Let's Play a Round

Silver Wolf stretched as she walked. The moment she arrived, she had already hacked into the network and set up Prometheus AI as an assistant to help summarize things.

[Technology was still in the stage before the explosion of AI computing power.]

[Materials science was still in the stage before supporting interstellar travel.]

"Ah... Looks like a standard Urban World, with nothing novel at all—wait, what if there are hidden superpowered people or even some strange cultivators?"

[Negative. This world's network contains no ability capable of hiding anything from me.]

"What if it's all on paper?"

[Then I'm helpless. You can't expect an artificial intelligence to investigate paper records too...]

Silver Wolf laughed and tapped the little Prometheus figure on the screen. "All right, I'm done teasing you. Time to explore the night market."

[Recommend taking a taxi.]

"Mm."

Silver Wolf called a taxi with her phone. What, were you wondering how she would deal with the money? Good grief, a genius hacker and a Stellaron Hunter could still make plenty of money. Silver Wolf would never be without a solution.

The driver suddenly spoke from the front seat. "Little girl, dressed like that so late at night... Wherever you're going, isn't it a bit dangerous?"

Silver Wolf boredly browsed videos online. "Oh, I just want to buy some things and get something to eat."

"I see..." The driver said no more. He usually loved chatting, but for some reason, he didn't dare say much around Silver Wolf.

When they reached their destination, dazzling, multicolored lights filled her view. It almost looked like Night City.

Silver Wolf had been sitting for quite a while, so the first thing she did after getting out was stretch. "Yo, looks pretty lively~"

People with yellow, blond, pink, blue, and all sorts of other dyed hair wandered everywhere along the streets.

That instantly made Silver Wolf, whose hair was originally a somewhat dull gray, less conspicuous. Her hair color alone might not have stood out much, but her bold and unique outfit was more than enough to draw plenty of attention.

Not to mention the aura Silver Wolf clearly carried with her.

"Navigate to the nearest bubble tea shop."

[Proceed straight for 140 meters.]

Silver Wolf browsed the different kinds of bubble tea on her phone. "What should I get?"

[Why not cola and skip the selection process altogether...]

"Hey, you don't understand~ Choosing is an essential part of buying bubble tea."

During the long 140-meter walk, Silver Wolf finally settled on the bubble tea she wanted. "This one, then. Weird boba vanilla milk tea."

[Uh-oh~]

Silver Wolf gave a faint smile. "It's only bubble tea. It's not like they'd add something like cilantro, right?"

After placing her order, Silver Wolf sat in a chair inside the shop. While waiting for her drink, she thought about Kawaba Mutsumi.

Kawaba Mutsumi: 2003.06.27

Gender: Female

Place of origin: an address

ID card: (You fill this in)

[She suffers from congenital mitochondrial disease along with chronic cardiopulmonary disease and requires long-term treatment.]

Silver Wolf covered her mouth as she looked at the list of illnesses. "Good grief. It sounds awful..."

[Not satisfied with this outcome?]

"Of course not. Why else would I intervene?"

[Oh~ So I...]

"Number 204~" the bubble tea shop employee called out. Silver Wolf stood up, took her drink, and left the shop.

Silver Wolf took a light sip of the milk tea. "It really is fragrant. Drinking it feels a little like going out onto the grasslands."

[Seriously?]

As she drank her milk tea, Silver Wolf hacked into the network and searched for information about her sister.

—Shocking! It turns out Yan Zhiting of Platinum Courtyard is actually the chairwoman of a certain group!—

—Yan Zhiting has officially fallen into a resource shortage crisis. Can she pull off a comeback?—

—Shengqi Group's stock is surging. And you were saying it would crash? Don't make your Sister Yan laugh.—

...A mountain of information came one after another. Silver Wolf skimmed through it and left the task of summarizing everything to Prometheus.

AI existed to make people lazy!

[I found something...]

[Yan Zhiting is the largest shareholder, holding 49% of the stock. Shengqi Group is a technology company currently at the forefront of global human-brain research, as well as AI research.]

"Oh? Two fields blooming at once?" Silver Wolf swiped through Prometheus's brief summary. "That's all?"

[Its internal data isn't connected to the public network. Don't expect me to create something out of nothing, okay? I'm not the strongest man on some train.]

"Still slandering me." As Silver Wolf walked, she wondered how to get her sister's phone number. Her sister definitely knew something.

[Recommend returning to find Kawaba Mutsumi.]

"Tomorrow." Silver Wolf thought it over and agreed with the suggestion. After all, a family member would definitely have a private number.

Silver Wolf stood beside the road, drinking her milk tea while thinking about where to sleep that night. "Should I get an esports hotel or a PC café?"

While Silver Wolf was still thinking, a man who looked somewhat old and weary slowly approached her. "Selling candy?"

"?" Silver Wolf genuinely thought there was something wrong with him at first, but then she glanced at her surroundings. "No. Get lost."

The man left dejectedly. "His voice was pretty nice."

"Holy crap!" With a casual tap, Silver Wolf transferred a tiny bit of money from the man's account.

Silver Wolf then took a serious look at her clothes and made up her mind. "I have to change later."

It was already nearly the middle of the night. There was no way any clothing store would still be open, right?

In the end, Silver Wolf decided to go to a PC café. The nearby hotels seemed to be inspected frequently, and she didn't have the proper identity documents.

"Time to play!"

For Silver Wolf right now, playing all night was the best way to pass the time.