Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Everything went as planned.

"(Meow Dream.)"

Xiangzi made a gesture to Miao Meng.

Miao Meng had already made sufficient preparations. She walked silently to the door lock and inserted the biochemical information cable on her left wrist into the port of the electronic door lock.

At the same time, the artificial eye began to flash.

30 seconds.

60 seconds.

90 seconds.

120 seconds.

127 seconds.

"opened."

Miao Meng moved her hand downward.

As the biochemical information cable was retracted, the bolt slid out smoothly.

"Walk."

Xiangzi pushed open the door.

……

He slipped in, closed the door and locked it.

All in one go.

Xiangzi and Miaomeng hid between the sound insulation cotton that was as thick as a city wall.

"(Surveillance camera.)"

Xiangzi looked in that direction.

Or soundproof cotton.

"(Blocked, perfect.)"

Everything went as planned. The two of them walked through the soundproof cotton—they didn't even need to deliberately control the sound of their footsteps—

He successfully entered the interior of Toyosu PIT.

As they slipped through the door, they heard a faint sound of "Here, the World" in their headphones.

The promotional vehicle of the agency Honeycomb has arrived.

Xiangzi and Miaomeng looked at each other and nodded.

The two of them lowered the reception of this frequency band and quickly disappeared in the direction of the east corridor.

……

Xiangzi and Miaomeng quickly entered the east corridor and walked counterclockwise along the corridor towards the unlocked Door No. 3.

There is no one on the road.

This was expected, because data analysis showed that the patrol officers were now several hundred meters to the west.

Turning the corner, Xiangzi saw Door No. 3 with the access blocked by a chair.

“(Yes.)”

The two of them moved there quickly.

Enter through Gate 3.

In front is the staff passage connecting the east and west sides and the performance hall.

Next, we just need to pass through there.

"!"

Miao Meng, who was walking behind, suddenly stopped.

"..."

Xiangzi stopped immediately without any hesitation.

Because only Miao Meng has far-infrared vision.

Only she knew what happened here.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Sure enough, after three seconds of waiting, a slight sound was heard in the employee passage.

"(What's going on?)"

Xiangzi gestured to ask Miao Meng.

"(Trouble.)" Miao Meng directly called up the visual panel and typed, "(A worker is slacking off here.)"

"..."

Xiangzi poked his head out from behind the grating where the two were hiding.

Sure enough, in the east-west corridor, a worker was sitting on a square construction waste disposal bin with his back to the two of them, playing games on his mobile phone.

"(Fortunately, the position was good, with its back facing us.)"

After typing this line, Miao Meng put his hand on his right wrist.

A thin, almost invisible transparent line was pulled out from the artificial skin below her right wrist.

Single molecule wire.

Xiangzi knew this weapon.

Hackers like to use it because it is silent, concealed, has a long attack range, and does not cause much bleeding, making it convenient for covert operations and assassinations.

"(I'm going to kill him--)"

"(etc.)"

Miao Meng’s body, leaning forward, paused.

She looked back.

It was Xiangzi who pulled her elbow.

"(Don't kill anyone.)"

Xiangzi also connected to Miaomeng's visualization panel and left a short line of words there.

"(I don't kill people.)" Miao Meng left a message, "(Killing people will be troublesome, I know. I'll strangle him to death——)"

"(Don't strangle yourself.)"

"(ah?)"

Miao Meng's brows knitted together. She turned her head.

"(Hey, you're not a rookie who has never tried fighting before, are you?)"

The high-frequency brain waves unique to hackers with high [Intelligence] points quickly typed out line after line of text on the panel.

“(Hey, hey, hey, hey, no matter how you look at this situation, we have to get rid of him, right? He’s even sitting on a construction waste disposal bin—we just need to knock him down and stuff him in—even if he stinks, no one will notice!)”

"(If you don't kill him, what do you want to do? Just walk past him from behind? Pray that he doesn't find us? Then what?)"

"(Pray that the music in his headphones is loud enough so that he can't hear the piano being played in the performance hall? It's possible to clip the sound outside! But it's difficult in the staff passage! He's so close that even a physiological ear can hear it!)"

Chapter 28: Have you ever quit anything?

"(I have fought and killed people, but now is not the time to do those things.)"

Faced with Miao Meng's message bombardment, Xiangzi simply left a message.

“(If you knock him out, the filming can indeed go smoothly. But it will become troublesome later.)”

"(These workers. They all have long-term cooperation contracts with Pastel*Palettes. After they wake up, they will immediately report to their superiors that they were attacked. After all, people will not suddenly faint and appear in a box.)"

"(This matter will attract the attention of Pastel*Palettes. Both us and Honeycomb may be traced.)"

“(Ha! I didn’t expect you to be the only one who can talk about [perfect solution])”

Miao Meng was so angry that she laughed. She looked at Xiangzi.

"(Don't kill anyone, don't knock anyone out, don't set off the alarm, perfect infiltration. Yes, perfect infiltration. Every client will ask for this.)"

"(How can there be so much perfection?)"

"(Are you a god? Or a super AI behind a black wall? Things are going to get bad, there are going to be dead ends, and sometimes you have to use backup plans, secondary plans.)"

Miao Meng pointed his thumb at the lazy worker in the distance who knew nothing about it.

"(No killing, no knocking out... OK, then how do we deal with that guy?)"

"(……)"

"(What do you say? Don't just ignore him. Let me go with you to die——)"

Xiangzi didn't answer and lowered his head.

At first, Miao Meng thought she was speechless and couldn't speak.

but……

"..."

But Miao Meng soon discovered that Xiangzi's eyeballs were moving regularly.

She was confirming what was happening in Yi's eyes.

"(Hey, what are you doing...)"

"(Meow Dream.)"

Xiangzi's message appeared on the visual display screen.

"(At 16:36, you go hack into the west door.)"

"(What? The door on the west side... leads to the west corridor?)"

"(Yes. Hack for 3 seconds.)"

“(3 seconds? There’s no time to open it.)”

“(It doesn’t matter if it’s not opened.)”

"(What are you going to do? It's already 16:34-)"

"(Do it first.)"

Miao Meng wanted to say something, but seeing that Xiangzi didn't look like he was joking, she had to wave her hand.

“(Let me make it clear, it’s too far to distract that guy who’s playing with his phone.)”

16:35:40.

Miao Meng stared at the digital clock.

50 seconds.

36 points.

"—"

The invisible wave passed through the entire corridor in an instant, and the electronic signal contacted the touch circuit on the electronic door lock.

The red access control light at the top of the electronic door flashed.

1 seconds.

First level password lock. Left and right coding teeth.

2 seconds.