The Witch of the Cyberpunk Era

They crossed the narrow street and came to the door of a rotten tin house.

With a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, Xu Yang slowly pushed open the iron door that was useless, and smelled a rancid smell inside.

There is a right-angle counter at the door, with a terminal and a cash register with a screen.

There is a simple small turret hanging in the corner, which cannot work because there is no electricity. In unsafe places, people will go out of their way to buy defense equipment to protect themselves, no matter how cheap they are.

Walking around the counter, Xu Yang saw a man dead on the ground.

The opponent's heart was torn apart, and the blood was still flowing, so he must have died not long ago.

Has this place been attacked by some monster?

The dead man was wearing a blue vest and jeans, with his hat lying beside him. Xu Yang didn't want to watch it any longer, but Farosa turned a blind eye.

He turned his head and looked inside the house,

A few broken sofas were placed beside the wall, with takeaway boxes piled up on them, with an iron table in the middle, which was rotten beyond recognition. On the other side of the wall are nine metal game booths, all of which are two people tall. The shells are made of second-hand materials, which are quite cheap. Probably only the host and neural synchronization device inside are purchased from the company.

Only now did Xu Yang recognize that this place was an Internet cafe.

Bang, bang, bang—

The knocking sound continued, Xu Yang saw that the sound came from a game room at the end.

No one uses the other game bays, only the one is still running with lights on, probably powered by the internal battery, so it was not affected by this large-scale power outage.

Xu Yang walked to the game room step by step. At first, he thought that the knocking sound was coming from the game room and that someone was calling for help, but it was far from the truth.

A gigantic mouse stuck its head out from the other side of the playroom, glared at Xu Yang with bright yellow eyes, then continued to turn around and tapped violently.

mouse?

Bigger than a human...a mouse!

boom! The game compartment was eventually knocked out.

Xu Yang heard the sound of metal shattering.

The mouse tore open the shell of the game compartment with force, and the pink nutrient solution tank inside burst and sprayed out all of it, splashing on the dirty floor and walls.

Losing his balance, the player inside also fell out of the game compartment, fell heavily to the ground, and screamed, it was a girl.

Maybe she was still enjoying the game just before she was broken, and the electrode patches and nerve cables fell off her head.

The mouse screamed excitedly.

"Squeak!"

"Help—Help!" the player screamed.

The giant mouse opened its mouth to bite at her, instantly biting off her throat, and greedily devoured the blood.

The mouse broke into the house and smashed the game room to eat people, just like opening a can to get food.

"This is—" Farosa frowned.

Xu Yang recovered from the initial shock, gritted his teeth, picked up his submachine gun, and pulled the trigger at the mouse.

The muzzle spewed flames, and several bullets swept through the air, piercing the mouse's forearm, injuring the aorta, it rolled back like an electric shock, and screamed with its back against the wall.

The voice cut through the darkness, Xu Yang's heart was beating wildly.

There is no doubt that the sound will attract its kind! Such a big guy, Xu Yang doesn't believe that there is only one,

But since the shot has already been fired, there is no other way.

Xu Yang continued to shoot.

After a few more gunshots, the mouse quickly moved a few times, but couldn't dodge. It was shot continuously, and blood spurted out. It fell to the ground and twitched violently, its trunk trembled, and its hands and feet spasmed. Then, blood loss finally took it away. 's life.

Its legs stretched out feebly, its tail drooping.

Taking a closer look, this is a big mouse, it is completely a "rat man" with sound hands and feet.

Its hands and feet are no different from human hands and feet, and it is wrapped in simple clothes.

"Save her." Xu Yang quickly rushed to the side of the bitten girl and knelt down on one knee, "Can you do it?"

"It's gone when it's used up." Farosa stretched out her hand, "Coffee gives a little strength and can only be used once."

"use."

"The Law of Reply." Farosa whispered.

The red light lit up, as if the whole world sank into blood and began to breed again.

reset—

In an instant, the wound on the girl's neck recovered as before, the fracture was smooth and blood was flowing again.

Because only this wound was damaged, and after healing, her body began to function again.

Blood and oxygen flowed all over her body again, and the nerves had already sent out a death signal, but now they became active again, trying everything to save the "corpse".

As a result of all this work, her desolate eyes gradually regained their vitality.

Her body bounced, and it began to tremble like a motor.

The girl let out a long moan, held her head for a while, and then raised her head to look at Xu Yang and Farosa.

Xu Yang looked at her appearance, she was a young girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old, with short hair, no makeup, a small nose and mouth, lazy eyes, a tired face, not cute, like playing games for more than ten days, very haggard , wearing a simple white vest and jeans, in Xu Yang's view, she is completely a drop-out girl who is addicted to games.

"Hiss—" She saw the dead mouse in the corner and stood up, "Is it, it's been knocking on my playroom? I heard it just now, and I thought it was the BOSS coming and ringing the bell!"

"Yes, do you still have memory? Great, now that it's dead, we have to go." Xu Yang said, "Who knows how many things are like it."

"It's the Rat Man, it must be the Rat Man." She looked nervous, obviously not recovering from the stimulation.

The Rat Man is one of the famous urban legends in modern society.

It is said that the rat people are degenerate human beings. Some people have been abandoned by the times and huddled into underground cities, and then they are pushed into darker places by the underground cities. They have not seen people for a long time, and move hunched in the sewers. Gradually, people become Rat man.

This is the most terrifying fate of man.

After several large-scale rat eradication operations by the company alliance, the rat people have disappeared in most underground cities, not to mention the threat to the safety of the ground company society.

When Xu Yang was a child, he occasionally heard terrifying rumors about the Rat Man, but he never heard it again when he grew up.

For the generation of girls in front of me, the Rat Man has become a completely strange story on the Internet.

It has disappeared from the memory of people all over the world, but now it comes back alive.

"It's a rat man." Xu Yang affirmed.

"Did the Rat Man cause the blackout?" she asked.

This is quite appropriate, "big blackout", and this is really the situation we are facing now.

Xu Yang turned the flashlight out, and still saw nothing but darkness, the street lights were off, the equipment was offline, and all the technological products that modern humans were proud of had withered.

It seems that only a very large-scale power outage can explain this situation.

It's weird, the rat people are also worthy of influencing the operation of society? I really don't know how they did it. The largest rat wave before, that is, it had a serious impact on the security of the underground city.

Right now, everyone has no energy, so they have lost their most important scientific and technological resources, and they have also been invaded by a group of rats. I am afraid that the surrounding conditions are very bad.

However, when there is no electricity, no internet, and everything is silent, there is no need to worry about being hunted down for a while.

"Call me Xu Yang, she's Ms. Aquilia." Xu Yang said briefly.

"It's Miss Aquilia." Farosa corrected.

"My name is Kojima Yezi, just call me Ye Ye." She panted, her eyes fixed on Xu Yang, "I clearly remember that I was 'dead', and that rat man killed me, not even with a weapon, but with it the teeth of…"

"You are resurrected, this is the gift of God." Farosa announced, "Don't forget to praise God at any time, this is the best way for you to avoid the second disaster."

"God?" Ye Zi was puzzled, "What game?"

"Let's go." Xu Yang knew that the longer he stayed here, the more troublesome it would be, "Tell us everything you know, the more the better."

"You just arrived here?" Ye Zi scratched his messy hair and left immediately without listening to Xu Yang.

She went back to her broken game compartment and pulled out a satchel from under the seat, which seemed to contain several small boxes, purses, cards and documents.

Immediately afterwards, she rummaged through boxes and cabinets in this broken Internet cafe, found some handy tools and sundries and stuffed them into her bag, which soon filled up.

After a pause, she hurriedly took out the most cumbersome things inside and threw them away, opened the bottom of the game compartment, took out a stack of game data cards, and stuffed the satchel until it was full.

"Is the thing yours?" Xu Yang asked.

"It's all mine, my treasure, my treasure." Ye Zi said, "I play games every day."

"We're not going on a field trip, so why bring so many games." Xu Yang was puzzled, "We're escaping, this place is not right, it's better to go back to the ground."

"It's better to die without playing games," Ye Ye said.

"I didn't save you to let you come out and play. If we want to leave here alive, we have to do our best." Xu Yang was displeased, "How can we run away with something like that."

"I don't care," Ye Zi's voice sounded dissatisfied, "the social atmosphere on the ground is so bad, it's all calculation, all utilitarian, I've had enough, otherwise why would I hide in such a place? Just to enjoy the game of!"

"Don't talk nonsense, you must have run out of money to come here to surf the Internet, you are just rotten here."

"I'm not rotten, although I do have no money..."

"You must have just come to this kind of place. You can't stand it for a few more months, and there is a risk of being robbed."

"I don't care, look at you, you have to plan everything carefully, and you are definitely a company person. Why does a company person come to this poor place to point fingers at me!"

Is my company habit so strong? Xu Yang muttered in his heart. Forget it, after 6 years in a giant company, whoever comes is the same. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

"Pointing fingers?" Farosa said, "He was the one who called to save you just now. At that time, he must have only had the simplest idea in his mind - saving people. Or do you even deny the status quo of bringing yourself back to life? If it was just me, I would definitely not have helped. I can't bear to see this guy's enthusiasm being pointed at by you like this."

Even Xu Yang felt embarrassed when he said this, and Ye Ye's expression changed.

"I'm really sorry." Ye Zi bowed deeply to Xu Yang, she looked at the Rat Man lying on the ground, "...Well, if I really stay here for a few months, I'm afraid I will become nothing like the Rat Man. difference."

"You ran away with your family's money, right?"

"No, most of them are bonuses from game competitions." Ye Zi said excitedly, "I was helping people to train for orders just now. Originally, after finishing today's game, I would have the money to change to a better Internet cafe, but I ended up playing half of it. When the power was suddenly cut off, I could only use the battery, and the frame dropped, my eyes were almost blind."

"What are these." Farosa found that she could not understand at least three words in each sentence.

Ye Zi continued to explain to Farosa, while Xu Yang fell into deep thought.

The Rat Man was originally thought to be extinct, but now it appears in the Katagi district. At the same time, a large-scale power outage occurred, and he was lost in a remote corner of the underground city. He couldn't collect outside information at all, and his digital mind was damaged, so he couldn't contact anyone.

Xu Yang looked out from the broken window and saw that the underground world was vast and dark.

"Find a safe place first," Xu Yang said, "...have lights, food and vending machines, electricity, and internet. Then you can talk slowly."

Such places used to be everywhere, but now they seem to disappear out of thin air, only accompanied by countless rodents in the dark.