Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

[Oblivionis: Mortis, what do you think? ]

[Amoris: Hey... Hey! Why are you thinking about my things? ]

【Mortis: 【Single-molecule wire】 can theoretically be transformed into a recycling device. 】

【Amoris: Mortis! ? 】

【Oblivionis: Amoris, I didn't say to use yours. 】

Xiangzi saw Chuhua and Hailing in front of him making the [site clearing completed] gesture.

...We'll talk about the equipment modification later.

Xiangzi's primary goal is to move forward.

……

Xiangzi commanded the three-man team to quickly pass through the underground sewer.

Frontal suppression.

Side attack.

Of course, more often than not, Xiangzi's order to the team was to [sneak in].

Stealth avoids wasting bullets and possibly alerting the enemy.

Moreover, it is possible to capture intelligence.

As he went deeper inside and approached the target location, Xiangzi heard many conversations among the mercenaries.

At first, she heard mostly complaints about the food, the hours of duty, and the damp, moldy conditions.

But after going a certain distance, a word appeared more and more frequently in the mercenaries' conversations.

【Human silhouette】

Xiangzi heard more than one team of people mention that there was a figure in the city's underground sewer pipes, a ghost-like outsider.

These people have different opinions about this outsider.

"I saw it! It was definitely weird - there wasn't any electromagnetic signal! But there was someone -"

"No brain-computer and prosthetics installed? A flesh man?"

"No? It doesn't feel like... I can't explain it! But..."

This is how most people discuss it.

But there are still some people who claim that they saw the outsider with their own eyes.

"It's a young girl!"

they said.

"It's a celebrity! I saw him on the Le City News website—"

"who is it?"

"How can I remember his name? He seems to be in a band! With gray hair!"

"..."

All these conversations were heard by Xiangzi who was sneaking past them from behind.

A young girl.

Is a member of the band.

This sounds like the same passenger on the Colby that was scanned by Meowmeng and Mu.

Considering that Colby left the Poppin'Party concert before it started, Xiangzi was not surprised that the person he brought out was a band member.

Rather, it confirmed her guess.

"(young girl, in a band, slightly famous, grey hair...)"

At this moment, Xiangzi thought of someone.

This description is a bit like a lamp.

"(……)"

how is this possible.

There are so many bands in the City of Music, and so many band members.

"(Is it possible that you can only think of the phantom of the past?)"

Xiangzi said to himself.

She continued walking forward.

……

Xiangzi and his crew tried to kill as few mercenaries as possible to prevent the enemy from noticing the absence of personnel.

But it is impossible to travel 2km without dealing with any enemies at all.

"Hey, someone's missing!"

Some mercenaries have noticed that the number of their teammates has decreased.

“Was that flood gate over there originally closed?”

"Hey, open that side."

"--!Blood--"

"alert!"

The actions of Xiangzi and others eventually aroused vigilance.

The presence of outsiders in the sewers was confirmed, and the mercenaries began to search forward in a strategic manner in small teams.

But at this time...

Xiangzi has arrived at her destination.

Snap, snap.

Chuhua and Hailing waded through the thin layer of water on the ground.

The light in their righteous eyes shone forward, illuminating the dark sewer pipes.

"(This is right below where the searchers caused the commotion earlier.)"

Xiangzi, who was walking between the two people, thought.

This is where the pipes meet. There are no rooms or flood doors, just wide pipes.

The pipeline is sealed with iron fences.

Xiangzi turned on the [Personnel Positioning] in her righteous eyes.

"(…cannot scan.)"

If you ask who in Xiangzi's team has the best scanner, it is Meow Meng. Because Meow Meng often breaks into people's homes for the filming of Chaomeng in the past, he has equipped himself with a very good scanner.

But Meow Meng is not here now.

Xiangzi looked at the iron railings.

The iron railings were locked with a mechanical lock. If Mu was there, he could have welded them open—but Mu wasn't there—

Do you want to tear this place apart?

Mu was not there. Hailing and Chuhua could also do it, but they could only use brute force.

That would make a loud noise.

"(But, this is the only way... It seems that the target site is behind this...)"

Xiangzi paced back and forth, thinking.

at this time.

"...?"

Xiangzi suddenly felt that these railings looked familiar.

She took a few steps forward and looked behind the iron railing.

Most of her view was blocked, but she saw some of the piping that interested her.

Xiangzi opened the map.

"...!"

really.

The back of the mechanical lock was actually very close to the hiding place on Ave Mujica that Xiangzi had determined a month ago!

"(In that case...)"

...Xiangzi, there is a better way to confirm than breaking it by force.

Chapter 3 Visitors (1k monthly tickets plus more)

In the wet pipes, dim inspection lights were on.

The light illuminated the bottom of the pipe and the narrow maintenance walkway on the side of the bottom.

At the end of the personnel corridor, there is a small flight of stairs.

Deng was sitting on the stairs with his knees hugged.

Deng has not eaten for more than 20 hours. She is now cold, hungry and sleepy.

But she couldn't sleep in this dangerous, unsettling, nerve-wracking place.

"..."

Deng was looking at her brain-computer display screen.

On the screen, whether it is social software or communication media, it shows a red "No Signal".

Only the [Home Tracker] is on.

There is a small round dot on it.

This means that another matching object of the [Homing Tracker] is very close to the light.

The lamp was not happy about the existence of this point mark.

Or rather, she was already happy.

More than ten hours ago, Deng entered the underground waterway to avoid the rain. She moved deeper into the waterway. At first, she just sat a little deeper to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

But then, there was the sound of a vehicle coming from outside.

A vehicle was driving towards the sewer.

Deng sensed danger. She hid deeper. Then she heard noisy footsteps and voices.

Highly armed mercenaries entered the underground sewers.

Or, in other words, "returned" to the sewer.

It was then that Deng realized that the underground sewers were also the nest of some dangerous elements.

To be honest, at that time, Deng thought he was finished.

She hid in the thin gaps between the pipes and could even see with her naked eyes the highly cybernetic mercenaries with [External Amplified Brain Wave Scanners] and [Technical Scanners] on their heads walking past her, splashing water on the ground with their titanium feet.

Deng could easily imagine how these mercenaries would, after discovering themselves on the brain wave scanner, pull themselves out of the middle of the pipe and throw themselves to the ground like a screw stuck in a slot.

But strangely, they didn't do that.

The mercenaries just walked past.

The light did not come out of the pipe because there sounded more people outside. She hid in the passage for the next ten hours, and tried to move forward when no one was around, to another, safer place.

…She was very careful. But she still felt that she had been discovered. Someone ran in her direction and she heard the sound of guns being loaded.