Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Two groups of people, one in front and one behind, chased towards Klein and Fors in a funny and identical manner.

Leonard ran quickly in front carrying the Seven of Hearts, creating a considerable distance between him and the red-robed exile behind him. The Seven of Hearts on his shoulder was laughing, with no sense of running for his life at all. From time to time, he would pull out a few cards from nowhere and fly them towards the pursuers, causing sporadic explosions.

The three exiles behind him rushed out from the explosions and flames. Although they were far away from the former, they were still chasing him closely. A sturdy man in a red robe was running below. His pair of powerful mechanical prosthetic limbs turned directly into two rows of wheels, and he was swiftly and quickly flying on the ground. On his shoulders sat two exiles who looked very similar. One of them was holding a heavy machine gun, with magazines hanging all over his body. The other was wearing a standard engineering helmet and holding a very clean...

Wait, is that a toilet plunger?

But in the opinion of Klein, who had witnessed Leonard's speed and strength, their current speed was still slow, as if they had fallen into some abnormal state.

In fact, it was true. Before that, Leonard and the Seven of Hearts encountered a surprise attack. In the midst of the conflict, a retro disco ball hidden between the concrete and the broken shelves suddenly shone brightly. Under the illumination of the colorful light spots, a dull and heavy feeling immediately crept over the two of them.

Even though the Seven of Hearts used a playing card to blow away the shining ball lights in time, the two people's movements still became much slower. Facing the three exiles rushing out, the Seven of Hearts was the first to choose to turn around and run. After weighing the opponent's highly cybernetic enemy, Leonard simply went up to pick up the Seven of Hearts and ran away.

Leonard didn't dare to move forward rashly. Neither of them could judge whether the other party had other unknown extraordinary items. Especially when he saw the other party's pair of prosthetic bodies that looked good, Leonard, who was in a slow state and had lost his spiritual intuition, decided to return to his familiar advantageous terrain first. The Seven of Hearts ran back directly with the things he had just looted!

Seeing that the other party was about to meet up with his teammates, the cyborg exile in the back threw the two companions on his shoulders forward. The two leaped forward with their weapons in their arms, and flew out of Leonard's sight under the influence of the huge force. Then the motor overclocked, and as the hot air was compressed and sprayed out, the cyborg exile immediately burst out at an astonishing speed and sprinted towards Leonard.

Seeing that he was back to the familiar venue, Leonard turned around, threw away the Seven of Hearts on his shoulder and stepped forward to fight.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed.

The sprinting cyborg exile grabbed the huge iron shelves on both sides, swung his hands, and threw them at Leonard like trash. Leonard was not to be outdone, he picked up a few steel bars on one side, held them together, swung his hands, and smashed the flying behemoth head-on.

There was a loud crash, and the huge and fragile shelf was completely shattered by the huge force, breaking into pieces in a cloud of dust and falling from the sky with a clang.

Leonard keenly caught two points of light in the turbidity amid the flying dust. Then he immediately dodged to the left, and two sharp and deadly blades fell from the sky and fiercely stabbed into the piles of shelf ruins.

In a flash, Leonard's safe distance was quickly breached. Because of this, Leonard was able to observe the opponent more intuitively. At this time, the hands of the cyborg exile were broken at the wrist, and the entire forearm split into several petals and turned outward, turning into two slender and sharp mantis knives.

This person not only had prosthetics on his legs, but also on both arms!

The exile showed his crooked teeth, let out intermittent meaningless roars, and traces of fresh saliva remained at the corners of his mouth. A bad guess suddenly came to Leonard's mind.

This guy... couldn't he be the legendary cyber madman whose sanity was destroyed because of too many prosthetics? !

Although prosthetics are commonplace nowadays, they are still only used as a compensation for human defects, and only a few radicals regard them as a form of human development or human enhancement. The extent to which both legs and arms have been transformed with prosthetics is already ridiculous.

However, with the popularity of prosthetics, the criminal records of Sivella Field gradually increased with the number of prosthetic carriers who committed random murders and crimes without reason. Without exception, these people had undergone a large number of prosthetics due to accidents. The hospital also found in some large-scale prosthetics projects that some patients would gradually develop various mental problems after a high proportion of prosthetics, and even completely lose their minds and commit various antisocial violent behaviors, especially those who received prosthetics in important parts such as the spine and brain.

Some scholars have gradually come up with a view that inserting a high proportion of artificial bodies into the human body is likely to cause great damage to the human spirit, and even lead to mental problems, and eventually lose reason and go completely crazy. Such people are called cyberpsychopaths, or cyberlunatics.

However, there is still no clear conclusion on cyberpsychosis. Firstly, prosthetic modification is not very common at present, and is mostly used to restore daily functions. Secondly, in this case, it is rare to have a large area of ​​limbs, internal organs, bones, etc. that can only survive by connecting a high proportion of prosthetics. The samples and number of observations are still very limited. Whether it is doctors or Sivella Field, they still cannot give a definite and affirmative report.

Some scholars and doctors believe that the main cause of cyberpsychosis is that too many non-original mechanical parts bring too many abnormal electrical signals, which puts a great burden on the normally functioning brain. Therefore, in daily life, every time you use the prosthesis, it will have a certain impact on the mind, just like using sandpaper to grind a rough rock. When one day, the sandpaper grinds out a smooth pebble, the mind of the modifier will completely collapse, and he will become a madman who can only kill indiscriminately and lose his reason.

For these people, they would be shocked when they find that a high proportion of patients who would have died in a car accident or disaster survived due to prosthetic modifications. They would be grateful for the hope of life brought by prosthetic technology, but they do not realize that a crazy end is quietly approaching them.

As the robe fluttered, Leonard vaguely saw a few hints of metallic light on the back of the Cyborg Exile's neck.

This guy actually has a prosthesis connected to his spinal cord!

Looking at the familiar man in front of him, Leonard finally confirmed that this man was the Cyber ​​Maniac!