Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

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Of course, Xiangzi could just ignore him and the room, walk over, hope that fate would not let her be discovered, and then leave from the west.

but……

"(If fate had really favored me, I would never have ended up in this situation.)"

Xiangzi doesn't believe in fate.

Maybe I believed it a little bit once, when I met the lamp and crychic.

But now, she believes in herself more.

"(…I can only kill him.)"

This was the first time that Xiangzi decided to take someone's life.

Unexpectedly, it was booked very quickly without any hesitation.

……

In the dark room, the only sound was the click-click of the Kidney-Cut members pressing the motion controllers.

In the backlight of the screen, Xiangzi appeared silently behind him.

Countless shadows of Xiangzi were projected on the big screen behind.

It was horrible, but he must not have seen it.

Xiangzi raised the knife silently.

Click click click.

The Kidney-Stripping member was still addicted to his game, and the sound of fierce gunfire kept leaking out of his VR glasses.

Now, it seems, is the critical moment.

Xiangzi's knife slowly moved downwards...

Then it stopped in the air.

"..."

Xiangzi hesitated for a moment.

Kill him with a knife?

Target the brain stem or the carotid artery? Kill by bleeding?

"(The struggle was too noisy.)"

What I'm using now is not a molecular vibration knife, nor a cutting saw equipped with microcurrent pulses, and it cannot render the enemy incapable of movement the moment I cut the fatal part.

"(A knife won't work.)"

Xiangzi thought.

She would have to strangle him.

"(Compressing the trachea and breaking the cervical vertebrae...)"

Do not rely on weapons, only use your own natural body.

Xiangzi kept recalling in his mind what he had learned in the fighting course.

This was the first time she attacked an enemy without any information to call upon.

And, it must be done well.

"..."

Xiangzi was very uneasy.

But no matter how uneasy you are, you have to take action.

Xiangzi pounced on him.

"—"

"——!——!"

The arm wraps around, tightens, clamps the throat—

"!!!"

Not easy to twist!

[Physical] Xiangzi, who only has 3 points, is too weak and lacks the precision to control his body! The throat-locking action that failed to land in one go failed to completely incapacitate the opponent.

The Kidney-Slicing member began to struggle violently! He randomly slapped Xiangzi's arm that was locking his throat - every slap of the modified fine steel prosthetic hand seemed to shatter Xiangzi's bones -

Xiangzi gritted her teeth. The effort, pain, and fear made her sweat in the blink of an eye.

She couldn't let go.

If you let go here, you will surely die.

"—"

Push harder and push harder.

She squeezed out every bit of her strength, using all her body power to press down on the kidney-stripping member's trachea and aorta.

His strength quickly ran out, but the other party was still struggling.

The hand that was slapped was numb and had no feeling.

Xiangzi did not let go. Her willpower made her hold on.

at last.

The movements of the Kidney-Shredder members slowly stopped.

Boom, boom.

His pair of sturdy prosthetic hands slipped and hit the ground with two dull sounds.

“…Haha.”

Xiangzi let him go.

The body slid to the ground. She began to breathe again. She hadn't breathed until now, as if she was the one being strangled.

“…Haaaa, haaaa…”

She killed him.

This was her first time killing someone.

Xiangzi slid down to the ground, next to the corpse, sweating profusely and gasping for breath.

She didn't feel the "guilt" that her classmates who had interned at BCPD (Bliss City Police Department) talked about.

Perhaps, guilt only appears in people who have more than enough.

……

One interface after another was called up, and all systems were opened on the visual operation panel.

Xiangzi panted and quickly confirmed the information.

"(It's a local area network. It's not connected to the outside.)"

After all, it is an illegal organization. You can imagine.

At least this way, the armed police will not be called in for killing.

"(Room layout...)"

Map is called.

The area is not too big, nor too small. The entire floor is the territory of the kidney-cutting customers.

The room with light on the west side that Xiangzi saw after leaving the human body warehouse was the largest main hall on this floor.

In addition to the human body warehouse that Xiangzi had just left, there were three more rooms connected to the main hall.

Beyond these, there is another corridor, just behind the monitoring room, which leads to the staircase and the accommodation area at the end of the staircase.

"(path...camera...)"

Have it.

There are five cameras.

Xiangzi closed them all.

Electric windows on the west wall.

Open all.

“(The exterior walls… have scaffolding platforms. Very nice.)”

There was no one in the lobby.

Now, Xiangzi only needs to walk out of the monitoring room and run across the hall, then he can climb out of the window and land on the scaffolding.

This is the third floor. She can climb down from the scaffolding and escape safely.

“(Very good…very good.)”

Able to escape from danger.

Thinking of this, Xiangzi's body trembled slightly with excitement.

"(Okay. Let's go now...)"

"(……)"

“(……?)”

Just as he was about to leave the visual operation panel, Xiangzi noticed that there was another interface that had been called up.

That is the interface of [Key Defense Area].

"(Key defensive area?)"

Isn't this a key defense area? Are there differences in alert level indicators in the base areas of underground organizations?

Xiangzi moved his fingers and clicked it.

Five rooms are designated as the [Key Defense Area].

Four of them were human body warehouses, including the one he had left earlier.

"(I see……)"

Indeed, these places should contain all the wealth of the kidney-strippers. If attacked, they should be protected or evacuated with the first priority.

In addition to them, Xiangzi also saw a small area.

The area is about one-fourth the size of the human body warehouse, and is located in the accommodation area at the end of the corridor.

It looked like a small study... or more precisely, a safe.

It can also be unlocked from here.

The system shows that [important items] are stored inside.

"(Is it something valuable that was stolen?)"

The contents were also scanned and uploaded. Xiangzi opened the list and scanned it roughly.

An expensive gun. A valuable painting. A drug with a familiar name... as if it had appeared on my father's bills before...

……besides.

【Points Chip】.

The moment Xiangzi saw this object, his pupils suddenly contracted.

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