Night Hacker - Chapter 336

   Chapter 336 Thirteenth Floor Space

   Di, di, di…

  Gu He heard the sound of the monitoring device, which seemed to be in sync with the beating of his heart. He felt exhausted and drained of his strength. It took a lot of effort to open his eyelids, and the dim light pierced into his eyes.

  Is this, Reica’s basement?

   He saw himself lying on a bed with wires and pipes connected to some surrounding equipment.

   This is like a living room in the basement, the surroundings are very quiet and no one is there.

   Vivian said before that Sophia is very tight in the basement, what about Sophia…

  Vivian and Fat Dahai may still be in the fantasy world, so they can only figure out how to save people with everyone.

   “Hey…” Gu He let out a roar, mobilized all his strength to sit up, stretched out his hand and tore off the infusion tube connecting the veins in his arm and some monitoring electrodes on his chest.

   He has no clothes on, look at his trembling hands, why, the muscles have shrunk so much…

   He stared at his mind, but still couldn’t open the console, but the extraordinary program should have been restored.

   “Damn.” Gu He moved the holy water, and the muscles all over his body went from trembling to a little bit of strength. Blood threads sprang from his hands and condensed into flesh and blood tentacles.

   He abruptly stepped out of the care bed, grabbed a set of blue and white striped hospital uniforms on the utility table next to him, and put them on.

   Footsteps were a little swaying, and he walked towards the basement stairs, where the door was.

With almost exhausting effort, Gu He climbed up the stairs and opened the iron door. The loud noise rushed into his ears. He climbed up to the utility room above, squatted down for a while, and then got up and walked outside. .

  The dynamic rhythm of the music roared, and in this corridor, some people were crowded against the wall.

   They are dressed in punk style, full of metal decorations, have different hairstyles, are smoking and laughing.

   At this time, some people watched him come out of the utility room with attention.

   “What are you doing…” Gu He couldn’t help muttering, pressing his head with a splitting headache, these people are not like customers, let alone employees, how could Li Cai come in and wait for so many people…

   He walked step by step and came to the end of the aisle, where the scene of the lobby on the first floor flooded into his sight in a dazzling light.

   But he fell into a daze. What he saw was not the familiar Li Cai, but a place of some kind of heavy metal psychedelic decadence. Almost all the people walking around were dressed in punk style, men and women were drinking, dancing, and talking.

  Gu He looked at those people, stopped a bartender who passed by, and asked, “Where’s Miss Caiyin?”

   “You’re too late.” The bartender left a sentence and continued walking.

  A young woman came over, with a high ponytail, heavy eyeshadow, and bright red lips, “Handsome guy, do you want to play?”

  Gu He didn’t speak, his eyes were still looking around, and he could see someone chatting with a much smaller cell phone, and some people on a few wine tables were playing with smaller laptops, talking about business, and exchanging floppy disks.

   The more he looked, the more he felt that the world was spinning…

   One possibility came to mind, no, impossible.

   “Where’s Miss Caiyin?” He asked again, asking the red-lipped woman and other people passing by.

He walked into this noisy lobby, squeezed through the crowd, walked to a large sofa over there, there were a circle of people sitting or standing there, and there was a wine table in front of him, the posture was like the boss’s seat here .

  Gu He saw a female figure with her back to his side, wearing a black leather jacket and black leather pants.

   She has short black hair, is tall and thin, and has a clear voice: “I need a job, 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.” A middle-aged man on the sofa said.

   “What are the rules?” the woman said, “I didn’t know that there were rules in Liuguang City.”

   “It’s useless for you to play tricks with me.” The man said again, “As long as you never give up your Yakuza background, you’ll be hungry all the time, you understand, little girl, times have changed, and people have changed a few batches.”

   “The next batch will be you?” The woman turned around, revealing her profile, she was a girl.

   Several strong men were about to put their hands on the girl’s shoulders, to drag her out of here.

   But the girl seemed to raise her hand, but she didn’t seem to raise it. The speed was too fast, and the few strong men had already screamed and fell away, all covering their **** arms.

   “Come and have fun with me.” The girl said, “But it’s not just your hands that you scrapped.”

  Everyone on the sofa suddenly became nervous. The oily-headed man put down Erlang’s legs and said angrily, “You better not mess around, little girl star boy, you can’t afford to cause some trouble.”

   “Are people who are dying of starvation afraid of trouble?” The girl smiled and said, “Give me a job, it’s better to earn millions at a time.”

   Star child? Gu He stopped and stared blankly at the thin and vigorous girl.

  Various lights shone down, reflecting the girl’s beautiful face, and the outline made him feel vaguely familiar.

   Also, the camouflage on both sides of her cheeks, the classic goggles she wears on her forehead…

   At the same time, some of those people noticed him, and a strong man came up to chase him away in a fierce tone: “What do you want?”

  The girl turned her head to look, and was completely stunned, “…Boss?”

   “No, it’s impossible.” Gu He turned around and walked staggeringly outside the club, leaving the noise.

  Original World should only have passed ten days, it is impossible, Xingtong will not be seventeen or eighteen years old, no…

   He walked out of the club all the way, came to the main street of Shouhui Street outside, stood on the night street, looked around.

  Shouhui Street seems to have changed a lot, but nothing seems to have changed. There are neon lights everywhere, people come and go, and there is a lot of traffic.

But the buildings have become denser, and those low-slung shops have been demolished. In their original locations are some tall buildings with more giant advertising screens. Santo, Seth, Longteng, and all those bank consortiums are everywhere. symbols of…

   The neon sign hanging in this club is no longer Li Cai, but a “Dragon’s Nest”.

   He saw a group of street children in tattered clothes running by, and scattered in the scolding of some gang members.

  No, the street rats on Shouhui Street are basically sheltered or helped by the Red Rain Home, so they won’t be as thin and skinny as that.

  This is not Shouhui Street.

   “Boss?” The girl’s soul-like voice sounded from behind, “You are really not dead yet, you are back…”

  Gu He looked back at her. Those **** eyes looked like those of a star child.

   And her black leather pants reminded him of another person.

   “Where’s Lorna?” he asked.

   It seems that I haven’t heard this name for a long time, and the girl showed a complicated smile, “Dead, many years ago, the bank was going to clean up the town of Bone Blood, and she led the people there to resist and died.”

   “Where’s Miss Caiyin?” Gu He asked again.

“Also dead.” The girl added, “In that year, the bank and the Metropolitan Police Department swept Yakuza, and many people died. Now Kabukicho is divided by many gangs, and Shouhui Street is the territory of the Dragon Gang. Cai is one of the halls.”

   “No.” Gu He burst out laughing, “I don’t believe it, this is still an illusion, right, you, neuroman.”

   The girl shook her head slightly, “Boss… I’m a star child, I’ve grown up.”

   “Haha.” Gu He ignored her and walked straight to the alley, “The performance is good, human, and good.”

  The alley is still so narrow, with graffiti in various colors on the alley walls, stagnant water falling from the sky, no one to clean up the rubbish, there is no figure of the fat stray cat, only cold and dilapidated.

“I’m already extraordinary.” The girl said next to her, “I’m really in overdrive, and I also chose the doll series, the J-class container, and the Q-class Holy Grail, all of which you left to Caiyin’s mother, who left it to me. .”

   She spread out her hands and moved her fingers slightly, and bundles of blood threads sprang out from her nails, instantly condensing into tentacles like steel claws.

   The ten tentacles are not long, but they can be extended at will, and the edge has a cold light like a blade.

  Gu He did not speak, and ignored the passers-by, homeless and call girls in the alley, and just continued to walk.

   However, he couldn’t see the malfunctioning neon sign “Fish Pond Izakaya”, and he didn’t hear the laughter of those guys, there was nothing but a wall, and a lot of graffiti on the wall.

   There are names, slogans, and foul language scolding the bank.

  There are avatars, patterns, paintings describing history, wars on top, wars on the rise…

   “The bank demolished the fish pond.” The girl whispered, “But this is a legendary place, someone remembers it.”

  Gu He was facing the wall without a door, trembling all over, this is an illusion, it’s definitely an illusion…

   He clearly thought so firmly, but his eyes were filled with tears involuntarily.

   There are many names on the wall, Vanderbilt, Lindsay, Osamu Sakai, Dean Edwards, Deer Nine, Cookie.

   There are other people, people on the street, many people…

“They are all dead.” The girl was also watching, “The bank came to demolish the fish pond. They fought to the end. Mike and Moriko were sent to the wilderness by them before. Later, I came back. Liuguang City.”

   “Xingtong, right? What about your sister Hua Qing?” Gu He’s voice was hoarse, “There is no name on the wall.”

   “She is not dead.” The girl said, “She is now a big star, the most popular movie star in Liuguang City.”

  Gu He couldn’t help laughing again, the laughter was weird, “Where’s Sophia, hello?”

   “Also died, I heard that he died in battle with Caiyin’s mother.” The girl replied.

   “Where’s Elizabeth?” Gu He laughed and cursed, “Bullshit, complete bullshit, nonsense…”

   He turned around again, strode to the street outside, and walked in the direction of the House of Red Rain.

   There was no figure of the burlap trousers and a bicycle by the side of the road. The girl said that Jane was also dead. The low-tech land in Kabukicho was completely burned by a fire in the bank. Jane died in the fire at that time.

  After Yakuza was completely eradicated, the small gangs such as the Game Gang and the Wrestling Gang gradually disappeared in the blood.

  Itada apartment has been demolished, and gangs like the Dragon Gang are half thugs of the bank, helping various consortiums to relocate the land.

The   Begozos have changed a group of people, all of them with unfamiliar faces. They are still riding the rogue motorcycles, but there is no roar when they walk.

   Pedestrians’ footsteps became more hurried, and their expressions became more indifferent. Gu He was bumped into and pushed away again and again.

   “Does your kid have eyes?” “What’s in the way.” “Go away, where is the mentally retarded thing.”

   While some people squeezed past, there were swearing words on their mouths, and some gang members had guns hanging brightly around their waists.

   At this time, passing a movie theater, Gu He couldn’t help but stop.

  What trailer is playing on the advertising screen of the cinema, there is a face that has matured a lot, Sakai Huaqing.

   Her eyes, her temperament, are very different.

   Is it because of the movie role she plays, her new movie is about to be released.

   “I heard that Sakai Huaqing can earn tens of millions for a piece of film, which is more popular than Chiba-Gibson back then.”

  The girl was always beside her, she didn’t know what she was thinking, she grinned, which made the camouflage on her cheeks deeper, “Streets, banks, and 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 there, but she was taken away.” The girl smiled and said, “What happened later, no one knows. Maybe she has been thinking about revenge, maybe she has changed a long time ago, and everyone doesn’t know that, so they are fascinated by her. , her story is the most valuable.”

   “You haven’t contacted her?”

   “Sakai Huaqing has never come back to Shouhui Street.” The girl shrugged her shoulders, “What should I contact her for?”

   “What about me?” Gu He looked at her, “Since it’s been so many years, why is my body still in Li Cai?”

“I only found out about your flat line later.” The girl said, “I don’t know a lot of what happened. But obviously, someone was protecting your body behind you, so the bank didn’t take it away, and the Dragon Gang occupied Li Cai. Continue to take care of it, maybe it’s Sakai Huaqing. Sometimes I work for the giant dragon, and in the end, I don’t charge you, I just go to see you.”

   “Unreasonable.” Gu He said amusingly, “You may think it is very reasonable, but to me, this is nonsense.”

The    girl frowned, he laughed, and walked while laughing, walking, and gradually became silent again.

   The night sky became darker and darker, and he was getting closer and closer to the warehouse of the Red Rain House.

   However, he couldn’t get past it and stopped by the railing of a residential area.

   There are no warehouses, and there are high-rise buildings with neon lights.

“There is no Red Rain Home, there is no Red Rain Group.” The girl sighed, “Sister Liz, red-haired Liz… and Sister An Qi, all died in the battle of Yakuza, and the bank gave up Hero reform plan.”

  Gu He immediately grinned, and laughed a little crazy:

   “Of course, if there is that kind of war, Elizabeth will definitely be in the forefront, and Angie, she will also burn herself! This is reasonable. But these rain…”

   He looked up at the night sky where it started to rain, and in the blink of an eye, the raindrops seemed to be pixel grids.

   “Neuromancer, do you want the fantasy to be more realistic? Study the Gestalt principles, similarity, proximity, you can’t take some apples and call them oranges. These rains can’t do well, I’m going to drop frames…”

   “Boss…” The girl sighed again, “I know you’re uncomfortable, but this is not an illusion.”

  Gu He looked at her, the night rain fell on the young face, she was not much sad, and her eyes were more bright.

  Those sad things have passed for many years, and she has accepted it.

   She is now rejoicing at the resurrection of the boss, and she only needs a hug from the boss and she will be radiant.

“Xingtong.” Gu He finally called out, “Maybe you are real, you were pulled in, you have been here for a long time, but this is not real, here, I don’t know, it should be in an illusion Fantasy…”

   He saw the girl roll her eyes, just like Lorna did.

   He still had to say, “If you’re not a Neuromancer, if you really still think of me as your boss, then trust me, sorry, but you’re living in a fantasy that traps me.”

   This time, Xingtong laughed. She spread her hands in the rain and let the cold rain hit her whole body:

   “You are my boss, you are the one who treats me the best, and I will be loyal to you, the Thermos Cup Gang, for a lifetime.”

  Xingtong turned around, and suddenly released a samurai sword made of flesh and blood tentacles from both hands, and she slashed through the rain with the sword.

“But I’m not that kid anymore. When you slept, I went to many places, I experienced many things, I understand everything, don’t teach me a lesson as a child. I hurt your little heart? Then I’m sorry! “

  Gu He stared at her blankly, hesitating to say anything.

   “Where’s Vivian?” He finally asked, “What happened to Vivian?”

   “Dead, dead!” Xingtong glared at him slightly, almost waving a knife at him, “Dead, they are all dead!”

   “Xingtong, you said you have been to many places, have you been to the edge of this city?”

  Gu He still has endless questions. He knows that general illusions have borders, and illusions can be regarded as a combination of a set of programs, with all data codes behind them, and the size of the space is related to operations.

   It’s like a map in a video game, the characters get to the edge of the map and can’t get out no matter what.

  In the last fantasy world, he went to many places to explore the edge at first, but couldn’t find it. Later, after listening to what the uncle and the agent said, it was probably a global fantasy world.

   But even with the ability of that agent, it is impossible to calculate two global fantasy worlds at the same time…

  He deduced that this is some kind of “lower fantasy”, which was temporarily generated for him by the agent and designed for him.

   If so, then there are map edges, and NPCs would never bother to look at the edges.

   “I came back from the wilderness, I’ve been to many places!” Xingtong said again, “Do you think I’ve been to the edge?”

“No, I think you’re trapped too…” Gu He grabbed his rain-wet hair with both hands, “I don’t believe this place is real, have you ever been to the seaside? I fell here from the seaside. come.”

   “Then why don’t we go to the beach now?” Xingtong was about to whistle.

   “Yes, just now, let’s go!” Gu He nodded, looking around, unable to find his way.

   “Follow me.” Xingtong retracted his flesh and blood tentacles with both hands, and walked to and fro, his legs in black leather pants taking great strides.

After returning to the main street where passersby came and go, Gu He was still looking around. Xingtong had already walked towards a group of a dozen or so young berserkers. After a few conversations, she took the other party’s red berserk motorcycle and crossed it. sat up.

   “Come.” Xingtong called to him, “I’ll take you to the beach to see.”

Gu He nodded silently, ignoring the shouting of the beasts who asked Xingtong “who is this guy” and “what are you going to do”, he walked over to the motorcycle and sat on the back seat, hugging Xingtong’s body lightly. Waist, “Uh…”

  woo, woo! Xingtong suddenly started the locomotive, and the movements were very skilled.

   In the rain at night, the red runaway motorcycle carrying two people rushed out of the street and headed to the beach at high speed.

   (end of this chapter)