I fell into the world of cyberpunk games

“You seem to have a lot of trust in that machine, don’t you?”

“Oh, maybe you… Were you against the machine? Was it the Luddite gang?”

At the nuance of not being able to trust the machine, the man with a chicken crest made a genuinely surprised expression.

The Luddite-Mechandestroyer gang is a kind of rare thing to find around here. There is a coalition of extremists that seems to have to go in the Neo Detroit block.

Friends who think we must smash machines before AI and androids take all our jobs and wipe out humanity.

It seems that they watched the Terminator series as a group, and I heard that there are not one or two robot factories that have exploded because of these friends.

Shimizu’s expression stiffened slightly, perhaps because he thought that I, who had been fine for a while, was actually a member of the madmen who insisted that all machines be abolished in the mechanized world.

Even as a Yakuza, the Luddite gang is reluctant. It’s like the gap between gangsters and terrorists.

No matter how hard you work in the neighborhood, you can’t help but be a little lazy against crazy terrorists.

But, of course, I am not a machinist.

Strictly speaking, the purifier in this mask is also a kind of machine. How much I like Igi of modern culture.

“No, rather than that, I would say that they distrust the people who make and manage those machines. The bosses who control all the cyberware.”

“Aha, companies.”

At that time, the Chicken Crest Guy who made a relieved expression on his face.

If machine distrust is a dangerous kind of ideology that terrorists can have, then corporate mistrust is a basic characteristic of all lower-class people.

It would be rather strange if the slaves at the bottom of the caste who were exploited by corporations did not hate corporations.

To be honest, I don’t have such a big dislike for the company. In the previous world, Samsung and Apple products were used well, and even now, I am a salaried worker who pays company money to go to work.

But now, I have to act as if I have an antipathy. In a very blunt voice… .

“It’s kind of a safeguard. You may have heard of tech companies deliberately limiting cyberware performance to shorten repair and replacement cycles.”

“That’s because it’s a widely known rumor. There is no way to confirm whether it is real or not.”

“Even if you don’t have physical evidence, your heart is enough. There’s no guarantee that respiratory cyberware won’t have that problem. If something goes wrong, it’s a big deal. It’s not like there hasn’t been such a case.”

“Hey, you have to trust the corps.”

“So, even if it is a little uncomfortable, I wear a mask. Even if there is something wrong with cyberware, you can breathe without the effects of air pollution. I tend to put my own safety first.”

At that moment, the man with a chicken crest nodded his head in agreement.

“I heard that Asians are particularly sensitive to safety, but you are not as tough as the zaibatsu (oriental conglomerates).”

Look at that racism that comes out naturally as if breathing. It’s not that we’re sensitive to safety, it’s that we can’t help but survive.

I wanted to protest so much, but I persevered.

It’s much better than being treated like a suspicious neighbor who wears a mask every day, who doesn’t get modified for some reason even though he has the money.

It is better to remain as an Asian geek who is overly sensitive to safety, who wears a mask because he is not relieved even after being remodeled as it is.

In a way, it’s not entirely wrong. It is true that I care a lot about my own safety in order to survive as a small citizen in this jungle-like city.

“Anyway, I didn’t wear it just because I was stylish, right?”

“There is no way you can wear a mask that is so annoying and uncomfortable because of your fashion.”

“That’s right, but that gas mask-like mask catches everyone’s attention. When I first met you, I knew what kind of fan you were. kkkkkk.”

You’re talking like a clergyman. I don’t want to hear that from a chicken-headed yakuza who wears a luminous carp on his forearm even though I don’t know anyone else.

The words went all the way up to my chin, but I held it in. I hate it when I call it a chicken coop, and I don’t have time to chat anymore.

I wasted too much time talking with Shimizu. It’s my first day at work.

“Then I go to work.”

“Where? you go to work in the morning Did you find a seat elsewhere?”

“It’s roughly like that.”

“Even so, I live a hard life. Is that why there are so many rich people in Asia?”

Please don’t think of everything I do as the common denominator of Asians.

Leaving behind that prejudice-filled murmur of the chicken-headed man, I moved forward and headed for the elevator hub of the building.

Wieeeeee-.

A mechanical sound that pierces your ears. It is the sound of large elevators coming and going through the platform in the center of the 10th floor.

Since so many people have to be moved at once, the size seems to be for cars and cargo rather than people.

Just in time, another elephant the size of an elephant is coming over there.

When I saw the floor of the lift surrounded by rusty glass and iron bars rising right in front of me, I moved naturally.

at the right time… step right now

good.

you have been successful boarding is complete

At this point, it was time to get used to it, but because the elevator speed was so fast, I was always nervous.

An elevator that automatically ascends without pressing any button. But none of the passengers are surprised. Because you are already used to it.

Here, the elevator hub in the lower part of the building (1~15F) uses a circulation mechanism.

The elevator keeps moving by itself, and people have to get on it on their own. It’s kind of like an escalator.

But it’s much more dangerous than an escalator. If you step on the wrong foot or miss the timing, you can fall and end your life.

In fact, it seems that there are very few cases where such casualties occur.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there isn’t much, not at all. You have to be careful to avoid accidents. It is a dangerous world in many ways.

It is not that there is no existing safe elevator that comes with the push of a button, rings and opens the door… At least in such low-end, large-scale residential facilities, it is difficult to find.

Because staffing is difficult.

Studios are located close to each other on each floor, and my room is room 0973, so there are at least 73 rooms on one floor, or nearly 100.

The 2nd to 14th floors are low-rise residential facilities, so even if there is only one person per room, about 1300 people will use the elevator hub here.

Think of it as rush hour for a large number of people.

How can all of them be transported by the existing elevator, which moves only one per hole and operates only when a button is pressed?

For this reason, on the lower floors where ordinary workers are crowded together, lifts with a cargo size that can accommodate up to 100 people continuously cycle through the section, and people choose to ride on it.

In a way, it is a safety discrimination against the lower classes, but… At the same time, it was an efficient and rational system.

It’s hard to get on an elevator that’s crowded with close to a hundred people every hour for work. It wasn’t the first time I had my heart pounded for fear of being pushed out and falling.

I don’t know why people are so busy with cockroaches.

In the 21st century Korea, there was a lot of talk about problems such as declining fertility and population decline, but in my view, Dusk City in the 22nd century did not have to worry about population decline at least.

Even if dozens of people die every day, hundreds of new people come in and fill the place… That’s why people’s lives are taken as lightly as flies’ lives.

But now it’s not the morning rush hour, it’s convenient. There were fewer than ten people on the wide lift.

Greetings… It might not be as bad as you think.

It’s a new job, so I don’t know because I haven’t been there yet, but I think going to work in the evening is pretty good in this regard.

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Various advertisement sounds are heard from the split display, which occupies the place of the original button panel.

As I listened with one ear and flowed through the other, I arrived at the 15th floor of the building where the monorail platform was located, on the uppermost floor of the lower part. It’s also fast.

It’s noisy all around. What’s going on?

As I got off the lift and looked at one side of the cluttered platform, I saw a group of men in dark blue suits encamping.

As soon as I checked their figure and their outfit logo, my expression hardened for a moment.

DCPD, Dusk City Police Department.

It’s a city police unintentional check!