In Johnny's mind, apart from a big city like Night City, all that was left was a battlefield flooded by a torrent of steel, painted with corpses and black smoke.
Actually, this wasn't just Johnny's problem. In the Cyberpunk World, as early as 2020, rural scenes had already faded into history:
If we talk only about Mei Country, the economic collapse caused the prices of life necessities to skyrocket, and internal division made transportation a costly service. Rural areas without industrial capability simply couldn't support a modern lifestyle. Anyway, Johnny wouldn't go to such rural areas—
The only reason for the existence of rural areas in the Cyberpunk World is that the land can make money, either through planting ethanol-2 or oil extraction. In both cases, it was just a job; the latter would leave fiery oil wells after abandonment, and the former an expanse of desert after the owner went bankrupt or left for other reasons...
