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Chapter 265 Death is the only option
The movie begins by picking up where the previous film left off, showing David transformed from a skinny high school student into a strong and powerful new core member of the team.

The film is set a few months after the deaths of the Mann couple. It vividly portrays David's growth during this period by showing a scene where the team swiftly and efficiently completes the mission of sweeping up a gang's hideout and rescuing hostages.

Li Xiaoyu was incredibly excited; she noticed an incredible number of details in just the beginning.

The car the team was driving was the same one that Mann had previously owned, but with the addition of the yellow of David's jacket and the 'ER' variant lettering on the back symbolizing the 'Edge Walker'.

Unlike the Mann prosthetic arm, which was prone to jamming, the projectile launching system used by David was decisive and ruthless.

In the first movie, Rebecca loses her mind and seeks revenge after her brother Pila is shot in the head by Cyberpsycho.

The scene of someone being thrown back by the recoil while using a shotgun has been turned into a funny GIF and spread across the internet both at home and abroad.

Now, 'Rampaging Lolita' Rebecca has also been fitted with a new, oversized prosthetic arm that is completely disproportionate to her size. Even when wielding two shotguns with tremendous recoil, she can remain standing still.

The film's use of color remains as vibrant and bright as ever. Rebecca's enormous arms, one blue and one red, is this a tribute to the classic red and blue pills in The Matrix?
Gathering her scattered thoughts, Li Xiaoyu focused her attention on the plot.

The hostage rescue mission was successfully completed, but the team lost a reckless new member. As usual, the team went to their usual bar to celebrate.

The difference was that Rebecca took Pila's place to perform acrobatics for everyone, while David took Mann's place to distribute the task rewards to everyone.

Although everyone was having a good time, the seeds of tragedy had already been sown from the very beginning.

To fulfill Mann's dying wish, David took on the heavy responsibility and underwent numerous prosthetic surgeries.

Moreover, he is constantly pursuing a more powerful prosthetic body. The prosthetic doctor warned him, but David confidently said that he was special.

It also introduces Adam Hammer, a legendary figure whose entire body is 96% cybernetically modified.

Having already made a name for himself, David receives a mission invitation from Faraday, the mysterious middleman who previously contacted Mann, and the movie's plot officially enters its main storyline.

The female lead, Lucy, didn't arrive until more than twenty minutes into the movie.

She and David are now living together like an old married couple, but she has left Mann's team because of the Mann couple's situation.

And she has more important things to do.

Having escaped from Arasaka, she knew Arasaka's methods well, and even after blowing up Tanaka's brain, she didn't think David would be safe.

Since the incident, Lucy has been constantly infiltrating Arasaka's firewall to investigate David's data.

As soon as Arasaka began repairing David's data, Lucy was able to immediately detect and decisively eliminate any potential problems.

Lucy, who used to tremble with fear at the mere mention of Arasaka, now has to undertake such high-risk actions every day for David's sake.

Lucy cared about David, and David cared about Lucy in return; he was still bothered by Lucy's unusual behavior after Mann's accident.

However, with their heavy workload every day, the two had less time to communicate, and David desperately wanted Lucy to return to the team and work alongside him.

Seeing David's slightly disappointed expression after Lucy gently refused his invitation to rejoin the team, Li Xiaoyu felt quite disappointed.

The two sat by the window, admiring the night view outside Night City. They were almost naked, David's muscles were taut, and Lucy's back was graceful. It should have been a very romantic setting, but no one would think of anything in that direction.

Previously, the two were physically separated, but their hearts were constantly drawing closer.

Now, they are physically close, but their hearts are separated by different goals. They travel together to the badlands outside Night City to clear their minds, gazing at the dazzling lights of Night City from afar and opening their hearts to each other.

Lucy confided in David about her past experience of being trained as a hacker by Arasaka.

Just as Li Xiaoyu was immersed in the simple romance of getting to know each other, David's arm suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably, just like the symptoms that Mann had experienced.

Li Xiaoyu's heart skipped a beat, and she thought, "It's over!"
The famous director Alfred Hitchcock had a very famous suspense-building metaphor called 'the bomb under the table'.

Simply put, the audience sees a time bomb under the table beforehand, but the two people at the table are completely unaware and continue their irrelevant conversation.
At this point, the audience's attention will be firmly drawn to questions such as 'Will the bomb explode?' and 'When will the characters discover the crisis?'

As time went on, the tension escalated.

Under normal circumstances, this bomb would definitely be detonated.

In other words, David will inevitably become a cyberpsychotic.

Although this ending was already set after the release of the second film.
But now, witnessing David frantically adding cybernetic components to his body in order to continue Mann's cause and better protect Lucy and those he cares about,

A profound sense of desolation welled up within her, and she finally understood why some people had left early.

It's truly heartbreaking to see David, like Mann, gradually become a irrational cyber psychopath!

The subsequent plot completely lost even the slightest bit of warmth.

David accepted a mission from Faraday, a mysterious middleman in the military technology sector, and entered the Arasaka Industrial Park to carry out the mission.

He lost control of his emotions and shot and killed an innocent female employee who was being bullied and forced to work overtime by her boss, Arasaka.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Arasaka became suspicious of the recent deaths of many company hackers, and his first suspicion fell on Faraday, the middleman with close ties to military technology.

Faraday was assassinated by a gang hired by Arasaka. Due to the mission's failure, his request for military technology protection was refused.

Faraday, who valued his life above all else, betrayed military technology and made peace with Arasaka. Arasaka's task for him was to find the mysterious person who had been secretly attacking Arasaka's hacking.

That accidental killing clearly had a profound psychological impact on David, a boy who was inherently sincere and kind.

So much so that during a later battle to wipe out a rival gang, when he saw a female enemy officer display a similar look of terror, as if a gun had been pointed at her,

David was almost killed due to his momentary lapse in concentration, but fortunately Rebecca intervened in time to prevent a terrible situation from occurring.

After the mission, David returned home and stood in front of his mother's urn and a photo of them together, lost in thought, as details of the mission at the Arasaka Industrial Park began to surface in his mind.

A pistol was pointed at an innocent female employee; her face was contorted, and gun barrels protruded from her torn skin.

That appearance was exactly the same as when David was tortured by Gihei with Black Hyperdance and his limbs grew gun barrels when he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

This is a concrete manifestation of David's fear of cyberpsychosis. The prosthetic body erodes his flesh, and his soul is placed in the machine. In the end, he shoots and kills the female employee Arasaka out of fear.

After firing the shot, David saw a photo on the female employee's desk. It was a picture of the female employee with her son who had entered Arasaka Academy, and it overlapped with a photo of David with his mother, Gloria.

Zhou Liming couldn't help but gasp when he saw this scene. To arrange such a cruel plot for David, it seems he is doomed to die!

(End of this chapter)