Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Chapter 14: Beauty, Help Me

In the bar in the early morning, soothing music was playing.

The arrangement is very special. The bass drum and bass are placed at the bottom of the track. Although it is a soothing song, the layers are clear.

The walls are decorated with large-format dark posters, mostly of Roselia, and there are also some fluorescent fuchsia and pink decorative pieces extending from the corners.

Xiangzi walked down the stairs and pushed aside the sequined bead curtain in front of him.

There were not many customers, so only the dimmest of the ceiling lights were on. The colorful light sprinkled on the ground, hiding most of the bar's structure in darkness.

"(That woman...)"

Where is the lavender-haired woman who traded with the members of Roselia?

Xiangzi walked out of the stairwell quietly.

She tried to look calm and collected while looking around her.

"...!"

Have it.

The woman with lavender hair was leaning lazily at the innermost seat of the bar, fiddling with her earrings and chatting quietly with the bartender.

"Meow Meng, another big order?"

"Oh, don't be kidding me. This is a follow-up visit for the last order."

“How about a return visit?”

"same as usual--"

"(It turns out that this woman's name is Miao Meng.)"

Xiangzi pondered in his mind and turned around the bar.

She saw the woman yawn loudly.

"I'm so sleepy. I spent the whole night editing yesterday's video! I hope it can sell for a good price... Hey, I'm going to take a nap."

The woman said this and stood up and walked into the inner room.

A chance to be alone.

Xiangzi noticed this immediately. She wanted to get in touch with the woman, so she circled behind the low-key and expensive half-covered sofa and followed the woman.

She followed the woman, turning one corner, and then another...

There was an empty room in front of me.

Not a single person.

"Are you following me?"

"!"

The voice came from behind.

Xiangzi turned around suddenly——

She saw the woman named Meow Meng leaning against the wall behind her, with her arms folded, her eyes narrowed, and looking her up and down.

"Where did this handsome boy come from?"

Miao Meng said with a smile.

"You're too young to go in here. Sister Lin, take him out—"

His gaze climbed up Xiangzi's body like a snake, and Xiangzi shrank back unnaturally.

She was thin and short, and at the moment, she was wearing a dirty black hoodie and a mask...

Miao Meng got close to Xiangzi.

"……Wait a moment."

Suddenly, she smiled playfully.

"It's a girl."

A hand as soft as boneless touched Xiangzi's cheek.

The smooth touch gave Xiangzi goose bumps on his back.

"Where did you come from?"

A gentle voice asked softly in Xiangzi's ear.

"What do you want to do here?"

“…I’m not here to do that.”

Xiangzi calmed down and stood upright. She said:

"I'm here to trade with you."

Miao Meng was stunned for a moment.

Suddenly, she burst out laughing.

The human body temperature disappeared and she left Xiangzi's body.

“Still a guest.”

She said with a smile.

"Sit down and have a drink?"

……

【Red Hand】

【Black lace】

【Flying Piglet】.

Expensive drinks were brought to the table and drunk carelessly, and soon the table was piled with empty glasses.

Of course, it was all drunk by the woman in front of me.

"(Net point expensive.)"

Xiangzi tried hard not to keep her eyes on the bill, but the numbers she caught a glimpse of out of the corner of her eye still made her feel a pang of pain.

A few small glasses of wine cost thousands of dollars.

Of course, Xiangzi paid for everything.

It is an unwritten rule that those who do business should pay for the drinks, and Xiangzi has to abide by it here.

"(……ah……)"

She just has no money.

Xiangzi took 30,000 yuan from the kidney-stripping man.

The thirty thousand yuan is all her current wealth.

All of it was spent while drinking, then...

Xiangzi glanced at Miao Meng who was sitting opposite him.

"Hmph~"

Miao Meng picked up another expensive cocktail with vanilla in it and tasted it slowly in a good mood.

"Girl, do you know? Jeffrey didn't even mix this drink for me! He said it was too expensive - he's our bartender here! He's stingy - not even as generous as you, little girl!"

"(This guy has been talking nonsense since just now.)"

Xiangzi was secretly a little annoyed.

It was obvious that the other party didn't take her seriously.

Xiangzi raised his elbow and hugged his other upper arm.

"Now, we can talk about the deal."

she says.

Miao Meng's eyes slid over Xiangzi.

"Yeah, okay. What are you selling?"

"You can't tell it outside."

Xiangzi gestured with his eyes to the hall where the two of them were.

There were not many people in the bar in the morning, but there was still a bartender, drunk regulars, and a camera with a recording function.

"Let's get a private room."

"Hmm~?"

Miao Meng's smile became even more intense.

"..."

Xiangzi really hated the way this woman laughed. It was as if she was treating her as prey, or as if she was licking her skin inch by inch with her tongue.

If she had a choice, she didn't want to do business with this woman named Miao Meng at all.

But now, she had to sell that damn chip.

She could only endure it.

“Only important things need to be traded there…”

Meow Meng laughed.

"I have an 'important thing' right before my eyes. But I don't think you are here to sell her."

"What else can you offer?"

"The private rooms here...are not open casually."

"There's definitely value in letting you open a box, but I can't say here."

Xiangzi insisted.

"You have to go in first, then I can show you."

"Oh?"

Miao Meng's gaze slid back from the other side.

Xiangzi thought that she had discovered that she was not a rich man.

"Something that cannot be seen in public?"

"..."

"Then please go back~"

Crossing one leg over the other, Meow Meng waved her hand.

"A girl of unknown origin, bringing with her things of unknown origin. We have to make a living here too... dangerous things like that cannot be bought and sold casually. It would be troublesome if they came to our door, and I still have to make a living here."

She stood up and said.

"I won't take it. You can find someone else. Thank you for the wine. But I'm sorry. After all, you are not a member here... Just consider the wine as the fee for applying for the transaction."

But Xiangzi just sat there without moving.

"Make a deal with me, you won't regret it."

Xiangzi looked at Miao Meng and said.

"…Why should I take this risk?"

Miao Meng was right. Xiangzi also knew that from Miao Meng's perspective, there was no need to take this risk.

But Xiangzi had to take a risk.

"The small black rod behind your ear is a light-converting radiometer." Xiangzi said word by word, "below your brain-computer interface, there are radial wheels."