indescribable cyberpunk.

Chapter 216
Why do human hands have five fingers?

Some people say that this is an inevitable choice of evolution. Most of the complex tools can be perfectly controlled with only ten fingers. Whether there is one missing or one more, it will cause problems in the use of the palm.

"That's just a blind spot of consciousness caused by human self-restraint and inherent concepts. Why can't people have more fingers? Just because things in the past are enough to have five fingers, they will think this is the most correct Yes, just like the industrial revolution hundreds of years ago, before the industrial revolution, everyone took the low productivity of handicraft workshops as a matter of course, and they didn’t realize how ridiculous the idea was until the emergence of large factories.”

The locks on the inner side of the door were opened layer by layer, and someone came in from the door. Tea leaves rose and fell in the navy blue porcelain cup. His palm had no skin, but a prosthetic limb that exposed all the mechanical parts inside. Affected by the temperature of the cup wall, he went on to say,

"Since it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough in the physical body, it is natural to seek other methods. Isn't the purpose of the existence of mechanical intelligence to help humans transcend the physical body?"

Behind him were several people in gray robes, their cheeks were covered by some kind of animal bone masks, and the appearance of their faces could not be seen.

There is a huge computer on the inside of the room, which takes up one-third of the entire room. The screen, which is nearly five meters high in length and width, is split into nine squares, and different content is played in each square. .

For example, in the upper left corner, a beautiful girl wearing pink mechanical cat ears stood up from the table hesitantly and walked towards the door of the room.

The angle of view is constantly moving. This is the built-in camera on the bracelet, and there are five other screens similar to those in the upper left corner.
One of the remaining three screens was black, and the other two were aimed at doorways in the same room.

"It seems that there is a problem with the information you gave me. Five people who can't be defeated by level 5 mercenaries are really just actors in a video studio as you said? Oh. I forgot, he killed you several times a companion."

Putting the tea on the table, pulling out the chair and sitting down, his gaze was locked on the central screen that still had no image displayed.

A pale and delicate face was reflected on the pitch-black screen.

Not only his face, but his hair, eyebrows and even his pupils are all white, which makes his face look a little scary in this slightly dimly lit room.

In fact, according to his original plan, there is no such person. Although the other party is quite famous, he is not an anchor, and he has not conducted any investigations on him, so in his original plan, there are only six people.

It's just that everything is always unexpected.

"As I said, there will be certain deviations in our intelligence collection on him, and what you have to do is to completely obliterate him here. If you can't do it, then you don't deserve the reward we gave you How long can the broken body last? You can’t get full-body prosthetic body technology, we are your last hope, please show us your sincerity, Mr. Shinjima Hideyoshi!”

The man in black didn't respond to the taunts in his words, and the eyes behind the mask only stayed on his shrunken body for a while, and the face of the man on the chair became completely gloomy.

"What about your sincerity?"

The mechanical prosthesis is placed on the keyboard in front of the screen, which is different from the common computer keyboard. At this time, the keyboard keys in front of his eyes do not have numbers or letters. They are crowded together, and ordinary people will feel it even if they look at it a few times. Complex and confusing.

"Iwata Takuro is dead. You can find out about his death tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

The voice of the man in black sounded a little cold at this moment.

The last time they failed on the island was because they were attacked by someone. This time, they came prepared, and the first thing they had to do was to kill this person who had hindered their plan!
"Oh, interesting."

Before the words fell, the mechanical palm, which was originally normal, suddenly spread out. At this moment, each finger split into three parts, and each finger was connected to the prosthetic limb by an independent line. It's just put together, and now it's back to its original appearance.

At this moment, Shinjima Hideyoshi gained twenty more fingers!

On the dimly lit keyboard, thirty knuckles tapped the keys at a terrifying speed. The image on the screen disappeared first, then a large amount of code data appeared, and then another video unfolded at the top of the screen. Facing a Japanese garden.

The men in black robes looked at each other. Others might not know it, but they naturally knew where it was, the core area of ​​the Iwata family!

The 4x speed video was reversed, and it didn't take long for a large number of people and doctors to appear in front of the room in the video.

The picture finally freezes at the scene when a corpse covered with a white cloth leaves the room.

"Since you have done what I want to do, I will naturally help you do what you want to do. This is the deal."

The picture on the screen returned to the previous nine-square grid mode. The middle square was still in a dark state, but a figure appeared in the other two cameras that were looking at the door of the room. After going out, he walked downstairs without hesitation.

"He really didn't die. From this point of view, the people I sent should be wiped out."

"How are you going to kill him?"

The man in black robe asked in a deep voice.

"Since you found me and want to cooperate with me, you have naturally studied the "Evolution" I made. Do you know what is one of the core contents of RPG games?"

Shinjima Hideyoshi did not directly answer the question of the man in black, but mentioned "Evolution" again. After waiting for a while, no one answered him, so he curled his lips in disdain, and then said,

"Monster Hunt!"

One of the most prosperous areas in Tokyo, Chunhabara.

Dense crowds of people shuttled on both sides of the street, some people were wearing headphones, and figurative sound waves surrounded his ears, some people were wearing popular masks, on which words such as "tough" and "wicked" were continuously displayed , and some people wearing clothes printed with certain anime idols stopped beside some service-oriented intelligent robots made of blonde lolita, asking "I'm handsome", "I'll be your husband, okay?" And so on.

Most of them are ordinary people who come here to hang out. Most of them are well-dressed and carry all kinds of things in their hands. After all, the income level of people who can live near here is not low.

The crowd blends with the surrounding neon lights, rendering a colorful Ukiyo-e painting.

until those voices sounded.

"Ding Dong~" "Di~" "Ding~".
At a certain moment, the reminder of the mobile phone message suddenly sounded one after another in the crowd, and then quite a few people stopped in their tracks.

The harmonious picture is broken, and they are the "destroyers" of this superficial good life.

The expressions of these people were surprisingly consistent, the corners of their mouths curled up, and there was an unconcealable look of excitement in their eyes, as if they had been looking forward to the sound of the voice.

Turn on the phone, click on the software, a flow chart of the evolution of beasts into humans flashed on the screen, and finally the title of "Evolution" appeared on the screen: Natural Selection, Survival of the Fittest!
"Silver-level hunting mission released!"

"Task objectives: Pink Pig, Lucky Egg, Maruko Cherry, Baker Graves, Matilda, Eggplant."

"Task completion condition: kill anyone!"

"Mission reward: level up point * 1, 30 federal currency!"

"Mission restrictions: Only members above level 5 can accept it. The time limit is half an hour. If the mission fails, the level will be reduced by 1 level. Only 20 people can accept it. The number of mission acceptors: 20/20!"

"The number of acceptors for the current task is full, please wait a moment."

"SHIT!!! Who stole my task!"

Someone kicked on the bench next to him, he just hesitated for a few seconds because he was looking at the content of the mission.

Before he could vent enough, a push message flashed on the screen again.

Another mission!
This time, without any hesitation, without even the slightest thought, he directly chose to accept.

"Congratulations on successfully accepting the gold-level hunting mission!"

"Mission target: An unknown person who is currently in Tokyo. Only photos are used as clues. He may be located near the Star Bay Hotel. The system will update his location and current status in real time."

"Task completion condition: target obliteration!"

"Mission reward: Promote to a gold member of "Evolution", 100 million federal coins!"

"Mission Restriction: Only members above level 7 can accept missions."

"Gold member! 100 million!"

Seeing the message on the screen, he could not restrain his exclamation. There were many passers-by looking at him, but he showed no embarrassment at all.

Turn the backpack to the chest, take out a box containing a few injections and put it in the pocket, put on the image mask that was hanging on the waist before, roll up the sleeves, the silver bracelet reflects the surrounding color light, the eyeballs Small and large tracking cameras are lifted into the air with the help of an overhead device that resembles a bamboo dragonfly.

Fasten the zipper on the hem of the dress, and then pull it to the top, and the raised neckline fits perfectly with the mask.

Twist the thumbs of the left and right hands downwards, and when they are lifted up, they have hooked the two rings extending from the cuffs. When they are pulled forward, a chaotic and flickering illusion fluorescent effect will appear on the surface of the clothes from the hem to the top. In the end, it turned into a colorful skull and skeleton printed on the body, shining brightly.

He was standing in the very center of the street, facing the floating camera that had already started shooting, with his hands open towards the night sky, doing some kind of prayer movements that seemed a little neurotic to others.

The image mask is also activated at this time, and after the orange streamer ripples, only two words are finally displayed:
handsome!

"Friends, the gold-level hunting mission is about to start, now let's confirm the latest location of the target."

"Friend, you look very handsome in a mask, can you lend me a play?"

Someone pressed the shoulder of the man who was about to move, and asked very gently.

The overwhelmed crunching of the shoulder blades proved that the man was not as gentle as he appeared to be.

"The real-time positioning system is enabled, the target is far away from you. You have found the target, and the positioning is suspended!"

goo~
The sound of swallowing saliva is clearly audible
(End of this chapter)