Tokyo Juggernaut 2077

In Shiori Hoshino's memory, Yuan Ye was bullied by another student in the same class with the same "superior" surname because of his surname and low test scores when he was in elementary school. Although Yuan Ye was depressed for a few weeks this time, he finally returned to that bluffing look.

So Hoshino Shiori didn't take this matter to heart. After all, she was bullied for a "marginal person" in the class circle like her, especially for a prosthetic implant in private, who was "rebellious" in the eyes of others. For people who don't fit in, it's already commonplace.

And for Yuan Ye, who wanted to squeeze into the "inner circle" of the school, that is, the main members of various sports clubs, the degree of being bullied was even worse than hers. Go too far.

After all, although Shiori Hoshino's kind of cunning will lead to more serious bullying if he resists being bullied, he can still avoid it after all. However, if he wants to enter the inner circle, being bullied in the circle will be regarded as a kind of bullying. "Trial" doesn't even have a chance to escape. If he really escapes, he will be regarded as a "clown" type character by the social circle on campus.

Marginal people can still escape, but the clown has to stand in the center of the spotlight, even if he wants to escape, he can't escape, and will only become a prop for others to make fun of.

Hoshino Shiori, who is well aware of these deformed social rules on campus, naturally does not feel that this is such a serious problem, but when she casually strikes up a conversation with Yuan Ye, she realizes that she was wrong, a big mistake.

The young man in front of him spoke and behaved in such a natural way, it was as if he was born with such a personality.

After simply exchanging a few words with the current Yuan Ye, Hoshino Shiori discovered that this person is definitely the kind of character who acts on the premise of self-denial.

Because Hoshino Shiori herself has this kind of personality, but her long life as a marginalized person makes her very good at hiding herself. She looks at Yuan Ye as if she is looking at a mirror, so why can't she see clearly?

If it wasn't for Yuan Ye still having that decent face, and all kinds of identity verifications showing no abnormalities, she would have wondered if the person in front of her was a completely different existence.

But doubts are not so easy to disappear. In 2077, biotechnology has developed to an unimaginable advanced level. Face-changing and plastic surgery have long been as simple as eating and drinking. It is even more difficult to camouflage or deceive biometrics such as iris, fingerprints, and voiceprints. It's not a problem, even if it's genetic information, it's not impossible to change it.

Even the big families of the upper class have to face the problem of how to confirm the true identities of their members. There are many examples of commercial competitors or hostile families using biotechnology civet cats for princes, which eventually caused serious losses. .

The most troublesome and easiest method is to spend a huge amount of resources to create a body that is biologically identical, even with the same genetic sequence, and then transplant other people's brains into it. Apart from the degree of consumption, there is almost no way to determine the authenticity of his identity.

But craniotomy and brain testing is an extremely dangerous act, not to say that there are many medical risks. It is simply that at the level of technology in 2077, a lot of things can be done by directly touching a person's brain, even if it is turned into something Personal slaves are all right.

Therefore, for those big family members, it is absolutely unacceptable to directly expose their brains to others. After all, no one knows what will be passive. Even if a trusted person stares at them, absolute safety cannot be guaranteed. There are endless reasons for similar true and false identity cases.

But even if the previous Yuan Ye was really replaced by someone else, Hoshino Shiori would not be sad, after all, she had never felt anything about the previous Yuan Ye, she was just a little curious, why would it be Yuan Ye who was replaced?

With this kind of doubt in mind, Shiori Hoshino began to try to delve into Yuan Ye, something she would never do in the past.

The more she understood, the more curious Hoshino Shiori became.

Yuan Ye——Let’s continue to call him Yuan Ye. While maintaining self-denial, he has a high degree of executive power that is unmatched by ordinary people. This person seems to know exactly when he should do something, and once he decides to After setting the goal, he will vigorously complete the goal he set with a vigorous attitude. He is completely an elite person, which is completely inconsistent with his current status as a poor student.

But sometimes, the hesitant character brought about by the absolute denial of the self deep in his heart will appear again, making some of Yuan Ye's behaviors look abnormal.

It is this kind of unusual and difficult to appear contradictory personality that makes Hoshino Shiori involuntarily have a strong thirst for knowledge. She wants to know where this distorted feeling in Yuan Ye comes from.

This thirst for knowledge made Hoshino Shiori unconsciously cooperate with Yuan Ye's actions, otherwise, how could anyone go out in the middle of the night with an "ordinary friend"?

But when Hoshino Shiori came back to her senses, she found...

"I'm done eating." Yuan Ye put down the spoon and interrupted Hoshino Shiori's thinking with words.

===Chapter [-] I am similar to him===

Yuan Ye took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, as if the robot was completing the preset program, he said softly, "Thank you for the hospitality."

"How does it taste?" With an expectant tone, Hoshino Shiori asked with a little courage on the premise that he already knew the answer.

"It's very good, it suits my taste." Yuan Ye immediately gave a complimenting answer, "It's as delicious as the curry at noon, and it's enough to make people feel satisfied to finish eating. Hoshino-san can find time to cook for me This level of food, how should I put it, I really don’t know how many times to say thank you.”

——Ah, that's right.

After the boy in front of him gave the formulaic answer as he expected, Hoshino Shiori let out an inexplicable sigh in his heart.

She didn't have a wooden tongue. It only took one bite to know whether the food she cooked was good or not.

The salty cream stew due to the wrong seasoning, the cheap rehydrated rice bought in the supermarket, which she used to fill her stomach on weekdays, and which has nothing to do with the word "sweet and soft" Although the combination is not enough to be called dark cuisine, it is definitely not a delicacy, it can only be said to be a casual meal.

Compared with the curry that Yagyu Sakura was cooking by her side through the remote virtual projection at noon, there was no comparison in the slightest.

Hoshino Shiori didn't believe that Yuan Ye would not be able to tell the difference, and even so, he still pretended to be serious and gave her an evaluation that would not embarrass her.

Such Yuan Ye, in the eyes of Hoshino Shiori, is simply a...

"What a gentle person."

The blurted words replaced the inner thoughts, conveying Hoshino Shiori's thoughts.

"Who? Me?" Yuan Ye was a little puzzled, but he quickly realized, "I'm not a gentle person."

"Do you think I overestimate the cream stew? Do you think I'm telling white lies, so I'm gentle?" Yuan Ye asked speculatively, "Don't worry about this, if Hoshino-san's food If it’s really not to my liking, I won’t gently give idealistic praise, I’m telling the truth.”

"Of course, in ordinary people's evaluations, there may be evaluations such as the rice is hard and tasteless, or the cream stew is too salty?" Yuan Ye shook his head to emphasize his objection, "But I am a little bit People who prefer that, that's why I say it's to my taste, 'for me' it's good food."

--lie.

——When you say something against your will, you will talk more, and you will try to use more explanatory sentences to convince others of your own views. Maybe you haven't noticed it yourself.

— but I know.

Hoshino Shiori whispered in his heart.

It seems that after the preset answer, looking back, there are clues everywhere, and it seems that the perception of girls in love will naturally become sharper. Hoshino Shiori easily noticed the "loophole" in Yuan Ye's tone , found out he was lying.

——This kind of precise air-reading ability is indeed an excellent ability worthy of praise in normal social interaction.

——But now, I kind of dislike you for being so "interesting".

Hoshino Shiori stared at Yuan Ye's face, and Yanagi Sakura's words suddenly echoed in his ears.

[Student Yuan Ye is a gentle person, you just need to use your real level to make a food for him to taste. Although he can definitely taste the difference, he will definitely not point it out.

At this time, you have to decisively point out that he is lying, and tell him that the curry at noon is something you asked someone to guide. He will definitely be curious about why you did this.

Then you can say that you have a person you like, and you want to use your own strength to make lunch-like delicacies for him to taste. Recently, you are improving your cooking skills. I hope that Yuan Ye can help you try dishes.

This is the process of laying the groundwork, and that guy must have eaten this set.

Afterwards, you will hone your cooking skills under my guidance, and when that fellow Yuan Ye expresses regretfully that your cooking skills are perfect enough to satisfy the person you like, then tell him that the person you like is actually him. Definitely can take that piece of wood down in one fell swoop. 】

It can be said to be a perfect love strategy. The suggestion given by Yagyu Sakura cannot be said to be bad. After Hoshino Shiori thought about it, he found that it really seemed to fit the character of Yuan Ye, but the posture of Yagyu Sakura who gave this suggestion was simply unreasonable. It's just like……

——It was as if that guy had already fallen in love with Ye.

Hoshino Shiori bit her lip, trying hard to get rid of this "dangerous" thought in her heart.

But in any case, she couldn't ignore this very likely hypothesis.

The reason is very simple. If Yuan Ye, who had a big change in personality, was really replaced by someone, although Hoshino Shiori didn't care about the Yuan Ye before being "replaced", but why did the person who replaced him replace him? Continue to study in this garbage middle school.

Of course, it can only be the flower of Gaoling who is obsessed with identity, Yagyu Sakura.

It is very easy to come to a conclusion, and on top of that, it is very possible that the two may have an intimate relationship similar to love.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Ye, who found that Hoshino Shiori had been silent, asked a little embarrassedly, "Is there any problem with what I said?"

Hoshino Shiori, whose thinking was interrupted by the words, looked at the puzzled "stupid face" in front of him, and suddenly heaved a sigh of relief.

Because she suddenly remembered the answer she got when she asked Yagyu Sakura, "I said I have someone I like, so why did Yuan Ye help me try dishes? Doesn't he have this reason?"

【Because Yuan Ye is a gentle person. 】

——Yagyu-san, you are wrong.

The smile returned to Hoshino Shiori's face.

——Ye's performance of "knowledge" is not because he is a gentle person.

——On the contrary, Ye is so "understanding" precisely because he is very, very "not gentle".

——A person who hates contact with others, how can he be a "gentle" person? The "gentleness" he shows is actually a hidden resistance that does not want to get to know people in depth and wants to distance themselves from others.

——And this is exactly his nature, Ye is such a self-centered person.

——This is something you would never have imagined, Yagyu-san. After all, you are the kind of young lady who is flattered by others. How could you understand the minds of "marginal people" like us?

——And I know it, because I am so similar to Ye, I am like looking at myself in the mirror, so why can't I see clearly.

——I won this time.

——But your plan is really easy to use, and I have no reason not to use it.

After calming down his chaotic thoughts, Shiori Hoshino told him about Yuan Ye's request to help him try dishes, and he agreed as expected.

"I found the EVA CD, let's watch it together?" Shiori Hoshino finished packing the tableware, took out a box wrapped in plastic film, and asked a little proudly.

Was this taught by Yagyu Sakura?

===Chapter [-] Movie Watching===

Yuan Ye took the plastic box and looked at the posters painted on the outside of the box. To his surprise, the posters were not directly printed on the box like the common practice in the era before he traveled, but if the posters of the last century Old DVDs are usually drawn on a piece of paper and pasted on the outside of the box.

The style of the poster is like that of the celluloid animation in the last century, but the characters drawn are from the new theater version. Even Makibo has it, but it uses the old TV version of the EVA style, and even the hand-painting is inevitable. There are some roughness, it doesn't look like computer graphics at all, but the color processing in some places is difficult to complete by hand, people can't help admiring the exquisite technique of the person who copied this BD, but at the same time it is a bit ironic.

"Where did you get this?" Yuan Ye raised his head and asked with great interest.

"I found it from the owner of a small shop I met recently that sells prosthetic body parts." Hoshino Shiori replied, "He said that this kind of thing is hard to find, but there are many online resources. The physical version of him That's the one, after all the discs can only be stored for 30 to 50 years under normal circumstances, this one was re-transcribed and produced by fanatical fans in the [-]s."

"That's really rare, thank you to that boss." Yuan Ye nodded, not surprising, he knew this kind of boss who seemed to be just an ordinary shop before crossing, but in fact he was from a niche field The big boss of fanatics, the collection of this kind of big boss is often extremely terrifying.

At that age when Yuan Ye didn't even know what a magnet link was, he would secretly go to a black Internet cafe on weekends to finish surfing the Internet, and after spending the little pocket money left, he would sneak into that boss's shop, brazen Rubbing to watch the animation played on the small black TV that the boss placed on the top of the container.

In that small and stuffy space, he watched a large number of old animations produced during the heyday of the Yingzhou OVA market in the last century, which became his later enlightenment, which naturally included EVA.

—Wait, this doesn't seem like the time for me to reminisce about my life, does it?

The emotional radar in Yuan Ye's head started operating after a long absence, which made him feel something was wrong.

—— After hearing my recommendation, Hoshino-san became interested in watching EVA, which made me very happy. After all, I have more friends, and she is still a beautiful girl, so it is a good thing.

—but why would she want to watch it with me?

Yuan Ye was very puzzled, after thinking twice, he decided to ask directly.

"EVA has been a work for almost 100 years, and I don't know what the physical version looks like, so I don't know if it's real." Yuan Ye asked tentatively, "But watching movies is very important to me. It’s a private matter, since you’ve found a precious physical resource, why not enjoy it yourself? I remember this apartment has a public audio-visual room, right?”

This apartment was used as the place where the Black Dragon Club used to train senior cadres. Naturally, there is an audio-visual room, and it is also very luxuriously built in the style of a high-end private theater that can accommodate eight people.

"That's right, but there is no CD-reading equipment in the audio-visual room, so I can't watch it." Hoshino Shiori replied, "I remember that there is one in your room."

Only then did Yuan Ye realize that in 2077, CDs were almost eliminated in the field of mass circulation, and the purchase of entertainment works was completely electronic, similar to the way he bought BD collections before time travel. It has become something more advanced - a secret key enclosed in a metal box.

This secret key represents the access authority of a database running in a synchronous orbit. A satellite is only used to store a work. Thanks to the extremely developed commercial aviation industry in 2077, this idea has become a reality. Among them There are often some unique content stored, which can only be seen by visiting this satellite, which is a symbol of hardcore fans of this work.

However, things like network cloud storage were relatively developed before Yuan Ye crossed. Under this premise, people who still do "hamster party" for physical storage are not only for collection, but also worry about what to do if the operator cannot continue to provide services. at this point.

It's a pity that although this collection method of connecting secret keys greatly enhances the meaning of collection, it still cannot solve the latter problem. However, this kind of demand has been stigmatized because of the interests of merchants. It has been publicized in 2077. It is regarded as a "useless demand", and the corresponding field of physical collection is also close to extinction. It can only be said that this is a very regrettable thing for Yuan Ye, because he is the kind of person who will continue to save it in the hard disk even if he buys a genuine one. The hamster party of resources.

As for Yuan Ye, there is a machine that can read CDs because of his personal hobbies. Before he crossed, the PS5 was on the market, and the price was hyped up by scalpers. He had been eager to buy it, but he could only wait. Before the price could be lowered, he was passed by a big truck.