My name is David and I am a student at Arasaka Gakuin.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those rich young masters who have money and nowhere to spend, and to be able to study at an aristocratic school like Arasaka Academy, in the final analysis, my mother asked me to do so.

In fact, our family was not wealthy, and my mother worked at Night City Medical Center in Watson as an emergency medical technician.

As for Arasaka College, which I attended, it was located in the center of the city.

The two of us depend on each other, and she is my only remaining relative.

We live in a super skyscraper apartment in Santo Domingo, where the living environment is very basic, the roadside, the street is almost everywhere full of homeless people, and it is far from the bustling city, but the advantage is that the house price is cheap.

Santo Domingo, Civic Center and Watson, the three urban districts are quite far apart, so a lot of the time, we have to spend most of our time commuting.

You should all see from these descriptions alone, my family background is actually not very good, and I can even say that I am a little "poor".

I guess you are still very puzzled, my family is so poor, where did I get the money to study in an aristocratic school like Arasaka Academy?

To be honest, I don't know very well, after all, the person who paid for the tuition was my mother, and she paid for me to study at Arasaka Gakuin.

The only thing I know is that with our modest wealth, attending Arasaka Gakuin will only make our family's situation worse.

The school that the children of rich families choose at random requires my mother to pay a thousand times the sweat and price for ordinary people like us.

I don't know what those costs are, but I know it must be uncomfortable, and even though I tried to persuade her not to do it many times, she stubbornly let me go to Arasaka Academy, nagging about my vision of a future where I could get ahead.

She used a heavy and oppressive love to water and care for my seedling, and she pinned all her hopes on me, but I couldn't see the day when I blossomed and bore fruit.

I don't feel good either.

After all, this school is not a place I am qualified to stay in, and I have been under a lot of pressure since I entered the school.

Bullying and bullying by classmates, lack of learning equipment, heavy schoolwork... The pressure was like a mountain, and I could barely breathe.

But I don't have a choice, do I want to run home and cry to my mother? She's more tired than me! I had to work overtime until late at night to come back every day, and I couldn't see her every time I went home, and only when I got up every morning could I see her tired figure lying on the sofa.

At this time, I didn't even have the strength to cry, so I had to tidy up my things and go to school alone.

But at least academically, I lived up to my mother's expectations, and my academic performance was quite good in school.

It's a pity that this kind of excellence is an "original sin", and I, with a low social status, are not worthy of this kind of "excellence" in the eyes of many rich classmates.

Since I couldn't overpower me academically in order to gain a pitiful sense of superiority, they used cold violence, verbal insults, and other methods to bully, as if this would make their self-esteem better.

I ignored their clown-like behavior and started to be alone at school.

This went on until one day, when a new classmate suddenly came to our class.

His name is Lin Mo, my best friend and noble man in this life.

He sat at the table next to me, and his words and deeds and attitude were different from those of rich families I had ever seen.

Since then, I have had my first friend since I entered school.

He took the initiative to chat with me, asked me to borrow homework to copy, dozed off in class every day, needed me to help cover up, couldn't answer the teacher's questions, and needed me to help remind him behind his back...

Obviously a rich son, but he doesn't seem to have any shelves, except for the exam, he will study hard, and the rest of the time he seems to be messing with his own personal affairs, and even the homework is for me to help do.

Of course, he said that he asked me to help, but in fact he gave me a lot of "ghostwriting fees", and he saw that my family was in difficulty, so he used this euphemistic way to provide me with financial "assistance".

I'm grateful to him, and thanks to him, life at Arasaka Academy doesn't seem to be so boring anymore.

However, in the day-to-day life of the college, he did not know which day he began to stop coming to school, and he took many days off in a row.

I thought something had happened to him, but one day he came back and his temperament was a little different from before.

He bought a sports car and took me home after school.

On the way back, we talked to each other for a long time, talked a lot, and then he suddenly asked me if I wanted to work with him and join the "garbage disposal studio" he founded.

I said yes, and from then on, I started my life as a marginal person.

The so-called "garbage disposal studio" is naturally a disguise, but in fact it is just a signboard used by Lin Mo to act as a façade for the team.

What we do has almost nothing to do with "garbage disposal".

I officially became a "marginal person" in the reserves, suffering beatings every day, and in the studio team, I was an inconspicuous little person, doing trivial work at best.

But on the other hand, I was lucky to meet such a good team member, and each of them became my best friends in the future, and we all had lifelong friendships.

Perhaps, this is the reward of fate, I can only make one friend to Lin Mo after so long in school, but now I can have so many friends with me.

In the beginning, I just treated this job as my deputy job, thinking that it would not be a problem to keep doing this, after all, people have to look forward.

In today's world, the only way to get a truly promising job in society is to "join the company".

And now, I find that I seem to be starting to like it... Maybe one day in the future, I'll be able to become a full-fledged person... Really pick up a weapon and go kill someone.

And the psychological counseling and persuasion work on my mother's side was done by Lin Mo.

I don't know what ecstasy soup he poured into my mother, and it is unlikely that someone like her, who loves me so much, would have made me do such a dangerous job.

But in the end, she actually agreed to Lin Mo's request for the first time.

Things gradually took a turn for the better, and my mother started to get into the studio business.

She quit her job at the medical center and began to devote herself to the construction of the studio, and she was appointed by Lin Mo to be in charge of logistics, specifically to provide a place for our team of marginalized people to rest and recuperate.

On the bright side, she also became the head of the garbage studio, and she recruited her subordinates to devote herself to the garbage disposal business in Santo Domingo.

The empty name of "garbage disposal studio" now has a substantial business.

But those days didn't last long.

As our team's reputation grew louder and louder, we inevitably ran into a lot of difficult things... and a person who wanted to take Lin Mo's life.

His name is Roy, the chief technology officer of Moore Technologies, and he is a big man who stands at the top of the world.

For various reasons, we had an irreconcilable conflict with him, which eventually led to the other party offering a reward for Lin Mo's head.

Yes, Lin Mo is "Ink Shadow", the former legend of Night City.

What happened after that, you can go and search for the Night City Nuclear Bomb Incident, one of which is about Johnny Silverhand, and the other is about him.

And in that incident, I also actually killed someone, using a sniper rifle with my own hands, and knocked down the company's security guard who was sitting in the floating car.

At that moment, I clearly realized... In the future, I will never be able to return to my former campus youth life.

But it doesn't matter!

Even if there were no accidents at home during my studies, I successfully graduated from the college, and in the end I just continued to be a dog running for life in the company.

I want to be a human being, a living person, and never work in vain for the company to be a dog!

At that time, I had a clear idea of what I had to do.

But it seems a little late.

...... The end of the whole thing was that the ink shadow disappeared in the nuclear explosion.

I will never forget that dazzling explosion, like the sudden appearance of the sun in a starry night, and the moment it appears, the whole world will be watching.

Because it is the "sunrise", it is always worth climbing the mountain and looking far away, and it is worth remembering that moment.

Ink Shadow eventually left.

His disappearance has deprived the team of backbones, but we have always believed that he will come back one day.

Life has to go on, our team started their own lives, and my mother is still trying to run the business of the studio, trying to make the studio bigger and stronger, and even become a real small company.

Some of the other people in the team went to act as intermediaries, expanding their contacts and accumulating resources;

Some choose to travel around the world, planning to take a break and look for Lin Mo's traces by the way;

Some join a friend's team of marginalized people and continue to be a marginal person.

I was the last one to join my friend's fringe squad and start a formal fringe life.

......

......

(After a long silence)

My name is David Martinez and I'm a regular edgewalker.

My starting point was ordinary, just an ordinary Arasaka Gakuin student.

But it is precisely because it is ordinary that there are infinite possibilities.

In the past, I may never have imagined that I would one day become a marginal person, holding guns and equipment every day to complete the tasks assigned by intermediaries, so as to get a good reward.

In the new team, I adapted very well.

The atmosphere of the team is very harmonious, and each teammate has their own characteristics, and they are all trustworthy partners and friends.

Big grin, there is no serious one on weekdays, but Brother Mann will be serious when he should be serious;

Like yellow, super love handicrafts, and a character jumpy Pila;

Elegant and easy-going, a trustworthy adult, but very sullen behind the scenes, Falco;

Sister Dolio, who is kind and gentle and has a delicate personality...

and Qiwei, who doesn't talk much and has a somewhat mean attitude; t-bUG sister who likes to speak philosophical sentences and is calm and composed; The gecko whose brain is a little dull, but is extremely reliable in a critical moment...

There were eight people on the team, including me, and it was rare for a fringe team of this size to be seen in the entire Night City.

After all, there are more monks and fewer porridges, so many tasks and rewards, and each more person means that the reward is less, and the number of people is as high as eight, which means that we have to take on those tasks that are more difficult and pay more.

Fight criminal gang dens, attack company convoys, rescue a powerful man, or even eliminate corporate agents who come for revenge... Every task is the most difficult, and any miss will cost us our lives.

Luckily, the two intermediaries who handed us over were quite reliable.

They are Jack and Rogge, the former is an old friend of Lin Mo's team in the past, and the latter is the queen of the afterlife bar, and the two have absolutely no intention of deceiving or deceiving us.

As I grew up, I wore more and more prosthetic bodies, and my role and status in the team also increased.

In less than three months, I have become the mainstay of the team, and the prosthetic body that I am best at using is [Sianweistan] - it is also the prosthetic component that Lin Mo is best at using.

My talent is quite good, maybe because I am still relatively young, but in short, I have a good prosthetic tolerance and can use Sänwistein many times.

And this also responds to that sentence, it is precisely because I am an ordinary Arasaka student that there are infinite possibilities.

In this way, more than half a year has passed, and our team has become a well-known ace team in the afterlife bar.

When the fame grows, a lot of bad things will follow, and everyone's energy in the team will be almost consumed.

Even if we take a vacation for every time we finish a ticket, we still can't stop those fools who come to cause trouble and find you bad luck.

Just when I thought I might retire if I continued like this for another year or two, another thing happened that caught me off guard, but I cried tears of joy

- My best friend Lin Mo is back!

We met in a warehouse for just over half a year, but it seemed like we were separated by several years.

We talked a lot, teased each other, and everyone changed a lot.

Then, since he has returned, he is naturally unwilling to be silent.

Under his leadership, our team has done many things one after another.

The convoy that attacked the Arasaka Company, led by Adam Hammer; Assist Dogtown Leader Hansen in dealing with the Shinmei agents within Dogtown, allowing him to finally prove his innocence.

Hansen was very optimistic about us, and even sold a lot of weapons and equipment that were forbidden to circulate in the market, and the strength of our team was greatly enhanced.

During this period, an interesting incident also happened, that is, Johnny's silver-handed brother, who returned again, was arranged by Lin Mo to be a temporary substitute in our team.

At first, we didn't know that he was a legend of the old days.

It wasn't until the day when we were honest that he told us about the past.

I was shocked to hear that he was Johnny's Silver Hand more than fifty years ago, as if the characters you had only learned about in books since you were a child suddenly appeared in front of your eyes.

To be honest, I couldn't have dreamed of this scene in the past...... The former legend appeared in front of his eyes and talked happily with him...

Obviously, more than a year ago, he was just a student of Arasaka Academy, and in the game, he may be just an ordinary passerby NPC.

Brother Silver Hand is very optimistic about me, saying that I am about the same age as Lin Mo, but I have not been infected with Lin Mo's bad temperament at all, and compared with Lin Mo, it seems that I am more pleasing to the eye.

He asked about my past, and I told him briefly about my past.

He didn't make any comments about my past, after all, it was a personal matter, so how could outsiders evaluate right and wrong?

Brother Silver Hand just patted me on the shoulder in the end and said that I was doing a good job, because not everyone has the courage to change everything, in the Chinese idiom, that is, to break the kettle.

I understood that he was talking about my choice to be a "marginal person".

Once, I also asked him, why do you still cling to this city, he is a person who has died once, and now he has finally regained his life, he has struggled all his life in his previous life, can't he enjoy it now?

"Death is not the end of everything, numbness and accommodation are." Here's how he answered me.

At first, I didn't understand what this meant, but after thinking about it and knowing that Brother Silverhand was a person who had died once, I had a little understanding of what this meant.

Yes, death is not the end of everything - there is a person who is alive and he is dead; Some people are dead, and he is still alive.

The end of life will only depend on when you choose to be numb and accommodating, not at the end of your life.

Nobody? Or is it world-famous?

I choose the latter.

So my life came to a new turning point.

My most trusted big brother Jack has brought an unprecedented "commission" to our team, and the difficulty can be described as "as difficult as heaven".

- Attack the European Bank and get rid of all the security there!

This commission is undoubtedly the largest deal that the team owner has ever received in the industry.

The opportunity to make a name for yourself is now!

Can ordinary people be famous all over the world?

I pondered for a long time, and finally came up with the answer.

I think so.

......

I sat in the first seat of the concert venue in a daze, watching the big brother of the silver hand standing on the stage and singing enthusiastically, his voice high as if it could pierce people's numb hearts.

This is the place he reserved for me, and this concert is free of charge, and if I don't leave some seats in advance, I'm afraid there will be no place for me in the whole square.

The fans are in tears, the fans are cheering, the fans are screaming, but they can't cover the roar of Johnny's silver hand...

I think he sings really well, and I envy his personality charm, after all, it is not easy to be famous like him, and to be like him is "the glory of life and death".

But now, I have the choice to become as unusual as him.

So, after he stepped down, I went with my friends to another location, the door of the European Bank.

The rain was still falling, and the seedlings I had planted in the past seemed to be about to grow up, but I didn't want to bloom or bear fruit, I just wanted to meet the flames and burn vigorously!

My name is David Martinez, an ordinary fringe walker who came here today to do something big with my friends.

We, with the fire in the chest, turn the prairie into a fire.

Burn it to the ground, this life!