I fell into the world of cyberpunk games

Of course, game centers are illegal facilities.

In Dusk City’s Electronic Drugs Control Act, voluntary electronic entertainment by individuals or small groups of less than 20 people is not specifically sanctioned for the purpose of respecting individual freedom.

However, when it comes to group electronic entertainment in groups or facilities that accommodate 20 or more people, the story is different.

In principle, if a large number of people are enjoying VR e-narcotics in the same space at the same time for any reason, the City Police must immediately shut down the place when it finds it, and arrest all personnel inside without a warrant and detain them in the detention center of a nearby DCPD branch. .

Simple users of these large-scale electronic entertainment facilities are detained, go through interrogation procedures, pay a deposit and bail (guaranteed release), but employees who illegally manage and distribute electronic drugs and entertainment facilities are detained at the discretion of City Police They could be sentenced to imprisonment or executed immediately on the spot.

It’s a very cruel law.

As for why I know this so well, before I get a game center pass, I thought, ‘I heard it’s illegal, maybe it’s going to be dangerous because of this… .’ Because I did a lot of research because of that thought.

And, as you can see from the fact that I am now a member of the Game Center, the conclusion I made through the investigation was that it was safe.

The reason is that the law is not properly followed.

The purpose of the game center-related sanctions bill is to prevent adverse effects on the health and development potential of society by exploiting addicts as a group to mine virtual currency, and forcibly bringing in and turning healthy workers into bad guys. .

For grandiose reasons, it was actually the result of other Megacorp and conglomerate groups lobbying the DCPD and the Dusk City administration to tie up e-drug-based budding corporations, including Shiho Lee and the New Alibaba Group.

It seems to be a strong headwind to regulate the VR game itself, so instead, they turned their target and aimed at large-scale entertainment facilities such as game centers.

And game centers survived despite being hit directly by the law.

City Police did not actively investigate due to defensive lobbying towards DCPD by emerging corporations… .

Because the addictive and spreading power of e-drugs was beyond imagination.

The shadows of Dusk City have already been taken over by e-drugs, and VR entertainment has taken over from underground clubs and gangs to even high-level corporate executives.

It has come too far to be uprooted. Game centers have already become an inseparable infrastructure in society.

Thousands of game centers exist in Dusk City alone, and each game center accommodates hundreds of gamer zombies.

To wipe out all game centers, that means dealing with hundreds of thousands of addicts, which is beyond DCPD’s capabilities.

In addition, many of the DCPD officers do not have the financial resources to purchase expensive VR devices, so they enjoy electronic drugs at game centers.

Therefore, it was not a problem as long as e-drugs were not exposed on the surface, such as the Kabuki Game Center, where the ground floor was covered with old-fashioned arcade game machines and proper VR facilities were built underground.

But, surely it would be… .

DCPD, open up!!!

Why do I hear the city police raid the game center?

The sound of thunder coming from upstairs, the screams of people, the noise of being beaten… and quiet

It was a typical repression scene.

Why? Did you receive mass reports and reports?

No, no matter how hard it is, there is no way to suppress it so violently.

Usually, only the arcade game room on the first floor wanders around and says, ‘Nothing is wrong.’ It’s a daily thing to go out, but why are you doing this today?

It’s like some kind of gang suppression operation… .

Is it because of the real gang?

It must be the Yakuza branch who runs the Kabuki Center here. Did you commit any major accident there?

So, did the City Police break the unwritten rule and attack?

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More than anything else, I think this may be enough for me.

How do things like this happen every time? Is that only dangerous?

“… shit.”

It was a question that could not be answered no matter how much you thought about it.

It is far more productive to think about how I should act in this situation than to ponder the cause of the situation.

Once it is certain,

‘You must not resist the police.’

I’d rather fight Ned Rudd again.

It’s crazy to fly outside the eyes of Dusk City’s most powerful and dangerous state-run gang, the DCPD.

Because the DCPD never tolerates hurting their heart.

Unless you want to become a wanted criminal and spend the rest of your life being chased or caught and sentenced to prison, you should buy yourself unconditionally.

Even in a situation where you are caught or chased for unfair reasons, you have to please the City Police as much as possible.

Needless to say, if you were enjoying entertainment in an illegal facility like now, you can’t take it or leave it.

Of course, I was playing old-fashioned online games, not VR e-drugs, but just being in an illegal game center in the first place is technically illegal.

… I thought it would be nice to get out of the room first.

You have to go out and figure out the situation, and mix with others.

And it would be best to escape the game center if you can, but that’s not going to happen.

There may be secret passageways created for emergencies, but they were used by the center’s management to escape and immediately closed.

Therefore, the possibility of being open in the first place is not great, and the risk factor is considerable when it is attempted.

If city polis is all around you, you’ll get f**ked right away. You may be handcuffed and dragged away as soon as you escape.

Sometimes, in a crisis, it’s better to just sit still than to try something in a hurry.

It’s better to be quiet and not jump out than to take risks yourself.

There’s no point in getting City Police’s attention, just pretending to be an ordinary game junkie among hundreds of VR addicts.

In fact, it’s normal to be right.

Then, if they are arrested and taken away as a group, that would be a disgrace as it is… Even if they were taken away, there would be no way to conduct a thorough examination and interrogation against this large number of personnel.

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Most will probably be released on bail, with the exception of a few really suspicious ones.

As long as I don’t fall for those ‘really suspicious’, I’ll end up paying a fine.

The fine is by no means light, so it may be a little heartbreaking, but it would be better than being treated as a suspect after doing something strange and getting a fake ID through a close inspection.

ugh-

I somehow managed to sneak into the gaps between the game nerds who came out of the non-mainstream game room and made a fuss as if they were going to smash their devices at any moment, and the employees who were trying to calm them down.

It’s a mess right now without being aware of the situation, but soon the game will change completely.

Until then, 3, 2, 1… .

now.

Bang-!

Great shock and noise.

The endless corridor of VR devices fell into silence for an instant.

The iron door is crumpled and flies away, and smoke rises. A black, elongated In-young walks out with lasers coming out of her eyes.

bum bum.

A helmet lens that moves with a weeping sound, and a reinforced exoskeleton that clicks with every step and emits a heavy feeling of pressure.

The DCPD patrol officer shouted in a deep mechanical voice, holding a riot rail rifle. After that, patrol cops appear one after another and aim their guns at them.

[This is DCPD. Drop all your weapons and get down on your knees!]

Those with a bit of a brain like me, or those whose brains were not yet damaged by e-drugs and were able to think normally, were all terrified and did what they were told.

Put all your weapons down on the floor, put your hands on top of your head, and get down on your knees.

It was an added bonus that I lowered my eyes to avoid making eye contact with the patrol officer.

About half of the people with tails down like that. In other words, the other half were still holding their heads upright.

Is it because he has lost his fear due to the large number of brains, or is he in a state where he cannot calmly grasp reality because he cannot control the secretion of hormones in the brain?

A figure, much larger than the rest of the people around him, wriggled his neon tattoo before the patrolman.

He spit on the floor with a grim face and shouted.

“Hey. How many people are here right now—”

Kwajik… !

And the ranger didn’t wait for him to finish speaking.

Without the need to fire, one hand reaches out and grabs the gangster’s face with the exoskeleton glove.

As he applied the force, his flesh was crushed with a scream, and blood splattered.

swish-!

As he swung his arms as if dirty, the brave man left as it was.

It was like a bad person to see the VR devices smashed one after another and sank with sparks of electric current.

If treated in a timely manner, he will not die, but it is certain that he is seriously injured. It is questionable even if he has the capacity to receive proper treatment in the first place.

“… … .”

The raw violence and violent suppression of other game nerds around me wanted to pause for a moment… He began to make his way towards the patrol officer again, murmuring loudly.

The emotion of fear and the ability to perceive danger were castrated because the brain was pickled in e-drugs.

Even though he saw the same human right next to him being squeezed to death, he doesn’t seem to think that they could be in the same situation.

Perhaps those severe addicts think that even what just happened is a VR event scene, and that the npc just got hit by an aptitude boss monster.

You must be fantasizing that you will be able to defeat that boss with ease.

Reset Syndrome, characteristic of e-narcotics addicts who do not recognize the boundaries and differences between reality and games.

With those bloodshot eyes and skinny bodies, the brains of the zombies rushing to them will be filled with only increased violence in return as the amplification of neurotransmitters is cut off.

Unlike when I was immersed in VR, there was no pleasure, so I couldn’t stand the ordinary reality and felt the urge to smash anything.

He doesn’t even know exactly his own condition, and his head is filled with wild rage, so he can run into DCPD patrol officers without fear.

[You are annoying. That’s why I didn’t want to touch the game center.]

Although more than a hundred people rushed through the narrow space as if crushing it, the patrol officer seemed to be offended rather than feeling threatened.

It was purely an annoyance from the fact that things had become complicated and cumbersome. nothing more and nothing less.

This is because the process will only become cumbersome, and the result will not change.

If it is impossible to instill fear through radical suppression, it is enough to just knock them down one by one and make them into a state that cannot be resisted by hand.

A ranger equipped with a DCPD-approved level 6 body modification, an exo-skeleton suit made in Milicia and high-tech suppression weapons, was capable enough.

Quietly—quad-deuk, qua-jik, bang, woo-duk, quaang… .

After that, it was just a time of blood and slaughter.

The patrol officers separated the bones and flesh of the game junkies who rushed to them without knowing anything and killed them or made them moribund, and screams and shouts erupted from all sides.

Addicts rushing towards the patrol officers, the wounded being beaten and falling into pieces of meat.

Those who wake up late and try to run away, but are not able to get out of the barrel pushing them from behind and are dragged away.

In the midst of the chaos, I knelt in a corner and quietly looked around… .

I found something strange.

A man was moving cautiously with his posture lowered.

Turning to the side, stealthily approaching ordinary patrols under the patrol officer. From the shabby hem of his robe, a bright crimson flash that looks suspicious and dangerous to anyone who sees it flashes.

I frowned.

‘no way?’