Monster Hunter Gathering

Nie Chiwu turned around, holding a Mewtwo device in his hand and looked at V: "After you read this Mewtwo, you probably know why we involved you in this matter."

"Honestly, I don't know what will happen to you in the end, or what your ending will be, but I'll show you this..." Nie Chiwu smiled, "I think it's going to be very interesting."

"You..." V looked at the Mewtwo device in Nie Chiwu's hand. After hesitating for a while, he put on the Mewtwo and sat next to it to watch.

She has no other choice now.

She wanted to see what this Mewtwo that Nie Chiwushen mysteriously gave her was.

When the Mewtwo device began to flash, V gradually immersed herself in Mewtwo, and then she saw a scene of Jack, wearing a suit and covered in blood, lying in a car.

Then, V's vision went black in Mewtwo. The next moment, a man with a silver prosthetic arm stood on a mountain of ruins and said to himself who was lying in the ruins: "It's time to wake up, Samurai. Let's burn this city... to ashes."

Looking at V falling beside him, as if he was completely immersed in that Mewtwo, Nie Chiwu scratched his chin with satisfaction.

Yang Le personally typed out the recording using his laptop, and Nie Chiwu edited the plot content and stuffed it all into Mewtwo.

Street Kid V, hidden ending, my broken body turns into a raging fire...

"Captain, what... is going on?" After David walked into the tent, he saw Arasaka Yorimoto who was still unconscious and V who was wearing a Mewtwo device next to him. He asked Nie Chiwu with a confused look on his face.

"Refresh yourself! Are you ready to face your partners?" Nie Chiwu tossed a bottle of vitality drink to David and opened one himself to feed Arasaka Yoshinobu. "Let's make Night City... our own."

Chapter 233 Are You a Human or a Ghost?

“…What…place is this…”

Arasaka Yorinobu gradually woke up from his coma, feeling a little dazed, with a taste in his mouth that was unfamiliar to him.

When Arasaka Yoriyuki opened his eyes, he saw an unfamiliar tent roof, which made Arasaka Yoriyuki instinctively alert and remember what happened before he fell into a coma.

"!"

Arasaka Yorinobu sat up straight, and the first thing he saw was a smiling young man who had moved a chair to sit across from him, and next to him was a boy of about seventeen or eighteen wearing a yellow jacket...

Arasaka Yoriaki looked around and found that this was a tent that didn't look very big. There were a lot of things placed inside the tent, and there was a big box next to it... On the other side of the seat, there was a woman wearing a Mewtwo device who seemed to be watching Mewtwo.

But... what Arasaka Yorinobu cared about the most was the guy in front of him, the one he saw dead with his own eyes.

"Are you a human or a ghost, or are you actually a clone?"

Arasaka Yoriyuki looked at Nie Chiwu and asked, "You are... the leader of the hunters, right?"

"Hmm?" Nie Chiwu raised an eyebrow. "You're talking as if you've seen me die before... Hmm? You didn't really see me die before, did you?"

Nie Chiwu stroked his chin and stared at Arasaka Yorimoto's face: "I think I've only died here at Qilin. How did you know that?"

"Qilin? Is that monster called Qilin? The Qilin from myth and legend?!" Arasaka Yoriaki stared at Nie Chiwu. "Is that your technological product? Who are you? I've never heard of people like you... Which company do you belong to?"

"Don't be so impulsive. We can talk slowly. First..." Nie Chiwu asked David to sit down: "Do you know about the Soul Killer? Or do you know about Ultra? That's Johnny Silverhand's girlfriend, the one you killed in Arasaka."

"!"

Arasaka Yoriyuki stared at Nie Chiwu's face, trying to see something from him: "You know this name? You..."

"Cooperate with us, Arasaka Yoriyuki." Nie Chiwu said bluntly, "We can do what you really want to do."

"Don't be so quick to reject or doubt me. I know everything you're seeing is sudden." Nie Chiwu put his hands together, tapping the back of one hand with the other. "In my opinion, you're a brave person. It's a pity you're not strong enough right now, and this world is suffocating enough... I think after hearing my proposal, you'll be happy to stand with us."

"Who are you?" Arasaka Yoriyuki stared into Nie Chiwu's eyes, and many speculations came to his mind: "You... aren't those people from the company? Are you one of those AIs outside the black wall?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Nie Chiwu laughed happily.

"Introduce yourself."

Nie Chiwu flicked his wrist and made a random, nonsensical gesture towards Arasaka Yorinobu: "Nie Chiwu...Grand Leader of the Monster Hunter Gathering."

"We are Hunters from another world." Nie Chiwu said with a confident smile. "And the young man next to me is called David... He was born in Night City and is now one of us."

"Come to think of it...we're about the same age." Nie Chiwu casually chatted with Arasaka Yoriaki, "You were born in 1995, right? Two or three years earlier than me..."

"Another world..." Arasaka Yoriyuki's face was full of an expression that Nie Chiwu was talking nonsense, but the next moment, Arasaka Yoriyuki watched Nie Chiwu take out a huge sword that was almost as tall as a person from the air.

"I knew you wouldn't believe it so easily... People with a lot on their minds are like that." Nie Chiwu sighed, slung his katana over his back, then stood up and said to Arasaka Yorinobu, "Since that's the case, let me show you something beyond your common sense."

Nie Chiwu took Arasaka Yoriyuki out of the tent directly. Arasaka Yoriyuki only now realized that this camp seemed to be built in a cave on a hillside in the badlands. It was surrounded by rocks, and only a cave entrance on the cliff could see the desert outside.

"Is this the Badlands?" Arasaka Yorinobu suddenly sensed something was amiss. As he stepped out of the tent, he felt some of his prosthetics being affected. "Wait, this interference... have you brought me near that monster?"

"Let me introduce you! Night City Camp No. 2! It's built in the Badlands! Qilin's territory is nearby!" Nie Chiwu said with a grin, "We've set up camp here to make it easier to deal with Qilin."

"David, don't let our partners get into danger." Nie Chiwu said, "It's almost time for us hunters to go hunting."

After Nie Chiwu finished speaking, he jumped out of the cave directly. Soon, Arasaka Yoriaki saw Nie Chiwu riding a motorcycle towards the distance.

"What is he going to do?" Arasaka Yorinobu asked in confusion.

"The Grand Commander has gone to challenge Qilin, and the other hunters said they want to do some actual combat training." David also touched his head: "Hmm... Anyway, it shouldn't be long before the Grand Commander returns."

"He could challenge that monster alone? I saw him die under its hooves just now." Arasaka Yorimoto said this incomprehensibly, and then suddenly thought of something: "And you... you are indeed one of the hunters? Why did you join them?"

Arasaka Yorinobu wants to get some information from David, who looks younger.

David also took a breath and said, "Because I want to get rid of those bastard companies that are bullying my important people! I want them to be able to live here openly and honestly!"

"You..." Arasaka Yorinobu stared at David and took a deep breath: "Let's talk."

About half an hour later, the sound of wooden wheels rolling suddenly came from the entrance of the cave, making Arasaka Yorinobu look at the cave nervously.

But then, Arasaka Yorinobu saw a colorful and dazzling Fey cat dragging a cart loaded with coke and jumping directly into the cave on the cliff.

"Cat?!" Arasaka Yoshinobu widened his eyes, and then saw the coke on the cart was lifted to the ground by the colorful Felyne. Then, the ball of coke, which had no signs of life and had even been dehydrated to the point of shrinking into coke, suddenly began to expand and turned into the lively Nie Chiwu again, who began to curse angrily.

“▇▇▇▇▇!! There’s not even a single opening for attack! Truly the best of the dung monsters!”

"How did you survive?!!! Are you a human or a ghost?!!!!" Arasaka Yorinobu was frightened.

Chapter 234 Lai Xuan and David

Arasaka Yorinobu now really doubts whether his artificial eye has been invaded by something, which is why he sees such things... beyond common sense.

But Nie Chiwu really was resurrected right before his eyes.

"Can I see your body?"

After hesitating for a long time, Arasaka Yorinobu decided not to believe his own eyes, but to trust his other senses.

"Uh……"

Nie Chiwu scratched his chin and said, "Although it sounds strange, you can try it."

Nie Chiwu took two steps forward and stood in front of Arasaka Yoshinobu. He extended his hand to the man who was already over eighty years old. "I don't have any prosthetics installed. I repeat, we are hunters from another world."

Arasaka Yoriyuki grabbed Nie Chiwu's palm and confirmed that this hand had not undergone any prosthetic modification at all, and... Arasaka Yoriyuki could clearly feel the trembling of each finger joint, which vaguely contained the power of the prosthetic hand that was far beyond his cognition.

It's not like Arasaka Yorinobu hasn't seen those physical guys before, such as the Animal Gang in the western part of Taipingzhou in Night City. But compared to those guys who use various hormones to strengthen their bodies and have bad news from time to time, Nie Chiwu gives him a healthier feeling?

"Have you talked to David already?"

Nie Chiwu noticed David's expression and scratched his chin with his other hand, wondering, "What did you two talk about?"

"...There are a lot of things, about what you did for him, and what you want to do." Arasaka Yorinobu's expression was a little complicated: "I didn't believe it at first, but now I believe it a little."

"I'm sorry, Captain. I have to find a way to convince him, so I said all that." David said helplessly.

"Why apologize? There's nothing we can't talk about regarding Hunters." Nie Chiwu waved his hand and said, "You need to be more familiar with your identity. You are a Hunter."

"I want to confirm something." Arasaka Yoriaki looked at Nie Chiwu with a complicated expression: "You really know what will happen in the future, right? Because the Night City incident is just a... [work] for you?"

"Yes, that's right. Do you want to know?" Nie Chiwu's lips curled up, revealing a bright smile. "Cyberpunk is a huge series in my area... not to mention that I've been making a special effort to learn more about it recently."

"David, the protagonist of the spin-off anime, ended up in tragedy." Nie Chiwu pointed his thumb at David and raised his chin at V, who was watching Mewtwo next to him. "V, the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077, the uncrowned king of Night City, the true walking devil mercenary, a Cybertronian psychopath, a hammer heavier than a sledgehammer... Everyone has her hiring number, except you."

"Cyberpunk...2077?"

Arasaka Yorinobu noticed the year: "Next year? Wait... Living Devil Mercenary? And I don't have her phone number..."

"So what will happen to my future?" Arasaka Yorimoto had a bad feeling: "Will I..."

"There are good and bad endings, right? It all depends on the choices made by the protagonist, V." Nie Chiwu pulled over a chair and sat down. "But one of the endings will definitely be the cruelest for you."

Nie Chiwu looked into Arasaka Yorinobu's eyes and said, "The Soul Killer... or the Relic Chip, is something that allows one soul to gradually cover another..."

"In one of the endings, you lose completely. What do you think Saburo Arasaka will use the Relic chip for?" Nie Chiwu stared at Arasaka Yorinobu. "You know Saburo Arasaka. You know what he wants most."

Arasaka Yorinobu was silent, and then his expression gradually became gloomy and painful.

He guessed what the ending Nie Chiwu was talking about was.

"So, is that why you brought me here?" Arasaka Yoriyuki looked at Nie Chiwu. "Because you know what will happen in the future, you came to me? What... do you want to do?"

Arasaka Yorinobu said, "I don't understand why you told me all this. You found the mercenary who was said to be the protagonist, and then you came to me... I can't understand what you want to do by doing this."

"So that our companion can save his own world with peace of mind."

Nie Chiwu said calmly: "We won't stay in this world for long."

"Once we resolve the Qilin issue, most of us hunters will leave this world. We can't stay in this world forever..."

Nie Chiwu paused: "But David is different."

"This is his own world. If he wants to live well with the people around him, he can only endure it... and light a fire in this world and change it."

"Do you think we can always help him?" Nie Chiwu asked Arasaka Yorinobu. "I'll tell you the truth... among all the solutions in Cyberpunk 2077, there is actually no perfect ending."

"For everyone, this is cyberpunk." Nie Chiwu calmly described the cruelty of their world to Arasaka Yorinobu and David: "Even if you eventually achieve some of your goals, everything will be in vain... Those things that have been changed will eventually return to their starting point, and everyone will still be trapped in a life of despair."

"And V."

Nie Chiwu said to V, who was still looking at Mewtwo, "Do you know what the most ironic thing is?"

"Of all the endings for her... there was one where she committed suicide right after the incident. It was the most tragic ending for her, but it was also possibly the best ending for the world."

"My friend, this is cyberpunk." Nie Chiwu spread his hands. "A pile of pure mud... a monster that us hunters can't eliminate with pure force."

"All we can do is leave behind a spark of fire before we leave, allowing it to burn quietly in this dark world."

"The only ones who can truly spread this flame to all corners of the world are you, the ones who originally belong to this world..."

Nie Chiwu pointed at the people in front of him and said, "You, you, V might be a possibility too."

"This is the only change we, the hunters, can bring to this world. As for what will happen in the end..."

Nie Chiwu stood up and shook his head: "You two can have a good chat. I have to go back to the base."

After saying this, Nie Chiwu walked out of the tent directly. Arasaka Yoriaki stood up and chased after him, but he only saw Nie Chiwu grab a pterosaur with his claws and gradually disappear into the sky.

"Cyberpunk..."

Arasaka Yorinobu clenched his fists with some pain and depression, and behind Arasaka Yorinobu, David also walked out silently.

"Mr. Lai Xuan." David said after a long silence: "Do you still want to continue?"

"..."

Arasaka Yorinobu finally loosened his clenched fists and looked at the wilderness in the distance: "I have no choice but to continue."

"Even if this is a mess, it's still my world." Arasaka Yorimoto asked back, "You should have other options? Other hunters should be able to help you."

Arasaka Yorinobu did not look back at David, the 17-year-old boy. Unlike him who was already over 80 years old, the other party still had a long future.

But David's voice sounded behind Arasaka Yorinobu: "I... have no other choice."

"Mr. Lai Xuan, I actually have a girl I like."

"This is my world, and it's also her world."

"I can't leave."

新年 快乐

I'm done with the New Year's Eve celebrations. All that's left is to visit relatives during the day, and then come back to write.

see you tomorrow!

Remember everyone to leave the lights on!

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