Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

As she walked out of the intersection and looked at the crowd around the venue, Rika Ashida thought.

……

The live streamer Xiao Ai found the website by solving the puzzle in a big box.

A website with only two lines of small red text.

【-regeneration-】

【who I am? 】

And a dialog box allowing brain-computer access.

That day, when I saw this puzzle appear.

The strange feeling of attraction that had been welling up in Liga's chest had become stronger these days.

"(Maybe it's an illusion.)"

she said to herself.

At first, she, like other people who accessed the website, typed in answers such as "AI", "bionic man", and "streaming database".

But the further you write.

The more she listened, the more she felt out of place.

wrong.

These answers are incorrect.

This thought began to emerge.

At first, it was just a faint idea.

But gradually, it became impossible to ignore.

“(Why can dialog boxes be connected to brain-computer input?)”

Liga began to think about this problem.

“(Is there any need to use a computer just to input text?)”

“(As expected, this situation is——)”

Content that must be typed using the brain-computer.

What is it?

Liga kept thinking.

Then, the answer was found.

Lezhicheng identity account ID.

This content can only be typed through brain-computer.

And, it really only consists of English and numbers.

"..."

Connect the website to the brain-computer, and then enter your [Lezhicheng Identity Account ID] into the dialog box.

When this crazy idea came into her mind, Liga scared herself.

Connect to the brain-computer on an unknown website and then enter your identity account ID?

"it's not good."

It’s no joke when a virus gets into your brain.

Liga hesitated.

That day, she didn't input.

But the next day.

There was no way this incident could leave her mind.

Day three.

When Liga came back from school, she fell on the bed.

In the days when there is no hope.

Even despair is better than a slow sinking.

Liga opened the website.

Then, she connected her [Lezhicheng Identity Account ID] to the interface.

sand.

No reaction.

Liga almost thought she was wrong.

but……

When she looked back at her brain-computer records, she found a small black dot there.

Just now, a black screen popped up on the website.

Liga opens it.

It was a completely black picture.

There are two small red dots on it.

"...interference image...?"

Liga slowly overlapped the two dots.

Text appeared on the screen.

【9月26日18:00-21:00】。

Time is this Zhoutian.

There is also a Google Maps coordinates.

Liga copied the coordinates.

Then she opened the coordinates on her map.

The map shows that the coordinates are near the third park of Lezhicheng.

It is right in the middle of a large group of Western-style buildings.

"..."

Liga stared at the image.

……

Then, now.

Liga is here.

In the middle of the group of foreign-style buildings, a number of wandering black shadows have gathered near the coordinates given by the website.

“(Someone really came…)”

Lijia tightened the hood string of her black sweatshirt and felt a little nervous.

Such a strange gathering.

I really came.

She looked around.

I don't know what kind of people are around here.

Everything is hidden in the darkness.

"(but……)"

To Liga's surprise, she didn't see many people with severe cyber-transformation.

Basically, the people wandering around are still "human-shaped".

Moreover, he is relatively thin.

Not like a kid from a corporate family, or a better family.

“(Are there mostly young people?)”

Liga looked at all this.

At the same time, also look at the time.

It is now 17:58 in the evening.

It was completely dark.

It is less than two minutes until the 18:00 written on the website.

"(what happens?)"

Liga hid in a relatively peripheral position cautiously and carefully.

She didn't know what would happen next.

It could be a trap - there could be a terrorist attack - there could be a large-scale hacking operation - like the 1962 Anteater anti-invasion rally in Wales -

But Liga didn't leave.

17:59 pm.

18:00 pm.

"!"

Liga heard the music.

Music sounded among the abandoned mansions.

【Black Birthday】.

This was the first song Liga had ever heard and the first song the band had ever sung.

The crowd began to move.

Everyone started walking towards the building complex.

"—"

Liga stood at the back.

From her, look forward.

The scene before him looked unusual.

These people who came here.

The black figure surges in the darkness.

They were like the ghosts of the dead, bewitched by soul-exorcising music.

"..."

Liga felt a little hesitant about whether to move forward.

She almost turned back and left.

but why?

She didn't move.

She stopped there.

The crowd gradually merged into the group of western-style buildings.

There are fewer and fewer people left outside.

But the music still played.

Like.