Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

This topic had nothing to do with Xiangzi. But Xiangzi paused unnaturally.

"...Timoris, how come you use this?" Xiangzi asked slowly, "This is something used by the military."

"When I was working with Chu Hua, I saw her use it," Hai Ling said, "and it was very useful. So, I also found a way to get one myself."

"Thanks, Haizi-Timoris!"

Miao Meng took the pulse blocking gun and blinked.

"Looking at the satellite image, the cordon Watanabe set up isn't very dense. I was originally planning to create a temporary short circuit through hacking, and then squeeze through! But, with this thing, it's of course safer~"

Miao Meng waved and prepared to leave, but suddenly seemed to think of something.

"correct."

She asked Xiangzi.

"Just in case... if I'm discovered, I have to struggle. As a Will-O-W-O youth, I still have to know what I should know! Boss, what should our motorcycle team be called?"

"Don't call me boss." Xiangzi closed his eyes and said, "The name of the motorcycle team is Ave Mujica."

"Oh! You're really well prepared! You've even thought of a name! You're worthy of being the boss!"

"..."

"What does this name mean?" Hai Ling asked.

“A music carnival of birds of a feather.”

Xiangzi simply stated one of the meanings.

Chapter 46: Different than I imagined

After the plan was decided, the action was quickly put into action.

Miao Meng parked her rented red Kusanagi CT-3X in the parking lot of the gas station service area. She took the back seat of Hailing's ARCH Nazaré and continued the journey.

Miao Meng’s explanation for this was “I want to sneak in, and there are multiple motorcycles parked nearby which is very conspicuous and will easily arouse vigilance.”

Xiangzi agreed with this view. However, she thought that Miao Meng must have an impure motive of "wanting to experience the steel behemoth of Hailing".

……

After leaving the gas station, Xiangzi and Hailing drove very slowly. They adjusted the controls of the motorcycle to the 40km/h cruise mode and drove in twists and turns on the unpaved sand.

At first glance, it seemed like they were driving aimlessly, but if you looked closely, you would see that the three were slowly approaching Watanabe's farm.

The three of them drove for half an hour to cover the 3 kilometers.

Amid the smoke and dust, Watanabe's small farm, which was cordoned off from the outside, was clearly visible.

"(Alloy coaming…probe indicator light…turret.)"

The level of alert was obviously higher than that of an ordinary farm. Outside the ordinary warning line, alloy fences that could be used as one-way shelters were installed at intervals. The number of indicator lights on the probes was frightening. Behind the warning line, towering turrets could be seen.

“(There really is a turret.)”

Turrets are the most troublesome. They are not like human enemies that will stop attacking if they are hit.

"(How many machines did this guy install?)" Xiangzi asked in the brain-computer communication channel.

"(Three are working, and one is still being assembled.)" Miao Meng, who has the farthest scanning distance, said, "(The model is the most common AX-48 in military technology, which has been modified a lot. It should be recycled scrap parts.)"

"(Can you see the configuration?)"

"(It's too far away! All I can tell is that it's equipped with an FN-RAL heavy machine gun. Also, do you see that huge nozzle on top? That's probably the [Kenji Adachi F-253] flamethrower.)"

"(……)"

After entering the vicinity of the farm, the three began to walk and stop.

They would stop the car intermittently, get in and get out, walk around nearby, and then get in again. They no longer acted together, and when one person drove the motorcycle, the other two would often still be searching in place.

The people who moved only moved a short distance. The three of them sometimes separated, sometimes gathered together, and they no longer insisted on who drove and who rode, and they often took turns.

And so, another half hour passed.

Xiangzi and Hailing drove their motorcycles to the gate of the farm, but Miaomeng had quietly disappeared without a trace.

Outside the farm, there is a thin infrared warning area line.

Xiangzi ran past that place intentionally or unintentionally.

The alarm sounded immediately.

"Youth of will-o'-the-wisp! I warned you, stay away from my farm! Nighttime is not enough - what are you doing during the day! Get the f*ck away - or let me add some 12mm decorations to your heads!"

The voiceprint response was consistent, it was Watanabe's voice.

And it's obviously not a recording.

"(As expected, he has been staring at us since a while ago.)"

Xiangzi thought about it and shouted loudly:

"——Awake at night, awake during the day! Day after day, nagging——I haven't even entered your shabby little yard! It has nothing to do with you, does it, old man!"

"We were the first to come here - what an annoyance!"

Hailing glanced at Xiangzi with a little surprise.

"(Is this the first time you see Xiangzi like this?)" Miao Meng's brain-computer communication message came, with a few emoticons, "(Hey, let me say, she is good at acting!)"

“(…It’s indeed unexpected.)” Hai Ling admitted.

"Go back and drown in your fucking glitter! One last warning, this is private land! I'm telling you, I've already taken off the safety on my heavy machine gun!"

"Ha! Can your heavy machine gun reach outside the yard? If you have the guts, then go ahead and do it. I'm telling you, we broke the stabilizer near here last night! It was completely broken! The components inside that thing are worth your two pieces of iron!"

Shoko deliberately provoked trouble and started a quarrel with Watanabe.

"XXX, Lezhicheng didn't teach you the rules, I'll teach you--"

There was the thump of people moving angrily inside the building.

A moment later, the artificial eye's infrared detection device sensed a person appearing in the hallway.

It's Watanabe.

He suddenly opened the main door and appeared behind the low cover in front of the main gate, holding a [DB-2 Hand Saw] kinetic double-barreled shotgun in his hand.

…Even without looking at the gun, his heat index is alarming.

His entire body was covered with traces of prosthetic transformation. Intelligent mechanical links, adrenaline boosters, motion detectors, cortex blockers... There were at least dozens of modifications, big and small, and all of them were high-end implants.

"(As expected of a former driver of Avex.)"

Just as Hai Ling was thinking this and observing the scene, she suddenly caught a glimpse of an electric arc on the cordon next to her with high [reaction], and saw an imperceptible jump.

This is a signal that the current has been temporarily blocked.

Sure enough, a moment later, Miao Meng’s message appeared in the brain-computer communication channel.

"I'm coming in~"

It is followed by a love symbol.

"Ah - I see! I was wondering why I couldn't find the stabilizer! It must be you, old man!"

"Huh? You little bastard..."

Xiangzi was still arguing with Watanabe. Hailing silently turned on the [Companion Location] in her brain-computer operating system.

The figure of Meowmu, who was marked as a companion, appeared in Watanabe's two-story house.

"(The back door lock is not difficult to open ~ Easy! Oh, the cover here is very good... Watanabe can't see me directly from the front door! I went upstairs ~)"

Along with these words, Miao Meng's figure began to move upstairs, and soon appeared on the second floor.

"(Oh! I found the security console! Let me see~ building floor plan, fire lock, monitoring master switch...)"

……

It's going very well.

Xiangzi looked at the message sent by Miao Meng on the brain-computer communication channel and thought.

Miao Meng was doing well. She had already reached the control console.

Everything went smoothly for me.

Watanabe was hiding behind the bunker, between the main gate and the bunker, but Shoko caught every subtle expression and hesitation in his words.

I am very focused. The foggy feeling in my head that I sometimes have is gone. After three days of rest, my attention and concentration have improved significantly.

Xiangzi had to admit that rest was useful.

To be honest, she had not originally planned to rest for that long. After negotiating with Hailing, when she returned to Miaomeng's apartment, she also planned to go to Afterglow's territory several times in the next few days to confirm the information.

…But as soon as I lay down on the bed and relaxed, I fell into a coma.

In three days, Xiangzi really only got up a few times, just to take in the necessary energy biscuits and nutrients, and to inhale the healing mist.

Maybe I should rest more.

Xiangzi thought.

The commotion in the underground arcade in the Walled City was bigger than expected, but the money earned from selling the black Super Dream discs and drugs was also more than expected.

Eight hundred thousand was collected in one go, with some money left over.

Saves a lot of time.

Qiansheng only gave them one month to complete the mission. But because of the successful operation, they could go slower and more steadily...

drip.

In the brain-computer communication channel, Miao Meng gave the message "OK at any time".

It's Xiangzi and Hailing's turn to take action.

"Hand over the stabilizer!" Xiangzi raised his voice, "It must be hidden in your yard! Hey! Timoris! Let's go in and look for it!"

As he spoke, Xiangzi pulled out a knife and began to pry open the welds on the Watanabe gate.

"do not move!!"

boom!

Watanabe fired a warning shot.

"(……good.)"

Xiangzi thought.

She made some noise, but it was not her real intention to pry open the solid iron door.

She and Hai Ling carefully hid under the alloy fence.

At this angle, even a cannon can't hit us.

This was a blind spot for attack. The impatient Watanabe wanted to attack the two men, so he could only approach the main door, open the surveillance window on the door, and use a shotgun to attack the outside.

Xiangzi's behavior was seduction.

She wanted to lure Watanabe out of his solid shell and reveal his flaws.

Xiangzi raised his head.

The observation window above can accommodate a person's head through.

The moment Watanabe opens the surveillance window, Hailing will suddenly attack from below. She will grab Watanabe's head and pull him out - choking his throat at the window -

but.

"Don't move, don't move, don't move!!!"

Bang, bang, bang.

"...?"

Watanabe fired several times, but the gunshot remained.

He had absolutely no intention of leaving the house.