Cyberpsychosis, a rather complex type of condition peculiar to the 2077 era.

According to the "official definition", this thing is a collective term for all mental and personality disorders related to anxiety caused by hardware implanted in the body and various behavioral modules, including software.

It seems inevitable that such a disease will appear in an era when prosthetic implants have become a trend, but V, the legendary mercenary of Night City, clearly has a different understanding of this disease.

At this time, Mason, who was sitting in a mess of floating cars on his way to the cyberpsychiatric asylum, was listening to V Kan Dashan opposite, who was bragging about his desperate experience with twenty-three super-dangerous cyber maniacs before his last death.

Mason listened attentively.

He felt that it was necessary to reserve this kind of knowledge in advance, because Barbara's prosthetic inserts were getting more and more installed, and if this continued, his old sister would also have a certain chance of breaking out of this troublesome disease.

But V doesn't tell the story so carefully.

He would always be drawn to the traces of something that had happened in the last thirty minutes of the hovercar, even if Harley and Quinn, the second of the parties, had been forcibly sent back to the real world by Mason for being too messy.

"Your life has unlocked another kind of achievement that makes countless male compatriots feel envious, jealous and hateful."

After telling the story of himself and the cybermaniac, V stopped talking, glanced at the shredded couch under his ass, and couldn't help but pout:

"Your two girlfriends are so violent, I almost thought they were going to tear this thing down when I saw how often the floating car swayed."

"What kind of eyes do you have! That's obviously one. ”

Hearing V talk about this topic again, Mason scolded angrily:

"Hallie and Quinn are two different personalities of hers, it's just that something must have gone wrong with this damn brainwave uploader that has caused them to be separated here."

"Ahh Is that so? ”

V's eyes immediately turned to pity, and he patted Mason on the shoulder and whispered:

"No wonder you've been asking about cyber psychosis, has your girlfriend's schizophrenia symptoms been so severe? But she doesn't have a prosthetic insert on her, right?

Most of our treatments for cybermaniacs rely on hormone blockers, but I don't think this thing will help her symptoms.

Speaking of which, I've met a guy with schizophrenia who made himself a copy of his personality and separated his two personalities into a pair of brothers.

I mean, you might suggest that little sister Hallie give it a try."

"I swear, V, if you bring the topic to my girlfriend again, I'll shoot you in one shot!"

Mason's hand was already on the silver pistol grip at his waist, and he shook his head and explained:

"I stress it once! My Hallie doesn't need treatment! I love the way she's crazy! Tell me more seriously and continue on the topic of cyberpsychosis, I heard that the most elite members of the Terrorist Task Force are all veteran lunatics? ”

"There is such a statement, but the specific situation is different."

V waved his hand, and this time explained very seriously:

"Even if they're all crazy, there's a difference, and the Titan Squad only needs cyber lunatics who have potential and experience and are obsessed with pathological killing.

It's like the 'second-rate goods' that collapsed because they added too many prostheses, and they can't look down on them.

To put it more simply, they just need murderers!

When I wasn't dead before, a girl from the Terrorist Squad invited me three times and twice, and the girl was in good shape, repeatedly hinting that she could go one step further with me.

Hey, but am I really like a pathological murderer? ”

"Tsk, you really don't have self-awareness of your own image."

Mason pursed his lips and recorded all the information he had gathered in his notebook as research material for his leisure time, then he stretched his body and said to V:

"Earlier, Huazi told me that a considerable number of cyber maniacs are born every month in the world of Mikoshi, and their consciousness data is basically contaminated, and can only be destroyed unless it is formatted.

But I think these crazy people who are obsessed with killing and destruction are still somewhat useful, and this time I plan to leave the shrine with three hundred copies of cyberpsychia, you can arrange it for me.

I mean, help me pick out some 'good stuff'. ”

"You're saying the same thing as the kidney-cutting traffickers."

V complained:

"Are you going to use these guys with serious self-destructive tendencies as death squads? It's okay, these guys are hopelessly insane, and if you give them enough bullets and weapons, they'll be happy to sieve, including themselves, all the life they see.

Especially those veterans who have participated in corporate wars, all of them have rich combat experience and also have traumatic sequelae.

Coupled with the fact that they are generally equipped with military prosthetics, killing people is like killing chickens, and the most powerful of these guys can kill the Pioneer squads below the C rank as pigs.

I can also pick you a group of cyberpsychotics who specialize in engineering, these guys love to manipulate heavy machinery to create slaughter, and they are all good at driving mechs.

What's even more rare is that they are not afraid of death.

In fact, there is no reason left in their messed up brains.

But three hundred is a bit small.

The seven containment stations in the City of Light and Night add up to far more than that, so give you five hundred people, and pack up the most dangerous data to reduce the burden on the city. ”

"Okay, you've chosen to bring the data directly to Judy."

Mason nodded and said:

"It's up to her to download the consciousness data from the host server in the afterlife bar, and I'll give them a prosthetic body that can kill. Also, V, I ask you a sensitive matter. ”

He lowered his voice and said to V, who was smoking:

"Adam Hammer's personality data is in whose hands is it now?"

"Huh?"

The name seemed to evoke some bad memories for V, who spat out the smoke ring and said with a tight frown:

"This thing is not the same level as cyberpsychosis, and that self-reinventing madman is the best even in the legendary mercenary industry.

His fighting consciousness basically belongs to the most high-end type of butcher murderer that this world can cultivate, and after I killed him, the personality data of the heavy hammer was recovered by the Rogers.

Now it's still in the hands of the old aunt, and it's the collection at the bottom of the box in her hand.

But what do you want this thing for?

Mason, with all due respect, although the hammer advocates force, he has brains, but it is not easy to control. ”

"I'm trying to transfer the onboard AI I'm using now to a more advanced power armor, and while it's compatible with controlling Fenrir Heavy, there's some sensitive information in my AI that can't be made public.

Considering that the downgraded version of the Fenrir Warframe will soon be distributed to elite personnel as Servant Force equipment, I think it would be better to have a separate combat AI system for these heavy power armors for assault. ”

Mason explains:

"But I'm too lazy to go through that effort to recalibrate a combat AI and slowly mature, so I'm going to use Adam Hammer's consciousness data to change it and make a combat program or something.

That guy's combat experience is enough for a Power Armor to deal with most enemies in automatic mode.

Can you help me ask Rogge, can I cut love?

Anyway, her feud with the hammer was all because of Johnny Silverhand's stupidity, and now that Silverhand is living freely, it is a matter of minutes for the old aunt to want to renew her relationship with him, and I even suspect that they may have been involved in private.

I'm willing to spend money to buy it, you can help me deliver a word. ”

"If we talk about the relationship between the two sides, we will see the outside world when we talk about money."

V waved his hand, patted his chest with a very generous look, and said:

"Don't worry, this thing will definitely be done for you beautifully, but I also know that you Mason is a spectacle person, and you definitely don't want to let you take our things for nothing.

So, why don't you make a few more of the awesome guns you made for Captain Morgan last time?

That's awesome! I like it. ”

"Okay, I'll help you with it."

Mason looked at the time of his watch, and motioned for the float car to descend to Night City's No. 2 Mental Hospital, where he was taken by V to the dangerous and critical patient area to select his favorite cyberpsychiatric commando.

It's fucking like shopping at the supermarket.

Mason didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was really shocked when he saw it, and the various cyber maniacs in the little second shelter were eye-opening.

There are people who pull off their skins to scare people, there are gods who claim that they are the reincarnation of Lilith, the data witch, and there are people who turn on tactical optical camouflage 24 hours a day and pretend to be thieves to wander around, and the most outrageous brother has filled his ward with induction-triggered mines, revealing a madman who comes and who dies.

There are also two guys who discuss the outrageous story of a mysterious Mr. Blue Eyes and the secret manipulation of the world by an alien overlord from the Alpha Centauri in front of Mason and V.

Each is a talent, each has a unique skill, and in the end, the captain simply waved his hand, and they all wanted.

Anyway, it's also used as cannon fodder waste, and Mason is not too cold.

After doing this, Mason returned to the data interaction point and returned to the physical world, the white light in front of him beating in the retina slowly dimmed, he sat up from the hacker chair, and only Harley, who was still dozing off beside him, and Judy and Barbara, who were busy editing Mewtwo, were in the computer room.

Mason's sister and her best friend sat in a chair very affectionately, chattering about the hacking skills she had just learned, and the familiar look looked like a good girlfriend's conversation.

But considering Judy's unusual preference.

Mason really felt a moment of silence for Grayson, and if he didn't work harder, his marriage would be in jeopardy.

"Huh"

The projection of Consus appeared behind Mason's shoulder, and the Isu ghost said to him:

"I'm ready, we can contact Flash now, and I'm sure Kassandra's side is looking forward to a second meeting with you."

"Hmm."

Mason nodded, stepped forward to wake Harley up, and coughed a few more times deliberately to make Judy, who was a thief, quickly take back the hand that was on Barbara's waist.

The captain walked over and told Judy to remember to download the "special consciousness data" transmitted by V, and glared at Barbara, who seemed to be a bit "a thief", and then left the computer room with Harley.

Flash's cosmic treadmill is still in the watchtower, and Mason has to tell the old man to send a bat to pick him up and Harley, and while he waits at the afterlife bar, he decides to call Dashao in his office to explain the situation.

In less than ten minutes, Da Shao came to the bar in a hurry.

Not only is he dressed up as the most chic handsome guy, but he also has a bouquet of freshly picked flowers in his hand.

However, when Mason watched the happy old lady being taken away by the big boy in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the top office, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have been tricked!

Barbara repeatedly emphasized that the relationship between her and Judy was pure friendship.

So is there such a possibility.

The ambiguous scene just now was just two girlfriends teaming up to perform a scene for Mason to see, so that Mason, who likes to worry about it, can be a microphone and mention that the young man who came in and was busy with martial arts practice gave a snack to his fiancée?

The more Mason thought about it, the more he thought it was possible.

Especially when a few minutes later, he saw Judy, a bird, and a dashing, long-legged local girl in a peaked cap and a leather coat leaving the bar hand in hand, and he became more and more convinced.

Oops, I've been used as a gun! Is this embarrassing to call yourself Level 9 wisdom?

"This! This, this, this! One by one, they don't worry! ”

Mason yelled incompetently and furiously in the office:

"It's good to put your mind on serious things! Bastards, all bastards! How can you bastards do the great cause of doomsday salvation? ”

"Don't be angry, little sweetheart, it's not good if you're angry."

Hallie came over with a fruit bowl and twisted strawberries to Mason's mouth.

She's trying to act like she's not involved in it at all, hey, it's definitely not like she's bored with the little clever ghost she's waiting for, so give Barbara and Judy the idea!

This Barbara too!

I don't know the skills of grasping a man's heart at all, in case I was really pried away by the alien princess Starfire Girl, but there is a time when she cries!

"Did you make a deal with Quinn?"

Mason looked down at his watch, a few minutes before the arrival of the Batfighter, and while he was preparing his things, he said to Hallie, who was sitting on the desk shaking his legs:

"I feel like she's been appearing more and more often lately, which is quite scary."

"Yes."

Harley chewed the apple, tilted her head and said cutely:

"Quinn is usually cared for in my heart, and she also likes to be with her little sweetheart, I can't ask myself to stay away from you, right?

So after a couple of fights with Quinn in our sleep, we said okay, I'm two-thirds and she's three, and it's good for everyone to allocate time like that.

Ahem, of course it's not because I can't beat Quinn!

It's certainly not because of this that I compromised, I just pity her! ”

"It's too much trouble."

Mason shook his head.

He had a flash of inspiration, then hesitated to take something out of his bag and handed it to Harry.

Robin looked at the jewelry box in her hand in surprise.

She thought it was her sweetheart who was going to give her a gift again, but when she opened it, she found a hexagonal gray stone with a stick figure-like tiger on it.

Harley didn't know what it was, so she picked it up.

But the moment her fingers were clenched, a black and white light erupted from the Yin-Yang Tiger Charm, enveloping Harley and causing her to "split in two" in her exclamation.

Don't get me wrong!

Instead of the terrifying split in two from the middle or from the waist, a new "Harley" was conjured out of thin air in front of Harley's eyes, just like the copy magic.

This is the effect of the Yin-Yang Tiger Talisman.

It can separate the light and dark sides of the soul into two individuals, but for a special schizophrenic like Harley, the magical effect of the Yin-Yang Tiger Charm allows both Harley and Quinn to appear at the same time.

The two crazy beautiful girls looked at each other in surprise, and at the same time looked down at the charm in their hands.

The originally complete Yin Yang Tiger Talisman had been split into two pieces from the center along the curved Tai Chi arc, and they were pinched in the hands of two beautiful girls.

"Wow! Sweetheart is amazing! I love this stuff. ”

Hallie cheered, and she jumped from the table into Mason's arms, holding Mr. K's face and nibbling it down.

Quinn, who was relatively conservative, wasn't so excited, but she grabbed the Tiger Charm and stepped forward, pecking Mason on the lips as Harley looked up.

Hug back and forth, tsk, awesome, brother!

"You little scoundrel!"

Quinn, who was more evil and more sedate, leaned into Mason's ear, licked his lips and said in Bad Girl's trademark hoarse voice:

"Did you like that feeling of 'double bad' that you wanted to separate me from Harley? You are so greedy! ”

"Nope! I don't like it at all, it's a bit too advanced for me to be conservative. ”

Mason snorted with a straight face.

While the Batfighter slowly hovered outside the window in the form of optical camouflage, he coughed, put his hands around Harley and Quinn's waists at the same time, and said to them:

"I just don't want the two of you to quarrel because of me, although it's a bit weird to say that, but. You are all my wings, and I can only fly higher when both wings are there.

Plus, Harley, and Quinn!

I now officially appoint you as the commander of the Cyberpsy Commando Team under Team K.

I am confident that with the astonishing and unique command styles of the two of you, this special team will surely become our deadliest knife to the heart of the enemy at some point in the future! ”

"Yes! Little sweetheart! ”X2

(End of chapter)