Chapter 1640 "Tengda Has Never Had a Real President"

Qiao Liang was controlling the protagonist, Captain Lude, cutting down enemies left and right, having already shot down several drones. Hearing this, he couldn't help but pause, turning his head in shock.

He saw the Tengda Group's forces spread out, closing in on their position.

The sky was filled with a dense swarm of drones and law enforcement units, while on the ground were many infantry fighting vehicles and soldiers wearing Tengda Group combat uniforms, their firepower immediately suppressing the entire area.

"Damn! Are you cheating?"

"We rebels have less than 10 people; you're acting like you're deploying an entire army group!"

Qiao Liang was completely stunned; this action was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, an overreaction.

With a violent explosion, the Inverse Logistics convoy was engulfed in flames, and the rebels immediately retreated.

Drones and law enforcement units quickly gave chase. Even though the rebel soldiers each held their own against a hundred, shooting down a large number of drones, it was still a drop in the bucket.

Teammates were constantly injured and falling behind, dropping out of the fight.

Qiao Liang controlled the protagonist, fighting and retreating, and soon triggered a cutscene.

A super strong man wearing a mechanical exoskeleton descended from the sky. Half of his body had been modified into machinery, coupled with a dedicated exoskeleton, making him look like a mountain of steel.

Qiao Liang couldn't help but pause, because he thought that the strong man's face vaguely resembled Guo Licheng's.

Before he could react, the protagonist was grabbed by the strong man's thick mechanical arm and thrown away.

In a dizzying spin, the protagonist's surroundings were chaotic. After a particularly brutal battle, his vision gradually faded to black.

The camera panned upwards from the protagonist's tightly closed eyes, showing him covered in bruises, his mechanical exoskeleton completely damaged, with multiple wounds on his body, and even his entire right calf missing.

Around him were the corpses of many Tengda Group combat robots and drones.

Further away was the cyberpunk city backdrop. The outskirts of Hope City, with countless convoys coming and going.

The destroyed convoy earlier was just a small, insignificant amount of Tengda Group's supplies.

The entire cyberpunk-style city was still operating in an orderly manner, as if the fierce battle that had just taken place was just an insignificant interlude, not noticed by anyone at all.

With the huge city as the background, the name of the game appeared on the screen.

Cyberpunk-style font displayed:

You Choose the Future

After a brief black screen, the sizzling sound of mechanical welding rang in his ears.

Captain Lude opened his eyes and found himself lying on an operating table, with a prosthetic doctor installing a mechanical prosthetic limb for him.

His right calf was destroyed in the previous battle and had to be replaced with a mechanical prosthesis. The other wounds on his body had also been bandaged.

The prosthetic doctor sighed, "You were able to escape from that war machine with only the loss of one leg, it's really the luckiest of misfortunes. You may not be so lucky next time."

Captain Lude was silent for a moment, seemingly recalling the previous fierce battle and the sacrificed teammates.

After a long time, he sighed, "The Tengda Group is too powerful. I must obtain more powerful strength to fight against them."

The doctor reached out and pulled down a display screen in front of Captain Lude, and said, "Maybe I can help you with this, but it will be charged to your account."

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The opening part of the game ended here. After the basic combat guidance, you can make some modifications to your body at the prosthetic doctor's.

This time, the modified right leg is required by the plot, but in addition, players can freely choose to modify other parts of the body.

For example, mechanical eyes, head chips, body, arms, and even internal organs can be modified.

And after each transformation, you will gain some new abilities.

Of course, you can't transform your whole body into a robot all at once. New transformation opportunities will only come as the plot progresses, but the transformation process is relatively free. The player can decide for themselves which part to modify first and which to modify later.

Modifying different parts will give you some derivative abilities. In the following plot levels, players must learn to use these special abilities to help them pass the level.

According to the game's setting, the rebel army is not just the protagonist's team. There are also a large number of other branches and progressive forces hidden in the city or in the wild who secretly help the rebel army, and this prosthetic doctor is one of them.

What the player has to do is very simple: participate in one battle after another, constantly make various choices, improve the protagonist's combat power, and finally overthrow the largest monopoly consortium in this world, the dark rule of the Tengda Group.

Although the distant view of Hope City appeared in many scenes such as the opening scene, it was just a background.

The game did not really create a large-scale city, after all, this scale of city is too difficult to produce. And it is not closely related to the main gameplay of the game.

The game still follows the general approach, creating many high-precision scenes, and stringing these scenes together in strict accordance with the plot of the game.

The protagonist is more like a lone ranger, moving from one scene to another, his comrades falling down or parting ways. However, in this process, the protagonist constantly wins one battle after another, achieves one victory after another, and his military rank is constantly promoted, gradually becoming the spiritual leader of the rebel army.

Of course, the protagonist's body is also being modified to look more and more like the war machine that once defeated him.

But in the protagonist's opinion, all of this is worthwhile. More and more people were inspired by the rebel army and joined.

At first, only some small companies secretly helped the rebel army, such as the prosthetic doctor who had been treating and modifying Lude's team. Slowly, more and more large companies and consortia also joined the ranks of supporting the rebel army.

These companies contribute money and effort, or provide material assistance, or directly provide military equipment, making the rebel army's power greater and greater.

And those at the bottom of society, small gangsters and even criminals, were also inspired by the revolutionary army and joined the just alliance to resist the rule of the Tengda Group.

A trend swept the world, a trend of resisting the Tengda Group.

Under this trend, the rebel army, like a tide, began to launch counterattacks around the world. The scale of the battles in which the protagonist participated became larger and larger, and the fighting became more and more intense.

In the midst of the chaotic battlefield, Captain Lude was always a standing banner. He was invincible and victorious in every battle. In everyone's mind, he was a glorious and just image, as if as long as he fought with Captain Lude, this battle would be won.

The plot of the whole story only suffered some setbacks at the very beginning, and then climbed steadily. Captain Lude constantly gained new abilities, became more and more courageous in battle, and constantly won new victories. One city after another was liberated by him from the tyrannical rule of the Tengda Group.

At the same time, those large enterprises that helped the rebel army began to actively participate in the post-war reconstruction work. While fighting on the front lines, these large enterprises replaced the Tengda Group's industries in the rear with new technologies, and continued to provide powerful military equipment and soldiers to the front lines.

However, as the game continued, Qiao Liang gradually felt that something was wrong in the middle and late stages.

Some large consortia transformed themselves and became important figures in the rebel army. Like these large consortia, the rebel soldiers not only used more and more sophisticated weapons and equipment, but also wore more and more luxurious clothes and used more and more expensive luxury goods.

The real close comrades of Captain Lude all died in battle one after another, so that in the middle and late stages of the game, players could not even find a familiar face around the protagonist.

When attending a celebration party, Captain Lude looked around and found that the only people he recognized were the bosses or senior executives of large companies. The rebel soldiers all came to him to ask for autographs and photos, but the protagonist did not know their names at all, only that they had fought alongside him in a certain battlefield.

He felt as if he was a god high above, being held up by everyone, even over the clouds, but when he looked back down, he found that he was all alone.

The world was indeed constantly changing, but Captain Lude was increasingly unsure whether this was the change he had originally envisioned.

The taste of the last battle can be said to be natural, or it can be said to be lackluster.

This scene is called the City of Origin, which is obviously based on Jingzhou in reality as its prototype. In the setting of the game, this is the place where the Tengda Group rose to prominence, and it is also the location of the Tengda Group's headquarters.

After constantly fighting in cities all over the world and constantly destroying the Tengda Group's branches, the rebel army finally arrived at the city and came to the Tengda Group's headquarters.

After a long and fierce battle, Captain Lude finally successfully broke into the Tengda Group's headquarters, fought the war machine in the final battle and won with difficulty.

He decided to take advantage of the victory to find the culprit of all this, the real culprit. That is, the real helmsman of the Tengda Group now.

But when Captain Lude took the lead and rushed into the Tengda Group's president's office, he found that the entire space was empty. There were no desks, chairs, computers, or any other personal items, as if it had always been empty.

Captain Lude was not reconciled. He firmly believed that there must be a secret door or other mechanism in the entire space, but no matter how he searched, the entire space seemed to be empty.

Captain Lude could not accept this fact. He could not understand how the entire Tengda Group, as the largest monopoly consortium in the world, could rule the entire world for such a long time without a president. And what exactly had they been fighting against all this time?

Lude left the president's office and searched the entire floor, eliminating many law enforcement units in the process.

Fortunately, he did not gain nothing. He chased all the way and caught up with a Tengda HR department head surnamed Wu who was preparing to jump off the edge of the building's roof.

After Tengda was captured by the rebel army, the reactions of these heads were different. Some heads defected to the rebel army and became traitors; some heads ran away in advance; and some heads, like the war machine, picked up guns and fought to the end. Only a very few heads, like this HR head surnamed Wu, came to the roof, ready to jump down and end their lives.

However, he was still a step too slow. Captain Lude arrived in time to stop his suicide plan and questioned him about who had been issuing orders in the name of the Tengda Group's president for a long time, maintaining the autocratic rule of the entire Tengda Group.

Captain Lude must determine who the final war criminal was, and what motivated him to commit such serious crimes against humanity?

The HR head surnamed Wu smiled sadly and told the truth.

"The Tengda Group has never had a real president who manages everything."

"All the heads of the Tengda Group make decisions together. When there is a difference of opinion, the most advanced artificial intelligence system Aeeis analyzes the content of the decisions and finally comes to the most beneficial decision for the entire Tengda Group."

"This decision will be voted on again. If it is not passed, then the artificial intelligence needs to be adjusted again until more than 80% of all heads have passed it."

"You can think of all the heads as playing the role of the war criminal in your mind. But you can also say that the specific person of the war criminal image you imagined does not exist in this world."