What does Night City look like? Even Johnny himself isn’t sure anymore.
But as Lille had imagined, Johnny’s appearance, Johnny’s consciousness ca from a thod he can’t understand, which has been accompanying him since he awoke—the "system."
Events are bound to be recorded, and the records not only include Johnny’s verbose rants and low-rent jokes but also every ti he appears, how Lille’s hardware changes, including how the spark source carries Johnny’s consciousness and binds him with Lille.
Tracing back to the source, if Lille has any way to "locate" another dinsion, it would only be the energy characteristics of Johnny’s appearance and the energy changes when Johnny thinks.
Johnny was bewildered by Lille’s request, but he still sat honestly in front of Optimus Pri, frowning like a ditating monk, pressing his brow.
Night City, Free City, City of Decadence, City of Indulgence, City of Nothingness.
Their world... is a complete ss.
A stranger appeared, and Optimus Pri’s mind beca sowhat clear:
"You... you’re not a Decepticon! Who are you!"
Sss!
Optimus Pri was so excited that his spark went into overload, but Lille imdiately increased the charging specifications, almost filling the energy conduits!
[Warning!]
[Your hardware power is struggling to support the further power boost of the ark reactor!]
[If the current power is maintained, the spark energy may overflow!]
Lille ignored it entirely, directly boosting the frequency of the core computing module, overclocking to the hardware limit!
The thinking capability among silicon-based lifeforms accelerated increasingly, Lille controlling the engineering robot, pulling out a massive laser cutter:
[Lille: Who I am doesn’t matter; what’s important is... you need to help calculate. Otherwise, I’ll make your ideals vanish into thin air.]
"I get it... you want to reach a special place, and this place’s coordinates... no... these data don’t comply with the fundantal laws of this universe.
It would cause the energy required for transport to rise sharply... The energy pillars in the spaceship are only enough to relocate Cybertron to any position in the Milky Way, if it’s the coordinates you provided...
I’ve never seen such coordinates, but it can be calculated, the energy requirent will conform to the ⟦Ɓ⸎ⵅᴚ⸮⭭ function...
You can calculate it yourself; it’s an impossible demand unless... another path is taken."
Optimus Pri obediently assisted Lille in the calculation, and surprisingly, he even communicated the calculation thod and specific correction adjustnts.
Once Lille completed the calculation as well, he imdiately understood the implication of Optimus Pri’s actions:
Optimus Pri’s hoarse voice sounded.
"The answer you seek is just that." His voice was cold and emotionless, "Harvest the energy of this star, transform it into spark energy, for the energy that prospers mine is far more efficient in bridging space than any energy in this universe."
[You have learned a new technology]
[Space Bridge]
[Description: Utilizing the high-dinsional energy of the spark source to tear a rift outside dinsions, traversing space and ti distances.]
[Note: Activating the space bridge will restore cross-dinsional material transmission functions and interdinsional communication.]
[Now you know how to use these energy pillars, what will you do?]
[Reward Technology Points: 3000]
[Current Technology Points: 26400]
Lille’s heart rippled, he obtained all the technology and thods.
But the answer left him... with mixed feelings.
Optimus Pri’s voice echoed again: "Help us harvest this star, and Cybertron will be grateful to you, I will help you return to the ho you long for..."
[Johnny: What’s this guy saying? Does he an we have to blow up the sun here?]
This ti Johnny wasn’t being dumb.
...
Sam returned ho, embraced his parents and girlfriend, watched the news together. Just like other ordinary people, he sat restlessly at ho, waiting for new news.
But the network and communications were either controlled by Decepticons or Lille, plunged into supporting the battlefield control.
The only thing the world’s people knew was that aliens were waging war in their holand...
If they looked up, they could see Decepticon paratroopers sweeping the atmosphere like teors, along with busy planes and drones.
However, as the battlefield heated up intensely, the sky beca clearer.
People’s hearts were heavy yet helpless, knowing nothing, feeling as if they were secretly voted on their life and death by others. At the mont the answer ca out, only life and death remained as outcos.
Sam couldn’t stand it, he felt his heart gripped wildly, impatience was suffocating him, and staying at ho any longer, he feared going mad.
"Damn!"
Sam kicked his dog’s toy rolling ball flying.
Buzz––
Just then, a rickety old car drove down the empty street toward his house!
Sam suddenly felt a little disoriented: it was just like when he didn’t yet know Bumblebee was a Transforr, the way it ca toward him in its old ragged secondhand car form...
But this ti, it wasn’t a Transforr...
He saw a familiar face!
It was Simmons, the agent from the forr Zone 7!
Even though Zone 7 was disbanded because of him, this person is definitely one of the humans who knows the most about Transforrs on Earth.
Scree——
The car stopped at Sam’s house, Sam was dumbfounded, and Simmons glared at him, a mix of helplessness, estrangent, and also so... exasperation.
"Are you still going to keep watching? I think that Doctor Doom srized all of you, get in the car!"
"For what?"
"Get in the car!" Simmons stuck his head out of the window irritably, his clothes snagged by the car’s edge, "That guy has been investigating our previous files, and also... I didn’t hear anything about an upcoming lunar mission from i Country, soone launched the Moon to Earth.
Did you know about this? Is it related to your alien friends?"
Sam shook his head blankly, and Simmons pulled his head back: "That’s right, Decepticons, or that Doctor Doom, soone is definitely interested in sothing on the Moon, details determine success, we need to know what’s being hidden!
Get in the car, lead the way!"
...
Boom!
Optimus Pri was sent flying by the imnse force, Fallen Decepticon walked to the ruins of the Shattered Temple, striking the centuries-old relics with a scepter!
The tal scepter shook, rocks fell, revealing a tallic grave.
The corpses of other Primordial Transforrs were clumped together, inside glowed faint blue light...
"No..."
The defensive line was being torn apart step by step, just like the hope within Optimus Pri.
Every inch of the battlefield crumbles under the fierce barrage of artillery fire, soldiers collapsing beside the ruins and corpses, the buzzing sound coming from the electromagnetic rifle in their hands.
Fallen Decepticon withdrew the scepter, and the grave shattered...
The leadership module was right here.
...
The leadership module, about to fall into Fallen Decepticon’s hands.
In the original story, when Sam ca in contact with it, it turned into fragnts, which tested the bearers with the lingering consciousness of those Primordial Transforrs to see if they were worthy of using it. Sam embraced the powder of the leadership module, reached Optimus Pri’s side, and earned their recognition, obtaining the true leadership module.
But if the other Primordial Transforrs’ consciousness disagreed, Fallen Decepticon wouldn’t be able to use it... why would they hide it otherwise?
[Johnny: You really want to blow up the Earth here?]
Johnny squatted by the Ark’s wreckage, using the sensor on the rocket, looking at Earth from the Moon.
He had never seen Earth from here, had never seen the stars from here.
Two completely different worlds, yet from this angle, they are almost identical.
He was also bewildered: he knew this was an asshole move, but he was an asshole himself, what right did he have to stop Lille?
Looking at that one who wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself, with the hope of returning ho in sight, with the chance to save the holand right here, yet still fighting like a fool, like a "Cybertron traitor," Optimus Pri...
He suddenly felt a bit ashad.
But Johnny Silverhand had lived his whole life in sha and guilt, and he was accustod to it.
[Johnny: This is good too, after all... our otherworldly compatriots and alien friends, seem destined to lose... this war never had anything to do with us anyway.]
The energy pillars beside him started to operate, Lille began to manipulate these energy pillars according to Optimus Pri’s instructions while extracting more spark energy from his body!
Johnny didn’t need to look back to know Lille was activating the Space Bridge, he just stared at this planet, speaking without turning around:
[Johnny: I guess we don’t have much of a choice, welco to the asshole club.]
[Lille: Sorry, between the two of us, only you are the asshole.]
There are no perfect options in this world, but at life’s crossroads, there are never just one choice.
Never find an excuse for becoming an asshole.
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