Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

“(……?)”

Listen to live? Climb to the top?

Liga felt confused.

She clicked in.

When she went in, the live show had just ended.

The last line of the lyrics is:

【black birthday】.

"(black birthday?)"

“(Whose song is this?)”

Liga searched for the song on the Internet.

“(The total amount of regeneration is very small... I only found some screen recordings of this live broadcast...)”

"A new band?"

Liga talked to herself.

“…It seems not.”

"I can't find any introduction, and there's nothing..."

at this time.

“This is a puzzle!!!”

In the live broadcast, the host with exaggerated appearance said loudly.

The comments were all saying things like "there are words" and "open the box".

"... guessing game? Is this a code?"

Liga frowned.

But soon, it relaxed again.

In the comments in the live broadcast room, it seems that not many people are interested in solving the puzzle.

Some people started arguing.

The live streamer also looked panicked because he couldn't solve the mystery.

"Eh……"

Liga looked at the conference standby screen shown in the live broadcast and thought about it.

"It seems interesting."

Chapter 151 Throwing the [Library Use] Skill

The chat content in [Xiao Ai’s Ai Ai Channel] is becoming more and more chaotic and has no value anymore.

Liga began to do her own research.

The key words are five.

[Life and Death], [France], [Philosophical Rebirth], [Vision], [Year of Birth].

"(Contains all the hints.)"

She turned on the brain machine.

The song titled "Black Birthday" that I just downloaded from the Internet has been recorded in it.

"..."

Liga clicked on loop playback.

The music began to sound in her cranial cavity through the bone conduction headphones.

To the disturbing accompaniment, Liga searched for the meaning behind these words.

She first opened the free Internet key magnet link search engine.

"Life and Death, France..."

She typed in all five words.

A rough search turned up a lot of irrelevant stuff.

"Invalid information."

Need to change thinking.

Search for cases where they appear on the same intro page?

...can't find any useful content.

What about searches that appear in the same book?

"Or not……"

Liga looked at the messy search results on the interface and talked to herself.

Cyber ​​informatization brings advantages as well as disadvantages.

The huge amount of spam makes ambiguous words hide under the thick layer of data.

However, this is the best thing for Liga.

"(Because, if it is a kind of computing power decoding puzzle that can be calculated by simply changing to a more advanced algorithm plug-in, I will definitely not be as good as those who have the money to install [Decoder III], [Wizard's Book V2] or even [Prize Guess P890] algorithm plug-in.)"

Liga realized that this required some thinking.

"..."

This made her smile slightly.

[Life and Death], [France], [Philosophical Rebirth], [Vision], [Year of Birth].

Knowing which words to start with can greatly speed up your search process.

"...[Rebirth in philosophy]." Liga murmured.

[Born and Died], [France] and [Year of Birth] are all too broad.

[Hallucination] Still can't find the direction - is it a hallucination? Is it a metaphor?

[Philosophical rebirth] is the two words [philosophy] and [rebirth] put together.

The combination of the two of them, although not rare... is much rarer than the combination of [Life and Death] and [Year of Birth].

"(This is a specific reference.)"

It is the most directional word among these five words.

Liga planned to go one step further and use another word to further strengthen the direction of "philosophical rebirth".

That is [year of birth].

This means that the object to be searched is a person.

"(It could also be an object that has been personified... Actually, what we need to find is the date of its appearance...)"

But at least, it is definitely something that has a "definite appearance date."

Moreover, since the concept of a country like "France" was mentioned, it is most likely modern.

Modern, dated things, associated with a philosophical rebirth.

There were only three types of things that Liga could think of.

The first type is a human being, and a philosopher at that. He proposed the concept of "philosophical rebirth".

In the second, a well-known concept—perhaps a person or event—is given new meaning and has a "philosophical rebirth."

The third is a doctrine, the idea of ​​which consists in giving something a "philosophical new life".

"The rebirth of philosophy... humanities and social sciences... modern times... people... or..."

Liga began to narrow her search and increase the number of search engines she used.

She abandoned the commonly used Internet keyword magnet link engine, filtered out the data engines used to search for cyber plug-ins and cyber discs, and added a collection search engine connected to the National Digital Library of Japan.

She had thought she would need to search longer.

But surprisingly...

"...?"

She immediately identified the suspect.

After using the library's collection search engine, Liga found a book with the same name as the keyword.

"A New Life in Philosophy".

A work by the philosopher Charles Bonnet, published in Geneva in 1769.

The content mainly revolves around the philosophical idea of ​​"how will people define what makes them human under the tide of the new era".

"(…Could it be him?)"

The first assumption.

The object is a person, and a philosopher at that.

Type, [Charles Bonnet], [France].

"(……Um……)"

Bonnet was from Geneva, Switzerland, but his family came from France. During the religious wars in the 16th century, the St. Bartholomew Massacre occurred in France, and Bonnet's family had to flee to Geneva due to religious persecution.

“(It can be said to be right or wrong.)” Liga thought.

Next keyword.

Charles Bonnet, Life and Death.

“…There is content.”

Bonnet published his work "An Essay on Psychology" anonymously in London in 1755.

This work is included in the "Eighteenth Century Series, Volume 7, Life and Death" by the National Digital Library of Japan.

"This is related...right?"

The song of [Black Birthday] echoed in Liga's ears.

The fast-paced drum beats seemed to drive Liga's heartbeat.

Every word is ambiguous.

Every word tempted her to explore deeper.

“(A person who sets questions with a bad taste.)”

Liga seemed to be able to feel that the person who asked the question was standing behind her, chuckling and examining her.

Should I say it's unpleasant?

"(……No.)"

Strangely, Liga doesn't think so.

Type, [Charles Bonnet], [Vision].

【Vision】Cannot find...

"……etc."

There is a small record of [hallucination disease].

"I remember..." Liga muttered to herself, typing new characters on her brain machine, "The scientific name of visual hallucination is... visual hallucination..."

After replacing the nouns with medical terms, search the National Medical University Online Medical Database.

"Have it!"