In a panic, V caught Jack, but the darkness in the underground river was like an abyss.
He didn't know where he was or where he would end up with the rapid current. He grabbed the person in his hand and kept trying to float up, but he didn't know where he was.
"Jack! Gulu gulu..."
"Answer me, Jack!"
But no matter how he shouted, the person in his hand didn't answer him, and he even felt that the person in his hand was getting colder and colder.
V tore off his clothes while floating, then tied Jack to his back and floated along the dark underground river...
He didn't know how long had passed, or even how long he had been unconscious. It wasn't until he saw the sun again that V realized that he had left the underground river and floated to the shore.
There was no chasing mobile terrorist unit, not even the NCPD, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.
He opened his mouth and spit out a large amount of sewage and sediment in an instant. He did not dare to use any brain-computer chip functions at this time for fear of being discovered by others.
This is a landfill with a large amount of garbage spread for several kilometers. This is the smelliest place in the entire Night City.
V got up, and then he remembered Jack behind him. He hurriedly put Jack on the ground, but found that a huge hole had opened in his abdomen. It was even swollen and the blood was no longer flowing out.
Jack was completely silent and had also lost his body temperature.
"Copy! Jack." V punched the ground hard.
Although they were aware of the dangers when they received this job, they still chose to do it for various reasons.
But now, when Jack died in front of him, he felt another wave of unwillingness.
There are no living legends in Night City.
He carried Jack's body on his back, left the landfill, and walked several kilometers to a hillside in a bad land.
V used simple tools to slowly dig a hole several meters deep in the ground and placed Jack's body in it.
He knew that he could not bring Jack back, but at least he had to bury him well and prevent others from dismantling him.
"I will write your name on the sign of the Afterlife Bar, Jack, you are the big shot, the real legend." After the soil was buried, V took a deep breath.
He will continue to return to Night City after the modification. Their mission has not been completed yet, and the next step may be an even more cruel corporate war.
There is a chip on the ground, which is Jack's brain-computer chip.
V picked up the chip and held it in his hand. This chip may only record part of Jack's memory, but he will take it back and give it to Jack's girlfriend Misty, or to Jack's mother Mrs. Wells.
"Jack, let's go home." He said, sprinkled a handful of loess on the grave, and then turned around.
This is the bad land outside the City of Night. The ruins stand tall on the cliff, as if they are silent destruction, and are mixed with gray dilapidation. Tumbleweeds everywhere climb up this desolate mountain wall.
This is the normal state of this world. Due to many corporate wars, there are basically patches of wasteland outside the city. Even if you look carefully, you can find many bomb craters.
Why is Night City in such a bad state, and there are countless people trying to squeeze in? Because in the bad land outside the city, it is even more difficult to survive.
It's the same bad thing, just the places where it's bad are different.
The sunlight flows through and shines on the desolate wasteland, which is ruined, dilapidated, and rotten. V walks on the wasteland in a daze, just like these ruins.
Suddenly, the soil seemed to be peeled away, and then, a hand stretched out from the soil.
"Damn it! Who buried me!"
The sudden sound brought V back from his thoughts. He saw Jack emerging from the ground covered in dirt, vomiting out a large amount of dirt, and retching continuously.
V was stunned and rubbed his eyes, as if he suspected that he was hallucinating.
After Jack spit out a big mouthful of dirt, he waved his hand towards V.
"We escaped, and Night City will welcome their living legend next!" Jack smiled, and the big man cast a long shadow under the wasteland.
"You're not dead? Jack, you're not dead? I clearly felt that you were completely brain-dead before..." V murmured, and he seemed to be more convinced that it was his own hallucination.
"Have you forgotten my abilities?" Jack said.
He thought that his ability might never be used in this life, but he didn't expect that he would actually use it now and save his life.
Jack's ability, C-level perseverance.
"copy!"
V came over and punched Jack in the face, knocking him to the ground.
"Copy! Why did you hit me when you stepped on the horse?" Jack roared. There was still a big hole in his abdomen. The perseverance only extended his life, not resurrected with full health.
A hand stretched out, Jack looked at V, and then also stretched out his hand.
"Jack, let's go home." V said and hugged Jack tightly.
The two need to continue traveling back to a motel on the edge of Night City, where there is a prosthetic doctor prepared by Yorinobu Arababa. The two need to change their brain-computer chip and make fine adjustments to their appearance.
Moreover, Jack's condition can only be said to be barely alive. He needs to find a prosthetic doctor as soon as possible to replace the prosthetic organs and blood transfusion, otherwise he will still die after the time of perseverance disappears.
The bad news is that all the wounds on the abdomen are swollen and rotten. The good news is that they are all necrotic and do not bleed. When the time comes, they will all be replaced with prosthetic bodies, and all the expenses will be paid by Mr. Aragano Yorinobu.
…
Levi returned to his office and had to go through at least four rounds of escaping the pursuit.
You know, almost all the high-level people in Night City are his and Yorinobu Araban, and the NCPD has also been bribed by them. It is just like putting on a show with the unknowing mobile terrorist unit at the bottom, playing the role of Goro Takemura.
A wave.
All of them are his people, how can Goro Takemura fight with him?
Levi is just trying to experience the world's top combat power. The result is that he is very strong, but he can still cope with it, so the problem is not big. The strength of the strongest modified human under the mechanical ascension of this era can be close to the A-level in the system evaluation.
It's just a partial science.
Because of this, he has a little more confidence in provoking a corporate war. Maybe he can really handle the siege of several top reformers.
Goro Takemura was partially dismantled and then escaped because he was very fast, and in the end, all of them were violent terrorist mobile units attacking Levi.
It is now 2076, and Araban Yorinobu's power has not yet reached its peak, and he still needs to act. He only controls the Araban Company in Night City, but he has not yet had time to control the Araban Headquarters in Fuso.
Therefore, they still need to deceive the other people in the Huangban Group until Yorinobu Huangban truly takes control of the entire Huangban Group.
After Levi tidied up his clothes a little, he put on a CEO suit and came to the office.
Today, the Golden King did not sink into the Heart Network. Instead, he came to Levi's laboratory where he studies cyberpsychosis.
"What? There is no increase in Xinwang users today?" Li Wei asked.
"No, the Heart Network has been growing exponentially recently, but I can't bear to be immersed in it all day. Let's take a break and take a look at the experimental results here." The Golden King said.
He felt that he should teach some students, and then let those students teach others. Just like this, a spark would start a prairie fire. He couldn't bear it all by himself.
He already has several candidates, a woman named Judy, a woman named Qiwei, and a man named Falco, all of whom seem to be very interested in his thoughts.
The Golden King looked at the experimental report and said directly: "The source of cyberpsychosis does not lie in the prosthetic body, the prosthetic body is just the fuse."
"Oh? Tell me." Levi asked.
"You know, Levi, according to my observations, our super gene medicine actually has the effect of alleviating cyberpsychosis. Do you think it's strange?" said the Golden King.
"Is there such an effect?" Li Wei really didn't pay attention. To be honest, the super gene medicine is just 0.03% prion protein plus normal saline. How can it alleviate cyberpsychosis?
Could it be that after injecting prion protein, people's nerves become stronger and their ability to withstand prosthetics becomes stronger?
"Indeed, Yoshida Ye has not injected inhibitors for five days. Now she eats everything delicious. She has gained five pounds without adding any prosthetics these days." Golden King said.
"Ah this..."
"There is another subject of observation, a man named Mann. He is also on the verge of cyberpsychosis. However, after being injected with the super gene potion, he did not use inhibitors for four days, and his mental state improved a lot.
Do you know why this is?" asked the Golden King.
"The Riddler, get out of Night City. You also know that I am not a research person. Just tell me the conclusion."
"The so-called cyberpsychosis is actually no different from normal mental illness, except that the lethality caused by the rampage of the prosthetic body is stronger." The Golden King said,
"I would like to use an analogy. A person who cannot swim but wears a lot of clothes drowns. The clothes on his body absorb water and prevent him from swimming. The prosthetic body is just the clothes that absorb water. The real problem is the water.
, the one who pushed him into the water.”
"Then, the drugs on the market to treat cyberpsychosis are equivalent to throwing oxygen bottles to a drowning person, but how long can a person who can't swim survive even if he has an oxygen bottle? The same is true for reducing prosthetics, but it is equivalent to taking off the body.
Taking off your clothes only delays the time of death for people on the verge of cyberpsychosis."
He put away the research materials, walked over, raised his head, and looked at the moon in Night City.
Because of the light pollution in Night City, no stars can be seen in this city, only a single moon can be seen.
"You also know that the source of cyberpsychosis is actually this river. What makes people suffocate is just the water poured into the trachea. And our super gene potion is equivalent to throwing a plank to this desperate drowning person.
, he was able to grab the board for a brief respite, and even luckily swam back to the shore along the board."
"Then what does this water represent?" Levi also looked at the moon.
"What do you think?" the Golden King asked.
"Haha." Levi laughed self-deprecatingly.
The Golden King continued: "And our great plan is equivalent to draining the entire river of water and giving it to everyone. By then, there will never be any more drowning people in the world, and this water will be free from murderous things.