Indescribable cyberpunk

A Japanese garden somewhere in Tokyo.

The clear water slowly flows into the bamboo tube through the stone path cut in advance on the rockery in the courtyard. When the water accumulates to a certain extent, the bamboo tube tilts and hits the stones on the side, making a crisp and rhythmic sound. Feeling the sound of beating made this quiet night even more profound.

"Ahem~"

The extremely pale young man lay in the quilt on the tatami and kept coughing. The cold sweat on his face that was distorted by a nightmare and was weak and could not be stopped.

Beside him, a plump woman wearing a kimono was carefully wiping sweat with a hot towel, turning her head from time to time to pay attention to the data on the medical equipment next to her.

"What's going on? Takuro's body was still very healthy when I saw him yesterday. Why did he become like this just after one night?"

The man outside the room was wearing a gray-black haori. His eyes rested on the young man's face full of pain, his brows furrowed.

"Sir Iwata, after diagnosis, Master Takuro is not sick, he just lost too much blood. Theoretically speaking, he can recover as long as he eats more blood-rich food and takes a period of time, but..."

The doctor next to him pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and hesitated to speak.

"Just what?"

"While diagnosing Master Takulang, I found several wounds on his body. I think you should take a look."

Taking out an audio-visual stick from his pocket, the doctor clicked on several photos stored in it with a strange expression.

What is shown in the photos is without exception a circular wound with a diameter of about three centimeters. It is not a simple puncture wound by a round object, but the wound is round in shape, and there are more than a dozen small gashes inside. It was as if someone was holding a knife, using the edge of the circle as the boundary, and constantly piercing the flesh of the person's body.

"I found five such wounds on Master Tuo Lang's body. In fact, if the blood loss is more serious, it may cause the death of the organs, although the prosthetic body can be replaced."

"I don't allow replacement of the prosthetic body. Those cold instruments are taking away the meaning of life. Don't talk about it here. Let Takuro have a good rest. Yazi, I leave this to you."

When he heard that the prosthetic body was being replaced, the middle-aged man's face darkened almost instantly. He raised his hand to stop the doctor from continuing, looked at his son and the woman taking care of him in the room, and said.

After the people outside the room left, the woman got up and closed the door to prevent the early spring night wind from blowing in and aggravating the young man's condition.

However, when she returned to the original place, wrung out the hot towel in the barrel again, and picked up the young man's hand to wipe his arm, she unexpectedly discovered that some dark red dirt appeared on his face for no reason.

As a maid serving the young man, she subconsciously prepared to wipe off the dirt with a towel, but when she reached halfway, she discovered that a wound suddenly opened on the young man's face.

As previously shown on the audio-visual stick in the doctor's hand, the wound was circular, with a large number of densely mixed gaps in the middle.

But the strange thing is that there is no blood splashing out from the location of the wound.

There is a wound on the flesh, how can there be no blood? This is unreasonable.

She wanted to scream, but the extreme fear made her lose her voice. In the end, all she could do was tremble and move towards the door.

Pa da ~

The bamboo tube outside the door is beating stones again.

Suddenly, the wounds on the young man's face disappeared.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that the wound is healing, but that it is covered by some kind of scarlet, wriggling, jelly-like weird shape that the woman can't describe in words.

"Hehehehehe~"

There was a sudden sneer in the room, and she swore she had never heard such a low, disgusting sneer in her life.

Maybe she should cherish it, after all, some people will never hear this kind of laughter in their lives.

In fact it was the last time she heard laughter in her life.

Wearing wooden clogs and wearing a bright red kimono, a slim mechanical geisha was walking towards me from the other end of the hotel corridor.

She has a square bun with a wooden hairpin, and a red circular spot occupying one-third of the area in the center of her extremely pale face. The strong color contrast can easily attract people's attention. Even Zhu Jue can't help but notice it. No exception.

“Welcome and wish you a pleasant meal~”

When she passed by Zhu Jue and Kawakami Kurasuke, she held the square wooden tray in her hand upside down in front of her chest and greeted them with a standard and elegant manner.

There was not much emotion on Zhu Jue's face. He held the wind chime in his arms and his eyes did not stay on the mechanical geisha for too long. He soon noticed the girl wearing a pink jacket and a white miniskirt behind the mechanical geisha.

It wasn't because of her long, slender legs and twin tails on the back of her head that were exposed, but because she was looking over here from time to time while talking to a young man holding a mobile phone nearby that made Zhu Jue a little concerned.

He vaguely felt that the girl was looking at him several times when she turned around. This thought might sound narcissistic, but Zhu Jue believed in his own perception.

Sure enough, when he reached the middle of the hotel corridor, the girl trotted towards Zhu Jue.

I have to admit that this is a girl who is very good at dressing up. With her exquisite makeup and beautiful face, coupled with her youthful and beautiful outfit, no matter who she is, she will take a second look.

Before Zhu Jue realized what the girl wanted to do, the girl who ran in front of him opened her arms and jumped up lightly, looking like she wanted to hug him.

Turning sideways and taking a step back to avoid this non-threatening "kill", Zhu Jue frowned and looked back at the girl whose blue and white striped underwear was exposed due to her imbalance. If she hadn't noticed her There was some kind of weapon hidden on his body, and what greeted her might be his own fist.

"Hey! What's the matter with you? When a beautiful girl like Yuya hugs you, shouldn't you stand still? Now our upgrade mission has failed, and the previous rewards and accumulated experience points have also been lost. "

The young man who had been holding his cell phone next to him saw the girl being shunned and rushed to argue with an ugly expression. However, after saying a few words, his voice became softer and softer.

"Retarded?"

Zhu Jue didn't understand what the words "upgrade mission" and "experience points" meant by the other party, but this did not prevent him from giving a simple and straightforward answer.

Anyone who knows Zhu Jue well will know that he is very unhappy now.

It was not entirely because he was suddenly "offended", but more because the investigation on this trip did not go as smoothly as he imagined.

In fact, if it weren't for the few photos attached to the email that aroused Zhu Jue's interest, he would have left long ago.

If anyone had come all the way here only to find out that they were just one of the other party's group emails, I'm afraid they wouldn't feel much better.

That's right, the letter dropped into Weird Studio's business cooperation mailbox is just one of the emails sent by the sender. According to Kawakami Kurasuke, in addition to Zhu Jue, there are several people who have accepted their commission. , they are all gathered in the hotel now.

They also came here on the same day as Zhu Jue, but the people receiving them were different.

Zhu Jue's emotional changes made Kawakami Kurasuke next to him look increasingly depressed. He was sweating profusely and glanced at the young man next to him. He had never seen the video of the Indescribable series, but he had also heard about weird things. Because of the reputation of the room, when receiving Zhu Jue, he knew that the other party might be very powerful.

He has seen many people in high positions or with blood-stained hands, but no one has ever made him lose his composure like this. Even if he didn't make any move, just a casual glance still made him dare not even breathe. Take a bite.

Even if you don't want to lose your composure in front of the other person, you must completely concentrate.

"Your Excellency, we were negligent this time. As compensation, regardless of whether you help in the end, you will receive a deposit of 300,000, and if you complete the commission, you will also receive a reward of 1 million federal coins. We are here, except for you Most of the people outside are waiting inside. This is a small banquet we have prepared for you, and during the banquet, someone will explain the situation to you."

Standing outside a room on the third floor of the hotel, Kawakami Kurasuke bowed and said.

Zhu Jue glanced at him noncommittally, then pushed the door open and went in.

The door to the room closed again.

Kawakami Kurasuke took a few steps back, leaned on the railing of the corridor, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, turned to look at the camera in the corridor, and made a scissor hand gesture.

"The mission has been completed. Congratulations on gaining 50 experience points and successfully upgraded to LV5. The reward is 100,000!"

Opening a certain software on his phone and looking at the message pushed above, Kawakami Kurasuke nodded with satisfaction. Looking at another transfer record that was refreshed, he whispered to himself: "Game Start!"