Players Invade Cyberpunk

"The Voodoo Gang... Why are you suddenly asking about them?"

Lucy was a bit scared of these lawless guys now. If it weren't for Lin Miao keeping things in check, they'd have taken explosives to blow up Huang Ban Tower today.

"We heard this group talking about gods and ghosts in the underground tunnels, so out of curiosity, we decided to ask. They're definitely up to some unspeakable conspiracy."

Brother Ni chuckled slyly, already impatient to uncover what those Haitians were up to.

Then he recounted everything they overheard to Lucy, leaving no detail out.

Hoping this hacker mentor could provide some valuable information.

"..."

Lucy was already numb inside.

It was one thing for others not to understand, but as someone who had once traversed the Black Wall, there was no way she could misunderstand what the Voodoo Gang was talking about.

These maniacs wanted to bypass the wall and become rogue AIs.

And there was a big chance they already had, having made contact with rogue AIs and even seeing them as gods that could save the world.

Having visited the Old Net more than once, Lucy deeply understood the horrors of the world beyond the Black Wall. If it ever collapsed, human society would be obliterated in an instant, beyond recovery.

"Hoo..."

Looking at the eagerly expectant players, Lucy sighed internally. These people were ridiculously carefree.

After pondering for a moment, she pulled up the gang information from the database, which included what Lin Miao had organized, what she had compiled, and what players had gathered from various channels, along with some speculations.

"The Voodoo Gang... The common understanding is that they became what they are now after the mass migration following the Haitian earthquake in the 60s."

"But wasn't Haiti really poor? Could illiterate people become hackers? And there are so many of them."

Sword Saint remembered clearly from the introduction videos he'd watched that historically, Haiti had been ravaged by great leaders like Duvalier, and in this cyber world, where the average quality of life was even lower, Haiti couldn't possibly transform into Wakanda, could it?

"This..."

Lucy furrowed her brow; she indeed hadn't thought about this problem, but Lin Miao had.

"All these matters are in the database. I'll temporarily grant you access so you can have a look."

In the information Lin Miao researched, the emergence of the current Voodoo Gang was very strange, with many mysteries.

First question.

In an era when sea traffic had stopped and rogue AI-controlled unmanned submarines rampaged through the ocean, how did Haitian Captain Phillips manage to safely transport Haitians to Night City?

There must be something hidden here.

Second

Before the unification war broke out, Taiping Continent was the hottest development site in Night City. However, there was an explosion during a foundation excavation for a building.

After that, Militech and Ye Corporation forcibly halted the development project, sealing it off completely with a thick cement foundation wall.

The government externally claimed that the explosion was due to a gas leak.

The workers at the site back then were none other than these Haitian members of the Voodoo Gang.

And starting from that time, the Voodoo Gang began significantly developing in the network hacking domain. In just over a decade, the number of elite hackers they had became astonishingly high.

Despite having the smallest number of members compared to other gangs, their number of hackers was several times that of the others, and their skills were generally not bad.

Third

He found the Voodoo Gang extremely, extremely, extremely unpleasant.

He didn't know the reason, nor could he find a justification.

But that was the biggest problem.

He hadn't even met the Voodoo Gang, let alone interacted with them, yet why did he hate this organization so much?

Of course, the third point wasn't written in the database by Lin Miao.

But the players who obtained the information were ecstatic; the descriptions of the Voodoo Gang were even more complete than what they had gathered themselves.

The only downside was the absence of personnel details for the Voodoo Gang. They stayed within the Taiping Continent, and unless necessary, didn't show themselves, always delegating tasks to outsiders.

So most people didn't even know the names of the Voodoo Gang's higher-ups.

Including Lin Miao.

"If you're planning to move against the Voodoo Gang, you'd better bring a hacker along... Never mind, I'll join. Just notify me before heading out."

Lucy really didn't want to say this. She was quite fond of those two little hackers under her wing, filled with the innocence of beginners. If left to face the Voodoo Gang, chances were their brains would fry.

Heaven knows what they'd look like the next time they emerge.

So far, Pandora was one of the only two veterans who hadn't died.

The other was Steamed Bun, who chickened out and never returned to the front lines.

Theoretically, as long as the network hackers didn't dig into the players' brains and memories, but used simple overload attacks, it would be easy to take them down.

But unfortunately, there were always people who enjoyed tempting fate, trusting their capabilities too much, which triggered the system's firewall, resulting in their brains getting fried on the spot.

Therefore, Lucy was confident in getting away unharmed; it was just uncertain how much could be achieved since the Voodoo Gang, after all, was a known entity in Night City. Though they didn't have bigwigs backing them like the Tiger Claws or Sixth Street Gang, they weren't pushovers.

Upon hearing a big shot was joining, Brother Ni was both surprised and delighted.

Surprised because he remembered the last time Lucy intervened, was when they got obliterated in the sewers.

Delighted because having a big shot leading them into the dungeon was better than being left to collect corpses. Why not latch onto the strong?