Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

The next morning, Vito parted ways with David and went to his father's place to have several new prosthetic bodies installed.

David then went to Arasaka Academy to prepare to carry out his revenge plan.

Sheng Nan's kung fu chip was ultimately just a facade. It couldn't even defeat a real master or someone with a decent prosthetic body. It was even inferior to the sex doll chip that Judy developed later.

Sheng Nan swung forward at David, who then used his Sianwistan to throw her onto the screen, beating her until she begged for mercy. In the end, she brought out her father, a member of the academy's board of directors, as a shield.

David smiled dismissively, turned and left Arasaka Academy. He felt the sunlight was exceptionally warm today, as if the dawn of a new life was shining on him.

"Life isn't a movie; it doesn't end when you're having the most fun."

Vito's voice inexplicably echoed in David's mind. He shook his head and boarded the rail transit to Watson District.

Vito had just had his lungs and stomach replaced, and he wanted to get his hands replaced as well, along with some subcutaneous armor. But he didn't expect money to go so quickly. In the end, he could only get his circulatory system replaced, and the hand and subcutaneous armor would have to wait until later.

After taking a drag of the nerve inhibitor, Vito began to adapt to the new part of his body. His prosthetic capacity was far from being filled in the panel. As for the discomfort caused by the prosthetic, come on, which V-Shocker ever collapsed on the roadside due to discomfort from his prosthetic?

Vito held his new gun, which he named Euro. He planned to shoot the gun into the face of anyone who pointed at him and demanded to take out their Euros.

What? Night City wants to steal my Euros? Then shoot the capitalist monsters!

Gloria looked a little better today. Upon learning that Vito was staying at her house, Gloria hurriedly asked Vito if her son was going to school.

Vito was watching old Vito fiddling with the prosthetic implant machine when he casually replied.

"David, he went to school. School uniform? I think he wasn't wearing it. Hey, kids that age don't like wearing school uniforms, it's rebellious. I didn't like wearing my school uniform in high school either, and I got scolded every day, but nothing happened. Don't worry."

Gloria felt somewhat relieved, but her woman's intuition told her that things might not be as she imagined, so she asked.

"Mr. Vito, has the academy called David?"

Vito thought for a moment and replied.

"It seems not, but don't worry, I gave David my number, he'll call me if he needs anything."

The Night City universal ringtone rang in Vito's mind.

"Look, he's calling now. It's getting late, he should have just gotten home. I'll answer his call."

A few seconds later.

"What the hell? What did you say?"

……

Let's rewind to this afternoon.

After David came out of the Arasaka Tower, he boarded the city's rail transit. He was feeling bored when he suddenly noticed a wisp of silver hair. He looked up and saw a beautiful silver-haired girl.

David secretly watched the girl for a while and discovered that she was using hacking technology to steal someone else's chip. The girl stole from the entire carriage, and when she got to David's head, David Kass-Awestan grabbed the girl's wrist.

The girl was a little surprised, but after she realized what was happening, she pulled David to the side of the carriage.

The girl was very interested in David's skills and suggested that the two of them steal chips together, and only steal Arasaka's chips. They would split the chips 82/82 afterward. David was looking for a job to make money, so the two of them hit it off immediately.

The girl was responsible for using hacking technology to eject the chips from the Arasaka passengers, while David secretly took the chips into his hands.

Everything went smoothly. After all, no one could tell that the military-grade S.A.S.S. high-level cybernetic body Arasaka Corporation dog could ride the city rail. The two got several chips. The girl was very satisfied. The two introduced themselves. The girl's name was Lucy.

Just as the two were about to divide the loot, David suddenly had a nosebleed and fainted.

Lucy led David to a familiar black transport vehicle, but the prosthetic doctor saw that David, a seventeen-year-old boy, was carrying a military-grade Sinwiss and became greedy. He even threatened Lucy that if she interfered, he would remove her prosthetic body as well.

Lucy smiled helplessly, reminded David, then suddenly shoved the stretcher towards the cyborg doctor, kicked open the ambulance door, and slid out of the ambulance with the stretcher. Poor David still had an oxygen mask on his face. Lucy took him for a while on the scooter before stopping at the roadside.

"Wuhu Lake, that was really exciting!"

Lucy let out a soft gasp, a bright smile on her face, but David didn't have time to appreciate it; he felt like he couldn't breathe.

"Hey, do you have anyone you can contact?"

David's weak reply.

"Vito, call Vito."

David did his best to give Lucy Vito's phone number, and Lucy called it.

"Hey, is this Vito? David Martinez is about to faint."

"What the hell? What did you say?"

Lucy paused for a moment, then asked.

"Are you Vito?"

"Yes, it's me, David. What's wrong?"

“He had a nosebleed and fainted. We got into the ambulance, but the doctor wanted to take David’s prosthetic body, so we had to get out.”

Where are you now?

"Kabuki district, next to the elevated highway entrance."

"Okay, wait for me there."

After Vito ended the phone call, he said goodbye to everyone and left in a hurry. Gloria was about to ask Vito what had happened when she saw Vito walk quickly out the door, leaving Gloria's hand outstretched in mid-air.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Martinez, Vito will handle it. I haven't known him for long, but he seems very reliable."

Old Vieira comforted Gloria.

Vito called a Delaman ambulance with emergency medical personnel to the Watson Overpass, and from a distance he saw a girl and a stretcher.

"Old De, stop next to that stretcher."

Once the car came to a stop, Vito checked on David's condition, then put him in the Delaman. He then gestured for Lucy to get in, and after a moment's thought, Lucy climbed into the Delaman.

"Old De, let's check on this kid's condition first."

"Please connect the data line. Okay, data line connected. David Martinez, your body is overworked and your nervous system is out of balance. I recommend taking adrenaline, followed by a neurodepressant."

"Okay, quickly give me an adrenaline, then drive the car to Old Wei's place."

Delaman's automatic medicine box popped out a handheld adrenaline syringe, and Vito handed it to Lucy, saying.

“You come here, you locals should know where to hit.”

Lucy took the adrenaline and injected it into David's chest, while Vito took out the nerve inhibitor that Old Vito had given him and let David inhale it twice.

Seeing that David was feeling a bit better, Vito then looked at Lucy. He assumed she was David's classmate, and maybe even a couple from school. He raised an eyebrow at David.

"You're something else, kid!"

Chapter 11 Fascination

"You little brat! You secretly installed such a dangerous prosthetic body and got yourself into this state. What exactly are you trying to do!"

Seeing Gloria's furious outburst, Vito could only ask Misty to calm Gloria down and prevent her from aggravating her already weakened state.

Vito pulled up David, who had recovered considerably, and brought out the old Vito's good form.

"What have you been doing? You've gotten yourself into this state. Is this your classmate? Introduce him."

David explained.

“She’s Lucy, not my classmate. We’re business partners. Dr. Viktor just said that I’ve been using the S.A.S.A.S. technique too much, which is why I’m like this.”

Vito asked, puzzled.

"You've been using S.A.S.S. too much? Aren't these things supposed to be used right after cooling down? I used to use them to get around. Did you install a pirated version? But that shouldn't be the case. I scanned yours, and there shouldn't be any major problems."

Lucy, listening nearby, rolled her eyes. "Seanwistan is really in a hurry, isn't he?"

David continued.

"Dr. Viktor said it can only be used once or twice a day. I used it eight times today, and I haven't used any nerve depressants yet. It's normal to faint."

Vito asked, "Eight times? Even if your classmate is annoying, he shouldn't have been beaten up eight times. I remember you went to Arasaka Academy, not Suzuran Boys' High School, right?"

David explained, "No, Lucy and I stole the chip in the city rails."

David realized he had let something slip as soon as he finished speaking, and looked awkwardly at Lucy beside him.

Vito was speechless. He lit a cigarette and said, "Seanwistan steals chips. You're really something. Let me see what you stole, Relic chips?"

Lucy picked up a small handful of chips and weighed them in her hand. Vito scanned them and found they were low-level money chips; they would need to be cracked before they could be used.

This completely baffled Vito. He'd spent the whole afternoon working on this?

He turned to Lucy and asked.

"Are you a hacker? Working alone?"

Lucy nodded.

Vito handed Lucy a hacker prosthetic overheating puppet chip and asked.

"How much is this chip worth approximately?"

Lucy scanned it, handed the chip back to Vito, and said.

"Four hundred and fifty euros, market price."

Vito took the chip and said.

"Thanks, want a cigarette?"

Lucy took the cigarette from Vito, and the two began to smoke. Vito, who had just had a lung transplant, felt that smoking was more enjoyable.

Cough cough cough cough!

David was choked by the smoke, and Vito, seeing that David was uncomfortable, asked him to stand further away.

"Do you know that doctor? He's trying to steal David's."

"Not close, but I know him. Are you going to see him?"

Vito exhaled a puff of smoke and said.

“I hate doctors who lack professional ethics, so he has to pay the price.”

At this moment, Misty came out and told Vito and David that the situation inside had improved a lot. Gloria was much better now, but she asked David to take Sianwistan off as soon as possible.

Vito breathed a sigh of relief, put his arm around David's shoulder and laughed, "Phew! Good thing I didn't tell your mom you dropped out of school."

"What? David dropped out of school?"

Misty covered her mouth; she now felt that David was a disobedient son and Vito was a fallen angel who led people astray.

Vito quickly pulled David and Lucy away, and the three of them went to eat ramen. This was the most enjoyable meal Vito had had since arriving in Night City; the food finally tasted as it should.

After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Vito asked for the address of the prosthetic doctor. He was going to ask for the money he owed for the "moral deprivation" payment, as the prosthetic implant had cost him quite a bit of money today.

While Vito was out arranging a car, Lucy invited David to her house. David seemed a little flustered, but after Lucy teased him with the question, "First time?", David agreed to go to Lucy's house, emphasizing that it wasn't his first time.

After Vito returned, David told him that he and Vito were going to Lucy's house after they finished their business.

Vito said, "Who wants you to come along? You go do your thing first. I have more than one thing to do tonight. I also need to find some things and gather some supplies. Do as you please. Oh right, I forgot that it's not Vito's activity time yet. Let's go to a bar and buy a bottle of 400 Rabbit Dionysus. Tell me how you two met, shall we?"

The three of them went to a bar and had a few drinks. Vito listened to the story of how David and Lucy met in just three minutes. There was no way they knew each other as well as LS's potato chips.

Vito called David over to go to the toilet together.

In the bathroom, Vito handed David a pistol.

"Short, sharp, and fearsome. I've modified this gun, added modules, and changed the bullets. It's different from ordinary guns. The concave bullet can stop a chimpanzee from charging at you, but the modules prioritize peace. As long as you don't hold someone down to execute them, you will absolutely not cause any deaths. It's definitely fine for self-defense."

David took the gun with some excitement, but he was still a little confused and asked, "Thank you, Vito, but why are you giving me a gun?"

Vito patted David on the shoulder and said.

"In my hometown, if a pretty girl you've only known for an afternoon invites you to her house, you'll likely find her house full of muscular men. Take this thing with you, so you don't come out of the shower with only your own gun in your hand. Remember, sometimes pretty girls are more cunning than the air in LS potato chips."

David blushed.

"I'm just going to her house for a visit, what do you mean by taking a shower?"

Vito handed him two more magazines and said.

"The words may be rough, but the principle is sound. Please take care of yourself."

"But this is way too rough!"