Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 20: Edgerunners

In this era, although the human body can be enhanced with prosthetics, excessive prosthetic modification can also cause nervous system rejection.

Most people would choose to take anti-rejection drugs. However, if the transformation is too profound, the anti-rejection drugs themselves will not be able to suppress it, causing the nervous system to go haywire.

When the disease occurs, reality and dreams are distorted to form hallucinations, and the patient will slip into the hallucinations and never wake up.

Because cyberpsychosis is almost equivalent to a "madman with too many prosthetics", if he really goes crazy, he will take at least a dozen lives.

And in a sense
If the side effect of using a prosthetic like Sian Westin is that it causes a person to go insane, then as long as I'm already insane, can't I use it without restriction?

A: Yeah, it’s true!
Lu Mingfei had a feeling as early as the first time he met the members of the Vortex Gang in the northern industrial zone. These guys took stimulants for no reason. The guy who tipped off the gang at that time was not so much in a trance as he was unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

And their little leader is a mad boy who has been reformed to a high degree.

So Lucy and Lu Mingfei looked at each other and both felt very bad.

Said in unison——

""run!""

Boom! Boom! Boom!
The two men kept fleeing in the northern industrial area, moving back and forth on the factory roof like nimble monkeys, while the leader of the Whirlpool Gang chased them like a madman.

Wherever they ran, explosions were heard, and the constantly exploding gunpowder barrels dyed the night sky of the entire factory red.

And this escape finally reached the end after about seven minutes.

Lucy and Lu Mingfei were finally forced into a dead end in the northern industrial zone. Apart from the pursuit of this damn cyber psychopath, the biggest reason was that Lu Mingfei could no longer run.

The wound on his abdomen had no time to heal, and he continued to run at super high speed while carrying someone on his back.

The amount of blood spilled was enough to fill a large bottle of Yilibao.

And now.
“Finally, the end of the road”

Leaning against the wall, Lu Mingfei put Lucy down.

Lucy, who was standing aside, looked at the approaching little boss, pressed her hands on her temples, and tried her best to use her hacking skills.

but.
【Om—】

With a flash, from Lucy's perspective, the opponent disappeared from the observable range in an instant, the puppet's upload was interrupted, and the hacker attack was crushed by the simplest physical method.

Looking at the little boss who was approaching him, Lu Mingfei gasped and felt his eyelids were so heavy that he could hardly open them.

"Is that the end?"

Simply increasing abilities cannot adapt to Lu Mingfei's current weak foundation.

Even if a week of cramming made him a qualified 'Night City resident', it didn't mean he would be able to survive.

[No one in Night City dares to say they are absolutely safe]

Even if you can repel the Arasaka armed team by yourself, you can't guarantee that you will definitely see the sun tomorrow.

This is Night City.

A hell where a little bit of 'bad luck' can swallow you up and end in tragedy.

Lu Mingfei was unwilling to admit it. He gritted his teeth and secretly took out a purple syringe from behind his back, while his slender fingers also held another blue injection tube.

What he had just taken from the leader of the Vortex Gang was not just a grenade, but also the combat stimulants that the Vortex Gang produced in large quantities. The blue thing was the pneumatic injection [Fulcon Type 3] that Old Wei had repeatedly told him to bring with him, saying that it was to save his life.

One tube has been used in the battle, this is the last one.

Lu Mingfei decided that if the critical moment came, he would risk his life.

Even if he still can't win even with this thing, Lu Mingfei will have to consider [trading].

It sounds easy, just a quarter of life. Lu Mingfei has actually been on the brink of death, so he thinks he shouldn't care that much about his lifespan.

But I don't know why.
It was fine to say it, but when Lu Mingfei really thought of "deal", he felt an inexplicable panic engulfing him.

A voice kept echoing in his mind. He roared and yelled, telling himself——

Don't trade

[Even if I die, I don’t want it]

Lu Mingfei didn't know where the voice came from, but nothing in the world was more important than his own life.

——If the situation really becomes critical, will he still hesitate?
There were aftermath explosions everywhere, and the dust and iron debris from the factory mixed together and rose into the sky. The sky was a polluted blood red, and the cyber psychopath from the Vortex Gang was approaching Lu Mingfei.

The heartbeat keeps accelerating.

Consciousness gradually blurred.

The tinnitus stretched the edges and became sharper.

Everything in his vision was shaking. He could not even hear the movement of Lucy shaking her shoulders or the words she seemed to be repeating over and over again.

All that can be heard is the voice of the devil.

——【Want to exchange, brother?】

And Lu Mingfei's shouts and roars seemed to burst out from the inside of his soul.

——【Never trade, ever! 】

Two wills were entangled and fighting in his mind, and the deadline for the [transaction] was approaching.

Just when Lu Mingfei was about to make a choice——

boom!
A strong shock erupted on one side of the ear, followed by a stinging pain!
In the visual information, the leader of the Whirlpool Gang in front of him also suddenly tilted, and his whole body tilted to one side.

"Roar ah ah ah!!!"

But that was only for a moment. He quickly stabilized his body, turned around, and raised the thick arm that Lu Mingfei couldn't break no matter what, and pointed it in a certain direction.

The muzzle of the gun on the arm continuously emitted red light, and the bullets fired at high speed shot forward.

Is there an enemy?

Lu Mingfei, who was in a daze, was a little confused.

The cyber psychopath's behavior was as if he was attacked by someone. No, it wasn't just as if, he was attacked. In Lu Mingfei's shaking and severely distorted vision, he could vaguely see a large bloody pit on the cyber psychopath's forehead.

Blow that Vortex Gang guy's head off? A heavy kinetic weapon? Anyone with that kind of thing is pretty good among mercenaries, right?
(But who? Who would come to the Northern Industrial Zone to attack the Whirlpool Gang at this time? Lucy?)

(She kept shaking herself to let her know about her partner's existence?)

At the same time, the figure of the Whirlpool Gang leader was constantly changing.

At first he was only shot in the side, but it seemed that he was soon approached by something that even Lu Mingfei, who was in a weak state at the moment, could not see clearly.

boom! !

【Buzz——————】

There was a familiar electronic roar, that was the sound of Sian Westin turning on. The leader of the Vortex Gang began to accelerate, moving at a speed that Lu Mingfei could still catch.

The user is the crazy Uzumaki gang? But what about his enemies?
Why
(Even I can’t see clearly?)
All Lu Mingfei could see was a shadowy afterimage that seemed to have entered the battlefield, engaging in a close-quarters fight with the leader of the Whirlpool Gang. The afterimage was equally tall, but still somewhat petite compared to the Whirlpool Gang. His face was unclear, and the person's back was to Lu Mingfei. All he could see was...
Just yellow jackets, and a lightning bolt logo.

【Buzz——————————】

The bright colors are so dazzling in this extremely slow world.

In the slow flow of time, the leader of the Vortex Gang suddenly swung out his right fist. The fist made a whistling sound and flew towards the yellow jacket like a cannonball.

But at that moment, the opponent slid to the left rear side at a speed far exceeding that of the small leader, and his fist brushed past his nose. The yellow jacket took advantage of the situation and crouched down, rushing forward like a nimble cheetah, and punched him directly in the abdomen with his right fist.

Unlike Lu Mingfei's weak fist, the yellow jacket's fist was almost as big as a human head. The Whirlpool Gang leader instantly bent his spine and curled up like a cooked shrimp.

But he, who had turned into a madman, paused slightly, letting the blood gush out of his mouth, and roared as he chopped down his left arm like a thick tree trunk, trying to hit the yellow jacket's back.

He pushed off the ground with both feet and leaped backwards to create some distance, but the moment his toes touched the ground, he suddenly lunged forward in the opposite direction, twisting his body in the air. His right foot, like a sharp blade, kicked fiercely at the side of the left knee of the Whirlpool Gang leader.

The knees were under pressure, and the body swayed slightly. The yellow jacket quickly pressed on the enemy's arms, and with the force of the enemy's forward rush, he did a backflip, passed his legs over his head, then locked the enemy's neck with his ankles, grabbed the enemy's shoulders with his hands, and fell backwards.

Crack! —! —

The entire shoulder was torn off by the yellow jacket.

The movements of both of them were interacting with each other at an alarming speed, but the result was that the figures of the Whirlpool Gang continued to shrink, shrink, become slender, and withered in Lu Mingfei's eyes.

That's literally 'shrinking'.

The fragments of the prosthetic body exploded in the air, blood and broken limbs flew in all directions.

Hey?
The enemy that seemed difficult to Lu Mingfei was torn apart in an instant.

And this is not the end.

At the same time as the small leader died, the rest of the Whirlpool Gang members finally emerged from a distance.

The pursuit of a large number of Whirlpool Gang members was also difficult to resist. Lu Mingfei thought that this suddenly appearing 'afterimage' would choose to rescue Lucy and he would have to find a way to escape, but the result was quite different.

The afterimage took the initiative to rush towards the Vortex Gang.

His body froze pictures in the air, just like the oldest comic strip. Turning the pages would produce continuous movements, while stopping to turn the pages would produce still colors.

Like a ghost of time, he jumped straight from the top of the factory and leaped into the center of the crowd.

Immediately, he held the gun with both hands.

The bullet burst out of the barrel.

One.

two.

three.

The eighteenth shot.

Before the first bullet penetrated the skull of the first victim, the last bullet had already been fired from the muzzle.

The outcome has been decided.

incredible.

Is this what Lucy calls first-class?
Lu Mingfei was greatly shocked. If he had to say what was shocked, it was probably his worldview.

If Arasaka is the despair that Lu Mingfei first encountered in Night City, and Victor is the kindness that Lu Mingfei first encountered, then the man in front of him is the strength that he first encountered!

The ghost of time, the romance of men.

Transforming into a flash of light and shadow, annihilating all enemies, this is simply Barry Allen! Flash Star! The ultimate boy's fantasy!
strength! Ba! powerful!
For the first time, the technology of the future world was presented to the boy in such a straightforward way.

His mind was full of thoughts, and the blurry figure turned around after dealing with his opponent.

[—He—is—]

[We are partners.]

Lu Mingfei couldn't hear clearly the conversation between that man and Lucy, but he could roughly make out that he first said something to Lucy beside Lu Mingfei, and then after getting a response, he looked at Lu Mingfei.

【——】

He stretched out his hand towards Lu Mingfei and said something at the same time.

"Uh, sorry, the explosion just now might have hurt you. Wait a moment."

There was no need to surprise the enemy anymore, and Lu Mingfei wanted to see the person in front of him clearly because of an urgent "curiosity", so he put the combat stimulant back into his trouser pocket, and then inserted the pneumatic syringe given to him by Lao Wei into the side of his leg.

【call out----.】

Finally, after a sharp pain, accompanied by a sound like a brain restart, Lu Mingfei felt his senses restored.

The wind began to scrape the scratches on my cheeks mercilessly, the sound was chaotic and heavy, and the colors were so bright that it stung my eyes.

But he finally saw the guy in front of him clearly.

He is a tall man with a rather punk hairstyle and a muscular build. Although the degree of his prosthetic modification is not as exaggerated as that of the Uzumaki Gang, if you look closely, you can easily find that his limbs have modified mechanical opening and closing lines. It is possible that his entire body is less flesh than machinery.

But what was a little strange was his attire.

He was not wearing anything inside, but he had a rather loose yellow jacket hanging outside?

Lu Mingfei had some impression of this jacket. It seemed that it was often worn by outsourced cleaners who were responsible for collecting corpses at the scenes of cyberpsychopaths or other gang fights.

He reached out to Lu Mingfei.

"Can you hear me now?"

"Sorry, am I late?"

"My name is David Martinez. Please give me your guidance."

Who?
Very familiar name.

But Lu Mingfei looked left and right and decided to follow his instinct.

"Uh."

The boy shrank his neck, raised his head to look at David, and asked.

"Are you my servant?"

"What the hell?"

David answered immediately.

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