553 I want you to climb to the top of the Arasaka Tower!
Today's night is especially lively, but compared to the real people's lives, the life of Night City in "Edge Walker" is much more vivid.
With a garbled ripple, a teenager lying on the sofa with his hands flat on his chest and pretending to hold a weapon trembled all over, his body twisted, and let out a roar of pain.
[So, what do you think, the marginal man just died two hours ago, and he harvested this unpolluted "memory" from his corpse "while it was hot"]
"Great!" David sat up from the couch, his eyes shining, and there was endless excitement in them, he took off the device on his head, "Doctor, you are amazing!" ”
At this moment, everyone who watched the anime was stunned for a moment.
Just those, are the memories?
Can memories be experienced?
This is the world of cyberpunk?
People have a lot of ideas about the future world, and now, this anime is also demonstrating everyone's vision of the future one by one.
And the owner of the memory he had just experienced was called, a cybermaniac.
In the cyberpunk world, it is possible to modify oneself with a prosthetic leg to gain more power, but this power also comes at a cost.
If you transplant too many or too strong prostheses, the prosthetics will erode the brain and produce hallucinations, resulting in a slow loss of reason, hovering on the edge of human nature, until you completely lose your mind.
Mewtwo, a cyber maniac, cruel, bloodthirsty, powerful, and dizzy.
After a short opening, everyone also began to understand the world from the perspective of the protagonist David.
The male protagonist David can't be more ordinary, and his mother works hard to make money, just to send him to Arasaka's school to study, just to see the child get ahead.
Just like all families place their hopes on children.
And different children are bound to be out of place in such a complex environment, because they are afraid of spending money, so they use pirated software found by the prosthetic doctor to cause the campus network to be invaded and destroyed by viruses.
Being bullied at school and living aimlessly in a place that doesn't belong to you.
When he tilted his head and stared at the washing machine with empty eyes, he also saw his own chaotic future.
David told his mother, "I'm thinking about taking a leave of absence and looking for a job..."
"Mom, you know we really can't afford to maintain the system."
"And I'm quite out of place in the academy, and my mother doesn't know anything about it."
"As long as you are poor, you can't be taken seriously, no matter how hard I study, I can't be like them, and I don't want to be them."
My mother said, "I want to climb to the top of the Arasaka Tower, and if you have such a talent, you will definitely be able to do it." ”
As a result, he encountered a gangster fire and had a car accident on the way to drive, and this sentence also followed the life of the male protagonist.
Although they were affected by the fire, because they were poor, they did not have insurance for the trauma team, and in the era of privatized medical care, they had no money and could only die.
The last image of his mother in his mind was that of her lying in the flames of disaster, and the trauma team scanned and identified her with a simple sentence: "They don't have health insurance." Then he retreated.
Because he was poor and did not have a VIP who opened a medical institution, the trauma team was unwilling to help, so he could only take his mother to a private clinic, because it was the cheapest treatment package, so he couldn't even visit.
At that moment, everyone could see the confusion and helplessness in his mind, as well as the anxiety of waiting.
In 2077, money and status are everything, and before that, his mother helped him block all this, and the family gave a veil of tenderness to the warm society.
But after his mother was hospitalized, all the problems were exposed to him, and even the washing machine needed to be recharged before it could be used.
As a result, two days later, I was told the news of my mother's death, and the doctor just apologized, saying that my mother was too tired before her death, and her physical condition had been deteriorating.
Different emotions quickly gathered on David's face, and he tilted his head and listened to the doctor in the private clinic with his mouth half-open, and in the end he couldn't hear anything clearly.
There is a kind of people in this world called scavengers, who are the main suppliers of low-end illegal cyber components, and they supply other gangs, criminal gangs, and underground doctor groups.
Behind the inability to visit, who knows if the private doctor dismantled the mother's internal organs and prosthetic limbs and sold them?
After all, the little clinic looked hidden and ill-intentioned.
After my mother left, all the pressure became a person, expulsion from school, system maintenance costs, rent, contract fees for the use of household appliances, fines, ......
When David came home with his mother's urn and was close to collapse, he heard a mocking phone call from Arasaka's classmates,
"I know I owe my condolences to you, but I really can't sympathize...... She died in an accident and really can't sympathize with ......"
The words of the academy classmates were bound in David's mind like a mantra.
Just in the first episode, everyone who oppressed was out of breath, and that sense of despair came over their faces, and all the viewers seemed to have become oppressed in Night City, eager to lift their heads up and breathe a breath of fresh air every moment.
At this moment, he made a decision that was enough to change his life,
He took a military prosthetic leg to the prosthetist doctor.
The prosthetic body in his hand was something that his mother had taken from the cyber maniac's body after his death through her position, and was going to sell it to pay for his tuition.
Everybody in the whole city is looking for this thing,
No one thought that someone would dare to put this military prosthetic on their body, because the stronger the prosthetic, the stronger the physical fitness.
Ordinary people put on such limbs, waiting for only a directional result, exploding, becoming cyber maniac waiting to be cleaned up and then die.
None of the inhabitants of Night City know the cost of installing such a thing.
In this powerless and desperate world, he has no way to change.
At this moment, he just wanted to beat the person who insulted his mother in the school to the pulp.
In the previous fight with his classmates, he was ridiculed for being the original in the face of the classmate who was equipped with a delicate prosthetic, he had already tasted defeat, and now the only way to defeat the other party is to put this military prosthetic into his body.
As long as you can get revenge, then it doesn't matter if you become a madman and die.
"I won't charge you for this addition." The prosthetist doctor looked at the hairy boy who made money by selling pirated Mewtwo for him, "But if you lose your mind one day, this prosthetic leg belongs to me." ”
"Aang, take it."
David lay on the operating table indifferently, he had nothing to worry about in this life.
This is the end of the first day's animation, the prosthetist sitting on the operating chair, surrounded by various prosthetic limbs, set off by red and green lights, he does not look like a doctor, like a butcher showing flesh and blood to the guests.
After watching the first episode of the video, Yinzi was already depressed and out of breath, and the staging of this tragedy made this worldview more and more fascinating, but it also became more and more suffocating.
Seeing David being devastated by life, he desperately hoped that David would be able to kill all sides after putting on a new prosthetic leg, "Put it on and fuck it hard!" ”
Thinking of the insulting words of Arasaka's classmate, everyone was looking forward to one thing, which was to put on a new prosthetic leg and kill him.
But a new problem is also put in front of everyone, and the person with a powerful prosthetic leg has turned into a cyber maniac in the end, so David, will it be the same?
(End of chapter)