Cyberpunk: Legendary Life

Chapter 5 Targeting

Dark clouds covered the sky, and the morning was gloomy and cool.

David went out to attend classes at Arasaka College, and stopped when passing by the Civic Center Company Plaza. Two holographic projection goldfish were still swimming in the air above his head.

One gold, one blue.

David stopped to watch for a while, and his eyes inadvertently met the person on the square on the second floor steps. The other person was wearing the same Arasaka Academy uniform as him.

It was Tanaka Katsuo, David’s classmate at Arasaka Academy.

Facing Tanaka Katsuo's malicious smile, David felt a toothache, but he didn't want to have any trouble with Tanaka Katsuo today.

Backfired.

In the dark corridor below the company square.

Tanaka Katsuo and two classmates blocked David at the exit of the corridor, which was the only passage for David to reach Arasaka Tower.

Bright light shone in from outside the passage exit, lengthening the figure of Tanaka Katsuo.

David saw that his face was covered with shadows and dark and uncertain.

Tanaka Katsuo put one hand in his trouser pocket and said in a domineering tone: "Quickly drop out of school and figure out the situation, David Martinez!"

"What's happening?"

"You are causing chaos to the class!"

"If it's because of what happened yesterday"

"Not just yesterday!" Tanaka Katsuo interrupted David, and then continued contemptuously.

"I'm not pointing out that your family is poor. In fact, I'm very open-minded. Besides, it's not your fault that you were born into a poor family. There's no rule that poor people can't attend Arasaka Academy. Of course, the premise is that they can afford the tuition!"

Tanaka Katsuo's tone gradually became colder: "But there is another thing that I can't forgive. Do you know what it is?"

David didn't want to have any entanglement with Tanaka Katsuo, and avoided any friction with him from beginning to end. He moved his eyes to the side and said coldly.

"Sorry, I didn't understand a word that came out of your mouth."

Tanaka Katsuo immediately pointed at David’s expression and said loudly.

"This is it!"

Tanaka Katsuo hates and targets David because his face is full of disobedience and maverick, and his tone always reveals stubbornness.

"Quit school and get out of here!"

"You don't belong here, freak!"

David looked at Tanaka Katsuo reluctantly, not understanding why the other party was so hard on him, but now he had no choice but to accept it.

Tanaka Katsuo said indifferently: "Trash that will never fit into the class. If you ignore it, it will only make others dirty. All you can do is not to implicate us!"

"Didn't you just say that as long as I pay the tuition, it'll be fine."

Tanaka Katsuo pretended to tilt his head in a joking manner.

"I heard that your mother came to the college yesterday, begging the principal for forgiveness, crying bitterly, and begging her precious son not to be expelled, right?"

"What a shame!"

"I've always found it strange. What kind of money does your mother earn? Can she afford your tuition here? Do you want to tell everyone?"

"David Martinez?"

"What on earth is mom doing outside to bring you to the academy?"

Every mockery and provocation hit the most sensitive nerve in David's heart.

No matter how much Tanaka Katsuo bullied and insulted him, he could endure it and even pretended not to see it, but he would never allow anyone to ridicule his mother.

David's right foot subconsciously raised the heel and shook uncontrollably, and his whole body became agitated. For the first time, his eyes wanted to kill someone.

Tanaka Katsuo did not let David go and continued to attack.

"I can think of a way to make quick money in Night City, and that's illegal!"

David stopped his trembling steps and looked at the menacing Tanaka Katsuo.

"That's enough!"

"Wait, who said enough is enough?"

"Go away." David didn't want to engage in this useless entanglement and tried to leave from Tanaka Katsuo.

But Tanaka Katsuo deliberately stood in front of him and knocked David back again.

"Huh? Do you just want to leave?"

Tanaka Katsuo raised his hands and hit David three times, then pretended to be casual and activated his prosthetic body to knock David back several meters.

"Oh? What? What do you want?"

Tanaka Katsuo looked at the angry David and raised his palms towards him.

"Come on, come on!"

David finally burst out with his inner anger and punched Tanaka Katsuro violently, but to his surprise, his fist was easily caught by Tanaka Katsuro with one hand!

"Where did you get that bargain? Free chip?"

The words just fell.

Tanaka Katsuo then used a set of extremely fast punches, hitting David directly in the face, chest and abdomen, and finally kicked him away.

"Kuiju 400 series, the essence of real kung fu chips, yours is still a native joint. Before you seek revenge from me next time, you should install a better prosthetic body first, otherwise you will drop out of school."

Tanaka Katsuo put down his words, straightened his school uniform and turned around to leave.

David sat on the ground with blood all over his face. He was in so much pain that he could hardly stand up. It took him a while before the pain gradually subsided.

Now that the school uniform is in tatters, it is impossible to go to Arasaka Academy in this condition, so I have to go to a prosthetist to get money for a kidney transplant.

David dragged his tired and injured body to the prosthetic doctor's clinic. Seeing his state, the prosthetic doctor couldn't help but asked with a smile.

"Did you fight with someone else? You may not be suitable for a kidney transplant if you bleed so much. You will die during the operation."

"Stop talking about it!" David held his stomach and endured the pain. He lay on the operation table and bared his teeth and said, "It has nothing to do with you if you die. Just pay the money to my mother's clinic."

The prosthetic doctor wore a multi-viewer and slid in front of David in a wheelchair. He connected rubber tubes and data cables to various parts of his body. Countless codes and body function information were scrolling in the multi-viewer, and he couldn't help but feel... He sighed.

"What an amazing body. You can recover so quickly after suffering such a serious injury. Almost every function of your body is at the highest level. I'm afraid your internal organs would be worth a lot of money if you took them out and sold them."

"Look at your powerful heart and the filtration and metabolism speed of your kidneys. It's really enviable. I have to say that your body was almost designed to be implanted with prosthetics."

David urged in a deep voice: "Don't talk so much and do the surgery quickly!"

soon.

David, who had just received money from the operation, received another call from the chief surgeon of the black clinic before he could take a break.

"Is that Mr. Martinez?"

"This call is to inform you about Gloria Martinez."

"Please come to the hospital immediately."

The extremely weak David guessed that he needed to pay medical expenses, so he took a stack of wrapped European gold banknotes and returned to the gloomy black clinic building. The doctor who received him was still the same surgeon as last time.

Standing in front of the operating room on the second floor, the chief surgeon was wearing the same clothes, speaking in the same cold tone, and his hands were still stained with blood, as if he had just completed the operation.

"She was stable this morning, but her vital signs suddenly plummeted, and she has passed away. After all, this is the cheapest package, and she was already very weak before the car accident. She looks like she was overworked. Here is the funeral plan we provide ."

The more David listened, the more blurry he became. He felt that his eyelids began to close uncontrollably. He felt as if his whole body had fallen into the cold deep sea, and was about to be swallowed up by the terror of the darkness at the bottom of the sea. However, he had already lost the ability to struggle. , just reaching out to grab something.

"Mother."

Gradually lost consciousness.

Fall into darkness

"Well"

David was awakened by a sudden headache. The fierce beam of light shone directly into his eyes, causing him to shrink his pupils involuntarily.

When the strong white light dissipated, David rubbed his eyes and tried to see the scene in front of him clearly.

"David!"

An all too familiar voice came.

"Um?!"

David looked closely and found his mother, who had red hair in a ponytail, sitting beside the hospital bed and worriedly soothing her forehead.

"Mother?"

"David, you finally woke up!"