Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

She saw a familiar figure.

What kind of expression appeared on your face at this moment?

Li Xi didn't know.

She only knew that the familiar enemy in front of her caught the expression on her face at that moment and then smiled softly.

Chapter 4: So I'll Go Home Late (7k monthly tickets plus extra)

【//Mujina Carnival-Ave Mujica】

[Amoris: Hey! The other side wants to shut this thing down! Should we go in? Or leave?]

[Oblivionis: We will soon be hit by RAS engineering equipment. Amoris, Mortis, return to the original route and retreat to the ground.]

【Amoris: Got it.】

【Mortis: Got it.】

【Timoris: The rear passage is in good condition. 】

【Doloris: How should Timoris and I act? 】

【Oblivionis: Hmm...】

……

The grate leading to the pipe is slowly being closed.

Miao Meng and Mu, who were already in the pipe, began to evacuate backwards along the way they came.

The location of the pipe is higher than the sunken underground room. However, the height of the floor is less than three meters, so it is not an obstacle at all.

Hailing and Chuhua jumped and without much effort, they both jumped back into the pipe.

The pipe is still closed.

It will soon be completely closed, but the speed of closing is not very fast.

There is still enough time to retreat.

Now, only Xiangzi was left standing in the room.

"Oblivionis."

Chu Hua entered the pipe and reached out to Xiangzi below.

Xiangzi was looking at the other side of the explosion-proof glass.

Another BCPD police officer arrived on the other side of the explosion-proof glass.

The glass was reflective, and from Chu Hua's position, where he had already entered the pipe, he couldn't see clearly where the police officers were.

"Oblivi——"

Before Chuhua called out Xiangzi's name for the second time, Xiangzi grabbed Chuhua's hand.

Chuhua lifted Xiangzi up.

Chuhua was very strong, and Xiangzi quickly rose to the dividing line of the grid.

Xiangzi was almost pulled into Chuhua's arms.

The mask she wore, her hair and her thin lips brushed against Chuhua's ears——

Xiangzi got close to Chuhua intimately.

She whispered softly in Chuhua's ear:

"You go first. I'll meet you later."

and also.

"Take Timoris out of here."

Xiangzi let go of Chuhua's hand.

She leaped back and into the sealed room.

"—"

In front of Chu Hua, who showed a look of surprise and nervousness, the grid finally closed, separating the two.

……

The grid of the [Material Buffer·Entrance] made a "click" sound.

This sound means that the grid has been completely closed.

The closing of the grid also demonstrated that the first step in assisting the fellow "attackers" to escape with supplies was at least successful.

But Lixi did not feel happy about "accomplishing something".

"..."

Li Xi stared ahead.

There were originally several people at the [quasi-entrance].

However, because the grid closed too slowly, most of the enemies in the quasi-entrance room had already left.

There was only one person locked in the room.

It was a young woman wearing a red and black long skirt and a black eye mask.

Her long golden-blue hair was divided into two strands and spread out behind her.

"—"

Lixi's BCPD standard orbital prefabricated parts are working automatically.

But the eye mask on the other person's face has a certain anti-scanning ability.

The scanning function doesn't work.

Li Xi failed to capture the identity information of this enemy.

"..."

The young enemy stood in the room, looking at Li Xi through the explosion-proof glass.

It looked like she was locked in an interrogation room and Li Xi was the interrogator.

…But is she really imprisoned here?

There was no sign of panic, anxiety, or desire to escape on her face.

She smiled appropriately.

For no reason, Li Xi thought of the content about interrogation that Hanasakigawa had taught in his course.

People confined in a room will unconsciously look toward the place they care about most. This psychological effect is often used to induce questioning. If they want to escape, they will glance at the door, or deliberately control themselves and not glance at the door.

But it is hard to say whether the enemy's eyes are pointing in any particular direction.

The enemy's eyes are always focused straight ahead.

...Focus on Lixi's face.

"Officer, your eyes stayed on my face for too long."

The enemy suddenly said.

Li Xi didn't expect that the other party would speak first, and what he talked about was something she was paying attention to.

"The maximum scanning time has been exceeded. Is it because the police scanner cannot find my identity?"

The peaceful voice came through the explosion-proof glass, hazy and slightly distorted.

But it was this kind of voice that even startled Li Xi.

When did I become so timid?

Li Xi frowned.

She looked at him.

The scan gave no results.

But Li Xi admitted——

Some messy images began to enter Lixi's mind.

No.

Li Xi took a deep breath and forced himself not to think about it.

Let your mind go blank.

Don't think about anything.

Now it's on mission.

calm.

Yes, calm down, just -

"I'm sorry. I think the built-in electronic interference circuit I used may have affected your judgment."

The enemy said elegantly.

"Indeed, I was a little rude."

then.

Lixi saw that the other party put his hand on the edge of the mask.

"..."

In front of Lixi, who frowned, the enemy gently lifted the bottom edge of the mask with her white fingers.

Lift and remove sideways.

The enemy took off the mask.

Revealed beneath the mask was a face that Li Xi was once extremely familiar with, but now had become somewhat unfamiliar.

A face of one of Lixi's former band members.

"...Toyokawa...Shoko."

Lixi said the name.

"I'm glad you still remember me."

Xiangzi, who was separated from Lixi by a glass, chuckled and said.

That smile was very similar to the one Xiangzi had in Lixi's memory.

But, there is something different.

"..."

Is it really you?

Face-changing technology?

DNA skin-mimicking technology?

Face sculpting technology?

Li Xi knew that this keyboard player she had worked with before was from a big family. She didn't like to care about these things before, but she also knew that children from big families usually had bodyguards, stand-ins or other related personnel, and the possibility of "bumping into each other's faces" was higher.

However, these questions can be answered by simply scanning your identity ID.

"..."

Lixi didn't go for the scan.

She was not afraid of scanning out the answer "Toyokawa Shoko".

She is avoiding another answer -

Li Xi suddenly noticed that he had turned his eyes away from Xiangzi's face.