The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

In fact, right after the call, V rushed to Haywood's clinic.

But the person who came with her was not her old acquaintance Jack... but another old acquaintance.

"Hino Hidetoshi?"

"..."

At that moment, obvious blue veins appeared on Goro Takemura's forehead.

Why are you all like this?

It would have been fine if Master Saburo had said that before, but why do you, a mercenary and a black doctor, say that too?!

Looking at the way his lips trembled slightly, you could tell that he was not in a very good mood at the moment.

But no one cares.

V was lying on the operating chair, with a data cable connected from her neural interface to the computer.

Lin Qiao sat beside her, pulling at her eyelids with her hands as a symbolic examination.

"How are you now? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

"…I'm fine now, but I felt dizzy before, and I seemed to be able to see something, and I felt really nauseous…"

There was a hint of weakness in her voice as she answered Lin Qiao's question.

But at this moment, a mocking voice suddenly appeared in her mind.

[Oh, isn't that nonsense? If I were to lie there and be manipulated by other men, I would also feel sick.]

"Shut up, Johnny!"

[Oh my, you're getting impatient just talking about this, you're not enjoying it, are you? ]

"You get out!"

V's tone became irritable, and in the eyes of outsiders, it seemed like she was just getting angry at the air.

Lin Qiao glanced away and didn't say anything.

He just picked up the pen slowly and wrote a few words in the medical record.

"I didn't expect that you and Jack would still stay in Night City after something like that happened in the Blue Sky Mansion."

It wasn't that Lin Qiao was pretending, but he really didn't expect it.

Now, people from both the black and white worlds are frantically looking for the murderer of Arasaka Saburo, and the situation is getting more and more tense...

Not to mention them, even ordinary people, as long as they have the means, want to leave Night City.

only--

“…What can I do? If I could run, I would have run long ago.”

There was great helplessness in his words.

After Saburo Arasaka died suddenly on the spot, she and Jack did not flee Night City immediately.

——It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I can’t.

Although they knew their own business, Lai Xuan was the one who killed Sanlang from the beginning, and therefore, neither he nor Lin Qiao was very serious about finding the so-called murderer from the beginning...

But it’s different for others!

And as the saying goes, do the whole show, all kinds of blockades and rewards can be said to have declined.

In this situation, it is extremely difficult to leave the city.

Even a person with a completely innocent past would become a suspect in the murder of Saburo Arasaka - let alone mercenaries like them.

That is the key target of investigation.

Not to mention that they had actually been to the Ganbi Building.

Finally, not to mention, Jack's mother and his lover Misty are both in Night City, so it is impossible for them to go on a spontaneous trip.

Therefore, a more reliable way is to find a place to hide first, wait until the storm has died down, and then find an opportunity to leave with your family.

Facts have proved that what they did was indeed correct.

Because the two people who can make the decision at the top are not very concerned, and although Arasaka is the leader of Night City, the other companies combined are not to be trifled with.

——You know that the lockdown has a huge impact on everyone’s business!

In short, due to various reasons, after a few days, Arasaka's blockade of Night City was greatly reduced.

But every time things start to go well, something bad pops up.

For example, there was a guy named Dexter Deshawn, who spent a lot of money to gather intelligence and booked the "Excelsior" package for two people on a Delaman taxi. As a result, he not only got into trouble but was also turned down.

Jack and V escaped Arasaka's search, but they couldn't escape the fat black man.

After all, whether it was to get rid of his relationship with this matter or to get back the high bounty offered by Arasaka, there were sufficient reasons for him to take action.

Because it was a sudden attack, and the fear of the past few days had consumed a lot of energy for Jack and V, this put the two of them in an extremely unfavorable situation.

Although he managed to escape the encirclement in the end, Relic's safe, which the two regarded as their future escape funds, was damaged.

Under the simple conditions, V could only choose to insert it into the human body and preserve it - compared to Jack who was already dying when he was sent to the hospital, only she could do this job.

Later, when he was looking for revenge on Dexter, he happened to meet Takemura, who followed the clues but was hunted down and silenced by the Arasaka Special Forces.

Similar circumstances immediately led the two to form a temporary alliance.

——In general, after going around in a big circle, things seem to be back to the way they were destined to be.

"By the way, how is Jack now?"

"He was shot several times and is lying next to Lao Wei. He probably won't wake up for a while...but he's still alive."

But at this time, being alive is the best news.

v sighed. Now she understood what it meant to know something in advance.

If she had not taken this crappy order out of greed in the first place, or had not quit halfway, Jack would not have been seriously injured and on the verge of death, and she would not have quarreled with another person in her mind.

Thinking of this, she felt even sadder.

"Old Wei gave me a simple checkup before, but his hands were shaking after the checkup. And the guy named Johnny Silverhand in my mind...K, tell me, what's wrong with me?"

Thinking of Lao Wei's unprecedented panic before, the other party even shouted at him to come and find Lin Qiao quickly, without wasting a second.

vI have a very bad feeling.

Nausea, dizziness, and even the inexplicable hallucinations and emotions - all of this must be related to the chip he stole.

"To put it simply, if you do nothing, it won't take long for Relic to turn you into someone else, the person you had an argument with before... and this process will be painful."

"Wait! Are you saying I'm going to be Johnny Silverhand?"

"Almost, but to be more precise, it should be Johnny Silverhand, who is biologically female, mentally male, and has a feminine bent."

【…】

So Johnny also moved to Bengbu.

Chapter 388 Lin Qiao: This is the doctor's order

"From the parameters I retrieved earlier, the chip you inserted has the mark of Johnny Silverhand engraved on it... If you don't understand, just think of it as something like a soul."

"In short, this mark will cover your original consciousness while modifying your genes little by little, making it easier for the new consciousness to take over the body..."

I explained to V the working principle of relic, and the latter's face became paler and paler.

"Are you kidding me?"

"What do you think? Or can you laugh?"

"..."

He stared at Lin Qiao, who was acting rather calm but serious.

v really hopes that the next second he will say directly like he did before, "Yes, I was lying to you" and say something so infuriating that it will kill me.

But after a while, the other party didn't say that...

So is it true?

It was like a bomb went off in my head.

Johnny's voice came to his ears again, but V had no intention of arguing with him.

Pretending to be calm, he looked down at his hands, which were obviously shaking, and then touched the nerve socket at the back of his neck: "K... Can you take out the chip?"

She didn't want to die, and she didn't want to turn into another person.

This is no less than cutting off a duck's body piece by piece, then replacing it with a mouse, and then pointing at the mouse and saying "this is a duck."

Lin Qiao glanced at Takemura Goro beside him calmly and shook his head.

"It's a pity V. I can only tell you that if you use violent means to remove the relic, you will die now."

This was the adjustment that Lai Xuan asked Hermann to make.

It was also the last insurance measure to prevent Arasaka Saburo from taking over his body.

Once inserted, it is extremely difficult to remove.

Otherwise, it will cause irreversible damage to the body, and even if you reinsert a relic chip, you will only be faced with a corpse.

Although the one who was cheated now was not Saburo Arasaka, but V.

"I've already told you, the relic is Arasaka's technology, and only Arasaka knows how to take it out safely."

Speaking in a strangely accented Japanese English, Goro Takemura leaned against the wall with his arms folded across his chest, looking as if nothing had been expected.

Having been with Saburo Arasaka for so many years, even though he was just a bodyguard, it is frankly true that he knew much more than some of Arasaka's top executives.

Although he didn't quite understand the concept of relic, he did know a little bit about it.

"As long as you can testify and make Lai Xuan, the patricide murderer, confess his crime, the company can help you remove the chip and let you live."

"Do you understand, V? This is just an ordinary exchange. You and the company each get what they need."

Although they looked calm and spoke as if it was just a trivial matter like appearing in court to correct a gangster who was urinating on the side of the road, they both knew in their hearts that it was completely impossible.

After all, even the law can be easily trampled upon by companies.

Evidence is really dispensable in front of the company.

Even if it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back, if it is only applied alone, it is just a light straw.

At most it will just slightly change public opinion.

"Be quiet, Goro, I need to think about this again..."

[Think about it for nothing. How can you trust a word that comes from a company? Maybe this guy is just planning to use you and then throw you away.]

He rubbed his temples, as if that would help filter out Johnny Silverhand's thoughts.

Being enemies with Arasaka...

This idea is really too scary.

Even if Goro Takemura said that he had some connections in the company and could find a way to contact the other party to overthrow Lai Xuan, it would be the same.

However, Takemura was not in a hurry about V's ambiguous attitude.

"It's up to you. The relevant plans and arrangements will also take some time for me."

"But I remind you that you don't have much time left, so it's better to prepare early."

Without staying in the clinic for long, he left after urging V to make a decision as soon as possible.

Firstly, as he said, if he wants to overthrow the powerful Lai Xuan, he needs time to prepare.

Secondly...he shouldn't be the one who should be anxious.

"K, please help me. You have saved me so many times. I was on the verge of death many times, but you always saved me. If you and Lao Wei say that I am hopeless, then I don't dare to think about what to do next..."

"Or at least tell me what to do, give me some ideas, I feel like my thoughts are not my own now..."

His tone was full of helplessness and pain.

In the face of death, no one can remain calm, let alone V, a young man in his twenties who is upright and full of youth.