared for the Hundred Schools of Thought Contention back then, and it just happened.
Looking at each other, they are not sure how they should deal with the new era.
"If you look at the super-ancient civilizations outside, they collapsed because they failed to handle the new Axial Age. Just like in the old era, ancient Greece collapsed, but ancient Rome survived... Can a civilization survive the Axial Age?
It is the dividing line. If we did not lay a good foundation in the Axial Age, we will
The civilization will inevitably decline. If the foundation is laid in the Axial Age, then the predecessors will plant trees for future generations to enjoy the shade." Duran said: "The technology of the super-ancient civilization is not undeveloped, but in the end it will only leave a place of debris.
.Next, humans will also enter deep waters, are you ready?"
Suzi asked: "Then what does the big monster you just mentioned have to do with the New Axis Age?"
"Monsters are the embodiment of chaotic thinking, the embodiment of the collapse of rituals and the collapse of music." Duran said: "So when the world's thinking is chaotic, thinking monsters will also appear to destroy the world. At this time, an elite team is needed to come forward.
Go deal with it. That’s your ninth lesson.”
"Thought monster?"
"That's right, it's a monster whose thoughts are projected into reality, and it is also the culprit that destroyed ancient civilization." Duran set a background for the monster to make the fight more realistic and fun.
Chaotic thinking will cause destruction. But this kind of destruction is usually caused by human beings killing each other. But now setting up a monster that appears because of chaotic thinking deprives humans of the right to civil war. Only monsters can destroy humans, and humans are not qualified to destroy humans.
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Everyone was stunned, feeling that this kind of thing was too different from their work. They just caught criminals and never thought about protecting human beings.
Dulan's words seemed to make sense, but when I thought about it carefully, it didn't make sense. It felt like he was just talking nonsense. Ancient civilization, the Axial Age, monsters, and thinking seemed to be related, but it was difficult to connect them together. Everyone was silent.
These things are impossible to defeat, but if thoughts can interfere with reality, many thoughts are indeed as scary as monsters.