Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

[Amoris: Great. Oblivionis, your brainwaves look really messed up. So you've already sneaked in and started fighting? Why didn't you tell us?]

[Oblivionis: ——I told you, use your own judgment and seize the opportunity. ]

【Amoris: Okay, okay~ Yeah~ I’m on it! 】

【Doloris: Be careful. 】

【Timoris: Doloris, you are the one. You are in more danger. 】

【Doloris: Thank you. Everyone be careful. 】

[Amoris: Can't our "refugee organization" be a little more polite? We are too respectful to each other! ]

【Timoris: I don’t think “treat each other with respect” is used this way. 】

【Mortis: Monitoring, communications, and support are in good condition. 】

……

Protein Factory, second floor.

【Canned food filling and packaging workshop】

Squeak...

At the corner of the crowded aisle, the sound of wheels rolling over the ground could be heard.

Squeak...

A small robot slowly drove over.

It was a cargo robot with a water blue shell.

Compared with the orange-colored urban construction robots that can be seen everywhere in the city and repair roads and convenience facilities, these aqua-blue robots responsible for delivery and maintenance in factories are shorter and more slender.

If the urban construction robot gives people the impression of a more traditional "cylinder", then the cargo transport robot is like a small balance car with a drone as a head and a mechanical claw as an arm.

This "little balance car" slowly, slowly, approached the corner...

After turning the corner.

The black muzzle of a gun appeared silently and pointed at it.

Squeak...

The delivery robot has no perception at all.

In other words, unlike urban construction robots, it does not have any electronic components that can sense danger, nor does it have any armed devices.

The cargo robot drove smoothly past the gun muzzles.

【…Non-dangerous situation.】

The members of Team A, the "Striker", raised their guns.

A team of 6 members.

At this moment, they are slowly advancing into the [Canning and Packaging Workshop].

There aren't many paths for people to walk on in this workshop.

In the narrow aisles, manipulators, drones and cargo robots move back and forth, performing tasks according to the procedures.

Their existence makes the space, which was not designed for people to enter, even more crowded.

Everything hums and works.

The leader, who looked like a captain, made a "forward" gesture.

rustle.

The team entered one by one and moved forward to the back of the next pillar.

One of the team members raised his head and looked toward the ceiling.

The pipes are staggered at the top.

They are intricate, intertwined, and layered.

A fully automated workshop does not need too many lights.

Only some diffuse lights are installed on the bottom to provide normal fill light for the cargo delivery robot.

Therefore, all the pipes above were shrouded in darkness.

……

[//"Attack" Team A]

[Team member - Ishida: The top fill light brightness is too low. ]

[Team member Ishida: Request: Can we use infrared artificial eyes to scan? ]

[Captain Shibasaki: Action is prohibited by principle.]

[Captain Shibasaki: There is a possibility that the [Insect Swarm] may be released into the area. Do not use infrared artificial eyes to scan. The interface will be exposed.]

[Team member Fujiwara: But, this is a protein factory, right? ]

[Team member Fujiwara: Is there really a [swarm] here? Didn't we confirm it when we used this place to produce canned protein? We reactivated the LAN of the protein factory and formatted the LAN...]

[Captain Shibasaki: ...The enemy entered the area earlier than us. They may have dropped [Insect Swarm] bombs.]

[Team member Fujiwara: The [Zerg Swarm] bomb will infect all electronic devices in the area, right?]

[Team member Fujiwara: Look at these robots, these assembly lines. They are all still working normally. If they were hacked by the [Zerg Swarm], the robots wouldn't be able to work normally, right?]

[Captain Shibasaki: …]

[Team member Jiangkou: Do we need to scan it? ]

[Captain Shibasaki: I will ask the command center.]

[Captain Shibasaki: Calling the "Attack" command center. ]

[Captain Shibasaki: …]

[Captain Shibasaki: Calling the "Attack" command center. ]

……

The command center did not respond.

At first, it was just the captain of Team A of the "Striker" who felt something was wrong.

But later, the entire "Attack" A team noticed this abnormality.

There has been no contact from the command center for a long time.

No one responded to the calls I sent.

Team A attempts to obtain intelligence through more primitive visual signals.

——But this is impossible.

Because there are no windows at all in the workshop on the second floor!

Is there any trouble outside?

go ahead?

Or retreat?

[Captain Shibasaki: ...Retreat.]

Status unknown.

The captain gave the order to retreat along the original route.

The players began to retreat.

At this time.

Squeak...

The cargo robot that had just passed by returned from the back.

Its hands were filled with goods several times taller than its own.

Those were sheets of tinplate used to press cans.

Just right.

The cargo robot slowly, slowly passed by the members of Team A who were evacuating and carefully paying attention to their surroundings. Team A used these tinplates as cover to retreat.

then.

The cargo robot's single eye flashed.

It suddenly released its mechanical claws.

"—!"

Bang—dang dang dang—!

The tinplate fell down and hit the heads of the three police officers at the end of Team A—now at the head of the retreating team!

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The three police officers at the front were immediately pinned down by the tinplate!

Although these tinplates are used to make cans, they are quite heavy when stacked together.

"cough!"

The police officer walking in front was hit in the waist and immediately spurted out blood. The two police officers behind him also had their hands and feet pinned down.

Bang—bang!

Bullets fired.

The cargo robot carrying the tinplate was hit on the head, causing a spark to fly.

The robot flew out and crashed into the end of the passage far away, making a "dang, dang" sound.

The robot didn't move.

The team member who fired the shot was still in shock, holding his [Military Technology M251s Ajax] assault rifle and staring at the robot.

[Team member - Jiangguchi: Insects... [Insect swarm] infection...? ]

he asked over the radio channel.

[Team member Ishida: ...Don't scare yourself! Maybe the mechanical claw just fell off! Come and help push it away! ]

Two members of the "Attack" team quickly stepped forward and moved the tinplates away.

rear.

【Amoris: ...Hehe.】

Miao Meng smiled softly in the darkness.

Mission time. No one answered her in Ave Mujica's channel.

However, she still couldn't break the habit of talking to herself.

【Amoris: Six people. 】

【Amoris: The higher you climb this “peak”, the more people you have to deal with. 】

[Amoris: It's time to try out the external circuit board Mortis gave me. ]

[Amoris: With this installed in the brain-computer interface, my computing power can support me to run... and crack it faster and better. ]

She tapped her cheekbone with her slender fingers.

A circle of turquoise gear-shaped light arcs lit up in the depths of the burgundy pupils.

A dark green filter covered Miao Meng's vision.

Six BCPD officers from the "Strike Force" team are shown in a flowing red thermal image in this dark green filter.

"Next to" them, a scrolling directory-like "Available Quick Cracking" entry was popping up rapidly from bottom to top.