Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

The five people from Ave Mujica got into their [Columbus] van.

Ignite, start, fuel——

Nothing special happened.

The van drove away along the path.

but.

Or at the same time.

wealthy suburb.

Ground-level multi-storey integrated parking lot, [Space].

At the dim entrance, the green fee sign flickered.

One by one, autonomous vehicles passed the side of the toll sign and drove into the parking lot in an orderly manner.

In order to facilitate management and better plan the functions of urban land, Lezhicheng, like all other cyber metropolises, adopts a centralized parking system.

All vehicles will automatically drive back to several integrated parking lots in the area and park together after their owners get off.

Generally speaking, parking lots are fully automated and managed without any human intervention.

However, today...

Someone sneaked in here.

【Space】, 9th floor.

In the darkness, three figures were moving around a moon-white [Curtis V5000].

"...Hey! Get down quickly...hurry up! My hacking time is limited - I'll call the police!"

"Ouch! Don't rush me! I'm already trying my best to act! This is a luxury car - I have to be careful, or else the central control sensor will be triggered!"

"Anyway, hurry up, hurry up--"

"Shh! Both of you keep your voices down!"

Three people were moving around the car.

In the quiet night, there was a mixture of the "crunch, crunch" sound of the cart maintenance board rolling and the slight sound of guns colliding with each other.

Here, they seem to be the only ones...

...Not necessarily.

Outside the multi-storey integrated car park.

Across the street is another 8-story building.

top.

A dark figure lying on the water tower moved.

“…Haha…”

The dark figure yawned softly.

Followed by.

"?"

The shadow seemed to notice something.

The artificial eyes, one blue and one gold, blinked and opened in the dark.

Chapter 37: Yao Lenai ( rewards plus more)

The legendary middleman built a poetry boat throughout his life and always believed in two sentences.

“When you have something that you know you’re willing to sacrifice your life for, you either die or become someone great.”

“And when you have a second one like that, it’s time to retire.”

She has said this to many people.

Her partner, her fellow mercenaries, her bandmates, her subordinates...

And when she first saw her granddaughter, Kaname Lenai, she knew.

This time, it's her turn.

……

There used to be a very old bar in the City of Music.

【SPACE】.

It existed when the City of Music was still called the Tokyo Core Circle.

It was the first bar in Japan to follow the example of Night City in the United States and implement the three-in-one business model of [bar-livehouse-underground mercenary mission center]. For a long time, it was also the only bar in Tokyo that did so.

Its owner is the legendary middleman, Ms. Tsuzuki Poetry Ship.

She is a lady with white hair and wrinkles on her face, but still in good health.

No one knew how old she was.

Everyone only knows two things.

The first piece.

In the City of Music, everyone who lives to her age is a legend.

the second one.

Among the seven bands today, the original five bands all started out in her SPACE and reached the top.

The experience of Tsuzuki's poetry ship is as tortuous and bizarre as that of any person worthy of being called a "legend".

She seemed to have done it all.

Before becoming a middleman, she was a vagrant, a mercenary, a car factory owner, a guitarist, and a rock singer.

There are rumors that the current main development direction of Lezhicheng is bands, and it has become the "City of Bands" because she proposed cooperation to the Toyokawa family and finally completed it together.

The authenticity of this incident cannot be verified now.

But what everyone can be sure of is that Tsuzuki Shisen is an incredible "big shot".

At its peak, her middleman business covered three major areas: today's central area, wealthy area and Kabuki area.

It can be said that it is the leader in the city of music.

However, no matter how great a person is, he cannot defeat time.

Two years ago, Tsuzuki Shisen announced his retirement.

She closed [SPACE] and said, "It's up to the young people to take over from now on." She took the initiative to cooperate with the joint multi-story parking lot plan of the central area and the wealthy area, and converted the [SPACE] bar into the current [Space Multi-story Parking Lot].

but.

Few people know the real reason why Tsuzuki Shisen chose to retire at this time.

Only a very, very small number of people who know the situation know about it.

The reason she retired at this time was because her granddaughter, Le Nai, passed the bone age closure test.

This means that Lenai's growth and development has been basically completed. In the future, there will be no significant changes in physiological indicators.

At the same time, Lenai's [Reaction] reached the [Extraordinary] level of 13 points.

...has not yet reached the most appropriate [Reaction: 15].

But it’s just “partial use”, which is enough.

These two things that happened to Le Na made Tsuzuki Shifune do something she had decided to do many years ago.

Tsuzuki Shisen dismantled the spinal prosthesis [Sentisan Westin Type 4] that had accompanied her for many years.

And installed it on my granddaughter's spine.

……

The name of Rakuna was given by Tsuzuki Poetry Ship.

Beautiful music.

At the same time, it means "happiness".

The two most beautiful things in this world.

The first time he saw his granddaughter, Tsuzuki Shifune wanted to give her everything in the world, including these two things.

What is there in this world?

Money, deals, stagnation, dirtiness, tall buildings, bright lights, financial bubbles, crushed people and the dregs of humanity…

Everyone says this is the worst of times.

Because fairness and rules are non-existent, the rich oppress the people below them endlessly. And they themselves are just in a paralyzed carnival, waiting for the ridiculous death that will come one day.

From top to bottom, no one can achieve happiness.

However, Tsuzuki Poetry Ship has a different opinion.

Now is the cyber age.

Right next to us, the fruits of human wisdom are as numerous as garbage. Various high-tech equipment, computers with super computing power, multifunctional buildings that can meet any needs of human beings, floating cars, AI, combat drugs that allow people to easily break through the limits of the human body, prosthetic doctors who can cyber-transform your body into any desired appearance, chrome rock, synthetic endorphins, information, the Internet, wanderers, rock youth...

When you are hungry, there is something to eat; when you are tired, there is a place to sleep.

Food, clothing, housing, transportation, joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.

This era has everything.

This era is the greatest playground in human history so far.

No one is enjoying it, though.

Everyone is in pain.

That’s because we are “human beings”.

As a human being, you will worry about gains and losses because of capital, internal friction and social Darwin's law.

There will be pain, despair and anxiety.

There is nothing wrong with the cyberpunk era.

It just wasn’t for “people”.

Human beings have human nature.

If you have human nature, you will resist mechanical transformation, resist brain surgery, feel uneasy about the unstable status quo, and feel afraid of having no future...

Society in Darwin.

Humanity will suffer because of Darwinism.

…but animals don’t.

A good middleman always knows how to make bold choices.

Duzhu Shichuan was well aware of this.

She did not raise her granddaughter as a human being.

In this huge playground of the whole world, countless simple entertainments are taking place.

Including a game called "Fighting".

Only individuals who are strong enough can enjoy it.

The strength of an individual comes from his prosthesis.

However, if people install too many prosthetics, their humanity will be greatly reduced, and they will not be able to distinguish the boundaries of their "self", thus suffering from cyberpsychosis.

Well, from the very beginning, we shouldn’t have the concept of “human nature”.

In this way, no matter how many times he had undergone physical transformation, how many deep dives he had conducted, how many people had died around him, and how many people he had killed...