In a hurry, V catches Jack, but the darkness in the underground river is like an abyss.

He didn't know where he was, he didn't know where he would go with the rushing water, he dragged the person in his hand, and kept trying to float, but he didn't know where he was.

"Jack! Gurgling ......"

"Answer me, Jack!"

But no matter how he shouted, the person in his hand did not answer him, and even he felt that the person in his hand was getting colder and colder.

V tore off his clothes in the ups and downs, then tied Jack to his back and floated down the dark underground river......

He didn't know how long it had passed, or even how long he had been unconscious, until he saw the sunlight again, and V found himself leaving the underground river and floating to the shore.

There were no chasing terrorist mobile units, not even NCPD, and the surroundings were quiet and terrible.

He opened his mouth, and in an instant, he spit out a large amount of sewage and sediment, and he did not dare to use any brain-computer chip function at this time, for fear of being discovered by others.

It's a landfill with tons of garbage scattered for kilometers, and it's the smelliest place in the whole of Night City.

V got up, and then remembered Jack behind him, and he hurriedly put Jack on the ground, only to find that a huge hole had been broken in his abdomen, and even the place was already swollen, and the blood did not flow out again.

And Jack is completely silent, and has also lost his body temperature.

"Copy! Jack. V slammed his fist to the ground.

Although they realized the danger when they received this job, they chose to do it for various reasons.

But now, when Jack died in front of him, he felt another unwillingness.

There are no living legends in Night City.

He picked up Jack's body and left the landfill, walking kilometers to a hillside in the Badlands.

Using rudimentary tools, V slowly dug a hole several meters deep in the ground and placed Jack's body inside.

He knew he couldn't bring Jack back, but at the very least, he had to bury him so that he wouldn't be demolished by anyone else.

"I'll put your name on the sign of the afterlife bar, Jack, you're the big guy, the real legend." When the soil was buried, V took a breath.

He still has to continue to return to Night City after the refit, and their mission is not yet complete, and I am afraid that the next thing is to be even more brutal corporate warfare.

There's a chip on the ground, and that's Jack's brain-computer chip.

V picks up the chip and holds it in his hand, which may only contain 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." As he spoke, he sprinkled a handful of loess on the grave and turned around.

This is the badlands outside the Night City, ruins, on the cliffs, as if silent destruction, and sandwiched with gray dilapidation. Tumbleweeds everywhere climb this desolate mountain wall.

This is the norm in this world, because of many corporate wars, the outside of the city is basically a piece of wasteland, and even a closer look can find a lot of bomb craters.

Why did Night City rot like that, and countless people wanted to squeeze into it, because it was even more difficult to survive in the badlands outside the city.

It's the same rotten, but it's just different in the rotten places.

The sun flowed by, shining on the desolate wasteland, ruins, dilapidation, decay, V walked on the wasteland, just like this ruin.

Suddenly, the dirt seemed to be peeled away, and then, a hand reached out of the dirt.

"! Who buried me! ”

The sudden sound brought V's thoughts back, and he saw Jack burrowing out of the ground covered in dirt, spitting out a large amount of dirt in one gulp, and retching constantly.

V froze and rubbed his eyes, as if suspecting that he was hallucinating.

Jack spat out a mouthful of dirt and waved his hand at V.

"We've escaped, and Night City is going to welcome their living legends!" Jack laughed, the big man pulling out a long shadow under the wasteland.

"You're not dead? Jack, you're not dead? I had a clear sense that you were completely brain dead......" V muttered, seemingly more convinced that it was his hallucination.

"Have you forgotten my abilities?" Jack said.

He thought that his ability might not be used in his life, but he didn't expect to use it now and save his life.

Jack's ability, C-level perseverance.

"Copy!"

V walked over and punched Jack in the face, knocking him to the ground.

"Copy! Why did you hit me on a horse? Jack roared, his abdomen was still missing a big hole at this time, and his perseverance only continued his life, not full blood.

A hand reached out, and Jack looked at V, then extended his hand as well.

"Jack, let's go home." V said and hugged Jack hard.

The two need to continue their journey back to a motel on the edge of Night City, where there is a prosthetic doctor prepared by Yorixuan Araba, and the two need to change their brain-computer chips and fine-tune their appearance.

Moreover, Jack's state can only be said to be barely alive, and he still needs to find a prosthetic doctor as soon as possible to replace the prosthetic organ and transfuse blood, otherwise he will still die after the time of perseverance is gone.

"High in the Sky"

The bad news is that all the wounds in the abdomen are swollen and rotten, and the good news is that they are all necrotic and do not bleed.

……

Levi returned to his office, and it took at least four rounds of stealing to escape the pursuit.

You must know that almost all the high-level leaders of Night City are people from him and Arabanlai Xuan, and the NCPD was also bought by them, but it is equivalent to acting in a play with the unwitting terrorist mobile force at the bottom, playing a wave of Goro Takemura.

All of them are his people, and Goro Takemura is fighting him with something.

Levi is only equivalent to feeling the world's top combat power, and the result is very strong, but he can still deal with it, and the problem is not very big. In this era, the strength of the strongest transformer under the mechanical ascension can be close to the A- level in the systematic evaluation, but it is the kind that is biased.

Because of this, he has a little more confidence in provoking a company war, and when the time comes, he may really be able to cope with the siege of several top-level transformers.

Goro Takemura was partially dismantled and then fled, as he was fast and later all of them were violent terrorist mobile units attacking Levi.

It's the year 2076, and Araban's power hasn't reached its peak yet, and he still needs to act, he just controls the Araban's company in Night City, and he hasn't had time to control the Arplana headquarters in Fuso's native area.

Therefore, they also need to deceive the rest of the Wild Board Group, and wait until the Wild Board Lai Xuan really controls the entire Wild Board Group.

After tidying up his outfit a little, Levi changed into a president's suit and came to the office.

Today, the Golden King did not sink into the net, but came to the laboratory where Levi studied cyberpsy.

"What? There is no increase in the number of users of Xinwang today? Levi asked.

"No, the heart network has grown exponentially recently, but I can't stand being immersed in it all day, so take a break and take a look at the results of your experiments by the way." The Golden King said.

He felt that he should teach some students, and then let those students teach others, and just like that, the spark started to ignite, and he couldn't stand it alone.

He already had several candidates, a woman named Judy, a woman named Kivi, and a man named Falco, all of whom seemed to be interested in his thoughts.

The Golden King looked at the experiment report and said directly: "The source of cyber psychosis is not in the prosthesis, the prosthesis is just the fuse. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. Levi asked.

"Do you know Levi, according to my observations, our super energy gene potion actually has the effect of relieving cyber psychosis, don't you think it's strange?" The Golden King said.

"And this effect?" Levi really didn't pay attention, to be reasonable, the super-energy gene medicine is just 0.03% content of prion protein plus normal saline, how can it be possible to alleviate cyber psychosis?

Could it be that after the injection of prion protein, the human nerve is tougher and the ability to withstand the prosthesis is stronger?

"Yes, Yoshida Ye hasn't been injected with inhibitors for five days, and now she eats everything fragrantly, and she has weighed five pounds without adding any prosthetics these days." The Golden King said.

"Ah, this ......"

"There is another observation subject, a man named Mann, who is also on the verge of cyber psychosis, but after injecting the super-energy gene drug, he has not used the inhibitor for the same 4 days, and his mental state has improved a lot, do you know why?" The Golden King asked.

"The Riddler get out of Night City, you know I'm not a research-type person, let's just say the conclusion."

"The so-called cyber psychosis is actually no different from the madness of ordinary psychopaths, except that the lethality caused by the prosthetic rampage is stronger." The Golden King said,

"I'll give you an analogy, a person who can't swim but wears a lot of clothes is drowning, and the clothes on his body absorb water and he can't swim, and the prosthetic body is just the clothes that absorb water, and the real problem is the water, the person who pushes him into the water."

"Then, the drugs on the market for cyberpsy are equivalent to throwing oxygen cylinders at a drowning person, but how long can a person who can't swim at all survive even if he has an oxygen cylinder? The same is true for reducing the prosthesis, but it is equivalent to taking off clothes, and for people who are on the verge of cyber psychosis, it only delays the time of death. ”

He put away his research materials and walked over, tilting his head and looking at the moon in Night City.

Due to the light pollution in Night City, the city does not see the stars, only a single moon.

"You also know that the root cause of cyber psychosis is actually this river, which is suffocating, and it is just water that is poured into the trachea. And our super-genetic potion is the equivalent of throwing a plank at this desperate drowning man, who can grab onto the plank for a brief respite, and even swim back to shore with luck. ”

"And what does this water represent?" Levi also looked at the moon.

"What do you think?" The Golden King asked rhetorically.

"Huh." Levi laughed self-deprecatingly.

The Golden King continued: "And our great plan is to drain the whole river of water and distribute it to everyone, and then there will never be any more drowning in the world, and this water will change from a killing thing to a saving thing. ”