Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Empty and quiet.

unmanned.

(Still, here I am.)

Liga walked in slowly. She thought.

“(Others are looking for it, too.)”

Da da.

Liga's own footsteps echoed on the tiled floor.

“(Perhaps, the person who planned this event is here…)”

Liga walked deeper.

"(Although I have no idea what kind of activity this is——)"

Liga walked to the stairs.

at this time.

"..."

She heard a noise coming from underground.

A spooky and eerie prelude.

It seemed to be there and not there, like dark bubbles gushing out from deep underground.

"..."

Liga glanced at her brain clock.

Exactly 19:00.

I found it myself, very quickly.

It was still very early.

It seems that no one else has come yet.

But the entrance to the basement was already open.

Liga walked down slowly.

Looking inside through the entrance door -

"—!"

What Liga witnessed was.

The stage of girls wearing masks.

Mysterious band.

Five people.

Wearing gothic style clothing.

Just standing on the stage.

Performance.

The next moment.

The music was enhanced.

The sound waves washed over.

Liga felt her heart beating violently.

Captured.

Falling for it.

For that figure.

For that music.

The fingertips trembled.

Liga subconsciously opened her eye socket implant and wanted to film the person on the stage -

then.

An icon appeared in her artificial eye.

It’s the same icon as the one on the box received by the live streamer Xiao Ai.

then.

The brain-computer prompts that a software called [Mujina Carnival] has been downloaded into Liga's brain-computer.

"!"

what! ?

Virus!?

This scanning access that ignored the network security protocol suddenly made Liga wake up.

She broke out in a cold sweat on her back.

Bad, bad, bad—

Brain burning, brain-machine separation, and organ trafficking.

In a suspicious place like this, this kind of thing could easily happen!

I am too involved!

We have come to a place that is too dangerous!

I don't know what will happen next.

At this time, there was a voice behind me.

"!"

It seems that someone else has come——

Liga turned around immediately.

She ran up the stairs.

"—!"

It's too dangerous here!

She wants to leave quickly——

Liga ran past the unknown newcomers.

The music echoed behind her.

She ran forward desperately, panting - she ran out of the abandoned house, and then ran all the way out of the abandoned mansions -

No one pursued her.

When Liga stopped exhausted on the street lamps outside the abandoned mansions.

She just found out.

Laughing to myself.

That music...

She should not be able to hear it anymore, but she always felt that it was still echoing in her ears.

……

The next day.

on Monday.

School day.

Lezhicheng No. 2 High School.

Some students complained about the end of the weekend.

There are some classmates.

Care about other things.

"Is there a strange gathering in the abandoned mansions?"

In the corridor, Shizono Runa held up her phone and looked at her friend, Liga, who had dark circles under her eyes and looked flustered. She frowned and said:

"Anyway, it's some company's event for marketing purposes, right?"

She smiled and said, "After all, Liga always has some wonderful ideas."

"no!"

In front of Runa, Liga tried to explain:

"It's really unusual! It's like... some kind of ritual... a gathering like that!"

Liga said anxiously: "I hope Runa can come and see it! I can't make a good judgment alone--"

"I don't want to." Runa looked at her phone, seemingly uninterested in what Liga said. "Liga found something interesting, isn't that a good thing?"

"But--"

"You can find someone else to go with you." Runa's attention was on her phone. She said, "Forget it. I still have to participate in the activities of the [Internet Roaming] Club."

"..."

Liga wanted to show Runa the strange software downloaded into her computer, but she stopped because Runa didn't take the conversation seriously.

"Tsk."

Liga clicked her tongue.

"Eh?"

Runa noticed the change in Liga's attitude - she turned her head -

"Forget it!" Liga said, raising her voice, "I'll go alone!"

Then, she said:

"I'm sorry. Thank you for your understanding."

After saying these two words, Liga turned her back and left.

Chapter 35: The Lost Man's Meeting ( Rewards and More)

Tower luxury apartment.

45 floors.

Nagasaki House.

The sunlight shines into the house through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows.

on the sofa.

The four members of MyGO!!!!!!, Tomo, Aine, Ryuna, and Riki, were sitting scattered around.

Deng lowered his head and wrote something in a notebook.

Aiyin was holding her ESP guitar, practicing with her eye socket implant on - although it looked more like she was watching a video projected on her retina through video software.

Lenai was also playing guitar.

Unlike Aine, she was really practicing. Her fingers brushed across the strings, making a "buzzing" sound.

Li Xi crossed his feet and was lost in thought.

Click.