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Chapter 267 Attacking the Arasaka Tower

To better fit the prosthetic body, David removed his limbs, turning himself into a "human stick," and began the installation process.

This sight reminded Li Xiaoyu of Chen Yuan's paralysis in real life, making her feel even more connected to him and increasingly saddened that David had embarked on this path of self-destruction.

On the floating vehicle transporting her to Arasaka, Lucy took advantage of Faraday's carelessness, used her monomolecular filaments to break free from her restraints, instantly killed the guards, and hurriedly escaped.

Finally, this desperate story seemed to have a glimmer of hope, but unfortunately, Lucy had a virus implanted in her body, and she was caught again after only a few steps after escaping.

Lucy took the opportunity to tell David that everything was a trap, a conspiracy by the Arasaka Group, and that the prosthetic body Kong was deliberately placed in David's possession to collect experimental data.

But David's anger was about to explode as he looked at Lucy, whose head was being stepped on by Faraday. His humanity level on the instrument panel was dropping rapidly!
Other cyberpsychotics are characterized by adding glitch-style effects only to the eyes, making them appear as double images.

Whether it's Lieutenant James, the homeless man who blew Pila's head off, or Mann, their symptoms of cyberpsychosis are all the same.

At this moment, not only his eyes, but his entire body was showing glitch double vision, which shows how severe his cyberpsychotic symptoms were!
David's face had never been so contorted, nor had he ever cursed or insulted anyone so viciously. Looking at him like this, anyone could sense just how important Lucy was to David.

Just as David's humanity was about to reach its limit and he was about to go completely insane from Faraday's provocation, Rebecca timely injected a can of inhibitor into David's body, pulling him back from the brink of madness.

The first thing David said after regaining his senses was that he was going to save Lucy. Rebecca, in turn, showed a clear look of disappointment.

What follows is a whole sequence of explosive action scenes where David controls the cybernetic robot and brutally defeats a convoy of elite military technology.

The scene was absolutely massive; the explosions from the theater's high-powered sound system were so loud that you could feel your chair and the floor vibrating.
Despite the top-notch special effects in the fight scenes, Li Xiaoyu didn't feel any sense of exhilaration whatsoever.

David's ability to simultaneously and complexly control military-grade prosthetic bodies like S.A.R. and the prosthetic body Kong is enough to prove how special David is and how high his talent is, but it cannot change the fact that he is a mortal.

The frequent use of the powerful prosthetic body caused his humanity value to drop drastically again. Fortunately, the automatic drug delivery system injected inhibitors into David's body in time, preserving his sanity.

Watching David speeding down the highway to Cyber ​​Psychiatry, spitting blood from his mouth and nose while being injected with drugs and killing people, Li Xiaoyu felt her scalp tingle. This world was just too insane!

David, transformed into a terrifying killing monster, wiped out all the military personnel sent by the technologically advanced army. The three remaining members of the team chose to return to Night City to save Lucy.

On the highways of Night City, the squad dealt with wave after wave of pursuers from two major corporations: Military Technology and Arasaka Group.

After entering the city, David's mental state had become extremely bad, to the point that he was experiencing the 'mental world' that Mann had when he became a cyberpsychotic.

Mann's mental world is a desolate desert highway, while David's mental world is an empty night city street.

Zhou Liming believes this disjointed editing is particularly interesting and well worth exploring in depth.

Why are the Night City streets so empty? These are places David used to frequent.

He retraced his steps to school, the road deserted, highlighting his insignificance and loneliness. The enemy's resistance grew stronger, and David, nearing madness, began to laugh wildly, looking up at the sky. As the streaks of light swept across the heavens, David's laughter gradually subsided, and his eyes seemed to regain some clarity.

Li Xiaoyu felt that the scene before her eyes was familiar. When the image in her mind appeared, she couldn't help but shudder, and then large tears rolled down her cheeks.

This fleeting light appeared in the first "The Edge Walker" movie, when David was strapped to a stretcher and controlled by Lucy to wander through traffic, and he fell in love with Lucy at that moment!

It's both cruel and romantic!
David regained some of his senses after remembering Lucy. Looking at the Arasaka Tower in front of him, David thought of his deceased mother's expectations for him.

Seeing this, Rebecca rushed to inject him with the inhibitor, but it was clear that the large amount of inhibitor had almost rendered the drug ineffective.

David mistook Rebecca for his mother, and Rebecca's face showed deep sadness. But in the end, Rebecca put on a helpless yet loving expression, accepting the insane David and continuing to respect his choice.

Rebecca decides to take David to Arasaka Tower to rescue Lucy, because only Lucy can save David in his current state.

Looking at Rebecca's unwilling expression, Li Xiaoyu felt a pang of heartache for this optimistic, cheerful, and short-tempered little girl who was quick to fire her gun.

Sigh, Rebecca is a good girl, but unfortunately David only has Lucy in his heart!

Faraday went back on his word and tried to kill Qiwei. Before she died, Qiwei gave the coordinates of Faraday's hovercar to the driver, Falco.

Looking at Qiwei leaning against the trash can, waiting to die, Li Xiaoyu was no longer as angry with Qiwei as before.

The members of Mann's team all have very distinct personalities. Unlike other cyberpunks who act recklessly, Qiwei is always the most composed one.

So, his decisive choice to betray and withdraw, and his subsequent apology to his betrayed friends before his death, was perhaps another way of leaving no regrets.

The main villain finally makes his appearance; he is none other than Adam Hammer, the legendary mercenary whose entire body is cybernetically enhanced with over 96% of his body, as foreshadowed at the beginning of the movie.

It is extremely burly, far taller than an ordinary human, and its muscles are made of high-strength alloy steel plates, presenting exaggerated mechanical bulges, like a mobile 'steel fortress'.

Human skin was not visible on its face; it was completely lifeless, and spoke in a low, mechanical voice.

At first glance, it gives people a particularly strong sense of oppression as a 'Wild Ara Saka Tool'.

David, having defeated the Terrorist Mobile Squad, stood on the outer perimeter of Arasaka Tower. At this moment, the scene flashed back to his mother, and David was muttering to himself:
"Mom, look, I'm at the top of Arasaka Tower right now."

Surrounded and driven to madness, David responds to his mother's wish in this unexpected way.
This absurd scene made Li Xiaoyu sigh for David, and a sentence inexplicably came to mind:

Reaching the top of Arasaka Tower is much easier than getting into Arasaka!

(End of this chapter)