Cyberpunk

"Ayumi... Eh? Ayumi!"

  Ayumi Ito was stunned for a moment, then turned around and bowed deeply to the man behind her, and said in panic, "I'm sorry! Senior! I didn't respond to you in time!"

  Yang Dahai scratched his head, opened his mouth, and said helplessly, "No need to be so polite, and there is no need to call me senior or anything like that. There is no culture of seniors and juniors here."

  But he still understands Ayumi Ito quite well, after all, she is a "magic drifter" from Japan.

  It is said that this culture of seniors and juniors is very prevalent in Japan. If the juniors do not respond to the questions of the seniors in time, the consequences will be quite serious.

  However, new colleagues from Japan like Ayumi Ito will sooner or later slowly adapt to the environment and culture here.

  "Okay, Ayumi, you just came to our Manjie Culture Company, and it's not easy to arrange any work for you." Yang Dahai said, "It just so happens that the company held a new medium-length comics grand prize here. You can take a look at these new comic submissions."

  He patted the stack of comic manuscripts on the table in front of him, which looked almost as tall as Ayumi Ito when placed on the table.

  There are thirteen submissions here, and due to the competition requirements stipulated by the company, each entry must have at least 10 chapters or 150 pages before it can be submitted.

  It should be enough for Ito Ayumi to look at it for several days.

  And after all, these are comics submitted by newcomers, and there will be no problem if they are handed over to a new comic editor like Ito Ayumi.

  "Do you want me to choose a few of them?" Ito Ayumi said nervously, "How many do you want to choose?"

  "Don't be so nervous, you don't necessarily have to force it to be selected from them, you can also eliminate them all..." Yang Dahai said casually.

  After all, this is only a part of the submissions, and they are all newcomers' works, so it is normal to eliminate them all.

  But after thinking about it, what if there are good works in it, but Ito Ayumi didn't see it?

  He immediately said, "Forget it, Ayumi, just pick out three of them that you think are good and give them to me."

  "Okay!" Ito Ayumi nodded, and then directly moved the stack of comic manuscripts back to her work position.

  After returning to her work position, Ito Ayumi breathed a sigh of relief.

  She had just joined the world's top ten comics company not long ago. The company is a big company and the colleagues here are very friendly.

  But she was a little uncomfortable with it. There is no serious culture of seniors and juniors here like in her hometown of Japan, and colleagues who are not familiar with each other do not address each other by their surnames, but by their names.

  However, this place is indeed better than her hometown.

  "Ayumi! If you want to stay, you must complete the task well!" Ayumi Ito secretly encouraged herself and said, "Start with these submissions and work hard to complete the work!"

  She looked at the stacked comic manuscripts, picked up the top one directly, and began to read it carefully.

  The first comic manuscript, the cover of which was called "Magic King", the style of painting is quite good, and it also follows the trump card plot of the hot-blooded youth comic.

  Ayumi Ito read it carefully, and she could not find any fault with the plot and style, but she also did not feel anything.

  "This one... is it good?" Ayumi Ito was in a dilemma.

  Her task was to pick out three good ones and hand them over to the editor-in-chief Yang Dahai.

  This one looked good, but Ayumi Ito did not feel anything.

  "First... leave it here, and decide after reading other teachers' works." Suddenly, Ito Ayumi looked at the next manuscript.

  Then, she began to fall into endless choice difficulties.

  "This "Piao Miao Xian Journey" seems to be okay..."

  "But this "Dark Spellcaster" seems to be okay too..."

  "This "Lord of the Fire Dragon"... is... okay..."

  ...

  After seven books, Ito Ayumi felt that six of them were okay, and she rejected the only one because the painting looked too immature.

  As for the other six books, she felt that it didn't matter which one she chose. They

  were works that had no problems and no feelings after reading them.

  What Ito Ayumi didn't know was that if these works were given to Yang Dahai to read, they would all be eliminated.

  Because the plots of these works are almost all the same old-fashioned plots, and the world view is also the same.

  If this kind of work can't give readers any feelings or memorable points in the plot, it is destined to not become popular.

  "Let's continue reading..." Ito Ayumi put down another manuscript and looked at the tenth submission...

  "Cyberpunk 2077: Edge... Walker?" She read the name, which was unexpectedly long and sounded a bit strange.

  This was also the first comic name she saw that was obviously different from the previous nine manuscripts.

  Ito Ayumi opened it directly and read it. The opening was a passage spoken by a man in a yellow coat whose true appearance was unknown.

  "In 2077, the city where I live was rated as the worst area in the United States."     "Why? Violent crimes are emerging in an endless stream..."

  "The number of people living below the poverty line is the highest in the United States..."

  At the same time, the comics are high-tech city scenes that seem to come from the future, with magnetic levitation cars, holographic projection technology, trains that travel through the city, and...

  semi-transformed people with mechanical human organs.

  "This is a fact that cannot be denied, but people still flock here. This city always gives you a glimmer of hope..."

  "It doesn't matter if it's a lie or an illusion, but it's so close that it seems to be within reach... It makes people desperate!"

  This is the world of the future, or the future America!

  Ito Ayumi immediately realized that this is a story from the future.

  No... It should be said that this is the truth.

  She continued to read. The protagonist of the comics is named David Martinez, and the city he lives in is called Night City.

  However, the first plot is a sudden attack on the city police on duty at night by a gun-wielding thug who has nothing to do with the protagonist.

  This made Ito Ayumi confused.

  At the same time, the police began a fierce gun battle with the thug, but the thug stood in place and fired wildly as if he was not afraid of bullets at all.

  Then, the police on duty called for help in a panic, saying, "It's a cyber madman! Call the Terrorist Mobile Team!"

  Cyber ​​madman? What is it? Is it the name of an evil villain organization?

  Also, why is the thug not afraid of bullets? Is this some special superpower in the setting of this comic?

  With such a curious thought, Ito Ayumi continued to read it with full spirit.

  Then she understood the setting of this comic. This comic does not have any superpowers, only the so-called human body transformation and artificial prosthesis.

  Powerful prosthesis will give the transformed people powerful power, but once the human spirit cannot bear the burden brought by the prosthesis transformation, it will become a walking corpse, only knowing endless slaughter in reality, and becoming a so-called cyber madman.

  This setting is indeed novel, and Ito Ayumi only read it once to remember this unique setting.

  Then she continued to read it with interest and curiosity...

  However, she then saw the protagonist being bullied by the rich second generation in school, and the worrying situation of the protagonist's family, and suddenly realized that Night City is indeed as said at the beginning, not so beautiful.

  On the contrary, the gap between the rich and the poor is serious, and the poor live without any dignity at all.

  The protagonist had an argument with his mother about this, but then he was dragged into a gangster gunfight and had a car accident.

  However, at this time, it seemed that someone similar to a rescue team appeared.

  The protagonist David Martinez gave the answer, "The trauma team, they are saved."

  However, just when Ito Ayumi thought that the protagonist and the protagonist's mother were rescued, the cold conversation of the rescuer of the so-called trauma team jumped out of the paper, "This person is not a client, and this woman is not either."

  "Ensure the personal safety of the client, and leave these people to the municipal body transporter."

  Then those people evacuated directly, without any intention of saving the protagonist and the protagonist's mother.

  "How could it be..." Ito Ayumi clenched her fists, a little angry.

  Fortunately, the scene turned, and the protagonist and the protagonist's mother seemed to be saved.

  It just seemed that they came to the cheapest "hospital".

  At the same time, David also found the military-use powerful prosthesis hidden by his mother at home-the "Sian Westin" type prosthesis.

  But then he was beaten up by the rich second-generation classmates in the school.

  "It seems that this is the key to the rise of the protagonist." Ayumi Ito said excitedly, "David will definitely change this hateful and hateful world!"

  However, the next plot is that David's mother announced her death under the light words of the scavenger...

  David didn't even see his mother for the last time, and could only return home with his mother's ashes...

  Under the stimulation of his mother's death, the second bullying from the rich second-generation classmates, and the trauma team's indifference to his death, David found a black market doctor and asked him to transplant the military prosthesis "Sian Westin" for him!

  This episode is over.

  Ayumi Ito couldn't wait to open the next episode, but...

  "I actually finished reading it without realizing it?!" She said in a daze.

  She finished reading the content of more than a hundred pages of three episodes without realizing it.

  And unlike the previous manuscript, she wanted to continue reading after she finished reading it this time.

  I want to see how the protagonist David Martinez will use the "Sian Westin" prosthesis to rise and change this hateful world!

  "This one! Definitely a good one!" After reading it, Ito Ayumi also decided that this was the manuscript she decided to submit to Yang Dahai!

  "This teacher's painting style is also very beautiful, and the plot is also very good. What's the name?" She turned back to the first page.