Gu He heard the sound of the monitoring equipment, which seemed to be synchronized with the beating of his heart. He felt exhausted all over, and his strength had been drained. It took a lot of effort to open his eyelids, and dim light penetrated his eyes.
Is this Licai's basement?
He saw himself lying on a monitoring bed, with wires and pipes on his body connected to some surrounding equipment.
It was like being in a basement living room. It was very quiet and there was no one around.
Vivian said before that Sophia was closely guarded in the basement. Where is Sophia...
Vivian, Pang Dahai may still be in the fantasy world, so we can only work with everyone to figure out how to save people.
"Hey..." Gu He roared, summoning all the strength in his body to sit up. He reached out and tore off the infusion tubes connected to the veins in his arms and the monitoring electrodes on his chest.
He had no clothes on. Look at his slightly trembling hands. Why, his muscles have atrophied so much...
He looked intently in his mind, still unable to open the console, but the extraordinary program should have been restored.
"Damn it." Gu He used the holy water, and the muscles all over his body went from trembling to gradually becoming stronger. Blood threads sprang out from his hands and condensed into flesh and blood tentacles. The advanced power of the second programmer was still there.
He suddenly stepped off the monitoring bed, grabbed the blue and white striped hospital gown on the utility table next to him and put it on.
With his steps shaky, he walked towards the basement stairs, where the door was.
With almost all his strength, Gu He climbed up the stairs and opened the iron door. The noisy sound suddenly flooded into his ears. He climbed up to the utility room above, lay down for a while, then got up and walked outside.
Music full of dynamic rhythms roared, and in this corridor, people crowded together and leaned against the wall.
They were all dressed in punk style, full of metal decorations, with different hairstyles, smoking and joking.
At this time, some people watched him carefully as he walked out of the utility room.
"What are you doing..." Gu He couldn't help but mutter, pressing his head with a splitting headache. These people don't look like customers, let alone employees. Why did Licai come in with so many people waiting...
He walked step by step and reached the end of the corridor, where the scene in the lobby came into view in the stray light.
But he fell into a daze. What he saw in front of him was not the familiar Licai, but a place of heavy metal psychedelic decadence. Almost all the people walking around were dressed in punk style, and men and women were drinking, dancing, and talking.
Gu He looked at those people, stopped a bartender who was passing by, and asked, "Where is Miss Caiyin?"
"You're too late." The bartender said nothing and continued walking.
A young woman came over with a high ponytail, thick eye shadow, and bright red lips, "Handsome, do you want to play?"
Gu He did not speak, but continued to look around. He could see people chatting on much smaller mobile phones. On several wine tables, there were people playing with smaller laptops, talking about business, and exchanging floppy disks.
The more he looked, the more he felt dizzy...
A possibility comes to mind, no, it's impossible.
"Where's Miss Caiyin?" he asked again, asking the red-lipped woman and other people passing by.
He walked into the noisy lobby, squeezed through the crowd, and walked to the large sofa over there. There were people sitting and standing in a circle, and there was a wine table in front of it. The posture was like the boss's seat here.
Gu He saw a female figure with her back to him, wearing a black leather jacket and black leather pants.
She has short black hair, a tall and thin figure, and a clear voice: "I need a job and I have no food to eat."
"It's not that I don't want to give you a job, but you know the rules here." said a middle-aged man on the sofa. He had an oily haircut, crossed his legs, and had metal prosthetics on his hands.
"What rules?" the woman said, "I didn't know there were rules in Flowing Light City."
"It's useless for you to talk to me." The man said again, "As long as you refuse to give up your Yakuza background, you will always be hungry. Do you understand, little girl, times have changed, and people have changed several times."
"Are you the ones who will be replaced in the next batch?" The woman turned around and revealed her profile. She was a girl.
Several strong men were about to put their hands on the girl's shoulders and pull her out of here.
But the girl seemed to raise her hand, but then she didn't. The speed was too fast, and the strong men screamed and fell away, all of them covering their bleeding arms.
"Come, come and have fun with me." The girl said, "But it's not just your hands that you're going to destroy."
Everyone around the sofa suddenly became nervous. The oily man in his prime put down his legs and said slightly angrily: "You'd better not mess around, little Xingtong girl, there are some troubles you can't afford to cause."
"Would a person who is about to starve to death be afraid of trouble?" The girl said with a smile, "Give me a job, and I'd better make millions at a time."
Star boy? Gu He stopped and stared blankly at the thin and fit girl.
Various lights shone down, reflecting the girl's beautiful face, and the outline made him feel vaguely familiar.
Also, the streaks of camouflage on both sides of her cheeks, the classical goggles she wore on her forehead...
At the same time, some of those people noticed him, and a strong man came up to chase him away with a fierce tone: "What are you looking at?"
The girl turned around and looked, completely stunned for a moment, "...Boss?"
"No, it's impossible." Gu He turned around and staggered outside the club, leaving the noise.
The original world should have only been about ten days. It is impossible to be like this. The star child will not be seventeen years old, it will not...
He walked out of the club and went to the main street of Shouhui Street. He stood on the night street and looked around.
Shouhui Street seems to have changed a lot, but it seems like nothing has changed. Neon lights are shining everywhere, people are coming and going, and traffic is busy.
But the buildings have become denser, and the low-rise shops and houses have been demolished. In their original positions are high-rise buildings with more giant advertising screens. Santo, Seth, Longteng, and bank consortiums are everywhere.
The logo of...
The neon sign hanging on this club is no longer Licai, but something like "Dragon's Lair".
He also saw a group of street children in tattered clothes running past, dispersed by the scoldings of some gang members.
No, the street rats on Shouhui Street are basically taken in or helped by the Red Rain Home, and they won't be as skinny and yellow like that.
This is not Shouhui Street.
"Boss?" The girl's voice sounded like she had lost her soul from behind, "You are really not dead yet, you are back..."
Gu He looked back at her. Those big black eyes looked like those of a star child.
And her black leather clothes and pants reminded him of another person.
"Where's Lorna?" he asked.
It seemed like she hadn't heard this name for a long time. The girl gave a complicated smile and said, "She's dead. Many years ago, the bank wanted to clean up Bone and Blood Town. She led the people there to resist. She's dead."
"Where's Miss Caiyin?" Gu He asked again.
"They are dead too." The girl added, "That year, when the bank and the Metropolitan Police Department were cleaning up Yakuza, many people died. Now Kabukicho is divided by many gangs, and Jue Street is the territory of the Dragon Gang. Rei
The color is at the entrance of the hall."
"No." Gu Hexia laughed, "I don't believe it. This is still an illusion, right? You, Neuromancer."
The girl shook her head slightly, "Boss... I am a star boy, I have grown up."
"Haha." Gu He ignored her and walked straight to the alley, "Good acting, humane, good acting."
The alley is still so narrow, with graffiti of various colors on the walls, water falling from the sky, and no one to clean up the garbage. There is no sign of the fat stray cat, only cold and dilapidated.
"I'm already extraordinary." The girl followed and said, "I'm really in overdrive, and I also chose the doll type, the J-level container, and the Q-level Holy Grail. They were all left by you to Caiyin's mother, and my mother left them to me.
.”
She spread her hands and moved her fingers slightly, and bunches of blood threads sprang out from her nails, instantly forming tentacles like steel claws.
The ten tentacles are not long, but they can be extended at will, and their edges have a cold light like a blade.
Gu He said nothing, ignored the passers-by, homeless people and call girls in the alley, and just continued walking.
However, he couldn't see the malfunctioning and flashing neon sign "Fishpond Izakaya", nor could he hear the laughter of those people. There was nothing there but a wall and a lot of graffiti on the wall.
There are names, slogans, and swear words about banks.
There are portraits, patterns, paintings describing history, war on top, war on the rise...
"The bank demolished the fish pond." The girl whispered, "But this is a legendary place, and someone remembers it."
Gu He was facing the wall without a door, trembling all over. This was an illusion, it was definitely an illusion...
He obviously believed so firmly, but his eyes were filled with tears involuntarily.
There are many names on the wall, including Vanderbilt, Lindsay, Shukichi Sakai, Dean Edwards, Lu Jiu, and Cookie.
There were other people, people on the street, lots of people...
"They are all dead." The girl was also watching. "The bank came to demolish the fish pond. They fought to the end. Mike, Moriko and I were sent to the wilderness by them before. Later, I returned
Flowing Light City.”
"Xingtong, right? What about your sister Hua Qing?" Gu He's voice was hoarse, "There is no name on the wall."
"She's not dead." The girl said, "She is a big star now, the most popular movie star in Streaming City."
Gu He couldn't help but laugh again, the laughter was weird, "Where's Sophia, hello?"
"He's dead too. I heard he died fighting with Caiyin's mother." The girl replied.
"Where's Elizabeth?" Gu He laughed and cursed, "Bullshit, complete nonsense, nonsense..."
He turned around again, strode out to the street, and walked towards the Hongyu House.
There were no linen clothes or bicycles on the roadside. The girl said that Jane was also dead. The low-tech district of Kabukicho was completely burned down by a bank fire, and Jane died in the fire at that time.
After Yakuza was completely eradicated, small gangs such as the Game Gang and the Wrestling Gang gradually disappeared in blood.
The Bantian Apartment has been demolished, and gangs like the Dragon Gang are part of the bank's thugs, helping various financial groups to force evictions and seize the land.
There was a new group of Bosozoku, all with new faces. They still rode Bosou motorcycles, but there was no roar when walking.
The pedestrians' footsteps became more hurried and their expressions became colder. Gu He was bumped into and pushed away by others again and again.
"Do you have eyes?" "Why are you blocking the road?" "Get out of here, where is this mentally retarded thing from?"
Some people were yelling curses as they squeezed past, and some gang members had guns clearly hanging on their waists.
At this time, passing by a movie theater, Gu He couldn't help but stop.
What kind of trailer was playing on the advertising screen in the cinema? There was a much more mature face, Sakai Kaaki.
Her eyes and her temperament are very different.
Is it because of the movie role she plays? Her new movie will be released soon.
"I heard that Kaa Sakai can earn tens of millions per film contract, which is even more popular than Chiba Gibson back then."
The girl followed closely. She didn't know what she was thinking at this time, and she grinned, which made the camouflage on her cheeks deepen. "On the streets, in banks, and in other cities, many people are fascinated by her."
"How did this happen?" Gu He asked, "Miss Sakai won't fight with everyone to the end? Impossible."
"She was here, but she was taken away." The girl laughed and said, "No one knows what happened after that. Maybe she has been wanting revenge, maybe she has changed a long time ago, and everyone doesn't know, so they are fascinated by her.
, her story is the most valuable.”
"You haven't contacted her?"
"Sakai Kao has never been back to Juhui Street." The girl shrugged her shoulders, "Why should I contact her?"
"What about me?" Gu He looked at her, "Since it has been so many years, why is my body still in Licai?"
"It was only later that I found out that you were dead," the girl said. "I don't know much of what happened. But obviously, someone behind you was protecting your body, so the bank didn't take it away. Moreover, after the Dragon Gang took possession of Licai, they still
Continue to take care of it, maybe Sakai Kao. Sometimes I work for the Dragon Gang, and in the end I don’t charge you any money, so I just go and see you.”
"Unreasonable." Gu He said funnyly, "You may think it's reasonable, but to me, it's nonsense."
The girl frowned, and he laughed, laughing and walking. As he walked, he gradually became silent again.
The night sky was getting darker and darker, and he was getting closer and closer to the warehouse of Hongyu House.
However, he could not walk through and stopped at the railing of a residential area.
There are no warehouses there, and there are tall buildings with flashing neon lights.
"There is no Red Rain House, no Red Rain Group." The girl sighed, "Sister Liz, red-haired Liz... and Sister Anqi, all died in the battle to defend Yakuza, the bank
Abandoned the hero reform plan."
Gu He immediately opened his mouth and laughed, a little crazy:
"Of course, if there is such a war, Elizabeth will definitely be at the forefront, and Angel will also burn herself! This is reasonable. But these rains..."
He looked up at the night sky where it had started to rain. For a blink of an eye, the raindrops seemed to be grids of pixels.
"Neuromancer, do you want the illusion to be more real? Study more on Gestalt principles, similarity, proximity. You can't take some apples and call them oranges. These rains are not good, I almost lose the frame when I look at them...
"
"Boss..." the girl sighed again, "I know it's hard for you, but this is not an illusion."
Gu He looked at her, and the night rain fell on the young face. Her eyes were not much sad, but her eyes were bright.
Many years have passed since those sad events, and she has accepted them.
She is now rejoicing in the resurrection of her boss. All she needs is a hug from her boss to make her glow.
"Xingtong." Gu He finally called out, "Maybe you are real. You were pulled in. You have spent a long time here, but this place is not real. This place, I don't know, should be in an illusion.
Fantasy..."
He saw the girl roll her eyes, just like Lorna rolled her eyes angrily.
He still had to say, "If you are not Neuromancer, if you really still think of me as the boss, just believe me. I'm sorry that you are living in an illusion that traps me."
This time, it was Xingtong who laughed. She spread her hands in the rain and let the cold rain hit her whole body:
"You are my boss, and you are the best person to me. I will be loyal to you, the Thermos Cup Gang, for the rest of my life."
Star Child turned around, and suddenly released a samurai sword made of flesh and blood tentacles from her hands. She slashed through the rain with the sword.
"But I am not that child anymore. When you were sleeping, I have been to many places, experienced many things, and I know everything. Don't treat me like a child. Did I hurt your little heart? Then I'm sorry!
"
Gu He stared at her blankly, but stopped talking.
"Where's Vivian?" He finally asked, "What happened to Vivian back then?"
"Dead, dead!" Xingtong glared at him, almost as if he was about to swing a knife at him, "Dead, they are all dead!"
"Xingtong, you said you have been to many places, but have you ever been to the edge of this city?"
Gu He still had endless questions to ask. He knew that the general illusion had edges. The illusion could be regarded as a combination of programs. Behind them were all data codes, and the size of the space was related to calculations.
It's like a video game map. Once the character reaches the edge of the map, he can't get out no matter what.
When he was in the last illusion, he went to many places to explore the edge, but failed to find it. Later, after listening to what the uncle and the intelligent agent said, it was probably a global illusion world.
But even with the ability of that intelligent agent, it cannot calculate two global illusions at the same time...
He deduced that this was some kind of "lower illusion" that was temporarily generated and designed for him by the intelligent agent.
If so, then there is a map edge here, and NPCs would never think of looking at the edge.
"I came back from the wilderness and I've been to many places!" Star Child said again, "Do you think I've ever been to the edge?"
"No, I think you are trapped too..." Gu He held his hair that was wet by the rain with both hands, "I don't believe this place is real. Have you ever been to the beach? I fell from the beach to
Came here."
"Then how about we go to the beach now?" Star Child was about to whistle.
"If you want, let's go now!" Gu He nodded and looked around, a little confused about the way.
"Follow me." Xingtong retracted his tentacles with both hands and walked towards the road, taking long steps with his legs in black leather pants.
After returning to the main street where people were coming and going, Gu He was still looking around, but Xingtong had already walked towards the Bosozoku group. After a few conversations, she took the other person's red Bosozoo motorcycle and sat astride it.
"Come." Xingtong called to him, "I will take you to the beach."
Gu He nodded wordlessly and ignored the young bosozokus who were yelling and asking Xingtong who they were and what they were going to do. He walked to the motorcycle and sat in the back seat, lightly holding Xingtong's waist, "Uh...
…”
Woo, woo! Star Boy suddenly started the motorcycle, his movements were very skillful.
In the rain at night, the red motorcycle carrying the two people rushed out on the street and headed to the seaside at high speed.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._