Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

"Yahweh, bring me two more plates of beef!" Xi Da lowered his head, put his face on the porcelain plate, and ate the barbecue. He reached out and called to his boyfriend vaguely.

"The little lazy boy knows how to order people...don't you know how to use the word 'please'?" Lucy scolded Xi Da from the side.

"Yahweh! Bring over two plates of beef!"

Yahweh shook his head helplessly, and lightly knocked on Xi Da's little head. Under Lucy's joking eyes and Xi Da's happy eyes, he walked towards the self-service area.

Lucy, who was sitting opposite Xi Da, looked away, ate the last piece of barbecue on her plate, and rubbed her belly.

"How can you eat so well?" Lucy wiped her mouth with a tissue and teased Xi Da's huge appetite that was completely inconsistent with her appearance.

"Hmph...I consume a lot of energy every day, unlike some otaku..." Xi Da nuzzled her nose at Lucy and made a face.

Although Lucy also has the habit of exercising, as a hacker, she is still not good at physical fitness. Her body was extremely beautiful, but still lacked some refinement of the lines.

"What are you talking about?"

Yahweh placed two plates of beef on the table, sat down next to Heda, and asked.

"We're talking about who has a better figure." Xi Da pouted at her boyfriend with a greasy mouth and said deliberately viciously.

After hearing this, Yawei quickly lowered his head and ate the still-warm bibimbap in silence. He used the fragrant mist leaking from the rice grains to cover up his presence, so as not to be forced into a verbal war between the two girls. middle.

2074, January 18, 21:00

After saying goodbye to Mann and Dolio early, Xida took Lucy and Yawei to the city center to eat Korean barbecue.

In the end, Xi Da's wish to take Lucy out to make more friends came to nothing.

"I'm sorry, Lucy." Xida slumped in her seat, soothing her enlarged stomach.

"What's wrong?" Lucy tilted her head in confusion, but without stopping, she placed mushrooms, potatoes, enoki mushrooms and other fresh vegetables piece by piece on the barbecue grill that had just been updated with oil paper.

"Didn't I agree to take you out to meet more friends? As a result, I met Mann and Dorio, but no one else did." Xida touched her nose embarrassedly, but the oil got everywhere. .

"I actually don't care." Lucy supported her head while waiting for the vegetables to be roasted, and quietly watched the loving scene where Yahweh took out a few paper towels and carefully wiped off the oily stains on Xida's hands and nose. .

She paused for a moment, took a sip of warm barley tea, and continued.

"I like to be alone. Too many unnecessary ties will only make me feel constrained... I yearn for freedom more."

"It is inevitable to form a bond. From the moment you walk into Night City, you have a bond with this city. The more people you meet here and the more things you experience, the deeper the bond becomes. To you, this city is no longer just a few words on the map, but a memory full of stories and a record in the soul."

Xi Da placed the beef on the barbecue grill at a suitable distance from the vegetables that Lucy had placed - this would not only ensure that the original flavor would not be lost, but also give the other party his own special taste.

"Even if you escape to the moon, all your past experiences will still be tightly locked with you like a shadow. One day you will return to the earth, back to where you started. Maybe it's to return to your hometown, or maybe just for a certain promise. ,someone."

Lucy listened in silence to the gentle female voice singing in a low voice, her eyes lowered, staring blankly at the barbecue grill, where the white and tender mushrooms were gradually stained with the golden butter oozing from the beef.

"It's really not like you would say it, Xi Ta." After a long time, Lucy slowly spoke and put the roasted mushrooms into the bowl.

"I used to have random thoughts like this." Xi Da said softly while using chopsticks to turn the beef over.

"The past? What about now." Lucy was very interested in Xi Da, both in the past and in the present.

"Now that I have Yahweh, the problems I had before are no longer a problem." Heda said, putting her little hand in Yahweh's warm coat pocket.

"But you're not as happy as you imagined, are you." Lucy glanced at Yahweh, who was about to bury his face in the pot, and asked him what he was feeling.

"The only question is, how long can I be with him?" Xi Da said in a low voice as the corners of his eyes that had been rising all day fell.

"Can he still leave you?" Lucy stared at Yawei carefully, trying to see his expression clearly through the steaming mist.

"He..." Perhaps considering that Lucy didn't know enough about Yahweh's true identity, Xi Da just opened and closed his mouth hesitantly, and finally said nothing.

"I am AI... Unlike human beings who have a limited lifespan, AI can live forever in data. This is what Xida is worried about." Yahweh spoke, revealing his secret.

He didn't want to have to suffer to keep the so-called secret, and he didn't think anyone would pose a threat to him after knowing this.

"AI?" Lucy stared at Yawei's eyes, which were pure blue and shone like the sun.

Lucy's strange reaction was somewhat beyond Xi Da's expectations.

"Lucy seems to have known this for a long time?" Xi Da knocked his head in distress, feeling that his hesitation just now was stupid.

"I've seen him show off his power in cyberspace..." Lucy imitated Yahweh's appearance and waved her hand in the air.

"Wow, this looks so stupid." Xi Da felt that Lucy's imitation was very good. It would be impossible to interpret that taste without seeing it with her own eyes.

But waving in the air is still a little too funny.

"Can I help you?" The waiter seemed to see Lucy waving, mistakenly thought that the customer needed service, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"Uh..." Lucy retracted her hand awkwardly and touched her nose, not thinking about how to answer.

"Give us a piece of oil paper." Xi Tao said to the waiter, suppressing a smile.

After the waiter turned around and left, she immediately stopped holding back her laughter and started laughing, holding her stomach.

Lucy looked at Xi Da, who seemed to be no longer sad, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The kind-hearted Xi Da once silently made her happy in various subtle ways, and now it was time to repay her favor.

Xi Da is the luckiest person in the world.

Lucy looked at the silver-haired girl who had regained her emotions and said to herself.

Yawei finished his last bite of rice and silently watched the interaction between the two girls with a gentle smile on his lips.

I'm sick and feel uncomfortable all over. The update is a little late.