Gloria, who was lying on the bed, didn't know what to say anymore, she was in a hurry, so anxious that she wanted to scream.

But she was even more afraid that this hacker of unknown origin had packed her and David.

David hired hackers to threaten doctors?

Why did David have a gun, and... Killed?

Gloria's head was in turmoil, but she also realized that it must have been because the doctor had a bad idea.

Then she thought to herself: She really deserves it.

She works as an outsourced municipal cleaner for the NCPD, and her main job is to collect corpses.

Not everyone can afford it, and she will buy the members of the trauma team, and her job is to clean up the corpses of these poor people.

A large number of the corpses were street bastards, or mercenaries, with valuable prosthetics on their bodies - and so she teamed up with the red-shirted mental hospital.

She brought the body here for processing, and on the way there, she would choose to disassemble the valuable prosthetic body on the body, and when it arrived, she would not care what the hospital wanted to do with the body.

As a partner, the psychiatric hospital also gave her a minimum medical insurance package for free – so David traveled all the way from the westernmost side of Santo Domingue to the easternmost hospital.

Because David knew that his family was poor and had no money, he only had medical insurance in the Red Shirt Hospital.

But now, after she was injured, her former partner immediately showed her fangs.

Gloria desperately tried to get up, but the effect of the anesthetic on her body was still not completely gone.

She can only pray that Lille is not a scavenger.

"You... Who is it? ”

"David's classmates."

"Huh?"

"It's not important, the important thing is that you should die again without me."

Now David is not a little brother that Lille can accept - he can accept Archido's weak chicken, who has no talent for prosthetics and has no use in fighting.

But he can't accept a child who can't even pull the trigger when his loved one dies.

To be reasonable, he really wants to add a vital force to the team, and the mature David definitely has this qualification.

But David... He's the kind of person who can't grow without sacrificing his relatives—he can't sacrifice himself, right?

As for saving Gloria, Lille suddenly felt that maybe it was because her relationship with David was quite like that of herself and her mother in her previous life.

The difference is that he didn't grow up in Night City, and his academic career was much more successful than David's - David's mother died early and went out on the streets early, which Lille didn't have.

The same is... Lille felt that his mother's death had something to do with him.

Forget it, just think of it as a good deed - as for what will happen to David in the future, it depends on himself.

“... Mrs. Martinez, you know, human growth can basically be divided into three stages – the first stage as an adult, is the dog that falls overboard. ”

Gloria was stunned, not knowing what Lille was trying to do.

Lille continues: "The difference between an adult and a minor is that an adult knows his situation, knows what to do to survive as a dog in the rain, rather than fantasizing that he is not in the rain, but that the air is a little humid.

The second stage is the wolf, where the survival ghost chases after you, becoming more and more terrifying, and you are getting stronger and stronger - in order to cope with the increasing pressure of survival, you begin to be able to run, hunt, and tear off the largest piece of meat on the carcass of your prey. ”

Gloria's brain is buzzing.

She saw Lille's face - this was the man who intercepted the cyber psychopath on the highway.

Could it be that he is going to get sick too?

“... The third stage is the lion, where the male lion stares at his prey on the horizon and has no other target in his eyes.

It releases all stored energy from sunrise chase to sunset – either die or become a overboard dog again.

You and this kid need to grow up, Night City is not a paradise, and Arasaka Academy is not a dream base, Arasaka Tower... It's just a tower with a high point. ”

With that, Lille left the mental hospital.

Gloria let out a long breath - what's that?

Dogs, wolves and lions?

Has this person read too many fairy tales?

After a while, Gloria sat up from the bed, and David woke up suddenly: "Mom! ”

David, unconscious, feels like he's having a nightmare - a nightmare in which Gloria dies and... There is no then.

It's all nothingness.

"David!" Gloria struggled to get out of bed, but her feet went limp and she knelt beside David.

"Mom... That's great. David's eyes were empty, and he was suddenly relieved.

It's just that a text box suddenly appeared in his visual system, which was exactly what Lille had just said.

He had only heard of dogs, wolves, and lions, but he had a different kind of perception of what Lille had said.

What kind of person would ignore the dangers that can be seen everywhere and feel that he is walking on an incomparably bright road?

Perhaps this is the true portrayal of his David - not even a dog in the water.

“... Mom, I don't belong to Arasaka Academy, I'm going to drop out. ”

"David..."

"Mom, I'm serious - if it weren't for my luck this time, we'd all be dead - you spent all the money to let me study.

But we have to worry about life every day, we can't afford to buy insurance for trauma groups, and a random gangster with a gun can kill us when we go out.

If you think about it, every time we meet, it may be the last time we meet.

You can't live just by looking at the so-called big cake painted by Arasaka Gakuin and completely ignoring the real world. ”

Speaking of this, David paused, looked at his mother, and said seriously:

"Even if I can stand on the top of the Arasaka Tower one day, if you can't see it, it won't be meaningful."

Gloria was stunned, tears streaming down her cheeks.

She lowered her waist and covered her face: "I'm sorry... David. ”

David smiled - although the effect of the anesthesia had not yet passed, he smiled as best he could.

"Don't cry, Mom."

......

"What are you doing? Got me and Jack to wait for half an hour more! ”

As soon as he arrived at the Wolf Bar, Lille saw V with his arms crossed, like a bomb.

Lille scratched his head: "It's okay, I just met Archido's acquaintance, and he was almost demolished by a scavenger, so I went to do a little favor." ”

"An acquaintance of Archido?" V looked at it with suspicion, and even posted it directly.

"Uh... Actually, he is also a classmate of Arasaka Academy. ”

"Classmate...," V sneered, "Awesome, the weak chicken hackers on our team can help everyone, and they also kill the scavengers." ”

Lille spread his hands: "Come on, hurry up and get in the car, I still have to see the people of Kangtao - what's the matter with your hairstyle?" ”

V got a new hairstyle.

It used to be a one-sided shovel, but now it's short-haired.

Not only has the hairstyle changed, but also dyed a very cool blue-purple pink gradient, which looks a little less ruthless and a little softer and cooler.

V shook his hair proudly: "When I came back from that broken viper, I was hung by the iron pieces on the car a few times, and when I fought with James, I was cut off a little, so I just changed to a shorter hairstyle, right?" ”

Jack gave a thumbs up: "That's a must, it's good-looking." ”

Lille was amazed: "You're pretty awesome, I thought you were going to pick a new implant or a car first, and you ended up getting a haircut first?" ”

V grabbed Lille's head, strangled his neck with his left hand, and drilled his right hand into a drill on Lille's head.

"You, just, no, can, and, jie, gram, one, like, boast, two, sentence?"

"Wrong, wrong!!"

Lille frantically patted V's arm, and Jack watched the two laugh as they passed by Misty's psychic house.

Misty also laughed when she saw this scene.

Jack used to be a lone wolf, but now he has a trustworthy companion as well.

Sensing Misty laughing, Jack stopped, and looked at Misty scratching his head:

"Well, the tarot cards are quite accurate, what was the last time we drawn? Chariots..."

"Magician, Grim Reaper and Chariot - Jack, what can you remember?"

Misty chuckled twice and poked Jack's head lightly.

However, the height difference between the two is too great, and this poke has to be very close.

Jack instantly became even more writhing: "I... There's so much I can remember, Misty, I mean, would you like to go for a ride? Wait until I buy a new car. ”

"Okay, as long as you don't forget."

"That's a must!"

Lille, who was locked by V, also waved his hand: "Thank you, Misty, the tarot divination last time was a great help - can you let it go!" I'm going to be pulled off by you! ”

V didn't relent: "Let your mouth be cheap - don't worry, Misty, if Jack forgets me, I'll remind him as soon as possible." ”

Jack smiled hesitantly: "Then we're out, you have to wait for me, okay!" ”

"Okay~ I'm here, I'm not going anywhere, hurry up and follow your good brothers."

Misty watched the trio drive away, and Jack, who was in the back seat, opened the window and waved to her.

She used to think that Jack was very cheerful, but every time she went out and came home, she always felt that he was suppressing something.

Now, she could tell that Jack was really happy.

Maybe this is Heywood's child.