A wooden table, a jar of good wine, just appeared in the suburbs of the city, which was full of metal ruins.

Li Ji was drunk, but fortunately, he hadn't completely lost his mind and knew to give Leah a position.

After tossing and turning all night last night, he was still drunk in the morning, and it wasn't until the evening that he was woken up by an expressionless Leah.

"I thought you would be very mature, but I didn't expect you to have such a childish side."

"I'm not that old!" Li Jiwan smiled, said hello to Buck Daddy and Lilith, and went back with Leah.

"How's it going?"

Leah drove the car and said lightly without looking back: "More than half of the hostages were picked up by their families, and the rest were either ruined or the Tigers caught the wrong person, all of them were homeless poor worms, about a dozen people!" ”

Li Ji rubbed his head, there was still a slight headache from drunkenness.

"Can you be sure they're clean?"

Leah gave Li Ji a rare white look, which invisibly narrowed the distance between them.

"I don't have any experience with this kind of thing before."

"Yes, let's see when I get back!"

Touching his prosthetic eye, Li Ji was still a little curious about whether he could see the identity of Buck's father, but now was obviously not the time to ask about other people's secrets.

Looking at Leah, who was silent, Li Ji asked, "What?" Why did you suddenly stop talking? ”

"Are you going to take them?"

"What do you think?"

Leah drove through the garbage heap, the dappled lights and shadows on the road reflecting her face, confused and confused.

"I just think it's too idealistic, and I don't see any point in this kind of huddle for warmth, though...... Although your technology seems to me to be ahead of its time. ”

"Ahead of the times? Then you're underestimating the company. Li Ji smiled and looked at the sun outside the window: "There is always someone who wants to be the first to light the torch, isn't the ideal what Night City lacks the most?" ”

Three Fingers was now facing more than a dozen pairs of eyes that flashed with hope, and he had never experienced being stared at by such a burning gaze.

Seeing Li Ji get out of the car, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, ran over and shouted loudly:

"Boss!"

Suddenly, the eyes of everyone in the Hanging Pot Jishi Medical Hall looked over, including the people of the Prosthetic Gang.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the young man expectantly.

The man who let everyone see a glimmer of light in the darkness.

"Brothers, this city has changed us beyond recognition. But luckily, we still retained our humanity and didn't fall into mad beasts. ”

"For a long time, the company has controlled every aspect of our existence, from the material to the spiritual, from the top of the Arasaka Tower to the shacks of Twisted Street, from the luxurious hilltop villas to the dilapidated off-site garbage dumps, we are like marionettes."

"And the gangsters, who have been reduced to minions in the erosion of the prosthetic body and the confrontation with the company, and most of the suffering we suffer comes from them."

And what about politicians who claim to be righteous? I'm sure you won't forget who brought the company to Night City for their own benefit seven years ago. ”

"So what can we do? Trembling in the corner? No, we're going to tell the mongrels who bully us that mayflies show their claws too! ”

"I have a dream that there is no company that stands tall there, only a good life that technology brings us. But I know that the process will be very long, decades, even hundreds of years. ”

"Eventually, I may fall in the pre-dawn night, and so may you, but I still believe that after I die, there will be a successor!"

"Gentlemen, you can follow me!"

Everyone looked at each other, but they still felt as if something had been ignited in their chests.

Three fingers thought about his tragic death of his parents; reminds me of the brothers who once supported each other, and the corpses are on the streets where no one cares; remembered the helplessness he used to face the gang, and also remembered the first time Li Ji installed a prosthetic body for him, and pointed the gun at the scavenger's head for the first time.

Suddenly, he raised his arm, his metal fingers shining brightly, and shouted, "There are latecomers!" ”

"There are latecomers!"

The crowd cheered, and even Leah was swept away by the atmosphere. She remembered everything she had been through in the company, the dark, the dirty, the outrageous; also remembered the lonely back of his son David when he walked to campus.

"There are latecomers!"

She also shouted, her arms trembling slightly, and the corners of her eyes were moist for some time.

"Boss, come up with a name!"

Li Ji thought for a while, smiled and said, "The prosthetic gang without a prosthetic body is a thing of the past, and in the future, all of us will have an incomparably powerful prosthetic body, and even a weapon far more powerful than the prosthetic body." ”

"Then from now on, let's call it Starfire!"

This can be regarded as a tribute to a distant homeland. Li Ji thought silently in his heart.

After settling the newcomers, Li Ji specially arranged a schedule for them to train in an all-round way, as well as a matching nutritious meal.

In order to be able to support the cost of daily training, Leah became the most mysterious middleman in Night City, and took the people of the Prosthetic Gang at the beginning, using the vests of several mercenaries, and became famous in a short period of time.

Of course, this is still the premise that Li Ji deliberately asked to suppress his prestige, but even so, the task completion rate of nearly 100% is enough to make the major financiers look sideways.

During this period, Li Ji used the collected resources and raw materials to tailor their own prosthetic bodies for almost each of the members, trying to minimize the incidence of cyber psychosis.

If it weren't for the intelligent AI assistant, even if he could enter Gaia's consciousness at any time, he would be overwhelmed by this huge workload.

It is worth mentioning that Leah and the Lilith became good friends, and when Leah occasionally returned from Night City, she would always bring some small gifts to Lilith.

And Li Ji often goes to the hut in the garbage heap to talk to Buck Daddy and drink in his spare time.

Nearly half a month has passed, and Li Ji has been assembling prosthetics in his small studio as always.

"Xiaosha, are you ready?"

"The experimental data has been uploaded, and the preparation power has reached its peak."

Qingling's girl sounded from the mechanical horn, and Xiaosha was the name that the AI gave herself.

"The simulation experiment has been completed, now let's start the official assembly!"

The roaring sound of machinery sounded, and as the dazzling mechanical arm danced in front of Li Ji, his gaze fixed on the narrow progress bar on the monitor.

“40%，60%，80%，100%！ The first machine has been assembled, and the experimental data has been uploaded to the Xiaosha operation group! ”

"Hah! The foundation of the Cybertron program is finally complete! ”

Looking at the close-fitting exoskeleton in front of him like a work of art, Li Ji's eyes flashed with excitement.

Just then, an urgent message appeared on his private channel, from Leah.

"Li Ji, the cyber psychopath you mentioned has appeared, and the location is in the North District!"

Is it finally there? This time, let me see what the so-called cyber psychosis is!