Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

Chapter 54 Return
"Yawei, bring me two more plates of beef!" Xita lowered her head, put her face in the porcelain plate, and ate the barbecue, while stretching out her hand, ordering her boyfriend vaguely.

"You little slob knows how to command people... don't you know how to use the word 'please'?" Lucy scolded Xi Tan aside.

"Yawei! Please bring over two plates of beef!"

Yawei shook his head helplessly, lightly knocked on Xita's little head, and walked towards the self-service area under Lucy's playful eyes and Xita's happy gaze.

Lucy, who was sitting across from Xita, looked away, ate the last piece of barbecue on her plate, and rubbed her stomach.

"How can you eat so well?" Lucy wiped her mouth with a paper towel, and teased Xita's huge appetite which was completely inconsistent with her appearance.

"Humph... I consume a lot of energy every day, unlike some house girl..." Xi Tan nuzzled at Lucy and made a grimace.

Although Lucy also has the habit of exercising, as a hacker, she is still not good enough in physical fitness.Her body is extremely beautiful, but still lacks some delicate lines.

"What are you talking about?"

Yawei put two plates of beef on the table, sat down beside Xita, and asked.

"I'm talking about whose body is better." Xi Tan said viciously to her boyfriend with her oily mouth pouted.

After Yawei heard this, he quickly lowered his head, silently ate the hot bibimbap, and covered his sense of existence with the fragrant mist leaking from the surging rice grains, so as not to be forced into the war between the two girls. middle.

2074年，1月18日，21：00
After an early farewell to Mann and Dorio, Hee-ta took Lucy and Yawei to the city center for Korean BBQ.

In the end, Xita's wish to take Lucy out to make more friends was still in vain.

"I'm sorry, Lucy." Xita slumped on the seat, soothing her dilated stomach.

"What's the matter?" Lucy tilted her head in doubt, but the movements of her hands did not stop, and she placed mushrooms, potatoes, enoki mushrooms and other fresh vegetables piece by piece on the barbecue grill that had just been updated with oil paper.

"Didn't I say that I would take you out to make more friends? As a result, I met Mann and Dorio, and I didn't see anyone else." Xita rubbed her nose embarrassedly, and ended up getting oil all over the place. .

"I don't really care." Lucy propped her head up while waiting for the vegetables to be cooked, quietly watching Yawei pull out a few paper towels and carefully wipe off the oily hands and nose for Xita. .

She paused for a while, took a sip of the warm barley tea, and continued talking.

"I like to be alone, too many unnecessary fetters will only make me feel bound... I am more yearning for freedom."

"It is inevitable to have a bond. From the moment you enter Night City, you have a bond with this city. The more people you meet here and the more things you experience, the deeper the bond will be. For you, this city is no longer just a few words on the map, but a memory full of stories, a record in the soul."

Xi Tan placed the beef on the barbecue grill, and placed an appropriate distance from the vegetables that Lucy had placed—to ensure that the original flavor would not be lost, but also to imbue the other party with its own special flavor.

"Even if you escape to the moon, all the past experiences will still lock you up like a shadow, and one day you will return to the earth, back to the origin. Maybe it's for returning to your hometown, or maybe it's just for a certain promise ,someone."

Lucy listened silently, the gentle female voice singing in a low voice, her eyes dropped, staring blankly at the barbecue grill, the white and tender mushrooms were gradually stained with the golden fat oozing from the beef.

"It's really not like what you would say, Xita." After a long time, Lucy opened her mouth slowly, and put the roasted mushrooms into the bowl.

"I used to think so wildly." Xi Tan said softly while flipping the beef with serving chopsticks.

"The past? What about the present." Lucy is very interested in Xi Tan, whether it is the past or the present.

"Now, I have Yawei, so the previous problems are no longer a problem." Xita said, putting her little hand in Yawei's warm coat pocket.

"But you don't have the happiness you imagined, do you?" Lucy glanced at Yawei who was about to bury her face in the pot, and asked his heart out for him.

"The only question is how long I can be with him." Xi Tan said in a low voice, the arc of the corners of his eyes that had been rising all day fell.

"Can he still leave you?" Lucy stared at Yawei carefully, trying to see his expression clearly through the steaming mist.

"He..." Perhaps considering that Lucy didn't know enough about Yahweh's true identity, Xita just opened and closed his mouth hesitantly, and finally said nothing.

"I am AI... Different from the limited lifespan of human beings, AI can live forever in data. Xita is worrying about this." Yawei opened his mouth, revealing his secret.

He didn't want Xi Tan to suffer for keeping the so-called secret, and he didn't think that someone would pose a threat to him after knowing this.

"AI?" Lucy stared at Yawei's eyes, which were pure blue, shining like the sun.

Lucy's strange reaction was somewhat unexpected by Xi Tan.

"Lucy seems to have known it a long time ago?" Xi Tan tapped his head in distress, feeling that his hesitation just now was stupid.

"I've seen him show off his power in cyberspace..." Lucy imitated Yawei's appearance and waved her hand to the air.

"Wow, this look is really stupid." Xi Tan felt that Lucy's imitation was very good, and it was impossible to deduce that taste without seeing it with her own eyes.

But waving into the air was a little too funny.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" The waiter seemed to see Lucy waving, mistakenly thinking that the customer needed service, and hurried forward to ask.

"Uh..." Lucy withdrew her hand in embarrassment, touched her nose, and didn't think about how to answer.

"Give us another piece of oiled paper." Xi Tan held back a smile and said to the waiter.

After the waiter turned and left, she immediately couldn't hold back her smile, and laughed while covering her stomach.

Lucy looked at Xita who seemed to be no longer sad, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The good Xita had quietly amuse her in all kinds of subtle ways, and now it's time to reciprocate.

Xita is the luckiest person in the world.

Lucy looked at the silver-haired girl who had regained her emotions, and said to herself in her heart.

Yawei finished the last mouthful of rice and silently watched the interaction between the two girls with a gentle smile on his lips.

　I'm sick, I'm feeling sick, the update is a bit late

　　
　
(End of this chapter)