Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

The van disappeared into traffic.

Soon, it blended in with all the other vehicles.

……

"Hmm! This fresh, unpleasant smell of rush hour exhaust!"

On the van.

Miao Meng stuck his head out from the traffic and let out a long breath.

"This is a city where some people go to work in the early hours of the morning! This is a terrible work and rest schedule where not only some people go to work, but also some people get off work! The tired faces of passers-by, the dazzling advertising airships, the advertising songs that start playing early in the morning, and the electronic advertising images posted on overpasses, buildings, streets and vehicles!"

Miao Meng smiled and said loudly:

"City of Joy! Hahaha—I'm back!"

“Isn’t [Phase 2 of Reclamation Land] considered the City of Joy?”

Hai Ling, who was holding the steering wheel in front of Miao Meng, asked.

She had just been driving for nearly an hour on a night road where gunfire was raging.

However, she still held the steering wheel with a calm expression, as if she had just driven the car out of the garage.

"The area under construction doesn't feel like the City of Joy at all!" Miao Meng shouted, "The only people suitable to survive there are refugees from the Bad Land, not urban trendsetters like me!"

"is it?"

Hai Ling turned the steering wheel.

[Columbus] A freight van merged into the ramp and drove onto the third ring road of the City of Joy.

On the electronic vehicle driving meter, the green light displayed [Towards Industrial Area: 87km].

"Yeah yeah!"

Meow Dream called out.

"The network and electricity conditions in there are very poor! The Super Dream Workstation cannot be installed... It doesn't show my excellence at all! I can only shoot some ordinary films - and I was ordered to cut because I said too much -"

At this moment, Miao Meng glanced at Xiangzi who was sitting in the passenger seat of the van.

"—"

She immediately fell silent.

However, Xiangzi didn't say anything. She just looked out the window.

So, Miao Meng became bolder and continued.

"——That's not exciting at all!" She said, "If I have the chance, I want to put some R techniques on my channel! That way, I'm sure many people will learn——"

“Your channel will be blocked.”

Hai Ling said while steering the wheel.

"Oh! Blurs, external links, hidden codes!" Miao Meng said, "I learned about these when I first started the channel! There are plenty of ways!"

“Consider risk decisions from the beginning.”

"Hey, we have to make risky decisions, right?"

Miao Meng looked at Xiangzi diagonally in front of her.

"..."

Xiangzi was still looking at the moving vehicles.

Chapter 1: Your House is Really Big (6k Blade Extra)

Xiangzi finally accepted the invitation from Afterglow's "big shot", Aoba Moka.

"Come to my house and sit down."

Mocha is so inviting to Xiangzi.

But of course, the meaning behind her words could not be as harmless as this one.

According to the Lezhicheng online chat board, Aoba Moka is Afterglow's military advisor.

The title of "military advisor" means that she is responsible for making decisions in the band.

And, it's done pretty well.

“(The one who makes the decision.)”

Xiangzi himself is also a decision maker.

She knows what the so-called "decision makers" do specifically.

What decision makers need to do is to sort out the complex situations currently on the table, and then try to remove themselves from each situation and look at every individual involved in each complex situation as a relatively objective outsider.

What decision makers are waiting for is not the development of "events".

Those who make decisions are waiting for changes in the “individual”.

As long as individuals are involved in the situation, their strength will be consumed, just like children's spinning tops, colliding with each other in a huge duel disk.

What decision makers need to do is always put themselves and their forces in the position of "predators".

They wait for the moment when the power of a certain individual wanes.

Then enter.

"..."

After the first step into [Phase 2 of Reclamation Land] failed to achieve the expected results, Ave Mujica now has no ability to break through the status quo and is in a rather passive situation.

in other words.

Ave Mujica is now the "prey".

Mocha entered the game at this time because he took advantage of Ave Mujica's urgent need for a foreign aid to make a breakthrough.

“(Seeing that this olive branch was extended at this time, Ave Mujica had almost no choice but to accept it…)”

Xiangzi thought of this.

But she would not say "no" to the invitation just because she saw this.

"..."

Xiangzi looked at the cars coming and going outside the window.

Ave Mujica is in desperate need of opportunity.

Even if the opportunity was placed on the edge of an abyss, Xiangzi would step forward to take it.

Is the location indicated by the invitation Mocha handed over heaven or hell?

No matter which one——

For Xiangzi now, she has to dress up for every occasion.

……

After driving for nearly two hours, the sky was completely bright.

Xiangzi, Hailing and Miaomeng got off the third ring road of Lezhi City and entered the industrial area.

Many factories stand on both sides of the road.

In some factories it was unclear whether they were in operation, but in others the sound of large machinery could clearly be heard.

【No threat.】

For the last time, Xiangzi sent his safety time indicator to Chuhua and Mu who were on standby.

Both of them actually said they would come to attend this meeting.

However, Xiangzi still has concerns about whether to expose the fact that he has debuted artists and people from the Wakaba family in front of Afterglow's military advisor, whose attitude is not yet clear.

"You wait for my news."

She rejected both of them.

Xiangzi planned to wait until the first meeting - although he didn't know if there would be another one, he would just call it the first one - was over before making a decision.

[Columbus] A freight van drove into the alley between the factory buildings.

After another ten minutes, we arrived at our destination.

This is a large factory.

The factory building was not put into use.

Its previous owner must have moved away. Currently, there is a large electronic signboard with the words "Factory for Rent" hanging on the door.

At the factory gate.

“Ah~ hoo~”

Xiangzi saw Aoba Mocha who was waving with a smile.

Xiangzi originally thought that Mocha's newsboy cap and coat were a disguise he wore to infiltrate [Phase 2 of Reclamation New Land].

But now it seems that is not the case.

She was wearing that today too.

"(…She seems to like this dress very much!)"

Miao Meng was shocked in his brain.

Miao Meng seemed to be not so...satisfied with the fashion sense of this [big shot].

But she didn't dare point it out to him.

"Drive inside and park in the basement under the big building~"

Mocha waved and directed at the door.

"Keep going straight and stop at the innermost side."

The way she dressed and her actions made her look like a young factory doorman.

"..."

Hailing glanced in Xiangzi's direction and asked with her eyes, "Are you just accepting my guidance?"

Xiangzi nodded.

So, Hai Ling steered the vehicle forward.

Click, click.

The wheels hit the speed bump twice and slowly drove into the entrance of the basement.

This is an abandoned factory area and there are no lights on in the basement.

It was pitch black ahead.

So, Hai Ling turned on the headlights of the Columbus freight van.

In the light, the end of the basement was empty with only one car parked there.

It was a black and red [Goodla Type 66 "Cthulhu"].

Very similar to the paint job that Ave Mujica did on the [Columbus] freight van.

But the red color used in the paint scheme of Ave Mujica is more like burgundy, while the red color used in the paint scheme of this [Gudra Type 66 "Cthulhu"] is closer to blood red.

"(Aoba Moka's car?)"

Xiangzi thought.

The [Columbus] cargo van slid forward and stopped in another parking space three spaces away from the [Goodla Type 66 "Cthulhu"].

Stop, apply the handbrake, and turn off the engine.

The three people got out of the car.

Along with the bang, bang sound of the car door closing, there was also the sound of footsteps echoing in the empty basement.