Ryan walked past the cashier and lifted the curtain behind him.

Ryan was greeted by a short corridor, dimly lit and humid air, and at the end of the corridor was a quaint wooden door from which the sound had just come from.

Familiar corridors.

Ryan stepped forward slowly, and the short hallway was silent except for the sound of his clattering footsteps.

"Anthony Mathial"

Open the wooden door, it was a small bomb shelter-like office, with concrete walls, there was not a single window in the office, only the vents in the concrete walls and the chandelier on the ceiling that glowed dimly.

In front of the concrete walls on both sides of the office are two rows of bookshelves, which are piled with books that even Ryan has never seen.

In the center of the office is a wooden desk filled with mountains of papers; Behind his desk, a silver-haired, gold-rimmed man was looking at Ryan, and behind him hung a huge map of Night City, with many places circled in red markers.

"I know you're coming, now should I call you Ryan? Or Mu Xuan?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ryan had already pulled out his pistol and aimed it at Anthony's head, ready to shoot at any moment, and the dim light hit Ryan's black clothes, making him look like a grim reaper who had come to ask for his life.

Ryan didn't shoot.

"It's Ryan, I think I'm lucky."

Anthony saw Ryan pull out his pistol but did not pull the trigger, and there was no fear on his face, but he looked at him with a smile.

"Sit down"

As he spoke, Anthony gestured to the chair in front of his desk and pulled out a pack of cigarette packs with black skull motifs from the desk drawer.

The "Kiss of Death" cigarettes specially released by Arasaka Corporation in Japan.

"Mu Xuan likes to smoke it, and I think you should like it too."

"You're deliberately provoking me?"

Ryan saw the cigarette with the black skull printed on it, his movements did not change in the slightest, and he still maintained an aiming posture, looking at Anthony indifferently.

Anthony, on the other hand, smiled, regardless of it, as if he was not afraid of Ryan's pistol at all, silently opened the cigarette case, lit the fire by himself, and smoked one himself.

Taking a puff, Anthony watched Ryan's aim at himself, and saw his indifferent expression again, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"You can't learn Mu Xuan's cold-bloodedness and madness, if it was Mu Xuan, now my head has bloomed, hahahaha"

"Mu Xuan can hold a gun against the heads of Derek, David, Isabella, or the two chicks you just met, Catherine and Kia, and pull the trigger without hesitation, can you?"

Anthony laughed and looked at Ryan with disdain in his eyes.

He didn't believe Ryan would actually shoot!

And Ryan, as he expected, heard his defiant words and still didn't shoot.

"What? You investigated very clearly, you want to avenge the woman ten years ago? ”

"She doesn't call that woman! She has her own name! Her name is Charlotte Roach! ”

Anthony heard Ryan talk about the woman, his emotions suddenly lost control, he supported the desk with his hands, stood up violently, stared at Ryan's eyes, and said word by word.

"She's British! Come to Night City in 2063! She is a fighter for freedom and democracy! In four years, she saved a total of 726 families whose Night City was about to collapse! She led groups of fighters to rebel against the corrupt and dark rule of the company, and in 2067, she was killed by the demon Mu Xuan! ”

"Even if Mu Xuan's prosthetic body is downgraded, there will only be a handful of people in Night City who can kill you, right?"

Ryan was silent when he heard Anthony's last words, put away his pistol, and sat down in the chair in front of his desk.

It wasn't Ryan who killed Charlotte, it was the demon Mu Xuan.

Anthony finished angrily, and saw Ryan sit down again, and saw this face that killed his lover! But he finally controlled his emotions and sat back in his place.

Indeed, it was Mu Xuan who killed Charlotte.

"The matter that Mu Xuan asked us to investigate has already had a result, you can see for yourself."

As he spoke, he tossed a plastic file bag on his desk to Ryan.

Ryan was stunned, he didn't have the slightest memory of this incident in his memory, he didn't come here for this document, and there was an accident?

Ryan opened the file without saying a word, trying to make it look natural, and seeing the information on it, Ryan's hand still couldn't stop shaking.

"I'm curious what the hell is going on in Atlanta? The events of those two months seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, Mu Xuan obviously did such a big thing in Atlanta, but we couldn't investigate the slightest detail, Isabella was by Mu Xuan's side, right? ”

Ryan didn't speak, his memory didn't have what Anthony said at all, after he separated from David in Atlanta, he stayed in Atlanta to rest for a month, and then received a new assignment from the head of Arasaka's operations department to meet with Richie.

Ryan is doubting the veracity of Anthony's words, but one thing is certain, he is indeed being led by the nose! Uncle De? Anthony? Or Isabella in Anthony's mouth?

Anthony looked at Ryan, as if he knew something, and he said to Ryan.

"You're just a puppet in the dark! Your closest Uncle De is lying to you! What do you really think the things in the Arasaka Industrial Park and the biochip that Ruth got by accident are for?"

Anthony looked at Ryan almost frantically, and the muscles in his face trembled with his words!

"To kill you completely, to kill Ryan completely! Hahahahaha! ”

"I know you! Ryan! You are nothing more than a mistake from that catastrophe more than 20 years ago! Mu Xuan thought that he had completely wiped you out more than ten years ago, but he didn't expect that you just fell into a deep sleep! ”

"Isabella and Derick are lying to you! They want to kill you! ”

"You're lying!"

"You know best if you're lying! Derek and Isabella would not have thought that Mu Xuan would do a big thing without them! If Mu Xuan hadn't been hiding from them, you wouldn't have met me! ”

Ryan doesn't know if what he said is true or false! But Ryan could feel something hidden from his memory! Will Uncle De lie to himself? Like a father, will Uncle De lie to himself?

Seeing Ryan's silence, Anthony was even more pleased, as if he had guessed some terrible secret, and he looked at Ryan with a laugh.

"Hahaha, the biochip that Ruth got was not meant to mitigate the side effects of the prosthesis at all! Derek's purpose in demoting your prosthetic body is not because you're about to become a cybermaniac! But I'm afraid you're out of their control! ”

As soon as Anthony said this, Ryan's memory of Derek's sudden appearance in Atlanta to relegate himself became reasonable, and Isabella?

A familiar name, there seems to be a back in my mind, a woman's back, but I can't remember it! Memories of Isabella never existed, and he couldn't remember everything about Isabella! Even in his own memory in Atlanta, there is no such person as Isabella at all! Myself and David from start to finish!

Is Anthony lying?

Your own memories deceive you?

Ryan doesn't know!

"You're a madman!"

Ryan suddenly roared in pain at Anthony.

"Hahaha! It's an honor to be called a madman by Night City's biggest madman! ”

Anthony responded to Ryan with his own laughter.

"Mu Xuan's will is influencing you! Your subconscious tells you that you are here to accomplish Mu Xuan's deeds! That's why you're so concerned about Ruth and Arasaka Industrial Park! This has nothing to do with that incident more than twenty years ago! The whole thing was planned to be improvised! Just to kill you who suddenly woke up! ”

Bang!

Ryan suddenly pulled out the pistol he had put away, and with the sound of a gunshot, a bloody hole appeared in Anthony's shoulder, and blood gushed out of his shoulder.

"Ahh

Anthony screamed, subconsciously covered his shoulder, and reacted, he took out a bottle of customized Kangerfu topical spray from the drawer, and as the gel sprayed out, Anthony's blood gradually stopped.

Anthony didn't have any subcutaneous plating, and the gun easily pierced his body, shattering his bones.

"He's influencing you! Ryan! ”

Ryan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted.

He didn't know why he pulled out his gun, as if there was a voice in his head that was telling him.

"Kill him! Kill him! ”

The sound seemed to be magical, and Ryan literally escaped from the pistol like a marionette.

At first, Ryan was aiming for Anthony's head, but for some reason, Ryan's spirit suddenly went into a trance, and he shifted the muzzle of the gun at the moment of shooting, which only hit Anthony in the shoulder.

"Put down the gun!"

The cashier who was at the door heard the gunshot, almost did not hesitate, and immediately came to the office, and when he opened the door, he saw Anthony who was bleeding from his shoulder and Ryan with a pistol in his hand.

"Ryan! I know you didn't come to me for what Mu Xuan wanted, and I'll help you solve your business! It's like Bang Mu Xuan! ”

"Tell me! Ryan! Do you want to live? Or do you die in vain? Come to me after you get the biochip! Wings of Freedom can help! Only I can help you! ”

......

Ryan walks out of the record store and sees Anthony being loaded into a Freedom Wings rescue vehicle.

Anthony will not be sent to the hospital, but will be treated at Wings of Freedom's in-house clinic.

As for what Anthony said? Ryan couldn't be sure if it was true or not; It may be true or false, but Ryan prefers to believe that Anthony has never told himself the whole truth.

As for Uncle De, this father-like person in his memory really united with a person who he didn't know existed to kill him?

What a coincidence! It's as if someone else has calculated it.

Encountering Kia, infiltrating the Araba Industrial Park, Catherine, and the executives of the Arasaka Entertainment Company who want to kill Catherine, all this is as if it has been calculated, and step by step lures Ryan to this familiar and unfamiliar record store in his memory!

After meeting Anthony, why is Anthony's information so accurate?

Can the Wings of Freedom go this way? Can't do it! What kind of organization or person has such strength?

Uncle De? Even if he wanted to kill himself, how could he command the head of the Desert Operations Department to give him an order in person?

Arasaka? There's no way Anthony is messing around with the people at the Aradisk Company!

And who told him what Anthony knew?

Ryan doesn't know! I don't have a clue!

He didn't even understand the meaning of his existence in this world, and he really counted the mistakes of the disaster twenty years ago.

The purpose of his existence is only to fulfill the will of the sleeping Mu Xuan?

Ryan has seen what Mu Xuan asked Anthony to investigate secretly, and the truth of twenty years ago has been heavily buried, and the clues that have been broken have been reconnected.

Ruth is a breakthrough! Although the people of the year were basically dead, Ruth escaped by parting ways with the original Mexican Gang!

According to Ruth's relationship with the former Mexican gang leader, he should know something about the past!

As the days get darker, the sunlight of Night City is gradually replaced by neon lights.

It's time to go back to life.