Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

"If I'm not satisfied, I'll bite you. If you fall, I'll eat you."

"I'm a wild animal. Maybe a house dog, but you'd better keep an eye on me."

"Conquer me, destroy me."

"Let me forget everything. Let me forget sadness, forget rules, forget reason, forget who I am, where I come from, where I am going--"

"——Let me only have you in my eyes, let me work only for you."

"come on."

Chuhua smiled affectionately, with joy and regret, and said:

"Come on, Xiaoxiang."

"Take away everything I have."

Chapter 9: Have you done it? ( rewards for more)

evening.

Meow Dream's Apartment.

The setting sun shines into the house through the window, giving the interior a golden glow.

This is a rare scene, because usually there are thick, multi-layered curtains drawn here.

Now, though, those curtains have been taken down.

indoor.

Miao Meng moved around the cramped room, moving cartons, circuit boards, and curling irons. Curtains were haphazardly stuffed into huge plastic storage boxes, along with piles of rarely worn clothes.

The plan went smoothly. The [Access Card] was already in hand, and the next step was to enter the research base and steal something.

This is also the part where Miao Meng has to turn against Roselia no matter what.

Watanabe's Mewtwo has been confirmed. The facility information at each point has been converted into digital files and copied to the brain-computer local terminal shared by everyone, so there is no need to use these large indoor devices.

So, Miao Meng started moving.

I haven't decided where to move yet.

However, she planned to buy insurance for all her belongings first, and then temporarily store them in the safe deposit box of the Respectable Logistics Company.

"Yohoo."

Dragging a large cardboard box out from the depths and throwing it on top of the other boxes, Miao Meng clapped her hands.

She looked inside.

In the living room and bedroom, small items are still piled up like a mountain. However, the only large items left are a sofa bed for sleeping, a small low table, a gaming chair, half of the display wall that needs to be disassembled by the logistics company, and the supporting processor chassis and pipelines.

Oh, yes, there are three more people.

Xiangzi was sitting on the sofa bed, operating the brain-computer visualization panel to write an email, reporting the progress of the task to Bailu Qiansheng.

Hai Ling sat on a large box near the entrance, spraying protective agent on her [Black Unicorn] and then wiping it with a dry cloth for maintenance.

The new member Chu Hua was sitting near the balcony, also opening the brain-computer visualization panel and reading a book.

Everyone was very quiet. No one spoke.

"..."

Miao Meng rolled his eyes.

She looked at Xiangzi.

He looked at Chuhua again.

In fact, this wasn't the first time she had looked at them like this that afternoon.

"..."

Miao Meng lowered her body and tiptoed through the various clothes, pants, skirts, shoes, blankets, fabrics and packaging bags scattered on the ground to the entrance.

"Hello, hello."

Miao Meng leaned over to Hai Ling's ear while she was maintaining the knife and whispered:

"...Do you find it strange?"

"What's weird."

Hai Ling paid close attention to the dents on the blade, polishing them smooth with care, and asked without raising her head.

"Hatsuko! And the boss!"

Miao Meng lowered her voice.

"Don't you think there's something wrong with them today?"

"No."

Hai Ling turned the knife over and said.

"Hey! Tell me, why did Chuzi come to my place?"

"Didn't she say when she came that there would be no work for Sumimi today?"

"Oops! That's not what I meant!"

"The operation at the Avex headquarters building is over! The boss hasn't finalized the next plan yet, and Hatsuko obviously didn't have to come! But she came anyway! And she's been sitting here reading a book!"

"Isn't it good to read a book?"

"You can read books anywhere! Her house must be big, why is she squeezing into my place? And... did you notice? Our boss has always been against Chuzi's deep participation in the plan! She always pushes Chuzi out of the core and doesn't like her staying here too long!"

"But what happened today? Chuzi has nothing to do, he just stays here, and the boss didn't say anything!"

"Oh."

"Hey, Haizi, what do you think?"

"What do you think?"

Miao Mengshen approached Hailing mysteriously.

"Do you think...they did it?"

Hai Ling looked up at Xiangzi and Chuhua, then lowered her head again.

"What have you done?"

"Don't pretend! You just understood it! Why did you look up if you didn't understand it?"

"don't know."

"That's it, that one!"

Miao Meng made a gesture.

"Do you think they have it? Well, I think they definitely have it! They both came together at noon..."

"do not know."

"Huh? Hey, Haizi, I've talked so much and you still don't want to tell me? That's a bit unfair. Come on, guess what it is!"

"Um... something's up."

"So you think there's something wrong between them?"

"Do not."

Hailing glanced at Miao Meng and said.

"I think something's going to happen to you."

Bang!

"Ow!!!"

A huge, half-full box of Odd Fancy Fruity Cereal hit Miao Meng on the head. Miao Meng screamed and jumped up.

She pressed her head and turned around, just in time to see Xiangzi holding the box of cereal, glaring at her.

Chu Hua also noticed this and was smiling helplessly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xiangzi asked angrily.

"Ha, ha, ha, boss, are you done with your work?"

"Don't make wild guesses. Chuhua will become our permanent staff member in the future. On days when Sumimi is not working, she will act with us."

"Oh!" Miao Meng's eyes lit up, "That's good!"

She leaned her head sideways.

"Hatsuko is very capable! Now, we have a better chance of success!"

"Ah, thank you..."

"Hey, Boss, how did you get Hatsuko here? As expected, she was sleeping——"

"Chuhua, why don't you knock on it."

"Wait, wait! I was wrong! Stop!"

Meow Meng yelled.

"Stop knocking, stop knocking! If you keep knocking, my newly increased intelligence will go back to zero!"

"Oh?"

Xiangzi looked at Miao Meng again.

"Your [Intelligence] is at 11."

"That's right~"

Miao Meng made a scissors hand gesture.

"I spent a lot of time doing a puzzle in Watanabe's Mewtwo, and hacked the latest military-tech access control system! My experience points are really rising!"

"pretty good."

Xiangzi really meant what she said. After all, this meant that their team was even more reliable.

"I actually want to use the common experience to improve my [Technical Ability], but... oh, should I raise my [Intelligence] first? I feel like the code of the Avex Research Base will be more difficult to understand~"

"really."

Hai Ling said from the side.

Miao Meng had upgraded, but Hai Ling was not so easy to upgrade. After all, her [Reaction] had only just upgraded to 13.

"After all, we're going to enter Avex's research base next."

Go in, get something, come out.

A simple process.

Where the things are, what are the defense measures, how to open the door. Now, it is clear.

The only problem now is how to get in.

Pretend to be a cleaner? Pretend to be a maintenance worker? Pretend to be a customer? Pretend to be an employee?

Neither is the best option for the fully enclosed Avex research base.

Obviously.

There is a better way.

"Ms. Toyokawa."

Hai Ling said this and shared a message on the brain-computer communication channel shared by the four of them.

"Yesterday, in order to confirm whether our operation was complete, I searched for information related to Avex on the Internet."

“That’s when I searched for this.”

What Hai Ling showed was a small square on the website [Lezhicheng-Private Job Recruitment] which required identity authentication such as workers, artists, mercenaries, etc. to log in.