Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

"After the first operation, I will convince her to join us. In this way, the rest of the price can be paid after the operation is completed, and there will be no problem of middlemen."

"...Before I met you, I thought I was confident enough." Miao Meng smiled, "Why do you think that your blank check can still deceive someone else?"

"Ms. Hachiman will agree."

Xiangzi said.

"Because she also wants to be a big shot."

"Oh boy, another one?"

"Interest is the most stable bond. I only look for people with ambition. Meow Meng, you too."

"..."

Miao Meng did not deny it.

"…No match for you. Oblivionis, you are exaggerating. Hey, do you really want to have your own territory?"

"I'm going to climb to the top of the City of Joy, no matter what method I use."

"For a man?"

"..."

"It's not for a woman, is it?"

"…It has nothing to do with you. Anyway, you already know half of my plan: I'll call you out under the pretext of shooting Mewtwo, complete the test of the Egret Thousand Saints, and take the mission. Then I'll come with you to the Walled City to make money and buy Hachiman."

"The next step is to gather intelligence on Avex and President Kuroiwa. I've considered several plans - negotiation, intimidation, and infiltration. But which one to implement will depend on sitting down with Hachiman and considering what the three of us can do."

"Okay, okay. I'll listen to you, boss—"

Miao Meng dragged out the end of the sentence and pulled back the biochemical information cable from the last antenna.

At this moment, the two of them were already standing on the roof of the Walled City. In front of them was a densely packed plastic roof.

In Miao Meng's vision, the once bright red [Hazardous Entry Port] signs in the Walled City area turned gray.

"We have finished searching this area~"

Miao Meng said with a smile.

……

The Walled City scratch-off is over.

How much was shaved?

Twenty-seven thousand.

This number is definitely not a lot, but it is better than Xiangzi expected.

"(It's OK.)"

Xiangzi pinched his nose and thought.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the piano performance, Xiangzi did not take sedatives before meeting Bai Lu Qiansheng yesterday.

This made the meeting even more exhausting than expected.

"..."

Before negotiating with Miao Meng, I practiced and used drugs intensively. After that, I worked non-stop, scouting, sneaking in, and negotiating.

Not to mention that he had just been on the run for his life and was injured.

Xiangzi could hear the sound of fatigue accumulating in his body.

She felt tired.

But, she thought, she could still hold on.

"(Luckily, I'm used to being tired.)"

If it were me a year ago, I would have collapsed.

But now, not only can I keep a clear head, but my reaction speed to problems has not slowed down much.

Sleep and eat.

Just by doing these two things, the body can metabolize fatigue little by little and keep the physiological indicators in a relatively stable state.

“(Working in customer service with long hours has helped me develop my mental toughness.)”

Xiangzi thought.

This was probably the only wealth left to her from that damn job.

"Oblivionis."

Xiangzi raised his head when he heard Miao Meng calling him from the front.

The stairs going down reached the last step.

Behind the dark, damp platform was a dark entrance that continued downwards. Loud, vague music from idol songs could be heard from deep inside the entrance. Both inside and outside the passage were covered with large posters of members of the Pastel*Palettes band.

Since the Walled City is located at the junction, there are also some Roselia posters here. However, they are all posted in the corners - the ones in good positions have been torn off by the crazy fans of Pastel*Palettes.

This is the most remote entrance to the underground part of the Walled City. Through here is the amusement arcade that is extremely wealthy.

Under the large-format poster of "Ghosts out, blessing in", there is a burly cyber-modified man on duty.

"What should we do? Make him unconscious?"

Hiding in the darkness, Miao Meng asked in a low voice.

"Yes, you can...try what you gave me first."

Xiangzi touched his cheekbone and activated the operating system's quick cracking plug-in: [Target Positioning].

Chapter 36: After many twists and turns, I am still a worker

The visible area changed with every blink. Soon, the artificial eye turned red.

Infrared vision.

"..."

Concentrating his attention on the noisy music, Xiangzi found the amplifier behind the big man.

"(Hacked.)"

Squeak... snap...

Inside the head, there is the sound of heat dissipation from mechanical operation.

The radio waves emitted from Xiangzi's brain-computer output terminal radiate outward, refract in space, enter the power amplifier, and then reflect back to Xiangzi's brain-computer input terminal.

They bring back the resonant frequencies of the amplifier speakers.

The brain machine immediately began to analyze.

Then comes the cracking.

Soon, the amplifier and speakers were hacked.

Everything connected to it on the underground LAN was highlighted in Xiangzi's vision.

The big man guarding the entrance has turned red. Tungsten steel headband, high hormone frontal cortex, enhanced skeleton, pneumatic implant ejection pump, ballistic co-processor, recoil stabilization recoil valve...

Of course, he also has the kinetic submachine gun [DS1-Pulse] in his hand.

Thin red lines connect these highlighted objects to each other and to more things around them.

Surveillance camera probe above the entrance.

Motion sensor.

Fire emergency sprinkler system.

The express transaction machine next to the entrance.

Map location point.

A disposable gun vending machine.

Air conditioning vents on the wall.

vanitation pipe.

……

Xiangzi blinked again.

Everything is gone.

3 seconds--

No, probably not even 2 seconds.

"Your [target positioning] time is too short."

Xiangzi slowly touched the back of his hot neck and said.

"Didn't I tell you it's cheap? Use it if you want."

Miao Meng's voice came from behind.

"No. I marked it."

Xiangzi shared her findings.

"How's the ventilation duct?" Xiangzi asked. "The entrance is just in the big guy's blind spot. How's the space behind the passage?"

"The echo sonar says there are two over there as big as this one."

Miao Meng made a gesture.

"Walk?"

"Go. Attract some attention."

"I knew it would have to be me. Let me guess, I have to use my [Technical Ability] to remove the entrance to the ventilation duct as well?"

"That's a good guess."

"I'd rather you give me more money than praise."

"I'll put it on the account."

"Oblivionis, don't become the kind of boss who only knows how to make promises, okay?"

Miao Meng hacked into the disposable gun vending machine next to the entrance. The glowing outer surface of the vending machine began to flicker.

Click, click, click.

Magazines of .22 and .50 calibers and M-76E Omaha Tech pistols fell out of the vending machine like jelly beans.

"Fuck, it's broken again."

The sturdy man cursed a few words and walked towards the machine.

Of course he did not report the problem. The strong man bent down with ease and put all the "faulty items" that fell out into his waist bag.

at the same time.

Two figures quietly moved from the shadows to the side of the entrance.

They didn't enter the sensing range of the motion sensor, but turned around the corner.

……

The ventilation duct was on top of a pile of debris. It wasn't very big, but Xiangzi and Miaomeng had no problem passing through it with their bodies.

Miao Meng climbed up the pile of debris silently, reached out and grabbed the grille of the ventilation duct and shook it.

"(Oblivionis.)"

Xiangzi helped Miaomeng to hold her feet firmly.

Miao Meng stretched out the biochemical information cable.

Connect, indicator light flashes, disconnect.