Chapter 546 I want you to climb to the top of Arasaka Tower!
Today’s night is particularly lively, but compared with real people’s lives, the night city life in “Edge Walker” is more lively.
As a burst of garbled ripples flashed, a young man lying on the sofa with his hands flat on his chest pretending to be holding a weapon was trembling all over, his body was twisted, and he let out a painful roar.
【So, what do you think? The marginalized person died just two hours ago, and this untainted "memory" was harvested "while it was hot" from his corpse]
"Great!" David sat up from the sofa, his eyes shining with endless excitement. He took off the equipment on his head, "Doctor, you are so dreamy!"
At this moment, everyone watching the anime was stunned.
Those just now, are they memories?
Memories can be experienced by others?
This is the world of cyberpunk?
People have many ideas about the future world, and now, this animation is demonstrating everyone’s ideas about the future one by one.
The owner of the memory he just experienced is called a cyber madman.
In the world of cyberpunk, you can use prosthetic limbs to transform yourself to gain more power, but there will be a price to gain this power.
If too many or too strong prostheses are transplanted into the body, the prostheses will corrode the brain and cause hallucinations, leading to the person slowly losing his mind and wandering on the edge of humanity until he completely loses his mind.
The Cybermaniac’s Mewtwo is cruel, bloodthirsty, powerful, and dizzy.
After a short opening, everyone began to understand the world from the perspective of the protagonist David.
The male protagonist David is extremely ordinary. His mother works hard to make money just to send him to Arasaka school and to see his child succeed.
Like all children whose families place their hopes.
Different children are bound to be out of place in such a complex environment. Because they are afraid of spending money, they use pirated software obtained from the prosthetic doctor, causing the campus network to be invaded and destroyed by viruses.
Being bullied on campus and living aimlessly in a place that does not belong to you.
When he tilted his head and stared blankly at the washing machine, he saw his own chaotic future.
David told his mother, "I'm thinking about taking a break from school and looking for a job..."
“Mom, you also know that we really can’t afford the maintenance fees for the system.”
“Besides, I am quite out of place in the academy, and my mother probably doesn’t know anything about it either.”
“As long as you are poor, you cannot be taken seriously. No matter how hard I study, I can’t be like them, and I don’t want to become them.”
Mother said: "I want to climb to the top of Arasaka Tower. If you have such talent, you can definitely do it."
As a result, he encountered gang fire and had a car accident while driving, and this sentence also followed the male protagonist's life.
Although they were affected by the fire, because they were poor, they did not have the insurance of the trauma team. In the era of privatized medical care, they had no choice but to die without money.
The last image of his mother left in his mind was that of her lying in the flames of the disaster. After scanning and identifying her, the trauma team simply said, "They did not purchase medical insurance." Then they retreated and left.
Because he was too poor and did not have VIP access to a medical institution, the trauma team was unwilling to provide assistance. He could only take his mother to a private clinic. Since it was the cheapest treatment package, he was not even allowed to visit.
At that moment, everyone could see that he was confused and at a loss, as well as anxious that he could only wait.
But after his mother was hospitalized, all the problems were exposed to him. Even the washing machine needed to be recharged before he could use it.
Two days later, I was told that my mother had passed away. The doctor just apologized and said that my mother was too tired and her physical condition had been deteriorating. Different emotions quickly gathered on David's face. He tilted his head and listened to the doctor from the private clinic with his mouth half open. In the end, he couldn't hear anything clearly.
There is a type of people in this world called scavengers, who are the main suppliers of low-end illegal cyber components to other gangs, criminal gangs and underground doctor groups.
With no visit, who knows if a private doctor removed the mother’s internal organs and prosthetic limbs and sold them?
After all, that small clinic looked hidden and malicious.
After my mother left, all the pressure became on me alone, including expulsion from school, system maintenance fees, rent, home appliance usage contract fees, fines...
When David was carrying his mother's urn home and was about to collapse, he also heard a taunting phone call from Arasaka.
“I know I should express my condolences to you, but I really can’t sympathize... She died in an accident, and I really can’t sympathize...”
The words of his college classmates were like a curse in David's mind.
In just the first episode, everyone who was oppressed was breathless. The feeling of despair came to their faces. All the viewers seemed to have become the oppressed in Night City, eager to raise their heads and take a breath every moment. fresh air.
At this moment, he made a decision that could change his life.
He found the prosthetist with a military prosthetic leg.
The prosthetic body in his hand was something his mother took out of the cybernetic madman's body after his death through her official position, and planned to sell it to pay for his tuition.
Everyone in the whole city is looking for this thing,
No one thought that someone would dare to install this military prosthetic leg on their own body, because the stronger the prosthetic leg, the stronger the physical fitness required.
Ordinary people equipped with such limbs can only wait for one directional result, which is to explode and turn into cyber madmen waiting to be cleaned up and then die.
Every resident living in Night City knows the cost of installing such a thing.
He has no way to change this powerless and hopeless world.
At this moment, he just wanted to beat the person in school who insulted his mother to a pulp.
In previous fights with his classmates, he was ridiculed for being an original product when faced with a classmate who had installed a sophisticated prosthetic leg. He had already tasted the taste of failure. Now the only way to defeat the opponent is to use this military prosthetic leg. , put it into your own body.
As long as you can get revenge, then it doesn't matter if you become a madman and die.
"I won't charge you for this addition." The prosthetic doctor looked at the young man who made money selling pirated Mewtwo for him, "but if one day you lose your mind, this prosthetic limb belongs to me."
“Ang, take it.”
David lay on the operating table indifferently. He had nothing to worry about in his life.
The first day of animation ends here. The prosthetic doctor is sitting on the operating chair, with various prosthetic limbs hanging around him. Under the red and green lights, he does not look like a doctor at this time, but like a butcher showing flesh and blood to his guests.
After watching the video of the first episode, Yinzi was so depressed that he couldn't breathe. The tragic performances and fillings made this world view more fascinating, but also more depressing.
Having seen David being ravaged by life, he extremely hoped that after David was equipped with a new prosthetic limb, he could kill everyone. "Put it on and **** him hard!"
Recalling the insulting words of the student Arasaka, everyone was looking forward to one thing, that is, to install a new prosthetic leg and kill him.
But a new problem is also placed in front of everyone. People equipped with powerful prosthetics eventually become cybermaniacs. So will David do the same?
(End of this chapter)