Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 4
Heavy gunfire interrupts Gloria's vision of her son's future.

I saw the driver's seat of the pink off-road vehicle on my right, raised a gold-shelled heavy machine gun, and aimed it at the company's black business car on my left.

The trigger was pulled, and the bullets spewed out like flames, and the golden bullet casings flew out of the gun chamber and fell to the ground one by one.

Tap-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat.
The bullets shattered David's car windows and A-pillars, and then bombarded the door panels and glass of the company's black car.

David instinctively leaned back trying to avoid the machine gun fire, and watched countless bullets penetrate their car windows and hit the black business car opposite.

Potted bullet holes and spider web-like cracks covered the right side of the car in an instant, but the powerful bullets still failed to penetrate the company's business car.

But David and his old-fashioned car couldn't bear the heavy firepower at all, and the front of the car was riddled with holes and almost rotted.

Followed by.

The black business car on the left suddenly accelerated and sprinted forward, and the off-road vehicle of the Animal Gang also stepped on the accelerator to follow.

The muscular man on the roof of the pink off-road vehicle was furious, roaring wildly while carrying a red RPG rocket launcher.

"Don't let the company dog ​​get away!"

"The company dog's saloon is galvanized!"

"Wait and see!"

"Beast Brothers of the Animal Gang!"

David saw both cars rushing forward.

The strong man on the roof of the pink off-road vehicle carried an RPG rocket launcher on his shoulders and fired shells directly at the business car.

But just when the shell came out of the chamber and was about to hit the business car, the company car abruptly avoided the bomb with a strange steering and sudden brake.

The shell exploded not far away, raising a cloud of dust.

The business car that stopped suddenly decelerated instantly and hit the left front wheel of the off-road vehicle behind.

Bang!
The collision of the two vehicles directly caused the off-road vehicle with a higher chassis to overturn severely. After flipping in the air, it hit the ground, and a violent explosion shot up into the sky instantly.

The off-road vehicle that was blown into wreckage slammed heavily into the direction Gloria was driving.

"mom!"

"Put on the brakes!"

Gloria tried her best to steer and slam on the brakes, but the front of the car still refused to control and crashed straight into the wreckage of the off-road vehicle.

David stared wide-eyed, watching helplessly as the wreckage of the off-road vehicle hit him head-on.

Then there was another bang!
Bang!
David felt his world spinning suddenly, and his vision was plunged into darkness.

When he regained consciousness from the car accident and tried to open his eyes, he found that he was trapped in the seat of the rollover vehicle by the seat belt, and his mother Gloria was thrown out of the car and passed out on the ground, surrounded by a sea of ​​flames.

The fire gradually spread and engulfed his mother. David tried his best to break out of the predicament and save his mother.

But he failed.

The scorching oil flames were also approaching David himself, but he was seriously injured and unable to save himself, let alone his mother.

David felt helpless like never before, and only hoped that someone would come to help them.

Just when David was looking forward to it, a metal-shell floating vehicle landed in front of David's eyes rapidly, and two medical personnel in green sanitary uniforms walked out of the vehicle quickly.

"It's the trauma team, it's saved!"

David finally breathed a sigh of relief and saw the dawn again. As long as he could get medical treatment from the trauma team in time, his mother's life would definitely not be in danger.

Trauma team medical personnel in full armor came to David and squatted down to scan and identify him.

"This person is not a customer!"

"Neither is this woman!"

The cold words shattered David's dawn. He saw the two trauma team medical staff turn around and leave without any intention of treating their mother and child.

"and many more!"

Trauma team: "Our main task is to ensure the safety of our customers, and these people can be left in the municipal body truck"

"What are you doing? Wait! Are you leaving us here to die?!"

"Mom! Wake up! Bastard!"

"Damn it, get up quickly! Get up quickly! Damn it!"

David tried his last bit of strength to break free from the seat, but his lower body was stuck in the front of the car and he couldn't move.

"mom!"

The sea of ​​flames gradually approached Gloria.

David was completely desperate, and countless complex emotions rushed to his forehead, causing his consciousness, which had already lost too much blood, to fall into a coma again.

Suddenly he noticed footsteps gradually approaching, as if someone walked to the side.

He tried his best to open his exhausted eyes, but only saw the blurred figure of the other party, but still holding on to the last hope, he raised his finger and murmured to Gloria in the sea of ​​flames.

"Help my mother"

Then David felt as if the switch had been turned off and fell into a dark coma.

On the second floor of the dark and gloomy medical clinic, David sat on an old bench, staring up at the light sign above the mechanical door, which showed three characters.

in surgery.

After the car accident, David, who had done a simple wound dressing, was wearing a tattered Arasaka Academy uniform, waiting for news at the door of the operating room.

As the operating room lights went out, the chief surgeon came out from behind the door, with only a bib hanging on his upper body, and a green mask and dust mask on his face, which could not be seen.

The doctor came to David's side, still looking at the electronic tablet in his hand, and kept clicking on the screen with two thick arms in long sleeves, as if calculating the cost of the operation.

"The operation was very successful, but she is still in a coma and has not yet regained consciousness. We will arrange to be hospitalized for observation for a few days."

"Can I see her?"

"No, the cheapest package doesn't include sick visits."

"That's it"

"Here is the bill, please sign for it, and I have brought your mother's items, please pay within three days."

David stared blankly at the doctor handing over his mother's package, and could only passively cope with and accept what happened.

"That's why everyone buys insurance in Night City," the doctor said before walking back to the operating room.

David sat on the bench with his mother's package in his hands, staring ahead in a daze.

a long time.

He took a long breath, hugged his bag tightly and got up to leave. He walked to the gate and looked back at the dilapidated black clinic. The dilapidated red lamp billboard was blazing with only the word "clinic" on it. As for the prefixes of the clinics, they were all in black.

David was walking on the neon streets of Night City, and the night view of the city was even more illusory and blurred. Looking up at the city center, there were several huge light and shadow advertisements going straight into the sky, which seemed to be in contrast to the dark blue and green street scenes on both sides of him. world.

He walked to the Santo Domingo super skyscraper H4, and returned to his door as usual to open the electromagnetic gate, but found a levitating laser projection flashing at the door.

"Refused entry, rent overdue."

David kicked the iron door hard, turned around and climbed home through the ventilation duct. He knew he couldn't give up now, and his mother was still waiting to pay the medical expenses.

After returning home, he began to try various ways to raise money, selling all kinds of chips such as basketballs and games on hand, but found that he could not sell much money at all.

David, who had been busy all night, made all the phone calls and contacted everyone he could, but he couldn't raise his mother's medical expenses at all.

Desperate, David had no choice but to ask the prosthetic doctor who sold him pirated upgrade software, how much he could exchange for one of his kidneys on the black market if he sold one of his kidneys.

The prosthetic doctor checked David's body function parameters, and accidentally found that David's body function was different from ordinary people's excellent. a kidney.

But the prosthetic doctor told him that if he waited a little longer, it was possible to wait for a suitable person, and then the kidney could be sold at a higher price.

But David couldn't wait too long, so he decided to have the surgery tomorrow and sell it for money. The most urgent thing is to save his mother!

Although he was tired after a busy night, David still insisted on changing into his school uniform and going to teach at Arasaka Academy. He could not be expelled from school again because of absenteeism. His mother had already endured too much for him!
(End of this chapter)