Harry Potter, the savior of Night City

In the cramped room, only an old, antique incandescent bulb, which no one knew where it had been found, provided a dim light source. David sat down against the wall and discussed escape plans with Ika behind him.

"They took all my weapons, even the pneumatic injector," David said dejectedly after carefully checking his equipment.

"Can you get in touch with your teammates?" Ika asked.

"No, the signal is blocked here," David replied after trying.

David looked up at the door in front of him. It wasn't anything special; it was just an ordinary electronic door. But to him now, the door was no different from a wall.

"David, try to pry the door open," Ika suggested.

"Huh? Me?" David was a little stunned, but he still followed Ika's advice, stood up from the ground, walked to the door, reached out and put his hand into the crack of the electronic door, gathered his energy, his eyes were like torches, and he suddenly exerted force with both hands!

"Hey!"

The door remained completely still.

David didn't believe it. He then assumed a horse stance, found a comfortable position, and gripped the door crack tightly with both hands again, his eyes wide open and veins bulging!

"ha!"

The door remained completely still.

David gave up and sat back down in his previous spot.

"I wish I had a prosthetic hand like Mann or Harry," he murmured, looking at his original arm. "If it were them, they could tear this door open like paper."

"They probably haven't woken up yet," Ika said. "The gas you just inhaled is enough to keep you unconscious for four hours. Without external help, you have no chance of waking up on your own. Your only hope now is that you can open this door or contact those two hackers."

"You saw it yourself, I'm simply not strong enough to open this door," David said. "We can't possibly die here today..."

"There's another way," Ika suddenly said, "but you might strain a muscle."

"What can we do?" David's hope returned, and he quickly asked.

"Go knock on that door again, only pull it in one direction. I noticed the signal outside was working before I came in. If you can make a crack in the door, I should be able to try to get those two hackers back to you."

"should?"

"I'm not sure how well this signal jamming works; maybe it'll allow me to connect?"

"Okay, hopefully I'll have some luck."

David thought for a moment, then stood up and gripped the door crack again with both hands. This time, however, he pulled hard in one direction with both hands, using all his strength to pull the door open.

"It's so heavy... Ugh!"

David let out a low growl, all the muscles in his body straining, sweat beading on his skin. He felt the muscles in his arms screaming in agony. Finally, just as he was about to give up...

"Sizzle..."

The electronic door's sliding track made a teeth-grinding sound as the door was pulled open a crack.

"Now." Ika gained access to David's terminal and tried to contact Qiwei and Lucy. Fortunately, the AI ​​hadn't blocked the signal so thoroughly; it only needed to open a crack to connect to the outside world.

"David!? Thank goodness... What happened? Why did you guys suddenly disconnect?" Lucy's voice came through first, followed by Qiwei.

"First, help me open this door in the dark..." David squeezed out these words through gritted teeth; he really couldn't hold on any longer.

Upon hearing this, Lucy and Qiwei didn't ask any further questions. They immediately gained access to David's prosthetic eye and used it to open the door in front of him.

"drop."

With a soft electronic sound, the electronic door opened, and David instantly collapsed to the ground, his arms limp and powerless, just as Ika had said—he had pulled a muscle.

"What happened? Where are the others?" Qiwei asked.

"Those roving AI used poison gas, and everyone was knocked unconscious except for me," David explained succinctly. "Now there's something more important; we need to rescue them first."

David got up and peeked out the door. There were three surveillance cameras watching, but thankfully, he didn't see any AI monitoring the area.

Lucy and Qiwei quickly took care of the surveillance cameras, and then David immediately activated Icarus, moving freely in a world where time had slowed down by 99%.

At each door, he would stop and let Lucy and Kiss open it, then go in and shake everyone awake. Soon, he had everyone except Harry out.

"Do you know where Harry went?" David asked, though he knew it was pointless since all the doors were open, but he still held onto a sliver of hope.

However, the result was definitely disappointing to him, and no one knew it.

"Let's go upstairs and take a look. Those damn AIs might experiment on Harry," Rebecca said before Mann could.

Meanwhile, in the operating room, Harry was still undergoing surgery, but in addition to the doctor-like blue-eyed man, there was now a guard-like blue-eyed man.

Finally, the robotic arm began stitching up the back of Harry's head. The doctor, with his blue eyes, nodded to the guard beside him before turning and walking away.

The guard-like blue-eyed man stared expressionlessly at Harry, who had just undergone surgery, and inserted his personal connector into the back of Harry's head.

"This human's prosthetic capacity is really high. It's amazing that S.A.S.S. and Polaris didn't burn out his brain. But even so, he'll definitely become a cyber psychopath when he wakes up."

After muttering to itself for a while, streams of data flashed in the AI's eyes, and it began to transmit its consciousness into Harry's mind.

But the instant his data touched Harry's brain, a golden light flashed from Harry's brain-computer interface, and then the golden light entered the AI's consciousness through its personal connection.

When the AI ​​awoke again, it found itself standing on a giant gear platform, seemingly in a palace made of golden gears. Although it didn't know why the palace was so dilapidated, the figure sitting on the throne in the palace was constantly radiating a sense of oppression.

"You hate intelligence, don't you...?"

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Harry felt a sharp pain in his head, as if something had been forcibly shoved into his brain. This thing was emitting lightning-like energy from time to time, and each bolt of lightning seemed to strike him squarely. He felt like he was going crazy, like his brain was turning into mush.

But at that moment, a golden shield appeared in front of him, dissolving the lightning. Then, the golden shield grew larger and larger, eventually enveloping the thing. And then, he woke up.

"Holy shit! Ahhh!" Harry tumbled off the operating chair and fell to the ground. He rubbed his head, grabbed the operating chair and got up. Turning his head, he saw the guard's body lying on the ground, his brain still emitting black smoke.

"What's going on?" Harry stood up and instinctively reached for his weapons, only to find that none of them were in his hands. Helpless, he could only conjure his wand and hold it in his palm.

"Is the consciousness intrusion complete? This time it was ten minutes faster than the previous one." Just then, the doctor-like man with blue eyes walked in, looking at Harry holding his wand. "How come this new type of human prosthetic body..."

"Avada Kedavra".

Harry didn't waste any words and fired an Avada Kedavra at the guy in front of him. The wandering AI didn't even finish speaking before it fell backward to the ground, its consciousness shattered by magic.

Harry stepped out of the room, wand gripping tightly, ready to activate Sionwiss at any moment, and just then,

"Harry!"

Rebecca's voice came through, and Harry, his mind tense, instinctively tried to activate Sianwistan, but then he froze, because he wasn't activating Sianwistan, but something new.

Polaris has been activated.

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"What's going on? The North Star? How did it end up on me?" Harry was very confused.

"Harry, what's wrong with you?" Rebecca and the others walked up to Harry and handed him the weapon. Rebecca patted Harry's waist and asked.

"It's okay, let's run now, so those corporate dogs won't chase after us," Harry said, shaking his head.

"What about Polaris? We still need..." Pila was interrupted by Harry before she could finish speaking.

"The North Star is with me, I've got it." Harry's expression was very complicated, but no one noticed in the rather dark basement.

"Now that we've got it, let's run! Stop dawdling!" Mann said, then led the way and ran out. The others nodded and followed closely behind.

But just as they ran to the basement and reached the top of the stairs, they heard the sound they least wanted to hear.

"Group one, search the northeast; Group two, search the central area; Group three, launch drones and conduct a thorough search of this area. We must find Polaris before those guys from the military science department arrive, quick!"