Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Therefore, everyone needs to take off their clothes and let Mu touch the skin with the subcutaneous implant in her palm to confirm the status of the subcutaneous prosthesis, implant and circulatory system.

Mu also finished scanning Hailing.

Mu said nothing.

It seems that Hai Ling is fine too.

Mu stood up from his crouching position and walked towards Chuhua.

Chu Hua, wearing only a white T-shirt, was cleaning and maintaining her technical precision rifle [M-179E Achilles]. She disassembled its barrel and disassembled the added aiming structure.

Xiangzi watched Mu lean into Chuhua's arms.

"Ah, my eyes have been protected~"

Miao Meng on the bed was saying strange things with an intoxicated look on his face.

Miao Meng was not as nervous as when she first entered.

Of course, so is Xiangzi himself.

Because Xiangzi, Hailing and Mu's self-tests were all fine, for a team connected by communication, basically, everyone was fine.

Checking Chuhua and Miaomeng now is just to be on the safe side.

The problem is more about the current situation than the virus inspection.

"(I can't get in touch with Aoba Moka either.)"

Xiangzi pinched the top of her nose and thought.

No news.

No movement.

All information channels have been blocked.

Now Ave Mujica has come to an end...

But what is happening over there with the [big shots]?

This is something that will affect the entire situation in Le City.

wait……

Xiangzi doesn't like waiting in a disadvantageous position. It feels like being tortured to death.

“(The news didn’t report it… why don’t you go and confirm the scene of the conflict yourself?)”

“No, it’s too dangerous to check the scene when the undercurrent is so turbulent. And even if we get there, we may not be able to understand what the [big shots] are doing with the existing equipment…”

"(…As expected, the starting point is still that car?)"

Xiangzi was thinking.

While she was thinking, Mu completed the scan of Chuhua.

She walked towards Meow Meng, who welcomed her with open arms.

Mu's hand went around Miao Meng's neck——Miao Meng narrowed her eyes happily——

at this time.

Mu's eyes lit up, and his brain made a slight sound.

Miao Meng's smiling face suddenly turned pale.

"Is...is something wrong?"

Miao Meng asked timidly.

Mu nodded.

What virus is this? Is it in my body? Why? She herself doesn’t even feel it!

A virus that even she couldn't detect! What is this - this is too scary!

Miao Meng is about to cry!

As a hacker, she understood better than anyone else that a self-virus that even [Intelligence: 11] couldn't detect meant something terrible.

"It's time for my [Perception and Cognition Class]."

Mu said.

It turned out that what had just lit up was Mu's brain-computer alarm clock reminding him to go to class.

"...Can you please tell me earlier next time, Muzi?" Miao Meng said slowly, "I have already written three lines of my suicide note."

Chapter 2 I'm familiar with this (7k monthly tickets plus more)

Miao Meng has always hated ringtones.

She hates being reminded to do something, and unnecessary reminders make her feel nervous and lose her state. Her hypothalamus will secrete neuropeptide Y.

Now, she is even more annoying.

"Okay, okay! I'm scared to death!"

Miao Meng sat back on the bed and said loudly:

"This is quite postmodern! We just left the headquarters of Poppin'Party. Those unknown guys were fighting in an unknown place. In the next second, a nuclear bomb might fall from the sky or come out from the ground - but now, one of our team members has rang the alarm for class!"

She lay on her back in bed, the sheets spread out over her.

Meow Meng reached out and the sheet slid down her upper arms and shoulders.

She hooked her arms around Mu's neck.

"Sell me the image in your mind just now, Muzi!" Miao Meng said affectionately, "If the boss allows me to edit it, I can edit it into an absurd film! Oh, maybe it can also become the material of a Hitchcock-style thriller!"

Mu blinked.

"What's the situation?" Hai Ling took over the topic and turned the subject to a direction that Mu could answer.

"Normal." Mu was able to answer. She said, "I will turn on the flight positioning of Moon Forest and let myself be captured in the course login system. Just like the previous operation."

This is a common way of handling things. Mu used to handle extra classes at school and the excess teaching that the Wakaba family arranged for her in this way.

but……

"Moon Forest?" Chu Hua asked, "Do you have classes on weekends?"

However, today is the weekend.

If it is a school course, it is a little strange in terms of timing.

"It's an extra course for the Wakaba family." Mu said, "However, due to the large amount of information transmitted, a direct connection to the server is required. I will go to the computer room in Tsuki no Mori for the course."

Mu began to operate the virtual panel in front of her, trying to make corrections to her positioning and presence—just as she had always done—

"Wait, Mu."

Xiangzi, who was pressing his forehead, stopped Mu.

Mu's hand stopped.

She turned around and looked at Xiangzi.

"What time is your class?"

Xiangzi asked.

Mu glanced at his to-do list.

"In half an hour."

she says.

"It's not too late," Xiangzi said, "don't turn on the flight positioning."

Xiangzi walked up to Mu.

"Mu, go to Moon Forest," she said, "and change the server settings for Ave Mujica. Meow Meng, you go too. We need to work in parallel."

"Hey~ Can't we do it remotely~?" Miao Meng asked from behind, "Do we have to go there specifically!"

"Direct connection on site is the only way to guarantee speed, and it is also our only chance to be faster than others," Xiangzi said.

……

Two hours after the CiRCLE attack.

City of joy.

City of Music Avenue.

[Columbus] The freight van entered from the ramp below and drove forward along the road.

Hai Ling sat in the driver's seat, controlling the vehicle.

Chu Hua sat behind her. She was holding the M-179E Achilles precision rifle. The glass on her side was one-way transparent and dark.

Xiangzi sat in the passenger seat and looked out the window.

Outside the window, there were some vehicles passing by on the avenue, but not many.

The road is wide.

"..."

Previously, Xiangzi saw in the [Lezhicheng News] that the central area was "slightly congested", but when she actually drove to this section of the road, she found that it was not the case.

There wasn't even any "traffic flow". The number of vehicles seemed to be even smaller than usual.

"(It's a weird situation.)"

Xiangzi thought.

It's not just because there are fewer vehicles than reported.

And because everything was so normal.

The surveillance camera at the traffic light did not have the yellow light that represented "emergency requisition" on.

There was no BCPD police car at the fork in the street.

Every few meters on the road, you can hear pop songs playing from the speakers attached to the traffic lights... They are still playing pop music and there is no radio broadcast about the emergency.

“(It looks like nothing happened.)”

Xiangzi thought.

The incident that took place in CiRCLE, at the moment, appears to be a cover-up from the general public.

This is not a good thing for Xiangzi.

Because although Xiangzi was deeply involved in this matter, she could barely be considered an "ordinary citizen."

Without warning, there is no way of knowing where something is happening or how it is progressing.

Xiangzi's brows were unshakable. She pressed her brain-computer interface.

[Oblivionis: Mortis, how is the comparison of the road surveillance camera probe going? ]

【Mortis: Investigating. 】

Mu answered.

At this moment, Mu and Miao Meng were together. They were both in the computer room warehouse of Yuezhisen where they had just been sent, connecting to the server that was "requisitioned" by Ave Mujica.

Mu used a different channel on the server. She was accessing the city's surveillance network and using the surveillance camera probes to find possible locations where conflicts might have occurred before—at least, where a car might have been hit by a shell.

[Oblivionis: The scale of the conflict should be quite large. It won’t be difficult to investigate.]

The conflict that just happened must have been captured on camera.

Xiangzi asked Mu to speed up.

But she couldn't ignore security either, because even though it was through the server, Mu was still connected to the public network of Lezhicheng.

There are [big shots] involved in this incident.

Xiangzi was also worried that Mu's investigation would be discovered.