Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 884 - 286: After All, I’m Not Some Kind of Demon, Right? (2)

"Take off your stockings before you speak to me!"

What kind of mind would ignore a Sex Doll nearby and instead snatch the other's work uniform to try on for themselves?

V locked the door half-angrily without looking back and walked swiftly toward the Yunding high-rise, moving so fast it almost left a trace.

Forget it! Forget it! Quickly forget what you just saw!

The mid-tier area upstairs seemed relatively more normal than downstairs, with all the Sex Dolls and staff concentrated in this more intact space. A few players pulled together some tables and chairs, forming an office area, and were registering the names and histories of these Sex Dolls one by one.

This made V curious whether Lin Miao would continue operating Yunding, or more accurately, how the Night City gangs that controlled clubs and bars would handle it now under player control.

V heard Lin Miao say that afterward, the bars would change control hands—30% to Horizon Corporation, 15% to managers like Wagako, who are 'honest intermediaries', and the remaining 55% back to the original funders, almost unchanged.

The Sex Dolls are an indispensable part of the gray industry chain in Night City's lower layers, catering to many people's desires, spiritual or physical, whether they're company dogs up high or the lowest commoners.

Nobody cares what the Sex Dolls themselves think; their worth is as functional as a factory worker's prosthetic limbs, only providing sexual organs and flesh.

This city has transformed them into tools for managing sexual needs, and tools don't need dignity or self-awareness, not even direct customer interaction, which is taken care of through programming.

Sex, gambling, drugs—with sex taking the forefront, V dared not imagine what Night City would be like without Sex Dolls.

Before Lin Miao fully takes over Night City, eliminating sex transactions is impossible.

If you don't run it, the demand is still there; people will rush forward even if it costs their lives.

That would definitely cause chaos.

"I told you, doing this will bring divine retribution, I'm not doing it."

"If this world had divine retribution, these bastards would have died long ago. I'm giving them a chance to redeem themselves; they should be thanking me."

"Thank you? You're practically a devil!"

The room next door echoed with two people arguing. Because V had special clearance from Lin Miao, the player at the door didn't stop her, letting her in comfortably.

The room wasn't crowded, with a skinny, bald middle-aged man dressed outrageously to the point of disgust, along with players like Ruzuo and Jianxue.

The most noticeable was the man nailed to the wall, head hanging, limbs pinned tightly like a pig awaiting slaughter.

V recognized this guy, Oswald the wooden manager of Yunding, who was luckily not killed but dragged out from the captives by the players.

The argument was between Ruzuo and the bald guy.

"V, you're just in time, help us judge."

V had been following Lin Miao around enough to become familiar, not treated as an outsider by the players.

Ruzuo pulled V over to introduce her to the bald man.

"This is Finger Brother, the local cybernetic doctor I got from Wagako. His reputation in the Sex Doll circle is decent."

Whether Finger Brother had other transactions with the Sex Dolls—consensual matters weren't players' business.

The flamboyant, effeminate bald man glanced at V, nodded, but said nothing, though V could see his strong reluctance to the players' proposal.

Ruzuo: "Here's the deal, the boss said these bars must continue normal operations, but all male and female Sex Dolls have to be dismissed; debts to the Tiger Claw Gang are forgiven, while those owed to banks should be remembered, sent for skills training, repaid slowly through work, but not this work."

"But once they leave, this position will be vacant, and Yunding won't be able to function."

In the players' interface, Yunding had become part of their assets, showing [Yunding (Closed) (Lack of Staff)], with the [Sex Doll] section empty, not even idle staff available.

To make Yunding operate normally, a batch of Sex Dolls must be recruited.

However, players wouldn't touch this; it's against their moral compass, even if voluntarily.

Lin Miao chose to leave the issue to players, who typically don't solve problems in conventional ways.

"So Jianxue came up with a solution."

Jianxue took over, "If something looks like a Potato, tastes like a Potato, functions like a Potato, then it's a Potato."

"See, this era is so advanced, cybernetics—hands, feet, bodies, faces can all be mechanized, wrapped in synthetic skin indistinguishable from real, so..."

He pulled up a video showing Tiger Claw Gang leaders and members tearfully pleading.

"I'm willing to do anything, spare us."

"I'm willing to be your lackey for life."

"Cut off all ten fingers, just spare my life."

"See? They are willing to do anything."

"But these people, each can be considered deeply guilty, even executing them is too lenient, after all, I'm not really a demon…"

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