Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

Joel Carey seems to be an ordinary, gloomy man.

He stood silently waiting at the subway station, huddled together with the crowd, nothing special about him.

The cold wind made him shrink his neck and shiver all over.

"Damn it, I didn't wear enough clothes when I went out today!" He muttered, and his complaints were drowned in the crowd.

In his memory, he always went to work day after day, spinning like a gear in the huge machine of the company.

Every day's process has been planned the day before, and you just need to go through the rest of your life step by step.

"What is that man named Joel doing? Miss Detective Sheeda?" Yahweh is happy to continue to perform in the morning "Detective Sheeda" small theater.

Lovers always influence each other.

Living with Xi Ta, who likes to play with treasures, he inevitably gets some funny humor.

"Use your brain! Assistant Mr. Yahweh!" Xida pretended to be wearing a small hat, raising his head and pointing at some idiot assistant.

A gust of cold wind passed by, seeming to see her arrogant look, and angrily snatched away the heat stored in her body.

"Hey! It's so cold." She shuddered and quickly got into the arms of dear Mr. Yahweh.

Yahweh wore a large windbreaker today, which was just enough to wrap Xi Da completely inside.

"Be careful, don't lose track!" He seized the opportunity to teach a stupid and incompetent detective a lesson.

"Tch! I'm just an assistant. Subordinates can't bite their bosses, do you understand?" Xi Da hid in his arms, but there was no sign of weakness in her words.

The crowd around them seemed unable to stand the pink atmosphere the two of them exuded and quickly left.

"What's going on? Are they being shown off by us?" Xi Da frowned, greatly dissatisfied.

"The subway is about to enter the station..." Sometimes he wanted to crack her head open to see if it was filled with water.

"Oh..." She touched her face in embarrassment and looked around unnaturally, but unexpectedly discovered that the target of her stalking, Joel Carey, was behaving abnormally.

Joel Carey seemed to be listening to something.

Joel looked up at the station clock, immediately turned around, and ran towards the Night City Subway No. 6, which had already arrived at the station a long time ago.

"Damn it, he seems to have discovered us!" Heda gritted his teeth, pulled Yawei's arm hard, and rushed towards the No. 6 subway that was about to leave the station.

They held hands and ran wildly together, just like the idiot couple protagonists in the popular Mewtwo movie.

Yahweh estimated that he could not keep up with the distance, so he simply picked up Xida from the waist, protected him with both hands, and sprinted forward at a faster speed.

He squeezed through the crowd with his shoulders and successfully boarded the subway at the critical moment.

He put down Xida and looked around, but found no mission target for the time being.

"Hoo ho ho! The moon landing was successful!" Xi Da whispered, lying in his warm arms.

"The target didn't notice us..." Yahweh shook his head helplessly, hugged Xida, and wrapped her in the windbreaker again, with only a small hat exposed. "I just eavesdropped the entire process, and the target didn't talk to anyone... ... It is initially suspected that he has experienced auditory hallucinations.”

"Audio hallucination?"

"He may have just lost part of his memory...perhaps some forgotten soul is talking to him..." Yahweh softly stated his speculation in her ear.

"Wow, you are very professional, Assistant Mr. Yahweh!" Xida looked at his handsome profile, stepped on his feet, and gently pressed his lips to it as a reward.

Yahweh sighed helplessly. While talking to her, he had successfully locked the target through the Internet.

He carried the amateur detective lady and rushed to the car where Joel Carey was, still keeping a certain distance and following him not too far or too close.

"Where is he planning to go?" Hiding in Yahweh's arms, Hidden quietly watched the black-haired man.

"Subway No. 6...the destination should be Heywood District." Yahweh spent a few seconds searching the subway system.

"Instead of going to work, go to Heywood instead?" Xi Da raised his delicate eyebrows, "It seems that there is something there that makes him dream about losing his memory..."

"I got the commission right this time. It's so interesting." She clapped her palms lightly, "As expected of me..."

"I think you want to take the opportunity to travel..." Yahweh looked at her with disdain.

"Tch..." After her little thought was revealed, Xida wrinkled her straight nose and touched her chin with her little hand.

"Shh, focus on the target, stop playing." He pulled Xi Da into the blind spot of Joel's vision, and together they quietly followed the target's movements.

The subway stopped for a while and there were many empty seats.

Joel Carey randomly picked a seat by the window and sat down. He opened the briefcase he had been carrying and unexpectedly found a diary lying among a pile of miscellaneous items.

"I feel very wrong today... I skip work when I'm in a bad mood... This is not like me at all..." He muttered to himself while opening the familiar diary.

"January 9th...January 6th..." He quickly flipped through the unfamiliar words, and the weird feeling in his heart continued to accumulate with the movements of his fingertips.

The movement of flipping through the pages stopped, and he was surprised to find that all the diaries before January 5th had been torn out, leaving only empty blanks and incomplete tear marks, silently mocking this poor man who had forgotten the past.

Joel Carey frowned in thought and briefly reviewed his life.

Joel Carey, male, 27 years old, a company executive, owns a house and a car, no bad habits, a few close friends, no partner...

"Hi! Hello, is there anyone next to you?" A girl in bright clothes walked over and asked him softly.

"No..." he started, suddenly realizing that his voice was terribly hoarse.

"My name is Clementine Crosky," the girl smoothed her long blue-green hair with her left hand, "Just call me Clementine."

"Joel, Joel Carey." Out of politeness, Joel gently held her right hand that she extended, and the touch was instant.

"I plan to go to the Schönbrunn area in Heywood, where there is the sea..." Clementine turned her head and looked at this familiar man, and couldn't help but start talking.

Joel was a little uncomfortable with this strange woman's enthusiastic behavior, so he moved his butt slightly away from her.

The gloomy him and the passionate her don't seem to belong to the same world.

What's more, in a ghost place like Night City, don't trust anyone. If you are cheated, you have to bear the consequences.

"What's wrong with you? Do I smell strange? Why are you so far away from me?" Clementine stared at Joel with her beautiful eyes and asked three questions in a row.

"No...no strange smell..." On the contrary, the smell on you is a bit familiar to me...

Joel didn't reveal his feelings because the words made him look like a pervert.

He just wants to be ordinary and doesn't want to be overly noticed, whether it's a good impression or a bad impression.

"What about you?" Clementine raised her eyebrows, moved closer to the man, and continued to ask.

Their distance is back to where it started.

"I'm... not in a good mood today... I got up in the morning... and I have a headache. I just wanted to go to the Schönbrunn area to watch the sea and relax..." He spoke intermittently, carefully considering his words.

He realized that he was inexplicably interested in the blue-green haired woman in front of him.

"Is this an affair? Yahweh?" Not far from where Joel and Clementine were seated, Heeda leaned into Yahweh's arms and asked seriously.

"I don't know, Heeda, I'm just an AI," Yahweh choked cautiously.

"Stop pretending, you stinky man wearing an AI holster..." Xi Da snorted from her nose and pinched his waist gently.

"Just wait and see what happens...I feel like things are getting interesting..." Yahweh narrowed his eyes and grabbed Heda's mischievous little hand.

Not far away, the exchange between Joel and Clementine continued.

There will be another update later