The Prelude to Saving the World

Chapter 645: The Prelude to Saving the World

Lucy froze. To her, this wasn't something worth agonizing over. She hated the upper class, but that didn't mean she didn't want to join them.

But when it came down to actually saying yes, Lucy looked at the dazed people on the street and couldn't help letting out a long sigh.

"If I say yes, I'll probably turn into Arasaka Saburo too."

She lit another cigarette and voiced what was on her mind.

Aside from hacking, she didn't know much of anything. Her knowledge of social niceties and human relations was limited to dealing with mercenaries, street punks, and ordinary people. As for big shots...

The only big shot she knew was Li Ke, along with a few fixers and the like.

But the big shots and fixers in her eyes weren't worth a damn in front of Li Ke. His body could withstand an antimatter bomb powerful enough to destroy an asteroid. He'd smashed through a fusion reactor core and taken a mass driver blast to the face, yet only needed a few minutes of rest to recover. If he hadn't been caught right in the singularity at the heart of the explosion, he wouldn't even have been seriously injured.

It wasn't that technological weapons couldn't kill Li Ke. It was that, judging by what he'd shown, killing him with an antimatter bomb or the like would mean the shockwave alone would be enough to destroy the whole world along with him.

Just by standing here, as long as he acted even a little like a human being, Li Ke was unquestionably the ruler of the planet.

Power brought authority.

Lucy understood this very well, as did everyone else. But unlike everyone else, unlike the people of this world, Li Ke