Gen Ye was driving a motorcycle, speeding on the roads of Tokyo late at night.
This is a new motorcycle. The fancy RGb system has been removed, and the paint surface has been given a matte finish, like a black swimming fish.
The traffic flow in Tokyo late at night is still unabated, but it is not like it is during the day. The roads are mostly occupied by uniform self-driving taxis - limited by the lack of parking spaces, a pain point in Tokyo Prefecture's urban planning, and the increasingly high costs. Due to the tax, insurance, maintenance and other expenses, many families in 2077 will no longer choose to purchase vehicles and will rely on public transportation or rental vehicles to travel.
As for the luxury cars driven by "upper-class people", most of them float above people's heads and move on the "empty road" formed by the magnetic tracks buried in the existing roads.
But as night falls, most of the car rental company's vehicles return to fixed locations for maintenance and energy replenishment. Only a small number of them still maintain the algorithm-designed route cruising on the streets, waiting for people who want to use the car late at night.
And those vacancies were filled by other things, such as these will-o'-the-wisps approaching Yuanye.
Yuan Ye glanced at the motorcycles that were gradually approaching him. Without exception, these will-o'-the-wisps all had a large number of extra decorations in a non-mainstream style, led by an equally non-mainstream young man with a green and pink mohawk. drive.
On the back of the motorcycle is inserted what looks like a chess piece carried by a famous figure from the Warring States Period, with scrawled ink characters that look like they were written by a famous calligrapher but were actually generated by AI using a public template.
-Petroleum powered?
Genya frowned. Petroleum-powered vehicles are not allowed to drive in Tokyo. In addition, with such a large-scale exterior modification, if he is caught, not only will the bicycle be lost, but the person may even be arrested for "crimes endangering the public." Went in to eat pork chop rice for a while.
Even though this place is about to enter the fringe zone and is about five minutes away from the "uncontrolled" area, it is still within the scope of the surveillance network. If caught, those in charge of traffic will issue a ticket without hesitation. , if you just play modifying motorcycles, you will not know these rules.
In other words, the person who comes is not good.
The flag on the back of the Ghost Fire Youth's car was not the logo of the Yakuza responsible for governing this area in Yuan Ye's memory.
"Hey, kid." A will-o'-the-wisp drove up beside Yuanye and walked alongside him, "Are you up late at night playing with cars?"
"Don't ride such a girly tram when you're out to play!" The young man on the ghost fire raised his foot and kicked Yuanye's motorcycle, but he changed direction and dodged it.
Yuan Ye accelerated, and at the same time reached out to the weapon box of the car tester. After hesitating for a moment, he released his finger that had touched the trigger, took out a flying knife and threw it, accurately destroying the front car. The tires of the Will-O-Wisp raised its front wheels and screamed for acceleration, causing the Will-O-Wisp to crash to the ground and tripping over the one behind it.
The accident successfully blocked the progress of the ghost train team. Did Yuanye speed up and get rid of the group of non-mainstream youths...?
Turning back in the direction indicated by his intuition, the small drone with red light was moving closely behind him.
——It seems that we can rule out coincidence. I thought he was just a junkie who was high and looking for trouble.
Yuan Ye thought for a while, then raised his hand to wake up his personal system and initiate communication with his subordinates who were on the scene.
"Yoshikawa." Genya called his subordinates by their last name, "How is the situation at the scene?"
"No change, leader." Yoshikawa on the other end of the communication replied respectfully.
"Something went wrong. It may take me a while to arrive, about half an hour." Yuan Ye ordered, "During this time, please continue to help me keep an eye on the target, and wait until I arrive before taking action. Is there any specific situation?" Report to me promptly."
"Okay, leader." Yoshikawa asked with concern, "Chief, have you encountered an emergency? Do you need our support?"
"It's not necessary." Yuanye refused, and then asked, "Are the brothers here a coffee party or a tea party?"
"...Coffee bar." Yoshikawa paused, seeming to ask the opinions of the people present.
"Understood." Yuan Ye hung up the phone, moved his finger across the virtual screen to switch pages, and called up the monitoring program.
"Sure enough, it was monitored. What's the tracking result?" Yuan Ye operated. This is a security program purchased from a professional network security company. It is considered a high-end civilian product that can be purchased directly, but it faces slightly more powerful hackers. The opponent still didn't see enough, "The tracking failed, and the preset program is still not powerful."
After thinking about it, Yuan Ye opened the map software and set up the navigation to the coffee shop. A golden arrow was drawn on the ground by his personal system. He followed the arrow's instructions to the door of the coffee shop, took out the pistol from the weapon box and installed the silencer. After confirming that it was in the blind spot of surveillance, he raised his hand and knocked down the drone.
Then, Yuan Ye entered the coffee shop and asked the mechanical coffee hand to make a corresponding amount of coffee according to the number of helpers who were helping to track him. Then he turned around and left, entering the chain convenience store next to him.
This is one of the two shops on this street that is still open in addition to the vending machines. The coffee shop has adopted unmanned operations and placed all the valuable equipment in the store behind bulletproof glass, so it is not afraid of people. Destruction, then the reason why convenience stores that cannot be operated like this and require people to look after the store are still open 24 hours a day is that it is okay if the salary is low, if you don't do it, there will be people to do it.
Many people in the fringe areas can only do this kind of work, such as smugglers without status, ex-social workers whose credit has been ruined, or students who need money. But those who are looking after the store now are obviously It's the last one.
Because although the girl standing behind the stage is wearing a convenience store work uniform, the skirt at the hem is the uniform of a Tokyo public middle school. Originally, different uniforms for each school are a feature of the Yingzhou education system, but their expensive prices are not After being criticized for the great unemployment wave, Kasumigaseki, who was crazy about money, adopted uniform uniforms in public middle schools and pocketed the money that was originally collected by each school. To supplement financial resources.
——Did you come to work part-time right after school?
——No, the time is wrong, I should be preparing to go to school directly after class.
——Students today are also having a hard time.
While Yuanye was selecting the products, he secretly glanced at the girl standing behind the cashier who was humming a song and simulating the movements of playing the guitar with her hands. She complained in her heart, completely ignoring the fact that he was also a student now. .
Logically speaking, it seems impolite to stare at someone you have never met before, but the girl seemed to be immersed in her own personal system and did not even say a welcome message when the guest entered, so he should not be held responsible for this.
The girl behind the cashier is indeed very beautiful, but this is not the reason why Yuanye pays attention to her. The reason why he subconsciously peeks at the girl is because he feels an indescribable feeling from the girl. Familiar feeling.
