Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

As long as the core members are still there, the competitiveness is still there.

After a few more months, they slowly recovered, started over again, and developed again bit by bit.

At this time, [Phase 1 of Reclamation New Land] was already filled with spies from the [Five Major Groups].

Poppin'Party even supported a newcomer, Mashiro Kurata, and let this leader, who still had a lot to learn and was not yet a good leader, lead the band gang Morfonica to manage this land.

Morfonica is not managing well.

RAS seized this opportunity and regained some of its land, fans and subordinates.

However, the roots of the eyeliner of the [Five Major Groups] have already been firmly established.

Even the proud CHU^2 had to accept this fact.

RAS finally divided the [Phase 1 of Reclamation New Land] with Morfonica, and acquiesced to the surveillance of the [Five Major Groups] representing the main urban area behind Morfonica.

In the more than a year that followed, RAS developed steadily and no one heard of it taking any extraordinary actions.

In fact, it is rare to hear that they leave their own territories and enter the territories of other forces.

Until now.

Now, they appear in [Reclamation New Land Phase 2].

……

“(RAS has entered [Phase 2 of Reclamation Land]?)”

Xiangzi thought about this.

RAS was once severely damaged.

But that's in the past.

Rather than the occasional blunt words from the City of Music night radio station, such as "RAS is no longer a threat, or has turned into a 1.5-stream band gang", Xiangzi is more concerned about the fact that "RAS was once able to compete with Roselia".

Although it was a short period of time, before Roselia launched the attack on RAS's main server, there was a period of time when the chances of winning the war between RAS and Roselia were indeed very close.

Roselia represents the pinnacle of actual strategic power in the City of Music gang bands.

After going to war with them, I can still maintain a similar winning rate. That is not something that can be achieved with just money.

The other party is capable.

A capable [big shot] appeared near his territory.

Very dangerous situation.

Fortunately, the other party does not seem to be interested in invading Xiangzi's territory.

The other party is looking for something.

"They mentioned [Linear Frame Ω]." Chu Hua called up the recording of the conversation on the transmitter and listened to it again, saying, "It sounds like RAS's close combat leader MASKING is looking for the [Linear Frame Ω] that she failed to recover in the previous [Reclamation New Land Phase 2] battle."

"【Linear FrameΩ】Ah..." Hailing said.

As a former underground mercenary, Hai Ling certainly has a general understanding of what weapons the members of the [Seven Bands] of Le City hold.

After the storm passed, RAS developed its technology business.

They failed to seize the monopoly of high-tech from Roselia, but relying on their own research and development capabilities, they did have products and gained a little fame.

Their main research and development direction is intelligent weapons and technical weapons. In addition, there are various power exoskeletons including linear frames and ACPA.

Among the members of RAS, MASKING, PAERO and CHU^2 are all equipped with such powered exoskeletons.

Although today was the first time people heard about the specific model of the powered exoskeleton that MASKING was riding, no one was very surprised.

What really surprised Hailing was the model itself.

because of this……

Hai Ling glanced at Chu Hua.

Coincidentally, Chu Hua was thinking the same thing. She also glanced at Hai Ling.

[Reclamation Phase 2] The day the war broke out.

The two of them covered Xiangzi's retreat and tried to take away the girl whose blood was flowing with the integrated virus.

When the crisis occurred, the two were busy cleaning up the mess upstairs and downstairs, ensuring that the passage was stable and available for evacuation, and did not follow Xiangzi at the first time.

But they were all there after all.

When they arrived later and pulled back Shoko who was beginning to suffer from a cyber-psychosis attack, they both saw the linear frame that had kidnapped the girl.

It is the [linear frame Ω].

Chapter 24: 4-hour work system (1k monthly ticket plus more)

[Linear Frame Omega] is a very expensive, high-end powered exoskeleton.

Although it is not a self-developed product like CHU^2's DTM, not many people in Lezhicheng can own it.

If we consider that during the battle of [Reclamation Phase 2], this [Linear Frame Ω] was in danger and had to be abandoned by the pilot, and could not even be recovered on the spot...

As expected, this [Linear Frame Ω] is...

"Is this [Linear Frame Ω] the one that took away the lantern during the battle of [Reclamation New Land Phase 2]?"

Mu's voice came from the side of the workbench.

"..."

Hailing and Chuhua looked at Mu together.

She asked a question that no one dared to ask.

"Mutsuko... Mutsuko!"

Even Miao Meng was scared.

She slid in from the side and reached out to pull Lamu's shoulder——

But Mu didn't stop there.

"Did RAS's MASKING take the light?"

Mu looked at Xiangzi and asked again.

"—"

What a bold question.

Mu's direct question left the other three members of Ave Mujica at a loss as to how to respond.

But like Mu, Xiangzi faced the problem calmly.

"The [Linear Frame Omega] is not a common device. I think the [Linear Frame Omega] that tried to catch the light is the 'lost item' that MASKING mentioned." Xiangzi said.

Xiangzi dialed back the audio signal.

……

[MASKING: So, is there still no biological reaction? ]

【LOCK: Yes.】

[MASKING: Is this basically confirmed now? ]

[LOCK: Hmm…]

【MASKING: Never mind. If we didn’t catch him at that time, this matter would have nothing to do with us. 】

……

Xiangzi repeatedly played the two paragraphs that MASKING said, "There is still no biological reaction" and "If we didn't catch it at that time, this matter would have nothing to do with us."

"But I don't think the lamp is in the hands of RAS." Xiangzi said, "They talked about bio-reaction scanning in their conversation... After three months, they are still trying to perform bio-scans, which shows that the personnel are very important. But they were also done while searching for [Linear Framework Ω], which means that they are important, but their value is lower than [Linear Framework Ω]. It is likely that they tried to take the lamp away at that time."

The situation that day was indeed chaotic.

Xiangzi, who received brain dance treatment, clearly remembered every detail - [Linear Framework Ω] had friction with other forces and was troubled by regional collapse.

It seems that they were unable to take the lamp away.

They were once trapped in a situation from which they could not escape, and in the end, even the powered exoskeleton was left there.

But what Xiangzi cared more about than "RAS failed to take away the light" was another piece of information reflected by this search.

RAS also does not know where the body – and possibly the remains – of the young man with the virus in his system are now.

"(I thought at least [the seven bands] would know the whereabouts of the target person.)"

Xiangzi frowned slightly.

The repetitive voice echoed in the room.

【MASKING: ... Never mind. If we didn't catch him at that time, this matter would have nothing to do with us...】

This [big shot] is right, Xiangzi thought.

If I hadn't caught it at that time, this matter would have had nothing to do with me.

Hey.

Xiangzi leaned forward and turned off the video and audio playback.

"Anyway, now RAS has discovered that the things they lost are with BCPD." Xiangzi said, "RAS wants to take advantage of the conflict between BCPD and us to get back the things they lost..."

"...Of course they want to take it back. After all, [Linear Frame Ω] is not cheap. One unit costs more than 100 million."

Xiangzi smiled softly.

“This is critical intelligence,” she said.

"If we use it well, we can take the opportunity to push our defense line a little further toward the BCPD side."

“It would be great if any factory in the [Food, Fuel and Processed Products Zone] could come into the Ave Mujica area.”

Xiangzi said calmly.

Chuhua, Hailing and Mu have almost become accustomed to Xiangzi's calmness.

Only Miao Meng kept looking in Xiangzi's direction.

……

Xiangzi did not issue a raid request in response to the RAS intelligence.

She only asked Hai Ling to reinforce the defense line adjacent to the BCPD in the west, and asked Chu Hua to transfer some personnel from the north back to the west - now, the north has become easier to defend than before because of the gains made by everyone in the last "Robot Investigation Operation". Most of the guarding problems can be solved by just hanging out some iron sheets pulled from the city construction robots.

Because Xiangzi's way of using this voice message was relatively conservative.

Xiangzi said to everyone, "We will wait for the BCPD to launch an attack. When the battle begins, we will hack into the brain computers of the BCPD officers and pretend that these audios are signals captured due to radio frequency errors, and send them to the BCPD officers to listen to."

This can not only cause confusion on the BCPD side, causing them to be attacked by believers while retreating, forcing them to withdraw part of their defense line, but also prevent RAS from easily obtaining the [Linear Framework Ω], so that they can adopt more strategic means that are consuming to both sides in the future.

The depletion of BCPD is, of course, what Xiangzi wants to see.

As for the members of Team J?

Their monitoring mission continued until the battle took place.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

Time passes bit by bit.

Xiangzi patrolled the territory.

Including food, water, infiltration teams, transactions with the main urban area, and management within the territory.

Time always passes quickly when you are working.

Night fell as the freezing rain in the sky turned into a light snow.

Holding a dark umbrella, Xiangzi walked in the snow and returned to the cooling tower on Ave Mujica.

She entered through the small door.

The only sound I could hear was the hum of the elevator.

It was dark inside the cooling tower. Looking down from above, the interior was shrouded in darkness.