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.