BXBX NOVEL Chapter 90 - 5.1 Me, A Hikikomori, And His Army Of Waifus!
It was in the evening, when the sun was setting in this futuristic world full of flying cars passed over the people\'s heads, as well as people who talked with a hologram in front of them, the hologram showed half body of the people they were talking to.
It was already 2121 in Neo Yokto, where the world had been advanced and well developed. Technology and science was at its peak with many patented inventions that came straight out of sci-fi novels in the past. Humans now lived in harmony with robots, the future was bright and everything was simple and easy nowadays. But there was one thing that never changed throughout the ages.
Human greed.
"Hahaha! Look at this scrawny kid! He is already a teenager but has a small, useless body! Oy, tell me where is your bionic chip? I will sell your cheap chip for a bottle of beer!" a group of thugs approached a young man in a small alley. They were five of them, surrounding this scared kid who had just returned from his school.
"I—I don\'t have a bionic chip…" the boy said, "I—I\'m poor, my parents can\'t afford a bionic chip for me. Please spare me!"
The boy was obviously scared, but he was not lying. He was already fifteen, but yet to be implanted with a bionic chip like the rest of his peers, because he came from a poor family.
The view of thugs surrounding a young man to steal his bionic chip was not an uncommon sight in Neo Yokto. Thus, nobody batted an eye on them, because they were also scared that these thugs would try to attack them and take their bionic chips instead.
The police were also tired of dealing with this kind of trouble. Because most of the time, the crime was not worth the time of chasing all these thugs who kept growing in numbers every day. The fact was, taking a bionic chip from someone wouldn\'t kill them, it wouldn\'t even hurt them, because most people had it in their non-fatal organs. so it was counted as a regular robbery.
Bionic chip was a chip implanted in someone\'s body, usually on their wrist or back, to avoid injury to vital organs. It was an expensive chip that the majority of people could only afford a good bionic chip once or twice in their lifetime.
The chip would give them enhanced strength, boost their focus and intelligence, also enhance their endurance, so everyone could be strong enough to follow the pace of the ever so busy Neo Yokto.
But there was always some exclusion, for the poor people, having two meals a day was already a difficult problem to tackle, let alone affording buying a luxury item like a Bionic chip.
"Don\'t lie! I know your school uniform, you are from that rich school!" The gang leader gripped his wrist and then started searching his body, but he found no sign of a bionic chip anywhere, "Yo, you really don\'t have one?!"
"I—I got to my school with scholarship money…"
"Tch! Useless!" The leader raised his hand, he was annoyed because he thought he could get some good money by taking this kid\'s bionic chip. It turned out, he was just as poor as them.
Target acquired. Commencing attack.
An android\'s eyes locked on the gang leader from afar, as she accepted the order from her master, she would recharge enough power to blast the gang leader into ashes without hurting the kid. Her master didn\'t seem to care whether this act of murder would be punishable in the eyes of the justice, there was no justice for the weak after all.
The android\'s hand turned into a gun that could shoot a high powered laser beam, but before she could release the charged attack, her master saw someone suddenly interrupted them through the camera on her eyes.
A rugged man in his early thirties jumped out of nowhere and gripped the gang leader\'s hand with his metallic hand. Everyone was stunned when this guy suddenly appeared between them, and said, "I really thought that you are going to let this kid go after you know that he is dirt poor. Why do you have to stoop so low?"
"You—Let go!" the gang leader glared at the man, then he commanded his gang members, "What are you guys doing? Attack him now!"
The gang members turned on their bionic chip to boost their strength. But before they could land an attack, the rugged man sighed and lightly tapped on the bionic chip on his neck, "Operating Attack Number 19: Electric chain."
The rugged man gripped one gang member with his free hand and electrocuted him, the lightning started spreading around and electrocuted everyone, in no time, the gang members fell to the ground unconscious. The gang leader was shocked with this man\'s power, either he had a very high quality bionic chip, or he had amazing control and strength to use that kind of high technique attack.
"S—Sir! I mean, B—Boss! Please let me go, I will… I will not do this anymore, I promise!" the gang leader begged, he didn\'t know what kind of torture this man would do to him. The rugged man chuckled and electrocuted the gang leader just like what he did to the rest of his members.
He threw the unconscious gang leader to the ground and patted his metallic hand, he sighed, because he had wasted his fuel for a gang full of useless thugs like this.
The rugged man glanced at the teenage boy who was obviously scared with him, it was normal though, because he was not a good looking cop he was looking for. He scoffed and said, "Leave now, don\'t ever pass this alley again in the future. I can\'t guarantee to save you in the future."
The rugged man tossed a bag full of gold chips, the money of this world, "You should buy a new bionic chip, don\'t discount yourself for that. The money in that bag is enough for you to buy a high quality one. It\'s important for self-defence."
"T—Thank you, kind sir…" the teenage boy was flustered, but he accepted the bag full of gold chips anyway. He was hesitant to leave now, but the rugged man smiled at him and gave him the nod he needed. The boy then ran away.
The rugged man sighed at the sight of these scenes, if there was a cop here, he would get arrested because of assault. The good cop in Neo Yokto was burdened with many illogical laws and was corrupted to the bone. There were many unreported cases of violence or abuse, but it was not processed in the court because there was no money for them to process unnecessary, small cases.
Thus, he had to take care of the problem by his own hands.
The rugged man tapped his bionic chip again and activated another command, "Operating Support number 31: Magnetic Boots."
His boots were surrounded by magnetic energy and he climbed the building as if he was walking normally. He ran from one building to another, in a matter of seconds, he disappeared from the alley.
The android recorded everything from afar, with the confirmation from her master, she followed this mysterious man.