Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 511 124. Come and see right away
"Speaking of which, Maki."

"Ok?"

Installing an upgraded version of the same model of artificial eye that Carl thought was good, Ma Xi, who was lying on the rest bed to relax her nerves, turned her head and asked, "What's wrong, Carl?"

“I’m actually quite curious.”

Sitting in the Arasaka Hospital in the city center where he had been hospitalized once, Carl looked at Maki and asked, "What does it feel like to have your eyes replaced? Don't you feel that everything is dark and you can't see anything even if you open your eyes? Doesn't that feel weird?"

"It feels like waking up from a nap and finding that everything around you is pitch black. The world has entered the night and you can't see anything."

Ma Xi put her fingers on her cheek, thought for a while and then continued: "It must feel strange, and even a little scared. After all, you can't see. That's why I thought of asking you to come here to accompany me today. Because I can hear your voice and feel that my friends are around me, I will always feel more at ease."

"So have you always performed prosthetic implant surgery alone?"

"Of course."

Ma Xi nodded, and after getting used to it, she sat up from the resting bed:
"But this little bit of fear is not a big deal. After meeting you, Carl, I began to gradually understand the things happening on the street. Compared to those people who had prosthetic surgeries, had their organs hollowed out, were controlled on the operating table without even anesthesia, and watched themselves being hollowed out before falling asleep forever, I am already very lucky."

"There are many people as lucky as you, but you are able to be content with what you have and pity the misfortunes of others. This is already better than many people."

Karl stared at Maki: "Anyway, I estimate that there are no more than five people in the school who can watch the lower class and the misery of most people in the city."

“But I didn’t do anything.”

Ma Xi said: "I don't think my idea is great."

"Maybe."

Carl shrugged: "Anyway, it's a good thing to be able to see it."

Ideas will always sprout.

Karl watched Ma Xi sit up from the bed, then slowly stretch her feet to touch the ground. Her posture was crooked like a newborn deer. He couldn't help but say, "If the nerve anesthesia time hasn't passed yet, you should sit for a while."

"Come and help me."

"alright."

Karl walked over and supported Ma Xi, using his body, which was a head taller than Ma Xi, to help her lean steadily on him: "How are your eyes adapting now?"

"Even if you are in disguise, Carl, I can still catch you with these eyes."

"With my sensitive senses and the latest artificial eyes, I really can't hide from you."

Carl complained: "So this feeling of yours is a talent, right? I have been disguising my face until now, and unless I know it in advance, you are the only one who can expose it. With this feeling, you can become an examiner, the kind of examiner who can tell whether it is the real person at a glance."

"maybe."

Ma Xi raised her head slightly and looked at Karl: "I think that maybe I care about very strange people. Maybe I have this feeling."

"I'm implying that I'm a weirdo, right?"

Karl supported Ma Xi and said, "So we should go eat something next. I'd better take you home. Seeing how you are in such a hurry to get out of bed, I guess you are not ready to go back yet."

As he spoke, Carl suddenly realized something: "By the way, I don't seem to know where you live now, Ma Xi. Did you come to Night City alone?"

"Should it be considered studying abroad in some sense?"

"So how did you come to a place like Night City? To be honest, the streets here weren't really safe before." Carl thought about the recent situation. "NCPD has managed it well in recent days, so there haven't been many street conflicts, but it can't be considered safe."

"My hometown is in Chiba, which is the gateway to Tokyo. Compared with Night City, Chiba is similar."

"I see."

Carl nodded in understanding.

It's like this everywhere.

After supporting Ma Xi for a few steps, Ma Xi adjusted herself for a while and then signaled Karl to let go of her hand and let her walk by herself.

"Aren't you curious about what kind of place Chiba is?"

"I don't know much about Chiba, but I know Night City. If you say it's about right, then I can roughly understand it."

Karl said, "It must be something caused by the company again. I'd better not listen to it, lest I lose my appetite for dinner later."

The two of them left the Arasaka hospital while chatting, and the medical staff who watched them leave had already reported the relevant matters.

'Ms. Takemura came for the artificial eye replacement surgery at 11:50 in the afternoon, and the city mercenary 'KK' Carl accompanied her. After the 20-minute surgery, the two left the hospital together.'

The two people involved in the incident are both very important figures. They are among the first priority people in Arasaka's personnel matters. The fact that two people came to the hospital together to undergo prosthetic surgery and left would naturally be documented and reported.

The moment the document was submitted, it was immediately handed over to one person because of the two key figures involved in it.

Chiyome looked at the latest information, stared at the people involved, and then looked directly at Arasaka Haruko who was trying to bake a cake in the kitchen.

At the end of last year, when Haruko Arasaka saw Maki bake a cake, she also had the idea of ​​trying it herself.

She thought she could finish her learning process before Christmas, but the cakes she made could never satisfy her. So, at the Christmas party that year, she could only be a diner and taste Maki's cake.

This incident has always lingered in Haruko's mind, so on weekdays, when she has free time after finishing her affairs, she always dives into the kitchen to work.

Most of the people responsible for tasting the cakes were Chiyo. Michiko Arasaka had also tasted it a few times, but as the number of cakes increased, she only took a few recently and enjoyed those small cakes as after-meal desserts.

Thanks to the installation of relevant prosthetic bodies that can process toxins, Chiyome never felt uncomfortable from eating cakes even if she ate a lot, and she felt that the cakes tasted better and better.

However, Haruko Arasaka was never satisfied and continued to produce day after day. However, today's production seemed to have to be temporarily interrupted.

"Ms. Haruko, this is from the hospital's archived documents."

"Is it urgent Chiyo? If it's not urgent, I'll finish what I'm doing first."

"It's from Carl and Maki."

"Karl. and Mashi?"

Haruko's movements slowed down, and then a few seconds later.

"I understand. Put it over there. I..."

Haruko wiped her hands and said, "I'll come over right away."

(End of this chapter)