Tokyo Juggernaut 2077

"Everyone, I just had a friendly kendo exchange with President Tanaka." Yuan Ye looked at the surrounding people and said, "During this process, President Tanaka realized the mistakes of his past behavior, I hope everyone can learn from it , to avoid the occurrence of school bullying.”

Although most people looked at each other in blank dismay, to Yuan Ye's surprise, there were two cheers from the crowd. It seemed that some people who were usually bullied by Tanaka were quite happy to see him lose.

But this has nothing to do with Yuan Ye. His speech is just to let Tanaka confirm his identity as a bully and let him die socially. There is no other purpose, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't get feedback.

After looking around and confirming that there were no other challengers, Yuan Ye went to the locker room to change, and left the dojo directly.

When Yuan Ye came out of the dressing room, Tanaka was still kneeling in the center of the dojo, as if his knees were stuck, until Yuan Ye left, someone stepped forward to help him up.

Yagyu Sakura, who came to watch the fun, stood in the corner, staring at Yuan Ye's back, wondering what she was thinking.

===Chapter 18 Acquaintance's shop===

Yuan Ye leaned against the car wall and took a bite of the crepe.

——It’s really delicious.

The high-calorie cream stimulated Yuan Ye's taste buds, and the desire for energy substances in his genes caused his brain to receive the message of "should order more of this stuff", which eventually turned into spiritual pleasure.

——After I become a prosthetic body, I won’t have this feeling anymore.

Messy thoughts emerged in Yuan Ye's mind. This kind of philosophical question was raised by him more frequently after his time travel. In the final analysis, it was just a natural reflection on the existence of the soul after time travel.

But in the absence of empirical evidence, it is just a person's blind imagination. Even before Yuan Ye traveled, philosophy has been reduced to a vassal of science. For people's own thinking and the existence of self-awareness, it is ultimately necessary Rely on scientific evidence.

——I just don’t know if the world has an answer to this question.

Although bionic engineering is extremely developed in this world, it still hasn't understood all of the human brain. It can only be used as a "black box" to input data and read output data, so as to operate.

But it's just the last step. Whether human beings have a truly free independent consciousness, or just a chemical machine, Yuan Ye should be able to see the answer in this life.

Yuan Ye ate the last bite of the crepe, messed up the wrapping paper, and waited to throw it away in a trash can after getting off the car.

Philosophical thinking is certainly interesting, but the most important thing for Yuan Ye at the moment is to solve the life threat brought by the mechanical white clothes, otherwise, when he wakes up after a deep sleep one night, the mechanical white clothes have already dismantled his body into pieces. The mechanical device maintained his life, and then pointed to his liver and told him that he had been staying up too late recently, and the liver showed it here. When he was asked to pay attention to his work and rest, it was useless to think about it.

The subway stopped, the gate opened, and Yuan Ye followed the flow of people out of the subway station.

According to the address given by Shiori Hoshino, Yuan Ye walked into a small alley. There was a notice board on the door of the destination store, but the glass exterior wall seemed to have been specially treated, and the inside of the store could not be seen from the outside at all. things.

Yuan Ye decided to push the door open and go in to take a look.

The moment he opened the door and entered, the bell on the door rang. Yuan Ye glanced at the empty counter and asked, "Hello, is there anyone?"

"Here we come." There was a reply from the depths of the shop.

While waiting for the teller to arrive, Yuan Ye looked at the shop.

The mechanical prosthetic body was hung from the ceiling. If it wasn't for the silvery light reflected by the metal, Yuan Ye would have thought he had entered a certain pork slaughterhouse.

But other than that, there is nothing special. It looks like a shop selling prosthetic bodies with a weird decoration style. The cold weapon that Yuan Ye expected is not hanging outside.

"Welcome." Sato wiped his hands with an apron, and walked out from behind the counter. Seeing Yuan Ye, he seemed a little surprised, "It's you."

"Good afternoon, Mr. Sato." Yuan Ye greeted politely, and he was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that the owner of this shop was actually Sato whom he had met in the arena of the Black Dragon Club before.

"This is a little hobby of mine." Sato explained actively, "When I don't need to be on duty, I will open a shop here."

"After that, what will happen to the black dragon?" Yuan Ye was always concerned about the target he wanted to destroy, and asked directly.

"Uesugi and Yamamoto can't help each other, what else can you do, this is not something you should care about." Sato slapped a haha ​​and confused the topic, "So what are you doing in this store?"

"A friend of mine introduced me. I want to buy two cold weapons for collection." Yuan Ye repeated the words that fooled Hoshino Shiori.

"Favorite? I don't think so." Sato snorted, as if he had completely seen through Yuan Ye's lie.

Yuan Ye had no choice but to give Sato a knowing look.

"Forget it, I'm just in business, and it's none of my business what you want to buy." Sato gave up asking, "Finally escaped from the extreme mud pit, so don't make trouble for your upper body, I don't want Saw your profile picture on a certain news."

"Ordinary cold weapons are fine." Yuan Ye put forward his own request, "Knife is the best, but other swords are also fine."

"How was the one you used in the arena that day?" Sato asked.

"No problem, I want two." Yuan Ye thought for a while, and agreed, "Can you give me a bag along the way?"

"Knife room? I don't have that kind of fancy things here." Sato replied, "There are tennis bags."

"That's okay, how much?"

"How much are the two iron bars worth?" Sato waved his hand and said very generously, "I gave it to you."

Yuan Ye was a little surprised, Sato was so generous even though the two had only met once.

"That girl Shiori introduced you to come here." Sato asked, lighting a cigarette.

"I don't know anyone named Shiori. My friend recommended me to come to this store." Of course, Yuan Ye didn't want to sell Hoshino Shiori just like that, so he could only lie.

"Who else is there besides that girl?" Sato blew out a smoke ring, "Don't tell her that I'm a member of the Yakuza."

"I won't talk too much." Yuan Ye came to his senses. Sato said that he had a granddaughter who went to the same school as Yuan Ye, but their surnames were completely different, so Yuan Ye didn't immediately think of Hoshino Shiori .

"That's the best." Sato took out two knives from the store warehouse, which were the same as those used by Yuan Ye in the arena, pure industrial products.

"Listen kid." Sato put the knife in the tennis bag, "I don't care if you really want to buy it for collection or do something else, just remember to handle it properly."

"To put it simply, when you want to do something, appear in other places. Of course, it is only a virtual identity. A takeaway or a payment bill from a milk tea shop is fine. If it is not directly photographed by the monitoring system, Then as long as you have this, it is enough for you to escape the retrieval of those data analysis AIs, anyway, they are programs written casually by college students."

Yuan Ye didn't understand why Sato suddenly told him these things, but he still replied: "I see."

"It's best if you don't need it." Sato handed the tennis bag to Yuan Ye, waved his hand, and signaled that he should go.

Sato put out the finished cigarette in the ashtray and said nothing.

Minato thanked him and left Sato's shop.

After closing the store door, Yuan Ye dialed the number left by the mechanical white clothes.

===Chapter 19 Humans are Special===

After a short wait, the call was connected.

"Have you changed your mind?" The voice on the other end of the phone was still electronically synthesized.

"If I cooperate with you, will there be any benefits for me?" Yuan Ye asked straight to the point.

"Let's think about it, how about 100 million yen? Isn't it a huge sum of money for a high school student like you?" the mechanical white robe said casually.

"I'm afraid I can sell any organ for more than this price, not to mention that you want to dissect my body." Yuan Ye mocked.

"That's true." The tone of the mechanical white clothes slightly increased, "Although the current organ trading is nothing more than a cover, people who need to replace their organs use stem cell induction technology to directly produce new organs that will not be rejected."

"I want to know what [Qi] is." Yuan Ye has no interest in chatting with the mechanical white clothes, "I will consider your request after that."

"That's it." The mechanical white clothes said an address, "Then you only have one hour to come here to find me, and this address will also become invalid after that."

"Yes." Yuan Ye hung up the phone and dialed the same number again, but as he expected, it was an empty number.

——It seems that he took the initiative to dispose of the recording of the call.

Yuan Ye took off his earphones and entered the address given to him by the mechanical white clothes in the navigation system. The result was a warehouse by the sea, which was very close to the place where Yuan Ye originally rented. It seems that the mechanical white clothes had nothing to hide at all. Consciousness, choose to capture dissection objects around your hideout.

——Have you chosen a place that is out of sight?Exactly what I want.

Yuan Ye took the subway back to the station closest to his rented place. After changing his school uniform in the public restroom outside the station without camera surveillance, he stopped by a milk tea shop in front of the station to take a [-]D picture of ordering food online. Yard, if what Sato said is true, that's enough.

But Yuan Ye still carefully avoided every camera. Thanks to the policy of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the cameras in the non-core six districts of Tokyo are highly bound to the cameras for road violation fines. As long as the navigation system is switched to driving mode, the map Every violating camera will be marked on the website -- of course, this mode also has to be paid.

Yuan Ye couldn't achieve complete invisibility by hacking into the camera like the watchdog he played in his previous life. He could only do his best. Anyway, going to court is better than going to the ancestral hall.

With this mentality in mind, Yuan Ye moved forward all the way to the warehouse by the sea.

According to the information on the navigation, this warehouse has an owner, but that person should not be a mechanical white-clothed person, but that doesn't matter anymore.

When Yuan Ye approached the door of the warehouse, the door opened automatically, as if he had sensed his arrival.

A strong smell of blood gushed out from the opened door, but was quickly blown away by the sea breeze.

Yuan Ye used the QR code to order a cup of pearl milk tea, took off his glasses as a reality augmentation device, and raised his vigilance to the highest level when he walked in the door.

The warehouse behind the door was brightly lit, and after Yuan Ye entered the warehouse, the door of the warehouse was closed immediately.

"Welcome." There was an operating table in the center of the warehouse, and the mechanical white clothes stood behind the operating table, saying to Yuan Ye.

It was still the electronically synthesized voice that was neither male nor female, but this time, Yuan Ye understood the origin of this voice.

The mechanical white clothes did not turn on the optical camouflage this time, and the body wrapped in the doctor's robe was completely exposed, or in other words, the body sewn on the doctor's robe.

Only the torso and head remained on the body of the mechanical white clothes, and all the others were replaced by prosthetic bodies. The torso was completely integrated with the doctor's robe, and the metal extending from the doctor's robe wrapped the second half of his torso. It can be seen that the life of the mechanical white clothes is maintained by the doctor's robe.

And half of the throat of the mechanical white clothes has been replaced by the mechanical, which is why he can only make electronic sounds.

"I came as promised." Yuan Ye said to the mechanical white clothes, "So what is [Qi]?"

"This is a long story." The mechanical white clothes thought for a while and said, "It goes back to when I was still in the research institute."

"Is the injury on your body the result of escaping from the research institute?" Yuan Ye guessed.

"Indeed." The mechanical white clothes were not angry because of this, "I can't go to the hospital either, I can only deal with it as an emergency."

"So? Is Qi the research result of the institute? What is it?"

"No." The mechanical white clothes pulled out a whiteboard and used a personal terminal as a projector. "I researched it because there were examples first."

"Let me ask you a question first, why does the upper echelon prohibit prosthetic bodies from taking the unified exam?" The mechanical white clothes asked a question first.

"Prevent prosthetic body modification from impacting their monopoly position?" Yuan Ye expressed his opinion.

"How is it possible? With genetic adjustments, civilians may also have genetic mutations. Wouldn't it be more crushing for the upper class to use prosthetic bodies?" The mechanical white clothes seemed to be mocking Yuan Ye's innocence, "The latest and best prosthetic bodies are always replaced by them first, civilians Fighting for money is the one who can't compete with the upper class at all."

"That wouldn't be something like a fanatical pursuit of pure flesh." Yuan Ye asked himself and replied, "I'm afraid there are other reasons."

"That's right." The mechanical white-clothed finger tapped in the air, and called up an anatomy map, "Since the birth of genetic adjustment technology, human beings have begun to move towards the so-called [perfect human being]."

"With the advancement of technology, the human beings adjusted by humans are moving closer to the physical upper limit of carbon-based human figures." The mechanical white clothes said slowly, "Our research institute is to provide acquired physical maintenance for those upper class people. After all The human body is like a complex machine, which can function better only through constant maintenance.”

"Until one day, my boss suddenly fell ill. As a last resort, the institute had to let me take over his job." The mechanical white robe shrugged, and it could be seen that this was a habit he had when his body was still alive. It’s not a complicated job, it’s just a matter of operating the machine, and we’ve already let the AI ​​do the specific work.”

"It was that biological maintenance that gave me an abnormal report." The electronically synthesized voice of the mechanical white coat also became low, which obviously impressed him very much, "A report that I shouldn't have seen .”

"Is the truth about Qi recorded on that report?"

"You can't tell the truth." The mechanical white clothes pulled out a body with its chest and abdomen ripped open and covered with electrodes. "It can only be said to be the truth."

"What fact?"

"Humans are special, or in other words, the biological limit of carbon-based organisms can be broken."

===Chapter 20 The Truth of Qi===