Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

"Indeed. Much quieter and emptier than any Mewtwo I've seen."

Xiangzi turned around and looked behind him.

Behind me is a wide road.

Ten lanes?

Twenty lanes?

It's too vast to be real.

And further away, there is darkness.

"Don't run around. If you run to a dark place, you may not wake up easily."

Miao Meng, who was standing on Xiangzi's right, smiled and said terrible words.

"Ah, though I can't run around anymore," she added.

"The three of us are using the same perspective. I'm the master controller. You can only follow me."

“Is this Watanabe’s perspective?”

Xiangzi asked.

"That's right~"

Miao Meng said.

"Next, we can only see, hear and feel the signals that Watanabe once captured from the outside world."

She pointed to the top of her head.

At this time, Xiangzi noticed that there were four lines just above his field of vision.

The top one is a thick dark blue line.

The three lines below are yellow, blue and green.

"I separated the sensory encoding layers." Miao Meng said, "Yellow is the visual layer, blue is the thermal and electromagnetic induction layer, and green is the auditory layer."

"When the corresponding feelings capture information, these three lines will beat. It's a bit like an electrocardiogram."

"The stronger the vibration, the more data is passing through the coding layer, which means that more intelligence is captured... probably."

"After all, this guy's brain is not an ordinary brain."

Miao Meng spread out his hands.

"This guy's brain has been washed! Everywhere where large amounts of data used to pass through is now a black area!"

"You really should praise me more! I've checked them one by one and marked all the black areas! Next, I'll show you what I found!"

"I am looking forward."

Hai Ling said this in the same tone as when she was recommended the Mewtwo movie. However, it cannot be said that she was not serious: she did have the same expectations for both.

"What's that one on the top?"

Xiangzi was more concerned about the thick dark blue line at the top.

"Ah, this."

Miao Meng said this and stretched out his hand to draw the line.

chapped.

The surrounding scenery blurred in an instant, mosaic-like fragments appeared, and then gradually reassembled.

Xiangzi saw that the environment around the three people was constantly changing.

In the car, inside the room, on the road, at home...

More of the scenes are at the entrance of the Avex research base.

However, each scene has a slight change. Some are sunny and cloudless, some are windy and rainy. Some are crowded with gray figures, and some are empty with only white concrete floors.

"This is a jump line." Miao Meng said, "We use this to switch scenes in different time periods."

Chapter 4 Visiting the Base ( Rewards and More)

Miao Meng pulled the jump line again. Now, the scenery in front of him returned to the original state.

White and empty.

"From my personal point of view, the past content is not very valuable." Miao Meng drew a small circle in the air with her finger and said, "The security of the Avex Research Base has been changing all the time. Especially in the past month or so, the speed of security iteration has been very fast."

"Two days later, there was a black area in a place where nothing was installed before. Two days later, the black area expanded again."

As she spoke, she walked into the research base.

This was the first time Xiangzi was taken to see Mewtwo. It was a very wonderful experience, a bit like being placed in a huge AR experience box.

She didn't have to move her feet, the scenery around her moved on its own.

The speed of movement is consistent with Miao Meng's walking speed.

"Anyway, I can see that Hei Yan is very neurotic." Miao Meng said as he walked, "He only adds to security, not subtracts. This is why I suggest looking at the recent situation... After comparing the timeline, I found that as time goes by, the black area has almost only increased and expanded, and has not decreased or shrunk."

"If I had known this earlier, I could have saved at least one more day!"

"When is this segment you are showing us now from?"

Hai Ling asked as she observed the faceless little gray men nearby with interest.

"The day Watanabe was fired."

Meow Dream answered.

It was at this time that everyone walked to the second gate.

When I was outside the main gate, I couldn't see it clearly. But after I came in and took a closer look, I found that there was a second access control behind the wall and the main gate.

This gate looks like a set of heightened electric stainless steel telescopic fences. It is obvious that it was installed later.

They built another "wall" inside the wall of the research base.

“Why did Black Rock install another fence?”

Xiangzi frowned and asked.

This fence seemed to have no function. It simply turned the outermost layer of defense of the research base into two layers... with only a few steps in between.

Although it was raised, it was only two meters high. There were no weapons on it, and it was not connected to high voltage electricity. Even Xiangzi, who had a [Physique: 3], felt that he could flip over it with a little effort.

"You'll know right away."

Miao Meng said with a smile.

Then, the main perspective swiped the employee card, and the electric stainless steel retractable fence vibrated and opened.

The three of them walked in.

The scene before my eyes changed immediately.

“…What is this?”

In the sky, on the ground, on the outer wall of the research base, in the air outside the research base, near the ground...

There were big black holes everywhere.

These large black holes have irregular, jagged edges.

The edges tremble and twist.

Some edges had fragments scattered around them, others had fragments that had been pieced back together... but there was still a large piece missing in the middle.

"Is this your first time seeing the Black Zone?"

Miao Meng became as excited as a new tour guide.

"Watch your step—although you won't step on it."

"Optical camouflage." Hai Ling looked at the top of the electric stainless steel telescopic fence, where the light was on. "Avex Research Base has installed optical camouflage fences for the entire base."

"What a big deal." Xiangzi's brows had been furrowed since just now. "This set will definitely cost no less than 10 million."

"It seems that you are not the only one betting on the 'Life Roulette', boss." Miao Meng joked, "Hei Yan is also a ruthless person! He knows that if he wins this bet, the assets he gets from Pastel*Palettes can't even be measured in 'billions'!"

“This is not the place to save money…”

"...including those black areas, they appeared there for this reason!"

"Is that a surveillance camera?"

Xiangzi asked, looking at the outer wall of the research base.

There were patches of black areas on the outer wall, which looked like they had been pierced with holes by a giant pencil.

However, the fragments at the edge of the hole have been pieced together, and the tail of the surveillance camera can be vaguely seen.

"Yes." Miao Meng said, "I put it together - surveillance camera probes are relatively easy to put together. They are installed in special locations, the signal bands they transmit are unique, and the models are basically available on the market, so they are easy to identify."

"Then it seems that those are 'difficult to identify'."

Hai Ling pointed to the black areas on both sides of the road and said.

If the black area of ​​the surveillance camera is like a hole poked by a pencil, the sides of the road are like holes poked by a pair of scissors and then pulled hard, showing scary big black blocks.

These black areas may be three meters high, two meters wide, and one meter thick, surrounded by debris scattered in the air. Just standing next to it is like being sucked in, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

"I suspect that's a turret." Miao Meng looked embarrassed and said, "Only turrets have this height, and, judging from the timeline, Watanabe's eyes were often attracted by them. However, the model of the turret is difficult to find in the Internet database! I don't understand military equipment... Without data, it can't be restored."

"Logically, it's very likely that it was a turret," Xiangzi said. "Watanabe installed a turret in his own home. He's been out of the army for thirteen years. If he hadn't seen a turret recently, it would be hard for him to think of installing one for defense."

"That's easy to guess..." Miao Meng said, pointing around with his thumb, "Why don't you try to guess what these are?"

Xiangzi and Hailing looked aside.

There are several black areas next to the building. In the air and on the road, the moving black areas approach the main perspective and pass by it.

All these black areas with debris trailing around them.

"Those next to the building look like vehicles," Hailing said. "They are all parked in parking spaces. And your auditory system shows that there are 99% highly realistic tire sounds there."

"Haizi, you already know how to use Mewtwo Editor~"

Miao Meng said in a relieved tone.

"Is the black area flying in the sky a drone? Are the black areas passing by on the road patrol personnel?" Xiangzi said, "Judging from their speed, they look very similar."

"Yes."

Meow Dream sighed exaggeratedly.

"Everyone can guess what it is! But what kind of drone it is, what equipment the patrol officers are wearing - all we know is that it's military!"

"Military data does not flow into the Internet database. Let me look for the corresponding model in the ocean of code on the hacker's World Wide Web. Even if I become a cyber life, I can't find it!"

"Military equipment is strictly managed, there's nothing we can do about it."

Xiangzi folded his arms and said.

"At least we can get a general idea of ​​the situation now. It's not impossible to plan an invasion route..."

"really?"

Miao Meng raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Boss, do you want to take a look at this before deciding?"

The three of them had already reached the downstairs of the research building.

Miao Meng stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the research building.

Chapter 64: Don't drink and drive

Miao Meng pushed open the door of the research base.

What appeared before everyone's eyes was an unimaginable scene.