Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 862 - 279: Night City for Ordinary People

"You wouldn't be one of those hackers here to mess with me, would you?"

Yoshida had seen news about those hackers, each possessing divine power, even able to slip into company databases. So, to infiltrate a schoolgirl's mind would be even easier?

Plus, the other person might just be a fugitive...

Thinking about this made her a bit scared; this guy claiming to be an alien sounded mentally unstable. What if he got upset and fried her brain?

The street hacker didn't expect his identity to be uncovered so quickly.

[Damn, I should've said I was Internet Supervisor Gulite, at least it wouldn't overlap.]

"Ahem..."

He felt embarrassed for a moment before quickly covering up

"Yeah, actually, I'm an Internet Supervisor agent. 'Zero' is my code name, and I'm currently searching for a roaming AI that fled here. I need a Night City citizen like you to assist us with the case."

Out in society, your identity is what you make it.

"Eh! Really?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Yoshida Saki was shocked, completely engrossed in the Mewtwo storyline. She, who had turned herself into a 'high school student,' didn't have the mind to doubt whether this voice was true or false.

"Of course it's true!"

The street hacker was equally immersed in his artful fabrication.

What he needed to do now was entice this person into installing [Small and Beautiful] into her own head, consuming memory space.

It's well known that a certain software, purportedly [Small and Beautiful] during development, would often turn large and ugly once downloaded.

You think so? I don't buy it.

The street hacker was smart enough to change the app icon and name to [Night City Anti-Fraud]

"This is our newly developed anti-fraud app by Internet Supervision. Once downloaded, if you receive AI harassment or other forms of electronic fraud, it will alert you. It even contains our contact information in case you need help facing danger."

"A girl like you is the easiest prey for those with bad intentions targeting emotions, so be extra careful."

"Wow... Thank you, Mr. Zero..."

Yoshida Saki naively accepted the software sent by the other party, downloading and installing it without a second thought.

The street hacker couldn't believe it was so easy to successfully trick her into downloading the software.

'Hey, what's going on... How could such an extremely naive-seeming girl be connected to Hellhound and roaming AI?'

Anyone with a bit of a thinking circuit would be able to see that his fabricated rhetoric was full of holes, right?

So mundane

So plain

Her actions and words were tinged with shyness, paired with black-rimmed glasses, twin braids, and nerdiness.

No matter how you looked at her, she seemed like the kind of nearby girl you'd encounter on the street during your junior high or high school days. Was she really a cabbage that grew out of Night City?

...He was starting to feel a bit guilty for deceiving an innocent girl.

"Mr. Agent..."

Now seated at her desk, Yoshida Saki seemed rather curious about the hacker visiting her mind.

"Hm... what's up?"

The app had completed downloading and started running; from now on, it would continuously record and store all information until the memory is flooded and Mewtwo crashes.

Because of this, the street hacker gained access to more data permissions, generating a projection in Yoshida's view, a trick taught by Song Zhaomei to players, although it meant nothing to the current street hacker.

In theory, he could do nothing now and just wait to complete the task, but he couldn't sit still.

Moreover, the sensory time flow in Mewtwo was much faster than real-time, theoretically taking a few hours at most to fill up.

Yoshida Saki placed a book over her lower face, curiously observing the agent dressed in hacker gear sitting at her classmate's desk. The guy's age seemed slightly older than hers, with mature yet slightly animated mannerisms.

Bright eyes hidden under short, cropped hair were intently looking at an evolving terminal in his hand.

That sort of professional yet mature aura made her believe in the agent's identity a bit more, but could someone so young really be an agent?

Though the street hacker himself was just pretending, he didn't need any of this nonsense to detect the data.

Realizing she was staring at him, Yoshida Saki quickly buried her face in the book, her voice slightly flustered

"No... um... nothing... just wanted to ask your name."

She actually wanted to ask about the roaming AI, but forgot when looking at him.

Strange...

Am I really someone who gets scared so easily?

For this stranger who suddenly invaded her [peaceful life], Yoshida Saki instinctively felt repulsion, as if she wanted to dislike this so-called agent and drive him away, to restore things to how they were.

But somehow, when the other warned her to be careful, a thought suddenly emerged

[If only someone were there at that time...]

This sudden thought neutralized that inexplicable hostility.

"My name?"

"Yes, Mr. Agent knows I'm Yoshida Saki... So you should tell me your name..."

"I am Zero..."

Better not say I'm from the Land of Light street hacker, right?

"That's a lie... Who would be named like that?"

"I'm an agent! If an agent doesn't use a codename, then what? We can't just casually expose our real names!"

Seeing the street hacker pretending to be angry, Yoshida Saki was frightened, stood up, and bent over ninety degrees

"I'm sorry!!!"

This gesture startled the street hacker.

"Why do you Neon People always love bowing to apologize? Quickly sit back down, I'm just saying casually."