Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

She stood in a void with a pure black background, and countless grids rotated and flew past her, like meteors piercing the night sky.

The unpredictable neon graphics linger in front of her eyes, constantly changing shapes according to her gestures, and in this way, the torrent of retrieved data is transmitted.

"What are you looking at? Haiji?"

The man's voice sounded behind her, but it caused a huge reverberation in all directions of the space.

"Although I am a newcomer... we are on the same level, Mullin. You have no right to interfere with what I do."

Haiji frowned, and the colorful neon patterns in front of her stopped changing.

"do you know him?"

Mullin didn't take her threatening tone to heart, he just waved his hand to the void, and a triangular neon pattern flew into his palm obediently.

"Isa...Ke?" He muttered the data of the owner of the pattern, "You are just a beggar struggling to survive... Do you have any special hobbies that you can't hide?"

"*You*" Hai Ji cursed in a low voice, turned around and glared at the man fiercely, "I'm warning you one last time, don't mess with me!"

"OK OK," Mullin spread his hands, "If you are not satisfied with your desires, you can come to me at any time... I have installed the latest big steel cannon... I promise..."

Before he finished speaking, his head was punched by the angry Hai Ji and exploded into scarlet crumbs.

"***!" She stared at the body slumped in the void, still filled with unquenched anger.

Finally, she looked around the boundless black space, closed her eyes, placed her hands on her head, and made a "take off the helmet" motion.

Then the endless darkness quickly faded from his eyes, and the cold white light filled the vacancy in front of him.

She slowly opened her eyes.

She woke up.

Ignoring the dizziness and the hot feeling of pain that remained in her mind, she gritted her teeth, stood up, clenched her fists hard, and swung at the man in the cabin next door who had also just sat up.

"No. 174, No. 175, stop your inappropriate behavior immediately! Repeat! Stop your inappropriate behavior immediately!"

The cold mechanical voice was particularly deafening in this small room.

"*! You're lucky this time!" Hai Ji stopped her forward motion abruptly and punched the hard black wall with a heavy, dull sound.

Compared with venting his anger alone, the excessive current flushing is more terrifying.

"Calm down, Hai Ji." Mu Lin touched his neck with lingering fear, "Have I not been killed by you once before? Now we don't owe each other anything."

"*!" Haiji pointed her middle finger at the man who smiled obscenely.

It just looks scary, but the advanced equipment of Night City Network Monitor is enough to protect them from any harm within limits.

It doesn't matter how many times those avatars in cyberspace die.

"Okay, okay, eldest sister, calm down..." Mu Lin saw Hai Ji panting heavily, nodded and ran to her, and kept showing his hospitality, "I'll treat you to a Japanese meal later." Cooking!”

“The one on Japan Street!”

"Japan Street?" Mullin scratched the back of his head, "Isn't that authentic high-end Japanese restaurant in the city center good?"

"It's Japan Street, no negotiation." Haiji said firmly while injecting a dose of nerve medicine into her temple.

"Okay, okay... you make the decision tonight..." Mullin touched his chin and did not continue to argue.

Although the restaurant in Japan Street is not worthy of their status as a senior network surveillance agent, who makes a certain savage woman have a harder fist?

He didn't want her to blow his head off with a punch in real life.

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"Sofia?"

In the silent blackness, someone seemed to be calling her name softly.

The thick and slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and a pair of beautiful light blue twin flowers bloomed slowly and proudly against the night.

What comes into view is still the familiar pure white ceiling.

She is still in her own home.

After rubbing her throbbing head, Sophia poked her head suspiciously, looking for the source of the unfamiliar call.

"Sofia..."

This time she heard clearly, a voice as cold as steel was calling repeatedly from under the bed.

Like a ghost that had broken through the underworld and returned from the abyss, its ghost was lingering around her.

Sofia trembled, wrapped the thick quilt around her body, stepped on the cold floor with her tiptoes, squatted down carefully, and cast a curious and frightened look towards the dark bottom of the bed.

Fortunately, it's not some horrifying looking soul seeking death.

It's just an ugly little robot.

Sophia breathed a sigh of relief and slumped down on the ground regardless of her appearance. She rested softly for a while before stretching out her flexible feet and pulling the little robot out from under the bed.

"What just happened, little robot?" She raised the little robot, clamped her hands under the armpits of its small mechanical arms, and swayed it sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right in the air.

Like an ugly goose.

"Sofia..." the little robot said word by word, and the cold mechanical voice echoed in the dark room.

Sophia stood up, held the little robot in her arms, listened patiently, and quickly ran to the wall and pressed the light switch.

Warm light enveloped the room.

The body of the little robot reflects a soft luster, making it look even cuter.

"Sofia...just fainted."

"Fainted? Why don't I have any impression?"

Sofia sat back down on the soft bed and put the little robot between her legs. She frowned, carefully recalling her previous memories.

"I just remember promising Bonnie that she would go to school... then I picked you up... and then..."

She clapped her palms, as if she had remembered all the past.

"In that case, just follow me from now on!"

The little robot slowly tapped its head with its mechanical arm, making a "bang" sound.

"What, am I right?" The girl tilted her head and held it in front of her face.

The soft golden hair brushed against its ugly stitched body, and the subtle sweet scent lingered, within reach.

"No, Sophia."

The little robot just stared at its round blue eyes and turned its head.

At least, that's enough for now.

"By the way, today's robots are so advanced... they can still communicate with people normally..." Sophia sighed softly, tapping her slender fingers flexibly on its body, trying to play gorgeous music with these worn-out steels. .

"There are many different models of robots..."

"Ha, I know! I've seen it in the movies... some kind of housework type, fighting type, etc..." Sophia hugged the little robot back to her chest, "You are so small, but you can't see the fighting power. ?”

The little robot just turned its head silently and did not answer.