People are in cyberpunk, but they are top-level cyberpsychopaths

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"Yeah." Lucy didn't hide anything, just like he didn't hide anything from her.

"Won't you feel cold soaking in ice water all the time? Why not buy a black customer service? If it's the latest hacker chair..."

"No need, thank you... I don't like bad customer service."

David's words brought back bad memories for her, and even her voice became a little low.

"Feel sorry..."

As soon as he said that, he regretted it and felt like he had asked a stupid question.

I knew what was going on, but I asked subconsciously.

"No need to apologize." Lucy said softly, and looked outside for a while.

After a moment, he suddenly said, "Hey, David."

"Ok?"

"follow me."

David:? ? ?

This scene seems familiar?

I remember the last time Lucy said this was when she brought him back to the apartment.

Where are we going this time?

A few minutes later...

"Om-"

The roar of the engine echoed over the deserted wilderness.

David was riding a motorcycle, taking Lucy with him across the badlands outside Night City, and they flashed by like a stream of light on the slightly dilapidated road.

"Hey, Lucy, where are you going?"

"A little further ahead!"

Although the whistling wind and the violent roar of the engine masked most of the sound, he could still vaguely hear Lucy's words.

Lucy, you look excited?

But he didn't think too much about it and just stepped on the accelerator to accelerate again.

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On a towering rock in the Badlands outside Night City.

"Oh wow, the starry sky here is so amazing!" David exclaimed as he sat there.

"You can't see this kind of scene in Night City, right?" Lucy's voice was a little boastful, like a child showing off his secret base.

"Indeed, I feel like I can pick one and give it to you right now."

He slowly reached out a hand toward the deep starry sky above his head and slowly clasped it.

For the first time, he discovered that the starry sky was so beautiful, so close to him, and so shining.

Just like diamonds.

Perhaps, Diamond Star Tears is just like this.

"fool."

Lucy glanced at David with a bit of doting.

In the past, she always came here alone, but this time she brought her beloved one with her, and it really felt different.

It seems that everything becomes more beautiful.

"Alas, the only pity is that I didn't see the moon."

"The moon isn't out, so the stars are shining so brightly."

"Is that so?" David asked with his head tilted in confusion.

"Of course, the moon's light will overshadow the stars. Didn't they teach you that when you were in college?" Lucy turned her head and said seriously.

"...Is that so?" David asked again in confusion.

In fact, what Lucy said was not accurate. There were times when the bright moon and the shining stars coexisted, but he had no intention of exposing it.

Instead, he smiled and said, "I dropped out of school, have you forgotten?"

"That's not right. As far as I remember, the academy still hasn't shown that you've been expelled. It's just that you don't want to go back."

"Whatever. I'll just consider myself as a dropout anyway. Besides, how can a student be a mercenary and also work part-time in the terrorist squad?"

"Yes."

Lucy accepted his statement.

"But speaking of it, this is my first time leaving Night City and going outside. It seems to be a pretty good feeling."

There is no noisy clamor, no gang fights, and no intrigue.

Even the air became much fresher, without the disgusting smell of industrial waste gas.

"Is that so..." Lucy's voice was so soft, almost inaudible.

"Hey, Lucy, I remember you lived outside Night City, right? What was that like? Can you tell me about it?"

Facing his question, Lucy did not answer, but cast her eyes towards the city of desire in the distance and said with emotion:

"Looking at Night City from here, it looks like a cage made of colorful neon."

He glanced at Lucy and did not continue to ask. Instead, he and Lucy looked at the city in the distance together: "Indeed."

Indeed, it was just as Lucy had said.

The beams of light that shot into the sky from the city bound Night City like a birdcage, and the people living in Night City were like pets kept in cages.

Once you're in, there's no way out.

Either become a corporate lackey, or become a legend as a member of the resistance and end up dying in a cemetery.

This is a common fact in Night City, and it is a fact that cannot be defied.

"Hey, David."

Suddenly, Lucy called his name.

"what happened?"

"Do you want to know? ... About my past."

"If you are willing to talk, I am willing to listen, and I would also like to know more about you."

Lucy just smiled at this, then slowly calmed down and took a deep breath, as if she had made some important decision.

The words that were about to come out were indeed a major decision for her.

Everything that no one has ever known.

"Arasaka."

"I am an orphan and have never seen what my parents look like... No, maybe I have seen them, but I can't remember clearly."

"As a child, I grew up in an Arasaka facility in another country..."

Lucy spoke quietly, telling her life story, her past, and everything about herself.

From the moment she was adopted by Arasaka, she became Arasaka's property. Thirteen children, including her, passed the ability test of network hackers.

After that, they basically lived in the hacker chair, wearing black clothes and lurking in the fragmented network.

The old network that was shattered by the most powerful network hacker in history, the founder of the puppet, and the most legendary hacker ancestor - Lachi Batmos.

They were sent to the Black Wall and passed through it.

All available programs and codes are collected outside the black wall.

There are many who collect some roving AI, but more often than not, they are attacked by roving AI and malware and eventually die outside the black wall.

Because of this, the number of the thirteen children gradually decreased, and only a few of them survived.

However, even this is not the end.

There is still a steady stream of children being sent here.

Batch after batch of them died outside the black wall, and only she survived.

It's like a mine in the early 21st century.

To be precise, this is the mine and they are the miners.

It’s just that in the past, high-intensity calculations were used to calculate the formula of electronic currency, while they are digging for the value outside the black wall, the legacy that exists in the fragmented cyberspace—

A vast amount of lost knowledge and information.

But even so, she never stopped and kept working hard and struggling.

Just because of the words that Arasaka has been instilling in them -

"We will all be cyber hackers one day, working for the most powerful companies in the world."

This dream is the pillar of all children, and all children are working hard for this dream, enduring hard training, and then being sent outside the black wall.

They are also constantly chasing this dream which is not their own will at all.

However, the constant death of her companions made Lucy give up on herself and she even tried to die outside the black wall.

But she still survived.

Her instinctive desire to survive kept her alive.

From then on, she finally woke up, and a desire for resistance slowly arose in her heart.

Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well try to escape.

Therefore, this group of graphics card girls trained by Arasaka fled collectively, but they were hunted down by the company's people in the process, and they pulled the trigger without any mercy.

All of his companions were killed in the hail of bullets.

In the end, only she, who ran the fastest, survived.

That's why she hopes David can run faster than her.

Because she hopes David can live well.

Because of this, she also hates hacker chairs and black customer service, and even has a certain fear of deep diving.

If it weren't for David's support, she didn't know if she could take that step...

And David's expression became very dull.

He didn't know what expression to use or what words to comfort her.

Although I already knew everything about Lucy's past, but when I heard the reality...I felt mixed emotions.

This made him even more determined to kill Arasaka.

But at this moment, he seemed to have thought of something, turned his head and said, "Hey, Lucy, do you want to meet that Lachie Batmos?"

"Eh? What are you talking about..."