Heavy gunfire interrupted Gloria's hopes for her son's future.

I saw the driver's seat of the pink off-road vehicle on his right, raising a gold-shelled heavy machine gun, aiming at the company's black business sedan on his left.

The trigger was pulled, and bullets erupted like tongues of fire, and the golden shells flew out of the chamber and fell to the ground.

Click... Click... Click...

The bullet shattered David's window panes and A-pillars, and then bombarded the door panels and glass of the company's black sedan.

Instinctively, David leaned back to try to dodge machine-gun fire, and watched as numerous bullets pierced through their windows and hit the black business sedan on the opposite side.

Potholes and spider web-like cracks crawled all over the right side of the car in an instant, but the powerful bullets still failed to penetrate the company's business car.

But David's old car was completely unable to withstand the heavy fire, and the front of the car had been bombarded to the point of being almost damaged and rotten.

Followed by.

The black business sedan on the left spurted forward with a sharp acceleration, and the off-road vehicle of the Animal Gang also slammed on the accelerator to follow.

The muscular man on the roof of the pink SUV was furious, carrying a red RPG bazooka and roaring wildly.

"Don't let the company dog run away!"

"The company dog's sedan is electroplated!"

"Wait and see!"

"Beast brothers of the Animal Gang!"

David saw both cars rushing ahead.

The brawny man on the roof of the pink off-road vehicle is even carrying an RPG bazooka on his shoulder, aiming directly at the business car to fire cannonballs.

But just as the shell came out of its chamber and was about to hit the business car, the company car avoided the bomb with a strange turn and sudden braking.

The shells exploded not far away, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The business sedan that stopped in an emergency slowed down instantly, hitting the left front wheel of the rear off-road vehicle.

Boom!

The collision of the two vehicles directly caused the off-road vehicle with a higher chassis to roll over severely, flipped in the air and hit the ground, and the violent explosion instantly rose into the sky.

The off-road vehicle, which exploded into wreckage, slammed into the direction in which Gloria was driving.

"Mom!"

"Hit the brakes!"

Gloria slammed on the brakes with all her might, but the front of the car still didn't listen and crashed straight into the wreckage of the off-road vehicle.

David's eyes widened as he watched the wreckage of the SUV smash head-on.

Then there was another bang!

Boom!

David only felt that the world was spinning all of a sudden, and his vision fell into darkness.

When he regained consciousness from the crash and struggled to open his eyes, he found himself trapped in the seat of the overturned car with his seat belt, and his mother, Gloria, who had been thrown out of the car and fainted, surrounded by a sea of fire.

The flames gradually spread and devoured his mother, and David tried his best to break free from the predicament and save his mother.

But he failed.

The scorching oil flames were also approaching David himself, but he was seriously injured and had no power to save himself, let alone save his mother.

David felt helpless like never before, and he just hoped that someone would come to their aid.

Just as David was desperately looking forward to it, a metal-shelled floating car quickly landed in front of David's eyes, and two medical personnel in green sanitary suits on the car stepped out of the car quickly.

"It's the trauma team, it's saved!"

David finally breathed a sigh of relief and saw the light again, as long as he could get medical treatment from the trauma team in time, his mother's life would not be in danger.

Trauma team medical personnel came to David in full gear and crouched down in front of him to scan him.

"This man is not a customer!"

"Neither is this woman!"

The cold words shattered David's light, and he saw that the two trauma team medical personnel turned around and left directly, without the slightest intention of treating their mother and son.

"Wait!"

Trauma Team: "Our main task is to ensure the safety of our clients, and these people can be left to the municipal corpse trucks"

"What? Wait a minute! Do you want to leave us here to die?! ”

"Mom! Wake up! Bastard! ”

"Damn, hurry up! Hurry up! Damn it! ”

David tried to break free from his seat with the last of his strength, but his lower body was stuck in the front of the car and he couldn't move.

"Mom!"

The sea of fire gradually approached Gloria.

David was completely desperate, and countless complex emotions rushed to his brain, making him unconscious, who had already lost too much blood, about to fall into a coma again.

Suddenly, he noticed footsteps approaching, as if someone was approaching.

He struggled to open his tired eyes, only to see the vague figure of the other party, but still holding on to the last expectation, he raised his hand and muttered to Gloria in the sea of fire.

"Help my mom..."

Then David felt as if he had turned off the electric switch, and fell into a dark coma.

...

On the second floor of the dimly lit medical clinic, David sat on an old bench, staring up at the light sign above the mechanical door, which showed three words.

During surgery.

David, who had a simple wound bandaged after the car accident, wore a tattered Arasaka College uniform and waited for news at the door of the operating room.

As the lights in the operating room went out, the surgeon came out from behind the door, wearing only a bib on his upper body, and a green mask and dustproof on his face.

The doctor came to David's side, still looking at the electronic tablet in his hand, and his two thick arms in long-sleeved sleeves kept clicking on the screen, as if he was calculating the cost of the operation.

"The surgery was very successful, but she is still in a coma and has not yet regained consciousness, and we will arrange for a few days in the hospital for observation"

"Can I see her?"

"No, the cheapest package doesn't include a visit"

"That's right..."

"This is the bill, please sign for it, and I also brought your mother's belongings, please pay the bill within three days"

David watched in a daze as the doctor handed over his mother's package to him, and he could only passively cope with and accept what happened.

"That's why everybody buys insurance in Night City," the doctor said before heading back to the operating room.

David sat on the bench with his mother's package in his hand, looking ahead a little distracted.

Long.

He let out a long breath, hugged the package tightly and got up to leave, walked to the gate and looked back at the dilapidated black clinic, the dilapidated red tube billboard was lit with fire, only the word "clinic" was marked, and the prefix of the clinic was all black.

David walked on the neon streets of Night City, the night scene of the city was more illusory, looking up at the city center, there were several huge light advertisements soaring into the sky, and the blue and green dark street scenes on both sides of him seemed to be two worlds.

He walked to the Santo Domingo Skyscraper H4 and returned to his door as usual to open the electromagnetic floodgates, only to find a floating laser projection flashing at the door.

"Refused entry, rent is overdue"

David kicked the iron door hard, turned and crawled home through the ventilation duct, he knew that he couldn't give up now, and his mother was still waiting to pay for the medical bills.

After returning home, he began to try all kinds of ways to raise money, selling all kinds of chips such as basketballs and games on hand, but found that he couldn't sell them for a few dollars.

After a busy night, David made all the phone calls, contacted everyone he could, and couldn't raise his mother's medical expenses at all.

Desperate, David had no choice but to ask the prosthetic doctor who sold him pirated upgrade software how much he could get on the black market if he sold one of his kidneys.

The prosthetic doctor gave David a whole body function parameter test, and unexpectedly found that David's physical function was different from ordinary people's excellence, and the amount quoted to David was almost just enough to deduct his mother's medical expenses, and David agreed to sell a kidney without hesitation.

But the prosthetic doctor told him that if he waited, it would be possible to wait until the right person, when the kidneys could be sold for a higher price.

But David couldn't wait too long, and decided to have surgery tomorrow to sell the money, and the top priority was to save his mother!

Although he was tired after a busy night, David still insisted on changing into his school uniform and going to Arasaka Academy to teach, he couldn't be ordered to drop out of school again because of absenteeism, his mother had already endured too much for him!