Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

2074, January 13, 18:15

Clementine holds Joel's hand and walks through the neon-filled streets of Japan.

"When you are alive, you have nowhere to live. The world is just a dream..."

"Having hatred in your heart is endless, but the world calls it love..."

She walked slowly and sang softly to the music playing on the street.

The wind also cheered her softly.

Clementine used her free hand to smooth her blown hair and looked sideways at the man following her.

"Do you speak Japanese?" Joel asked proactively.

"I know a little bit." She nodded and put her index finger on her lower lip. "I work in a bookstore in Charter Hill. When I'm not busy, I use Japanese chips to learn pronunciation and so on..."

"The bookstore in Charter Hill?" Joel raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I often go there to buy books, and occasionally I can find some old paper treasures..."

"No wonder I always feel like I've seen you somewhere..." He breathed a sigh of relief, and the doubts in his heart were finally completely dissipated.

"Déjà vu is just an illusion, do you take it seriously?" She raised her head slightly and mocked him with her nostrils without any scruples.

"At the beginning...I figured it out later." Joel couldn't help but retort harshly.

"Oh oh oh..." Clementine rolled her eyes perfunctorily and squeezed his palm hard.

"They are quite optimistic..." Yahweh shook his head and said to Heda who was sitting in the driver's seat.

After learning that the target was returning to Westbrook from Heywood District, Heida and Yahweh got on the return subway in advance, took the Sky Dome Hera parked on Charter Hill to near the Japan Street subway station, and quietly Wait quietly.

"Humans always like to deceive themselves..." Xi Da lay on the driver's seat and looked at the man and woman who had just left the subway station in the distance.

"There are obviously so many doubts, but you can deceive yourself into turning a blind eye with peace of mind..." She shook her head and sighed helplessly, started the car, and followed the two of them from a distance.

"The results of the comparison are out. There are three hospitals that the two of them have visited together. Among them, the time when they visited the 'Night City Mental Health Center' together is the closest. Clementine had a medical record a week ago, and Joel had a medical record. Two days ago..." Yahweh spent a while searching Night City's medical system records.

"It basically coincides with the time when the client discovered Joel's abnormal behavior..." Xi Da rubbed his sore neck, "Waiting for me to write the mission report, we will go to the Night City Mental Health Center to have a look."

"Okay..." Joel did not hesitate this time and agreed to Clementine's request to stay at his house tonight.

"Why aren't you shy this time?" Clementine teased with a smile as she patted him.

Joel scratched his head in embarrassment and led her toward the Charter Hill apartment building.

"What's wrong?" He felt his hand being tugged, and quickly turned around, and was surprised to find her frozen in place.

"It's okay..." Clementine shook her head slightly, "Let's go..." She took the initiative to hold his arm, strode up to him, and plunged into the apartment building.

“Déjà vu…”

The hustle and bustle of the night city mercilessly drowned out her soft murmur.

"Do you think Clementine realizes the truth? Yahweh?" Xi Da silently watched the two people walking into the apartment building through the car window, exhaling a faint breath.

"Maybe she was confused, but she still subconsciously chose to believe in the man she had forgotten..." Yahweh propped his chin with his hand, and his blue eyes silently took in everything.

"Have you experienced the complexity of human emotions again?" Xi Da rarely saw a "depressed" expression on his face, so he couldn't help but laugh out loud and pinched his cheek gently.

"Hmm..." Yahweh answered vaguely.

"Sending the report..." She let go of the offending hand and changed the topic empathetically.

"The address of 'Night City Mental Health Center' is in the Civic Center..."

"Wow, things are not cheap there..." Xida made a face in the direction of the co-pilot, and as expected, received a blank look from Yahweh.

2074, January 13, 19:20

"This is the 'Night City Mental Health Center'?" Xi Da closed the old car door forcefully and turned to look at the single-family building located in the alley on the street.

"It looks pretty ordinary..." Xi Da kicked the trash can that fell on the ground back to the trash can on the street.

"Good footwork." Yahweh stared at the graceful arc of her legs when she exerted force, and nodded slightly in affirmation.

"Is this the point?" Xi Ta rolled his eyes, feeling relieved a lot.

She firmly held the hand he extended and walked into the building side by side.

"Welcome two guests..." A nurse with fashionable blond curly hair sat at the front desk, greeting potential customers with a polite fake smile as usual.

"Please wait in line here." The beautiful blond nurse pointed to two unoccupied seats by the door.

"There are quite a lot of people here..." Xi Da looked curiously at the other four customers sitting and waiting. He was surprised to find that most of them looked sad, and each of them was holding a large box in his hand, which was full of various items. Plant debris.

"Hello, beautiful lady and handsome gentleman. Are you two together?" A doctor came down the stairs on the second floor, with a smile on his round face, and walked straight towards Heda and Yahweh.

"Yes." Yahweh stood in front of Heda, implicitly protecting her behind him.

The fake smile on this doctor's face is disgusting.

"Hello, I am a doctor's assistant, Elijah Wood..." The round-faced doctor smiled and quietly retracted his outstretched hand, "Are you doing the memory erasure treatment together?"

"Amnesia? Can you tell me in detail?" Yahweh looked at the doctor indifferently, making sure that there was no threat to himself or Xida.

Elijah Wood shivered inexplicably and subconsciously shrank his neck, looking like a round-faced turtle.

"Our clinic is affiliated with the 'Night City Health Center' and has in-depth cooperation with many large companies such as biotechnology..." Dr. Wood routinely recited the hospital's slogan.

"Tell me the important point!" Heda said viciously, lying on Yahweh's back.

"yes!"

The ruthless blue eyes of Yahweh seemed to put great pressure on Dr. Wood, and he quickly nodded in agreement.

"Memory erasure technology... to put it simply, it uses technology to erase all the customer's memories of a designated person..."

"Who are holding what?"

"Yes...yes..." Dr. Wood wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and quickly looked back, "It's all related items about the person they want to erase his memory..."

"Just erase all memories about a certain person?"

"Yes."

"After erasing the memory, is it possible to recover?"

"This... we have no precedent... the human brain is too complex..."

Doctor Wood couldn't stop trembling. After seeing Yahweh's gesture of disgust, he quickly bowed and ran back to the second floor.

"Why does he look so afraid of you?" Sheeda leaned close to Yahweh and whispered softly.

"Perhaps...he believes in God..." The corner of Yahweh's mouth curled up in a mocking arc, silently watching Dr. Wood's back as he left in a panic.