Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

The sound of MyGO!!!!! team communication came from the brain-computer.

The lamp quickly walked around the corner and disappeared at the entrance of the passage.

at the same time.

"...?"

Fourth floor underground.

far away.

The Poppin'Party band member who came alone, [Big Shot] Yamabuki Saya, looked into the depths of the corridor.

It was as if the lamp heard her footsteps.

She also heard the footsteps of the lamp.

"..."

Sha Ling looked in that direction, thoughtfully.

"(...Conduct CiRCLE's environmental analysis. When you're done, bring the report to me.)"

Sha Ling sent a brief command using brain waves in the brain-computer.

Then she moved on.

beep.

The sensor door in front of Sha Ling made a slight sound.

The light on the door turned from red to green.

The door opened.

The interior is noticeably more luxurious than the plain exterior.

Warm-toned walls and sofas, tasseled carpets, guard rooms, tea rooms...

This is the room where the important member of the Toyokawa family, the silver-faced man and his bodyguards are waiting for the meeting.

The bodyguards strictly followed the protection regulations, and their positions were not much different from when everyone left Ave Mujica. The silver-faced man was still sitting on the sofa. When he saw Sha Ling coming, he stood up from the sofa and bowed slightly.

"Awaited."

Sa Ling walked into the house and closed the door behind her.

She smiled and held out her hand, ready to shake hands with the silver-faced man.

"..."

The silver-faced man did not shake hands.

"I'm sorry, Miss Yamabuki," the man said, "Due to the special nature of this meeting, please allow me to be rude before confirming the network security agreement."

He looked at Saaya's hand.

What Sha Ling stretched out was her right hand. From the outside, it looked almost the same as a normal human hand.

But anyone who knows a little bit can tell that it is definitely not an "original" hand.

The hand has undergone a skin regrafting operation. The purpose is to cover up the soft [palm processor] implanted under the skin of the hand.

The thin processor element can do a lot of things just by being there. For example, it can call up gun data, perform ballistic coordination processing, confirm identity, and perform simple interactive transmission...

…and, sending viruses.

Sometimes, shaking hands can be a dangerous action.

This is especially true when the mission is related to the virus.

Sha Ling looked at this man and smiled slightly.

"You don't have to be so defensive."

Sha Ling said.

She reached into the brown jacket she was wearing and pulled out a small object from an inner pocket.

It was a small square column of transparent glass. Its diameter was less than three centimeters and its length was only about seven or eight centimeters. It had openings at both ends, but now, they were tightly sealed with aluminum blocks and LCD sealing glue.

"..."

The silver-faced man had no facial expression, but one could still tell from his body movements that he paused.

Because of this glass tube.

The inside of the glass tube is filled with a fluorescent green colloidal solution with sticky bubbles.

“Because the stuff is here.”

Sha Ling said to the silver-faced man.

"...This is a truly novel packaging form." The man said, "Poppin'Party has taken the application of wet-body computing processing technology to a new level."

"Daihui is always challenging herself," said Sa-ling.

Without taking any further precautions, she handed the glass tube to the man.

The man took the small tube.

"Duohui firmly believes that traditional flash memory technology needs to be upgraded." Sha Ling sat down opposite him and said, "However, she is not a fan of wireless transmission technology. Her old-fashioned romantic taste made her create this liquid USB flash drive - using colloidal clusters composed of liquid metal ions to store information. She firmly believes that this is the direction of the future: because compared with traditional USB flash drives and wireless transmission technology, this liquid USB flash drive is more suitable for use in the human brain-computer terminal. Its absorption efficiency is 200 times that of conventional brain-computer plug-in chips and video discs, and in extreme cases, it can be absorbed through subcutaneous sensor elements in other parts of the body instead of through a brain-computer interface."

"This will be a revolution," she said. "Liquid USB technology will change the street fighting and information warfare strategies that focus on destroying the enemy's brain-computer interface, making traditional anti-brain operations more difficult to execute. This technology can also be applied to the medical and information industries, and has good project prospects. However, progress in these areas is still under development..."

She raised her hand towards the silver-faced man.

"…If the Toyokawa family can offer a suitable price, Poppin'Party is also willing to jointly develop this technology with the Toyokawa family."

"But this time..." She smiled.

“You can start by considering what’s encapsulated here.”

"This is my first time dealing with data in this encapsulated form," the silver-faced man said. "Please allow me to spend more time on the network security scan."

Sa Ling made a "please" gesture.

The silver-faced man looked at the object in his hand. There were faint lines on the side of his silver face.

Sha Ling sat quietly in front of him and waited.

"..."

At this moment.

A message came into her brain.

It was sent by fellow Poppin'Party member, bassist Satomi Ushigome. Her profile picture is a chocolate snail.

Sha Ling was a little surprised.

Because she just issued the command and called the AI ​​of Poppin'Party's main server instead of the administrator of the main server.

[Sa Ling: Rimi, what's wrong? ]

[Sa Ling: The live should still have more than an hour, right? I'll go over after I finish here. ]

[Satomi:...No...]

[Satomi: It’s CiRCLE’s environmental analysis report.]

[Satomi: There is something I need to confirm...]

Chapter 261: Emergency

Rimi personally sent the environmental analysis report to Sa-ling.

Sha Ling rolled her eyes and glanced over briefly.

The number of people present at the live event, the signal conditions at each location, the equipment conditions, the security conditions...

Basically everything is normal.

There were only a few reports of signal issues with equipment. All were minor.

but……

There are two points of attention, which were marked by Rimi.

One is the processing record of the [venue notification channel].

Some performers reported that their companions had mistakenly entered the employee passage and were locked inside, and requested that the door to the employee passage be opened.

Another one is an image captured by the surveillance camera on the fourth floor underground.

An outsider entered the fourth underground floor.

At this moment, the surveillance camera footage transferred by Rimi showed that the staff member who had just received the [Venue Notification Channel] entered through the employee door and was in contact with the outsider.

【Sa Ling: ……】

Sha Ling just heard someone appear deep inside the fourth floor at the wrong time. Now it seems that it should be this young man.

The situation is simple.

This relieved some of her worries.

[Sa Ling: This kind of thing happens occasionally. ]

but……

It's not common for Rimi to broadcast brain-computer signals.

[Sha Ling: What's wrong? The notification doesn't match the actual situation? ]

[Satomi: No, the person we found is the member who got separated from the team that submitted the report earlier.]

【Sha Ling: What is that? 】

[Satomi: Saaya, look at this...]

【Satomi: #Test data】

Rimi sent another message to Sa-ling.

That was a routine scan.

After the staff found the girl named Deng Takamatsu who had mistakenly entered the employee passage, they conducted a data link scan on her in accordance with regulatory procedures.

The scan results were normal.

The other party does not carry weapons, illegal anti-intrusion components, or malicious viruses.

but……

When the data link scan detected the personal belongings, an identification mark appeared.

The other party was carrying two pieces of face armor put together.

Blood stains were detected in the armor.

The alert situation icon is blue. This is the lowest alert level, Level 4.

The data showed that it was not a bloodstain, but a bloodstain. It might have been stained by someone who was injured accidentally. The person involved said that it was picked up by accident, and the polygraph test showed no abnormal reaction.

It is not uncommon for blood stains to appear in CiRCLE.

Generally speaking, the situation ends here.

Review, comparison, database identification...

but.

There are unusual markings at the end of the report.

CiRCLE has been running for so many years, and data link scans have been carried out countless times according to regulations and procedures.

But this time, a mark that almost never lit up was lit.

That is the [Special Personnel DNA Identification] mark.

The bloodstain sounded an alarm when it was compared to Poppin' Party's own DNA database.

When testing the 21 gene loci of the DNA type, the DNA type of the [special person] was detected.