Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

"..."

The light blinked a few more times.

Then, slowly, she opened her eyes.

……

Everything around was dark.

At first, Deng thought it was because his eyes had not yet gotten used to the surrounding light, or that the fill light settings had not yet been reflected in the eye socket prefab.

However, after waiting for a while, everything around was still dark.

In the city of music where light pollution is serious, people originally had to draw the blackout curtains even at night before they could sleep.

But now, within the range of the light, there is not even 1 standard brightness of light.

Something wet hit Deng's cheek.

Ah, that dream just now.

Deng raised his hand and wiped his cheek with the back of his hand.

Of course, there couldn't be any watermelon worms on the cheeks, let alone any traces of watermelon worms crawling.

The wetness on my cheeks is brought by the rain.

It's too dark around here.

The light has been awake for a while, but light compensation has not automatically turned on.

Lights try turning it on manually.

"...?"

The system's response speed seemed to have subtly slowed down a little.

However, it was successfully opened.

The night vision fill light slowly kicks in. The slightly brighter environment allows the light to see your surroundings a little more clearly.

Deng found himself in a car.

The car wasn't sitting flat on the ground. It looked slightly on its side, with the side where the lights were sticking up.

The glass was also broken.

The rain fell from there and hit the face of the lamp.

Deng tried to open the door.

Squeak.

The door was deformed and couldn't be opened at all.

"..."

The light hesitated.

She then began to climb out of the car window.

……

Dongsha.

After a slight struggle, the light squeezed out of the car window and fell to the ground.

Deng is a small girl. This action is not particularly difficult.

Moreover, she was wrapped in a piece of cloth.

The cloth even did a good job of preventing the broken glass from scratching her.

"..."

As he climbed up from the wet ground and pulled off the cloth on himself, the light enabled him to see his surroundings clearly.

In front of her was a [Colby] sedan.

The car was parked at an angle at the bottom of a place similar to a riverbank. One side of the car was severely deformed and the entire car body was burned black.

but……

Deng recalled the interior of the [Colby] that he had just seen.

The interior wasn't damaged much.

This car's impact resistance is stronger than it looks.

The lamp looked around again.

"..."

It was still dark around.

The light was just enough to let me see clearly that I was now at the bottom of a deep V-shaped trench.

The bottom of this deep trench is at least 20 meters wide and at least 20 meters high. The deep trench is very long, and looking forward, the fill light cannot reach its end at all, and can only illuminate darkness.

As for looking up...

"..."

Looking up, there is the deep black night sky.

However, in contrast, in the west, a little light can be seen shining through, illuminating the clouds.

The light looked to her side again.

With the fill light from the eyes, the lamp could barely make out the sides of the deep groove, where the reinforcing bricks in a criss-cross pattern were attached.

Very deep, V-shaped grooves, and reinforced bricks.

This is……

"…artificial river…?"

The light whispered.

Her voice floated in the air.

Deng had seen the news about the silt removal work in the artificial river. She knew that the interior of the artificial river in Lezhi City was probably like this.

However, compared to the state of the river in the news, the bottom of the river where the light is now is much cleaner.

Not that anyone cleaned it, but there was absolutely no trace of silt.

It looks like this place hasn't even been filled with water and hasn't been put into use yet.

"..."

Where are you?

Deng remembered that he was going to CiRCLE to attend Poppin'Party's live performance.

Then, because he mistakenly entered the bottom of CiRCLE, he got involved in a dispute there.

He drank a tube of something that was said to be a virus.

Then, he fell down, was taken away, and put into a car...

correct.

The car I was riding in seemed to be involved in a dispute.

The car was hit by some kind of attack.

Deng looked at the car he had climbed out of.

The car body was tilted, and the front of the car was completely sunken in. A closer look revealed that the car was not coming from the front or the back, but rather coming down from above the river.

Was it because the vehicle was hit by the attack and slid down from the river?

"..."

The current situation is too surreal.

However, Deng didn't feel that this was a dream at all.

She could feel it was real, and...

She thought of something important.

What about the rest?

What Deng thought of was the members of MyGO!!!!!.

Aine, Rina, Suyo, Riki...

How are they?

"Is anyone here?"

The light tried to raise its voice a little.

Only then did she realize that her throat was terribly dry and she couldn't make any sound louder than a whisper.

So, the light turned consciousness to the brain-computer.

She began to try to open her team's common communication channel.

however.

"..."

The team communication channel cannot be opened.

No network signal.

Chapter 279 Safe Haven

The fluorescent green panel of the computer displayed: [Network signal - None].

After a while, it jumped to [Network Signal - Abnormal] again.

Then, switch back and forth between these two situations.

Deng tried to call up the channel data in an unskilled way. Compared with most of the young people of this era who have become "Internet trendsetters", she rarely does such things.

Therefore, when she found that her brain-computer gateway interface was completely distorted and garbled, she didn't know whether it was caused by her own operational error, or whether her brain-computer was damaged after being caught in the explosion, or some other reason.

"(Call the police...)"

Deng didn't have trauma insurance. Her first response was to call the BCPD hotline, which then called the city's medical system.

In an emergency, they will arrive slowly, but the general public will have to rely on them.

But the call couldn't be made.

It seems that it's not just the network signal.

All the signals here are very poor.

...It is also possible that the receiving component in the brain-computer responsible for receiving signals is malfunctioning.

strangeness.

Oops.

friend……

Deng was thinking about these things in a broken mood and left the half-broken car beside him.

It's raining.

The lamp stood up straight.

then.

"——!?"

When Deng stood up completely straight for the first time, suddenly, an unprecedented strong feeling of nausea surged over her head.

“——Gu——!”