Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

After all, without this mortgage recovery agreement, she wouldn't even be able to afford the funeral expenses.

Father is dead.

He left this world forever, carrying with him the secrets that existed only in his cerebral cortex.

His death took away all of Xiangzi's hopes.

But now, Xiangzi even hoped that he had only taken away hope.

Father is dead.

He not only took away hope, but also left behind deeper despair.

At the underground black doctor's place, Xiangzi opened his father's temporary identity information for the first time.

What popped up was the astronomical debt. The figures were so high that they made people feel ridiculous.

My father died and in the end, he left behind a huge mess.

He used thirty times more hallucinogenic drugs than he claimed.

Moreover, before he died, he took a lot of expensive drugs in one go. Each of them could buy a second-hand Type 33 "Flying Leopard".

In the City of Joy, the poor cannot settle their debts by dying.

When Xiangzi saw the huge debt, it had already been automatically transferred to the only guarantor due to the death of the debtor.

That's right.

It is Xiangzi’s own temporary identity account.

Now, they are Xiangzi's debts.

...I can’t even trust my own relatives.

At the bar counter, Xiangzi put his hands on his forehead and closed his eyes in pain.

This is what her grandfather and mother wanted her to accept. This is what she once refused to accept.

But now...

“(Did I really fall into hell because of trust?)”

Xiangzi would not admit that what the Toyokawa family said was right, but she couldn't convince herself.

The bartender who was wiping the glasses glanced at her. After a while, a cocktail called "Magnetic Needle" slid over from the other end of the bar.

"Please."

Xiangzi grabbed the cup and drank it all in one gulp.

……

What to do with those debts?

Xiangzi couldn't think of a solution. She felt that no one else could think of a solution.

The number is so huge that I can't even feel it. If I continue to work for the black customer service company, I will never be able to pay it back in my lifetime.

Abandoning temporary status is not an option either.

Only the rich can have multiple temporary identities. The desperate can only enter a temporary identity... that is, the temporary identity that matches their DNA information.

The debt now flowed through Xiangzi's veins. A blood test that would produce results in two seconds would reveal everything.

Xiangzi could think of at least ten places where he would be sent if he failed to pay back his loans on time.

Even if it's due...

There is also a next issue.

Forever, until death.

What about changing jobs?

"(…How is that possible? If I could have changed it, I would have done it a long time ago.)"

Xiangzi laughed at himself and drank another glass.

She used a cheap one-hundred-dollar projection ear clip to open her crude information panel and flipped through several pages.

Nothing. Cleaner than a baby.

No, at least the baby won't have any hidden injuries.

Xiangzi turned the panel back to the first page.

……

[Name: Temporary identity 1613131629]

【attribute】

[Body: 3]

【Intelligence: 3】

[Reaction: 3]

Technical ability: 3

【Calmness: 3】

……

Five numerical values. Representing the basic capabilities of the organism in five aspects. Since the popularization of cyber data, everyone's working ability has become a number, which is clear at a glance.

In the City of Joy, people without status may be in great demand, but those without basic abilities can only do jobs that can barely make ends meet.

And all 3 is...

“(Data of a natural person without physical defects after the age of 15.)”

In the distant past, this was the value for all normal adults.

But in the era of cyberpunk, those who stop here are just irrecyclable waste.

6点之前是菜鸟，7-12是专家，13-20是非凡。

In the City of Joy, there are almost no jobs posted to people whose required attributes are below 6 points.

In other words, you can only work in the City of Joy if at least one attribute is over 6 points.

Until then, youngsters will study in school until one (or more) of these attributes is above 6.

Moreover, work will accumulate experience and increase attribute points.

but……

This method is not applicable to Xiangzi now.

Xiangzi clicked on an attribute at random.

[Warning: Synaptic Meltdown]

Xiangzi drank another glass.

……

The Toyokawa family never makes mistakes in doing things.

The most critical synapses in Xiangzi's brain-computer interface were permanently melted during the "cleansing", and even the most miraculous doctor could not repair them.

This meltdown meant that Xiangzi could not accumulate experience through study or work. No matter how hard she studied or how hard she worked, she could not quantify her experience into data and then change her panel.

This means that she will never be able to support herself in the City of Joy.

Xiangzi drank one cup after another.

The bartender was very generous.

She hadn't eaten for hours and was very hungry. Her mental state was very poor and her hormones were not secreted enough.

But what she needed more than food was alcohol.

There were no annoying red signs like "Underage Drinking Limit" or "Alcohol Excessive Intake Warning" popping up in her field of vision. So, she kept drinking.

My vision started to blur. My hands started to shake. My body started to sway.

When he fell down, Xiangzi remembered something.

Her neural unit monitoring device was "cleaned" when she was kicked out of her home.

So, there are no warnings about excessive alcohol intake at all.

Chapter 4: The Rich Woman Picked Me Up...No

It's that nightmare again.

Crychic's rehearsal room, cold walls and floors, expensive equipment.

Li Xi grabbed her by the collar, and Su Shi tried to separate them.

In the distance, Mu was facing away from him.

Xiangzi's eyes were not on them.

She looked down.

The band's lead singer, Deng Gaosong, sat on the floor and looked at her with an abandoned look in his eyes.

I had just gone through a "cleaning" and the wound on my heart where the power pump had been removed was stinging.

Xiangzi wanted to turn his head, but he couldn't take his eyes away from there.

"…Do you really want to quit?"

The lamp asked Xiangzi.

What did I actually want to say at that time?

Xiangzi had already forgotten.

He felt a bone-chilling cold all over his body. In the blankness and dullness, Xiangzi heard himself saying to the lamp:

"Don't say such naive things."

……

“——Haaa! Ugh, cough, cough——”

"Cough cough!"

Xiangzi woke up with a start. She coughed and struggled to get up. There was a rustling sound around her, and the sound of broken ice being pushed away.

"Ugh... Damn..."

Her body was so heavy, and the water dragged her with every struggle.

"Uh!"

Xiangzi lunged out and fell out of the gray-white bathtub filled with ice water and fell on the tile floor.

“…Haaaa, haaaa, haaa…”

[Physical: 3] Even this level of impact would hurt. Xiangzi lay there for a long time before finally standing up with his feet.

She saw the surrounding scene clearly.

In the dim and narrow room, the only light source is the flashing indicator lights of the electromechanical box and parameter monitoring components. The room is already small, but it is still filled with bathtubs and freezers.

Freezers were stacked on top of each other. Some bathtubs were even stacked on top of freezers.

At this moment, Xiangzi's head, which had been numbed by the cold, finally began to turn slowly.

"I was saying... there's no such kind bartender..."

Good luck often comes quickly and goes quickly.

But when you're unlucky, all the bad things happen at once.

The air was filled with the smell of anesthetics and analgesics.

Xiangzi realized that he was picked up by the underground organ trafficking organization "Kidney Cutters".