Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

Chapter 22 The Ship of Theseus (II)
Joel Kerry, looks like an ordinary gloomy man.

He stood silently by the subway station and waited, huddled with the crowd, nothing special.

The cold wind made him shrink his neck and tremble all over.

"Damn it, I don't have enough clothes to go out today!" He muttered, and his complaints were drowned out by the crowd.

In his memory, he always went to work day after day, turning like a cog in the huge machine of the company.

The process of each day has been planned the day before, as long as you go through the rest of your life step by step step by step.

"What is that man named Joel doing? Miss Detective Xita?" Yawei was willing to continue to play the small theater of "Detective Xita" in the morning.

Couples always influence each other.

Living with Xita, who likes to play tricks, he inevitably acquired some funny and humorous colors.

"Use your brains! Assistant, Mr. Yawei!" Xita pretended to be wearing a small hat, raised her head and pointed at a stupid assistant.

A gust of cold wind passed by, as if seeing her arrogance, angrily snatched away the heat stored in her body.

"Hey! It's so cold." She shuddered and quickly slipped into the arms of dear Mr. Yawei.

Yawei wore a large windbreaker today, just enough to wrap Xita in it.

"Be careful, don't get lost!" He seized the opportunity and severely taught an incompetent and stupid detective lady.

"Cut! It's just a cricket assistant. Subordinates are not allowed to poke the boss's mouth, understand?" Xita hid in his arms, her mouth not showing any weakness.

The surrounding crowd seemed unable to stand the pink vibe emanating from the two of them, and left quickly.

"What's going on? Have they been shown by us?" Xi Tan frowned, very dissatisfied.

"It's the subway coming into the station..." Sometimes he really wanted to knock her head open to see if it was filled with water.

"Oh..." She touched her face in embarrassment and looked around unnaturally, only to find that the target of her stalking——Joel Carrey was acting abnormally.

Joel Kerry seemed to be listening to something.

Joel looked up at the clock at the station, turned around immediately, and ran to the No. [-] subway in Night City, which had been at the station for a long time.

"Damn it, he seems to have found us!" Xi Tan gritted his teeth, grabbed Yawei's arm, and rushed towards the No. [-] subway that was about to leave the station.

They held hands and ran together, like the protagonists of the idiot lovers in the popular Mewtwo movie.

Yawei reckoned that the distance would soon be too short, so he simply hugged Xita by the waist, protected him with both hands, and sprinted forward at a faster speed.

He squeezed through the crowd with his shoulders, and managed to board the subway at the critical moment.

He put down his hope and looked around, but he didn't find the mission target for the time being.

"Hoo hoo hoo! Successful moon landing!" Xi Tan whispered, lying in his warm arms.

"The target didn't find us..." Yawei shook his head helplessly, put his arms around Xita, and wrapped her in the windbreaker again, only showing a small hat, "I just eavesdropped the whole time, and the target didn't talk to anyone... ...It is initially suspected that he has auditory hallucinations."

"Hearing hallucinations?"

"He may just have lost part of his memory... Maybe some forgotten soul is talking to him..." Yawei stated his guess softly in her ear.

"Wow, you are very professional, Mr. Yawei, your assistant!" Xi Tan stared at his handsome profile, stepped on his feet, and gently pressed his lips to it as a reward.

Yawei sighed helplessly, and within the time he was talking to her, he had successfully locked the target through the Internet.

He hugged the amateur detective lady and rushed to the carriage where Joel Kerry was, still keeping a certain distance, following him not too far or too close.

"Where is he going?" Xita hid in Yawei's arms, quietly watching the black-haired man.

"Subway No. [-]...the destination should be Heywood District." Yawei took a few seconds to retrieve the subway system.

"Don't go to work, but go to Heywood instead?" Xi Tan raised her delicate eyebrows, "It seems that there is something there that haunts him, who has lost his memory..."

"The entrustment is indeed the right one. It's so interesting." She patted her palm lightly, "As expected of me..."

"I think you want to take this opportunity to travel..." Yawei looked at her with disdain.

"Cut..." Xiaoxin was seen through, Xita wrinkled her upturned nose, and touched her chin with her small hand.

"Shh, focus on the target, don't play." He pulled Xita into the blind spot of Joel's vision, and watched the target's movement quietly together.

The subway stopped for a while, and many seats were vacant.

Joel Kerry randomly picked a seat by the window and sat down, opened the briefcase he had been carrying, and unexpectedly found a diary lying among a pile of sundries.

"I'm not quite right today...I'm going to skip work if I'm in a bad mood...It's not like me at all..." He opened the somewhat familiar diary while talking to himself.

"January 1th...January 9th..." He quickly flipped through the unfamiliar words, and the strange feeling in his heart continued to accumulate with the movements of his fingertips.

The flipping stopped, and he was surprised to find that all the diaries from before January 1 had been torn off, leaving only empty pale and incomplete tear marks, silently mocking this poor man who had forgotten the past.

Joel Kerry frowned and thought about it, briefly reviewing his life.

Joel Kerry, male, 27 years old, a company executive, owns a house and a car, has no bad habits, has a few close friends, and has no partner...

"Hi! Hello, is there anyone next to you?" A well-dressed girl walked over and asked him softly.

"No..." he said, suddenly realizing that his voice was terribly hoarse.

"My name is Clementine Croskey," the girl straightened her blue-green hair with her left hand, "Just call me Clementine."

"Joel, Joel Kerry." Out of politeness, Joel lightly grasped the right hand she extended, and it was easy to touch it.

"I'm planning to go to the Meiquan District in Heywood, where there is the sea..." Clementine looked sideways at this familiar man, and couldn't help but start talking.

Joel was a little uncomfortable with the warm behavior of this strange woman, he moved his butt a little, away from her.

The gloomy him and the enthusiastic she seem to be from different worlds.

What's more, in the ghostly place of Night City, don't trust anyone, and you have to bear the consequences yourself if you are cheated.

"What's wrong with you? Do I have a strange smell? What are you doing so far away from me?" Clementine stared at Joel with her beautiful eyes, and asked three times bluntly.

"No...no strange smell..." On the contrary, I am a little familiar with the smell on your body...

Joel didn't reveal his heart because it made him look like a pervert.

He just wants to be ordinary, and he doesn't want to be overly concerned, no matter whether it's a good impression or a bad impression.

"What about you?" Clementine raised her eyebrows, moved her body closer to the man, and continued to ask.

Their distance returned to the original point.

"Today...I'm not in a good mood...I woke up this morning...I have a headache, so I just want to go to Meiquan District to see the sea and relax..." He spoke intermittently, carefully considering his words.

He realized that he was somehow concerned about the blue-green haired woman in front of him.

"Is this an affair? Yawei?" Not far from the seats of Joel and Clementine, Xita leaned on Yawei's arms and asked solemnly.

"I don't know, Xita, I'm just an AI," Yawei choked cautiously.

"Stop pretending, you smelly man in an AI leather case..." Xi Tan snorted from his nose, pinching his waist lightly.

"Let's just wait and see what happens...I always feel that things are getting more interesting..." Yawei narrowed his eyes and grabbed Xita's mischievous little hand.

Not far away, the communication between Joel and Clementine continued.

　There will be another one later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)