A Bad World

Calian POV

Well, ehm... this is bad, I know what world we're in and so far, yeah let's just talk it out. "You opened the map yet?" I looked at my map and zoomed out where a coast, a desert, a lot of white structures and a whole city is on the map, so how do I know what world we're in based on this map? Well you'll see later.

"Yeah, I have, so what's the significance?" Crynn asked and I'll answer perfectly. "You see the city nearby to our pinpointed GPS location? Tell me the city's name?" this is just to make extra emphasis, the name of the city already explains what world we're in. "It's a city called, well it's easily a memorable name, Night City."

"Yeah... Night City is from a game series called Cyberpunk made by a video game developer called CD Projekt, its Polish by the way and their latest installment in the series is a very anticipated game called Cyberpunk 2077," there's just one very tiny, actually gigantic problem to this whole game series.

"Oh? If you knew about it, then you must know the plot and the background of this whole game," that's the problem that I'm about to explain. "You see, the Cyberpunk 2077 game is supposed to be released in the end of 2020 after 4 years of development and because I died quite some time before that, I never did get my pre-ordered game which means I never played it."

"Regarding the other Cyberpunk games of the series, to summarize, I've never played any of it either so..." I coughed twice, what do I know about Cyberpunk, aside from the few information released to the public, I practically know nothing much, I do know it's some kind of chaotic gang world where like the street gangs have a fight with top world corporations or something, I don't really pay attention to the game that much.

"Right, that could be a problem," no Crynn, it isn't could, it is yes, it IS a problem.

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Crynn POV

{Chain Mission:}

{1. Find out what world you're in and where you currently are. (Accomplished) }

{2. Hack and analyze Militech's database with the all-round scanner retrievable via anyone's inventory in the course of the mission.}

{Sub-mission : Get a local to help you out!}

Okay, a new mission just showed itself. I've only got one issue with this, how did it go from finding out what world we're in to then command us to hack some kind of database, life just doesn't work like that man. "So, what the hell is Militech?" I turned towards Calian being the more knowledgeable man in this subject.

"Don't ask me, I'm not too clear about everything either but I'm guessing and I'm a hundred percent sure that it's some kind of corporation in this world. But by its name being Militech, I'm also keen to think that it's an arms company and pissing off an arms company is one of the worst you can do in a lifetime," so essentially, we're going to break in and hack a presumably arms company, not difficult at all, nope.

"Well it did suggest us to go find a local, perhaps we should do that first," I gave an opinion based on the sub-mission, yeah we're definitely doing that. We seriously need a tour guide, a capable one in fact, one who knows their way in and out of everywhere and could also offer valuable information regarding just what kind of world we're in.

"So? You guys completed the first mission?" The door behind us open as a lovely voice entered, surprising the both of us, it turns out to be Aria, is she here just to say that? "Oh, me and Jill also got the systems on, the computers are up and running, she's also trying to find more relevant details about the world."

"That's great then, one problem though, we need a local, a good one, any ideas, this world is the world Cyberpunk by the way, if you haven't noticed," Calian said, I don't know anything about this world so I'll just leave local finding to Calian. "Cyberpunk? You mean Cyberpunk 2077? I pre-ordered the game, never got to play it, all I know is that it's a messy world with some messy technology," Aria mumbled before pulling herself back.

"Ah Cyberpunk huh? This will be bad, really bad, from the game trailers, this is an almost lawless world where capitalism basically dominates everything, they own cities, they own countries and most of all, they are all very power-hungry and like to wage wars against each other, like wars, with nukes and tons of soldiers, I think."

Well, from Aria's words, it is pretty bad, I mean if corporations are free to have nukes, then that means the world has gone to ape-shit, and ape-shit worlds aren't good, we need a local and I know just what we need to find. "Protagonist, our local needs to be a protagonist, they've always got heaven on their side and are protected by plot-armor, we could use that to our advantage, now who's the protagonist?"

"V," "V," both Aria and Calian spelled out, looks like we've got two gamers here if I hadn't already noticed. "Just one letter? How can we find someone with one letter?" When I said who's the protagonist I expect something like George, or Clara, or even something like ACP-29 if the protagonist is a robot or something, but V? Ehm... out of my expectations.

"Protagonists are famous, I'm confident to say we'll gonna find him or her because you can choose either female or male genders in the game. Furthermore, we've got in Jill's word, an expert hacker, I'm sure she could turn something up," hmm... turn something up, that's easy enough to do for a hacker, actually that's very easy.

"Well then perhaps she should try giving the police database a visit, in the trailer the protagonist is some kind of criminal or just someone who loves to kill people like seriously, there's a lot of gore in the trailers. With someone like that, Jill should easily be able to find 'V' in the police database," I couldn't have said it better than that, Calian, police database is also what I'm thinking.

We should have results by the matter of minutes.