Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 7 The whole Night City is a dark alley

boom! ! !
If you provoke a lunatic who has lost his mind, then you must not be very rational.

There is no mental illness in Night City, or rather, everyone is mentally ill. The traditional mental illness of Lu Mingfei's era is so common here that it is incurable - so the concept of mental illness is simply gradually eliminated, so that everyone can be healthy again.

But in reality, who isn't crazy in Night City?
Just holding on!

“Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei!!!”

Losing his mind, the student with the bowl-cut hair pushed hard, grabbed Lu Mingfei's collar with both hands, and pushed him against the side wall of the alley.

Crack, crack, crack! —

The prosthetic arm exerted its own force, pushing Lu Mingfei towards the wall with immense force.

The technology of 2076 allows the modified humans to easily lift a car, and can also crush other people like ants like a car.

of course.

Prosthetic bodies need to be purchased, and purchasing them requires money, but the poor and untouchables do not have the right to survive.

Cracks appeared in the walls, and bones and muscles squeezed against each other, making a sticky echo.

Just like the metaphor just now, Lu Mingfei now felt that the slow-moving car was crushing him and was about to knock him into the wall and turn him into meat paste.

His throat was pressed down and he couldn't speak. The pain began to spread from his lumbar spine and stomach. His head quickly became filled with blood and he struggled subconsciously.

"Remember this! Tanaka! I'm nobler than you! I'm more qualified to be at the top of Arasaka than you! I'm more qualified to survive in this city than you!"

Tanaka, the man with the blue bowl-cut hair, pressed Lu Mingfei with a ferocious look on his face, breathing heavily from his mouth.

"Same as Martinez!! Damn it! Just like his mother used illegal channels to earn tuition fees, you also relied on your parents' illegal experiments to obtain a useful chip to improve your intelligence!!"

"None of you are following the rules! Know yourselves!"

It's totally inconsistent.

Although he said that he did not discriminate against the poor, every sentence he said was showing off his own background, and that was all he could show off.

I'm so unlucky that I met a rich second-generation guy.

Now, there are only three words that can express Lu Mingfei's complaints about this bullshit life. It's not a heroic roar like "Fuck you!", but "Help! My life! Ah!"

Perhaps the lack of oxygen in the environment made Lu Mingfei's mind begin to clear up. Even at this critical moment of his life, he was still thinking about complaining about Tanaka and talking nonsense.

He just has a bad mouth. The more critical the situation is, the more he wants to say something that will make the atmosphere worse.

It needs to be changed.

This experience will surely be useful for next time.
Lu Mingfei's consciousness gradually faded, and Tanaka fell into a state of madness that he refused to stop even when his two younger brothers stepped forward to dissuade him. He kept switching between two names in his mouth.

Lu Mingfei and that damn David Martinez.

(Damn, so who is this David? I'm definitely being taken out on. If I ever meet him, I'll definitely complain.)

At the last moment when Lu Mingfei was about to lose consciousness——

"It's all your fault. You're using illegal means to earn resources. The children born from such inferior people are indeed inferior! The underclass of Night City is so ugly because of you! Just thinking about the existence of people like you in Arasaka Corporation makes me feel uncomfortable."

Lu Mingfei's fingers twitched slightly.

"What car accident? What experiment failed?! You must have been punished by God while illegally amassing wealth! Just like David Martinez, maybe your parents died just to create that cheating prosthetic for you!"

Tanaka got more and more excited as he spoke, "People like you! You should be——————Ugh!!!"

Snapped.

The voice stopped.

Because Tanaka's cheeks were suddenly pinched by a hand.

Lu Mingfei, who should have been pressed against the wall by the prosthesis with his feet off the ground, now passed his arm through the gap between him and Tanaka and grabbed Tanaka's cheek.

The sudden force made Tanaka dazed. Why would an almost original person without any prosthetics installed have the illusion that his jaw was about to be shattered?

Also, eyes.

Why did Lu Mingfei's eyes turn that color?
It is different from the golden color during the communication, but it is a boiling flame and burning gold!
“Ehhh!!!!”

Tanaka, who was already neurotic, suddenly let go of his arms that were pressing on Lu Mingfei and stepped back. There was still some ferocity in his expression, but combined with the fear, it mixed into an ugly and helpless look.

“—cough—cough cough!”

It seemed as if everything was an illusion. The moment Tanaka let go, Lu Mingfei also slid down from the wall, covering his neck and gasping for breath and coughing, completely losing his majestic appearance just now.

But in Tanaka's mind, flashbacks of past memories suddenly appeared.

A young man, covered in blood, stripped off his yellow firefighter suit. His spine, still wounded, was covered in a horrifying prosthetic. He rushed into the Arasaka Academy classroom alone and broke his jaw with a single punch.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! No!! No!! David! David, no!"

The man's features twisted as he screamed miserably, "David is still chasing me! Gua ...

He was truly insane. Tanaka, clutching his purplish face, suddenly turned around, tumbling and scrambling along the ground with both feet, as he ran towards the alley exit. "You're chasing me with a fucking 300 speed! You're still chasing me!!"

The two followers, after being stunned for a moment, looked at each other like extras getting ready to get their lunch boxes, and hurried to catch up.

Shadows covered Lu Mingfei, who was sitting on the ground without any image, one by one, and the footsteps in the alley gradually quieted down.

It took a long time for Lu Mingfei to recover from the discomfort in his throat. He rubbed his throat and tried to stand up with a painful look on his face, but failed and fell down halfway.

It seems that even the popular cyber Lu Mingfei has no friends?
Not only did no young master come to offer his old classmate a job opportunity, but he even attracted the bullying of a classic third-rate villain.

Sorry, Lao Zhao, I will never criticize you, Zhao Menghua, again. At least you won’t strangle me to death.

Lu Mingfei thought about it with a smile, and secretly wondered why Tanaka suddenly ran away as if he had seen a ghost.

Did he do anything? I don't remember clearly.

Lu Mingfei was puzzled, but when he recovered and stood up, he found that there was a slanted shadow on the lower side of his arm.

shadow?

These things shouldn't be in the almost dark alley unless there is an additional light source.

Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked into the distance.

At some point, the entire city had darkened, and the tall buildings in the distance emitted an inorganic light that far surpassed that of daytime.

The light belonging to the powerful can even deliberately illuminate the ugly appearance of the dying reptiles in the shadows.

So much happened today.

Parents' legacy, electronic ghosts, golden fingers, a tour of cybercity, and even a bullying incident in the back alley of the school.

Is this really just 'one day'? Why does it feel so much richer than my entire life?
Lu Mingfei thought it was almost time to report to the prosthetics doctor, hoping for better luck this time—though he had already begun to lose hope and even become wary. Night City would help every child who harbored a glimmer of hope to face reality.

The 'popularity' or 'connections' recorded in the diary cannot help you.

In this city, it seems that the only person I can trust is myself.

“I hope nothing else will happen.”

Lu Mingfei dragged his tired body to think about the direction. Now he needed to cross the [city center] all the way to the [Watson District]. He didn't dare to take the main road. Over there, several people in Tanaka were still lying on the ground having a mental attack. He didn't want to go up and trigger their passionate murder plot.

He turned and walked deeper into the alley.

Although the alley is also dangerous, this is the back door of Arasaka Academy, which is relatively safe and the probability of accidents is relatively small.

At least it's better than having to face Tanaka's mental illness.

Da da da.

There was an echo in the alley at night, and Lu Mingfei was sure that he only heard his own voice.

The surrounding walls were illuminated by cold white light and covered in all sorts of graffiti, including images of fighting gangs, powerful humanoid figures like wild beasts, cyber madmen whose faces had been deeply modified to look like machines, incomprehensible religious tarot cards, and crying smiling faces.

Lu Mingfei walked on the path, feeling inexplicably panicked. He quickened his pace, but no matter what, his footsteps were the only sound in the alley.

He suddenly remembered the cyber ghost in his head, his younger brother named Lu Mingze.

Maybe I should pull him out for a chat to give him courage?
"That Lu Mingze?"

"What's wrong, brother?"

Woohoo! ! !

To be honest, it was a bit embarrassing. It was Lu Mingfei who called the other party first, but he was shocked when Lu Mingze responded.

The ghost lives in one's own mind - this fact is confirmed once again.

A handsome boy in a black suit appeared in the corner of Lu Mingfei's vision. He sat on the street lamp, supporting his face with his hands, and looked down at his brother leisurely.

"You, you're not going to use the special effects of The World and Mirror Flower and Water Moon this time?"

Lu Mingfei talked as he walked. He watched Lu Mingze appear and disappear like a ghost on top of the adjacent street lamp. He looked elegant every time, just like the bug icon in the game.

"Oh~ this one."

Lu Mingze shrugged. "That's the only good thing about this world. I just hacked into your retinal display program, so I didn't actually leave your soul, so naturally, I won't affect reality."

"But compared to this, brother, is it really okay to go into such a deep alley so late at night?" Lu Mingze asked with interest, his legs dangling on the edge of the street light.

"You think I want to?" Lu Mingfei seemed to have grown bolder now that he had a partner. He complained, "I was bullied by Tian Shang just now. Not only do my ribs seem to have problems, but my navigation system seems to have been affected as well. I'm walking slowly and taking a detour."

"This original body is too weak. If that prosthetic doctor is really trustworthy, I'll have to replace it with a prosthetic even if it means selling my underwear."

"Roar~~"

Lu Mingze frowned slightly upon hearing this. He stood up from his seat on the streetlight and said meaningfully, "My dear brother, have you adapted to this world so quickly? You're even ready to install a prosthetic? That would mean cutting open your flesh and blood and stuffing some cold machinery in there."

"If you don't pretend, you'll die! Nazha zebra!" Lu Mingfei muttered. "If you don't do it, you'll die."

"It seems the power of the environment is even stronger than I imagined." Lu Mingze smacked his lips, a little regretful. "It shouldn't have been like this."

After saying that, without paying any attention to Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingze stopped looking at his brother and turned to look deeper into the alley.

"But...never mind, everything will be back on track soon."

"What are you talking about?"

Lu Mingfei dragged his exhausted body forward, but when he looked in the direction Lu Mingze was looking, he found that the alley had finally come to an end and he could faintly hear the sound of cars passing by.

Before he knew it, he had walked quite a distance, even to the edge of Watson's developed area.

"I don't know if the cyborg doctor is still waiting for me." Lu Mingfei maintained his last bit of vigilance and slowly and cautiously crossed the last bit of distance in the alley.

Hey.

After all, Lu Mingfei had seen the movie before, and this was the moment when he got a sudden shock!

Da da.

In the last part of the journey, there will always be a villain who will run out and capture you, adding a bit of fantasy to the viewing experience of the family members in front of the big screen.

So he walked very carefully. Lu Mingze watched this scene without saying anything.

Dada-da.

"."

nobody.

Lu Mingfei walked to the other side on thin ice.

Swish————

Cars passed by one after another, and the city was almost the same as the modern city that Lu Mingfei had in mind.

This sense of déjà vu made him feel relieved.

He stood under the dim street lights, panting, watching the endless stream of vehicles, and after a while, he smiled foolishly.

Hey..haha.

He made it through the first day.

This is a wonderful start! Sooner or later, I, Lu Mingfei, will be able to thrive in this city!

Thinking of this, the boy raised his hands and jumped up.

“Great—Ah!”

pat!

Almost at the moment when Lu Mingfei's feet left the ground, a black car drove past him, the door opened with a click, an arm pulled the boy into the car, and then quickly closed the door with a click.

Swish——————

The car drove away into the distance. The little devil on the streetlight crossed his legs and watched the scene calmly.

"puff."

After a while, he burst out laughing.

(End of this chapter)