But just when the audience in front of the screen were looking forward to the future of the newlyweds with hope, an accident happened.
The subsequent plot development was completely beyond their expectations...
……
Previously, Mann took a big job from Faraday, a military technology middleman.
We need to dig out some valuable information from Arasaka Corporation's top executive Tanaka.
In order to complete the mission before the deadline, Mann's team had to take a risk and choose to kidnap Tanaka directly.
But the difficulty of this big job is far beyond imagination.
Even though they had made a careful plan, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity when Tanaka went to order Black Mewtwo and the guards around were empty.
But plans don't change as fast as they should.
David and Mann were killed by the illegal Mewtwo director Jimmy Kurosaki using a portable electromagnetic pulse generator.
Although the two did not lose their lives.
But David was taken away by Kurosaki, who wanted to induce David into a cyberpsychopath through mental stimulation, and use this to shoot a Mewtwo with the ultimate visual effect.
And through Jimmy Kurosaki's mouth, the audience also learned the cause of cyberpsychosis.
[“Over the past few years, I have seen too many cyber maniacs.”
"A powerful prosthetic body will extract the soul from the body. The soul will be forced into the machine and fall into the edge of the void."
"In the end, there are only two options left."
"Lose your mind, or die before you lose your mind..."]
Seeing this, the uneasiness that had been swept away by the sweet relationship between Lucy and David returned to the audience.
"…I have a bad feeling."
"The powerful prosthesis will strip the soul away. It's broken. I said that a prosthesis as powerful as Sian Westin would definitely have side effects."
"The side effects have always existed. They have been hinted at in previous episodes, but I didn't notice them..."
"David, hold on! Damn, this bitch Kurosaki is really perverted."
Fortunately, Lucy and others rescued David in time and successfully captured Tanaka.
However, as Tanaka is a senior executive of Arasaka Corporation, the firewall in his brain is quite advanced. The hacker Qiwei in the team is helpless against such advanced equipment of a giant company.
To make matters worse, Mann's body also had problems at this time. The prosthesis in his body began to erode his spirit, and he had to increase his intake of immunosuppressants.
But it was still of no avail. His mental state became worse and worse. He even lost control of himself and hit Qiwei who was in a deep dive, causing her serious injuries.
This seems to confirm what Kurosaki said, "Even the strongest spirit will succumb to a more powerful cyborg."
The infringement of the human spirit by cybernetics seems to be equal, and no one is special.
Even the protagonists in the drama are not immune to this side effect.
Cracks began to appear in the team.
Then, Lucy took over Qiwei's job and invaded Tanaka's brain.
In Tanaka's brain, she successfully obtained the data.
At the same time, she unexpectedly discovered something that surprised her.
Tanaka, set his sights on David.
In other words, they set their sights on David's body.
David's body has a very high tolerance to prostheses, and Tanaka wants to use him as a guinea pig to test the latest models of military prostheses.
Because Tanaka wanted to keep the credit for himself, this information about David has not been uploaded to Arasaka.
And Lucy seems to be well aware of the horror of Arasaka.
In order to protect David, Lucy made her own choice.
In desperation, she burned Tanaka's brain and lied that there was no data in it. She also destroyed the signal jammer on Tanaka's body, attracting the trauma team and NCPD.
The trauma team and NCPD are coming in full force, so Mann and Dolio choose to stay behind to cover their retreat.
But as Mann Cyber's mental illness worsened, Dolio was shot and died while trying to inject him with an inhibitor.
Mann, who had regained consciousness, witnessed all of this and lost the will to move forward. He chose to detonate the explosives and die together with the terrorist mobile team that came to encircle him.
As for Lucy and David, they escaped by chance and saved their lives.
Mann is dead.
But before facing his own death, he still encouraged David like an older brother.
[“This is my end, but it’s not yours yet. You still have to live on.”]
In the last moment before he detonated the explosives, his mind seemed to recall the scenes of his struggle to the present in Night City.
In the light of the explosion, David heard Mann's last words clearly.
[“Aren’t you faster than anyone else? Now, run.”]
As soon as these words came out, the audience's tears glands failed.
Mann, as his big brother, gave David a lot of help.
Naturally, many viewers will feel that Mann's death is a pity.
Even some viewers who had no feelings towards Mann were stunned.
They remembered what Mann had said before when he refused to replace his prosthetic body with one that was less mentally taxing.
[“I have come this far with all my strength. There is no way I can stop here.”]
But no one expected that Mann would not stop even at the risk of becoming a cyberpsychopath.
When the terrorist squad arrives, they will stop, giving David a chance to survive.
"Ah? Brother Mann is dead? Old thief An, I just went to Weibo to praise you yesterday, and you're making a big fuss today, right?"
"Mann is having a cyberpsychosis attack. I'm a little worried about David's mental state now."
"Damn it, my good brother is also a knife, this is not right. Aren't these the protagonists?"
Chapter 198: Mi Huyou's New Pleasure Prisoner
On the screen, in the underground parking garage of the building, David returned to the car, holding the prosthetic arm left by Mann, and remained silent.
Mann sacrificed himself, being destroyed in the explosion and buried in the dusty ruins of the building.
Outside the screen, countless viewers were indignant.
The audience felt upset.
I came to Mihoyo’s official account as soon as possible.
"Big Brother is gone?"
"Is there any mistake?"
"..."
The female audience, who were more emotional and kind, were even more dizzy and didn't know what expression they should make at this moment.
Countless readers gnashed their teeth, rushed to Weibo, found the account of the love warrior 'An Yi', and began to ask him why.
What a good big brother Mann is!
Even if David needs to grow up, Mann can still abdicate peacefully instead of dying immediately, right?
Normally, in the game's plot, manufacturers usually coax players and will not casually give lunch boxes to important characters, because it will affect players' evaluation of the game, and thus directly affect revenue.
The sudden blow from "Edgewalker" was too cruel for these inexperienced players.
……
"Hey~, you are young~ or too young, this is just the beginning? I can't stand this~ The players are really a bunch of trash~"
"Miscellaneous fish~"
Lu Ling was lying on the sofa at home, constantly browsing the comment section of "Edge Walker".
Looking at the heated discussion above about Mann’s death, I took a bite of the apple and commented with gloating.
That's how people are.
When we suffer, we often don’t think about how to forget the pain, but immediately want to see other people experiencing the same pain.
Now I am looking at the comments from the players.
Lu Ling could recall how hard she cried the first day she got the script from An Yi.
At that time, she proposed to An Yi the suggestion to change the ending.
But An Yi only said one sentence: "Eh? It would be so boring if we keep weaving illusory happiness. After a long time, players will also feel empty. Besides, think about it carefully, don't you think it will be very pleasant after doing this?"
At that time, Lu Ling didn't understand.
But now, she seemed to understand a little.
She fully experienced the pleasant feeling that An Yi described.
"It turns out that hair cutting is such a pleasant thing!"
Mann's death seems very cruel, but in the whole "Edgewalker", it is at best just an appetizer.
Let's say that.
Of the main characters in this anime, Lucy is the only one who survives at the end of the show.
There was no David or Rebecca left, not even a complete body.
Mann’s death was already too much for the players to bear.
By then, Rebecca will be gone, and these players will suffer from cyberpsychosis.
In the following plot, Rebecca's role becomes much more important.
When she thought of the players' reactions, Lu Ling felt so happy that every pore of her body trembled.
……
The length of "EdgeWalker" is not long among many popular anime series. It has a total of 10 episodes, and including the OP and ED, it is less than 220 minutes in total.
After ten days of daily serialization, it will also come to an end today.
Countless players are looking forward to it.
As a well-known anchor in the Mihoyo area, Tang Baibai's live broadcast status was not very good today and he was absent-minded the whole day.
When he was live streaming during the day, he would look up at the clock every few minutes to see how long it would take until 8 p.m. He would even stare at Lucy on the desktop in a daze, as if he was having a withdrawal reaction.
Since Mann's death, the story of Edgewalker has become more tense and exciting.
David took up the banner and teamed up with the rest of the team, including Rebecca, Qiwei and others, and became a well-known edge walker in Night City.
But in this process, as David has more and more prosthetics implanted in his body and they become stronger and stronger, he is gradually moving towards the edge.
To make matters worse, Arasaka recovered the data burned by Lucy in the brain chip left behind by Tanaka, and a corporate conspiracy against David began.
The purpose is to make David a test subject of [Cyborg: King Kong].
In this process, the middleman Faraday set a trap, and Qiwei rebelled for profit.
Lucy was arrested for trying to prevent David's secret from being leaked.
Faraday hacked into Lucy's system and controlled Lucy to tell David to put on King Kong.
As they wished, David put on the prototype prosthesis which had horrific side effects.
But what Arasaka and Faraday did not expect was that David actually resisted the erosion of King Kong, and after David wiped out the military technology troops that arrived, he even had the energy to continue using King Kong.
The plot of the previous episode came to an abrupt end when David made the decision to rescue Lucy.
With the passage being interrupted like this, it's no wonder that Tang Baibai looked so distracted.
The audience in her live broadcast room also expressed their understanding.
Because they were also discussing the plot of Edgewalker in the live broadcast room.
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