Chapter 22: The Sugar Gourd with Two Personalities and Two Souls

That little boy looked exactly what Ryan looked like when he was a kid more than ten years ago!

It can be said that it is the same as touching, even after so many years, Ryan's appearance and the little boy seem to be carved out of the same mold.

Ryan almost subconsciously looked up at Grandma Hyde, who also appeared in the photo, and Grandma Hyde was smiling at him.

"What is this?"

"A family photo, it's mine, and it's Qiya's, but I don't know if it's yours."

Grandma Hyde replied, and the current situation made Ryan confused, what was he doing more than ten years ago?

The boring life of the Arasaka Special Training Camp day after day, the first time he left the Arasaka Special Training Camp was when he was sixteen years old, and it was also the love of Anthony who killed him.

But the appearance of himself in the photo is clearly what he looked like when he was eleven or twelve years old, and at that time, he was obviously undergoing brutal training in the Arasaka special training camp.

"Kia once mentioned the boxing match in front of you, and she said that you didn't react, so Kiya suspected that you just looked like him, of course, Kia hoped that you had lost your memory."

"What is the relationship between the little boy in the photo and Kia?"

Ryan asked calmly when he heard Grandma Hyde's words.

"It's his brother."

Grandma Hyde replied.

So is this the reason why Kia likes to call herself Ryan's brother?

"Kia's adoptive father, Cooper, is also Night City's youngest boxing champion, winning the All-American Fighting Championship at the age of twenty-seven."

"But the All-American Fighting Championships, the North American Tour Championships, is the ultimate arena that every boxer wants to set foot on. The All-American Fighting Championship title is just a ticket to a tournament event......"

At this point, Grandma Hyde sighed before continuing.

"Hey...... Originally, the tour of the boxing championship competition was only a few days away, but as the king of boxing, there has always been an unwritten rule in the boxing world that if there is a challenger to challenge the king of boxing, the king of boxing must defend it! Until the challenger fails the challenge or the champion falls. ”

"Who knows, that despicable Atlanta, in the battle with Cooper, actually used the bone spur prosthesis of his arm! At the same time as he hit Cooper's jaw, a regular steel bone spur also pierced Cooper's head! ”

"Cooper fell on the eve of the Championship Tour, and his only dream was to play in a tournament."

An Atlantan with bone spurs?

This reminded Ryan of the trick he used to play in Atlanta a few months ago, the same touch, but the difference was that his bone spurs could not penetrate the subcutaneous plating of Ryan, whose prosthesis had not yet been degraded!

"And Kia and Damon are Cooper's adopted daughters and adopted sons."

That's why Kia insisted on founding an orphanage, and at one time Kia was just a little beggar on the streets of Night City! Until you run into Cooper! ”

"Cooper loves to eat sugar gourds, and it was the sugar gourds in his hand that made Kia leave that filthy Night City with her."

"And Damon, it was Kia who "kidnapped" in the garbage heap of the boxing stadium with sugar gourds, and the first time I met the two little guys, they were both skinny and looked weak, and Kia had lost her left hand. ”

Grandma Hyde said as she closed her eyes and fell into the memory, and when she spoke of the sugar gourd, Grandma Hyde suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Ryan, as if she wanted to see if he had any mood swings.

And Ryan heard these things as if he were listening to a story, and although the little boy looked almost the same as he did when he was a child, he really didn't remember anything about Grandma Hyde.

Some are just their own experience of devil training in the Wild Board Special Training Camp.

"Maybe in the eyes of Qi Ya's girl, the sugar gourd should be the best thing in the world!"

Sugar gourd?

It seems that Qi Ya has always wanted to invite herself to eat sugar gourds, and in the end, Qi Ya made it at home.

Except that it was delicious and a little hot, it didn't remind me of anything that Grandma Hyde said.

Perhaps, it really just looks alike.

Grandma Hyde continued the story of that year.

The silver prosthetic leg on her left hand is the one of the martial arts band, Johnny. The same style of the silver hand...... It should be called a fake! The Warrior Band, which is also Cooper and Damon's favorite band......"

"Would you like to hear their songs?"

Grandma Hyde asked suddenly, and Ryan shook her head.

Seeing Ryan's refusal, Grandma Hyde didn't force it, but just said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, there will be a chance in the future...... Let's talk about the questions you want to ask. ”

"Good"

Ryan agreed, telling Grandma Hyde about his problems in the same way I had a friend.

After hearing this, Grandma Hyde thought for a while and asked Ryan a few questions.

"You're saying you have a friend who has had two personalities with a common memory since he was a child, but he can only tell which personality did it by the way he behaves in his memory?"

Ryan nodded, Grandma Hyde's summary was correct.

"But since a few months ago, the memories of the two personalities have suddenly become independent, and the memories of the two personalities will not be common?"

"You..... Did anything drastic happen to that friend? Something that can greatly affect the spirit of the time? ”

After listening to this, Ryan hesitated for two seconds, but still nodded, the incident from twenty years ago is still vivid!

"And the names of the two personalities are different? Was that something specific named and symbolic that came into being? That friend of yours has two identities? ”

Right!

Indeed, before the events of twenty years ago, Ryan had been living in the world as Mu Xuan, and then he had the name Ryan.

So, I, Ryan, am really just twenty years of that mistake from that incident?

"That's right."

Ryan answers Grandma Hyde's question, and Grandma Hyde continues to ask.

"What is your friend's family like?"

"Orphans."

"Is there a big difference between the personalities of the two personalities?"

"Great! But it's not two extremes, but it's still huge. ”

If Mu Xuan is the lowest evil and the most extreme indifference to the rest except himself.

Ryan is not the most extreme good and the most extreme good.

Ryan is more of a state in between

"When you say that, I think of a case I just heard about." Grandma Hyde said suddenly.

"I heard a friend mention that his good brother, the most powerful prosthetic doctor in Watson District, is a junior whom he values very much, because of a chip in Arasaka, there is also an extra personality in his brain...... No, it should be one more soul, one person"

"You're saying that there are two different people in one body."

Ryan felt a little incredulous.

"That's right! These are two completely different people, one of whom was brought into that body by chip, two completely separate personalities! ”

Chips of the barren board!

Ryan has caught the point, could it be the same thing as Ruth's biochip?

The difference is that one has already loaded one soul and the other has not?

"Do you think two separate personalities can have two separate souls?"

Ryan asked suddenly, coldly, but the question confused Grandma Hyde.

"Two separate personalities, two separate souls?"

"Perhaps! But the body of the guy with two people in his head will repel one of the souls. But a person with two personalities does not reject either personality with his body. ”

What Grandma Hyde said, Ryan feels very helpful to his current situation, at least he may have figured out the direction of the biochip, could the two be the same thing?

"Will the sleeping personality suddenly awaken?"

"If it's stimulated, it won't wake up easily unless it's stimulated again."

So, in the month when his memory disappeared, did Mu Xuan receive any stimulation when he controlled his body?

What happened in that disappearing month in Atlanta?