Cyberpunk: Legends of Life

Chapter 5 For
Overcast clouds obscured the sky, and the morning was overcast and cool.

David went out to attend classes at Arasaka Academy, and stopped when he passed the company square in the Civic Center. Two holographic projection goldfish were still swimming in mid-air above his head.

One gold, one blue.

David stopped to watch for a while, and his eyes inadvertently met the person on the square on the second floor, who was wearing the same Arasaka Academy uniform as him.

It was Katsuo Tanaka, David's classmate at Arasaka Academy.

Faced with Tanaka Katsuo's malicious smile, David felt a toothache, but today he didn't want to have any entanglements with Tanaka Katsuo.

Backfired.

In the dark hallway under the company square.

Katsuo Tanaka led two classmates to block David at the exit of the aisle, which is the only passage for David to reach the Arasaka Tower.

Bright light shone in from the exit of the passageway, elongating Katsuo Tanaka's figure.

David saw his face shadowed and uncertain.

Katsuo Tanaka put one hand in his trouser pocket and said aggressively: "Quickly drop out of school and figure out the situation, David Martinez!"

"What's happening?"

"You're making trouble for the class!"

"If it's because of what happened yesterday"

"It's not just yesterday!" Katsuo Tanaka interrupted David, and continued contemptuously.

"I'm not targeting your poor family. In fact, I'm very open-minded. Besides, it's not your fault that you were born into a poor family. There is no rule that poor people can't study at Arasaka Academy. Of course, the premise is that they can afford the tuition!"

Katsuo Tanaka's tone gradually turned cold: "But what I can't forgive is another thing, do you know what it is?"

David didn't want to have any entanglements with Katsuo Tanaka, and avoided friction with him from the beginning to the end. He looked aside and said coldly.

"Sorry, I didn't understand a single word that came out of your mouth."

Katsuo Tanaka immediately pointed at David's expression and said loudly.

"This is it!"

Katsuo Tanaka hates and targets David because his face is full of dissatisfaction and maverick, and his tone is always stubborn.

"Hurry up and drop out of school!"

"You don't belong here, freak!"

David looked at Katsuo Tanaka reluctantly, not understanding why the other party was so hard to force him, but now he had no choice but to accept it.

Katsuo Tanaka said indifferently: "The rubbish that can never be integrated into the class, if you ignore it, it will only pollute others. All you can do is not to implicate us!"

"Didn't you just say that as long as I pay the tuition, it's fine."

Katsuo Tanaka pretended to tilt his head in a playful expression.

"I heard that your mother came to the college yesterday and begged the principal for forgiveness, wept bitterly, and prayed that my precious son would not be expelled from school, right?"

"What a disgrace!"

"I've always found it very strange. What kind of money does your mother earn to pay for your tuition here? Do you want to tell everyone?"

"David Martinez?"

"What the hell is mom doing out there for you to come to college?"

Sentences of ridicule, provocations again and again, all poked at the most sensitive nerve in David's heart.

No matter how much Katsuo Tanaka bullied him and insulted him, he could bear it and even act as if he didn't see it, but he would never allow anyone to mock his mother yin and yang.

David's right foot raised his heel uncontrollably and shook subconsciously, and his whole body became restless, his eyes wanted to kill for the first time.

Katsuo Tanaka did not let David go and continued to attack.

"I can think of a way to make quick money in Night City, and that's illegal!"

David stopped his trembling steps and fixed his eyes on the aggressive Katsuo Tanaka.

"It's really enough!"

"Wait, who said enough is enough?"

"Go away." David didn't want to do this useless entanglement, and tried to leave from Tanaka Katsuo.

But Katsuo Tanaka deliberately stood in front of him and knocked David back again.

"Huh? Do you want to leave just like that?"

Katsuo Tanaka raised his hands and hit David three times in a row, then pretended to be careless and activated the prosthetic body to knock David back a few meters.

"Oh? What? What do you want?"

Katsuo Tanaka looked at the angry David and hooked his palms towards him.

"Come, come!"

David finally broke out his inner anger and threw his fist at Katsuo Tanaka, but to his surprise, his fist was easily caught by Katsuo Tanaka with one hand!

"Where did you get that bargain? Free chips?"

The voice just fell.

Katsuo Tanaka unleashed a set of extremely fast punches, directly hitting David's face, chest and abdomen, and kicking him away with his last kick.

"Kuiarm 400 series, the essence of real kung fu chips, your joints are still raw. Before you seek revenge on me next time, you should install a better prosthetic body first, or you will drop out of school directly."

Katsuo Tanaka dropped the words and tidied up his school uniform before turning and leaving.

David sat on the ground with blood all over his face. He was so painful that he could hardly stand up. After a while, the pain gradually subsided.

Now that the school uniform is rotten again, it is impossible to go to Arasaka Academy in this state, so I have to go to a prosthetic doctor for a kidney transplant operation to get money.

David dragged his exhausted and injured body to the prosthetic doctor's clinic. The prosthetic doctor couldn't help asking with a smile when he saw him in such a state.

"Did you fight with someone else? I'm afraid you're not suitable for a kidney transplant because you've lost so much blood. You'll die after surgery."

"Don't be so long-winded!" David clutched his stomach and suppressed the pain, lay down on the surgery bed, bared his teeth, and said, "It doesn't matter to you if you die, just pay the money to my mother's clinic."

The prosthetic doctor took a multi-view mirror, slid in front of David in a wheelchair, and connected rubber tubes and data cables to various parts of his body. Countless codes and body function information rolled in the multi-view mirror. He sighed with astonishment.

"It's such an amazing body. After suffering such a serious injury, it can recover so quickly naturally. All the functions of the body are almost at the highest level. It's probably worth a lot of money to dismantle your internal organs and sell them."

"Look at your strong and powerful heart, and the filtering and metabolic speed of your kidneys. It's really enviable. I have to say that your body is almost born for implanting prosthetics."

David urged in a deep voice: "Don't talk so much, do the surgery quickly!"

soon.

David, who had just finished the operation and received money, received a call from the chief surgeon of the black clinic before he had time to rest.

"Mr. Martinez?"

"Calling to inform you about Gloria Martinez"

"Please come to the hospital immediately."

David, who was extremely weak, speculated that he needed to pay medical expenses, so he returned to the gloomy black clinic building with a stack of wrapped Oujin banknotes. The doctor who received him was still the same surgeon as last time.

Standing in front of the door of the operating room on the second floor, the chief surgeon was wearing the same clothes, speaking in the same cold tone, with blood dripping on his hands, as if he had just finished the operation.

"She was stable this morning, but her vital signs suddenly plummeted. She has passed away. After all, it was the cheapest package, and she was already weak before the car accident. It looks like she was overworked. Here is the funeral plan we provide. .”

David's hearing became more and more blurred, and he felt that his eyelids began to close involuntarily, as if his whole body had fallen into the cold deep sea, and was about to be swallowed by the horror from the darkness of the bottom of the sea, but he had long been unable to struggle. , just reaching out to grab something.

"Mother."

Gradually lose consciousness.

fall into darkness
"Well"

David was awakened by a sudden headache, and the violent beam of light shone straight into his eyes, making him constrict his pupils involuntarily.

After the strong white light dissipated, David rubbed his eyes and tried to see the scene in front of him clearly.

"David!"

There was an all too familiar voice.

"Um?!"

David looked closely and found that his mother with red hair in a ponytail was sitting beside the hospital bed worryingly soothing his forehead.

"Mother?"

"David, you're finally awake!"

Gloria was almost weeping with joy, she firmly grasped David's hands and put them on her forehead to feel the temperature.

David didn't seem to have reacted to what was happening before him, he just murmured in doubt.

"Mom, what's going on?"

Gloria wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"It was Mr. Tang who saved us."

(End of this chapter)