Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

Chapter 3 Yawei (Male protagonist debuts)
Xita decided that after finishing this business, she would change herself to a suitable prosthetic eye for whatever she said.

Looking for rubbish in the garbage dump with native eyes, it sounds like only a fool can come out.

As far as the eye can see, there are mountains and plains full of rubbish—abandoned cars, abandoned building materials, bagged domestic garbage discarded everywhere, broken copper and iron that cannot see the original appearance, various prosthetic bodies, scattered wreckage, and suspicious greenery flowing everywhere. Water, disgusting insects crawling around, sneaky homeless people...

After Xita confirmed for the last time that the gas mask, bulletproof helmet and bulletproof vest had been put on neatly, she walked towards the depths of the garbage dump.

Clutching her kinetic pistol in one hand and her cell phone in the other, she scoured for the target of the mission—an area where corporate trash was dumped.

If equipped with an advanced prosthetic eye, just turn on the scanning mode and scan to find the area with the task logo.

It's a pity that the cash-strapped Xita couldn't afford a suitable prosthetic eye, so he had to use the traditional method-mobile phone positioning to find the mission target.

Fortunately, she was lucky, and she didn't meet any ignorant homeless people on the road. It only took about 10 minutes to find a new-looking area.

Xita also curiously asked Rogge before, "Why is the company's garbage not specially disposed of" and "Will the tramps in the garbage dump pick up valuable things in the company's garbage?" Two rookie questions.

Rogge's answer was simple and rude.

"First, someone specially intercepted this batch of corporate garbage; second, for the precarious homeless, survival is everything, and they can't afford to provoke outsiders..."

Although he was laughed at by Rogge, in short, now is the harvest time for Xita Kasdei!
Xita smiled happily, looked around, and after confirming that there was no danger, she took off the synthetic leather bag she was carrying, and picked it up deftly and purposefully among the garbage piles with the Arabashi company logo.

She glanced at all the "garbage" such as prosthetic bodies, weapons, and large equipment, and passed them by.

Rogge has hinted that this batch of "garbage" has an owner. Although it is not known who intercepted this batch of "garbage" from Huangban Company, Xita has self-knowledge. Maybe someone is hiding in the dark and watching him now. .

The other party was willing to touch the little fish for Rogge's sake, and it was enough for him to touch the little fish. If he went further, if he was headshot by a sniper rifle or burned his brain by a hacker on the spot, even Rogge would not be able to save himself.

Xi Tan thought about it, and made up her mind not to touch those high-end products.

For example, ten meters away from her left hand, the new type of prosthetic arm combined with a pair of gorilla arms and a missile launcher seemed not easy to mess with. She immediately moved away and turned to fumble for small objects.

She took a music player that looked very good-looking, a few strings of fashionable gold necklaces, and a few trendy dolls that looked very valuable... all of them were bits and pieces that could be sold for money, but absolutely nothing. What kind of sundries.

"Huh..." Xi Tan tied the mouth of the big bag tightly, and wiped the sweat off her face with the back of her hand.

She intuitively felt that someone was staring at her, but the direction was unknown, and she seemed to have a very high level of concealment skills, so she gave a general salute to Night City in a certain direction, and her disheveled look was funny, then turned and walked towards the exit of the garbage dump Bounced away.

Shortly after Xita left, two people, a man and a woman, stepped out from behind a huge car wreck.

"Hey, Mann, how is that little girl?" It was a tall woman who asked with a hint of teasing in her tone.

"Tch, she's sensible, and she even showed what she took..." The burly man named Mann scratched his head, and added, "Rogge still has a way of judging people, he is worthy of being the queen of the next life."

"It's a pity that the little girl is too immature. If she joins us, her head might be blown off by a stray bullet on the first day."

"Okay, okay, let's stop chatting, Dorio, who cares what that girl is doing, there are still fewer people who died in Night City? Did you see that arm prosthesis? It's hard to do it recently. In two days we will return Gotta steal data from biotech..."

As for Xita, she was sitting in the car, opening the bag on the passenger seat, and felt that she owed Roger another big favor.

Even if she self-knowingly only took some minced meat, the other party didn't seem to care about such things as snatching food from the tiger's mouth, but this favor is still really owed.

Shaking her head, as if she could get rid of her melancholy in this way, Xi Tan took out the towel she had prepared in advance, wiped her dirty face and hands, picked up the music player she fell in love with at first sight, and used another towel wiped.

It seems to be the top product of neo-kitschism - sharp edges, light and thin body, perfect hand feeling, and extremely rare log material.

On the front of the fuselage, a perfect concentric circle is located in the center, which seems to be a sound-generating device. On the back, there are four symmetrical gold-inlaid curve decorations. There is only one operation button on the side, and a black and red advanced biological chip is inserted at the bottom. .

Xi Tan played with it for a while, and then pressed the power button impatiently, ready to start enjoying the music.

"I feel this has been imprisoned for 1 years..." As soon as the machine opened its mouth, Xi Tan was so frightened that he almost threw the machine out.

"I'm going! What the hell, I'm going to scare my old lady!" Xi Tan patted his chest, which had already begun to take shape, and kept looking at the strange machine. It wasn't a music player at all!Dry!

Fortunately, he wasn't driving a car, otherwise Xita Kasdey would have been killed in a garbage dump because of a loss of control of the car.

"Hi...I'm Yawei, I noticed through the biometric scan that you seem to be in a bad mood, and I'm trying to make you happy with a funny opening sentence"

Yawei's voice sounded low and elegant, which reminded Xita of the heroine of a movie called Pure Love, which he had watched several times before.

"Do you call this a funny opening line?" Xi Tan recovered and gritted his teeth.

"I f*** thought I released some super ancient electronic ghost! Listen up, me! The famous Xita Kasdey is not afraid of anything except ghosts, remember Did you dare to pretend to be a ghost to scare me in the future, be careful I will give you this little machine!" Xi Tan put down several harsh words to the machine one after another.

It turns out that people do lose their minds when they are extremely angry.

Yawei seemed to be overwhelmed by this self-destructive speech, and after a long while, he asked cautiously, "Do you mean in the field of funny?"

"*, shut up!" Xita grabbed her hair with both hands and rubbed it fiercely a few times, started the car, stepped on the gas pedal, and drove out of the garbage dump quickly, until she reached the open suburban plain.

"Yawei? Why are you silent? Hey, hey?" Xi Tan glanced at the machine on the passenger seat.

"You told me to shut up, Xita" Yawei said softly, in order to prevent Xita from becoming angry and doing something irrational, he continued, "Are you in a better mood now?"

"You don't feel like a simple machine AI to me," Xita didn't answer Yawei's question directly, but put the seat down on his own, leaned his head gently on the headrest, and opened the sunroof of the car , Let the cold and bright moonlight shine directly on the face.

"I come from outside the wall, Xita, I want to become a human." His voice was soft, lingering in his ears.

"Become a human? Humans can't compare to AI." Xi Tan didn't know what the so-called "wall" was, and she didn't rush to ask.

"You understand what I mean, Xita," Yawei seemed to smile wryly, "I'm talking about... wanting to understand human emotions, to become a real person...not just a bunch of nowhere The data."

Xita was silent for a while, then reached out and picked up Yawei's fuselage, "Can you see the moon? Yawei?" She whispered to the concentric circles.

"I can't see it, Xita, I don't know why, I seem to have no visual sensory function now, and I can only perform basic biological scans."

"Ha, you are a music player now, you found it at the junkyard." Xi Tan smiled slightly.

"Music player? Garbage dump? Damn it... Ott!" Yawei's tone fluctuated, as if he was blaming someone.

"So, Yawei, you are not the system AI of this music player? Then where is your body?" Xi Tan didn't ask who "Otto" was.

In Night City, ignorance is sometimes a kind of happiness. Guys who know too much but have no ability to keep secrets have died on the streets.

"A biochip, Xita." Yawei seemed to know everything.

"Biochip? Is it possible to insert you in the back of my head?"

Yawei was silent, even the AI ​​with the most rigorous logic and the strongest computing power could not understand the girl's unidentified mind.

"I don't recommend you to do this, Xita, it is easy to be infected with cyber virus by recklessly inserting a biochip of unknown origin, and the risk of suffering from cyber psychosis is as high as 80%..."

"Okay, Yahweh," Xita interrupted Yahweh's chatter, "I believe you will not hurt me."

"I can't understand, Xita." Yawei felt that he was one step away from his dream, and it was really difficult for human beings to understand.

"This is what AI looks like, hahaha..." Xita couldn't help laughing, she couldn't figure out what she was thinking.

Xita Kasdey, 18 years old, alone, struggled to survive alone in Night City for several months, couldn't afford a suitable prosthetic body, saved money to buy a broken car, and rented a cheap car Apartment, even with the appreciation of Queen Rogge, she still finds it difficult to continue walking in Night City by herself.

A few simple quarrels with Yawei made her feel so good to be accompanied by someone. How long has it been since she was so relaxed and laughed heartily?

Even if it's AI, it's fine.

Xita has never been such a strong person, she is tired.

So she resolutely pulled out the biochip loaded with Yawei, and inserted it into the interface at the back of her brain without hesitation.

Just like moths to a flame, in search of that false warmth, they will never turn back.

restarting...

The big scarlet characters occupied the entire field of vision. After a short period of dizziness passed, she opened her eyes and touched her whole body with her hands, without feeling any discomfort.

Suddenly, she turned her head towards the co-pilot, and saw the handsome man sitting helplessly on the seat, and also turned his head to look at her.

Under the bright moonlight, the two looked at each other wordlessly.

Xita saw that in those twinkling blue eyes, he was smiling like a flower.

　The hero is here, those who have played the game should know who he is.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)