Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

The side shed roared.

Decorative columns made of foam and PVC material fell down, and the soft velvet steps were pushed aside.

The stage's staging area shook and collapsed.

This was not done by Xiangzi.

A tray of the same construction as the integrated tray that lifts the instrument up to the tabletop rises from below.

then.

Xiangzi saw the metal shell.

A giant steel machine pushed open the stage area from below.

That's a hovercraft.

"—"

Hello, Happy World! They actually hid a huge floating car under the stage!

The hovercraft began to rise, and as it rose, the huge power wind blew away everything around it.

Heartbeats jumped onto the hovercraft and she grabbed the handle on the edge of the hovercraft.

In addition to Michelle, the members of Hello, Happy World! also jumped into the hovercraft one after another. Ikumi jumped in first, Kanon stumbled, and Xun looked calm, but her face was actually a little pale.

"Michelle!" the heart shouted.

"—"

Michelle Bear moved - you couldn't tell its expression from its appearance -

It let go of Xiangzi.

"!"

The four members of Ave Mujica, who had been nearby and on guard against the situation at the moment when Xiangzi triggered the explosion, immediately intervened.

Chuhua grabbed Xiangzi. Hailing held the [Black Unicorn] in front of the two of them. Miaomeng and Hemu followed closely behind, one on the left and one on the right.

Bang.

Two flames appeared from Michelle Bear's feet.

Its external proliferation power feet vibrated, propelling it upwards.

It followed the Hello, Happy World! hovercraft.

"Oblivionis!"

Xin grabbed the side of the hovercraft, her long golden hair dancing in the wind. She stretched out her hand and waved at the unoccupied Phase 2 of the reclamation land behind the flames.

She pushed the stage open as the hovercraft rose above her, and said loudly with the roar of the engine:

"You know why I didn't make this into Michelle 2!"

She smiled in the wind.

“Because [Reclamation Land Phase 2] will be a better playground than [Michelle Park Phase 2]!”

“Where there is a smile, there is a playground!”

“But the smiles a city can provide are limited!” she shouted, “because the land is limited, the jobs are limited, and the ecological niches are limited!”

Xin looked towards Xiangzi who was still standing on the stage.

"Humans are just like that!" She laughed and said loudly, "Always moving forward, always exploring... Only when we are stimulated by new things can we be happy!"

"Then increase it!"

"Increase the area of ​​the city!"

“A new city district brings everything new!”

The hovercraft rose higher and higher.

With a big smile on her face, she loudly declared:

“[Michelle Park] is the world’s playground!”

"And [Phase 2 of Reclamation Land]..."

“[Phase 2 of Reclamation Land] is the playground of the City of Joy!”

She stretched out her hands.

“The opening was also a surprise – a surprise that no one, including me, could have predicted! This is Wonderland!”

She laughed loudly.

"Let's play here!"

“Self, personality, charm—spend everything you can and everything you can’t, and have fun here!”

"Oblivionis!"

Xin called out Xiangzi's name with a smile.

"Do you want to be the leader here?" she shouted.

"!" Xiangzi's heart skipped a beat.

I didn't agree before, so what are you doing now?

Xiangzi raised his neck affected by the neurotoxin with difficulty.

The heart that had already risen to the sky was laughing - of course - even if you didn't look, you could hear her undisguised smile -

"Ha ha!"

Heart said:

"It's not my decision whether you want to be a leader or not!"

"I won't tell you who my neighbor is!"

"Because - it's definitely free competition, it's more fun!"

"This land is not mine anymore! It belongs to the City of Joy!"

"It will choose its owner by itself!"

"Those who want it can take it! Those who want to fight for it can fight for it! Some are happy, some are crying, the joy is so exciting! Worse than death, disability, numbness, pain, oppression, loss... there is nothing worse than never having a smile!"

Now Xiangzi realized that Xin was also a madman.

No. She thought.

Yukina Minato faced the sniper head-on, Aya Maruyama went in and out of the black wall and took in the AI, Chisei Shirasagi made a sniper plan...

There are many such people in this city, on the [peak].

"bring it on!"

The heart laughs briskly in the air——

"If you want something, just take it!"

"——In the 'paradise' that you opened with your own hands!"

……

The hovercraft has risen to cruising altitude.

Xin pressed his larynx with his hand and turned on the sound amplification plug-in that connected his larynx to the venue speakers.

"The last song!"

she shouted.

The floating car door opened.

On it, there are guitars, basses, drums and DJ booths.

The members of Hello, Happy World!, sit behind these instruments.

Cheerful music began to play.

Hello, Happy World! began to play in the air——their song of the same name——【Hello, Happy World!】——

below.

on the stage.

"I'll take you out."

Chuhua whispered to Xiangzi.

however.

"Do not."

Xiangzi said.

"Give me blocking and adrenaline."

Chapter 203 Gao Songdeng

Takamatsu Deng has a very good family.

My father is an employee in an electronics factory and my mother is a housewife who works part-time in marketing.

The family lived in a small low-rent apartment.

I can’t say I’m very full, but I’m not dissatisfied with my life either.

Family members should love each other.

Warm and happy.

This alone makes them better than more than 95% of the families in the City of Joy, where there is not even a single household in a building where someone has not died.

The lamp family is very good.

The strange thing is herself.

Since she was born, she has had difficulty understanding the thinking patterns of ordinary people.

She would stare at others for a long time, at the starry sky in the empty planetarium, at the discarded limbs in the instrument construction field, at the aquarium and the breeding tanks under the ocean surface that provided raw materials for cyber transformation, and she became very interested in all of this.

She will not be happy when others are happy, will not be moved when others are moved, and will not be afraid when others are afraid.

At first, her parents just thought she was "a little weird".

Even when she let those ancient threats named after insects, which had been rendered harmless by firewall upgrades, crawl through her brain, her parents did not intervene.

...until they received a complaint from the hosting agency, saying that Deng was trying to send these threatening viruses into the brains of his classmates as gifts.

The concerned mother took the lamp to see a doctor.

Expensive medical treatment has not brought any substantial solutions.

The doctors only told Deng's mother that Deng might be a child with cybernetic values.

Cyberization of values.

This is a very rare condition that occurs in children.

After the beginning of the cyber age, everyone's attention has been focused on the breakthrough evolution of artificial intelligence. But in fact, humans are also creatures that can keenly adjust themselves and evolve according to the surrounding environment.

In the cyber age, almost everyone feels pain.

in other words.

Today's "people" are not suitable for this era.

So, humans began to evolve quietly.

"Former Cybermen" who have strong social needs cannot leave offspring, while those who are insensitive to social needs and have no such needs live better and have more offspring.

After this situation iterated several times, some newborns appeared.

Some newborns have brain development much larger than normal from birth, especially the number of neurons in the prefrontal cortex reaches 1.67 times that of normal children, but the atypical pattern of the brain does not appear in the locus coeruleus located in the brainstem. This mismatch in size leads to insufficient norepinephrine concentration in the synaptic cleft of the brain, which in turn leads to insufficient LC-NE neuroregulatory capacity. Their norepinephrine secretion is greatly enhanced, and there are more channels for processing sensory input, and at the same time, there is a higher demand for LC-NE regulation. Their specific sympathetic nervous system gives them higher norepinephrine levels and lower dopamine β-hydroxylase in their plasma.