"I'll tell you a story."

Li Xingyuan snuffed out the cigarette in his hand.

He exhaled the mist that had condensed in the cold night sky, the smoke that had warmed his body temperature drifting down the cold wind into the distance, drifting away in the gentle, starless dreams of the neon of Tokyo.

The cigarette butt fell from his hand, and the little flame fell straight into the air more than 600 meters high and disappeared into the darkness.

Li Xingyuan looked at the person beside him—let's call it a person for the time being.

The skin made of high-strength bionic ceramics has been peeled off inch by inch by Li Xingyuan, and the metal skeleton made of special titanium alloy is coated with a matte coating, which is completely unclear in the dark, and the metal skeleton is knotted with a delicate circuit system and transparent fiber optic filament, which has not been completely replaced by the machine, and the myelin-like structure formed by glial cells is yellowish-white, wrapped in broken flesh and bones.

Where it should have been a face, a full-coverage mask was covered, and the screen on the mask was now pitch black.

"Oh, I forgot."

Li Xingyuan stretched out his hand and covered the mask.

Gentle blue fingerprints lit up on the full-coverage mask, and after verifying Li Xingyuan's identity, the mask made a soft clicking sound, and Li Xingyuan ripped the mask off, revealing the man's face.

It was a flawless face that appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine last month, and because it was not necessary, there were no single tubular glands or small fat clumps on the smooth face, a face that both men and women would be obsessed with.

But now there is only fear on that face.

The man's face, contorted with fear, his perfect features faithfully reproducing his master's emotions, and his mouth opened wide, and from his throat, only the severed vocal system was still barely working, squeezing out the staccato electronic sound.

"You...... Kill...... Kill ...... I ......"

Li Xingyuan smiled, his smile was calm and complicated, it was a smile that only people who had not undergone facial cyber transformation could show.

"You want to act like a hero? Or are you ready for the 'military liberation'? ”

The man's face twitched, as if because his current feelings exceeded the ability to depict that face, and the face returned to its original mode - the stiff bionic ceramic reflected the neon brilliance, and looked at Li Xingyuan blankly.

"You monks."

Li Xingyuan shook his head.

According to his prior investigation, if he kills the other party immediately now, then his mind will go up to a space station called 'Takamagahara' located near the ground, and as long as his family is willing to pay, then he can go down to a prepared body again, which is called 'military liberation'.

"You always think that everyone else is just ants who don't understand anything, and they don't care about the joys and sorrows of ants, nor do they care about the life and death of ants, and you never think that ants will force you to this day, right?"

The other party did not answer.

"For ...... Why...... ......"

"Because of one of the ants you crushed."

"It's been almost three years since I came to Tokyo."

Li Xingyuan looked at Tokyo in the distance, the city that had been almost completely destroyed in the Great Break, and now it still shone with the brilliance of drunken gold, and he lit a cigarette for himself.

"When I first came to this city, I knew almost nothing, like an abandoned puppy, ready to freeze and starve to death in this city, like a mayfly."

"But there was a woman who saved me."

Li Xingyuan spat out a puff of smoke rings, and the flame of the cigarette butt lit up and went out in the dark night, like breathing.

"Or rather, it's just that the woman thinks she saved me, and she thinks I'm someone else, well, it's not wrong, because this body is that person...... The woman was living like shit, hopelessly addicted to the virtual world, using dopamine regulators to maintain her life, and working in such a ghost place. ”

Li Xingyuan was silent, he crossed into this world three years ago, occupied the woman turned the power of the dopamine regulator too high, and finally burned out the body of his younger brother, even after Li Xingyuan crossed over, this body was still dying, if it wasn't for the woman who almost broke the money to send him to a private hospital, it is estimated that Li Xingyuan would have died as soon as he crossed.

This time he was silent for an unusually long time, and he took half a cigarette in one go.

"But she saved me and told me what the world was all about, what a big break in the dog day, the monk of the dog day, the big company of the dog day."

"It took me three years to get used to the world little by little, to be cautious, to smooth the edges and corners, to bow my head in front of you monks."

"But I wasn't used to it, I was looking for a change, so I had to do some dirty work, so I moved out of the neighborhood to avoid implicating her, and I only went to see her once in a while, and she would bake me that unpalatable frozen pizza full of synthetic cheese every time......"

A bolt of lightning flashed by, illuminating the gloomy darkness.

Li Xingyuan stretched out his palm and caught the first drop of rain.

"I've saved enough money to buy artificial meridians, I'm ready to become a monk, I'll have my own bungalow in the Chiyoda Building, and I'll be able to overlook the city and all the people in it."

"But, she's dead."

Li Xingyuan looked at the man's face again.

To be precise, to look into the man's eyes.

"Those eyes, they're beautiful, aren't they?"

"Eyes as beautiful as brown, guarded by snakes, dangerous and charming, no matter what kind of prosthetic eyes they are, they can't replace those eyes—that's what you said, I heard?"

"Someone told me that a gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, I can buy artificial meridians, and then climb up little by little, until anyone sees me and has to kneel, naturally say a word, and someone will hold your head like an invitation."

"But then, she went too far, and went to a place where she couldn't see the tragic appearance of your death."

"So, I bought a gun, a knife, with the money I was going to buy a man-made meridian."

"Start with those gang members, then the leaders of the gangs, the Metropolitan Police who took the money, and then ......"

Li Xingyuan looked at the man.

"Today happens to be her first seven."

From the man's mouth, a voice sounded again, as if catalyzed by the spiritual power in his body, the memory metal finally bridged the rupture of the vocal system, and this time his voice obviously became much smoother.

"You are Takahashi Ren's younger brother, Takahashi Ichiro? Don't kill me! I can give you money. ”

"Your assistive brain search ability is too poor." Li Xingyuan shook his head: "You finally found out who I am from the database, so did you tell those people in your family?" ”

"I won't tell them, you just have to ......"

Before the man's words were finished, the arm made of titanium alloy slammed into Li Xingyuan like a spiritual snake coming out of a hole.

Such a straight attack, but it could not pose a threat to Li Xingyuan, Li Xingyuan dodged this ferocious blow with a short body, closed his palms, and hit the man's heart.

This trick is called the second ghost to knock on the door.

If an ordinary person falls for this trick, then he will be slapped in the abdomen and his intestines will be rotten, but the monk in front of him is not very human, but a seeker who walks on the 'Immortal Dao', so it is not a big problem, but this is not Li Xingyuan's killing move.

"Detected to to...... Yes yes yes yes or no...... Recycle it? ”

At the moment when his hands pressed on the other party's exposed dantian, a strange electronic noise-like voice sounded from Li Xingyuan's mind.

"Yes."

A little misty brilliance lit up from Li Xingyuan's hand, and the man's movements suddenly stopped, like a robot that had been pressed the shutdown button.

That person's dantian qi mansion, the most important place for monks, turned into Dao Dao color light at this time, and disappeared out of thin air.

"Without the 'dantian', you won't be able to complete the 'military liberation' of your consciousness, right?"

Li Xingyuan dropped his palm, looked at the man who was completely stiff, he curled his fingers, and flicked the cigarette with a little spark on the other party's bionic ceramic face.

The sparks of cigarette butts shine brightly in the rainy night.

The man didn't know if he could still hear Li Xingyuan speak, and as the dantian disappeared out of thin air, the aura carried in the overloaded machine system began to run wild, and the flames instantly covered his body.

The flames on the man's body burned, and the flames ignited the huge lotus flower pattern that hung over the entire sky tree, and in the firelight, a golden lotus fluttered upward, illuminating half of the night sky.

Heavy rain fell, but no amount of rain could extinguish the flame that had been lit with a monk's body and spiritual power as firewood.

Li Xingyuan stared at the man's most fire-resistant face, which slowly cracked and dissipated into the fire.

If it is up to me to get my life, I can plant golden lotus in the fire.

For a while, Takahashi Lian was obsessed with online fortune telling, and one of the fortune-telling software said that she was Sister Hua's life.

The lotus flower is not stained in the five turbid evil worlds, and Sister Hua is the flower god who escaped from the sky, and she is about to return to the sky after rolling in the mortal dust.

Standing here, you can already hear the sound of police cars.

The red and blue light came from afar, like a long dragon with its horns exposed.

When she died, she must not have seen such a light.

Sister.

Good night.

Li Xingyuan threw his cigarettes, lighters, ID cards, driver's licenses and other things representing Takahashi Ichiro's identity into the fire, looking at Tokyo in the distance.

He crossed over, and in order to integrate into this world, he has been a Takahashi Ichiro for three years.

Now, it's time to be Li Xingyuan back.

"Hey, boss."

Li Xingyuan looked in the direction where the sound came from, the fan blades of the helicopter were drumming wildly, and Li Xingyuan's windbreaker was blowing fiercely.

A girl with red and two ponytails had bright eyes and bright eyes, like a restless phoenix, grabbing the railing next to the helicopter door with one hand, and reaching out to Li Xingyuan with the other.

"The strip is coming, and the wind is howling!"