Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

...It's so weird.

"(Think we can't possibly open his door?)"

That's too arrogant. Besides, he doesn't look as confident as the guy next door.

Kara.

Xiangzi tried to make a louder noise.

However, Watanabe still did not come out.

Not only that, but the sound of the door being pried open...

“Don’t move…don’t move!!”

Watanabe actually began to retreat! He retreated back into the house and closed the door—

"(!?)"

Xiangzi and Hailing were both shocked.

Wasn’t Watanabe very angry just now?

He is a veteran, with good prosthetics, good equipment, and a turret...

Forget about opening the observation window, he didn't even get close to the threat and just ran back!

——How could he be so scared of a few hooligans in the wilderness?!

There is no intention to come out at all!

Xiangzi, Miaomeng and Hailing had not expected this!

Now——

"(Hey, hey, what's going on!)"

shit!

"(Why is this guy back?!)"

Now, Miao Meng, who had already sneaked in, was completely trapped inside!

Chapter 47 Save Me Save Me Save Me

It was expected that the conflict would occur at the main entrance of Watanabe Farm.

In this way, after a conflict occurs, the inside of the house is the safest place.

Miao Meng also saw this and volunteered.

But now, everything is different.

Watanabe's unexpected caution turned the interior of the house into a battlefield filled with [Broadsword] anti-personnel mines.

"(Save me save me save me save me save me!)"

In the brain-computer communication channel, Miao Meng’s messages were flooding the screen.

"(Calm down!)"

Xiangzi squatted at the door, pressed his cheekbones, and asked Miao Meng to stop.

What should we do now?

Xiangzi blinked his golden eyes and thought quickly.

Break the door by force?

It’s not impossible!

But - it's too dangerous!

It is because forcing a goal is too dangerous that so many roundabout tactics were planned at the beginning!

Watanabe has already entered the house. If we rush in now, we will have to fight him under the fire from the turret.

No one can withstand the 1 bullets per second fired by the FN-RAL heavy machine gun!

but--

"(Hey! Decide quickly!)"

On the thermal imager, Watanabe had already started walking towards the second floor.

Can't wait any longer!

"Timoris! Demolish—"

Watanabe stepped onto the last step to the second floor.

[DB-2 Hand Saw] bumped into the corridor, making a slight sound.

He turned the corner of the stairwell.

Standing in the same position as Miao Meng just now.

opened the door.

A small corner of the security console appeared in front of him.

……

A silence.

The room was empty.

There was no one at the security console.

……

"..."

Xiangzi waved his hand to indicate, and stopped in mid-air.

She turned her wrist and signaled to Hai Ling, who had already taken out the plasma bomb, "Wait a minute."

There was no gunfire.

Watanabe was already standing where Meow Meng was just now.

And Meow Dream...

Meow Dream is no longer there.

"(That was a close call!)"

Miao Meng hid in the narrow attic just above the security console! At this moment, she was crammed in a strange position among a pile of iron blocks, not daring to breathe.

It turned out that the [building floor plan] just found in the security console was of great help!

The architectural plan detailed the information about the above-ground and ground buildings of Watanabe Farm. Miao Meng took a quick look and knew that there was an attic above the second floor.

Seeing Watanabe returning, she had nowhere to hide, so she quickly used the console to control the metal grab above to pop out, and climbed into the attic using it. Only then did she escape at the critical moment.

"(I almost thought that there would be a few more big holes on my beautiful body!)"

Miao Meng exclaimed in the brain-computer communication channel that it was a close call.

"(Hey! Watanabe is right below me! What should I do? What should I do!)"

"(He didn't even notice you.)"

"(Don't make sarcastic remarks, Timoris! There are firepower weapons in the attic! I am now twisting a large piece of [Scorpion-16] missile launcher like a passionate lover! These things have added biomimetic adaptive modules - they are warm! Thermal imaging scans can't distinguish between me and them!)"

"(You have quite a lot of lovers then. I think you also have the Military Technology A-type RPG and grenade launcher, right?)"

"(Oops! That's not the point—)"

"(It is necessary to know the type of weapon. Amoris, do you know of a reliable breach? I will try from--)"

"(...The attic contains firepower weapons with biomimetic adaptive modules.)"

Xiangzi suddenly joined the conversation.

"(In other words, Amoris, Watanabe's scanning system won't be able to detect you for a while...right.)"

She asked Miao Meng.

“(…Wait a minute.)”

Miao Meng suddenly had a bad feeling, as if someone was grabbing her by the back of her neck and lifting her up.

"(Hey, wait, Oblivionis, you won't...)"

"(If we break in now, Timoris and I will both die. If we die, you won't survive.)"

Xiangzi said.

"(Amoris, you hide there. We will rescue you at night.)"

“(Wh——Haaa!?)”

……

Watanabe stood next to the operating table on the second floor and made a few more verbal threats.

Xiangzi exchanged insults with him for a while, then pretended that he could not pry open the door and left angrily.

She and Hai Ling got on a motorcycle and drove out.

The two men stopped when they took off their helmets and Watanabe's surveillance camera could no longer capture his facial features.

“We need to renegotiate our countermeasures.”

Xiangzi said. She was holding a motorcycle helmet, and her long light blue hair was shining golden in the afternoon sun.

"It's unrealistic to lure Watanabe out again. He would rather fix the gate afterwards than take the initiative to attack."

"His reaction before and after is too different." Hai Ling lifted her windproof sunglasses to the top of her helmet and said, "His behavior looks like PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)."

"I don't think Avex would hire a driver with such obvious stress behavior. Did Kuroiwa fire Watanabe because he suffered from PTSD?"

"Or……"

"What did Kuroiwa do after firing him that caused him to suffer from PTSD?"

"I don't know if Watanabe has PTSD, I just know that I'm about to have PTSD!"

The information on Miao Meng's brain-computer communication channel was converted into audio and came out of Xiangzi and Hailing's headphones.

"How cruel of you! You just left the heroic hacker who bravely infiltrated the enemy for the sake of the team alone in the enemy's base!"

"Amoris," Xiangzi said, "I've seen your vision scan. Watanabe can't find you, your position is very safe - it can even be considered an ambush point. Watanabe may stick his head in to get a weapon without any preparation, and you can use the [Single Molecule Wire] to strangle his throat at that time."

"Eh... That's what I said... I don't like this kind of ambush and assassination work... It's cold and dark here, and there's no human warmth at all..."

"Isn't there also the temperature of the biomimetic adaptive module?"

"Timoris! You don't even have a bionic adaptive module to warm your heart!"

"I will remotely instruct you on how to assassinate. I guarantee it will be done right the first time."

"Not this kind of heartwarming...although...ok, thank you..."

"It is only theoretically possible to assassinate Watanabe in the attic." Xiangzi confirmed the analysis software and said, "After all, it is more likely that he will not open the attic for several days or even more than ten days. Timoris, the main operators from now on are the two of us."

"Although Watanabe is suspected to suffer from PTSD, no one can guarantee that he will not open fire after violent demolition."

"I think if someone did come into his home he would still attack without mercy."

"We have two options left."

"It means waiting for the night to sneak in quietly and creating chaos to lure Watanabe out." Hailing said, crossing her arms.

"Yes." said Xiangzi.

"Which one do you want to execute?" Hai Ling asked.

"I want to do it at the same time," said Xiangzi.

"..."

Hailing glanced at Xiangzi.