Chapter 54 Time to wake up from the dream
When does a person become conscious?
He didn't know.

But in the endless darkness, he heard someone crying beside him:

"David, David..."

Immediately, the voice turned into a cheerful and warm female voice.

"I hope you work hard, become an elite, and climb to the top of Arasaka Tower."

There was another man's voice that was rich in vicissitudes of life, but still free and easy.

"Aren't you faster than anyone else? Now, let's run."

You, who are you?

With an urge to cry, he involuntarily began to reminisce.

But what followed was a headache.

-Severe headache.

Fragmented memories are like picking up sharp broken mirrors piece by piece. Not only can you not pick them up, but they will leave deep scars on yourself and cause bleeding.

At this moment, he wanted to shout.

A burning desire for destruction arose in my heart.

This desire for destruction spreads throughout the "body" like wildfire.

He even wished he could tear off his limbs, tear out his internal organs, break off the bones one by one, cut his head into two pieces, and then dig through the bloody remains to find what he wanted.

In the midst of the severe pain, a dreamy and soft female voice sounded, with some emotion, and in this emotion, there was also deep compassion.

"You haven't changed at all. You live for other people's dreams."

The strange thing was that he had a feeling when he heard this sound.

The pain was no longer pain. He didn't feel pain, let alone suffering. He was just tired.

I am so tired.

It's as tiring as carrying two mountains on your back.

Now that you are tired, take a rest.

The female voice seemed to be saying this.

So he stopped thinking about it, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

-

in the real world.

Today is the third day that Ye Hengzhou came to Pig Cage Walled City. Liang Liwei’s treatment of David came to a standstill. Looking at the sleeping David, Liang Liwei frowned and sighed:
"His vital signs have returned to stable, but... there is still no sign of waking up. If it is not optimistic, alas..."

Rebecca didn't listen to these words. She just lay on the bedside, holding David's hand, resting her head on his chest, feeling the illusory warmth and heartbeat coming from the depths of this mechanical body. .

She was just like this, staring blankly at this resolute, haggard, and painful face.

Rebecca still remembered how young and naive David was when he was first abducted into the team. He couldn't even use a gun.

But it was such a rookie who not only snatched the Sianwistan ordered by Boss Mann, but also had the audacity to install this fatal thing on himself.

At that time, Rebecca only regarded this student boy as a bastard who was not afraid of death and did not care about his life. However, David's growth rate exceeded everyone's expectations. After the death of his eldest brother, he took up the whole team and became a leader. A real man.

With David's blessing, all members of the team can not only survive in Night City, they can even live well, live wonderfully, and live passionately.

Rebecca believes that one day, David will be able to realize his dream, stand at the top of Arasaka Tower, and become a new legend in Night City.

But the fact is, life is by no means a simple thing that anyone can see at a glance.

In the foreign country of Mulberry City, Rebecca deeply realized this truth.

All she can do now is pray.

Pray devoutly.

But——Ye Hengzhou was different.

People like him, even if they know that they will lose, be defeated, or die, they still have to fight hard and give it a try. They will never waste time praying, let alone place their hopes on anyone else.

But this does not mean that Ye Hengzhou will look down on those who choose to pray.

Because he knows that for people in this era, there are too many things that they can't do anything about.

What else could they do but pray?
Choosing to pray at least showed that Rebecca still had hope in her heart.

Hope is indeed a very precious thing in this day and age.

People who have hope are even more precious than hope.

Hey.

Ye Hengzhou has decided to save David.

Not for anything else, just to explain his feelings at this moment.

Feelings are one of the most precious emotions for people.

If feelings are not old, people will not be old.

Ye Hengzhou is not old at all.

He is sentimental but not sentimental.

He would never let down his feelings.

What's more, as Ye Hengzhou said to the charterer, he is a person who likes to help others to the end and send Buddha to the West. Since he rescued David, of course he must protect him to the end.

As his mind raced, Ye Hengzhou turned his head and asked Liang Liwei:
"Brother Liang, is there anything else we can do?"

Liang Liwei shook his head and said helplessly:

"The medical conditions here can only go so far. The rest is up to him."

"Is it just us here?"

Liang Liwei looked at Ye Hengzhou's expression and knew that this kid was thinking of going to the financial district to grab some medical equipment. He quickly stopped him and said:

"Not just here, even if it is placed in the recuperation warehouse of a large company, I'm afraid it won't have much effect."

Speaking of this, Liang Liwei looked sad as if he remembered something from the past.

"After all, current technology has not yet been able to make a breakthrough in the exploration of the human brain."

Ye Hengzhou nodded, looked at the stunned Rebecca, and asked sincerely:
"Little girl, I have a way now, which may be able to save David. But I have never used this method on anyone else. Whether it succeeds or fails, it's all in between.

Do you want to wait, or do you want me to take the chance? "

Rebecca raised her head in confusion, and a strong light of hope suddenly burst out in her blank, heterochromatic eyes.

She didn't say anything, just nodded heavily.

Ye Hengzhou also nodded. He put his hand on David's forehead, closed his eyes, and used his mental powers to the maximum to synchronize and resonate with David's brainwaves.

This application was also learned from Chixin.

For strong men who can fight at supersonic speeds, the efficiency of verbal communication is too low in battle. Transmitting information with consciousness is the faster way to communicate.

Whether it's communicating with teammates on how to cooperate, or talking nonsense to get the enemy's mentality, this thing is extremely useful.

When he said this, Chixin smiled heartily and brightly.

The useless thoughts disappeared in a flash, and Ye Hengzhou had entered David's dream.

He opened his eyes and saw nothing but a wasteland.

Endless wilderness.

Yellow sand filled the air and heat waves rolled in. In this desolate, dead world, there was only a pile of burnt black dry firewood.

David sat next to the firewood, clasping his knees with his hands, burying his immature face in his knees, and ignored the calls from the outside world.

Seeing Ye Hengzhou appear, he raised his head, revealing a pair of confused eyes.

Ye Hengzhou grinned with an excited smile.

I’m not good at talking therapy, so why not electrotherapy?

Before David had time to react, he was hit by lightning from across the sky. Within a few seconds, his whole body smelled of burning and he fell limply to the ground. The real owner was paralyzed, but this dream showed no signs of ending.

Even with Ye Hengzhou's shallow knowledge of dreams, he knew that dreamers would bring themselves into the dream, and everything would be based on this and expand outward.

If this foundation does not exist, then the dream will disappear. Without the subject, this dream world would be meaningless.

So where is the subject of this friend in front of me?

Ye Hengzhou touched his chin, a little confused, and pondered for a moment, but to no avail.

He finally gave up thinking and turned to look at the sky, smiling eagerly.

If you can’t find it here, let’s go deeper inside.

Ye Hengzhou waved his hand, and the power of his mind turned into an invisible big hand, tearing open this false curtain and moving deeper into David's consciousness.

-

Night City.

A young man wearing an Arasaka Academy formal suit and a pair of legged sweatpants was running wildly through the messy streets and alleys. Gang members along the way gave him numerous puzzled looks.

——How can a rich person who can afford to attend Arasaka Academy hang out in such a gathering place for sewer rats?

The young man's name is David Martinez. Although he is studying at the expensive Arasaka Academy, he is a street kid who relies on his mother, Gloria, to sell prosthetic bodies to earn tuition.

If there were no accidents, after his mother died in a gang fire, he would choose to install the Sianwistan left behind by his mother and join Mann's mercenary team. From then on, he would live a life of licking blood with the tip of a knife, fighting for other people's dreams, and finally A legendary life that died at the top of Arasaka Tower.

But at this moment, something unexpected happened.

An unmodified hand stretched out from the darkness and lifted David up.

David turned his head and saw the man who had captured him.

He has two sharp eyebrows that seem to have been drawn with a heavy brush. His eyes are darker than the thick eyebrows, like two shiny black agates, full of strange energy, shining with the power to penetrate people's hearts.

This is a native person without any modification.

Ye Hengzhou looked at David and raised his dagger-like eyebrows. David felt as if his eyes had been stabbed by someone, and he closed them unconsciously. He heard the man sigh:

"Good boy, you can really hide it. Fortunately, I am more skilled and you finally caught it."

Although David is a student, he has not been exposed to the dark side of this city. In other words, the cruelty of this city is already on the bright side, and anyone can see, hear, and feel it.

Therefore, when he heard this, his heart immediately sank to the bottom and he became worried about his mother.

——Something happened with my mother.

Ye Hengzhou didn't care about David's thoughts at all. He only felt satisfied, and there was an unknown feeling of exhaustion and fatigue in his eyes.

——This situation is extremely rare for him.

This happened because he spent too much effort searching for David's conscious subject.

Although the time flow rate in the consciousness space is different from that in the outside world, the amount of mental effort that can be expended is real. Even with Ye Hengzhou's spiritual refining background, it was a bit overwhelming for a while. He understood better that it would be better to use this method sparingly in the future. .

And now, it's finally coming to an end.

But since he has consumed so much anyway, it doesn’t hurt to let this kid have some fun. It’s just a dream after all.

The feeling brought by this kind of deep soul communication is far beyond what watching a movie or playing a game can compare with.

In the process of searching for the subject of David's consciousness, Ye Hengzhou was truly in the same place as David and felt the same way.

Naturally, Ye Hengzhou had a lot of sympathy for this young man who had a miserable life experience but could still stick to his bottom line, so he naturally did not hesitate to give him a sweet dream.

With this thought in mind, Ye Hengzhou smiled and used his signature rhetoric.

"Young man, it's incredible. You have a spiritual light ejected from the Heavenly Spirit Cap, you know. As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? I have this Pure Yang Palm here to police evil and punish rape, and to maintain world peace. I’ll leave the task to you, okay?”

After speaking, Ye Hengzhou didn't wait for David to answer. He raised his hand and covered David's head with his hand, then walked away, leaving the depths of David's consciousness and waiting for the dream to develop naturally.

in the real world.

Half an hour later, Ye Hengzhou slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at the anxious Rebecca and the expectant Liang Liwei, filled with an unknown sense of accomplishment.

Even for Ye Hengzhou, this was a very difficult challenge that he had never tried before. Therefore, when he completed such a challenge, he felt a sense of accomplishment.

What followed was a strong desire to appear holy in front of others.

The young man smiled slightly, full of Yuan Ting Yue Zhi's master style, and counted down inscrutably:

"3, 2, 1."

As expected, David woke up during the countdown.

Ye Hengzhou's smile became even more obvious.

Wealth does not show off, just like walking at night in brocade clothes.

Senior Chixin will not deceive me.

David only felt that he had had a long dream. In the dream, a mysterious man appeared and forced himself into a magic book called "Pure Sun", allowing him to maintain world peace.

Since practicing this book "Pure Sun", David's life has been like a rocket soaring into the sky, and he has been out of control ever since.

He didn't know why he had so many wild and fantastic ideas in his mind, and he didn't know why he suddenly couldn't bear these commonplace life.

All David knew was that he was going to change.

Not to change yourself, but to fucking change the world.

So, what does "fuck" mean?
David didn't know, and he didn't think about it carefully.

Because he has to do something.

The voice in his head told him that thinking couldn't change anything.

What he has to do is fight, resist, and struggle!
He massacred the Vortex Gang in Watson District, killing these illegal drug-smuggling beasts until they shook the yolks away.

Although David didn't know why he thought of this, he didn't even know what the "cutting off the roots and clearing up ideas" that popped into his head meant. He just thought it was so cool and cool.

He drank and chatted with the wanderers in the wasteland and formed the "Iron-Blooded Banner Gate". He was in the Kabuki District...ahem.

He clashed head-on with the violent terrorist mobile team and company agents, and killed all these guys who helped the evil with his own flesh and blood, completely establishing the name of the "Iron-Blooded Flag Sect".

He opened a martial arts school in Heywood District, teaching all kinds of people, teaching "Pure Sun", and reading the works of sages from the far East all day long with the apprentices who came here.

The names of this group of people are very strange. They are called "Golden Normal", "Yellow Change", and "Ancient Dragon". Although David didn't understand its meaning, he still led his apprentices to learn the spirit in the book, and gradually cultivated a group of backbones belonging to the Iron-Blooded Banner Sect.

David and his followers fought all over Night City, they fought in Heywood, they fought in Watson Quarter, they fought in Westbrook, they fought in Santo Domingo, they fought in Pacific Island.

The flames of war spread across this land where even the sun could not shine, until it reached the municipal center, burned up Arasaka Tower, and dragged everything into the abyss of destruction.

In the end, there was only one big flag flying and the sound of hunting.

David had never experienced such a bizarre yet realistic dream.

So much so that the first thing he did when he opened his mouth was to spit out a perfectly spoken Chinese sentence.

"Fuck, it feels so good."

This national quintessence made Rebecca, who was about to step forward and embrace David, freeze in place.

But David didn't notice his teammates who were close at hand. He only saw Ye Hengzhou standing with his hands behind his back.

The eyes of the electronic robot that transformed the human being were about to burst out with light. With a loud roar, he flew to the ground and hugged Ye Hengzhou's thigh, with tears streaming down his face.

"Teacher! Please guide me! I also want to learn martial arts!"

"What?"

The young man who gradually showed a smile was stunned on the spot.

 Ps:

  The chapter title comes from Teacher Wu Bo’s song. I must sing it every time I go to KTV. I recommend it to everyone.
  The lines that appear in David's memories are all from the "Edgewalker" animation. The first one is about his mother's expectations for him. After saying it, he died in a gang fight.

  The second one was Mainin, the eldest brother who brought him into the industry. Before he died, he persuaded him to escape.

  The third one is his girlfriend Lucy’s judgment and criticism of him.

  


(End of this chapter)

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