Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

She jumped down from the tall building.

Stretch your arms like a bird pursuing freedom.

"boom!"

2074, January 17, 18:20

An Xianyuan looked at the dots of scarlet splashing not far away outside the window, stunned.

"Why don't you eat?" The man sitting opposite was also staring out the window, but the movements of his hands and mouth never stopped.

The noisy clatter of bowls and chopsticks made her frown.

"You have a good appetite, Zhang Xian'an." She turned to look at the man devouring his food, speaking sarcastically.

"I think it's very delicious." Zhang Xian'an retracted his gaze from the window and lowered his head to stir the Mapo Tofu in the bowl.

The pure white spoon confused the boundaries between red and white. He opened his mouth wide, held it lightly with his hand, and slowly put it into his mouth.

"I'm a little nauseous..."

An Xianyuan said softly, still staring out the window at the woman's body that was shattered on the cold ground.

The ground is intertwined with red and white, mixed with a few strands of blue-green hair.

"My brain is already broken, why are you still staring?"

He spoke vaguely, and a little white stained with red accidentally spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"ah……"

She finally withdrew her gaze, let out a long sigh, relaxed her tense back, and fell against the soft backrest of the seat.

"Experimental subject, are you ready?"

As he asked, he reached out and wiped the corners of his mouth with the napkin on the table.

An Xianyuan rubbed her sore eyebrows and did not answer.

"It doesn't seem like it?" He looked at the tired woman, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing her white teeth, like a man-eating evil ghost.

"Can you rest for a day?" she asked with a frown.

The smile on the man's face made her feel sick.

"Miss An, you can't resist me." He knocked on the table, and the smile on his face became more ferocious.

An Xianyuan lowered her head and slowly took her first bite of dinner tonight without saying a word.

Zhang Xian'an nodded with satisfaction, stood up, left his seat, and sat next to the woman.

"leave me alone……"

"Look, that little mouse is a good experimental material."

Zhang Xian'an ignored the woman's cold warning and gently pulled her hair, making her head look in the direction of his gaze.

Under the neon lights of the night, a tightly wrapped little girl was squatting beside the trash can, eating some dirty food.

"You are such a...beast!" She looked at the poor little girl with pity while resisting the frivolousness of the big hands beside her.

"Ha! Thanks for the compliment!"

He ignored her struggle and left a deep kiss mark on that beautiful face.

"Okay, you know what to do..." He whispered in An Xianyuan's ear word by word, "Go and bring her over to me..."

He spoke calmly and gave the final instructions.

An Xianyuan gave up struggling and slumped on the seat.

"good……"

She answered softly.

2074, January 17, 18:30

"Hello……"

Laura held the unfinished food tightly with her little hands, raised her head, and stared warily at the mature woman who greeted her.

Another bored rich man.

Laura thought, still squatting on the ground, protecting the food in her hands.

"Hello, are you okay?" she asked, her voice hoarse because she hadn't drank water for several days.

She did not turn around and run away.

Past experience tells her that rashly rejecting a wealthy person's extravagant "kindness" will only make the other person angry and get herself beaten up.

All he had to do was squat on the ground obediently, be an obedient pet, and quietly wait for charity.

This is how you can survive.

An Xianyuan pursed her lips and lowered her head to stare at the poor little girl in front of her.

"Today...is your birthday?" she asked softly.

"Sister...how do you know?"

Laura asked timidly.

I heard that only criminals will have their personal information known.

Have you committed a crime?

"Sister, I... have a prosthetic eye, which can scan your basic personal information, such as birthday, gender, name, etc..."

An Xianyuan took a few steps forward, leaned down, and took advantage of the little girl's daze to hug the dirty girl without disdain.

"Sister?" Laura frowned awkwardly, carefully trying to get out of her warm embrace.

The little girl was worried that the dirty spots on her cotton-padded jacket would rub off on her elder sister's expensive clothes.

"Just call me Sister Xianyuan..." An Xianyuan saw through the little girl's thoughts and hugged the trembling petite body harder.

"My name is Laura..." Laura was worried that her struggle would be annoying, so she could only lower her head helplessly and said softly.

"Sister, I want to celebrate your birthday, okay?"

"Why?"

An Xianyuan opened her mouth and hesitated, not knowing how to answer.

"Am I...am I...going to die?"

The girl in her arms stopped trembling and raised her head, with ripples in her green eyes.

She looked at her eldest sister quietly and asked softly every word.

"It will not happen……"

An Xianyuan gently stroked Laura's scarred little face and answered word for word.

"Then please ask Sister Xianyuan to take me away..."

As if seeing An Xianyuan's difficulty, Laura lowered her eyes and spoke softly.

All struggle and resistance were in vain, she could only wait quietly for the end to come.

"...Let's go, sister will take you to celebrate your birthday!" An Xianyuan seemed to recall her dead sister, her heart was beating non-stop, and she would burst out with the hottest emotions at any time.

She wanted to just take the little girl and run away, leave the City of Night, and escape to the ends of the earth.

Unfortunately, the man's cold gaze was always following her.

There was no hope of success.

Zhang's traitors will only die.

An Xianyuan sighed, held the little girl's dirty hand tightly, and walked to the mall.

"Sister Xianyuan? Where are we going?" Even though she had accepted her fate, the little girl still looked around uneasily.

"I'll go to the mall and dress you up...and your face...my sister will also find someone to help you heal it."

She held Laura's little hand as tenderly as she had held her dependent sister when she was a child.

"Zhang Xian'an...I beg you, at least today..."

After leaving the area designated by the man in advance, a life-threatening call came immediately.

She made her first humble plea to the beast before he roared.

"The price...you know..." There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, followed by a few frivolous laughs.

"good."

"Just for a little girl who picks up trash to eat? Are you going to sacrifice your own chastity and dignity?" Zhang Xian'an said quietly.

He suddenly realized that he had never really known her.

"I just hope that I am valuable enough to be worthy of your favor, Mr. Zhang..." She murmured and hung up the phone on her own initiative.

"Sister Xianyuan?" Laura pulled the warm hand she had been holding.

"What's wrong?"

"Sister...why are you crying?"

"Crying? No...sister, my eyes just hurt a little."

"elder sister……"

Laura opened her mouth, but finally chose to remain silent.

Under the moonlight, the two girls, one big and one small, were speechless, and they just held each other's hands harder.

The outcome may have been decided.

But at least they can choose to be decent.

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