Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Plus a gentle pull.

Clang.

Within seconds, the entrance to the ventilation duct was dismantled.

……

Xiangzi held Miaomeng's feet and sent Miaomeng into the pipe. After Miaomeng had walked through the path, she turned back and pulled Xiangzi up from below.

A few minutes later, the two of them passed through the pipe together and landed on the ground in their new location.

The floor is green, the walls are green, there are several long benches in the room, and rows of vertical wardrobes.

This looks like a staff lounge.

Right now, there is no one here.

"There is another fork in the road that leads to the arcade hall." Miao Meng dusted off her body and said, "But I guess you don't want us to jump down from the tops of a bunch of young people playing video games and make a surprise appearance."

"I'm glad you're assessing my attitude correctly."

Xiangzi said. She jumped and tried to put the grille at the exit back.

Not enough.

"..."

Facing Miao Meng's increasingly smiling gaze, Xiangzi frowned and jumped again.

This time it's installed.

"Let's go." Xiangzi clapped his hands.

"Good~"

Miao Meng did not expose Xiangzi.

She is very adaptable. Since there is no way to change everything, just enjoy it.

……

After carefully pushing the door open a crack, the frantic noises from outside immediately poured into Xiangzi and Miao Meng's ears.

The sound of pushing coins, the sound of arcade sound effects, the sound of smashing handles and buttons.

And overshadowing all of this, there were idol songs playing at extremely high volumes.

It was already noisy when I entered the ventilation duct, and now the volume is even louder.

Noisy.

It was like stabbing a sharp knife coated with pepper spray into my ear.

Xiangzi, who did not install the frequency band elimination plug-in, frowned.

Miao Meng had already escaped to the corner when the door was opened.

"(It's like hitting me on the head with a titanium hammer!)"

Miao Meng’s message came from the communication software, followed by several exclamation marks.

"(Are all the guys here masochists?)"

"(We want to go in too.)" Xiangzi replied.

“(No way——!?)”

"(There are fewer people during the day and more people at night. Now is the time of intersection. If you don't hurry up, there will be no empty aisle.)"

Xiangzi was sending out brainwave information and was about to walk in.

But his hand was caught by Miao Meng.

"(Hey, don't be so anxious.)"

Miao Meng gave a sly smile and pointed to the upright wardrobe next to her.

……

Rows of machines were packed together, making a roaring noise, emitting the violence of sound, light, and electricity. People sitting in front of the machines shouted, cursed, and pounded on the countertops, vibrating with the countertops, melting into the restless, stimulating atmosphere.

In the huge game arcade, there are only a few narrow aisles that can barely allow people to pass through.

Those customers with their butts sitting on the stools almost only use this passage when entering and leaving the store.

The people who pass through this passage more often are... the staff of the game arcade.

"Excuse me, could you please move aside? The machine over there needs to upload electronic coins on a scheduled basis."

"Hey, hey! Don't ask me about such trivial matters! Go ahead, go ahead! Don't ruin my luck!"

"excuse me."

The staff member with light blond-blue hair and a bright yellow coat bowed in a standard manner and walked past the customer who was playing the game.

"Oh! I borrowed it too~"

Another staff member who was taller and fuller-figured than the former and had short light purple hair also took two steps at a time and squeezed through the gap.

"Thanks, little brother~"

The staff member even turned around and winked at the guest.

Chapter 37: Workers, Workers' Soul

"Scheduled electronic currency upload, thank you."

Wearing the thick gloves of a game hall staff, Xiangzi squatted down beside the empty arcade machine and removed the panel underneath.

Miao Meng smoothly took out his biometric information cable and connected it to the exposed socket inside the machine.

The green text jumped away quickly, and then there were numbers that kept rising.

"Wow, the machines here are much more expensive than those outside--"

"Keep your voice down."

Xiangzi and Miaomeng whispered to each other, and quickly worked together to finish one machine and moved on to the second one.

Then there's the third one.

Channel 4.

Access, extract, transfer.

Repeat.

Clean and fast.

Since they were wearing staff uniforms, they didn't arouse any suspicion from the customers who were concentrating on the machines.

Because the arcade was dimly lit, with colorful lights on and extremely noisy, Xiangzi and Miaomeng only needed to be a little careful to keep a distance from other staff members and no staff member would notice them.

After a while, the two of them had hacked through a small arcade area.

At the end of the arcade area, there are slot machines scattered around that are strictly regulated by the City of Joy.

Miao Meng walked here and connected one.

The balance inside the gambling table immediately made her dizzy.

"If I could come here once a week to get in goods, I wouldn't want to do the Black Mewtwo business anymore."

Miao Meng smiled softly and said.

"Be careful with the probe."

Xiangzi reminded her from the side. She had been paying attention to the visual range of the probe.

"This place is not as strict as Toyosu PIT!" Miao Meng smiled contemptuously, "I have already switched it to [Friendly Mode], it will not recognize our information."

that……

What are you waiting for?

Take it, take it, it will be a waste if you don’t take it.

Xiangzi and Miaomeng hacked into all the slot machines.

The balance in Miao Meng's separate account jumped from 50,000 to 100,000, and then to 150,000.

Now, the money-making efficiency of the two is at least twenty times that of the morning.

Meow Meng whistled.

The speed at which slot machines make money is obviously a pleasant surprise.

However, their good luck did not seem to end there.

"Oh ho~"

Go around the slot machine area, and at the end, there is an area surrounded by purple light bands.

Through the high-tech entrance, you can see some soft leather beds inside. On some of the beds, guests are lying with multi-functional VR glasses connected to their faces.

"I said purple is my lucky color~"

In addition to arcade machines and slot machines, this arcade...

Surprisingly, there is also a super dream machine!

These guests lying on the beds are paying to rent Super Dream to watch!

As for the underground private game halls in these cheap areas, they will play Mewtwo...

…No matter how you think about it, it’s a black super dream that overstimulates the nerves and senses.

“Can you see what’s sold from me?”

Meow Meng chuckled and walked into the Mew Dream Machine area.

There are three beds in the Super Dream Machine area. Next to the beds, a staff member is sorting out the black Super Dream discs.

Seeing Xiangzi and Miao Meng coming in, he turned his head.

But before he could say anything, Xiangzi waved his hand impatiently.

"We'll take care of it here, you go and rest."

The staff looked at the two of them.

Xiangzi has already started to organize the black dream discs.

"Let's go? Don't get in the way."

So the staff nodded and left.

"Hey." Looking at the staff leaving, Miao Meng blinked, "Your tough attitude really works."

"They are all eager to rest."

Xiangzi flipped through "Exciting! Thrilling! The last 30 seconds before the ghost network traveler burns his brain!" and put it under "Real gun battle! Shot in the head! Let your adrenaline rush!"

"You have to be tough. It's common among these workers to treat their colleagues badly."

"Hey~ You have quite a lot of social experience."

"...less talk, more work."

"Okay~"

Xiangzi walked around the guests who were diving deep and took the black dream disc from the large stand and bedside table.

These palm-sized black Super Dream Discs are very expensive, and their value is no less than the electronic coins cashed out from slot machines.

And there's more than just Black Dream Discs here.

"Hey, look!" Meow Dream's excited voice came from the side, "These are the aphrodisiac drugs used when infiltrating Black Mew Dream!"

"..."

drug.

Xiangzi frowned.